Battle at the Box Office 12/20/21
After two years of diminished returns at the box office, Spider-Man: No Way Home delivered the kind of opening we haven’t seen since Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars with the second biggest opening of all time domestically and a massive global debut as well.
Musical Montage: Hailee Steinfeld “Starving”
Along with Kate Bishop and her other recent nerdy roles, Hailee Steinfeld also has a prolific pop music career with 2016’s “Starving” being her biggest hit to date, reaching #12 on the Billboard charts and going 4x Platinum in the US as well as being a hit in many other countries around the globe.
News Shotgun 12/18/21
Disney+ is getting a Zorro reboot, Mega Man is coming to live-action on Netflix, the National Film Registry adds 25 new films to the Library of Congress, Blue Beetle moves from HBO Max to theaters, The CW is developing a Gotham Knights series and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 561 “Nic Cage, The Game Awards, MacGruber, Zorro and More”
This week on the Everything Actioncast podcast, Zach and Chris talk about Nicolas Cage playing Nicolas Cage, all the big reveals from The Game Awards, the first episode of the new MacGruber series, a new Zorro series coming to Disney+, Hawkeye episode 5, the quick cancelation of the live-action Cowboy Bebop and more.
Admit One 12/17/21
Spider-Man: No Way Home finally arrives in theaters this weekend along with the latest from Guillermo Del Toro, Nightmare Alley, and an original movie on almost every major streaming platform, like Rumble on Paramount+ and Mother/Android on Hulu.
The Righteous Gemstones Return in January (Trailer)
The Gemstone family finally returns after over two years away with all new schemes and predicaments from new characters played by Eric Andre, Eric Roberts, and Jason Schwartzman in the upcoming second season of The Righteous Gemstones.
Romancing the Stone Meets 21 Jump Street in The Lost City (Trailer)
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum team up next March for the adventure comedy The Lost City, which seems to be taking lots of cues from the Robert Zemeckis classic Romancing the Stone.
Up to Speed: MacGruber Season 1
In case you need a refresher before watching the new MacGruber Peacock series, there’s a musical recap from the wonderful Maya Rudolph aka Casey MacGruber to remind you what happened in the cult classic movie.
Everything Action Theater: Small Soldiers
A favorite of everyone at Everything Action and for a ton of fellow 90s kids, you can watch 1998’s Small Soldiers in the latest Everything Action theater.
Action Hero of the Week: Todd Hewitt
On the planet New World, Todd Hewitt is a colonist and farmer who, like all men, have every thought projected as The Noise. When he encounters a girl named Viola, who crash lands on the planet, he sets out on a mission to protect her from the sinister Mayor Prentiss, who wants to contact Viola’s ship and take it over by force when it arrives.