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Who needs Netflix and Prime? BBC iPlayer has a terrific collection of films to watch – here’s our updated list of what to watch right now (and when they’re leaving the service).

Whilst all eyes tend to be on streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime when it comes to movie updates, on the quiet the BBC iPlayer service continues to play host to a limited, diverse selection of films. What’s more, a good number of them you can download to your tablet to watch on the move.

So, without further ado, welcome to the weekly updated iPlayer film list. This list will be updated every week with the test available data from the BBC, in order of how long you have left to watch (so you can prioritise your viewing pleasure)

New! – denotes all new movies this week!

Brand-new This Week: Sense and Sensibility, Emma (2020), The Secret Life of Pets 2,...

Move over, John Kramer — there's a new twisted vigilante in town! And this ain't just any old bloodthirsty kook either: it's Hannibal Lecter himself, Sir Anthony Hopkins. Yes, in David Yarovesky's upcoming single location thriller Locked, Hopkins plays William, a Jigsaw-style cool, calm, and collected killer who traps unsuspecting lout Eddie (Bill Skarsgård) in his luxury SUV when the down-on-his-luck thief tries to steal his car. Thus ensues a battle of wits as William employs all sorts of cruel, car-based torture to punish Eddie while his hostage fights for survival. And you can check out the trailer for the Sam Raimi produced horror thriller, a remake of original 2019 Argentinian effort 4x4 (which itself has been remade once already as 2022 Brazilian flick A Jaula), below:

"I just want to introduce you to a little taste of hell," Hopkins' William — only heard, never seen — tells Eddie in this cheek-clenchingly tense first trailer for Locked.

Exclusive: Actor Nik Dodani has signed with Paradigm for representation.

Best known for his role as Zahid in the Netflix comedy Atypical, Dodani will next be seen toplining Warner Bros’ horror comedy The Parenting opposite Lisa Kudrow, Brian Cox, and Edie Falco, which will release on Max.

Appearing over the summer in the Universal hit Twisters, he was previously a supporting lead in Universal’s adaptation of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen, playing the role of Jared Kalwani. Other notable credits include Sony’s Escape Room and Netflix’s Alex Strangelove.

Dodani made his Broadway debut in Waitress as the loveable Ogie, sharing the stage with country music star Jennifer Nettles. On the television side, he can also be seen in season two of the Emmy-nominated Netflix series Trinkets and in the relaunch of CBS’s Murphy Brown.

Dodani continues to be repped by Authentic Talent and Literary Management and Gang,...

Escape Room 2: Tournament of Champions ends with a fairly clever twist, but unfortunately, said twist presents a major franchise problem going forward. The first Escape Room became a sleeper hit in 2019, overcoming mediocre reviews by critics to become a hit with audiences, earning $155 million on a $9 million budget. After several Covid-19-related delays, Escape Room 2 finally hit theaters, and while the sequel might not have been the financial powerhouse the first movie was, its makers clearly intend to bring the world an Escape Room 3 based on the Escape Room 2 ending.

After another movie full of Zoey (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) staying alive despite trap after trap constructed by the Minos company, the Escape Room 2 ending twist reveals that everything in the sequel up to that point had been done to convince Zoey that Minos had been caught, and get her and Ben into the...

As development on the sequel finally begins ramping up, Melissa Barrera shares an exciting update for Ready or Not 2. The original film, written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy and directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of Radio Silence, revolved around a bride whose family of in-laws hunt her on the wedding night as part of a Satanic ritual to maintain their wealth. After reports swirled of a follow-up in early 2024, it was confirmed in October 2024 that Ready or Not 2 was moving forward with the entire creative team, including star Samara Weaving, returning.

During a recent interview with ComicBook.com for her monster rom-com Your Monster, Barrera was asked about the possibility of reuniting with Radio Silence for Ready or Not 2 after their collaboration on Abigail. Though she noted she hasn't had any official conversations with them about starring in the horror sequel, she does know "some" of what's...

