by Editorial Staff | May 21, 2020 | Video
Release Date: July 17, 2020 Cast: Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Fiona Dourif, John David Washington, Wes Chatham, Himesh Patel Director: Christopher Nolan Synopsis: Christopher Nolan’s...
by Alisha Grauso | May 21, 2020 | Interview
Though it’s currently in a few drive-in theaters, on Friday, May 29, The Vast of Night will be dropping for everyone on Amazon Prime. The movie from first-time director Andrew Patterson is an ambitious one. Set in the framework of the fictional Paradox Theater,...
by Alisha Grauso | May 21, 2020 | Horror, News
Along with being a savvy businessman and a shrewd judge of viable horror projects, Jason Blum also has a keen eye for emerging filmmaker talent. Rather than rely on veteran filmmakers to helm Blumhouse projects, the production company often like to work with...
by Editorial Staff | May 21, 2020 | Video
Release Date: April 24, 2020 Director: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz Cast: Janelle Monáe, Kiersey Clemons, Jack Huston, Jena Malone, Eric Lange, Gabourey Sidibe Synopsis: Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the...
by Editorial Staff | May 20, 2020 | News
Hollywood may have hit a temporary pause, but it’s slowly starting to look ahead. As actors continue to promote upcoming movies now on VOD or hitting home entertainment early and productions gear themselves to start back up later this year, things are slowly...
by Alisha Grauso | May 20, 2020 | DC, News
After years of rumors, and a swirl of newly-ignited speculation this week thanks to a few teases from Zack Snyder, it’s finally happening: The Snyder Cut of Justice League is being unveiled to the world. HBO Max, Time Warner’s proprietary streaming...
by Alisha Grauso | May 19, 2020 | News
People like myself who came of age in the ’90s know that there is one specific movie genre that defines that decade: the disaster movie. If the sky was falling (literally and figuratively), there was no premise too ridiculous for Hollywood not to make a movie...
by Alisha Grauso | May 18, 2020 | DC, News
There’s a very cool but overlooked element regarding the rise of superhero films in the last decade in that we’re now seeing a whole generation of actors getting the chance to play superheroes they grew up idolizing. We’ve seen it with Andrew...
by Alisha Grauso | May 18, 2020 | News
Back in 2015, The Martian, starring Matt Damon and based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, became a critical and commercial hit, racking up $630 million worldwide and nabbing seven different Oscar nominations including Best Picture. MGM is hoping it can...
by Jon Negroni | May 18, 2020 | Box Office
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back has recently celebrated 40 triumphant years since its initial release at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on May 17, 1980. It’s hard to overstate just how influential Empire has been on blockbusters,...
by Alisha Grauso | May 15, 2020 | News
Here’s an interesting bit of news that’s popped up this week: Michael B. Jordan and Danny Boyle teaming up together. Variety reports that Warner Bros. is keen on developing Methuselah, tapping Sunshine and 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle to direct, with...
by Alisha Grauso | May 15, 2020 | Editorial, Marvel
It’s been just over a year since Avengers: Endgame hit theaters, the next Marvel movie, Black Widow, isn’t heading our way until November, and no one’s sure when movie productions will resume. Dire times for Marvel movie fans, dire times. The dearth...
by Alisha Grauso | May 14, 2020 | News
Did you know we’re getting a remake of Scarface? If you didn’t, you do now: We’re getting a remake of Scarface. Universal is apparently keen on getting this project moving. So keen, in fact, that they’ve already found a director for it: Call Me...
by Alisha Grauso | May 13, 2020 | Roundup
While we’ve all been cooped up in quarantine, I’ve been using the time to do some fun, informal surveys by asking people on Twitter movie-related questions. Questions that generated a range of answers, like some of the hilarious answers to “Which...
by Editorial Staff | May 13, 2020 | News
Hollywood may have hit a temporary pause, but it’s slowly starting to look ahead. As actors continue to promote upcoming movies now on VOD or hitting home entertainment early and productions gear themselves to start back up later this year, things are slowly...
