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Iconic horror film The Ring is moving to 4K Ultra HD in a brand new Steelbook release from Paramount Home Media Distribution. According to Blu-ray.com, fans of Gore Verbinski's 2001 feature can look forward to the upcoming release, which is scheduled to arrive on the physical media market later this fall on October 15, 2024. The film stars Oscar-nominee Naomi Watts as Rachel Keller, Martin Henderson as Noah Clay, David Dorfman as Aidan Keller, Brian Cox as Richard Morgan, and Daveigh Chase as the haunting Samara Morgan. The Ring was first theatrically released to the United States on October 18, 2002, by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was a clear success at the box office, grossing over $249.3 million globally on a comparatively minimal budget of around $48 million. At the time, The Ring became one of the highest-grossing horror remakes ever made. The Ring sits at a comfortable Tomatometer score of 71% on Rotten Tomatoes. Following the success of The Ring,...

Brian Cox's 2022 movie Mending the Line is a global hit on Netflix with 6.9 million hours viewed. The movie was No. 10 on Netflix's Top 10 most-viewed English-language movies for the final week of March 2024. A return to theatrical hits may be on the horizon for Cox, with upcoming roles seemingly ensuring a bright future.

2022's Mending the Line, starring Succession's Brian Cox, has become a global streaming hit on Netflix. The movie, which holds a solid 76% score on Rotten Tomatoes, stars Cox as Ike Fletcher, a fly fisherman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with wounded veteran John Colter (Sinqua Walls). The movie, which also stars Perry Mattfeld, Patricia Heaton, and Wes Studi, played at festivals throughout 2022 before a quiet theatrical release in 2023, where it only earned $379,890 at the box office.

Netflix has now calculated their global chart for the Top 10 most-watched English-language movies for the week of March 25 through March...

"Mending the Line" follows the journey of a traumatized Marine forming an unlikely bond with a veteran through fishing therapy. The movie, directed by Joshua Caldwell, boasts a dynamic cast praised for their performances. The film's cast includes Brian Cox, Sinqua Walls, and Perry Mattfeld.

Mending the Line chronicles a traumatized Marine returning from war and striking an unlikely friendship with a hardened veteran, and the movie features a dynamic cast with various familiar faces. The drama film, directed by Joshua Caldwell and written by Stephen Camelio, premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival on September 29, 2022, before its theatrical release on June 9, 2023. Mending the Line received praise from critics and audiences alike for its strong cast (among other positive attributes). The movie holds an 80 percent rating on the Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes and an Audience Score of 82 percent.

At the beginning of Mending the Line, a Marine named John Colter is...

Jonathan Taplin has had more careers than most folks — Bob Dylan and The Band’s tour manager, film producer (the Last Waltz and Mean Streets) Wall Street entrepreneur, teacher at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In an exclusive excerpt from his latest book, “The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto,” Taplin lays out the dangers of becoming complacent in the face of the fantasy worlds offered by the leading technocrats.

Four very powerful billionaires— Elon Musk, Peter Thiel,...

Keith Johnstone, a pioneer in improvisation who trained a generation of actors and comedians in impromptu performance and creativity, on and off the stage, has died. He was 90.

Johnstone died at Rockyview Hospital in Calgary on Saturday, according to his personal website, with no cause of death specified. The creator of Theatresports and co-founder of The Loose Moose Theatre Company was born in Devon, England, on Feb. 21, 1933.

Johnstone trained at the Royal Court Theatre in London and was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. According to Theresa Robbins Dudeck, co-director of the docu-series On Keith: Artists Speak on Johnstone and Impro, Johnstone developed his Impro System, or his improvisation theories, while at the Royal Court Theatre over 10 years to 1966. He eventually became associate director and head of the Rct Studio for professional actors.

“The Rct Studio, for Keith, was a ‘scientific laboratory,’ where he could investigate the nature of spontaneous creation,...

Twenty years ago, I couldn’t sleep…

My boyfriend and I had gone to see this new film called The Ring. It was incredible—so unlike the other horror films that were being produced when I was in college. But now, as we laid in bed in his rental house, I couldn’t seem to relax. Every time I closed my eyes, the image of an old well was seared into my brain. And if I let the image sit long enough, a ghostly little girl would slowly climb up out of the well and creep toward me.

It played again and again. Much like the images created by Samara in the film, it wouldn’t leave my mind. Eventually, my boyfriend whispered, “Are you awake?”

“Yes,” I replied. “I keep thinking about the movie. I keep seeing her coming up out of the well.”

“Me too,” he admitted. We...

Odd List Ryan Lambie 4 Oct 2013 - 06:41

They're funny, they're sad, they're weird. Here are 50 famous last words from characters in the movies...

Please Note: There are potential spoilers ahead. Check the name of the film, and if you haven't seen it, don't read the entry!

As someone famous probably once said, “We’ve all gotta go sometime,” and if we’re going to die, we might as well do so with a witticism or a memorable line rather than a scream and a cry for mother. Which is the subject of this lengthy but far from definitive list: the memorable things movie characters have uttered shortly (not necessarily immediately) before they’re about to meet their maker.

Some of these last words are long, tear-jerking monologues. Others amount to little more than a word or two. But all of them, in our estimation, are worthy of mention, and one...