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Insidious: The Red Door is coming to haunt your dreams. Star and first time director Patrick Wilson, along with his fellow cast members Ty Simpkins, Sinclair Daniel and Lin Shaye chat to whynow about bringing the horror franchise back to life in this exclusive interview.  It’s a really great time to be a horror fan right now. Lee Cronin did the impossible and brought Evil Dead back in a gloriously gory fashion. We’re getting a proper Five Nights at Freddy’s adaptation this year and it looks terrifying. Horror directors are consistently being hired for the top jobs in Hollywood.  The first Insidious, released in 2010, was the brainchild of Leigh Whannell and James Wan, the two blokes behind Saw. The memorable scares in Insidious quickly made it into a franchise and Insidious: The Red Door, in cinemas 7 July, is the fifth film in the franchise. The film continues the story of the Lambert family, who still can’t shake the demonic dimension only known as The Further. Insidious was...

Horror movies are always more fun and exhilarating when you stream them on your TV at midnight and beyond, so what more if you can watch them on the big screen where the lights are dim and the speakers are booming? Several cinemas in the country are set to have a midnight screening of the upcoming supernatural horror film Insidious: The Red Door on July 5. The film will premiere starting at 12:01 a.m. at SM Cinema Cebu, SM Cinema Davao, SM Cinema Iloilo, SM Cinema Mall of Asia, SM Cinema Marikina, SM Cinema Megamall, SM Cinema North Edsa, and SM Cinema Seaside. Insidious: The Red Door is the fifth film in the Insidious franchise and serves as a direct sequel to 2010's Insidious and 2013's Insidious: Chapter 2. The film follows the supernatural encounters of the Lambert family as they are plagued by demons coming from The Further, a dark place where many souls are damned to remain forever. Set ten years after the ending events of the second film, the story follows Josh Lambert a...

How do you convey how thankful you are for everything your parents have done for you? That’s one of the key dilemmas Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis) has to navigate in Pixar’s “Elemental,” out now in theaters (although box office reports suggest audiences may be waiting for its arrival on Disney+). A young fire woman who grew up in the shop her parents built after leaving their homeland, Ember has always assumed she would take over the business so her father can finally retire. At least, that’s what she always dreamed. But after a chance encounter with Wade (Mamoudou Athie) — a water guy who’s very in tune with his emotions — she’s forced to realize that she’s never taken the time to really be honest with herself, because it’s a luxury she never thought she had. Ember’s focus has always been on being a “good daughter” to her parents who left everything and everyone they knew behind to seek better opportunities in a strange new land. It’s a familiar dynamic for those with immigrant parents...

Pixar's animated movie "Elemental" took in roughly $30 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices over the weekend, the second-lowest debut in the history of the acclaimed studio behind the "Toy Story" franchise, "Finding Nemo" and other classics. "Elemental," a story about overcoming outward differences, added $15 million overseas for a global total of $45 million from Friday through Sunday, distributor Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) said. The film opened in just three major international markets and will expand to other countries in the coming weeks. "The Flash," the latest DC superhero movie from Warner Bros (WBD.O), also underwhelmed at the box office. It topped the domestic charts with an estimated $55.1 million, according to researcher ComScore, at the low end of pre-weekend forecasts. Analysts had predicted that "Elemental" would open with at least $31 million at domestic theaters. The $30 million estimate, which will be fina...

Pixar is making waves with its groundbreaking non-binary character in new film Elemental – but positive reactions have been drowned out by a wave of bigotry. Set in a city inhabited by ‘elementals’ – residents made of either water, fire, air or earth – Pixar’s new film Elemental brings family and friends together for an animated caper that expertly blends emotion and humour with much-needed representation. Elemental follows the story of Ember and Wade, a “fiery young woman and a more go-with-the-flow guy”, who “discover something elemental” over the course of the film, which explores wider themes of immigration, family and finding unity over difference. Somewhere in all that trademark Pixar zaniness, appeared the animation company’s first ever non-binary character, in the form of water element and Wade’s younger sibling, Lake Ripple. It’s wonderful to see Pixar’s first explicitly non-binary character – and Lake’s voice actor, the similarly non-binary 22-year-old Kai Hauser, thinks so t...

A non-film critic has pointed out everything that was wrong with 'Adipurush' - from incorrect descriptions to excessive westernisation - Read Within a week of its release, the Ramayana-inspired ‘Adipurush’ has had the interest of the audience crash and nearly die down for a number of reasons. To begin with, those who grew up following Hindu culture, whether or not they explicitly identify with the Ramayana-oriented belief system, are bound to raise eyebrows at this Om Raut misadventure touted to be an adaptation of the epic. And those who are not from the community, but wish to know a thing or two about ‘Hindu culture’ by way of casually watching a movie, will be comically misguided if they go by what they see. Poor dialogues are only the tip of the iceberg. Ravan was a great demon king — yes, great, because even though he was a demon, his merit was incontestable and even the gods acknowledged it. His kingdom was situated in the tropical region of the Indian subcontinent and no...

