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Ready to get “Together?”

The film, which premiered earlier this year in the midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival, places real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie in a body-horror scenario. It has brand-new teaser trailer out Wednesday, which you can watch below (if you dare).

Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks and produced by Brie and Franco, among others, the movie was a sensation when it premiered at Sundance and kicked off a bidding war, with A24, Apple TV+ and Focus Features among the potential distributors. Ultimately, Neon won the worldwide distribution rights to the film for a whopping $17 million. It was the first major sale at this year’s sleepy Sundance and made the movie even buzzier.

The trailer doesn’t give much away, but the film is said to be a gooey metaphor for codependency, which you can totally get. The official synopsis reads: “Years into their relationship,...

In the wake of horror hits Longlegs and The Monkey, distributor Neon is back in the horror game this summer with Together, which they’re calling “the horror movie of the year.”

Neon will release Together in theaters everywhere on August 1, 2025.

Watch the official teaser trailer for Together below, which retains all the film’s mysteries while offering up some wild imagery that immediately calls Carpenter’s The Thing to mind.

And Together is indeed a body horror nightmare of Lovecraftian proportions, the upcoming movie from director Michael Shanks said to “put a meta spin on the body horror film.”

Together follows a codependent couple that moves to the remote countryside to become even closer. And they do, on a nightmarish physical level, thanks to a supernatural force.

Real-life spouses Alison Brie and Dave Franco star.

Meagan Navarro reviewed Together for Bloody Disgusting out of Sundance.

“Alison Brie and Dave...

Darren Aronofsky is circling to direct Netflix’s Cujo film, based on the novel by Stephen King.

Deadline first reported the news of the film adaptation , with Roy Lee attached to produce in the deal made last week.

The 1981 novel was originally adapted into a thriller film in 1983 starring Dee Wallace as a mother protecting her sone from a 200-pound St. Bernard that turned rabid after being bit by a bat. The formerly friendly hound transformed into one of cold calculation that left a trail of bodies in its wake.

The climactic scene in that film took place when Wallace’s mother and her son face the difficult decision of battling heatstroke in a car that won’t start or confronting the big, rabid dog waiting for them outside the small vehicle.

Aronofsky’s more recent projects include Postcard from Earth (2023) and The Whale (2022) starring Brendan Fraser...

We found out last week that a new take on Stephen King's killer dog novel, Cujo, is in the works for Netflix, and the project may have nabbed a somewhat surprising director.

According to Jeff Sneider in his latest newsletter (and since backed up by THR), Darren Aronofsky is in negotiations to helm the movie.

Though some would consider this the filmmaker's first foray into the horror genre, that's certainly debatable. Aronofsky has included horror elements in a number of his previous films, and many would view the likes of Mother!, Black Swan, and even Requiem for a Dream to be full-on horror movies.

King's novel focuses on a mother and her young seizer-prone son being terrorized by a huge St. Bernard who becomes a rabid killing machine after being bitten by a bat. 

Cujo was previously adapted for the big screen back in 1983, with Lewis Teague directing from...

Not only is Stephen King one of the most venerated working authors, but adaptations of his work have become among the most iconic horror films. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, which adapts King's 1977 novel of the same name, is continually cited as one of the most formative and impactful horror films of all time. The same is true of movies like Carrie.King's non-horror novels have notable and respected adaptations, including Stand by Me and The Green Mile.

In addition to their critical acclaim, many King adaptations have become box office darlings. The 2017 adaptation of It made over $701 million worldwide, and its successor, It: Chapter Two, made a still-impressive $467.5 million. Other box office hits include The Green Mile, which made $290.7 million and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. As the list of notable King movies continues, 2025 has added another impressive title, which has just crossed an important box office milestone.

Already one of the highest-grossing movies of the year and now officially one of the highest-earning Stephen King adaptations of all time, The Monkey, director Osgood Perkins' follow-up to the huge 2024 success Longlegs, has now reached yet another milestone as it continues its run as one of the rare box office successes of 2025 so far. After another strong weekend in which the film earned just shy of $2.5 million domestically, The Monkey has now surpassed the $50 million mark globally, thanks to a domestic haul of $35.4 million and another $14.7 million from overseas markets.

Netflix is aiming high for its take on Cujo. An Oscar-nominated filmmaker is reportedly in negotiations to direct the upcoming film adaptation of the Stephen King classic.

