Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
We’re deep in the hot days of summer, and there’s no better way to cool off than by jumping into the ocean and going on a journey in a colorful submersible. Granted, you won’t feel a refreshing splash of water if you’re in a submersible, but we needed a way to introduce the fact that Yellow Submarine is now streaming…
There’s no such thing as owning too much flash storage, especially at Prime Day prices. A bunch of SanDisk SD cards, flash drives, and SSDs are included in the sale, including the best price ever on a 400GB (!!) microSD card that could hold a lot of Nintendo Switch games.
The best thing about today’s reboot-happy culture is that none of us ever really need to grow up and move on from the things we liked as children, and nothing has ever illustrated that more clearly than Nickelodeon announcing today that it’s bringing back Rugrats. In a press release, the network announced that it’s…
Otzi (a.k.a. Oetzi) is a mummy that has been studied extensively at the Institute For Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy, after he was discovered in the Italian alps by a pair of climbers in the 1990s. Thirty years later, researchers now announce that they can reveal Otzi’s last meal, due to the remains in his stomach.…
A lot of right-wing political figures have been falling over each other to reveal that they got tricked into doing interviews for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series Who Is America?, as if supporting Trump just makes people really proud to admit how easily they can get conned, but Sarah Palin was one of the first…
Amazon Prime Day is officially here! We’re updating this page to help navigate you through the avalanche of deals throughout the next day and a half, so check back often for all the best Prime Day deals.
Sony has been talking about developing a movie based on its Uncharted series of blockbuster action games for nearly a decade now. What started as a David O Russell-directed Mark Wahlberg vehicle that sounded nothing like the games morphed into a different adaptation with a script from Joe Carnahan and in its latest…
This weekend, a small Indiana brewery was generating tons of buzz in my social media feed—and not in a good way. The brewery-in-planning is called Lakeville Brew Crew, and a South Bend Tribune profile of the business mentioned some of the names of its forthcoming beers: Flint Michigan Tap Water, Black Beer Matters,…
If you’re a Prime member, you can get yourself a bonus $5 Amazon credit card when you buy a $25 gift card right now for Prime Day, with basically no restrictions. Why wouldn’t you do this? Go do this. Just click the button on this page to add the code to your account, then go add a $25 physical or digital gift card to…
According to Deadline, Timothée Chalamet is in “final talks” to star in Denis Villeneuve’s new Dune movie. He’ll reportedly be playing Paul Atreides, the character Kyle MachLachlan played in David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation and the main hero of the story. Like Lynch’s version, Villeneuve’s Dune will be based on the 1965…
It’s 1978, and Robin Williams is one month into his Mork & Mindy tenure and most of the way through his episode of HBO’s On Location. His set has been a ferocious demonstration of the quick wit and willingness to go for a laugh that, in the brief time he’s been in Los Angeles, have already caught the eye of George…
We’re probably going to get the first trailer for director James Wan’s Aquaman movie later this week during Comic-Con, so to try and go fishing for a little bit of hype, Wan has shared the first teaser poster for the film on social media. It’s a pretty standard one-sheet, with Jason Momoa’s eponymous man wearing…
Matthew Rhys donned many disguises in his time on The Americans, including a really brief stint as a reporter (otherwise known as the greatest threat to democracy, if President “I Heart Russia” is to be believed). Variety reports he’ll have a chance to expand on that role as part of the Fred Rogers biopic, You Are My…
If your party game cabinet has been gathering dust, Amazon’s offering Prime Day deals on a bunch of adult games to liven up your next get-together, including the grandaddy of the genre, Cards Against Humanity and its expansions, which basically never go on sale.
If you’ve kept up with the twisty conspiracy series Mr. Robot, then you know these past two seasons gave us some flashbacks to how troubled hacker Elliot first started toying with the idea of his revolution. But now, there’s a chance for a much more in-depth look at the birth of fsociety—it just won’t be on your…
Mission: Impossible—Fallout hits theaters on July 27th, with the promise of even more insane Tom Cruise stunts and maybe some weird stuff with Henry Cavill’s beard. To prepare for the release of Fallout, YouTube film essayist Patrick Willems takes a long look at the Mission: Impossible series,…
We first came across the above video on veteran Scientology reporter Tony Ortega’s website. If its chintzy aesthetic, bargain bin beats, and sheer abundance of white people “raising the roof” has you wondering how it isn’t a parody, well, you’re not alone. But Ortega points out cameos from “high-profile”…
The Video Music Awards, your yearly reminder that MTV does in fact continue to play music videos, are scheduled for August 20, when we’ll see Cardi B, Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Bruno Mars, Drake, Childish Gambino, and more compete for Moonpeople and bragging rights. The complete list of nominations is now out, with The Carters…
Just when we thought it was safe to eat romaine lettuce on the grocery store shelves again, a new salad culprit is in store. NBC News and other outlets report that a parasitic outbreak has affected McDonald’s in possibly 14 states, particularly in the Midwest, with 61 people taken ill. The total number of people…
