It happened with fast food giants Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Whether you drive through or dine inside, you can order from both menus at the many combos around the country.Now, well soon be able to do the same with Applebees Bar + Grill and IHOP, which is actually the International House of Pancakes (which nobody says).Shouldwe call itAppleHop or HopBee's? To each his or her own, I guess.Here's the deal on this dining world talk: According toCBS, both major chains have one parent, Dine Brands Inc. It has already started blending the two while still offering each menu.IHOP To Buy Applebees Chain For $1.9 BillionGetty Imagesloading...There will be two different entrances into the same restaurant. Whether you enter through the Applebees or the IHOP door, the same back-of-house andkitchen will be making your meals.According to theNations Restaurant Newswebsite, you can sit on either side and order from both menus.This dual-branded concept will actually make twice as much money as the traditional, standalone locations because it caters to breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night eating.IHOP To Buy Applebees Chain For $1.9 BillionGetty Imagesloading...According to USA Today, it's also about efficiency for diners.Urban, suburban, and small college towns are all open according to the first combo Applebee's and IHOP restaurant because these chains do well everywhere, according to Nation's Restaurant News.As for a name change? Both signs will be in front, and branding will stay the same for the most part.Get our free mobile appREAD MORE: A New Chain Is Named New #1 Restaurant in America Popular Restaurants That Have Faded AwayFiled Under: Chain Restaurants, Food, IHOP, RestaurantsCategories: Longform

007 now reports to the producers behind two of the biggest franchises in Hollywood history.Amazon MGM today announced viapress releasethat they have signed Amy Pascal best known for overseeing theSpider-Man franchise for Sony and David Heyman who produced the Harry Potter movies for Warner Bros to produce the first James Bond film from the studio.Pascal previously produced the Tom HollandSpider-Man movies in conjunction with Marvel, as well as the popular animatedSpider-Verse franchise. Heyman produced all of the big-budgetHarry Potterfilms, as well asthe threeFantastic Beastsprequels.MGMMGMloading...READ MORE: Actors Who Almost Played James BondThe press release included this statement from Amazon MGM head of film Courtenay Valenti:We are approaching every creative decision with James Bond, which Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have so masterfully steered, with the greatest sense of responsibility. Part of an elite group of producers who have developed and managed massive film franchises to box office success and critical acclaim, Amy Pascal and David Heyman are two of the most accomplished, experienced, and respected film producers in our industry. We are honored to be working with them on James Bonds next chapter and are excited to deliver to global audiences storytelling that upholds the impeccable legacy of this beloved character.The arrival of Pascal and Heyman should presumably end a lengthy period of uncertainty for the franchise, ever since Amazon acquiredMGM and therelationship withthe longtime producers of the James Bond franchise, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, all but collapsed in the words of oneWall Street Journalreport.A few months after that article was published, Broccoli and Wilson stepped down as 007 franchise stewards, paving the way for Amazon (and now Pascal and Heyman) to assume creative control of the series.The next James Bond film does not yet have a release date, but now that it has producers, development should pick up significantly. Theprevious filmin the franchise,No Time to Die, premiered in theaters in 2021 after a lengthy delay caused by the Covid pandemic.Get our free mobile appEvery James Bond Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best

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While most big-ticket theme park rides are inspired by blockbuster movies, some of the very best Disney and Universal attractions are instead inspired by television shows, likeWalt Disney Worlds Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Universals The Simpsons Ride and the underrated Dudley Do-Rights Ripsaw Falls at Islands of Adventure.This article is not about any of those rides.Instead, the 15 attractions below are examples of attractions that adapted television shows to theme parks with less success, either because they brought little to nothing fromtheir source material to the ride experience, or because they just flat-out werent any fun. They hail from parks all over the country and while most have long since closed, a few are still in operation, disappointing people every day of the year. Next time, just ride the Tower of Terror or The Simpsons Ride instead.The American Idol ExperienceDisney-MGM Studios park wasdesigned to operate as a tourist attraction and a functioning film and TV studio. But within a few years of its opening in 1989, the actual productions at the facilityhad dwindled to next to nothing. Disney promised tourists a trip to a working studio, and with less evidence of that all the time, they began adding attractions that mimicked the look of popular TV shows, including aWho Wants to Be a Millionaire?show and anAmerican Idolexperience, where tourists participated in a staged recreation of the popular reality competition show, complete with judgeswho acted like Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell. Guests could audition for a spot on a performance, and then compete against other tourists; the winner of each days American Idol Experience finale got a Dream Ticket which allowed them to skip the line at an actualIdolTV audition.But that came at a cost; namely you had to be willing tosacrifice up to six hours of your day ata pricy theme park to keep showing up to auditions and performances. If thats what you wanted and if by some small chance, you actually won then it all worked out. If youdidntwin, well, you spent a lot of moneyso a fake Simon Cowell tell youhow much you suckedinstead of riding Toy Story Mania.The Battle of GalacticaWith sci-fi spectacles hot properties in the late 1970s thanks toStar Wars, Universal followed suit withBattlestar Galactica, a glossy TV series about the battle between human space colonists and a race of robots known as Cylons. The show was one of the more expensive television productions of its day so expensive, in fact, that it wound up getting canceled after only 24 episodes. DuringGalacticas short-lived initial run, Universal added it to its Studio Tour in Hollywood, in a short animatronic and visual effects setpiece known as The Battle of Galactica. Tourists were captured by the Cylons, brought into a show building, and then, after a brief skirmish, freed by a human actor dressed as an outer space warrior. The area where the Battle of Galactica once stood was demolished in the early 90s to make room for Back to the Future: The Ride, which is now The Simpsons Ride. Still 12+ years is actually a pretty good run for a laser battle inspired by a long-canceled TV show.READ MORE: 15 Beloved Disney Rides That No Longer ExistChip n Dale GadgetcoasterThe final episode ofChip n Dale: Rescue Rangerswas already three years old by the time Disney added a junior roller coaster loosely inspired by the show to Disneyland. Known as Gadgets Go Coaster for most of its history, the now 30+ year old ride was recently named the Chip n Dale Gadgetcoaster. The ride itself has remained basically the same and itstill holds the dubious distinction of being the shortest rideat the Happiest Place on Earth. A trip on the Gadgetcoasterlasts just 45 seconds. If you wait for any appreciable amount of time for this extremely underwhelming experience you will surely want to (gadget) go somewhere else with your children afterwards.Doug Live!The animated TV seriesDougendured all through the1990s, first on Nickelodeon and then on ABC. Disney even releasedDougs 1st Movie in 1999. That same year, they also added a stage show to Disney-MGM Studios called Doug Live! While a lot of 90s kids would have been delighted to see the characters fromDougin person, you need to remember that the cartoon featured highly-stylized animation and Doug Live!mostly involved live-action performers dressed to look like Doug Funnie and his pals (including his dog Porkchop). The bizarre stars of this musicalare nothing less than undiluted nightmaresmade flesh. Doug Live! played from the spring of 1999 into the summer of 2001. Honestly, when you see what Roger looked like in this show, youll be amazed it lasted that long.The Funtastic World of Hanna-BarberaThe left side ofUniversal Studios Floridasmain thoroughfare has housed a series of big simulator rides throughout the parks history. The very first was called The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, and it featured a variety of characters from the Hanna-Barbera catalogue trying to rescue a kidnapped Elroy Jenson from the villainous Dick Dastardly. It was essentially a tamer and less technology sophisticated version of Back to the Future: The Ride geared toward younger kids. As a result, the illusion that you were zooming around in your own personal flying car was a lot less convincing than BTTF:TR. No surprise, then, that Universal replaced it with another TV-inspired simulator, Jimmy Neutrons Nicktoon Blast, after about a decade of operation.Garfields NightmareThis notoriously low-rent amusement park ride at Pennsylvanias Kennywood park slapped some vaguely spooky theming and a bunch of blacklight images of the popular comic strip and cartoon cat Garfield atop an ancient Old Mill attractionthat first openedway back in 1901. The venerableride was given a variety of overlaps and updated themes through the years; in 2004, it was transformed into Garfields Nightmare. As detailed in a Very Local history of the attraction, the rides designers initially had big plans that involved 3 effects and CGI and animatronics. But because the Old Mill was, well, old, with limited rider capacity, the creative team recalled being explicitly told by management We cant make it too great because too many people would want to ride it. As it turns out, this is not a creative strategy that results in a good theme park attraction.Hercules and Xena: Warriors of the ScreenUniversal Studios Floridas opening overlapped with the heyday of syndicated television programming,none of it bigger than the two-headed adventure show hydra ofHercules: The Legendary JourneysandXena: Warrior Princess.When the previous subject of Universals attraction all about TV production, Murder, She Wrote,was canceled in 1996, they re-themed the show to be based around the two popular series. But thenHerculeswas canceledin 1999 too. Wizards of the Screen was performed for the final time in early 2000, meaning itoperated for less than five years, making it one of theless successful attractions in Universal history. When you watch clips of the show, its not hard to see why.Mike Fink Keel BoatsBelieve it or not, in the mid-1950s, Disneylaunched a full-blown pop-culture phenomenon with a series of episodes of theirDisneylandanthology television series about famous American pioneer Davy Crockett. One was called Davy Crocketts Keel Boat Race, and saw Crockett square off with another famous historical figure, boatman Mike Fink. According to legend, Walt Disney had the idea for a Mike Fink Keel Boats attraction during production of the film; the original Disneyland attractionrepurposedthe two actual boats from the production of Davy Crocketts Keel Boat Race.Which is both an interesting bit of trivia and a not especially thrilling attraction, as the small boats simply took guests on a leisurely tour of the parks Rivers of America. Disney added Keel Boats to the Magic Kingdom and then toDisneyland Paris (in the early 1990s!), but all were gradually phased out by the end of the 2000s afterone of the boats capsized at Disneyland. Mike Fink and his boats might be gone, but Davy Crockett remains; you can still ride his Explorer Canoes around Frontierland.Motor Boat Cruise to Gummi GlenFrom the late 1950s to the early 1990s, the eastern edge of Disneyland was home to something called Motor Boat Cruise, which was essentially the watery equivalent of the parksAutopia. Only instead of miniature cars zooming around a racetrack, guests piloted small boats as they glided through a man-made waterway. Like Autopia, guests controlled their crafts speed and direction but only to a point. A hidden rail under the water kept the boats from straying too far off course.As the attraction aged, Disney tried to reinvigorate it byre-theming it tothe then-popular Disney cartoonAdventures of the Gummi Bears. Enter ...Motor Boat Cruise to Gummi Glen. But instead of the typical level of Disney magic (and high-tech animatronics), the new ride amounted to little more than some plywood illustrations of the Gummi Bear characters around the same boats and track. Bouncing here and there and everywhere? Not these Gummi Bears! Plywood dont bounce. The updated Motor Boats were sent to dry dock by 1993.Nickelodeon Slime StreakThe American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, boasts its own indoor theme park, Nickelodeon Universe, whereevery ride is inspired by television series ranging fromPaw Patrol toSpongeBob SquarePantsto multiple Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roller coasters. And then there is Nickelodeon Slime Streak, a tame coaster with zero loopsthat runs a single brief circuit around the park in a little over one minute. What does this have to do with Nickelodeon orits famous slime? Uh ... the track is orange like the Nickelodeon logo? And the sign at the entrance is green? Think of all the incredible theme park attraction that could be inspired by Nickelodeon remember Nickelodeon Studios? and then compare it to this video of a coaster gliding through a mall for 75 seconds.The Outer Limits: Flight of FearOnce upon a time, Viacom tried to compete withfellow media conglomerates like Disney and Universal by forming its own theme park division, which acquired several popular theme parks around the United States and added Paramount and Viacom branding to their attractions. Thats how Virginias Kings Dominion and Ohios Kings Island both wound up with a roller coaster named afterThe Outer Limits, the famous 1960s sci-fi anthology show that was then in the midst of a revival on Showtime.Flight of Fearis a launching indoor coaster that supposedlybrings guests into a restricted military hangar to view arecovered UFO. After Paramount sold their parks to Cedar Fair, the ride continued on as just Flight of Fear, with all references toThe Outer Limitsremoved. In other words: As a coaster, this was totally fine. As anOuter Limits ride ... uh ... I guess you could say that the track layout meant they controlled the vertical and the horizontal? Look, Im trying here...Superstar LimoThere may not be a more infamous attraction in the history of all of Disneys theme parks than Superstar Limo. In the words of one Disney executive, it was initially imagined as apaparazzi ride and you're catching celebrities. There was just one problem. (Technically there weremany problems, but there was one catastrophic problem.) During the rides development, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash whileher vehicle was trying to sneak way from a pack of paparazzi.It was too late to cancel the ride outright, so Disney had to completely reconfigure it.Now guests were celebrities themselves, arriving in Hollywood for the first time and then taking a slow-moving dark ride through sparsely decorated show scenes filled with stiff animatronics of other celebs. Although not linked to any one specific television show, the ridesanimatronic stars were mostly ABC (and therefore Disney) talentsof the time like Tim Allen, Regis Philbin, and Drew Carey. Superstar Limo opened with Disney California Adventure in the winter of 2001 and closed less than a year later. The track and vehicles were re-themed toMonsters Inc.and dubbed Monsters Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue, a ride that has, somewhat improbably, survived at California Adventure to the present day.The Swamp Thing SetThese days, nobody goes to Universal Studios Florida expecting to watch theproduction of a TV show. But when the park first opened, they not only expected it, they practically demanded it. In the parks early years you could watch a TV taping at Nickelodeon Studios, or take the parks tram tour through its backlot. One part of the parkwas home tothe standing sets from theSwamp Thingtelevision show that airedon USA Network from 1990 to 1993. You can probablyguess where this is headed; when the show was canceled, the sets were worthless. Nobody wanted to seewhere a middling TV seriesusedto get made. Afterthe sets were torn down, Universal used the area as the home to itsMen in Black shooting gallery ride.The Walking Dead: A Walk Through AttractionUniversal has carved out avery successful niche in the theme park world with their annual Halloween Horror Nights events andtheir elaborately themed haunted houses. Attempts to translate that success into a year-round attraction have proven to be a bit trickier. Oneexample is a sort of permanent HHN-style house that appeared at Universal Studios Hollywoodin 2016, inspiredby the long-runningWalking Dead TV franchise.Halloween Horror Nights caters to an older fanbase, but the rest of the year, Universal is mostly a place for families with kids. So the Walking Dead attraction (which, yes, you literally walked through, encountering actors in makeup designed by the same team that created the shows zombies) had to satisfy horror enthusiasts without beingtoo scary for a general audience. Thats a tough needle to thread, and the results wound up frustrating members of both camps, who either found it too tame or too disturbing. The attraction shuffled its last visitors through in early 2020.Woody Woodpeckers Nuthouse CoasterIts just a rule: Any upscale theme parkthat catersto families needs at least one extremely underwhelming and only vaguely themed roller coaster inspired by a nonthreatening and widely recognizable animated character. Disneyland has its Chip n Dale Gadgetcoaster, and foralmost a quarter of a century, Universal Studios Florida had Woody Woodpeckers Nuthouse Coaster, a similar (and, at 45 seconds in length, similarly short) thrill ride for small children. And what did it have to do with Woody Woodpecker? So little that a few years ago Universal was able torepaint the track, refurbish the trains, and rename it the Trolls Trollercoaster after the popular film series. [insertmanic Woody Woodpecker laugh here]Get our free mobile appAmazing Theme Park Rides Based on Movies That Were Never Built

