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Paramount+ Launches Its Cheaper $5 A Month Plan Today The cheaper, ad-supportedParamount+subscription plan is available now. A lower pricing tier of $4.99 per month has launched today, three months after the rebranding of the ViacomCBS streaming platform from CBS All Access to Paramount+. This cheaper subscription plan gives Paramount+ a leg up over its old CBS All Access counterpart (which was $5.99 at its cheapest), as will the summer slate of over 1,000 “premium” movies and new original TV series, led by the Paramount+ exclusive release of the Mark Wahlberg action thrillerInfinite....

Ranked: All Of The ‘Saturday Night Live’ Movies Since a new season ofSaturday Night Liveis kicking off this weekend withhost Miley Cyrus on October 3rd, and yours truly will be reviewing every new episode, there’s no better time to take a look back at all the movies that have been spawned from the iconic late-night sketch series and rank them from worst to best. This wasn’t too monumental an undertaking since there’s only 11 total movies produced that were based onSaturday Night Livesketches, but there’s bound to be some dissension when it comes to where they fall on the list....

Resident Alien Season 2: Everything We Know So Far The start of 2021 introduced the science-fiction comedy series “Resident Alien,” with a second season greenlit just before the season 1 finale. Based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name, the series centers on an alien with an unpronounceable birth name who crash-lands on Earth on a mission to wipe out humanity. After killing Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle and assuming his identity, the alien struggles with the morality of his mission to kill all humans the more he learns about humankind....

Robert Downey Jr. Says There’s No Plan For ‘Iron Man 4’ Robert Downey Jr.will be Iron Man inAvengers: Age of Ultron, and he’ll probably show up inAvengers 3. But right now he says there’s no plan forIron Man 4. Why not? Marvel’s movie plans are getting bigger and weirder. As theGuardians of the Galaxyexplode in popularity, new characters such as Vision arepreppedfor launch next year. Captain America will get a third film, but pretty soon Marvel is going to be busy launching new characters such as Ant-Man and Doctor Strange....

Scarlett Johansson Offered ‘Ghost In The Shell’ WithMargot Robbielooking toget into the superhero gamewithSuicide Squad,Rupert Sanders’Ghost in the Shellis down a lead actress. So now another superheroine might take Robbie’s place. Scarlett Johanssonhas reportedly been offered the lead role in the 3D live-action, English-language manga adaptation. Hit the jump for more on the potential Scarlett JohanssonGhost in the Shellcasting.Deadlinereports Johansson has been offered $10 million to take the part of cyborg protagonist Motoko Kusanagi....

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Movie Posters: Meet The Seven Evil Exes Universal Pictures has released six new character posters forEdgar Wright’sScott Pilgrim vs. The World.Based on the comic book series written byBryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim tells the story of a charming and jobless 22-year-old who must defeat his new girlfriend’s seven evil ex-boyfriends to win her heart. The new character posters showcase Ramona Flower’s seven evil evil Exes. Check them out, after the jump....

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Trailer: Gotta Go Fast To The Sequel The world’s favorite anthropomorphic blue hedgehog is making his return and — as expected —he’s moving faster than ever. Now I know what you’re thinking — how fast is hereallyif the work had to wait two years for his return? But considering the sequel was filmed in the midst of a global pandemic, this was a pretty short gap. Still, it might’ve been just enough time to forget the horrors of theoriginal Sonic character design, so you best prepare your eyes because that image is about to recirculate the internet in abundance....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Special Features Reveal How The Meme (You Know Which One) Was Made “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is finally available on digital, which means anybody who is still fighting the good fight against spoilers can finally take off their blinders and unmute half of Twitter. It also means we can all collectively bask in one of the most satisfying surprises in recent blockbuster memory: the Peter Parker reunion....

Superhero Bits: Gal Gadot Steals Batman V Superman, Sabretooth In Wolverine 3 & More What’s the early buzz onGal Gadot’s performance asWonder WomaninBatman v Superman? Will we get to seeDeadpoolpop up in anyX-Menmovies in the future? HasLiev Schreibertalked toHugh Jackmanabout Wolverine 3? Did James Franco not enjoy making theSpider-Manmovies? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Watch a clip from tomorrow’s season finale ofAgent Carter, and hope it won’t be the last episode ever....

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern, Silver Surfer, More Avengers Want to watch a video blog review featuring me and Peter, along with Alex from FirstShowing, talking aboutThe Avengers? Why doesn’t anyone say “Avengers Assemble” in the movie? Which superhero has the most screentime? Care to see some of the award winning t-shirts inThe Dark Knight Risescontest? DidArmond WhitelikeThe Avengers? What amazing way wasBatman Beginspromoted in New Zealand?...

Terminator, John Wick, Star Wars, Collateral & Tons More Converge In ‘Hell’s Club’ Movie Mash-Up There’s a good chance no one has ever thought that they’d like to see a movie that intersects the worlds of films such asStar Wars, Scarface, John Wick, Collateral, Terminator, Trainspotting, Saturday Night Feverand more. But that’s exactly whatAntonio Maria Da Silvahas done with a wholly strange, mesmerizing and fantastic cleverly edited short compiled by using clips from all these movies....

The ‘Cabin In The Woods’ Video Game That Almost Was Fair warning. This is one of those articles you’re going to wish you hadn’t read because it’s about something incredibly cool that almost was, but never will be. WhenJoss WhedonandDrew Goddardfirst finishedThe Cabin in the Woods(which, we all remember, was several years before it was actually released) plans were set into motion for a themed expansion pack with the zombie gameLeft 4 Deadthat would’ve allowed fans to play through scenarios in the movie....

The ‘Preacher’ Cast Is Ready To Drink Hard And Defy God In These New Images Preacherthe television series will not bePreacherthe comic.The trailer showed us that.Reactions from early screenings of the pilot have told us that.Even the casting of certain characters have made that clear. And that’s fine.Garth EnnisandSteve Dillon’s infamous Vertigo comic series was never going to make the transition to the small screen intact and it probably shouldn’t. What works in the pages of comic book, what’s palatable in the pages of a comic book, doesn’t always translate to something that’s fun to actually watch....