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The shark thriller film “Zipline” has launched sales with a cast that includes Ioan Gruffudd, Ross Butler, Holland Roden and Sonia Ammar.

The feature is written by George Mahaffey Jr. and directed by Magnus Martens. Simple House Films is producing, marking the debut project under that production banner. Black Bear owns the international rights to the film.

“After reuniting for a relaxing getaway on a tropical island, a group of college friends find their adventurous spirits tested to the limit when an exhilarating zipline excursion leaves them hanging perilously hundreds of feet over a deserted lagoon. As the temperature rises and the zipline begins to collapse, they work together to find a way down but are horrified to discover that an even greater threat awaits them in the depths below,” reads the film’s logline.

Gruffudd has been in a number of television and film projects over the course of his decades-spanning career,...

Five years ago, genre regular Samara Weaving starred in a very cool horror comedy called Ready or Not, which was directed by Radio Silence members Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who went on to make the two most recent Scream sequels and the “Dracula’s daughter” movie Abigail. Earlier this year, it was announced that a sequel is now moving forward, with Escape Room director Adam Robitel taking the helm of a Ready or Not 2 that Radio Silence, still on board as producers, has promised will be “an absolute banger.” Now, during an interview with ComicBook.com, Weaving has confirmed that she is “all in” on the sequel.

When the subject of Ready or Not 2 came up, Weaving told ComicBook.com, “I’m all in. I think we’re all in, I don’t know. I think we’re all in. I don’t know if we’ve had our blood handshake,...

A sequel to the Radio Silence hit Ready or Not is in the works, with Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan, Insidious: The Last Key, Escape Room, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) in talks to direct Ready or Not 2. But will Samara Weaving be returning to star in the upcoming sequel? According to Weaving herself, she’s “all in.”

Weaving tells ComicBook.com this week, “I’m all in. I think we’re all in, I don’t know. I think we’re all in. I don’t know if we’ve had our blood handshake, but pretty much. We’ve done the spit handshake, but we haven’t cut each other’s hands and rubbed our blood together.”

Samara Weaving will next be seen in Azrael, in theaters September 27.

Ready or Not directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin had explained to Entertainment Weekly earlier this year, “Ready or Not 2 is getting figured out.

Megan Fox and director S.K. Dale, who previously worked together on the thriller Till Death (about a woman who has to deal with a pair of killers while handcuffed to the corpse of her husband), have teamped up again on the sci-fi thriller Subservience, which was filmed at the Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio last year. Subservience is now ready to make its way out into the world, with XYZ Films planning to give it a digital and VOD release on September 13th. With that release date swiftly approaching, a trailer for Subservience has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls) wrote the screenplay for Subservience, crafting a story about a struggling father who purchases a domestic Sim to help care for his house and family until she gains awareness and turns deadly. Here’s the...

Stars: Nikko Austen Smith, Manny Liotta, George Baron, Olivia Scott Welch, Ray Wise, Danielle Bisutti, Evee Bui, Glume Harlow, Jordyn Denning, Logan Miller | Written and Directed by George Baron

Writer/director/star George Baron was sixteen when he started filming The Blue Rose, two years later he had a finished feature film playing on the festival circuit and getting picked up for release. And not just any film, but, as you might guess from the title, a tribute to David Lynch that’s as bizarre as any of his own films.

It opens with a woman on stage planting a seed and watering it with what appears to be blood. A blue rose sprouts. Cut to three blue roses growing in a window box of a 1950s suburban home. Inside, Sophie dances around her immaculate kitchen making pies. The dance becomes a deadly one when her husband Harold enraged about something unknown punches her,...

It was first reported a couple weeks ago that Ready or Not 2 is now in development, with Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan, Insidious: The Last Key, Escape Room, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) in talks to direct the sequel to the 2019 box office hit. Additionally, we had learned that Samara Weaving would be returning to star.

Entertainment Weekly caught up with Ready or Not directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin in the wake of those reports, and we’ve now got an update straight from the source.

“It’s getting figured out. That’s what we’ll say: Ready or Not 2 is getting figured out,” Gillett tells EW, confirming last month’s report. “What we can say is that there is a script that is an absolute fucking banger of a sequel. And however it gets made, and in whatever capacity we are helping get it made, we...