According to trusted insider Jeff Sneider via his TheInSneider newsletter, Darren Aronofsky is in talks to direct Cujo for Netflix, which would mark his first movie for a streaming service. Aronofsky is an acclaimed filmmaker who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on the 2010 psychological drama Black Swan. His other notable directorial credits include his debut feature Pi (1998), the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream (2000), the sports drama The Wrestler (2008), the biblical epic Noah (2014), and the drama The Whale (2022), the latter of which earned Brendan Fraser a long-awaited comeback in Hollywood as well as an Oscar for Best Actor.

Published in 1981 by Viking Press, Cujo is a horror novel following a mother and son who are trapped...

Gerard Butler’s heist sequel, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, is about to lose its spot at the box office. At the time of writing, Den of Thieves 2 has accrued $36 million at the domestic box office and $20 million internationally for a worldwide total of $56 million, and that $36 million has been enough to earn it a spot as one of the top five highest-grossing movies of the year domestically, until now. The Monkey is closing in Den of Thieves 2, trailing the film by less than $1 million, and it will certainly pass it by the end of the week, if not sooner. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera earned scores of 62% from critics and 79% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, higher than the original, but it grossed less money at the box office than its predecessor.

In surprising news, Netflix’s recently announced take on Stephen King’s killer dog story Cujo looks to have attracted Darren Aronofsky.

Well, it’s good to know that film news still has the capacity to surprise us. According to a report at The InSneider, Darren Aronofsky is said to be in line to direct the freshly announced Cujo remake at Netflix. The director of films such as Black Swan and Requiem For A Dream is a master at depicting psychological torment, and the tale of a rabid killer dog attacking a woman and her young son as they’re trapped in a car certainly has the kind of narrative set-up that will allow Aronofsky to deploy tricks of his trade.

After all, this is the filmmaker that gave us the delightfully bonkers mother!, which put Jennifer Lawrence through some of the strangest psychological horror we can remember seeing in some time.

Like it or not, 2025 is rapidly becoming the Year of the Freak Accident.

In horror, everybody from audiences who loved “The Monkey” to that very flammable fellow in “The Rule of Jenny Pen” is feeling it. But there’s even more to come when “Final Destination” — the genre’s most criminally underrated supernatural franchise — returns with scads more not-so-accidental deaths on May 16.

The aughts used to get a bad rap in pop culture, but that’s improved somewhat in recent years. As filmmakers have released their death-grip obsession on the ’80s, familiar faces and franchises from throughout the 2000s have reemerged across all types of movies and TV. Right now, for example, you can see the forty-something “Veronica Mars” dating that forty-something guy from “The O.C.” in a rom-com on Netflix that’s been wildly popular — in spite of the title “Nobody Wants This.”

When it comes to nostalgia for aughts-era nightmares,...

Update March 17, 2025: Paramount's Novocaine topped the box office in its first weekend of release, earning $8.7 million from March 14 to March 16. The action-packed comedy starring Jack Quaid came in slightly under its $10 million forecast to lead a numb weekend box office. Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 held on for second place, adding $7.5 million to the film's total domestic gross of $33 million. Rounding out the top five were Focus Features' Black Bag with $7.5 million, Disney/Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World with $5.5 million, and Ketchup Entertainment's The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, which exceeded expectations with $3.2 million.

Original story published March 14, 2025: What will be the winners and the losers this week at the U.S. box office? Four new movies enter theaters this weekend led by Novocaine, Paramount's comedy-thriller from directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen. They will be facing off against the...

The Monkeyhas passed another box office milestone following its fourth full weekend in theaters. Despite nearly falling out of the top 10 this weekend thanks to a $2.4 million gross at the domestic box office, The Monkey has now successfully reached $35 million domestically. The horror film from director Osgood Perkins has also grossed an additional $14.7 million internationally to help its worldwide total fall just under $50 million, a milestone which it is poised to pass when the next batch of numbers comes in. The Monkey is currently the sixth-highest-grossing movie of the year at the domestic box office, roughly $2 million ahead of Mickey 17 and $1 million behind Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, but it will likely pass Gerard Butler’s action sequel by the end of the week.

Worldwide box office: March 14-16 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories 1. Ne Zha 2(various) $26.4m $2.08bn $26.1m $2.05bn 8 2. Mickey 17(Warner Bros) $23.1m $90.5m $15.6m $57.2m 70 3. Black Bag(Universal) $11.8m $11.8m $4.3m $4.3m 38 4. Captain America: Brave New World(Disney) $11.5m $388.6m $6m $203.2m 53 5. Novocaine(Paramount) $10.5m $10.5m $1.8m $1.8m 20 6. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy(various) $5.7m $120.7m $5.7m $120.7m 76 7. Paddington In Peru(Sony) $5.1m $183.9m $2.3m $142.6m 55 8. The Monkey(various) $4.8m $59.8m $2.3m $24.6m 60 9. Dog Man(Universal) $3.9m $125.6m $1.4m $32.8m 59 10. The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie(various) $3.4m $5.7m $192,000 $2.6m 9

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The animated movie Ne Zha 2 has reached a new milestone! It is now the 5th highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide. The Chinese film has earned over $2.085 billion, surpassing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which made $2.071 billion.

