It’s arguable that GTA Online’s Halloween event is proving somewhat popular. The zombie-slaughtering North Yankton Nightmare, added to the game along with GTA V’s opening location, Ludendorff, has been so popular Rockstar had to increase the community challenge goals ten-fold. Three days in, even that goal was over…
It’s arguable that GTA Online’s Halloween event is proving somewhat popular. The zombie-slaughtering North Yankton Nightmare, added to the game along with GTA V’s opening location, Ludendorff, has been so popular Rockstar had to increase the community challenge goals ten-fold. Three days in, even that goal was over…
For a generation of TV lovers, The Fonz was the coolest dude around. With the motorcycle, leather jacket and ability to turn on the jukebox with a quick bop, the dude had it all. But Henry Winkler feared he would be typecast as The Fonz, never getting the meatier roles he also desired.
Reminiscing with his wife Stacey Weitzman, Henry Winkler said of his struggle with The Fonz, “I was panicked at the time about being typecast, so I would do nothing Fonzie off of the show. I was Henry, and that was my character.”
But this didn’t always hold for Winkler, who even challenged his future stepson for calling him The Fonz. As Weitzman put it, “We went to the movies, and maybe it was because I said to [my son Jed], ‘Guess who I’m going out with?’ and it was his birthday cake person, he opened the front door and said, ‘Fonzie!’ And Henry — who was, at the time, extremely serious — [said] ‘What did you say, honey?’” Winkler added, “[Jed] opened the door, I looked down at this little guy [who said], ‘Fonzie!’ I said, ‘My name is Henry. Would you like it if I called you ‘Ralph’?’”
Winkler would face different challenges on the set of Happy Days, as it was here that he truly struggled with dyslexia. But The Fonz as a character would come in handy for Winkler at a different time, once recounting a time he channeled his cool demeanor when helping a suicidal aspiring actor while dressed in Fonzie’s trademark digs.
Despite a reluctance to be typecast as The Fonz, Henry Winkler would reprise the character several times in his post-Happy Days career, turning up in spinoffs Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Joanie Loves Chachi, as well as animated series The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. Winkler would win two Golden Globes for Happy Days and be nominated three times for the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy. He would win much later in the supporting category for Barry…but we don’t see any Gene Cousineau lunchboxes in the cafeteria!
Outside of The Fonz, which Henry Winkler performance stands out for you?
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A year ago, Payday 3released to calamity, as the always-online game immediately wasn’t, with outages lasting for over a week. When people finally were able to play it turned out they didn’t like it much, made worse when vital patches kept missing their deadlines, communication fell apart, and eventually senior heads…
A year ago, Payday 3released to calamity, as the always-online game immediately wasn’t, with outages lasting for over a week. When people finally were able to play it turned out they didn’t like it much, made worse when vital patches kept missing their deadlines, communication fell apart, and eventually senior heads…
Writer/director Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 horror film Smile (read our review HERE, watch the movie HERE) is aiming for an October 18th theatrical release date, and with that date just a few days away, a new featurette has arrived online to give us another behind-the-scenes look at Smile 2. In this featurette, which is embedded above, we get some insight into how the film’s star, Naomi Scott of Aladdin and Charlie’s Angels, brought her pop star character Skye Riley to life. Speaking of Skye Riley, her EP has been released and is available HERE.
Smile was based on Finn’s short film Laura Hasn’t Slept (watch it HERE), which won the Special Jury Recognition Prize in SXSW’s Midnight Short category. Caitlin Stasey (Neighbours) played the title character in that short, and reprises the role in Smile, making it a follow-up of sorts. Smile has the following synopsis: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
Here’s the Smile 2 synopsis: About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.
Smile was produced by Temple Hill, and they are producing Smile 2 as well. Scott is joined in the cast by Lukas Gage of The White Lotus and You, Rosemarie DeWitt of La La Land and the Poltergeist remake, Dylan Gelula of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Dream Scenario, Raúl Castillo of Army of the Dead and Knives Out, Miles Gutierrez-Riley of The Wilds and On The Come Up, and Kyle Gallner (Red State), reprising the role he played in the first movie. Another featurette revealed that Drew Barrymore (Scream) also makes an appearance, playing herself and interviewing Skye Riley on her talk show.
Are you looking forward to Smile 2? Take a look at the Naomi Scott / Skye Riley featurette, then let us know by leaving a comment below.
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At 82, Harrison Ford doesn’t need to keep acting. But now nearly 60 years into his career, you’d think he’d be at a place where he would hang up more than just Indy’s fedora. Fortunately for his fans, that’s not going to be the case, as Ford says he has a specific reason he presses on.
Speaking with Vanity Fair, Harrison Ford said there’s something deep about why he continues taking roles. “Oh man, I get out of it essential human contact. I get to imagine with people that have great skill and experience…It’s fun to work with these people.”
The people he’s referring to are those on Shrinking, the Apple TV+ series that he is unjustly being snubbed Emmy recognition for. In it, he gives one of his finest and most nuanced performances. He’s also incredibly funny in it, a trait we don’t normally associate with Harrison Ford. On his approach to comedy, he said, “I didn’t think much about it as an actor, but I did think about it as a person. I always enjoyed humor. I loved jokes. I loved the construction of jokes. My father was a joke teller. The wordsmithing and the ideas that lay behind a joke have always interested me. When I was thinking about becoming an actor, I was ambitious for both kinds of work—serious drama and comedy. I found myself doing both and not really distinguishing much between them. I think I think with the same actor’s head about a joke as I do about a serious or emotional scene.”
