The box office is ear-to-ear for “Smile 2,” with Paramount’s horror entry landing $9.4 million from 3,619 domestic locations across Friday and preview screenings. That’s above the $8.2 million opening day that the first “Smile” earned in 2022 — a successful kick-off for this sequel, which carries a $28 million production budget. With Halloween season […]

After heartfelt tributes from Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and as a band, Harry Styles shared that he is “truly devastated” by the death of his One Direction bandmate Liam Payne. Payne died on Wednesday at the age of 31 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires.” In his statement, Styles […]

Tributes from across the music industry poured in Wednesday evening for Liam Payne, with news emerging that the One Direction member had died at the age of 31 after reportedly falling from a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The English singer entered the music industry after appearing as a competitor on “The X Factor” in […]

Jeff Goldblum believes he’s faced off with his last dinosaur. In an interview with Total Film for the publication’s final issue, the actor shares that he thinks his “Jurassic Park” character, the celebrity mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, may be finished, as the franchise prepares to relaunch next summer with the release of “Jurassic World Rebirth,” […]

Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan are all now associated with “The Associate,” as the trio of British actors are in final talks to star in the Paramount+ series from Guy Ritchie and Ronan Bennett. The project had initially been developed with the title “The Donovans,” with plans to function as an across-the-pond spin-off […]

This essay by Parker Finn on his favorite horror movie of all time is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is not only my favorite horror film — it’s quite possibly my favorite film of all time. Cinephiles and scholars alike […]

This essay by Betty Gabriel on her scariest movie of all-time is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. What “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” lacks in jump scares and other familiar horror tropes, it makes up for in its homage to the source material. The author’s name […]

This essay by Kate Siegel on her favorite horror movie is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. Reality is subjective. If what I see as blue can be your red, what else is just perception? To keep a grip on sanity, we ignore that thought […]

This essay by Mike Flanagan on his favorite horror movie is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. When I find myself talking to someone familiar with Joel Anderson’s 2008 film (which isn’t often; it remains criminally underseen), our eyes usually go wide, our pitches rise […]

This essay by Robert Englund on his favorite horror movie of all time is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. It’s so difficult for me; I change it all the time. For classics, it would probably be “Bride of Frankenstein.” I do love that with […]

This essay by Heather Langenkamp on her favorite horror movie of all time is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. The first horror movie that I ever saw was “The Wizard of Oz,” and it had the best final girl of all time, Dorothy. And […]