Following its massive success at the box office (grossing more than $270 million globally thus far according to Box Office Mojo), Blumhouse's Five Nights at Freddy's (directed by Emma Tammi and based on Scott Cawthon's popular video game franchise of the same name) is coming to Digital on November 28th, followed by a December 12th release on 4K Uhd, Blu-ray, and DVD, and we have a look at the full list of bonus features:
Press Release: Universal City, California, November 21, 2023 – Shattering all-time records at the box-office, Blumhouse’s Five Nights At Freddy’S, the haunting new horror film based on the video game series created by Scott Cawthon, will be available with never-before-seen bonus content on Digital November 28, 2023, and 4K Uhd, Blu-rayTM and DVD on December 12, 2023, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Five Nights At Freddy’S killed its theatrical debut breaking various box office records for the genre and Blumhouse.
Press Release: Universal City, California, November 21, 2023 – Shattering all-time records at the box-office, Blumhouse’s Five Nights At Freddy’S, the haunting new horror film based on the video game series created by Scott Cawthon, will be available with never-before-seen bonus content on Digital November 28, 2023, and 4K Uhd, Blu-rayTM and DVD on December 12, 2023, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Five Nights At Freddy’S killed its theatrical debut breaking various box office records for the genre and Blumhouse.
- 11/21/2023
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The latest film from the horror film studio Blumhouse, Five Nights at Freddy’s, proves to be not only less of a typical horror product from the studio, but also more of a family-friendly and engaging story than one might expect from the genre.
The film opens as a troubled security guard named Mike (Josh Hutcherson) is let go from his current security assignment. Soon after this he begins work at a dilapidated pizza/arcade called Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Over the course of his first night on the job, Mike notices several odd occurrences that suggest the job may not be the cake-walk assignment it was presented as. Subsequent evenings prove even more harrowing as it appears that the animatronic characters designed as entertainment in the arcade may, in fact, harbor homicidal tendencies.
Scott Cawthon, along with director Emma Tammi, and Seth Cuddeback pen a screenplay based on the video game series Cawthon originally created.
The film opens as a troubled security guard named Mike (Josh Hutcherson) is let go from his current security assignment. Soon after this he begins work at a dilapidated pizza/arcade called Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Over the course of his first night on the job, Mike notices several odd occurrences that suggest the job may not be the cake-walk assignment it was presented as. Subsequent evenings prove even more harrowing as it appears that the animatronic characters designed as entertainment in the arcade may, in fact, harbor homicidal tendencies.
Scott Cawthon, along with director Emma Tammi, and Seth Cuddeback pen a screenplay based on the video game series Cawthon originally created.
- 10/27/2023
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Frank Langella is Stanislavsky over Strasberg (“Lee took Stanislavsky and bastardized him terribly”), acting over stardom (“I play my strong suit and try to disappear”), and old over young. “I’d hate to be a young actor starting out now,” said the 83-year-old performer; he was 32 when he earned his first film credit, in “Diary of a Mad Housewife,” which earned him a 1971 Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer-Male. “I’ve seen people write about a new young actor who is only 24 being thrown on the junk heap.”
Langella is also theater over film, usually, but he was delighted to make the exception for Aaron Sorkin, whom he compares to Shakespeare. “All the classics I’ve done, I’m safe inside these brilliant writers,” he said. “There are not many today. With Aaron, you never feel you’re being abandoned: ‘How do I play this?’ Aaron has a delicious chocolate cake,...
Langella is also theater over film, usually, but he was delighted to make the exception for Aaron Sorkin, whom he compares to Shakespeare. “All the classics I’ve done, I’m safe inside these brilliant writers,” he said. “There are not many today. With Aaron, you never feel you’re being abandoned: ‘How do I play this?’ Aaron has a delicious chocolate cake,...
- 2/22/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Frank Langella is Stanislavsky over Strasberg (“Lee took Stanislavsky and bastardized him terribly”), acting over stardom (“I play my strong suit and try to disappear”), and old over young. “I’d hate to be a young actor starting out now,” said the 83-year-old performer; he was 32 when he earned his first film credit, in “Diary of a Mad Housewife,” which earned him a 1971 Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer-Male. “I’ve seen people write about a new young actor who is only 24 being thrown on the junk heap.”
Langella is also theater over film, usually, but he was delighted to make the exception for Aaron Sorkin, whom he compares to Shakespeare. “All the classics I’ve done, I’m safe inside these brilliant writers,” he said. “There are not many today. With Aaron, you never feel you’re being abandoned: ‘How do I play this?’ Aaron has a delicious chocolate cake,...
