Cameron Diaz is back in action both literally and cinematically, with her 10-year hiatus from the screen ending with next year’s aptly titled Back in Action. Pairing once again with her Any Given Sunday and Annie co-star Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz says it was due time that she returned.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron Diaz explained of both her decade-long break and her insistence on returning, “It was just the right time for my family. After Covid, we were in the house for a long time, which was amazing and the problem was we would probably stay there, we would still be there right now. People would be like, ‘It’s over’ and I’d be like, ‘No it’s not, it’s not over for me.’” She added, “So I had to push myself; my husband and I — my husband, who is the best — he was like, ‘You’ve been supporting us and building the family’ and supporting him in his businesses, he’s like, ‘It’s time for us to support you and let Mommy ascend and do her thing.’ He’s like, ‘Let me see you do it girl.’ I was like, ‘Alright, here we go.’” Diaz also credited Foxx, saying there wasn’t a chance that she could ever turn him down.

And it’s also through Jamie Foxx that Back in Action has gotten some other publicity as well, as he suffered a “medical complication” during the production that he has thankfully bounced back from.

A staple of ‘90s rom-coms like My Best Friend’s Wedding and There’s Something About Mary, Cameron Diaz mostly stuck within the genre for the duration of her career, although she did make time for an action franchise in Charlie’s Angels, working with legendary directors like Martin Scorsese on Gangs of New York and voicing Princess Fiona in the long-running Shrek series, which she will return for for the fifth outing.

As for why Cameron Diaz made the decision to dip from the acting scene, she said it “was something I just had to do. It felt like the right thing for me to do to reclaim my own life and I just really didn’t care about anything else. Nobody’s opinion, nobody’s success, no one’s offer, no one’s anything could change my mind about my decision of taking care of myself and building the life that I really wanted to have.”

Back in Action hits Netflix on January 17th.

Are you ready for Cameron Diaz’s return to movies? What stands as your favorite performance of hers?

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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has proven to be another success for Ryan Murphy, and work on the third season of the Monsters series is already underway. It was announced last month that Charlie Hunnam would star in Monsters season 3 as Ed Gein, and Netflix has revealed that Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hollander, and Olivia Williams will be joining him.

Laurie Metcalf will play Augusta Wilhelmine Gein, Ed Gein’s mother, while Tom Hollander will play iconic director Alfred Hitchcock, and Olivia Williams will play Alma Reville, Alfred’s wife.

Ed Gein became infamous in the 1950s when authorities discovered that he had killed multiple people as well as dug up graves from a nearby cemetery to craft a variety of household items and clothing from the remains. His case served as an inspiration for many notable horror villains, including Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, and, of course, Norman Bates in Psycho.

As I mentioned above, the second season of Monsters has been a success for Netflix, but it hasn’t been without controversy. One of the subjects, Erik Menendez, took to social media (through his wife Tammi) to slam Monsters co-creator Ryan Murphy for including “ruinous character portrayals” of both him and his brother. Murphy hit back, saying that they should be sending him flowers for giving them so much attention again. “I’ll tell you my thoughts about the Menendez brothers. The Menendez brothers should be sending me flowers. They haven’t had so much attention in 30 years. And it’s gotten the attention of not only this country, but all over the world. There’s sort of an outpouring of interest in their lives and in the case,” Murphy said. “I know for a fact that many people have offered to help them because of the interest of my show and what we did. There is no world that we live in where the Menendez brothers or their wives or lawyers would say, ‘You know what, that was a wonderful, accurate depiction of our clients.’ That was never going to happen, and I wasn’t interested in that happening.“

The Menendez brothers have been granted a new court hearing which will determine whether they should be resentenced in light of new evidence. Murphy said he believes the brothers could be released by Christmas and is considering the possibility of filming one or two more episodes to serve as an epilogue.

What do you think of this latest casting for Monsters season 3?

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David F. Sandberg announced that his feature film adaptation of the Until Dawn video game had wrapped production, and now Sony Pictures has given the project a release date. Until Dawn will hit theaters on April 25, 2025, which will place it in direct competition with The Accountant 2, which is slated to open on the same day.

