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Hulu is ready with an entertainment-packed November this year. The upcoming month will see the return of some popular K-drama shows The Fiery Priest and also new original movies like Nutcrackers. Just like every month, Hulu is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 10 new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in November 2024.

Gangnam B-Side Season 1 (November 6)

Gangnam B-Side is an action mystery crime thriller drama series directed by Park Noo Ri from a screenplay by Jo Won Gyu. The Disney+ series is set in Gangnam, Seoul and it revolves around the disappearance of a young woman who had information about a series of disappearances. Now, a detective, an outlaw, and a Prosecutor all try to find her for their own reasons. Gangnam B-Side stars Jo Woo-jin, Ji Chang-wook,...

Exclusive: Joaquim De Almeida has joined the cast of Legendary’s Animal Friends, the live-action and animated hybrid pic from writing duo Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider. Peter Atencio directed the R-rated Road trip adventure.

He joins a cast that includes Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Aubrey Plaza, Daniel Levy, Addison Rae, Lil Rel Howery, and Ellie Bamber. Producing alongside Legendary are Reynolds’ Maximum Effort and producer Namit Malhotra’s Prime Focus Studios. Visual effects and animation will be provided by visual entertainment services company, Dneg. The idea for the film came from a general meeting between Burrows and Mider and Maximum Effort executive, Patrick Gooing.

The film will be released by Sony on August 15, 2025.

De Almeida’s past credits include Desperado, Clear And Present Danger and Behind Enemy Lines. He was recently seen in Amazon & MGM’s hit remake Road House opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and also recently reprised his role...

Where does the time go? We’re now halfway through 2023, so you know the drill. It’s time to reflect on the year so far with a look at the best horror movies released in 2023… so far.

This summer’s only getting warmed up for horror releases, and the Halloween season ensures a packed Fall to come. So far, though, 2023 offers no shortage of horror gems that run the gamut from highly anticipated sequels to genre-benders and viral sensations.

As a refresher and to ensure great movies don’t fall through the cracks, here are the ten best horror movies released in the first half of 2023…

Huesera: The Bone Woman

When so many pregnancy horror movies isolate the mother-to-be, breeding mistrust from everyone around her, Huesera internalizes it. Refreshingly, it’s less about motherhood and more about the loss of self. Director Michelle Garza Cervera, who co-wrote with Abia Castillo,...

Stars: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Nia Long | Written and Directed by Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. However, as she digs ever deeper, her digital sleuthing soon raises more questions than answers.

The concept of movies told entirely through a computer or phone screen isn’t new, as we’ve been graced with films such as Unfriended and Host, but the best of the bunch easily has to be Aneesh Chaganty‘s Searching, which told the story of a father who must do everything he can to search for clues as to...

A follow-up film from the same team behind 2018’s Searching, Missing is one of this year’s best thrillers, the “Screenlife” film scaring up $48.6 million at the worldwide box office.

Missing was released on Digital and Blu-ray back in March by Sony, and the film also made its way onto Netflix last week. Now streaming, it’s become a top title for the service.

For the week running May 15 – May 21, Missing was the #6 most streamed title on Netflix, behind films including Synchronic, A Man Called Otto, Ted, and The Mother.

Missing was watched for 5.2 million hours during that first week on the platform. You can stream Missing on Netflix now – and we highly recommend you do. The film unfolds a mystery that’s as compelling as any true crime docuseries, loaded with twists and cleverly constructed and conveyed through modern technology. It’s one of this year’s must-see genre gems.

Aneesh Chaganty, Will Merrick, and Nick Johnson have spent the last few years slowly building an anthology of films that deal with missing people and the growing sophistication of technology in our lives. They arrived on the scene with Searching in 2018, told entirely through computer screens. Then came Run in 2020, and now, after a Covid-19 delay, Missing. Chaganty directed the first two with Merrick and Johnson as editors; but now the editors have become screenwriters and make their directorial debut with the new film.

They have intertwined the characters from the three films so you actually get some closure for Run with dialogue in Missing.

The new film swaps the father seeking his daughter from the first film as this time, teenager June (Storm Reid) uses her laptop and computer skills to track the whereabouts of her mother, Grace (Nia Long), who has disappeared in Colombia with her new boyfriend...