Exclusive: Tyler Labine, star of NBC’s New Amsterdam, is joining All Night Wrong, the comedy from director Jason James and starring Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova and Zach Cherry. Deadline’s Rosy Cordero first reported on the project.

In the Jason Filiatrault written movie, Bakalova and Cherry lead the cast as Gary, a cowardly husband, and Ell, a heartbroken widow, who meet through a Tinder hookup only to end up with a killer’s car, a dead body and $40,000 in cash. In a whirlwind of bad decisions and dangerous encounters, Gary and Ell’s night spirals into a chaotic journey filled with fights, mystery and life-changing consequences.

James is producing via his Resonance Films banner, alongside Amber Ripley for Goodbye Productions.

Labine can next be seen recurring in season 5 of Apple TV+’s For All Mankind. He most recently played Dr. Iggy Frome on NBC’s popular medical drama New...

Stapleview is relaunching in a big way. The sketch comedy outfit, best known for generating laughs on TikTok, has announced an original programming slate that includes five new shows and three upcoming titles.

The class of Stapleview originals will launch across the brand’s channels on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Each program will be led by one or more up-and-coming comic actors, including some creators who have cut their teeth on their personal social media accounts.

That approach is not unusual for Stapleview, which launched in 2022 as a TikTok-era answer to Saturday Night Live. The brand was founded by Daniel Lantsman and Sam Grey, the latter of whom is a former employee at Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video.

One of Lantsman and Grey’s goals is to forge connections between social media funnypeople and the traditional comedy world, and the original iteration of Stapleview accomplished that mission. Jane Wickline, one of the original Stapleview players,...

Stapleview, the producer of TikTok’s first longform sketch comedy show, is expanding its horizons.

The company is relaunching itself in the fall with a slate of half-hour shows that will run on several social platforms, including TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Stapleview, headed by Sam Grey and Daniel Lantsman, will premiere five shows in the fall and is starting production on three more.

“Ultimately, it comes down to empowering talent that can speak authentically, not only to digital natives but to all fans of comedy. This is the heart of what we are developing and producing,” Grey and Lantsman said in a statement. “The magic is combining talent discovery and having a clear understanding of how digital platforms are the new networks for fans of comedy. As our partnership and company grows with exceptional advisors and investors who believe in us and our path, it’s exciting to be at...

Fans desperately want an Escape Room 3. But will it happen? The Puzzle Horror Franchise The first film in the Escape Room series (marketed as a psychological horror film based around puzzles) featured Taylor Russell as Zoey Davis, a young college student. As the lead character in the movie, she received a mysterious box inviting her and five other […]

Escape Room 3 Could Be Canceled – Here’s Why Fans Should Worry Written by Jesse Jacobs for Fortress of Solitude...

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,...

Back in April, reports did the rounds that a sequel to 2019 horror hit Ready or Not was in the works with Adam Robitel in talks to direct.

The original movie's directors, Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (aka Radio Silence), would later confirm to Entertainment Weekly that the project is in the very early stages of development.

“It’s getting figured out. That’s what we’ll say: Ready or Not 2 is getting figured out,” Gillett told the site. “What we can say is that there is a script that is an absolute f*cking banger of a sequel. And however it gets made, and in whatever capacity we are helping get it made, we are so excited that it’s happening.”

“I don’t think we knew after making [Ready or Not] that there would be so much story left to tell,” Gillett continued. “We’re so proud of what that first movie is,...

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.

Samara Weaving might have just confirmed that a sequel to the popular and acclaimed 2019 film Ready or Not is in the works!

While promoting her new horror movie Azrael to ComicBook, Weaving was asked about the rumored sequel and revealed that she is "all in" and thinks everyone else is on board, too. We're assuming she means filmmaking duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, also known as Radio Silence.

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.

She later joked that she'll have "to make some calls" soon to check on the status of the proposed sequel. However, we should note that Ready or Not 2 has been rumored for a few years and has not been officially confirmed. The rumor gained traction this past...

