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After wrapping up July with a Jan de Bont double feature discussing the movie magic of Twister (listen) and the laundry list of problems with his 1999 remake of The Haunting (listen), we’re tackled our first Alejandro Jodorowsky film with Santa Sangre (listen).

Now we’re back on American soil for our first Screenlife horror film on the Main Feed: Stephen Susco‘s Unfriended sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web (2018).

In the movie, Matias (Colin Woodell) shows up for virtual game night with a new laptop. As his friends – conspiracy nut Aj (Connor Del Rio), British Damon (Andrew Lees), harangued Lexx (Savira Windyani), and lesbian couple Nari (Betty Gabriel) and Serena (Rebecca Rittenhouse) – play Cards Against Humanity, Matias discovers hidden video files on the stolen computer.

The realization leads him to Charon (Douglas Tait) and Erica Dunne (Alexa Mansour), a missing 17 year old as Matias, his deaf girlfriend Amaya (Stephanie Nogueras...

In another slow weekend at the domestic box office, Screen Gems’ Monster Hunter managed to finally unseat The Croods, debuting at No.1 with $2.2 million. It was the first time in nine weeks that a movie from a studio other than Universal sat in the top spot.

The action-packed adaptation of the hit Capcom videogame starring Milla Jovovich and Ron Perlman unspooled in 1,736 theaters and earned a $1,267 per-screen average during its opening frame. The PG-13-rated film added $4.8 million overseas, giving it a $7 million cumulative worldwide haul. Monster Hunter reunited Jovovich with the director of her popular Resident Evil films, Paul W.S. Anderson, who seems to know how to make films that appeal to audiences, if not critics.

In the runner-up slot, Universal and DreamWorks’ animated sequel The Croods: A New Age dipped -34.7% in its fourth week, pulling in $2 million in North America this weekend. The PG-rated film, which features the voices of Nicolas Cage,...

With no new major competition at the domestic box office, Universal and DreamWorks’ animated sequel The Croods: A New Age repeated at No. 1 with $3 million in its third week in theaters. The PG-rated film, which features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, and Ryan Reynolds, has racked up $24.3 million in North America to date, making it a rare commercial success story during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

A follow-up to the 2013 stone-age family hit which took in $187.2 million during its initial North American theatrical run seven years ago, The Croods: A New Age dipped -32.2% in its third weekend, scoring a $1,423 per-screen average in 2,115 theaters. It was the only film to surpass the $1 million mark at the domestic box office over the weekend. Overseas, the film has added a robust $52.1 million, bringing its cumulative worldwide gross to $76.3 million. However, The Croods’ three-week dominance may soon soften as the title becomes...

Universal and DreamWorks’ animated sequel The Croods: A New Age repeated at No. 1 over the sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend, pulling in $4.4 million in its second frame at the domestic box office. The PG-rated film, which features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, and Ryan Reynolds, has racked up $20.3 million in North America since its opening ten days ago, making it a rare commercial success story amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

A follow-up to the 2013 family hit which took in $43.6 million during its debut weekend seven years ago (on the way to earning $187.2 million during its North American theatrical run), The Croods: A New Age dipped -54.8% in its sophomore session, scoring a $1,995 per-screen average in 2,205 theaters. Overseas, the film has added $40.3 million to date, bringing its cumulative worldwide gross to $60.6 million. However, The Croods’ welcome boost to exhibitors’ bottom lines may be short-lived as the animated title will become available on premium VOD after next weekend.

Universal and DreamWorks’ “The Croods: A New Age” repeated as winner of a mild post-Thanksgiving weekend with $4.4 million at 2,205 North American locations.

The animated comedy sequel, featuring a voice cast of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds, has been dominating the seriously subdued moviegoing business since its Nov. 25 launch with $20.3 million in its first dozen days. It’s a respectable performance, given that the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a majority of U.S. theater sites being closed. Sites that remain open often are operating with reduced capacity, limited hours and social distancing requirements.