Before horror movie legend Tony Todd passed away late last year after a battle with cancer, he filmeda final appearancefor theFinal Destinationfranchise. Todd had appeared in three priorFinal Destination films as funeral director William Bludworth, who emerges as one of the experts on death and its peculiar rules in the long-running series about groups of teens who inadvertently survive accidents that were meant to kill them, only to findgrisly improbable fates elsewhere.The latest trailer for the newFinal Destination, Bloodlines, features an appearance from Todd as Bludworth. It also lays out the premise of this movie: Once again, someone manages to evade a certain demise via a premonition. Years later, death comes for her family one which should never had existed in the first place had she died as she was initially supposed to. After that, its hide your lawn mowers and blenders, and really anything with large spinning blades.You can watch the newFinal Destination Bloodlinestrailer below:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWMzKXsY9A4READ MORE: 10 Horror Movies So Extreme They Made People SickHere is the latest Final Destination sequels official synopsis:The newest chapter in New Line Cinemas bloody successful franchise takes audiences back to the very beginning of Deaths twisted sense of justiceFinal Destination Bloodlines.Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.Final Destination Bloodlines is scheduled to open in theaters on May 16.Get our free mobile appThe 10 Worst Movies of the Last Ten Years (2015-2024)Look, lets not beat around the bush. These movies stink.Categories: Movie News, Trailers

There are eightrock artists you probably forgot worked on animated Disney movie soundtracks.Whether Disney movies were a huge part of your childhood or you're a full-blown Disney adult, its hard to deny how great the soundtracks for some of these films truly were. Are there a lot of rock songs in Disney movies? No, but some of the most legendary figures from the rock scene contributed to the soundtracks in one way or another.Keep reading to learn about rock artists ties to Disney and how they were recruited to work on music for some of the most legendary animated films of all time.Elton Johnelton johnLeon Neal, Getty Imagesloading...While all of the scoring in 1994s The Lion Kingwas done by Hans Zimmer,Sir Elton John composed all of the songs that are sung throughout the filmwith the help of lyricist Tim Rice.It was Rice who suggested John to Disney, but the company didn't think the Rocketman would be available for the job. Rice called John, and the rest is history.I got to see the script, I got to see the little animation boards and then I got to see as it came together. I have Tim to thank for the whole experience ofThe Lion King.That one phone call he made to me ... that changed my life and my career, John reflected during an interview a few years ago.Thus, Circle of Life, I Just Can't Wait to Be King, Be Prepared, Hakuna Matata and Can You Feel the Love Tonight were all written by John.Unless youre really familiar with the culture ofThe Lion King,you may not have realized that he wrote all of the songs, especially because the versions of the tracks that he sang only play during the film's credits.Another rocker on this list actually contributed some vocals to one of the songs that playsduringthe movie, so keep reading to learn more about it.Elton John, Can You Feel the Love TonightFallOut Boyfall out boy at big hero 6 premiereAlberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images for Disneyloading...Fall Out Boy were asked to contribute an original song to the soundtrack for 2014sBig Hero 6,and so they came up with Immortals. According to the LA Times, it wasnt the first time they were approached about a movie soundtrack, but it was the first time a film collaboration was successful for them.Disney asked us to come in a talk to the directors so we did that ... and we discussed the scene and what our song would attempt to do. Then we went home and wrote and sent it to them it was a back and forth from there,Pete Wentz wrote in a blog post about the experience.It was interesting to be a part of because our song was just a small part of a bigger thing and the challenge to just be a part of the fabric. It was a really cool experience.Fall Out Boy, ImmortalsPhil Collinsphil collins singing onstageGustavo Caballero, Getty Imagesloading...Phil Collinsinvolvement intheTarzan(1999) soundtrack is so iconic that it's become a meme.The songs Collins wrote and composed for the film are so epic that he won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and several other awards for them. Its one of the best soundtracks not only in the Disney universe, but in the entire film universe.So while you may not have forgotten about Strangers Like Me and Youll Be in My Heart, did you know that Collins also did the soundtrack for 2003sBrother Bear? He didnt just write and compose the songs for it either, he scored it alongside Mark Mancina, who also did the scoring forTarzan.They asked me if I would be interested in scoring a film, and Id never done it before. I couldnt have done it without Mark Mancino, Collins said during a 2004 interview. I lifted my game, and you know I love to have some challenge thrown down at me to see if I could do it.Phil Collins, On My WayStingJohn Parra, Getty ImagesJohn Parra, Getty Imagesloading...Disney didn't just approach one musicians to contribute to the soundtrack for 2000'sThe Emperors New Groove,they recruited artists from a variety of different genres, one of which was Sting.The former Police frontman was initially approached by Disney to do songs for a movie titled Kingdom of the Sun,and after producing around seven tracks, they scrapped the movie.They later asked him to be a part of the soundtrack forThe Emperors New Groove,and he agreed, but according to The Daily Record,the musicianwasn't thrilled when he realized what the film was about. Regardless, he accomplished something that a few of his contemporaries had as well.Ive grown up with Disney...and I thought, Okay, if you're going to have a legacy into the future, what better way than to write for one of these films that people are going to watch in 30 years' time?And I have six children. I thought my stock would rise if they saw their dad doing a Disney film, the rocker explained.I enjoyed it, I enjoyed the challenge. Two of my close friends, Elton John and Phil Collins, had worked with Disney and they encouraged me to do it. I was flattered that Disney came to me and wanted me to do something that was so successful for those two.Sting is credited on several songs on the movie soundtrack, but the one he actually sang for the movie is My Funny Friend and Me.Sting, My Funny Friend and MeBilly JoelBilly Joel - Las Vegas, NVEthan Miller, Getty Imagesloading...Billy Joel had a major role in the 1988 filmOliver & Company,playing the voice of a New York City mutt named Dodger. The Piano Man had the perfect New York accent for the role, but he also performed a song for the film, Why Should I Worry?A piano even made a cameo in the scene, which Dodger played with his tail while wearing sunglasses.READ MORE:3 Rockers You Forgot Voiced Characters in Animated Disney MoviesJoel was reportedly asked to write a song for the film, but declined as he was in the middle of writing his own album at the time.I was in the middle of writing my own album, over the last year and a half, Joel recalled [via Moving Picture Show]. And it was hard for me to just jump in, to write a song for the character ... I said, Yeah, Ill sing this song. Ill work as just a singer for once. I dont remember the last time I did that. Actually, I dont think I ever did it.Billy Joel, WhyShould I Worry?Demi LovatoAstrid Stawiarz, Getty Images for The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Red Dress ColAstrid Stawiarz, Getty Images for The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Red Dress Colloading...Pop star-turned-rocker Demi Lovato recorded a version of the track Let It Go for the 2013 filmFrozen,althoughactress Idina Menzels rendition was the one that was actually used in the film as she voiced the character (Elsa) who sang it.The song was written by married couple Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, whove written songs for several films. They selected Lovato as the singer they wanted to perform the song because she is so damn talented, according to an interview with Studio System News.The Disney family thing was very convenient, but honestly, she wouldve been at the top of the list if she hadnt been in the Disney family, Anderson-Lopez said. Not everyone can sing Let It Go. Its not easy. She has the kind of voice that can.Demi Lovato, Let It GoJoseph Williamstoto singer joseph williamsFrazer Harrison, Getty Imagesloading...Joseph Williams served as the lead singer of Toto from 1986 to 1988, and became their frontman again in 2010. In the mid-90s, though, he was asked to sing all of the main characters parts in the movieAladdin.After recording all of the parts, the composer decided to keep the original actor's vocals for the songs in the filminstead. But out of those recordings came another opportunity for Williams The Lion King.The musician recorded severaldemos for the movie, according to an interview he did a few years back with Rock History Music.A few months later, he was asked to sing Can You Feel the Love Tonight at Hans Zimmer's studio.[They said] we want you to do the singing for when Simba becomes an adult inThe Lion King,He also sang as adult Simba in Hakuna Matata.The Lion King, Hakuna MatataMiley CyrusDick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2021 - Hollywood Party PerformancesAlberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Imagesloading...Miley Cyrus launched her career as Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel show of the same name, but that wasnt her only connection to the brand. She actually did a duet with actor John Travolta on the song I Thought I Lost You, which was featured in the 2008 movieBolt.Both Cyrus and Travolta voiced characters in the film as well.The makers of the film asked Cyrus to write a track for her to sing with her co-star, and thus she wrote I Thought I Lost You with country singer/songwriter Jeffrey Steele.Well, it was something great. I mean, those lyrics, the melody, those choruses are A-plus stuff, you know?Travolta told MTV News of working with Cyrus.Shes really gifted at writing, and she really wanted to write something good for me as the character Bolt, so she went out of her way with her writing partner to come up with something good, and I really think they pulled it off. I know something about music, and I'm telling ya, I was blown away.Miley Cyrus + John Travolta, I Thought I LostYouGet our free mobile app12 Surprising Character Cameos In Disney Movies You Might Have MissedThese iconic Disney characters showed up in other Disney movies did you spot them?Gallery Credit: Claire EptingFiled Under: DisneyCategories: Lists, Movie News, Original Features

