The classic Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh is one of the network’s most beloved programs, so fans have been understandably excited about rumours of a reboot. Now, Drake Bell himself has come forward to discuss what might be coming up next.
Bell told E! that he and co-star Josh Peck have been talking, and Peck has come up with “some cool ideas” for what to do with a new version of Drake & Josh. Bell added that neither he nor Peck want to do a reboot or a “college years”-type version of the show.
“It has to be something cool; it has to be something creative. I think we’ve come up with something that’s a little bit more creative and a little more exciting,” he said.
That’s all Bell had to say on the matter, which is to be expected given that the new show–if it is even a show–hasn’t been announced yet.
The original Drake & Josh aired on Nickelodeon from 2004 to 2007. Bell and Peck play stepbrothers who don’t see eye-to-eye on much, with Miranda Cosgrove starring as their sister, Megan. A source told People that the new version would be “more adult.”
The show was known for its wacky humour, and Bell–who is also a musician in real life–wrote the show’s theme song, “Found A Way.” According to People, the new version of Drake & Josh is being shopped around to multiple networks, though none were named.
Drake & Josh would be just the latest reboot–or whatever you want to call it–based on a Nickelodeon show. Nickelodeon is making new All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark shows, while Bell has also talked about the possibility of an Amanda Show reboot.
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It’s not just the Hallmark Channel that’s dropping actress Lori Laughlin amid the ongoing college bribery scandal. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Laughlin won’t appear on the upcoming fifth season of Netflix’s popular family sitcom Fuller House.
Laughlin, who played Aunt Becky on the original Full House and portrayed her again in a guest-starring role on Fuller House, appeared in 13 of the new show’s 57 episodes.
The fifth season of Fuller House, which hasn’t started filming yet, is set to premiere on Netflix this fall. Sources told THR that the show’s production won’t be impacted by the drama surrounding Laughlin.
Laughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli were among those indicted in a national college bribery scandal. She and Giannulli reportedly paid $500,000 to help get their daughters into the University of Southern California. Actress Felicity Huffman was also implicated in the scandal.
This is just the latest round of controversy surrounding Fuller House. In 2018, Warner Bros. TV, the production company behind Full House and Fuller House, fired creator Jeff Franklin in the wake of allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
Microsoft has announced a brand-new testing program for the Halo series. The “Halo Inside Program,” as it’s called, is described by Microsoft as a “new way” for fans to work alongside developer 343 Industries to improve new releases by testing them before launch.
You can sign up right now, but be aware that doing so requires you to sign a confidentiality agreement. You’re then asked to take a survey with a series of questions related to your history with and interest in with the Halo franchise, including specific titles and modes. Later in the survey you’ll be asked to provide details that may get you into what 343 is calling “flighting” programs for upcoming Halo titles. These are pre-release testing periods in which 343 provides access to a subset of the community to gather feedback and data before rolling out publicly to everyone.
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This new Halo Insider Program will replace the MCC Insider Program that 343 used to test Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s numerous updates on Xbox One. Going forward, the Halo Insider Program will be the overarching program going forward to support all Halo titles, products, and services.” Even if you were already a member of the MCC Insider Program, you will need to re-register for the for Halo Insider Program.
You can improve your chances of being selected for a flight by ensuring your Halo Insider Program information is correct. For PC specifically, you’ll need to provide a DXDIAG upload and send over your SteamID.
“We know everyone is super eager and excited to get started but please be patient– tweeting at the team and posting in the forums asking to be included or demanding to know why you’re not included won’t help the process,” 343 said.
Even if you do get into the Halo Insider Program, you might not get selected for each flight. For example, on PC, 343 might want to test future Halo releases against specific hardware configurations, so not everyone may be needed.
“With MCC on PC specifically, the team is going to need to ensure they have specific representation across a broad matrix of PC hardware configurations,” 343 said.
Those who get into a flight will want to make sure they participate, as 343 might not invite you back if you don’t.
“Often flights require a critical mass of players online at a particular time, and maybe in a particular region, so your location and availability could also come into play. Once flighting is up and running, the team will likely also focus on active participants who play and provide feedback as candidates for ongoing flighting while players who don’t actually participate may find they’re not included in subsequent releases.”
You can read more about the Halo Insider Program here in this detailed FAQ.
