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When it comes to action franchises, Vin Diesel's name might be best associated with the Fast and Furious series of films. However, to some, there's another that is certainly underrated and perhaps even better: The Riddick films. The franchise began with Pitch Black at the turn of the century, then followed in 2004 with The Chronicles of Riddick, and eventually landed on 2013's simply-titled Riddick, although the next entry in the franchise, Riddick: Furya, is reported to be on its way.

It is the third of these movies that is proving popular today, despite being the worst received by audiences, according to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. In spite of this fact, 2013's Riddick, which also stars the likes of Dave Bautista, The Boys star Karl Urban, is officially one of the ten most-streamed titles on Tubi in the US, as of July 7, 2025. This success comes in light of Diesel's recent...

Housefull 5 Box Office Collection Day 21 ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Akshay Kumar starrer Housefull 5 will be facing new competition at the ticket windows starting today. Apart from Aamir Khan’s Sitaare Zameen Par, Kajol’s Maa has joined the box office battle today. However, the comedy thriller has accumulated good moolah in the last 3 weeks. It is now only 32 crores away from the success tag. Scroll below for day 21 updates!

Housefull 5 Day 21 Box Office Collection

The official figures are out, and Housefull 5 concluded its third week on a healthy note. It added 1.60 crores more to the kitty on Thursday, staying on similar lines as the previous day. The net earnings in India now stand at 193.39 crores after 3 weeks. Including taxes, the gross total comes to 228.20 crores.

Housefull 5 is now inching towards beating Sooryavanshi (195.04 crores) to emerge as Akshay Kumar’s highest-grossing film in the post-Covid era. The bad spell...

Fifteen years and some change after Universal and DreamWorks launched the first of its three successful animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, their live-action remake, complete with CGI dragons, cruises along with a nice tailwind from 2010’s first adaptation of Cressida Cowell’s books, which earned an Oscar nomination for Animated Feature.

While certain details in specific scenes were modified and some dialogue subtly shifted to enhance the story, the new version follows the original plot’s three-act structure to a tee. While some might question going to see a movie that swaps in real people and follows the original story almost exactly beat for beat — give or take a cut scene or additional moment — there is comfort in knowing what to expect, while still seeing the relationships, emotions and overall human dynamics re-interpreted. An added line of humorous or genuine dialogue in big moments also helps the film feel less formulaic.

Exclusive: Matt Cornett (Summer of 69), Ramon Reed (Incoming), and Chris Klein (Fear Street: Prom Queen) are about to wrap on the North Carolina shoot for Bad Counselors, a new indie from director Chris Dowling (Where Hope Grows).

The project is described as a fish-out-of-water comedy that follows two hard-partying fraternity brothers who pose as middle school camp counselors to work off community service and salvage their senior year. Written by Dexter Masland, Ryan Gunnarson, and Taylor Grabowsky, the film also stars Missi Pyle (Captain Fantastic), Brec Bassinger (Final Destination: Bloodlines), McKaley Miller (Dexter: Resurrection), Nathan Gamble (The Dark Knight), Ja’Marion Kennedy and Markiel Cockrell.

Loam Entertainment is fully financing the pic and producing alongside Zero Gravity and Narrow Gate Entertainment. Producers include Loam Entertainment CEO Robert Crotty, director of development Kristopher Galuska, and Chris Fenton, alongside Houston Bradley for Zero Gravity, Chris Roark for Narrow Gate, and Dowling. Thomas Evans...

Exclusive: Ryan Pinkston (Young Rock), Anissa Borrego (Ths Is Us), Arianna Davis and Taylor Dunbar round out the series regular cast of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. They join reviously cast Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy.

Written by the Astrof siblings in their first collaboration, Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.

Pinkston will play Stevie who dropped out of junior college four credits shy of graduating. Over a decade later, he re-enrolls and joins Courteney’s (Lyon) new team as a thirtysomething “senior.”

Borrego, who trained as a gymnast and cheerleader growing up, will play Krystal. A true Cheerlebrity, Krystal is the star flyer at Sammy Davis Sr. Junior college.

Davis, a professional dancer, will play Madonna, the narcoleptic tumbler who ironically provides the cheer team with energy.

Exclusive: Director Rich Newey has wrapped on Adult Children, a new coming-of-age dramedy starring Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), Aya Cash (You’re the Worst), Ella Rubin (Until Dawn), Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom), and Mimi Rogers (Bosch franchise).

