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A live-action reboot of the 2010s DreamWorks animated fantasy trilogy, How to Train Your Dragon, is set to premiere in a couple of months, and as timing would have it, fans can catch up on the originals just in time for the live-action film. The entire How to Train Your Dragon trilogy will hit Peacock on April 1.

The first film, released in 2010, earned $494.8 million worldwide and starred Jay Baruchel as the voice of Hiccup, Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, and America Ferrera as Astrid. The movie follows Hiccup, a misfit Viking teenager who tries to change the course of the future of his people after he makes friends with an injured dragon named Toothless. The first film has a nearly-perfect Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 99%.

The 2 Sequels Were Box Office Hits

How to Train Your Dragon 2 dropped in 2014 and also featured Baruchel, Butler, and Ferrera, with the addition...

Fans of the mind-bending thriller Severance know Britt Lower as Helly R, a character whose struggle against the dystopian Lumon Industries has made her one of television's most riveting leads. Yet before she got severed, Lower approached another style of surrealism in one of the best romantic comedy shows of the 2010s, if not ever: Man Seeking Woman.

Playing overachieving attorney Liz, sister to main character Josh Greenberg (Jay Baruchel), Lower demonstrated her on-the-nose comedic timing and range that would later make her a standout in Severance. She described the show to TV Insider this way: "This show is kind of like waking up inside of a dream, and you’re not sure if it’s going to be a fantasy dream or if it’s going to be a total nightmare, and oftentimes, it’s both." She also detailed her character in the show:

She’s like the flipside of Jay’s character,...

0Charlie Hunnam is an English actor best known for Sons of Anarchy, playing the complex and broken Jax Teller. Before Hunnam donned his leather Samcro vest, he first gained recognition as the title character in Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickelby, based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Hunnam starred in several other notable projects, like Pacific Rim and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Back in 2001—before his dramatic work—Charlie Hunnam had a regular role in the Judd Apatow comedy series Undeclared. Undeclared followed a group of college first-year students living in the same dorm at a fictional college in Northern California. A fresh-faced, twenty-one-year-old Charlie Hunnam played Lloyd, a theater student and ladies' man.

Undeclared Is Hilariously Awkward

Following Freaks & Geeks, Judd Apatow looked for his next idea for television. He wanted to bring as many as he could of the cult classic's cast...

Will Arnett’s new animated superhero comedy, Super Team Canada, is set to premiere on May 16 on the Canadian streaming service Crave. The show arrives at a time when tensions between the U.S. and Canada are rising due to a trade conflict.

The series follows six Canadian superheroes as they try to save the world from giant evil robots, a jobless octopus, and an overly clingy hardware store clerk. The characters are not the most famous heroes, but when the world’s more well-known protectors are trapped or defeated, this unlikely group must step up.

Arnett voices Breakaway, a former minor league hockey player who fights crime using his skates, hockey stick, and special pucks. Other cast members include Cobie Smulders as Niagara Falls, Kevin McDonald as the Canadian prime minister, and Charles Demers as Poutine, a French Canadian crime fighter.

The show also features Brian Drummond, Ceara Morgana,...

Will Arnett’s animated comedy Super Team Canada is set to bow May 16 on Canadian streamer Crave, just in time to ride a surge in Canadian nationalism amid an escalating cross-border tariffs war with the United States.

The series about six Canadian superheroes saving the world from giant evil robots has an all-Canadian cast that includes Cobie Smulders voicing the role of Niagara Falls, Kevin McDonald as the Canadian prime minister and Charles Demers as Poutine, a French Canadian crime fighter.

Arnett voices the role of Breakaway, a former minor league hockey player who uses his skates, stick and special pucks to fight crime as the unofficial leader of Super Team Canada. The ensemble voice cast also has Brian Drummond, Ceara Morgana, Veena Sood and guest star Jay Baruchel.

Super Team Canada from Arnett’s Electric Avenue and Thunderbird Entertainment’s Atomic Cartoons is written by Emmy winners Robert Cohen...

When thinking about 2013's This is the End, there are a few things that come to mind. It is remembered as one of the last big collaborations between Seth Rogen and James Franco before all the controversy surrounding the latter, and as one of the last examples of comedies being more consistent winners at the box office. The film is also remembered for a slew of high-profile celebrity cameos from Rihanna to Harry Potter'sEmma Watson. The cameos are all memorable in their own right, but Watson's is a particular standout, not only because of what's in the final film, but also because of the stories surrounding the actress being so upset by a particular line that she actually walked off the set. Now, with a lot of time having passed, Rogen has finally clarified why Watson was upset enough to need to take a minute and get herself together.

