Marvel’s latest Disney+ animated series is called Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and it’s another origin story for the webcrawler, but with one brings some hefty changes with it as it explores an alternate history that exchanges Tony Stark’s tutelage for a mentoring Norman Osborne. The first trailer is full of…
Two of Chris Farley‘s most popular comedies, which also co-stars David Spade, are coming home in a newly enhanced ultra-high-definition format. Tommy Boy and Black Sheep were one-two punches from the duo as they ventured from the small screen in Saturday Night Live to the big screen with their respective antics. Blu-ray.com has announced that Paramount will be remastering a 4K Blu-ray of Tommy Boy, while Black Sheep also gets an ultra-HD upgrade, but from Kino Lorber despite also being a Paramount movie. Both are also due to hit retailers the same day on March 25, 2025.
Tommy Boy will be celebrating its 30th anniversary with this release and the description reads, “Holy Smokes. one of the funniest films of the 1990s, TOMMY BOY, has been remastered for 4K Blu-ray. Celebrating 30 years of gut-busting laughs, Chris Farley and David Spade are two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen who hit the road to save the Callahan family’s auto parts business, resulting in one disastrously funny consequence after another. This larger-than-life comedy features Rob Lowe, Bo Derek, Dan Aykroyd and Brian Dennehy.”
The description of Kino Lorber’s release of Black Sheep has also included the details of special features and technical specs. The description reads, “Mike (Chris Farley), a slovenly gym teacher, has a terrible habit of showing up at the wrong time and embarrassing his brother, Al (Tim Matheson), who happens to be running for governor. Hoping to save his campaign, Al assigns his aide, Steve (David Spade), to take Mike to a remote cabin and hide out there for the remainder of the campaign. In the woods, the two men discover dangers that make them long for the sleazy political operatives back in the big city.”
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE – 4K BLU-RAY
DISC TWO – BLU-RAY
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Linda Lavin, who made herself a household name as the title character in the long-running sitcom Alice, has passed away from complications from lung cancer. She was 87.
Alice would be one of the most popular sitcoms of its time, running for nine seasons and just over 200 episodes. At the forefront was Linda Lavin, who would end up winning two Golden Globes, both for Best Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical. She, too, would nab one Emmy nomination for playing the waitress, taking over the role from Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
Prior to and even after her successes with Alice, Linda Lavin had a remarkable career on stage, winning one Tony (with another five nominations) and three Drama Desk Awards.
Incredibly, Linda Lavin found a true balance between her work on the stage and screen. Lavin began her career on Broadway, earning praise for It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman, playing the supporting role of Sydney. A few years later she would get her first Tony nomination. A few years later, she got a recurring role on sitcom Barney Miller, getting her just the attention she would need to land the lead role on Alice.
Linda Lavin stayed consistent throughout the decades. In the early 1990s, she co-starred alongside Patricia Heaton on ABC sitcom Room for Two, while in the 2000s and 2010s she had multi-episode stints on shows like The O.C. and The Good Wife.
Linda Lavin even filmed a project as recently as this month. While Mid-Century Modern was on a break for the holiday, it had filmed the bulk of its first season. In a joint statement, co-producers of the show Max Mutchnik and David Kohan, as well as director James Burrows, wrote: “Working with Linda was one of the highlights of our careers. She was a magnificent actress, singer, musician, and a heat seeking missile with a joke. But more significantly, she was a beautiful soul. Deep, joyful, generous and loving. She made our days better. The entire staff and crew will miss her beyond measure. We are better for having known her.” The show will air on Hulu.
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Writing a review is a tall order. Especially at a place like Kotaku, where we have a whole headline format meant to declare our “definitive” word on a game, movie, or show. It can come off as if we’re putting an authoritative stamp of approval or disapproval on whatever we’re critiquing, which can be pretty daunting.…
Writing a review is a tall order. Especially at a place like Kotaku, where we have a whole headline format meant to declare our “definitive” word on a game, movie, or show. It can come off as if we’re putting an authoritative stamp of approval or disapproval on whatever we’re critiquing, which can be pretty daunting.…
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning had the highest budget of any film in the Mission: Impossible franchise, somewhere in the range of $290 million… but the box office numbers took a dip, the film ending up with a haul of $566 million at the worldwide box office. A lower amount than Ghost Protocol ($694 million), Rogue Nation ($688 million), and Fallout ($786 million) had earned. And they all had substantially lower budgets. With the next film, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, set to reach theatres on May 23, 2025, the folks working behind-the-scenes might have an idea that the franchise needs to be shaken up a bit. According to a RUMOR shared by The Sun, they’re going to attempt to do this by pulling a younger version of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character into the action.