Elizabeth Olsen has insisted she is not involved in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.The 36-year-old actress appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch from 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron until Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022, though has now stressed she will not be returning to the superhero franchise for the next two Avengers movies due to her busy schedule.When The Hollywood Reporter asked Olsen if shed be working on Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, she said: No, Im back [in the US].I just finished [Panic Carefully]. Im moving on to filming a pilot for FX [called Seven Sisters].Reflecting on her apparent exit from Marvel, Olsen, who can currently be seen in the indie sci-fi movie The Assessment, said she was glad to return to smaller films.She explained: You end up having fewer people on the crew, and because The Assessment also had a smaller cast, theres such a community that you build to intimately create these [smaller-scale movies].Youre also on set more. Youre physically having to do more pages every day, and the rhythm of how you shoot, no time is wasted. I cant stand wasted time on set. I have a lot of patience, generally speaking, but when there is time where nothing is happening, I really dont understand it ... Its not like that happens a lot, but it does happen sometimes when you have the funds to tinker slowly. So I love the energy of having to get through so much in a day.MarvelMarvelloading...READ MORE: Every MCU Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestThe Love and Death star added working in blockbuster franchises like the MCU takes up so much physical time and space in the world, and stressed it was "really important for [her] to make choices outside of Marvel that reflect [her] own taste.She said: Your taste does create the artist that you are, and that wasnt something I was thinking about when I first started working. I was just grateful to be a working actor. I wanted to stretch myself into different roles, and I wasnt really thinking about my taste.The Assessment, which was directed by Fleur Fortune, is set in a dystopian future where population control is strictly enforced, and follows a couple (Olsen and Himesh Patel) who undergo a tense week-long evaluation to gain permission to have a child.12 Pairs of Actors and Directors With Famous FeudsYou won't see these great actors and directors working together again.Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky

Believe it or not, if Marvel had stuck to its original plan, we would have seen the next Avengers film in less than two months time.Avengers: The Kang Dynasty was originally announced with a release date of May 2, 2025.A lot has changed since then. Some of it was not Marvels fault. But people dont buy movie tickets for excuses. A lot of Marvel fans think The Multiverse Saga has been a pretty big disappointment so far, and they are worried that Marvels attempts to right the ship like bringing back the Russo brothers and hiring Robert Downey Jr. to play a new Doctor Doom are desperate acts meant to distract from the sorry state of the franchise.It didnt have to be this way. And its not hard to envision how thingscouldhave played out with minimal changes to Marvels lineup to create a far more cohesive and far more satisfying Marvel Cinematic Universe. In our latest video, we reimagine the Multiverse Saga into something way more exciting. We move some pieces around and change some movies to TV shows (Eternals!) and vice versa.Obviously we are doing this with the benefit of hindsight. But see if you think this would have made for a more exciting MCU...READ MORE: The Worst Marvel Comics EverIf you liked that video on how the Marvel Cinematic Universes Multiverse Saga should have played out, check out more of our videos below, including one on the potential for a secret X-Men movie from Marvel, one on all the Easter eggs in Daredevil: Born Again Episode 3, and one on what parts of Daredevil: Born Again are reshoots, and how the extra work on the series saved it from becoming another Disney+ disappointment. Plus, theres tons more videos over atScreenCrushs YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe to catch all our future episodes. New episodes of Daredevil: Born Againpremiere weekly on Disney+.Sign up for Disney+ here.Get our free mobile appEvery Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestIt started with Iron Man and its continued and expanded ever since. Its the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 35 movies and counting. But whats the best and the worst? We ranked them all.

Filmmaking is, more than anything else, a collaboration between tons of people sharing slightly different versions of the same vision, kept in line by a capable director and a budget. It requires a lot of compromise and a lot of finessing, and, for the most part, those who are successful in the industry make it because theyre good team players.Filmmaking also requires a lot of ego, and thats sometimes where things start going haywire. The only thing an audience loves more than a good movie is a good bit of behind-the-scenes drama, which tends to happen no matter how good actors and directors are at playing well with others, and Hollywood is full of stories about great films marred only by on-set controversy. Sometimes thats good for the art, and both parties can channel their frustrations into the scene. Sometimes it means that they never want to see each others faces ever again.Today, were celebrating those actor/director collaborations that did not work out for the best, even if the end result turned out to be a good movie. For every story about a director who loves working with a particular actor over and over, there are ten more about actors and directors whose experience working together made them hate each others guts. Some of these tales of premium beef are as famous as their movies; some of them are still ongoing. No matter how good their films turned out to be, you will almost certainly see any of these 12 pairs work together again.12 Pairs of Actors and Directors With Famous FeudsYou won't see these great actors and directors working together again.Gallery Credit: Emma StefanskyREAD MORE: Directors Who Publicly Admitted They Hated Their MoviesGet our free mobile appMovies We Love Because Theyre Always On CableThere's something fun about surfing through TV channels later at night and happening upon something youve never seen before.Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky

Show me a director who has worked for any significant length of time in Hollywood and I will show you a failure.It is inevitable. No filmmakersurvives in the movie world for long without the occasional flop, critically if not commercially. Even the best directors in history have made their fair share of missteps. (Or maybe you disagree! Perhaps you are a huge fan of Alfred HitchcocksTopaz or John FordsThe Conqueror or Otto PremingersSkidoo.These things are subjective, of course.)To get a sense of just howwildlya directors career can fluctuate, check out the list below, which contains and compares the best and worst reviewed films bysome of the biggest working filmmakers in Hollywood over the last several decades. Just about all of them boast multiple hits with a near 100 percent consensus among critics who contribute to Rotten Tomatoes. And just about all of them boast at least one rotten film on the site as well. (There are exceptions, of course, and those are interesting too.)In the interest of fairness, were onlyconsidering movies these artists directed. It wouldnt be right, for example to holdTransformers: The Last Knightagainst Steven Spielberg, even though hes a credited producer on that film. (Holding it agains Michael Bay, however, is totally fair.) This list also excludes short films but feature-length documentaries are totally fair game, and you will see a few of those mentioned throughout.Here are the best and worst reviewed films on Rotten Tomatoes by 25 top filmmakers. Prepare to be surprised by some of the titles. I certainly was.The Best and Worst Reviewed Movies By 25 Top DirectorsHere are the highest and lowest rated films on Rotten Tomatoes by 25 of the biggest directors working today.READ MORE: 10 Great Short Films By Famous DirectorsGet our free mobile appTerrible First Movies from Beloved DirectorsThe good news is all of these directors have made much better films.Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky

Its once again time for the grandest stage of them all: WWEs annual wrestling hullabaloo, Wrestlemania. This years event is a two-night affair streaming on Peacock, headline by Cody Rhodes facing the newly-turned-heel John Cena. (How could you John? What happened to Never Give Up? What happened to helping Make a Wish? Now its Make a Death Wish? You broke my heart, John Cena.) Peacock also has a new documentary about WrestleMania IX called Becoming a Spectacle.If youre not a wrestling fan, you cana new documentary about Milli Vanilli or a new season ofLaw & Order: Organized Crime.Plus, if youre in the mood to watchOppenheimer, its going to be streaming exclusively on Peacock starting next month, along with a bunch of other library titles.Hereswhats coming to Peacock in April.An asterisk denotes a Peacock exclusive.April 1Age of Adeline* All Star Comedy Jam: Live From Atlanta Along Came A Nanny American Graffiti At Home In Mitford Babe The Babe Babe: Pig In The City Bad Boys* Bad Boys II* Balls of Fury Best Christmas Party Ever The Big Bang Big Sky River Birds Of Paradise Blue Streak* Bruce Almighty Carlitos Way Casino Caught-Up Cheech and Chongs Next Movie Christmas Bedtime Stories Christmas For Keeps Christmas Homecoming The Con Is OnMGMMGMloading...Creed III Crimetime: Freefall Dark Waters The Dilemma Dr. Seuss The Cat In the Hat Draft Day Dreamgirls Entertaining Christmas The Exorcist Exorcist: The Beginning* Eye Of The Beholder Face/Off The Fighter Flipping For Christmas For a Good Time Call Funny People Gangs of New York (2003) The Good House* Good Neighbors Grandmas Boy Grease Half Baked Happy Gilmore Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle The Homesman Hop How High How To Train Your Dragon How To Train Your Dragon 2 How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden WorldThe Huntsman: Winters WarInterstellarParamount Picturesloading...Interstellar The Italian JobJawbone Joseph: King of Dreams Kicking & Screaming Last Night in Soho* Legend Make It Happen Mallrats Mamma Mia! Michael Jacksons This Is It* Moneyball My Dreams Of You Napa Ever After Never Rarely Sometimes Always* No Country For Old Men Noah Nobody* A Novel Romance One Summer The Photograph* Prey The Prince of Egypt Pulp Fiction Richard Pryor: Line & Smokin Ride Along Ride Along 2 Savages Scarface School Dance Sea Level Shanghai (2015) Shaun The Sheep Shutter Island Sister Act Sisters Sleigh Bells Ring Small Town Crime Snow White and The Huntsman Soul Plane Sprung Taken Tarzan (2014) A Taste Of Love That Awkward MomentMiramaxMiramaxloading...READ MORE:WickedMakes Streaming Debut, In Two VersionsTrainspotting True Justice: Family Ties An Uncommon GraceThe UntouchablesVampire Academy*The Vatican TapesWild OatsYou, Me, And HimMoving On, Season 11Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler, Season 2 (Oxygen)April 2Aftermath Americano Astro Boy Begin Again Dog Days Exposed The Great Gilly Hopkins The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto Last Chance Harvey Lets Spend The Night Together Miral Misconduct Nowhere Boy The One I Love PulseThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 14 - Reunion Part 1, Extended & Uncensored (Bravo)April 4Girl You Know Its True - Premiere (Peacock Exclusive)*Dancers Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan rise to fame in the late 80's as Milli Vanilli. The duo never sang a word in their songs nor their debut album and, when the truth was finally revealed, they started one of the biggest scandals in music history.Southern Charm, Season 10 - Reunion, Uncensored (Bravo)Southern Charm After Show, Season 1 - Finale (Bravo Digital)April 5Saturday Night Live, Season 50 (NBC)April 6Hearts Around The Table: Joshs Third Serving+April 7Beast*Married To Medicine: Atlanta, Season 11 - Reunion, Uncensored (Bravo)April 8The Hunting Party, Season 1 - Finale (NBC)April 9Above Suspicion Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker Desierto Future World The Great Buck Howard Like Minds Me You Madness MI-5: The Greater Good The Promotion The Quest For Tom Sawyers Gold Sea Level 2: Magic Arch Solace Soloman Kane Space ChimpsTender Mercies We Summon The DarknessDenise Richards and Her Wild Things, Season 1 - FinaleThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 14 - Reunion Part 2, Extended & Uncensored (Bravo)April 11WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle (Peacock Original)*April 12Saturday Night Live, Season 50 (NBC)April 13The Americas - Finale (NBC)Halloween Ends*Hearts Around The Table: Kikis Fourth Ingredient+The Making of the Americas - Premiere (Peacock Original)*April 15Mother!UniversalUniversalloading...April 16Oppenheimer*The Valley, Season 2 - Premiere (Bravo)The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 14 - Reunion Part 3, Extended & Uncensored (Bravo)April 17Law & Order Organized Crime, Season 5 - Premiere, 10 episodes, 60 min (Peacock Original)*The hit drama series Law & Order: Organized Crime moves to Peacock for its fifth season.Team Mekbots: Animal Rescue, Season 1 - New Episodes, 6 Episodes, 30 min (Peacock Original)*Mateo, Mei Lin, Frost and Kawhi are four kids living together at The Sanctuary, a beautiful nature preserve, who form the Mekbots Animal Rescue team to showcase their love for animals and their unique powers. In their Mek Jet HQ, these little heroes travel all over the world to rescue animals, from bison and baby gorillas, to pink dolphins and speedy lions.Ninjago: Dragons Rising, Season 3April 18Skin TradeApril 19A Good Day To Be Black & SexyWrestlemania 41April 20Journey To YouWrestleMania 41STXfilmsSTXfilmsloading...April 28Bravo's Love Hotel, Season 1 - Premiere (Bravo)Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre*April 29Fatal Family Feuds, Season 2 - Premiere (Oxygen)Yes, Chef!, Season 1 - Premiere (NBC)April 30St. Denis Medical, Season 1 - Finale (NBC)Get our free mobile appThe Movies Nominated For the Most Oscars With Zero WinsThese movies were nominated for a slew of Oscars and won precisely none of them.

Playing multiple roles in the same project is the kind of challenge thats attractive to any capital-A Actor eager to show off their range, and is completely doable in film, where, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can cut and paste the same person into the same scene as many times as you want even as completely different characters.In most cases, its just as fun for the audience as it is for the actor to watch someone taking on a bunch of different characters at once, whether theyre twins or lookalikes by happenstance, or even completely different people in different hair and makeup. Movies have been coming up with ways to double up on their cast basically since movies were invented, and with digital face-replacement and other modern marvels weve perfected the art of putting one person in multiple different places.There are those movies in which the concept of one person playing different people overshadows the rest of the project in a way thats distracting rather than exciting. Maybe the de-aging technology isnt up to snuff, or maybe the wig and facial prosthetics are too noticeable, or maybe the characters arent different enough to be told apart if youre not paying absolute close attention. In these movies, the doubling becomes a handicap rather than an asset, to the degree that all you remember as soon as it ends is how weird it was to watch that one guy play a bunch of different parts. Whether its just a little odd or downright cringe, these are the actors who might have been better suited playing just one of these parts.10 Actors Who Played Distractingly Bad Doubles in MoviesThese dual performances are doubly distracting.Gallery Credit: Emma StefanskyGet our free mobile appTerrible Movies That Won Academy Awards

One of the most popular movies of 2024, is now available on streaming. (Sorry, I had a chance to make a Popular pun, and I took it. Hopefully youre not loathing me right now, okay okay Ill stop.)Wicked, the blockbuster adaptation of (one-half of) the hit Broadway musical, is now available on Peacock. The streaming service has actually made the film available in two different versions; the standard theatrical cut as well asWicked: Sing-Alongwhich features the lyrics to the shows onscreen and also includes an introduction from the films stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.The film arrives on streaming after a very successful run in theaters. All told,Wicked earned $473.2 million in U.S. theaters, plus another $266 million abroad, making it the fifth-biggest blockbuster of 2024 and the#1 film of the year that wasnt a sequel. (The other top-grossing titles of the year, in order, wereInside Out 2,Deadpool & Wolverine,Moana 2, andDespicable Me 4.)WICKEDUniversalloading...READ MORE: The movie, which remains extremely faithful to the Broadway show, is a prequel toThe Wizard of Oz, and imagines the early years and friendship of two of its witches, Glinda the Good (Erivo) and the Wicked Witch of the West (Erivo), who is depicted as a misunderstood outcast named Elphaba.The film only adapts the Broadway shows first act, and it is a little frustrating to only get half the story. Still, as I wrote in myreview, the material thatisin the movie is adapted with a lot of visual and technical flair, and the performers are absolutely first-rate...The entire productionproceeds in careful harmony. The sets byproduction designer Nathan Crowley are grand and beautiful; bigger and better than anything you can see on Broadway. (Fiyeros mission statement of a number, Dancing Through Life, gets a relocated to an elaborate library filled with bookshelves shaped like massive spinning drums,which are utilized for some truly impressive flips, spins, and slides.) The choreography byChristopher Scott takes advantage of the nimble camerawork and themassive ensemble of dancers. And director Jon M. Chu capturesall that movement with a variety of different camera tricks and techniques. (The comic two-hander Loathing is filled with clever split screens; One Short Day deploys a series of long-take POV shots to tour the elaborate Emerald City set and its dancing denizens.) Its a beautiful production thathonors the popular stage musical and blows it up to a blockbuster budget.Both the regular and sing-along versions ofWickedarestreaming now on Peacock. The secondhalf of the film,Wicked: For Good, is scheduled to open in theaters on November 21.Get our free mobile appLive-Action Movies Would Make Great Animated FilmsAn animated remake of a live-action movie? Someone should try it.

As part of the companys annual shareholder meeting, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed today that Pixar had officially begun development onCoco 2, a sequel to the animation studios popular 2017 film about a young boy who travels to the Land of the Dead and meets his great-great-grandfathers spirit.After the announcement, Pixar and Disney also shared this graphic on social media, confirming that the film has the simple titleCoco 2.READ MORE: The Wildest Pixar Theories That Might Be TrueThe firstCoco, directed by Lee Unkrich and co-directed by Adrian Molina, and featuring the voices of Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, and Edward James Olmos, grossed more than $810 million worldwide. Disney has previouslyconfirmed they were working on a live stage adaptation of the original film; last summer, they also revealed that they were planning to add aCoco attraction to their Disney California Adventure theme park. The company typically does not do that if they dont see a movie as an ongoing franchise with significant longevity.Pixar typically alternates original concepts with sequels to their popular films. Last year they releasedInside Out 2, which became Pixars highest-grossing movie ever. Before that it had been five years since they had made a sequel 2019sToy Story 4.Their next film, this summersElio, is an original idea, as is 2026sHoppers.But then theyre planningToy Story 5,Incredibles 3, and nowCoco 2.The CocosequelGet our free mobile appEvery Pixar Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestWe ranked every single Pixar feature to date, from Toy Story to today. Which is the best?