We have the 2019 hit Ready or Not to thank for landing directors Radio Silence the keys to the Scream franchise, the film released into theaters in August 2019 and scaring up $57.6 million at the worldwide box office. The Samara Weaving-starring fan favorite was made on a production budget of just $6 million, making it a nice little hit for Fox Searchlight.

So where the hell is Ready or Not 2, you ask?!

Jeff Sneider reports on The Insneider this week that Ready or Not 2 is in development, with director Adam Robitel currently in talks to direct the sequel.

Sneider additionally reports that Samara Weaving will return for Ready or Not 2, once again playing the character Grace. In the first Ready or Not, Grace is a bride whose wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.

You can read the full report over on The Insneider.

Prime Video has released the official trailer of the horror anthology series ‘Them: The Scare.’

Set in Los Angeles. The story centres on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer. But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family…

The series cast includes Deborah Ayorinde as “Detective Dawn Reeve,” Pam Grier (Foxy Brown, Bones, Ghost of Mars, Jackie Brown) as “Athena,” Grammy-nominated musician and actor Luke James (The Chi, Insecure) as “Edmund Gaines.” Rounding out the cast are Joshua J. Williams, Jeremy Bobb (The Continental, God’s Country), Wayne Knight, Carlito Olivero, Charles Brice, and Iman Shumpert (The...

Back in 2021, Prime Video aired the first season of the horror anthology series Them (you can read our review Here), which creator Little Marvin and executive producer Lena Waithe put together with the intention of telling stories that will “explore terror in America.” All eight episodes of the second season, which is called Them: The Scare, are set to be released through Prime Video on Thursday, April 25th – and with that date just four weeks away, a trailer for the new season has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

A press release notified us that Them: The Scare will be, like its predecessor, set in Los Angeles. The first season, which is subtitled Covenant, took place in Compton circa 1952, while the new episodes move the time frame forward to 1991. The story of the second season centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned...

Today, Prime Video has released the official trailer for the horror anthology series Them: The Scare from series creator Little Marvin. This second installment will consist of eight episodes and will premiere on Thursday, April 25, 2024.

Them: The Scare will be available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. All episodes will be available upon release.

Them: The Scare will once again be set in Los Angeles. The story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken.

Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer. But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family…

“With Them: The Scare, we wanted to combine our love of...

Earlier this month, it was announced that Platinum Dunes, the production company headed up by Michael Bay and Bradley Fuller, are teaming up with director Jonathan Liebesman – who they previously worked with on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and their 2014 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – to make a werewolf movie called Wolf Night. Now Deadline reports that Wolf Night has found a home at Sony’s Screen Gems.

Michael Bitar is overseeing the project for Screen Gems, while Alex Ginno does the same for Platinum Dunes.

Screen Gems has put out a whole lot of horror movies over the years, with titles including Don’t Breathe, Resident Evil, Underworld, Deliver Us from Evil, The Grudge, Carrie, The Stepfather, Prom Night, The Pope’s Exorcist, Insidious: The Red Door, and the upcoming Tarot. They recently secured a first-look deal with Gary Dauberman, who worked on the...

We had learned about an interesting horror project earlier this month titled Wolf Night, a werewolf movie set to be directed by Jonathan Liebesman. The film has been compared to both District 9 and The Purge… with werewolves… and Deadline brings us a big update this week.

The hot Platinum Dunes package has been picked up by Screen Gems, Deadline informs us, with Michael Bay and Brad Fuller producing Wolf Night for Platinum Dunes.

Will Honley and April Maguire wrote the screenplay for Wolf Night, but aside from the comparisons to the aforementioned movies, the plot is under wraps at this time.

Jonathan Liebesman’s directorial credits over the years also include Rings (2005), The Killing Room (2009), Wrath of the Titans (2012), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).

Will Honley recently wrote Escape Room: Tournament of Champions.

Steven C. Miller’s Werewolves and Larry Fessenden’s Blackout are also headed our way this year,...

Prime Video’s social horror series “Them” originally premiered back in 2021, and this week we’ve learned that the series officially becomes an anthology with “Them: The Scare.”

Today, Prime Video has released first-look images of the horror anthology series. This second installment will consist of eight episodes and will premiere on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. All episodes will be available upon release.

“Them: The Scare” will once again be set in Los Angeles.

The story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, with a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer.

But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family…...