During a chat with GQ,...

Besides the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson's other Hollywood big break was in the 2012 drama movieCosmopolis, directed by the horror legend David Cronenberg.

With the recent release of the Bong Joon Ho-directed film Mickey 17, Pattinson would reflect on his work with other directors in an interview with the French cultural magazine Technikart. In the interview, when asked about his work on the Cronenberg-directed film, Pattinson states, "I love Cosmopolis. Don DeLillo's writing is sublime, it's as powerful as the lyrics of a song. When I got the script, I just wanted to read it out loud because the language is so beautiful."

Based on DeLillo's 2003 novel of the same name, the now 13-year-old film underperformed at the box office, earning only $7.1 million on a $20.5 million budget, and left critics polarized.

Pattinson would then talk about working with the legendary director and how his work on the film...

Here’s Why Emma Watson Once Stormed Out Of This Is The End Set (Photo Credit – Koimoi)

Emma Watson had her limits, and This Is the End pushed them. The 2013 apocalyptic comedy was packed with outrageous moments, but one scene took things too far for the Harry Potter star. When Channing Tatum hit the set in nothing but a leather thong, Watson reportedly took one look and walked out.

According to an unconfirmed account from an extra on set, Watson had been scheduled to shoot a scene with Tatum, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, James Franco, and Jay Baruchel. The setup? McBride, playing a deranged king, emerged from an Rv with Tatum on a leash, dressed in only a thong. The extra claimed that Watson “had a freak-out moment” and bolted before cameras rolled. Though briefly returned and filmed for a few minutes, she ultimately called it quits, forcing the night...

The incomparable Brad Pitt made a heartfelt revelation during an interview with W Magazinein 2012, one people weren't expecting. In the brief clip, he was asked about the films that pull at his heartstrings and make him cry. The Oscar-winning actor tried to keep a cool facade and said he's not much of a crier when it comes to films and that the occasional film might make him tear up, but a full-blown crying session is out of the question. However, one film touched him, and it's not what some people might've expected to hear from Pitt. He revealed that the animated movie How to Train Your Dragon made him cry at the end when Vikings and dragons lived in harmony with each other.

The animated film premiered in 2010 and was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. How to Train Your Dragon is a coming-of-age story that follows a young...

A new official trailer for Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s live-action How to Train Your Dragonrecently dropped. The highly-anticipated reboot of the 2010 animated movie of the same name hits theaters on June 13. Now, ahead of the summer premiere, Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed the new live-action movie and co-wrote and co-directed the 2010 film, is dishing about how the movies differ.

Speaking with TheWrap, DeBlois said that when Universal said they wanted to revisit How to Train Your Dragon,his team had to “pick a lane at the start.” The movie is a reimagining of the 2010 animated film, which was based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. The 2010 film starred Jay Baruchel as the voice of Hiccup, Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, Craig Ferguson as Gobber, and America Ferrera as Astrid.

In the new film, Butler reprises his role as Stoick while Mason Thames takes on the role...

Disney kicked off the trend of remaking animated movies in live-action in 2015 with Cinderella, and it is still going strong. The latest animated feature to get a live-action do-over is How To Train Your Dragon, based on the 2010 movie about a sensitive young Viking who wants to be a mighty dragon-killer but find he doesn't have the stomach for it, so he befriends one instead. Watch the trailer above.

That young Viking, Hiccup, was voiced by Jay Baruchel in the original movie, and will be played by Mason Thames in the remake. Gerald Butler, who voiced Hiccup's father in the original movie, will play him in the new movie, which is neat.

The trailer looks...like a remake of How To Train Your Dragon. The visual design is very similar to the animated movie, especially the look of the dragon Toothless. The scene where Hiccup extends his hand and almost...

Once upon a time, Disney was best known for their animated films. But somewhere along the line, they learned that they could make bank by using their existing intellectual property in a new way — by taking their old, beloved animated films and plopping them in the world of live-action. After all, what worked in two dimensions with pen and paper has to be even better with real people, right?

By this point, it seems as though Disney should have learned that isn't always the case. It's not enough to have a cherished IP in live action — you also have to bring something new to the table. And there are some Disney live-action adaptations that work better than others. Some are legitimately good films in their own right, while others are, well ... less than magical.