Another busy week sees 18 new titles in cinemas.

A major horror franchise resurrects itself at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, as Studiocanal’s Evil Dead Rise opens in 587 cinemas – the eighth-widest opening ever for an 18-rated film.

Written and directed by Lee Cronin, Evil Dead Rise follows two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by flesh-possessing demons thrusting them into a battle for survival.

The film stars Australian actresses Lily Sullivan, who starred in Amazon Studios series Picnic At Hanging Rock and features including Galore; and Alyssa Sutherland, from Amazon’s Vikings series.

Rise is the fifth film in the Evil Dead franchise,...

Missing is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Searching, and is every bit as creative and unique as its predecessor. To mark the film’s release, we had the pleasure in speaking to its leading star Storm Reid, as she talks about the distinctive and unusual way of shooting the film, and the challenges that come with it. Also, just to make us feel old, we wanted to find out if the rumours were true: are young people really not using WhatsApp?

We also had the pleasure in speaking to the brains behind the project, interview both Natalie Qasabian and Will Merrick, as they talk about some of the easter eggs for fans to pick up on. You can watch both interviews in their entirety below.

Storm Reid

Natalie Qasabian & Will Merrick

Synopsis

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers...

Missing is a thriller directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick staring Storm Reid.

Screenlife movies are those movies that tell stories through the computer screen, with hookups, video calls and so on. Not that it’s a new genre, nor is this one going to be the first blockbuster in the genre, but it has a good enough script to make an impact with its premise.

Movie Review

Fast-paced, lots of story and, above all, lots of editing. It is not the movie about “four friends” with no money who want to make a movie and, for budgetary reasons, choose this genre as a last resort: Missing is a movie with a dizzying pace, plot twists, surprises and a lot of sense of aesthetics (although these aesthetics may not please everyone).

It knows how to take advantage of everything at its disposal and teaches us that, with almost anything,...

This week is one of the biggest weeks for horror in the entirety of 2023, as it brings the release of one of the biggest horror movies of 2023. I’m of course talking about Scream VI, which will be slashing its way into theaters nationwide beginning on Thursday night.

The even better news? Scream VI is only one of several new horror movies out this week.

Here’s all the new horror releasing March 7 – March 12, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

A follow-up film from the same team behind 2018’s “Screenlife” thriller Searching, this year’s Missing was released in theaters back in January, pulling in $42.4 million at the worldwide box office. When will you be able to watch Missing at home, you ask? Today!

Missing is now available on Digital outlets.

Storm Reid and Nia Long star in Missing, with the cast also including Joaquim de Almeida,...

A follow-up film from the same team behind 2018’s “Screenlife” thriller Searching, this year’s Missing was released in theaters back in January, pulling in $36.6 million at the worldwide box office. When will you be able to watch Missing at home, you ask? Next week!

Sony will release Missing on Digital on March 7 and on Blu-ray & DVD on March 28.

Special Features include…

Audio commentary by writers-directors Will Merrick and Nick Johnson Storm Reid and the Challenge of Missing featurette Misdirects, Online Crimes and the Social Media Mystery featurette The Screens that Rule Our Lives featurette Hunting for the Missing Easter Eggs Deleted scenes

Storm Reid and Nia Long star in Missing, with the cast also including Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Megan Suri and Tim Griffin.

In the brand new Searching sequel Missing, said to be a “thrilling roller-coaster mystery that makes you wonder how well...

Synopsis

From the minds behind Searching comes Missing, a thrilling roller-coaster mystery that makes you wonder how well you know those closest to you. When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers…and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Bonus Materials

Blu-ray™ And Digital

Deleted Scenes Hunting for the Missing Easter Eggs Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes: Storm Reid and the Challenge of Missing Misdirects, Online Crimes and the Social Media Mystery The Screens that Rule Our Lives Filmmaker Commentary

DVD...

Earlier this year, the screen life subgenre got a shiny new addition in the form of Nick Johnson and Will Merrick's "Missing," a pulpy thriller that sees a teenager using technology to locate her missing parent. If that sounds familiar, sans the role reversal, then you're on the right track: "Missing" is a spiritual successor to "Searching," the innovative 2018 thriller from Aneesh Chaganty.