Back in 2021, Prime Video aired the first season of the horror anthology series Them (you can read our review Here), which creator Little Marvin and executive producer Lena Waithe put together with the intention of telling stories that will “explore terror in America.” All eight episodes of the second season, which is called Them: The Scare, are set to be released through Prime Video on Thursday, April 25th, and today a batch of first look images have arrived online to give a preview of the new season. You can check them out at the bottom of this article.

A press release notifies us that Them: The Scare will be, like its predecessor, set in Los Angeles. The first season, which is subtitled Covenant, took place in Compton circa 1952, while the new episodes move the time frame forward to 1991. The story of the second season centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve,...

The folks at Platinum Dunes, the production company headed up by Michael Bay and Bradley Fuller, clearly love working with director Jonathan Liebesman. After working with Liebesman on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, they had him attached to direct their reboot of Friday the 13th for a while – and even though Liebesman wasn’t at the helm of that one by the time it went into production, they did work with him again, on their 2014 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now, a decade later, Platinum Dunes and Jonathan Liebesman are re-teaming for a werewolf movie called Wolf Night.

Deadline wasn’t able to dig up much information on Wolf Night, but they did learn that the project is being described as “District 9 by way of The Purge“. Will Honley, whose writing credits include Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, wrote the screenplay with April Maguire.

Jonathan Liebesman, who directed remake prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning back in 2006, is attached to direct a werewolf movie for Platinum Dunes titled Wolf Night, and Deadline brings us the first word on the project this afternoon.

We don’t yet have a plot synopsis for Wolf Night but the script from writers Will Honley and April Maguire is said to be “District 9 by way of The Purge –but with werewolves.”

Multiple studios are said to be bidding on the Wolf Night package as we speak.

Michael Bay and Brad Fuller will produce for Platinum Dunes.

Jonathan Liebesman’s directorial credits also include Darkness Falls (2003), Rings (2005), The Killing Room (2009), Wrath of the Titans (2012), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).

Will Honley recently wrote Escape Room: Tournament of Champions.

We seem to be in the midst of a full-on werewolf movie resurgence, with films including Steven C. Miller’s Werewolves...

If you missed one of 2023’s more underrated horror movies, we’ve got great news: Universal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter is heading to streaming next month.

Look for The Last Voyage of the Demeter to arrive on Paramount+ with Showtime on February 11, 2024.

Directed by André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), this latest Dracula movie leaves the comedy of Renfield behind for a classic, Hammer-style horror movie at sea. The film is an adaptation of a single passage from Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel, known as “The Captain’s Log,” which has never been adapted like this before.

The film is “based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula. The chapter tells the story of the Russian schooner, Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – twenty four unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London.

Thomas Cocquerel is soaking up the sun in new photos from his beach day down under!

The 34-year-old Aussie actor was spotted wearing a speedo while hanging out at the beach with model Jessica Gomes on Sunday (January 14) in Sydney, Australia.

Thomas is best known for playing Tom Raikes in the HBO series The Gilded Age during season one. He has also appeared in movies like Billionaire Boys Club and Escape Room: Tournament of Champions.

While Thomas was seen in black swim trunks for part of his beach day, he also wore just a black speedo while taking a dip in the water and sunbathing with Jessica.

Thomas was previously linked to one of the stars of Glee, but they broke up in December 2014.

Browse through the gallery for 30+ photos of Thomas Cocquerel going shirtless at the beach…...

The eponymous ship in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, based on “The Captain’s Log” chapter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is just as crucial to the story as its ill-fated crew and passengers. What begins as a routine charter carrying private cargo becomes a harrowing fight for survival as Dracula (Javier Botet) uses the isolated Demeter as feeding grounds.

Director André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) enlisted production designer Edward Thomas to bring the Demeter to life, imbuing the schooner with impressive scale and meticulous detail. Thomas is no stranger to epic-sized horror adventures; the production designer is responsible for the thrilling set pieces in Escape Room, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, and Monster Hunter.

Thomas and his team built numerous sets to bring the Demeter to life, replicating the decks and interiors of the ship, some with functional sails...

Let’s All Chant.

July wound up being another wild month as Trace and I veered all over the place. From cross-dressing serial killers in Insidious: Chapter 2 and Psycho, to trans representation in Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, to the incredibly queer cast and crew of Peaches Christ’s All About Evil. Now we’re closing out the month with an American Giallo in the John Carpenter-scripted Irvin Kerschner flick Eyes of Laura Mars (1978).