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The latest trailer for Universal's live-action update of "How to Train Your Dragon" is here, once again making us wonder: Why do we need this movie when the animated version is already great? The new footage offers no answers, but by dropping during Super Bowl Lix, it'll no doubt inspire a few million more people to ask the question.

Admittedly, this new installment in the franchise (which began with the cartoon feature of the same name in 2010) does have a few things going for it, including the return of original trilogy writer-director Dean DeBlois and an animation style that somehow manages to capture the overwhelming cuteness of its heroic black dragon, Toothless. 

The first trailer for the live-action "How to Train Your Dragon," which dropped in November 2024 before screening in theaters with Universal's "Wicked," didn't stray from the original film much at all in terms of its visuals or plot beats.

The debut feature film of Caitlin Cronenberg, daughter of legendary body horror auteur David Cronenberg, is quickly rising on Hulu's charts. Sitting at number three as of this writing, Humane was released in April 2024 but didn't receive much attention at the time. The psychological thriller hit Shudder in July of that year, but still didn't make much of a blip. It seems the underrated film is finally getting its due on Hulu.

Humane takes place in an alternate reality Canada, where the climate crisis has prompted the world's governments to institute a euthanasia campaign in order to rid Earth of 20% of its human population. The narrative centers on the Yorks, an estranged family brought together one evening by patriarch Charles. He has a surprise for his children, one that will lead the night into a terrifying nightmare full of twists and turns.

The film's cast is impressive, with Jay Baruchel,...

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This February, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the return of beloved shows like Invincible and Reacher to the much-anticipated teen romantic drama film My Fault: London. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films that are coming to Prime Video in February 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

A Fish Called Wanda (February 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Credit – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A Fish Called Wanda is a heist comedy film directed by Charles Crichton from a screenplay by John Cleese. The 1988 film revolves around a group of thieves and con artists who team up to pull off the perfect heist, but things go horribly wrong because they all try to double-cross each other.

Fubar is coming back in 2025, and there are a few things we’d love to see in the second season of this action comedy! In Netflix's news dump of all the shows confirmed for this year, thankfully Fubar season 2 is one of them. Though there's no official release date yet, at least we know we can look forward to seeing the series back again this year.

What happened in season 1 that will effect Fubar season 2

For those who may not know (or have forgotten), Fubar debuted on Netflix in May of 2023. It was notable as the first regular TV series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and clearly used his action movie icon status to the fullest.

For decades, Luke Brunner (Schwarzenegger) has secretly been a top operative for the CIA. He’s dedicated his life to the agency, which has cost him a marriage to Tally (Faibna Udenio) and estranged from...

There are plenty of movies slated to drop this year, but fewer have more box office potential than the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, which has been set for release on June 13. The film is a remake of the classic 2010 DreamWorks movie of the same name that earned nearly perfect scores of 99% from critics and 91% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it will see some classic actors like Gerard Butler return to their roles, while others such as Jay Baruchel is being replaced by Mason Thames in the role of Hiccup. During a recent interview with The Direct, Butler provided an update on the upcoming iteration and also spoke about what the creators can accomplish in live-action that they can't with animation:...

Everything you need to know about Fubar 2(Photo Credit – YouTube)

Fubar, the spy thriller series received a good response from the audience when it first released in May 2023. The success led to its renewal and now the second season of the show is slated for release soon.

Only a month after its release, Fubar was officially renewed for a second season. The action comedy series had eight episodes and the audience enjoyed seeing Arnold in another badass role. Here’s what we know about the upcoming second season of Fubar including cast and filming details.

Fubar Season 2: Returning & New Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger will be back as Luke Brunner. Fubar was his first television series and The Terminator superstar has returned for the second edition of the series. Monica Barbaro plays Luke’s daughter Emma Brunner and the Top Gun: Maverick star will also be back for the second season.

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This January, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the intense biographical thriller series Lockerbie: A Search For Truth to the return of the hit British reality series The Traitors. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in January 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Alien (January 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – 20th Century Fox

Alien is a sci-fi horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon. The 1979 film follows the crew of a spacecraft that intercepts a distress signal from a planet. They soon set out to investigate, but they are attacked by an alien entity that invades their ship.

Though often seen merely as the streaming platform where all the classic NBC shows can be found, like Friends and The Office, the best movies on Peacock this month showcase the vast library of cinematic offerings. Peacock also hosts a lot of Universal’s biggest titles, meaning that fans can find some of the biggest blockbusters of the year, like Twisters on the platform, as well as some true classics from the legendary studio.