Written by Annika Marks, the film follows Morgan (Rubin), a sheltered 17-year-old struggling to define who she is, in order to write her college entrance essay. When a crisis provides her the rare opportunity to spend time with her significantly older half-siblings, she hopes they’ll be able to shed some light on what it means to be an adult, only to be disappointed when she discovers they’re all faking it.

Producers of the indie include Angie Gaffney (Single Car Crashes) for 521 Films, as well as Sadoski, Marks and Newey under their Let’s Try One Productions banner. Executive producers are Randy Lennox and Christopher Keyser, as well as Kelly Waller,...

Exclusive: Cole Webley, director of the acclaimed Sundance drama Omaha, starring John Magaro, has signed with Artists First for management.

Marking Webley’s feature directorial debut, Omaha follows a father (Magaro) who after a family tragedy, takes his two young children Ella (Molly Wright) and Charlie (Wyatt Solis) on a journey across the country, experiencing a world they’ve never seen before. As their adventure unfolds, Ella begins to understand that things might not be what they seem. The film garnered rave reviews when it premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2025.

A Washington native currently based in Utah, where he shot part of Omaha, Webley frequently explores themes of family and connection despite differences in his work. He spent his formative years running a paper route and attending wrestling tournaments before beginning to direct commercials and short films. In 2021, his commercial “The Epidemic” won the AICP Advertising Excellence...

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For data nerds – it’s our favorite time of the year – the second half of 2024 viewing data has just been released! We’ve got a lot more to come, but what are the most-watched movies and series of the second half of the year? Let’s dive straight in.

What are the key points that Netflix has cited as being the most important for this data drop? Netflix reiterated that Engagement (time spent watching) is the best metric to gauge member satisfaction and that this data drop covers ~99% of all video watch time on Netflix and that no single title accounts for more than 1% of total Netflix viewing.

Squid Game S2 had the most hours viewed (0.7% of total viewing), and their total watch time for this period of July to December 2024 was 94B hours (5% increase YoY). Their most-viewed series was Squid Game S2 (87M views) despite premiering only 6 days before year-end.

Exclusive: Aud Mason-Hyde, one of the breakouts of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Artists First for management.

A queer trans nonbinary actor from Australia, Mason-Hyde stars opposite Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in Jimpa, a semi-autobiographical family drama from returning Sundance filmmaker Sophie Hyde. The film follows filmmaker and mother Hannah (Colman) as she takes her nonbinary teenager Frances (Mason-Hyde) on a trip to Amsterdam to visit their beloved gay grandpa Jim, aka “Jim-pa” (Lithgow).

In his review of the film out of Sundance, Deadline’s Pete Hammond called Mason-Hyde “perfectly cast.”

Mason-Hyde’s additional credits include the award-winning indie 52 Tuesdays, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, the Aussie ABC six-part series F*&#ing Adelaide, and the 2022 short film Right Here that played the festival circuit in Australia and was nominated for a number of awards. Also a poet,...

The Black Phone 2 director Scott Derrickson has shared a new update about the upcoming sequel to Blumhouse Productions’ 2021 supernatural horror movie. The first installment was based on the 2005 short story by Joe Hill.

During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Derrickson confirmed that production on The Black Phone 2 has already been completed, while teasing the surprises they have in store for fans of the first movie. "A lot of surprises, for sure. I just finished shooting Black Phone 2, and what I can tell you is that I didn't feel obliged to make a sequel," he said. This comes ahead of the upcoming Feb. 14 release of the filmmaker’s newest high-profile action thriller titled, The Gorge, which will see Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller guarding the gateway to hell.

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Exclusive: Propagate Content has promoted four across key divisions.

Jack Katkavich has been promoted to Head of Sports Programming and Nonfiction, with Grant McCall being promoted to Director of Scripted Development and Partnerships. Noah Nusinow will continue in his current role as Head of Finance, while adding oversight of Corporate Development and M&a to his responsibilities, with Belle Raymundo elevating to Vice President, Finance & Accounting.

A pivotal member of the unscripted and documentary development teams since joining Propagate in 2018, Katkavich now reports directly to Co-CEO Howard T. Owens and continue to oversee a diverse slate of sports programming, including projects in production with Amazon Sports, History Channel, Netflix, Apple, and Discovery ID. Already, he’s worked on the Netflix sports franchise Untold, which is set to release its fourth volume later this year, as well as the Emmy-nominated sports documentary Lfg (HBO Max), Jackie Robinson: Get to the Bag (Fox Sports), and God. Family. Football.