In the film, Faye Dunaway stars as the titular character. Laura Mars is an incredibly successful fashion photographer whose graphic depictions of sex and violence have caused a stir. The attention on her spirals when her photographs are revealed to be mirrors of real life murders and the killer begins targeting her and her friends.

The film features a stacked cast, including Raul Julia, Brad Dourif, René Auberjonois and a baby faced Tommy Lee Jones...

The Business of Show!

We spent July discussing gender in a myriad of ways: cross-dressing serial killers in Insidious: Chapter 2 and Psycho, as well as trans representation in Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. To keep things in theme, we’re closing out the month with a look at Joshua Grannel‘s (aka drag queen Peaches Christ‘s) 2010 horror comedy All About Evil, which is currently streaming on Shudder!

All About Evil sees an unhinged theatre owner named Deborah (Natasha Lyonne) begin making snuff films and screening them at her decrepit San Francisco theater — presenting them as fictional works — in order to prevent the theater from going bankrupt. Unfortunately for Deborah, her biggest fan (Thomas Dekker) catches on to her scheme and tries to stop her before her antics get his mother (Cassandra Peterson) killed.

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It’s nearly time to close out the month of July, which has been another scorching hot one for Trace and me. We kicked things off with Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) to coincide with our coverage of The Red Door, then we talked about another sequel to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Adam Robitel’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021).

Now we’re up to a huge milestone: Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho (1960) aka one of the original slasher prototypes. In the iconic film, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) steals $40K from her crappy job before stopping at the abandoned Bates Motel. There she meets young proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) who seems a little…off.

Unfortunately for Marion, soon afterward she’s brutally murdered in the shower by Mother, setting off a chain reaction as first private investigator Arbogast (Martin Balsam), then Marion’s lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin) and her...

An older woman’s dead body lies on the floor in the opening scene of writer/director Laurence Vannicelli’s Mother, May I? The camera pulls back slowly, revealing a rustic but lived-in cabin near a lake. This is followed by a brisk montage as the body is collected, cleaned, and finally incinerated before the ash is poured into a plastic container and presented to her son, Emmett (Kyle Gallner).

When the funeral director (Michael Giannone) offers his condolences and suggests a more attractive urn for the remains, Emmett promptly declines. Immediately after obtaining the ashes, Emmett and his fiancé Anya (Holland Roden) drive back to the cottage, where Emmett offers the following eulogy: “Thank you for giving me life. And the house.” He then dumps the ashes, without ceremony, into the lake, observing that “She’s fish food” compared to the plastic container that “is gonna last forever.”

These...

Genre regulars Kyle Gallner and Holland Roden star in the horror psychological thriller Mother, May I?, which will be receiving a theatrical and VOD release from Dark Sky Films this Friday, July 21st. With that date just a few days away, we’ve gotten our hands on the trailer for the film, and you can check it out in the embed above.

The feature writing and directing debut of Laurence Vannicelli, Mother, May I? has the following synopsis: Emmett wants to clean and flip his recently deceased mother’s house: get in, get out, and avoid any trauma still lingering from when she abandoned him as a young child. Anya, his fiancé, see’s this as an opportunity to finally force Emmett to deal with his trauma because she believes it is preventing him from being the partner she needs. So she convinces him to take mushrooms to get him to let go.

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After tackling a contemporary sequel last week with Insidious: Chapter Two, Trace and I figured we should do it again. This week we’re dissecting the sequel to queer director Adam Robitel‘s immensely popular Escape Room, which was released in 2021 as Escape Room: Tournament of Champions.

In the film, survivors Zoey (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) return to New York in an attempt to discover the secrets behind the mysterious Minos Corporation. Instead, they’re lured back into the game with a fresh batch of survivors, including “pain freak” Rachel (Holland Roden), influencer Brianna (Indya Moore), and alcoholic priest Nathan (Thomas Cocquerel).

What Zoey and Ben don’t know is that someone is pulling their strings by creating a very unique new killer escape room experience. Depending on which version of the film you watch, the secret game master is either <spoilers> Amanda (Deborah Ann Woll...

After spending decades in development hell, a live-action adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comic book series The Sandman actually made it into production and released into the world as a Netflix series last August. (Read our review Here.) Now season 2 of the show is in production, and spy pics taken of the set have not only shown returning stars Tom Sturridge and Kirby Howell-Baptiste back at work, but have also revealed that Indya Moore – whose credits include Pose, A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting, and Escape Room: Tournament of Champions – has joined the cast! Some of these set pics can be seen in Twitter embeds at the bottom of this article.

