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The Hero We Need Now In Theaters August 29, 2025 Share The Photo/Video Of Toxie Cleaning Up LA Watch Official Teaser #2 Directed & written by Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore), the reboot of the 1980s dark cult comedy stars Emmy and Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) as the titular …

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This article is part of ScreenRant's Exclusive Summer 2025 Movie Preview. Keep an eye out for the full feature next week!

ScreenRant exclusive image offers a new look at the unrated The Toxic Avenger reboot. Written and directed by Macon Blair, the movie is based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult classic and stars Peter Dinklage as Winston Gooze, Kevin Bacon as Bob Garbinger, Elijah Wood as Fritz Garbinger, Taylour Paige as J.J., Jacob Tremblay as Wade, Jane Levy as an insurance rep, among others. Despite originally being scheduled for a 2023 release, the project encountered significant delays as it searched for a distributor and is finally arriving in theaters on August 29.

Now, ScreenRant exclusively unveils the first look at Paige's new character in The Toxic Avenger reboot. Check out the image below:

Blair, who plays Denis in the movie, was injured in arm wrestling with Paige on set, which resulted...

Well, we now know exactly why The Toxic Avenger is being released unrated!

Macon Blair's remake of the low-budget Troma classic starring Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage debuted its first trailer back in October of 2023 before completely dropping off the radar. Fans had been wondering about the status of the movie ever since, and late last year, a report claimed that the gory splatter-fest - which has a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes - had been deemed "unreleasable" and "not safe enough to market."

One distributor was willing to take a chance on Toxie, and Cinerverse and Bloody Disgusting recently announced that the movie will get a theatrical release later this year - but it will hit theaters unrated.

Now, we have a list of hilarious (and suitably gross) reasons why the movie has not been given an official rating, including ultra violence, toxic content, mutant nudity, splatter, monstercore,...

After a long search for a distributor, The Toxic Avenger — a remake of the 1984 cult classic — is coming to theaters this summer. The movie stars Game of Thrones veteran Peter Dinklage as a janitor who gets superpowers and mounts a revolting one-man war on crime. How revolting? The movie is not rated, but a warning label shared on the film's Twitter/X page states that we're in for "ultra violent/toxic content, piss play, mutant nudity, and gnarly theater fun."

Not only is The Toxic Avenger 92% rated on @RottenTomatoes, it’s going to theaters Unrated.

Show the f*ck up 8.29. pic.twitter.com/bIvtjqFkkz

— The Toxic Avenger Movie (@ToxicAvenger) May 2, 2025

"Absolutely no one under 18 permitted," the label adds. "Don't even try to get in." Ah, the old reverse psychology gambit.

All of this is pretty much in keeping with the spirit of the original, which was made by Troma Entertainment,...

Despite fears that the film would need cuts to get an MPAA rating, the new Toxic Avenger heads into US cinemas without a rating at all.

Macon Blair – who made his directorial debut with the terrific, offbeat Netflix thriller I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore in 2017 – has followed up that project with a take on Toxic Avenger starring Peter Dinklage.

However, the film has been stuck in limbo for years now, seeking a buyer, with the film being seen as unreleasable in US cinemas due to its violence and erm, ‘other’ weirdness, putting off any potential purchasers.

In January of this year, though, Cineverse – the company behind the Terrifier films – purchased the film.

Given the success it’s had with the aforementioned Terrifier films, it’s clear that the studio knows exactly how to successfully sell an ultra-violent, offbeat B-movie to a niche audience. When the studio...

Fans have been waiting a long time to see writer/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult classic The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), which wrapped filming way back in 2021 and unveiled a teaser trailer near the end of 2023, around the time it had its world premiere screening – but we won’t have to wait much longer. At the start of the year, it was announced that Cineverse had acquired the distribution rights with the intention of giving the film a wide release, and we’ve since learned that they’re aiming for an August 29th theatrical release. Three years ago, the Motion Picture Association ratings boards gave the film an R rating for “strong violence and gore, language throughout, sexual references and brief graphic nudity”… but never mind all that. The Toxic Avenger remake is being released unrated, and new promo images reveal exactly why it’s going out unrated.

