Since its debut in June, Under Paris has been steadily climbing up the Netflix Top 10 list, but the shark thriller could end its run as the most popular non-English movie on the streaming service.

Under Paris is currently sitting in third place on Netflix’s most popular non-English film list with 96.6M views, behind only Society of the Snow (98.5M) and Troll (103M). The film still has roughly a month left in its 91-day premiere window, so it could easily overtake Troll to take the number one spot.

The official Under Paris synopsis reads: “After a dangerous shark nicknamed Lilith kills all of Sophia’s research colleagues, the scientist (Bérénice Bejo) gives up studying climate-related shark mutations. But five years later, an environmental activist named Mika (Léa Léviant) discovers a massive shark lurking in the Seine just days before the World Triathlon Championships are hosted in Paris — and it’s the same one Sophia was tracking. So the scientist warily dives back into her work in order to thwart catastrophe. Now it’s up to Sophia, Mika, and reluctant police officer Adil (Nassim Lyes) to prevent a bloodbath before it’s too late.“

As the film has proven to be a big success, director Xavier Gens hinted in June that there could be a sequel. “Right now, as of today, we’re not on it, but there’s a chance we’ll be discussing it soon,” Gens said. “If there is a sequel, it will take place in a Paris that is entirely submerged under water.“

Our own Tyler Nichols had fun with Under Paris, although admitted that it didn’t break any new ground as far as shark movies go. “Under Paris is exactly what most shark movies end up being: an absurdist view of what a shark would do if it was a sentient killer. I wouldn’t say it’s good, but there are some high-octane moments that help you ignore the more overtly dumb ones,” Nichols wrote. “Climate change is a large factor in the story and it gets a little heavy-handed with its message. But I really enjoyed where the film ended up, setting up for what could be an extremely intriguing sequel. Watch this with a group of friends and laugh at the insanity on display. That’s what most shark movies are good for, and this is no exception.” You can check out the rest of Nichols’ review right here.

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Disney’s popular streaming service is set to receive yet another price hike, marking the fourth increase for the streamer since it launched in 2019. The new ad-free tier of Disney+ will soon cost $16 a month. It comes as Disney and other companies continue to try and squeeze more profit out of expensive-to-run…

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Disney’s popular streaming service is set to receive yet another price hike, marking the fourth increase for the streamer since it launched in 2019. The new ad-free tier of Disney+ will soon cost $16 a month. It comes as Disney and other companies continue to try and squeeze more profit out of expensive-to-run…

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Jenna Ortega found herself at the center of a little controversy last year when he said that she would rewrite her own lines on Netflix’s Wednesday series without consulting the writers. While recently speaking with Vanity Fair, she confessed that she could have chosen her words a little more carefully.

“I probably could have used my words better in describing all of that. I think, oftentimes, I’m such a rambler,” Ortega said.
“I think it was hard because I felt like had I represented the situation better, it probably would’ve been received better.“

Ortega continued, “Everything that I said felt so magnified…. It felt almost dystopian to me. I felt like a caricature of myself…. You’re never going to please everybody, and as someone who naturally was a people pleaser, that was really hard for me to understand. Some people just may not like you… and that’s entirely fine. [In fact] I got sick of myself last year. My face was everywhere… so it’s like, fair enough, if I were opening my phone and I saw the same girl with some stupid quote or something, I would be over it too.“

The Wednesday actress made her “rewriting” statements during an episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down more on a set in a way that I had to on Wednesday. Everyhing that Wednesday does, everything I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all,” Ortega said. “Her being in a love triangle? It made no sense. There was a line about a dress she has to wear for a school dance and she says, ‘Oh my God I love it. Ugh, I can’t believe I said that. I literally hate myself.’ I had to go, ‘No.’ There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines. The script supervisor thought I was going with something and then I had to sit down with the writers, and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I’d have to go and explain why I couldn’t go do certain things.“

Over the course of the season, Ortega grew very protective of the Wednesday character. “You can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc because then it’s boring and nobody likes you. When you are little and say very morbid, offensive stuff, it’s funny and endearing. But then you become a teenager and it’s nasty and you know it. There’s less of an excuse.“

