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    The Top 100 Films of the 2020's OW+PTA+DOM+OS+WW

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    Updated as of February 21st, 2024!

     

    Keynotes:

    • Don't Worry Darling has been bumped off the Top 100 DOM OW's list;
    • Cruella, Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (Japanese film), The Ex-Files 4: Marriage Plan (Chinese film) and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It have been bumped off the Top 100 OS list;
    • The Marvels, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Shock Wave 2 (Chinese film) have been bumped off the Top 100 WW list.
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    CAYOM YEAR 10 - PART 1 - MOVIE SUBMISSION - Submissions for January-June Closing Monday

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    MBWII:

    THE SECOND

    MONSTER BUG WARS

     

    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures; TSG Entertainment; FremantleMedia Enterprises

    Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller

    Based On: Monster Bug Wars, by Beyond International

     

    Genre: Action/Thriller/Horror/Sci-Fi

    Release Date: November 6th, Y10

    Theater Count: 3672

    Rating: PG-13

    Format: 2D, 3D, 4DX, Dolby, IMAX

    Budget: $100 million

    Runtime: 120 minutes

     

    Cast:

    • Kristen Connolly as Joanne
    • Seth Green as Dr. Bishop
    • Wagner Moura as the voice of the Wolf Spider
    • Idris Elba as the voice of the Emperor Scorpion

    Previous Movies' Box Office:

    • Monster Bug Wars (04/21/Y7) - $34,230,226 OW / $90,301,685 DOM / $285,966,112 WW
    • Monster Bug Wars: The Spider Path (05/17/Y8) - $3,657,431 OW / $7,002,684 DOM / $12,065,192 WW
    • Monster Bug Wars: The Scorpion Path (05/17/Y8) - $2,393,143 OW / $4,510,784 DOM / $11,080,204 WW

    Plot Summary: In the first Monster Bug Wars film, set in a futuristic Earth colony, Joanne and her boyfriend, Vic (Fran Kranz), unmasked the evildoing of a group of scientists who used special technology to force bugs, arachnids and arthropods to fight against each other and then sell it as a spectacle to humans.

     

    After the events of the first one, as well as of the two prequel spin-offs (The Spider Path and The Scorpion Path), in which Dr. Bishop, the leader of the scientists, is seen utilizing a tech gun to turn a Wolf Spider's female partner into a giant version of herself, and then lock her in a cage for their own use, the Male Wolf Spider is left wandering alone in the desert. He sets chase after the Female Wolf Spider and Dr. Bishop, but Bishop quickly blocks his way, leaving the Spider stranded on a panic. After Bishop's cleared a large distance, the Spider goes after them on foot again, but because of its size, it cannot keep up. Later, the Emperor Scorpion, who saw the Giant Female Wolf Spider and Dr. Bishop (and his goons) walk past him, is trying to prey on local alien beasts, but is unable to do so as the aliens are quicker. The Male Wolf Spider and the Scorpion cross paths, but as the Scorpion tries to prey on the Spider, against the latter's will, both hear commotion coming from a nearby camp: Joanne is mourning the death of Vic, who had been killed after being poisoned by the Spider, after the climax of Bug Wars 1. The Scorpion sees prey in Joanne, while the Spider feels empathy for Joanne, and it prevents the Scorpion from attacking Joanne, after a brief fight scene between the two of them. Joanne gives them both a special device to grant them a human voice and an active consciousness. It's revealed that the Spider, who uses the voice of a Brazilian man (wolf spiders are known to exist in the Amazon rainforest), just wanted to live its normal life as an apex predator of the bug underworld, but when he met the Female Spider, he knew that being with her was his one and true purpose; and now, he understands why a human would mourn the death of her partner too. The Scorpion, voiced by an African man (they are native to West Africa), does not care about either of them and admits he just needs to feed. Joanne, despite the Scorpion trying to prey on her, says she will help him eat, if he helps him and the Spider find the Female Spider. The Scorpion, reluctantly, agrees.

     

