I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain ... on Broadway? That could be in the offing some time in the near future, as news has broken that Purple Rain, the classic ’80s rock film starring (and with music by) Prince, is being adapted as a stage musical. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Purple Rain on stage “will feature a score by Prince, who died in 2016, a book by Pulitzer-Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose play Appropriate is currently on Broadway, and direction by Lileana Blain-Cruz, who recently helmed Skin of Our...…I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain ... on Broadway? That could be in the offing some time in the near future, as news has broken that Purple Rain, the classic ’80s rock film starring (and with music by) Prince, is being adapted as a stage musical. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Purple Rain on stage “will feature a score by Prince, who died in 2016, a book by Pulitzer-Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose play Appropriate is currently on Broadway, and direction by Lileana Blain-Cruz, who recently helmed Skin of Our...WW…

If you go by the calendar, the 1990s weren’t that long ago. Nostalgia for the period runs deep and strong through a lot of modern pop culture. People born at the tail end of the decade just started drinking legally. It doesn’t feel like a bygone era If you go by the movies of the ’90s though, that decade took place approximately 800 million years ago. Many of the films of that time — including some of its biggest box-office hits, and even a couple of Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards — have held up about as well as unrefrigerated milk. Some will leave about as...…If you go by the calendar, the 1990s weren’t that long ago. Nostalgia for the period runs deep and strong through a lot of modern pop culture. People born at the tail end of the decade just started drinking legally. It doesn’t feel like a bygone era If you go by the movies of the ’90s though, that decade took place approximately 800 million years ago. Many of the films of that time — including some of its biggest box-office hits, and even a couple of Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards — have held up about as well as unrefrigerated milk. Some will leave about as...WW…

Think physical media is dead? Try telling that to the people who spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on Blu-rays and box sets recently on eBay. While overall Blu-ray and DVD sales are certainly down from their peak, the aftermarket for physical media is still going very strong. In fact, the wider decline in home video might be helping demand for certain discs. Fewer of these movies get made, and fewer of these movies are sold. That means there are fewer to go around for those that do want them. And that can lead to some higher prices. Like the ones you are...…Think physical media is dead? Try telling that to the people who spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on Blu-rays and box sets recently on eBay. While overall Blu-ray and DVD sales are certainly down from their peak, the aftermarket for physical media is still going very strong. In fact, the wider decline in home video might be helping demand for certain discs. Fewer of these movies get made, and fewer of these movies are sold. That means there are fewer to go around for those that do want them. And that can lead to some higher prices. Like the ones you are...WW…

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier would have been a great title for the final Star Trek movie. As it turned out, the film was so disliked it almost was the final Star Trek movie, and perhaps would have been the franchise’s farewell if not for two key factors. For one, while The Final Frontier was the lowest-grossing Star Trek film to that point, it was still profitable, grossing roughly $70 million worldwide against a budget of some $30 million. For another, 1991 marked the 25th anniversary of the first Star Trek television series,...…Star Trek V: The Final Frontier would have been a great title for the final Star Trek movie. As it turned out, the film was so disliked it almost was the final Star Trek movie, and perhaps would have been the franchise’s farewell if not for two key factors. For one, while The Final Frontier was the lowest-grossing Star Trek film to that point, it was still profitable, grossing roughly $70 million worldwide against a budget of some $30 million. For another, 1991 marked the 25th anniversary of the first Star Trek television series,...WW…

Kevin Feige once gave Hugh Jackman some advice: Never undo the ending of Logan. (Whoops.) In an feature on Jackman’s possibly ill-advised return to Marvel movies in this summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine in Empire Magazine, Feige himself recalls this message he imparted to Jackman after Jackman released what was supposed to be his farewell to the character, in 2017’s Logan. “I said, ‘Let me give you a piece of advice, Hugh. Don’t come back’,” Feige said. He added... You had the greatest ending in history with Logan. That’s not something we should undo.   READ...…Kevin Feige once gave Hugh Jackman some advice: Never undo the ending of Logan. (Whoops.) In an feature on Jackman’s possibly ill-advised return to Marvel movies in this summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine in Empire Magazine, Feige himself recalls this message he imparted to Jackman after Jackman released what was supposed to be his farewell to the character, in 2017’s Logan. “I said, ‘Let me give you a piece of advice, Hugh. Don’t come back’,” Feige said. He added... You had the greatest ending in history with Logan. That’s not something we should undo.   READ...WW…

