The news of director Neil Marshall and actor David Harbour teaming up for a Hellboy reboot was bittersweet. While Hellboy III appeared less and less likely as the years went by, and Guillermo del Toro confirmed it was dead before the reboot announcement , fans were still sad the final part of del Toro's trilogy won't ever see the light of day.
"The Mummy," Universal's Cruise-led film that is kicking off a planned franchise of reboots featuring the studio's library of classic monsters, pulled in $12 million Friday, with estimates saying the film will only bring in $30 million this weekend. That tally pales in comparison to 1999's "The Mummy" starring Brendan Fraser, which became a summer sensation - grossing more than $155 million domestically and spawning two sequels and a spinoff starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
There's a potential joke in the headline. The Mummy is supposed to be the start of a big new mega-franchise, and I'll be surprised if it leads to as many as eight more installments.
Actresses who put every detail of their lives on social media are missing out on one of the best parts of being a Hollywood star, according to Hollywood legend Tippi Hedren. "Hollywood has always had a mystique about it, and I would hate to see that go away," the amazingly sprightly 87-year-old told us at the annual Heroes of Hollywood luncheon fundraiser in Los Angeles.
In Hollywood, Alex Kurtzman is known for many things. He helped pen the first two movies of Michael Bay's "Transformers" franchise, is a producer on the "Star Trek" franchise, and is the executive producer on numerous TV shows like "Scorpion" and "Hawaii Five-O."
Editor's note: Every week we pick our coworkers' brains to get a sense of what they're all about and get advice along the way. This week we asked their favorite horror movies of all time.
Earlier this year, I wrote about The Rise of the Synths , a documentary about the rising popularity of the synthwave genre that has been ushered by artists such as Perturbator, Carpenter Brut, Gunship, Miami Nights 1984, Lazerhawk, and similar. Their music is steeped in the synth sounds of the 70's and 80's, inspired by films like Suspiria, The Terminator, The Hitcher, Prince of Darkness , and so on and so forth.
Samantha Geimer's testimony marked the first time she has appeared in court in the drawn-out case involving the 83-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker An American woman raped by filmmaker Roman Polanski as a teenager four decades ago pleaded with a California judge on Friday to end the case so she could move on with her life. Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time of the assault in 1977, said she has been serving a 40-year sentence that has kept a cloud over her and her family.
In Universal's classic horror films of the 1930s and '40s, you often sensed when a monster was about to appear on the screen. There was foreshadowing in the form of a full moon, or a flapping bat, or the crackle of electricity ... and then fanfare in a musical cue by Franz Waxman or Hans J. Salter ... and then, BAM, the monster.