Evil Dead Rise, the latest film in the Evil Dead franchise, has crossed the 100 million mark at the global box office

Evil Dead Rise (read our review right HERE), a movie that was once intended to go straight to the HBO Max (now simply known as Max) streaming service, reached theatres on April 21st, and it looks like it’s going to be receiving a digital release on May 9th. (That’s what Microsoft is promising.) Before we reach that date, the official Evil Dead Twitter account has sent out a tweet celebrating the fact that Evil Dead Rise has now earned over $100 million at the global box office!

That’s a great accomplishment for a movie that cost under $20 million, and it reached that number in just three weeks. The previous Evil Dead movie, released in 2013, didn’t reach $100 million during its theatrical run, falling just short at $99,010,045.

Evil Dead franchise creator Sam Raimi handpicked Lee Cronin to write and direct a new Evil Dead movie after seeing his feature directorial debut The Hole in the Ground. The story Cronin crafted for Evil Dead Rise has the following synopsis: A road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable.

Although the film is set in Los Angeles, filming actually took place in New Zealand. Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland star as the estranged sisters at the heart of the story. Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies, and Nell Fisher play Ellie’s three kids. Anna-Maree Thomas plays Jessica, “an 18 year old girl, who is obsessed with fashion and Instagram. Jessica loves to be the center of attention, although she is smarter than she lets on”.

Bruce Campbell doesn’t have an on-screen acting role in Evil Dead Rise, as he has formally retired from playing franchise hero Ash, but he did produce the movie alongside Raimi and Rob Tapert, as those three hold the rights to the series. Evil Dead Rise is a collaboration between Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and Ghost House Pictures.

Raimi, Campbell, and Tapert are hoping to produce a new Evil Dead sequel every two or three years now, and the success of Evil Dead Rise gives them great incentive to do so. They’re also developing an animated series follow-up to the Ash vs. Evil Dead TV show.

Are you glad to hear that Evil Dead Rise has crossed the $100 million mark? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

If you’d like to pre-order the digital release on Amazon, you can do so at THIS LINK. The Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K releases can be pre-ordered HERE.

A new teaser trailer has been released for the Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City, coming to AMC in June

The Walking Dead wrapped up its run after 11 seasons, but there are multiple spin-offs coming our way. There’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne, and The Walking Dead: Dead City – which will lead the pack with a June 18th premiere. Since The Walking Dead: Dead City will be airing on AMC in just over a month, a new teaser trailer for the show has arrived online today. You can watch it in the embed at the bottom of this article.

Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons, serves as showrunner on The Walking Dead: Dead City, which centers on Maggie and Negan, the characters that have been played by Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan since season 2 and 6 (respectively) of The Walking Dead. This show will see Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. The new promo seems to explain why Maggie has Negan join her on this journey, and why they need to go to Manhattan in the first place.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Cohan revealed that The Walking Dead: Dead City will pick up “a few years” after the conclusion of The Walking Dead.

Joining Cohan and Morgan in the cast are Mahina Napoleon (NCIS: Hawai’i), Zeljko Ivanek (Madam Secretary), and Jonathan Higginbotham (Shining Vale). Details on their characters are being kept under wraps, but we do know that Gaius Charles (Fright Night Lights) is playing Izaak, who is “confident, ruthless, and unyielding in the pursuit of what he believes is justice, with the force of his will and his menace. Izaak enjoys his work and intersperses humor with the terror he incites. This is a family man, devoted to building a safe world for his wife and daughters. His journey unearths a loss he is haunted by. He has patience and resilience and walks rather than runs from his mistakes.”

Undead Walking suggests that Karina Ortiz (Orange Is the New Black) and Caleb Reese Paul (The Other Two) may be in the cast as well, but their involvement hasn’t been officially announced at this point.

Cohan, Morgan, and Jorné are executive producing The Walking Dead: Dead City with Scott M. Gimple, the Chief Content Officer of the Walking Dead Universe.