Disneyhasbuilt a cottage industry taking their classicanimated features and remaking them in live-action. They do it so often and with so much financial success, it makes you wonder ... why hasnt anyone triedto do the reverse?Sound ridiculous? Maybe it is. But it also sounded ridiculous when Disney decided to makeThe Lion King a movie with no human beings in live-action. That ridiculous idea wound upgrossing $1.65 billion worldwide. (Disney then made a Lion Kingprequel, and that grossedanother $700 million.)Itsa stretch to say any of these movies should be remade in animation. But no movie of any kind should be remade. If a film was great the first time around theres almost never a valid reason to redo it (besides,as a wise Yogurt once said,da search for more money). That said, if studiosare going to remake things, its odd that they only ever do it one direction. Convertinga live-action film into the medium of animation couldnot only be an opportunity to make more money, it could give some talented artists an opportunity to do something genuinely new with an old favorite.That brings us to this list of great movies I think would look great in animation. Keep in mind that I excluded any franchise that has already produced any significant animated content in the past.The Matrixseems perfectly suited to an animated movie which is why they madeThe Animatrix in 2003. The same goes forStar Wars andTron andBlade Runner andThe Lord of the Rings.It hasnt happened for the titles below.At least not yet.Live-Action Movies Would Make Great Animated FilmsAn animated remake of a live-action movie? Someone should try it.READ MORE: 12 Remakes That Were Drastically Different From the Original MovieGet our free mobile app90s Movies We Cant Believe Got RemakesThese popular 90s movies got remakes. And all we want to know is ... why?

April on Disney+ is defined by the end of one show and the start of another. The first few weeks of the month feature the last three episodes ofDaredevil: Born Again.After Marvels latest MCU series winds down, itsStar Wars turn, with the launch ofAndorSeason 2.In between and around those two healdiners, theres also a new David Blaine series, the return ofDoctor Whofor a second season on Disney+, and a new documentary that tells the untold story of A Goofy Movie ... featuring key interviews and rare footage, it reveals the films impact and why it remains a beloved classic for a generation. Wow.Heres everything coming to Disney+ in April 2025...Tuesday, April 1- Lost Treasures of Rome (S2, 6 episodes)- National Parks: USA (S1, 5 episodes)- RoboGobo (S1, 24 episodes)DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAINMarvelloading...Disney+ OriginalDaredevil: Born Again - Episode 7 at 6pm PTThursday, April 3- Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America (S1, 3 episodes)Friday, April 4- Kindergarten: The Musical (S1, 5 episodes)Monday, April 7New to Disney+David Blaine Do Not Attempt - Two New EpisodesNot Just a Goof - PremiereTuesday, April 8Disney+ OriginalDaredevil: Born Again - Episode 8 at 6pm PTWednesday, April 9- Spidey and his Amazing Friends (S3, 4 episodes)Friday, April 11- The Abyss 4KDisney+ OriginalPets - PremiereSaturday, April 12- Titanic: The Digital Resurrection - To Catch a Smuggler (S8, 8 episodes)Disney+Disney+loading...New to Disney+Doctor Who (Season 2) - PremiereTuesday, April 15Disney+ OriginalDaredevil: Born Again - Season Finale at 6pm PTWednesday, April 16- Big City Greens (S4, 7 episodes)- SuperKitties (S2, 3 episodes)LIGHT & MAGICLucasfilm Ltd.loading...Friday, April 18Disney+ OriginalLight & Magic (Season 2) - PremiereSaturday, April 19New to Disney+Doctor Who (Season 2) - Episode 2Monday, April 21- Secret of the Penguins (S1, 3 episodes)Tuesday, April 22- ABC News Live Special: Last Lands (S1, 4 episodes)Disney+ OriginalAndor (Season 2) - Three-Episode Premiere at 6pm PTSea Lions of the Galapagos - PremiereGuardians of the Galapagos - PremiereFriday, April 25- Megastructures: Real Madrid Super StadiumSaturday, April 26New to Disney+Doctor Who (Season 2) - Episode 3ANDOR Season 2Lucasfilm Ltd.loading...Tuesday, April 29New to Disney+Andor (Season 2) - Three New Episodes at 6pm PTWednesday, April 30- Chibi Tiny Tales: Shorts (S5, 7 episodes)- Mickey Mouse Funhouse (S3, 5 episodes)Sign up for Disney+ here.Get our free mobile appGreat Disney+ Movies You Might Have MissedThese excellent films are all waiting to be discovered on Disney+.

Paul Thomas Anderson is back with a new film, his first in four years and his first team-up with Leonardo DiCaprio.Ahead of the movies full trailer, a brief teaser debuted online, revealing that the secretive projects full title isOne Battle After Another.Warner Bros. has released very few details about the films story, but various reports online claim it is inspired by the Thomas Pynchon novelVineland.Anderson previously adapted Pynchons 2009 novelInherent Viceinto a movie starring Joaquin Phoenix in 2014.You can watchthe firstOne Battle After Anotherteaser below.READ MORE:12 Titles That Make No Sense Until You See the MovieAlthough not featured in this very short teaser, the films cast also includes Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Alana Haim, and Teyana Taylor.As Anderson and DiCaprio have worked on the project, there have been various reports online about the size of the movies budget; some claiming it is upwards of $100 million, or maybe even $140 million. Even on the low end, that would makeOne Battle After Another, Andersons largest movie to date in terms of scale. (The epicThere Will Be Blood only cost a reported $25 million to make; PTAs latest feature,Licorice Pizza, supposedly cost $40 million while grossing less than $35 million in theaters.)One Battle After Anotheris scheduled to open in theaters on September 26 including in IMAX, a first for Anderson. The films first trailer should debut next week.Get our free mobile appThe Best Movies of the 21st Century, According to LetterboxdAccording to thousands of users on Letterboxd, who rate movies on a scale of zero to five stars, these are the best movies released in this century.

John Wick seemingly died at the end ofJohn Wick: Chapter 4.And since then, Keanu Reeves has dismissed any and all talk about another John Wicksequel. Maybe hes been doing that because it doesnt matter ifJohn Wick is dead or not Lionsgate will still stick him inmore movies anyway.For example, here he is prominently featured in the trailer forFrom the World of John Wick: Ballerina, a spinoff film that nominally stars Ana de Armas as another assassin in the same fictional universe. But the second half of the teaser is mostly about John Wick (Reeves) showing up to fight de Armas character.The film explains Wicks seeming resurrection by setting itself prior to the events ofChapter 4.You can watch the action-packed trailer below:READ MORE: AJohn Wick Attraction Is Opening in Las VegasI will say this: In a world where Sony has made a whole bunch of Spider-Man spinoffs about characters that have nothing to do with Spider-Man, in which Spider-Man never appears and is often not even mentioned, its nice to see a spinoff that feels like anlegitimate spinoff. While de Armas did not actually appear inJohn Wick: Chapter 3, the film that introduced the concept of these killer ballerinas, at least Reeves, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane, and the late Lance Reddick are all on hand to give a sense of continuity to the project.As a result, you cant say Ballerinasnot firmly connected to the rest ofJohn Wick.(Plus flamethrower action is certainly a novel concept.) Here is the official synopsis forBallerina:Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum, Ballerina follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas) who is beginning her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.From the World of John Wick: Ballerinais set to finally open in theaters on June 6.Get our free mobile appThe 10 Worst Movies of the Last Ten Years (2015-2024)Look, lets not beat around the bush. These movies stink.

A recent survey named a new number one restaurant chain in the nation. Per a Technomic survey of Americas Favorite Restaurant Chains (via Southern Living), the desert shop Nothing Bundt Cakes received the top spot in the survey.The previous #1 had been Ruths Chris Steak House.According to the companys website, Nothing Bundt Cake (say it out loud, youll get it) was founded in 1997 by two moms, Dena Tripp and Debbie Shwetz, who made the first cakes in their Las Vegas home kitchens. From that single spot, the company has grown to become the #1 specialty cake company in the U.S., with over 600 locations serving up millions (yes, millions) bites of joy every year.Now based in Dallas, the company has bakeries in over 40 states.READ MORE: Beloved 90s Foods You Can Still EatThe company offers bundt cakes in a wide array of sizes and flavors, including red velvet, lemon, carrot, confetti, cookies and cream, and classic vanilla, and also offers specially themed cakes for occasions like birthdays or holidays. They also have bundtlets, which is an individual bundt cake the size of a cupcake.Nothing Bundt Cakes CEO Dolf Berle said in a press releaseWe at Nothing Bundt Cakes are so grateful to our guests across the country who voted us No. 1. We owe this honor to our wonderful bakery owners and the way they spread joy, care, and kindness through cake in the communities they serve.We will do our best to remain the nation's premier destination for group celebrations and individual treats.Once-Beloved Fast Food Items That No Longer ExistThese defunct fast food items have gone down in history. Wouldnt you love to eat them again?Filed Under: Chain Restaurants, Food, RestaurantsCategories: Original Features

Two of New York Citys mostnotoriousgangsters meet in a candy shop to hash out their differences. Their relationship goes backdecades; the men rose through the ranks of the criminal underworld together. Then one of the men, hot-headed Vito Genovese, had to flee the country toavoida murder charge, leaving the other, diplomatic Frank Costello, as their organizations acting boss. When Genovese returns, he wantsto be made whole for all the financial opportunities he missed while he was gone. But no matterhow Costello tries to appease Genovese, its never enough.So they meet in thecandy shop to settle the matter. They exchange pleasantries. They talk about the old days. Their bond is so strong, the two are practically brothers.Only in the new movie about Costello and Genevese,The Alto Knights,they seem more like twins because both are played by Robert De Niro under two different wigs and accents.Why? I have no idea.Its one thing to cast oneactor as a pair of siblings, or clones, or even a father and a son at similar ages. Here De Niro plays two different men who are not related.That distracting choice adds nothingtoThe Alto Knights, except perhaps a marketing hook, because Warner Bros. can advertise the film as the chance to see Robert De Niro go toe to toe with Robert De Niro.Warner Bros.Warner Bros.loading...Although the choice to cast De Niro twice remains a baffling one, it must be said that on a technical level, their scenes together look convincing. When the men are apart (which is most of the film), De Nirois perfectly serviceable in both roles, even if the script (by mobmovie legend Nicholas Pileggi ofGoodfellas andCasino fame) remains oddly uninterested in Costelloand Genoveses respective psychologies. By the time the moviepicks up their story in the late 1940s,they are entrenched in their respective roleswithin the Mafia hierarchy; Costello as the genteel dealmaker with political connections, and Genovese as the seething firebrand looking to avenge an endless parade of grievances. (In another time and place, Joe Pesci would have played Genovese to De Niros Costello and in fact, with his high-pitched motor-mouthed delivery, De Niro almost seems to be doing a Pesci impression as Genovese.)AlthoughThe Alto Knights starts in 1957 and thenflashes back in time from there, the relationship between the two (oddly similar looking)protagonistsis fairly obvious and uncomplicated right from the jump: Genovese envies Costellos wealth and position, and hates the way hetries to comport himself as a legitimate businessman. Costello knows Genovese reckless behavior could destroy his empire, but his loyalty to his friend, and his belief in the Mafias strict code of conduct,keepshim from taking action against him.So Genovese keeps lashing out at Costello after that doomed candy shop encounter,culminating in a failed assassination attempt that serves asThe Alto Knights opening scene.THE ALTO KNIGHTSWarner Bros. Picturesloading...Casting De Niro as both of these infamous criminals invites the audience to draw parallels between them. I suppose if you want to look at Costello and Genovese very closely, there are some connections you can draw. Each wasmarried, for example,their scenes with their respective spouses serve to underscore their differing temperaments and neuroses. Costello is devoted to Bobbie (Debra Messing), and spends most of his nights at home with her in front of their television.But the bubbling tension between the two De Niros (De Niros? Des Niro?) never rises beyond the level of a very slow simmer. After the violent opening scene,The Alto Knightsnext hour and ten minutesis all backstory narrated by Costello as an old man which is another curious choice in a film filled with them, since it means that more than half of the movieis little more than ploddingexposition abouta central conflict whose eventual winner is all but obvious right from the beginning. By the time the movie finally returns to the late 1950s, Costello and Genoveses battle is all but over, and their feud culminates in a truly anticlimactic (and historically dubious) sequence.Warner Bros.Warner Bros.loading...When all is said and done,The Alto Knights imparts very little about these two men that couldnt be gleaned by reading their respective Wikipedia pages, and it does it at a sluggish pace and with little visual flair. Some of the biggest and best names to ever work in gangster movies contributed to this film; De Niro and Pileggi, obviously, but also producer Irwin Winkler and director Barry Levinson.Despite their many contributions to this genre in the past, theyve got nothing new to say here.Andthey providezero evidence that casting De Niro in both lead roles is anything more than a gimmick.RATING: 4/10Get our free mobile appThe 10 Worst Movies of the Last Ten Years (2015-2024)Look, lets not beat around the bush. These movies stink.Filed Under: Barry Levinson, Robert De Niro, The Alto KnightsCategories: Movie News, Movie Reviews