What films cracked you up in 2024? Or, more specifically, what moments in movies made you laugh the hardest? Sometimes, a film can be generally meh but contains a scene or a performance so funny that you can forgive its shortcomings. Likewise, a serious drama might include something so darkly hilarious that’s shockingly effective precisely because it’s completely unexpected. And, of course, there are the unfortunate unintentional laughs that can happen when a woefully inept movie falls flat on its face. Hey, we’ll take our laughs however we can.

Below, I’ve counted down the 34 funniest moments in movies this year. Maybe the films themselves weren’t amazing — although some of them certainly were — but they had something so clever or amusing that I never forgot it. Also, I left room for a few instances in which internet users enhanced a movie’s comedic impact by introducing a...

Production is underway on Scott Derrickson’s Blumhouse horror sequel The Black Phone 2, and Deadline reports today that the film’s cast will include Arianna Rivas (Prom Dates).

Arianna Rivas recently had a role in the Hulu Original comedy Prom Dates, and she also starred in the 2023 movie The Harvest. She’ll next be seen in David Ayer’s movie Levon’s Trade.

You can learn more about Arianna Rivas over on her official Instagram account.

Ethan Hawke will be back as The Grabber in The Black Phone, which Universal and Blumhouse will be releasing on the big screen just in time for next Halloween on October 17, 2025.

The cast for The Black Phone 2 also includes Mason Thames (How to Train Your Dragon, Incoming), Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4, Secrets of Sulphur Springs), Jeremy Davies (Justified), Miguel Mora (The Black Phone), and Demián Bichir (The Nun).

Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill...

When horror fans pick up The Black Phone 2 in October 2025, they will meet a handful of old and new characters. The last time fans saw The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) stalking the streets in The Black Phone, it appeared as though young Finney (Mason Thames) subdued the sinister villain. Alas, with Hawke set to return for director Scott Derrickson in the upcoming sequel, Finney will have to figure out another way to prevent The Grabber from preying on more children.

In addition to Hawke and Thames, returning characters join a crop of newcomers in The Black Phone 2, with more casting news sure to come out between now and next Halloween. With The Black Phone slated for a release on October 17, 2025, it's time to meet the cast, the characters they play, and where fans have seen them on the big and small screen.

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Rebel Ridge reclaims the number one spot on Netflix's global chart. Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, known previously for Blue Ruin and A24's Green Room, Netflix's new action film follows a former Marine who finds himself entangled in small-town corruption when his effort to post bail for his wrongfully accused cousin spirals into a deadly confrontation with the local police chief. Aaron Pierre leads the Rebel Ridge cast alongside Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Emory Cohen, Steve Zissis, Zsan Jh, Dana Lee, and James Cromwell.

Now, Netflix's new action film with a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score has reclaimed the number one spot on their global chart. Rebel Ridge ranked first on Netflix's Global Top 10 for the week of September 23-29 with 8.9 million views and 19.5 million hours viewed. It ranked ahead of other new Netflix originals Uglies and Jailbreak: Love on the Run for the week.

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The second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power opened to big viewing numbers in the United States — just not as big as its first season.

The Prime Video series amassed 1.02 billion minutes of viewing in the United States for the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1, good for first place among original series and second among all titles in Nielsen’s streaming rankings. Season two premiered on Aug. 29 with three episodes, and Nielsen says about 70 percent of the show’s weekly total was for those three, with the remainder devoted to season one. (Viewing totals on the ratings service’s charts cover all episodes of a series.)

The 1.02 billion minutes is down about 19 percent from season one’s opening week (1.25 billion) in August 2022. The Rings of Power ranks third among Prime Video series U.S. opening weeks this year behind Fallout (2.9 billion minutes) and The Boys (1.19 billion...

AMC made a bet earlier this year that licensing a number of its shows to Netflix would help them find more viewers. That bet appears to have paid off.

Two AMC shows, Dark Winds and A Discovery of Witches, are among the top 10 streaming titles for the week of Aug. 19-25. They were added to Netflix at the beginning of that week as part of a deal struck in July to place about a dozen AMC shows on the service, complete with branding as the “AMC Collection.” (The shows will be available for 12 months.)

It’s not new territory for AMC, which partially credited Netflix for a huge spike in ratings for Breaking Bad’s final season and has also licensed The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul, among others, to the streamer in the past.

Dark Winds drew 929 million minutes of viewing for the week, good for fourth place overall.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 suffered a major viewership drop in its second week on Luminate’s weekly streaming originals chart.