The filmmaker behind a Hindi-language movie called "Luck" is suing Netflix in federal court, alleging that the massively successful show "Squid Game" stole from his own project, which as released back in 2009 (per TMZ and Fortune). In a suit filed in New York on Friday, writer-director Soham Shah claimed that, "The main plot, characters, themes, mood, setting and sequence of events of 'Squid Game' are strikingly similar to that of 'Luck,' defying any likelihood that such similarities could be coincidence."

Shah is suing for unspecified damages, but he's also seeking an injunction in an attempt to stop Netflix from continuing to market and make money from "Squid Game" and related properties, which his suit says continue to infringe upon his rights. While this type of lawsuit is fairly common (and difficult to prove in the plaintiff's favor), it can also be a drawn-out and expensive process for all involved.

The Taylor Russell movies and TV shows show how she has exploded recently to become one of Hollywood's top go-to young stars. Russell is a Canadian actress who began her entertainment career as a ballet dancer and later as a painter. She moved on to try her hand at music and finally became an actor. Her first role came in 2012, when she was 18, for The CW medical drama Emily Owens, M.D. After a Lifetime television film and one-shot TV appearances, she finally broke out in 2018.

In 2018, Russell picked up the finest leading role of her career by playing Judy Robinson in the Netflix reboot of Lost in Space. That was her big break, but she set her sights next on movies and picked up her first lead role there with the 2019 horror movie Escape Room, which was a box-office success and showed that Russell could lead the way in a successful movie.

Exclusive: Vertical has acquired North American and UK & Ireland rights for A New York Story, about a New Yorker torn between the gilded cage of her wealthy uptown life and the bohemian downtown world of a new love interest from outside her social circle.

The romantic drama is the second film from siblings Sophia and Fiona Robert, who work under the banner of The Robert Sisters. They co-wrote the screenplay, with Fiona Robert directing.

Fiona Robert also stars as Annabel, a young woman who risks being ostracized from her insular New York clique, led by her socialite best friend Virginia (Sophia Robert), when she falls for charming photographer Theo, played by Paul Karmiryan (Veronica Mars).

Grappling with the sudden loss of her father, she finds herself torn between the comfortable opulence of her upper crust circle and the vibrant ambitions of the artists downtown.

Other cast members include Annabella Sciorra...

Exclusive: Tyler Labine (New Amsterdam) has been tapped for a recurring role in the fifth season of Apple’s acclaimed space drama For All Mankind.

The actor will play Fred, a Mars Peacekeeper. The expanding cast for this season also includes Mireille Enos and Costa Ronin, as previously reported.

Created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, For All Mankind picks up in an alternative version of 1969, in which the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, watching as the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals. The latest season rocketed the series into the new millennium: In the eight years since Season 3, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. It’s now 2003, and the focus of the space program has turned to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that...

Horror returns to the box office with the release of M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie this week, and it’s being joined by seven other horror movies in theaters and streaming at home.

Here’s all the new horror releasing July 29, 2024 – August 4, 2024!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

Director Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One just passed $250 million at the worldwide box office, and the prequel movie is now available on Digital at home.

Experience the day the world went quiet in the blockbuster hit A Quiet Place: Day One, arriving to buy or rent on Digital today (July 30) from Paramount Home Entertainment.

A three-movie collection including A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place: Part II and A Quiet Place: Day One is also be available to purchase on Digital platforms beginning today, July 30.

“When Samira (Lupita Nyong’o) returns home to New York City,...

Coming later this month from Archie Comics is the one-shot Chilling Adventures Presents: Truth or Dare, billed as an homage to the late ’90s/early ’00s teen horror wave.

This brand new tale is part of Archie’s “Chilling Adventures Presents” anthology series, dedicated to standalone one-shots with the vibe of Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt.