Most of Ne Zha 2’s earnings come from China. The movie has made about Rmb 14.86 billion ($2.054 billion) in the country. Experts predict that the final total in China will be Rmb 15.2 billion ($2.1 billion).

Outside China, Ne Zha 2 has made over $31 million so far. The movie will soon be released in more countries, including Indonesia (March 21), Japan, and parts of Europe.

The movie is also performing well in IMAX theaters. It has earned $155 million from IMAX screens, making it the 6th biggest IMAX release ever. Most of this revenue ($151.6 million) comes from China.

Related: ‘The Monkey’ Just Passed Stephen King’s Beloved Adaptation at the Box Office

In the UK, IMAX...

Yes, this is the lowest grossing weekend of 2025 to date, but not for opera, as the specialty market found its maestro, Ludwig van Beethoven.

The Met: Live in HD transmission of Beethoven’s Fidelio grossed over $860k at about 800 cinemas on Saturday night, one screening.

Conducted by Susanna Mälkki, and starring soprano Lise Davidsen, tenor David Butt Philip, and soprano Ying Fang, the title had the second highest per-screen average of all filmed content across North America and ranked 11 at North American box office yesterday. Encore screenings will play select U.S. cinemas March 19 and Canadian cinemas on March 29, 31, and April 2.

Fathom is the North American distributor. The live transmission was directed for cinema by Gary Halvorson and hosted by tenor Ben Bliss.

The Met: Live in HD — live high-definition cinema simulcasts that do tend to pop — now in its 18th season, is available in more than 1,800 theaters in 60 countries.

Osgood Perkins is quickly becoming one of the best directors in all of horror. After an impressive start with smaller films like The Blackcoat's Daughter, the son of Anthony Perkins has truly taken off in the past two years. First came the success of the wild Longlegs, which turned Nicolas Cage into one of the most unusual and terrifying villains you'll ever meet. Perkins then followed that up with this year's The Monkey, starring Theo James in a horror comedy whose gory deaths will make you laugh and cringe at the same time. It'll be exciting to see what he does next. He already has another film, Keeper, coming out later in 2025, but in a recent online Q & A, Perkins teased the desire to make a horror movie centered around Darth Vader. Someone needs to make this happen!

It was a good news/ bad news situation at the box office this weekend for Paramount Pictures. On the one hand, their heavily hyped action comedy, Novocaine, starring The Boys’ Jack Quaid, managed to finish in the top spot (as we predicted). The bad news is that it happened to lead the slowest weekend of the year, with the $8.7 million gross certainly nothing to write home about. That said, considering that the movie sports a thrifty $18 million budget, it didn’t need to have a massive opening, and if word of mouth is good, it could become something of a sleeper. However, the B CinemaScore rating isn’t wild for an action comedy, so it’s possible it won’t be able to have as strong of a hold as the studio is no doubt hoping for.

Indeed, the race for number one didn’t end up being all that close after all.

Update: 2025/03/16 07:45 Est By Brennan Klein

Novocaine Takes The Lead With A Dismal No. 1 Gross

This article was originally written Saturday Am and has been updated Sunday Am with up-to-date box office projections (in bold), a full chart, and further analysis.

Novocaine has pulled ahead of Black Bag, and Mickey 17 after going head to head in a dismal weekend for the 2025 box office. Novocaine, which is an action comedy starring Jack Quaid, and Black Bag, which is a Steven Soderberg-directed spy thriller starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, are both new wide releases. The Mickey 17 release kicked off the week before. The Bong Joon Ho-directed Robert Pattinson sci-fi movie debuted at No. 1 with a record-breaking $19 million haul that was the Parasite director's best in domestic history but still came nowhere close to its $118 million budget.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, Novocaine is set to take No. 1 at...

For someone who only started directing 10 years ago, Osgood Perkins has done incredibly well for himself. Longlegs was one of the best movies of 2024 and in 2025, the actor-filmmaker is once again ruling the world with The Monkey. The film has been received well by critics and is set to push the collective gross for Stephen King adaptations past the 3 billion dollar mark. But Perkins’ brilliance shouldn’t come as a surprise. The horror gene has always been in his family. His dad, Anthony Perkins, will forever be appreciated for his performance in Psycho.