In the last few years, Marvel has reportedly dropped several sequels they were planning to make, like a second movie forEternals, another film forAnt-Man, as well as second seasons forShe-Hulk,Ms. Marvel, andMoon Knight.RememberArmor Wars?That project was announced years ago and its still stuck in development hell. Who knows if it will ever come out.But Marvelalso has two unrevealed and untitled secret movies on their release calendar that are due to release in the next 18 months; one is scheduled for February 13, 2026, and the other for November 6, 2026. So what are these projects?In our latest Marvel Cinematic Universe video, well tell you everything we know about the MCUs future projects and tell you why we think they are actuallyreleasing a secret X-Men movie next year. Click below to see it all:READ MORE: The Worst Marvel Comics EverIf you liked that video on the potential for a secret X-Men movie from Marvel, check out more of our videos below, including on one all the Easter eggs in Daredevil: Born Again Episode 3, one on what parts of Daredevil: Born Again are reshoots, and how the extra work on the series saved it from becoming another Disney+ disappointment, and one on all the Easter eggs in the first two episodes ofDaredevil: Born Again. Plus, theres tons more videos over atScreenCrushs YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe to catch all our future episodes. New episodes of Daredevil: Born Againpremiere weekly on Disney+.Sign up for Disney+ here.Get our free mobile appEvery Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestIt started with Iron Man and its continued and expanded ever since. Its the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 35 movies and counting. But whats the best and the worst? We ranked them all.

Jonathan Majors wants to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.The 35-year-old actor, who portrayed Kang the Conqueror in the Disney+ TV show Loki and the 2023 blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, was dropped by Marvel after he was convicted of two misdemeanor counts of reckless assault and harassment against his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari,now says hed love to reprise his character in a future MCU project if given the chance to do so.When asked whether hed come back to the MCU if he was asked to play Kang again during an interview with USA Today, he said: Yeah, of course I say yes. Disney, Marvel Studios, I love them!Majors then gushed about his Loki co-stars Tom Hiddleston and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, as well as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumanias Paul Rudd - saying he loved working with the three actors.He added: Tom Hiddleston, loved working with that guy. Loved working with Paul Rudd. Loved working with Gugu Mbatha-Raw. I love the industry so much, and now Im in the place where I can feel the love from them and actually express my love for them.MarvelMarvelloading...READ MORE: Every MCU Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestAs well as Kang, Majors also said hed be happy to reprise his Creed III role as Damian Diamond Dame Anderson in a future installment of the boxing series, which revolves around Michael B. Jordans Adonis Creed, though insisted the version of [him] that would come back to those places would be different.The actor explained to Entertainment Weekly: I don't think anything different would happen between action and cut. That's why I got the job.But there would be something different about it if I were to come back, and I would like that. But as I said, it's not in my control.Jordan also recently said he was hoping to make a fourth Creed movie with Majors.The Sinners star told The Hollywood Reporter: I would love to make 'Creed IV' together among other projects.While there hadnt been any concrete plans for Majors to return to the Creed series before his conviction, Majors Kang was meant to be the central antagonist in Marvels Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, though the studio dropped the characters storyline and instead brought back Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. to portray Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsdayand Avengers: Secret Wars once the Devotion actor was found guilty of third-degree assault and second-degree harassment.After it was announced Downey Jr. would be replacing him as the franchises next big bad at San Diego Comic Con last year, Majors said he was heartbroken he had been pushed aside.When TMZ asked if he felt hurt by the studio choosing to move away from Kang in favor of Doctor Doom, Majors said: Yeah, heartbroken. Of course. Come on, yeah, of course. I love him. I love Kang. Doctor Doom is wicked, though.Get our free mobile appThe Worst Mockbuster Ripoffs of Beloved Animated MoviesWe can't in good conscience recommend any of these terrible cartoon mockbusters.Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky

When Universal Studios Florida opened in Orlando on June 7, 1990, it offereda couple dozenof rides, shows, and attractions.Out of all of them, only two remain in operation today: E.T. Adventure and the Horror Make-Up Show. The rest have all gone tothat great theme park in the sky (where, one assumes, there are no lines and no upcharge for using Express Passes). Through the years, Universals parks in Florida,Hollywood, and Japanhave closed tons of rides to make room for newones evena fewthat are (or now were)inextricably linkedwith the Universal brand.Here is a list of 20 such attractions, along with videos of each one in action so you can relive them one more time 3D glasses and flying DeLoreans not included.Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making MoviesThese days, Universals theme parks are exclusively devoted to immersive rides and environments that let guests feel like they have stepped inside their favorite movies and shows. Thats a stark contrast to their parks initial concept, which was a place where tourists learned the secrets of a film and TV production, witha couple bigger rides thrown in for some extra oomph. One of the best examples of old-school Universal was Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies. After a 3D highlight package of Hitchcockfilmswasinterrupted by the stars ofThe Birds, guests were ushered into a soundstage where a director and his crew explained how Hitchcock shotPsychos shower scene. The finale of the attraction was an interactive area where guests who participate in demonstrations of the practical movie magic behind Hitchcock movies likeStrangers on a Train,Rear Window, andSaboteur.It was like a cross between a thrill ride and a museum and for a budding cinephile, it was a paradise.Back to the Future: The RideThe unforgettable Back to the Future: The Ride was a simulator that let visitors board an impressively detailed copy of the franchises DeLorean time machine for a aerial chase through the centuries. (The story of the ride, which played out in pre-show videos featuring Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson, was about Biff stealing a time machine and Docsending tourists inhis new eight-seater, remote-controlled DeLorean to catch him.) Withspecial effects by2001: A Space Odyssey legend Douglas Trumbull, BTTF:TR lived up to the old Universal slogan that promised a vacation where you could ride the movies. Its closure was inevitable; the future of theBack to the Future franchiseis 2015, which is now a decade old. The two American versions of the attraction closed by the late 2000s, although Universal Studios Japans version managed to hang on until 2016 one yearafter Marty and Doc went back to the future.READ MORE: 15 Beloved Disney Rides That No Longer ExistBackdraftAnother of Universals early how-they-do-it-style attractions wasBackdraft, based on the 1991 Ron Howard film about a crew of heroic firefighters. This show, which played at Universal Studios Hollywood from 1992 to 2010, and at Universal Studios Japan from 2001 to 2020,includedseveral behind-the-scenes videos featuring Howard and theBackdraftcast and then apractical fire effects demonstration on one of the Universal soundstages. Backdraft never got a sequel (at least until a direct-to-video one in 2019) and the rise of CGI gradually made practical wizardry like the stuff on display inBackdraft and its accompanying attraction, far less exciting to tourists. The buildings that once housed this attraction is now the home of an elaborate 3D dark ride inspired byTransformers.Beetlejuices Rock and Roll Graveyard RevueThe history of Universals parks is littered with all kinds of stage shows, often quite elaborate and musical in nature, most of which are now as dead as Doctor Frankensteins signature creation. For many years the Universal parks in Hollywood and Florida were home to a song-and-dance extravaganza featuring Beetlejuice and the companys famous movie monsters like Frankenstein, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Wolfman. Because when you think of bio-exorcists, undead ghouls, and assorted other horror icons, you also think of the classic disco anthem I Will Survive. Technically, this one isnt totally extinct if you visit Universal Studios Japan you can still seethe Universal Monsters singtheir Graveyard Revue. But thats quite a trek just to hear Draculado a spooky rendition of Livin La Vida Loca.Dynamite Nights StuntSpectacularStunt shows were another cornerstone of the old school Universal Studios. In Hollywood, the classicWaterworld stunt show is still going strong, but in Florida, there isnt really a comparable attraction. When that park first opened, they had something called the Dynamite Nights Stunt Spectacular, whoseMiami Vice-inspired combination of boat chases and explosions was likeThe Fall Guy movie come to life. If it were up to me, no theme park would be allowed to operate without at least one really great stunt spectacular. It should be required.Earthquake: The Big OneEarthquake: The Big One was another good example of the old ride the movies Universal ethos. The main event was a modified version of the old Earthquake attraction from the Universal Hollywood tram tour, but before guests boarded their trams they were treated to several rooms full of practical effects demonstrations inspired by the 1974 film. Of course,Earthquake was already a very old movie by the time this ride even opened; in 2007, theEarthquake specific elements were removed and theattraction was renamed Disaster! A Major Motion Picture Ride ... Starring You! Now the pre-show featured a hologram of Christopher Walken playing a studio executive named Frank Kincaid, who recruited guests to play extras in his latest movie. After theearthquake finale, visitors watched a trailer for the movie they supposedly helped make, which was called Mutha Nature and featured a cameo from Dwayne Johnson. Disaster! closed in 2015 and the building was retrofitted to house another transplanted tram tour stop from Hollywood, Fast & Furious: Supercharged.Fievels PlaylandEvery theme park needs a playgroundto distract little kids for a few minuteswhile their parents take a break from the endless meet-and-greet lines. For many years, Universal Studios was Fievels Playland, themed to the now-mostly-forgotten animated franchiseAn American Tail.Its two films followed an adventurous mouse who immigrates to America with his family. Accordingly, the playground featured gigantic versions of everyday objects so that kids could get a taste of what it felt like to be the size of a mouse. AlthoughAn American Tail mostly faded into obscured by the 21st century, Floridas Fievels Playland endured for an inexplicably long time, and only closed in early 2023. Theres now aShrek-themed playground in its place.Ghostbusters SpooktacularGhostbustersis a Sony property, a company without a major foothold in the theme park industry. As a result, the franchise has had alow number of theme park attractions relative to its generational popularity.But in the early 1990s, Universal licensed theGhostbusters property for an attraction that used the same Peppers ghost illusion from Disneys Haunted Mansion toturn the climactic fight between the Ghostbusters and Gozer into a 20-minute stage show. Over its six-year run at Universal Studios Florida, Ghostbusters Spooktacular existed in two distinct forms, one that hewed closer to the story of the firstGhostbusters movie, and a second variation involving Louis Tully (Rick Moranis dweeby accountant character) and Walter Peck (the EPA jerk played by William Atherton). With no newGhostbustersmovies or shows on the horizon in the mid-90s, Universal closed the show and replaced it witha staged attraction based on the studios recent blockbuster,Twister.(It was replaced a few years ago by aTonight Show simulator ride.)The Funtastic World of Hanna-BarberaThe left side ofUniversal Studios Floridasmain thoroughfare has housed a series of big simulator rides throughout the parks history. The very first was called The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, and it featured a variety of characters from the Hanna-Barbera catalogue trying to rescue a kidnapped Elroy Jenson from the villainous Dick Dastardly. It was essentially a tamer and less technology sophisticated version of Back to the Future: The Ride geared toward younger kids. In 2003, this ride waschanged to... another extinct attraction on this list.Hercules and Xena: Wizards of the ScreenUniversal Studios Floridas opening overlapped with the heyday of syndicated television programming,none of it bigger than the two-headed adventure show hydra ofHercules: The Legendary Journeys andXena: Warrior Princess.When the previous subject of Universals attraction all about TV productionwas canceled in 1996, they re-themed the show to be based around the two popular series. But then Hercules was canceledin 1999 too. Wizards of the Screen was performed for the final time in early 2000;this area of the park is now home to Transformers: The Ride.Jaws: The RideEveryone seems to enjoy the Diagon Alley area of Universal Studios Hollywood, inspired by the Harry Potterfranchise. As much as I love a cup of frozen butterbeer, I will always hold a grudge against the place becauseto make room for it, Universal closed the old Amity section of the park, which included the classicJaws ride. The attraction was like a scary, effects-laden version of Disneys Jungle Cruise; guests boarded a tour boat for a trip around Amity, only to be discover all sorts of wreckage and chaos, and then Bruce the Shark himself. Jaded modern audiences might not be impressed, but to a kid in the 1990s, this was the height of excitement at least once Universal worked out all the kinks that caused the ride to break down regularly for the first two years of its existence.Likethe Universal Monsters revue, this one still lives on in Japan ... if you can get there.Jimmy Neutrons Nicktoon BlastIn 2003, the Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera became Jimmy Neutrons Nicktoon Blast, a very similar attraction that starred Jimmy Neutron and several other Nickelodeon characters. That version lasted until 2012, when the ride was again updated to feature the cast of theDespicable Me franchise, owned by Universal. While the film has changed drastically through the years, the basic experience remains mostly the same; people sit in a large theater equipped with moving seats that rock along with the image onscreen.KongfrontationKing Kong has been a mainstay in Universals various theme parkssince the mid-1980s, when a giant King Kong animatronic was added to the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. That was expanded to a full-blown attraction at Universal Studios Florida called Kongfrontation. In the extensively themed ride, guestswere evacuatedfrom Manhattan on the Roosevelt Island Tramway after Kongstarts running amok. Naturally, the evacuation does not go smoothly, andKong grabsthe trambefore it makes alast-second getaway. It was a surprisinglyintense experience with fun touches like the fact that the Kong animatronics breath smelled like bananas. Kong wasput out to pasture in 2002 to make way for a roller coaster inspired byThe Mummy franchise, but the great ape has since found a new home at nearby Islands of Adventure, wherean attraction called Skull Island: Reign of Kong opened in 2016.Lucy: A TributePerhaps the simplest attraction in the history of Universal Studios Florida, Lucy: A Tribute was basically aminiaturemuseum dedicated to Lucille Ball andI Love Lucy.It sounds incredibly dated, but the attraction opened in 1992, a couple years after Balls death, at a time when nostalgia for her classic sitcom wasstill very high.The exhibit included artifacts from Balls career, interactive quizzes,and amodel that recreated the originalI Love Lucy set in exacting detail.Lucy: A Tribute survived in a small building at the front of the park for almost 25 years before Universal turned the space into a Hello Kitty shop (and laterWicked: The Experience).Murder, She Wrote Mystery TheaterYoungs today might find it hard to believe, but for 12 years in the 1980s and 90s, one of broadcast TVs biggest hits was a quaint show about a writer (Angela Lansbury) solving mysteries in a little town in Maine. The show was so big, in fact, that it got its own opening day attraction at Universal Studios Florida: The Murder, She Wrote Mystery Theater. It was yet another of the parks behind-the-scenes shows, and it focused mostly on the post-production process. Guests moved through a series of rooms, each focused on a different aspect of TV making, like editing, foley work, and ADR.Volunteers got to try some of these aspects for themselves, and watch theMurder, She Wrotescenes they helped to create. AfterMurder, She Wrote was finally canceled in 1996, it was replaced by the aforementioned Hercules and Xena show.Nickelodeon StudiosUniversal Studios Florida wasnt just a gimmicky name back in the early 90s; the place really was a working film and TV studio most notably as the home of Nickelodeon Studios, where the popular cable channel shot many of its game shows andsketch comedy series. In a canny bit of synergy, every show made at Nickelodeon Studios was also a commercial for Universal Studios Florida, because they ended with a graphic announcing where they were made. Kids who made the trek to Orlando could take a tour of the facility, where one lucky guest got slimed in the Game Lab,and sit in the studio audience if there was a show in production during their visit.Eventually, the novelty of the place wore off, as Nickelodeon began making fewer live-action programs and moving more and more of their remaining ones back to Los Angeles. The studio closed for good in 2005. For many years a production ofBlue Man Group occupied the building. Since the Covid pandemic, Universal has used the venue tohost a holiday show starring the Grinch.Screen Test TheatreRemember: When Universalfirst turned their studio into a theme park, there is no such thing as asmartphone. Consumer-grade video camerasare still years away. Making your own TV show is effectively impossible, hence the appeal of attractions like Screen Test Theatre, which lettouristscreate their ownmock-ups of popular movies and television shows. One version from the 1970s inserted guests intoAirport 77; later, they there was aStar Trek option shoton a surprisingly detailed recreation of the old Enterprise bridge. Obviously, these sorts of attractions which usually gave participants the option to buy a souvenir VHS of their creations hold a lot less appeal in a world where you canshoot your own TV showon your phoneand upload it to YouTube.Shrek 4-DThe aforementioned Alfred Hitchcock attraction in Florida was closed to make room forShrek 4-D, an animated movie with in-theater effects including vibrating seats, water, and gusts of wind. Opened at the height of the initialShrek mania,Universal gradually began winding down theseShrek 3D movies in the mid-2010s, after the franchise originally petered out. (The Japanese attraction managed to hold on; it still operates part-timein a theater it shares with aSesame Street3D attraction.) Shrekis back. Hesgot a new movie opening in 2026, and hesalreadyreceivednewUniversal attractions; in 2024, Universal Florida added a new meet and greet with Shrek charactersin their own littleShrek 4-D? Or dare we even dream it a Shrek 4-D-2?Special Effects StageUniversal Studios Hollywood has hosted a variety of makeup and special effects shows throughout its history, starting in the mid-1970s. By the 2010s, the special effects show (sometimes called the Special Effects Stage) found a home at the Castle Theater, where guests were shown how a variety of modern VFX like motion capture were created. The show was retired for good in 2023 and the Castle Theater was demolished, along with the home of UniversalsAnimal Actors amphitheater, in order to make room for the newFast & Furious roller coaster.T2-3D: Battle Across TimeUniversals Terminator 23-D movie and live show didnt just boast the stars ofT2 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Edward Furlong it was also directed byTerminator mastermind James Cameron. Cameron shot the filmed segments at a cost of $24 million, making it, in typical Cameron fashion, one of the most expensive films ever made (at least on per minute basis). The storyfollows the T-800as he makes his promised (but not particularly logical) return and takesthe young John Connor into the future to protect him froma resurrected T-1000. (Admittedly this is not the best plan.) T2-3Dboasted impressive effects and integrated real actors into the show in clever ways; at times the Terminator seemed to step off the screen into the auditorium and vice versa. Unfortunately, its storyline contradicted all of theTerminatormovies released after it, making its battle across time feel a little out of time by the 21st century.It closed at Universal Hollywood and Florida in the 2010s. The T2-3Dat Universal Japan which had the coolest show building by far survived until 2020, then closed for goodduring the Covid pandemic. Judgment Day has nothing on real life these days.Get our free mobile appAmazing Theme Park Rides Based on Movies That Were Never Built

Now that the warmer months are easing into our lives, Little Debbie is releasing its 2025 ice cream treat lineup.The company has chosen some fan-favorite, nostalgic snacks to be activated off of the bench.All Recipes is reporting the full lineup of Little Debbie ice cream snacks that will be hitting grocery store shelves soon, and it's nothing short of spectacular.Heres the full lineup:Birthday Cake Ice Cream Bars include cake-flavored ice cream with cake pieces and colorful sprinkles mixed in.Strawberry Shortcake Rolls Ice Cream Bars include white cake-flavored ice cream with cake crumbles, with a strawberry ribbon swirled into each bite.Nutty Bars Ice Cream Bars feature a creamy peanut butter ice cream base with crunchy peanut butter pieces that have been dipped in crispy milk chocolate.Star Crunch Ice Cream Bars offer caramel ice cream with a caramel ribbon and crispy bits dipped in rich milk chocolate.Get ready to get all 2,000 of your recommended daily calories from eating these all day and night.According to Nutritionix, just one Star Crunch Ice Cream Bar has 230 calories and more than 15 grams of sugar. So if you keep your count under about eight a day, and eat nothing else, you should be good.The Little Debbie brand is one that most Americans are familiar with, and if you are reading this right now, you likely had some stashed in your backpack every day in your lunch while growing up.The brand has been around since 1960, when McKee Foods founder O.D. McKee named the treats from his bakery after his four-year-oldgranddaughter,Apparently, Debbie used to always wear that little red straw hat, and that's what inspired the picture that the brand still uses as its logo.Snacks from the '90s That Have DisappearedWas there anything better than opening your lunch box and seeing Shark Bites packed in next to some Hi-C Ecto Cooler? A simple pleasure kids of today can't experience. What other snacks came and went from our lives in the 1990s and beyond? Follow us as we look back at some '90s snacks that have since disappeared.Gallery Credit: WoodREAD MORE: Fast-Growing Chains Opening Everywhere in 202580s Foods We Wish They Still MadeIf you grew up in the 1980s, you surely have fond memories of these popular (now discontinued) snacks.Filed Under: Food, NostalgiaCategories: Longform

