by Jon Negroni | Oct 21, 2019 | Box Office
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This has been the year of live-action Disney remakes, but Maleficent: Mistress of Evil marks one of the first direct sequels to this new era of respun...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 21, 2019 | Video
Release Date: February 21, 2020 Director: David S. F. Wilson Cast: Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell, Guy Pearce, Talulah Riley, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Lamorne Morris, Alex Hernandez, Siddharth Dhananjay Synopsis: Based on the bestselling...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 21, 2019 | Editorial, Star Wars
It’s hard to believe that in just two months Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will be in theaters. Forty-two years after the original movie hit theaters, the Skywalker Saga is officially coming to a close. Hardcore Star Wars fans have been speculating for two...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 17, 2019 | News
A few days ago, news broke that Zoë Kravitz had nabbed the role of Catwoman in Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman. I mentioned in that article that we’d likely get a flood of casting news, considering the movie is reportedly going to focus on a number of...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 17, 2019 | Video
Release Date: April 3, 2020 Director: Will Gluck Cast: Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki, Rose Byrne, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson, James Corden, David Oyelowo, Taylor Ferguson, Neveen Hanna, Dalip Sondhi Synopsis: In PETER RABBIT™ 2: THE RUNAWAY, the lovable rogue...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 15, 2019 | Video
Release Date: November 29, 2019 Director: Scott Z. Burns Cast: Adam Driver, Corey Stoll, Evander Duck Jr., Jon Hamm, Linda Powell, Annette Bening, Sandra Landers, John Rothman, Victor Slezak, Guy Boyd Synopsis: Based on actual events. Idealistic staffer Daniel J....
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 15, 2019 | Editorial, Marvel
Last week, I had the opportunity to visit ILMxLAB’s offices on the Disney campus. I was there for the media day for its newest VR experience partnership with The Void: Avengers: Damage Control. This wasn’t my first brush with ILMxLAB’s VR content. I...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 15, 2019 | Marvel, News
For years there has been a schism between Marvel Studios, headed by Kevin Feige, and Marvel Television, headed by Jeph Loeb. And for almost as long, it’s been clear that Disney has had the utmost faith in Feige’s decisions, not so much on the TV end of...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 15, 2019 | Interview
This week, Kevin Smith’s new movie, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, hits theaters in a limited run courtesy of Fathom Events. The movie is one that Kevin Smith fans will love, familiar and yet new. It’s the same old Jay and Silent Bob we know and love, but even...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 15, 2019 | Video
Release Date: December 20, 2019 Director: Jay Roach Cast: Margot Robbie, Madeline Zima, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Brooke Smith, Alice Eve, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Alanna Ubach, Allison Janney, John Lithgow Synopsis: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, John...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 15, 2019 | Disney, Review
Five years ago, Disney’s Maleficent was a surprise hit, raking in almost $70 million domestically on its way to an impressive global box office haul of $758.5 million. While the sequel is tracking a bit lower for its opening weekend than the original, it’s...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 14, 2019 | DC, News
Ever since Robert Pattinson was officially cast as a younger, dapper Bruce Wayne/Batman in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, speculation has been flying around about who will land the other major roles. Most recently, the role of Catwoman has been bouncing around the...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 14, 2019 | News
It’s been a heck of a year for Samara Weaving. First, she got crazy amounts of buzz for slaying – literally and figuratively – in Fox Searchlight’s sleeper hit Ready or Not. With that, the upcoming Guns Akimbo, and, previously, Netflix’s The...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 13, 2019 | Video
Release Date: January 17, 2020 Director: Stephen Gaghan Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Emma Thompson, Michael Sheen, Rami Malek, Ralph Fiennes, Jessie Buckley, Selena Gomez, Kumail Nanjiani, Antonio Banderas Synopsis: After losing his wife seven years earlier,...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 11, 2019 | Video
Release Date: November 15, 2019 Director: Elizabeth Banks Cast: Naomi Scott, Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Stewart, Noah Centineo, Jonathan Tucker, Nat Faxon, Ella Balinska, Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou Synopsis: Director Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 9, 2019 | Video
Release Date: January 24, 2020 Director: Floria Sigismondi Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten, Niall Greig Fulton, Mark Huberman, Denna Thomsen, Karen Egan Synopsis: For more than 100 years, a deeply haunting tale has been passed...