Peacock is also kicking off the new year with a lot of exciting titles, including some that will likely become big players during the 2025 awards season, such as the gripping thriller Conclave. Fans will be able to find films from directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg as well as movies in huge franchises, like Harry Potter and Fast and Furious. Even with the exciting television catalog, the best movies on Peacock in January 2025 are certainly worth a look.

Sean Gunn may voice Weasel and G.I. Robot in the animated series Creature Commandos, but regarding live-action, DC fans are going to recognize him as the DC Universe's Maxwell Lord. The character was previously played by Pedro Pascal in 2020's Wonder Woman 1984, although Gunn isn't worried about stepping into the role so soon after Pascal.

During an interview with The Kristian Harloff Show (via X), Gunn opened up about how his take on Maxwell Lord would differ drastically from Pascal's version in WW84. "I can tell you that the one obvious thing is it's me playing the role. It doesn't just mean I'm going to give a different interpretation," the actor started. "Your own body is the vessel for what you're doing, so obviously...no one is gonna confuse me and Pedro Pascal's performance. So we're obviously going to do something different."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger MCU Role ( Photo Credit – Flickr )

Well, well, well, hold on to your multiversal hats because Arnold Schwarzenegger just threw his hat in the MCU ring. The action icon dropped the bombshell in a Men’s Health interview, casually saying, “If the role is right!” We don’t know what “right” means for Arnie, but we do know this: the possibilities are endless.

Let’s be honest: can you imagine the Terminator stepping into the MCU? A hero? A villain? Heck, maybe a multiversal variant of someone we already know. With his action-packed resume, Schwarzenegger would be a slam dunk in either role. Not to mention, he’s got comedic timing that’ll leave you laughing while dodging bullets.

Schwarzenegger isn’t just thinking of any old role. He’s got serious ties to the MCU world already. His son-in-law? None other than the legendary Star-Lord himself, Chris Pratt.

Monica Barbaro's star has risen in the last few years with a major jump from TV to film with a breakthrough supporting role in Top Gun: Maverick. She also recently portrayed Joan Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown with Timothée Chalamet. She hasn't shied away from TV entirely, however, and during a recent interview on Collider's Ladies Night, she talked about working with action legend Arnold Schwarzenegger on Fubar and contrasted his working style to Tom Cruise on Top Gun.

"Then, in a very different way, but also a really inspiring way, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays my father on this show that I'm on, and he's also an incredibly hard worker, but he has a very laid-back approach about a lot of things. He doesn't ask a lot of questions. He sort of tailors the information he needs. Sometimes I feel like I ask too much, I let too much in,...

The new live-action remake How to Train Your Dragon may not be coming to theaters until the summer of 2025, but a new teaser image was just released. Screen Rant shared the new picture, which shows Hiccup (Mason Thames) and Astrid (Nico Parker) hiding from what looks like an intense battle.

The image shared shows Hiccup and Astrid lying together and peering from beneath a wooden palette looking scared, but also a bit curious. It can be seen below.

The Remake Is Directed by the Original Dragon Trilogy Director

The new movie is directed by Dean DeBlois, who also directed the original animated trilogy, which was based on a novel by Cressida Cowell. The fantasy film is a reimagining of 2010’s animated How to Train Your Dragon. The remake will feature a cast that includes Gerard Butler, who is reprising his role as Stoick the Vast. The first film grossed about...

Throughout the history of cinema, there have been many fantastic movies that just could not be made today. Movies always reflect the era in which they were produced, and this is why it’s not always fair to dismiss older films just because they cannot live up to the progressive values of modern times. It’s important to watch old films with a critical eye and know that just because something does not live up to the politically correct era of today, that doesn’t mean it's totally without worth or should be cast into obscurity.

Many of the best films ever made have issues when it comes to their depiction of gender, politics, or racial topics, and viewers should watch them with the knowledge that as times change, social conventions of acceptability are modernized. This is a sign of society moving toward more progressive and forward-thinking viewpoints, which highlight...

With '80s classics Gremlins and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and more modern flicks like The Iron Giant and Underdog, the ever-heartwarming "a boy and his [insert unlikely companion]" premise has become a story told and retold across generations and genres. Whether the sidekick is a dog, robot, alien, or any magical creature, audiences and critics alike adore each iteration (and their lead's unique companions), regardless of the familiar plot structure.

