Sinemia’s new plan offers movie ticket discounts without a subscription

The world of movie ticket services has been undergoing quite an upheaval of the past year. Yesterday, MoviePass announced a strategic “refocus.” Today’s Sinemia news is decidedly less dramatic, however — as has been the case with most of the company’s recent announcements. It has been toying with ways to tweak its subscription offering, and […]

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‘Bird Box’ breaks a Netflix record with 45M+ people watching in its first week

Sandra Bullock’s star power can still sell a movie, apparently. Though reviews for the Netflix horror film “Bird Box” have been lukewarm — the movie has a respectable, but not outstanding, score of 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — it has still managed to break records for the streaming service, Netflix said this afternoon. The company […]

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The movie version of ‘A Simple Favor’ has a totally different ending than the book — and it’s a lot more fun

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Major spoilers for both the novel and film versions of A Simple Favor lie ahead.

This past weekend, A Simple Favor hit theaters as a total mystery. Even to fans of the book.

Director Paul Feig and screenwriter Jessica Sharzer took major liberties with Darcey Bell’s novel of the same name—replacing much of the original story’s tense psychological dissection with campy, high-powered dark comedy. The movie capitalized on starring actors’ (Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Henry Golding) seemingly innate ability to make a missing person story glittery and light.

The tongue-in-cheek take on the mommy blogger turned super sleuth tale was undoubtedly more fun than the nail biter novel, but for the full A Simple Favor experience you have to read the book.  Read more…

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Monument Valley is becoming a movie

Monument Valley, the award-winning and beautifully designed mobile puzzler from ustwo Games, is being turned into a movie, according to a report from Deadline. While the game involves a manipulating Escher-like architecture in order to guide a princess through her quest, the movie version will feature live-action characters being thrown into the game’s “mind-bending world,” […]

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IMAX featurette makes the case for watching ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ in IMAX

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The biggest question looming over Avengers: Infinity War is “Who’s going to die?” and we’ve tried our best to answer that here

But the second biggest question might be “How the hell did they manage to get so many characters into one movie?” And while we don’t know yet how it’ll all pan out, we’re thinking it helps if you’ve got an extra-large box if you put them in. 

The IMAX featurette above makes a case for watching Infinity War on the biggest screen you can find – all the better to see as much of this movie as possible, including all the little details at the top and bottom of the frame that get cut off in a standard aspect ratio. Read more…

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