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Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
Plex, which made a name for itself by letting users share movies they own, is now helping sell movie theater tickets. The company is looking to monetize its content-discovery capabilities and expand its business beyond its media server software.
Ben Affleck Says Bullying 'Digger' Will Only Lead Studios to Make More 'S-ty Homogenized Movies': Don't 'Punish Movies That Take Risks'
Ben Affleck is the latest celebrity to stick up for Tom Cruise ‘s “ Digger ” amid its disastrous box office run, but he's doing so by warning moviegoers what exactly their trashing of the movie will result in. Mainly, publicly…
Movie Studio Behind 'Cocaine Bear' Is Ready to Break Into Data Centers
The Atlanta film studio that produced Marvel's “Loki” and “Cocaine Bear” is ready to break into the data center business, but it's meeting resistance at every turn. Shadowbox Studios, backed by private equity giant…
10 Women With Supernatural Powers In The Movies
From superheroes and aliens to witches, ghosts and shape-shifting mutants, these 10 Bollywood female leads prove that supernatural powers come in all shades of mischief, menace and magic. Yami Gautam's new film Nayyi Navelli features her as Mohini…
The New Street Fighter Movie Gets Savaged By Critics, But Not Everyone Hates It
A celebrity-filled cast. A director best known for his work on the Eric Andre show. One of the most iconic and beloved franchises in gaming. What could go wrong? Apparently quite a lot. The Street Fighter movie is getting panned by many critics.
Every Friday the 13th Movie, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes
Back in 1980, Sean S. Cunningham sent a group of camp counselors to Crystal Lake, and the franchise has returned 11 times since: nine sequels, the crossover Freddy vs. Jason, and a 2009 remake. (Next up is Crystal Lake, a Peacock prequel series…
10 Great Cosmic Horror Movies to Check Out
As the real world has veered further and further into existential abyss, I've found myself consuming more and more cosmic horror. But when you get through Stuart Gordon's H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, what other movies give audiences a glimpse into…
Tom Cruise's new movie bombed. Its director says making it scared the crap out of him.
On paper, Alejandro González Iñárritu's new movie had all the trappings of a hit. The Oscar-winning director had assembled a star-studded cast led by the inimitable Tom Cruise. He had a twisty and surprising script that uses…
25 Songs You Didn't Know Were Written for Movies
A number of hugely popular songs have broken out from movie soundtracks over the years to become staple hits and fan favorites in their own right. Dolly Parton allegedly wrote her megahit '9 to 5' within a matter of hours on the set of the 1980…
The Death of the 'Unreachable' Movie Star
Paula Boudes for PureWow/Shutterstock I love Reese Witherspoon, but I am going to pick on her for a minute. If this were a different time, Witherspoon—a striking beauty, an immense talent, a film industry powerhouse —would have been…
This Epic New Movie Is Considered The Odyssey's Rival for Best Picture. I'm Not So Sure.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. La Bola Negra, a timeline-hopping epic about three queer men in different eras of Spanish history whose stories overlap and…
25 books you should read before they're turned into movies and TV shows next year
'Children of Blood and Bone' is the first installment in author Tomi Adeyemi's 'Legacy of Orïsha' young-adult trilogy. It takes place in a kingdom called Orïsha (an alternate pre-colonial version of Nigeria), of which the king has…
Top WWE Moments That Could Be Horror Movies
The arrival of October brings about the Halloween season, a time of year when horror movie fans can embrace all things frightening, haunting, macabre and terrifying. It also allows wrestling fans to look back at the long history of WWE's attempts…
10 Biggest Takeaways Rewatching Every Indiana Jones Movie
Few movie series are as iconic as the Indiana Jones franchise. Beginning in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, the classic movies starring Harrison Ford's archaeologist are still some of the best action-adventure films of all time. Aside from Dial…
A Sicko's Guide to Every Bloody 'Friday the 13th' Movie
FOR A SERIES ostensibly about a hockey-mask-wearing, machete-wielding killer, the Friday the 13th series is weird. From the original film, which doesn't really star Jason Voorhees as the killer (a favorite kernel of hack trivia nights nationwide)…
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