It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost nine years since the original Exploding Kittens card game went viral on Kickstarter and made enough money for several tons of cat food, but it has, and we have not been able to escape them since.
The popular card game spawned numerous spinoff games, puzzles, and “NSFW greeting cards” for some reason. And now the kittens have their own Netflix show where they will continue to explode for your entertainment.
Exploding Kittens comes from King of the Hill’sMike Judge and The Office’s Greg Daniels’ animation company, Bandera Entertainment, and stars Tom Ellis as God Cat, who is sent back to earth in the form of a cat. But where there is God Cat, there is also Devil Cat, and that’s when the chaos ensues. Here is the official synopsis:
The eternal conflict between Heaven and Hell reaches epic proportions when both God and the Devil are sent to Earth – in the bodies of chunky house cats. From the Executive Producers of Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill, and The Office comes a new animated adult comedy series based on the popular card game EXPLODING KITTENS.
This isn’t the first time Netflix has ventured into exploding felines. The streamer also created an Exploding Kittensmobile game last year, so you can simultaneously play the card game, video game, and watch the show, if that’s what you’re into.
The teaser trailer for my show just dropped! I’ve spent the past four years on this, and I’m so excited to show you one glorious minute of footage. https://t.co/0WksOB3x1E
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost nine years since the original Exploding Kittens card game went viral on Kickstarter and made enough money for several tons of cat food, but it has, and we have not been able to escape them since.
The popular card game spawned numerous spinoff games, puzzles, and “NSFW greeting cards” for some reason. And now the kittens have their own Netflix show where they will continue to explode for your entertainment.
Exploding Kittens comes from King of the Hill’sMike Judge and The Office’s Greg Daniels’ animation company, Bandera Entertainment, and stars Tom Ellis as God Cat, who is sent back to earth in the form of a cat. But where there is God Cat, there is also Devil Cat, and that’s when the chaos ensues. Here is the official synopsis:
The eternal conflict between Heaven and Hell reaches epic proportions when both God and the Devil are sent to Earth – in the bodies of chunky house cats. From the Executive Producers of Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill, and The Office comes a new animated adult comedy series based on the popular card game EXPLODING KITTENS.
This isn’t the first time Netflix has ventured into exploding felines. The streamer also created an Exploding Kittensmobile game last year, so you can simultaneously play the card game, video game, and watch the show, if that’s what you’re into.
The teaser trailer for my show just dropped! I’ve spent the past four years on this, and I’m so excited to show you one glorious minute of footage. https://t.co/0WksOB3x1E
How To Buy Tickets For The 2024 When We Were Young Festival
The festival’s official website provides instructions: Simply sign up to receive an access code via email or text (for US carriers only) to the presale scheduled for Friday, November 17, at 10 a.m. PST. “Any remaining tickets following the presale will go on sale to the general public at 2 p.m. PST,” per press release.
How Much Are Tickets For The 2024 When We Were Young Festival?
The festival’s official website lists ticket prices as follows: General admission (starting at $325 with no hidden fees), GA+ ($550), and VIP ($650). There is also a VIP Cabana option for attendees aged 21 and older, but a price isn’t listed next to it. Hotel and ticket packages start at $577. The layaway plan for all tickets starts at $19.99 down.
What Is The 2024 When We Were Young Festival Lineup?
The lineup is listed alphabetically alongside which album each act is expected to perform.
3OH!3 – Want
A Day To Remember – Homesick
Alesana – The Emptiness
The All-American Rejects – The All-American Rejects
Anberlin – Never Take Friendship Personal
Armor for Sleep – What To Do When You Are Dead
Atreyu – The Curse
August Burns Red – Constellations
Bayside – Bayside
Basement – Colourmeinkindness
Cartel – Chroma
Chiodos – All’s Well That Ends Well
Cobra Starship – ¡Viva La Cobra!
Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV
Dashboard Confessional – Dusk And Summer
Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership
The Devil Wears Prada – Plagues
The Distillers – Coral Fang
Emery – The Weak’s End
Escape the Fate – This War Is Ours
Fall Out Boy*
The Forecast – In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen
Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
Hawthorne Heights – The Silence In Black And White
Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
L.S. Dunes – Self Titled
The Maine – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
Mayday Parade – A Lesson In Romantics
Mom Jeans – Best Buds
Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This To Memory
Movements – Feel Something
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
Nada Surf – Let Go
Neck Deep – Life’s Not Out To Get You
New Found Glory – Sticks And Stones
Pierce the Veil – Collide With The Sky
Pretty Girls Make Graves – The New Romance
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Don’t You Fake It
Saosin – Saosin
Saves the Day – Stay What You Are
Senses Fail – Still Searching
Simple Plan – No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls
Silverstein – Discovering The Waterfront
Sleeping with Sirens – Let’s Cheers To This
State Champs – The Finer Things
The Starting Line – Say It Like You Mean It
Story of the Year – Page Avenue
Thursday – Full Collapse
Underoath – They’re Only Chasing Safety
The Used – In Love And Death
We the Kings – We The Kings
* TBA
Some artists covered are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It’s a very punk thing to do to drop exciting news on a Monday morning, so it’s fitting that When We Were Young confirmed its 2024 festival this morning, November 13. The stacked lineup features 50-plus bands, headlined by Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, who will perform The Black Paradein full. Last month, the first day of the 2023 When We Were Young Festival was canceled due to inclement weather, so fans will be even hungrier to go all out at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on October 19, 2024. Below is what we know (so far).
When Do The 2024 When We Were Young Festival Tickets Go On Sale?
According to a press release, fans can sign up here to receive a presale access code. The presale is scheduled for Friday, November 17, at 10 a.m. PST, and “any remaining tickets following the presale will go on sale to the general public at 2 p.m. PST.”
How Much Are 2024 When We Were Young Festival Tickets?
As listed on the festival’s official website, general admission tickets start at $325 followed by GA+ at $550, and VIP at $650. Hotel and ticket packages start at $577. There are no hidden fees for any of the ticketing options. When We Were Young is also offering layaway plans starting at $19.99 down.
What Is The 2024 When We Were Young Festival Lineup?
The confirmed lineup can be found below, listed alphabetically alongside which album each act is expected to perform.
3OH!3 – Want
A Day To Remember – Homesick
Alesana – The Emptiness
The All-American Rejects – The All-American Rejects
Anberlin – Never Take Friendship Personal
Armor for Sleep – What To Do When You Are Dead
Atreyu – The Curse
August Burns Red – Constellations
Bayside – Bayside
Basement – Colourmeinkindness
Cartel – Chroma
Chiodos – All’s Well That Ends Well
Cobra Starship – ¡Viva La Cobra!
Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV
Dashboard Confessional – Dusk And Summer
Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership
The Devil Wears Prada – Plagues
The Distillers – Coral Fang
Emery – The Weak’s End
Escape the Fate – This War Is Ours
Fall Out Boy*
The Forecast – In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen
Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
Hawthorne Heights – The Silence In Black And White
Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
L.S. Dunes – Self Titled
The Maine – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
Mayday Parade – A Lesson In Romantics
Mom Jeans – Best Buds
Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This To Memory
Movements – Feel Something
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
Nada Surf – Let Go
Neck Deep – Life’s Not Out To Get You
New Found Glory – Sticks And Stones
Pierce the Veil – Collide With The Sky
Pretty Girls Make Graves – The New Romance
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Don’t You Fake It
Saosin – Saosin
Saves the Day – Stay What You Are
Senses Fail – Still Searching
Simple Plan – No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls
Silverstein – Discovering the Waterfront
Sleeping with Sirens – Let’s Cheers To This
State Champs – The Finer Things
The Starting Line – Say It Like You Mean It
Story of the Year – Page Avenue
Thursday – Full Collapse
Underoath – They’re Only Chasing Safety
The Used – In Love And Death
We the Kings – We The Kings
* TBA
Some artists covered are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The Grand Theft Auto world will finally receive a new Rockstar Games iteration, a full decade after GT 5 arrived. The precise release date of GT 6 hasn’t yet been revealed, but the trailer will obviously arrive in a speedier fashion. When, though?
