by Alisha Grauso | Aug 6, 2020 | News
In a bit of news that should be exciting for any fan of the action genre, it was announced that John Wick director Chad Stahelski has been tapped for another franchise in the action space. Even more exciting, he’s bringing John Wick writer and collaborator Derek...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 6, 2020 | News
Some days, there are bits and bobs of news that don’t have quite enough meat on the bone for a full article. Still, they’re cool tidbits worth getting some love. We round them up for you in our Quick Hits column. ‘Dirty Dancing’ Reboot/Sequel In The Works...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 6, 2020 | Disney, News
America’s Dad Tom Hanks has made Dad Movies the bread and butter of his career the last few decades. War movies, biopics, and based-on-a-true-stories march up and down his résumé. But Hanks has also maintained a strong relationship with Disney as the voice of...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 5, 2020 | Marvel, News
Some exciting news for both Marvel fans and fans of seeing talented young filmmakers getting a shot at the big time: Captain Marvel 2 has officially found its director and it’s Nia DaCosta. Deadline broke the news that the Candyman reboot director nabbed the job...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 5, 2020 | Editorial, Horror
One of the buzziest upcoming new movies set to hit theaters in the next month isn’t a Hollywood tentpole. It’s not a sequel 30 years in the making or a Christopher Nolan epic or a beleaguered movie about Marvel mutants. In fact, it’s not even an...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 5, 2020 | News
Hollywood was on temporary pause but productions are gearing back up, release dates continue to be tweaked in preparation for theaters reopening, and things are slowly starting to return to normal – or at least, our temporary new normal. Entertainment news has once...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 5, 2020 | Editorial
There was a time not so long ago that reading, especially reading lengthy fantasy books, was largely the domain of social outcasts and “smart kids.” At most, you got a pass for your brains but were rarely considered one of the “cool” kids. (Go...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 4, 2020 | Disney, News
After pulling live-action remake Mulan off the release schedule indefinitely a few weeks back, Disney today announced it’s making the decision to forego a theatrical release entirely in the United States, instead sending it to Disney+. During an earnings call,...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 4, 2020 | News
After action-comedy Charlie’s Angels and playing Princess Jasmine in Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin, Naomi Scott has her eyes on her next project. THR reports she’s in talks to join Amblin’s upcoming sci-fi adventure, Distant. With the...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 3, 2020 | Editorial
Certain directors, they have a notable style. You can see a movie of theirs and just know it was them in the driver’s seat, even without having to look up the director credits. If you’re like us, you probably wonder if that distinct visual style and design...
by Alisha Grauso | Aug 3, 2020 | News
During the pandemic shutdown of Hollywood, most of the focus has been on the shifting release date carousel or when movies and TV shows can resume production. But post-production is affected, too, and movies set for release this year that require extensive work in...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 31, 2020 | Horror, News
Paramount’s relaunch of the Scream franchise is chugging full-steam ahead. I call it a “relaunch” instead of a “reboot,” as a number of old, familiar faces will be returning to the franchise. It was previously reported that David Arquette...
by Kaitlyn Nickol | Jul 27, 2020 | Editorial, Marvel
Where do Marvel superheroes go to college? Why, they go to Empire State University, of course! Or, well, most of the time. Located in the Greenwich Village area of New York City, this fictional university is probably best known to Spider-Man comic book fans as the...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 27, 2020 | News
It’s always an interesting challenge to make a sequel to a movie that came out more than a decade ago. In the case of Bill & Ted Face the Music, it’s coming 29 years after Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the second movie in the Bill & Ted...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 27, 2020 | News
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con looked quite different thanks to everything being held virtually. There was no Hall H or even Ballroom 20 this year, but Zoom panels and YouTube streams. Most movie studios decided to bow out this year, preferring, like Warner...
by Ian Moriarty | Jul 25, 2020 | Editorial
Studio Ghibli Films are some of the most defining content of my childhood. I have fond memories of camping out in the living room with my sister and watching Princess Mononoke into the early hours of the morning (this was on cable, so with commercials, it lasted over...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 24, 2020 | Horror, Review
There’s a particular kind of joy in seeing a debut from a first-time feature filmmaker and it being excellent. A layer of intrigue is added when that feature debut comes from a longtime actor-turned-filmmaker. Such is the case with creepy and atmospheric Amulet,...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 23, 2020 | Review
I’m always one to appreciate a bold swing for the fences from a filmmaker. When a director takes a non-traditional approach to a traditional genre, it’s something to admire. And director Marjane Satrapi certainly does exactly that with biopic Radioactive....