When Netflix ordered season 2, they said, “The Sandman will return with new episodes based on multiple volumes of the Neil Gaiman graphic novel to explore even more stories of the Endless.“

Described as “a rich, character-driven blend of myth...

Exclusive: Logan Miller (Escape Room franchise) has signed on to star alongside Barbarian breakout Georgina Campbell in Psycho Killer, a new horror-thriller from New Regency, which is heading into production in early spring.

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The film penned by Andrew Kevin Walker reportedly follows Jane Thorne (Campbell), a police officer who makes it her mission to take down a serial killer referred to on the news as the ‘Satanic Slasher,’ following the murder of her state trooper husband. Miller will play Marvin, a goth-type nebbish who works for the mysterious Pendleton in his massive mansion.

Directing Psycho Killer is Gavin Polone,...

New York City offers a specific arsenal of chaos, innovation, and a sense of "anything goes" when it comes to horror. The jump-scare possibilities lurking around corners are endless in the city that never sleeps. However, most films that boast being based in New York are often filmed elsewhere. This is for a myriad of reasons, but some primary ones are cost and space.

"Scream 6," the latest installment in the franchise, had audiences excited to see the action taken out of Woodsboro and Hollywood, and into the bolder and more brazen streets of the big apple, promising the kind of kills you can only get in New York City, baby! However, to clear any confusion, a specific scene in the latest Ghostface franchise hits you directly with the McGill University campus in Montréal, Canada. When I saw the film this week, I nearly shrieked at the panning shots of...

Just four months ago, we heard that genre regular Kyle Gallner and Holland Roden had signed on to star in horror thriller Mother, May I? Now teaser trailer for Mother, May I? has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Dark Sky Films has acquired the North American distribution rights to Mother, May I? and are planning to release the film sometime in the spring or summer. Collider has confirmed that the project is being presented to potential international distributors at the European Film Market.

The feature writing and directing debut of Laurence Vannicelli, Mother, May I? shows what happens when a man’s fiancée starts behaving like his recently deceased mother, leading him to confront his deepest traumas to free her from the bewildering possession.

Gallner and Roden are joined in the cast by Chris Mulkey (Cloverfield), Michael Giannone (Don’t Look Up), and Daphne Gaines...

A few weeks ago, it was announced that Megan Fox and director S.K. Dale, who previously worked together on the thriller Till Death (about a woman who has to deal with a pair of killers while handcuffed to the corpse of her husband), are teaming up again on the sci-fi thriller Subservience, which was scheduled to begin filming at the Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio on January 7th. With cameras now rolling, Deadline has revealed that Fox is being joined in the cast by Madeline Zima (Californication), Matilda Firth (Hullraisers), Andrew Whipp (Outlander), and newcomer Jude Greenstein, as well as the previously announced Michele Morrone (365 Days).

Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls) wrote the screenplay for Subservience, crafting a story about a struggling father who purchases a domestic Sim to help care for his house and family until she gains awareness and turns deadly.

Exclusive: Millennium Media’s sci-fi thriller Subservience, starring Megan Fox (Transformers) and Michele Morrone (365 Days), is rounding out cast with Madeline Lima (Californication), Matilda Firth (Hullraisers), Andrew Whipp (Outlander) and newcomer Jude Greenstein.

As previously announced, the film will be directed by S.K. Dale (Till Death), with a screenplay written by Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls). Filming started this weekend in Bulgaria at Millennium’s Nu Boyana Studio.

The film is about a struggling father (Morrone) who purchases a domestic Sim (Fox) to help care for his house and family but the Sim gains awareness and turns deadly.

Producers are Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger, Tanner Mobley, Les Weldon, Rob Van Norden, Yariv Lerner and Jon Berg. Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, and Boaz Davidson are among executive producers.

Zima is known for her roles in Showtime’s Californication, Amazon’s Betas and NBC’s Heroes.

Millennium Media have announced that Megan Fox and Michele Morrone (365 Days) will star in their sci-fi thriller Subservience. Fox will rejoin her Till Death director, S.K. Dale, with a screenplay written by Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls). Production will start filming at the Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio on January 7th.

Subservience is about a struggling father (Morrone) who purchases a domestic Sim (Fox) to help care for his house and family until she gains awareness and turns deadly.

