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Jeff Daniels has shared his memories of working with a real giant rat-eating spider on the 1990 comedy-horror movie Arachnophobia. As James Wan prepares to remake the cult favorite, Daniels recalled the creepy time he spent working with his eight-legged co-star in an interview with Screen Rant about his Netflix miniseries A Man in Full.

Theres plenty of juicy publicity and excitement swirling about the upcoming release of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackmans superhero team-up in Deadpool & Wolverine this July. However, flying under the radar by comparison is Reynolds collaboration with John Krasinski on IF, which opens first in theaters this May. The combination animated and live-action feature film is forecast to make around $40 million during its opening weekend (per Deadline).

Boy Kills World hits theaters today, April 26, and audiences are in for a treat. It's a frequently surprising and jolting rush of action and comedy with inventive visuals and unexpected twists, grounded by a silent but extremely emotive and physical performance from Bill Skarsgrd. He's like Buster Keaton on steroids here as Boy, a beefy fighter who has trained for vengeance ever since the totalitarian rulers of his dystopic city murdered his family and made him deaf and mute.

The trend of Hollywood studios banking on the popularity of classic horror movies to rake in the cash continues, as it was recently announced that the 1968 classic Rosemarys Baby is getting a prequel. Titled Apartment 7A, the film was first teased in 2022, and is set to debut in time for Halloween on Paramount+, similar to the way Pet Sematary: Bloodlines did in 2023.

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Earlier this year it was announced that acclaimed director Sbastien Vaniek would be directing the new Evil Dead spin-off, and just a couple of months after that announcement, its been revealed that yet another Evil Dead film is in the works, with Francis Galluppi attached to direct. Galluppi is making his feature film debut with The Last Stop in Yuma County, which releases on May 10, 2024.