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In what’s one of the last big showdowns at the summer box office, New Line’s Weapons, which is strong across the board, and Disney’s femme-skewing, much millennial-loved Freakier Friday are about to face off, with the tracking reports indicating a too-close-to-call race for No. 1 with $30 million-plus expected for both.

However, there is immense buzz from distribution sources that the Weapons, the enigmatic horror movie directed, written and produced by Zach Cregger about a class of school children who fled their homes mysteriously in the night, has the edge with a mid-$30M and possible $40M take. We’re hearing that AMC is seeing presales for Weapons ahead of 28 Days Later; that Danny Boyle zombie title opened to $30M.

Disney’s Freakier Friday, which reteams Lindsay Lohan and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis from the 2003 film, is also hoping for $30M.

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If you missed San Diego Comic-Con, then you missed the first teaser and panel to David Ferino’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence.

In this first clip we meet adolescent prodigy, and genius CEO of VegIntel, inventor of “MyTomato,” the vegetable which will solve all our problems, particularly those that A.I. can’t fix.

The fifth movie in the 47-year old franchise is “pitting the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.”

The original movie was released in 1978. Made for $100,000, it was produced by J. Stephen Peace and John DeBello. DeBello directed the pic based on an original idea by Costa Dillon in a story about mutated killer tomatoes that torment the globe as a group of scientists try to fend them off.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence stars David Koechner, John Astin, Dan Bakkedahl, Daniel Roebuck, Catherine Corcoran, Paul Bates,...

We’ve been hearing rumblings of a reboot of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes franchise for a long time. Seventeen years, in fact. Now, after attempts by the duo behind the internet web series Ask a Ninja and filmmaker Dustin Ferguson to make a new movie fell through, a new entry in the franchise, titled Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, has finally made its way through production and is set to receive a theatrical release this Halloween, courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment. The new Killer Tomatoes movie unveiled a promo video over the weekend (you can watch that in the embed above) and also has a presence at San Diego Comic-Con, where JoBlo’s own Mike Conway was able to catch up with several cast members and one of the producers!

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is being referred to as a reboot simply because...

During a time in sitcom history when most husbands and wives slept in separate twin beds, the physical attraction between The Addams Family’s Gomez and Morticia was white hot. “I thought that the romance between Gomez and Morticia should be on the grand scale,” John Astin, who played Gomez, told the Television Academy Foundation. “They would have a relationship of great passion.”

Astin took it a step further when he spoke at a Monster Mania convention in 2009. “We were really the first couple on television — that I know of, anyway — who had a sexual relationship,” he said. “They could actually have had the kids that they were supposed to.”

Psychiatrists agreed, writing at the time that while the couple presided over a bizarre family, the amorous connection was unusually healthy for TV spouses.

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Casting Morticia wasn’t easy. Astin explained that they auditioned many “beautiful women” for the part,...

Tubi is one of the best streaming services, and not just because it's free. Alright, maybe a huge upside is that it's free, but the streamer updates its catalog monthly and it just keeps getting better. Imagine having all of your favorite classic productions in one place and not having to spend any money to stream the episodes back-to-back. It's like having your cake and eating it too! One of the shows on the streamer that has a following of generations of dedicated fans is Murder, She Wrote. The iconic murder mystery has 12 seasons of pure fictional murder-solving goodness, and it's available to stream now on Tubi.

Starring Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Wrote is setin the fictional, small town of Cabot Cove, which seems to have murders everywhere mystery author Jessica Fletcher appears. Fletcher is a highly praised author with best-selling novels who uses her crime-solving abilities to capture suspects...

Stars: Angela Lansbury, William Windom, Richard Crenna, Ray Baker, Ron Masak, Robert Mailhouse | Written by J. Michael Straczynski, Peter S. Fischer, Derek Marlowe, Mark A. Burley, Richard Levinson, William Link | Directed by Anthony Pullen Shaw, Walter Grauman, Vincent McEveety, Seymour Robbie

Dame Angela Lansbury had an illustrious career that spanned 80 years. The actress, singer and producer won many awards for her roles on stage and screen. Among her numerous wins were five Tony Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award and she was nominated for three Academy Awards. These are just some of her well-deserved awards and nominations.

Dame Lansbury starred in such classic films as Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). After an amazing career in film, Angela was offered the opportunity to star in two TV series. One a sitcom and the other a detective series, her...

