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This June, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated conclusion of Squid Game and return of the beloved series The Bear on streaming, to the release of some of the most anticipated movies of this year, such as Brad Pitt‘s F1, and the much-awaited 28 Years Later. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

Presence (June 3) – Hulu Credit – Neon

Presence is a supernatural thriller drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by David Koepp. The 2024 film follows the Payne family as they move into a suburban home and discover that the house is haunted by a spirit. Presence stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday, West Mullholland, Julia Fox,...

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This May, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of the sci-fi comedy series Resident Alien to the streaming release of Night Swim. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best films that are coming to Peacock in June 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Hot Fuzz (June 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Credit – Focus Features

Hot Fuzz is a buddy cop action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Pegg. The 2007 film follows Nicholas Angel, a brilliant London police officer who is re-assigned to a West Country village. At first, Nicholas doesn’t encounter much crime, but soon people begin gruesomely dying.

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Peacock is ready with an entertainment-packed June this year. The upcoming month will see the release of the much-anticipated Season 4 of the sci-fi comedy-drama series Resident Alien, as well as the streaming release of the new Syfy series Revival. Just like every month, Peacock is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the seven new movies and TV shows coming to Peacock in June 2025.

Night Swim (June 5) Credit – Universal Pictures

Night Swim is a 2024 supernatural horror film written and directed by Bryce McGuire. Based on McGuire and Rob Blackhurst’s 2014 short film of the same name, it revolves around the Warren family as they move into a suburban house and discover a swimming pool in their backyard. However, they soon realize that the pool is haunted by a sinister entity.

June is a big month for Peacock. Fans of dinosaurs and sharks have a lot to look forward to. All six Jurassic Park movies will be streaming in one place for the first time. This comes just in time before Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters in July.

Also, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, Peacock will add all four Jaws movies to its library. There’s even more coming too! Check out the full list of new shows and movies below.

June 1

Adventures of Priscilla Queen of The Desert

Anna and The Apocalypse

The Best Man

The Big Lebowski

The Birdcage

Blue Crush

Bride of Chucky

The ‘Burbs

Capote

Captain Phillips

The Chronicles of Riddick

A Cowgirl’s Story

Daddy Day Care

The Day After Tomorrow

Death Wish

Deep Rising

Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights

Erin Brockovich

A Fantastic Woman

Fifty Shades Darker

Fifty Shades Freed

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Stephen King spends a lot of time on Netflix. That’s not a bad thing. It saves me from having to sift through the dozens and dozens of new titles added daily and instead wait for the master of horror to send via Twitter or Threads his current suggestions. Those suggestions often pan out. Like Stephen King, I was also a fan of last year’s underrated Blumhouse gem Night Swim. The dude just loves movies, and as someone who also loves movies, it’s always exciting to check in on what’s pinging his radar.

Like most of us, a lot of that comes courtesy of Netflix. For better or worse, the streaming service is the equivalent of the media front lines. Everything everyone is talking about is on there, whether it’s an old title making waves or some must-see new series. It’s home to fantastic international...

Liminal horror may have taken over the internet, but a lot of media within this budding genre doesn’t really know what to do after placing characters in a familiar yet hostile environment. After all, the more inhabitants you add to the Backrooms, the less interesting they become. This is an especially prevalent issue in liminal gaming, as the lack of interactivity can sometimes turn new releases into glorified walking simulators that happen to boast a creepy aesthetic. Thankfully, not all developers are satisfied with simply making their games look eerie, and the recent viral sensation Sharks and Minnows is proof that liminal experiences don’t have to be limited to slow-paced snooze-fests.

Developed by Collin’s Game Company and released on Steam in mid-April, Sharks and Minnows has been steadily accruing fans through online word-of-mouth as both gamers and influencers get a taste of the best example of pool-related...

Talk about following a tough act. Sony's Until Dawn opened this week, days after Ryan Coogler's Sinners defied horror movie expectations both critically and commercially. Until Dawn will struggle to hold its ground in its debut weekend, while Sinners is expected to blaze past box office projections, like it did in its debut frame. Inspired by the video game of the same name, the movie opened to mediocre reviews and not-so-promising audience reception, which certainly doesn't bode well for its future. These missteps will ultimately work in Sinners' favor, as more casual audiences give it a chance thanks to the excellent word-of-mouth that it has been attracting.

Until Dawn currently holds a "rotten" 51% rating on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. But the film's audience score on the platform stands at a significantly superior 71%. A more accurate reflection of audience sentiment can be observed in the C+ CinemaScore that...

