Sonic the Hedgehog 2 blew away its predecessor with the biggest opening ever for a movie based on a video game and the first $70 million+ opening for a PG rated movie since Frozen II in 2019 while the latest from Michael Bay failed to take off and gave the master of Bayhem his lowest opening ever.

When singer/songwriter Michael Penn provided the score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film Boogie Nights in 1997, PTA returned the favor by directing the music video for Penn’s song “Try”, which was the opening song of Penn’s 1997 album Resigned.

A bunch of TV renewals and new shows coming to Apple TV+, Paramount+ and HBO/HBO Max, the Star Trek: TNG cast is reuniting for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, Orphan Black coming back with a spin-off series, Zack Snyder adds a bunch of new cast members to his Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris talk about a bunch of TV news, including new Apple TV+ and Paramount+ shows, the latest attempt to reboot The Crow, The Adam Project, the bland absurdity of Morbius, The 355, the various NCIS spin-offs, the Sherlock Holmesverse and more.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 speeds into theaters this weekend along with the latest from Michael Bay, Ambulance, All the Old Knives on Prime Video, Metal Lords on Netflix, and more on streaming and in theaters.

With Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hitting theaters this weekend, it seems like a perfect time to highlight another Sonic animated series for Everything Action Theater. You can watch the first episode of the anime series Sonic X, created by the legendary TMS Entertainment.

When a dangerous cyberweapon is lost during a mission, CIA agent Mason “Mace” Brown joins forces with an international team of female operatives to track it down and stop it from falling into the wrong hands and causing global chaos.

Riding high from Spider-Man: No Way Home, Sony crashed back down to Earth for the unbelievably bland Morbius, the latest movie in their bizarre Spider-Man side universe.

Scream (2022) is out this week on DVD and Blu-ray along with Death on the Nile, the first season of the CSI revival, Gomorrah spin-off The Immortal, Soapdish and The Violent Breed on Blu-ray and more.

Morbius topped the box office over the weekend but it was probably much softer of an opening than Sony was hoping for, especially compared to the Venom movies, which both opened to at least double or more of Morbius’s $39 million domestic.