If you had killer tomatoes on your 2025 bingo card, you're in luck. The beloved cult classic franchise that began in 1978 is back with a new sequel titled Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, which promises to "pit the eternal power of nature against AI's best and brightest." Directed by David Ferino, this will be the first feature film in the franchise since 1992, and the fifth overall in the zany series that mixes horror, comedy, and parody.

Perhaps the best part of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is its amazing cast, which includes the likes of David Koechner (Anchorman) as the U.S. president's Press Secretary, and Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier) as the film's first victim. John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family) is also on board to reprise his role of Professor Nicholas Mortimer Gangreen from previous movies, as is Oscar-nominee Eric Roberts. Samantha Bailey (The Listening) will play Kate Patel,...

Hide your ketchup packets. Production has officially begun on Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, the long-awaited fifth installment in the iconic cult horror-comedy franchise that first sprouted in 1978—and refuses to die.

Directed by David Ferino, the new film delivers a genetically modified showdown between the chaotic forces of nature and modern artificial intelligence, centered on a rogue biotech CEO, an experimental AI called “MyTomato,” and the slimy uprising that follows.

The cast features a stacked lineup of comedy stars, cult icons, and genre veterans, including David Koechner (Anchorman), Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Daniel Roebuck (The Munsters), Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), Paul Bates (Coming To America), Vernee Watson (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (Runaway Train).

Also appearing is John Astin, beloved by generations as Gomez in the original Addams Family series, reprising his fan-favorite role as mad scientist Professor Gangreen—a character he portrayed...

We’ve been hearing rumblings of a reboot of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes franchise for a long time. Seventeen years, in fact. That’s when it was announced that the duo behind the internet web series Ask a Ninja would be writing a remake. That didn’t pan out, but six years ago, filmmaker Dustin Ferguson said he was about to film the first attack scene for a Killer Tomatoes reboot. Then we never heard another thing about it. Now, Deadline has announced that a new entry in the franchise, titled Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, is set to receive a limited theatrical release this Halloween, courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment – and we don’t have to worry about this project falling apart, because it has already wrapped production!

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is being referred to as a reboot simply because it...

The horror-comedy franchise Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is coming back to life for the first time in over 30 years with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a brand new movie announced by Deadline this week. It will be the franchise’s fifth installment.

From director David Ferino, the upcoming Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is said to be “pitting the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.”

The cast includes David Koechner (Anchorman) as the U.S. president’s Press Secretary and John Astin (The Addams Family) as Professor Nicholas Mortimer Gangreen.

Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Daniel Roebuck (The Munsters), Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), Paul Bates (Coming to America), and Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) also star.

Anchor Bay Entertainment will release the new Killer Tomatoes movie this Halloween.

In the original Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which was released way back in 1978, “A group...

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is alive again with a fifth movie, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, from filmmaker David Ferino.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is billed as “pitting the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.”

The original movie was released in 1978. Made for $100,000, it was produced by J. Stephen Peace and John DeBello. DeBello directed the pic based on an original idea by Costa Dillon in a story about mutated killer tomatoes that torment the globe as a group of scientists try to fend them off.

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence features a string of comedy stars and thespians including David Koechner (Anchorman franchise) as the U.S. president’s Press Secretary; and John Astin (Gomez from the original Addams Family and European Vacation) reprising...

The talented cast of “The Pitt” includes a number of actors whose parents are also in the business. While Taylor Dearden and Fiona Dourif might, technically be considered “nepo babies,” they have more than proven themselves to be as hardworking as their emergency room characters in the hit drama on HBO’s Max.

Here is who’s related to who and where else you might have seen them before this. Some, like Dourif and Isa Briones, who plays Trinity Santos, have even acted alongside their famous family members.

Taylor Dearden

The 32-year-old actress, who plays resident Mel King on the series, is the daughter of “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston and actress Robin Dearden, whose TV credits include appearances on “Murder, She Wrote,” and the soap opera “Generations.” She previously starred on Netflix’s “American Vandal,” MTV’s “Sweet/Vicious” and Apple’s “For All Mankind.”

Fiona Dourif and father Brad Dourif...

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When the joyous "Batman" TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward hit airwaves in 1966, Batman comic books had only been published for the past 27 years. Batman is such an omni-presence in our popular culture that a world without him seems foreign, but truth be told, he's not really that old. When the '60s show was on, his creators weren't just a living memory, they were actually still alive — and one of them even wrote for the show.