Wyatt Russell has been making serious waves in the entertainment business, and is it any wonder? The man certainly has the genes to deliver the goods. Russell is, of course, the son of Academy Award winner Goldie Hawn and all-around acting legend Kurt Russell . What's more, his paternal grandfather, Bing Russell, had an acting career that spanned four decades, while his older half-siblings Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson are also successful actors.

In other words, there's a lot of acting talent sitting at the family's Thanksgiving table. Since both of Russell's parents have plenty of experience in Hollywood productions, it's easy to assume that he's received some truly stellar advice on how to succeed in the acting business. In an interview with People, Russell confirmed that he's indeed received some excellent and surprisingly succinct advice from them. Here's the simple set of rules Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn gave their son:

"Be on time,...

Exclusive: Ella Rubin and Amélie Hoeferle have been tapped as the co-leads of Amazon MGM Studios’ Sterling Point, a YA drama series from My Old Ass writer-director Megan Park, LuckyChap and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire.

Sterling Point was created by Park who will also direct and executive producer. Plot details are being kept under wraps but the series is being described as an ensemble drama with comedy and heart about sisterhood, nature vs nurture, complicated family dynamics and grief. It is believed to follow Annie (Rubin) who, along with her twin brother, were raised in New York by their single dad before they find out that their estranged grandfather left them an island on a lake in his will.

Hoeferle will play Ramona, a teen living on the island who was raised by her grandfather.

Park executive...

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A24 ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de la película Eddington, el cuarto largometraje de Ari Aster tras Hereditary, Midsommar y Beau tiene miedo.

Eddington se sitúa en mayo de 2020, cuando un enfrentamiento entre el sheriff de un pequeño pueblo (Phoenix) y el alcalde (Pascal) provoca un estallido social que divide a los vecinos en bandos opuestos en Eddington, Nuevo México.

La película está protagonizada por Joaquin Phoenix, y Pedro Pascal junto a Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deirdre O’Connell (¡Olvídate de mí!), Micheal Ward (El imperio de la luz), Amélie Hoeferle (La piscina), Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek), William Belleau (Los asesinos de la luna), Austin Butler (Dune: Parte dos) y Emma Stone (Pobres criaturas).

Aster habló de este proyecto hace años en una sesión Ama (Ask Me Anything) en Reddit, donde dijo: «Hubo un momento en el...

A lot of the conversation at CinemaCon 2025 has been about trying to find the elusive answer to the question of how to get audiences back in theaters for films that aren’t franchises and horror…the sort of offerings that made up the vast majority of Universal’s CinemaCon presentation on Wednesday afternoon.

The presentation, which kicked off with an elegant, 50-piece live orchestra playing iconic Universal film scores and showcased everything from “Wicked: For Good” to “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” was a notable departure from Warner Bros.’ focus on risky original titles and Lionsgate’s attempts to strike a balance on expanding their franchises and offering some low budget originality. Universal’s message was about stability, offering titles that audiences know and which will likely provide reliable box office while the industry as a whole tries to figure out how to effectively bring variety back to the big screen in...

Disney’s “Snow White” is sinking fast at the box office, so much so that Amazon MGM’s “A Working Man” has taken No. 1 from it this weekend with a $15.2 million opening from 3,262 theaters compared to a $14.2 million second weekend for the Rachel Zegler-starring remake.

Heading into the weekend, “Snow White” was projected for a second weekend of $16-18 million, with some optimistic projections topping out at $20 million. “A Working Man” was projected for $10-12 million.

Instead, “A Working Man” has nearly matched the $16 million opening of star Jason Statham’s last film, “The Beekeeper” in January 2024. As expected, the film skewed 60% male and, while getting mixed critical reviews, has earned mostly positive reception from audiences with a B on CinemaScore and an 84% overall positive rating on PostTrak.

The film will now try to match the $66.2 million domestic/$162.6 million global total of “The Beekeeper” against its reported $40 million budget produced by Black Bear.

Blumhouse just can't catch a break these days when it comes to how critics react to their films. All but one of their 2024 releases were universally panned by movie pundits, with James Watkins' Speak No Evil being the exception. 2025 hasn't been so hot, either, as Wolf Man was yet another divisive release from the famed production studio, and it seems that trend is continuing with their latest horror offering, The Woman in the Yard.