Given the success of the original film — which managed to subvert audience expectations despite treading very familiar ground — the sequel had a lot to live up to. And even though it may evoke a sense of déjà vu, it definitely succeeds. As /Film's Jeremy Mathai wrote in his review, "Just when you thought 'Searching' had wrung everything it possibly could out of this concept, 'Missing' shows just how much potential remains. What viewers are left with is a bold, twisting, and audacious thriller that will leave you breathless.

It’s the sixth weekend of release for “Avatar: The Way of Water” and James Cameron’s science-fiction sequel is still floating atop the box office, ahead of new release “Missing.”

Playing in 3,790 theaters, “The Way of Water” added 4.6 million to its domestic haul on Friday, pushing its total to 582 million. That marks roughly a 35 drop from its previous outing, marking another strong hold for the holiday release as it continues to keep momentum up through January.

The “Avatar” sequel has made more than its predecessor had at this point in its run, though it continues to put up more heavy drops. Domestic total for the sequel should be on the edge of 600 million by Monday, putting the film just a stone’s throw away from taking down “Incredibles 2” (608 million) as the 12th-highest grossing film of all time in North America.

On a global scale, “The Way of Water...

Missing Review — Missing (2023) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick and starring Storm Reid, Nia Long, Ken Leung, Amy Lendecker, Megan Suri, Tim Grffin, Ava Zaria Lee, Lisa Yamada, Sharar Ali-Speakes, Jameel Shivji, Michael Segovia, Daniel Henney, Joaquim de Almeida, Lauren B. Mosley, Rick Chambers [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Missing (2023): An Intriguing Roller Coaster Ride of a Thriller with One Twist Too Many...

Hey, movie fans. We're hopping on here to inform you about two new movies that are releasing in theaters nationwide during this weekend of January 20, 21 and 22, 2023. Looking at the AMC movie listings page on Fandango.com, we see that there are 2, new movies that hit theaters this weekend. They are titled,"Missing" and "That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime: Scarlet Bond." "Missing" is an American screenlife mystery thriller film written and directed by Nick Johnson and Will Merrick. A brief description of it reads like this, "When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June's search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it's too late. However, as she digs ever deeper, her digital sleuthing soon raises more questions than answers.

The only new wide studio release this weekend is the Stage 6 and Screen Gems thriller Missing which collected 760K yesterday off of showtimes that began at 4Pm at 2,650 locations. The movie, which is from the creatives behind Sony’s micro-hit, Searching, is expected to do in the mid single digits off 3,000 theaters.

Similar to Searching, Missing was made off a very thrifty budget of 7M before P&a.

Missing is executive produced by Searching‘s Timur Bekmambetov, produced by Sev Ohanian and Natalie Qasabian, and storied by that previous title’s Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty, the latter who helmed the first title. Missing is directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. The pic follows a young woman who tries to find her missing mother using tools available to her online. Storm Reid and Nia Long star.

20th Century Studios/Disney/Lightstorm’s Avatar: The Way of Water is expected...

2018’s sleeper hit, Searching, showed you could create an effective edge-of-your-seat mystery thriller told exclusively through the use of the screens that dominate our daily lives in this century. It starred John Cho as a father whose 16-year-old daughter disappears, leading him to use all the tools of the internet to try and trace her steps in order to find her. Its follow-up, Missing, actually improves on that idea with a different story and set of characters, taking it several leaps further in creating a corker of a suspense picture that looks like what a filmmaking master such as Hitchcock might have made had he been an It genius too.

Watching Searching, which was directed and cowritten (with Sev Ohanian) by Aneesh Chaganty, I kept thinking how the real stars of the piece were the film editors who had to put together a puzzle of images in order to create a coherent story.

Storm Reid and Megan Sure in Screen Gems Missing

So do you have lots of friends, or more likely older relatives, that are leery of the new online technology? Of course, you’re not otherwise you wouldn’t be here, but many folks are still skittish. Well here’s a new flick that shows how the worldwide web (and its hardware and software) can be useful, even life-saving. Hold on you Luddites, it’s not propaganda or an “infomercial” popping up on the TV in the “wee hours”. No this is an “in theatres” feature film, and a thriller/mystery to boot. Oh, and it’s all told on different “monitor screens”, with the “big projection screen” becoming your “portal’ into the ongoing events. It’s as though you’re sitting right next to the story’s heroine as she desperately scrolls and clicks in order to locate a parent who’s gone Missing.