That would be Bill Finger, the writer who made Batman into the character we all know. Modern consensus is that artist Bob Kane came up with the name "Batman" for a winged pulp hero, but Finger added the defining details: Batman's costume, the name Bruce Wayne, his detective side, his tragic origin story from the murder of his parents, and the comic's major supporting characters.

Let it be stated up front: William Dozier's 1966 TV series "Batman" is not just the finest iteration of Bob Kane's and Bill Finger's superhero character, but it may be one of the best TV shows of all time. Using the outlandish trappings of superhero comics, "Batman" created nothing less than the wildest, most hilarious parody of conservative values in a generation. Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) were heroic, yes, but they were also unbearably square, drinking milk, going birdwatching, and supporting their local police to an unhealthy degree. We admired them and laughed at them at the same time. The show's many villains were free agents, whose villainy offered a refreshing element of chaos to the world. They were sexual, exciting, and had fun.

All of this was wrapped in a stylized, mannered, near-cartoon universe. Reality was tilted. The show purported to support heroism, but somehow,...

The 1970s was a decade of legendary sitcoms, dominated by true powerhouse comedies like All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. But in the shadows of these television titans, there are some truly hilarious sitcoms that have sadly faded from the cultural consciousness.

The decade saw television writers push the boundaries of the sitcom format. For many shows, this meant telling stories that explicitly addressed racism, sexism, and other topics that were considered sensitive in America's turbulent political landscape. Still, other writers explored the nature of the sitcom itself as prime time began to see series centered on increasingly bizarre circumstances that embraces offbeat humor.

Lucille Ball Starred in a Sitcom With Her Children Here's Lucy

Trailblazing comedienne Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Carter, a widow raising two teenagers on her own in Here's Lucy. Ball's real-life son and daughter, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucie Arnaz,...

Any story about how an actor was cast in their role for a film or TV show is interesting. Understanding the person beneath the surface of a character and what it took for them to be cast adds to the depth of a project, especially when it's an epic trilogy like The Lord of the Rings. With so much detail in the narrative and such realism placed on the surreal, it can be easy to get lost in J.R.R. Tolkien's creation and not consider how it all came together. Before viewers got to enjoy the events of Middle-earth, there were a lot of actors doing their utmost to appear in the trilogy.

Elijah Wood has explained an unusual process for his role as Frodo. Seemingly, Wood had realized the enormity of the project, and recognized he needed to stand out from the crowd to get noticed. Making his own...

The Western genre may not be as popular as it once was, especially on television, but that doesn't mean there aren't great stories still being told on the medium. Popular Western shows like Deadwood and Justified were consistently thrilling and garnered many fans in the process. On the other hand, there are stellar Western shows that have fallen under the radar because they only lasted one season.

Whether because of low ratings, an inability to find a larger audience or the narrative told everything it needed to, these series were axed after their sole season. Regardless if the shows originated in the modern era or before the 21st century, they remain a welcoming treat for Western genre fans. From cult classics like Firefly to underrated miniseries like The Good Lord Bird, these Western shows provided amazing storytelling in a single season.

Bruce Campbell is Charismatic in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr....

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From 2001 to 2003, director Peter Jackson forever changed the face of cinema when he pulled off what was thought to be the impossible task of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy to life on the big screen. Many people may not be aware of the humble beginnings of Jackson's career, having started by making independent films in New Zealand, but it was The Frighteners that marked one of his first experiences of making a major studio film, one that unfortunately didn't reach the same level of admiration as his later works. The truth is, however, had it not been for the making that he achieved in making that one specific film,...

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To this day, Rod Serling's sci-fi anthology series "The Twilight Zone" regularly tops lists of the best TV shows of all time. Serling, and a team of some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1950s and 1960s, conceived of 156 miniature morality stories, usually with a supernatural bent, and in so doing changed the very face of television. Sci-fi and horror were considered more commercially viable, inspiring a new slew of imitators and a shift in the public's attention. Serling also introduced a unique form of storytelling efficiency with "The Twilight Zone," proving that an entire, closed morality fable could be wrapped up in a mere 25 minutes (or 51 minutes in the show's fourth season). Serling was also careful to explicitly state a moral in every episode, making "The Twilight Zone" a fantastic social commentary. 

"The Twilight Zone" ran from...

