Friday Film Fiesta

Welcome to the Friday Film Fiesta!

For those of you who don't know, this is a weekly column originally created by 411Mania's Joseph Lee, who writes A Bloody Good Time every week. He wrote the column for roughly a year until his commitments to 411Mania and real life made it difficult to write. I took the column over in September 2011 as a way to complain about an announced Stretch Armstrong movie starring Taylor Lautner. That project ended up being canceled, but I continued writing the Fiesta until July 2015. I figured I would try to reboot it again for Rantsylvania as a place for visitors to discuss movies and TV shows.

Normally each week will have a goofy title along with a picture of an attractive female celebrity I'm digging that week, or even a goofy, relevant meme (say Steve Harvey saying something wrong), followed by an introduction and then the results of a poll. The long winded introduction more than works for this week, so let's get to it!

Box Office News: The Force Awakens continues to rake in the dough

Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for The Conjuring 2, Jane Got A Gun, and more!

In Theaters This Week: The Forest and The Revenant

Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: The Martian, Hotel Transylvania 2, Sinister 2, and Paranormal Activity 5: The Ghost Dimension

RIP Jason Wingreen and Vilmos Zsigmond

It's Star Wars-Mania! The Force Awakens has officially passed Avatar to become the largest grossing movie ever in America. Oh, and did you know that the new Chewbacca is a pretty cool dude?

Speaking of Star Wars, Disney plans on making a fifth Indiana Jones movie

Bad news for Pacific Rim fans, as the sequel has been declared dead so that Guillermo Del Toro can direct a remake of Fantastic Voyage

The Ridiculous Six is now the most-watched movie in Netflix history

HBO's Michael Lombardo says a Deadwood movie is happening

Joss Whedon is finished with Marvel movies

Christopher Waltz will return for two more 007 movies, but only if Daniel Craig does too

M. Night Shyamalan is rebooting Tales From The Crypt for TNT

The FBI is investigating a film company tied to The Wolf of Wall Street

Ultra HD Blu-Ray will not employ region coding or locking. In addition, WB will release 35 4K Blu-Ray movies in 2016

And that's it for this week. If this gets a good response, I'll continue to post an edition each week. I'm always open to feedback and suggestions as well. Thanks for reading!