“After an opening that topped very modest expectations, ‘Croods’ is naturally remaining the dominant film in a market operating with less than 40% of theaters open currently,” said Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Box Office Pro. “Renewed lockdowns and closures across the country will probably keep exhibition’s hands tied for the remainder for the holidays,...

So many movies intended for the big screen are having to forgo it these days, it seems odd when something as apt for home viewing as “Half Brothers” makes the Covid-defying move of opening on 1,200-plus American screens. Those looking for undemanding entertainment may give it a passing grade, but or the collective viewing experience. Nor does writer-producer Eduardo Cisernos’ concept add much to culture-clash politics beyond contrivance and reinforced stereotypes. It’s a slick film that’s forgettable at best, annoyingly broad and unfunny at worst.

A 1994 prologue has engineer Flavio (Juan Pablo Espinosa) enjoying a close, playful relationship with only child Renato (Ian Inigo) in their native San Miguel de Allende. But a steep economic downturn forces dad to leave his wife (Bianca Marroquin) and son behind in order to seek work up north, along with many others. While he promises he’ll soon return, that promise is broken.

Cinemas — the ones that are open — are hurting for new content. With only one wide release this week — that would be Focus Features’ “Half Brothers” opening on approximately 1,200 screens — film fans will likely be staying home and sifting through new releases via streaming instead.

For example, audiences have their choice between Disney fairy-tale sendup “Godmothered” and Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of “The Godfather Part III.” The former (which stars Isla Fisher and Jillian Bell) is available to Disney Plus subscribers, while the latter is getting a very limited theatrical run.

Who knows how audiences will react to a story about a romance cut short by medical tragedy in the era of Covid-19, but Universal serves up a well-made version of just that kind of love story with “All My Life,” featuring Jessica Rothe and Harry Shum Jr.

Steve McQueen’s five-film Small Axe series continues on Amazon Prime, while David Fincher’s buzzy,...

When it comes to comedy, everything’s relative. That’s the premise of Half Brothers, a new film starring Connor Del Rio and Luis Gerardo Méndez as a couple of men who meet for the first time after their dying father tells them they’re both his sons. While there are certainly some more poignant moments in which the [...]

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As we enter the throes of awards season more and more films are starting to make their qualifying runs in what is expected to be a very different kind of season. For starters, Searchlight Pictures is set to release Chloe Zhao’s buzzy pic of existential wanderlust Nomadland starring Frances McDormand for its virtual qualifying run starting today before expanding in 2021.

The film, which is set to run virtually at the Film Lincoln Center through December 11, follows Fern in the midst of the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada. We take a journey alongside Fern as she packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. This marks the third feature for Zhao and features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration...

As this year thankfully nears an end we’re between those two big holidays that are all about family. So after we’ve eaten the big feast with them we’re gearing up for the big gift-giving season, full of brightly wrapped presents that often hide big surprises. But what if the biggest surprise isn’t in the package festooned with shiny paper and ribbons? How might you react upon finding out about a parent’s other family, complete with a sibling? That, along with riddles and a long road trip, is at the heart of the new comedy Half Brothers.

The story begins 26 years ago down in Mexico as pre-teen Renato Murguia is enjoying an idyllic childhood, flying his remote-control model airplane with his best pal, his adoring papa Flavio (Juan Pablo Espinosa). All is bliss until the economic crash and the peso is devalued. With tears in his eyes,...

Buddy movies and road trip movies are two time-honored cinematic genres, and Half Brothers manages to disappoint in both of them. This story of two siblings attempting to fulfill their dying father’s last request uneasily veers between juvenile comedy and schmaltzy sentimentality, managing to produce neither laughs nor tears.

Not that it doesn’t try very hard, starting with its high-concept storyline involving Renato (Luis Gerardo Méndez, Charlie’s Angels), a successful Mexican aeronautics entrepreneur, and Asher (Connor Del Rio, Unfriended: Dark Web), the younger brother he never knew he had. As a child, Renato was devoted to his engineer ...