Over 60 years, there have been a massive number of Addams Family shows and movies, and here are the Addams Family movies in order. From the pages of magazines to television to the big screen, America's favorite gothic and macabre clan have experienced their fair share of trials and tribulations. Created by cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938, this dynasty of freaks, fiends, and weirdos is the subject of both animated and live-action cinematic projects. Which continues to this day, as Wednesday season 2 has been renewed for Netflix.

While the Wednesday season 2 release date is still far away, there's a dark trove of older Addams Family TV shows and movies to dive straight into. Netflix's Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega as the iconic eponymous character took the world by storm, making it seem very likely that there will be plenty more Addams Family content in the years to come. As the latest iteration of...

Burger King has launched a new promotion for The Addams Family-themed meals. It will even come with a way for fans of the kooky family to get purple Whoppers for free.

The new promotion was launched in participating Burger King restaurants on Oct. 10. It includes four items as part of the menu, each inspired by characters from The Addams Family. On Oct. 17, consumers will be able to pick up a free Wednesday's Whopper, which is a customized Whopper sandwich with a purple-colored bun, through a buy-one-get-one free offer available to Royal Perks members. For the younger fans, Burger King is also offering a line of King Jr. Meal toys featuring The Addams Family characters.

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The Addams Family movie cast has nothing but fond memories of their Gomez Addams, Raul Julia.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman, Christopher Lloyd, and Carel Struycken attended an L.A. Comic Con panel celebrating the legacy of 1991's The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values. During the panel, the cast members -- minus Carol Kane, who replaced Judith Malina in Addams Family Values as Grandmama -- talked about Julia's Gomez performance, with Huston describing the late actor as "the perfect gentleman" on set.

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Christopher Lloyd reflects on his role as Uncle Fester in the Addams Family movies.

"He was always the first on set and the last to leave. He was a great dancer. I'd get really grumpy around dancing rehearsals, which I felt were unnecessary since...

The Addams Family have been a fixture on screen since the 1960s with several actors who played Wednesday Addams helping the character become an icon. The classic characters are originally based on the 1938 single-panel New Yorker cartoons by Charles Addams, but it wasnt until the 1964 sitcom that The Addams Family would become pop culture staples. Since the sitcom, The Addams Family has been adapted on numerous occasions for movies and television. However, the most recently entry into the franchise, Tim Burton's Wednesday, suggests the family's eccentric daughter is the real star.

Wednesday Addams is the daughter of Gomez and Morticia and has inherited her parents fascination with homicide and torture, which she often practices on her younger brother Pugsley. With her deadpan tone and dark wit particularly in Christina Riccis version of the character Wednesday is often a highlight of The Addams Family movies and TV shows. Since The Addams Family...

Throughout the last two decades, Peter Jackson has become one of modern cinema's most celebrated directors. With his directorial work on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises, along with his most recent project, a five-Emmy-winning Disney+ original docuseries on The Beatles titled Get Back, it's almost hard to believe that Jackson cut his teeth in the B-horror genre. Starting his career with cheesy horror films like Bad Taste and Dead Alive, no one safive-Emmy-winningw his transition from gore-filled slaughterfests to Academy Award-winning fantasy films coming.

A few years before his foray into Middle-earth with The Fellowship of the Ring, Jackson teamed with '80s megastar, Michael J. Fox, and the two created possibly the most underrated film of both their careers, with The Frighteners. While the film was seen as a financial failure, not quite making back its budget, it was decently lauded among critics, specifically for its fun performances from Fox,...

Ranbir Kapoor To Sonam Kapoor: 5 B-Town Celebs Who Studied Acting Internationally. (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The prominent foreign institutions that some Bollywood actors choose to get trained from help them improve their acting skills and acquire new approaches to make their performances more polished. These performers want to achieve even greater success in their profession by blending Bollywood appeal with foreign training.

5 B-Town Celebs Who Studied Acting Internationally

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Bollywood actor Akshay Oberoi recognized the need to take extensive training abroad to boost his profession. He began his work at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, where he learned techniques for highlighting each actor’s unique abilities.

Oberoi was not content with one opportunity and went on to study at Playhouse West in Los Angeles, thoroughly mastering the Meisner method. The primary...

The Addams Family is the first family of horror. They're creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky... and they've been around in one medium or another since 1938. Starting out as a comic strip by cartoonist Charles Addams, the family was made famous on the small screen in 1964 with the emergence of their iconic self-titled TV show. From film and cartoon appearances to fan-favorite offshoots like Wednesday, this family has lasted in some form or other for nearly a century.