The Monkey, adapted from King's 1980 short story of the same name, follows twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn (both portrayed by Theo James) whose lives are changed forever when they chance upon their father's old toy monkey in the attic. Little do they know that it has dark powers. Whenever it beats its drums, someone ends up dead.

Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood are two of Hollywood's most dynamic and celebrated performers, with the talented duo joining forces in 1994 to headline the poignant coming-of-age drama The War, a thought-provoking film that focuses on a Vietnam War veteran who returns to his home and family in Mississippi and struggles to overcome his crippling Ptsd and war trauma. Wood appears as Costner's headstrong son, who undergoes a major transformation himself as he tries to find meaning and purpose outside of his dreary household by building his own sanctuary in the form of a treehouse in the forest.

Though The War ultimately proved to be a box office dud and attracted underwhelming reviews from critics, moviegoers appreciated the wholesome chemistry between Costner and Wood, with many raving about the younger star's vulnerable performance and the endearing father/son bond the two shared. The little-known drama served as a major stepping stone...

A new Stephen King movie has become a major hit for the author. King is best known for his works in the horror genre, many of which have been adapted into movies. Quite a few of these have found extraordinary critical success, including 1976's Carrie, which has a Certified Fresh score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for two Oscars. Other prominent adaptations include The Shining (83%), Misery and the non-horror titles Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption.

On top of his critical success, quite a few Stephen King movies have become box office hits. The most notable of these are 2017's It and its 2019 follow-up It: Chapter 2, which grossed $701 million and $467.6 million worldwide respectively, becoming his first and second highest-grossing adaptations of all time. Altogether, half a dozen King adaptations have grossed more than $100 million at the box office, including The Green Mile ($290.7 million) and 1408 ($131.3 million).

The Monkey...

The new Robert Pattinson science fiction movie has surpassed a major box office milestone despite setbacks during its second weekend. Pattinson is a well-known actor who got his start in prominent franchises, including playing Cedric Diggory in 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise, which spanned five movies that were released between 2008 and 2012. However, as he grew older, he began to take on more idiosyncratic roles.

While he has since returned to franchise filmmaking in a major way by leading the cast of The Batman in the title role, he has become better known for working with auteur directors such as the Safdie Brothers, who he partnered with in their 2017 movie Good Time, and Robert Eggers, who he worked with in the 2019 horror feature The Lighthouse. Other titles that saw him work with notable directors include Claire Denis' High Life, Christopher Nolan's Tenet,...

Written and directed by former GQ editor and frequent celebrity interviewer Mark Anthony Green, “Opus” is an A24 thriller about, well, the horrors of celebrity culture. A kind of tonal and narrative cousin to 2022’s “The Menu,” the film is a nightmarish satire set at a remote compound owned by a popular, potentially malevolent musician. Featuring a star-studded cast, it joins “Heart Eyes,” “Companion,” “The Gorge” and “The Monkey” on 2025’s growing list of noteworthy high-concept thrillers and horror movies.

Here is how, when and where you can watch “Opus.”

When does “Opus” come out?

“Opus” is set to be released on Friday, March 14. It made its world premiere on January 27 at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Is “Opus” streaming or in theaters?

An A24 release, “Opus” is currently only playing in theaters. It will likely be at least a few weeks before the film becomes available to rent on VOD,...

The Monkey, the latest horror film from director Osgood Perkins, has successfully become one of the highest-grossing Stephen King movies ever at the box office. The film has now moved past The Shining and Stand By Me to become one of the top 10 highest-grossing adaptations for King novels and short stories, a prestigious accomplishment considering King is credited as a writer on well over 100 projects. At the time of writing, The Monkey has accrued $47 million at the global box office, with $32 million coming from domestic earnings and $14 million from international markets. While all hopes of surpassing Oz Perkins’ previous film, Longlegs, are now gone, The Monkey has still yet to give up its spot in the top five at the box office.

It's less than a month until the release of the next big video game adaptation, A Minecraft Movie, and we now have our first look at one of the popcorn buckets that will be available at Cinemark Theatres. Cinemagoers who are keen to see how the pixels of the beloved sandbox world translate to the big screen will now be able to own a piece of the action with a snack receptacle that is sure to blow up in popularity because the design is pure dynamite — literally because it's a TNT crate, taking inspiration from the game's pixelated model.

