Ebon Moss-Bachrach is playing Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but will the actor utter the character’s iconic catchphrase?

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Moss-Bachrach was asked if he says, “It’s clobberin’ time” at some point in the film. “I slipped it in there a couple times,” Moss-Bachrach said. “We’ll see what happens. I don’t have final cut on this one.“

The Thing will be brought to life through motion-capture in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the actor even got some help from the godfather of motion-capture performance, Andy Serkis. “I have seen a very crude rendering, because it takes a while to build this stuff,” Moss-Bachrach said. “They’ve got lots of animators working on this. I wore a motion-capture suit, two cameras right here and so they’re capturing absolutely everything, every nuance in my eye. It takes a while to build it, and they’re building it right now. Andy Serkis, who’s sort of the godfather of motion-capture, he has this company, The Imaginarium at Pinewood Studios, where we shot this.“

Moss-Bachrach continued, “They have a room they call the Magic Mirror, where you put on the motion-capture suit and you put on monitors, and you can see in real time a beta rendering. It’s not fully realized, you can’t see the face too much. But there are stairs and a doorframe so you can see the physics, how big the character is.“

Kimmel then tried to get Moss-Bachrach to spill some details on the upcoming film, including whether Robert Downey Jr. might appear as Doctor Doom, but the actor didn’t bite. “It’s not gonna happen,” he said. “I’ve been through rigorous media training.“

“So has Tom Holland, and he always gives me something,” Kimmel responded. I don’t know if Holland is ever going to live that reputation down.

The official synopsis for The Fantastic Four: First Steps: “Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ben Grimm/The Thing as they face their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.” The Fantastic Four: First Steps will hit theaters on July 25, 2025.

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach is playing Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but will the actor utter the character’s iconic catchphrase?

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Moss-Bachrach was asked if he says, “It’s clobberin’ time” at some point in the film. “I slipped it in there a couple times,” Moss-Bachrach said. “We’ll see what happens. I don’t have final cut on this one.“

The Thing will be brought to life through motion-capture in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the actor even got some help from the godfather of motion-capture performance, Andy Serkis. “I have seen a very crude rendering, because it takes a while to build this stuff,” Moss-Bachrach said. “They’ve got lots of animators working on this. I wore a motion-capture suit, two cameras right here and so they’re capturing absolutely everything, every nuance in my eye. It takes a while to build it, and they’re building it right now. Andy Serkis, who’s sort of the godfather of motion-capture, he has this company, The Imaginarium at Pinewood Studios, where we shot this.“

Moss-Bachrach continued, “They have a room they call the Magic Mirror, where you put on the motion-capture suit and you put on monitors, and you can see in real time a beta rendering. It’s not fully realized, you can’t see the face too much. But there are stairs and a doorframe so you can see the physics, how big the character is.“

Kimmel then tried to get Moss-Bachrach to spill some details on the upcoming film, including whether Robert Downey Jr. might appear as Doctor Doom, but the actor didn’t bite. “It’s not gonna happen,” he said. “I’ve been through rigorous media training.“

“So has Tom Holland, and he always gives me something,” Kimmel responded. I don’t know if Holland is ever going to live that reputation down.

The official synopsis for The Fantastic Four: First Steps: “Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ben Grimm/The Thing as they face their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.” The Fantastic Four: First Steps will hit theaters on July 25, 2025.

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Back in 1989, Lisa Loring – best known for playing Wednesday Addams in the 1960s TV series version of The Addams Family – starred in a slasher movie called Iced. I had never seen that movie until last year, when some friends and I had a blast watching the “so bad it’s entertaining” flick. So it’s cool to see that Vinegar Syndrome is giving Iced a Blu-ray release through their Degausser Video label, with copies shipping out later this month. To secure a copy of your own, head over to THIS LINK.

Directed by Jeff Kwitny from a script by Joseph Alan Johnson, Iced has the following synopsis: A group of friends head off for a fun-filled getaway in the snowy mountains, where they’ve unexpectedly been offered a free stay at a luxury ski resort. Once they arrive at their cabin, however, the high spirits are soon dampened when they discover a newspaper clipping concerning the tragic death of their friend Jeff during a ski trip four years earlier – it’s clear that someone holds the group responsible for the accident. Sure enough, as the friends settle in for a cozy winter vacation full of skiing, sexual intrigue, and naked cocaine binges, a mysterious figure in ski gear and cracked goggles stalks the surroundings, intent on picking them off one by one in a variety of gruesome ways.