One thing about them that's not nearly so well known, however, is their lineage. The Addams Family, not to be mistaken for the iconic American ancestors, are a proud and rambunctious breed, many of whom reside just within or outside the confines of the family home. From the famous nuclear family to the staff they treat like family and everyone in between, here is an overview of the twists and turns in their gnarled family tree.

The Riddler could have appeared in The Dark Knight Rises, as co-writer Jonathan Nolan has confirmed that the supervillain was in consideration to be featured in the third chapter of the Dark Knight trilogy. However, as Nolan explained in a new interview, those plans were scrapped due to concerns it'd have been too similar to Heath Ledger's take on Joker in the previous film.

"We had these conversations. Bane came out of a conversation between David [S. Goyer] and Chris [Nolan]. I was unsure about that at the story stage," Jonathan Nolan said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "I think Chris understood that what we had done, and what Heath had done with that character, you didn't want to go anywhere near it. I sort of started to play with ideas about the Riddler, and what could be done with that character, but it did feel like it was close enough...

Charles Addams' very first Addams Family comic strip -- or at least a proto-version of the Family -- appeared in the pages of the New Yorker in 1938. In the strip, a vampire-like woman stands next to a large, bearded, brutish man at the foot of a staircase in a haunted mansion. Bats fly overhead and spider webs adorn the light fixtures. A creepy third member of the family peers down through a railing high above. Standing at the door is an eager, white-suited vacuum cleaner salesman attempting to hawk his wares. "Vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time and back saver. No well-appointed home should be without it," the salesman says. He is unperturbed to be in a haunted house, and presses on with his sales pitch, even though the manse has clearly never been swept. 

Charles Addams would revisit these creepy characters regularly, eventually settling on a core cast of characters.

Ah, "The Addams Family." They're creepy and they're kooky. Mysterious and spooky. They're all together ooky. And so on. The ghoulish Addamses were created by cartoonist Charles Addams in the pages of The New Yorker before Hollywood came calling, adapting Addams' comics into a TV series in 1964. The series followed a family of weirdos who live every day like it's Halloween, much to the confusion of the normal folks all around them. The original "The Addams Family" series lasted only two seasons, running between 1964 and 1966, but its impact and influence continued for decades. 

Sadly, the majority of the original cast of "The Addams Family" are no longer with us. But there's one main player who is still around. 

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John Astin played Gomez Addams on the show. A former lawyer and frequent cigar smoker, Gomez...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: A Midnight Movie for the Love of a Woman

The cinematic understanding of romance is on the run. It’s a sad topic ahead of Valentine’s Day, I know. But the big romantic gestures and sweeping professions of love that once characterized the rom-com genre are now about as welcome in real life as TikTok therapists are welcome on the big screen. Add a family counselor to your next “Clueless” viewing and you just won’t see Paul Rudd the same way; try planting one on your step-sister at...

The NBC sitcom Night Court debuted 40 years ago — on January 4, 1984 — with newly instated judge Harry (Harry Anderson) showing his “irregular” side by ordering a feuding couple to a coffee date with their attorneys. And the show, which followed the eccentric staff at a Manhattan arraignment court, only got better from there, according to IMDb users who have rated the original run’s 193 episodes. In fact, none of the current Night Court revival’s episodes can compare to the top 10 episodes from the original, according to those user ratings. Here are those standout Night Court episodes — all of which are currently streaming on Prime Video — along with comments from IMDb reviewers. 10. Season 6, Episode 19: “From Snoop to Nuts: Part 2” In the second part of a two-episode story, Harry confronts Buddy (recurring guest star John Astin) about the revelation that he’s Buddy’s son, all the while evading the goons of...

Netflix is looking for ways to expand the universe of hit drama Wednesday, which reportedly involves developing a spin-off featuring Uncle Fester.

The Addams Family has been a perennial presence on the big and small screen since Charles Addams’ comics were adapted into the original television show in 1964.

Since then, there have been reunion television films and animated series, but the franchise arguably hit its peak in the 1990s with the release of feature films The Addams Family and it’s arguably even better sequel Addams Family Values.

Very few people talk about Addams Family Reunion which, although it features a scenery chewing turn from Tim Curry, failed to make an impact, much like The New Addams Family, the television series which followed soon after, which is only really worth watching for the episode where John Astin, the original Gomez, returns as Grandpapa Addams.