The bucket, posted on X/Twitter by Cinemark (shared below), was unveiled alongside several other pieces of tie-in merchandise for the upcoming block-rocking blockbuster. Another item that is sure to grab the attention of Minecraft players is the "chicken jockey" popcorn and drinks vessel that features a baby zombie riding a chicken,...

After scoring big hits with “Anora” and “Longlegs” in 2024, Neon wants their box office success to continue this calendar year, too. So far so good for the distributor on the rise: “The Monkey” was another hit for Neon last month, with a bigger turn-in now than Sean Baker‘s Oscar Best Picture winner.

Read More: ‘The Life Of Chuck’ Is The Surprise 2024 Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award Winner

Expect “The Life Of Chuck” to extend Neon’s streak of box office supremacy this summer, too.

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The teaser for The Life of Chuck has finally arrived. The feature, which is based on the Stephen King novella of the same name, is the latest King adaptation written and directed by Mike Flanagan, who also made Doctor Sleep and Gerald's Game. The upcoming The Life of Chuck, which is not a horror movie like Flanagan's previous adaptations, stars Tom Hiddleston in the title role as an ordinary man whose life is depicted in three parts, in reverse chronological order, beginning with his death. The cast also includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Matthew Lillard, Harvey Guillén, and Mark Hamill.

Neon has now unveiled the first official teaser trailer for The Life of Chuck. The minute-long video opens with the sound of a clock ticking playing over a vast expanse of starry sky. The rhythm is then matched by other sounds from Chuck's (Tom Hiddleston) life, including a heart monitor and a blinking streetlight.

For the third time in eight years, director Mike Flanagan is adapting Stephen King’s work as a feature film. Flanagan’s first two collaborations with King — Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep — were both horror stories. But The Life of Chuck is something else altogether. The newly released teaser trailer lightly acknowledges that it isn’t a scary story by citing some of King’s previous forays outside of horror, including Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile. What it doesn’t answer is the question hanging over the film: Who is Chuck?

Tom Hiddleston plays Chuck as an adult, while Jacob Tremblay and Benjamin Pajak portray younger versions. There is an ominous quality to the trailer, which unfolds to the rhythm of a ticking of a clock. According to the film’s description, “images of a modest accountant named Chuck inexplicably appear everywhere” just as the...

When it comes to authors who have had their works adapted into major feature films, Stephen King has few equals. 1976's Carrie from director Brian De Palma marks the first of the author's works to get the big-screen treatment, and it paved the way for dozens more in the decades that followed. Stanbley Kubrick's The Shining was released in 1980 and now stands as one of the most iconic and beloved adaptations of King's work, even if the author himself infamously doesn't care for it.

Rob Reiner's Stand By Me hit theaters in 1986, marking the first non-horror King adaptation. It would ultimately be followed by movies like The Running Man (1987), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and The Green Mile (1999). More than two decades later, new King movies continue to release at a regular cadence, including titles like Gerald's Game (2017), Pet Sematary (2019), Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022), The Boogeyman (2023), and Salem's Lot (2024). King's name alone,...

The Monkey is one of the biggest horror movies at this moment, as everyone is talking about the highly-praised adaptation of Stephen King’s story. Osgood Perkins took it upon himself to bring the cult story to the screen and based on the reactions, he’s done a pretty good job.

And while The Monkey will not surpass Perkins’ previous films, Longlegs, at the box office, the numbers we have confirm that it has just surpassed arguably the best Stephen King adaptation of all time and a true classic of 20th-century cinema.

The film in question is, as you might have guessed, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a classic of horror cinema and one of Kubrick’s best and most famous films. And while the psychological horror starring Jack Nicholson is now regarded as a classic, it had a very rough start, earning just over $47 million with a roughly $20 million budget.

Stephen King's presence in the cultural milieu never fully went away, but he is making a bit of a comeback from dipping in popularity. At least, as far as consistent adaptations of his work. That is completely changing currently and will continue to do so.

In 2024, Max put out a series based on King's novel, Salem's Lot. It was not perfect, but at least it tried to stick to what the author had produced. Taking a book and making it into a full series is tricky. A film adaptation would have probably been the wiser choice.

The Monkey, based on a short story by King, was a recent theatrical release. Amazon MGM Studios and the fantastic Mike Flanagan are currently working on an adaptation of Carrie. Edgar Wright is working with star Glen Powell on a new edition of The Running Man, and projects for It sequel Welcome to Derry,...