Vinegar Syndrome‘s Degausser Video label was created with the intention of bringing to Blu-ray ‘deluxe editions of both canonical and under-seen shot on video (SOV) genre cinema, in addition to work shot on film, but edited on tape, wherein the original film materials are believed to be lost or destroyed. Similar to Vinegar Syndrome’s focus on FILM preservation, Degausser will work only from original analogue tape materials with an emphasis on maintaining the aesthetics inherent to each respective video format.” Which is why, as you can see in the trailer above, the Iced Blu-ray still has a VHS look.

Iced comes to Blu-ray with the following features: – Region Free Blu-ray – Newly transferred and restored from the best surviving tape master – Commentary track with director Jeff Kwitny and special features producer Ewan Cant – Commentary track with The Hysteria Continues! and author / film historian Amanda Reyes – Introduction to the film by director Jeff Kwitny – “Jeff Was Here” (22 min): an interview with director Jeff Kwitny – “The Best Part of It” (20 min): an interview with actor Ron Kologie – “On Camera Film School” (13 min): an interview with second assistant director Rodney Montague – Image gallery – Inside sleeve artwork – English SDH subtitles

Will you be buying Iced on Blu-ray? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Just when I thought I knew everything about one of my favorite movies of all time, Julianne Moore is dropping knowledge bombs about The Big Lebowski on The Drew Barrymore Show! It turns out that Moore was secretly pregnant for the first time while shooting Joel and Ethan Coen’s cult classic comedy. Moore says she felt awful during portions of the film’s production, making the iconic dream bowling scene particularly challenging to pull off.

“Can I tell you? I was pregnant with my son. The first time I was pregnant. I was so sick that day,” Moore told Barrymore about the scene. “I was so nauseous I could barely move, and that dress was really solid and made from Styrofoam, and I was always like, ‘Oh,’ every time I moved… I was just unbelievably sick and I couldn’t tell anyone I was pregnant because I didn’t want them to know.”

The scene in question happens after Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is drugged and passes out while investigating Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark living in Malibu. While unconscious, the Dude (or, uh, His Dudeness, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) experiences a fever dream featuring Moore’s eccentric Maude Lebowski as a Viking queen bowler. While strutting to “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, the Dude and Maude dance among women dressed as bowling pins while throwing rocks down the alley. It’s very psychedelic, man.

“Jeff is such an extraordinary person. He’s so funny, so generous. I couldn’t look him in the eye without laughing,” Moore confessed about filming the legendary scene. “I’d have to look at his mouth while he was acting because if I saw his eyes, I’d start to laugh. Or I’d look just beyond him or something.”

What a trooper! First pregnancies are a rough business, and the pressure of shooting The Big Lebowski must have weighed on Moore considerably. While her role in the film is brief, Maude adds a hysterical feminine touch with unforgettable dialogue, mystique, and ulterior motives for getting close to the Dude. I’ll think differently about her performance from now on, knowing she was acting for two.

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Just when I thought I knew everything about one of my favorite movies of all time, Julianne Moore is dropping knowledge bombs about The Big Lebowski on The Drew Barrymore Show! It turns out that Moore was secretly pregnant for the first time while shooting Joel and Ethan Coen’s cult classic comedy. Moore says she felt awful during portions of the film’s production, making the iconic dream bowling scene particularly challenging to pull off.

“Can I tell you? I was pregnant with my son. The first time I was pregnant. I was so sick that day,” Moore told Barrymore about the scene. “I was so nauseous I could barely move, and that dress was really solid and made from Styrofoam, and I was always like, ‘Oh,’ every time I moved… I was just unbelievably sick and I couldn’t tell anyone I was pregnant because I didn’t want them to know.”

The scene in question happens after Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is drugged and passes out while investigating Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark living in Malibu. While unconscious, the Dude (or, uh, His Dudeness, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) experiences a fever dream featuring Moore’s eccentric Maude Lebowski as a Viking queen bowler. While strutting to “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, the Dude and Maude dance among women dressed as bowling pins while throwing rocks down the alley. It’s very psychedelic, man.

“Jeff is such an extraordinary person. He’s so funny, so generous. I couldn’t look him in the eye without laughing,” Moore confessed about filming the legendary scene. “I’d have to look at his mouth while he was acting because if I saw his eyes, I’d start to laugh. Or I’d look just beyond him or something.”

What a trooper! First pregnancies are a rough business, and the pressure of shooting The Big Lebowski must have weighed on Moore considerably. While her role in the film is brief, Maude adds a hysterical feminine touch with unforgettable dialogue, mystique, and ulterior motives for getting close to the Dude. I’ll think differently about her performance from now on, knowing she was acting for two.