It’s harder to make fire than you might think. But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible. PIXAR HAD A problem. It had a great new idea for a movie—Elemental, based on characters from The Good Dinosaur's director Peter Sohn—but actually animating the film’s titular elements was proving to be a problem. After all, it’s one thing to draw a crumbling mound of sentient dirt, but how do you capture the ethereal nature of fire onscreen, and how would a corporeal body made of water even work? Can you see through it? Do the eyes just float around? While some of those questions could be answered with good old-fashioned suspension of disbelief, Pixar’s animators thought the fire issue was a real conundrum, especially considering that one of their movie’s leads, Ember, was actually supposed to be made of the stuff. They had tools to make a flame effect from years of previous animations, but when you actually tried to shape it into a character, the results were pretty terrifying, a...

The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO could have easily distanced himself from the DC superhero tentpole — which opened to a woeful $55 million — but embraced the pic as if it were his own. By late April, all indications pointed to The Flash opening to $100 million or more domestically. That’s when Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav took the stage at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, triumphantly telling theater owners it was the best superhero pic he’s ever seen. The powerful executive could have easily kept a poker face and distanced himself from The Flash considering it was made by the previous regime. Instead, Zaslav bet on it as if it were his own. That included arranging for Tom Cruise — who was still basking in the afterglow of Top Gun: Maverick — to watch the movie, with his positive reaction becoming a talking point on the press tour. Zaslav’s newly installed DC Studios co-chief and top lieutenant James Gunn also trumpeted The Flash, although he tempered his remarks, saying in January it ...

Anyone who has lurked about social media this week already knows that Pixar’s Elemental suffered a big blow at the box office. Some are calling it a forced racial allegory, others are claiming it plagiarized Zootopia, and some don’t even know what to make of it. However, this writer can certainly say that it is one of the best emotional experiences to come out of Pixar since Carl met Ellie. While the film is horrifically plagued by misleading marketing, Disney and Pixar fans need to rush to get their tickets because this film hits way differently than ads and artwork would have you believe. Moreover, it’s a movie that will melt nearly every adult viewer in the audience. Pixar Gets Steamy in Elemental After an abysmal opening weekend, Elemental might be starting to pick up steam as far as reviews are concerned. However, people going into the theatre expecting a movie about inequality issues told through the basic elements of earth, fire, water, and air only pick up a small percentage of...

Spoilers ahead for the June 20 episode of America's Got Talent Season 18 on NBC. Season 18 of America's Got Talent has wasted no time in handing out golden buzzers to advance standout performers straight through to the live shows in the 2023 TV schedule, and the latest one rewarded more than sixty dancers. Just a week after 8-year-old drummer Chioma got a golden buzzer from AGT host Terry Crews, judge Howie Mandel hit the button for the Murmuration dance group from France after rocking blindfolds for their audition. They also received a comparison to a previous AGT champion that could bode very well for their future this season! It was clear as soon as a long stream of dancers walked out onto to the stage that something special was going to happen, with veteran judges Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel commenting on the size of the group. The comments were nothing but enthusiastic after they performed, though! Take a look at the performance that mesmerized Mandel: Count on Howie Mande...

Thanks to one of the best true crime shows in recent memory — Pam & Tommy — and Pamela Anderson’s own documentary on Netflix, Pamela: a love story, there’s been a lot of reflection over the past year or so about the marriage between the Baywatch star and Tommy Lee. The pair had a whirlwind romance in 1995 before becoming embroiled in their infamous sex tape scandal, but the Mötley Crüe drummer’s current wife downplayed that relationship in recent comments. Brittany Furlan called Heather Locklear — not Anderson (or herself) — “the love of his life,” as she opened up about being “very close” with the Melrose Place star. Brittany Furlan, who married Tommy Lee in 2019, got real about her husband’s former marriages, saying that while much is made of his three-year partnership with Pamela Anderson, people forget he was married to Heather Locklear for much longer. Furlan spoke highly of the Dynasty actress, as she told People it’s important to her to try to stay friendly with Lee’s exes, ...