Lucasfilm Ltd.We’re nearing the end of Star Wars: Ahsoka, but the story is most certainly not going to stop there. The plan for the future of Star Wars involves a movie by Ahsoka creator Dave Filoni that will combine the stories of multiple Disney+ shows, including The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka, in an epic crossover saga.As to how this is all going to come together, that’s the subject of our latest Star Wars video. It compares what’s happened in Ahsoka to Grand Admiral Thrawn’s original introduction...…Lucasfilm Ltd.We’re nearing the end of Star Wars: Ahsoka, but the story is most certainly not going to stop there. The plan for the future of Star Wars involves a movie by Ahsoka creator Dave Filoni that will combine the stories of multiple Disney+ shows, including The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka, in an epic crossover saga.As to how this is all going to come together, that’s the subject of our latest Star Wars video. It compares what’s happened in Ahsoka to Grand Admiral Thrawn’s original introduction...WW…

Lucasfilm Ltd.The season (series? season?) finale of Ahsoka definitely did not bring its story to its close. If anything, it left the narrative with more unresolved elements than it started with in Episode 1. What happens next for Ezra Bridger now that he’s back in the main Star Wars galaxy? What was Baylan Skoll after with all of his scheming? And what was he planning to do at the end of the episode? Will we ever even see that character again, given that his actor, Ray Stevenson, passed away earlier this year? What is Thrawn’s plan now? And oh...…Lucasfilm Ltd.The season (series? season?) finale of Ahsoka definitely did not bring its story to its close. If anything, it left the narrative with more unresolved elements than it started with in Episode 1. What happens next for Ezra Bridger now that he’s back in the main Star Wars galaxy? What was Baylan Skoll after with all of his scheming? And what was he planning to do at the end of the episode? Will we ever even see that character again, given that his actor, Ray Stevenson, passed away earlier this year? What is Thrawn’s plan now? And oh...WW…

MarvelThe following post contains spoilers for Loki Season 2 Episode 1, “Ouroboros.”Well that was quite a premiere of Loki Season 2. Loki, Sylvie, and Mobius are back, and so are tons of new characters. Despite the events of Season 1, the TVA still exists, but now the timestream is branching wildly, and Loki himself is “time slipping” which is ... well that’s a question a lot of people have.In our latest video we try to figure out what exactly time slipping is, and why it’s happening to Loki, and we also break down the entire Loki Season 2 premiere, and point out...…MarvelThe following post contains spoilers for Loki Season 2 Episode 1, “Ouroboros.”Well that was quite a premiere of Loki Season 2. Loki, Sylvie, and Mobius are back, and so are tons of new characters. Despite the events of Season 1, the TVA still exists, but now the timestream is branching wildly, and Loki himself is “time slipping” which is ... well that’s a question a lot of people have.In our latest video we try to figure out what exactly time slipping is, and why it’s happening to Loki, and we also break down the entire Loki Season 2 premiere, and point out...WW…

Fox/Studio Ghibli/Warner Bros.During the pandemic, my family started a weekly Movie Night on Saturdays. (What else were we going to do? “Family Never Leave the House Nights” didn’t have quite the same ring.) Given my job watching and talking about films, I was quite happy with this development. And, to my pleasant surprise, this tradition has continued even as our social lives have returned.My wife and I both had movies we wanted to share with our kids, but when you are watching a new title almost every Saturday night, you eventually exhaust the films you know and turn...…Fox/Studio Ghibli/Warner Bros.During the pandemic, my family started a weekly Movie Night on Saturdays. (What else were we going to do? “Family Never Leave the House Nights” didn’t have quite the same ring.) Given my job watching and talking about films, I was quite happy with this development. And, to my pleasant surprise, this tradition has continued even as our social lives have returned.My wife and I both had movies we wanted to share with our kids, but when you are watching a new title almost every Saturday night, you eventually exhaust the films you know and turn...WW…

MarvelThe following recap has spoilers for the first episode of Loki Season 2.If you were hoping Loki would get the Marvel Cinematic Universe back to an emphasis on characters and their emotional arcs, and away from endless plot convolutions and the broader plot of “The Multiverse Saga” ... uh ... The Marvels is only a month away? Maybe that movie will do that stuff?Loki certainly did not. In fact, this was one of the least character-focused episodes of TV Marvel has produced to date yet for Disney+. The show’s Season 2 premiere, “Ouroboros,” was pretty much a mad dash...…MarvelThe following recap has spoilers for the first episode of Loki Season 2.If you were hoping Loki would get the Marvel Cinematic Universe back to an emphasis on characters and their emotional arcs, and away from endless plot convolutions and the broader plot of “The Multiverse Saga” ... uh ... The Marvels is only a month away? Maybe that movie will do that stuff?Loki certainly did not. In fact, this was one of the least character-focused episodes of TV Marvel has produced to date yet for Disney+. The show’s Season 2 premiere, “Ouroboros,” was pretty much a mad dash...WW…