There followed a long period of silence,...

Haunted Mansion is a fantasy horror film directed by Justin Simien, from a screenplay by Katie Dippold. Based on Disney’s theme park of the same name, the film revolves around a mother and a son who hire a motley crew to get rid of the supernatural entities living in their house. Haunted Mansion stars Lakeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Chase Dillon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona Ryder, and Jared Leto. So, if you loved the Disney film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Synopsis: Suit up for classic comedy! Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) take a chance on going freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service. As soon as they open their doors, their first order of business becomes...

Peter Jackson truly hit the public consciousness with the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001. Yet before that, he was creating very different films. Along with his strange puppet-based Bad Taste (1987) and Meet the Feebles (1989), he found his way into other, more high-concept films.

One of these, The Frighteners, was released in 1996, five years before The Lord of the Rings. It contained two elements that Jackson loved in his movies to that point: Horror and comedy. Here's why the film is perfect for a Halloween movie night.

What Is The Frighteners?

In The Frighteners we are introduced to Frank Bannister, played by the always-delightful Michael J. Fox. He is a man who, after the death of his wife, can see ghosts. With this talent, he makes friends with three ghosts from very different time periods. Each one looks the way they did when they died.

The Addams Family movies have had varying degrees of success, with some being financially successful but receiving mixed reviews from critics. The first Addams Family movie from 1991 was a campy reinvention of the family, but its uneven tone didn't resonate well with critics. Addams Family Values, the darker and funnier sequel from 1993, is considered superior, with a great subplot and strong performances from the cast.

How do the Addams Family movies rank in comparison with each other? The Addams Family began life as a series of morbidly funny cartoons by Charles Addams for The New Yorker in the 1930s. Combining cute family comedy with some surprisingly dark punchlines, the cartoons were a huge hit that spawned a franchise. The first Addams Family movie was 1977’s television movie Halloween With The New Addams Family, and the brood reappeared in feature-length form 14 years later. Starring Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia, 1991’s The Addams Family was a campy,...

Throughout the various adaptations of The Addams Family, Gomez Addams' costumes have changed to reflect each unique interpretation, but many pay homage to Charles Addams' original sketches. The costumes in the TV series from the 1960s and the recent animated films have been the closest to the comic-accurate designs, featuring double-breasted pinstripes. While some adaptations like the ill-fated 1990s cartoon series and the 1998 straight-to-video film missed the mark with inaccurate costume choices, the 1991 film is considered the best because of its original choices that stayed true to Addams' drawings.

Throughout all the on-screen adaptations of The Addams Family the various Gomez Addams costumes have changed to reflect each unique interpretation of the original comic strip character. First created by illustrator and humorist Charles Addams in 1938, his creepy and kooky Addams Family comic panels graced the pages of The New Yorker for years before eventually branching out into other media. Starting in the 1960s,...

Where to Watch Powered by Christina Ricci's appearance in Netflix's Wednesday series has opened the door for more actors from the beloved Addams Family movies of the 1990s to make cameos. Anjelica Huston, who portrayed Morticia Addams in the iconic '90s movies, could potentially have a cameo in Wednesday and have a showdown with Catherine Zeta-Jones' version of the character. Other actors from the Addams Family movies, such as Christopher Lloyd, Jimmy Workman, and Carel Struycken, could also make appearances in future seasons, adding to the nostalgia and connection to the original films.

Christina Ricci’s killer return to the spooky world sets up more actors from The Addams Family movies of the 1990s to appear in Netflix’s Wednesday series. Since the characters’ origination in Charles Addams’ 1930s comics, the eccentric, macabre Addams family has graced the big and small screens on numerous occasions. From the...

It's been almost 30 years since Batman Forever, Joel Schumacher's legendary film about the Dark Knight starring Val Kilmer, hit theaters. In an era where superhero movies were not the trend, Batman managed to be one of the few comic book icons to successfully make it to the big screen. In large part, thanks to its villains.

Beyond the personality and cunning of the Caped Crusader, one of the great charms of the Batman universe is Gotham City and the vast gallery of criminals it presents. Some are more realistic like the mafia mogul Carmine Falcone, and others are more eccentric like The Riddler.

Edward Nashton was, in fact, the main villain in the latest appearance of the famous hero on the big screen, played by Paul Dano. And he was also one of the enemies that Kilmer faced in the 1995 movie, where the histrionic Jim Carrey played him. However,...