The second season of Wednesday started production in May, but Ortega will next be seen in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which hits theaters on September 6th in the U.S.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 just celebrated its first trip around the sun this past weekend. Have you, by chance, neglected to play the rightful Game of the Year 2023 (I’m not bitter) thus far? Well, if you have a PlayStation 5 and you’ve been waiting for the right time to jump into it, Larian Studios’ masterclass in RPG design…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 just celebrated its first trip around the sun this past weekend. Have you, by chance, neglected to play the rightful Game of the Year 2023 (I’m not bitter) thus far? Well, if you have a PlayStation 5 and you’ve been waiting for the right time to jump into it, Larian Studios’ masterclass in RPG design…

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The video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy’s (read our review HERE) quickly became Blumhouse Productions’ highest-grossing movie when it reached theatres and the Peacock streaming service back in October, surpassing the likes of Split, The Invisible Man, The Black Phone, M3GAN, the recent Halloween sequel trilogy, and the Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Purge franchises with its haul of $295 million. So, of course, there’s a sequel coming our way, aiming for a December 5, 2025 theatrical release… and returning cast member Matthew Lillard has just confirmed that filming begins this October!

Lillard provided the production update during an interview on the JayBee & Milly YouTube channel, where he happened to mention, “I’m doing FNAF in October.”

Five Nights at Freddy’s stars Lillard alongside Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Mary Stuart Masterson (Benny & Joon), Elizabeth Lail (You), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy), and Kat Conner Sterling (A Week Away). The film follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.

Stunt performers Kevin Foster (WandaVision), Jade Kindar-Martin (Interview with the Vampire), and Jess Weiss (Mayfair Witches) play the animatronics Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, and Chica. Fans are speculating that characters called Toy Chica and Mangle might be in the sequel, but their involvement has not been confirmed.

The video game takes place in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a darker version of Chuck-E-Cheese, where an animatronic animal band performs kiddy songs by day, and goes on murderous rampages by night. The goal of the game is survive a night locked inside, knowing that a furry death machine might jump out of the dark at any moment.

The adaptation was originally set up at Warner Bros., where Gil Kenan (Monster House) was going to direct the film from a screenplay he was writing with Tyler Burton Smith (the Child’s Play remake). Then the project moved over to Blumhouse, where Chris Columbus (Home Alone) was attached to direct it for several years. It finally went into production with Emma Tammi – director of The Wind, Into the Dark: Delivered, and Into the Dark: Blood Moon – at the helm, working from a screenplay she wrote with Seth Cuddeback (Mateo) and video game creator Scott Cawthon. Tragedy Girls writers Tyler MacIntyre and Chris Lee Hill share story credit with Cawthon.

Five Nights at Freddy’s was produced by Blumhouse, in association with Striker Entertainment. Cawthon is a producer alongside Blumhouse founder Jason Blum. Russell Binder is executive producing. Jim Henson’s Creature Shop handled the special effects that bring the homicidal animatronic animals to life on the screen.

Are you glad to hear that Matthew Lillard will be reporting to the set of the Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel in October? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Two years have gone by since we heard that production had wrapped on Cuckoo, a new horror film from writer/director Tilman Singer that stars Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Love and Monsters), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo), and Jan Bluthardt (Tatort). Now our chance to see the film is almost upon us, as it’s set to reach theatres on August 9th. JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave Cuckoo an 8/10 review you can read at THIS LINK, and we have interviews with the lead actors HERE – but if you need to see more before you decide whether or not you want to watch the movie, a clip has now dropped online that shows off 80 seconds of the film, giving a preview of a sequence where Schafer’s character has a terrifying experience while out riding a bicycle. You can check it out in the embed above.

Here’s the official synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family. A while back, Variety revealed that the film sees Schafer face off against a mysterious bird-like monster with a scream-like call who seeks to impregnate women with her evil spawn. The story, written by Singer, is based off the lore of the cuckoo bird, some of which are brood parasites, meaning they lay their eggs in the nests of other species. 

A press release notes that Dan Stevens turns in a “brilliant and terrifying” performance in the film, and he has described his role as a “delicious antagonist role.”

This is the second feature for Singer, following the 2018 supernatural horror film Luz, which Bluthardt had a role in. Luz told the story of “a young cab driver fleeing from the grasp of a possessed woman, whose confession could endanger the lives of everyone who crosses her path.” Several of Singer’s Luz collaborators joined him on Cuckoo. In addition to Bluthardt, also returning from Luz were cinematographer Paul Faltz, composer Simon Waskow, and production designer Dario Mendez Acosta.