When the computer-screen thriller “Searching” came out in 2018, starring John Cho as a widower dad navigating an unfamiliar online world to find his vanished daughter, you could sense a gimmick had matured from the novelty silliness of the 2014 movie that kicked it all off, the chatroom freakout “Unfriended.”

“Searching” director–co-writer Aneesh Chaganty understood that the freshness of a screens-only visual language would quickly wear out its welcome without a well-plotted script and solid performances to anchor it. (Cho even landed a Spirit Awards nomination for his finely turned portrayal.)

Now the genre’s so-far gold standard has a worthy sequel, which is more stand-alone follow-up than continuation. You don’t need to have seen “Searching” to enjoy “Missing” — and enjoyable it is, serpentine, sly and nail-biting in equal measures — but the earlier movie’s fanbase will certainly recognize what online-savvy Los Angeles high-schooler June (Storm Reid) is watching on...

Five years ago, Searching, an ingeniously shot, choreographed, and edited mystery-thriller, co-written by first-time filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty and starring John Cho, premiered at a yearly film festival in Park City, Utah. The definition of “crowd-pleaser,” Searching kept audiences rapt with its twisty plot, screens-within-screens narrative device, and one of Cho’s strongest lead turns as a widowed father desperately searching for his missing teenage daughter. It impressed general audiences too, turning a sizable profit as a result, opening studio doors for Chaganty and co-writer Sev Ohanian in the process. A direct sequel, though, to a one-and-done story seemed improbable. Instead, Chaganty and Ohanian, serving as story writers and producers only, turned over full screenwriting and directorial duties to former editors Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

Storm Reid in Missing Image: Sony Pictures Screenlife films—that is, films that are shot and edited as if they’re being recorded and displayed on a computer desktop through the apps and programs we use every day—have created a rich niche for themselves within the found footage horror subgenre.

2018's "Searching" was not the first desktop film to grace cinemas, but it was arguably the most innovative. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty, the film fully realized the new role of modern technology and the internet within modern mystery narratives, and it also stumbled upon unique ways to characterize and tap into the internality of its characters through their screen usage and interactions with their phones and laptops.

Nearly five years later, a spiritual successor to "Searching" arrives in the form of Nick Johnson and Will Merrick's "Missing," another thrilling continuation of the screen life subgenre with even more tricks up its sleeve. Featuring strong performances from Storm Reid and Nia Long, "Missing" will not only scratch the itch for a twisty, suspenseful mystery, but will also present it in a way that is wholly fresh, original, and evocative of the digital age.

/Film's Ben Pearson spoke with the filmmakers behind the new "Searching" successor,...

After a couple decent weekends at the box office, we’re getting two weekends with a mixed bag of releases, this one offering two new semi-thrillers in wide release and a few others, but nothing too exciting. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

In 2018, Aneesh Chaganty’s “Searching” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and it was released by Sony/Screen Gems later that year to make 26 million. Now, Screen Gems is releasing “Missing,” the thematic sequel starring Nia Long and Stormy Reid. It was not directed by Chaganty, who is a producer on this one, but rather, two of his editors from “Searching,” Nick Johnson and Will Merrick.

“Missing” has received decent early reviews, but it’s also been fairly low-key compared to some of the month’s other releases even if it will be released in 3,000 theaters, which is a thousand more theaters than “Searching” ever got.

Aneesh Chaganty's "Searching," the John Cho-led thriller which played out entirely across screens and devices, was an inventive, edge-of-your-seat experience that ended up being one of the best films of 2018. A father's search for his missing daughter was the driving force behind the film's plot, but eagle-eyed viewers quickly noticed an entirely different story playing out in the corners of the frame: an alien invasion. The film's main characters never personally engage with this storyline (they're a little preoccupied), but if you look closely, you'll see news articles, YouTube videos, and Facebook trending topics about green atmospheric anomalies appearing in the sky, culminating with NASA calling a meeting at the White House to address the invasion.

This week, the sequel to "Searching," titled "Missing," hits theaters. The film focuses on a young girl named June (Storm Reid) whose mother (Nia Long) goes missing, and the story is larger...