Buddy movies and road trip movies are two time-honored cinematic genres, and Half Brothers manages to disappoint in both of them. This story of two siblings attempting to fulfill their dying father’s last request uneasily veers between juvenile comedy and schmaltzy sentimentality, managing to produce neither laughs nor tears.

Not that it doesn’t try very hard, starting with its high-concept storyline involving Renato (Luis Gerardo Méndez, Charlie’s Angels), a successful Mexican aeronautics entrepreneur, and Asher (Connor Del Rio, Unfriended: Dark Web), the younger brother he never knew he had. As a child, Renato was devoted to his engineer ...

An emotional rollercoaster from minute one, director Luke Greenfield’s Half Brothers ultimately taps into something earnest. Renato (Luis Gerardo Méndez) is a salty engineer living in Mexico City, days away from marrying Pamela (Pia Watson), when he gets a phone call from the States. His estranged father Flavio (Juan Pablo Espinosa) is dying and has asked to speak with his son. Reticent to acknowledge a man who abandoned him and his mother so many years before, Renato is pushed by Pamela, who is convinced her fiancee needs closure in order to become a good father to their son, a young boy struggling with his own eccentricities.

Moments after arriving in Chicago, Renato learns that he’s got a half-brother named Asher (Connor Del Rio), with whom he could not be more different. Upon Flavio’s death, the brothers are called into a mystery of their father’s creation. A strained-but-ultimately cathartic road trip ensues,...

Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half-brothers are forced on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US.

In theaters December 4th, Wamg has your free passes to the virtual screening.

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Connor Del Rio (left) stars as “Asher” and Luis Gerardo Mendez (right) stars as “Renato” in director Luke Greenfield’s Half Brothers, a Focus Features release. Credit : John Golden Britt / Focus Features

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Exclusive: Spyglass Media Group has set a remake of the 1986 film Short Circuit, bringing on the writing team of Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman to put a Latinx twist on the screenplay for the family film. The original was directed by John Badham and starred Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg and Fisher Stevens in a comedy that centered around Number 5, an experimental military robot that is struck by lightning and gains a human-like intelligence.

Project X Entertainment’s James Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein and William Sherak will produce with Rehab Entertainment’s John W. Hyde stepping back into his original role as executive producer alongside Terissa Kelton. Production prexy Peter Oillataguerre and production veep Chris Stone will oversee for Spyglass.

Cisneros co-wrote the Eugenio Derbez-directed Instructions Not Included, and Cisneros and Shuman co-wrote the upcoming Half Brothers for Focus Features, starring Luis Gerardo Mendez, Connor Del Rio and Juan Pablo Espinosa.

"My father's last wish is for me to go on a scavenger hunt with a brother I never knew I had!" Road trip time! Focus Features has released an official trailer for an adventure comedy titled Half Brothers, from American filmmaker Luke Greenfield. Follow the clues. Uncover the mystery. Find your family. The story follows a successful Mexican aviation executive who is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about. The two very different half-brothers are go on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US. Meant to be a metaphor of the relationship between neighboring countries America and Mexico. Starring Luis Gerardo Méndez and Connor Del Rio as the brothers, along with José Zúñiga, Vincent Spano, Pia Watson, Juan Pablo Espinosa, and Jwaundace Candece. Looks like wholesome, cheesy road trippin' goofiness.

Exclusive: Wme has signed Luis Gerardo Méndez, who is on the rise after starring in and executive producing Netflix’s first Spanish-language original series Club de Cuervos and recently broke out on the streamer’s Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston movie Murder Mystery.

The move comes as Méndez shoots the Focus Features film Half Brothers. The comedy, which he developed with co-writers Eduardo Cisneros, Jason Shuman and director Luke Greenfield, revolves around two very different half-brothers (Méndez and Connor Del Rio) forced on a road trip together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their dad took as an immigrant from Mexico to the U.S.