Via Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser’s official announcement, “[I]n early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto.”
In other words, this will be happening within the next few weeks while people still wonder if GT 6 will surface on PS4 and whether there shall be a day-one release for PC. And to say that this incarnation is much anticipated would be a ridiculous understatement, and hopefully, there won’t be another source code leak to dampen any vibes or momentum from the publisher. In other words, let’s hope that no one ruins Christmas for fans of the game series.
As well, there shall also be a future GTA TV series, Vice City, which was apparently hinted at by 50 Cent earlier this year. Expect that show to surface on Paramount+, which means that there could be another juggernaut there beyond the dozen or so Taylor Sheridan shows that rule nearly the entire roost. Watch out, Yellowstone universe!
The latest Western series to hit America’s eyeballs is Lawmen: Bass Reeveswhich follows the thrilling life of Bass Reeves. And it wouldn’t be a Taylor Sheridan-produced show without some fancy cowboy hats.
Lawmen tells the story of Bass Reeves, one of the first Black U.S. Marshals, and his various internal and external struggles with the career. The show stars David Oyelowo as the title character, alongside Donald Sutherland, Dennis Quaid, Forrest Goodluck, Barry Pepper, Grantham Coleman, Demi Singleton, and Lauren E. Banks. Here is the official synopsis:
From executive producers Taylor Sheridan and David Oyelowo comes the untold story of the most legendary lawman in the Old West: Bass Reeves. Lawmen: Bass Reeves follows the journey of Reeves (Oyelowo) and his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during the course of his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family.
While the series is executive-produced by Sheridan, the connections to his other shows stop there. Lawmen creator and showrunner Chad Feehan recently revealed that there was a plan to connect the storyline to other Sheridan shows like 1883, but it didn’t pan out.
“There was conversations about a tie into 1883 before I was hired, and when I was hired I was given the freedom to craft the most compelling story that I could alongside the other writers,” Feehan recently told TV Insider. “I was given the opportunity, if there was a place to tie it to 1883, that was OK, but there was no obligation to do so. And so, we landed where we landed, which was our story takes place from roughly 1862 to 1877. And Bass primarily operates in [Native American] territory, which is modern-day Oklahoma and Fort Smith, Arkansas. And so it didn’t feel natural or organic to bring in any of the 1883 characters to the story.”
Even though the story isn’t set in the same timeline, maybe Sam Elliot can make a quick appearance in the second season…if there is one.
Fans of the long-running YouTube streaming channel Lofi Girl were caught off guard today when, upon heading to the usual “lofi hip hop radio” station, they were instead redirected to a mysterious new stream consisting of what appeared to be clouds backed by intriguing, sparse music.
This isn’t the first time Lofi Girl has disappeared. Back in 2022, the stream was disabled due to a malicious copyright claim scam. The stream was later restored with a new link and thousands of hours previously streamed were archived as their own video for posterity.
Then, earlier this year, the titular character (whose name is Jade, for those interested in Lofi Lore) disappeared from her own stream for nearly a full day, causing a “LoKey” panic among fans as the video zoomed into an apartment across the way from her now ubiquitous window.
