Renny Harlin’s reboot trilogy comes to a close with The Strangers: Chapter 3 early next year, the third and final installment in the saga starring Madelaine Petsch.

The Strangers: Chapter 3 will release in theaters on February 6, 2026.

Check out a brand new official poster below.

Aiming to be the franchise’s darkest descent yet, the trilogy closes with a full-circle reckoning that expands the mythology of the iconic masked killers.

Madelaine Petsch returns as Maya for the final girl’s long-awaited vengeance, locked on an unforgiving collision course with The Strangers.

Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Deep Blue Sea) once again directed from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland.

Gabriel Basso (Super 8), Ema Horvath (“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”), Pablo Sandstrom, and Richard Brake (Barbarian) round out the cast.

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been adapted countless times since its publication in 1886 — from film and television to stage and radio to comics and video games — but never quite like this.

The mad doctor transforms into a ravenous man-shark in the upcoming indie horror comedy Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Shark.

The campy take on the classic gothic horror tale swims onto DVD and Digital on January 20 via Wild Eye Releasing. Watch the trailer below.

After losing his wife, the deranged and reclusive Dr. Henry Jekyll descends into a nightmare of grief and obsession — until he takes Sharcopine, an untested drug that warps his body into a bloodthirsty man-shark.

Now driven by madness and love from beyond the grave, Jekyll prowls the streets, hunting anyone who threatens his twisted relationship with his long-dead bride.

Special features:

• Director Introduction
• Meet Dani Bliss
• Meet Erica Muse
• Meet Randy Clower
• Outtakes
• Trailers

Max Raven makes his directorial debut from a script by fellow first-timer Bando Glutz.

Randy Clower plays Jekyll alongside Dani Bliss, Erica Muse, Victoria Chaney, Tom Fegan, and Josh Martin.

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Director/co-writer Scott Derrickson has publicly credited The Black Phone author Joe Hill with sparking the idea for Black Phone 2, but he remained tight-lipped as to what exactly the concept entailed.

In his audio commentary that accompanies the sequel on home video, Derrickson opens up about how a reveal that recontextualizes the original film drew him to the sequel.

“The first film was very successful, and people immediately wanted me to make a sequel. The studio called, I think, the Monday after the box office weekend. The opening numbers came in, and it was a hit, and they wanted to know if I’d make a second one,” Derrickson recalls.

“I was not terribly interested in the idea at first, and Joe Hill sent me an email with an idea about The Grabber calling Finn and a backstory that involved him being the killer of Gwen and Finn’s mother. That latter part was something I had never thought about,” he explains.

“I had thought about making a sequel where The Grabber’s the ghost. That was interesting but not enough to make me want to do the movie,” Derrickson continues. “But the backstory about the mother was really fascinating to me and I thought could really allow for the creation of some interesting emotional arcs for these two kids.”

He adds, “Once I glommed onto that idea, then what hit me and really made me ultimately decide to make a sequel to The Black Phone was the realization that if I didn’t make a sequel right away the way the studio wanted me to and instead waited for three years, Madeleine McGraw and Mason Thames would be in high school. They would be old enough to play high school kids, and that makes it a very different kind of movie.”

When the scene with the mother comes up, Derrickson expands on its impact.

“I thought [Hill’s idea] could be very powerful as a reveal for audiences who loved the first one — to find out that this traumatic event that wrecked the life of Terrance and disrupted the household of Finn and Gwen, to find out that that was actually not true. She didn’t kill herself. I thought that had some staying power.”

Black Phone 2 is available now on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital.

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In an age where IP is king, meta-comedy Anaconda at least gets credit for its experimentations with the reboot format. The self-seriousness of the 1997 cult creature feature becomes fodder for humor in an adventure-comedy that doubles as a heartfelt musing on middle-aged missed opportunities. The type of film that fares much stronger when director Tom Gormican (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) leans into adventure over familiar comedy.

