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The movie isn’t actually releasing until November 11 but it looks like Summer 2021 is going to be the Summer of Ghostbusters anyway, with all kinds of toys and tie-in products on the way. Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a sequel to the original classics, is even getting its own cereal from General Mills, and it has already started popping up on shelves this month! The art features the iconic Ghostbusters logo on a black box, along with a trio of Mini-Pufts playing around. As for the cereal itself, it’s red,...

We’ve learned the sad news tonight that Felix Silla, an actor and stuntman best known for playing Cousin Itt on “The Addams Family,” has passed away today at the age of 84. Silla died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, THR reports. Felix Silla played Cousin Itt in multiple episodes of the original “Addams Family” live-action series between 1965 and 1966, subsequently appearing in several popular shows including “H.R. Pufnstuf,” “Bewitched,” “Night Gallery,” “Lidsville,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and “Star Trek:...

With the release just one week away, we’ve got a new clip from Warner Bros./New Line’s Mortal Kombat today, pitting two of the gaming franchise’s top icons against each other. Joe Taslim is Sub-Zero and Hiroyuki Sanada is Scorpion in Mortal Kombat, releasing in theaters and on HBO Max on August 23, and this new clip gives us a better look at their battle in an icy arena that has been teased in various trailers for the film. Sub-Zero’s powers are on full display here, at one point creating an...

Friday the 13th kicked open the door and several other major franchises have been in flux thanks to an opening that allows the film’s original screenwriters to exploit copyright law’s termination provision. The latest to enter the fray is that of the original Predator, with The Hollywood Reporter writing, “Jim and John Thomas, the brothers who wrote the 1987 action film, have filed a lawsuit seeking confirmation of successfully recapturing rights to the franchise. In California federal court, the two say that Disney — which now owns 20th Century Fox...

Jaroslav Kalfař’s 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia is getting a feature film adaptation from Netflix, and The Wrap reports that Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) has signed on. Adam Sandler is also starring in the film, set to be directed by Johan Renck (“Chernobyl”). The Wrap details, “The film stars Sandler as an astronaut sent to the edges of the galaxy to collect an ancient, mysterious dust. But as life on Earth begins to crumble, he turns to a creature from the beginning of time that is lurking aboard his ship...

Vermintide 2 fans won’t have to wait very long for the next DLC, as Fatshark has dropped a few new hints on the upcoming free DLC in “Chaos Wastes” that lands April 20th on Steam. The new update will add a “rogue-lite inspired” game mode, which will no doubt please those players looking for more challenge. The new mode will not only test your mettle in the challenge department, but also feature a rotating series of maps (15 unique areas in all), meaning that your strategies will constantly need to...

Some bonds are stronger than blood. Earlier this year, Arrow Films acquired the possession road movie Threshold for release in various territories, which was shot with two iPhones over the course of a 12-day road trip with a crew of three, and largely improvised by the lead actors. Fangoria brings us the word today that the film is coming to ARROW on May 3, and they’ve also debuted the official trailer. “The film tells the story of a pair of siblings embarking on a voyage of new discovery. After joining...

It started with a list of six themes which was cut down to four and then two. And now Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story” poll is in its final stage with, well, a recount! Once again, we still don’t entirely understand the purpose of these polls, but it seems Murphy and the “AHS” team are gauging interest in potential upcoming seasons of the FX series. As Murphy keeps teasing, “the American Horror Story universe is expanding.” The final two themes had been “American Horror Story: Bloody Mary” and “American Horror...

The flesh is family… After a small theatrical run, today marks the VOD, Digital HD and DVD release of the very first Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration, Honeydew, which calls back to classics like Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with a modern A24-esque flair. “Honeydew tells the story of a young couple (played by Sawyer Spielberg and Malin Barr) who are forced to seek shelter in the home of an aging farmer (Barbara Kingsley) and her peculiar son, when they suddenly begin having strange cravings and hallucinations taking them down a rabbit hole of the...

From creator Jeff Baena and executive producers the Duplass Brothers, Showtime has ordered up a new anthology series titled “Cinema Toast,” Variety reports tonight. This one sounds quite interesting, with “Cinema Toast” set to put a new spin on classic public domain movies including the late George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. “The series is described as a post-modernist reinvention of older movies that turns pre-existing imagery from the public domain on its head to tell brand new unique stories.” Jeff Baena, Jay Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Alex Ross...

Here in the United States, the James Wan-produced Mortal Kombat isn’t opening until April 23rd, and don’t forget that it’s coming to HBO Max on the same day it hits theaters. In the meantime, the Warner Bros./New Line movie was released overseas this past weekend, launching in 17 markets and punching its way to $10.7 million thus far. According to Deadline, Mortal Kombat is currently playing on 4,596 total screens. Deadline further details, “Russia led play with $6.1M (+10% on GVK‘s bow), opening as the biggest Hollywood title released during the pandemic...

For old-school fans, you might remember a little game from Free Radical Design from 2004 called Second Sight. It was also ported to the PC, but ended up being taken off of Steam back in 2012. Well, lucky for you (and thanks to THQ Nordic for snagging the rights), it’s back! Created by the same people who made the TimeSplitters series, Second Sight is a sci-fi thriller where you a parapsychology researcher named John Vattic. You awake in a Virginian medical facility with no memory, but you’re also now imbued...

It’s the end of an era for Yahoo! Answers. The internet’s demented version of “20 Questions” will be getting the axe later this year. But before that happens, a group of intrepid modders decided to do the “right thing”, and port over the best of Yahoo! Answers to Sega’s The Typing of The Dead: Overkill. Called RIP Yahoo Answers, the mod essentially imports custom dictionaries into the game, which are rife with the inane questions that have graced Yahoo! Answers for over 15 years. But really, given the weird phrases...

Author Grady Hendrix released his second novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism back in 2016, which he describes as “Beaches meets The Exorcist.” Set in the late ’80s during the so-called Satanic Panic, it’s a touching story of high school friendship and, well, demonic possession. THR reports today that a movie adaptation is now in the works from Endeavor Content. Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade) will star alongside Amiah Miller, Cathy Ang, and Rachel Ogechi Kanu. Production is already underway, with Damon Thomas (“Penny Dreadful”) directing. Fisher had recently starred in the second...