The stunt turned out to be the surprise rollout for a new channel featuring a Synthwave Boy, who took up residence on his own stream alongside the restored LoFi Girl, back at her desk for another infinite study session. Now, both have disappeared, as the Lofi Twitter took care to capture:
Considering that, it certainly seems as though the Lofi Girl YouTube channel is rolling out yet another expansion. As this is being written, the clouds on the stream have begun to resolve into what appears to be an aerial view of an island. Once again, the stream is slowly zooming in, and almost certain to reveal more about what I’m going to dub Lofi Land — including possibly a new stream focusing on another of easy listening tunes for studying/sleeping/whatever else you choose to do with these stations in the background.
We’ll be back with more updates as the reveal gets closer. For now, you can follow along above.
Thanksgiving, of course, gestated from the “joke” trailer Eli Roth directed for 2007’s Grindhouse double feature of Planet Terror and Death Proof. Since that day, Roth has been asked over and over and over when we might get an actual full length movie. (Including by me in 2009, an interview I can’t even link to because the site Popeater no longer exists. Roth’s answer was, “Not yet, but it is something I’m working on.” Again, this was 14 years ago.)
Well, Eli Roth’sThanksgiving (written by Jeff Rendell) is finally a reality. Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 2022 multiple people are killed after things get out of hand during a black Friday sale on Thanksgiving night. The next year, someone dressed in a John Carver mask is going around killing everyone associated with the events from the year before. Patrick Dempsey (you know, the Sexiest Man Alive) plays the town sheriff who must figure out who is behind the murders before it’s too late for a group of high school students who were peripherally involved (they sneaked into the store early when the crowd saw them has started a riot). It’s a true throwback to late ’70s and early ’80s slasher movies, with the spirit of Bob Clark’s Black Christmas and Porky’s thrown in. (It turns out Eli Roth is a huge Bob Clark fan.)
Ahead, Roth discusses why it took so long to make Thanksgiving and all the influences that are contained within (buckle up, there are a lot). But, first, the star of his movie was just named the Sexiest Man Alive, as Roth deadpans about Rick Hoffman.
The Sexiest Man Alive is in your movie.
It’s really great. I knew that when we cast Rick Hoffman, I’ve always loved him, and then Suits blew up and then he became The Sexiest Man Alive. So he deserves it. I was saying to Sony, we should change the ads to say “Thanksgiving just got hotter, turned up the heat.”
Why wouldn’t you lean into that?
Yeah. Now we get to torture him in a multitude of ways for the rest of our lives, so I’m very happy for him. It’s very important to be sexy.
But really, this could kind of work out.
Oh yeah. No, I’m not complaining. It’s hilarious. I’m curious to see what people will bring now they watch the movie knowing it’s the Sexiest Man Alive. Look, we’re very lucky to get Patrick. He’s an awesome dude and the accent that he uses in the movie, that’s his real accent. He grew up in Maine and he actually grew up talking like that, and that’s how all his friends talk from there. So when he became an actor and moved to New York City in the ’80s, he had to lose the accent. So this is the first time he’s ever acted with his true natural accent in a film before.
He seems like he’s having the time of his life in this.
We had the best time making this movie.
It looks like it.
It was great and everyone did. I mean, look, when you’re making a low-budget movie, all you can really offer people is a great experience. It just all went so fast and then Patrick Dempsey’s agent reached out and I was like, “Please don’t tease me.” Because, of course, I’d love Dempsey to do it. “No, no, he wants to do a horror movie! He wants to be in something different that’s not a romantic comedy!” And his kids are really into horror. That always helps, when the kids push the parents. And Gina Gershon and I had worked together on Borderlands and she called me and she’s like, “When am I going to be in a horror movie?”
The one thing that has not aged well in this movie is the Patriots being a hot ticket…
I don’t think you’re from Massachusetts.
I’m not. I’m originally from Kansas City.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?
They are 2-7. [Update since this interview took place, they are now 2-8.]
But if you have Patriots tickets to sit on the 50-yard line…
Okay, the 50-yard line, point taken. The upper deck tickets aren’t hard to get right now.
Well, yeah, we’re not talking about upper-deck tickets. If you’re talking about sitting on the 50-yard line, those are good tickets.