However, as studios produce more and more of these formulaically touching films and, as a result, run out of new ways to tell the story, it isn't surprising when viewers start to notice (and complain about) it. Fan suspicions about the similarities between the characters and their journeys in Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon franchise and Disney's Big Hero 6 reveal the studios' lack of fresh ideas and the beginning of viewer disinterest. So, is that long-time adoration turning into boredom?...

Tobey Maguire's acting is so much more than just a certain wall-crawling superhero. Maguire has been acting professionally since 1989, with his career really taking off in the late '90s. After a string of acclaimed supporting roles, Maguire broke out with 1998's Pleasantville, and won viewers' hearts with his distinctly dorky, often quiet presence on screen. However, what really launched Maguire to the top of the A-list was playing Peter Parker in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies, a role he reprised in the McU's Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

With his decades-spanning career, Maguire has acted in everything from comedies like Tropic Thunder to period pieces like Seabiscuit and has received critical acclaim for his acting. There is something indescribable about how Maguire uses his eyes onscreen, always providing viewers with a window into how his character is feeling. However, his career is not without its ebbs and flows, which is typical for many actors.

The How to Train Your Dragon franchise was an incredibly popular series of animated films produced by Universal Studios. Beginning with How to Train Your Dragon in 2010, the series followed Hiccup, a teenage boy living on an island plagued by dragon attacks. Throughout the film, Hiccup trains with his peers to slay the dragons, but when he comes across an injured Night Fury dragon, the two end up becoming unlikely lifelong friends.

The first film saw massive critical and box office success, grossing a worldwide total of $494 million, and a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was followed by two sequels: How to Train Your Dragon 2 in 2014, and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in 2019. With the rise of live-action adaptations, the franchise is finally getting the live-action treatment, produced by Universal.

Updated by Alex Roush on December 10, 2024: The How to Train Your Dragon franchise...

Seth Rogen is one of the more unique comedic actors out there right now. Unlike some professional goofballs, Rogen's career has also included some significant dramatic works. This has included, for example, serious roles in The Fabelmans and Steve Jobs. While he still brings his characteristic humor to all his roles, parts in dramatic films show his range. Rogen is also experienced both in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes, serving as a producer on a number of key projects including The Boys and Invincible.

A lot of his dual behind-the-scenes and in-front-of-the-camera work extends to his comedy rolls. In both late 2000s movies Superbad and Pineapple Express, for example, Rogen both stars in and produces the film in some capacity. The same is true for other Rogen-featuring comedies including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, The Green Hornet, and 50/50. Rogen has continued this trend of both producing and acting,...

Whether it be by utter obliteration, acts of deities and demons, or merely the ruination of the environment for human habitation, the world's end has fascinated filmmakers for as long as special effects have allowed it to be visualized. In general, audiences are drawn to see such mass destruction at a fictional remove as well, though some tales of the end times can hit a bit too close to home to feel good as escapism.

Not every movie on this list actually depicts the end, but they all, in some way, reckon with it. What do the characters do with their imminent fate? What would you do? Most of these films ask the questions; others might use the demise of the globe as a surprise twist. As such, we must warn that there are spoilers below, if discussing the individual approach to world-ending developments necessitates them. In most cases, you...

DreamWorks' upcoming live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon has understandably replaced the actor playing the movie's main character, but Hiccup's original actor must still feature in the 2025 effort. Hiccup has been voiced so far by the same person since the first movie was released in 2010. Since then, he has gone on to reprise the role in every How to Train Your Dragon movie and TV show. While he hasn't been confirmed to be part of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon cast yet, it would be surprising if he didn't appear in some capacity.

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon's release date is set for June 13, 2025. So, there isn't long left to wait until the remake hits cinemas. The first trailer suggests the movie will be a shot-for-shot remake of the original, with even Toothless' iconic character design remaining intact. Mason Thames is stepping in to inherit the role of Hiccup,...

I think that a lot of people are accusing this generation – whatever they mean by “this generation” – of being too woke and too touchy to actually enjoy different works of art that carry content that may be triggering.

One of those people who believe so is Ben Stiller. Who, if you happen to have seen its re-runs on TV, is the star of ‘Zoolander,’ a comedy that caricatures male models.

But that’s not his most controversial work, if you can believe it: he, along with other stars like Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel and Brandon T. Jackson, starred in a 2008 satirical comedy, titled ‘Tropic Thunder.’