Last week, the Amazon Prime Video series managed to nab second place with 764.7 million minutes watched in the first full week of availability of its first three episodes combined with the first day of availability of its fourth episode. But during the Sept. 6-12 viewing window — which included the first full week of Episode 4 and the first day of Episode 5 — it only hit 372.7 million minutes watched, landing in fourth place. While there was less new content to watch compared to the week before, when the first three episodes has just debuted, it still doesn’t bode well for a large IP title to drop by more than 50% after one week, when word-of-mouth appeal should still be high. It should be noted that Luminate only measures U.

Universal and Blumhouse will release The Black Phone 2 in theaters on October 17, 2025, and Deadline reports tonight that Demián Bichir (The Nun) has joined the cast.

Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill will be writing and producing the upcoming sequel, with Derrickson directing. The first movie was based on Joe Hill’s short story.

Ethan Hawke will be back as The Grabber, with Mason Thames (How to Train Your Dragon, Incoming), Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4, Secrets of Sulphur Springs), Jeremy Davies (Justified) and Miguel Mora (The Black Phone) also set to return.

In the first film, Finney (Thames), a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer (Hawke) and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use.

When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they...

It appears The Deliverance is picking up steam on Netflix, putting up 21.8M views from September 2 to 8, marking a significant increase from the week prior.

The film has taken a minute to break through with audiences since premiering on August 16, but after marching its way to third place in the last week of the month, it took the second place spot during this interval.

The top title of the week went to Rebel Ridge, which amassed 31.2M views. The thriller, which stars Aaron Pierre, dropped on Netflix on September 6, making this quite an impressive three-day debut. The film has the potential to put up an even bigger audience this week, as it’ll be its first full seven days of availability, which generally works in a title’s favor.

And, of course, The Perfect Couple also tallied its fair share of views on the TV side of things with 20.3M after launching on Thursday.

Netflix has found the formula for audience attention amid the waning days of summer and back-to-school season, and it involves one part Halle Berry, one part Mark Wahlberg, and a lot of action.

The two Hollywood A-listers have given Netflix a major streaming hit, as their action comedy “The Union” is the most-watched program for the third consecutive week on the Samba TV Weekly Wrap Report.

“Industry” comes in behind “The Union” this week, as the buzzy HBO and Max series climbs the chart from No. 6 last week.

Netflix holds the next four spots on this week’s chart. “Worst Ex Ever,” the streamer’s latest true-crime docuseries, “dissects the dark side of love” and comes in third this week. No. 4 is “The Accident,” a Mexican drama series.

“The Deliverance,” at No. 5 , is a horror film with even more star power in it than “The Union.” Led by Oscar winner Mo’Nique,...

A new comedy movie and a dark docuseries have taken over the top spots on Netflix's viewership leaderboard. The comedy Incoming and the documentary series Worst Ex Ever have found huge success on the streaming platform, topping the Netflix titles for this week. Netflix's latest comedy, Incoming, stars Ramon Reed, Raphael Alejandro, Mason Thames, Bobby Cannavale, Kaitlin Olson, Scott MacArthur and Isabella Ferreira, and follows four boys as they navigate their first week of freshman year in high school. Specifically, getting ready for their first high school party, which they are terrified of attending. After its first full week on the platform, Incoming has reached the tippy top with 16.9 million views, up 71% from its debut weekend.

Looking beyond Incoming, Halle Berry and Mark Wahlbergs spy action thriller The Union stuck around on the English-language film list for another week, falling to second place after its big debut week. It garnered 16.8 million views,...

Raphael Alejandro, star of Netflix's recent film Incoming, gave some insight into that disgusting Tesla scene as well as the prospects of a sequel.

The movie follows Mason Thames' Benj and his group of friends as they navigate becoming freshmen in high school. The crux of the story revolves around Benj's love interest and the antics of a crazy party being thrown by Koosh's (Bardia Seiri) brother.

Alejandro, who plays Connor, doesn't actually get to attend the party. Instead, he gets stuck driving around a Tesla with one nasty surprise.

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“The Accident” and “The Union” were the most-watched streaming originals in the U.S. by far during the week of Aug. 23-29, per Luminate.

“The Accident” led TV titles with 782 million minutes watched throughout the window, which marked its first full week of availability, while “The Union” was the top movie and top title overall, hitting 813.5 million minutes watched. Aug. 23-29 marked the Halle Berry-Mark Wahlberg film’s second full week of availability on the chart; it was No. 1 with 1.7 billion minutes watched on the previous chart.

The second-most-watched title on the TV chart was “Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War,” which hit 500.2 million minutes watched in its first full week of streaming. “American Murder: Laci Peterson” had its second week on the chart, dropping to third place with 446.9 million minutes watched after its No. 1, billion-minute debut the week before.