Directed & written by Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore), the reboot of the 1980s dark cult comedy stars Emmy and Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) as the titular character “Toxie,” with Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings franchise), Jacob Tremblay …

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If you don't know about the Long Island-based B-movie studio Troma, it's time you learned. Founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974, Troma began its life producing raunchy sex comedies like "The First Turn-On!," "Squeeze Play!," and "Waitress!" Kaufman and Herz would hit the big time in 1984 with the release of their film "The Toxic Avenger," which marked a turning point for the company. After the success of "Toxic Avenger," a twisted, low-budget superhero movie (with a soon-to-be-released remake!), the studio would skew more heavily toward horror-comedies, gore films, and splatstick humor. Troma would continue to make and/or distribute notable schlock staples for years, including "Class of Nuke 'Em High," "Surf Nazis Must Die," "Troma's War," "Rabid Grannies," "A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell," "Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD," and the James Gunn-penned "Tromeo and Juliet," a riff on "Romeo & Juliet." They even distributed "Cannibal! The Musical," the...

Everyone’s favorite environmentally conscious superhero The Toxic Avenger took to the streets to celebrate Earth Day earlier this week by helping to clean up the City of Angels!

Toxie, the legendary Toxic Avenger, rolled up his sleeves and worked those mutant muscles. He was joined by local volunteers to pick up trash, raise awareness, and prove once again that he’s the hero we need now. Check out video footage from the special activation below!

And don’t forget, the entire month of April is Earth Month, so take some inspiration from the Toxic Avenger and get out there and help clean up your local communities… Toxie style!

Bloody Disgusting and Cineverse bring Troma’s hero The Toxic Avenger back to theaters on August 29 with a brand new unrated reboot from director Macon Blair, with Primetime Emmy-winning actor Peter Dinklage playing the role of Winston Gooze!

When janitor Winston...

“Nobody special…Just some dude with A Mop!” That’s how the 2025 version of the Toxic Avenger describes himself in the new teaser trailer for the upcoming Peter Dinklage reboot. The second teaser trailer expands on the first, providing fans with plot details and even more wild action.

The Toxic Avenger’s second teaser trailer gives fans a taste of what to expect from the long-awaited, wild reboot, which has sat on a shelf since 2023. Legendary Pictures had difficulty securing a distributor due to the film's over-the-top gore until Cineverse stepped in to save the day by picking up the film for distribution, with support from Iconic Events Releasing. Hopefully, no one will get toxically cold feet before the scheduled August 29, 2025, release. The production team owes the Terrifier franchise some thanks for reviving unrated splatterfests in theaters again.

The wild Nsfw teaser revels in sophomoric double-entendre humor. The opening hints...

“The Toxic Avenger” is making a grand return as a new movie is coming from actor turned director Macon Blair with quite an impressive cast that features Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Elijah Wood (“Ready or Not: Here I Come”), Kevin Bacon (“The Bondsman”), and Jacob Tremblay (“The Predator”).

A new trailer for the brutally violent satirical send up of the superhero genre found it’s way online over the weekend as the pic has been getting some buzzy early reviews ahead of it’s theatrical release from the team of Cineverse/Bloody Disgusting, Iconic Events Releasing, and Legendary Pictures on August 29.

Continue reading ‘Toxic Avenger’ Teaser Trailer: Hyper-Violent Gonzo Reboot Starring Peter Dinklage & Kevin Bacon Hits Theaters August 29 at The Playlist.

As most Troma fans know, The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III were originally written and shot as one movie, but directors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz ended up with so much footage that they broke it up into two installments.

36 years years later, the filmmakers’ initial vision for the sequel has been reconstructed under its original title, Mr. Melvin.

Andrew L. Miller, Kaufman’s assistant, and Adam Peltier, star of Troma’s upcoming film The Power of Positive Murder, unearthed the original script and edited footage from the two films together as originally intended.

Toxie actor Ron Fazio provided some new voiceover for Mr. Melvin. He stars alongside Phoebe Legere, John Altamura, Rick Collins, John Altamura, Rikiya Yasuoka, and Lisa Gaye.

Clocking it at around two hours, the Mr. Melvin cut will premiere as part of Troma-Thon 2025 at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater in Lehighton, Pa...

A remake of the 1984 cult classic superhero flick The Toxic Avenger has been finished for a while, but only recently did someone pick it up to release in theaters. The reviews so far have been great, so it's anybody's guess why it took this long.

In any case, all is well now. In a new trailer, we see janitor Winston Gooze (Game of Thrones veteran Peter Dinklage) try to get his slimy boss (Kevin Bacon) to actually follow through on his obligations and actually treat the disease Winston picked up working at a chemical company. One thing leads to another, there's an accident involving toxic waste, and Winston becomes a deranged superhero who fights crime and rips off arms. Watch below:

Director Macon Blair seems to be channeling the gonzo spirit of the original Toxic Avenger movie. Will modern audiences connect with a movie that's so willfully chaotic? We'll find...