Méndez also will appear in Sony’s Charlie’s Angels reboot which hits theaters November 15. His previous film credits in Mexico include the Netflix boxing drama Bayoneta and the Warner Bros comedy The Noble Family, which grossed $26 million there in 2013. He also co-starred in the 2014 biographical film Cantinflas,...

Exclusive: After rising to stardom in Mexico, Luis Gerardo Méndez is transitioning to Hollywood with a determination to tell stories of his home country that go beyond the stereotypical images that play out in cartel films or reflect polarizing news coverage and political rhetoric involving immigration.

Méndez makes his English-language debut in the Jennifer Aniston-Adam Sandler comic whodunit Murder Mystery which Netflix releases Friday, this after starring in and exec producing for four seasons Netflix’s first-ever-Spanish-language original series Club de Cuervos, the streaming service’s first original production in Mexico. Méndez also plays a key role in Sony Pictures’ upcoming Charlie’s Angels reboot coming this fall.

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Now, Focus Features has set the first English-language project to be built around him. Half Brothers is...

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, FandangoNOW, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Ant-Man and the Wasp Unfriended: Dark Web 55 Steps (biographical drama about Eleanor Riese; Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank Jeffrey Tambor...

Stars: Colin Woodell, Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Andrew Lees, Chelsea Alden, Stephanie Nogueras, Alexa Mansour, Savira Windyani, Ashton Smiley, Douglas Tait, Connor Del Rio | Written and Directed by Stephen Susco

When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web. Unfolding in real-time, Unfriended: Dark Web is the sequel nobody wanted to the 2014 predecessor that nobody cared for, ultimately and inevitably creating a franchise that’s here to stay.

The 21stCentury evolution of horror is beginning to take form in the realm of the online, concerning social media and the implications it forms towards abusers and users. The topic and theme in question is rife with depth and subversion, utilised well in...

Universal Pictures has unleashed a brand new trailer for Bh Tilt’s Unfriended: Dark Web.

In the follow-up to the 2014 outing, Unfriended: Dark Web follows a twenty-something as he finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop. He and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web.

They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to the unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.

Written and directed by Stephen Susco, the film, which could be classed as a sequel or a stand-alone, stars Betty Gabriel, Andrew Lees, Colin Woodell, and Connor Del Rio.

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The film opens in cinemas August 10

Unfriended: Dark Web Official Synopsis

When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly...

Okay, so last Friday was the thirteenth, but that doesn’t stop the studios from releasing a new horror/thriller into the blockbuster-heavy Summer movie marketplace. Well the film itself is new, but it’s a follow-up to a modest hit from way back in 2015. So, is this set in a creepy old castle, or in a decaying and crumbling moldy mansion? No, those settings are passe and a tad tame for modern scary stories and their fans. The really terrifying backdrops aren’t “Camp Crystal Lake” or even the “House on Haunted Hill”. Here’s a hint: you’re there at this moment. Of course, the new hang-out for goons and monsters is the internet. It’s not a huge stretch to think of a web portal as a long hallway leading to a dungeon with tabs and ads popping up like zombies and ghouls. In this sequel (in...

Stephen Susco’s Unfriended: Dark Web – quite spectacularly – clears its cache of any historical connections to Leo Gabriadze’s original Unfriended. Gone is Laura Barns, swapped out for Dark Web “realities” and glitch mob superhackers who emerge from the world wide web’s seediest reaches. Once again Skype brings people together, and once again they’re hunted one by one while their webcams record it all. Familiar? Yes. Executed with equal menace? Not for a millisecond. Ghost Barns’ revenge is blindly ignored and doubled-back on, as this keyboard Game Night abomination can’t even hold a candle to the Blumhouse films of 2018 – the same year Truth Or Dare was released.

Our main voyeuristic focus is Matias (Colin Woodell), a frustrated boyfriend who “finds” his new laptop in a lost and found bin. He’s simultaneously trying to win back girlfriend Amaya (Stephanie Nogueras) and enjoy an online hang session with geographically spaced friends,...