“Searching” wasn’t the first “screenlife” film, a term coined by director and producer Timur Bekmambetov to describe the cinematic gambit of displaying all action on various computer or smartphone screens, but it was the most commercially successful. The 2018 mystery thriller directed by Aneesh Chaganty about a desperate father, played by the perma-underrated John Cho, searching for his missing daughter grossed over 75 million and pushed the style of visual storytelling quite far, moving between simulated screencasts and surveillance footage.

As much as the film’s commitment to verisimilitude occasionally impressed, its reliance on montages of news footage and edited vlogs to compress time or convey exposition grated, as well as its frustrating shifts between first-person and omniscient third-person POVs to get around setting changes. However, Cho’s performance kept “Searching” ground in just enough emotional reality to paper over the film’s logical leaps and groan-worthy twists.

“Missing,” the stand-alone sequel to “Searching,...

When Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian's "Searching" debuted in 2018, the form-breaking and narratively inventive picture taking place entirely within the digital world served notice of a new and very different kind of movie. Although maybe not as unprecedented a phenomenon as when audiences first saw that train headed right for them (allegedly), "Searching" sent shockwaves through the industry and proved that "Millennial-minded" movies could be so much more than a pejorative. The novelty of the experience, combined with a razor-sharp script and a sizzling lead performance by John Cho, immediately set itself apart from the rest of its peers — especially those (think "Unfriended" or "Cam") that similarly grappled with the idea of putting the "modern" in "modern art" through a freshly 21st-century lens.

Five years later, Chaganty and Ohanian have stepped back from the director's chair, ceding the reins over to "Searching" editors and first-time directors Nick Johnson and Will Merrick...

It’s hard not to judge “Missing” according to one’s own aptitude — much less appetite — for watching the world via devices, but that would be unfair to the sleight of hand pulled off by directors Nick Johnson and Will Merrick. Making their directorial debuts, the pair chronicle the labyrinthine story of a teenager’s search for her missing mother from what’s probably the least visually interesting perspective possible, very nearly making it cinematic in the process. Still, an improbable escalation of events and more than a few niggling questions about who’s doing what and how renders this screenlife thriller in dimensions that unfortunately resonate better on an intimate, handheld scale than the big screen.

Storm Reid plays June Allen, a restless 18-year-old eager for her mother Grace (Nia Long) to leave on a romantic trip to Colombia with Kevin (Ken Leung), Grace’s new boyfriend. June and...

Missing, the follow-up to Aneesh Chaganty’s inventive 2018 debut Searching, is not for the surveillance-state-anxious. Adopting its predecessor’s template, the film mines and manipulates the tools on a computer desktop to tell a pulsating and alarming story.

Directed by Searching editors Will Merrick and Nicholas D. Johnson, Missing opens with video footage of a happy family swiftly hit by tragedy. Fans of the previous film will be pleased with the opening sequence, which creates a conspiratorial thread between the directors and established viewers. A home video shows a young June (Ava Zaria Lee) attempting to record her father, James, (Tim Griffin), on an old camcorder before her mother, Grace, (Nia Long), steps into the frame and gingerly confiscates the device. The intimate moment leads into a more dolorous one: Medical records, Google searches and emails show that James died from cancer. Bereft and overcome with grief, Grace moves from...

It’s January, which doesn’t exactly mean that awards-worthy movies will immediately disappear from theaters, but it has become somewhat synonymous with studios dumping notoriously bad movies, yet ones that frequently can do well, barring the absence of Covid variants, surges, etc. Ironically, this is also the month in which the first major film festival of the year, Sundance, launches many indie filmmakers and movies into an awards conversation that will take place throughout the year.

That being said, studios were not going to take their chances this year, so we have a mixed bag of remakes, sequels, genre films, and honestly, it will be quite shocking if some of these open with more than 20 million. Read on for Gold Derby’s January 2023 box office preview.

“M3GAN” (Universal – Jan. 6)

2023 begins with a high-concept horror film from Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster that comes across like a modern-day “Child’s Play.

Missing Trailer — Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick‘s Missing (2023) movie trailer has been released by Sony Pictures. The Missing trailer stars Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long. Crew Will Merrick and Nick Johnson wrote the screenplay for Missing. “Produced by Natalie Qasabian, Sev Ohanian, Aneesh Chaganty.” Plot [...]