2021sMortal Kombat ended with a tease promising that a sequel would add preening Hollywood star (and Mortal Kombat game veteran)Johnny Cage to the mix of characters. Sure enough, here is the sequel which is officially titledMortal Kombat IIwith Roman numerals, in keeping with the style of the old fighting games and there is Karl Urban as the new Johnny Cage. (In the 90sMortal Kombat movies, he was played by Linden Ashby an Chris Conrad.)The lastKombatmovie introduced a totally new character at the center of the story Lewis Tans Cole Young fighting in yet another version of the supernatural Mortal Kombat tournament alongside franchise stapes like Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Liu Kang, Jax, and Kung Lao. The sequel adds Cage, as well as other fan-favorite fighters like Kitana, Shao Kahn, and Baraka.You can see some of the characters in the first batch of photos from the sequel. Its directed by Simon McQuoid, who also directed 2021sMortal Kombat.Mortal Kombat II: First-Look ImagesMortal Kombat got a sequel, now with 100 percent more Johnny Cage. Here are the first images and posters. The film opens in theaters in October 2025.READ MORE: Every Video Game Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestThe firstMortal Kombatwas one of the Warner Bros. movies that debuted on (HBO) Max at the same time it opened in theaters during the Covid pandemic.As a result, itwasnt a massive box-office hit it grossed around $85 million worldwide but it supposedly proved very popular on streaming, which is a big reason why Warners decided to move forward with a sequel. (The addition of Urban as Cage is surely an attempt to add a little more star power to a series that mostly relied on the franchise itself to bring in customers the first time around.)Mortal Kombat IIis scheduled to open in theaters on October 24, 2025.Get our free mobile appThe Best Sequels Made From Bad MoviesThese good movies were continuations of the stories in bad ones.Filed Under: Karl Urban, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Simon McQuoidCategories: Movie News

There he is. Happy Gilmore is back.Wait a minute. Thats not a golf club shaped like a hockey stick. Thats a golf club shaped like a golf club! This is an outrage! You call this a sequel toHappy Gilmore?!?While I nurse this mortal wound, you can watch the first trailer for the much-anticipatedHappy Gilmore 2, in which Adam Sandler reprises his role as a hockey burnout turned golf prodigy who takes the PGA by storm. Nearly 30 years after the original film helped turn Sandler fromSaturday Night Livebreakout to full-fledged movie star, Sandler has made a follow-up for Netflix.You can watchtheHappy Gilmore 2teaser below.READ MORE: Every Adam Sandler Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestIn addition to Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, and Ben Stiller are all reprising their roles from the original film. The cast also includes pro golfer John Daly, Travis Kelce, Sandlers real-life daughters Sadie and Sunny, and AEW pro wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Quite an eclectic bunch.Heres the films official synopsis:Happy Gilmore returns!Well okay, then. On the other hand, I guess thats all you really need to know about the movie. Like, what else could they say that would make you tune in? (I would at least like a little confirmation that at some point Happy does use a golf club shaped like a hockey stick, but maybe thats just me.)Happy Gilmore 2premieres on Netflix on July 25.Get our free mobile appThe 10 Worst Movies of the Last Ten Years (2015-2024)Look, lets not beat around the bush. These movies stink.Filed Under: Adam Sandler, Happy Gilmore 2, NetflixCategories: Movie News, Trailers

My childhood dream from when I was 12 years old a channel that shows nothing butThe Simpsons24 hours a day, 7 days a week is finally a reality.Thats because Disney+announced they are addinga 24/7 stream ofThe Simpsonsepisodes to their lineup of live programming. According to the press release, at launch the channel will show 767 episodes across seasons 1-35 programmed in chronological order.(Yes, there are now almost 300 hours ofSimpsons episodes.)Of course, all of these episodes arealready available on Disney+ on demand, and you can pick and choose which ones you want to watch in any order. But who wants to make a decision about whatSimpsons to watch out of 767 possible choices? This takes all that thought out of it. Just click play and stream for as long as you feel like paying for a Disney+ subscription.The press release also says that the programming on theSimpsons stream will be refreshed monthly. The stream is available to Premium subscribers of DisneyDisney+s 24/7Simpsons stream launches today. Other streams available for Premium Disney+ subscribers include Hits & Heroes (which has Marvel movies and assorted action franchises), Throwbacs (nostalgic Disney content), and Real Life (documentaries and biopics). There are also streams for ABC News and shows for younger viewers that are available for ll Disney+ users.Disney+ alsojust added the latest Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards,Anora, which is a wonderfulfilm and also a very fun thing to watch on Disney+. You could even make it a thematically-appropriate double feature withCinderella.Sign up for Disney+ here.Get our free mobile appObscure Streaming TV Shows You Might Not Have Heard OfThere are so many streaming shows now. These are the ones you need to watch.Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky

Universals third Orlando theme park, Epic Universe, is set to open its gates for the first time in just over two months time. A deluge is promo materials is headed our way starting with the first batch of photos from inside the nearly-completed park.Epic Universe is organized into different themed worlds:How to Train Your Dragon, Nintendo, Universals famous monsters, and a new area inspired by theHarry Potterfranchise. Universals other two Orlando parks Universal Studios Florida and Universal Islands of Adventure each have their own Harry Potter sections. Islands of Adventure has a replica of Hogwarts and the nearby village of Hogsmeade. Universal Studios Florida has Diagon Alley. And now Epic Universe has Place Cache a hidden, bustling shopping district in wizarding Paris.You can see the images of all of Epic Universes themed lands, plus the Chronos portal that serves as theicon ofthe park, below.Universal Epic Universe: First PhotosHere are the first images inside Epic Universe at Universal Orlando Resort, set to open in the spring of 2025.The new Harry Potter area is sure to be popular, and the Super Nintendo Land, which is very similar to the Nintendo areas already open at Universal parks in Japan and Hollywood, is guaranteed to be a hit as well. But the Dark Universe sectionis surely the most unique. So much of theme parks is built around catering to families and little children, and with good reason. Pitching that this monster section features Universals most chilling attraction ever is a bold sales pitch although Universal has had more and more success in recent years with their Halloween Horror Nights. This part of the park shouldbring inthose older fans even when its not Halloween.Epic Universe is set to open to the public on May 22.Amazing Theme Park Rides Based on Movies That Were Never BuiltCategories: Galleries, Movie News

If you thought there were already too many chain restaurants in town, you need to get ready because its about to get a whole lot more crowded.Several restaurants are looking to rapidly expand across the U.S. with new locations planned for just about everywhere in 2025.Some of the names you know. Others will likely be newcomers to your chain restaurant rotation.READ MORE: 15 Chains With The Most Loyal Customers Who Apparently Refuse To Go Anywhere ElseFrom big burritos to juicy steak to boozy brunches, here is a look at which fast-growing restaurant chains are reportedly set to have a big years for expansion in 2025.21 Fast-Growing Chain Restaurants Poised to Be Everywhere in 2025From burritos to steak to brunch, here is a look at which fast-growing restaurant chains are reportedly opening locations across the U.S. in 2025.Gallery Credit: Rob CarrollNow that we have caught up on which chains are opening, here is a look at which ones have closed or are planning to close locations in 2025.Chains That Are Closing or Have Closed Locations in 2025The list of chains that have closed locations or have plans to shutter stores later in 2025 continues to grow at a rapid pace.Gallery Credit: Rob CarrollREAD MORE: The Craziest Fast Food Menu Items Ever CreatedGet our free mobile app80s Foods We Wish They Still MadeIf you grew up in the 1980s, you surely have fond memories of these popular (now discontinued) snacks.Filed Under: Chain Restaurants, Fast Food, FoodCategories: Lists, Original Features

Chris Pratt plays a Sliding Doorsversion of the same character in his big commercial movies.The 45-year-old actor, who is known for starring in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World film series, has admitted he often plays similar versions of a scoundrel adventurer in his big budget movie projects.During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Chris was asked about similarities between his character Peter Quill/Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and his role of John D. Keats in new movie The Electric State and he explained: I kind of like to think, hopefully, thats like every character I ever play though, in this tone, something thats like a big, family friendly, raucous, adventure, sci-fi film,.When its a big commercial tone like this, youre going to get a Sliding Doors version of the characters that I like to play.The Electric StateNetflixloading...READ MORE: The Worst Netflix Blockbusters Ever MadePrattwas referring to Gwyneth Paltrows 1998 movie Sliding Doors in which she played two versions of the same character involved in different storylines after their lives diverge at a certain point.The actor went on to add of Quill and Keats: [They both] have a journey; they find something bigger than themselves to want to fight for and are willing to sacrifice themselves for.Theres [Keats] talking to an animated character through the course of it. So I guess, even now, just in this interview, Im realizing that there are similarities.[Keats] kind of feels like what Peter Quill could have been if he didnt get picked up and go to space, but instead lived through a robot war and went on the run with his robot friend.The Electric State, which also stars Millie Bobby Brown, is set in an alternate 1990s universe and Chris previously revealed he based the character of Keats on his former neighbor.He told ScreenRant: Kenny Gundacker, may he rest in peace What I remember of him as a seven-year-old is [that] he was just an icon. I thought I lived next to David Lee Roth. I saw [Roth] on MTV, and I was like: Oh, thats my neighbor. I see him every day.He used to jump around on a little mini trampoline in the backyard in tiger-striped stretch pants with a tiny little electric guitar he would just rip on ... it was his swagger and his confidence that just made him so attractive to anyone around him, as I remember it now.The Hollywood star added that he put a lot of thought into who his neighbor might have been in the decade before the film was set.He said: So, when I was building this character out, I was like: Who would that guy be in the 80s? and then [gave] it a post-apocalyptic world and let him be kind of past his primewhere would he end up, and what would he look like?The Electric Stateis now streaming on Netflix.Get our free mobile appRemakes That Were Drastically Different From the OriginalAlthough technically remakes, these movies took a lot of liberties with their source material.Categories: Movie News