I watched The Walking Dead in its entirety, and will be following the stories of its characters in these spin-offs as well. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s going to happen on The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Are you going to watch The Walking Dead: Dead City? What do you think of the new teaser trailer? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Here’s the new teaser trailer:

Will Poulter spills on joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Adam Warlock in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.

After being teased in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, it was only a matter of time before Adam Warlock made his official debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The super-powered character is a warrior who has been genetically engineered to destroy the Guardians, but he’s also a bit dim as he was removed from his cocoon a little too early. Will Poulter plays Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, and he spoke with Entertainment Weekly about how he got involved in the project.

“I was shooting a project in London, and I got a request to audition and make a tape for ‘Untitled Marvel Project,’” Will Poulter said. “My mate Ethan put me on tape for it. I didn’t quite know what it was at that time and thought there was next to zero chance of me hearing anything back from this tape. And then, I did hear something back. Over time, I got through various stages and ended up covered in gold makeup, screen-testing in front of James Gunn in Atlanta in September, three months later. It was quite a strange, secretive audition process, but ultimately I was very honored to get the part of Adam Warlock.”

Will Poulter had a screen test in which he wore gold clothes, was covered in gold makeup, and even wore a pair of gold Air Max 95s. “I shouldn’t have even been thinking about that,” Poulter said of the gold Nikes. “I should have been thinking about the lines that I had to learn. But I was thinking, ‘Oh, this is quite cool. I’m in gold Nikes.’” The actor spilled a fun fact that the bottom of Adam Warlock’s boots in the movie are actually Air Max 95 soles

As for what attracted Will Poulter to the character, he said, “I think the fact that this was someone who was in his infancy and trying to discover his way in the world. Even in a relatively limited period of time in this movie, I got to explore what his maturation looked like and how he started to sort of carve out his moral compass and decide the sort of being he wanted to be. How much he was going to align himself with the Sovereign, what his relationship to the Guardians was going to be. It was full of ambiguity and nuance, and James was down to explore it all. So, it was nice to find out that we were kind of on the same page in that regard, and we could get our teeth into that kind of material.“

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 finds our beloved band of misfits settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them. The first reactions to the threequel have been reasonably positive, with some calling it the best Marvel movie since Endgame.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 will hit theaters on May 5th, so be sure to check out the review from our own Chris Bumbray.

We revisit some of the now iconic locations from Everything Everywhere All At Once!

Ever since its debut at SXSW last year, the Michelle Yeoh-fronted multiverse comedy, Everything Everywhere All At Once by The Daniels has been blowing audiences away. It made over $100 million at the box office and seems to be the rare film that critics and audiences agreed on. It’s currently leading most Oscar polls, but it was also the movie that raked in the most votes on our own fan-voted awards, The Golden Schmoes. Clearly, this movie has something for everyone.

In this episode of Where It Was Made, our writer/director/editor/host Ryan Cultrera takes us through the movie’s iconic filming locations. Starting at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, where the film is expected to clean up on Sunday night, Ryan takes us through the mostly Simi Valley-based locations where the movie was made. All of the now classic locations are visited, from the laundromat that Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband (Ke Huy Quan) call home to the tax headquarters some of the best fights take place, to the rock universe that features on the movie’s most profound scenes, we visit them all. We also dig into the movie’s production, with Everything Everywhere All At Once actually having been shot pre-pandemic, with the film wrapping just days before Covid-19 brought many projects to a standstill.

Indeed, Everything Everywhere All At Once is a Cinderella story as far as movies go, with no one initially expecting a ton from the A24-fronted indie. In the end, it walked away with a boatload of Oscars, and many already consider it a modern classic!

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is finally playing in theaters, so let us know what you thought of the finale to James Gunn’s trilogy.

It’s been a long road, but Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 has finally arrived in theaters. After James Gunn was fired from the project by Disney, it seemed as though the project might not happen, but the Guardians of the Galaxy cast came out in support of their director and Gunn was able to return to complete his trilogy. The film has gotten off to a good start at the box-office, taking in $17.5 million in Thursday night previews.

