Matt Singer is the editor and critic of the website ScreenCrush.com. For five years, he was the on-air host of IFC News on the Independent Film Channel, hosting coverage of film festivals and red carpets around the world. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, he’s been a frequent contributor to the television shows CBS This Morning Saturday and Ebert Presents At the Movies, and his writing has also appeared in print and online at The Village Voice, The Dissolve, and Indiewire. His first book, Marvel’s Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular, is on sale now.
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Weekend Box Office: ’Rampage’ Tramples ‘A Quiet Place’
Dwayne Johnson has another box office hit on his large, rock-like hands.
R. Lee Ermey, the Ultimate Cinematic Drill Instructor, Dies at 74
Ermey became world-famous for his role as the cruel Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket.’
John Morris, Composer of Classic Mel Brooks Songs, Dies at 91
Morris wrote the music for Brooks films like ‘The Producers,’ ‘Blazing Saddles,’ and ‘Spaceballs.’
Weekend Box Office: ‘Maze Runner’ Has the (Death) Cure for the January Blues
After three weekends at the top of the box office, ‘Jumanji’ was toppled by the third and final ‘Maze Runner’ film.
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Replaces Bryan Singer With Dexter Fletcher
Singer was fired following a prolonged absence from set. Rami Malek stars in the film as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury.
Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, the Ultimate Pro Wrestling Manager, Dies at 73
Heenan is arguably the pro wrestling greatest manager who ever lived. He died after a long battle with throat cancer.
Bumblebee Will Return to Volkswagen Bug Form in His Spinoff Movie
The Transformers movies are basically perfect except for one small problem: Bumblebee, the lovable Autobot hero, isn’t a Volkswagen Beetle, as he was in the original Transformers toys and cartoon series. (In the films, he’s a Chevy muscle car, the model of which varies based on whatever is Chevrolet’s hot new car of the moment.) Other than that? All five Transformers movies are basically 10/10, would own on Blu-ray.
Arnold Schwarzengger Won’t Do ‘Expendables 4’ Without Stallone
I got to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger this week, but just for a few minutes. We spoke about his new movie Aftermath, his career trajectory, his best one-liners, and the future of franchises like The Terminator and Conan the Barbarian. I didn’t ask him about The Expendables, because there just wasn’t enough time and, frankly, I’m not a huge fan of The Expendables series, which has never delivered on the promise of its amazing casts of ’80s and ’90s greats teaming up for action madness.
A New Report Says Daniel Craig Back Could Be Back as James Bond After All
The drama around who will play James Bond in the next (and 25th!) 007 adventure is already more intriguing than anything in the last 007 adventure. Incumbent Bond made it fairly clear during the press tour for Spectre that he wasn’t exactly dying to make another film as Britain’s greatest secret agent (unless I’m missing the subtext in his comment about preferring to slash his wrists rather than drink any more shaken martinis). Last summer, there came word that producers were very interested in Tom Hiddleston taking on the role for Bond 25. But a new report in Page Six says things have changed yet again.