by Matt Donato | Oct 9, 2019 | Review
Ang Lee’s Gemini Man is both a futuristic taste of what 120 frames per second can do for action cinema and a confirmation of the format’s current limitations (all of which Alisha broke down in her excellent piece on the technology behind the movie). Outside of...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 8, 2019 | Editorial
If you’re a movie lover, you might have heard a lot lately about Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, and how it used advanced, groundbreaking technology to film it. So what? you might be thinking, What’s the big deal? It’s true that most tech advancements in...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 7, 2019 | Review
For a career that has spanned two and a half decades, filmmaker Bong Joon Ho has only directed seven full-length feature films and 14 projects in total. His career has time and again proven the adage that less is more, with virtually every feature of his being...
by Matt Donato | Oct 7, 2019 | Review
Robert Eggers returns four years after The Witch with his 4:3 aspect ratio, black-and-white seadog tale The Lighthouse. Two brilliant actors, one rotating fog-cutter, insidious paranoia. If you thought The Witch was a test of patience, Eggers doubles down on the...
by Jon Negroni | Oct 7, 2019 | Box Office, News
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. Last month, Warner Bros. released an R-rated event movie centered around a murderous clown haunting the victims of an 80s-aesthetic setting. This month,...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 7, 2019 | Video
Release Date: October 11, 2019 Director: Ruben Fleischer Cast: Emma Stone, Zoey Deutch, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray, Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson, Jesse Eisenberg, Avan Jogia, Dan Aykroyd, Luke Wilson Synopsis: Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock move...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 4, 2019 | Box Office, DC, News
Love it or hate it, interest in it or not, one can’t deny that Joker is a movie that has become a genuine cultural phenomenon by sparking intense conversations around the content of the movie itself, the potential violence it will inspire, and the all the...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 3, 2019 | Video
Release Date: December 25, 2019 Director: Sam Mendes Cast: Teresa Mahoney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough Synopsis: At the height of the First World...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 3, 2019 | Video
Release Date: December 13, 2019 Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Nina Arianda, Paul Walter Hauser, Wayne Duvall, Ian Gomez, Kendrick Cross, Dylan Kussman Synopsis: Based on the story of security guard, Richard Jewell...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 3, 2019 | Editorial
If you’ve been following his Instagram lately, then you might have noticed Tom Holland is shooting a new project with the Russo brothers – but this time, it’s not a Marvel movie: View this post on Instagram My Pooch and Me. Off now to go begin my latest...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 2, 2019 | Marvel, News
A little over a month ago, fans were crushed when it was announced that Sony and Marvel had failed to reach a deal and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man was officially out of the MCU. Then, just a week ago, it was announced that an 11th-hour miracle had happened and a...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 2, 2019 | Video
Release Date: January 24, 2020 Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, Hugh Grant, Jason Wong, Christopher Evangelou, Eliot Sumner, Eddie Marsan Synopsis: From writer/director Guy...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 2, 2019 | Video
Release Date: October 11, 2019 Director: Bong Joon-ho Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park, Kang Echae, Jeong Esuz, Andreas Fronk, Hyun-jun Jung Synopsis: All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes peculiar interest...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 2, 2019 | Video
Release Date: November 15, 2019 Director: Bill Condon Cast: Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey, Nell Williams, Jim Carter, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Lily Dodsworth-Evans, Mark Lewis Jones, Laurie Davidson, Celine Buckens Synopsis: Career con artist Roy...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 1, 2019 | Movies
With the release of every Marvel (or Sony-Marvel) movie Blu-ray/DVD comes one of the most anticipated parts of the home release: the gag reel. Full of actors tripping over feet and lines, flubbed scenes, and plenty of shenanigans, the blooper reel is always fun to...
