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Bermuda making waves in the movie industry
Dana Selassie, festival director of the Bermuda Black Film Weekend, at Nollywood Journey Home Film Festival in Atlanta this July (Photograph supplied) Lights, camera, action: Bermuda is to host its first Black Film Weekend. There are more than 20…
Hollywood developer unveils ambitious $450M 'old school' plan to rescue the movie industry
A Hollywood developer has come up with an old-school way to try to save the movie industry — with a $450-million bet. Commercial real estate developer David Simon is building Echelon Studios Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard, on the site…
8 Best Movies to Watch This Spooky Season, According to Mental Floss Editors
People wait all year for fall: to pick pumpkins, stroll beneath colorful trees, and put on films that send them straight into spooky season, give or take a few startled shrieks. Some prefer nostalgic titles that strike a balance between spook and…
Forget Star Wars Movies, the Franchise's Future Belongs to Video Games Now
Word broke this week that Lucasfilm was reportedly ramping up for Star Wars - Episode X, a direct continuation of the mainline “Skywalker Saga” and the Rey storyline. Simon Kinberg, who worked closely with Lucasfilm in the early days…
8 Cozy Movies '90s Kids Still Rewatch Every Fall
There's something about '90s movies that just feels perfect for a cozy autumn activity. Whether the films were set in the fall is irrelevant. They all have an aesthetic that complements the brisk air, changing leaves, and the urge to wear a sweater…
Digger': Tom Cruise Movie Bombs at Box Office, Will Lose $150M
Tom Cruise will not be jumping on any couches this weekend. This as the Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible blockbuster star posts his lowest opening in 19 years, that being the reported $160M net priced Digger, which didn't find an audience…
15 Scariest Horror Movies Of All Time, Ranked
Whether it's during Halloween season or just on those dark and stormy nights with friends, there's just something about horror movies that captivate us like no other genre. Modern and international horror movies especially leveled up their fear…
5 Great Movies Where An Evil AI Successfully Destroys The World
If you look at the current state of artificial intelligence, there's really nothing to worry about. Alright, there might be instances of it going rogue on government websites, and that one time a chatbot almost started a war, but besides that…
7 best Tom Cruise movies and where to stream them
Tom Cruise remains one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, and for good reason. Armed with jaw-dropping stunts, a gleaming smile and an intense gaze unmatched by many, he has built a household name recognizable across every corner of the…
The 3 Best New Movies to Watch on Hulu This Week
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… A wide array of new movies have arrived on Hulu this month, including the 2022 hit film that announced “Resident Evil” director Zach Cregger as one of the horror genre's most exciting…
'Avengers: Endgame' is the biggest movie ever again, 7 years later-and it says a lot about the future of Hollywood's IP machine
Seven years after it first hit theaters, “Avengers: Endgame” is once again the highest-grossing movie of all time. Disney and Marvel Studios brought the 2019 blockbuster back to theaters on Sept. 25 as “Avengers: Endgame…
The 3 Best Movies to Watch on Prime Video This Week
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… We've made it to October folks! That means putting up decor, baseball (for some people), cozy blankets and more. And if you're under a cozy blanket, that means it's probably movie night, and you need…
The 10 Greatest Zombie Movies of the 2010s, Ranked
While it was just beginning to take form throughout the late 2000s, no singular decade was as wildly enamored by the concept and allure of zombies as the 2010s. From the wildly popular The Walking Dead show beginning in 2010, the release and…
Verity' kills, Cruise bombs in N. American movie theaters
'Verity,' an MGM film starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett, took in $32.6 million in its first weekend, industry monitor Exhibitor Relations said. Adapted from a novel by Colleen Hoover, the story of a struggling writer hired to…
10 Worst Dystopian Movie Worlds To Live In, Ranked
Dystopian science fiction and horror movies have produced some of the bleakest and most upsetting places to live in cinematic history. Dystopian movies often overlap with post-apocalyptic stories, but the two genres are not quite the same. A…
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