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Many people have been lamenting the demise of the decently-budgeted thriller geared towards older audiences, but when the financial results turn out to be as dire as they did for 2015’s Child 44, you can kind of understand why the major studios are so reluctant to open their checkbooks. On a budget of $50 million, the the Cold War mystery thriller limped its way to a disastrous box office haul of just $13 million. The fact it was widely panned didn’t help, as evidenced by respective Rotten Tomatoes scores of 27 and 42…

Image via Warner Bros. Despite Don’t Worry Darling underperforming with critics and at the box office, the film is enjoying a wave of people discovering it for the first time and singing its praises, in part thanks to the movie’s release Monday on HBO Max. For one Twitter user, the overall quality of Don’t Worry Darling compared to what the critics were saying is a prime example of why you should “find out things yourself.” #DontWorryDarling proves why you need to find out things for yourself instead of…

The first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, believed to have been found by the fossil hunter Mary Anning, was thought to have been lost forever when German bombs rained down on London in World War II.But two plaster casts of the distinctive dolphin-like reptile have now been unearthed, even though there was no record of them ever being made.Researchers Dean Lomax, from the University of Manchester in northwest England, and Judy Massare, from New York State University, described the finds as "historically important".​"The…

via Lionsgate If you see the name “Jason Statham” plastered all over a movie’s marketing campaign, then there’s a 99 percent chance you know exactly what’s going to go down. Then again, the chrome-domed ass-kicker did try to stretch his dramatic muscles a little bit more in 2013’s Hummingbird, but the end result was one of his biggest-ever bombs. Not only did the feature-length directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight die a death at the box office by recouping less than…

via Warner Bros. Legacy sequels have been an increasingly staple part of the Hollywood diet, but attempting to craft a successor to a movie that ranks as one of the best entries in the history of an entire genre is nothing if not a major risk. It may have taken 39 years to arrive, but the consensus remains in firm agreement that Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep is worthy of existing alongside Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Unfortunately, audiences weren’t so keen on the slow-burning psychological chiller, which…

Adult adventure sim House Party’s new Doja Cat expansion is getting review bombed due to a lack of “Adult Only” content. Developed and published by Eek Games, House Party is an “edgy comedy adventure game inspired by classic comedies of the ’90s. Every decision changes your story and every character has something to reveal. There’s also a button to take your pants off.” In other words, players can fight or hook up with any of the 15 non player characters at the titular house party. Last month, House Party’s first ever…

via Vertical Entertainment The summer of 2018 was hardly the ideal time to release a movie that featured Kevin Spacey in a major role, with the disgraced actor having been essentially excised from Hollywood after a string of serious allegations began being leveled against him towards the end of the previous year. That being said, Billionaire Boys Club probably would have failed anyway, because it’s terrible. Despite featuring Taron Egerton, Ansel Egort, Emma Roberts, Jeremy Irvine, Suki Waterhouse, and Billie…

Photo via Warner Bros. Everyone, including the American government, are all up in arms after it was announced that Batgirl would be shelved by Warner Bros and DC. But what if it wasn’t? After all, Stephen Hawking believed in alternate universes, so surely there is a world similar to our own that announced the film’s release. What if Batgirl was released, would the film be a success? Or did DC and Warner Bros make the right decision to shelve it because it was going to flop anyway? Reddit user u/Auelogic asked on…

via Gravitas Ventures The recent cancellation of Batgirl with only the final touches of post-production still to go indicates that Hollywood isn’t above washing its hands of a movie it wants nothing to do with, but the team behind The King’s Daughter evidently did not get that memo. You may not have even noticed that the $40 million adaptation of Vonda M. McIntyre’s fantasy novel The Moon and the Sun even released earlier this year, given that it scored a disastrous domestic debut of just $723,000 from over…

VRChat is being review-bombed on Steam following the introduction of Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) into the game. The addition of the anti-cheat system to VRChat was announced in a developer blog on July 25. The reasoning given by the VRChat team was as follows. “Modified clients” are a large problem for VRChat in a variety of ways. Malicious modified clients allow users to attack and harass others, causing a huge amount of moderation issues. Even seemingly non-malicious modifications complicate the support and development of…