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Forget what you know about the Hatfields and the McCoys; the familial war between Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott is a feud fueled by suspicion, bad blood, and darkness. Today, Mubi proudly presents its gripping trailer for Bring Them Down, Christopher Andrews’ upcoming thriller.

In Bring Them Down, an Irish shepherding family battles on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family, and rivalry with another farmer. Paternalism, heritage, and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ireland, as things turn violent and grim secrets, come to light.

Christopher Andrews (Fire, Stalker, Together Again) directs Bring Them Down from a script he wrote with Jonathan Hourigan. In today’s Bring Them Down trailer, Christopher Abbott stars as Michael, a man tending to his family’s sheep business on his own. Michael’s father (Colm Meaney) is disabled, and his mother died years ago in a car accident in which Michael was the driver. The guilt of that unthinkable event haunts Michael with his every step, and the truth about what happened is scratching at the door of Michael’s mind, dying to escape. Meanwhile, Jack (Barry Keoghan), the son of a neighboring sheep herder, Gary, says he found two of Michael’s prized rams dead on their property. Still, when Michael claims to recognize the animals among Gary’s flock, a war between the two families ignites.

The Bring Them Down trailer begins innocently before descending into madness, jealousy, and hatred as lies poison the well. With tensions spiraling out of control, Michael begins to lose control, and old secrets come back to haunt him as a new darkness encroaches.

Bring Them Down is a fantastic showcase for Christopher Abbott (Wolf Man, Kraven the Hunter) and Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, Eternals). Both actors bring the best of their dramatic chops to this increasingly violent tale of lies laid bare. The movie holds a 93% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics saying the movie’s grim tone can be overwhelming, but ultimately, Christopher Andrews arrives as a filmmaker to watch.

What do you think about the trailer for Bring Them Down? Are you interested in checking the film out? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Forget what you know about the Hatfields and the McCoys; the familial war between Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott is a feud fueled by suspicion, bad blood, and darkness. Today, Mubi proudly presents its gripping trailer for Bring Them Down, Christopher Andrews’ upcoming thriller.

In Bring Them Down, an Irish shepherding family battles on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family, and rivalry with another farmer. Paternalism, heritage, and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ireland, as things turn violent and grim secrets, come to light.

Christopher Andrews (Fire, Stalker, Together Again) directs Bring Them Down from a script he wrote with Jonathan Hourigan. In today’s Bring Them Down trailer, Christopher Abbott stars as Michael, a man tending to his family’s sheep business on his own. Michael’s father (Colm Meaney) is disabled, and his mother died years ago in a car accident in which Michael was the driver. The guilt of that unthinkable event haunts Michael with his every step, and the truth about what happened is scratching at the door of Michael’s mind, dying to escape. Meanwhile, Jack (Barry Keoghan), the son of a neighboring sheep herder, Gary, says he found two of Michael’s prized rams dead on their property. Still, when Michael claims to recognize the animals among Gary’s flock, a war between the two families ignites.

The Bring Them Down trailer begins innocently before descending into madness, jealousy, and hatred as lies poison the well. With tensions spiraling out of control, Michael begins to lose control, and old secrets come back to haunt him as a new darkness encroaches.

Bring Them Down is a fantastic showcase for Christopher Abbott (Wolf Man, Kraven the Hunter) and Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, Eternals). Both actors bring the best of their dramatic chops to this increasingly violent tale of lies laid bare. The movie holds a 93% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics saying the movie’s grim tone can be overwhelming, but ultimately, Christopher Andrews arrives as a filmmaker to watch.

What do you think about the trailer for Bring Them Down? Are you interested in checking the film out? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Professional wrestler Chris Jericho plays the lead role in the wrestling-themed horror film Dark Match, which is coming to us from writer/director Lowell Dean, whose previous directing credits include 13 Eerie, Wolfcop, Another Wolfcop, and SuperGrid. The movie is set to be released through the Shudder streaming service on January 31st, and today a trailer has dropped online! You can check it out in the embed above.

Dark Match will show us what happens when a small-time wrestling company accepts a high-paying gig in a backwoods town, only to discover when they arrive that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.

Jericho, who previously appeared in the Terrifier sequels and the Kevin Smith horror anthology KillRoy Was Here, is joined in the cast by Ayisha Issa (Transplant), Steven Ogg (The Walking Dead), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries), Michael Eklund (Wynonna Earp), and Jonathan Cherry (Final Destination 2).