“Megan and Michele are perfect for this timely and provocative thriller! As Megan’s 3rd film with us, this high concept and topical subject makes for a cautionary tale of AI and the frighteningly real dangers that could rise. With the addition of the talented Michele to add an extra layer of spice as our leading man, we are excited to see leading lady Megan and S.

Last year Megan Fox and director S.K. Dale teamed up for the thriller Till Death, about a woman who has to deal with a pair of killers while handcuffed to the corpse of her husband. I thought that movie was pretty good, so I’m glad to hear that Fox and Dale are going to be working together again on the sci-fi thriller Subservience, which is scheduled to begin filming at the Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio on January 7th.

Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls) wrote the screenplay for Subservience, crafting a story about a struggling father who purchases a domestic Sim to help care for his house and family until she gains awareness and turns deadly.

Fox will be playing the Sim, while the struggling father will be played by Michele Morrone (365 Days).

Subservience is coming to us from Millennium Media. The company’s Jeffrey Greenstein,...

Millennium Media announced today that Megan Fox (Jennifer’s Body) and Michele Morrone (365 Days) will star in their sci-fi thriller Subservience. Fox will rejoin her Till Death director, S.K. Dale, with a screenplay written by Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls).

Filming will begin at the Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio on January 7th.

Subservience is about a struggling father (Morrone) who purchases a domestic Sim (Fox) to help care for his house and family until she gains awareness and turns deadly.

“Megan and Michele are perfect for this timely and provocative thriller! As Megan’s 3rd film with us, this high concept and topical subject makes for a cautionary tale of AI and the frighteningly real dangers that could rise. With the addition of the talented Michele to add an extra layer of spice as our leading man, we are excited to see leading lady Megan and S.

Exclusive: Megan Fox (Transformers) and Michele Morrone (365 Days) have been set to star in sci-fi thriller Subservience from Angel Has Fallen and The Hitman’s Bodyguard producer Millennium Media.

On the project, Fox will rejoin with her Till Death director S.K. Dale, with a screenplay written by Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls).

Production is due to start filming at the Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio on January 7, 2023.

The film is about a struggling father (Morrone) who purchases a domestic Sim (Fox) to help care for his house and family until she gains awareness and turns deadly.

Producers on Subservience are Millennium Media’s Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger, Tanner Mobley, Les Weldon, Rob Van Norden, and Yariv Lerner and Jon Berg. Millennium Media’s Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, and Boaz Davidson are among executive producers.

Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actress Fox recently...

Kyle Gallner has a long list of genre credits. Red, The Haunting in Connecticut, Jennifer’s Body, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Red State, The Walking Dead, The Cleanse, Alien Code, Ghosts of War, Scream, Smile. Now you can add another title to the list, because Deadline reports that Gallner stars in the upcoming horror thriller Mother, May I? with Holland Roden. Roden is no stranger to genre work, having previously taken on roles in Teen Wolf, Lore, Channel Zero, Cry of Fear, House of Dust, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman, and Obsessed to Death.

Dark Sky Films has acquired the North American distribution rights to Mother, May I? and are planning to release the film sometime in the spring of 2023.

The feature writing and directing debut of Laurence Vannicelli, Mother, May I? shows what happens when

a man’s fiancée starts behaving like his recently deceased mother,...

If you’re a Spider-Man: No Way Home fan, here’s a way to get “More Fun Stuff” for free. (Which is always nice.)

Spider-Man: No Way Home — The More Fun Stuff Version (aka the extended edition) swung into theaters last month and featured more than 10 minutes of new footage, including more Matt Murdock (played by Charlie Cox) and one alternate mid-credits scene. Now, that same extended cut will be available to stream on Starz starting Oct. 18 — and if you’re savvy about it, you can catch it during a free 7-day trial.

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If you’re looking for a heart-pounding, suspenseful way to spend an evening, you must check out the best escape room movies. These edge-of-your-seat thrillers will have you trying to piece together clues and solve puzzles along with the characters on screen. And, once you’ve seen one, you’ll be hooked. If you take any escape room puzzle movie, it is filled with thrill and excitement.

The “Escape Room” movie series is about a group of five strangers who find themselves working together to get out of a series of dangerous and elaborate puzzle rooms. If anyone can’t get out, they’ll die. The sole player who survives the rooms to the end is the winner. There are puzzles and death traps galore!

