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Oof. Beginnings of months are difficult in terms of how many titles on any streaming service we are forced to say goodbye to. Each month, Netflix brings in many new items, meaning some older ones have to leave. Some months are worse than others.

May isn't worse than other months unless you are a fan of a couple of franchises. If you love Spider-Man, we have bad news for you. If you are addicted to watching Thomas & Friends, we have more bad news.

Perhaps the worst part is that a lot of comedies are saying goodbye. Wedding Crashers, the Fockers films, and a couple of the Friday flicks are going away. So are some Oscar-worthy films, such as Schindler's List and Whiplash.

A large number of titles are leaving Netflix this week (April 26 through May 2)

The weird 1978 version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is also leaving.

Back to the Future star Lea Thompson didn't warm quickly to co-star Michael J. Fox. Although Fox's name is synonymous with Marty McFly, there was a different actor portraying the iconic character when shooting for the film began. Although Fox was the first choice for Marty McFly his Family Ties schedule restricted him from starring in the movie, so Eric Stoltz was cast in the lead role. As production moved forward, director Robert Zemeckis just did not think he was the right fit for the part, and with Fox's Family Ties schedule reworked, Stoltz exited the movie, and Fox officially joined.

This shift caused some apprehension in Thompson, who portrayed the teenage version of Lorraine Baines, the character that grows up to be Marty's mother. During a recent appearance on the Still Here Hollywood podcast, host Steve Kmetko asked the Caroline in the City actress if she and Fox had...

Christina Applegate in Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead Photo: Outlaw/Hbo/Mercury-Douglas/Kobal/Shutterstock For those old enough to remember it, kids ruled the ’90s. Between our very own “Choice Awards” and a steady stream of slime to shower celebrities with, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and...

Christina Applegate in Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead

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For those old enough to remember it, kids ruled the ’90s. Between our very own “Choice Awards” and a steady stream of slime to shower celebrities with, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and Nerf retailers...

This week has seen a lot of news content from Michael J. Fox since People Magazine celebrates their 50th anniversary with a profile on the star after they covered the heartbreaking revelation of his condition back in 1998. Fox is a big face of 80s pop culture thanks to his work in Family Ties, Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Success, and, of course, Back to the Future. According to Variety, Fox recalls when someone coined to him the phrase “80s famous” as he explained to People, “There’s an expression I referred to when they gave me an honorary Academy Award — somebody said to me the day before, they were talking about getting this award and being famous and they said ‘You’re ‘80s famous.’”

Fox expanded on this point of view, “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s cool.’ ‘80s famous. Right, we were different. We were tougher. We didn’t have social media,...

Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright who specialized in a particular form of brainy and absurdist comedy, has died. He was 75. The cause was complications from a form of dementia known as logopenic primary progressive aphasia, according to his husband John Augustine.

Durang was best known for writing 1979’s “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You,” a popular dissection of Catholic doctrine that was frequently staged, drawing occasional protests for its iconoclastic take on religion. A film version, starring Diane Keaton as the title character, aired on Showtime in 2001.

Another Durang play, 1981’s “Beyond Therapy,” which looked at Manhattanites who cope with romantic neurosis with the help of their psychiatrists, was also adapted for the screen by Robert Altman. Despite having a cast that included Glenda Jackson and Jeff Goldblum, critics excoriated the 1987 film as flat and unfunny. It was an opinion shared by Durang, who described it as...

Christopher Durang, one of American’s most acclaimed and accomplished playwrights whose works like Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and the Tony-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike were as incisive as they were absurdly comic, died Tuesday night at his home in Pipersville, Pa., in Bucks County. He was 75.

His agent, Patrick Herold, confirmed that Durang died as a result complications of his 2016 diagnosis with logopenic primary progressive aphasia (Ppa), a form of Alzheimer’s disease that impedes the ability to process language. He remained out of the public spotlight since his condition was made public in 2022. In February, New York’s Dramatists Guild announced that the playwright would receive its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award on May 6, placing Durang on a prestigious roster alongside such past awardees as John Guare, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Miller.