Langella is also theater over film, usually, but he was delighted to make the exception for Aaron Sorkin, whom he compares to Shakespeare. “All the classics I’ve done, I’m safe inside these brilliant writers,” he said. “There are not many today. With Aaron, you never feel you’re being abandoned: ‘How do I play this?’ Aaron has a delicious chocolate cake,...
- 2/22/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Sumner Redstone, a towering figure in media who built his father’s drive-in theater business into an empire that included Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS Corp., only to see his legacy tarnished in his final years by corporate battles and sordid allegations by former girlfriends, died Aug. 11 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97.
National Amusements, the Redstone family’s private holding company that controls what is now ViacomCBS, confirmed that Redstone died Tuesday afternoon. After years of public battles with family members, Redstone had been in close contact over the past three years with his daughter, ViacomCBS chairman Shari Redstone, and others in his extended family.
“My father led an extraordinary life that not only shaped entertainment as we know it today, but created an incredible family legacy,” Shari Redstone told Variety in a statement. “Through it all, we shared a great love for one another and he was a wonderful father,...
National Amusements, the Redstone family’s private holding company that controls what is now ViacomCBS, confirmed that Redstone died Tuesday afternoon. After years of public battles with family members, Redstone had been in close contact over the past three years with his daughter, ViacomCBS chairman Shari Redstone, and others in his extended family.
“My father led an extraordinary life that not only shaped entertainment as we know it today, but created an incredible family legacy,” Shari Redstone told Variety in a statement. “Through it all, we shared a great love for one another and he was a wonderful father,...
- 8/12/2020
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Fred Silverman, the executive who became the only person in TV history to have headed programming for each of the Big Three broadcast networks, died on Thursday at his home in the Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 82.
Silverman died with his family by his side.
During his prolific career, Silverman was credited with helping to launch some of the most successful shows and miniseries of all time, including “All in the Family,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Happy Days,” “The Waltons” and “Roots.”
After turning both CBS and ABC around in the ratings, Silverman failed to work his magic at NBC in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Once he left the Peacock net to branch out on his own with the Fred Silverman Co., Silverman forged another career as a producer, turning out a number of successful series, including “Matlock,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Jake and the Fatman” and “Diagnosis Murder.
Silverman died with his family by his side.
During his prolific career, Silverman was credited with helping to launch some of the most successful shows and miniseries of all time, including “All in the Family,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Happy Days,” “The Waltons” and “Roots.”
After turning both CBS and ABC around in the ratings, Silverman failed to work his magic at NBC in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Once he left the Peacock net to branch out on his own with the Fred Silverman Co., Silverman forged another career as a producer, turning out a number of successful series, including “Matlock,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Jake and the Fatman” and “Diagnosis Murder.
- 1/30/2020
- by Paula Bernstein
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Chris Pine is attached to play iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite in Newsflash. This is the Ben Jacoby-scripted drama that takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. Similar to the cultural atom-splitting moments captured in films like The Social Network, Newsflash covers the day that television network news came of age, and that Cronkite became the most trusted TV newsman voice of America. Even if he wasn’t first to announce the president had died (NBC did that).
Mark Ruffalo is still attached to play Don Hewitt, who was Cronkite’s producer and helped navigate the chaos in an unimaginably tragic day in America. The drama is being mobilized for a January start Greg Silverman’s Stampede, with Silverman producing with Adam Kolbrenner. Jacoby wrote a much admired script called The Ravine, a Chinatown-like look at how landowners were pushed...
Mark Ruffalo is still attached to play Don Hewitt, who was Cronkite’s producer and helped navigate the chaos in an unimaginably tragic day in America. The drama is being mobilized for a January start Greg Silverman’s Stampede, with Silverman producing with Adam Kolbrenner. Jacoby wrote a much admired script called The Ravine, a Chinatown-like look at how landowners were pushed...
- 8/1/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Dr. Poltrack had some interesting news for a group of CBS executives trying to sort out the network’s primetime schedule in 1992. The patient wasn’t sick at all.
Before “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” launched on CBS in 1993, few of the network’s executives fought to get the show on the air. No one thought viewers would flock to a Western period drama with wholesome themes. The ad-sales team complained they couldn’t get anyone to sponsor it. David Poltrack, the company’s research chief, had done audience testing. And he said it proved the show would be “through the roof.”
After some back and forth, “Quinn” premiered Jan. 1, 1993, with nine full episodes at the ready. ”It got a huge rating. It was an instant success,” Poltrack recalled. “It lasted six seasons, produced 149 episodes. And we owned it. It was on Ion. It’s on Amazon. It was on in over 100 countries.
