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  • Lowkey horror undertone has a quiet box office release

    Lowkey horror undertone has a quiet box office release

    A24’s indie horror movie undertone hit $4.3M on opening day and it’s still gunning for $10M in third place by the conclusion to the weekend box office release..

    The film has had some high praise from several in the horror community.. the movie has a lot more to do with the scariness of sound rather than visual fright..

    Most reviewers however were not kind, with really low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, while audiences liked it a lot more than the official paid mouthpieces of anti-horror rhetoric in publications..

    We didn’t see undertone yet but are excited too and hope to in a theater with a great sound system.. While it is being criticized in various circles, as always you just need to give movies like this a try.. We spoke before about how PONTYPOOL was a favorite of ours and this one may rank eventually in the same category..

    As far as the box office? Onward to streaming quickly perhaps..

  • Married to a box office bust! There goes the Bride

    Married to a box office bust! There goes the Bride

    Sometimes a movie just sort of appears out of nowhere and you realize Hollywood expected it to be a big deal, but the audience never really got the memo.


    That seems to be what happened with The Bride!, the new Frankenstein-inspired film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. On paper, the movie had some things going for it. The Gyllenhaal name carries weight in Hollywood, the source material comes from one of the most famous monster stories ever created, and studios have been trying for years to find a way to revive the old Universal-style monster movies for modern audiences. But when the film actually arrived in theaters this weekend, the numbers told a very different story.


    The film opened to roughly $7.3 million domestically, with another $6.3 million internationally, bringing its global opening weekend to around $13.6 million worldwide. That would be fine for a small horror movie, but The Bride! reportedly cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 to $90 million to produce, which suddenly makes that opening weekend look extremely rough.


    What makes the situation even more interesting is that many people, including horror fans, seemed genuinely confused about what the movie actually was. The trailers presented it as a strange mix of gothic horror, romance, and what almost looked like an art-house style period piece. That might work for a smaller experimental film, but it is a harder sell when you are spending blockbuster-level money.


    The marketing also did not seem to find its audience. Personally, I only saw a few ads for it, and even then it was not clear what niche the film was trying to target. Was it meant to be a serious monster movie, a dark romantic drama, or a stylized reinterpretation of the classic Bride of Frankenstein story? The messaging never quite landed.


    To make matters worse, the movie opened against more broadly appealing releases, including a major animated film that dominated the weekend box office. That kind of competition is always risky, but it becomes even more dangerous when the film you are releasing already has a somewhat unclear identity.


    In the end, The Bride! might become one of those films that finds a second life later on streaming, where audiences sometimes embrace unusual projects that struggled in theaters. But at least for now, the opening weekend suggests this was a big-budget gamble on a very niche idea, and it is one that did not quite connect with audiences the way the studio probably hoped.

  • SCREAM 7 wins one for the Ghostface

    SCREAM 7 wins one for the Ghostface

    So much for the Rotten Tomatoes.. the bad reviews.. the critics be damned. SCREAM 7 has made enough money that people are now clamoring for a SCREAM 8!

    The film is expected to scare up around $60 million by the end of the weekend, far surpassing Scream VI’s franchise best opening weekend of $44 million.

    Scream 7 also saw the best opening day/previews for the franchise at $28.8M.

    Pre-sale tickets happening before review embargo was lifted most likely helped.

    Pre-sales were heavy with 53% of the audience buying their tickets within the last week or a week ago..

  • CLAYFACE movies closer to a Halloween release

    CLAYFACE movies closer to a Halloween release

    ‘DC is moving into the horror world at the box office with a comic book horror movie Clayface..

    That movie had been set for theatrical release via Warner Bros. on September 11, 2026.

    Clayface will now release in theaters on October 23, 2026.

    A lot of people didn’t really even know this was being made.. The movie is being compared to David Cronenberg’s The Fly and centers on an actor who injects himself with a substance to remain relevant, only to find out that he can reshape his face and form, becoming a walking piece of clay.

    And the best part of all? It is a Mike Flanagan project! He did the screen play.. Even James Gunn said that he was not changing the sreenplay and he was a Flanagan fan himself.

    But why isn’t Flanagan at the helm? Being too busy..

    Flanagan’s commitment to other projects, including his take on Carrie, ultimately forced him to step back just as DC Studios was ready to fast-track the movie..

    Back in November 2025, SCREEN RANT talked to Flanagan.. Flanagan said he was inspired by Batman: The Animated Series, specifically the two-part episode “Feat of Clay,” featuring Ron Perlman as the voice of the tragic villain.

    “No, when we first started talking about Clayface, I hadn’t seen what Matt [Reeves] was up to. So it went all the way back to ‘Feat of Clay’, that incredible two-parter with Ron Perlman voicing the character, which was so formative for me as a kid,” Flanagan told Screen Rant.

  • Netflix promises not to destroy movie theater

    Netflix promises not to destroy movie theater

    At least not outright..

    In a new interview with The New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that, should the WBD acquisition go through, the streamer will commit to 45-day theatrical release windows for the legacy studio’s upcoming releases.