Harrison Ford has chatted about his disinterest in the retirement life before, saying he would feel utterly useless if he ever did leave acting. And it’s a good thing, because now that Ford has kicked the nostalgia bug by giving Indiana Jones, Han Solo and Rick Deckard their send-offs, he can focus on projects that give him something to chew on and have fun with. As season two of Shrinking nears its premiere, he is also set to go full mo-cap as Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*.
Outside of his franchise characters, which Harrison Ford performance is your favorite?
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A new episode of the Revisited video series has just been released, and with this one we’re looking back at the 2005 video game adaptation Doom (watch it HERE) – a movie that didn’t spawn the sort of franchise the game did, but there was a second movie that was released direct-to-video in 2019. Oddly, the title of that movie was Doom: Annihilation, just like the original video game adaptation of Mortal Kombat received a sequel called Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. That’s a story for another time – for now, you can hear all about Doom by checking out the video embedded above.
Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak from a screenplay that was crafted by David Callaham and Wesley Strick, Doom has the following synopsis: Something has gone wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars. All research has ceased. Communication has failed. And the messages that do get through are less than comforting. It’s a level 5 quarantine and the only souls allowed in or out are the Rapid Response Tactical Squad – hardened Marines armed to the teeth with enough firepower to neutralize the enemy… or so they think.
The film stars Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Deobia Oparei, Ben Daniels, Razaaq Adoti, Richard Brake, Al Weaver, Dexter Fletcher, Brian Steele, Yao Chin, Robert Russell, Daniel York, Ian Hughes, Sara Houghton, Blanka Jarosova, Vladislav Dyntera, and Petr Hnetkovsky.
The Doom episode of Revisited was Written, Narrated, and Edited by Lance Vlcek, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
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In our Reel Action series on the JoBlo Originals channel on YouTube, we’ve covered the Ninja trilogy from Cannon Films — Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja and Ninja III: The Domination. All three featured Japanese action star, Shô Kasugi. Now, Blu-ray.com reveals that Kino Lorber will be bringing two of his classics to Blu-ray. Pray for Death and Rage of Honor are both scheduled to hit retailers on December 10.
The description for Pray for Death reads,
“They Shattered His American Dream. The Ninja Master himself, Shô Kosugi (Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja), stars as Akira, a Japanese immigrant who starts a new life with his family in America, only to stumble onto the headquarters of a bloodthirsty gang of criminals. When the gangsters begin a rampage of murder that takes the lives of his two sons, Akira must step out of his quiet, peace-loving life and reveal his hidden identity, that of a perfectly skilled Ninja, the most lethal and mysterious of all martial artists. He has sounded his warning to top thug Limehouse (co-star/screenwriter James Booth, Avenging Force) and his henchmen: “Stay away from my family, or you will Pray for Death.” It’s time for vigilante justice—Ninja style! Directed by Gordon Hessler (Kosugi’s Rage of Honor). This two-disc special edition includes both the R rated and unrated versions of the film.”
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And the description for Rage of Honor reads,
“International action icon Shô Kosugi (Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja) unleashes a devastating display of martial arts virtuosity as the forces of evil push him over the edge…and into a Rage of Honor. When his best friend is slain by a vicious drug ring, undercover agent Shiro (Kosugi) vows revenge. Warned by his superiors to drop his vendetta, Shiro pretends to comply, traveling to South America with girlfriend Jennifer for a long overdue ‘vacation.’ Picking up the villains’ trail in Brazil, Shiro forces a confrontation—but it backfires when Jennifer is kidnapped by the drug-runners. Pushed to the limit, Shiro’s mission of vengeance explodes into a bone-crushing martial arts bloodbath as he battles to rescue Jennifer and bring down the corrupt empire of his ruthless opponents! Directed by Gordon Hessler (Kosugi’s Pray for Death).”
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The late nineties and early 2000s marked the peak of Brendan Fraser’s career as a leading man. The 1992 comedy classic, Encino Man put him on the map in a big way, and he had several other comedy hits throughout the decade, including George of the Jungle (along with an underrated drama called School Ties). But, it was 1999’s The Mummy that truly elevated him, with him cast as the wisecracking, Indiana Jones-style hero in what turned out to be one of the year’s biggest hits.
Yet, one movie Fraser did pretty soon after The Mummy has all but been forgotten, the live-action/ stop-motion hybrid Monkeybone, which was directed by The Nightmare Before Christmas’s Henry Selick. In it, Fraser played a harried cartoonist who meets his most famous creation, Monkeybone (voiced by John Turturro) while in a state of limbo following a car accident. Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan and Rose McGowan co-star.
Before it came out, there were rumors that the studio, 20th Century Fox, had removed much of Selick’s darker material to market the movie as a quasi-family film, which it was never intended to be. It was a box office disaster, only grossing $5.4 million domestically on a then-mammoth $75 million budget. Lucky for Fraser and all involved, it was soon overshadowed by the success of The Mummy Returns, although Fraser would struggle to regain his foothold in comedy, with 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action another pricey flop.
In this episode of Awfully Good, our host Jesse Shade takes a look at this ill-remembered movie and tries to see if perhaps it’s an underrated gem, or a movie that deserves to be as obscure as it’s become. Check out the embedded video above and let us know what you think in the comments!
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