Musical Montage: Johnny Squares “Welcome to the Jungle”
Things got somewhat weird in the fifth and final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool, which featured, among other things, an over the top segment where a pre-famous Jim Carrey lip-syncs to “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N Roses for a music video/slasher movie directed by Liam Neeson.
Battle at the Box Office 12/16
Jumanji: The Next Level continued its predecessor’s box office domination with a huge opening just shy of $60 million while the other new releases struggled with some of the worst wide openings ever.
Admit One 12/13
The Jumanji gang returns for Jumanji: The Next Level, Black Christmas returns with another reboot and Clint Eastwood tells another true story with Richard Jewell this weekend at the theater.
Action Hero of the Week: Mike Murphy
Former cop Mike Murphy has to reluctantly to team up with his old partner to solve his friend’s murder, which puts him between two warring crime bosses in 1930s Kansas City.
Everything Actioncast Ep 434 “Us, What We Do in the Shadows, Avengers, Scary Stories and More”
This week on the podcast, Zach and Chris dive into the first Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Dora the Explorer trailers, the epic runtime of Avengers: Endgame, Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds teaming up in City Heat, Jordan Peele’s Us, the first episode of What We Do in the Shadows and more.
Battle at the Box Office 12/17
Into the Spider-Verse took the top spot at the box office with the biggest December opening ever for an animated movie while Clint Eastwood had one of his best openings ever for The Mule and Mortal Engines could potentially be the biggest disaster of 2018.
Admit One 12/14
After a few barren weeks at the box office, four new (well three new and one rejiggered) movies hit theaters including the highly anticipated Into the Spider-Verse, the latest from Clint Eastwood, a Peter Jackson backed YA adaptation and a PG-13 Deadpool for the whole family.
Battle at the Box Office 2/12
Jumanji was finally pushed out of the top spot by the three new releases of the weekend, with Fifty Shades Freed taking the top spot but with the lowest opening for the trilogy.