Born Christopher Ferdinand Durang on January 2, 1949, Durang soared to...

From left: Jermaine Fowler, Zac Efron, and Andrew Santino in Ricky StanickyPhoto: Ben King/Prime

From the director of Green Book, your Boomer dad’s favorite movie ever, and the star of The Iron Claw, which made art-house cinephiles realize pro-wrestling can’t simply be dismissed as “fake,” comes Ricky Stanicky,...

For us 90s kids, Dick Tracy was an interesting monster of a movie. It seemed to take a lot of cues from Tim Burton’s Batman, which was released the previous summer, but it definitely had a distinct voice of its own. Dick Tracy was another classic pulp adaptation of an urban enforcer that had very dynamic visuals and an over-the-top rogues gallery. It even sported a score by Danny Elfman, which would have his signature atmospheric sound. The movie would introduce a generation of young audiences to the 1930’s film noir/ detective movie genre. Additionally, the movie brought back Warren Beatty after a three-year absence when his last film, 1987’s Ishtar, was a big flop. Having a star like Beatty in a big-budget franchise like this was an enormous asset for the re-budding intellectual property. And the star power wouldn’t even stop there.

Grab your Tommy guns. It...

Michael J. Fox's role on Curb Your Enthusiasm was his most hilarious in decades, showcasing his comedic genius. The feud between Larry David and Michael J. Fox in Curb Your Enthusiasm highlighted Larry's insensitivity and misplaced anger, with Fox becoming the hero by standing up for himself and others with Parkinson's. Fox's role on Curb Your Enthusiasm inspired him to return to TV acting, leading to his performances in shows like The Good Wife and Designated Survivor.

Michael J. Fox's most hilarious role in decades occurred 13 years ago on the HBO comedy show Curb Your Enthusiasm. Though he's best known for playing Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, Fox made his name as a child star on TV. He showed off his comedic abilities playing Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties, skills he used again in The Secret of My Success, Doc Hollywood,...

Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim is no stranger to bold-faced names, having worked with the likes of Al Gore, Barack Obama and Malala Yousafzai. But some three years ago, he found himself, as he says, “stuck.”

“I wanted to do something different. I wanted to find joy in my work. I wanted to experiment and take some big risks,” says Guggenheim. At the time, he was reading Michael J. Fox’s autobiography, No Time Like the Future, and a light bulb went off. “I said, ‘Wow, this could be a wild ride.’ That was one of the first things I jotted in the margins of the book: ‘This could be a wild ride.’ “

Davis Guggenheim

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, released via Apple TV+, is the story of Fox’s life and career told through the lens of the Back to the Future actor’s diagnosis and continued maintenance of his Parkinson’s disease.

Actor Mark Margolis, best known for playing Hector Salamanca on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, has died.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Margolis died on Thursday, Aug. 3 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City following a short illness. His son, Morgan Margolis, announced the news. He was 83 years old.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Nov. 26, 1939, Margolis moved to New York at a young age to pursue acting. After starring in several theater productions on Broadway, such as Infidel Caesar, Margolis landed his breakout film role, playing Alberto/The Shadow in Brian De Palma's 1983 mob classic Scarface. He followed that film up with roles in The Cotton Club, The Secret of My Success and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, among others. He also had a good working relationship with Darren Aronofsky, appearing in six of the writer/director's films: Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan...

You probably don't need me to tell you that some people get a bit sniffy about remakes, reboots, prequels, and belated sequels. I'm definitely one of them -- when I read about the upcoming "Beetlejuice 2" recently, I rolled my eyes so hard that one of them almost popped out of its socket. The typical reaction from many detractors is they're a lazy cash grab from studios that would rather rehash a well-known existing IP than take a chance on something original.