    Sarandos insisted that Netflix has no intentions of disrupting “a theatrical distribution engine that is phenomenal and produces billions of dollars,” and that he believes there is value in the movie theater experience.

    “I’m giving you a hard number,” Sarandos said. “If we’re going to be in the theatrical business, and we are, we’re competitive people — we want to win. I want to win opening weekend. I want to win box office.”

    “I mean, like the town that Sinners is supposed to be set in does not have a movie theater there,” Sarandos reasoned. “For those folks, it’s certainly outmoded. You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to go see a movie.”

  • High hopes for zombie bones at the cold box office

    High hopes for zombie bones at the cold box office

    Deadline is among those reporting that this weekend there’s expectations that 28 Years Later will unseat Avatar from the box office.

    It’s a four-day weekend for Hollywood and there’s hopes that the newest zombie flick will make more than 20 million. And you know what, the movie Primates didn’t do half bad last week so maybe in these cold January weeks we still love and have that affinity for horror.

    Bone Temple releases  Wednesday in the UK, France, Belgium and Indonesia, then in Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Netherlands and Saudi Arabia on Thursday, followed by Japan, Poland and Spain on Friday. That’s a 98% offshore footprint, except Korea and Thailand…

  • The box office keeps breathing! Fire and Ash and Sydney Sweeney keeps theaters hot

    The box office keeps breathing! Fire and Ash and Sydney Sweeney keeps theaters hot

    James Cameron’s third sci-fi epic has added $65.6 million internationally and $86 million globally in its fourth weekend of release, bringing its overseas tally to $888 million and global total to $1.23 billion. Although a box office juggernaut, “Fire and Ash” is trailing the first two films, 2009’s “Avatar” and 2022’s “The Way of Water,” at this point in its run.

    “Zootopia 2” has remained a box office force since Thanksgiving, with $30.8 million overseas and $40.9 million worldwide in its seventh weekend in theaters..

    MORE.. Good jeans..

    Lionsgate’s psychological thriller “The Housemaid” is about to surpass $200 million globally. The film has generated $25.5 million from 66 overseas territories, including a No. 1 bow in the United Kingdom with $23.7 million. So far, the R-rated film, adapted from Freida McFadden’s popular book and starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, has become a breakout hit with $98.3 million internationally and $192.5 million worldwide after four weekends of release. 


  • A lot of people went to see Stranger Things in theaters and buy concession stand food

    A lot of people went to see Stranger Things in theaters and buy concession stand food

    On New Year’s Eve, Stranger Things: The Finale debuted simultaneously on the streamer and in roughly 600 cinemas — more than a third belonged to AMC, the country and world’s largest chain — before holding encore showings throughout New Year’s Day. At AMC alone, the theater giant said that The Finale earned $15 million from the $20 food and beverage credits purchased.

    The total summation for all theaters showing may have been near $30 mil.. a true cultural moment..

    MORE…

    Netflix didn’t have to worry about reporting grosses for Stranger Things, since fans reserved a seat by purchasing a concession voucher directly from the theaters.

    AMC and Cinemark Theatres both charged $20, plus fees in certain instances.

    Regal Cinemas and several others charged $11, a reference to the name of the show’s lead character.

    Earlier this week, the Duffers said on social media that 1.1 million vouchers had been sold. By New Year’s Day, Steve Buck’s leading research and exit polling firm EntTelligence showed admissions at 1.3 million…

  • Sydney Sweeney scores at the box

    Sydney Sweeney scores at the box

    Maybe not number one, that was Avatar.. but she bounced into a strong showing in the Housemaid…

    The Housemaid opened to an estimated $18.9 million in the U.S., good enough for third place on the charts behind the animated, faith-based movie David ($22 million). The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants also opened to $16 million, making it a very healthy weekend overall. But back to the topic at hand, Feig’s latest broke through the noise and, against a reported $35 million budget, is well-positioned to become a theatrical hit. 

  • We finally know what disclosure day might look like

    We finally know what disclosure day might look like

    There’s been so much of a veil of secrecy surrounding this new Steven Spielberg movie that even now, with the trailer finally revealed, it still feels like we’re not getting the full story of what this film is really about. That said, we definitely know more than we did before.

    And apparently, this is officially a summer event movie.

    The film is titled Disclosure Day, and it stars Emily Blunt as a Kansas City TV meteorologist. She’s joined by Josh O’Connor, who plays a passionate UFO whistleblower.

    Here’s the official description:

    “An uncanny exploration of an alien invasion as initially experienced by a meteorologist (Emily Blunt) and a passionate UFO whistleblower (Josh O’Connor) who want to share the truth with the world all at once.”

    The movie hits theaters on June 12, 2026.

    The trailer is genuinely cool—we’ll link it below—and after watching it, I think it’s fair to say this could end up being the most hyped movie of 2026. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be the best movie of the year…
    —or, on the other hand, it could turn out to be one of the best films Steven Spielberg has ever spearheaded.

    Either way, I can’t wait to see more. Because based on what we’ve seen so far, this looks really promising.