I was at the 2019 AFC championship game in 10-degree weather in Kansas City. I saw the Patriots beat us in overtime. So I say that with all due respect, but you’ve had all these years of great Patriots teams to make this movie, and this is the year you picked.
If that’s the only thing in the movie that hasn’t aged well.
It is.
That’s the only thing?
Yes.
I’ll take it. It’s the kind of movie, because it’s called Thanksgiving, people can watch every year. So by next year they could be undefeated again, and then the scene will make sense again.
Okay…
I have faith that one day, that scene will make perfect sense. Thank you. No, I’m teasing. I need it.
Something else I’ve been thinking about since I watched this yesterday. I feel this movie is a throwback to kind of an ’80s slasher. When you made the fake trailer for Grindhouse, you were still establishing yourself as a filmmaker. It feels like, now, you can make a throwback because people will get what you’re doing and people like slashers again.
Well, the truth is, the movie started when I was 11 and 12 years old. Jeff Rendell and I grew up 40 minutes from Plymouth in Massachusetts. So Thanksgiving is rammed down your throats. So our goal was always to make a real slasher movie, like Black Christmas, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Happy Birthday to Me, April Fool’s Day, Mother’s Day. And then in the ’90s, Mute Witness and Scream, I thought were masterpiece slasher movies. So when we had the opportunity to do the trailer, it was doing it in the context of Grindhouse, which is supposed to be one of those fun 1980s low-budget, sleazy drive-in movies. So the trailer was a joke.
I know it was meant as a joke, but at the same time, the reaction to it was very positive. People wanted to see it even from that moment, which maybe surprised you?
Why would you?! Because we’ve just seen the best parts! My feeling was, why make the movie?! We could just make trailers then you don’t even have to think of a story or a plot or characters! And it wasn’t until we saw those Black Friday YouTube videos that it really got us thinking, because all those movies start with some inciting incident. Starting with Black Christmas or Bay of Blood, but starting with a holiday, a tragic event, a certain amount of time later, and all the people connected to that event getting killed, and you’re guessing who the killer is.
I thought about Black Christmas a lot while watching this…
And also the grandma in the beginning is played by Lynne Griffin, who’s the first victim in Black Christmas. The actual first victim of a holiday slasher movie in the opening scene in the movie, she was very upset we didn’t kill her. It was nice that she’s in it.
There are three Bob Clark movies in this. There’s Black Christmas, and Porky’s, which I think is one of the greatest movies ever made…
I just rewatched Porky’s recently. It’s great.
It’s no accident. It’s no accident that the movie was that good. That movie is a brilliant movie. Beautifully photographed, perfectly written characters. it’s so of its time, it’s a perfectly executed movie.
It has a weird reputation now, but it has a lot to say about racism, and antisemitism, and it is so closer to Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story than I thought about nostalgia and the ’50s…
No, it gets sort of lumped in as this stupid movie, but it’s not. Bob Clark started three sub-genres: the holiday slasher film with Black Christmas, the sex comedy with Porky’s, and the family holiday movie with A Christmas Story. Which has one of the best Thanksgivings. This movie, I wanted it to look like a holiday movie. So the high school scenes look like Porky’s. The holiday scenes when we’re dressing Kathleen? I wanted it to look like a holiday dinner. And then we start with a slasher POV on a holiday like the beginning of Black Christmas. So Bob Clark is kind of the unsung hero of three of my favorites. Two of my favorite subgenres. He’s a brilliant, brilliant, underrated director.
By the way, I’m a big Rhinestone fan too, so I love Bob Clark.
Me too. And Deathdream, you can’t go wrong with that guy. He’s incredible.
And the call coming from inside the house. Scream gets a lot of credit for that. And also When a Stranger Calls. but Black Christmas, that’s the movie that did that, and I don’t think he gets enough credit for that.