There’s a glimmer of a good idea in “Unfriended: Dark Web.” Unfortunately, it’s already been exploited, and to better effect, in 2015’s squirmily relatable “Unfriended.”

The latter cost a million bucks to make and took in $64 million, so you can see why horror shingle Blumhouse wanted to revisit the well. But this time, the bucket’s pretty dry.

The retread jettisons sociological insight for a grim and generally joyless journey that feels entirely obligatory. Where the first film tapped into the Internet’s unavoidable underbelly — cyberbullies, trolls, obsessive Fomo — the second never settles on a persuasive Pov.

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Colin Woodell (soon to star in the TV spinoff of “The Purge”) plays amateur programmer Matty. When he finds an abandoned laptop at a coffee shop, he can’t resist taking it home. But nothing’s truly free in this world,...

Opens Nationwide July 20 Written and Directed by Stephen Susco Starring Betty Gabriel, Colin Woodell, Andrew Lees & Connor Del Rio Unfolding in real-time Unfriended: Dark Web​ is the most terrifying horror yet from the producer of Get Out, Happy Death Day and The Purge, and the makers of Unfriended. When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his …

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Another trailer has been released for the the upcoming horror thriller Unfriended: Dark Web, which is kind of a standalone sequel to the 2014 film Unfriended. I initially rolled my eyes at this sequel but the story is does interest me as it unfolds in real time as we witness a group of friends fall deep down the dark deep rabbit hole of the dark web and are terrorized by someone on the other end. On top of that, I've been hearing great things about the movie, and there's quote in the trailer that says it's "The Most Evil Film That BlumHouse Has Ever Made,"  so maybe it will actually be good. I'll give it a shot.

When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching...

"The most evil film Blumhouse has ever made." Now that's a killer quote. Universal has debuted a second & final trailer for horror sequel Unfriended: Dark Web, produced by Blumhouse, the follow-up to the screen horror movie Unfriended from 2014. The film unfolds in real-time on computer screens, following a guy and his friends who discover something on his new computer. He "discovers that the previous owner is not only watching him, but will also do anything to get it back." The cast includes Betty Gabriel, Andrew Lees, Colin Woodell, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Connor Del Rio, Chelsea Alden, Savira Windyani, and Stephanie Nogueras. This whole concept still seems way too gimmicky for horror, can't say I'm into this at all. But it might play well with horror fans waiting for something terrifying this summer. Watch out. Here's the second & final trailer (+ poster) for Stephen Susco's Unfriended: Dark Web, from YouTube: You...

Since its founding in the year 2000, Blumhouse Productions has undoubtedly grown and evolved into one of Hollywood’s biggest horror exports, with titles ranging from Truth or Dare to Split, Jordan Peele’s Get Out to Happy Death Day.

Its latest release hails from producer Timur Bekmambetov, and it’s about to make you rethink your digital life on the world wide web. We are, of course, referring to Unfriended: Dark Web, the sinister tech thriller that takes the core premise of its 2014 predecessor and spins it out in an entirely new and exciting direction, all of which unfolds in real-time across a series of blinking computer screens – not unlike Bekmambetov’s Profile from earlier in the year.

And so, ahead of the film’s arrival next week, Blumhouse has debuted a suitably creepy teaser trailer in which a group of 20-somethings uncover what appears to be an underground human trafficking ring,...

We've been excited for Daily Dead readers to see Unfriended: Dark Web since Heather Wixson called it "viciously entertaining" in her SXSW review. With the film's July 20th release around the corner from Bh Tilt, a new trailer has been released that explores the unsettling—and deadly—side of the online world.

"Unfolding in real-time Unfriended: Dark Web​ is the most terrifying horror yet from the producer of Get Out, Happy Death Day and The Purge, and the makers of Unfriended.

When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web."

Written and directed by Stephen Susco, the movie stars Betty Gabriel, Colin Woodell, Andrew Lees and Connor Del Rio. Unfriended: Dark Web...

