Tis the season for .... DA BEARS. <p><strong>The Background:</strong> Jessica Rawden is Managing Editor at CinemaBlend. She’s been kicking out news stories at CinemaBlend since 2007 and joined the full-time staff in 2014. She oversees news content, hiring and training for the site, and her areas of expertise include theme parks, rom-coms, Hallmark (particularly Christmas movie season), reality TV, celebrity interviews and primetime. She loves a good animated movie.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Jessica has a Masters in Library Science degree from Indiana University, and used to be found behind a reference desk most definitely not shushing people. She now uses those skills in researching and tracking down information in very different ways.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She’s Into</strong>: A former soccer player and recent tennis addict, Jessica also enjoys running, both of the distance and sprint variety. When not at the movie theater or in a theme park, her other free time is spent in book clubs, hiking, drinking wine, binge-watching, keeping tabs on celebrity fashion and riding rollercoasters. Has a serious Hallmark habit and an even bigger record-buying habit. Will bake for compliments.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She’s Excited About Right Now</strong>: &nbsp;Hallmark Christmas movie season. Wearing socks to bed. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
The new DreamWorks film goes all in on the lore. <p><strong>The Background</strong>: Sarah El-Mahmoud has been with CinemaBlend since 2018, starting as a freelancer shortly after graduating from Cal State Fullerton with a degree in Journalism. In college, she was the Managing Editor of the award-winning college paper, The Daily Titan where she specialized in writing/editing long-form features, profiles and arts &amp; entertainment coverage, including her first run-in with movie reporting, with a phone interview with Guillermo del Toro for Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Into</strong>: Sarah is CinemaBlend's resident YA enthusiast, often bringing her lifetime love of books and the stories behind their often contentious adaptations to the site. Deeply into when music and movies intersect, from knowing the hype musical tracks of Mamma Mia!, beautiful scores of Michael Giacchino and yes, the absolute banger Twilight soundtrack way too well. She is also passionate about highlighting and interviewing voices within the industry to help open the door for Hollywood to better represent the world through movies and television. Horror, she really loves horror movies. The world of animation as well... OK don't make her pick one genre.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Excited About Right Now</strong>: The continued resurgence of horror and musicals. The next Hunger Games movie, Mike Flanagan's upcoming shows, the Wicked movies and the final Spider-Verse animated film.&nbsp;</p>
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Given the surfeit of commercially haunted real estate Halloween that’s come to occupy today’s pop culture landscape, you hardly need us to tell you there'll be more spooky content available this month than any one person could watch in a whole year of Octobers. And yet, while everyone and their great aunt can expect to stumble on at least one Tim Burton marathon when flipping through Freeform’s annual 31 Nights of Halloween ghouls-travaganza, we recognize that the recent explosion of streaming services, matched with necessity of keeping a whole family entertained night after night during …
https://youtu.be/gj3EkZJ_VBE Wolf’s childhood best friend, Margot, shows up to ask for help. But will Wolf be able to put their past to the side? The all new season of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is coming to Netflix, October 12th! It's with a great deal of joy that we can bring you this early tease of Season 3 of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. (Even if it comes with a great deal of sadness that this will be the final season of the fantastic Dreamworks Animation Netflix series...) This clip shows off a …
Netflix has revealed the trailer for A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, a kid-friendly creature-feature from Rachel Talalay, director of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Tank Girl, and like every genre show ever made in the meantime. Babysitter's Guide stars Tamara Smart (Are You Afraid of the Dark?) as a high-schooler who gets roped into a secret society of babysitters who protect humanity from things that go bump in the night. The film, which is based on Joe Ballarini's book series, also stars Tom Felton, Indya Moore, Ian Ho, and Oona Laurence. [caption …
Universal is continuing to expand its Monsters universe in interesting ways by bringing in Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley to direct the family-friendly Little Monsters. To be clear, this is an original film, and not a reboot of the Howie Mandel / Fred Savage movie, which is a mistake I absolutely made. [caption id="attachment_787696" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Disney/Pixar[/caption] As reported by THR, the movie will be a live-action hybrid featuring characters from the entire history of Universal’s monster movies, based on designs by concept artist Crash McCreery. McCreery has worked on …