    We follow the trio as the human, Spider and Scorpion combine to hunt the same kind as earlier of wild alien bugs, with which the Scorpion and Spider feed on (Joanne passes). The Scorpion says he is thankful and will go on to help Joanne, but he's out once that's done as he's an animal to live in the wild. The Spider feels conflict, as he is warmed by the idea of having an owner along with his mate (having heard all of the stories of Tarantulas being good pets), but he doesn't trust Joanne just yet. Joanne also doesn't trust the two of them, thinking they will either try to backstab her and eat her, or they just won't get along and fight all the time, like cats and dogs. The Spider and the Scorpion are left at tension. Nevertheless, the trio heads to the colony capital of Felicidad, where they realize that all the locals and all their pets are being enslaved by the scientists, in the name of Earthling governments pushing for imperialist agendas. The Spider and Scorpion do not pretend to be angry, as they think that - just like in the animal kingdom - it's kill or be killed, and these governments, in their opinion, are just doing what it takes to survive. Joanne explains to them that humans are more than animals, but the Spider points out that this does not seem the case, given the brutality of the scientists and colony government's oppression. Joanne convinces them to help her out free some of these people. They do in some cool action sequences, which get vibrant camerawork and saturated colors. After spending some time with the locals, the trio socializes and gets to know one another better. The Spider and the Scorpion get into an argument, saying that they will fight in the end because they are bitter rivals in nature and that's just what animals are, with the Scorpion threatening to eat both Joanne and the Spider. But Joanne begs them to stick together, because humans can sometimes be even worse than they are, feeling hopeless for humanity. The arachnids stay pensive. Later, Joanne, the Spider and the Scorpion have triggered Dr. Bishop's attention. Joanne calls Bishop out for being a tyrant, and Bishop says "it's nothing personal - we're just better". When Joanne says that she thought scientists were supposed to do good, Bishop says: "some of us are like that... others just aren't". The Spider, inspired, says that even though animals are like that, he agrees with Joanne's earlier statements in that it doesn't have to be like that for humans, also subtly inspiring the Scorpion, who stays in silence. Bishop, shocked by hearing the arachnids talk, says that the Female and Male will die together. This triggers a fight, where Bishop unleashes the Giant Female Wolf Spider on the heroes. The Giant Female and the Male see eye to eye, and she doesn't want to fight the heroes, but Bishop tortures her until she does. Desperately, Joanne jumps in the way of the Male, who was gonna be bitten by the Female (against her will), and gets poison injected in her veins. As Bishop laughs maniacally and heads away on the repentant Female Wolf Spider's back, the Male Wolf Spider and the Emperor Scorpion, surprisingly worried, stick with Joanne. Joanne seems on the verge of dying, but she's rescued by locals whom he had freed from Bishop.

     

    In a downtime beat, the Spider says that this would be the moment when he and the Scorpion would fight, but the Scorpion says that they should at least stick with Joanne for the time being and subvert that trope. The Scorpion also admits that, for the first time, he understands what humanity is about, and the Spider admits that it would be an honor for Joanne to be his owner. Joanne thanks the two of them, but she also gives them one thing: in the animal world, it's kill or be killed, and animals aren't nice when they need to be... and yet, animals can still be way, way nicer than humans, because they don't have malice. "We just have instinct", the Scorpion says. The Scorpion and the Spider stay with Joanne. Eventually, she does, and the final mission is the three of them stealing Bishop's size-increasing weapons in a bug-sized heist. Joanne shrinks herself down, like in the first Bug Wars movie, and the arachnids + other pets (like dogs, cats, birds, flying fish and aliens) and bugs unite. When she finds the big guns... she de-shrinks herself... and all of the bugs, including the Wolf Spider and the Emperor Scorpion, all increase to *actual* giant size (as tall as a three-story building). Dr. Bishop, furious, unleashes his own army of giant bugs. It's giant bug armageddon, as the bugs all kill each other, while the other pets help Joanne. Local people who Joanne helped join in. The Turkey Squad, cameoing from their own off-world colony (yes, this is a shared universe), try to help... but they're immediately killed by the Giant Female Wolf Spider, who eats their turkey and becomes superpowered, but still trying not to fight - only crippled by Bishop torturing her and forcing her to instinctintively fight against the (now Giant) Male Wolf Spider and Emperor Scorpion. Joanne fights Bishop in a melee fight too. Eventually, the good bugs kill all the bad bugs + Dr. Bishop's goons, Joanne handcuffs Bishop, and tells him that yeah, humans are smarter than animals and scientists are amongst the smartest ("we're better", as Bishop said earlier), but we need to use our intelligence for good, because even animals, who aren't intelligent, are nicer than us. The Male Spider brings the Female Spider to her senses. The mates stop fighting, and the Emperor Scorpion, hungry again, feeds on Dr. Bishop, killing him.

     

    In the end, after giving Vic a proper funeral, the Male and Female Spiders are reunited again, but both say that they want to stay with Joanne. The Scorpion, embarrassed at first, admits he also wants to be pet by Joanne. As Joanne promises to save the colony from the evil government, the family of Joanne and arachnids heads on for a future fight.

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    CAYOM YEAR 10 - PART 1 - MOVIE SUBMISSION - Submissions for January-June Closing Monday

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    3 HEARTS 3 FIRES

     

    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures

    Loosely Based On: Nazaré, by Sandra Santos

    Director: Natália Grimberg

     

    Genre: Action/Thriller/Romance

    Release Date: November 13, Y10

    Theater Count: 3101

    Rating: PG-13

    Format: 2D

    Budget: $25 million

    Runtime: 110 minutes

     

    Cast:

    • Salma Hayek as Victoria Dennis
    • Becky G as Nazareth Dennis
    • Harry Styles as Kane Marshall

    Previous Movies' Box Office:

    • Hearts of Fire (06/30/Y7) - $13,760,911 OW / $41,564,899 DOM / $111,156,044 WW
    • Hearts of Fire: Vengeful Heart (07/25/Y9) - $14,703,849 OW /  $36,043,506 DOM / $55,451,547 WW

