George’s death scene is one of the most pivotal moments of Young Sheldon, but fans are still divided over Iain Armitage’s portryal of Sheldon’s reaction.
February 2025
It isn’t the orchestra conductor who decides when people should be played off during their Oscars speeches. Here’s how that decision is actually made.
The First Omen writer Ben Jacoby is adapting the Thomas Ray novella Silencer for Paramount Pictures, Deadline reports.
The spy thriller follows a CIA field agent who is sent to bring in the ultimate CIA target who’s been out in the cold for decades.
An operative who dates back to the dark times of MK Ultra, the target is a silencer — someone who can read minds, and wipe them from a distance, making him impossible to find or catch.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, Constantine) is producing as part of his first-look deal with Paramount alongside NeoText Corporation, who published the book last year.
Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, and Jay Schuminsky will produce for NeoText, with Greg Cohen overseeing development for di Bonaventura Pictures.
Jacoby recently co-wrote an adaptation of Alex North‘s crime thriller The Whisper Man, which Robert De Niro is set to star in for Netflix.
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What’s that strange bump in the night? It’s a new batch of horror movies now streaming on Vizio WatchFree+, with this month’s lineup of fresh arrivals including Rob Zombie’s 3 from Hell, three installments in the hit Insidious franchise, the slasher Hell Fest, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, and even SCREAMBOX Originals including The Outwaters.
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Here’s the full lineup of fresh horror arrivals for February 2025…
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – February 1
Johnny Blaze, tortured by the Ghost Rider’s curse, gets a chance of redemption through protecting the Devil’s son, whose father is pursuing him.
Insidious: Chapter 2 – February 1
The Lamberts believe that they have defeated the spirits that have haunted their family, but they soon discover that evil is not beaten so easily.
Insidious: Chapter 3 – February 1
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Insidious: The Last Key – February 1
Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet, as she is drawn back to her ghostly childhood home where the terror began.
Hell Fest – February 1
A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
Grind House: Death Proof – February 1
Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his “death proof” cars to execute his murderous plans.
The Blair Witch Project – February 1
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 – February 1
A group of tourists arrives in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project (1999) to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face with their own neuroses and possibly the witch herself.
3 From Hell – February 1
After barely surviving prison, the demented Firefly clan go on the run, unleashing a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.
The Hangman – February 1
Troubled father Leon takes son camping in Appalachia. Local cult summons evil Hangman demon. Son goes missing. Leon must confront cult, monster to find him amid rising body count.
Last Night At Terrace Lanes – February 1
When a bloodthirsty cult invades a bowling alley on its final night of operation, a high schooler on a date from hell, must join forces with her survivalist dad to fend off the crazed murderers.
The Outwaters – February 1
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
CreepyPasta – February 1
Trapped in an abandoned house, a nameless man desperately searches for clues to how he got there. The answer is hidden within a series of disturbing viral videos – each of which begins to infect his mind.
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The world’s most dangerous secret lies within The Gorge, and Scott Derrickson isn’t about to spoil it.
The Sinister and The Black Phone director sat down with Bloody Disgusting to discuss his genre-bending new film, which offers something for everyone this Valentine’s Day with action-packed thrills, passionate romance, sci-fi intrigue, and horrific creatures.
The originality of the concept, scripted by Zach Dean (The Tomorrow War), attracted Derrickson to The Gorge. “When Skydance sent me the script, I just got excited about the idea of a big event movie that’s not a sequel or a franchise or IP, but is an original story blending a lot of different genres.”
Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick) and Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) star as two highly-trained operatives who grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.
“I tend to cast pretty well,” Derrickson remarks. “I had to first of all believe in each of the actors as an elite sniper, which in this case I just did. That eliminates a lot of actors from possibly casting. Beyond that, they’re both really good at playing nuanced choices. They’re very good at intimate scenes. I just had a suspicion they would have good chemistry, which they did. It was great.”
Derrickson says it was “a bucket list experience” directing Sigourney Weaver in the film. “She’s everything you’d hope she’d be. She’s really dedicated, very disciplined in the craft. She cares about the movie, wants to understand the movie as a whole and incredibly warm to everybody on set. Everybody loved her. It was terrific.”
Although the threat that lurks inside the gorge is being kept under wraps, Derrickson delved into the creature design process.
“When you’re dealing with creature effects, you have to start at the concept art stage. You have to talk to artists about what your vision is, what you want, and they start to generate images. You give notes on that, build on that and splinter off into more exploration. On this one, we did a tremendous amount of artwork before landing on all the different individual creature designs in the film.”
The biggest challenge he faced on the production were the big set pieces, which were difficult on a technical level. “We did some things that hadn’t been done or hadn’t been done in quite the same way, and a lot of big physical sets. I don’t like virtual environments for the most part. I like set extensions, but the more physical a set, the more real it looks.