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 23, 2020 | News
20th Century Fox’s and then Disney’s The New Mutants has been in production, then post-production, then release date hell for so many years, it’s become a running joke not just for fans, but for the director and cast themselves. So much so that the...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 23, 2020 | News
Some days, there are bits and bobs of news that don’t have quite enough meat on the bone for a full article. Still, they’re cool tidbits worth getting some love. We round them up for you in our Quick Hits column. Jeremy Strong Insisted On Being Tear-Gassed On The Set...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 23, 2020 | News
Dave Franco has clearly reached a point in his career where he no longer wants to be typecast as the goofy sidekick or comedic relief. His directorial debut, The Rental, a horror film, hits drive-ins and theaters this week. Now comes a slightly head-scratching bit of...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 23, 2020 | News
We’ve restarted a tradition here on Atom Insider: Giving a shout-out to some of our friends around these here internet parts holding it down in the realm of movie journalism and pop culture. Each week, we’ll bring you a hand-picked selection of the most...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 23, 2020 | Video
Release Date: August 28, 2020 Cast: Genesis Rodriguez, Vincent Piazza, Mavis Simpson-Ernst Director: Brendan Walsh Synopsis: In 2002, a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 23, 2020 | Video
Release Date: September 1, 2020 Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, William Sadler, Hal Landon Jr., Kid Cudi, Beck Bennett, Erinn Hayes, Holland Taylor Director: Dean Parisot Synopsis: The stakes are higher than ever for the...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 22, 2020 | News
It feels as though an Avatar sequel has been in the works since the first movie was released in 2009. After years of rumors and “I swear it’s happening”-type comments from James Cameron, it really for real is finally coming to fruition. And according...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 22, 2020 | Roundup
The other day, I decided to watch Knight and Day for the first time ever. I know. I know. Mistakes, they were made. C’est la vie. Despite my love of guilty pleasure movies occasionally coming back to bite me, I regret nothing. Sure, Cameron Diaz’s...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 22, 2020 | News
Hollywood has been slowed way down during the coronavirus pandemic, but you wouldn’t know it from Edgar Wright. In the last two months alone he’s announced the launch of and LA-based film and TV company, Complete Fiction, and picked up a new project with...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 22, 2020 | News
Hollywood was on temporary pause but productions are gearing back up, release dates continue to be tweaked in preparation for theaters reopening, and things are slowly starting to return to normal – or at least, our temporary new normal. Entertainment news has once...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured
The pandemic has hit a number of industries in devastating ways, with the entertainment industry, and especially the movie theater business, getting hit particularly hard. Unfortunately, the Paycheck Protection Protection loan meant to help those very businesses that...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 21, 2020 | Editorial
A few months ago, we challenged you to our first Atom Tickets Movie Trivia Quiz, betting you couldn’t get a perfect score. At the very least, it was the perfect opportunity to show off your big brain stuffed full of random movie trivia on a virtual hangout with...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 20, 2020 | Editorial
Earlier, Warner Bros. announced that Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was getting pushed back again, this time indefinitely. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to go full-tilt in the United States, studios are once again reshuffling their marquee tentpoles around....
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 20, 2020 | Box Office, News
It’s been a rough go for Hollywood the past four months, but all is not doom and gloom in the realm of the movie industry. Signs of life are starting to flicker in the global box office. Now, South Korea’s Peninsula is injecting some much-needed life into...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 17, 2020 | Roundup
The character actor: Hollywood’s unsung hero. While the definition of the phrase “character actor” has morphed and evolved over the years, as many words do, one thing it has never meant is A-lister or lead actor. Today, we often take “character...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 17, 2020 | Editorial, Marvel
Five years ago today, Ant-Man was released in theaters to become the underdog movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (if you can call grossing over half a billion dollars an underdog movie). Just like his movie, Ant-Man is one of the more underappreciated Avengers...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 17, 2020 | News
We don’t normally write about streaming news here because, you know, we sell tickets to theatrical releases, but sometimes news comes along that’s so big I just have to write it up. That sort of news dropped today with Deadline reporting that Netflix is...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 16, 2020 | DC, News
Productions might be slowed down right now but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from moving ahead with new projects in the meantime. Today brings some exciting casting news from the realm of the DCEU. THR is reporting that Noah Centineo has joined the cast of Black...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 16, 2020 | News
If there’s one thing this pandemic has shown us, it’s that celebrities get as bored in lockdown as the rest of us normies. We’re not going to talk about the infamous celebrity “Imagine” video, but otherwise, actors and other famous types...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 16, 2020 | News
Some days, there are bits and bobs of news that don’t have quite enough meat on the bone for a full article. Still, they’re cool tidbits worth getting some love. We round them up for you in our Quick Hits column. Bryce Dallas Howard Shows Off Gnarly Bruises From...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 15, 2020 | News
Hollywood was on temporary pause but productions are gearing back up, release dates continue to be tweaked in preparation for theaters reopening, and things are slowly starting to return to normal – or at least, our temporary new normal. Entertainment news has once...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 15, 2020 | News
