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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…
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…
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…
The Best-Reviewed Transformers Movie In Years Is Streaming On Netflix
In 2024, the 'Transformers' movie franchise was fumbling. After reaching over $1 billion at the box office with both 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' and 'Transformers: Age of Extinction,' the toyline-turned-blockbuster film series began to…
How to Win the Movies Fantasy League Without The Odyssey
It's logical to assume any team hoping to contend in the Movies Fantasy League this year needs to be built around The Odyssey. Even though Christopher Nolan's blockbuster was never eligible for box-office points, the awards potential alone makes it…
All 5 Zombie Movies of 2026, Ranked
Who doesn't love a good zombie movie? The genre has been around for decades and experienced a rebirth in the 2000s; now, it remains among the most successful in cinema, with every year producing at least one bona fide hit with both critics and…
Sony Considering Bold Plans for 4 Beatles Movies Rollout (Exclusive)
Sony Pictures and filmmaker Sam Mendes have been mulling some innovative ideas for the release of their four Beatles biopics — including lumping together the films' box office returns. The first glimpse of their strategy came over the…
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