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, The Woman in the Yard stars Danielle Deadwyler as Ramona, a grieving widow who must care for her children all by herself in a rural farmhouse. One day, a lone, spectral woman shrouded entirely in black appears on the family's front lawn without explanation and warns them, "Today's the day." Like most Blumhouse movies, the premise seems interesting, but according to its recently revealed Rotten Tomatoes score, The Woman in the Yard...

Politics and Hollywood are often intertwined in places they shouldn’t be. However, what politics and Hollywood have in common is the audiences liking or disliking something. For Donald Trump, it’s both.

Donald Trump | Credits: Michael Vadon, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Well, although it wasn’t anyone’s intention, an iconic actor has been selected to portray a role in the upcoming MCU film Avengers: Doomsday. For some reason, the actor has a number of Donald Trump supporters as his fans!

Marvel confirms Wyatt Russell in Avengers: Doomsday

In 2021, Wyatt Russell made his debut as a U.S. Agent in the iconic Marvel show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Portraying the role of a soldier who wanted to be the next Captain America, fans loved to hate him and hated to love him.

Wyatt Russell in a still from Night Swim | Credits: Blumhouse Productions

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A lot of times, or maybe most of the time, when we like a short film or a short story that’s part of an anthology, our first reaction is that maybe it should have been a feature-length movie. Love, Death, and Robots is made of so many amazing animated narratives, oozing with style and substance, and if any of them were released in the theater with a runtime of around, let’s say, 90 minutes, I would definitely show up to watch it. The same can be said about Star Wars: Visions, which was undoubtedly better than all of the live-action projects Disney’s released recently. In fact, there are several great features based on short films, e.g., Anna and the Apocalypse, Boiling Point, District 9, Smile, and famously enough, The Evil Dead. But then you see stuff like Lights Out, Night Swim, Pixels, and Mr. Crocket and think...

Actors Woody Harrelson (“Triangle of Sadness”) and Kerry Condon (“Night Swim”) are reportedly attached to star in “Giant,” an English remake of the 2013 romantic comedy “Corazón de León.” If you’re not familiar with the previous iteration, the movie saw a woman getting romantically involved with a very short older man and explored the prejudices surrounding that situation with both humor and heart.

Continue reading ‘Giant’: Woody Harrelson & Kerry Condon Topline English Remake Of Marcos Carnevale’s Stature Rom-Com ‘Corazón de León’ at The Playlist.

Blumhouse horror movies tend to be somewhat polarizing. The company has produced plenty of hits, like The Black Phone, M3GAN, Get Out, and Happy Death Day, but it has also distributed its fair share of duds (last year was rough between Night Swim and Imaginary), making it hard to suss out whether or not upcoming films will be good.

But I have to say, the latest trailer for The Woman in the Yard has me excited, especially since it looks like this isolated rural horror film will lean heavily into some Flannery O'Connor/folk horror vibes. That, coupled with the fact it was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra—the man behind House of Wax, The Shallows, Orphan, and Carry-On—has me excited. Watch the newly released trailer embedded above.

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The second trailer provides us with more plot details. After the death of her husband, single mother Ramona...

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M3GANwas a surprise horror hit in 2023, with the movie becoming a veritable meme with its success. Now, the first footage of its follow-up has finally been released, and it's already making all the right moves. This is exactly what the production company behind the film needs, especially given recent releases.

Blumhouse was once synonymous with the horror genre in the 2010s, with the studio seeing several major hits that scared up a lot of money at the box office. In the past few years, however, there's been a saddening case of diminishing returns and a tarnished reputation for the studio. M3GAN 2.0 can help turn that around, but if it fails to achieve this, it can potentially do even more damage.

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Un ex-piloto de Fórmula 1 vuelve al ruedo. © Warner Bros

La Super Bowl 2025 nos regala un nuevo (y adrenalínico) teaser tráiler de la película de Fórmula 1, F1, dirigida por Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) a partir de un guion de Ehren Kruger (Top Gun: Maverick).

F1 sigue a un ex-piloto de Fórmula 1, Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), que regresa al deporte y se asocia con su compañero novato Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) en el equipo ficticio Apxgp.

El reparto es de primer nivel: Brad Pitt (Wolfs), Damson Idris (Snowfall), Kerry Condon (La piscina), Javier Bardem (Dune: Parte dos), Tobias Menzies (Manhunt), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso) y Kim Bodnia (Young Woman and the Sea).

F1 se estrena en cines el 27 de junio.

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While we wait for Orphan 3, which was officially announced last November, franchise star Isabelle Fuhrman has set up her next project. Fuhrman will star in the thriller Die by Night.