While there may be some truth to that, it doesn't tell the full story. If a new entry is done well, it can breathe life back into a beloved franchise. Just take "Casino Royale," which successfully rebooted James Bond after the series fell into the doldrums and looked like a total joke after "Austin Powers" lampooned it so wickedly. Then of course there was "Mad Max: Fury Road...

Plot: An in-depth look at Michael J. Fox’s career and how, many years after his diagnosis with Parkinson’s, he manages the worsening symptoms of the disease.

Review: For those of us who came up in the eighties, Michael J. Fox was right up there with Tom Cruise in that he was the movie star many of us looked up to as the cool older brother we always wanted. Nowadays, people may not realize just how big he was, with him starring in not only the biggest show on TV (Family Ties) but also headlining a slew of movies that were box office juggernauts. Sure, people know that Back to the Future was a phenomenon, but Teen Wolf also made a boatload of cash, and The Secret of My Success was one of the highest-grossing comedies of the eighties. At the time, there was no bigger star.

Of course,...

It's been announced by the Board of Trustees of Museum of Moving Image that activist and retired actor Michael J. Fox will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He'll be bestowed with the honor at the museum's annual spring Moving Image Awards benefit, which will take place on June 6, 2023. This year's event will celebrate leaders in comedy, and Fox will have his career recognized along with his new documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, which has just been released on Apple TV+.

In a statement, MoMI's Co-Chairmen Ivan Lustig and Michael Barker said, "We are honored to present the MoMI Lifetime Achievement Award to the legendary Michael J. Fox, a great artist and inspiring human being, at our Spring 2023 Moving Image Awards benefit event. His many contributions in film and television for over four decades have been memorable and meaningful and exemplary for so many who come through our Museum’s doors.

Beloved actor Michael J. Fox recently stated that he believes Back to the Future is "over-appreciated."

In an interview to promote his upcoming documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, the actor opened up about the critically and commercially successful 1985 movie, which remains wildly popular almost 40 years later. "I would think that Back to the Future is over-appreciated," opined Fox to Variety. The actor then shared how he has grown to appreciate the time travel franchise's large fanbase after attending multiple fan conventions and expos. "I thought I was doing this for [the fans]. This is totally for me," he admitted. "This is a pig out for me. How much these people have given to me."

Related: Michael J. Fox Declares 'I'm Not Going Anywhere'

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Michael J. Fox is best known for starring in hit movies and TV shows in the '80s and '90s, including Spin City and the Back to the Future trilogy, though his filmography is full of forgotten and underrated features deserving recognition among the list of his top films. The beloved actor began his career in the late '70s and became a household name through his role as Alex P. Keaton on the popular sitcom Family Ties the following decade. He broke out on the big screen with the 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future, proving to be a star with real box office appeal.

Throughout his career, Fox has found ways to reinvent himself, and he has played a wide variety of movie and TV characters over the decades, from affable everymen to unlikable yuppies. While he had his share of flops, his best movies have typically capitalized on his whip-smart comedic timing.

Pasadena, California – January 09: Lizzy Caplan speaks on stage during TCA Paramount+ “Fatal Attraction” Panel at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 09, 2023 in Pasadena, California. Photo by Randy Shropshire/Getty Images / Paramount+ When Fatal Attraction opened in theaters back in the fall of 1987, it was definitely a product of its time, alongside films like Wall Street, Lethal Weapon, and The Secret of My Success. While that timeliness made it a huge hit back then, it definitely made things interesting when producers decided to reboot it as a new series. Lizzy Caplan, who stars as the femme fatale on the new show, told us she was certainly familiar with the film, but she knew that the new series would have to be handled in a much different way to appeal to today’s viewers. (Click on the media bar below to hear Lizzy Caplan) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Lizzy...

