Somewhere in the world, CM Punk is smiling at another Seth Rollins failure. During a recent appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, the wrestling starrevealed that he will not be part the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World, and he’s not sure why.
Somewhere in the world, CM Punk is smiling at another Seth Rollins failure. During a recent appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, the wrestling starrevealed that he will not be part the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World, and he’s not sure why.
‘Twas the season to be thrilled with action. As people settled in and got cozy with their kith and kin this past Christmas, sometimes watching classics like Home Alone, A Christmas Story and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation just isn’t enough. Many viewers checked out some newer movies that incorporated action with their holiday theme. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Dwayne Johnson’s Red One on Prime Video became a big hit in homes after its brief theatrical run that grossed $186 million globally. His Santa action flick would be followed by Netflix’s Carry-On, which stars Taron Edgerton as a TSA agent working on Christmas Eve when he’s faced with a terrorist plot.
Red One faced much criticism for its content, but the newest live-action film from megastar Dwayne Johnson topped the streaming charts in December with 2.1 billion minutes of viewing. Meanwhile, while finishing in second overall, Carry-On was number one on the Netflix Top 10 as it pulled in 1.69 billion views over the holiday. The thriller is also currently in the top five of Netflix’s English-language films, as measured over the first 91 days of release.
The full list of streaming charts for December 9-15, 2024 can be viewed below:
Overall
1. Red One (Prime Video), 2.1 billion minutes viewed
2. Carry-On (Netflix), 1.69 billion
3. Black Doves (Netflix), 1 billion
4. It Ends With Us (Netflix), 977 million
5. Bluey (Disney+), 905 million
6. No Good Deed (Netflix), 883 million
7. Landman (Paramount+), 826 million
8. Grey’s Anatomy (Hulu/Netflix), 803 million
9. Bob’s Burgers (Hulu), 743 million
10. Family Guy (Hulu), 730 million
Original Series
1. Black Doves, 1 billion minutes
2. No Good Deed, 883 million
3. Landman, 826 million
4. The Madness (Netflix), 560 million
5. The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (Netflix), 552 million
6. Lioness (Paramount+), 474 million
7. Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was … (Netflix), 413 million
8. La Palma (Netflix), 355 million
9. A Man on the Inside (Netflix), 308 million
10. AP Bio (Netflix/Peacock), 306 million
Acquired Series
1. Bluey, 905 million minutes
2. Grey’s Anatomy, 803 million
3. Bob’s Burgers, 743 million
4. Family Guy, 730 million
5. NCIS (Hulu/Netflix/Paramount+), 658 million
6. Lost (Hulu/Netflix), 565 million
7. American Dad (Hulu), 544 million
8. Gilmore Girls (Netflix), 529 million
9. The Big Bang Theory (Max), 510 million
10. Law & Order: SVU (Hulu/Peacock), 506 million
Movies
1. Red One, 2.1 billion minutes
2. Carry-On, 1.69 billion
3. It Ends With Us, 977 million
4. That Christmas (Netflix), 596 million
5. Subservience (Netflix), 558 million
6. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018) (Peacock), 537 million
7. Elf (Hulu/Max), 488 million
8. Home Alone (Disney+), 451 million
9. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Max), 322 million
10. Mary (Netflix), 320 million
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Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios are building The Twisted Childhood Universe, which will consist of horror movies inspired by children’s stories. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 got the universe started, paving the way for Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (not to mention Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 3), building up to the crossover movie Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble. Iconic Events Releasing will be bringing Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare to theatres for three days only, from January 13th through the 15th – and in anticipation of that release, Entertainment Weekly has unveiled a batch of images that feature Kit Green as Tinkerbell. You can check out those images at the bottom of this article.
Written and directed by Scott Chambers, who is also producing all of these Twisted Childhood movies, the film follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from “the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.” Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.
Martin Portlock (Scream of the Wolf) plays Peter Pan and is joined in the cast by Megan Placito (Doctors) as Wendy Darling and Kit Green (The Blazing Cannons) as Tinkerbell. Also in the cast are Peter Desouza-Feighoney (The Popes Exorcist), Nicholas Woodeson (Skyfall), Kierston Wareing (Fish Tank), Olumide Olorunfemi (Venom: Let There Be Carnage), Teresa Banham (No One Gets Out Alive), Charity Kase (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK), and Campbell Wallace (Anne). It has already been confirmed that Placito will be reprising the role of Wendy Darling in Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, which also feature the likes of Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Piglet, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, The Mad Hatter, Peter Pan, and Tinkerbell.