    Plot Summary: After the last film, mother Victoria and daughter Nazareth promise they'll never get angry at each other again, especially as Victoria's neurological disease worsens. However, Nazareth meets Kane Marshall, a dashing young man who seems inconspicuous and charming. They fall in love, but Victoria is unconvinced that he is a good person. Nazareth meanly boils that down to Victoria's illness and they stop talking. Kane, behind the scenes, plots to kill Victoria and Nazareth - as it turns out, he was the secret boyfriend of Roger Saint, the evildoer that both got rid of in the previous film. Kane sets Nazareth up for a beautiful dinner, but then, he kidnaps her and tries to set her on fire. Victoria, in one last hurrah, saves her daughter one more time, to which Nazareth, beyond thankful for her mother again, vows she'll never date again. Kane kills Victoria with a vicious blow to the head. Nazareth, in grief, has one big second act melee fight with Kane, which culminates in Nazareth setting Kane on fire. But the fire spreads, and it quickly becomes a three-front fire across the woods. Nazareth escapes from the three fronts of the fire - each of them, to her, representing the three villains of each past film - and survives. The police determine that she acted in self-defense and she's free to go. After the funeral of Victoria, Nazareth burns down a flower-made heart, and says: "Last time I ever go out with a guy again." She ends the film as a nun in a covenant, because who cares at this point.

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    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures; Troublemaker Studios; Electronic Arts

    Based On: Burnout, by Criterion Games

    Director: Robert Rodriguez

     

    Genre: Action

    Release Date: August 28th, Y10

    Theater Count: 3119

    Rating: PG-13

    Format: 2D, 3D

    Budget: $42 million

    Runtime: 100 minutes

     

    Cast:

    • Becky G as Candy
    • Gabriel Chavarria as Danny
    • Gina Rodriguez as Leticia
    • Demián Bechir as Professor Rodríguez

    Previous Movie's Box Office:

    • Burnout (01/11/Y3) - $24,495,720 OW / $65,055,938 DOM / $302,698,796 WW

    Presentation Style: The film has vibrant colors and cool graphic novel-like edits, resembling a mix between Sin City (but brighter-looking) and Speed Racer.

     

    Plot Summary: In the previous film, Candy (Becky G) and Danny (Chavarria), a young college sophomore couple, was drawn by a suspicious group of people into an illegal street racing business by math teacher Rodríguez (Bechir). Rodríguez forced Danny to take the spot of his former top driver, who had been paralyzed in a brutal crash, and be his new #1, but eventually turned on him and had him nearly killed, until Candy came in to save him. They were caught by the cops in the end, but Rodríguez never appeared.

     

    Five years later, Candy is bailed out. She tries to reconnect with the outside world and meet with her older sister, Leticia (Rodriguez), a cop. However, soon, she finds out that Professor Rodríguez, who had been on the run all these years, has used someone to kidnap Danny, who's still serving in prison. Candy, against her better wishes, decides to take the wheel again and go save Danny, while Leticia agrees to keep Candy off the watch of the police, under the condition that she causes no civilian deaths. Soon, she finds some of the people that know where Rodríguez has Danny held up, and tries to melee her way inside, but she finds that Danny is being held elsewhere. Having denounced her location, she flees, and a dangerous car chase ensues, which ends up causing havoc in the middle of a city, with a massive twenty vehicle crash killing dozes and clogging up the town intersections. Knowing Candy is involved, Leticia forces herself to set chase on her sister. Meanwhile, a now undercover Candy enters an illegal race hosted by Rodríguez's men, and upon winning, she forces them at knifepoint to tell them where Danny is. She races there and soon enters in contact with where Danny is supposed to be - but upon fighting guards and finding his cell, she discovers that Danny is actually in talks with Rodríguez. Danny, who had still been infatuated with the job of being a top racer, decided to continue his crime life now that he's set free, and Rodríguez gave him a new chance. The deal shocks Candy, who realizes that Danny has sold his soul and hasn't learned anything. She flees the locale, but is captured by Leticia, who has no choice but to take her in. After an emotional moment, Candy reveals to Leticia that her boyfriend, who has kidnapped by Professor Rodríguez, is now in tandem with him again, and promises that she'll bring him in, if they let her go. Leticia, unsure if doing the right thing or not, still feels too much for her sister not to agree, and the two vow never to mistrust the other again. Candy admits she's learned that some people will just never change, and it is up to her to actually do the correct thing if that other person in your life isn't interested. Candy leads the cops to Rodríguez's place, and there, he and Danny have things worked out to continue their illegal street racing business, with Danny winning as many races as possible. When confronted with the police, Rodríguez tells everyone to get in their cars and leave, but Candy sneaks on Danny and talks to him one last time, begging to him to see the light. He seems conflicted, but ends up refusing, telling Candy that while the sex was good, he really knows she just wants to think she's a better racer than he is. Like in the first movie, she sucker-punches him, and the two have a melee fight. Leticia comes to Candy's rescue as Danny overpowers her, but Danny escapes on foot. Candy and Leticia get in a car after Danny's, and the two cars are in a fervorous one-on-one street race. Leticia nearly causes a crash and injures some bystanders. Danny, seeing the deaths of people, begins to feel remorse again. Suddenly, as Candy takes the wheel from the guilty Leticia and drives perfectly, Danny wrecks his car. He then lets himself get caught, which he is, admitting that he's gone too far. Leticia also turns herself in, but the cops deem that she and Candy have done enough good by catching up to Danny, that they're let go. In the end, Candy and Leticia reunite once more, while knowing that Rodríguez is still out in the loose. Their last adventure will take them to Paradise City, where they must catch Rodríguez once and for all.