The Sun’s inside source informed them, “Tom is keen to give Mission: Impossible a fresh take in the next two films and wants to explore a bit of Ethan’s past. They’re going to start looking for a young star to take on the role and they will appear a bit in (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning) and then more in the ninth film. It’s very important to Tom that they get the right person. They are seeking a youngster who is completely fresh on the scene and will cause a real stir. It’s a huge role but the hunt is on to see if they can find a young Tom Cruise. The scenes will show Ethan in his early life and explore the things that happened to him before he went on to start working as a spy. It is something they’ve not done before with Mission: Impossible and so Tom thinks it could be a really interesting tangent for fans.” It’s not surprising to hear that The Final Reckoning will include flashbacks to Ethan’s younger days, as Dead Reckoning was already dropping hints about his back story, but it is surprising to hear that a young Ethan might play a bigger role in the next sequel down the line.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tells the second half of the story that began in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, with Ethan Hunt out to destroy an AI system called The Entity, which is housed in a sunken Russian stealth submarine.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Dead Reckoning writer/director Christopher McQuarrie remains at the helm, working from a screenplay he crafted with Erik Jendresen.
Cruise is being joined in the cast by Hayley Atwell, reprising her Dead Reckoning role of thief-turned-IMF-recruit Grace; Vanessa Kirby as arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, a.k.a. the White Widow, a character who was previously seen in both Fallout and Dead Reckoning; Ving Rhames as IMF agent Luther Stickell, who has been part of this franchise since the first Mission: Impossible movie in 1996; Simon Pegg as IMF agent Benji Dunn, who joined the party back in Mission: Impossible III; Henry Czerny as CIA director Eugene Kittridge, who was introduced in Mission: Impossible (1996) and finally made his long-awaited return in Dead Reckoning; Rolf Saxon as William Donloe, a CIA analyst who got in trouble after Ethan Hunt accessed his computer way back in the first Mission: Impossible; and more Dead Reckoning reprisals: Esai Morales as the Entity-serving terrorist Gabriel; Pom Klementieff as Gabriel’s former ally Paris; Shea Whigham and Greg Tarzan Davis as US Intelligence agents Briggs and Degas; Mariela Garriga as Marie, a mysterious woman from Ethan and Gabriel’s past; Mark Gatiss and Charles Parnell as the heads of the NSA and NRO;. There are also a handful of new additions to the franchise: Holt McCallany as Secretary of Defense Bernstein; Nick Offerman as Sydney, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Katy O’Brian, Stephen Oyoung, Tramell Tillman, Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham, and Lucy Tulugarjuk in unspecified roles.
What do you think of the idea that Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could establish a young Ethan Hunt that would have a bigger role in Mission: Impossible 9? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Marvel Animation’s latest series, hits Disney Plus January 29th! Today, Marvel unveiled a new trailer giving fans a taste of what they no doubt hope will earn reviews in line with X-Men’ 97. The voice cast includes Hudson Thames as Peter Parker, Colman Domingo as Norman Osborn, Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Zeno Robinson, Hugh Dancy and Charlie Cox reprising Matt Murdock/ Daredevil.
When Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was first announced (as Spider-Man: Freshman Year), it was said that the animated series would follow Peter Parker on his way to becoming Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, leaving fans a little confused into how it fits into the MCU.
Back when the show was first announced, Marvel Studios’ Head of Streaming Brad Winderbaum spoke with ComicBook.com to explain how it would fit into the MCU.