The next three spots also went to repeat titles: "Love Is Blind: UK" (No.

With the end of summer fast approaching, Netflix subscribers are starting to think about the return to school and kicked back with a raunchy comedy that satirizes the high school experience. A week after its debut, the streamer's new title Incoming landed at #1 among the most-watched titles on the platform with 16.9 million views just 100,000 views more than last week's champion The Union, which was dethroned and this week was the #2 movie on the platform with 16.8 million views.

Netflix’s latest comedy film Incoming was at the top of its class in its first full week on the streamer, racking up 16.9M views. That’s up 71% from its debut weekend to make it the most-watched title of the week.

Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg’s The Union stuck around on the English-language film list for another week as well, this time coming in second place. Its 16.8M views put it neck-and-neck with first place, but it experienced a steep decrease in viewership compared to the week prior, when it tallied more than 40M views.

The Deliverance took a minute to catch audiences’ attention since premiering on August 16, but this week it finally broke through the noise with 14.5M views, which was good enough for third place.

No other films on Netflix could compete this week, with fourth place going to the Nigerian film Tòkunbò, which managed 5.3M views.

Singer and actress Loren Gray, dubbed The Original Queen of TikTok, has become a mega social media influencer with more than 80 million followers online. Her TikTok account alone has 53.7 million followers and 3 billion likes. But the star of Netflixs new house party comedy, Incoming, recently admitted to MovieWeb that there was another influencer who informed her own choices when it came to pursuing a music career: Taylor Swift.

Several years ago, Gray landed a spot in Swifts music video for The Man, which also featured a cameo from Dwayne The Rock Johnson. During the shoot, Gray was emerging as a social media darling. She said Swift took time out to talk to her, noting, The first thing she told me was not to listen to anybody else when it comes to your project, your creativity, and your art because you know the best and you know your audience the best.

The Bikeriders becomes a hit on streaming after a disappointing run at the box office. Directed by Jeff Nichols and based on Danny Lyon's photo book of the same name, The Bikeriders stars Austin Butler as Benny, a young biker who finds himself torn between his loyalty to his new club, the Vandals, and Kathy (Jodie Comer), his girlfriend. The film, which stars Tom Hardy as Johnny, the violent leader of the Vandals, was released earlier this year and grossed only $35.8 million worldwide.

New data from Reelgood reveals that The Bikeriders ranks as the tenth most popular movie on streaming for the week of August 22 28. The film, which is available to stream on Peacock, falls behind titles like Incoming (2024), Alien (1979), and The Killer (2024), among others. Check out the full top 10 chart below:

The Bikeriders' Streaming Success Explained Why The Tom Hardy Movie Disappointed In Theaters

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“Twisters” (Universal) wasn’t the biggest film of the summer. But it is becoming the comeback kid among the group, both theatrically and at home.

The tornado-focused special effects disaster film just had a very rare weekend in theaters. In its seventh weekend, losing 200 screens, its gross increased 17 percent. That comes in its third week at home on PVOD. And right at the same time, “Twisters” returned to #1 at iTunes, edging out the second weekend of “Inside Out 2” (Disney), 2024’s biggest hit.

The Pixar film retains its top spot at Fandango, with the advantage that its $24.99 rental cost gives it with that site listing by revenue earned, not transactions like iTunes does. In any event, the split decision this week continues a now multi-month trend of no film placing #1 at both for two consecutive weeks.

After a rare repeat at Netflix, where Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry’s...

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Loren Gray stars in the hit new Netflix comedy Incoming and spoke with MovieWeb's Greg Archer about acting in her first movie, wanting to be in Star Wars, her Taco Bell advertising campaign, and some surprising stuff about Taylor Swift. Check out Incoming on Netflix -- netflix.com/incoming

In the movie Incoming, four freshmen in high school get ready for their first school party, preparing themselves for something unfamiliar and terrifying.

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for 1992, The Deliverance and Only Murders in the Building.

Adam Sandler: Love You special screening

Sandler debuted his new Netflix comedy special in NYC on Aug. 20, alongside director (and former Uncut Gems collaborator) Josh Safdie.

Josh Safdie and Adam Sandler The Crow premiere

Bill Skarsgard and FKA Twigs walked the carpet at the NY premiere of their new version of The Crow on Aug. 20. The premiere was followed by an afterparty hosted by Lionsgate, TikTok and Ssense.