Bloody Disgusting and Cineverse bring Troma’s hero The Toxic Avenger back to theaters on August 29 with a brand new unrated reboot from director Macon Blair, with Primetime Emmy-winning actor Peter Dinklage playing the role of Winston Gooze.

It’s Gooze, a downtrodden janitor, who ends up becoming the Toxic Avenger in the upcoming reboot, and the new teaser trailer explores his transformation into a pop culture icon.

Watch The Toxic Avenger Official Teaser #2 below, debuted by Collider today!

Troma’s beloved hero returns to the big screen with the brand new reboot of the cult classic Troma movie from director Macon Blair, which also stars Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood.

Jacob Tremblay, Julia Davis and Taylour Paige also star in this darkly comedic, bold new chapter of the beloved Toxic Avenger franchise created by Troma back in the 1980s.

When janitor Winston Gooze is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident,...

Fans have been waiting a long time to see writer/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult classic The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), which wrapped filming way back in 2021 and unveiled a teaser trailer near the end of 2023, around the time it had its world premiere screening – but we won’t have to wait much longer. At the start of the year, it was announced that Cineverse had acquired the distribution rights with the intention of giving the film an unrated wide release, and we’ve since learned that they’re aiming for an August 29th theatrical release. Now, a new image from the film has been unveiled by Collider, give us another look at Toxie’s face. You can check it out at the bottom of this article.

Blair’s version of The Toxic Avenger centers on Winston Gooze, a stereotypical weakling who works as a...

The Toxic Avenger is a movie that seemed destined to drop into a vat of toxic waste and never be seen again. Now, though, the reboot of the classic Troma schlockfest is heading into cinemas this August, and although we have already seen two short trailers for the film, a new look at star Peter Dinklage as the titular character has given fans yet another look at the new version of Toxie, who will be swinging his mop in bloody sweeps this summer.

The Toxic Avenger is a remake of the 1984 low-budget horror classic, in which a mild-mannered and bullied janitor ends up being dumped in a barrel of toxic waste, only to be transformed into a hideously deformed, vengeful anti-hero who sets out to extract bloody revenge on those who have done him wrong. It is believed that the new version, directed by Macon Blair, will not deviate too...

A brand-new The Toxic Avenger preview image spotlighting the titular hero has arrived. Following the reboot film's 2023 Fantastic Fest premiere, Cineverse announced its wide release in theaters for August 2025.

Collider unveiled the new look at The Toxic Avenger that reveals Toxie trying to keep a low profile. In the film, Winston (Peter Dinklage), a down-on-his-luck janitor, is transformed into the radioactive hero Toxie (Luisa Guerreiro) after a freak accident. Armed with his mop, he battles freaks, gangsters, and corrupt CEOs while trying to save his relationship with his son Wade, played by the acclaimed Jacob Tremblay. Per its story description, The Toxic Avenger "channels the subversive gonzo energy of the original Toxic Avenger while delivering a fresh, contemporary twist."

The Toxic Avenger is spilling exclusively in theaters on August 29th! pic.twitter.com/GZ4CjMpCNn— Collider (@Collider) April 11, 2025

Written and directed by Macon Blair, the superhero black comedy's impressive ensemble...

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains mild spoilers about this season of “The Bondsman,” now available to stream on Prime Video.

The new series “The Bondsman” stars Kevin Bacon as Hub Halloran, a recently-murdered bondsman who is granted fresh life by Satan, as long as he uses his tracking skills to hunt down and kill demons who have escaped from the underworld. That’s a hell of a premise, but this show has much more on its mind than just monsters-of-the-week, diving deep into Hub’s relationship with his ex-wife and son and his love-hate relationship with the country music industry.

The surprises start at the top. At first, Bacon’s macho lead role seems like a run-of-the-mill badass: All one-liners, muscles and cool-guy poses. But that was only half of the appeal for the veteran actor.

“You see him right away kicking ass, right? But he’s also a man-child,...

The latest horror movie to put a gory twist on beloved pop culture icon Popeye is Shiver Me Timbers, and director Paul Mann’s bloody slasher is Now Available on digital at home.

Blending classic slasher thrills with off-the-wall comedy, Shiver Me Timbers pays homage to 1980s horror classics while bringing Popeye into “his most terrifying adventure yet.”

Here’s the synopsis: “In Northern California during the summer of 1986, Olive Oyl, along with her cinema- obsessed friends and brother Castor, embark on a once-in-a-lifetime camping trip to witness the dazzling meteor shower accompanying the arrival of Halley’s comet. But what starts as a serene evening of stargazing quickly turns into a harrowing nightmare when a meteor from the comet transforms Popeye, into a terrifying and unstoppable killing machine.”

