by Donnie Lederer | Jun 18, 2019 | app
Chucky is back. With more poor souls to add to his frighteningly high body count. The Child’s Play remake hits theaters June 21, starring Aubrey Plaza and Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky, our favorite talking killer doll. Over the years, the ’80s-born...
by Donnie Lederer | Jun 18, 2019 | Editorial, Horror
Chucky is back. With more poor souls to add to his frighteningly high body count. The Child’s Play remake hits theaters June 21, starring Aubrey Plaza and Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky, our favorite talking killer doll. Over the years, the ’80s-born...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 18, 2019 | Marvel, News
Only Captain Marvel could beat Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark. Carol Danvers herself, Brie Larson, won the MTV Movie & TV Award for “Best Fight” at Monday night’s awards show, besting Arya’s defeat of the Night King. Even better?...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 18, 2019 | News
When Dwayne Johnson isn’t fighting building-sized monsters or Fast & Furious-ing, he’s tugging on all our heartstrings. While accepting the MTV Generation Award Monday night at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, Johnson accepted his golden popcorn trophy...
by Matt Donato | Jun 17, 2019 | Horror, Review
Fabrício Bittar‘s Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary in a nutshell: vanilla-as-sin title, unexpectedly batshit paranormal warfare. “Social media influencer” horror stories are a tough pitch given how vlogger energetics specifically tune into a particular...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 17, 2019 | News
If you have two eyes and the internet, then you’ve noticed that Keanu Reeves is enjoying a bit of a Keanussance right now. Thanks to John Wick 3, his meme-worthy cameo in Always Be My Maybe, and his work as Duke Caboom in this weekend’s Toy Story 4, the...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 17, 2019 | News
Woody and Buzz’s last adventure is doing something no Pixar movie has done in decades: It’s arriving in theaters without an animated short. Slate broke the news that Toy Story 4 will go without an animated short film before the main feature when it opens...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 17, 2019 | app
The Phantom Menace of Hunger Games movies is on the way. As publisher Scholastic announced Monday that author Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel book is set for release May 19, 2020, Lionsgate also revealed their plans to make a movie based on the book. “As...
by Jon Negroni | Jun 17, 2019 | app
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. It’s been a weird summer overall, and this week is no exception, with some films falling way down and others surprisingly holding their ground despite...
by Jon Negroni | Jun 17, 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. It’s been a weird summer overall, and this week is no exception, with some films falling way down and others surprisingly holding their ground despite...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 17, 2019 | News
The Phantom Menace of Hunger Games movies is on the way. As publisher Scholastic announced Monday that author Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel book is set for release May 19, 2020, Lionsgate also revealed their plans to make a movie based on the book. “As...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 14, 2019 | Horror, News
Jackson Maine may have found his next gig. Bradley Cooper is in very early talks to replace Leonardo DiCaprio as the lead in director Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley. The Hollywood Reporter had the exclusive Friday. Should the A Star Is Born director and...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 14, 2019 | app
If Shaft succeeds at anything, it’s making sure that Isaac Hayes’ classic theme gets stuck in your head for DAYS. Samuel L. Jackson returns as Detective John Shaft for the first time since 2000’s Shaft, directed by the late John Singleton. This time...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 14, 2019 | Review
If Shaft succeeds at anything, it’s making sure that Isaac Hayes’ classic theme gets stuck in your head for DAYS. Samuel L. Jackson returns as Detective John Shaft for the first time since 2000’s Shaft, directed by the late John Singleton. This time...
by Matt Donato | Jun 14, 2019 | Horror, News
Welcome, Atom Insider readers to Donato’s Dungeon! Isn’t chasing news headlines a grueling and exhausting task? Ever wonder where you can get all the week’s biggest headlines in one easy-to-find place? That’s why I’m here, armed with a chainsaw and machete to slice...
by Alisha Grauso | Jun 13, 2019 | Horror, Review
Horror flick Head Count has been making the festival rounds since last September; this week it finally hits theaters courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films. I recently had the chance to catch it at Overlook Film Festival and was glad it wasn’t one I ultimately decided...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 13, 2019 | app
Avengers: Endgame and “Fat Thor” are the gifts that keep on giving. While promoting Men In Black: International, Chris Hemsworth stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to discuss how he got into character to play his character for Endgame: By...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 13, 2019 | Avengers Endgame, News
Avengers: Endgame and “Fat Thor” are the gifts that keep on giving. While promoting Men In Black: International, Chris Hemsworth stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to discuss how he got into character to play his character for Endgame: By...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 13, 2019 | app
Spider-Man: Far From Home is looking to spin big bucks at the box office on its opening weekend. The Tom Holland-led sequel is tracking to earn at least $150 – $160 million over its six-day run during the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to The...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 13, 2019 | Box Office, News
Spider-Man: Far From Home is looking to spin big bucks at the box office on its opening weekend. The Tom Holland-led sequel is tracking to earn at least $150 – $160 million over its six-day run during the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to The...
by Alisha Grauso | Jun 13, 2019 | app
After nine years, a sequel we never thought would happen is happening. Disney’s Toy Story 4 hits theaters in a week and a half. This time, Woody and the gang are looking after Bonnie now that Andy has left for college. When Bonnie makes herself a spork toy named...
