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Netflix Officially Announces a Sequel to ‘Bright’

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6 years ago

January 3, 2018

John Squires

David Ayer’s Bright (read our review), Netflix’s most expensive original film to date, premiered on December 22, quickly becoming the highest viewed Netflix film ever on the service in its first week of release and one of the biggest originals (including sequels/additional seasons) Netflix has ever launched.

During its first three days, an estimated 11 million Netflix users watched Bright.

Today, Netflix has officially confirmed recent reports that a sequel to Bright is in the works, with David Ayer returning to write and direct.

Stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are also expected to return.

Personally speaking, I had a whole lot of fun with Bright, which merely teases a fantasy-meets-reality universe that the sequel will hopefully be delving much further into. The film offers passing glimpses of creatures – including fairies, centaurs and a big ass dragon – that are mostly kept in background, so there’s needless to say lots of room for expansion. There’s also TONS of franchise potential in this one.

Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless will produce the sequel.

John Squires

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Movies

‘MaXXXine’ – Mia Goth Takes Hollywood in New Image from Ti West’s Sequel

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11 hours ago

April 30, 2024

John Squires

One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.

With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.

Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…

“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”

If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.

Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.

Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”

Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.

Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.