by Alisha Grauso | May 12, 2020 | News
For years, Quentin Tarantino has famously stated that he plans to make 10 movies in his career and then retire. But for anyone who watches his films, it seems impossible to think that a filmmaker so singularly obsessed with filmmaking and Hollywood would or even could...
by Editorial Staff | May 12, 2020 | Video
Release Date: July 1, 2020 Director: Derrick Borte Cast: Russell Crowe, Jimmi Simpson, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman, Michael Papajohn, Anne Leighton, Lucy Faust, Sylvia Grace Crim, Austin P. McKenzie, Stephen Louis Grush Synopsis: Award winner Russell Crowe stars...
by Alisha Grauso | May 12, 2020 | Interview, News
Robert Pattinson is a gift. He really is. He’s one of those genuine oddball actors – and I mean that in the best of ways – blessed with both leading man good looks and prodigious talent. He’s a chameleon on screen, using his seemingly endless fountain of...
by Alisha Grauso | May 12, 2020 | Disney, News
Earlier this year, we got some happy news: Disney and Lin-Manuel Miranda planned to bring Hamilton to theaters in October 2021. But everything is chaos now, and releases continue to be bumped around. While that means most movies are getting bumped back to later this...
by Alisha Grauso | May 11, 2020 | Disney, News
As and when theaters start to reopen, movie fans have been wondering what the landscape of movies will look like. Most big tentpoles, after all, have been pushed to the fourth quarter of this year or to next year leaving fans wondering what will be in theaters this...
by Jon Negroni | May 11, 2020 | Box Office
It’s a bit frightening to realize how long the horror genre has been looked down upon by so-called prestige films, but these days, the box office success of a low-budget creature feature is more likely than not. This wasn’t always the case for Hollywood, even in the...
by Alisha Grauso | May 8, 2020 | News
If you’re a comic book movie fan, then you know who Josh Trank is. Five years ago, he was very publicly and dramatically undermined as director of Fox’s Fantastic Four when Fox ordered major reshoots. There were reports and rumors he’d had erratic...
by Alisha Grauso | May 8, 2020 | Disney, News
The Disney live-action remake train continues to chug down the tracks, pandemic be damned. The revamps of their animated classics have been a wild success so far, and fans are still buzzing about the next one up, Mulan, even with its release date being bumped back to...
by Alisha Grauso | May 7, 2020 | Editorial
This week, I asked people on Twitter to tell me about the things that characters do in movies and TV shows that drive them nuts. I got thousands of responses and most of them fell into the same general categories. But what was interesting is how often those things...
by Alisha Grauso | May 7, 2020 | Roundup
A few days ago, I asked people on Twitter a very simple question: What are the things that characters do or don’t do in movies and TV shows that bother you? And, well…it blew up. What are small things that characters do or don't do in movies & TV...
by Alisha Grauso | May 6, 2020 | News
What a gift Ryan Reynolds is, seriously. The actor is always effortlessly funny in interviews and continues to be one of the more humble and charitable celebrities out there. He’s also one of the busiest, between running a gin company, a mobile phone company,...
by Alisha Grauso | May 6, 2020 | News
Lionsgate has been on a roll lately. John Wick 4 is on the way in 2022. A few weeks ago, it was announced that Suzanne Collins is releasing a prequel book to The Hunger Games, which Lionsgate will be adapting into a movie. Stephanie Meyer is releasing a new Twilight...
by Alisha Grauso | May 5, 2020 | News
Hollywood was temporarily at a halt, but in the last few weeks, it feels like everyone has finally started to turn their attention the future instead of reeling in the present. As actors continue to promote upcoming movies now on VOD or hitting home entertainment...
by Alisha Grauso | May 5, 2020 | News
It’s been almost 30 years since Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) melted our faces off with their band Wyld Stallyns. Now they’re getting the band back together – literally – with the upcoming Bill...