Variety details this afternoon that Ben Hardy and Scoot McNairy will also star in the dystopian movie.

The outlet also reports, “The feature is being launched by Protagonist Pictures ahead of the upcoming EFM in Berlin. Protagonist is handling international sales while UTA Independent Film Group is representing North American rights.”

Die by Night is set over the course of one night in a world where “the only way to survive to see a new day is to trust each other and stay in the light until you make it to The Wall.”

Creatures known as The Horde hunt down surviving humans in the dark in the film’s post-apocalyptic world, where long stretches of darkness plunge the world into chaos.

Minerva Pictures has boarded Agostino, the next film from Venice competition regular Andrea Pallaoro, as well as Stefano Sardo’s erotic thriller Close To Me and Taavi Vartia’s Finnish survival thriller I

Minerva is pre-selling Agostino,about a13 year-old boy who idolises his widowed mother, until a young local man becomes her lover.

Pallaoro’s2022 film Monica and 2017 feature Hannah both played in competition at Venice.

The Italy-us co-production between Minerva and Melograno Films, it is based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.

Close To Me is the second film by Stefano Sardo and centres on acouple living together during the Covid lockdown,...

Update: The 4-day-holiday estimates have come in from Comscore, and it looks like Mufasa: The Lion King was able to edge out One of Them Days to take the top spot. Propelled by holiday matinees, Mufasa made $15.5 million compared to One of Them Days‘s $14.225 million. The weekend’s big flop, Wolf Man, clawed its way to a third-place finish with $12.5 million. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 wasn’t far behind with $11 million, while Moana 2 was able to pull ahead of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera with an $8.1 million gross. That was all expected, given that school is out for Martin Luther King Day, so a lot of folks are taking their kids to see movies. Even still, this was one of the lowest-grossing MLK weekends on record, as last year Mean Girls and The Beekeeper proved to be breakout hits. Nothing this weekend even came close to the $33 million...

Wolf Man has had an unpromising global debut. The Universal monster remake follows a man (Christopher Abbott) whose lycanthropic transformation threatens the lives of his wife (Julia Garner) and daughter (Matilda Firth), who are trapped in a house with him. The Blumhouse movie was directed by Leigh Whannell, who previously helmed the 2020 remake The Invisible Man to great critical and commercial success. The Wolf Man release began during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, taking No. 3 at the domestic box office behind the 2024 hit Mufasa: The Lion King and the comedy One of Them Days.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, Wolf Man is projected to close out its opening weekend with a worldwide box office gross of $15.3 million. This total comes from an underwhelming $4.83 million haul from 53 international markets, combined with a roughly $10.5 million 3-day domestic total. While the MLK Day holiday weekend sees its domestic projections...

There’s good news at the MLK weekend box office for films like Sony’s new buddy comedy “One of Them Days” as well as more milestones for Christmas holdovers “Mufasa” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” but this holiday period is proving to be a weak one for theaters.

Overall grosses for the 4-day period are expected to fall to $96-100 million, an 18% drop from last year. “Mufasa” is taking No. 1 with an estimated 4-day total of $15.5 million in its fifth weekend, which is the lowest No. 1 total seen on an MLK weekend since the unadjusted $14 million 4-day holdover total of the Brad Pitt/Anthony Hopkins western “Legends of the Fall” way back in 1995, according to Box Office Mojo.

For Disney, this $15.5 million total for “Mufasa” is just fine, as it pushes the film’s domestic total past $200 million while its global total reaches $588 million. Though a world away from...

Wondrous Is the Silence of My Master, director Ivan Salatić’s sophomore feature, will be world premiering in the Tiger Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which runs Jan. 30-Feb. 9. THR can here present an exclusive trailer for the cinematic reflection on identity, displacement, and home.

Written and directed by Salatić, the movie stars Marko Pogačar, Croatia’s most translated contemporary poet in his debut film role, Luka Petrone, Jakov Zovko, and Vanja Matic.

The film is set in 19th-century Montenegro “where tribes led by a poet and a bishop named Morlak (Pogačar) are locked in an age-old struggle against a common enemy,” according to a synopsis. “When Morlak falls gravely ill, he sets out in search of a cure, leaving behind his war-torn homeland. Along with his daughter and two loyal servants, Morlak settles in a remote house in southern Italy, hoping for healing and peace.”

Torn between duty and homesickness,...