Continue reading: Missing (2023) Movie Trailer: Storm Reid stars in the Sequel to Thriller Searching...

Sony Pictures has debuted the trailer for the thriller from the minds behind ‘Searching,’ ‘Missing.’

When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers…and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Written and directed by Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, the film stars Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker with Daniel Henney and Nia Long.

Also in trailers – Channing Tatum & Salma Hayek get down to business in trailer for ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’

The film hits cinemas on February 24th,...

From the minds behind Searching comes Missing, a brand new “Screenlife” thriller that’s coming to theaters on January 20, 2023. This week, Sony has released the official trailer.

Storm Reid and Nia Long star in Missing, with the cast also including Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Megan Suri and Tim Griffin.

In next year’s Missing, said to be a “thrilling roller-coaster mystery that makes you wonder how well you know those closest to you”…

“When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late.

“But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers…and when June unravels secrets about her mom,...

In 2018, director Aneesh Chaganty brought us Searching, a missing persons thriller starring John Cho as a father desperately looking for his daughter. The gimmick was that it took place almost entirely on computer and phone screens, in calls and through messages. And it was a success… Now a follow-up, Missing, is on the way, albeit with a whole new set of characters in a fresh story. See the first trailer…

The plot this time is similar, but switches up the genders and situation. When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape.

Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions...

Just last week, Sony announced that they would be giving the “Searching sequel” Missing a theatrical release on January 20, 2023 – and now they have unveiled the trailer for the film! You can check it out in the embed above.

Made on a budget of less than 1 million, the mystery thriller Searching (read our review Here), which played out entirely on computer and smartphone screens, earned over 75 million at the global box office when it was released back in 2018. So the creative team behind that film have gotten back together to bring us the mystery thriller Missing, which will be presented in the same way as Searching was.

Details on the plot of Missing have been kept under wraps up to this point, but now we have a synopsis:

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape.

In 2018, John Cho played a father who went to great lengths to find his missing daughter, Margot (Michelle La) in the sleeper hit film "Searching." Now, a new screenlife thriller is set to unfold, as the second film in the franchise, "Missing," has just dropped its first trailer.

Aneesh Chaganty made "Searching" in his feature film debut, and he's handing the reins over to another pair of first-time filmmakers, Nick Johnson and Will Merrick, for a sequel that will feature an all-new cast of characters. Chaganty teased the teaser on Instagram yesterday, posting an Instagram story that included a series of search engine entries including "Find missing person," "#FindGraceAllen," and "FBI Colombia???" You can start guessing where Grace Allen went now with the first trailer linked below:

A Brand New Screenlife Thriller

Storm Reid, Nia Long, and Joaquim de Almeida are set to star in "Missing," a thriller that is...

Made on a budget of less than 1 million, the mystery thriller Searching (read our review Here), which played out entirely on computer and smartphone screens, earned over 75 million at the global box office. So it’s no wonder a sequel was given the greenlight… but since this was going to be a sequel in name only, it’s also not very surprising that it received a title change along the way. The “Searching sequel” is called Missing, and it was set to reach theatres on February 24, 2023. Deadline reports that it has now been moved forward to the new release date of January 20, 2023.

Details on the plot of Missing are being kept under wraps. We do know the film stars Storm Reid (The Invisible Man) and Nia Long (NCIS: Los Angeles).

Missing was directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick, the editors of Searching, from a screenplay they wrote,...

Sony’s follow-up to the “Screenlife” thriller Searching, which is titled Missing, has received another new release date, now set to arrive in theaters on January 20, 2023.

Most recently, Sony had the film dated for February 24, 2023.

Storm Reid and Nia Long star in Missing, with the cast also including Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Megan Suri and Tim Griffin.

Will Merrick & Nick Johnson will direct for Sony’s Stage 6 Films.

The film will “tell a different story from the original,” with Merrick and Johnson also writing the script based on a story by Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty.

Deadline had reported, “Searching 2‘s plot is still under wraps, but it will feature a new set of characters and an evolved Screenlife thriller format where the story plays out on the screens of the characters’ devices. The original starred John Cho as a dad who breaks into his...