You’ll love these psychological thrillers if you’re a fan of movies such as The Cube, the saw movies, Fermat’s room, or the Netflix series Squid Game.

Back in the 1960s, if you wanted to watch a weekly sitcom about monsters living in suburbia, there were only two games in town: “The Addams Family,” about a group of kooks whose wealth and largely normal looks gave them the freedom to pursue their freaky interests, and “The Munsters,” about a working-class group of unmistakable monsters whose outward appearance provided a humorous contrast to their utter normalcy.

The Addams Family have gone on to great cinematic success in the decades following their sitcom (and the New Yorker cartoons on which it was based), with successful live-action and animated movies to their name. But Hollywood hasn’t been quite so kind to The Munsters. Their show was originally a bigger hit than “The Addams Family,” but they’ve never been cinematically rebooted for the big screen. (Not counting the series spinoff “Munster Go Home!” in 1966.)

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Exclusive: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix franchise), Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) and Liana Liberato (To the Bone) have signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s upcoming feature Face, based on her 2021 bestseller, Face: One Square Foot of Skin.

The film penned by Bateman consists of 14 vignettes, both comedic and dramatic, which look at women’s faces getting older, and why that makes people angry. While much of society appears to assume that women’s faces are somehow broken and need to be fixed, Face reveals some of the many ways in which women, and those around them, allow this idea to take root at all.

Parker will play Tanya, an actress balancing her need to use her face for her job and the pressure to not move it at all, with Moss as Mrs. Foster, a kindergarten teacher whose young students remind her of the magical functionality of the face.

Exclusive: The Orphan franchise actress is boarding Kevin Costner’s western epic Horizon from Warner Bros/New Line. Isabelle Fuhrman will star opposite the Dances With Wolves 2x Oscar winner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jamie Campbell Bower, Luke Wilson, Thomas Haden Church, Jena Malone, Alejandro Edda, Tatanka Means and Michael Rooker.

With Horizon, Costner revisits Civil War-era America, which he originally dove into with 1990’s Dances With Wolves. The pic chronicles a multi-faceted 15-year span of pre-and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West. Experienced through the eyes of many, the epic journey is fraught with peril and intrigue from the constant onslaught of natural elements to the interactions with the indigenous peoples who lived on the land, and the determination and at many times ruthlessness of those who sought to settle it.

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“The Invitation,” a gothic horror film from Sony’s Screen Gems, made 775,000 at the box office in its Thursday night preview screenings from 2,739 locations and showings that started at 4 p.m. The film opens on more than 3,000 screens this weekend.

“The Invitation” opens in a quiet week at the end of the summer and is projected for a 6 million-7 million opening against a 10 million budget. It also opens against “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” the latest film from “Mad Max” filmmaker George Miller starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

For some comparisons, Screen Gems’ “Don’t Breathe 2,” which opened last August, made 965,000 in its Thursday previews starting at 7 p.m. and went on to just shy of an 11 million opening weekend. “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” made 8.8 million in its opening after getting a 1.2 million start in its Thursday previews.

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It’s been a while since we’ve had any news to report about the upcoming Clue reboot from 20th Century Studios, but Deadline reports today that a new writer has come on board.

Oren Uziel has reportedly been hired to give the upcoming movie’s script a “big reworking.”

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote the current draft.

James Bobin (The Muppets) will be directing the Clue reboot for 20th Century Studios.

Clue was created way back in 1943 by Anthony E. Pratt, and the board game was of course notably turned into a feature film starring Tim Curry in 1985 and a mini-series in 2011.

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Exclusive: The co-screenwriter of Paramount’s spring hit, The Lost City, Oren Uziel, is giving 20th Century Studios’ Clue movie a big reworking.

The first draft for the Ryan Reynolds movie based on the popular whodunnit Hasbro game was by Rheet Reese and Paul Wernick. James Bobin is attached to direct.

The first feature take of Clue back in 1985 turned into a cult classic during the video era, the pic’s theatrical run stateside grossing just under 15M and featuring all-star cast of Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn and Lesley Ann Warren. Johnathan Lynn directed. Cute piece of distribution with that first movie is that various prints within certain metro areas like LA and NYC played different endings with different murderers (just like the board game).