With Shiver Me Timbers now available from all major VOD retailers, Bloody Disgusting caught up with Paul Mann to talk about...

Over the course of five issues since last October, writer Matt Bors and artist Fred Harper have taken readers on a wild ride through Tromaville in The Toxic Avenger comic book series from Ahoy Comics! And if you're looking to catch up then you're in luck, because a new trade paperback of The Toxic Avenger comic book series is now available from Ahoy, and Daily Dead had the pleasure of catching up with Matt and Fred in a new Q&a feature to "embrace the gore" and discuss their delightfully shocking series as well as the upcoming "Toxic Mess Summer" that will feature Toxic-Team Up, The Toxic Avenger Pinup Special, and more!

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions, Matt and Fred, and congratulations on the success and continued expansion of The Toxic Avenger comic book series, with the trade paperback coming out in bookstores on April 1st...

Back in 1984, Troma Entertainment brought the world The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), a film about “the first superhero from New Jersey.” That film spawned a franchise, leading to The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989), The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989), Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000), a stage musical, and an animated series called Toxic Crusaders. For a long time, we’ve been hearing that Troma wanted to make a Toxic Avenger 5 – but instead doing that, they have loaned out the rights to Legendary Pictures, allowing them to make a remake of the original film that’s set to reach theatres on August 29th, courtesy of Cineverse. In anticipation of the film’s long-awaited release, we have put together a list of Everything We Know About the Toxic Avenger Remake… and here we go:

Writer / Director

At the helm of this new take on The Toxic Avenger is Macon Blair,...

Anna Wintour announced today that the fourth annual Vogue World will take place in Hollywood on October 26 at the Paramount Pictures Studio Lot. Celebrating the “conversation between film and fashion,” 100% of the ticket proceeds will go to the Entertainment Community fund, with a focus on supporting costuming professionals impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires.

“Vogue World: Hollywood will be a one-night-only show with a huge cast of models and actors, dancers, musicians and surprises, and it will set great film costumes next to brilliant fashion collections,” said Wintour. “By mixing fashion with the arts and culture in the center of a city, and by raising funds for a cause, Vogue World has become a runway show-as-rallying cry, a way to fix the attention of a huge global audience, to bring awareness, and sound an unmistakable note of positivity, creativity, and hope.”

This year’s event will feature contributions from costume...

The Roses is a remake of War Of The Roses, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s arriving this very summer.

While we often roll our eyes at Hollywood’s lack of originality and continued reliance on remakes, we’re looking forward to Fox Searchlight’s upcoming remake of the 1989 dark comedy, The War Of The Roses.

It has Jay Roach at the helm, a filmmaker who knows how to craft a big studio comedy, not to mention a script from Poor Things and The Favourite writer Tony McNamara, who imbued both of those films humour that ranged from slapstick to biting to outright shocking.

Also, this is an anglicised take on the Danny DeVito film that starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in a continuation of the love-hate onscreen pairing the duo perfected in 1984’s Romancing The Stone and its sequel, 1985’s The Jewel Of The Nile.

With...

The Toxic Avenger is a 2023 American superhero black comedy splatter film written and directed by Macon Blair. It is the fifth installment in a reboot of The Toxic Avenger film series. There was a time after the film was finally complete when fans wondered if they would ever see it.

It was recently revealed that ‘Toxic Avenger’ will be released this summer, on August 29, 2025. Emmy winner Peter Dinklage will play the Toxic Avenger! The film will follow janitor Winston Gooze, who, after a freak accident, transforms into a mutant vigilante known as Toxie. Armed with his mop, the unlikely hero battles freaks, gangsters, and corrupt CEOs to save his relationship with his son.

In December 2018, Legendary Pictures won the rights to reboot The Toxic Avenger, with the original’s producers, Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment, returning. In March 2019, Macon Blair was announced to write and direct. Of the script,...

After years without a distributor, Peter Dinklage’s Toxic Avenger is finally coming out. And what’s more, we have a trailer to enjoy.

After a couple of years of uncertainty, Macon Blair’s adaptation of The Toxic Avenger is finally headed towards general release. Whilst the film did make a brief appearance back in 2023 with a teaser trailer, but the film is reportedly very violent – so violent in fact that it struggled to find a US distributor in 2023. We got a brief teaser for the film, and since then, nothing.

