The early version of the cartoon sailor is now in public domain, and he's already the star of a slasher movie.

Beloved sailor Popeye is the latest of these nostalgic characters to get the horror movie treatment, just a month after entering the public domain at the start of 2025. If Popeye’s Revenge is up ...

Cause Popeye needs revenge. For some reason. ITN Movies bills Popeye’s Revenge as a “horrifying take on the classic character.” We agree with that. Just not in the way the company means it.

Popeye’s Revenge is a bloody mess, both figuratively and literally. The executive producers of the Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey movies fuel this endeavor, which attempts to offer a brand-new ...

Max has dropped the original Warner Bros. cartoons from its lineup, which our TV critic says leaves us with the pastiche and ...

A lot of cinephiles like to think of Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle as the quintessential Gene Hackman performance, but the truth is, ...

And there's already a Popeye slasher movie awaiting distribution with a gleefully bloody trailer and an unbeatably clever name, "Popeye: The Slayer Man." The original Popeye, introduced in a comic ...

He, his wife and a dog were found dead in their New Mexico home. His superb body of work included 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'I Never Sang for My Father,' 'The Conversation,' 'Hoosiers' and 'Unforgiven.' ...

Hackman won his first best actor Oscar for that film. He won another golden statuette ... Oscar for his obsessive New York Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle on the trail of international heroin ...