“Being able to get all of that done in a timely fashion and have it be ready for production, staying in front of the schedule; you make a movie this size, it’s a little bit like running in front of a moving train. You just got to hit every railroad tie perfectly or the train’s gonna run you over, which in this case it didn’t.”
The titular gorge was a virtual location, but that doesn’t mean it was computer generated. Derrickson explains, “We shot plates in Norway for the canyon, for the rock walls, for the forests, for the sky, and then sort of stitched together the virtual space itself of the gorge. The top of the pillars of the watchtowers were real, giant, to-scale sets, and then the virtual space around them was built from the real photography.”
The filmmaker calls it “a dream come true” to have Academy Award winners Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl) compose the score. “I was really thrilled that they wanted to do the movie, and their way of working is really interesting. They write you a ton of music based on just the script, on what they hear as being relevant to the film.”
He continues, “They give you more music than you’re ever going to use in a movie, but you sort of pick out the pieces that you think work the most, and then they build off of those. Some of those pieces directly end up in the movie, and then some of them, they’ll take direction and tailor them to different scenes.
“They’re very collaborative, really respectful and boy, do they care. They came to a bunch of the mixes, right up to the final mix. They were very precise about what they liked and didn’t like, and I loved that. I love their investments and how connected they were to the work. It was great. It was really an amazing experience.”
The music also features several choice needle drops: Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Grammy-nominated “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” Ramones‘ classic punk anthem “Blitzkrieg Bop,” Twisted Sister‘s take on “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” and a rendition of Bob Dylan‘s “All Along the Watchtower” by UK rapper Devlin.
“I care a lot about needle drops. I think one of the most important things you do as a director is pick those songs that play in a film because of the tone they bring to them,” notes Derrickson.
“I knew that I wanted to have a big dance scene in the middle of the movie. There was a couple of lines about dancing in the script, but I wanted that to be a real scene. It took me a long time before settling on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song. And then we built the choreography around that song.”
He adds, “Then, of course, the Ramones. I love the Ramones, I love that song, and I thought Anya would have fun with it — which she certainly did.”
Derrickson believes The Gorge will appeal to viewers for the same reason it appealed to him. “If you want to see a big, exciting event movie that isn’t what’s expected, isn’t the same thing, isn’t a franchise, sequel, IP-driven piece of familiarity — this is what you want to see. That’s really why I did it. After I read the script, I thought. ‘I want to see a movie this size that’s this daring and interesting and blends genre this way.’
The Gorge releases on Apple TV+ on February 14.
“It’s Valentine’s Day,” Derrickson reasons. “It’s a very romantic movie!”
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The Masters of the Universe live-action film has found its Sorceress in Morena Baccarin (Deadpool) and its Malcom/Fisto in Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (“Vikings: Valhalla”), Deadline reveals.
They join Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, Camila Mendes as Teela, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, Jared Leto as Skeletor, Idris Elba as Duncan/Man-at-Arms, Sam C. Wilson as Trap Jaw, Hafthor Bjornsson as Goat Man, and Kojo Attah as Tri-Klops.
Travis Knight (Bumblebee) will direct from a script by Chris Butler (ParaNorman), reworked from earlier drafts by David Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and Aaron & Adam Nee (The Lost City).
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the movie is expected to follow a young man who discovers his secret legacy as the prince of an alien planet. He must recover a magic sword and return home to protect his kingdom.
Mattel launched Masters of the Universe with a toy line in 1982 followed by the “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” cartoon from 1983-1985. The franchise now includes multiple animated series, toy lines, comics, video games, and books, along with a 1987 live-action film.
Masters of the Universe is scheduled to hit theaters on June 5, 2026 from Amazon MGM Studios.
The Sorceress and Fisto from “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Judge Dredd director Danny Cannon has signed on to helm Obey, Deadline reports.
Written by Brandon & Kurtis Birtell, it follows an estranged couple who must learn to put their differences aside in order to save their son from a deranged home invader.
The masked intruder, known as Flip Face, orders them to “obey” if they ever want to see their son again in the high-concept horror thriller.
The film will be produced by Ross Dinerstein (The Void) for Campfire Studios, Josh Kesselman (1922) and Michael Sugar (Spotlight) for Sugar23, and Lindsay Macadam (Brain On Fire) for Great Pacific Media, which is providing production services for the project.
Altitude will be shopping Obey at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
Outside of features, Cannon has directed the pilot episodes of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Gotham,” “Pennyworth,” “Gotham Knights,” and “Nikita.”
Danny Cannon on the set of ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’
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The Super Bowl trailer for Thunderbolts reveals the state of the Avengers in the wake of Captain America: Brave New World – which hasn’t released yet.
Never heard of Grey’s Anatomy: B-Team? Here’s how the webseries offered a closer look at the intern class from its parent show’s 14th season.
Brad Pitt is entering the world of Formula 1 Racing in the new trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s F1, coming to theaters this summer.