According to him, in today’s climate, ‘Tropic Thunder’ would not pass production let alone have any kind of audience engagement.

Ben Stiller – Says He Wouldn’t Have Done ‘Tropic Thunder’ If It Were Brought Up Today

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Ben Stiller is weighing in on the whole "you couldn't make my super controversial movie today" conversation, but—unlike some others who were mostly just yelling at clouds—he actually has a point. He's talking about Tropic Thunder of course, the "incredibly dicey" 2008 satirical comedy about a group of actors...

Ben Stiller has admitted that making his 2008 satirical comedy Tropic Thunder today would be “incredibly dicey.”

The actor-director-producer recently explained to Collider why he’s doubtful that type of movie could work in the current environment where “edgier comedy is just harder to do.”

“Definitely not at the scale we made it at, too, in terms of the economics of the business,” he continued. “I think even at the time we were fortunate to get it made, and I credit that, actually, to Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks. He read it and was like, ‘Alright, let’s make this thing.’ It’s a very inside movie when you think about it.”

Tropic Thunder, starring and directed by Stiller, also starred Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel and Brandon T. Jackson. The film follows a group of egotistical actors making a big-budget war movie who are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Tropic Thunder caused a lot of controversy due to its use of blackface and depictions of intellectual disabilities. While those aspects of the film were passed off as satire in 2008, Ben Stiller, who starred in and co-wrote the screenplay, says the movie probably wouldn't get the green light in 2024.

"I doubt it," Stiller told Collider when asked if the film stood a chance in 2024. "Obviously, in this environment, edgier comedy is just harder to do. Definitely not at the scale we made it at, too, in terms of the economics of the business. I think even at the time we were fortunate to get it made, and I credit that, actually, to Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks. He read it and was like, 'Alright, let's make this thing.' It's a very inside movie when you think about it."

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Controversy and comedy often go hand in hand, but the relationship between the two has struggled somewhat in the modern era amid so-called cancel culture. One of the most acclaimed comedies that is often brought up as an example of how things have allegedly changed is 2008s Tropic Thunder, and director and star Ben Stiller agrees with the assessment that things have now changed so much that action-comedy couldnt be made today.

Speaking with Collider recently, Stiller was asked if he thought Tropic Thunder could still get made in the modern era, with the actor and filmmaker believing that, in 2024, edgier comedy is just harder to do. However, he quickly adds that they were fortunate for Tropic Thunder to get the greenlight even back in 2008.

I doubt it. Obviously, in this environment, edgier comedy is just harder to do. Definitely not at the scale we made it at, too, in...

How to Train Your Dragon is one of Hollywood's most celebrated and enduring animated franchises, with the original 2010 fantasy blockbuster hit going on to gross over $494 million and earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. Its overwhelmingly positive critical and commercial response led to two massively successful sequels in 2014 and 2019 and also spawned numerous television spin-offs and short films, all of which helped the DreamWorks Animation knockout rake in over $1.6 billion worldwide.

In February 2023, news spread that the studio was developing a life-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon at Universal Pictures, eliciting both excitement and skepticism from devoted fans of the franchise. The Black Phone breakout star Mason Thames will be tackling the role of Hiccup, and Gerard Butler is set to reprise his role as Stoick from the animated movies, much to the delight of audiences. Let's check out how the cast of the live-action...

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Interior Chinatown is a surreal action comedy series created by Charles Yu. Based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Charles Yu, the Hulu series follows Willis Wu, a background character stuck in a police procedural called Black and White. He soon comes into the spotlight when he witnesses a crime and investigates his brother’s mysterious disappearance. Interior Chinatown stars Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, Sullivan Jones, Lisa Gilroy, Archie Kao, and Diana Lin. So, if you loved the surreal aspect, comedic story, and compelling characters in Interior Chinatown here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Russian Doll is a mystery comedy-drama series created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler. The Netflix series follows Nadia Vulvokov, a game developer who gets stuck in a...

Universal Pictures live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie has finally received its first featurette, providing fans with a behind-the-scenes look at the highly-anticipated remake.

The video features a closer look at the live-action cast, while director Dean DeBlois opens up about the movies universal story. "My hope is that those who had seen, and loved the How to Train Your Dragon films will be keen to see what weve done, because it comes from a place of love, and it comes from a place of respect," he said. The featurette also hypes up the leading performances of The Black Phones Mason Thames and The Last of Us Nico Parker, who are set to portray Hiccup and Astrid, respectively. According to DeBlois, the young duos chemistry was evident in all of their scenes together. He also praised them for embodying the core characters of Hiccup and Astrid, who were originally...