After receiving pretty decent reviews after Bh Tilt’s Unfriended: Dark Web showed at this year’s South by Southwest, a brand new trailer has been dropped.

In the follow-up to the 2014 outing, Unfriended: Dark Web follows a twenty-something as he finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop. He and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web.

They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to the unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.

Written and directed by Stephen Susco, the film, which could be classed as a sequel or a stand-alone, stars Betty Gabriel, Andrew Lees, Colin Woodell, and Connor Del Rio.

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The film is due to drop in cinemas July 20th.

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The brand new Unfriended: Dark Web trailer and poster have been released.

A stand-alone sequel had its premiere on March 9, 2018 at SXSW.

Unfolding in real-time Unfriended: Dark Web​ is the most terrifying horror yet from the producer of Get Out, Happy Death Day and The Purge, and the makers of Unfriended. (review)

When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.

The original film did phenomenally well at the box office. Made for $1 million, it took in a worldwide gross of $64 million.

Opening in theaters July 20, the movie is written and directed by Stephen Susco.

The cast includes Betty Gabriel, Colin Woodell, Andrew Lees & Connor Del Rio.

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"That looked way too real..." Universal has released a trailer for horror sequel Unfriended: Dark Web, produced by Blumhouse, the follow-up to the computer screen horror movie Unfriended from 2014. Being marketed as "​the most terrifying horror yet", the film unfolds in real-time on computer screens, following a guy and his friends who discover something nefarious on his new computer. He "discovers that the previous owner is not only watching him, but will also do anything to get it back." The cast includes Betty Gabriel, Andrew Lees, Colin Woodell, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Connor Del Rio, Chelsea Alden, Savira Windyani, and Stephanie Nogueras. I much prefer the computer screen film Searching over this. They try so hard to make it horrific that it all comes across phony. If you're into this kind of horror, check it out. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Stephen Susco's Unfriended: Dark Web, from YouTube:...

Remember that 2014 horror film Unfriended? Well, apparently there's a standalone sequel that's been made called Unfriended: Dark Web and the first trailer has been released for you to check out. The story unfolds in real time and it takes a group of friends down the rabbit hole of the dark web as they are terrorized by someone on the other end. 

When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to the unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.

The movie is described as being "the most terrifying horror yet from the producer of Get Out, Happy Death Day, The Purge, and the makers of Unfriended." It looks like an interesting story, but "terrifying"? We'll see. The movie is...

After a festival run during the first half of this year, Unfriended: Dark Web is heading to theaters this July. Rather than following the supernatural setting of the first film, Dark Web takes a very grounded approach to the horror this time around:

"Unfolding in real-time Unfriended: Dark Web​ is the most terrifying horror yet from the producer of Get Out, Happy Death Day and The Purge, and the makers of Unfriended.

When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web."

Written and directed by Stephen Susco, the movie stars Betty Gabriel, Colin Woodell, Andrew Lees and Connor Del Rio. Unfriended: Dark Web will be released to theaters on July 20th.

A classic horror trope: Secure, private spaces can be infiltrated by dreadful forces and when danger lurks in showers, bedrooms, and suburban neighborhoods, nothing’s really safe. Filmmakers inevitably came for the computer screen and that was 2014’s “Unfriended,” a new-age found-footage horror movie unfolding exclusively on a desktop screen. The unexpected commercial hit found a group of friends dealing with a ghostly threat over frantic Skype conversations and Facebook chats, reinventing old chills for the social media age. Made on the cheap and plugged into a millennial vernacular, it was only a matter of time before there was a sequel.

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With the Blumhouse-branded “Unfriended: Dark Web” (previously titled “Unfriended: Game Night,” until that became the title of a studio comedy), the new screen-based chiller trades the earlier entry’s supernatural component for...