by Alisha Grauso | Oct 1, 2019 | News
Here at Atom Tickets, we like to give you a rundown of what’s coming to theaters every month. We’re deep in the fall movie season now. We have October wide releases, October horror movie releases, and even October special event movies for you. But what about...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 1, 2019 | Video
Release Date: February 7, 2020 Director: Cathy Yan Cast: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Bojana Novakovic, Chris Messina, Jenelle McKee, Ali Wong, Rosie Perez, Matthew Willig Synopsis: After splitting with the Joker, Harley...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 30, 2019 | Horror, Review
Horror movies can be many things. Sometimes they can be cerebral slow burns, sometimes campy slashers, sometimes genre-mashing game-changers. But every so often, a horror movie comes along that is just unrepentantly balls-to-the-wall Extra with a capital...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 30, 2019 | News
Here at Atom Insider, we love to give love to the movies coming out every month. This month, we have a piece dedicated to all the biggest movies hitting theaters in October, as well as the top five October horror movie releases heading our way as the spooky season...
by Jonathan Barkan | Sep 30, 2019 | Horror, News
It’s finally here! October is upon us and that means Halloween season has officially begun! What a glorious time it is, my friends. This is when that crisp chill in the air holds something playfully sinister, as if some monstrous ghoul is lurking behind that...
by Jon Negroni | Sep 30, 2019 | Box Office, News
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. September is wrapping up (wow, that was fast), but before we reach the full swing of awards season, DreamWorks Animation would like to have a word. This...
by Matt Donato | Sep 30, 2019 | Horror, Review
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a chilling aqua-horror take on The Thing meets Cabin Fever set aboard a trawling vessel. Comparable parallels might suggest a Celtic Alien set afloat with an underwater monster ready to trigger massive thalassophobia reactions (Google...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 30, 2019 | Disney, Interview
A few weeks ago, I headed to the Walt Disney Animation Studios for an early press day for Frozen 2. It was a packed day of fascinating interviews and insights from the team behind the sequel, full of gorgeous artwork and sneak peeks at the animation and story process....
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 29, 2019 | Horror, Review
When many filmmakers head up their feature directorial debut, especially on the festival circuit, they tend to lean toward intellectual “serious” fare. Not so Ryan Spindell and The Mortuary Collection, which just had its world premiere at this year’s...
by Matt Donato | Sep 29, 2019 | Review
In the case of Knives Out, 2019’s dastardly delightful murder mystery, I can tell you “whodunnit” – filmmaker Rian Johnson. The “it” in question is leading viewers on a twisty, methodical deconstruction of perception filled with lies, betrayal, and good ol’...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 27, 2019 | News, Star Wars
There may not be a busier guy in Hollywood than Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, and he’s about to become even busier. THR has reported that the longtime Marvel producer will be tackling developing a movie set in the Star Wars universe. It may come as a surprise...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 27, 2019 | Marvel, News
A little over a month ago, we got the bummer news that Spider-Man was certainly done with the MCU as Sony and Marvel failed to reach a new deal about sharing Spider-Man. At the time, it seemed implausible to believe that the two studios wouldn’t eventually work...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 27, 2019 | Video
Release Date: December 25, 2019 Director: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane Cast: Will Smith, Karen Gillan, Tom Holland, Rachel Brosnahan, Ben Mendelsohn, Rashida Jones, Reba McEntire, Masi Oka, DJ Khaled, Carla Jimenez Synopsis: Let’s talk about the pun in the title of...