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    CAYOM YEAR 10 - PART 1 - MOVIE SUBMISSION - Submissions for January-June Closing Monday

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    FREEDOM DAY

     

    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures; Blumhouse Productions

    Director: Levan Gabriadze

     

    Genre: Horror/Thriller/Sci-Fi

    Release Date: July 3rd, Y10

    Theater Count: 2879

    Rating: PG-13

    Format: 2D, 3D

    Budget: $3 million

    Runtime: 97 minutes

     

    Cast:

    - Shelley Hennig as Mary Hanier

     

    Cinematography Note: The film is shot entirely on an Apple Vision Pro, from the first person of its protagonist.

     

    Plot Summary: A month before July 4th, a major tech enterprise releases the HyperVision, a virtual reality headset that immediately takes America by storm. Mary Hanier (Hennig), a college student who is on Summer break, buys one for herself, days before her whole family (but her) die in a freak car crash. One month later, on the days before Independence Day, the whole world is hooked to the HyperVision, Mary included, with which she spends the days engaging with VR apps to withhold from grieving. One night, she starts getting strange messages and notifications on her headset - and soon, she begins seeing horrifying humanoid figures trying to "pull her down to the floor", for what seems like to kill her, nearly doing so. Mary, terrified, researches what's happening and realizes that what appears to be a malfunction, is actually the terrifying reality that the headset connects with avatars from dead people, and those are the avatars of her deceased family. As she's confronted with further encounters with the killer avatars, she discovers a VR internet subworld inhabited by avatars of dead people all over the world, and we realize that some of them can interact with the real world. Mary also realizes that her family died because they were wearing HyperVisions while driving, dying in a distraction-related accident. Upon hearing this, Mary realizes that the avatars are trying to have her join them in death, and she accepts that the VR creation is going to be the death of her if she keeps using it. She tries dumping it in the trash, but it seems stuck to her head, and the avatars continue chasing her until she dies (jumpscare galore). She finally runs outside, where other people are seen struggling with their own HyperVisions, and sets herself on fire in front of the HyperVision-producing tech company headquarters, hoping that her suicide will wake the company up. But in actuality, the "suicide" actually just destroyed the VR set, as she is still intact and alive in the outside world, while hundreds of other people do what she did and destroy their own HyperVisions. The film ends with Mary lighting up a firework, preparing to set the tech company HQ on fire, in celebration of Independence Day.

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    CAYOM YEAR 10 - PART 1 - MOVIE SUBMISSION - Submissions for January-June Closing Monday

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    "The epic journey Summer vacation of a lifetime."

     

    T A T I A N A' S

    J O U R N E Y
     

    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures; Phoenix Fire Artstyles

    Based On: Characters created by Alex Hirsch, Dana Terrace and Liz Hannah

    Directors: Mike Owens and Shadi Petosky

     

    Producers: Alex Hirsch and Dana Terrace

    Screenwriters: Mike Owens and Shadi Petosky

    Cinematography: Greig Fraser

    Original Score: Mark Mothersbaugh

    Original Song: Unity by FM-84 ft. Hailee Steinfeld

     

    Genre: Live-Action & Animation Hybrid/Sci-Fi/Action/Comedy/Romance

    Release Date: August 14th, Y10

    Theater Count: 4002

    Rating: PG

    Format: 2D, 3D, IMAX, Dolby Cinema, 4DX

    Budget: $175 million

    Runtime: 110 minutes

     

    Animation Style: Similarly to the first movie, the film blends live-action characters and elements with an animated world. The animation, done in-house by Phoenix Fire Artstyles, follows the 2.5D template of Mighty Fall, with a world that uses 2D backdrops, physical objects and characters with a mix of 2D and 3D. The artstyle is inspired by Invader Zim or Hi-Fi Rush. 

     

    Example:

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    Cast:

    • Olivia Cooke as Jane Medina
    • Finn Wolfhard as Thiago Medina
    • Naomi Scott* [under heavy makeup] as Allyarah
    • Dee Bradley Baker* [voice] as Trudar
    • Billy West* [voice] as Grath
    • Laura Bailey* [voice] as Felizi
    • Bob Bergen* [voice] as Helaros
    • Kristofer Hijvu* [under heavy makeup] as Karaken
    • with Chris Evans* [under heavy makeup] as Hakana
    • and Leslie Jones* [voice] as the Trucidator

    Previous Movie's Box Office: Mighty Fall (06/28/Y8) [read it here] - $75,542,847 OW / $236,196,775 DOM / $674,847,929 WW

     

    Logline: The crew of the Tatiana goes on Summer vacation, by order of leader Jane Medina, to dodge the threat of the Trucidator. This leads the team into a journey of self-reflection, as the galaxy-ruling villain tails them quickly.

     

    Plot Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AGdZYDKf1yjsnvXqEOsXxQGOvypId0k3KV5unGSFxys/edit?usp=sharing (13,032 words)

     

    PS: Thank you to @YM! for pre-reading this film.