For as often as movie fans say they’d like to stop seeing so many reboots, reboots are here to stay. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The right story retold in the right way can be as great as the original movie – just look at, for example, A...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 15, 2020 | Featured, Roundup
This month at Atom, we ran our “Movies On Us” social media sweepstakes. In order to say thanks to the people who have been doing good during a difficult time with the pandemic and protests, we decided to give away 100 pairs of free movie tickets to those...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 14, 2020 | Editorial, Horror
Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, a rebootquel of the 1992 original, will bring to life for a new generation the haunting story of Daniel Robitaille, a.k.a. the Candyman. The hook-handed boogeyman is the stuff of nightmares, appearing to those who take his name in vain...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 14, 2020 | Editorial
Raise your hand if it shocks you to learn that today is the 20th anniversary of the X-Men movie franchise: X-Men was released on July 14, 2000. It’s likely it was released before some of you reading this were even born. Whereas I was in college. Remind me to sit...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 13, 2020 | Marvel, News
With the need to wrap up a massive, 10-year interconnected story arc and shooting both films back-to-back, it became necessary for certain storylines to be shifted around between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. A few characters meant to appear in the...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 13, 2020 | Editorial
Editor’s note: A 10th-anniversary rerelease of Inception was set to hit theaters last month, just a few weeks before Tenet’s release. However, with the coronavirus pandemic continuing to push movie release dates back, the rerelease window for Inception...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 10, 2020 | News
We’re restarting a tradition here on Atom Insider: Giving a shout-out to some of our friends around these here internet parts holding it down in the realm of movie journalism and pop culture. Each week, we’ll bring you a hand-picked selection of the most...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 10, 2020 | DC, News
The Batman hasn’t even finished filming yet and already, the expectations and hype are high for Matt Reeves’ movie. So high, in fact, that it was announced today that Reeves is already busy developing a spinoff series based on the Gotham City Police...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 10, 2020 | News
Some days, there are bits and bobs of news that don’t have quite enough meat on the bone for a full article. Still, they’re cool tidbits worth getting some love. We round them up for you in our Quick Hits column. Tom Holland Shows Off His New Nathan Drake Look For...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 10, 2020 | Marvel, News
It’s hard to fathom the reason there’s not a stunt category for the Oscars yet, especially when we see behind-the-scenes videos of stunt people at work. Whether practicing fight scenes, action sequences being shot, or the incredible dedication it takes to...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 9, 2020 | Roundup
Being smack in the middle of a peak content era means Hollywood is looking for more stories to tell than ever before. That’s led to mining other mediums for adaptation inspiration, from turning hit Broadway musical Hamilton into a theatrical version to turning...
by Ian Moriarty | Jul 9, 2020 | Disney, Editorial
Since it came out five years ago, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out has been a critically and commercially beloved animated film. Its genius is that it uses kid-friendly imagery to explore themes of mental health and the emotional changes that come with growing up. The...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 8, 2020 | Celebrity, Editorial
Kevin Bacon, what a gift to the world. He turns 62 today (that’s July 8th), and he’s still going strong in Hollywood, producing and acting. Ever since breaking out in 1978 playing Chip Diller in National Lampoon’s Animal House, the man has been...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 8, 2020 | News
Hollywood was on temporary pause but productions are gearing back up, new releases are soon to hit theaters, and things are slowly starting to return to normal – or at least, our temporary new normal. Entertainment news has once again begun to drop with regularity. In...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 8, 2020 | Horror, News
In late May, it was announced that the Wolfman would be Universal’s next monster up with Ryan Gosling set to star in the lead role. At the time, I wrote that the studio was looking to make Wolfman a priority and the hunt was on for a director, with Bad...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 8, 2020 | Editorial
Recently, Charlize Theron spoke to THR about her upcoming Netflix project, The Old Guard, and her work in action films. Now, especially after her work in Mad Max: Fury Road, The Fate of the Furious, and Atomic Blonde, it seems a no-brainer to associate Theron with the...
by Lisa Konen | Jul 8, 2020 | Editorial
The global coronavirus pandemic has impacted most people and most industries in a big way. Country-wide shutdowns have upended the way we live, work and socialize, and have forced the movie industry to rearrange its meticulously planned slates for...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 7, 2020 | Disney, News
Here’s a fun bit of casting news: Variety has learned that Jude Law is in talks and near set to play Captain Hook in Disney’s live-action remake of Peter Pan, titled Peter Pan & Wendy. David Lowery is set to direct. Lowery also co-wrote the script with...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 7, 2020 | DC, News
Throughout the temporary shutdown of Hollywood, Matt Reeves’ The Batman has been one of the few projects we’ve gotten regular updates about, thanks in large part to it having been about a quarter of the way through filming when the shutdown hit, as well as...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 6, 2020 | Marvel, News
Avengers: Endgame was globally beloved, raking in $2.75 billion by the end of its theatrical run. It got to that eye-popping number in large part for being a phenomenally well-done finale to a 12-year-long story arc started way back in 2008 with Iron Man. But not all...
by Alisha Grauso | Jul 6, 2020 | Celebrity, Editorial, Movies
Today is Kevin Hart’s 41st birthday, and we’re thankful for the comedian and actor spending half of his life so far trying to make us laugh. From his side-splitting standup to his legendary bromance with Dwayne Johnson to his memorable movie roles, Hart...
