Audiences

Top Gun: Maverick has blown away all expectations by not simply being a box office success but an absolute smash. The movie has grossed over $1 billion at the global box office and put Tom Cruise back on top as one of the biggest movie stars in the world. However, one former Academy Award nominee is far from impressed and Mickey Rourke isn’t hiding how he feels.Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Mickey Rourke was asked what he thought of Top Gun: Maverick’s current success and the Iron Man 2 star, who has previously…

Image via Universal Pictures Minions: The Rise of Gru is making a sizable impact on both the box office and in meme culture, and that tap into the meme economy may have just tapped into its biggest demographic. As the funny yellow tic-tacs return to cinema, they’ve made remarkable headlines that push the film well beyond what the marketing team at Illumination Animation or parent company Universal would have expected. Thanks to another chapter of the internet causing bizarre events, Minions is not only…

Image via Sony Sony has officially handed the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife a — very surprising — release date. The studio went all out on making sure the 2021 movie was a stronger relaunch of the franchise than 2016’s reboot, and, while it didn’t blow up the bank and received somewhat mixed reviews from critics and fans, clearly Jason Reitman’s ode to his father Ivan’s 1984 original did the job as a sequel is on its way… next holiday season. The next Ghostbusters movie — which we can call Ghostbusters:…

Warner Bros. The fad for turning popular and classic TV shows into feature films is a practice that makes complete sense from a studio standpoint. Take a helping of name recognition, drizzle over some nostalgia, slap on a fresh coat of paint to draw in new audiences, and success is there for the taking. Sometimes it is, but despite its commercial success, nobody should use The Dukes of Hazzard as the blueprint for how to translate smalls screen favorites to the multiplex. Former Dwayne Johnson sidekicks Seann…

Pixar is finally set to return to theaters. After Turning Red, Soul and Luca all saw releases straight to Disney+ subscribers, Lightyear will hit the big screen on Friday, June 10, with the origin story for the beloved Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear. This movie is about the actual space ranger that the action figure from the Toy Story movies is based on, allowing for Chris Evans to step in as the voice of Buzz, replacing Tim Allen. It’s not Buzz’s voice, however, that’s dominating the conversation following the…

via Lucasfilm Last Friday was a monumental day in the pop culture pantheon on both the big and small screens, with a trio of massive projects all debuting on the same day, with each of them appealing to a massive fanbase that had been waiting patiently to see them for the longest time. 36 years after the original, Tom Cruise flew back into our lives as Pete Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick, which was riding the crest of a wave as one of the best-reviewed movies of the year. 17 years since Revenge of the Sith, Ewan…

Every critic knows that the public isn’t always going to agree with you.Often, this takes the form of a critical darling which proves too challenging or subversive for the mass market – films such as 2019’s science fiction drama Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt.However, other times, this works in reverse: the critical community dismisses a film’s merits, only for the general public to embrace it as a classic.As with all forms of art, there’s not necessarily a “right” or “wrong” answer with any one film. People are free to…

Disney Originality is getting increasingly harder to find in the arena of big budget studio blockbusters, but that doesn’t mean audiences are desperately crying out for fresh concepts, either. A case in point is last summer’s Jungle Cruise, which didn’t have a single original bone its body, but still turned out to be a popular (and highly successful) hit for Disney. Of course, nobody was expecting much in the way of freshness from an old-fashioned adventure that was inspired by a theme park attraction, and…

Testosterone-fueled action blockbusters aren’t typically designed to elicit an intense emotional response from audiences around the world, but Furious 7 was hardly a run-of-the-mill actioner. The tragic death of star Paul Walker saw Justin Lin pull out all of the stops to give the franchise stalwart a fitting sendoff, but even then, we weren’t ready for that final scene. Throughout the running time, there was an underlying sense of sadness knowing that the actor was no longer with us, but the final goodbye…

When people see The Innocents, they tend not to hold back on telling its director what they think. “This is the worst thing I’ve ever been through,” is a frequent reaction. Followed by: “Thank you.”“You can see they’ve been crying,” says Eskil Vogt. They are frequently shaking, he reports. He shakes his head, smiling, a little bemused. “OK. How do I process that? Weird.”The Innocents is a candidate for the most disturbing film of the year. A horror-ish arthouse drama about four children who discover they have magical…