Thanksgiving has come and gone, and we've all survived Black Friday. The Polar Express is barreling downhill, and it's not going to stop until Dec. 25th.
"Bram Stoker's Dracula," which turned 25 this month, is Exhibit A in our contention that the supposed "hack-for-hire" phase of iconic director Francis Ford Coppola need to be reappraised. That period was when the "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" director was reduced, after the bankruptcy of his Zoetrope Studios, to projects such as "Peggy Sue Got Married," "Jack" and "The Rainmaker" .
The Flatliners star previously accused the US President of gatecrashing one of his parties and making advances to his wife. Now he has tweeted: "I was never pissed at Trump for hitting on my wife.
Universal's Dark Universe saw The Mummy come back to life yet again on the big screen. It was the latest example of just how much sway the original Universal Monsters , such as The Mummy , Frankenstein , and even Dracula , still have with the movie-going public, as the studio continues to revisit these time-tested properties.
Veteran character actor Julio Oscar Mechoso died of a heart attack on Saturday, according to the Miami Herald . He was 62. With more than 120 acting credits to his name, Mechoso's long career spanned both movies and television, as well as comedy and drama.
Looking at the 60-year-old's long and diverse career, it is indeed hard to see many straight lines between, say, the roast beef sandwich-coveting Modell of the 1982 Barry Levinson classic "Diner" and the author of three books of homespun wisdom - "Couplehood," "Babyhood" and "Familyhood." Or to find the links tethering his entertaining villain Carter Burke of "Aliens" and the musician/composer who released 2010's "Unusual Suspects," a lovely album of ambient piano pop with singer-songwriter Julia Fordham.
Even though Justice League has been a critical and commercial disappointment for Warner Bros. thus far, there's still plenty to talk about.
After Jurassic World smashed box office records in summer 2015, it was only a question of when, not if, the film would get a sequel. Universal Pictures didn't make fans wait long and scheduled a follow-up for 2018, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom .
The 71-year-old Hollywood legend's filmography contains iconic performances in movies such as 'Thelma and Louise', 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' and 'Enchanted', but when she started out she was told not to have children if she wanted a successful career and to make the most of her castings before she hit the landmark age. Sarandon - whose movies in recent years include parts in 'A Bad Moms Christmas', 'The Calling' and 'Arbitrage' - said: "I remember another really famous actress saying to me, 'Well, don't have children because that'll really change the parts that you'll be available for.