Sunday July 15th is the last day of Comic-Con 2012, and most of us will be completely worn out looking like Spider-Man in the image above. Chances are he's asleep under that mask. Sunday has always been a cool down day for us, we kind of just try to relax a little bit more and enjoy it. That doesn't mean their isn't anything to see or do though!

We've got a Fringe screening and Q&A, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20th Anniversary, Sons of Anarchy, the annual Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical screening, and more! I've always wanted to go the Buffy musical sing-a-long, but am usually trying to leave San Diego before it starts.

Just a little reminder, we will be having our annual GeekTyrant meet up this year to meet our readers, which is something we always enjoy doing! That will take place on Wednesday night, and...

The organizers of San Diego Comic-Con have released the official schedule of events for Sunday, July 15 which you can now view below.

San Diego Comic-Con – Sunday, July 15

10:00-11:00 Comic-Con How-to: Publishing Industry: From Manuscript to Industry — So you have the desire to write a book and get it published, but what does that really mean? Agents, editors, publishers, reviewers, self-publishing, traditional publishing, print on demand, ebooks, foreign language-the list goes on. What does it mean to “write for profit,” and what are the pitfalls to watch out for? Award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake gives you some insights into the real world that is the Publishing Industry. Warning: this seminar is not for the weak of spirit. Room 2

10:00-11:00 Spotlight on Jason Shiga — Comic-Con special guest Jason Shiga is best known for his interactive comics, including Meanwhile and Knock Knock. He will present a career retrospective detailing...

Press Release:

Cartoon Network Continues the Celebration at 2012 San Diego Comic-Con Network Announces Panels and Events Leading Up To 20th Birthday Bash in the Fall

At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Cartoon Network’s amplified Convention Center presence will include a fan-centric booth, buzzing with activity showcasing a life-sized, interactive re-creation of the living room from their hit series Regular Show, where lead characters Mordecai and Rigby spend a majority of their time. As the network prepares for its 20th Birthday celebration later this year, fans will have an opportunity to be filmed by Cartoon Network cameras in the Regular Show living room or in the Network’s 20th Birthday “confessional room” sharing some of their favorite Cartoon Network memories. Some lucky fans may even be featured on the Network during three upcoming marathon weekends! For fans and collectors alike, this year’s Comic-Con exclusive giveaways will include five...

Cartoon Network fans, clear your Comic-Con schedules, the network has announced their panels and events for San Diego this year. The shows that will be there include Adventure Time, Dreamworks Dragons, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and more.

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Thursday, July 12

Dreamworks Dragons: Riders of Berk: (Room 6A) Picking up where the critically-acclaimed feature film, How to Train Your Dragon, left off, this weekly animated series follows the continuing adventures of master dragon trainer Hiccup, his faithful dragon Toothless and his friends on the island of Berk. Dragon training reaches new heights as our heroes unlock secrets about their dragons, explore wild frontiers and discover new dragon species, all while battling against fierce enemies they never dreamed existed. Come get a first look at the series, which premieres this fall on Cartoon Network, and hear from some of the talented dragon trainers who helped bring it to life.

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Hero time is most definitely the order of the day this year at San Diego Comic Con. Cartoon Network has just announced that Ben 10: Omniverse will make its national debut at Sdcc.

Yuri Lowenthal (Ben) will be appearing alongside the Omniverse executive producers to discuss the upcoming show and changes to the franchise.

Joining Ben 10 will be Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice from DC Nation. Following a screening of DC’s top shows, several Warner Bros Animation Executive Producers will be on hand to show off new clips from Beware The Batman and Teen Titans Go!, two new series coming to Cartoon Network. Glen Murakami (Teen Titans), Mitch Watson (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated), Michael Jelenic (ThunderCats), Aaron Horvath (Mad) and Jeff Prezenkowski, director of series and shorts at Warner Bros. Animation will be on the panel.

Editor’S Pick: 23 Photos of Bandai’s Upcoming ‘Ben 10: Omniverse’ Series

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Want to know how to make your own health potion from Diablo? The Gaming Gourmet will teach you how.