Things are heating up for Hiccup and Toothless in the teaser trailer for Universal Pictures’ live-action reimagining of How to Train Your Dragon.

Writer-director Dean DeBlois’ feature hits theaters June 13, 2025, and is a shot-for-shot remake of DreamWorks Animation’s hit animated film of the same name that was released in 2010. The new version stars Mason Thames as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid. Rounding out the cast are Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz and Murray McArthur.

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon centers on a young Viking named Hiccup (Thames), who sets out to hunt dragons but finds himself befriending one named Toothless.

“Dad, I can’t kill dragons,” he says in the trailer to his father, Stoick the Vast (Butler, reprising his role from the animated franchise). Hiccup’s dad responds firmly, “But you will.”

DeBlois, who...

Romantic comedy is one of cinema's most underrated genres. Some lucky rom-coms have managed to make it big at the box office, becoming remembered as culturally significant films.

These are the highest-grossing rom-coms since 1995, after adjusting for inflated ticket prices. Coincidentally, these films are not only ones that raked in cash while in theaters but are also beloved among fans. Whether it's the Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen-led Knocked Up or Will Smith's 2005 flick Hitch, the last 29 years have seen plenty of successful romantic comedies.

Knocked Up Finds Humor in the Chaos of Unexpected Parenthood Knocked Up (2007)

Domestic Box Office Returns for Knocked Up

At Time of Release

$149 Million

Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

$233 Million

After a one-night stand results in an unexpected pregnancy, total opposites Ben Stone and Alison Scott, played by Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl, must navigate the realities of impending parenthood. As the couples worlds collide,...

How to Train Your Dragon fans are still waiting to see Gerard Butler's live-action version of Stoick the Vast in the upcoming reboot, but the actor has teased a portrayal that's faithful to his animated counterpart. Written and directed by Dean DeBlois who directed the original animated version the live-action reboot will re-tread the original story, bringing the titular dragons to life with CGI.

Speaking to Collider to promote his new movie, The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland, Gerard Butler discussed the physical pain of shooting the live-action How to Train Your Dragon in Northern Island during Winter. "It was very cold, and kind of miserable," Butler began.

In the animated version, Stoick the Vast is a hulking, wide-shouldered and barrel-bellied viking with a long beard. His physique is the kind that only works in animation, and Gerard Butler doesn't look much like his animated character. But, the actor...

The 2014 RoboCop reboot had one of the most impressively star-studded casts of any recent big-budget action movie, and it shouldve been successful enough to launch a franchise. Just over two decades after RoboCop 3 was panned as the worst entry in the RoboCop series (and one of the worst movies ever made), the franchise was rebooted for a modern blockbuster age. Elite Squads Jos Padilha took the helm in the directors chair, and original writers Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner worked on the script.

Altered Carbon star Joel Kinnaman inherited the lead role of Alex Murphy from Peter Weller and he was backed up by some of the biggest movie stars in the world in supporting roles. It had a whopping production budget to bring the explosive action and futuristic spectacle to life, and a talented crew to pull it off. The RoboCop reboot seemed to have everything going...

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie is now reality, and the first look at its protagonist has been officially revealed. Previously voiced by Jay Baruchel in the original animated film, The Black Phone star Mason Thames takes over the role in the upcoming remake from director Dean DeBlois. For those hoping for a copy and paste remake, it seems How to Train Your Dragon will faithfully adapt the first film and live up to those expectations.

Empire revealed the first image of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon film of Mason Thames as the main character, Hiccup. For all intents and purposes, it seems like this will be an exact remake of the beloved animated film. Although the titular dragon Toothless is not featured in the image, Hiccup can be seen in his battle gear, ready to battle the mythical creatures. While a trailer is reportedly set...

Back in my day, we had daredevils like Evil Knievel and Super Dave Osborne. They’d defy death while entertaining crowds of cheering fans, risking life and limb for applause. I never wanted to be a daredevil, but I did appreciate their bravery and risk-taking approach to life. Jay Baruchel is a daredevil enthusiast, too, and he’s reuniting with Goon’s Michael Dowse for The Stunt Driver, an upcoming comedy about the daredevil stuntman Ken Carter.