Freak Friday went from a young adult novel in the early 1970s to a fairly reliable live-action staple for Walt Disney Pictures. There have been four adaptations so far, though two of them -- a terrible 1995 made-for-tv movie and a better 2018 musical version -- rarely engender much discussion. Besides the 1976 original, the stand-out is the 2003 remake, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and a then-ascendant Lindsay Lohan. Both films have curried their share of fans over the years, and both have good reasons to tune in now -- no small feat for any movie decades after all the profits have been counted and spent.

The two films adopt the same basic formula, as mother and daughter magically switch bodies for a day. Both use it to deliver the same message about walking a mile in someone else's shoes before judging them. But one of them does it with a little more panache and substance than the other.

This episode of the Horror TV Shows We Miss video series was Written and Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Adam Walton, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian. Here’s the text of the video script:

I think 1991 shaped my life before I even realized it did. Aeon Flux, Pete & Pete, Clarissa Explains It All, Liquid Television, The Addams Family, People Under the Stairs, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, and of course, Eerie, Indiana.

All those shows and movies I just mentioned, I can still enjoy just the same as I did then. A few of them actually get repeat viewings throughout the year. There was something cool about these shows made for kids and teens around this time– they weren’t dumbing it down. Kids felt like they were watching something that they could experience for themselves– it was something that felt real. These...

“They’re gonna put me in the movies,” Ringo Starr sang on The Ed Sullivan Show as the Beatles covered Buck Owens’ hit “Act Naturally.” The 1965 appearance featured songs from the group’s new film, Help!, director Richard Lester’s send-up of James Bond movies and other elements of spymania, as well as a follow-up to the greatest jukebox movie ever made, A Hard Day’s Night (1964). Both films put the rhythm up front. It was natural.

Prior to the nationally broadcast live performance, Starr prepared the audience by introducing himself as “all nervous and out of tune,” and smiled embarrassedly without missing or slowing a beat through his propulsive country swing. Starr was a natural performer, a locally famous beat-keeper in Liverpool before joining the Beatles, whose rhythm patterns had a character which set him apart from other drummers. His beats had personality. As the song says, he played the...

Gomez Addams will be returning to Wednesday season 2, and it seems that his character will only get better. In an interview with Screen Rant, actor Luis Guzmán, who plays the Addams family patriarch in the Netflix series, confirmed that he would be taking part in next season and teased some of the fun things his character will be doing. Though he revealed little about the details surrounding Gomez in Wednesday season 2, the tidbits he divulged prove that the character will continue to stay true to his counterpart in the original The Addams Family cartoon strips.

Luis Guzmán appeared in Wednesday season 1 as the titular character's adoring father—the third actor to assume the role in a live-action Addams Family adaptation. Some audiences had initially criticized the casting choice since Guzmán didn't match the appearance of his Addams predecessors. However, Guzmán quickly proved that he was an excellent choice. Still, he...

The folks behind the Screaming Soup! YouTube channel uploaded a very cool video over the weekend: a 3 hour retrospective documentary that covers the entire Attack of the Killer Tomatoes franchise, which includes four feature films and two seasons of an animated TV series. Best of all, Screaming Soup! has made this documentary available to watch free of charge, and you can check it out in the embed at the bottom of this article!

The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes retrospective documentary has the following synopsis: Screaming Soup! Presents the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective is the most in-depth documentary ever made on everyone’s favorite red menace from the produce aisle. Busting with clips and exclusive interviews from the Killer Tomatoes creators to their cast and crew over four films and a short lived cartoon series, this epic documentary will be the ultimate resource for killer tomato fans, unveiling...

Actress Lisa Loring, best known for her debut role at six years old as Wednesday Addams on ABC’s original TV adaptation of The Addams Family (1964–1966), has passed away at the age of 64.

According to a Facebook post by Laurie Jacobson, a Hollywood historian and Loring’s friend, she died after experiencing complications from a stroke caused by smoking and high blood pressure. After being on life support for three days, Loring died peacefully, surrounded by her loved ones, in Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, on Saturday.

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Loring had recently gained more recognition and popularity for her iconic 1960s performance as Wednesday Addams, after Jenna Ortega confirmed on The Tonight Show that she took inspiration from Loring during her own role as Wednesday in Netflix’s hit reboot.

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Lisa Loring, the first actor to play the iconic role of Wednesday in “The Addams Family” franchise, died January 28. She was 64.

