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A Nightmare On Elm Street Vs The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever [Round 11] Welcome to the Tournament of Terrors, a /Film bracket where we argue about the greatest horror franchise of all time, and you, the readers, get to decide the winners. The rules are simple: two iconic horror movie series enter the ring, each represented by a /Film writer ready to champion them. And you — yes, you, the person reading this right now — will vote on which one gets to move forward....

Adult Swim Orders ‘Primal’ Animated Series From Creator Of ‘Samurai Jack’ Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator behind acclaimed Cartoon Network shows likeSamurai JackandDexter’s Laboratory, is returning to his old stomping grounds — with a bit of an upgrade. Adult Swim, the adult-targeted TV block on Cartoon Network that aired the final season ofSamurai Jack, has picked up Tartakovsky’s latest project: an animated series calledPrimal. The half-hour animated TV series that will mark Tartatovsky’s return to the small screen after the director helmed Sony’sHotel Transylvaniaseries to box office success....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Discusses ‘Twins’ Sequel ‘Triplets,’ Says “That’s Real Entertainment” A pre-April Fools' day story that wasn’t actually a joke contained theannouncementthat Universal is developingTripletsas a sequel toIvan Reitman’s 1988 filmTwins. The original comedy starredDanny DeVitoandArnold Schwarzeneggeras genetically-engineered brothers who learn of one anothers existence when they’re both adults. Tripletsdoesn’t have a director at this point, or even a screenwriter, and the cast isn’t yet signed. But the idea is for DeVito and Schwarzenegger to return, withEddie Murphystepping in as a third long-lost brother....

Casting Notes: Russell Brand Coaches Soccer; New Films For Jeffrey Dean Morgan And Taylor Lautner I seem to be one of the few who didn’t think that yesterday’sGet Him to the Greektrailerwas the funniest thing since ‘Man Getting Hit in the Groin by Football,’ but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a soft spot forRussell Brand. AfterForgetting Sarah Marshall, how could you not? So I’m happy to see that Warner Bros....

Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers Trailer: The Dynamic Duo Return On Disney+ “So you’re saying the Rescue Rangers are back?” ’90s kids rejoice — the rescue Rangers have returned! “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” is bringing the animated dynamic duo to the modern day, using the “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” playbook to toss us into a world where humans and cartoons live together in semi-harmony. Naturally, this meta return to the Rescue Rangers has two comedians taking the lead, with Andy Samberg voicing Dale and John Mulaney as Chip....

CODA: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you’re able to watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.)CODApremiered at Sundance Film Festival back in January 2021, endearing itself to viewers as a crowd-pleasing coming-of-age tale that drew a fair amount of praise for featuring three main deaf actors who play the three main deaf characters in the story....

Craig Mazin Hired To Write ‘The Hangover Part III’ After the monster weekend that Warner Bros. enjoyed withThe Hangover Part II, there was no question at all that a third film would quickly go into development. The first step in that process is pulling a writer to develop the script, and Warner Bros. and Legendary have reportedly tappedCraig Mazinfor that gig. And if a recent interview he gave is any indication, the third film might have a hell of an ending....

Disney World’s ‘Star Wars’ Hotel Location Announced, Will Be Seamlessly Connected To Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge It’s unusual for Walt Disney World hotels to be directly connected to one of the resort’s theme parks, but Disney is looking to change the game with Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. The company just officially announced the location of their plannedStar Warshotel, which will be seamlessly connected to the park. According to theDisney Parks blog, the newStar Wars-inspired destination is “currently under development on the south side of Disney’s Hollywood Studios, just east of World Drive....

Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ Loses Director Sam Mendes Disney’s new mission to remake their entire animated canon in live-action keeps on trucking forward, but one project is moving a little more slowly than others. The live-action take onPinocchiohas lost Academy Award winnerSam Mendes,who was reported to be taking the director’s seat earlier this year. Word comes fromThe Tracking Board, who reports that Mendes has left the project while he was still in “early talks....

Extraction 2 First Look: Get Your First Look At Tyler ‘Not A Soggy Corpse’ Rake “Extraction” dropped on Netflix shortly after theaters shuttered their doors and the global Covid lockdowns went into effect back in spring 2020 — all of which may explain how the movie, aslickly generic action-thrillerthat more or less amounted to the White Savior version of Tony Scott’s “Man on Fire,” inexplicably became the streamer’s most-watched original movie ever (before “Red Notice"snatched away the title, anyway)....

First Look: Baby Mama Universal has sent us the first photo from the new comedyBaby Mama, which starsTina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard,andSigourney Weaver.Writer turned directorMichael McCullers' (Austin Powers 2 and 3) feature film debut tells the story of “two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives.” Yeah, doesnt sound that interesting to me either. Tina Feyis funny, and good to look at on screen, but her true talents are behind a computer keyboard....

Frank Miller Updates His 300 Follow Up: Xerxes I think thatZack Snyder’s300was one of the more surprising big hits of recent years, a film that somehow managed a sizeable box office return despite having no stars, an unfashionable genre and setting and that oft-avoided R-rating from the MPAA. Perhaps – shock horror – it suggested that none of those apparent hurdles were hurdles at all. One Hollywood truism was consolidated by this success story, however – despite an ending that resolved the storyline quite conclusively, to say the least, immediate sequel talk welled up....

Future Of Polanski’s Uncompleted Film The Ghost Is Unsurprisingly In Doubt WhenRoman Polanskiwas arrested in Zurich on Sunday his nearly completed filmThe Ghostwas potentially orphaned. Though fully shot and mostly edited, significant post-production work remains on the film, which adapts theRobert Harrisnovel in which a ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) and uncovers dangerous secrets in the process. We posted abrief teaserfor the film back in August, butTHRreports that the score and sound mix, among other tasks, have yet to be completed....