However, Blair is a talented director having helmed the Netflix thriller I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore to very positive notices. Likewise, the film’s star Peter Dinklage has raised the quality bar on many a project too, so hopes were always high that eventually somebody would swoop in to pick up the film for distribution...

Fans have been waiting a long time to see writer/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult classic The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), which wrapped filming way back in 2021 and unveiled a teaser trailer near the end of 2023, around the time it had its world premiere screening – but we won’t have to wait much longer. At the start of the year, it was announced that Cineverse had acquired the distribution rights with the intention of giving the film an unrated wide release, and we’ve since learned that they’re aiming for an August 29th theatrical release. As we know, Peter Dinklage stars in the film as Winston Gooze, the character who becomes the new Toxic Avenger – but it was recently revealed by Entertainment Weekly that Dinklage doesn’t actually physically play Toxie. Instead, “Luisa Guerreiro, an actor and movement artist, provides the physical performance of...

The first teaser trailer for the superhero dark comedy splatter The Toxic Avengerhas been unveiled. Starring Peter Dinklage as the titular character, the upcoming Toxic Avenger reboot adapts Troma Entertainment's original 1984 movie with a meek janitor, renamed Winston, who transforms into a deformed yet powerful vigilante. Written and directed by Macon Blair, the new version of the satirical superhero horror film also stars Elijah Wood, Jacob Tremblay, Kevin Bacon, and Taylour Paige. The film first screened at Fantastic Fest in September 2023 and will now see a broader theatrical release on August 29.

Troma Entertainment has released the first trailer for Toxic Avenger, beginning as an advertisement for an offbeat burger joint before Winston emerges to deliver blood-filled justice. The trailer appears to embrace its B-movie roots, combining outrageous violence, a highly suggestive burger tower, and a campy, radioactive aesthetic reminiscent of the original cult classic. Watch the full video below:

Fun new bod,...

2025 began with exciting news about the reboot of a 1984 cult classic that has been living in horror fans' minds rent-free since its release — and now it's finally coming to fruition. After premiering at Fantastic Fest in September 2023, The Toxic Avengerreboot, directed by Macon Blair, struggled to find a distributor that was down with the intense violence and gore of the wacky horror film. However, Cineverse, distributor of Terrifier 3, stepped up to gain the distribution rights in January 2025, with a now scheduled theatrical release of August 29. The New Jersey hero played by the legendary Peter Dinklage hadn't been seen in action since Fantastic Fest, until today that is.

A trailer for the upcoming horror comedy The Toxic Avenger has finally been released, and it's exactly what fans had hoped for: a film as zany as it is gory. Originating as a character in the low-budget Troma Entertainment film series, and then expanding into various media,...

Fans have been waiting a long time to see writer/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult classic The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), which wrapped filming way back in 2021 and unveiled a teaser trailer near the end of 2023, around the time it had its world premiere screening – but we won’t have to wait much longer. At the start of the year, it was announced that Cineverse had acquired the distribution rights with the intention of giving the film an unrated wide release, and we’ve since learned that they’re aiming for an August 29th theatrical release. This past weekend, Cineverse decided to do some early marketing by sending the new film’s version of Toxie down the Chicago River on a boat, an appearance that coincided with the river being dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Video of Toxie’s boat ride can...

Dating back to 1962, it’s an additional tradition for the Chicago River to be dyed green ahead of St. Patrick’s Day, and this year’s event just took place this past Saturday (March 15). But this year’s celebration was unlike any other, as it featured an appearance from The Toxic Avenger!

Ahead of Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting’s release of director Macon Blair’s new The Toxic Avenger reboot in theaters – fully and completely Unrated! – on August 29, the Toxie street team took to the Chicago River yesterday in the wake of it being dyed a toxic green, and we’ve got video footage from the lovable Troma icon’s viral appearance at the popular event.

Check out the footage below to watch Toxie mop up the green Chicago River!

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The new movie stars Peter Dinklage as the Toxic Avenger.

The first teaser trailer for The Toxic Avenger remake was dropped way back in October 2023. Few updates followed that sneak peek, though reviews from various film festivals were largely positive.

Last year, we heard that director Macon Blair's movie - starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) as the character - had been deemed "unreleasable." Things looked bleak, only for it to have since been revealed that an unrated cut will hit theaters later this year.

Entertainment Weekly (via FearHQ.com) has confirmed it's coming on August 29 and we also have a first look at the movie's titular Toxic Avenger. That's not Dinklage, though, as Luisa Guerreiro - an actor and movement artist - donned the extensive makeup and prosthetics for Toxie's physical performance.