Blumhouse has had a lot of success opening horror movies in January. M3GAN was a blockbuster, as was Leigh Whannel’s The Invisible Man, and this year, they’ve got another horror flick that seems bound for a number-one finish. Indeed, Wolf Man, which also comes from Whannell, was initially one of the most anticipated horror titles of 2025. However, in recent weeks, the buzz around the film has cooled, with poor reactions to the movie’s new werewolf designs, and mixed reviews that revealed the film lacks scares and does away with a lot of the classic character’s lore.

Even still, the movie is set to dominate the box office, although its opening seems to be more in line with last year’s Night Swim ($12 million) than either M3GAN ($30.4 million) or The Invisible Man ($28 million). As such, I’m expecting Wolf Man will open with about $17 million, which, given its rumoured $25 million budget,...

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The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Episode 8, "The Real Good Guys," now streaming on Disney+

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Season 1 has left fans experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions. Jude Law's Jod Na Nawood turned out to be a fraud, as he was really the evil pirate, Captain Silvo. He duped the teenage group led by Wim so that he could break through the barrier and find their homeworld of At Attin.

It turns out, there was a mint hidden there that could give Silvo all the Old Republic credits he needed. The Season 1 finale has him landing and pretending to be an oligarch while holding the children hostage. It builds to an explosive, high-octane conclusion that does set...

Blumhouse Pictures, the kings of horror at the box office for the past decade, didn’t make a big splash at the box office in 2024. This year looks to be much different, starting this weekend with Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man.”

According to exhibitors and rival distributors, “Wolf Man” is projected for a 3-day opening in the high teens. With MLK Day included, the Universal release is expected to earn a 4-day opening above $20 million.

This would be a higher opening than any of Blumhouse’s launches in 2024, as their last January release, “Night Swim,” and their September remake of “Speak No Evil” both opened to around $11 million. “Speak No Evil” was Blumhouse’s top film last year with $36.9 million domestic and $75.7 million worldwide.

To be clear, none of Blumhouse’s 2024 films were flops, easily clearing their production budgets which never exceeded $15 million. But 2024 was also only the second year...

Blumhouse is back with what seems like an annual horror movie release with Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man, a reboot of 1941's The Wolf Man, the first film to feature the classic Universal movie monster. While January is sometimes seen as a dumping ground for lackluster horror movies, the lift of the review embargo on Wolf Man indicates that Blumhouse isn't repeating the massive issues of their last early release, Night Swim. In fact, Whannell's take is an ambitious enough addition to the new generation of Universal monster movies the company has been making that began with 2020's The Invisible Man, but its characterizations are lacking compared to its predecessor.

In David Rooney's review from The Hollywood Reporter, he points to the performances of Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner, who he says "Do a fine job ratcheting up the fear factor as their characters' strained marriage is tested by...

Nosferatu, Robert Eggers' outstanding modern adaptation of the 1922 classic by F.W. Murnau, has reached a major milestone in the performance metrics of 2024. Recently released on Christmas Day, 2024, the vampire movie has made more than $135 million at the box office and has sailed past major releases like Longlegs and The Substance, making it the highest-grossing horror movie of the year that wasn't a prequel or a sequel. Sure, it's still a remake, so it's too soon to say that audiences have embraced originality, though it's a remake of a century-old film (not counting Werner Herzog's 1979 version).

1922's loose adaptation of Bram Stoker's vampire classic Dracula (reworked for legal reasons at the time), Nosferatu has long been esteemed as one of the greatest horror films of all time. 2024's remake was a passion project for Eggers, whose idea for a new adaptation had been brewing in his mind since he...

Nosferatu has broken a major horror movie record by surpassing Longlegs at the box office. The latter movie, which was directed by Osgood Perkins, is a smash hit serial killer thriller starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage that grossed $127 million worldwide against a slim budget of less than $10 million after debuting on July 12, 2024. The Nosferatu release came much later, as the Robert Eggers remake of the iconic 1922 silent vampire film of the same name debuted on Christmas Day, becoming the highest-grossing new release over the holiday weekend.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, Nosferatu is projected to close out its third weekend in theaters with a 3-day domestic gross of $6.8 million in North America and $13.7 million internationally. This will bring its cumulative global box office total to $135 million, surpassing Longlegs' worldwide gross by $8 million. This officially makes the Eggers movie the highest-grossing non-sequel, non-prequel horror movie of 2024, as it had...