The upcoming release of Halo: MCC on PC will happen in stages, with each title releasing individually, so it seems likely that 343 will test each game with Halo Insider members first before rolling each title out widely to everyone. Looking further out, Microsoft has already confirmed that Halo Infinite will be playable early through flighting, so it seems the Halo Insider Program is returning for that game as well.
Following in the harrowing footsteps of Season 4’s “The Grove,” this week’s half-flashback episode, all about the morbid events that caused Michonne to close her heart – and Alexandria’s doors – to strangers, was a suspenseful and gruesome affair. It wasn’t rock solid, but it’s been a while since the show’s dabbled in extreme violence toward children (Carl doesn’t count as he’d aged out and was fair game) so there was a super harsh vibe here, which I dug. And what Michonne endured felt severe enough to, indeed, change her worldview for the years that followed.
It made sense to have Michonne get duped by a close childhood friend (played by True Blood/Queen Sugar’s Rutina Wesley), whom she obviously didn’t know had turned savage and sinister, but there still really wasn’t enough time to establish their previous relationship enough to make the betrayal feel shocking. Also, we knew going into this that bad s*** had gone down, so bitter betrayal was kind of the only option. If the episode had consisted of all flashbacks, we might have gotten a few more scenes with them to sell their past closeness.
More details have come to light about DC’s upcoming Suicide Squad sequel. Producer Peter Safran told Joblo that the sequel is a “total reboot,” so it shouldn’t be referred to as Suicide Squad. The name the studio is using is The Suicide Squad, though whether or not this is the final name or a working title remains unconfirmed.
“First of all, we don’t call it Suicide Squad 2 ’cause it’s a total reboot, so it’s The Suicide Squad and I think people should be extremely excited about it,” Safran said.
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, who was recently re-instated for Vol. 3, will write and direct The Suicide Squad. Regarding the script, Safran said, “It’s everything you would hope from a James Gunn script and I think that says a lot and that promises a lot and I know that we will deliver a lot.”
The intriguing angle of this story is that, now that he’s back making Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Gunn is directing movies for both DC and Marvel. Safran said he and Gunn agree that the Marvel vs. DC rivalry is “absurd,” and everything is going to be just fine.
“You know what I love about James directing for both Marvel and DC is he has always espoused the view that that which unites comic book and superhero lovers is much greater than that which divides us,” Safran said. “Because, there’s always been this Marvel/DC rivalry, which he has said, and I agree, is absurd. There’s room for everybody and certainly that which unites us all is far greater than that which divides us, so hopefully they’ll see that you can be both a Marvel and a DC fan and the world won’t spin off its axis.”
It’s not exactly what what the description “total reboot” means for The Suicide Squad 2. What we do know is that Idris Elba will play Deadshot in the sequel, taking over the role from Will Smith.
The Suicide Squad comes to theatres in August 2021. A recent intriguing report says the film will add a number of characters from the DC Comics world, including Ratcatcher, King Shark, Polka-Dot Man, and Peacemaker.
This interview contains spoilers for Supergirl Season 4, episode 15, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Jon Cryer is no stranger to the Superman universe – as Super-fans know, he previously played Lenny Luthor, nephew of Lex, in the critically-derided Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. In fact, it was that role (and the reaction to it) that helped convince the Two and a Half Men star that he should take another swing at the Luthor family tree when the producers of Supergirl came knocking.
“I loved the comics as a kid, and part of the reason that I did Superman 4 was because Superman: The Movie, the first one, changed my life,” Cryer told reporters at a recent Supergirl screening. “I think I was 14 years old and the tagline was ‘You will believe a man can fly,’ and boy I bought it… Superman 4 had very high hopes, but unfortunately was very disappointing to people, and that had always sort of hurt me in a very 14-year-old boy way. And so, I thought, ‘this is my chance to do it right.'”
Captain Marvel, which is currently in its second weekend since its debut on March 8, has become the 7th fastest MCU film to hit $200 million at the US domestic box office.
Via Box Office Mojo, Captain Marvel has earned an estimated $69.4 million in its second weekend in theaters and crossed the $200 million mark on March 15, 2019 — only eight days after its release. Its current box office United States cumulative gross is $266 million after 10 days (a 54.8% drop week over week), while it’s brought in $760 million worldwide.
This is an advance review out of the SXSW film festival. Pet Sematary opens April 4 in the UK and AU and April 5 in the US.