Despite falling short of Longlegsboth domestically and worldwide, director Osgood Perkins' follow-up feature, The Monkey, has done solid business at the box office. The horror film is adapted from a Stephen King short story, and is inching towards the $50 million mark at the global box office. Last year, Longlegs concluded its run with $125 million, cementing Perkins as a horror filmmaker to watch out for. Thanks to The Monkey's performance, the cumulative global box office haul of every King adaptation has nearly hit the $3 billion mark. On its 18th day of release, The Monkey is passing perhaps the most well-regarded of any King adaptation, The Shining.

The folks over at Neon have several reasons to celebrate this month. Not only did the indie distributor pick up its second Best Picture Oscar for director Sean Baker's Anora, it's also experiencing some much-needed success at the box office. Director Osgood Perkins' The Monkey has delivered a solid (if not spectacular) commercial performance, and although the film has out-performed several recent horror offerings, it'll always be compared to Perkins' previous release, the blockbuster hit Longlegs. Incidentally, each of these three films — Anora, Longlegs, and The Monkey — rank among Neon's five highest-grossing releases of all time globally.

Killer dog tale Cujo, by Stephen King, is getting a new telling, backed by Netflix money. More on the story here.

There’s an old maxim that suggests that there’s always at least three Robin Hood films in development at the same time. Given the never-ending glut of Stephen King adaptations that are pumped out, it would probably be more accurate these days to replace Sherwood Forest’s rogueish outlaw with the prolific novelist who always seems to have a take on his work in cinemas, or just around the corner.

Case in point: while Osgood Perkins’ take on The Monkey is still in cinemas, 2025 will also bring us Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck and Edgar Wright’s The Running Man. On the small screen, there’s also HBO’s Welcome To Derry and MGM+’s The Institute debuting this year too.

Naturally, there are more King adaptations in the pipeline,...

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Billy Joel postpones tour dates after surgery

Billy Joel has postponed eight stadium concerts he was scheduled to perform over the next four months because of a recent surgery for an undisclosed "medical condition."

An announcement this morning said that the singer “is expected to make a full recovery” and will undergo doctor-supervised physical therapy. “While I regret postponing any shows, my health must come first,” Joel said in the statement. “I look forward to getting back on stage and sharing the joy of live music with our amazing fans. Thank you for your understanding.” Joel is expected to resume playing concerts July 5 at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. The postponed shows in Toronto, Detroit, Syracuse, Milwaukee, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Edinburgh, and Liverpool will be rescheduled.

Netflix strikes movie deal for Stephen King's Cujo remake

Netflix is ready to take a new bite at Stephen King's Cujo.

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Despite being wildly popular for decades, both as an author and as a source of inspiration for on-screen media, Stephen King is more popular now than he's ever been. Case in point, Netflix is once again teaming with the prolific author for a new adaptation of his 1981 novel "Cujo." It seems this deadly dog will once again have the chance to show his teeth for a new generation.

According to Deadline, Netflix has closed a deal to make a new movie based on "Cujo," with Roy Lee, of "Barbarian" and "It" fame, producing. No writer or director is currently attached, but the report notes that they will be going out to writers "immediately." Clearly, Netflix doesn't intend to let this languish in development hell. Netflix has partnered with King several times before on movies such as "1922" and "Gerald's Game,...

Another film adaptation of Stephen King‘s Cujo is under works.

Netflix will be creating a version of Stephen‘s classic 1981 thriller novel. While the cast and writers have not yet been confirmed, Roy Lee will serve as a producer, per Deadline.

Keep reading to find out more…

Cujo was first turned into a movie in 1983, and the plot tells the story of “a mother desperate to protect her son from a formerly friendly 200 pound St. Bernard that has been bitten by a rabid bat and turns into a ferocious, calculating hound that leaves a trail of bodies. Mom and her son get stuck in her small car that won’t start, and their choices are to battle it out with the rabid oversized hound or risk heatstroke in a hot car.”

Another movie adaptation of a Stephen King story, The Monkey, was released to theaters last month. It stars Theo James,...

Stephen King is one of the most frequently adapted authors in film and television history, with these projects garnering wide acclaim for several decades. Brian De Palma’s adaptation of King’s debut novel, Carrie, created a legendary horror sequence in 1976 when Sissy Spacek was drenched in pig's blood. In 1980, Stanley Kubrick directed The Shining with a visually stunning yet off-kilter take on King’s novel. Ten years later, Misery won Kathy Bates an Academy Award for her chilling performance as an obsessed literary fan, with other successful King adaptations including Stand By Me, Green Mile, and The Shawshank Redemption.