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    KRIS' PLAN

     

    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures

    Director: Hanelle Culpepper

     

    Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama/Thriller

    Release Date: September 25th, Y10

    Theater Count: 3560

    Rating: PG-13

    Format: 2D, 3D, IMAX

    Budget: $80 million

    Runtime: 115 minutes

     

    Cast:

    • Jalyn Hall as Kris Kayne
    • Danielle Deadwyler as Amy Kayne
    • Brian Michael Smith as Drew Kayne

    Plot Summary:

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    It's February 2100, the level of the sea has grown substantially, partially-to-mostly flooding 50% of all land on Earth. But every living creature has been able to evolve and adapt to the new Earth - humans have now grown gills and can breathe underwater. However, life is much more difficult for those who cannot afford newly constructed houses that filter out pollution in the sea's waters that tends to contaminate food and resources easily, meaning a lot of people die of poisoning. These modern houses are exclusive for the wealthier, while the less rich have to live in flooded houses.

     

    Kris Kayne, a youth who's grown in an underwater house all his life, has habituated himself to living in lesser conditions, not really minding it, but also dealing with everyday stress, despite the more advanced filtering systems of his hometown, New Atlantis, making life safer and better. Discreet, unpopular and quiet, he's known as a nice person to the few people who know him, but reserved. Because he's generally hydrophobic, he has trouble exiting his home and co-existing with the other underwater-breathing people in the outside world, making him feel isolated. He lives everyday with his conflictual uncles, Drew Kayne and Amy Kayne, the former who is a depressed trans man and the latter who copes with the grief of losing her sister (Kris' mother).

     

    One day, Amy catches Kris writing in a social app that, one day, he will carry forth a plan to defrost enough ice from Antarctica to completely inundate the rest of the Earth, so that everyone is forced to live underwater, potentially come in contact with contaminated resources and die (since the canalization systems of New Atlantis aren't spread out everywhere) - and being incentivized to do so by an echo chamber of like-minded anonymous online people. Amy is appalled by this, and confronts him with it. In a surge of motivation, Kris drags the conversation to the house's living room and admits, in front of both Amy and Drew, that he wants to do it, inviting his uncle and aunt to join him.

     

    Amy says that is not happening, while Drew half-heartedly also agrees that it's unviable and extremely dangerous, with both agreeing that the massive loss of life would not make Kris a genocidal maniac and the most wanted man on Earth. Kris comes into this from a perspective of activism: he says that, from the moment everyone is forced to coexist in the same forcibly unreasonable conditions, no one would remain indifferent to their cause anymore and everyone would actively work together to prevent permanent damage. Drew says that it's not worth the effort, cause even though Earth is a mess, man shouldn't try to make it worse, as the rise of sea levels and flooding of land has already killed many, many people on its own. Kris calls Drew a coward and a fight ensues. Drew sleeps on the issue.

     

    The next day, Drew asks Kris, during breakfast, to explain how he would go about with his plan. Kris says that it would include stealing a huge rocket from NASA - one of the few vehicles on Earth that still utilizes oil - then steering it in direction of the Antarctic continent and then crashing it straight against the huge icebergs, triggering a massive fire that would quickly melt a huge portion of the continent and balloon sea levels significantly. Amy is terrorized by Kris' sadistic plan, as well as his imagination for something so out of this world and wild, calling it completely impossible for a young adult to achieve that. Drew brings up that on top of flooding the whole world, a huge fire in the ocean deriving from an oil-fueled vehicle crashing would probably cause a spill, which, if not caught on time, would kill ecosystems on its own. Kris is enthusiastic with Drew's imagination, but Amy tells them that if this were to happen, it wouldn't just be the flooding of human-built cities, but also the death of millions of animal species that rely on both ice and the ocean to survive, and with the death of their ecosystem, humanity would soon perish as well. She says that for an eco-terrorist, he does not seem to actually care about the environment, nor about any kind of longevity of the planet. Kris seems conflicted, but does not buckle. Amy then confides with Drew that she still doesn't know whether to take Kris' ideas seriously or not, but reflects on whether his presumed plan mirrors a disturbed mindset she is unaware of, due to Kris keeping to himself. She asks Drew if he thinks she and him have been bad parental figures to Kris, with herself feeling ridden with guilt, on top of the fear of losing another family member she loves, but conflicted on whether or not Kris would actually set his plan in real motion and whether it's worth any intervention.

     

    Amy spies on Kris and sneaks in his room when he's not there to read what he's writing, inviting his online friends to adhere to his cult and commit mass suicide before he goes ahead with the plan. She then confronts him again and outright tells him that she's not letting him put real lives in danger, threatening to call the authorities. Kris, demoralized at first, then fights back again, saying that if she doesn't let him do this, then he will never speak to her again and pretend he's not her nephew. Amy says she'd rather this than let anyone die, but Kris says she would be dead to him all the same, hurting Amy in the process. Drew, on the other hand, argues with Amy, saying that Kris should be let dream about whatever he wishes. Amy calls Drew out for taking this in stride, claiming that Kris might have a hint of seriousness in his terrorist ideas, while Kris poisons Drew, saying that he's probably aching to join his plan as well. Drew does not actually answer, but Amy notices he feels some conflicting emotions, believing that Drew might actually be somewhat complacent with Kris' plan, with Drew presuming that Kris is just daydreaming anyway. Drew admits to Amy that, were the plan to actually happen, he might actually start feeling something about the world at large. Amy is heartbroken, saying that Drew and her rebuilt their lives together and he should not see the world in such a cynical way, but Drew says that when the whole world is out for vengeance against you... you start believing a restart would be necessary. Kris agrees, saying that, for the first time, he has friends and he's heard by someone. Amy gets to the bottom of this: Kris doesn't actually want to destroy the planet - he just wants to be accepted by someone, ergo, his online friends. She tells him that her and Drew love Kris, but Kris is adamant that he's gonna carry the plan forth "for the planet".