Leigh Whannell may not be a name that everyone knows but, if you're a horror fan, he's undoubtedly touched your life in some way over the past 20 years. As the co-creator of both the long-running hit "Saw" franchise as well as "Insidious," he's certainly made a mark. That's to say nothing of his work as a director, which includes "Upgrade" and "The Invisible Man." In other words, Whannell's work is worth paying attention to. Case in point, his new take on "Wolf Man" is drawing more than a few eyeballs and figures to be a big hit for Blumhouse and Universal when it reaches theaters next weekend.

"Wolf Man" is currently looking at an opening weekend in the $20 to $30 million range, per Box Office Theory. That would be a solid start, particularly for a movie that was made on a shoestring $7 million production budget. Granted, that doesn't include marketing but,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced on Monday the 207 feature films eligible for Best Picture consideration, two days before voting for the 2025 Oscar nominations begins.

There are 323 feature films eligible for the Academy Awards, but just 207 met the Best Picture competition eligibility requirements.

As stated by the Academy in a press release, “To be eligible for consideration in the general entry categories, under rules implemented for the 97th Academy Awards year, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan areas: Los Angeles County; the City of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2024, and Dec. 31, 2024, and complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue. Feature films must have a running time of more than 40 minutes.”

But Best Picture eligibility is different. Films under consideration...

A stronger Christmas continues to provide major dividends as four major family titles and three unusually strong specialized releases got 2025 off to an improved start. “Mufasa: The Lion King” (Disney), #2 last weekend, took #1 for the first time in its three-week run, ahead of “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount). “Nosferatu” (Focus), #3 overall, is tops among the more adult-appeal titles, and has a real chance to hit $100 million in U.S./Canada totals.

The weekend total of $106 million is 21 percent better than the first 2024 weekend, made even more remarkable with no new wide release. Last year, “Nightswim” opened to just under $12 million. Though no single January 2025 release looks like a breakout (Universal’s “Wolf Man” on January 17 looks best), the month could start 2025 at 15 percent or more ahead last year.

Holdovers were strong, particularly compared to a holiday weekend. “Mufasa,” only $200,000 behind “Sonic” last week, held better with a 35 percent drop compared to 43 percent.

To tweak Hugh Grant’s best line in “Love Actually,” horror actually is all around.

Whether you’re riding into the new year on your high horse or calmly preparing to walk into the sea, 2025 is a turning point. There’s no genre that tells us who we are or what we’re made of like this one, and the past twelve months have offered audiences a slew of scary stories full of shocks and surprises that were mostly open to interpretation.

Not all of us found powerful metaphors for social change in popular titles, and plenty of terrifying efforts flew under the radar in the genre’s generally high-grossing landscape. There were enough abortion analogies released last spring to merit their own ranking And there’s a reason “MaXXXine” — the definitive film of Brat Girl Summer! — didn’t make many year-end lists. Fittingly, the Mia Goth-starring sequel is...

As good as 2024 has been for horror, there’s always a ying to any yang, and the other side of the coin was pretty rough. While we saw some major bombs in the way of The Crow and disappointing box office performances via Cuckoo, We’re talking about the truly bad. And wouldn’t you know it, this year most of them have been produced by one company. Blumhouse. I’m not sure why it is that they’ve seemingly become completely creatively bankrupt but I’ve experienced it in the theaters. The moment that Blumhouse logo comes up and an entire audience collectively sighs. And it wasn’t that way just a few years ago. But after killer Teddy Bears, an AI killer house, and a haunted Swimming Pool, they’ve definitely lost the plot. This may as well be called the “What the Hell Happened To Blumhouse” video,...

Warren Skeels is jumping into the director's chair for his first movie with The Man in the White Van. Skeels previously got his start in the entertainment industry in front of the camera, co-starring in everything from the ABC family comedy Summertime Switch to the drama Surfacing: Aka A Letter from My Father, which he also wrote and produced, while future two-time Emmy nominee Craig Zobel (Mare of Easttown) directed. Skeels went on to make a name for himself as the co-creator of the MTV reality show, Siesta Key, which ran for five seasons on the network.

Skeels has partnered with Sharon Y. Cobb to co-write and direct The Man in the White Van, which marks his feature directorial debut. The movie is based on the true story of Billy Mansfield Jr., a serial killer, child molester and sex offender who, throughout the '70s and early '80s, committed...

