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Joe Dante reveals the Little Shop of Horrors sequel is dead

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Cult 80s musical horror-comedy Little Shop of Horrors was set for a long-delayed sequel but plans are now officially dead, with filmmaker Joe Dante confirmed the project’s fate in a new interview with The Direct. “The word is ‘stasis,’ not status. At the moment, like so many things in town, nothing’s happening, and we always […]

Dear Santa: We Want More Christmas Chronicles

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It’s Christmas season and we look back at Netlix’s The Christmas Chronicles movies and ponder if Kurt Russell will come down the chimney for another… The trees and decorations are up, you’re buying candy, cookies and booze ahead of the holidays and then rebuying it all when you eat and drink those intended gifts yourself. […]

Interview with the Vampire at 30: An Exquisite Atmospheric Gothic Horror

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On its thirtieth anniversary, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind the 1994 big screen adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire… Vampires flicks have been around for the longest time but Interview with the Vampire certainly set a benchmark by delivering a vampiric tale that delivers the proverbial goods in terms of performances, […]

The Kids Are Alright! Why Gen Z Cinephiles Are Cinema’s Last Hope

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Gen Z takes a lot of heat for the current apathy toward mainstream movies that divide audiences and fail at the box office. But it’s not their fault…  We’ve had some box office dynamite this year, with audiences flocking to see Deadpool’s latest outing and the Xenomorphs up to their old tricks again. Generally, though, […]

The Bodyguard to get a remake from Warner Bros. and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour director Sam Wrench

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Are we ready to revisit the power of The Bodyguard? For those of us still playing the soundtrack regularly, it will be a hard pill to swallow that a cinematic update is on the way. Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is planning a revamp of the project, which thrust singer Whitney Houston to another stratosphere. […]

Trailer for martial arts sci-fi Absolute Dominion from director Lexi Alexander

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Giant Pictures has shared a poster and trailer for Absolute Dominion, a sci-fi martial arts action film from writer-director Lexi Alexander (Green Street, Punisher: War Zone). Set in 2063, the film sees the world’s governing bodies come together to establish a martial-arts tournament which they believe will form a new form of diplomacy, with its […]

Samuel L. Jackson is a Man of War for Tim Story-directed western thriller

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Action icon Samuel L. Jackson is re-teaming with his Shaft director Tim Story on Man of War, a western action thriller where Jackson will try to save his town from a corrupt tycoon, per Deadline. Directed by Story from a script by Sheldon Turner (X-Men: First Class), Jackson will portray “a newly retired and long-revered general who returns to […]

Shark thriller Fear Below gets a trailer and poster

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Ahead of its release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for Fear Below, the upcoming shark thriller from writer-directors Matthew Holmes and Gregory Moss. Set in 1940’s Australia, the film follows a group of down-on-their-luck divers as they are hired by criminals to retrieve their gold that has been driven into a […]

Hurry Up Tomorrow posters feature Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan

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Lionsgate has shared three character posters for Trey Edward Shults’ psychological thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow featuring stars Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow A musician plagued by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the […]