The news was reported by her friend Laurie Jacobson, who shared on Facebook that Jacobson suffered a stroke that put her on life support before her family made the decision to take her off.

“Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa’s legacy in the world of entertainment is huge,” Jacobson’s tribute reads. “And the legacy for her family and friends — a wealth of humor, affection and love will long play in our memories. Rip, Lisa. Damn, girl…you were a ton of fun.”

Loring was six years old when “The Addams Family” premiered on ABC in 1964. Based on The New Yorker cartoons by Charles Addams, the series focused on the titular family, a bizarre clan of wealthy aristocrats with a love of the macabre. The series, which ran for two seasons and 64 episodes,...

Lisa Loring, best known for being the first person to play Wednesday Addams on the original "The Addams Family" sitcom, has died. She was 64. Loring began her career as a child, first starting out as a child model at age three before appearing on an episode of the 1960s TV series "Dr. Kildare." When Loring was six she landed the role of the gloomy child Wednesday Addams on "The Addams Family," which ran from 1964 through 1966. Loring would also return to the role for reunion specials, including "Halloween with the New Addams Family" in 1977.

"I learned to memorize before I could read," she said in regard to learning her lines. She went on to say:

"I didn't know how to read yet, I hadn't been to first grade, so [producer David Levy] wasn't prepared to see children that young, that he didn't know. But I had my hair down to here [indicates her waist], my mother put...

Original Wednesday Addams actress Lisa Loring has passed away at age 64.

Loring, who starred on “The Addams Family” from 1964-1966 for 64 episodes, died on Saturday after suffering a stroke.

Her daughter, Vanessa Foumberg, said: “She went peacefully with both her daughters holding her hands,” Variety reported.

“The Addams Family” cast in costume. Standing (L-r): Jackie Coogan (1914 – 1984), John Astin, Blossom Rock, and Ted Cassidy. Sitting (L-r): Lisa Loring, Carolyn Jones, and Ken Weatherwax. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Loring’s friend Laurie Jacobson also shared on Facebook: “It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring. 4 days ago she suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for 3 days.

“Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night. She is embedded in the tapestry that is...

Lisa Loring, the actor who played Wednesday Addams in the iconic TV adaptation of The Addams Family, has died aged 64.

Loring died on Saturday night (28 January) at St Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.

Her daughter Vanessa Foumberg told The Hollywood Reporter said that Loring died of complications from a stroke caused by high blood pressure.

“She went peacefully with both her daughters [Vanessa and Marianne] holding her hands,” she told the publication.

Loring’s friend, Laurie Jacobson, also reported her death on Facebook, writing that Loring was “embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams”.

Loring is best known for her role playing the pigtail-wearing, pale, death-obsessed character Wednesday in ABC’s sitcom The Addams Family. She took on the role at six years old in 1964 and played the character for two years.

The actor set the framework for the character who would go...

Lisa Loring, the actress who played Wednesday Addams in the classic TV adaptation of The Addams Family, has died. She was 64.

Loring died Saturday night at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a stroke caused by high blood pressure, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg told The Hollywood Reporter.

“She went peacefully with both her daughters [Vanessa and Marianne] holding her hands,” she said.

Loring is best known for her turn as the morbid, pig-tailed Wednesday in ABC’s black comedy sitcom The Addams Family, a role she took on at six years old in 1964. She played the character for only two years, but set the template for live-action portrayals of Wednesday, and was recently praised as an inspiration for Jenna Ortega’s interpretation on the hit Netflix series Wednesday.

Born Lisa Ann DeCinces on Feb. 16, 1958, in the Marshall Islands, Loring’s parents divorced when she was very young and she...

Three decades after the original Night Court ended its nine-season run on NBC, the iconic sitcom is back with a revival series, also titled Night Court. The new series sees John Larroquette return as Dan Fielding, a role for which the veteran performer won four consecutive Emmy awards. He stars alongside the new lead character, Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of the original protagonist Harry Stone (played by the late Harry Anderson).

Melissa Rauch helps lead Night Court as the young judge of Manhattan's evening arraignment court, having developed the series along with her husband, Winston Rauch, and writer Dan Rubin. Thanks to their efforts, Night Court feels like a hip new show while remaining instantly familiar to fans of the original series. Like the original, the new Night Court is filled with broad, silly humor, but also deep characterization with a cast of believably human characters. The original Night Court...