In the 1970s, serial killers rose to prominence, kidnapping and murdering people in succession. One of these gruesome figures is the inspiration behind director Warren Skeels's horror-thriller, The Man In the White Van. In 1975, rebellious, horseback-riding teenager Annie (Madison Wolfe) lives a relatively simple and comfortable life in rural Florida. While she may butt heads with her more traditional mother (Ali Larter) and sister (Brec Bassinger), she at least has the respect of her father (Sean Astin), admiration of her little brother, Daniel (Gavin Warren), and the support and loyalty of her bold and fearless best friend, Patty (Skai Jackson). However, when an ominous white van begins appearing around her home and school, following her every move, Annie's world begins to crumble, and she will need all the help and support from her friends and loved ones that she can get to survive.

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It’s been a head-scratcher of a year for horror, with some boldly original new films and more than a few flops. As the genre continues to gain mainstream acceptance, there’s bound to be an influx of duds—but I think we all would’ve been just fine without the haunted pool movie “Night Swim.”

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Still, 2024 had plenty to offer in the way of inventive thrills and chills.

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When it comes to horror, Blumhouse continues to be a Hollywood leader in terms of its output. The company is behind horror hits like Get Out (2017), M3GAN (2022), Hush (2016), and The Invisible Man (2021), with the Blumhouse model dating back to 2007's Paranormal Activity. Making films at low budget levels, giving filmmakers creative freedom, and releasing horror films through the studio system is how Blumhouse operates, and it's resulted in some strong slates in recent years.

Blumhouse has had a relatively strong 2024, starting the year off with Night Swim, which may not have fared well with critics but was a box office success. The same can be said for Imaginary, but the company's following movie, Afraid, failed to really connect critically or commercially. In September, however, Blumhouse released a horror movie that can be considered its best of the year, earning strong scores on Rotten Tomatoes and striking gold at the box office.

Stars: Madison Wolfe, Brec Bassinger, Gavin Warren, Ali Larter, Sean Astin, Tom Gillen, Skai Jackson, Noah Lomax | Written by Warren Skeels, Sharon Y. Cobb | Directed by Warren Skeels

Based in part on the real-life crimes of Billy Mansfield Jr., The Man in the White Van is a 1970s set thriller from director Warren Skeels and co-writer Sharon Y. Cobb. It opens with a prologue set in 1970 showing the killer at work before jumping ahead to 1975 where Annie is riding her horse while Edgar Winter’s “Free Ride” plays on the soundtrack.

Annie is the middle child, with an older sister, Margaret who is about to be presented at the Debutant’s Ball, and a gun-obsessed younger brother Daniel.

Her parents Hellen and William wish she was more like Margaret rather than a tomboy who’s more interested in riding horses than being proper or caring if her legs are properly shaved.

Deadline reports that Wyatt Russell (Thunderbolts*) is in talks to join Steven Spielberg’s upcoming event movie. The project already boasts a cast which includes Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Colman Domingo (Euphoria), Eve Hewson (Hedda), and Josh O’Connor (Challengers).

We don’t know much about the project itself, only that it’s said to be a UFO movie based on Spielberg’s own original idea, with David Koepp (Jurassic Park) writing the screenplay. A UFO movie from the man who gave us Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and War of the Worlds is pretty much all I need to know. Bring it on. Universal Pictures has already slated the project for a May 15, 2026 release.

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Exclusive: Thunderbolts star Wyatt Russell is in talks we hear to join Steven Spielberg’s next event movie for Amblin and Universal. A deal for the actor is very close. The storyline is being kept under lock and key.

Russell joins a booming glitzy bench of thespians including Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson. Universal Pictures has set a wide theatrical release for May 15, 2026.

Based on a story by Spielberg, the screenplay is by David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the screenplays for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Combined, those films earned more than $3 billion worldwide.

Five-time Oscar nominee Kristi Macosko Krieger is producing for the 3x Oscar winning Spielberg. The director’s last film, based on his life, The Fabelmans, was released by Universal in 2022 and received seven Academy Awards nominations,...

Netflix has often been a venue for theatrical flops to find new life, and it's currently providing that service for a 2024 horror film you likely missed. "Afraid" was Blumhouse's third of five horror movies this year, following "Night Swim" and "Imaginary" and preceding "Speak No Evil" and "House of Spoils." There are more duds than hits in that batch, making 2024 a rough year for Blumhouse. "Afraid" (stylized occasionally as "AfrAId") currently holding an abysmal 22% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. At 55%, the audience score is much better, but still not great.

But hey, sometimes when you're scrolling Netflix late at night, all you want is a ridiculous, silly horror flick to throw on and pass the time with. At the time of this writing, "Afraid" is residing in the number seven spot in Netflix's daily Top 10 movies for the United States (via FlixPatrol). That means it's only currently ranking behind the...