A Dept. 9 Studios film, Dark Match is produced by Dept. 9 founder John MacDonald, who also receives an executive producer credit alongside Jericho. Rhonda Baker and Michael Peterson also produced the film with Don Depoe and Michael Feehan of Dept. 9. Deadline notes that Dept. 9 Studios is a 26,000 square foot production facility in Edmonton. The facility opened in 2019. The company develops and produces its own films and TV and rents the site to third parties.

About thirty years have gone by since I could be considered a wrestling fan, but a horror movie about wrestlers taking on a cult sounds like a good time to me. I’ll definitely be checking Dark Match out when it starts streaming. JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols had the chance to watch Dark Match when it screened at the Fantasia Film Festival last year and gave it a 7/10 review that can be read at THIS LINK. He also sat down for an interview with Chris Jericho that can be viewed HERE.

What did you think of the Dark Match trailer? Are you a fan of wrestling and/or Chris Jericho, and will you be watching this movie when it reaches Shudder? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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After casting a spell on audiences and racking up award nominations, the anticipation for Wicked: For Good, the sequel to Jon M. Chu’s Wicked, is through the roof. The second final part of Elphaba’s story doesn’t land like a house in theaters until November 15, 2025. Still, Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), who plays the charming Prince Fiyero in the musical adaptation, is already drumming up excitement for the event of the holiday season. Speaking with IndieWire about WIcked: For Good, Jonathan Bailey said he thinks he’s beginning to understand the world inspired by Gregory Maguire’s novel, and there are moments he can’t wait to share with audiences.

“I think we understand the world and how it works [now],” he told the entertainment outlet. “I’m really excited for the tonal shift. The world gets heavier and more complicated and there’s just that pumping sense of hope and joy and resilience and all the things that we love about Elphaba’s journey that I can’t wait for.”

As IndieWire points out, Wicked: For Good finds Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) as a targeted political figure after vexing the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum). Meanwhile, Glinda (Ariana Grande) falls under the spell of becoming a sounding board for influential figures throughout Oz.

During his chin-wag with IndieWire, Jonathan Bailey also expressed excitement about seeing the film in theaters with family members and realizing that all his years of dance and theater training were worth the blood, sweat, and tears.

“Going to see ‘Wicked’ with friends and family and my Nana the day after it came out here, it’s just really struck me that it is all about local community projects,” Bailey said, referring to his childhood, which had been chock full of acting and dance classes. “There’s so many moments in your life where you can be inspired by art and passions can be awakened, but the biggest travesty is to allow them to remain dormant when you know they’re there. And so I’m always grateful for Fiyero and ‘Wicked’ because it really has brought my dancing back in [to my life], which is amazing.”

Wicked is still playing in theaters and is available for Digital purchase on various platforms. Are you excited for Wicked: For Good? What did you think about Wicked? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Shortly after going public about his engagement to Zendaya, Tom Holland is ready to suit up for the Grisham-Verse with a starring role in The Partner, based on the suspense thriller novel by John Grisham. The script for the adaptation of Grisham’s 1997 bestseller hails from The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore. Universal is the studio.

The Partner revolves around Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a Biloxi law firm who fakes his own death after stealing $90M from a crooked client. To disappear without a trace, Patrick leaves his wife, newborn daughter, and secrets behind. After Patrick builds a new life in South America, the scorned client discovers the money is missing from his offshore accounts. Convinced Patrick stole it and is still alive, the client vows to hunt him down. Left with no choice but to confess, Patrick must face the FBI, his wife, and his child while confronting harsh truths.

Hollywood is well-versed in bringing Grisham’s novels to life on the silver screen thanks to films like A Time to Kill, starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, and Sam Jackson; The Firm, starring Tom Cruise, The Pelican Brief, starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon’s The Client, and The Runaway Jury, starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, and Rachel Weisz. General audiences adore the rush of a solid Grisham page-turner, which helps bring them to screens with some of Hollywood’s heaviest hitters.

In addition to The Partner, Tom Holland joins Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, and Lupita Nyong’o in Christopher Nolan’s next epic, The Odyssey. Nolan’s adaptation of the classic story follows Odysseus on his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, showcasing his encounters with Polyphemus, the Sirens, and Circe and finishing with his reunion with his wife, Penelope.

What do you think about Tom Holland signing on for an adaptation of John Grisham’s The Partner? Are you stoked to hear about Holland’s engagement to Zendaya? We’ll bring you more news about The Partner as the project’s development continues.

What’s your favorite feature-length adaptation of a John Grisham novel? Let us know in the comments section below.

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