In Truth or Dare, “When new student Trula Twyst comes to Riverdale, her mysterious and quiet nature doesn’t mix well with the squeaky-clean façade of Riverdale High. Tormented by her past and with a keen interest in Behavioral Psychology, she sets her sights on dismantling the traditional high school hierarchy from within. How? By a simple game of Truth or Dare.”

The Archie Comics team tells Bloody Disgusting this week, “This horror one shot is smart, sexy, and for fans of movies like Escape Room, Saw, and Girl, Interrupted.”

Truth or Dare was written by Ron Robbins,...

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End has been an unexpected anime in many ways. When the series first premiered, it took the world by storm. It quickly became a fan favorite, rising the ranks like no other anime did. On the one hand, Kagurabachi started rising in the world of manga, while Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End did the same in the world of anime.

Frieren and Fern

In such a setting, the anime saw itself ruling over My Anime List’s top rankings, surpassing the greatest shows. Ever since the first season ended, fans have watched as Abe Tsukasa and Yamada Kanehito’s creation won the Kodansha Manga Award 2024 in the Shonen Category. Even then, there has been no news about a possible second season. However, that is not to say that there is no update at all.

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Fans Get an Unreal Experience

As Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End takes on the world,...

Daredevil: Born Again may have been retooling, but from what is known, Deborah Ann Woll is set to return. It can be assumed that even with the revamped production, she will be playing a part of it, but the True Blood actress will also be starring in the upcoming horror film The Cycle. The press release from The Exchange for The Cycle has revealed that the thriller is set to be directed by Jordan Downey (The Head Hunter) and written by Downey and Kevin Stewart (The Head Hunter).

The plot synopsis reads,

In the film, when the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it’s up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.

The film is produced by James Harris and Mark Lane of Tea Shop Productions, with The Exchange executive producing and handling international sales at...

Exclusive: Deborah Ann Woll is set to star in horror-thriller The Cycle, which will be launched for sales at the Cannes market by The Exchange.

In the film, when the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it’s up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.

The project heralds from 47 Meters Down and The Fall producer Tea Shop Productions, which is in the Cannes lineup with Nic Cage pic The Surfer.

Directing is Jordan Downey (The Head Hunter) from a script by Downey and Kevin Stewart (The Head Hunter). The plan is to shoot later this year.

Shudder, AMC Networks’ genre streaming service, has acquired rights in the US and Canada, UK and Ireland, and Australia/New Zealand.

Ann Woll is rose to fame as Jessica Hamby in the HBO series True Blood...

Last year, New Regency went into production on a horror thriller called Psycho Killer, based on a screenplay written by Se7en scribe Andrew Kevin Walker. Gavin Polone, producer of Zombieland and the Walker-scripted 8Mm, was at the helm of the film, with Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) and Logan Miller (Escape Room) in lead roles and 6’5″+ former professional wrestler James Preston Rogers in the title role. The film has since made its way through post-production, and FilmRatings.com reports that it has officially earned an R rating for strong bloody violence, strong

sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language. So this one is sounding quite promising.

Campbell is taking on the role of Jane Thorne, 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’s character is Marvin,...

Horror-comedy is one of the most intriguing genres out there, as it includes a weird mix of spooky terrors and sudden bouts of uncontrollable laughter. One of the many successful films that belonged to that genre is Samara Weaving’s Ready or Not. With an interesting premise and gore-filled comedy, the 2019 film managed to earn over $57 million at the global box office with a minuscule budget of $6 million.

Samara Weaving in Ready or Not

Viewers who loved the thriller-comedy can now rejoice as a sequel to the film is currently in the works. And it has been confirmed that Samara Weaving will be returning for part 2. The script is complete, and the Radio Silence directing team is working out to bring the next installment to silver screens.

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However, looking at the current scenario, it might take some time, which...

Has it really been five years since the release of Ready or Not? The film, which starred Samara Weaving as a young bride who her spouse’s wealthy family hunts as part of a ritual, received positive reviews and didn’t do too badly at the box office, so where’s the sequel? Well, directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and producer Chad Villella — collectively known as Radio Silence — told Entertainment Weekly that they’ve been working on Ready or Not 2 since the release of the first movie and tease that it’s “an absolute f***ing banger.“

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

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...

