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What to watch: Will and Reese, ace wedding crashers

Love movies? Live for TV? USA TODAY's Watch Party newsletter has all the best recommendations, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up now and be one of the cool kids. You know it's getting to be Valentine's Day soon when the starry rom-coms and relationship horror flicks begin to pop up. As January turns to February, 'tis the season for candy hearts and love at the movies. Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon crash each other's wedding parties in Amazon's new "You're Cordially Invited," one of several movies to stream if you're feeling frisky with the Apple TV or Roku remote. On the big screen, Sophie Thatcher gets bloody as an AI girlfriend in "Companion," while the Sherlock Holmes universe is getting yet another pop-culture reinvention with the TV medical procedural "Watson." It's enough to keep you busy until Chappell Roan takes the stage at the Grammy Awards Sunday night. (Mount up, Pink Pony Club. Let's ride...

Companion’ Director Drew Hancock Reveals the Script Change That Reinvented His Sci-Fi Horror Movie

Don’t expect a retreat of killer AI horror movies like M3GAN or Subservience with writer/director Drew Hancock’s Companion. Making his directorial feature debut, the filmmaker flips the script on the killer robot subgenre by centering Sophie Thatcher‘s Iris as the protagonist. Thatcher stars opposite Jack Quaid as Iris’s affable boyfriend, Josh, who’s brought her along on a weekend cabin getaway to meet his friends for the first time. As if the major relationship milestone didn’t add enough pressure for Iris, an unexpected death sets off a series of increasingly bizarre, violent events. Hancock’s debut, in theaters now, aims to keep you guessing, throwing unexpected wrenches into Iris’s attempts to integrate into Josh’s friend group. Let’s just say that the blood and laughs flow free in this energetic and funny sci-fi horror mashup, though it very nearly didn’t. The filmmaker, speaking with Bloody Disgusting ahead of the film’s release, revealed that Companion was initially conc...

You’re Cordially Invited Serves Up the Wrong Kind of Chaos

Considering the world has gone mad, this ought to be the ultimate era for chaos comedy: movies in which alligators are wrestled into bed, in which hoity-toity wedding guests get buzzed by passing motorboats, in which male strippers show up to bare their wares at the damnedest times. We need that kind of release valve right now. But we don’t really get it from writer-director Nicholas Stoller’s You’re Cordially Invited, a comedy that packs its gags so densely, and often so carelessly, that nothing much sticks. In an age of chaos, what we really need is focus, and You’re Cordially Invited chases down every distraction in sight. Will Ferrell stars as Atlanta widower dad Jim, who takes great pride in having raised his daughter Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan), on his own. She’s grown up and moved out, but he prepares for her visits by baking three kinds of cookies and steaming the wrinkles from her clothes. It’s a bit much, but that’s the joke: he’s the dad who loves too much, and Jen...

7 important reasons to watch the film here Deva

Deva: If you have not seen shahid Kapoor's Deva, then assume that you have missed something big at the beginning of the year. If the question 'why' has arisen in your mind, then read the reasons here. Shahid Kapoor's deva has been released on 31st January. The trailer of the film had created a 'mess'. The audience is going to see that chaos in the cinema halls as well. This is such a chaos which has not been seen in any film for a long time. Now the opportunity has come in the new year, Bollywood has a brand new film, which is inspired by a 12-year-old South film but is not old at all. Why should you watch this film of shahid Kapoor, understand here in 5 points. This will not waste much of your time and your mindset will also become positive before watching the film, which will increase the excitement for Shahid's cop avatar. Deva: shahid Kapoor's 'Deva' is more interesting than necessary, know 7 important reasons to watch the film here ...

'Scream 7': Matthew Lillard's shock return, Mark Consuelos, and everything else we know

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The latest "Scream" may be reintroducing some familiar Ghostfaces. "Scream 7," the next installment in the long-running horror franchise, is set to stab its way into theaters in just over a year, and on Thursday, some bombshell casting news left fans' heads spinning. Matthew Lillard, who played Ghostface killer Stu Macher in the original "Scream," is returning to the series. After his casting was reported by multiple outlets, Lillard seemingly confirmed it on Instagram by posting a quote his character uttered in the 1996 film: "My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me!" USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Spyglass Media Group, the film's production company. The cast for "Scream 7" has been gradually growing in recent weeks and consists of a mix of new and returning stars. But there remains a fair amount of controversy around the project based largely on who isn't in it. Need a break? Play the USA...

Deva Mid-Day Opening Box Office Prediction: Shahid Kapoor and Pooja Hegde's movie aims for Rs 5 crore net

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As per predictions, Deva is expecting around Rs 5 crore net opening on Friday. Directed by Rosshan Andrrews, the latest actioner is headlined by Shahid Kapoor. After Sky Force, Rosshan Andrrews's directorial, Deva is the next big commercial entertainer in Hindi cinema which has our eyes on. Led by Shahid Kapoor, the investigative action thriller arrived in theaters on January 31, 2025. Also starring Pooja Hegde and Pavail Gulati, the latest release is a remake of Andrrews' Malayalam film, Mumbai Police (2013). Let's predict Deva's entry to the box office. Deva To Witness Rs 5 Crore Opening On Day 1 Deva has made a sluggish entry to the box office. As per mid-day opening predictions, Shahid Kapoor and Pooja Hegde-starrer is expecting to open at Rs 5 crore net on the first day of its release. Set against the backdrop of Mumbai, the neo-noir investigative cop action thriller features Shahid as a fearless cop, Dev Ambre and Pooja plays Diya Sathaye, a journalist...

Scream 7’ Adds ‘Scream 3’ Actor Scott Foley to the Cast

As the cast for Scream 7 continues to grow with filming now underway, a new puzzling addition has just been announced. Deadline reports that Scream 3 actor Scott Foley has joined the cast. The seventh installment is set to release in theaters on February 27, 2026. Naturally, character details are under wraps at this point, but Foley previously played Roman Bridger, the half-brother of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), who was revealed to be Ghostface in Scream 3. Roman didn’t survive the events of the third entry, so start speculating now whether Roman will get resurrected in some way or whether Foley’s casting hints toward a more meta approach in the upcoming sequel. The only plot details released so far is that the seventh installment is expected to return the focus to Sidney Prescott and her family. If Foley does wind up reprising Roman Bridger, that further supports Scream 7 as a Prescott family affair. “Train Dreams” was fully financed by Black Bear, the production com...