Bonded by a love of film but splintered by life’s responsibilities in adulthood, Anaconda reunites four childhood friends and presents them with a rare chance to follow their forgotten dreams. For Doug (Jack Black), Griff (Paul Rudd), Claire (Thandiwe Newton), and Kenny (Steve Zahn), that means putting a pause on life’s disappointments and venturing out into the Amazon to remake the film that defined their youths: 1997’s Anaconda. While the quartet is naturally ill-equipped to trek out into the wilderness, let alone shoot a feature film without proper backing, the film production faces even greater disaster when a real giant snake crashes the set.

Gormican, who co-writes with Kevin Etten, gleefully pokes fun at studios’ current IP obsession, earning the film’s biggest laughs through the meta film-within-a-film setup. It’s the banter over shot setups, script rewrites, and, most especially, the all-important matter of franchise rights that yields the most fascinating commentary and amusing jokes. Much like Massive Talent, Gormican wears his love of cinema on Anaconda‘s sleeves through meta plotting and humor, made even more infectious this time by a bigger cast.

Black, Rudd, Newton, and Zahn all sell the precise type of awe shucks earnestness necessary for a plot this outlandish, and the wacky scenarios their trek into the jungle demands. Newton stands out among this group of seasoned comedic pros; Claire’s timid people-pleasing ways infectiously let Newton cut loose. Daniela Melchior serves as the unenviable straightman to the wacky friend group as the boat captain, but her supporting role only exists to shepherd the plot along and nothing more. Anaconda reserves the bulk of its character development for Doug and Griff, and Claire and Kenny to a much smaller extent.

Anaconda tests the friends’ survival skills frequently, and often in the most puerile fashion. That leads to a variety of expectedly silly scenes, and not all of them land. A gag involving “pee shy” Kenny overstays its welcome, an extended scene highlighting the occasional clashes between the film’s comedy and adventure halves. 

The snake, like the film itself, draws its cues from the 1997 original in design and attitude. For a Jack Black and Paul Rudd vehicle, Gormican never strays too far from the source material and ensures a few key sequences of palpable suspense and intense action. It all builds to an appropriately explosive finale, another nod to Luis Llosa’s film and the over-the-top excess of ’90s horror. Just don’t expect it to venture far into horror. A few moments of genuine suspense aside, this is still a broad comedy.

There’s something novel about a meta-comedy that brings genuine (occasional) thrills in its examination of what a reboot can be. Gormican threads a specific needle that transforms a ’90s creature feature into a commercially friendly meta-reboot for the whole family. When focused solely on eliciting laughs through its famous stars, Anaconda falls into forgettable territory. Black and Rudd play variations of themselves, relegating Doug and Griff to serviceably sweet but bland leads swallowed up by a far more interesting reboot experiment. 

Anaconda anchors its fun structural experimentations with an affecting tale of four grown-ups manifesting another chance at happiness, and that sugary sweet core ultimately holds the bold approach together. Gormican’s continued meta filmmaking remains joyous, and with the added bonus of unpredictability, it’s tough to say where the group’s journey will end when it doesn’t adhere to the original plotting. As fun and novel as this wacky voyage into the Amazon can be, it’s the more basic comedy that can undermine what works.

Anaconda slithers into theaters on December 25, 2025.

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James Cameron has expressed interest in remaking Fantastic Voyage for decades, first as a writer-director and more recently as a producer.

Speaking with Deadline, Cameron reveals that he’s working with an unnamed filmmaker with the hopes of getting the long-gestating film off the ground in 2026.

“I’ve been nurturing that for a while. I hope to get that going this coming year,” said Cameron.

“I’ll be producing it. I’m working with a director right now with a new script,” he added. “So, yeah, we’re gonna do it.”

In Fantastic Voyage, when a scientist who holds the secret of miniaturization goes comatose, a team of specialists travels inside his body to try to repair a dangerous blood clot.

Released in 1966, the influential sci-fi adventure won two Academy Awards — Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects — and was nominated for three more.

Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green, Conan the Destroyer) directs from a script by Harry Kleiner (Bullitt, Red Heat). Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Donald Pleasence, and Arthur Kennedy star.

Previous filmmakers attached to the Fantastic Voyage reboot include Guillermo del Toro, Shawn Levy, Paul Greengrass, and Roland Emmerich.

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