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’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Trailer Fights to Get In…and Out

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8 years ago

February 14, 2016

After exploding out of the gate, things have quieted down a bit in regards to then J.J. Abrams-produced 10 Cloverfield Lane, slated for release through Paramount Pictures on March 11, 2016.

Dan Trachtenberg directs this mystery film with Red State‘s John Goodman, The Thing‘s Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr. starring.

When the news first broke, it was like lightning through the entertainment world as we all tried to figure out what exactly 10 Cloverfield Lane is.

Now, after various teasers and much research, the connection to the 2008 Cloverfield definitely feels more “blood relative” than an actual sequel. That’s not a bad thing, but it feels like some of the wind has left the sails. And with that, the buzz isn’t seething like it used to be.

As a Cloverfield sequel it looks like disappointment looms – but by removing any connection it actually looks to be a really solid, dark, and suspenseful thriller about three people in a bomb bunker during some sort of “attack.”

A new trailer has been released, this time really focusing on the plot. John Gallagher Jr. really makes the case that they want to be in there, while it appears that Mary Elizabeth Winstead just can’t shake the feeling that she’s being duped. What is out those doors, and what’s with the crazy footage of the entire house lighting up?

There’s a lot of the patent Abrams mystery box in the footage, which I can’t wait to open next month.

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

Brad Miska

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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

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10 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.