Author: Jacob Dressler

People are saying that there was a test-screen held for David Ayer’s Suicide Squad on Thursday night in Sacramento, California. However, there’s more diverse reactions this time than last month’s screening which held many overwhelmingly positive responses. One Reddit user named Soyodu explained that, “This was an advanced screening where we didn’t know what the movie was,” and that initially he thought “it was Trek, IDR, or Bourne, until the NDA said Warner Brothers on it. I will tell you there was NO standing ovation, but a decent amount of people clapped in the end. In fact, when they first…

Friday the 13th is an epic franchise that’s currently spanned through 12 films since its conception in 1980. It has seen a variety of protagonists, antagonists, and settings, including a crossover with A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger. Jason Voorhees has been from Crystal Lake to Manhattan to Hell and back. His mother Pamela Voorhees made her mark in the franchise’s first film as the sympathetic-yet-terrifying mother who wanted to avenge her little boy, Jason. And yet, despite all of these twists and turns, the series still has not revealed one major aspect – Jason’s father. Hinted at in…

According to the New York Post, management at both DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. may be experiencing quite a few changes within the next six months given the disappointing box office returns of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. This included superhero film producer Charles Roven who had to step away and comic book writer Geoff Johns who stepped up to take more control over DC’s movies. Per another report from THR: The veteran could move to an executive producer position on some films instead of day-to-day manager as Warner Bros. seeks to revamp its superhero slate. Charles Roven, the…

Freddy Krueger is one of the greatest villains to ever appear in popular culture, not just horror, but everywhere – and this is due mostly in part by Robert Englund’s performance. He painted the character with such a style that was both terrifying and at times even hilarious. Freddy was given an attitude unseen in slashers before or after him, and this brought him to the peak of the 1980s. Freddy was not just brought back in various sequels, but he influenced an intense amount of merchandise all with the likeness of Robert Englund plastered somewhere about. There were costumes,…

Stephen King’s It is one of his more iconic stories. The book tells of a group of kids that encounter a multidimensional entity, one which lures children in the form of a clown and then kills them with their worst fears. The book became the subject of a 1991 TV miniseries which made Tim Curry’s role as Pennywise, the multidimensional entity mentioned above, a pop culture phenomenon. And like many other popular franchises and properties, when talk of an It film adaptation began, people were unsure who could take on Tim Curry’s role. When Cary Fukunaga was attached to write…

The newest Friday the 13th film, which is supposed to be the 13th film in the series, has seen a lot of bumps and scrapes during its development. It’s had a lot of directors and writers attached, shifted between studios, and then had multiple scripts thrown away in hopes of something better. And it looks like Platinum Dunes may have found it. Aaron Guzikowski, the writer for the movie Prisoners, was finally able to develop and send his script to Platinum Dunes this month. This means that they may very well meet their release date which has been delayed several…

Man of Action Entertainment, Dentsu Entertainment, and DHX Media have released new details for their upcoming Mega Man animated series, which is being produced to coincide with the Mega Man game’s 30th anniversary. Their new details include the first reveal of the title character’s design and the revelation that the series will follow an average robot named Aki Light who possesses the power to become Mega Man, “the world’s first robot super-hero.” The press release adds: “If you’re an 80s or 90s kid, you may remember an animated series about the fighting robot (sing it with me now: Mega Man!) that…

Cinepop has recently interviewed Megan Fox, an actress known for her roles in the rebooted Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchises. She was especially vocal about new roles she would like to take on. When she was asked if she could play any superhero of her choosing, the actress had this to say about Mortal Kombat’s Kitana: “I’ve been getting this question a lot and I should think it about it more because I keep drawing a blank. I don’t have a specific superhero that I think I should play. I’m sorry I don’t have a better answer for…

Fans started to lose hope after progress came to a halt on the new Halloween sequel “Halloween Returns” and the rights to the franchise went up for grabs. It seems, however, that the franchise might be returning from the grave after all. Miramax and Trancas International Films both announced today that they would be producing a new Halloween film alongside Blumhouse Productions. Malek Akkad will be producing under the Trancas International banner while Jason Blum will be producing for Blumhouse. What truly comes off as interesting, however, is that the series original creator John Carpenter is returning as an executive…

The Predator franchise is one that’s never lived up to its potential as a franchise – rehashed sequel has followed after rehashed sequel, and yet, the original promised so much more thanks to its brilliant direction. And, now, Shane Black, who has been developing a new sequel that promises to properly continue the original story, has let out that he intends to expand on some of the concepts from the original. It’s not to ‘improve,’ it’s make it fun, make it different, make it organically different. So what’s the extension of it that makes sense, that’s exciting? There have been…