Regardless, it's quite the transformation and Blair tells the site, "The goal was to try to stay true to the vibe of Lloyd's original Jennifer Aspinall/Mitch Cohen creature,...

Fans have been waiting a long time to see writer/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult classic The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), which wrapped filming way back in 2021 and unveiled a teaser trailer near the end of 2023, around the time it had its world premiere screening. The film would go into a bit of purgatory, but the Toxic Avenger remake will finally be reaching theatres on August 29, kicking off Labor Day weekend! Now, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, you can get a good look at Toxie and his updated look.

Blair’s version of The Toxic Avenger stars Peter Dinklage as Winston Gooze, a stereotypical weakling who works as a janitor at Garb-x health club and is diagnosed with a terminal illness that can only be cured by an expensive treatment that his greedy, power hungry employer refuses to pay for. After deciding to take matters into...

Troma’s beloved hero The Toxic Avenger returns to the big screen with a brand new reboot of the classic movie from director Macon Blair, with Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting unleashing The Toxic Avenger in wide theatrical release – fully Unrated – on August 29!

Peter Dinklage takes over the iconic role of The Toxic Avenger in the movie, and our friends over at Entertainment Weekly shared two first-look images of the new Toxie this morning.

Macon Blair tells EW of the new design, “The goal was to try to stay true to the vibe of Lloyd [Kaufman’s] original Jennifer Aspinall/Mitch Cohen creature, with some influence from the Toxic Crusaders cartoon’s look, while also trying to do something new and weird and lovable with Toxie’s design. I love what Millennium FX did with it — part human, part mutant, all heart.”

Check out the images below and read more over on Entertainment Weekly now!

The new images for The Toxic Avengergive a closer look at Peter Dinklage's hero character. The Toxic Avenger is a remake of the classic 1984 film of the same name. The movie tells the story of a janitor named Winston Gooze who, after falling into toxic waste, evolves into the eponymous Toxic Avenger. The new version of the horror comedy features a star-studded leading cast including Dinklage, Elijah Wood, Jacob Tremblay, Kevin Bacon, and Taylour Paige. The movie initially premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2023 but now has distribution for this summer, opening on August 29.

Now, Entertainment Weekly has revealed new images of Dinklage in his Toxic Avenger role. The images show the star in full makeup all over his entire body. His skin is green, and he has two dark black eye sockets. His body has enlarged veins and bulging muscles and he wears tattered, demolished clothing. In one image,...

Fans have been waiting a long time to see writer/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult classic The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), which wrapped filming way back in 2021 and is now heading toward an August 29th theatrical release – but during this long wait, Ahoy Comics has been bringing the Toxic Avenger character back to the world of comic books. They recently released a five-issue mini-series (which is being collected in a trade paperback with an April 1 release date), The Toxic Avenger Pinup Special (featuring work by a slew of incredible creators) will be reaching store shelves on May 14th, and June 11th will bring the first issue of a mini-series called The Toxie Team-Up – featuring multiple crossover stories, including one where Toxie crosses paths with Jesus Christ.

IGN reports that The Toxie Team-Up will team Toxie with characters from other Ahoy Comics, like “Project: Cryptid‘s Jersey Devil,...

Some say, “Jesus take the wheel.” Now The Toxic Avenger is here to give the Lord and savior a helping hand.

Toxie will join forces with Christ himself in the pages of a new comic book written by Mark Russell and drawn by Richard Pace.

The Toxie Team-Up #1 will be published on June 11, 2025 from Ahoy Comics.

The series finds Toxie rubbing elbows with characters from other Ahoy titles, including Jesus Christ from Second Coming, the Jersey Devil from Project: Cryptid, Acid Chimp from My Bad, Dragonflyman and Stinger from The Wrong Earth, and Swamp Cop and Schitt from Justice Warriors.

“Toxic Avenger and Jesus Christ is the team-up that everybody has been clamoring for and I am not one to stand in the way,” said Russell. “Just as in Second Coming, Christ shows that there are more tools in the box than just violence and that Tromaville, as strange as it is,...

Will Smith's Westbrook Studios has made a deal with Noah Centineo to produce and star in a new thriller movie. The announcement comes right after the launch of the second season of Centineo's Netflix series, The Recruit.

Deadline broke the news that Centineo would produce and star in Listen, a thriller that is set to be directed and written by Brian Birch in his feature debut. The film will be made in collaboration with Westbrook Inc. studios, founded by actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, Centineo's own Arkhum Productions and Bound Entertainment.Listen will be a "contained thriller that combines suspense and horror through a uniquely sound-driven mystery."