Cuckoo was financed by Neon. The film is being produced by Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer, in a cooperation between Germany’s Fiction Park and the States’ Waypoint Entertainment. It’s executive produced by Tom Quinn, Jeff Deutchman, Emily Thomas, and Ryan Friscia for Neon. Additional funding came from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, HessenFilm, and the German Federal Film Fund.

What did you think of the Cuckoo clip? Will you be watching this movie on the big screen? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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In 2017, James Mangold unleashed a video of Hugh Jackman recording ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) for Logan. The behind-the-scenes clip shows the Aussie actor tearing through a group of henchmen in a forest, snarling and foaming at the mouth with rage. Today, Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy adds to Jackman’s voiceover antics with his own video. Posted to his Instagram, the video shows Hugh Jackman recording ADR for the epic fight in which Deadpool and Wolverine battle the Deadpool Corp. As if you couldn’t tell from his show-stopping performance in the film’s final cut, Jackman’s passion for bringing Logan to life on the silver screen knows no bounds.

As Wolverine claws his way through nearly 100 Deadpools, Jackman re-enacts the scene to give the sound design team more grunts, groans, and expletives to work with. Jackman carves through imaginary foes with imaginary claws, his heart jumping like a jackrabbit inside his chest with every swing of adamantium. In addition to exorcising some of his inner demons, the ADR session proves to be a workout as Jackman sweats alongside his costumed counterpart.

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Deadpool & Wolverine is the hottest ticket in town at the box office, with $824M+ worldwide. Analysts expect the Marvel threequel to perform well throughout its third weekend, with an estimated $50M waiting to get comfortable inside Marvel’s massive money bin. By now, spoilers are everywhere, with the film’s guest stars popping up on social media, talk shows, viral interviews, and more.

While Deadpool & Wolverine feels like a standalone Marvel film, some fans can’t help but wonder if it’s paving the way for a bright future. One example is Danfe Keen’s Laura Kinney, aka X-23. In addition to her fantastic guest spot in Shawn Levy’s new film, could Keen reprise the role for Marvel’s X-Men reboot? It’s too early to tell, but Keen’s X-23 already has a built-in fanbase, with scores of fans praising her portrayal of Logan’s feral female clone. One thing’s for sure: it’ll be a sad day (again) when Jackman finally relinquishes the claws for good.

Could Dafne Keen’s X-23 be the MCU’s new Wolverine instead of recasting Logan? How much do you love watching Hugh Jackman slash through invisible enemies while recording ADR? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Ten years ago, actor Adam MacDonald made his feature writing and directing debut with an entertaining survival thriller called Backcountry (watch it HERE), which starred Missy Peregrym as a woman lost in the wilderness and menaced by a bear. A few years ago, we heard that MacDonald and Peregrym were going to be teaming up for a new survival thriller called Out Come the Wolves, which went into production last year – and now it’s ready to make its way out into the world!  IFC Films will be bringing Out Come the Wolves to theatres and “everywhere you rent movies” on August 30th, and with that date swiftly approaching, a red band trailer for the film has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Out Come the Wolves will also be reaching the Shudder streaming service eventually.

MacDonald directed Out Come the Wolves from a screenplay by Enuka Okuma, based on a story they crafted with actor Joris Jarsky of God’s Country. The story has the following synopsis: Retired hunter Sophie invites her fellow hunter and childhood best friend Kyle to her family’s secluded cabin deep in the woods. There, she plans for Kyle to meet and teach her fiancé Nolan how to hunt for an article he’s writing and to share the news of their engagement. Tensions flare between Kyle and Nolan over their shared history with Sophie, escalating during the hunt that goes awry when they are ambushed by a vicious pack of territorial wolves. As alliances fracture under the pressure of survival, Sophie is forced to rely on her long-abandoned hunting prowess to face the deadly predators and save the one closest to her heart.

Peregrym is joined in the cast by Jarsky and Damon Runyan (Star Trek: Discovery).

Out Come the Wolves was produced by High Park Entertainment and December Films. Individual producers include Eric Birnberg, Thomas Walden, Todd Berger, and Thomas Vencelides.

In addition to Backcountry, MacDonald’s directing credits include Pyewacket and seasons 3, 4, and 5 of the TV series Slasher.

What did you think of the Out Come the Wolves trailer? Will you be watching this movie at the end of August? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I enjoyed Backcountry, so I’m looking forward to seeing how this one has turned out.

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