The source material, for the uninitiated, is Arrowhead Game Studios' co-op shooter — muscle in power armor defending "Super Earth" from bugs and robots in a war game.
A US theatrical rollout is starting Sept. 30 in NYC, will expand to Los Angeles and other markets on Oct. 9 and then roll out nationally via a plan that forgoes selling the film to a studio or independent distributor.
Cregger himself pinpoints that “2001: A Space Odyssey” was an inspiration on “The Flood,” although he steers clear from directly comparing it to Kubrick’s masterpiece.
After more than a decade of false starts, Paramount has closed deals with Brad Pitt to star and Edward Berger to direct the sequel to “World War Z.”
This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.
1) Afternoons of Solitude
2) Marty Supreme
3) Sirāt
4) If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
5) One Battle After Another
6) Weapons
7) The Mastermind
8) April
9) Misericordia
10) Nouvelle Vague/Blue Moon
11) The Secret Agent
12) The Story of Souleymane
13) Roofman
Runners-up: Bring Her Back, F1, The President’s Cake, Presence, Splitsville, Friendship, The Plague, Urchin, Caught Stealing, The Perfect Neighbor, Nino, Mektoub Canto Due, Train Dreams
1) The Substance
2) Anora
3) Dune: Part II
4) Close Your Eyes
5) Last Summer
6) The Brutalist
7) La Chimera
8) Conclave
9) A Complete Unknown
10) A Different Man
11) Hard Truths
12) Love Lies Bleeding
13) The Apprentice
14) The Room Next Door
15) Juror #2
16) Seed of the Sacred Fig
17) Io Capitano
18) Queer
19) Sasquatch Sunset
20) Challengers
Runners-up: No Other Land, Babygirl, Civil War, Evil Does Not Exist, Kinds of Kindness, Longlegs, About Dry Grasses, The Beast, Emilia Perez, Hit Man, The Goldman Case, How to Have Sex, Woman of the Hour, The Animal Kingdom, Snack Shack, Didi
1) Anatomy of a Fall
2) Killers of the Flower Moon
3) Oppenheimer
4) The Boy and the Heron
5) The Zone of Interest
6) The Delinquents
7) Memory
8) May/December
9) The Iron Claw
10) Asteroid City
11) American Fiction
12) Rotting in the Sun
13) De Humanis Corpis Fabrica
Runners-up: Reality, Ferrari, Leave the World Behind, BlackBerry, Passages, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Talk to Me, The Taste of Things, Across the Spider-Verse, Fallen Leaves, The Royal Hotel, Tori et Lokita, Sisu, Dream Scenario, Bottoms, A Plein Temps, The Settlers, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, Pacifiction, Cairo Conspiracy, Flora & Son, Mission: Impossible— Dead Reckoning Part One, Afire, Cat Person, RMN
1) Tár
2) The Banshees of Inisherin
3) Crimes of the Future
4) Happening
5) Babylon
6) Triangle of Sadness
7) Apollo 10 1⁄2
8) Funny Pages
9) Aftersun/Nope
10) Kimi/Watcher
Runners-up: The Menu, She Said, Nitram, Navalny, Glass Onion, Barbarian, Dinner in America, Armageddon Time, Vortex, Elvis, Blonde, God's Country, The Black Phone
1) The Power of the Dog
2) Annette
3) Memoria
4) Red Rocket
5) Sundown
6) Licorice Pizza
7) Benedetta
8) Titane/France
9) Dune
10) The Killing of Two Lovers
Runners-Up: The Worst Person in the World, Passing, Bad Trip, The Lost Daughter, Quo Vadis Aida, Petite Maman, The Last Duel, White Lie, PVT Chat, Bergman Island, The Souvenir: Part II, In the Same Breath, A Hero
1) Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2) Lovers Rock
3) Bloody Nose Empty Pockets
4) First Cow
5) The Invisible Man
6) Beginning
7) Young Ahmed
8) The Truffle Hunters
9) Bad Education
10) Sound of Metal
Runners-Up: Pieces of a Woman, The Assistant, The Father, Bacurau, Palm Springs, Mangrove, Promising Young Woman, The Nest, Possessor, 76 Days, Da 5 Bloods, Host
The film is set to shoot in fall 2027. The idea would be to release it in December 2028, timed to Trump's exit from office. Oh, and it's now Warner Bros.' indie label, Clockwork, that's backing the film.