Chambers is producing Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare alongside Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the director of the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films. He revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the version of Tinkerbell shown in Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare was “biologically born male and named Timmy, an earlier victim of Peter Pan, who in this world is a demented child-napper hellbent on sending young boys to Neverland. Because Timmy identifies as female, Pan won’t let her become one of his Lost Boys.” Chambers said, “She didn’t fit the criteria to actually be sent fully to Neverland. Then he says, however, you can be something else. You can be this fairy, you can be magical, but you’ve got to help me. I’ll give you this pixie dust, and if you keep taking it…Every time you are good, you can have some.” Tinkerbell doesn’t realize the “pixie dust” she’s being given is actually heroin. So Tink’s arms are covered with track marks and decaying flesh. Chambers added, “This is not a villain at all. This is an extremely layered character. This is someone that’s really troubled. They’re brainwashed. It’s Stockholm Syndrome. They’ve been in this situation for years and years and years. They don’t know any other way.“
Chambers confirmed that Tinkerbell will be back for the crossover movie Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble. “There’s gonna be some fun with Tinkerbell. I’m excited. I have an idea that she’s going to have massive heroin arms, like needles as arms and needles coming out. It’d be quite fun. It’s got to go above and beyond, I think, in that one.“
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The upcoming TV series It: Welcome to Derry, which will serve as a prequel to Warner Bros’ two-part adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel It (pick up a copy HERE), was originally meant to be for the Max streaming service, but we recently learned that it will be airing on HBO as well. The show went into production in Port Hope, Ontario at the end of last year, aiming for a 2025 premiere, and wrapped in August after 237 shooting days. We’re still waiting to hear exactly when the nine episode first season is going to start airing – but yesterday, we learned that the plan is for the show to run for three seasons, with the story going further into the past each season. That information came from executive producer Andy Muschietti, who directed the two It feature films, and he has also revealed just how involved Stephen King is with this show.
Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice) and Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman), who was a co-producer on It: Chapter Two, are the showrunners on It: Welcome to Derry (and Kane recently signed on to be showrunner on the Friday the 13th series Crystal Lake as well.) The show is being executive produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the sibling director/producer duo that was behind the two It movies, through their production company Double Dream. Kane and Fuchs are also executive producing, as are Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin. The series is produced by HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television.
Fuchs wrote the script for the first episode, working from a story he crafted with the Muschiettis. Andy Muschietti has directed four episodes of the nine-episode series.
Stephen King had this to say about the series: “I’m excited that the story of Derry, Maine’s most haunted city, is continuing, and I’m glad Andy Muschietti is going to be overseeing the frightening festivities, along with a brain trust including his talented sister, Barbara. Red balloons all around!“ The Muschiettis added, “As teenagers, we took turns reading chapters of Stephen King’s It until the thick paperback fell to pieces. It is an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our It movies. We can’t wait to share the depths of Steve’s novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity, and horror.“
The cast of Welcome to Derry includes Taylour Paige (Zola), Jovan Adepo (Watchmen), Chris Chalk (Perry Mason), James Remar (Dexter), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge), Stephen Rider (Daredevil), Alixandra Fuchs (Hatfields & McCoys), Kimberly Guerrero (The English), Dorian Grey (Star Trek: Discovery), Thomas Mitchell (Gangland Undercover), BJ Harrison (Family Law), Peter Outerbridge (Saw VI), Shane Marriott (Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent), Chad Rook (Billy the Kid), Joshua Odjick (Little Bird), Rudy Mancuso (Música), and Morningstar Angeline (Westworld). We don’t know anything about the characters they’ll be playing, either. In fact, the only character we know anything about is Pennywise.