by Alisha Grauso | Jun 13, 2019 | Disney, Review
After nine years, a sequel we never thought would happen is happening. Disney’s Toy Story 4 hits theaters in a week and a half. This time, Woody and the gang are looking after Bonnie now that Andy has left for college. When Bonnie makes herself a spork toy named...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 12, 2019 | News
’90s nostalgia continues to inflict Hollywood as a Spice Girls animated movie is in development. The Hollywood Reporter had the exclusive Wednesday, with Paramount Animation president announcing that all five members of the pop group — Melanie Brown (Scary...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 12, 2019 | Disney, Editorial
Time to feel old, everyone: The Lion King turns 25 this week, with its LA and NY release hitting theaters two and a half decades ago. The Disney Renaissance reached its creative and box office peak with this 1994 classic, making Simba and his story instantly iconic...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 12, 2019 | News
Men In Black was the little blockbuster that could. Twenty-two years ago, it became a surprise summer hit with both critics and fans while setting the stage for two more sequels that were less successful creatively, but they banked enough at the box office to make the...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 12, 2019 | Video
Release Date: June 7, 2019 Director: Nisha Ganatra Cast: Halston Sage, Emma Thompson, John Lithgow, Reid Scott, Ike Barinholtz, Hugh Dancy, Mindy Kaling, Amy Ryan, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Max Casella Synopsis: A late-night talk show host suspects that she may soon be...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 11, 2019 | Editorial, Marvel
Blame 2000’s X-Men for our current glut of comic book movies. The movie that made Hugh Jackman a star and helped set Marvel on the path to becoming, well, Marvel, lit the spark on how Hollywood can tell big-budget comic book IP with grounded characters and...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 11, 2019 | app
X-Men: Dark Phoenix almost pulled a Captain Marvel and had its mutant heroes battle the Skrulls. While a guest on the ReelBlend Podcast, Cyclops/Scott Summers himself, Tye Sheridan, pitched the original ending’s broad strokes, which involved the X-Men fighting...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 11, 2019 | Disney, News
X-Men: Dark Phoenix almost pulled a Captain Marvel and had its mutant heroes battle the Skrulls. While a guest on the ReelBlend Podcast, Cyclops/Scott Summers himself, Tye Sheridan, pitched the original ending’s broad strokes, which involved the X-Men fighting...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 11, 2019 | News
The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman is trying to bring his latest comic to a theater near you. Oblivion Song, Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici’s compelling sci-fi comic book, is in development by Skybound Entertainment and Universal Pictures, Deadline reported...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 11, 2019 | app
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker marks the first time director J.J. Abrams has finished a property he has helped start. It’s also the first of his movies to be edited on set. Abrams’ long-time editor Maryann Brandon recently told Express that she cut most...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 11, 2019 | News, Star Wars
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker marks the first time director J.J. Abrams has finished a property he has helped start. It’s also the first of his movies to be edited on set. Abrams’ long-time editor Maryann Brandon recently told Express that she cut most...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 11, 2019 | Video
Release Date: November 22, 2019 Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Cast: Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Evan Rachel Wood, Sterling K. Brown Synopsis: Disney is taking us back to the winter wonderland of Arendelle. Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel,...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 10, 2019 | app
Just in time for Ghostbusters’ 35th anniversary, Jason Reitman has revealed some never-before-seen footage from the original film. While attending this weekend’s Ghostbusters Fan Fest in LA with Ivan Reitman, his father and the director of the 1984 classic...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 10, 2019 | News
Just in time for Ghostbusters’ 35th anniversary, Jason Reitman has revealed some never-before-seen footage from the original film. While attending this weekend’s Ghostbusters Fan Fest in LA with Ivan Reitman, his father and the director of the 1984 classic...
by Jon Negroni | Jun 10, 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. This week, two big sequels to two big franchises went head to head, but did either of them really win? This Week’s Top Earner – ‘The Secret Life Of Pets...
by Jon Negroni | Jun 10, 2019 | app
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This week, two big sequels to two big franchises went head to head, but did either of them really win? This Week’s Top Earner – ‘The Secret Life Of Pets...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 10, 2019 | Video
Release Date: August 16, 2019 Director: Gene Stupnitsky Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Molly Gordon, Will Forte, Retta, Lil Rel Howery, Millie Davis, Midori Francis, Enid-Raye Adams, Josh Caras, Chance Hurstfield Synopsis: Three sixth grade boys ditch school and embark on an...
by Alisha Grauso | Jun 7, 2019 | Horror, Review
There are horror movies that aim to do one thing and stick with that one thing. Then there are horror movies that aim to do all the things, narrative consistency be damned. Into that latter category falls Uncork’d Entertainment’s The Child Remains. In...