by Alisha Grauso | May 5, 2020 | Editorial, Movies
Being an actor is weird. Like, really weird. Sure, it’s often glamorous dresses and suave tuxes and awards shows and interviews. But that’s just the obligatory PR part of it. The actual acting part of it can be…strange. Whether it’s being naked...
by Lisa Konen | May 4, 2020 | News
It’s been 15 years since the original Twilight book first sunk its teeth into the hearts of teen (and, ahem, twentysomething) girls and guys everywhere. Today the series author, Stephenie Meyer, announced that the long-awaited prequel, titled Midnight Sun, will...
by Alisha Grauso | May 4, 2020 | News, Star Wars
Earlier this year, I wrote about the news that Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi was in talks with Lucasfilm to develop and direct a Star Wars movie. Today, Disney announced it’s official: Taika Waititi will be directing his own Star Wars movie in the galaxy...
by Alisha Grauso | May 4, 2020 | News
Last month, Netflix’s Tiger King documentary racked up the views while we were all newly stuck at home, and racked up the controversy and questions: Why was Joe Exotic treated so sympathetically? Why was Carol Baskin not? A follow-up episode was quickly put...
by Alisha Grauso | May 1, 2020 | Horror, News
There’s something so much more terrifying about a horror movie based on true events. Maybe it’s because we know that the majority of the time, the things that happen in horror movies can’t possibly happen in real life. They may tap into very real...
by Jonathan Barkan | Apr 30, 2020 | Editorial, Horror
This year makes no sense whatsoever. February flew by at damn near record pace and then March came. It was, as I wrote previously, a month that lasted about a bajillion years. Now April has come and gone feeling like an eternity and a blink of an eye at the same time....
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 30, 2020 | Horror, Review
The title, desaturated poster design, and trappings of IFC Midnight’s The Wretched makes it appear, at first glance, that it’s going to be a cerebral, arty horror flick in the vein of A24 offerings. But a few minutes in and it becomes clear that...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 29, 2020 | News
The John Wick franchise is one of the most well-respected current action franchises, thanks in large part to its inventive, visceral hand-to-hand combat and action sequences. Death is often bloody and swift, but John Wick manages to make violence look like a...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 29, 2020 | News, Star Wars
Fan conventions and film festivals all over have been pushed back or canceled entirely, but that’s not stopping Star Wars Day celebrations from happening on May 4th (as in “May the 4th be with you,” for the uninitiated). ReedPop, the company behind...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 29, 2020 | News, Star Wars
A few days ago, we shared a roundup of the best Marvel designs for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. But Marvel isn’t the only IP that fans have been getting creative with. There are plenty of others with spiffy, custom designs thanks to all the players putting...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 29, 2020 | Editorial
Most states are still (wisely) a month or so from reopening, and movie theaters shortly after that. Still, it’s starting to feel, at least a little bit, like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. As studios continue to reschedule movies, assuring us...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 28, 2020 | Horror, News
Yesterday, I was thinking about the things from my childhood that still scare me a little as an adult, especially the things I saw in movies. I grew curious as to whether this was just a me thing or a people-in-general thing, so I asked people on Twitter a simple...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 28, 2020 | Marvel, News
Movie watch parties have popped up all over since we’ve been a nation (mostly) under quarantine lockdown. With movie theaters on temporary pause, people have been getting their film fix by joining in on Twitter livetweets and Instagram livestreams for different...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 27, 2020 | History
This Week in Movie History is Atom Insider’s column looking back at all the important events, biggest moments, and weird, fun trivia that happened in Hollywood history each week. April 27 1956 – World heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano, who partly inspired...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 27, 2020 | News
With everyone stuck inside right now, Nintendo Switch’s latest iteration of Animal Crossing is everywhere. Seriously, just everywhere. People are out here farming and sharing tips, Elijah Wood is buying turnips at reduced rates like the rest of us normies, and...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 27, 2020 | News
A year ago, Avengers: Endgame hit theaters and the year before that, it was Avengers: Infinity War. While we most remember them for “I don’t want to go,” Tony and Natasha’s sacrifices, the portal scene, and Steve Rogers lifting wielding...