Before “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” launched on CBS in 1993, few of the network’s executives fought to get the show on the air. No one thought viewers would flock to a Western period drama with wholesome themes. The ad-sales team complained they couldn’t get anyone to sponsor it. David Poltrack, the company’s research chief, had done audience testing. And he said it proved the show would be “through the roof.”
After some back and forth, “Quinn” premiered Jan. 1, 1993, with nine full episodes at the ready. ”It got a huge rating. It was an instant success,” Poltrack recalled. “It lasted six seasons, produced 149 episodes. And we owned it. It was on Ion. It’s on Amazon. It was on in over 100 countries.
- 10/30/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Carol Burnett becomes the latest great from TV’s past to enter the world of streaming on Friday with the debut of her Netflix series “A Little Help With Carol Burnett,” and the 85-year-old actress told Vulture that she prefers the streaming world to broadcast television these days, saying “there are just too many cooks now.”
“A Little Help” will see Burnett and her co-host, comedian Russell Peters, work with a group of kids to help solve the problems of celebrities including Billy Eichner, Taraji P. Henson and Mark Cuban. The show marks Burnett’s first regular return to television since CBS’ ill-fated attempt at reviving her variety series “The Carol Burnett Show” in the early 1990s. Since then, Burnett had appeared in guest spots on a handful of series including “Glee,” “Hawaii Five-o” and “Hot in Cleveland.”
So why did Burnett decide to return to the television format, particularly on streaming? Burnett told Vulture that working with Netflix reminded her of the early days of TV, where network executives weren’t as involved in the making of the shows.
Also Read: Carol Burnett Receives First-Ever Peabody Career Achievement Award
“I liked it, because they stayed away,” she said of Netflix. “When I was doing my show back in the covered-wagon days, they didn’t even want to read a script.” She added that executives such as CBS’ William Paley would leave her alone. “But a lot of the networks now, they’ve got an army of people coming to comment and tell you how you should change something, and it’s very bothersome to me.”
Burnett said that shooting guest spots on a 22-minute sitcom would take up to five hours, “because everybody, after every scene, there were all these writers and network people saying ‘Oh, no. Change that line.'”
Netflix has winning over the creative community lately, luring big time TV showrunners like Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes away from broadcast television.
Also Read: Why Ryan Murphy Joined the Netflix Revolution (Analysis)
Burnett is just the latest to praise Netflix’s hands-off approach. “They had some notes and suggestions when we were casting, and then afterwards, they left us alone,” she added.
Read the full interview with Vulture here.
Read original story Carol Burnett Disses Modern Broadcast TV: ‘There Are Just Too Many Cooks Now’ At TheWrap...
“A Little Help” will see Burnett and her co-host, comedian Russell Peters, work with a group of kids to help solve the problems of celebrities including Billy Eichner, Taraji P. Henson and Mark Cuban. The show marks Burnett’s first regular return to television since CBS’ ill-fated attempt at reviving her variety series “The Carol Burnett Show” in the early 1990s. Since then, Burnett had appeared in guest spots on a handful of series including “Glee,” “Hawaii Five-o” and “Hot in Cleveland.”
So why did Burnett decide to return to the television format, particularly on streaming? Burnett told Vulture that working with Netflix reminded her of the early days of TV, where network executives weren’t as involved in the making of the shows.
Also Read: Carol Burnett Receives First-Ever Peabody Career Achievement Award
“I liked it, because they stayed away,” she said of Netflix. “When I was doing my show back in the covered-wagon days, they didn’t even want to read a script.” She added that executives such as CBS’ William Paley would leave her alone. “But a lot of the networks now, they’ve got an army of people coming to comment and tell you how you should change something, and it’s very bothersome to me.”
Burnett said that shooting guest spots on a 22-minute sitcom would take up to five hours, “because everybody, after every scene, there were all these writers and network people saying ‘Oh, no. Change that line.'”
Netflix has winning over the creative community lately, luring big time TV showrunners like Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes away from broadcast television.
Also Read: Why Ryan Murphy Joined the Netflix Revolution (Analysis)
Burnett is just the latest to praise Netflix’s hands-off approach. “They had some notes and suggestions when we were casting, and then afterwards, they left us alone,” she added.
Read the full interview with Vulture here.
Read original story Carol Burnett Disses Modern Broadcast TV: ‘There Are Just Too Many Cooks Now’ At TheWrap...
- 5/4/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Seth Rogen is officially set to play iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite in an upcoming JFK assassination drama called Newsflash. The film is being directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) and this might be Rogen's most dramatic movie role to date. I guess it was bound to happen! Most comedians end up trying their hand at a heavy drama.
According to Deadline, "the film takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. It was that day that television network news came of age, and Cronkite became the most trusted TV newsman voice of America, even if he wasn’t first to announce the president had died (NBC did that)."