“It follows the pattern that you see in [Captain America:] Civil War. Down to Peter getting the broken Blu-ray player from the trash and he walks into his department for the famous moment where Tony stark is waiting for him to offer him the stark internship and take him to Berlin. But because of things that happen in the multiverse because of new, random occurrences, it’s not Tony Stark who’s waiting for him there. It’s Norman Osborn and that sends his life in an unexpected trajectory that collides him with many unexpected characters in the Marvel universe.”
So it would seem that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will be something of a What If…? series rather than the Spider-Man origin story we believed it to be. Having the series take place in the Multiverse does give it more freedom in telling Spidey’s story without worrying about stepping on MCU canon. Written and executive produced by Jeff Trammel, the animated series will give us a journey unlike any we’ve ever seen with a style that celebrates Spider-Man’s early comic book roots.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man hits Disney + on January 29th!
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When news that The Batman sequel would be delayed an entire year from 2026 to October 2027, we took it about as best as we could. Yes, we want the movie sooner than later, but that extra 12 months will hopefully let Matt Reeves and company nail everything that they need to. That said, now that the Bat-Signal has dimmed, who can we look to in our time of need?
James Gunn – who stepped into his role as co-chair and co-CEO at DC Studios two years ago – is now weighing in, defending the delay of The Batman sequel. Posting on Threads, he wrote, “To be fair, a 5 year gap or more is fairly common in sequels. 7 years between Alien and Aliens. 14 years between Incredibles. 7 years between the first two Terminators. 13 years between Avatars. 36 years between Top Guns. And, of course, 6 years between Guardians Vol 2 and Vol 3.”
That’s fair in the sense that all of those numbers match up, but what James Gunn is missing over The Batman 2 in his response is that, for the most part, a sequel wasn’t exactly immediately expected (let alone teased) for any of those except for Avatar. But that delay came partly because James Cameron needed technology to be in the right place. Sure, a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien was discussed soon after its release but it worked as a standalone film. As for The Incredibles, that also worked by itself but got a sequel because Disney was in one of their back-to-the-well phases with their Pixar properties. When you end your movie teasing the franchise’s most famous villain, as The Batman did, fans rightfully expect something sooner than later.
For The Batman sequel, James Gunn confirmed that the issues do in fact come down to the script, which Matt Reeves just this month said was nearly finished. “The only reason for the delay is there isn’t a full script (those of you who follow me here probably know that already). Matt is committed to making the best film he possibly can, and no one can accurately guess exactly how long a script will take to write. Once there is a finished script, there is around two years for pre-production, shooting and post-production on big films.”
What do you make of the delay of The Batman sequel? Are you concerned at this point?
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One of the biggest gambles of 2024 was, without a doubt, Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga. This is Costner’s passion project, with him having worked on the script since 1988. He even named his youngest son Hayes after the character he was gearing up to play in the films. But, westerns have never been the easiest movies to get financed. While Costner’s Dances With Wolves made hundreds of millions and won Costner a couple of Oscars, his follow-up western, Wyatt Earp, was an expensive misfire. However, Open Range made money, given that it was a relatively thrifty production. While 1997’s The Postman deeply impacted Costner’s career for many years, the mammoth success of Yellowstone put him back on top. Still eager to get the saga made, which would eventually grow to five chapters, he bet on himself and largely financed the first two Horizon movies himself.
Indeed, it was a big bet, but when Horizon: Chapter One opened this summer, it was a box office flop, earning only $29 million against a budget that – before marketing – was at least $50 million. The film fared even worse overseas, grossing $5 million. So, what happened? No one can blame Costner for not doing his best to market the film, with him sitting for many interviews (including one with us here at JoBlo). Still, a lot of the headlines from these interviews were related to his unceremonious exit from Yellowstone, which saw his beloved John Dutton get killed off-screen.
Whatever the case, Horizon was a big enough flop that the sequel, which was initially set for an August 2024 release, never came out. The rumour has always been that WB, which was only the distributor of the films, wasn’t footing the market budget for the sequel and that Costner opted to pull the movie in the hopes that Horizon would eventually find its audience on streaming and eventually lead to a theatrical release.