Muschietti told Radio TU (with thanks to MovieWeb for the transcription), “Stephen King has to approve everything. But it was really informal this time. I’ve had a close relationship with Stephen King since I made the movies. He writes to me, and I write him back. It’s an honor for me, and I consider him a friend. One day, I wrote to him and said, ‘We have this idea, which is to develop the interludes in a miniseries that will take place before the events of the movie,’ and he loved it. He said, ‘Let’s do it!’ Obviously, as we progressed, we kept showing him the work, and he approved the first draft of the script. Then we showed him where we would take the future seasons of the show. He trusts us because of what we did with the movies, which he loved as much as audiences did.“
Are you looking forward to It: Welcome to Derry? What do you think of Stephen King’s level of involvement with the show? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Wicked is a monster hit. The film is a recent Golden Globe winner and has also been announced to have SAG Award nominations. Our own Chris Bumbray became enchanted by it despite not being a Broadway musical fan and said in his review, “While I’ll admit that there were a handful of moments where I felt I was missing some kind of in-joke for fans of the play, overall, I had a pretty good time with Jon M. Chu’s Wicked – Part I,” Bumbray wrote. “Certainly, it’s one of the better modern versions of The Wizard of Oz, far more entertaining than Sam Raimi’s largely forgotten Oz: The Great and Powerful. Chu seems to have a knack for movie musicals, and with Universal clearly pumping a pretty penny into it, it feels like the kind of big, broad fantasy epic that should be able to crossover beyond its core audience of Broadway enthusiasts.”
The musical’s box office is nearing a whopping $700 million globally, but The Hollywood Reporter is also revealing that the film has set a record in sales for Premium video-on-demand as it pulls over $70 million in just its first week. This is proving to be an exception in the recent trend of movies that hit home video viewings in a mere month-or-so after it premieres in theaters. Wicked dominated the box office during the holiday season last year and while it has become available to watch in the comfort of people’s homes, its transition isn’t showing signs of significant drops at the box office.
Universal’s Filmed Entertainment Group closed a landmark deal back in 2020 with top exhibitors that allowed the studio’s newly released films to have a smaller window in its theater run so that home viewers can pay premium prices to watch first-run movies on streaming devices a lot sooner than the normal release window. It’s comparable to how hotels usually offer services to watch movies “still in theaters” at a pay-per-view price. Coupled with Warner Bros launching an experimental same-day viewing plan during the pandemic, other studios followed suit as theaters opened back up. Wicked was made available on VOD on December 31, 2024. Consumers can currently purchase Wicked for Premium EST (digital ownership) at $30 and $20 for PVOD (digital rental), which includes the original film and the sing-along versions.
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The legal action film The Prosecutor, starring and directed by legendary martial artist Donnie Yen, got its Hong Kong theatrical release last month, and now Well Go USA Entertainment has given the film a theatrical release in the United States as of today, January 10th. To mark the occasion, we’ve gotten our hands on an EXCLUSIVE clip from The Prosecutor, and you can check that out in the embed above. To clip gives a look at an action sequence that takes place in a parking garage, and it features some really cool moments.
Here’s the official synopsis: Inspired by an actual legal case in Hong Kong, THE PROSECUTOR follows the story of a man who falsely pleads guilty to drug trafficking after being framed. Despite the confession, the veteran policeman-turned-prosecutor (Donnie Yen) handling the case is convinced of the man’s innocence and pursues his own investigation, risking both his career and his life to bring the real perpetrator to justice. The screenplay was written by Edmond Wong.
Yen is joined in the cast by Julian Cheung, Francis Ng, Kent Cheng, Adam Pak, Kang Yu, and Locker Lam. Yen also produced the film with Raymond Wong.
Judging by the clip, The Prosecutor looks like it’s going to provide a very exciting, entertaining viewing experience, so I’m definitely looking forward to checking this one out.
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While audiences head out to watch The Prosecutor, Donnie Yen is gearing up to reprise the role of his John Wick: Chapter 4 character Caine in his own spin-off film, which Yen might end up directing himself. Yen has been getting behind the camera since 1994, when he was an uncredited director for High Voltage. He has directed a handful of films since then, including Legend of the Wolf (1997), Ballistic Kiss (1998), Shanghai Affairs (1998), Protégé de la Rose Noire (2004), and Sakra (2023). If you’re interested in seeing more of his acting work, we put together a list of The 10 Best Donnie Yen Films a while back.
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Every year is a good year for cosplay, but there’s definitely a sense of things returning to full blossom after the difficulty of the covid years. 2024 has shone with some of the most extraordinary, imaginative, and fantastically strange costumes worn at shows all around the world—here are some of our favorites from…
Every year is a good year for cosplay, but there’s definitely a sense of things returning to full blossom after the difficulty of the covid years. 2024 has shone with some of the most extraordinary, imaginative, and fantastically strange costumes worn at shows all around the world—here are some of our favorites from…
Baylan Skoll, the nihilistic Jedi fallen to the dark side in Ahsoka season 1, has officially been recast following the death of original actor Ray Stevenson in 2023. Rory McCann, who played The Hound in Game of Thrones, will be stepping into the role for season 2 of the Star Wars show.