Maika Monroe
Nicolas Cage’s ‘Longlegs’ Horror Pic Crosses $100M in Global Box Office
Neon’s Longlegs, from director Osgood Perkins and starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe, has crossed the $100 million global box office mark since launching on July 12. The serial killer chiller has become the highest grossing film for Tom Quinn’s Oscar-winning specialty production and distribution outfit, home of Parasite, for 2024. Longlegs, which has to date […]
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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Easily Wins With $44.7M as ‘Longlegs’ Stuns With Record $22.6M Launch
Animation continue to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but Neon’s Longlegs can rightly take a bow after scoring the biggest opening for an independent horror pic in a decade with $22.6 million in ticket sales. From Illumination and Universal, DM4 easily stayed atop the […]
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‘Longlegs’ Director Osgood Perkins Explains Why He Doesn’t Watch Contemporary Horror
Longlegs’ Osgood “Oz” Perkins is remarkably even-keeled for a filmmaker who’s enjoying the finest reviews of his career. His Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage-led horror-thriller has been the talk of the town for months now, as Neon’s marketing department has put together one of the more inspired promotional campaigns in recent memory. They’ve made Perkins’ […]
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Maika Monroe Talks Fighting for ‘Longlegs,’ Why She Nearly Gave Up Acting and ‘It Follows 2’
Calling Longlegs star Maika Monroe a “scream queen” is a bit of an understatement at this point. Perhaps the term “scream empress” is more appropriate for an actor who already solidified her genre cred ten years ago with the one-two punch of cult classics, The Guest and It Follows. In the decade since, she’s added […]
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‘Longlegs’ Director Says Nicolas Cage Stayed “Very Focused” on Character Between Takes But Without “Any Sort of Method-Acting Bull****”
Longlegs writer-director Osgood Perkins is opening up about working with Nicolas Cage on their new horror movie, in which the star plays a satanic serial killer and undergoes a full physical transformation. The look — which has been kept under wraps in all of the film’s trailers and marketing — is so terrifying that Neon […]
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Nicolas Cage on Taking ‘Longlegs’ Inspiration From His Mother and Creating His “Very Androgynous” Serial Killer
In the upcoming horror movie Longlegs, Nicolas Cage stars as a mysterious, Satanic serial killer who is known by that same title. And though the film has drawn comparisons to Silence of the Lambs and Zodiac, Cage points to his late mother as one of his inspirations for the movie. Cage’s mother Joy Vogelsang passed […]
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‘Longlegs’ Review: Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage in a Mesmerizing Serial Killer Chiller That Burns With Satanic Power
Writer-director Osgood Perkins spins a tense FBI procedural steeped in occult horror and nightmarish visions, also starring Blair Underwood and Alicia Witt.
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‘God Is a Bullet’ Review: Jamie Foxx and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Nick Cassavetes’ Brutal — and Brutally Silly — Thriller
Maika Monroe co-stars in this film about a cop who goes undercover in a murderous cult to find his kidnapped daughter.
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Maika Monroe Discusses How Her Youth Prepared Her for ‘Watcher’ and Reveals Past Talks for ‘It Follows’ Reunion
Maika Monroe admittedly had concerns about Watcher’s similarities to her 2014 genre classic, It Follows, but as soon as she met filmmaker Chloe Okuno, those doubts immediately evaporated. In Okuno’s slow-burn thriller from IFC Midnight, Monroe plays a former actor named Julia who moves to Romania with her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman), and while he’s […]
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‘Watcher’: Film Review | Sundance 2022
Director Chloe Okuno's debut thriller stars Maika Monroe ('It Follows') as an expat being stalked, perhaps, in Bucharest.
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Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman Board Thriller ‘Watcher’
Directed by Chloe Okuno, the co-production between Image Nation Abu Dhabi and Spooky Pictures is due to start shooting this month.
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Dylan O’Brien Unravels Mysteries of the Past in ‘Education of Fredrick Fitzell’ Trailer (Exclusive)
Dylan O'Brien unravels the dark mysteries of his past in the first trailer for 'The Education of Fredrick Fitzell.'
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