Good news exhibition: Sony is moving up Missing from Feb. 24, 2023 to Jan. 20, 2023. That’s the weekend after the long MLK holiday frame and the only other wide release is an untitled Crunchy Roll film.

The movie is the next installment in the Searching franchise and stars Storm Reid and Nia Long.

Missing moves away from a weekend where Universal has Cocaine Bear and Lionsgate has Jesus Revolution. Over the MLK weekend there’s the wide expansion of Sony’s A Man Called Otto, and New Line’s House Party.

Will Merrick and Nick Johnson direct off a screenplay they wrote off a story by Sev Ohanian & Aneesh Chaganty. Natalie Qasabian, Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty are producers. EPs are Timur Bekmambetov, Adam Sidman and Jo Henriquez.

Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker and Daniel Henney round out the cast.

The first Searching in 2018 grossed over 75M worldwide off a...

Sony has made a handful of release date changes and announcements tonight, one of which is for a mysterious horror movie that doesn’t yet have an official title announced.

“Untitled True Haunting Movie” will release from Sony’s Screen Gems on January 6, 2023, presumably a supernatural horror movie that’s based on true events.

Additionally, Sony’s follow-up to the “Screenlife” thriller Searching, which is titled Missing, has received a date. It’ll be released by Sony on February 24, 2023.

Storm Reid and Nia Long star in Missing, with the cast also including Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Megan Suri and Tim Griffin.

Will Merrick & Nick Johnson will direct for Sony’s Stage 6 Films. Merrick and Johnson, the site’s report notes, were part of the editorial team on the first movie.

The film will “tell a different story from the original,” with Merrick and Johnson also...

Like the one before it, 2021 was a year in which many of us saw more of our TVs than of our friends and loved ones. It was lucky then, that there was so bloody much of the stuff, despite the pandemic’s best efforts to shut it all down. They might have been delayed, they might have been curtailed, but they weren’t stopped. Returning British TV shows returned like spring lambs, gambolling over the horizon right into your living room.

There was comedy and drama, as well as crime thrillers by the lorryload, and sci-fi and fantasy coming by the… much smaller lorryload.

A Discovery of Witches Season 2 (January)

Based on Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy about the forbidden love between a powerful witch and a centuries-old vampire, A Discovery Of Witches debuted on Sky in autumn 2018 (read our reviews here) and was renewed for series two and three almost straight away.

Will the game lose its attraction for these players in the second season of the Dead Pixels TV show on The CW? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Dead Pixels is cancelled or renewed for season three. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the second season episodes of Dead Pixels here.

A comedy-fantasy series on The CW, Dead Pixels stars Alexa Davies, Will Merrick, Sargon Yelda, Charlotte Ritchie, David Mumeni, and Noush Skaugen. It revolves around a trio of friends and their passion for playing an Mmorpg (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The show follows gamers Megan "Meg" Jeffries (Davies), Nicholas "Nicky" Kettle (Merrick),...

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Will these players keep playing? Has the Dead Pixels TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Dead Pixels, season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  

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Airing on The CW television network in the United States, Dead Pixels stars Alexa Davies, Will Merrick, Sargon Yelda, Charlotte Ritchie, David Mumeni, and Noush Skaugen. It revolves around a trio of friends and their passion for playing an Mmorpg (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The show follows gamers Megan "Meg" Jeffries (Davies), Nicholas "Nicky" Kettle (Merrick), and Usman (Yelda) who are obsessed with the online...

Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Francesco Russo, Peppino Mazzotta, Will Merrick, Yuliia Sobol, Alida Baldari Calabria, Cristina Donadio, Francesca Cavallin, Justin Korovkin | Written by Roberto De Feo, Paolo Strippoli, Lucio Besana, Milo Tissone, David Bellini | Directed by Roberto De Feo, Paolo Strippoli

Travelling through rural Italy, a group of mismatched strangers crash their camper van in the middle of nowhere. Waking up in the middle of the woods, the group look to an ominous old shack for assistance. Described by one character as “Sam Raimi’s house,” the cabin itself should have been warning enough; the gang are soon beset by hooded assailants wielding massive hammers. Frankly, Elisa (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) and her fellow travellers should have known better. What, did they not get Wrong Turn in Italy?

‘Wrong Turn in Italy’ is essentially the plot of Roberto De Feo and Paolo Strippoli’s A Classic Horror Story. This...