Recent years have seen a resurgence in King adaptations, with Andy Muschietti's It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) revitalizing the horror franchise as Bill Skarsgård took on the role of the killer clown Pennywise. Despite its box office struggles, Doctor Sleep (2019), a sequel to Kubrick's 1980 film, received positive reviews...

Netflix is preparing to make another Stephen King adaptation! According to a new Deadline exclusive, the streamer has finalized a deal to adapt King's novel Cujo into a new feature film with Roy Lee set to produce.

Lee is a well-known horror movie producer, having produced hit movies like Barbarian, Strange Darling, Companion, The Ring, and more. He's also producing the upcoming films Weapons and Until Dawn. But most notably, Lee has produced multiple King projects such as Doctor Sleep, Salem's Lot, It, It: Chapter Two, and The Stand. And Netflix has released a few adaptations, too, between Gerald's Game, 1922, and In the Tall Grass, so Lee and Netflix working together makes a lot of sense.

First published in 1981, Cujo is King's novel about a once sweet Saint Bernard who gets bit by a bat and turns rabid. From there, the massive animal goes on a rampage, killing multiple people throughout the book.

Netflix has greenlit a remake of Stephen King’s novel “Cujo,” a horror story about a mother and son who get trapped in their car while protecting themselves from a rabid dog.

Roy Lee (“Barbarian”) will produce the reboot, which has yet to attach a writer, director or cast members, per Deadline, which broke the news of the project. King’s 1981 book was first adapted for the screen in the 1983 feature film of the same name, directed by Lewis Teague and starring Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Danny Pintauro. At the box office, “Cujo” earned $21 million worldwide (not adjusted for inflation) against a $6 million budget.

King’s novels, in genres ranging from horror and sci-fi to crime and fantasy, have been rich material for Hollywood, with films such as “Carrie,” “The Shining,” “Shawshank Redemption,” “Stand By Me,” “It” and the sequel “It: Chapter Two.”

Edgar Wright is currently adapting...

Stephen King is easily one of the most prolific authors, whose novels are constantly being optioned to become films, limited series, or TV series. Some of his stories have been adapted several times.

The horror author has penned many terrifying stories. With a series of upcoming projects, one of his best stories will receive a brand-new adaptation. Per Deadline, Netflix has made a new deal to adapt King's 1981 novel Cujo into a new feature film.

The only name attached to the project is Roy Lee. There is no cast, writers, or director, but Lee is a King veteran. The famous producer, who has a long list of horror films under his belt, has worked on several other King adaptations, most famously the 2017 adaptation of It and its 2019 sequel, It Chapter Two, as well as Max's new take on Salem's Lot in 2024. Aside from Cujo, he will also produce the upcoming...

Exclusive: Netflix has made a deal to turn the Stephen King bestselling novel Cujo into a new feature film. Roy Lee is producing, and they will go out to writers immediately.

The novel, originally published in 1981, was first turned into a 1983 thriller that starred Dee Wallace as a mother desperate to protect her son from a formerly friendly 200-pound St. Bernard that has been bitten by a rabid bat and turns into a ferocious, calculating hound that leaves a trail of bodies. Mom and her son get stuck in her small car that won’t start, and their choices are to battle it out with the rabid oversized hound or risk heatstroke in a hot car.

The film was one of many adaptations of King’s thriller bestsellers that turned into film hits.

King continues to be as prolific as ever — Never Flinch will be next one published, and he...

With The Monkey nearing the $50 million mark at the worldwide box office, author Stephen King is set to add another milestone achievement in his already remarkable career. King's stories have been adapted into several iconic films, with the streak beginning back in 1976. Over the years, King has continued churning out tomes at a rapid rate, and across a variety of genres. The Monkey is the latest in a long line of adaptations, but is already among the most successful. Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke into the mainstream with last year's Longlegs, the movie has grossed $45 million at the worldwide box office.

Update March 10, 2025: Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 topped the box office in its first weekend of release, earning $19.1 million from March 7 to March 9. The Warner Bros. movie starring Robert Pattinson came in slightly under its $20 million forecast. Disney's latest Marvel movie Captain America: Brave New World held on for second place, adding $8.5 million to the film's total domestic gross of $176 million. Focus Features' Last Breath finished in third place with $4.2 million, followed by Neon's The Monkey and Sony's Paddington in Peru, each earning $3.9 million over the weekend.

Original story published March 7, 2025:What will be the winners and the losers this week at the U.S. box office? Five new movies are crashing theaters this weekend led by Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho's follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2019 film, Parasite. They will be facing off against the current top five money-makers: Captain America: Brave New World, Last Breath,...