Wicked has surged past the competition at the worldwide box office. The Wizard of Oz prequel, which was directed by Jon M. Chu, is adapted from the first act of the 2003 Broadway musical of the same name and stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, opposite Ariana Grande-Butera as Galinda, the future Glinda the Good Witch. The Wicked release debuted with a whopping $112.5 million, which was the third highest-grossing opening weekend of the year up to that point.

Per Deadline, as of Sunday morning, the Wicked box office is projected to add $29 million in international markets by the end of its second weekend in theaters. With a cumulative international gross of $97 million and a domestic gross of roughly $262 million, the movie will have hit $359.3 million worldwide within just 10 days. In addition to crossing the $350 million milestone and becoming the 13th highest-grossing movie of the year so far,...

After it failed to garner any traction at the box office, a 2024 Blumhouse movie is finding renewed success on Netflix. The indie studio best known for their horror output has enjoyed something of a mixed bag in the past couple of years when it's come to both the critical and commercial reception to their movies. For every record-breaking M3GAN and Five Nights at Freddy's, there's also been a near-franchise-destroying The Exorcist: Believer and lackluster Halloween Ends.

2024, in particular, has been something of a rockier year for Blumhouse. Having hoped to recapture the January release success of M3GAN, the horror short adaptation of Night Swim proved to be a critical misfire, albeit a modest box office success. The studio followed it up with four other releases, including the similarly panned Imaginary and the James McAvoy-starring English-language remake of Speak No Evil, which was a critical and commercial hit. There was...

Though people questioned the need for an American remake of a Danish horror flick thats only two years old, Speak No Evil went on to become a massive hit this year, earning more than $76 million at the box office. Produced by the famed horror company Blumhouse, the James McAvoy-led film is the studio's highest grossing movie of 2024, which isnt exactly saying a lot when you consider duds such as Night Swim, Imaginary, and AfrAId were its competition. Still, if you missed it in theaters and have yet to see it on VOD, Speak No Evils streaming date has just been revealed.

Per Deadline, the horror hit will hit Peacock on Dec. 6, so you dont have too much longer to see what is arguably one of McAvoys best performances in years. Starring as Paddy, Speak No Evil follows him and his wife Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) as they welcome the Dalton...

Heretic has made a major step toward profitability. The new A24 horror movie was written and directed by A Quiet Place scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and stars Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East as a pair of Mormon missionaries who find themselves trapped in the home of Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), who experiments on them as he tries to argue them out of their faith. The Heretic release debuted at No. 3 at the domestic box office with a 3-day gross of $10.8 million.

Per Variety, as of Saturday morning, Heretic is projected to earn a 3-day gross of $4.6 million during its second weekend. This will push its domestic gross past the $20 million milestone in addition to raising its global box office total to more than $25 million. This means that the movie has probably already passed its break-even point, as movies generally have to earn back two-and-a-half times their budgets in theaters,...

A new look at Blumhouse’s upcoming creature feature Wolf Man gives us a longer look at a couple of scenes.

Leigh Whannell has dubbed his upcoming werewolf project for Blumhouse as a ‘straight-up horror movie’ and we’re very much behind that idea. Whilst twisting the classic Wolfman tale in the direction of comedy or drama has given us some interesting and enjoyable takes on the hairy monster over the years, one of the things we love about Whannell’s films is how he commits to the bite.

Perhaps 2018’s Upgrade is the best example of this, an old-fashioned action thriller with a gloss coat of splatterpunk violence applied, but a film that is entirely unironic in its presentation and an earnest take on the material. Considering Blumhouse’s January releases can veer wildly in tone – from the comic silliness of M3GAN to the schlocky mock drama of Night Swim,...

The surging horror movie hit of 2024 is now succeeding on streaming, too. With the year nearing its end, 2024 has been a great year for horror movies, with Alien: Romulus emerging as arguably the biggest hit of the year with over $350 million at the box office. A Quiet Place: Day One also capitalized on the established popularity of a franchise and pulled in over $260 million. On the lower-budget side of the spectrum, Blumhouse released several hits such as Speak No Evil, Imaginary, and Night Swim even if they didn't always resonate with critics.

Some of the year's most unique and unforgettable horror hits have come from indie film, including Longlegs starring Nicolas Cage, which leveraged a masterful marketing campaign to make over $100 million at the box office. Another unexpected success has been the unrated Terrifier 3 which, made on a minuscule budget of $2 million, made nearly $80 million at the box office.