The Great Bambino is still out there breaking records. The jersey that legendary New York Yankees baseball player Babe Ruth wore during his famous “called shot” moment just sold through Heritage Auctions for $24.12 million. The previous auction record for the most paid-for sports memorabilia was held by a 1952 Topps card of fellow Yankees legend Mickey Mantle. That piece went for $12.6 million at a Heritage auction in 2022. The record for the most expensive game-worn jersey belonged to Michael Jordan from his first game with the Chicago Bulls in the 1998 NBA Finals. It sold for $10.1 million,…
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Is the English rock band Oasis reuniting after officially splitting up in 2009? All signs are pointing to definitely! The band’s founders and famously feuding siblings Liam and Noel Gallagher have seemingly confirmed the news via posts on X (formally Twitter). On August 25th, both brothers and the band’s official page posted a short video displaying a sign with the date “27.08.24.” The sign then changes to read “8am.” Oasis’ official website displays the same date and time. These posts happened after a rumor about the band playing in the U.K. in 2025, including a 10-night run at London’s Wembley…
Emmy-winning actor James Spader (“The Blacklist”) will soon be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! He will again be doing the voice of everyone’s favorite robot villain, Ultron, in the currently untitled Vision series. Spader first voiced the android in 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” The Vision series will be the third and final part of a trilogy that started with “WandaVision” and the upcoming “Agatha All Along,” which debuts in September on Disney+. But Wait, There’s More! Spader isn’t the only one returning to the MCU. Paul Bettany also reprises his role as the main character, Vision, an android…
From the team that brought you “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” and the upcoming “Bambi: The Reckoning” and “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare” comes the latest addition to the Poohniverse, “Pinocchio: Unstrung.” Which is about, you guessed it, everyone’s favorite honest marionette going on a killing spree. You can check out the first poster for it below: This will be the newest film in Jagged Edge Productions’ line-up of horror movies based on public domain IPs. Like the previous installments of the Poohniverse, Rhys Frake-Waterfield is directing. “The film will embrace practical effects at every opportunity, ranging from the doll…
In 1997, “Anaconda” hit theaters, while the tale of a murderous snake didn’t delight the critics. It did well enough to spawn a few sequels and develop a cult fanbase. Now, Jack Black (“Borderlands”) and Paul Rudd (“Ant-Man”) are in talks to star in a reboot of the film. Tom Gormican (“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”) will co-write the reimaging, alongside Kevin Etten (“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F”), as well as direct. “Anaconda” The 1997 film starred Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Ice Cube, and Jon Voight. It centered around a National Geographic film crew egarly hunting for the world’s largest…
Don’t you just love an amazing film score? The documentary “Music By John Williams,” about the legendary composer, will have its world premiere at the 38th AFI Fest. And, it’ll be coming to Disney+ this November! Directed by Laurent Bouzereau, and produced by Lucasfilm Ltd, Amblin Documentaries, and Imagine Documentaries, the film tells the story of the legendary composer. It takes a look at his early days as a jazz pianist to his work on franchises like “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” and “Jurassic Park.” Along with stand-alone films like “Jaws,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,””Schindler’s List,” and many more Williams has left an…
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola‘s self-financed $120 million epic “Megalopolis” suffers yet another blow. After a troubled production, it opened at Cannes to reviews that regarded it as indulgent and muddled. Leaning into the bad press, Lionsgate released a second trailer for the film, which contains negative reviews of Coppola’s other films. The problem is, that these reviews range from misattributed to flat-out fictitious. And, as it turns out, they were AI-generated. “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for ‘Megalopolis,’” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola…
All the drama surrounding the release of Gary Dauberman’s (“IT”) adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 novel “Salem’s Lot” is coming to an end. The main issue was the film was being shot during a restructuring of its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. A restructuring that caused nearly finished films like “Batgirl” and “Coyote vs. Acme” to be shelved in favor of tax write-offs. The Long Road To Release So it concerned fans when “Salem’s Lot” skipped its September 2022 release date, only to drop off the calendar altogether. King even took to social media to praise the film while condemning…
In 2022, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” hit Netflix and took the nation by storm. The streamer has released the first teaser for the follow-up series, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.” Like its predecessor, it will also tell the very true story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers who shot and killed their parents. The 48-second teaser trailer opens with the words “On August 20, 1989 Lyle and Erik Menendez Murdered Their Parents.” We then see the two brothers drive up and walk into the family home. As they open the door…
Are you ready for more giant robots fighting giant monsters? Because we sure are! Legendary Entertainment is developing a prequel series for its 2013 film “Pacific Rim.” The Franchise In the “Pacific Rim” universe, an inter-dimensional rift has been opened at the bottom of the ocean. This opening allows colossal monsters to enter our world and attack humanity. So humans did what we do best, design weapons to kill them in the form of giant fighting robots called Jaegers. After the first film grossed over $400 million at the global box office a sequel was surprisingly far behind. But in…