Apple TV+’s documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie sets itself apart from the deluge of celeb documentaries. Yes, it’s a documentary about the actor’s life and his battle with Parkinson’s disease. Some may even approach it thinking they’ve seen a doc like this before. But when you pull away from the film, it feels like you’ve watched a fully-bodied autobiopic about the Family Ties and Back to the Future star.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim and his editor Michael Harte (Three Identical Strangers) pulled off the feat by using moments from Fox’s cinematic canon — Back to the Future, The Secret of My Success and Bright Lights, Big City among other titles — in re-creations of the movie and TV star’s life.

Guggenheim explained during a panel for Still at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event how the style came to be with Harte,...

Five-time Emmy winner Michael J. Fox unpacks his life story in the forthcoming Apple TV+ documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.

Premiering Friday, May 12, the film incorporates “documentary, archival and scripted elements,” and will “recount Fox’s extraordinary story in his own words — the improbable tale of an undersized kid from a Canadian army base who rose to the heights of stardom in 1980s Hollywood,” according to the official logline. “The account of Fox’s public life, full of nostalgic thrills and cinematic gloss, will unspool alongside his never-before-seen private journey, including the years that followed his diagnosis, at 29, with Parkinson’s disease.

Stella Stevens, the actress best known for her roles in The Nutty Professor and The Poseidon Adventure and starring opposite Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls!, died today in Los Angeles after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 84.

Stevens’ passing was confirmed to Deadline by her son, actor-producer Andrew Stevens, and her longtime friend John O’Brien.

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A former Playboy centerfold from January 1960, Stevens was modeling in her hometown of Memphis when she was discovered and given a screen test by 20th Century Fox. She wound up under contract with Paramount and then Columbia through the ’60s, starring opposite such big names as Presley in Girls!

Michael J. Fox is one of the most beloved actors on the planet. Along with being instantly recognizable thanks to his starring role in the iconic "Back to the Future" franchise, the actor's charming turns in film and television span include his breakthrough role in the classic sitcom "Family Ties," the hairy sports star of "Teen Wolf," a meteoric rise in "The Secret of My Success," his fast-talking, schmoozing performance in "Spin City," and an underrated leading turn in Peter Jackson's "The Frighteners."

But for a long time now, Fox's public persona has been inexorably linked to Parkinson's disease, which the actor was diagnosed with in 1991 -- but Fox wouldn't make his ailment public until 1998, in the middle of his Emmy-winning work on "Spin City." Since then, he's become the poster child for Parkinson's, fighting to round up funding, raising awareness, and hoping to find a cure for the...

The Supporting Actress Smackdown of 1987 is two weeks away so get your votes in! We've already had a lot of fun revisiting 1987 films but before we get to the main event let's get some general context of that year in showbiz history. Ready? 

Great Big Box Office Hits:

The comedy Three Men and a Baby, the erotic thriller Fatal Attraction, and the Eddie Murphy action comedy sequel Beverly Hills Cop II, and the Robin Williams vehicle Good Morning Vietnam were easily the four biggest hits of the year, box-office wise. The enduringly popular Moonstruck wasn't quite in their league in tickets sold back then but still very popular, rounding out the top five. The other top ten hits of that year were the acclaimed mobs vs feds costume drama The Untouchables, the now arguably forgotten comedies The Secret of My Success and Stakeout, and the buddy action movie Lethal Weapon...

Brand new to the Vestron Video Collector’s Series at #19, the family-friendly gateway to young horror fans, Little Monsters,arrives on Blu-ray and Digital September 15 from Lionsgate. Newly remastered in shocking high definition, this funny family fantasy-adventure stars Golden Globe® nominee Fred Savage (1991, Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical, “The Wonder Years”), Primetime Emmy® nominee Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern, and Emmy® nominee Margaret Whitton. With 6 new special features, including an all new interview with Howie Mandel, the Little Monsters Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $17.99.

New to the Vestron Collector’s Series, Little Monsters is the story of Brian (Fred Savage), a sixth-grader who’s recently moved to a new town and made friends with Maurice (Howie Mandel) — the monster who lives under Brian’s bed! Maurice introduces Brian to the world of monsters, where junk food rules, adults aren’t allowed,...