It is his own sub-genre. Look, you could say that the POV slasher film first came from Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood from 1971. It’s Black Christmas. He was going to make Black Halloween, but he didn’t do it. Look, Popcorn, the movie that he produced and kind of sort of directed that his partner Alan Ormsby made? The trailer for Popcorn, I remember seeing a bunch of crazy images and then the commercial went, “Popcorn.” That gave me the idea to do the voice for the Thanksgiving trailer. It was literally me imitating the commercial that I saw on TV as a teenager for Popcorn. And I was like, what is this movie? It’s such a weird film.
I own the Porky’s Atari 2600 game. Here it is. (Holds up the game.) This exists.
I’ve never played it. It’s so incredible looking.
It’s a lot like Frogger. You’re trying to get across the road to get to Porky’s so you can burn it down.
You know, when we’re shooting the high school scenes, a lot of the times when I looked at movies for what I wanted this to look like, obviously Porky’s is a huge influence. I think it’s a beautiful-looking film.
It is.
But the diner, we looked at Five Easy Pieces. For the actors, they’re like, “What horror movies should we watch?” I had them watch Sorcerer by Friedkin. I wanted them to see what those actors put themselves through. The girls were like, “What should we watch?” I said, watch Béatrice Dalle in Betty Blue. Watch her performance. She was 21 when she did that. That’s the bar I expect. You’re 22, do what she did. So they knew that that’s what I was expecting.
The Five Easy Pieces part is really interesting. I love that movie and Bob Rafelson movies. I wouldn’t have picked up on that.
Look at Jack Nicholson’s performance! Look at how understated he is. This guy running away from his talent. And that scene with the father? Look how cool he is. He doesn’t have to do anything and he has such presence in that movie. And that’s what I wanted.
For your favorite ’80s movies you also listed Friday the 13th Part III.
Look. I love Friday the 13th Part III. But if they want to watch slasher movies, I’m going to tell them to watch Pieces, I’m going to say watch The Prowler, I’m going to say watch Happy Birthday to Me. but Friday the 13th Part III, that’s the one where he gets the mask…
Yeah, from Shelly Finkelstein because he loves doing the pranks and he brought the mask.
Yes, of course! Of course. Doing the jokes! Look, I like the deaths in Friday the 13th Part 2, which is basically a remake of Bay of Blood. But if they wanted to get in the vibe of those movies, I told them Mute Witness. I was just trying to pick ones they hadn’t seen before. Stuff that would kind of crack their heads open a little bit and get them in a different frame of mind. I don’t need them to think that’s the style of acting I want them to do. But yeah, of course, we love Shelley Finklestein. I was that guy. If I were in the movie, I would be this guy.
I love every October when people who’ve seen the Friday the 13th movies don’t realize Jason doesn’t get the hockey mask until the middle of the third movie.
Yeah, he gets the mask in the third one, I know. But I also love Steve. Number 81! I want to go as him for Halloween one year. When he gets the machete in his head and he just goes down the stairs in the wheelchair? I looked that guy up to cast him. I love that death.
Wait, that’s Part 2, right?
That’s Part 2. He’s so nice. He’s a sweet guy. He’s in a wheelchair. He likes the girl. And he just gets a machete in his face.
You think he’s going to save the day and it’s just like, no, sorry, man. No.
Jason’s like, I don’t care you’re in a wheelchair. I’m going to kill you.
No, Jason certainly does not care.
Jason’s an equal-opportunity killer. And of course, Part III is great because he went to the slasher gym between Part 2 and Part III.
Yeah in Part 2, Jason is a skinny guy with a bag on his head. In Part III…
WWE wrestler! 400 pounds of solid muscle! He just goes to the slasher gym. Maybe that’ll happen between Thanksgiving two and three? We have to have John Carver just gets yoked, turns into this steroid beast.
I couldn’t help but notice the Krull poster in this movie. Why Krull?
