Even more movies based on toys? Paramount is teaming up with Joe Roth to pick up Mattel's Max Steel action figure line for a feature film. The toy property revolves around a 19-year-old extreme sports ...

Four years ago, Mattel teamed up with Paramount Pictures to develop a live-action feature based on the toy Max Steel. The action figure was developed in tandem with an animated series that run from ...

In 2020, at a time when people were stuck at home amid a global pandemic, endlessly scrolling through streaming platforms for a distraction, Real Steel came back to the zeitgeist in a significant way.

“Max Steel” is a movie sprung from a children’s action figure: a slick Mattel toy from the late 1990s that varies in length, width and style, depending on which model you picked up. For any ...

First introduced in 1997, Mattel’s “Max Steel” toy line has inspired two animated series and now a new live-action adventure. But while the proverbial “’90s kids” may get a nostalgic kick out of ...

About his role in the infamously terrible Jaws 4: The Revenge, Michael Caine once said “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, ...

“Real Steel”? As opposed to what, imitation metallic substitute? Giant beams made of cheese? Trust me: At no point when I watched the trailer for a movie about futuristic robots beating the business ...

Like the high-fructose-laced soda given front-and-center product placement, this underdog sports story is sweet and corny, but in just the right measure to satisfy the masses. Goyo plays 11-year-old ...

Action drama. Starring Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo and Evangeline Lilly. Directed by Shawn Levy. (PG-13. 127 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Real Steel" is a middle-of-the-night Oreo binge of a movie.

A statue of Rappin’ Max Robot is bound for Paris. But first it’s making a stop in the Bronx. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll meet a new iteration of Rappin’ Max Robot that is bound ...