When Dick Tracy burst onto screens in June 1990, it was heralded as the heir to the previous summer’s comics-to-page blockbuster throne, Batman. While the Disney film boasted similar star power (Warren Beatty and Al Pacino), intricate production design that evoked both colorful Sunday comic strips and classic gangster films, and even a tie-in album by one of the biggest pop music stars of a generation (Madonna’s I’m Breathless), characters like Dick Tracy and Flattop were hardly the pop culture mainstays that Batman and the Joker were, even before that 1989 film revitalized their fortunes. Nevertheless, Dick Tracy made a box office splash (albeit not a Batman-sized one), and racked up three Oscars as well as nominations for Best Supporting Actor (for Al Pacino’s scenery-chewing turn as Big Boy Caprice), Cinematography, Costume Design, and Sound Design.

But Dick Tracy had a difficult journey. Bouncing around between studios and...

Peter Larkin, whose innovative set design graced Broadway productions and major films, died Monday at his home in Bridgehampton, New York after a brief illness. He was 93 years old and his death was confirmed by his stepson, screenwriter Wesley Strick.

Larkin won four Tony Awards and was behind the set design for such Broadway productions as Peter Pan, The Teahouse of the August Moon and No Time for Sergeants. His film resume was equally impressive, including Tootsie and Get Shorty.

Born in Massachusetts and raised in Boston by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Oliver Waterman Larkin, he attended Yale.

Larkin’s Broadway debut came with Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck in 1951. That led to his big break, the Broadway show of Peter Pan with actress Mary Martin. The show was so successful it immediately went to television within five months, setting a television record for the time with 65 million viewers.

In June 2020, Tom Cruise will return to the skies as Lt Pete "Maverick" Mitchell for director Joseph Kosinski's Top Gun: Maverick. The much-anticipated film is a sequel to Cruise's 1986 hit Top Gun directed by Ridley Scott's brother Tony Scott and co-starring Kelly McGillis as Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood, Val Kilmer as Lt Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, and Anthony Edwards as Goose. This new film will see the return of Kilmer as Iceman, and Miles Teller will be playing Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Anthony Edwards's Goose. The new movie is nearing the end of its shoot, and today the young actor talked about how hard it was keeping up with Cruise's work ethic.

Miles Teller said of keeping up with his costar, who is 24 years older than him.

"I'm certainly trying, but it is difficult. Just the volume of it. I'm sure a lot of people can do it for...

Sure. Billie Jean is not a superhero in the spandex, cape, superpowers sense. And she is not based on a pre-existing comic book character. But she is a strong female warrior, who is truly a hero in her own right. And the movie The Legend of Billie Jean serves as the perfect template for what has come since in the realm of female superhero movies, none-of-them, dare we even say Wonder Woman, quite able to live up to the excitement and adventure on display here in all its raw, 80s form. Even so, it often gets overlooked whenever the subject of female led movies comes up, specifically those of the superhero kind. It barely ever registers a blip. Though it had a familiar superhero in the lead by way of Helen Slater, who played Supergirl just one year before.

It's almost like the writers of The Legend of Billie Jean,...

Update Tuesday morning with more details. Margaret Whitton, the actress, director and producer who is probably best know for playing the money-grubbing owner of the Cleveland Indians in two Major League movies, died December 4 at home in Palm Beach, Florida after a battle with cancer. She was 67. Her death was confirmed to Deadline by her business partner Steven Tabakin. Her film credits include The Secret Of My Success, 9 1/2 Weeks and Mel Gibson’s Man Without A Face…...

Update Tuesday morning with more details. Margaret Whitton, the actress, director and producer who is probably best know for playing the money-grubbing owner of the Cleveland Indians in two Major League movies, died December 4 at home in Palm Beach, Florida after a battle with cancer. She was 67. Her death was confirmed to Deadline by her business partner Steven Tabakin. Her film credits include The Secret Of My Success, 9 1/2 Weeks and Mel Gibson’s Man Without A Face…...