Ready Or Not 2 is reportedly in the works with Samara Weaving returning to reprise her role from the first film.

2019’s Ready Or Not was one of the best horror films we’ve had in the last five years. It was fun, had some great kills and a killer plot with an ending for the ages.

The film followed Samara Weaving’s Grace as she marries her dream guy, Alex, whose family owns a successful board game company. On her wedding night, Grace finds herself as the victim of a particularly cruel game that the family plays.

Industry insider Jeff Sneider reports in his newsletter (via the lovely folks at Bloody Disgusting) that a sequel to the hit film is now in the works. Weaving is expected to return to play Grace once again, but the project is still in the early stages of development so not much else is known at this time.

Exclusive: Sony Pictures has raised Maia Eyre to SVP of Creative Development at Columbia Pictures.

She will report to Sanford Panitch, President of Sony’s Motion Picture Group.

Eyre most recently brought in and oversaw box office hit romantic comedy, Anyone But You, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell and which has earned over $214 million worldwide and has become a very profitable movie for the Culver City lot.

Eyre has worked with Andrea Giannetti on the Jumanji franchise, which has collectively earned over $2 billion worldwide and Greta Gerwig’s critically acclaimed and Oscar-winning Little Women, which earned $220 million globally.

Other films Eyre has worked on at the studio include the Peter Rabbit franchise, which has earned $512.7 million globally and the Escape Room franchise, which has earned $223.7 million globally.

Eyre is currently overseeing a sequel to the horror film franchise, I Know What You Did Last Summer, helmed by Jen Kaytin Robinson.

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.

Ready or Not was a deliciously twisted play on the concept of meeting the family of one’s fiancée. Samara Waving plays a young woman who is invited on the night of her wedding by her new husband’s rich, eccentric family to participate in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival. The horror comedy also starred Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Elyse Levesque, Henry Czerny, and Andie MacDowell and was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who have gone on to direct Scream (2022) and Scream VI.

Ready or Not was written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. However, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are currently involved with a new Universal Monsters project, so they will not be returning for Ready or Not 2. Instead, ComingSoon.net reports that Escape Room director Adam Robitel will be taking the reins for the sequel. The scoop comes from industry source,...

The monsters in Escape The Field were actually humans infected by a serum, losing their humanity entirely. The puzzle in Escape The Field was central to the experiment, revealing traits the researchers were studying in the subjects. Escape The Field serves as a commentary on government secrecy and disturbing experiments, perpetuating a never-ending cycle of pain.

Although it offered an interesting premise, the Escape The Field ending created a lot of confusion as many plot points were left open-ended. Directed by Emerson Moore, Escape The Field follows six strangers who wake up in a cornfield with no memory of how they got there. Similar to the plot in Escape Room and Saw, each individual is forced to participate in a series of challenges and solve several puzzles if they want to escape. However, the group soon discover that something sinister is lurking in the field when several characters end up...

Director Vincenzo Natali's "Cube" is a movie that has earned its place in horror history. Released in 1997 (and more recently remade in Japan), the film was ahead of the curve in several ways, particularly when it came to its ridiculously brutal kill scenes. Anyone who has seen the movie will probably tell you that no kill scene is quite as memorable as that of Alderson's. Played by Julian Richings, he ends up being cut into, well, cubes. Turns out, this impressively gross kill was accomplished with practical visual effects.

The most recent edition of SFX Magazine did a retrospective on "Cube" and Natali provided some insight for the piece. For those who may need a refresher, the film centers on a group of strangers who wake up and find themselves in a giant cube. Each of them has a special skill and they must work together to escape the massive maze of deadly traps.