According to Deadline, The Stunt Driver revolves around “The Mad Canadian” Carter, who “attempts to execute the boldest maneuver of his career during the 1970s, launching a rocket car off a 90-foot-high ramp across the St. Lawrence River. The stunt would have him jump from Canada into the United States, covering more than a mile.” The film “follows Carter’s quest to make his seemingly impossible dream a reality, chronicling his preparation for...

Exclusive: After chronicling the BlackBerry’s rise and fall with Matt Johnson’s lauded IFC film of the same name, Jay Baruchel has come aboard to star in another true story, The Stunt Driver, a film chronicling the exploits of daredevil stuntman Ken Carter.

Reuniting Baruchel with Michael Dowse, the filmmaker behind his R-rated 2011 hockey comedy Goon, The Stunt Driver watches as “The Mad Canadian” Carter attempts to execute the boldest maneuver of his career during the 1970s, launching a rocket car off a 90-foot-high ramp across the St. Lawrence River. Covering a span of more than a mile, the stunt would have him jump from Canada into the United States. The film, which Dowse calls his “white whale project,” follows Carter’s quest to make his seemingly impossible dream a reality, chronicling his preparation for the jump and the absurd challenges he faces along the way.

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When an animated property makes the shift to live-action, it's always interesting to see which actors will take on certain characters. The How to Train Your Dragon franchise, for instance, is coming to life in a big live-action way next year, and while some of the voice actors from the franchise will be continuing into live-action, other new actors are being cast as replacements. Instead of the older Jay Baruchel, who voices the young lead character Hiccup, the new film will star Mason Thames. And instead of Craig Ferguson, Stoick's best friend, Gobber the Belch, will be played by Nick Frost, the lovable writer and actor from Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Hyperspace, and the newly released film Black Cab.

"The best thing about being Gerard Butler's friend is that he's just so big and handsome," Frost gushed to us in a recent MovieWeb interview. "And, you know, you...

Jay Baruchel has boarded Chandler Levack’s romantic comedy Mile End Kicks, which also stars Barbie Ferreira, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Set in 2011 in Montreal’s indie music scene, the film follows Grace Pine (Ferreira), a 24-year-old music critic who moves to the Canadian city to write a book on Alanis Morissette’s classic Jagged Little Pill album. But her plans take an unexpected turn when she gets romantically involved with members of an indie band for whom she serves as their publicist.

Mile End Kicks, the Canadian indie from producers Zapruder Films and Banner House Productions, gets Baruchel back together with the production team behind Blackberry. Baruchel co-starred in Matt Johnson’s tale of the once-revolutionary cel phone invention out of Waterloo, Ontario, and the band of uber-nerd techies at Research in Motion who made it happen.

The indie also stars Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons and Juliette Gariépy,...

Jay Baruchel has reunited with the production team behind indie hit “Blackberry” on the upcoming rom-com “Mile End Kicks.”

The film, written and directed by Chandler Levack (“I Like Movies”), has just wrapped production in Montreal, and also stars Barbie Ferreira (“Euphoria”), Devon Bostick (“Oppenheimer”) Stanley Simons (“The Iron Claw”) and Juliette Gariépy (“Red Rooms”). Beloved Montreal rock band Tops has written two original songs for the soundtrack, performed live by a fictional rock group in the film.

The film is a Banner House Productions/Zapruder Films production and is produced by Pat Kiely (“Three Night Stand”) and Matthew Miller (“BlackBerry”). XYZ Films is financing the project in conjunction with Ipr.Vc via its New Visions initiative.

In the film, Grace Pine (Ferreira), a 24-year-old music critic moves to Montreal in the summer of 2011 with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill.” Instead, she falls...

Being two of comedy’s most famous talents, Seth Rogen and James Franco had an enduring friendship, which included a long history of riffing off one another and collaborating. Beginning their collaboration with the 1999 show Freaks and Geeks, Rogen and Franco had a friendship spanning over two decades until the duo fell apart in 2018.

James Franco and Seth Rogen in The Interview | image: Columbia Pictures

Despite working together in hit comedies and sharing an unbreakable bond, Seth Rogen and James Franco sparked a rift, after the latter was accused of s*xually inappropriate behavior in an L.A. Times article. After Franco’s s*xual misconduct lawsuit was settled, the allegations seemingly caused him and Rogen to drift apart. Since then, their friendship has never been repaired.

The Beginning of James Franco and Seth Rogen’s Friendship

James Franco and Seth Rogen were both young and newcomers in the industry when...