by Jon Negroni | Apr 27, 2020 | Box Office
Unlikely success stories follow the Mad Max franchise around like a deranged car chase, and this trend goes all the way back to 1980. Forty years ago this year, Mad Max arrived in the United States after its strong initial run in Australia a year earlier. The...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 24, 2020 | Horror, News
About a month and a half ago, the news broke that Karyn Kusama had been tapped to direct Blumhouse’s Dracula movie, which is currently in development. The script is still being worked on and details still being sorted, but there’s already one actor who...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 24, 2020 | Editorial, Marvel
It was pretty clear to most who watched Avengers: Endgame that all of the decisions Steve Rogers made at the end were made with Bucky Barnes aware of those decisions and in agreement. This includes Steve choosing to go back in time to live out his life with Peggy and...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 23, 2020 | News
If you, like the rest of us, have been spending a little more time on Twitter lately, then you’ve probably seen the #5PerfectMovies challenge going around. Some people have been reading it as an excuse to simply post their five favorite movies, but most people...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 23, 2020 | Horror, News
Here’s an exciting bit of news for horror fans: The first-ever horror feature film from Panama is coming to the U.S. Diablo Rojo Pty, the directorial feature debut of Sol Moreno, has been playing theaters in its native Panama but also getting some shine on the...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 23, 2020 | Marvel, News
Thank God for Chris Hemsworth, whose from-home promo tour for his new Netflix movie, Extraction, has given us poor entertainment journalists something to write about, like how many hammers he’s taken from Marvel sets. While his new movie has nothing to do with...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 23, 2020 | Marvel, News
It’s always fun to learn about what props actors take from sets, what mementos mean the most to them. It’s especially fun when it comes from a Marvel actor, since most of them have been a part of the MCU through multiple movies and have been around...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 22, 2020 | News
Considered something of a low point in the James Bond franchise, Die Another Day is famously Pierce Brosnan’s least favorite James Bond film in which he appeared as the suave 007. Previous Bond actor Sir Roger Moore has also been vocal about his dislike of it,...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 21, 2020 | Editorial
“Books are a uniquely portable magic,” Stephen King once wrote. And he was right. Books can transport us, inspire us, teach us and entertain. Even better is when you get the best of two media worlds and a book you love gets adapted into a movie version....
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 21, 2020 | News
1997’s The Saint, starring Val Kilmer in the titular role, was an underrated gem in the late-’90s/early-’00s action oeuvre. Since then, it’s become something of a cult classic, with Paramount hinting for quite some time they were kicking around...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 21, 2020 | News
For years, we’ve gotten teases that more movies set in the Hunger Games universe would happen. Today, Lionsgate announced that it is indeed official and we’ll be returning to the world of Panem. The film will be a prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy of...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 20, 2020 | Editorial
With the Hollywood on a temporary pause, entertainment industry types find themselves at a loss and looking for ways to fill the creative void. That’s everyone from the newest grip on a crew to A-list filmmakers. Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 20, 2020 | Editorial, History
This Week in Movie History is Atom Insider’s column looking back at all the important events, biggest moments, and weird, fun trivia that happened in Hollywood history each week. April 20 1841 – The world’s first modern detective story is published...
by Jon Negroni | Apr 20, 2020 | Box Office
80 years ago this past February, Walt Disney’s burgeoning animation company released its second feature film just two years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became a worldwide box office smash. That 1940 film was Pinocchio, loosely based on the Italian serial...
by Alisha Grauso | Apr 16, 2020 | Editorial
Here at Atom, we love movies. We especially love to dive into the behind-the-scenes and how-did-it-get-mades of filmmaking, which is often as fascinating as the films themselves. There’s nothing like watching a movie that captures your attention, moves you, makes you...