Why not? It’s one of the posters that McCarty loves. But then there are certain ones that we like for clearance, some we tried to get, but the rights are confused.
Krull is a Sony movie, so that helps.
Well, we got Krull. I knew he would love Krull. Death Wish 3 because he sells guns and that’s the best one. Then Last Resort with Rob Morrow and Johnny Depp and then Heather Thomas in the pink bikini, and we got permission from Heather Thomas, which was very cool to use that. It was either going to be Krull or Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, and we went with Krull.
Krull is that perfect sweet spot of an esoteric movie, but people also kind of remember it because that poster was everywhere in that era.
It’s like Krull, Zardoz… Krull is like the Zardoz of the ’80s, you know what I mean?
I just watched Zardoz for the first time a few weeks ago. What a trip.
Incredible.
John Boorman.
Peter Yates goes Breaking Away and someone’s like, “You should do a Star Wars.” All right, Krull. You can tell. It’s like, totally, why did he make that movie? It’s incredible. It’s like Zardoz. It’s just like, wait, what? That movie happened? Sean Connery, with the muffin top and the cod piece. It’s the best!
And one of the best reveals, of why it’s called Zardoz.
It’s pretty good! Go see Thanksgiving in theaters … as good as Zardoz! What can I tell you? It’s better than Krull.
‘Thanksgiving’ opens in theaters this Friday. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.
It starts with Doja Cat arriving on the set of a fake late-night television show hosted by her Scarlet alter ego. Within 45 seconds, Doja jokes to Scarlet, “I want you to sh*t on my face. I know that for a fact.” Somehow, it progressively gets even more unhinged.
Doja Cat discusses shaving her eyebrows and head, but clarifies, “I don’t shave my vagina.” Welp! Moving on then. Next up? The controversy surrounding Doja Cat losing “a little over a million followers” across social media, which Doja Cat blames on posting “a picture of Whoopi Goldberg’s nipples on Instagram.” That leads to a question about “what type of perks come with being in The Illuminati.”
Doja doesn’t flinch, saying, “Uh, free applesauce [and] chicken wings, but I haven’t seen any lizard guys in suits. […] I want to do goat sacrifices because that’s actually pretty spooky. Also, I’d love to give a shoutout to Satan.” Naturally, Scarlet asks whether Doja Cat ever indulges in worshipping Satan. After a quick belch, Doja says, “All the time. I give my demons free cheese.”
And we’re not even halfway home, guys. The second half of the spoof includes seemingly serious commentary from Doja Cat on how she’s evolved in her writing, but just when you think she’s being serious, she lets out a huge fart after saying, “I can express myself as me, and I have never been so comfortable.”
After facing intense backlash both in public and behind the scenes, Warner Bros. Discovery reportedly reversed its decision to shelve Coyote vs. Acme in a move that was eerily similar to the studio pulling the plug on Batgirl last year.
However, that doesn’t mean the studio is giving the film a theatrical release or releasing it on Max. WB Discovery is looking to offload the film to streaming platforms and quickly. According to a new report, screenings are already being set up for Amazon, Apple, and Netflix where Coyote vs. Acme could find a new home.
Via Deadline:
Of those kicking the tires, even though no deals have been drafted, I hear Amazon is a leading contender given the fact that its Courtenay Valenti, the Head of Film, Streaming and Theatrical for Amazon Studios and MGM, was a big champion and lynchpin for the movie while she was at Warner Bros. All of this boils down to Jen Salke’s sign-off I understand. During the pandemic Amazon Prime acquired Sony’s family titles Hotel Transylvania 4 and Cinderella among other movies. Amazon has been known to take finished films off the table with $100M and turn them into events for the streamer.
Deadline also corroborated an early report from Puck that Warner Bros. received phone calls from representatives for Coyote vs. Acme‘s talent and “angry filmmakers” who were not thrilled that the studio tried to axe yet another film for a tax write-off.
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Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