It’s harder to make fire than you might think. But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible. PIXAR HAD A problem. It had a great new idea for a movie—Elemental, based on characters from The Good Dinosaur's director Peter Sohn—but actually animating the film’s titular elements was proving to be a problem. After all, it’s one thing to draw a crumbling mound of sentient dirt, but how do you capture the ethereal nature of fire onscreen, and how would a corporeal body made of water even work? Can you see through it? Do the eyes just float around? While some of those questions could be answered with good old-fashioned suspension of disbelief, Pixar’s animators thought the fire issue was a real conundrum, especially considering that one of their movie’s leads, Ember, was actually supposed to be made of the stuff. They had tools to make a flame effect from years of previous animations, but when you actually tried to shape it into a character, the results were pretty terrifying, a...

The fantastical world of Elemental masks a lack of imagination from the once-inventive studio. On paper, Pixar’s new film, Elemental, seems like the kind of wildly inventive, visually dynamic project that has made the company such a consistent success in the animation world. The studio’s formula is clear enough: Take an inanimate, perhaps abstract thing (a toy, a car, a feeling, a human soul) and personify it, even as a talking blob of sorts, building out a representational world that nonetheless feels familiar. In Elemental, beings representing the four classical elements (earth, fire, water, and air) live in a bustling city, work humanlike jobs, and have humanlike relationships. The premise quickly expands to a recognizable metaphor of prejudice, with fire people—talking pillars of flame that struggle not to set things on fire—functioning as an oppressed underclass who strive to fit in with the other elements. So why did Elemental just post the second-worst opening weekend in the com...

After six stints as the web crawler, the 27-year-old Brit opens up about the pressures of mega-celebrity, his superstar girlfriend and his “Spider-Boys” group chat with Tobey and Andrew. Tom Holland is having a rough morning. Not because he partied too hard the night before — though the Marvel Studios superstar had enough reasons to, what with it being his birthday and the world premiere at New York’s MoMA of The Crowded Room, the Apple TV+ series that he both stars in and executive produced. But Holland quit drinking alcohol a year and a half ago. No, this particular migraine comes from waking up to learn that Crowded Room — what Holland deems the “hardest thing I’ve ever done” (this according to a guy who has played Spider-Man in six feature films) — has been met by rough early reviews. “It was a kick in the teeth,” Holland admits, unprompted, over eggs Benedict on the quiet terrace of a hotel in SoHo. “Rolling over, looking up the reviews, and then all of a sudden I was like, ‘Wow. ...

Smith initially penned several draft screenplays for the 1998 film 'Superman Lives' that never happened. Filmmaker Kevin Smith had a full-circle moment when watching The Flash and seeing Nicolas Cage’s cameo as Superman. During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the director/producer/writer said he “just about passed out” when he first learned the actor was going to be making an appearance in the Andy Muschietti-directed film as the iconic superhero. “I finally got to see Nic Cage be Superman,” Smith said. “It has been an absolute delight for me.” It hits close for Smith because he initially penned several draft screenplays for the infamous 1998 film Superman Lives that never happened. Smith has been open about difficulties they faced with the film and production, including producer Jon Peters making several demands, such as Superman having to fight a giant spider. They two also disagreed on who should play the title role. “Jon Peters was like, ‘I want Sean Penn to play Sup...

Elemental' marks Pixar's lowest opening since 'Toy Story' nearly three decades ago, while 'The Flash' was snubbed. One bright spot of the holiday weekend was 'Asteroid City,' which secured the best location average since 'La La Land.' Such was the refrain across Hollywood as opening weekend estimates circulated for DC’s highly anticipated The Flash and Pixar’s Elemental, which are debuting domestically over the long Juneteenth holiday weekend. (As well as Father’s Day on Sunday.) Starring Ezra Miller in the titular role, Warner Bros. and DC’s The Flash is anything but flashy in the opinion of moviegoers. The film earned an estimated $55.7 million for the three days and projected $64.2 million for the four days, notably behind expectations. Final numbers will be tallied Tuesday. The hope had been for The Flash to get a three-day start of at least $70 million so as to come in ahead of such disappointing DC titles as Black Adam, which collected $67 ...

Watching the coming attraction for “Blue Beetle,” the next movie adaptation of a DC comic, a thought emerged almost reflexively: “There’s one to stream.” After a weekend that saw a twin bloodbath in terms of major film releases that fell well short of box-office expectations, “The Flash” and “Elemental,” it’s difficult to overstate how corrosive that mentality has become for the theatrical business – fueled, admittedly, by a wide variety of factors, but with the shift toward streaming having clearly contributed to the problem. “Elemental,” Disney’s latest Pixar movie to hit theaters after several of its brethren went directly to streaming, and “The Flash,” a superhero from the DC/Warner Bros. stable (like CNN, units of Warner Bros. Discovery), earned roughly $30 million and $55 million during their opening weekends, respectively, evoking descriptions like “flop” and “disappointing” – despite mostly positive reaction from moviegoers who did see the films. Given the high costs associated...