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Smith will produce the film alongside Jon Mone,...

After it was reported earlier this month that the long-awaited reboot of Troma Entertainment's cult classic The Toxic Avenger was finally getting the theatrical release it deserves in 2025, we now have a firm release date of August 29 in place. Directed by Macon Blair and starring Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Kevin Bacon, and Elija Wood, to name a few, the film was feared to languish in limbo forever until Cineverse swooped in and picked it up, rescuing it out of obscurity.

Per Deadline, The Toxic Avenger will open nationwide to kick off the Labor Day Weekend on Aug, 29, and the best part of all is that it will be an unrated version. Cineverse found success last year with Terrifier 3, which was also unrated, and went on to become one of the biggest horror hits of 2024, earning nearly $90 million at the box office against a budget of just $2 million dollars.

Fans have been waiting a long time to see writer/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult classic The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), which wrapped filming way back in 2021 and unveiled a teaser trailer near the end of 2023, around the time it had its world premiere screening. Earlier this month, it was announced that Cineverse had acquired the distribution rights with the intention of giving the film an unrated wide release later this year. Now, we know the exact release date. Deadline has learned that the Toxic Avenger remake will be reaching theatres on August 29th, kicking off Labor Day weekend!

Blair’s version of The Toxic Avenger stars Peter Dinklage as Winston Gooze, a stereotypical weakling who works as a janitor at Garb-x health club and is diagnosed with a terminal illness that can only be cured by an expensive treatment that his greedy, power hungry employer refuses to pay for.

A date is now on the calendar for the reboot of The Toxic Avenger. After it was recently reported that the film was aiming for a release this year, the film's exact theatrical release date has just been announced.

Per Deadline, Cineverse has dated The Toxic Avenger for a Labor Day weekend release in theaters on Aug. 29, 2025. It will mark a wait of about two years for the film to get its wide release after first premiering at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, in September 2023. Fans have been anticipating the release, especially with the reboot garnering unexpectedly high praise from critics who caught it at Fantastic Fest. The movie holds a score of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes with its early reviews.

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Peter Dinklage takes over the iconic role of The Toxic Avenger in director Macon Blair’s brand new reboot of the Troma classic, and Deadline has reported this morning that the new movie will be released wide in its Unrated form in theaters August 29.

We can confirm this report. Toxie will be back on the big screen for Labor Day Weekend!

Bloody Disgusting’s parent company, Cineverse had recently acquired all U.S. and Canadian theatrical, home entertainment, and streaming rights to the film through a deal with Legendary Entertainment, ensuring that The Toxic Avenger would get a mainstream theatrical release here in the United States. You guys demanded it, and we’re making it happen.

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Exclusive: Cineverse has set a 2025 release date for the The Toxic Avenger starring Peter Dinklange as Toxie, Deadline has heard. The reboot of the 1980s dark cult comedy will premiere as an unrated wide release August 29 kicking off Labor Day weekend.

Cineverse, which rocked the the box office with Terrifier 3 last fall, acquired all U.S. and Canadian theatrical, home entertainment, and streaming rights to The Toxic Avenger through a deal with Legendary Entertainment. Directed by Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore) it stars Emmy and Golden Globe winner Dinklage (Game of Thrones) with Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Jacob Tremblay, Julia Davis and Taylour Paige also starring.

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A while back, Game of Thrones veteran Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) filmed a movie called The Toxic Avenger, a reboot/remake/reimagining of a cult classic film of the same name from 1984, about a janitor who falls into a vat of toxic waste, gets superpowers, and gets revenge. The original movie was made by Troma, which specialized in glorious sleaze. The remake got great reviews from those who saw it, but for a while it felt like it was never going to actually get released into theaters, supposedly because distributors thought it was too niche.

Which is nuts, because obviously it's niche; that's the point of a movie like this. How are film studios going to find any new audiences if they never try releasing anything new? And yes, I know it's weird to call a remake of a 40-year-old movie "new"; I'm just frustrated.

Happily, Variety comes bearing good...

‘The Toxic Avenger’ reboot is set to hit cinemas in 2025.The movie - which stars Peter Dinklage as the titular anti-hero - is a reimagining of the 1984 Troma Entertainment cult classic flick of the same name, and is slated to land in theatres as an unrated wide release from Cineverse later this year.Director Macon Blair told Variety: “I’m beyond grateful to the team behind ‘The Toxic Avenger’ who were so supportive and steady-handed as we searched for the perfect distribution partner for our film.“It’s so cool that folks will have the chance to see this in theatres, it’s a fun rowdy movie you wanna see with a crowd. Mutant hero smashes bad guys with a mop: perfect entertainment for the whole family!”The ‘I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore’ filmmaker added the team wanted to “preserve the heart and spirit” of the Toxic Avenger from original picture,...