Bill Skarsgard and FKA Twigs Director Rupert Sanders at the afterparty. Only Murders in the Building premiere

With season four of the hit Hulu comedy heading to Los Angeles, stars Steve Martin, Martin

Short, Selena Gomez and Meryl Streep followed suit for the premiere on the Paramount lot on Aug. 22.

Meryl Streep,...

"The Mick" creators and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" writers Dave and John Chernin made their feature directorial debut with "Incoming," a coming-of-age sex comedy for Netflix about a group of incoming freshmen attending their first high school party. It's a raucous, raunchy, ridiculous night of debauchery featuring a 14-year-old running a control room of spy cams, plenty of upperclassmen making the beast with two backs in random open bedrooms, a science teacher desperately trying to appear cool by taking shots of Fireball and ripping bongs with students, fist fights leading to broken noses, accidentally falling into a K-hole, running from the cops, and drunkenly sharting out a night's worth of Taco Bell binge-eating.

"Incoming" is an attempt to merge the tradition of beloved high school stories with the over-the-top screwball sex comedies of the 1970s and '80s, and when it works, it really works. Similar to recent high...

So far in 2024, Netflix movies have been off to a thrilling start with hit titles such as Damsel, Atlas, A Family Affair, and The Union. But the year isn't over yet! To finish out an excellent year of movies, Netflix announced its full slate of fall movies on Aug. 28, and we can look forward to even more hot titles of every genre, from horror to holiday, featuring some of the biggest stars.

Among the biggest and most-anticipated titles on the horizon include Joey King's dystopian sci-fi flick Uglies, which also stars Outer Banks favorite Chase Stokes; horror movies like It's What's Inside, Don't Move, and Time Cut; Anna Kendrick's directorial debut Woman of the Hour; and a full slate of Christmas rom-coms starring Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, and Christina Milian.

More and more release dates for Netflix movies coming this year have been announced, and below we’ve...

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Dave and John Chernin are taking audiences back to the time of R-rated teen comedies with Incoming. The sibling creative duo first kicked off their career as both writers and executive story editors on the long-running comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, having worked on 30 episodes of the hit show, ranging from "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore" and "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare", among others. They also went on to create the Fox sitcom, The Mick, which was led by Sunny star Kaitlin Olson and ran for two seasons.

With Incoming, the Chernins are making their feature directorial debut and telling the story of Benj, a high school freshman who, with his friends Eddie, Connor and Koosh, anxiously kick off their high school experience by going to a party thrown by Koosh's older brother. While there, Benj looks to...

Incoming has become a global Netflix hit. The new teen comedy is the feature debut of co-writers and co-directors Dave and John Chernin, following a group of four best friends who prepare for their first party in high school, which they believe is going to change their lives forever. The Incoming cast also includes Love, Victor's Isabella Ferreira, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson, and The Watcher's Bobby Cannavale. At the time of writing, the movie has earned a Rotten Tomatoes splat with a critic score of 30%.

Netflix has now calculated their global Top 10 chart of the most-watched English language movies for the week of August 19 through August 25, 2024. Incoming has landed at No. 2 with 9.9 million viewers amassing a total of 15 million hours viewed. This is enough to make it the most-watched debut movie in any language on the platform for the week, though it fell behind the...

Incoming is a third-rate Superbad rip-off with no originality or charm. Good Boys is a much better version of what Incoming tries to achieve, with heart and humor. Good Boys came closer to Superbad's critical acclaim than Incoming, which was panned.

Incoming, Netflixs terrible middle-school version of Superbad, is a timely reminder to check out Seth Rogens awesome middle-school version of Superbad from 2019. Incoming is about four freshmen attending their first high school party and trying to get in with the cool kids. The film marks the feature-length directorial debut of brothers Dave and John Chernin, who cut their teeth as writers on Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. But Incoming is nowhere near as funny as a Superbad-esque teen comedy from two of the minds behind Its Always Sunny sounds.

It seemed as though Incoming had everything going for it: two writers from Its Always Sunny at the helm,...

Many fans who booted up the recently released Netflix movie Incoming are eager to learn more about one of the movie's actors, Raphael Alejandro.

Directed by brothers David and John Chernin, Incoming is a new Netflix film that follows the rather simple premise of four high school freshmen attending their first party and witnessing the good and bad of that kind of experience.

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New to Netflix on August 23, 2024, Incoming has enjoyed great steaming success despite ranking as one of 2024's worst feature film comedies. The story concerns a quartet of first-year high school students overcoming great trepidation as they gear up to attend their first high school party. The derivative paint-by-numbers comedy by first-time filmmaking siblings Dave and John Chernin adds nothing new to the subgenre, calling to mind much funnier examples such as Porky's, American Pie, and Superbad.