Margaret Whitton, known for her roles in 1980s hit comedies “Major League” and “The Secret of My Success,” has died at the age of 67. She had a short battle with cancer and died peacefully on Sunday in her Palm Beach, Fla. home, her friend and producing partner Steven Tabakin told TheWrap. Whitton worked with Tabakin at their Tashtego Films company where she was developing projects up until a few months ago. Also Read: Charlie Sheen Gets His Wish, Is Going to World Series to Cheer on Indians Her body of acting work spanned three decades. One of her final film roles was.

Margaret Whitton, the actress perhaps best known for portraying Rachel Phelps, the Las Vegas showgirl turned owner of the Cleveland Indians, in the two Major League movies, has died. She was 67.

Whitton died peacefully at her home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday after a brief battle with cancer, Steven Tabakin, her friend and producing partner in Tashtego Films, told The Hollywood Reporter. She had been actively developing projects until a few months ago, he said.

The red-haired star also appeared in such films as 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), opposite Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger; The Secret of My Success...

The original Predator might be remembered as a major action movie from the '80s, but it wasn't really that big. Its cost was only $15 million and it only earned $60 million ($133 million in today's dollars), placing it outside the top 10 highest-grossing movies of 1987, below such forgotten films as The Secret of My Success and Stakeout, despite its having the second-best opening weekend of the year. And it wasn't very grand in terms of its scope, either, being mainly a cat-and-mouse story in a single jungle setting. The four follow-ups, including two sequels and two crossovers with the Alien franchise, also weren't huge movies. But the next time we see one of those dreadlocked extraterrestrial hunters, in the currently titled The Predator, it's going...

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Mill Creek released several noteworthy Blu-ray releases on Tuesday, most of which were re-issues, but The Legend of Billie Jean makes its high-def debut. Those of you that are familiar with this film, or its practically non-existent home video presence, will realize immediately how big of a deal it is to have this film released to the Blu-ray format. The Legend of Billie Jean has always been an eighties favorite of mine. A lot of really cool movies came out during the decade, but this one always stood out. It could be that it got away with being as dark as it is, even with a PG-13 rating, or it could be it is one of Helen Slater’s few, and very best roles. I know, I know, Supergirl, The Secret of My Success, blahblahblahblah, but I genuinely consider this to be the seminal Helen Slater role. It doesn’t...

We are living in a material world, and greed is good. Somewhere amidst all the synth music, hairspray and day-glow neon of the 1980s, greed and excessive wealth were not just accepted, they were downright admirable. The rampant economic discrepancies and class identification issues boiled to a head on screen in films like Pretty in Pink, The Secret of my Success, and Less Than Zero. Some filmmakers gave commentary on the wealth by creating the standard 1980s rich asshole character (who was usually played by James Spader) or by showing that wealth would make you forget the “good things” in life as is the theme is movies like Brewster’s Millions, Rain Man, and Baby Boom. But few films tackle the dystopian illusion to quite the extent of Brian Yuzna’s Society, and definitely not with as much latex and goo. It is tragic this film is so hard to...

Michael J. Fox is going back to the future on an upcoming episode his NBC sitcom The Michael J. Fox Show. Christopher Lloyd, who played Dr. Emmett Brown opposite Fox's Marty McFly in Back to the Future and its two sequels, will guest-star in an episode next spring according to The Hollywood Reporter. This time around, Lloyd will appear as the principal of the high school where Annie Henry (Betsy Brandt), the wife of Fox's character Mike Henry, is employed.

The Michael J. Fox Show and Nine More New Shows...

Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games The Hunger Games has topped the Us/Canada box office for the fourth weekend in a row. Starring Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone), the Gary Ross-directed blockbuster scored $21.5 million according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The dystopic action-drama was down a relatively modest 35% compared to Easter weekend. Prior to The Hunger Games, the most recent movie to achieve the four-weekend-in-a-row feat was James Cameron / Sam Worthington's Avatar in early 2010. In fact, Avatar remained at the top for seven consecutive weekends. The Hunger Games, however, won't get that far. Next weekend, it'll surely be unseated by Zac Efron / Taylor Schilling's The Lucky One. Among the nearly 30 movies that have managed to be no. 1 for four weekends in a row are Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale / Heath Ledger's The Dark Knight (2008), Peter Jackson / Elijah Wood...

Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games The Hunger Games has topped the Us/Canada box office for the fourth weekend in a row. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, the Gary Ross-directed blockbuster scored $21.5 million according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The dystopic action-drama was down a relatively modest 35% compared to Easter weekend. Prior to The Hunger Games, the most recent movie to achieve the four-weekend-in-a-row feat was James Cameron / Sam Worthington's Avatar in early 2010. In fact, Avatar remained at the top for seven consecutive weekends. The Hunger Games, however, won't get that far. Next weekend, it'll surely be unseated by Zac Efron / Taylor Schilling's The Lucky One. Among the nearly 30 movies that have managed to be no. 1 for four weekends in a row are Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale / Heath Ledger's The Dark Knight (2008), Peter Jackson / Elijah Wood / Viggo Mortensen's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King...

Earlier today the folks over at EatSleepLiveFilm put up a list of what they called the ’100 Best Films of the 80s’ and whilst their list was full of awesome films – covering a plethora of genres and touching base on a number of the decades best and most-loved movies – upon reading it, and as a 80s aficionado, I found there to be quite a few glaring omissions. Hence this “rebuttal” – a list of 50 films (in no particular order) that Didn’T make Eslf’s Top 100 that I think are some of the best of the 80s, including some that might surprise you…

Weird Science One Crazy Summer How I Got Into College The Burning Class of 1984 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane The Beastmaster The Sword and the Sorceror Hiding Out Battle Beyond the Stars Home Front (aka Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home) The Blob Dance Til’ Dawn My Science Project...

Seventeen years after the original "Footloose" inspired audiences around the world to kick off their Sunday shoes, Craig Brewer's "Footloose" remake arrives in theaters this Friday, October 14.

Although Brewer and his filmmaking forebear, Herbert Ross, share an affection for music-driven movies, it remains to be seen whether the director of "Hustle & Flow" and "Black Snake Moan" will go on to Ross's highs of "The Secret of My Success," or the lows of "Undercover Blues."

In the meantime, we took a look at both theatrical versions of this iconic story in order to see what they have in common, and where Brewer might have cut a little bit loose.

The Location: Although both films are set in a town called Bomont, the '84 film takes place in Utah, which actually has a town with that name, while the '11 film relocates the conflict to the South, fabricating a Bomont, Georgia.

Your Weekly Source for Blu-Ray and DVD Release News Blu-Ray for Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 Adventures Of A Teenage Dragonslayer (2010) Alien 2 On Earth: Midnight Legacy Collection (1980) Double Feature: Alpha Dog/Assault On Precinct 13 20th Century Fox’s animated Anastasia (1997) Asylum’s Battle Of Los Angeles (2011) Because Of Winn-dixie (2005) Beyond The Darkness: Buio Omega (1979) Devolved (2010) Eddie Murphy is Dr. Doolittle (1998) The End Of Poverty? (2008) Double Feature: Ernest Goes To Camp/Ernest Goes To Jail Cartoon Network’s CGI Feature Firebreather (2010) Tim McGraw in Flicka (2006) Football Double Feature: Friday Night Lights/The Express

Sci-Fi Double Feature: Galaxina/Crater Lake Monster Double Feature: Garfield 1 & 2 Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (2011) How Do You Know (2010) Jet Li Double Feature: Fearless/Unleashed Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality: Ultimate Edition (1923) Harrison Ford in Random Hearts (1999) Riddick Collection: Pitch Black/Chronicles Of Riddick (Unrated Director’s Cuts) 20th Century Fox’s Robots (2005) The Sandlot (1993) Scary Movie 4...