Finales are always tricky to get right, especially so when the previous instalment of a series wasn't exactly well received by fans. Do you go back to basics and just repeat past glories, or do you double down and try to change up the formula one final time? Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has certainly gone for the former as it bids farewell to Harrison Ford's iconic character. Despite the poor reception out of its Cannes premiere, the approach should be enough to satisfy Indiana Jones fans. Fittingly, Dial of Destiny digs into the past to play more like a greatest-hits package of what you expect from an Indy movie. It won't end up as anybody's favourite Indiana Jones movie, but with Harrison Ford as good as ever in the role, it's a decent send-off. Where Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had Indiana Jones dealing with unexpected fatherhood, the new movie sees him entering retirement and pondering his own mortality. (Not in a deep way, this i...

Check out the new Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny teaser trailer. Harrison Ford returns as the legendary hero archeologist for the franchise's final installment. The film also stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Oliver Richters, Ethann Isidore, and Mads Mikkelsen. Directed by James Mangold, the movie is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel, with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas serving as executive producers. John Williams returns to compose the film's score. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny arrives in UK cinemas on June 28 and US theaters on June 30, 2023. Dove Vedere Indiana Jones e il quadrante del destino Indiana Jones e il quadrante del destino Streaming Indiana Jones e il quadrante del destino Streaming Ita Indiana Jones e il quadrante del destino in streaming

As James Gunn and Peter Safran take the DC Universe in a new direction and casting is underway for Superman: Legacy, speculation for who the next Batman in The Brave and the Bold has grown. Fans of the superhero genre have thrown out names for who they want the next Bruce Wayne to be and Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles recently addressed rumors he was up for the role. “Uh, I don’t know. Even if I knew, I wouldn’t tell you,” Ackles at the Jus In Bello Convention in Italy. “I mean, could I do it? Sure. Would I want to do it? Yes.” Ackles joked that Pedro Pascal would probably get the part adding, “Will I be mad when Pedro Pascal gets it? Yeah. God bless you, Pedro. You just keep killing it, buddy. Let me know when you pass on something.” He continued, “Look, right now nobody’s talking about anything. There’s a strike going on in the entertainment industry, and until that gets solved, nobody is having conversations about anything. Would I entertain the idea of playing my favorite superher...

Latondra Newton, who has served as Disney’s chief diversity officer since 2017, is leaving the company. An internal memo from Disney chief human resources officer Sonia Coleman announcing Newton’s departure was circulated to staff Tuesday. Coleman wrote that Newton “decided to leave The Walt Disney Company to pursue other endeavors.” We hear that she plans to join a corporate board and focus on a creative company she owns. Disney said Newton’s direct reports will now report to Julie Merges, SVP Talent Acquisition, who will run the DEI operations on an interim basis while the search for Newton’s replacement is underway. Newton’s title was SVP, Chief Diversity Officer, a role in which she oversaw Disney’s strategic diversity and inclusion initiatives. According to Disney’s bio, she worked with “various business segments and leaders across the enterprise to build on Disney’s commitment to produce entertainment that reflects a global audience and sustains a welcoming and inclusive workplac...

Adele is seemingly a huge Rocky fan and when she recently made an offer to buy Sylvester Stallone’s mansion, she made it contingent that she keep the poolside statue of the fictional boxer. In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Stallone said he wanted to keep the statue but the “Hello” singer said, “‘That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal,'” with the actor adding, “She wanted the statue.” Adele is busy renovating the home she bought from him with Stallone saying, “I like what she’s doing, she’s making it gorgeous.” Stallone first played Rocky Balboa in the 1976 film Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen and written by the star himself. The success of the film spawned a whole series of films through the 1980s ending in 1990 with Rocky V. Stallone would play the character again in the 2006 film Rocky Balboa, the sixth installment in the franchise. In 2015, Stallone reprised his role of Rocky Balboa in the film spin-off Creed that starred Michael B. Jordan. Rya...

According to reports in France, the Chilean forward wants to see the club build a competitive squad and there are already four names on the shortlist. The status of Alexis Sánchez at Olympique de Marseille is a major talking point in France. The Chilean has been one of the best performers in Ligue 1 this season but his existing deal with the club ends in just over a month. Despite his age the 34-year-old will not be short of offers from elsewhere and Marseille know that they need a convincing pitch if they are to keep him at the club. “Alexis? He’s a leader,” Marseille midfielder Valentin Rongier told Téléfoot. “He doesn’t like to lose, and we’re very happy to have him with us. He doesn’t like to be tackled or criticized. He’s a bit of a complainer, but he’s a great professional.” Marseille have already secured a spot in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League for next season but look likely to miss out on the top two automatic spots. This means that the club goes into the summer...