This new version of Pet Sematary — an adaptation of Stephen King’s seminal novel of the same name, which was previously made into a film in 1989 — is an example where sometimes remakes are better. Whatever one’s feelings are on the original film, though, this new Pet Sematary stands alone a gripping piece of horror entertainment marked by strong performances, an ever-escalating sense of doom, and, as the movie crosses firmly into the ghoulish, a delightfully dark wit.
Skillfully directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, who previously directed 2014’s Starry Eyes, Pet Sematary quickly establishes a pervasive sense of dread that extends from the otherworldly woods of the titular burial ground to what should be the safety and sanctity of a family home. And for the film’s central Creed family — doctor-dad Louis, mom Rachel, and kids Ellie and Gage, who recently relocated from Boston to the small town of Ludlow, Maine — their new home and its unfathomably evil surroundings will impress upon them that death will find anyone, anywhere, anytime.
After the second trailer for the remake of Pet Sematary dropped, there were some divisive reactions. Remakes in general are not always well received, and for every good Stephen King adaptation like It, we get a Dark Tower or two. With the new Pet Sematary, directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer take some major departures from the source material that made people think the marketing for the film gave away everything. But the Starry Eyes directors have more aces up their sleeves. This new remake dares ask to ask: What if dead was not better?
Those not familiar with the novel or film need not worry, however, for Pet Sematary is a highly entertaining, terrifying, and fun movie all on its own. Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) is tired of the city life, so he decides to move his family from Boston to rural Maine to spend more time with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz), and their two young children, 8-year-old Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and 3-year-old Gage (Hugo and Lucas Lavoie). One day Ellie discovers a procession of kids in creepy animal masks heading to a mysterious burial ground in the woods near the family’s new home. There, she meets her neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), who tells the story of the titular pet cemetery that houses beloved and departed pets (and, because this is Stephen King we’re talking about, also something more ancient and sinister).
At 101 minutes, Pet Sematary has a great pace that makes it feel like the movie is shorter than it is, leaving you wishing you could see more of this twisted tale. By nature of the story, the major scares don’t begin until about halfway through the movie, but Buhler is an impatient writer and the script wants to scare you as soon as it can–and it succeeds. There are plenty of smaller scares that whet your appetite for the madness that will follow.
The film doesn’t shy away from showing you some horrific and gory stuff, including a scene in which a character’s face is half scraped off with his brain hanging out from his skull. It’s an unnerving and visceral sight that will have horror fans cheering in the theater. And those expecting a certain scalpel to play a part in the film should be excited for Pet Sematary, as the scene in question is as gory as you would expect.
There are plenty of surprises both for longtime fans of the story and those coming in blind. The script by Jeff Buhler expects you to be familiar with the story, because it wants to make you feel like you know what is going to happen next. You anticipate the pivotal moments from the older movie and the book, right before Buhler pulls the rug from under you and makes you jump in fear or laugh at the clever ways the script and Kölsch and Widmyer’s direction subverts expectations.
One of the biggest changes takes place in an elaborate and tense scene that acknowledges the audience expectations and then hits you in the face with a truck. It is also a change that works perfectly for this adaptation. Pet Sematary takes full advantage of this change to explore questions about mortality, grief and what we would do if we were in that situation.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the story is how it addresses grief, and how hard it is to let go of loved ones after they die. Jeté Laurence plays Ellie with a nuance not commonly seen in such young actors. Jason Clarke is great as Louis, but it is Amy Seimetz as Rachel who is the highlight of the film. Rachel has a bigger character arc in this version of the story, exploring her proximity to death more closely. And fans of Zelda need not worry, as Pet Sematary takes her part in the story and elevates it to new and more horrific heights.
Despite having plenty of gruesome imagery, Pet Sematary is also morbidly funny. Buhler’s script and Kölsch and Widmyer’s direction doesn’t rely on jokes, but on the messed-up situations the Creed family gets involved in. This is a pitch-black film with a bleak third act that also features a scene with a hairbrush that will have audiences squirming and laughing at the same time.
In an age where every film is getting a remake or a reboot, Pet Sematary might actually be better than the original. It’s terrifying, twisted, heartbreaking, morbidly funny, and a hell of a fun time.
The Good
The Bad
Third act is bananas in all the twisted and dark ways imaginable
John Lithgow doesn’t have as much to do as one would expect
Jeté Laurence is a revelation
Will turn you off from wanting to have kids
Smart changes from the source material
Doesn’t shy away from being gory and morbidly funny