     

    Months pass, and Kris, who spends every day meticulously planning the details of his plan (he would try to intercept a special NASA mission by hijacking the rocket and flying it into the Antarctic 9/11-style), cuts relations with Amy (who deems his plan absolutely impossible but admits she's really starting to, and eventually taking Kris' intentions very seriously regardless), while Drew is divided between nephew and wife. Drew talks to Kris everyday about the friends Kris is making, while Amy tries to come in contact, but is actively ignored by Kris. On the eve of July 7th, Kris hears from "Melissa" that, tomorrow, she and a group of nine other people will commit mass suicide, right before Kris commits his plan to defrost the Antarctic. Kris says that he and her will meet in Valhalla, and ends contact with her, then destroying his PC and hard drive. Kris then tells Drew that, if he weren't onboard with his plan, Kris wouldn't have gotten to live the best five months of his life. Drew, bittersweetly, does not have the courage to try to tell Kris to stop his plan. Drew then confides with Amy that he understands why Kris hates the world, but he realizes that this is about a boy who feels rejected and outcast, and wants to hurt the world in retribution. He thinks it's too late to stop the motions. Amy says it isn't, because even if Kris, somehow, could find a way to actually pull it off, she says she will prevent it, no matter what. She says that, unlike what happened with her sister, she will be capable of saving Kris and their family, and if need be, the world at large.

     

    The next day, on July 7th, Kris wakes up and hears on social media that the bodies of ten people, believed to have committed suicide, were found during early in the morning. Kris prepares to make his plan go in motion, even conquering his fear of water, but before he can catch a flight to the new NASA space station, Amy stops him at the airport, saying that he's free to make his plan happen, but she wants him to know that, no matter what happens, he'll always have someone who cares about him - something she wishes she had told his mother. Kris explains that his friends want him to pull through, and Amy allows him to believe that's true, with Kris even adding that he thinks the mass suicide happened, horrifying Amy, but Amy says that it's okay - she forgives him, because all she could ever tell him is that, no matter what happens, she will always love him and he is not as lonely or friendless or voiceless as he thinks he is. Kris hugs Amy and, amidst tears, gives up on the plan and goes with Amy, while Drew, sadly, hugs Kris goodbye on the outside of the airport, as Kris is taken by the police for conspiration to terrorism and genocide. Kris smiles at Amy and Drew, saying that he's not angry at them and loves them all the same.

     

    The next day, Amy and Drew, in a much better moment of their relationship, are seen joining a protest in favor of the environment, with Amy admitting that while she could just not let Kris take the lives of so many people... sometimes, she feels like terrorizing the rich herself, to which Drew salutes.

     

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    Keynotes:

    • the third weekend of Avatar: The Way of Water has been bumped off the Top 100 DOM PTA's list;
    • Hidden Blade (Chinese film) and PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie have been bumped off the Top 100 OS list;
    • PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie has been bumped off the Top 100 WW list.
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    The Elevator

     

    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures; Blumhouse Productions

    Based On: As I got on the elevator, the man getting off whispered something strange to me, by u/WorldAwayTweedy (Reddit, r/NoSleep)

    Director: Scott Derrickson

     

    Genre: Horror/Thriller

    Release Date: October 16, Y10

    Theater Count: 2986

    Rating: R

    Format: 2D, 3D, IMAX

    Budget: $18 million

    Runtime: 95 minutes

     

    Cast:

    - Sterling K. Brown as Michael Davis

    - Ethan Hawke as the strange man / the boss


    Plot Summary:

    Spoiler

    Michael Davis (Brown) is getting ready for what seems to be an important day, as he prepares for a job interview with Orwell Medicinals Corp., an up-and-coming medicine company. When he arrives at the building, he's whispered by a stunned, grumpy man (Hawke): "Don't get off until you reach the ninth floor. No matter what". Michael explains he has to go to the fifth floor to get his job interview, but the man races off. He gets in the elevator and ignores him completely, heading to the fifth floor.

     

    When he gets there, he finds that the receptionist and the workers are all a bit *too* eager to find him, revealing that they know the name of his wife and the age of his baby boy, then congratulating him for his birthday on that day - even though it's not his birthday - and presenting a birthday cake to a giant portrait of him on the room. Creeped out, Michael runs back to the elevator and tries to go back to the ground floor, but the ground floor button is missing on the elevator, forcing him to take the closest floor. But once he gets to the second floor, which looks normal enough at first, he starts hearing echo voices asking him questions, such as: "Are you a loyal worker? What are the days you can't work? How many hours do you expect to put in?". Michael, reluctantly, answers the last one to say that "he's never missed a single hour of work and expects to put in the average", which then leads to the echo voices saying that "he expects you to answer otherwise", which, again, incites fear in him.

