New Release Round Up 7/5/22
Edge of Tomorrow gets a new 4K release along with critical and box office darling Everything Everywhere All at Once, Okja and The Virgin Suicides joining the Criterion Collection, the Liam Neeson movie Memory, and more on DVD and Blu-ray this week.
Battle at the Box Office 7/4/22
There are still plenty of Minions fans out there as Minions: The Rise of Gru cruised to a massive victory over the Fourth of July holiday weekend with over $100 million domestically, the second best opening for the Despicable Me franchise and the third biggest Fourth of July weekend opening of all time.
Musical Montage: Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”
Along with the miniseries in 1955 on the Disneyland TV series, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” on radios helped set off a Davy Crockett craze and there were three different versions that all charted on the Billboard charts, with the version by Bill Hayes hitting #1.
News Shotgun 7/2/22
The Old Man and Magnum PI are returning for new seasons while Tom Swift was canceled, Cameron Diaz is coming out of retirement to co-star with Jamie Foxx for a new Netflix movie, James Bond won’t be back for a few years, Amazon adds cast members to their Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Fallout TV show and more in the News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 585 “The Boys, Obi-Wan, Hocus Pocus, James Bond and More”
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris talk about the first trailer for Hocus Pocus 2, fast food tie-ins, the long wait for a new James Bond, the season (series?) finale of Obi-Wan, the Herogasm episode of The Boys, Westworld Season 4, Harley Quinn, the return of Cameron Diaz and more.
Admit One 7/1/22
July kicks off with the return of the Minions in theaters along with Joey King as The Princess on Hulu, Kevin Dillon and Mel Gibson in Hot Seat and more in theaters and on streaming.
The Sons of Batman and Superman Battle Starro in Batman & Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (Trailer)
When Starro invades Earth and takes over the Justice League, it’s up to Batman and Superman’s sons, Damian Wayne and Jonathan Kent, to save the day in this October’s new DC Animated movie, Batman & Superman: Battle of the Super Sons.
Gamebox 2.0: Games of June 2022
As the summer heats up, we got the perfectly chilled games for you to cool down with. In our latest Gamebox 2.0, we played one of our most anticipated games of the year, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, tapped on our phones with Netflix’s Poinpy, vanguished evil spirits in Pocky & Rocky Reshrined, and more. Check out all the games we played this June below.
Melissa Barrera Battles the Elements in Keep Breathing (Trailer)
She survived Ghostface earlier this year in Scream but Melissa Barrera has to take on the inhospitable Canadian wilderness in the upcoming Netflix survival drama Keep Breathing, which arrives at the end of July.
Everything Action Theater: Jackie Chan’s First Strike
The fourth movie in the Police Story series, First Strike was another massive mid-90s hit for Jackie Chan, still his highest-grossing film ever in Hong Kong and a huge hit in the US as well following his previous hits like Supercop and Rumble in the Bronx.