Thanks to a strong $14 million opening at the box office the weekend after Valentine’s Day, it wasn’t out of the question for The Monkey to reach the same box office heights as Longlegs — the previous film from director Osgood Perkins — but those dreams have now been put to rest. After hauling in another $3.9 million this weekend at the box office, The Monkey has now passed $30 million at the domestic box office, but the film has yet to find solid international success, only grossing $14 million overseas for a $45 million global total. Longlegs finished its theatrical run with $125 million, $75 million of which came from domestic markets and $50 from international earnings, numbers which The Monkey likely won’t even sniff by the end of its run.

UK-Ireland top five Mar 7-9 RankFilm (origin)DistributorMar 7-9 grossTotalWeek 1 Mickey 17 (US) Warner Bros £2.13m £2.1m 1 2 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (UK-Fr-us) Universal £2.05m £40.4m 4 3 Marching Powder (UK) True Brit £1.1m £1.1m 1 4 Captain America: Brave New World (US) Disney £614,000 £16.8m 4 5 Dog Man (US) Universal £373,654 £12.5m 5

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Fantasy adventure Mickey 17 topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend, ending the three-week run atop the chart of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.

Mickey 17 opened to £2.1m for Warner Bros, from 668 sites at a £3,182 location average. That is the biggest opening for a...

Stephen King's Silver Bullet, the horror film starring Gary Busey, is now available to stream for free. It joins a host of new horror movies available on Tubi.

Silver Bullet arrived on Tubi alongside the first four installments in the Insidious franchise,Quarantine and Quarantine 2: Terminal, and the Brad Pitt-led World War Z zombie movie. Silver Bullet was released in 1985 and is based on King's 1983 novella Cycle of the Werewolf. Busey stars as Uncle Red, a loyal man who cares for his niece and nephew despite being seen as the town drunk. Corey Haim and Megan Follows star as Busey's niece and nephew, Marty and Jane Coslaw, respectively.

As a series of murders plagues the town, Red and his family try to uncover the truth behind the killings. When the townspeople form a vigilante group to track down the attacker, the murders continue to pile up, with a suspected werewolf responsible.

Worldwide box office: March 7-9 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Mickey 17(Warner Bros) $43.6m $53.3m $24.5m $34.2m 68 2. Ne Zha 2(various) $38.4m $2.04bn $37.7m $2.03bn 6 3. Captain America: Brave New World (Disney) $17.7m $370.8m $9.2m $194.2m 53 4. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy(various) $8.4m $111.3m $8.4m $111.3m 78 5. The Monkey(various) $8m $52.1m $4.1m $21.1m 59 6. Paddington In Peru(Sony) $7.2m $175.8m $3.3m $138.8m 55 7. Anora(various) $5.3m $54m $3.5m $35.6m 63 8. Dog Man(Universal) $4.9m $119.9m $1.4m $31.2m 57 9. Detective Chinatown 1900 (various) $4.6m $484.6m $4.6m $482.4m 9 10. Last Breath(various) $4.3m $15.1m $119,000 $459,000 7

Credit: Comscore. All figures are estimates.

The next Resident Evil film is coming in September 2026 it’s now been confirmed, with Zach Cregger directing. More here.

Ever since Barbarian released in 2022 and announced director Zach Cregger as a bold new name in the horror genre, we’ve been waiting patiently for his next film.

That next film is still set to be Weapons, a horror ‘opus’. But it now sounds as though we might well be getting two films from Cregger in the same year, with news emerging that his spin on the survival horror videogame series Resident Evil will release in September of 2026.

It was last September that we first covered reports that Cregger had signed up to tackle Resident Evil, with Sony backing the project after the filmmaker declined to continue developing a remake of Clue with the studio. That agreement is now official, with Sony even publicly dating the film, per Deadline.

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A new film took control of the box-office weekend as Mickey 17 ousted Captain America: Brave New World from the top spot by a $10.6 million margin.

With a three-day debut of $19.1 million, Mickey 17 easily took control of the box-office weekend top ten, giving Warner Bros. the top film this weekend. This, of course, pushed four-time box-office champ, Captain America: Brave New World to second place where it took in $8.5 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, bringing its four-week tally to $176.6 million. Meanwhile, Focus Features saw Last Breath fall to third place with $4.2 million taken in over the weekend, lifting the film’s two-week total to $14.7 million. In its third weekend of release, The Monkey fell to fourth where it made $3.9 million for Neon, while giving the film a $31 million overall total. Sony Pictures Releasing’s Paddington in Peru landed in fifth place where is made $3.85 million for the studio, raising...