by Matt Donato | Sep 24, 2019 | Review
Jason Lei Howden’s Guns Akimbo is like a pre-teen railed a bunch of cocaine, watched Gamer, and went, “Yeah! I could make this.” This is not stated with malice or regret, mind you. You’re tuning in for “Daniel Radcliffe with guns for hands,” and that’s precisely...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 20, 2019 | Video
Release Date: October 2, 2019 Director: Siddharth Anand Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Vaani Kapoor, Dipannita Sharma, R. Bhakti Klein, Keith Dallison, Miguel Cirillo Synopsis: The title of the much-anticipated action entertainer that pits two of the biggest...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 18, 2019 | app
Those of you who have been bemoaning the lack of original live-action content from Disney Studios theatrical arm, put your worries on pause because Disney has plans for a new live-action project that could be incredible. Deadline was the first to break the news that...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 18, 2019 | Disney, News
Those of you who have been bemoaning the lack of original live-action content from Disney Studios theatrical arm, put your worries on pause because Disney has plans for a new live-action project that could be incredible. Deadline was the first to break the news that...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 18, 2019 | Video
Release Date: November 27, 2019 Director: Rian Johnson Cast: Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Katherine Langford, LaKeith Stanfield, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, Don Johnson Synopsis: Acclaimed writer and director Rian...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 17, 2019 | Video
November 15, 2019 Director: Swati Bhise Cast: Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Jodhi May, Nathaniel Parker, Ben Lamb, Devika Bhise, Sonia Albizuri, R. Bhakti Klein, Terry Bamber, Arif Zakaria Synopsis: THE WARRIOR QUEEN OF JHANSI tells the true historical story of the...
by Donnie Lederer | Sep 17, 2019 | app
This weekend, on Saturday, September 21, Batman will celebrate his 80th birthday on Batman Day 2019. The Caped Crusader has been influencing comics and pop culture for decades. But if we were to go back 30 years, we could witness a movie phenomenon that, it could be...
by Donnie Lederer | Sep 17, 2019 | DC, Editorial
This weekend, on Saturday, September 21, Batman will celebrate his 80th birthday on Batman Day 2019. The Caped Crusader has been influencing comics and pop culture for decades. But if we were to go back 30 years, we could witness a movie phenomenon that, it could be...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 16, 2019 | app
Batman Day is DC’s annual celebration of the Big Black Bat and his impact on pop culture. This year, it will be held on Saturday, September 21, and with it being Batman’s 80th anniversary, there are plans for it to be celebrated all over the world. Perhaps...
by Alisha Grauso | Sep 16, 2019 | DC, News
Batman Day is DC’s annual celebration of the Big Black Bat and his impact on pop culture. This year, it will be held on Saturday, September 21, and with it being Batman’s 80th anniversary, there are plans for it to be celebrated all over the world. Perhaps...
by Ariel Fisher | Sep 16, 2019 | app
If you’re at all familiar with Noah Baumbach’s work, you know that every film engages with complex elements of the human condition. Sometimes they’re profoundly funny as we saw with Frances Ha. Other times they’re profoundly devastating as with The Squid And The...
by Ariel Fisher | Sep 16, 2019 | Review
If you’re at all familiar with Noah Baumbach’s work, you know that every film engages with complex elements of the human condition. Sometimes they’re profoundly funny as we saw with Frances Ha. Other times they’re profoundly devastating as with The Squid And The...
by Ariel Fisher | Sep 16, 2019 | app
We’re all familiar with the Joker. Immortalized in film and television by performers like Cesar Romero, Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, and Heath Ledger, the character is famously without origin. An unreliable narrator, he has said of himself, “If I’m going...
by Ariel Fisher | Sep 16, 2019 | DC, Review
We’re all familiar with the Joker. Immortalized in film and television by performers like Cesar Romero, Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, and Heath Ledger, the character is famously without origin. An unreliable narrator, he has said of himself, “If I’m going...
by Jon Negroni | Sep 16, 2019 | app
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. We knew for a while that It Chapter Two would be one of the biggest movies of the fall, if not the biggest. But just one week later, we have Hustlers...
by Jon Negroni | Sep 16, 2019 | Box Office
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. We knew for a while that It Chapter Two would be one of the biggest movies of the fall, if not the biggest. But just one week later, we have Hustlers...
