Author: Jacob Dressler

Hollywood has made Dwayne Johnson into a heavily recognizable figure who in recent years developed a career starring in studio blockbusters. Now Johnson is taking his massive career into a very different kind of territory. As you can see below, Dwayne Johnson will be starring in the A24 movie The Smashing Machine as depicted by the movie’s new trailer. Dwayne Johnson, who is otherwise quite recognizable in his other cinematic efforts, has transformed himself to take on the role of legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Johnson will play a fictionalized version of Kerr and he even had various prosthetics and…

Author Stephen King is quite fond of showing support for other projects outside of his own. King, having created some of the greatest books and movies of our modern era, tends to be rather credible with his recommendations. As such, Max subscribers might be interested in checking out the top horror movie added to the service that Stephen King has happened to praise on social media. As you can see below, King wrote about the film on the social media app Threads. At the time, however, he watched the film on Amazon Prime. It has since moved to Max and…

It’s no surprise that fans hate to see their favorite shows canceled. Unfortunately, that’s the latest news for one Netflix series that only lasted three seasons on the popular streaming platform. Though there is a positive announcement attached to this disappointing update. Many fans were expecting this show’s third season to be followed with a fourth to answer the questions that have been piling up to date. Interestingly, while that will not happen, the streaming service does have a plan in place to give fans the closure they need. The move comes as a small but meaningful consolation for the…

Warner Bros. Pictures co-CEOs and chairmen Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy had a lengthy discussion regarding the studio’s upcoming slate. They let slip a number of interesting projects they have in development, including a remake of a rather popular 1992 thriller. The Warner Bros. library is full of notable and iconic properties, so it’s no surprise that they’re eagerly developing a remake of this particular thriller that also included romantic drama elements. Interestingly, however, we also know that there are already some big names attached. The original film was written by Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Mick Jackson. It…

Bella Ramsey, who stars as Ellie in the hit HBO series The Last of Us, revealed that they were non-binary in 2023. Ramsey indicated that they were also gender-fluid and preferred “they/them” pronouns. Now in 2025, Ramsey is saying that “part of me” regrets coming out as non-binary. While Ramsey still identifies as non-binary, it seems as though the media attention was more than they cared to receive. The actor explained this while speaking with The Guardian. It seems as though they didn’t anticipate what kind of headlines the news was going to make. Here’s what they shared on that…

The Friday the 13th film franchise has sadly lost one of its original final girls. It’s been revealed that Lar Park Lincoln, who played Tina Shepard in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, has died at age 63. This news was confirmed by Actors Audition Studios, which Lincoln founded, via Facebook. Their statement confirms that she passed away on April 22, 2025. With a career that has spanned nearly five decades, the passing of Lincoln is a massive loss for the industry. Though it wasn’t her first role, 1988’s Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood certainly…

The Academy Awards have had a major change introduced that will change the way voters participate in the iconic Oscars ceremony. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences officially announced that voters are now mandated to watch all of the nominated movies for the Oscars as part of a new rule. This news of this new rule for the Oscars was announced by the Academy, and shared via APNews, in which they noted “that members will from now on be required to watch all nominated films in each category to be eligible to vote in the final round of…

The next theatrical feature film in the Predator franchise – Predator: Badlands – is scheduled to hit theaters in just a few months, and now the first official teaser trailer has been released. Prey director Dan Trachtenberg returned to helm this installment which looks unlike any Predator movie to date. The Predator franchise has always had a massive mythos fleshed out through books, comics, and video games. However, the feature films often backed away from portraying anything too far beyond the scope of the original two movies. Now Predator: Badlands appears to be changing the game. The trailer for the…

In addition to her successful roles in Scream, Scream VI, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Jenna Ortega made headlines when she portrayed Wednesday Addams for the Netflix series Wednesday. The first season of the live-action series based on The Addams Family was a massive success for the platform. Now several years later, we’re finally getting Wednesday Season 2, and the first official trailer has been released. It looks like both a return to form and yet an improvement on the first season, with a much darker take on the material that should have fans eager to see what’s in store. Alfred Gough…

The I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise has long drifted away from its original continuity. Excitingly enough, however, a new sequel will follow the events of 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer and 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer as fans can see in the trailer below. The new sequel, given the same name as the original film in a trend made popular by the likes of 2018’s Halloween and 2022’s Scream, similarly brings back the franchise’s classic protagonists in the same vein. Jennifer Love Hewitt will return as Julie James while Freddie…