Singer-actor Harry Styles and Taylor Russell bundled up to brave the London cold together. The couple was spotted walking side-by-side in the U.K. capital’s Hampstead neighbourhood. The ‘As It Was’ singer, 29, and the ‘Bones and All’ star, also 29, sported black coats, caps and sneakers for the low-key day out, reports People magazine.

Though they have yet to publicly confirm their relationship, Styles and Russell have been romantically linked since last June, when a fan of the musician shared a series of photos on TikTok of the pair getting into a car together.

As per People, the following month, with rumours of a romance between the two still circulating, Russell attended one of Styles’ Love on Tour stops in Vienna. At the Austria concert, the Escape Room star was seen dancing along to the singer’s hit song ‘Watermelon Sugar’ in the VIP section, per photos obtained by TMZ.

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.

Fabula-Fremantle’s “Hot Sur,” The Mediapro Studio’s “El Mal” and “Two Nights in Lisbon,” from Portugal’s Hop Films and the U.K’s Heroes Films, look like potential standouts at next week’s Content Americas Copro Pitch 2024, one of its industry centerpieces.

These series projects will be joined by crime mystery thriller “Delito,” from Barcelona’s Grup Focus TV & Films, behind banner Amazon Original “Reina Roja,” “Iron Woman,” a tumultuous political saga from Brazil-based Jarsom Wayans, two high concept doc series – Argentina’s “Climate Migrants” and Brazil’s “Mystery of the Megafauna” – and bio doc feature “Farraquito, a Flamenco Story,” profiling the famed flamenco bailaor.

Shaping up as one of the biggest new titles to be brought onto the market at Content Americas, “Hot Sur” marks the latest from a fruitful 2019 multi-year first-look deal between Fremantle and Fabula, headed by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín, which has already yielded “La Jauría,...

Traditionally the first month of the year has been a dumping ground as studios have steered clear of the residual glow of the holiday blockbusters and the prestige films audiences try to catch up on before the awards begin to air. January may not be the best time to launch your new $300 million budgeted tent pole franchise picture, but it has proven a great launch pad for moderately budgeted horror films.

Over the past ten years we have seen films such as Texas Chainsaw (2013- $21.7 million opening), Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014- $18.3 million opening), Insidious: The Last Key (2018- $29.5 million opening), Escape Room (2019- $18.2 million opening), Scream (2022- $33.8 million opening) and M3GAN (2023- $30.4 million opening) show that audiences like to kick off their new years with a little bit of spine tingling scares.

This year James Wan and Jason Blum, who recently announced the merger of their two production companies,...

As mentioned in last week’s preview, the month of January is probably going to be a bit quieter with not that many big movies, as theatergoers mainly will be catching up on holiday and Oscar fare. We do have one new wide release this weekend, though. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

Jason Blum‘s Blumhouse and James Wan‘s Atomic Monster had such a huge hit when Universal released their horror film “M3GAN” the first week of January in 2023, that the same team has reunited for this weekend’s new high-concept entry, “Night Swim.”

Starring Wyatt Russell (“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”) and Oscar nominee Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), the film involves a family buying a new suburban home with a swimming pool that seems to have healing properties, but only at first. After a few days, the family realizes that there’s something...

Happy New Year! The first month of the year begins next week, and January means a few things in the world of movies: First off, there’s the Sundance Film Festival, where new movies and talent will be discovered that the rest of the world will have a chance to see over the rest of the year. There are also the Oscar nominations on January 23 which will become the focus of movie lovers for the next few weeks. There’s also the notorious myth that studios save all of their bad movies for January, which isn’t necessarily true, but one probably shouldn’t expect too many mega-blockbusters in the coming month. Read on for Gold Derby’s January 2024 box office preview.

“Mean Girls” (Paramount – Jan. 12)

Twenty years after Tina Fey made her jump into movies with the high school comedy on which this musical is based, people are still trying to make “fetch” happen.

Here’s your guide to every movie and TV show leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.

In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in December 2023.

Some great movies are leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024, including James Cameron’s award-winning juggernaut Titanic, beloved coming-of-age comedy 13 Going on 30, powerful WW2 drama The Pianist, and slasher switch-up Freaky.

Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in January 2024. More departures will be announced throughout December 2023 and January 2024.

Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on January 1st, 2024 13 Going on 30 (2004) A Dog’s Purpose (2017) The Bride of Habaek (1 Season) Bridesmaids (2011) Burlesque (2010) The Change-Up (2011) Christmas Under Wraps (2014) Christmas With a View (2018) Countdown (2019) Cutthroat Island (1995) The Danish Girl (2015) Dreamgirls (2006) DreamWorks Shrek the Halls (1 Season) Falls Around Her (2018) Football-Inspired Workouts for All (2023) N Freaky (2020) Full Out 2: You Got This! (2020) The Girl on the Train...

First announced in 2021, The Craving, a brand new thriller from the minds behind The Taking of Deborah Logan, is in development at Netflix. We’ll track everything you need to know about The Craving, including the plot, cast news, production updates, and the Netflix release date.

The Craving is an upcoming Netflix Original thriller television series directed and co-written by Adam Robitel. Gavin Heffernan co-wrote the series alongside Robitel. The pair previously worked on horror movies The Taking of Deborah Logan and Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension. Robitel is most well known for directing both Escape Room movies.

Picture: Adam Robitel on the set of Escape Room – David Bloomer

Darren Aronofsky, the director of Black Swan, Mother, and Requiem for a Dream, is an executive producer of the series. Joining him are Gavin Heffernan and Elizabeth Gesas. Aronofsky’s production company, Protozoa Pictures, is the studio developing the series. Aronofsky previously...

It’s Thanksgiving Week, which means it’s time to theme our horror viewing accordingly. Because tradition is a cornerstone of holiday celebrations, expect to find requisite Thanksgiving horror along with an unconventional holiday pick or two on this list. These titles share the core themes of the holiday, either through the rituals of preparing meals or a sense of family togetherness through survival, even if they’re not always actually set on Thanksgiving.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Blood Rage – Night Flight

When it comes to Thanksgiving set horror, slasher Blood Rage has emerged as the reigning holiday champion in recent years. Todd (Mark Soper) spends a decade in an asylum after twin Terry (also Soper) frames him for murder. He escapes on Thanksgiving. It’s the perfect excuse for Terry to unleash his inner homicidal maniac,...

Amazon MGM Studios is going back for superhero seconds.

The streamer is developing a sequel to Samaritan, its 2022 action movie starring Sylvester Stallone, and has hired Bragi F. Schut to pen the script. Schut also wrote the first movie.

Stallone is returning as producer, as is his Balboa Productions partner Braden Aftergood. Stallone is also reprising his starring role with a deal made prior to the actors strike.

Samaritan, directed by Julius Avery, told of a young boy who is saved from a beating by a sanitation worker. The boy comes to believe that the older man is a superhero who disappeared 20 years earlier, after an epic battle with his archenemies. The movie, which premiered exclusively on Prime Video on Aug. 26, 2022, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide, overperformed for the company and was the No. 1 film on the service for three consecutive weeks, according to Amazon.

Schut wrote the first script on spec.

Jay Ellis literally raced through the airport to get to Las Vegas's Jbl Fest, but once he was settled down in the club for the festival's official launch night on Sept. 22, it was impossible to describe him as anything other than chill. Even though he's a star, he had the energy of an old friend - especially when he revealed he was particularly looking forward to seeing Bruno Mars perform later that evening.

Apparently, Ellis says, he lived close to Mars when he first moved to Los Angeles. "He was my neighbor, and he doesn't know this, but he used to have parties all the time. Everybody on our street was like, who is this dude having parties? And it was Bruno," Ellis laughs, noting that at the time, he never received an invite.

If he and Mars were still neighbors today, that would probably have changed by now. The...

20th Century has tapped Argentine director Pablo Trapero to direct an adaptation of Olen Steinhauer’s best-selling spy thriller “The Tourist,” TheWrap has confirmed. Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing.

