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Theo James Gets Bloody in Neon’s ‘The Monkey’ Teaser From ‘Longlegs’ Director Osgood Perkins
Neon is taking advantage of its Longlegs momentum with a first glimpse at director Osgood Perkins’ next project. Neon shared the first teaser trailer for The Monkey Monday, ahead of the horror movie’s Feb. 21, 2025 debut in theaters. The spot features Theo James, who stars in the film alongside Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Christian […]
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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Lands 6th Biggest Opening of All Time With $211M, Makes R-Rated History
The Merc with the Mouth is back on the big screen — and he’s a marvel. Directed by Shawn Levy in close collaboration with franchise mastermind and star Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool & Wolverine opened to a record-shattering $211 million at the domestic box office, landing the sixth-biggest opening of all time for any film and […]
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Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Whips Up Huge Storm With Record $80.5M Domestic Opening
Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters is whipping up huge winds at the box office, with forecasters predicting a far better than expected domestic opening of $80.5 million in North America. That’s even up from Saturday’s already massive estimate of $74.6 million. The record-breaking movie, playing in 4,151 theaters, easily boasts the top domestic opening ever for […]
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Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Hopes to Whip Up Category 5 Storm in U.S. Debut
Universal Pictures hopes to whip up a Category 5 story at the box office this weekend as Twisters hits the big screen nearly three decades after the original Twister blew away audiences with nearly $500 million in global ticket sales, not adjusted for inflation. The studio has never tried to bill Twisters as a direct […]
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‘Longlegs’ Star Alicia Witt Breaks Down Her Haunting Character and What You Didn’t See
[This story contains spoilers for Longlegs.] Nobody has had a career quite like Alicia Witt. From avenging House Atreides at age eight in David Lynch’s Dune to her standout role as Ruth Harker in Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ Longlegs, Witt has been a prolific performer across film and television for four decades, all while balancing an […]
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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Easily Wins With $44.7M as ‘Longlegs’ Stuns With Record $22.6M Launch
Animation continue to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but Neon’s Longlegs can rightly take a bow after scoring the biggest opening for an independent horror pic in a decade with $22.6 million in ticket sales. From Illumination and Universal, DM4 easily stayed atop the […]
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Glen Powell and His Pup Take ‘Twisters’ Premiere, ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Launches and This Week’s Best Events
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Twisters, Fly Me to the Moon and Longlegs. Fly Me to the Moon premiere Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum walked the carpet on Monday at the New York premiere of their rom-com, set against the […]
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‘Longlegs’ Director Osgood Perkins Explains Why He Doesn’t Watch Contemporary Horror
Longlegs’ Osgood “Oz” Perkins is remarkably even-keeled for a filmmaker who’s enjoying the finest reviews of his career. His Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage-led horror-thriller has been the talk of the town for months now, as Neon’s marketing department has put together one of the more inspired promotional campaigns in recent memory. They’ve made Perkins’ […]
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Maika Monroe Talks Fighting for ‘Longlegs,’ Why She Nearly Gave Up Acting and ‘It Follows 2’
Calling Longlegs star Maika Monroe a “scream queen” is a bit of an understatement at this point. Perhaps the term “scream empress” is more appropriate for an actor who already solidified her genre cred ten years ago with the one-two punch of cult classics, The Guest and It Follows. In the decade since, she’s added […]
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‘Longlegs’ Director Says Nicolas Cage Stayed “Very Focused” on Character Between Takes But Without “Any Sort of Method-Acting Bull****”
Longlegs writer-director Osgood Perkins is opening up about working with Nicolas Cage on their new horror movie, in which the star plays a satanic serial killer and undergoes a full physical transformation. The look — which has been kept under wraps in all of the film’s trailers and marketing — is so terrifying that Neon […]
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Nicolas Cage on Taking ‘Longlegs’ Inspiration From His Mother and Creating His “Very Androgynous” Serial Killer
In the upcoming horror movie Longlegs, Nicolas Cage stars as a mysterious, Satanic serial killer who is known by that same title. And though the film has drawn comparisons to Silence of the Lambs and Zodiac, Cage points to his late mother as one of his inspirations for the movie. Cage’s mother Joy Vogelsang passed […]
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‘Longlegs’ Review: Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage in a Mesmerizing Serial Killer Chiller That Burns With Satanic Power
Writer-director Osgood Perkins spins a tense FBI procedural steeped in occult horror and nightmarish visions, also starring Blair Underwood and Alicia Witt.
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