Chicago – Reliving the 1980s is what Topher Grace, ironically known for “That ‘70s Show,” set out to do with the story line for his new film, “Take Me Home Tonight.” Comedian Demetri Martin has a supporting role in that film.

Grace developed the original story, about a post-collegiate guy named Matt working in a video store, trying to figure out the next stage of his life. When he encounters a high school crush named Tori (Teresa Palmer), he makes up a scenario where he works for the investment film Goldman Sachs. He then catches up to an actual Goldman Sachs employee, played by Demetri Martin, to back up his story. The rest of the movie is basically about Matt working through the deception.

HollywoodChicago.com caught up with these two co-stars, and talked about their new film and their rich and interesting careers so far.

Topher Grace, Matt Franklin in...

In this celebrity-obsessed culture of ours, much of that obsession focuses on celebrity disdain. It's natural, I suppose, for the rank-and-file of the world to both exalt celebrity and root for a celebritastrophe -- why should they get millions of dollars and fame bleeding from their assholes for six weeks' worth of work while we toil away at our computers, banging away at spreadsheets and Power Point presentations?

The Charlie Sheen debacle is the perfect example: We're getting off on this man's downward spiral of crazy, and some of us even see it as karmic retribution for getting paid $2 million an episode to inflict "Two and a Half Men" on the world. What's little discussed, however, is Sheen's obvious mental deterioration, his addiction problems, his psychosis and delusions. He's six months from dead, and most of us are celebrating it. We're just too overjoyed by the spectacle of it to...

She was still in her teens when she flew to Britain for a year to become Supergirl in the film of the same name. And she spared us some time to talk about becoming the girl of steel…

Supergirl is a film that, as we found when we mentioned it on our Twitter feed (twitter.com/denofgeek), many of you have fond memories of. And rewatching it in advance of talking to its star, Helen Slater, I found it hard to disagree. It's no classic, granted, but it's a fun, fascinating movie, the ilk of which would never be made now.

So, one Thursday afternoon, we rang its star, Helen Slater, and she happily talked us through the production, and what happened since...

Reading into your background, the impression I get is that it was music that was your first passion. Is that right?

Well, I would say yes, but...

As Oscar ballots arrive to decide Hollywood’s best and brightest, some within 20th Century Fox are furious over the lack of media coverage for one of their underrated comedic gems and have revealed what went wrong with the failed Oscar push behind I Love You, Beth Cooper.

Directed by Chris Columbus (Home Alone), I Love You, Beth Cooper was released to small $1.75-a-ticket “art house” cinemas shortly after its release on July 10. It was an Internet sensation and according to Google, ‘I Love You, Beth Cooper boobs Hayden Panettiere nude’ was one of the most searched terms during the week of the film’s release.

When asked how he felt about the Beth Cooper snub, Columbus was forthright: “How do you expect me to feel? I put two weeks of hard work into this project and for what? To have the Oscar campaign fall in the cracks? This was...

When Jai asked me to talk about my Gateway Score — the score album that really grabbed me as a child and convinced me that scoring films is what I Had to do for a living — I sort of froze at the thought of the assignment.

"A real composer would talk about John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, or Bernard Herrmann," I thought to myself. "When everyone hears my pick (insert Adam Sandler's famous little-boy-sad-face here)... They're all gonna laugh at me!"

While I love action films and I flip out for science fiction on a pretty regular basis, I have always been the drama guy. I love a great drama, especially one that contains strong writing for the characters coupled by great performances. "Jerry Maguire" might be my favorite film of all-time, simply because of Cameron Crowe's ability to create characters of incredible depth which allowed each actor to carve...