     

    He returns to the elevator, which unexpectedly, without him pressing any button, rises to the 11th floor. Unexpectedly, an elder lady comes into the elevator, looking for a lift down. She presses the button for the second floor, since the ground floor is still unavailable, despite Michael's reluctance to return there. They make it again to the second floor, which looks ominously different... more like a cave than an office. A stumpy looking guy asks Michael whether he'd prefer to work here than in the fifth floor, to which Michael says he's good. The man then tells him that his pay is $800,000 an hour, to which Michael refuses again, but then the man says that the real pay is Michael gets his eyes gouged out so that he doesn't have to see "him". Afraid, Michael returns to the elevator in a rush, begging for the elevator to work properly - but when the door closes... BANG! BANG! BANG! Loud bangs on the outside of the elevator door. Michael decides to finally press for the ninth floor, but it doesn't work, so he tries the eighth one. But the bangs continue on the outside. A terrified Michael curses as the banging continues, while he rises to the sixth... seventh... 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, (Michael is screaming, mortified), 15, 16, 17, 18 (the banging softens), 19, 20, 21, 22 (disappears)... "Now arriving at the 23rd floor".

     

    Shaken, Michael exits to the 23rd floor and falls down to the ground once the door opens... but when he scans the new floor, he realizes he's back at the ground floor. Confused but also relieved, Michael is happy that he's free from this nightmare. There... the man he had spoken to before entering the elevator was right there, asking him if he was alright. Michael says he is, as the man reveals that "this is the real safe floor, the 23rd." When Michael claims he was told to go to the fifth, the man says it was a trick, he should be in the 23rd. "You can step out and come to work." Michael realizes this - "step out and come to work." He starts putting all the dots together. When he starts asking the man if this is all some weird hazing trick by the company, the man ominously tells him that "this is just what happens when 'he' wants to see if his new employees are good workers. Good workers get good jobs, bad workers get bad jobs. Are you a good worker... or are you a (demonic voice) BAD BOY?!" - Michael runs the fuck back to the elevator and shuts the door. He gets on his knees and stays sat for a few seconds. Then, he gets up, after recomposing himself, and tries to push a button, but when he does, the elevator door opens again. As it does, a mortified Michael meets the strange man again, who then tells him that "someone really wants to see him". But Michael realizes he can't move a muscle (we see through his expression he's trying, but can't). The man continues: "He’s in the other room. I’m gonna fetch him, okay? All you have to do is look at him. It’ll feel a bit weird at first, but then it’ll all be okay. It’s a permanent position. Great benefits. It is fully onsite, but, no better birthday present than a new job, right?" - Michael whispers it's not his fucking birthday. The man turns back and tells him to relax, "no cussing on the job... we are all a big family, right?!", as he walks back. Michael, shaking, tries to push through his immobility to close the elevator door again, as footsteps approach. He hears whispers, saying: "Today is his birthday! He's celebrating (demonic voice) ON THE JOB." Horrified, he manages to finally push the button and close the elevator doors, where he collapses to the floor again.

     

    Outside, he hears commotion, saying: "I'll let you two talk more on the elevator", to which, he looks around, but sees nothing. He exhales lengthily, and lets out a frustrated cry. Then, he notices... the button to the ninth floor is lit-up in crimson red. Michael's phone then rings... it's his wife. As he tries to tell her that he's trapped in an elevator and "weird shit is happening", she says: "Hun... don't go to the ninth floor." Michael sinks:

     

    Michael: WHAT?! W-wait, how do you even-

    Wife: DON'T. GO. It's a trick, honey. Don't go there. The man was lying to you. It's not safe.
    Michael: NONE of this has been safe!!! How do you know everything that's happening?

    Wife: You need to trust me, hun.

    (a beat)
    Michael: So what do you want me to do?

    (a long beat)

    LOUD Demonic Voice: GO TO YOUR INTERVIEW.

     

    MICHAEL PUTS OUT A BLOODCURDLING WAIL. He lets the phone drop and mashes the ninth floor button again. But as he grabs the phone and hangs up the call, he can hear the demonic voice scream at him to go to his interview over and over again. The elevator then starts to shake and go up, at a very, very fast speed. It flings so fast, as Michael ponders that he had just pressed the button for the ninth floor, but the elevator is flying past every floor at insane speed.

     

    "Now arriving at the 41st floo-Now arriving at the 78th flo---Now arriving at the 90th floo-"

    Michael: WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?!

    "at the 141st flo---'rriving at the 401st floor-----at the 840th floor"

    Michael stands there stunned... and suddenly...

    "Now arriving at (demonic voice) SOMEWHERE NICE."

     

    A sudden halt. The elevator stops. The doors don't open though. From outside, what could be best described as the sounds of Hell. Low grunts of pain. Crackling. A dark hymn. Michael then hears: "Welcome to Orwell Medicinals Corporation, the greatest and most worker-friendly company in the world. (static sounds) We-we-we proud oursel--proud oursel----PROUD OURSELVES... of our worker ethic---worker ethic---brain-altering hallucinogenics that make every worker ACCEPT. EVERY. SINGLE. DEMAND. FROM HIM."