Diablo gets a comic, more video game food, and kids getting trapped in games on your TV screen in this week's non-gaming game news.

If the wait for Diablo III is absolutely killing you, then maybe you should check out the first two issues of the miniseries running at DC Comics. The plot synopsis sounds like typical hero's journey stuff, but you can never tell what kind of Easter eggs and tidbits DC and Blizzard might have put their heads together to seed throughout the story.

Here's the synopsis of the current issue:

Travel to Diablo's Dreadlands courtesy of DC Comics

Written by Aaron Williams; Art and cover by Joseph Lacroix

The Dreadlands are being corrupted by madness, causing its victims to open their flesh and lash out at friend and foe alike.

Cartoon Network is giving its audience another reason to give thanks this holiday season with the premiere of its original movie, Level Up, airing Wednesday at 7/6c.

Gamers Wyatt (Gaelan Connell), Lyle (Jessie T. Usher) and Dante (Connor del Rio) are part of an online clan that travels through the video game "Conqueror of Worlds" under the avatars known as Black Death, Wizza and Sir Bickle...

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Genre: Sci-Fi | Fantasy

Air Date/Time: November 23rd at 7/6c

Network: Cartoon Network

Director: Peter Lauer

Writers: Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman

Cast: Gaelan Connell, Connor Del Rio, Jessie Usher, Aimee Carrero

Cartoon Network’s original movie Level Up is a fantastical comedy for the video game age. At night, Wyatt (Gaelan Connell), Lyle (Jessie T. Usher) and Dante (Connor del Rio) battle together as heroic avatars “Black Death,” “Sir Bickle” and “Wizza” in a massively multi-player online video game, Conqueror of All Worlds. Yet, in real life these high school classmates barely know each other’s names, let alone each other’s real identities. That all changes after they mistakenly open a portal from the game world to the real world.

Sightings of strange creatures around town force the three guys to finally meet up Irl (in real life). Now, they must toss aside their differences and come together...

Chicago – After being unofficially named the “Untitled Cheating Project” and “Cheaters,” Universal Pictures told HollywoodChicago.com on Thursday that the official name of Ron Howard’s Chicago-filmed picture has changed from “What You Don’t Know” to “The Dilemma”.

Universal officially titled the film as “What You Don’t Know” on another Thursday (July 15, 2010) just two weeks ago. “The Dilemma” stars Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah, Chelcie Ross, Amy Morton, Gary Houston and Connor Del Rio from director Ron Howard and writer Allan Loeb.

From left to right: Queen Latifah, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Connelly.

Image credit: Google Images

Ron Howard has also directed “Angels & Demons,” “Frost/Nixon,” “The Da Vinci Code,” “Cinderella Man,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Edtv,” “Ransom,” “Apollo 13,” “Backdraft,” “Parenthood,” “Cocoon,” “Splash” and “Grand Theft Auto”. Here is the comedy’s official synopsis:

Vince Vaughn and Kevin James headline an...

Chicago – Ron Howard’s Chicago-filmed “Untitled Cheating Project” comedy (which has also unofficially been referred to as “Cheaters”) has a new title: “What You Don’t Know,” Universal Pictures confirmed with HollywoodChicago.com on Thursday. The film is slated to hit theaters on Jan. 14, 2011.

“What You Don’t Know” stars a powerhouse of stars including Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Kevin James, Queen Latifah, Channing Tatum, Chelcie Ross, Amy Morton, Gary Houston and Connor Del Rio from director Ron Howard and writer Allan Loeb.

From left to right: Queen Latifah, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Connelly.

Image credit: Google Images

The film centers on a man who discovers that his best friend’s wife is having an affair. Ron Howard has also directed “Angels & Demons,” “Frost/Nixon,” “The Da Vinci Code,” “Cinderella Man,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Edtv,” “Ransom,” “Apollo 13,” “Backdraft,” “Parenthood,” “Cocoon,” “Splash” and “Grand Theft Auto”.

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