by Matt Donato | Jun 7, 2019 | Horror, News
Welcome, Atom Insider readers to Donato’s Dungeon! Isn’t chasing news headlines a grueling and exhausting task? Ever wonder where you can get all the week’s biggest headlines in one easy-to-find place? That’s why I’m here, armed with a chainsaw and machete to slice...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 6, 2019 | News
We’ve started 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 Matt Donato | Jun 6, 2019 | Horror, Review
Keola Racela’s Porno is a raucous horror comedy that’s horny like the Devil (where my Todd & The Book Of Pure Evil fans at?). It’s never as sleazy or scummy as the blatant titling suggests, but, in the same breath, lives up to every pound of flesh promised....
by Donnie Lederer | Jun 5, 2019 | Editorial
On June 7th, the final installment of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men series arrives, as Dark Phoenix unleashes its fury upon the world (you can read our review here). Set in 1992, the X-Men are worldwide heroes. During a mission to space, a solar flare merges the powerful,...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 4, 2019 | app
After nearly two decades, the X-Men franchise as most fans have known it comes to an end with X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Writer-director Simon Kinberg makes his feature directorial debut on the fourth movie to feature the First Class cast, and it is his second time tackling...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 4, 2019 | Review
After nearly two decades, the X-Men franchise as most fans have known it comes to an end with X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Writer-director Simon Kinberg makes his feature directorial debut on the fourth movie to feature the First Class cast, and it is his second time tackling...
by Kristen Lopez | Jun 4, 2019 | Editorial, Horror
There’s an interesting trend of late (if we can call a movie and a television show a trend) with Hollywood and its interest in the “Munchausen mom.” Hulu’s new series The Act and the recent trashy thriller Ma have both devoted time to mothers with Munchausen by proxy,...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 4, 2019 | app
Robert Pattinson is the Batman Warner Bros. and director Matt Reeves think we need and deserve right now. And despite the recent news cycle, the casting process went smoother than it seemed. The Hollywood Reporter has an insightful and very detailed chronicle of the...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 4, 2019 | News
Robert Pattinson is the Batman Warner Bros. and director Matt Reeves think we need and deserve right now. And despite the recent news cycle, the casting process went smoother than it seemed. The Hollywood Reporter has an insightful and very detailed chronicle of the...
by Ariel Fisher | Jun 4, 2019 | Editorial, Horror
Emalie Soderback, in her piece “Ghoul, You’ll Be A Woman Soon: Supernatural Puberty and the Horrors of Periods” talks about a subgenre she likes to call “supernatural period girl horror.” Young women and their bodies exist as these horrific entities largely because of...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 4, 2019 | Video
Release Date: June 21, 2019 Director: Lars Klevberg Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill, Brian Tyree Henry, Tim Matheson, Gabriel Bateman, David Lewis, Ty Consiglio, Amber Taylor, Hannah Drew, Carlease Burke Synopsis: A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday,...
by Matt Donato | Jun 3, 2019 | Horror, Review
The Lodge is a methodically insidious and outstandingly tense entry into the “Christmas Horror” canon. Trust me. I’ve watched almost 120 Xmas slashers, spectral haunts, and holiday nightmares. Directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz follow their suffocatingly...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 3, 2019 | News
Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) is exceptionally good at making movies. And the writer-director has found his next movie to make. Deadline reported Monday that Jenkins will be directing for Fox Searchlight an untitled film about the...
by Phil Pirrello | Jun 3, 2019 | News
We were so close to getting Deadpool, Wolverine, Sue Storm, and Daredevil in the same movie. Before The Avengers gave Hollywood movies a permanent case of “team-up fever” in 2012, 20th Century Fox was ahead of the curve the year before — developing a...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 3, 2019 | Horror, Video
Release Date: August 9, 2019 Director: André Øvredal Cast: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Gabriel Rush, Kathleen Pollard, Gil Bellows, Javier Botet, Dean Norris, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Abrams Synopsis: A group of kids face their fears in order...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 3, 2019 | Video
Release Date: November 15, 2019 Director: James Mangold Cast: Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas, JJ Feild, Wyatt Nash, Ray McKinnon, Noah Jupe, Ian Harding Synopsis: The true story of the battle between Ford and Ferrari to win Le...
by Jon Negroni | Jun 3, 2019 | app
Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This week, Godzilla breathed fire on the competition with a solid debut. This Week’s Top Earner – ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ The sequel to Godzilla...
by Jon Negroni | Jun 3, 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. This week, Godzilla breathed fire on the competition with a solid debut. This Week’s Top Earner – ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ The sequel to Godzilla...
by Phil Pirrello | May 31, 2019 | Editorial, Summer Movie Guide
The summer movie season is always jam-packed with huge films, but this summer is so chock full of potential blockbusters that it feels less like a box office race and more like a gladiatorial free-for-all. Seriously, the amount of big movies that will be invading...
by Matt Donato | May 31, 2019 | Horror, News
Welcome, Atom Insider readers to Donato’s Dungeon! Isn’t chasing news headlines a grueling and exhausting task? Ever wonder where you can get all the week’s biggest headlines in one easy-to-find place? That’s why I’m here, armed with a chainsaw and machete to slice...
by Phil Pirrello | May 31, 2019 | News
Hot off the recent success of Aladdin, Disney has found another classic animated film with which to give the live-action treatment. Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer) is in talks to direct the Snow White remake for the Mouse House, according to...
