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LONDON – British cinemas have pleaded with audiences to stop throwing popcorn and disrupting screenings of A Minecraft Movie after a TikTok trend around the hit video game-based film went viral. The trend involves young audience members raucously shouting, applauding and throwing fistfuls of popcorn in the cinema when American actor Jack Black shouts the phrase “chicken jockey” on screen. The cryp...[Read More]

Almost 20 years after Will Smith’s apocalyptic horror movie I Am Legend hit our screens, a long-awaited sequel is on the way. But, you may be thinking, 'Wait, didn't Smith die at the end of the film?', which is correct. However, it looks like Smith will be alive and well in the new movie as the star says the sequel will follow on from the movie’s alternate ending."What we were gonna do is the preq...[Read More]

Younger audiences attending Minecraft Movie have been kicked out of the theater for their reaction to one specific scene involving a “chicken jockey.”On Sunday, the Township Theatre in New Jersey issued a statement on Facebook announcing that minors attending screenings of A Minecraft Movie must be “accompanied by a parent or responsible adult,” following “an unfortunate situation” that took place...[Read More]

This week I took my son, Zac, to see the new Minecraft movie, which is hardly a remarkable statement in the highly video game-branded world of 21st-century cinema – except that what followed was not typical at all. At least, not yet.As you may have seen from a number of bewildered news reports over the last few days, A Minecraft Movie has quickly engendered a community of, let’s say, highly engage...[Read More]

DD Next Level starring Santhanam in the lead is the fourth film of the actor's horror comedy franchise, after DD Returns (2023), Dhilluku Dhuddu 2 (2019), and Dhilluku Dhuddu (2016). Written and directed by S Prem Anand of DD Returns fame, DD Next Level is a joint production venture of actor Arya's The Show People, and Niharika Entertainment.  It has now been officially announced that DD Next Lev...[Read More]

By HEIDI PARKER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 13:14 EDT, 9 April 2025 | Updated: 13:39 EDT, 9 April 2025

Cinemas have warned audience members they will be ejected if they join in with a TikTok trend encouraging filmgoers to disrupt screenings of the hit Minecraft film.Footage has emerged on social media of audiences cheering, throwing popcorn and shouting out during the film, particularly during a scene where one of the stars, Jack Black, calls out “Chicken jockey!” at the appearance of a baby zombie...[Read More]

It’s giving meme-craft.  “A Minecraft Movie” left Hollywood in a state of giddy shock when the final box office numbers for its opening weekend arrived.  The Jack Black-Jason Momoa movie, which has already become the highest grossing movie adaptation of a video game ever, ended up taking home $162.7 million in the US and $150.7 million internationally —for a combined opening haul of $313.4 m...[Read More]

A Minecraft Movie, based on the best-selling video game in the world, is, to put it lightly, an abomination. It currently sits at a “rotten” 48 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and Rolling Stone’s own review was far from glowing, calling it an “expensively cheap, 100-percent corporate mess.” But despite the lackluster critical reception, it had the biggest video game movie opening weekend ever, with a...[Read More]

2024 was a great year for horror. That was made abundantly clear when a film like The Substance managed to earn Best Picture and Best Director nominations at the Oscars. Now, The Substance was far from the only great horror movie last year, it just happened to be the biggest awards winner of a very stout lineup. 2024 was responsible for some incredibly chilling entries, one of which just found its...[Read More]

The two words “chicken jockey” from “A Minecraft Movie” are sparking mayhem among moviegoers, causing at least one movie theater to speak out and institute a new policy for the movie’s teenage fanbase.The “chicken jockey” rallying cry pops up in the film before Jason Momoa’s character Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison fights a child zombie who rides a chicken aka a “chicken jockey.”Scene from "A ...[Read More]

“It was bad, Mama. They laughed at me.” Summer H. Howell (Hunter Hunter) is in negotiations to play the title role in Carrie, the streamer’s upcoming supernatural horror drama series from horror master Mike Flanagan based on Stephen King’s novel, according to a report on Deadline. The series is described as “A reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in...[Read More]