Here’s a possible movie adaptation that snuck by me during my"Hollywood! Adapt This!“days: Paramount Pictures has picked up the film rights to the classic Jakks Pacific toy,Creepy Crawlers. For the uninitiated / folks who didn’t live through the 90s, the toy is a sort of creepified EZ Bake Oven except that it used insect molds to churn out lots and lots of plasticized bugs used to creep out your younger siblings and prank your friends....

The Korean film magazine FILOrecently published their ‘best of 2021’and covered directorBong Joon-Ho’s favorite films of 2021. Known for such films asSnowpiercerand the Oscar-winningParasite, Director Bong has become one of the most revered and well-respected directors working in the world, so his opinion is highly valued. Director Bong’s list features a wide array of films, some of which are heavily favored in the current Oscar season but some of which you may not have heard of....

Rob Zombiehas become one of the most polarizing filmmakers in modern horror cinema. He has shown great vision and passion in creating gritty, nightmarish portrayals of evil. Yet the increasing flaws in his films, especially some of his most recent films, must be acknowledged. Zombie’s earliest work wasn’t perfect, but it showed the potential of what he could tap into, both honoring the films that made him a horror fan and building off them to establish his own identity as a filmmaker....

Spy Kidsis one ofRobert Rodriguez’s best movies. But more importantly for this piece of news:Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, a soft reboot of that family franchise, is one of Robert Rodriguez’s best movies. And the fact that four entries into a franchise, with new kids and new ideas, the filmmaker can still burst out imaginative, worthy stories to this beloved world makes me more excited about an upcoming reimagining ofSpy Kids, from the mind of Rodriguez himself....

Prime Video has been on a roll with its releases in 2024. This past summer, the streaming platform released the highly anticipated Season 4 ofThe Boys, whichamassed 1.3 billion minutes viewedduring its finale. Apart fromThe Boys, Prime Video also releasedSausage Party: Foodtopia, based on the 2016 animated featureSausage Party, and the DC animated seriesBatman: Caped Crusader,a gritty, noir-inspired reimagining of the Batman loreexploring the political unrest in Gotham City. In addition to television series, the streaming platform premiered original films such as the tear-jerkingCeline DiondocumentaryI Am: Celine Dion, and the lighthearted family flickMy Spy: The Eternal City....

Editor’s Note: The below contains spoilers for X-Men ‘97 Episode 6. How do you follow up on one of the most beautiful, devastating episodes of a series viewers have ever seen? Go galactic. At least, that seems to be the course series creatorBeau DeMayotook for the sixth episode of the Disney+ seriesX-Men ‘97. A continuation of the historicX-Men: The Animated Series, created byEric Lewald,Sidney Iwanter, andMark Edens, this Marvel program has been shocking audiences since its premiere, but really shook viewers to their core with the destruction of mutant haven Genosha atthe end of Episode 5....

With 25 years under its belt,Law & Order: SVUhas made television history by beingthe longest-running police procedural, and in those 25 years, it has gone through many changes, some for the better, some for the worse. But ultimately, the series has stayed just as engaging, prevalent, and important now as it was when it aired back in 1999. That being said, the show likely wouldn’t have the success it does without the addition of its lead characters, Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni)....

Comic-Con Experience 2022 (CCXP) in São Paulo, Brazil, brought forth a lot of exciting news, and this piece of news adds to the excitementStar Warsfans must be feeling right now. Everyone at CCXP received a limited edition poster with concept art from Season 3 ofThe Mandalorian, and Collider’s very ownSteven Weintraubwas there to snap a picture.The poster art shows Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu, the little Yoda look-alike, standing outside what looks like a prosperous little town....

At Comic-Con last Saturday, Marvel Studios laid out their entire Phase 4 plan. The plan encompassed five series (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,WandaVision,Loki,What If…?, andHawkeye) and five movies (Black Widow,Eternals,Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, andThor: Love and Thunder). However, Marvel plans things out much further than just two years, and they even proved that on state by announcing a newBlademovie for Phase 5....

With the parent show ofThe Walking Deaduniverse now almost in our rearview mirror, more details have begun to emerge about the upcoming spin-offs lined up to engage fans when the curtains finally come down on the zombie show. One of those is the spin-off focused onNorman Reedus’Daryl Dixon. Announced to be in development in 2020, the spin-off was initially planned to center on the characters of Daryl and Carol but was later retooled as a Daryl-only spin-off after filming logistics sawMelissa McBridewho plays Carol exit the show....

TriStar Pictureshas just released two new images from their upcoming filmThe Woman KingstarringViola Davis, which is set to be released to theaters later this year. The new images and her statement were shared on the first day of Black History Month, andThe Woman Kingis certainly an apt subject for a month dedicated to otherwise overlooked figures in history. The Woman Kingtells the story of Nanisca (Davis), a general of a female military group in the Kingdom of Dahomey, which was one of the most powerful states in the continent of Africa during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....

During his post-DollarsTrilogyand pre-Dirty Harryera,Clint Eastwoodstarred inthe revisionist Western drama,Hang ‘Em High. In one of Eastwood’s most underrated films, he portrays a retired lawman, Jed Cooper, who is wrongfully hung for a crime he didn’t commit. The act puts Cooper on a ruthless path of vengeance against the men who tried to kill him. However, during Cooper’s macabre pursuit of vengeance,he fails to find any peace or solace. It’s time to take a deeper look at one of Eastwood’s best films that would set the tone for his more renowned and celebrated entries in the Western genre....

Ida Lupino’s 1953 true crimenoir,The Hitch-Hiker, sees Collins (Edmond O’Brien) and Gilbert (Frank Lovejoy)accidentally pick up Emmet Myers (William Talman), a violent murderer and escaped convict. The film centers around whether or not the pair will be able to escape Myers before he kills them.The Hitch-Hikeris a great watchfor anyone wishing to study character writing and how to maximize every aspect of storytelling. Not many films could be made with a small budget and essentially just three characters and hold such a tense and engaging narrative....