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Summer lovin’, had me a blast. There will be a double dose of movie nostalgia in Los Angeles this summer as the Grove is set to launch the Level 8 Drive-In, an outdoor theater that will launch with a screening of Grease on June 26. The facility atop the mall’s parking structure will offer park-and-dine ordering with…

Michael J. Fox and Denis Leary took to the stage at the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday for an hour-plus of joking banter, self-deprecation, and insight on Back to the Future, Family Ties and Fox's Parkinson's disease activism. Leary kicked things off noting Fox’s appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada. The…

Upstart publisher Ahoy Comics launched in 2018 with a comics magazine format that harkened back to the days of the early 1980s when the medium still had a presence on national newsstands and some publishers dabbled in magazine-sized publications with edgier content, painted covers and/or pages of prose content. This…

Great Scott! Back to the Future stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas Wilson reunited in 2018 to give a boost of nostalgia for fans at the Fan Expo in Boston this weekend. It’s been 33 years since the Robert Zemeckis-directed time-traveling sci-fi comedy was released in theaters. The actors…

Esquire Network bagged its best primetime and total day with a Back To The Future marathon on Wednesday to mark the date to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown time traveled in the original movie. Esquire aired all three Back To The Future films throughout the day and night. The stunt clocked its best numbers in…

Despite the huzzah of Wednesday’s “Back to the Future day” for Universal, sources tell Deadline that there aren’t any plans by the studio or director Robert Zemeckis to reboot or remake the franchise in the near future. Zemeckis is notorious for not wanting to make the same picture twice. One person in the Zemeckis…

UPDATED, 12 PM with overseas numbers: Universal Pictures re-released the Back To The Future trilogy in theaters on Back To The Future Day on Wednesday and grossed $4.8M worldwide. The trio of films played on 1,815 domestic screens making $1.65M and posted $3.2M abroad. The trilogy will continue to play throughout the…

Marty McFly and Doc Brown apparently wound up at Jimmy Kimmel Live! when they time traveled to October 21, 2015 in Back To The Future. Learning he hosted a late-night talk show, they naturally wondered what happened to Johnny Carson. Kimmel didn’t go into the whole The Late Shift story, telling them simply that he was…

EXCLUSIVE: The hoopla behind Back To The Future Day 30 years after the first of the film’s trilogy was released seems remarkable if you consider the first Back To The Future movie had to be rescued from the script vault at Columbia Pictures before being transformed by Universal Pictures into a juggernaut whose first…

Former White House Chief of State and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once said, "you never let a serious crisis go to waste." Well, on Back To The Future Day today, Democrats, Republicans, President Barack Obama and UK PM David Cameron have heeded the sentiment of the brother of WME’s Ari and are certainly not…

EXCLUSIVE: So maybe we’ll finally learn the truth about Robert Zemeckis’ stash of hoverboards. In October, Gravitas Ventures will release Back In Time, director Jason Aron’s documentary about the Back To The Future trilogy and its pop culture acolytes. Featuring interviews with Future-ites Michael J. Fox, director…

 'The Power of Love” and “Johnny B. Goode” are among the songs to be included in the new musical of Back To The Future scheduled for the London stage based on the 1985 film starring Michael J. Fox. The script will be written by Robert Zemeckis (who directed the original movie and two sequels), along with the films…