The film was written by Ben Jacoby and the story is said to revolve around Cronkite, "his producer Don Hewitt, their boss Jim Aubrey, and Dan Rather, a young news man who happened to...
According to Deadline, "the film takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. It was that day that television network news came of age, and Cronkite became the most trusted TV newsman voice of America, even if he wasn’t first to announce the president had died (NBC did that)."
The film was written by Ben Jacoby and the story is said to revolve around Cronkite, "his producer Don Hewitt, their boss Jim Aubrey, and Dan Rather, a young news man who happened to...
- 12/12/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana. And yet digital media’s headlong boom suggests that too few are paying attention to the hard-won experiences that built the behemoth known as TV, even as the newcomers try to replace it.
My look back, and forward, this week was occasioned by the arrival of Seth Shapiro’s first volume of his ambitious history, Television: Innovation, Disruption and the World’s Most Powerful Medium. Volume 1 is focused on the creation of the broadcast network industry. In it are plenty of seeds worth planting in any entrepreneur’s head as this new medium develops.
I’ve known Seth quite a while. A digital media consultant with two Emmys, he’s a member of the TV Academy Board of Governors and has long been active on the academy’s Interactive Media Peer Group. He’s had a...
My look back, and forward, this week was occasioned by the arrival of Seth Shapiro’s first volume of his ambitious history, Television: Innovation, Disruption and the World’s Most Powerful Medium. Volume 1 is focused on the creation of the broadcast network industry. In it are plenty of seeds worth planting in any entrepreneur’s head as this new medium develops.
I’ve known Seth quite a while. A digital media consultant with two Emmys, he’s a member of the TV Academy Board of Governors and has long been active on the academy’s Interactive Media Peer Group. He’s had a...
- 8/26/2016
- by David Bloom
- Tubefilter.com
"Jurassic World" star Bryce Dallas Howard is set to star in and produce a premium cable limited series adaptation of Melanie Benjamin's recently published historical novel "The Swans Of Fifth Avenue".
Set in the mid 1950s, the project follows the star-crossed friendship between "Breakfast at Tiffanys" author Truman Capote and socialite and style icon Babe Paley who was married to CBS founder William Paley.
Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entree into the enviable lives of Manhattan's elite, leading to the ultimate betrayal of Babe and the other Swans in her circle.
RatPac Entertainment and Nine Muses Entertainment will produce.
Source: Deadline...
Set in the mid 1950s, the project follows the star-crossed friendship between "Breakfast at Tiffanys" author Truman Capote and socialite and style icon Babe Paley who was married to CBS founder William Paley.
Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entree into the enviable lives of Manhattan's elite, leading to the ultimate betrayal of Babe and the other Swans in her circle.
RatPac Entertainment and Nine Muses Entertainment will produce.
Source: Deadline...
- 4/15/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
In a decision that Hollywood has been waiting for months to hear, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today threw the Black Swan intern case on its head by vacating an earlier judgment in favor of two interns who worked on the Darren Aronofsky-directed film. The hearing on the appeal of District Judge William Paley III’s ruling of 2-years ago was held on January 30 this year. The original 2011 lawsuit against Fox Searchlight set the stage for a slew of intern class actions…...
- 7/2/2015
- Deadline
Six new members -- actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, late night host Jay Leno, writer and producer David E. Kelley, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, network executive Brandon Stoddard, and sound pioneer Ray Dolby -- will be inducted into the TV academy's Hall of Fame on March 11. These half dozen honorees join more than 130 individuals who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame over the past three decades. The initial group of pioneers honored in 1984 were comedienne and actress Lucille Ball, comedian Milton Berle, writer Paddy Chayevsky, writer and producer Norman Lear, newsman Edward R. Murrow, CBS founder William Paley, and NBC founder David Sarnoff. Louis-Dreyfus is a four-time Emmy champ who earned her 14th nomination last summer in the comedy performance categories. She surpassed Ball to set a new comedy record. Her career total is 16, including two as a producer on "Veep." She is one of only two people ...
- 12/16/2013
- Gold Derby
The Wasteland:
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
- 7/22/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature'
Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979). But he wasn't ready. Something in his lofty mien suggested that he scorned movies, or simply didn't know how to behave in them. But now … well, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes on changing its own rules the way they seem inclined, Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature.
The Box is opening, as they say,...
Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979). But he wasn't ready. Something in his lofty mien suggested that he scorned movies, or simply didn't know how to behave in them. But now … well, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes on changing its own rules the way they seem inclined, Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature.
The Box is opening, as they say,...
- 11/19/2009
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
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