Yet, despite earning a lowly 13% Rotten Tomatoes score, the sophomoric teen comedy has found a viewership groove on the streaming platform that continues to favor quantity over quality to accommodate the current binge-watching trend. Over the past weekend, Incoming ranked behind only The Union as Netflix's most-watched movie in the U.S., further magnifying Netflix's biggest existential question - at what...

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One party will make or break four highschoolers' freshman year in Incoming. The Netflix comedy primarily centers on Benj, Eddie, Connor and Koosh and one wild night for the group as Koosh's older brother hosts a first-week-of-school party, though only Benj is able to get in, which he takes as an opportunity to try and make a move on his sister's best friend, Bailey. Eddie and Connor, meanwhile, embark on their own journey as they steal the former's mom's boyfriend's car and get caught up in increasingly chaotic situations.

Incoming features a cast of young up-and-coming actors, with The Black Phone breakout Mason Thames starring as Benj, with Grey's Anatomy alum Bardia Seiri starring as Koosh and Disney Channel alums Ramon Reed (Just Roll With It) and Raphael Alejandro (Bunk'd) playing Eddie and Connor. The cast also features a number of well-established comedy stars,...

“Inside Out 2” (Disney), the biggest domestic movie since “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022, finally arrived at home. Released in theaters June 10, it still ranked #10 at the box office last weekend — which is probably why it could debut with a $24.99 three-day rental and take first place at both iTunes (which ranks by transactions) and Fandango (ranking by revenue).

This week Netflix had three of its own original films among the top four, led by “The Union” starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry. The secret agent comedy-thriller is #1 for the second week, uncommon among Netflix Originals.

VOD charts also saw Neon’s low-budget sleeper success “Longlegs” place third at both sites. This came after six weeks of strong theatrical success, with $73 million so far.

Unusually, iTunes and Fandango shared the same top four films. “Twisters” (Universal), last week’s #1, is second at both, while “Despicable Me 4” (Universal) is fourth.

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Netflix's "Incoming" blends classic teen comedy with a fresh young cast but falls short in ratings due to writing critiques. Mason Thames, star of "Incoming," has exciting upcoming projects like "Monster Summer" and the live-action "How to Train Your Dragon" reboot. "Incoming" highlights youthful talent with praised performances, but faces mixed reviews despite its familiar teen comedy premise.

Incoming is the latest teen comedy to hit Netflix, mixing some recognizable veteran actors with its young, rising star cast. The film follows four freshmen as they plan for their first party in high school, mixing elements of classic teen comedies like Superbad with modern movie tropes. Many of the movie's faces should be relatively unfamiliar to most viewers, as the majority of the cast is composed of teenage actors. However, some of those actors, including the film's star, have exciting upcoming projects to keep tabs on.

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Mason Thames, Raphael Alejandro, Ramon Reed, and Bardia Seiri star in the new Netflix coming-of-age comedy, Incoming. The young actors spoke with MovieWeb's Greg Archer about bonding during the film and the often emotional journeys they've taken to get here. Incoming is now streaming on Netflix here: netflix.com/incoming

Four freshmen are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives: their first high school party. Alongside the four young stars, Incoming features Isabella Ferreira, Ali Gallo, Kaitlin Olson ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"), Bobby Cannavale and multi-hyphenate Loren Grey, in her first ever breakout film role.

Netflix's Incoming: Full Movie Soundtrack and Song List For the Newest Raunchy Teen Flick - Main Image

Incoming is just the raunchy teen comedy flick to see before returning to school this August. Apart from its rising stars on the roster, Netflix's soundtrack for Incoming brings back the iconic pop music shown throughout the new movie.

Netflix's Incoming Has the Perfect Raunchy Soundtrack

Considering that Incoming is closely similar to the iconic over-the-top Superbad, it's only natural for the new flick to show a similar take on how high school parties would look — and what other way to present it in a flick than through its own song list? Check out every song included on Incoming's soundtrack below:

I'm Legendary – dv/sn, minimyDare You To Get Started – Wesley Eugene Smith, Quinten John CoblentzChoose Your Fate – Spkilla BeatsNdaHoodJordan – Omer AgcaCall Me The King – Wade08 and Matisse MariePeached – I'm FreeBooty...

Mason Thames has issued an exciting update regarding the upcoming live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake. The eagerly anticipated movie completed filming almost four months ago, and the young actor teases fans won't have too long to wait for a first look.

