Battle at the Box Office 12/16
Jumanji: The Next Level continued its predecessor’s box office domination with a huge opening just shy of $60 million while the other new releases struggled with some of the worst wide openings ever.
Musical Montage: Al Green & Annie Lennox “Put A Little Love in Your Heart”
While Bill Murray’s Frank Cross leads a version of “Put A Little Love in Your Heart” after he’s filled with the Christmas spirit in 1988’s Scrooged, Annie Lennox and Al Green provided the version for the movie’s soundtrack, which spent 17 weeks on the music charts.
News Shotgun 12/14
The great Danny Aiello passed away, the Home Alone reboot gets its first cast members, a popular Star Wars comics character might be getting her own Disney+ show, The Dark Half is getting a reboot, 25 new films were added to the National Film Registry and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 465 “Wonder Woman 84, No Time to Die, Black Widow and More”
This week on the podcast, Zach and Chris talk about some huge trailers that came out over the last week or so, including Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow and No Time to Die, the return of another classic Resident Evil game, a middling new Dolph Lundgren movie, Crisis on Infinite Earths and more.
Admit One 12/13
The Jumanji gang returns for Jumanji: The Next Level, Black Christmas returns with another reboot and Clint Eastwood tells another true story with Richard Jewell this weekend at the theater.
Everything Action Theater: Jumanji The Series
After the release of Jumanji in 1995, UPN developed an animated series based on the movie for their UPN Kids block of programming starting in 1996 as Peter and Judy Shepherd entered the world of Jumanji to join Alan Parrish on various adventures and figure out a way to get Alan out of the game and back into the real world.
Action Hero of the Week: Edward Boyce
One of a few survivors of a paratrooper squad sent into France before D-Day to destroy a radio tower in a German-occupied town, Edward Boyce and his squad mates uncover a secret lab that is conducting horrific experiments.
A Group of Vets Return to Battle in VFW (Trailer)
When a young girl with a gigantic cache of stolen drugs takes refuge at his VFW bar, Fred (Stephen Lang) and his buddies decide to dust off their old war skills to defend the girl and the bar from a vicious drug dealer and his goons.
Review: Hard Night Falling
Dolph Lundgren stars as Interpol agent Michael Anderson, who has to keep his wife and daughter safe when a mercenary named Goro takes the attendees of a gala at an Italian villa hostage in an attempt to locate and steal a cache of valuable gold coins hidden on the premises.
New Release Round Up 12/10
Some of the bigger late summer and fall releases are out this week on DVD and Blu-Ray including IT Chapter Two, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Hustlers, TV like Family Guy and Suits, possible future bad movie legend The Fanatic and more.