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‘The Interview’ Hits Netflix This Weekend; Did The VOD Release Lose Money For Sony? After original plans for a wide release got all screwed up,The Interviewwent on to become Sony’s"#1 online film of all time.“But it still wasn’t enough to makeThe Interviewturn a profit, according to theNational Association of Theater Owners, which sounds all too pleased with their assessment. Regardless, Sony is pressing on withThe Interview’s digital rollout, striking a deal to make the comedy available on Netflix just one month after its theatrical/VOD bow....

‘The Platform’ Review: ‘Cube’ Meets ‘Don Quixote’ In This Dystopian Horror Film [TIFF 2019] “Hunger unleashes the madman in us. It’s better to eat than be eaten.” Goreng (Iván Massagué) has volunteered to enter The Pit for six months in order to earn his associate’s degree, have some quiet time to finally readDon Quixoteand kick his smoking habit. But what The Administration hasn’t told him is that The Pit is a vertically stacked prison leaving its inmates to starve or cannibalize each other, inGalder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s sci-fi dystopian horrorThe Platform....

‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ Sequel Trades In First Film’s Female Director For New Male Director To All The Boys I’ve Loved Beforebecame one of Netflix’s biggest hits last year, shepherded by directorSusan Johnson, who leant a playfulness and a surprising visual panache to the teen romantic comedy based on the novels byJenny Han. But for the highly anticipated sequel, which will adapt Han’s follow-up novelP.S. I Still Love You, theTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Beforesequel director will now be cinematographerMichael Fimognari....

‘Trespass’ Trailer: Threatened, Nicolas Cage And Nicole Kidman Turn The Tables On Their Attackers We’ve wonderedwhat the story really iswithJoel Schumacher’sTrespass, in whichNicolas Cage,Nicole KidmanandLiana Liberatoplay a family held in their home by invading criminalsBen MendelsohnandCam Gigandet. Do the invaders want money? Diamonds? Secrets? And doesTrespassreally turn into anall-out violent morassat the end? All I can say after watching this trailer is that we’d better hope Schumacher is keeping a great many tricks in reserve, because there aren’t many on display here....

5 Of Fred Ward’s Best Roles, And Where You Can Watch Them We lost one of the all-time great character actors today, as the consistently fantasticFred Wardpassed away at the age of 79. For just shy of 50 years, Ward performed across just about every genre possible on both the big and small screens. Trying to encapsulate someone’s life’s work with a short listicle is already an impossible task, made even more difficult when there’s a multitude of incredible performances to choose from....

Alicia Vikander Joins ‘Freakshift’ (And It’s Time For You To Get On The Ben Wheatley Hype Train) The news here is that uber-talented Oscar-winnerAlicia Vikanderwill headline the cast ofFreakshift, a monster movie that was originally announced back in 2012. The other way to look at that news is that directorBen Wheatley, one of the most inventive and thrilling people making movies on the planet at the moment, has landed a high-profile leading lady for his next genre outing....

Clips Round-Up: Neal McDonough Reaches The Apex, Andy Lau Enters Shock Wave & More [Exclusive] (Welcome toSlashClips, a series where we bring youexclusiveclips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray, and theatrical releases you won’t see anywhere else!) In this edition: In this tense scene, Neal McDonough (“Minority Report”) has a confrontation with Lochlyn Munro during a “Most Dangerous Game” scenario. Munro (“The Predator”)recently made headlinesfor getting cast in James Gunn’s “Peacemaker” series based on an audition for “Scooby-Doo” 20 years ago....

Cool Stuff: Massive 10,000 Piece Custom Star Wars LEGO Technic Sandcrawler Fans of bothLEGOandStar Warsalready know that there’s an official version of theSandcrawlerfromStar Wars: A New Hopeavailable for purchase. It’s a pretty impressive and expensive set that has over 3,200 pieces. But it’s nothing compared to the massive custom creation put together by two master builders. LEGO superfansJarren HarkemaandCalvin Hartleyhave crafted a LEGO Technic replica of the Sandcrawler that is three feet long, weighs 28 pounds, and is made up of over10,000 pieces....

Director Justin Lin Says ‘F9’ Is Part Of A Trilogy That Will Bring An End To ‘The Fast Saga’ It seemed like a far-off dream (or an absurd joke) that theFast and Furiousfranchise would eventually see the cars fly off into space. But everyone’s favorite gearhead family is actually going to space in the upcoming, long-delayedF9. So really, where else can the franchise go? That’s what directorJustin Linis deciding as he bringsThe Fast Sagato an end, with the action franchise reportedly ending withFast and Furious 11....

Exploring ‘The Umbrella Academy Season 2’ Through Every Classic Horror Movie It References Like its debut season,The Umbrella Academy’s second season is oozing with historical, sociopolitical, and pop culture references, and nods toGerard Way’s comic book source material. However, in the beginning of season 2, in each of the scenes during which the seven gifted children of The Academy travel back to the 1960s, aHammer Film ProductionB horror flick, except forThe Sergeant was a Lady, plays at the Avon Theater in Dallas, Texas, setting the tone for the rest of the season....

Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Eyes ‘Sharp Objects’ Breakout Eliza Scanlen For Beth March CouldEliza Scanlenbe our Beth March? The young breakout star of HBO’sSharp Objectsminiseries has a bright career ahead of her, with new reports suggesting that Scanlen could soon joinGreta Gerwig’s star-studdedLittle Womencast. Eliza Scanlen is in talks to joinGreta Gerwig’s remakeofLouisa May Alcott’s American classic,Little Women,Varietyreports. Scanlen is reportedly testing alongside Emma Stone, who plays the oldest March sister Meg in Gerwig’s “retelling” of the drama about four sisters coming of age during the Civil War....

How I Met Your Father’s Is Wasting Kim Cattrall’s Talent - Let’s Hope They Fix It When “How I Met Your Mother” debuted in 2005, nobody involved could have possibly predicted the show would last nine seasons and become one of the most definitive sitcoms of the aughts. The show followed the adventures of Ted, Marshall, Lily, Barney, and Robin as they explore love, loss, and laughter in New York City as told through the dramatized flashbacks of the stories from Future Ted (a voiceover role by the late, greatBob Saget) as he tells his children the story of how he met their children’s mother, and how all of the beloved adults in their life fit together as friends....

How The Possession Changed Jeffrey Dean Morgan Forever There’s plenty for viewers to be scared of when it comes to the 2012 horror film “The Possession.” There’s the fact that it was based on the allegedly true story of the “dybbuk box,” a mysterious, cursed object that some claim is responsible for the physical and psychological torment of nearly everyone who owned or happened to be around it. There’s also the fact that the film realistically depicts the helplessness of a family in turmoil, with their pain and silent heartbreak made worse by the presence of a malevolent supernatural entity that takes control of Emily, the family’s youngest daughter....