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The box office is officially back, thanks to Warner Bros., and what we’ve learned is that we have a very abstract view behind a film’s release. While Godzilla vs. Kong is a global box office hit, what truly made the difference is the deal between Warners and HBO Max, who reportedly paid in the $200M-$250M range for the streaming rights. As explained previously, this isn’t split with theaters or a provider, which makes that number on some level both gross and net. In layman’s terms, Godzilla vs. Kong was near profit...

While it’s safe to say that Capcom probably will never top their TV ad for the original Resident Evil 2, they can try with an entirely different route with Resident Evil Village. The latest Japanese ad for the upcoming title certainly has them going in an entirely “out there” direction (at least for Western audiences). The ad in question (more like a music video, really) is done in a music video style that parodies Japanese pop music from the 1980s, sung by famous Enka singer Yoshi Ikuzo. Capcom has taken...

Loot Crate revealed today the exclusive new Alien Capsule Collection, featuring a trio of new shirts. “Join the crew of the Nostromo and face hug your way into fashion with this officially licensed exclusive collection. These limited-edition pieces are inspired by the 1979 horror classic that can only be purchased from Loot Crate.” “The Alien Capsule Collection includes three pieces of chest-bursting apparel, including an Egg + Facehugger Pocket T-shirt, Chestburster Henley and Alien Hoodie. Each item is 100% cotton, woven from the screams of audience members and made in...

The infamous Grady Twins from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining have been turned into various different collectibles in recent years, including Monster High dolls and Funko toys, and up next they’re getting a much more lifelike collectible from Medicom. In fact, this Grady Twins statue is so lifelike that it’s actually quite creepy, and it’s also going to cost you a pretty penny. As reported by ToyArk today, Medicom’s tribute to The Shining stands over 13.5″ tall and depicts the Grady Twins holding hands, and the statue will be selling for approximately...

Filmmaker Steve Merlo hopes to recapture the gritty feel of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with upcoming fan film The Sawyer Massacre, a feature length project. Merlo explains, “The Sawyer Massacre is a feature length fan film and unofficial prequel to the iconic horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We have already raised funds to make this film but our goal is to raise enough to shoot it in Texas where it should be filmed!” In order to raise those funds, Merlo and the team are crowd-funding The...

A brand new wave of cartoon-inspired “Toony Terrors” toys is on the way from NECA, and the company previews the series today while noting it might be their “best assortment yet.” In addition to Captain Blake from John Carpenter’s The Fog, previewed earlier this week, the Series 6 wave includes Elvira, Herbert West and My Bloody Valentine‘s Miner! The Miner is of course wielding his pick-axe, while Re-Animator‘s Herbert West includes a syringe and Dr. Hill’s severed head in a tray. Captain Blake includes his sword. Preview “Toony Terrors” Series...

Tackling a new adaptation of a beloved video game franchise still going strong since 1992 sounds like a Herculean task. With a little over twenty games across platforms, nearly one hundred characters, decades of mythology, and a cherished 1995 feature adaptation, the intersection to appease both longtime fans and brand new gets blurred quickly. Mortal Kombat ambitiously attempts to do it all, a conventional monomyth packed to the gills with fan service flair and thrilling fight scenes. While densely packed and less serious than it takes itself, Mortal Kombat succeeds in soaring...

Ahead of the film’s release in theaters and on HBO Max tomorrow (look for our review *tonight*!), a gory new clip from Mortal Kombat has been shared by The Game Awards tonight. Unlike the 1995 movie, this year’s Mortal Kombat is very much rated “R,” and jam-packed with brutal Fatalities. Warner Bros. invites you to check out one of them tonight, the culmination of a fight scene between Jax Briggs (Mehcad Brooks) and Reiko (Nathan Jones). Briggs wins, of course, using his freshly-installed metal arms to literally pop Reiko’s head like...

A big time deal was inked by Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this month, which will give Netflix exclusive streaming rights to Sony titles *after* theatrical and home entertainment releases. This pact begins next year, which kicks off with Sony’s release of the Jared Leto-starring Marvel vampire movie Morbius, currently dated for January 21, 2022. The partnership will “provide Netflix with an 18-month exclusive window for Sony films,” and now we have more insight into what happens to Sony’s films after that window closes. Deadline reports tonight that “Disney and Sony have reached...

Announced last month, Emma Roberts is executive producing a young adult vampire series for Netflix that’s titled “First Kill,” and today brings word that a director has been found. Deadline reports that Jet Wilkinson (The Chi, How to Get Away with Murder) will direct the first two episodes. The series is written by Felicia D. Henderson and Victoria “V.E.” Schwab. In the series, “When it’s time for teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family, she...

James Wan has passed the baton to Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona) for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, coming to theaters and HBO Max on June 4, 2021. Much like the previous two The Conjuring movies, we’ve learned tonight that The Conjuring 3 has received an “R” rating from the MPA. The WB/New Line film is rated “R” for…. “Terror, Violence, and some disturbing images.” “The Devil Made Me Do It reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and...

A few years back, “Zombie Skittles” hit store shelves for Halloween, with candies tasting like “rotten zombie” randomly mixed into each bag. In other words, you didn’t know if you were about to taste the rainbow or, well, human flesh… until it was too late. A similar gimmick is being put to use this coming Halloween season with “Skittles Shriekers,” we’ve learned. Once again, the spooky-themed bags of candy will be filled with both normal-tasting Skittles and unpleasant variants that are randomly inserted, in this case *super sour* Skittles. The...

With Honeydew now on all VOD platforms, the next Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration is going full-blown weird and is guaranteed to deliver gross-out mayhem when Dementia Part II arrives in theaters on May 21, 2021, and on VOD, Digital HD and DVD on June 1st. Taken from the pages of Sam Raimi, and delivering absurd gross-out humor and nonstop mayhem, the making of Dementia Part II came out of a dare from Chicago’s Cinepocalype Film Festival and the movie’s producers JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. The two must produce a...

For years, the bug-eyed, giant animatronic characters of Five Nights at Freddy’s (also known by the acronym, FNAF) have been terrorizing children and adults alike. Since debuting in 2014, the series’ unique first-person perspective survival-horror experience has spawned a myriad of sequels and spin-offs, significantly influencing the horror genre in both gaming, and even in film: Blumhouse officially announced a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie to be released in the near future. With an expansive and somewhat loose lore, a significant appeal of the series has been the opportunity for...