Following the resounding success of Margot Robbie’s blockbuster hit “Barbie,” the highest-grossing film of 2023, her production company LuckyChap is now venturing into new ventures with Lionsgate. Announced during Lionsgate’s panel today at CinemaCon 2024 in Vegas, Robbie’s company will produce an adaptation of the “Monopoly” board game, further solidifying the actor’s rising status as a mega-producer,

The classic Parker Brothers board game doesn’t have much of a narrative outside of the aim to collect all the money from other players, and the game’s primary mascot is Mr.

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The season is upon us. As the leaves fall off their trees, the weather whooshes in a welcomed cold breeze, the accustomed costumes come out of their storage, and the pumpkins, along with the scented candles, beers, lattes and what-have-you, make their way into the public’s affection, it swiftly becomes none other than the season of the witch. And what a glorious time of the year that can be — particularly for us horror fans.

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It’s easy to forget just how monumental “The Blair Witch Project” was when it landed on the cinema scene in 1999. Made for a mere $60,000, the film by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez was an instant sensation at Sundance, got invited to Cannes (I bet you forgot about that), and when it was released that summer, it earned a staggering $248 million worldwide. The movie turned found footage into a cottage industry in the horror genre, and a new franchise was born.

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Halloween is now less than a week away, but Hollywood has mostly failed to deliver on the scary movie front this year. “Ouija: Origin Of Evil” is better than you might imagine, and “Boo! A Madea Halloween” is… a movie with Halloween in the title. But otherwise, from arthouses to multiplexes, there are slim pickings, unfortunately (Tom Hanks has a movie out, but sadly he plays boring old professor Robert Langdon, rather than David S.

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Adjust Your Tracking is back to talk about cult movies and the often tepid results from attempting to catch lightning in a bottle again. While the box-office and critical reception for “Blair Witch” was underwhelming, to say the least, we still find other aspects around the film and the franchise to dig into. All of which nicely ties into the latest edition of our special segment HOLD UP: “Donnie Darko.”

READ MORE: ‘Blair Witch’ Can’t Capture The Mystique Of The Original

My co-host Joe von Appen and myself have often championed the work of director Adam Wingard and screenwriter/producer Simon Barrett (we’re big fans of “The Guest” and “You’re Next“).

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A new “Blair Witch Project” movie is out on Friday. Two months ago, we didn’t even know there was a new “Blair Witch Project” movie — instead, we thought that “You’re Next” and “The Guest” director Adam Wingard had made a found-footage horror film called “The Woods.” But it was this summer when Lionsgate actually revealed at Comic-Con the movie was “Blair Witch,” a sequel/reboot to the original 1999 pic, and one that reportedly does far more justice to it than 2000’s ‘Book Of Shadows‘ did (look for our review tomorrow).

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Halloween has arrived once again at the Playlist, and aside from assembling our trick-and-treating costumes, it means an appropriately spooky feature. And this year, we’ve delivered more than one —we picked out the scariest movie moments of all time yesterday. Today, we’ve gone for something a little different.

This time last year, we picked our favorite horrors of the 21st century so far, so it seemed natural to run down our favorites from the 1990s.

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Boo! The 40 Scariest Movie Moments Of All Time

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Watch: 5-Minute Mashup Of The First And Final Frames From Horror Movies

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