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A decade after escape rooms became popular — in which a team of players play detective and complete tasks together in a shared space in order to accomplish a specific, time-sensitive goal — the exit games, as they're sometimes called, still have a stranglehold on popular culture, particularly in the movie theater. With recent movies like "Escape Room: Tournament of Champions" getting tons of attention, it's a good time to recommend some escape room horror movies to add to the watchlist.

But first, the criteria: an escape room horror movie doesn't have to feature an actual escape room in the workplace-teambuilding exercise sense, but it does need to...

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Production scheduled to start in autumn.

Millennium Media is reuniting with Till Death director S.K. Dale on sci-fi thriller Subservience and will commence worldwide sales at Cannes later this month.

After working on the Megan Fox horror thriller Dale has proved himself to be highly adept in the contained thriller and genre space and the company anticipates an autumn start on principal photography.

Subservience is based on a screenplay by Will Honley (Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions) and April Maguire (Lost Girls) and centres on a struggling father who purchases a domestic Sim – an android assistant – to help care for his house and family.

China’s theatrical box office fell to a new low over the weekend as anti-covid restrictions forces thousands of cinemas to close.

Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway showed that nationwide box office across the world’s most populous country amounted to just 10.5 million. That was the lowest scoring weekend of 2022 and means the year-to-date cumulative at 2.42 billion is now running some 28 below last’s equivalent figure.

Major cities in China are currently operating under a range of restrictions that range from citywide lockdown (Shanghai) to so-called static management (Suzhou) which also involve government-mandated restrictions on entertainment.

“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” held on as the top film for a second weekend, but with receipts of just RMB19.1 million (3 million). After ten days in mainland Chinese cinemas, the film has amassed RMB93.3 million (14.6 million).

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“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” dominated the box office in China since its opening on Friday. But, with the country on high alert for Covid, the weekend’s cinema business remained close to recent lows.

Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway shows “The Secrets of Dumbledore” earning RMB62.2 million (9.7 million at current exchange rates) between Friday and Sunday. That gave it a huge 63 market share on a weekend worth just 15.5 million.

In 2016, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find” them produced a 85.9 million total in China. In 2018, the first sequel, “The Crimes of Grindelwald,” garnered 57.8 million.

The film played particularly strongly on giant screens. Imax and Warner Bros. reported that Imax screens in China accounted for 1.5 million of box office, some 15 of the film’s nationwide total and some 10 of the nationwide aggregate box office.

They reported that it played on 360 Imax screens. That figure compares with the roughly 750 screens available...

‘Morbius’ looks to be on profitable path for stakeholders Sony and Marvel.

Worldwide box office April 1-3 RankFilm (Distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories 1. Morbius (Sony) 84m 84m 44.9m 44.9m 63 2. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount) 25.5m 25.5m 25.5m 25.5m 31 3. The Batman (Warner Bros) 24.2m 710.5m 13.4m 361.5m 77 4. Rrr (various) 22.7m 112.1m 21.1m 99.5m 21 5. The Lost City (Paramount) 16.7m 61.5m 1.9m 7m 18 6. The Bad Guys (Universal) 10.5m 28.7m 10.5m 28.7m 41 7. Uncharted (Sony) 8.8m 373.1m 5.2m 234.2m 56 8. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (various) 4.5m 173.6m 2.6m 142.2m 29 9. Ambulance (Universal) 3.3m 18.6m 3.3m 18.6m 59 10. Sing 2 (Universal) 3.2m 395.3m 2.4m 233.6m 69

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‘Morbius’ looks to be on a profitable path for stakeholders Sony and Marvel.

Worldwide box office April 1-3 RankFilm (Distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories 1. Morbius (Sony) 84m 84m 44.9m 44.9m 63 2. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount) 25.5m 25.5m 25.5m 25.5m 31 3. The Batman (Warner Bros) 24.2m 710.5m 13.4m 361.5m 77 4. Rrr (various) 22.7m 112.1m 21.1m 99.5m 21 5. The Lost City (Paramount) 16.7m 61.5m 1.9m 7m 18 6. The Bad Guys (Universal) 10.5m 28.7m 10.5m 28.7m 41 7. Uncharted (Sony) 8.8m 373.1m 5.2m 234.2m 56 8. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (various) 4.5m 173.6m 2.6m 142.2m 29 9. Ambulance (Universal) 3.3m 18.6m 3.3m 18.6m 59 10. Sing 2 (Universal) 3.2m 395.3m 2.4m 233.6m 69

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