Thames, who will portray Hiccup Haddock III, made the reveal to Screen Rant while promoting his Netflix comedy film, Incoming. He shared that while he did not want to give too much away to avoid Universal's ire, he assured that images or teasers for How to Train Your Dragon would soon arrive. "Oh, gosh, I'm gonna get killed here if I answer anything. All I can really say is it shouldn't be too long of a wait [to see first looks at the movie]," he stated. The actor feels honored to play Hiccup and loves the animated film series.

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It’s been 17 years since Superbad first hit theaters, and its influence can still be felt today, in movies like Netflix’s recent Incoming, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart and also anytime you see a teenager foolishly trying to drink beer out of a laundry detergent container.

The movie was a huge hit in theaters, making over $170 million at the worldwide box office, to the joy of everyone except perhaps the real-life McLovin, who complained that his old high school friends, screenwriters Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, made his character “the butt of every joke.”

Naturally, the blockbuster comedy received a splashy DVD release that year, complete with special features and bonus collectibles that proved to be surprisingly controversial. That’s because the Walmart exclusive release of Superbad came with a replica of the iconic McLovin fake ID, obtained in the movie by the nerdy Fogell.

This became a big issue in Hawaii,...

Incoming is a brand-new Netflix Original, a teenage comedy-drama meant only for adults. That is a rare combination, but it is a fun watch that gets too real about the schooling system and the children from the current generation. Bullying, catcalling, body image issues, abuse, and validation are the kinds of subjects that are covered. A party unveils many things about people, and it is interesting to watch in which direction their arcs head.

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Who did Benji have a crush on?

The movie opens with Benjamin, aka Benji, a high school boy, imagining speaking to Bailey, his sister’s best friend. He has had a major crush on Bailey for a long time but he has not been able to convey that. Benji had been waiting all summer to go to the same school as Bailey, his senior, who did not see him as a potential boyfriend. She does,...

Netflix's new movie Incoming shines a light on a young up-and-comer, Isabella Ferreira, as fans dig deep to learn more about her.

Incoming tells the story of four high school freshmen prepping to go to their very first high school party — new and unfamiliar territory for the growing teenagers.

Ferreira is part of a cast of A-list stars, including How to Train Your Dragon's Mason Thames, Ant-Man's Bobby Cannavale, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson.

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High school antics hit the small screen once again in Incoming, the newest Netflix production from writer-director duo Dave and John Chernin. Dropped into our queues like an invitation to senior ditch day, this coming-of-age comedy wastes little time plunging viewers feet-first into the reckless rituals of freshman orientation.

Tagging familiar beats from the genre’s heyday, Incoming focuses its lens on the perilous pursuit of popularity among four newbies navigating the social jungle that is Jefferson High.

Chiefly concerned with claiming their place at the cafeteria round table before the final bell, Benji, Eddie, Connor, and Koosh place their hopes in a rager hosted by Jefferson’s lord of misrule himself. But with adolescence come awkward learning curves and embarrassing spills, as the boys will discover their first party is no exception to life’s lessons in failure and forgiveness.

Under the bravado and belching however lies a sweet sincerity,...

Netflix's "Incoming" is a modern take on teen comedy similar to "Superbad." The film follows a group of freshmen navigating chaos at their first high school party. "Incoming" may be the closest thing to a sequel to "Superbad" due to similar themes and premise.

Netflix has a long list of a variety of movies coming in 2024, and among them is Incoming, which will be the closest we will get to a sequel to Superbad. While many genres go through good runs and not-so-good ones, the branch of teen comedies is one that tends to keep its relevance and popularity despite many failures. Netflix has its own catalog of teen comedies, both licensed and original, and joining the latter is Incoming, written and directed by Dave and John Chernin in their feature-length directorial debut.

Incoming follows friends Benjamin (Mason Thames), Connor (Raphael Alejandro), Eddie (Ramon Reed), and Koosh (Bardia Seiri...

Mason Thames teases that the first looks at the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake will be coming very soon, though remains mum on an exact window. Thames also reflects on his experience playing Hiccup, expressing honor and emotional attachment to the character. Universal may attach teasers to upcoming releases like The Wild Robot and Dog Man to reach a wide audience and generate buzz.

With just over three months gone since the movie wrapped filming, Mason Thames offers an exciting update on the How to Train Your Dragon live-action remake. Thames is leading the upcoming movie as Hiccup Haddock III, the awkward son of the chief of the Viking village who discovers and befriends a dragon he names Toothless and tries to find a way to build a world in which humans and dragons can co-exist. Written and directed by original trilogy helmer Dean DeBlois, the ensemble How...