Whatever the case, Horizon: Chapter 2 is complete, with it having been shown at the Venice Film Festival, where it earned positive reviews. Part of Chapter 3 has been shot, although no one is quite sure how much, with it being impacted by the WGA/SAG strikes. It’s supposed to resume shooting this spring, although that seems not to be something to bank on until it’s known what will happen to the second chapter.
So, when will we see Chapter 2? That’s hard to say, as Costner has always maintained that he wants these movies released theatrically. Given how big Yellowstone has been, and how well Horizon has been doing on Max, It seems likely that – if he wanted – he could pivot the movies to a streaming release. He might even be able to convince a streaming service to finance a third film, or perhaps even recut the whole thing into a series. Given that he shot the movies flat in a 1:85:1 aspect ratio, he had to be thinking a large chunk of the audience would see the movies at home, but so far, there hasn’t been any news on whether we’ll ever see the sequel. Note that the first film ends with a trailer for Horizon: Chapter 2. Perhaps Costner will compromise, releasing the film to streaming, while giving it a limited theatrical run through a company like Fathom, who previously partnered with WB on Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.
Whatever the case, it seems unlikely Horizon: Chapter 2 will get the same kind of wide release the first film did. Yet, as a fan of Costner and someone who liked the first film, I do hope it sees the light of day and that Costner can somehow get the money to wrap up the saga on his own terms without compromising his vision too much.
What do you think will happen to Horizon: Chapter 2? Let us know in the comments!
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The weekend box office race is almost too close to call. While Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s dominance over Disney’s Lion King prequel Mufasa, raised some eyebrows last weekend, the latter has proven to be unexpectedly resilient at the box office. While earlier this week we predicted that Mufasa would make over $70 million for the five-day holiday, the business has cooled a bit with Sonic 3 re-gaining some ground this weekend. Currently, Comscore has Sonic narrowly outgrossing Mufasa, with $38 million to the latter’s $37.1 million. However, considering the five-day holiday, Mufasa is the clear winner, having made a strong $63.7 million to Sonic’s $59.9 million. At this rate, both movies seem sure to cross the $200-250 million mark at the domestic box office, although in the case of Mufasa, it will be but a fraction of the $600 million plus its 2019 predecessor made.
Number 3 goes to Nosferatu, which proved to be a major hit over the holidays, with an excellent $21.15 million weekend and a superb $40 million cume to date. That’s a fantastic number for an R-rated period horror flick, making it Robert Eggers’s biggest box office hit to date and a clever piece of counter-programming for Focus. Wicked wasn’t too far behind, with it earning $19.4 million over the weekend, with over $31 million. For the holiday, adding to an impressive $424 million total gross. One wonders why Universal is putting it out on PVOD on New Year’s Eve, considering how well the theatrical run is going (that said – we had a GREAT time at the home video launch event – as you can see HERE).
Disney’s Moana 2 also continued to do well, with it adding another $18.2 million to its $394 million gross – it should pass $400 million by New Year’s Day. Another piece of counter-programming, A Complete Unknown, also did solid business. While the $11.6 million weekend gross is nothing to write home about, it made $23 million over the five-day holiday and has a chance to break out this week as most people will be on holiday the entire week. With an A-CinemaScore, the hope is word-of-mouth will propel this one to solid business, as happened with star Timothee Chalamet’s Wonka last Christmas. Even still, it’s Searchlight’s highest opener since being bought out by Disney in 2019.
A24’s Babygirl wasn’t able to attract much of an adult audience, earning a weak $4.3 million over the weekend for a $7 million-plus total. Gladiator II, despite now being on PVOD, did decent business over the holiday, with $4.1 million added to its $163 million total. Angel Studio’s Homestead made $3 million, with a cume in the $12 million range, which isn’t bad if you consider it a glorified TV pilot for a streaming series. In fact, there’s a very real chance Homestead‘s final box office tally won’t be too far from that of Kraven the Hunter, which dropped out of the top 10 this weekend. The Fire Inside rounded out the top 10 with a poor $2 million weekend, despite the A-CinemaScore.
With the holidays ongoing, what do you plan on seeing this week? Let us know in the comments!
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