The book’s plot is described as: “Milo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a ‘tourist’ for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity—and working a desk at the CIA’s New York headquarters. But staying retired from the field becomes impossible when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo’s oldest colleagues and friends.”

The original 2009 novel inspired three more sequels. It was not only a best-selling novel but also received heaps of praise, with Stephen King saying “The Tourist” was “the best spy novel I’ve ever read that wasn’t written by John le Carré.

Trauma Therapy: Psychosis appears to be a twisted movie, the concept of which can be compared to red rooms on the dark web. Written by David Josh Lawrence and Tom Malloy, the movie revolves around a twisted series of events and a sadistic form of gaming. Trauma Therapy: Psychosis, a sequel to Trauma Therapy (2019), is replete with disturbing images that revolve around a self-help group created by Tobin Vance. The cult Vance sets up here uses extremely harsh methods to play sick games with the participants. Even though the games seem familiar at first, they take horrid turns later, making the participants either embrace death or compelling them to become a permanent part of the cult. Some similarly sick movies and series that are sure to give audiences a high adrenaline rush are Escape Room, Saw, and Squid Game, among others. How sick the series of events turns and the...

All Fun and Games is a horror thriller film directed by Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu, they also worked on the script with JJ Braider. The horror film follows a group of friends living in Salem, who discover a cursed knife, which unleashes a demon that makes them play gruesome games. All Fun and Games stars Asa Butterfield, Natalia Dyer, and Laurel Marsden. So, if you love the horror film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Ouija (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures

Synopsis: How far would you go to make contact with someone you lost? From the Producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Insidious comes a supernatural thriller in which a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they unwittingly release a dark power from the other side. What started as a game will unleash an evil only they can stop.

There’s more time to escape.

The Only Murders in the Building Escape Game — now posted up on the second floor at Westfield Century City inside The Escape Game — has been extended with additional time slots added for Aug. 22-Sept. 10 due to popular demand. A collaboration with Hulu, the Only Murders game had originally been scheduled to wrap up its L.A. run on Aug. 13. Additional options to play include the forthcoming Las Vegas location (Aug. 18-20 at the Forum Shops) as well as online “remote adventures.”

The Escape Game arrives timed to the debut of Only Murder’s third season. Starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, the newest batch of episodes follows the trio once again investigating a murder, this one behind the scenes of a Broadway show created by Short’s Oliver Putnam. It centers on the untimely death of Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd), a Hollywood...

Taylor Russell made waves for her tour de force performance in 2022's "Bones and All" alongside Timothée Chalamet, and her career only seems to be further blossoming. In addition to being a sought-after star, she's also become a fashion darling and has made more than a few glamorous red carpet appearances. Up next, she'll star alongside Ewan McGregor and Ellen Burstyn in the film "Mother, Couch," per Deadline, and she's also landed a role in the Korean thriller "Hope" alongside Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and "Squid Game" star Hoyeon.

More recently, Russell has also been in the headlines for her personal life. She was spotted with Harry Styles at the opening of her play "The Effect" at London's National Theatre in August, adding fuel to already prevalent dating rumors. Styles and Russell were first linked when they were seen exiting London's White Cube art gallery in June, seven months after...

Everyone wants to know about Taylor Russell.

The Canadian actress has recently been romantically linked to Harry Styles, with the pair being spotted out together on several occasions, including at the opening night of her new play.

With romance rumours heating up, all eyes are on the 29-year-old actress.

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Who Is Taylor Russell?

Born in Vancouver on July 18, 1994, Russell was raised in both Vancouver and Toronto, moving frequently throughout her childhood.

At 18, she began acting classes and saved up to buy a car, driving regularly to Los Angeles to audition and returning home to work.

How Did Russell’s Career Take Off?

Russell made her professional debut with a guest role in the medical drama “Emily Owens, M.D.” in 2012.

She next appeared in the TV movies “The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story” and “Pants on Fire...

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...