Sometimes the tensions in the real world can be affected by what's on the big screen. A film's subject matter can become a national news story and people will either sing its praise or boycott it into oblivion.
Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer and Jessie J attended Saturday's premiere of their new animated movie "Ice Age: Collision Course." NEW YORK, July 15 -- Violet Ramis Stiel implored fans to stop using her late dad, "Ghostbusters" star Harold Ramis, as an excuse "to spew bile" about the female-led reboot.
A true tale that plays like fiction, director Brad Furman's The Infiltrator concerns a federal agent who poses as a money launderer to help bust Pablo Escobar's drug cartel, and it's based on a memoir written by said agent Robert Mazur, not on a pre-existing movie. Yet it somehow feels like even more of a remake than the new Ghostbusters - principally a remake of Donnie Brasco, The Departed, or any number of similar entertainments involving disguised cops playing long cons, wire-tapping, bloody retribution, and swarthy gangsters in flashy suits conversing while topless women pole-dance in the background.
"Taken" director Pierre Morel has come on board to helm the hard-edged cop thriller "Big Stone Grid" with plans to shoot the project next year. The story follows two decorated detectives who uncover a terrifying extortion ring of serial killers that operates within the secret underbelly of New York.
From Star Wars the movie to Star Wars the Strategic Defense Initiative rolled out by the Reagan administration, the world had an unquenchable thirst for the unknown beyond our atmosphere. And on July 18, 1986, Aliens joined the party, giving us a classic sci-fi thriller.
When Top Gun cruised into theaters in 1986, film critics were impressed with the high-octane jet action scenes, but still panned the Tony Scott-directed film starring 24-year-old Tom Cruise. Top Gun still rates a lowly 55% positive critical rating on the movie aggregation site RottenTomatoes.com.
'Top' secret: Why movies endure 30 years later 'Top Gun,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and 'Stand By Me' are going strong at 30. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2a0ZsIR Tom Cruise in "Top Gun" is still part of the conversation, with a push for a sequel and a Blu Ray release in its 30th anniversary year. When Top Gun cruised into theaters in 1986, film critics were impressed with the high-octane jet action scenes, but still panned the Tony Scott-directed film starring 24-year-old Tom Cruise.
Following our first look at Sofia Boutella as the mummy, we've got new Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis photos from the last day of filming of The Mummy in London. The June 9, 2017 release is officially described as follows: Thought safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Reitman, the director of 'Stripes' and the original 'Ghostbusters,' on the sequels that weren't and why the reboot's trolls are just being "protective" of the 1984 film. Ivan Reitman spent decades entertaining the ethereal dream of getting his Ghostbusters team back together for a third film that, a few years ago, finally seemed to be on the brink of happening.