The latest installment of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise finds our beloved band of misfits settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them. James Gunn wrote and directed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, which which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, and Maria Bakalova

Our own Chris Bumbray admitted that he hasn’t enjoyed the last few MCU offerings, but he called Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 the best Marvel movie since Avengers: Endgame. “While not perfect, [Guardians 3] is still a very entertaining addition to the genre, working as a space opera independent of the MCU,” Bumbray wrote in his review. “It’s impressive they gave Gunn the leeway to do this, as even Wakanda Forever was saddled with a degree of Marvel world-building that felt tacked on to what was otherwise a solid stand-alone movie.” You can check out the rest of Bumbray’s review right here.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is currently sitting at 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, which places it behind Guardians of the Galaxy at 92% and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 at 85%. Please let us know what you thought of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 in the comments below!

Marvel Studios has delayed Blade due to the writers strike, just weeks before production was set to begin in Atlanta.

Marvel Studios was set to begin production on Blade next month in Atlanta, but THR has reported that the project has been delayed due to the ongoing writers strike.

Cast and crew members on Blade are being informed of the delay this afternoon, with production set to restart once the writers strike is over. Marvel recently hired True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto to work on the script. Pizzolatto had reportedly been working off the existing script by Michael Starrbury (When They See Us) for several weeks, but an insider told THR that “time simply ran out.“

Marvel movies typically involve a lot of story changes during production, so the studio likely didn’t feel confident enough to start shooting Blade with the existing script. Although Marvel has delayed Blade, they do have several projects currently shooting, including Captain America: New World Order, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, and Wonder Man. In the case of the Captain America sequel, a rival production executive theorized to THR that Marvel may just shoot what they can, “then wait for the reshoots.” Marvel movies always plan on reshoots, but if the strike lasts a particularly long time, those reshoots may have to wait a while. Deadpool 3 is slated to start shooting later this month in London, with Thunderbolts eyeing a June start date. It remains to be seen if these projects will stay on track.

Yann Demange (White Boy Rick) is set to direct Blade for Marvel. In addition to Mahershala Ali, Blade will also star Delroy Lindo and Mia Goth. The character of Blade was originally created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan for The Tomb of Dracula #10 in 1973. Blade is a half-mortal, half-immortal who hunts vampires in order to avenge his mother, who was killed by a vampire as she gave birth to him. Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) was originally attached to direct Blade, but he wound up stepping down last year, leaving Marvel to push pause on pre-production while they searched for a replacement.

Blade is slated for a September 6, 2024 release, but that could change depending on how long the writers strike lasts.

Warner Bros. drops a trio of new posters for The Flash, featuring worlds colliding between Batman, Superman, and the scarlet speedster.

After months of hype, including DC Studios head James Gunn claiming that it’s “probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made,” The Flash is nearly upon us. The DC movie will hit theaters next month and Warner Bros. have released a trio a new posters for The Flash for your viewing pleasure. You can check out the new Flash posters below.

The new Flash posters feature the main trio, which includes Micheal Keaton as Batman, Sasha Calle as Supergirl, and Ezra Miller as the scarlet speedster. The first screening of The Flash took place at CinemaCon in Las Vegas last month and our own Chris Bumbray was in attendance. “Believe the hype folks – truly one of the great superhero movies,” Bumbray wrote in his first reaction. “Ezra Miller (x2), Sasha Calle and MICHAEL KEATON. It’s pretty perfect and one of the best films of this type you could ever hope to see.” You can check out more first reactions right here.

While I’m definitely looking forward to The Flash, I’ve been trying to keep my expectations in check. It feels like the hype has risen to such extremes that the film couldn’t possibly live up to it… unless it could. Easy now, Kevin. At the very least, I’m sure the movie will be an entertaining ride, and sometimes, that’s all we need.

“Worlds collide in The Flash when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past,” reads the official synopsis of The Flash. “But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for. Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?“

The Flash will hit theaters on June 16th.