A Classic Horror Story Trailer — Roberto De Feo and Paolo Strippoli‘s A Classic Horror Story (2021) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. A Classic Horror Story trailer stars Matilda Lutz, Francesco Russo, Peppino Mazzotta, Yulia Sobol, Will Merrick, Alida Baldari Calabria, and Cristina Donadio. Crew Lucio Besana, Roberto De Feo, Paolo Strippoli, [...]

Continue reading: A Classic Horror Story (2021) Movie Trailer: Five Stranded Travelers find the Cabin-home of a Cult...

"Do you know how to get out of this forest?" "This is not a forest." Netflix has revealed the unsettling full-length official trailer for a creepy horror offering this summer, along with their Fear Street horror trilogy in July. Despite being titled A Classic Horror Story, this definitely isn't any classic horror movie at all. Five strangers share a journey aboard a camper, but after an accident they find themselves in a forest populated by strange beings from which it is impossible to get out. Listed as a "cerebral" & scary" horror about an an abandoned house and a "spine-chilling cult." Described as "the Italian Midsommar meets Texas Chain Saw Massacre," which is quite a freaky twist. Starring Matilda Lutz, Francesco Russo, Peppino Mazzotta, Yuliia Sobol, Will Merrick, Alida Baldari Calabria, plus Cristina Donadio. This looks super scary and entirely fresh, despite that clever marketing trick of it (not) being "A Classic Horror Story.

Dead Pixels originates on Channel4 in the UK where it's already been renewed for a second season. The CW just licenses the show to air it in the United States. Will the ratings be strong enough for The CW to want to pick up season two or, will the show be cancelled for U.S. viewers? Stay tuned. Status Update Below.

A comedy fantasy series, Dead Pixels stars Alexa Davies, Will Merrick, Sargon Yelda, Charlotte Ritchie, David Mumeni, and Noush Skaugen. It revolves around a trio of friends and their passion for playing an Mmorpg (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The show follows gamers Megan "Meg" Jeffries (Davies), Nicholas "Nicky" Kettle (Merrick), and Usman (Yelda) who are obsessed with the online fantasy game “Kingdom Scrolls.” Meg would happily cut a date short to go home and defend...

Is the first season of the Dead Pixels TV show on The CW a winner? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Dead Pixels is cancelled or renewed for season two (it's been renewed in the UK). Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Dead Pixels here. Status Update Below.

A comedy fantasy series on The CW, A comedy fantasy series from the UK, Dead Pixels stars Alexa Davies, Will Merrick, Sargon Yelda, Charlotte Ritchie, David Mumeni, and Noush Skaugen. It revolves around a trio of friends and their passion for playing an Mmorpg (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game).

The gaming continues on The CW. The network has picked up the Dead Pixels TV show for a second season. The show originates on Channel4 in the UK where it was renewed in 2019.

A comedic series, Dead Pixels stars Alexa Davies, Will Merrick, Sargon Yelda, Charlotte Ritchie, David Mumeni, and Noush Skaugen. It revolves around a trio of friends and their passion for playing an Mmorpg (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The show follows gamers Megan "Meg" Jeffries (Davies), Nicholas "Nicky" Kettle (Merrick), and Usman (Yelda) who are obsessed with the online fantasy game “Kingdom Scrolls.” Meg would happily cut a date short to go home and defend Castle Blackfinger. Nicky thinks the miscasting of Vince Vaughn as Tanadaal in the “Kingdom Scrolls” movie is an international outrage. And Usman has made a plywood lid...

Exclusive: Nia Long is joining Storm Reid in the next installment of the box office hit film Searching, for Sony’s Stage 6 Films. Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Megan Suri and Tim Griffin are rounding out the cast.

Searching 2 will not be a direct sequel, but rather a next installment in the Searching franchise. The plot is still under wraps, but it will feature a new set of characters where the story plays out on the screens of the characters’ devices. It is starting production in the spring.

Will Merrick & Nick Johnson will make their directing debut on the film. The pic is being produced by Natalie Qasabian, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian of Search Party, as well as by Bazelevs’ Adam Sidman and Timur Bekmambetov. Jo Henriquez is executive producing and Congyu E is co-producing.

Merrick and Johnson wrote the screenplay, which is based...