We have good news for Toxie fans, as the radioactive ranger will officially return to the big screen in 2025.

Macon Blair's remake of low-budget Troma classic The Toxic Avenger, starring Peter Dinklage in the lead role, debuted its first trailer back in October of 2023 before completely dropping off the radar.

Fans have been wondering about the status of the movie ever since, and earlier this year, a report claimed that the gory splatter-fest - which has a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes - had been deemed "unreleasable" and "not safe enough to market."

Well, one distributor was willing to take a chance on Toxie, as Cinerverse and Bloody Disgusting have announced that the movie will get a theatrical release later this year.

Too gory? Unreleasable? Too outrageous for mainstream audiences?! Surprise! You asked for it, and now Cineverse will unleash Macon Blair's The Toxic Avenger remake in theaters - Unrated - this year.

Finished for years and seemingly in limbo, the new Toxic Avenger finally has a distributor: Cineverse, the company behind the Terrifier films.

It seems that at long last, the saga of Toxic Avenger may be coming to an end, and a happy one at that. Macon Blair – who made his directorial debut with the terrific, offbeat Netflix thriller I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore in 2017 – followed up that project with a take on Toxic Avenger starring Peter Dinklage.

If you’ve never caught the 1984 Troma movie, it centres around a janitor who’s accidentally exposed to toxic waste, gaining new powers in the process. If it sounds like B-movie oddness, that’s exactly what it was, although Blair’s take was reportedly very violent – so violent that it struggled to find a US distributor in 2023. We got a brief teaser for the film, and since then, nothing.

It’s been close to two years since The Toxic Avenger reimagining debuted at Fantastic Fest. The first reactions were very positive, but the project had difficulty locking down a distributor, as it was deemed to be “unreleasable” due to its gore and graphic content. Thankfully, Cineverse has come to the rescue and will give The Toxic Avenger an unrated wide release later this year. Hurray!

“I’m beyond grateful to the team behind ‘The Toxic Avenger’ who were so supportive and steady-handed as we searched for the perfect distribution partner for our film,” said director Macon Blair in a statement to Variety. “It’s so cool that folks will have the chance to see this in theaters, it’s a fun rowdy movie you wanna see with a crowd. Mutant hero smashes bad guys with a mop: perfect entertainment for the whole family! Our goal was always to preserve...

Fans of The Toxic Avenger have just been given the news they have been wanting to hear for a very long time now – the reboot of the cult classic franchise is finally getting a theatrical release in 2025. However, that is as good as the news gets right now, as an exact date for the movie’s long-delayed debut in theaters has not yet been decided. But, we take what we can get, right?

The Toxic Avenger has been one of the most frustrating movies of the last several years. Now director Macon Blair has finally confirmed that the film will not be scrapped and left to languish in a vault (as many started to fear it would) and in a statement revealed the good news that Toxie’s return to the big screen is happening this year, with Cineverse set to distribute the movie as an unrated release. Via Variety,...

Years after its completion, the new take on The Toxic Avenger has just gotten an exciting release update. After only having limited screenings in the past, the movie is now confirmed to be having a wide release this year.

Per Variety, Cinverse has announced that the reboot of The Toxic Avenger will have an unrated wide release in theaters in 2025. An exact date was not revealed, but the update confirms that the movie will be coming to the big screen rather than going straight to streaming. Starring Game of Thrones fan favorite Peter Dinklage, the new take on the classic Troma Entertainment film was directed by Macon Blair (I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore), who addressed the update in a statement.

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Cineverse has announced that “The Toxic Avenger,” a darkly comedic reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 cult classic of the same name, is headed to theaters in 2025.

Directed by Macon Blair (“I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore”) and starring Peter Dinklage, “The Toxic Avenger” reboot will premiere as an unrated wide release later this year.

“I’m beyond grateful to the team behind ‘The Toxic Avenger’ who were so supportive and steady-handed as we searched for the perfect distribution partner for our film,” said director Blair in a statement. “It’s so cool that folks will have the chance to see this in theaters, it’s a fun rowdy movie you wanna see with a crowd. Mutant hero smashes bad guys with a mop: perfect entertainment for the whole family! Our goal was always to preserve the heart and spirit of the original Toxie (which was seared into...