The original Until Dawn video game was released on PlayStation 4 in 2015. It finds the players taking control of eight young adults who must survive on Blackwood Mountain until they are rescued. The game features a butterfly effect system in which players must make choices that may change the story. Depending on the choices made, all the playable characters have the chance to survive or die.

The movie stars Ella Rubin (The Idea of You), Michael Cimino (Love, Victor), Ji-young Yoo (Expats), Belmont Cameli (Saved by the Bell), Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser), and Maia Mitchell (The Artful Dodger). Peter Stormare also appears, reprising his role as Dr. Alan Hill from the game. Sandberg directed the film from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman. Blair Butler penned the previous draft. The project has previously been described as an “R-rated love letter to the horror genre, centering on an ensemble cast.“

Until Dawn is set up at Sony’s Screen Gems, where Dauberman has a first-look deal as part of the plan to “rebuild Screen Gems, Sony’s division focused on lower-budgeted fare, into a more productive label, with horror being a top focus.” Dauberman is producing the film through his company Coin Operated, while Sandberg and Lotta Losten produce through their Mångata shingle. Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan are also producing.

Sandberg has spent the last few years in the world of Shazam, directing Shazam! and Shazam! Fury of the Gods, but it’s nice to see him returning to his horror roots. He got his big break when his horror short, Lights Out, went viral and attracted a lot of interest from Hollywood. He helmed a feature film adaptation of Lights Out and went on to join The Conjuring Universe by directing Annabelle: Creation.

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20 years ago, SyFy (which was still known as the SciFi Channel) premiered a hidden camera prank show called Scare Tactics. The premise behind the series was placing real people into terrifying, often paranormal or bizarre situations, and then watching them react. I loved the show when I was younger. And I’m so happy…

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20 years ago, SyFy (which was still known as the SciFi Channel) premiered a hidden camera prank show called Scare Tactics. The premise behind the series was placing real people into terrifying, often paranormal or bizarre situations, and then watching them react. I loved the show when I was younger. And I’m so happy…

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Earlier this year, Jerry Seinfeld made some comments about the current state of comedy and blamed the “extreme left” for the demise of the TV sitcom. “This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people,” Seinfeld said. “When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups: ‘Here’s our thought about this joke.’ Well, that’s the end of your comedy.” Seinfeld is now taking those comments back, telling his friend and fellow comedian Tom Papa on the Breaking Bread podcast that he regrets it.

“I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not true,” Seinfeld said. “It’s not true. If you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re going to make the gate. That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is where is the gate and how do I make the gate to get down the hill.“

Seinfeld continued, “Does culture change and are their things that I use to say that [I can’t because] people are always moving [the gate]? Yes, but that’s the biggest and easiest target. You can’t say certain words about groups. So what? The accuracy of your observation has to be 100 times finer than that just to be a comedian…So I don’t think, as I said, the ‘extreme left’ has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy.“

While Jerry Seinfeld accepted his past comments regarding the extreme left, he did shoot down claims that he would never perform at colleges because students have become too politically correct nowadays. “First of all, I never said it, but if you think I said it, it’s not true,” he said. “I play colleges all the time. I have no problem with kids, performing for them. I was just at the University of Indiana. I do colleges all the time.“

What do you think of Seinfeld’s comments?

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Another Mario Party is upon us. Does this one finally deliver an unqualified masterpiece of board game antics and mini-game fun? Maybe, almost, not quite? Initial reviews for Super Mario Party Jamboree are here and while they’re mostly positive, there are also plenty of critiques.

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Another Mario Party is upon us. Does this one finally deliver an unqualified masterpiece of board game antics and mini-game fun? Maybe, almost, not quite? Initial reviews for Super Mario Party Jamboree are here and while they’re mostly positive, there are also plenty of critiques.

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With nearly three decades worth of games, movies, and more to pull from starring one of gaming’s most recognizable heroines, you’d think a TV show based on the Tomb Raider franchise would be a sure hit. Yet Netflix, the streaming giant responsible for powerhouse game adaptations like its Castlevania series and Arcane,…

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With nearly three decades worth of games, movies, and more to pull from starring one of gaming’s most recognizable heroines, you’d think a TV show based on the Tomb Raider franchise would be a sure hit. Yet Netflix, the streaming giant responsible for powerhouse game adaptations like its Castlevania series and Arcane,…

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