     

    Static sounds follow. Michael, exhausted, looks down as he then hears: "Can I go home?" - from the voice of a kid. Michael, startled, answers that he does not know. The kid asks him for a trade-off - he gets to go home, while Michael stays in this floor forever. Michael, in tears, says he cannot do that, while asking the kid if he's going to die. The kid tells him that he, like Michael, came here because he wanted to find a job, but as it turns out, "his" team does not like naughty boys who do not work and do not follow orders. "He likes it when his workers do it overtime." Michael is paralyzed in fear. Then, the kid asks: "Why do you not want to work overtime?" Michael says he never said that. The kid then stays silent for a moment... only to break it when asking: "Why do you wanna work here?"; Michael says that he "needed the job... but... now I-I... I'm not sure, anymore." The kid then asks again: "Why do you not want to work overtime?" Michael says he'd rather find another job than have to be forced into crunch. The kid then stays silent again... and breaks it after a beat: "...okay. But... Mr. Davies?" Michael is sent into shivers when he hears the kid pronounce his name, who then continues: "He only wants to wish you a happy birthday." Michael almost mutters it's not his birthday, but goes instead: "Who does?", and the kid: "Him. He wants you to look at the TV". At that moment, Michael, confused, says he never noticed any TV, but when he looks up... he sees one on the corner - and it's airing this exact moment on a live feed. Michael jolts up in fear, In it, he sees... himself... lying down, looking straight up with a smile on his face.

     

    And also on the TV, on the ceiling... HIM. A shadowy figure of a man (Hawke), with glowing white eyes and sharp teeth, drawing an eerie wide grin across his face, staring straight at the smiling Michael, who is looking up at him.

     

    Suddenly, the lights on the elevator go black and the elevator PLUMMETS down at rapid velocity. Michael watches as the TV footage shows the shadowy figure reaches his hand at the laid down Michael, muttering the words: "Happy birthday, dear collaborator."

     

    Then, on a blink of an eye... the elevator stops, the lights return and everything returns to normal. "You have arrived at the ninth floor." Michael, on the fetal position, shaking, waits there for a few moments, as the elevator door opens up. He hears some murmurs from outside: "You coming out or what, you fucking moron?". Michael, shaken, gets up and curses out loud. He gets out, on tiny feet, onto the very much safe-looking, normal-looking ninth floor. There, he approaches a counter, where a receptionist lady looks at him, unimpressed. Michael tries to stutter words out, but the lady only gives him a button. "On the elevator for the ground floor. Single use only." Michael does not understand, but the lady tells him: "All we are legally allowed to tell you is that since the greenhouse is in this floor, the experimental hallucinogenics do not affect us." Michael, slack-jawed for a moment, then nods. The lady then ironically asks: "Do you still want your job interview on the ground floor or--" to which Michael responds: "uhh, I-I think I'm good. Thank you."

     

    Michael takes the elevator button, uses it normally, and the elevator reaches the ground floor, no issue. When the door opens, he realizes that the button is missing again. As he exits the elevator, at a loss for words, he sees another woman approach the elevator. He sees her, but does not have the strength to do much... only to gently approach her, tap on the shoulder, and tell her: "Don't get off until you reach the ninth floor. No matter what".

     

    The woman answers: "Happy birthday, Michael", smiles and enters the elevator. Michael grits his teeth, runs the fuck out of the building and speeds off, as classical music plays in the background.

     

     

     

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    library-logo-reverse.jpg

     

    Studio: Phoenix Fire Pictures

    Based On: The Library of Babel. by Jorge Luis Borges

    Director: David Semel

     

    Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama

    Release Date: December 23, Y10

    Theater Count: 3110

    Rating: PG-13

    Format: 2D, 3D

    Budget: $50 million

    Runtime: 110 minutes

     

    Cast:

    - Dev Patel as Omar

     

    Plot Summary: Omar, the narrator (Dev Patel), lives in a universe composed of an enormous library. The rooms are hexagonal in shape and each of the walls is exactly identical to the other, with one wall as an entrance, another wall containing all the bare necessities for a human being, and the remaining four walls composed of bookshelves. The library presumably contains all different 410-page books containing every unique combination of 25 basic characters - 22 letters of the alphabet, the period, the comma and the space. Omar works as a librarian in this place. As such, his task is to read all books and identify which contain gibberish content and which are actually readable in any language. Omar is frustrated to the point of suicidal ideation, as mostly everything he is forced to read contains at least one letter or one syllable that immediately renders the book as illegible, but because he cannot quit his job and must feed on the endless walls' survival kits by universal obligation, he constantly ponders refusing to eat and starving to death.

     

    One day, he and a group of other librarians talk about the potential existence of a Crimson Hexagon - a magical room in the library that contains high powered, illustrated books and at least one book that details a perfect index of the entirety of the library's contents. Omar engages in this journey, travelling across the library to find the Crimson Hexagon. In his journey, he decides to flashread every single book in every single room that he comes across, where he begins doubting himself as whether or not he's capable of ever escaping his job by finding this Crimson Hexagon, even if, subconsciously, he already is doing his job by reading all the books he can. Throughout the journey, in his madness, he starts envisioning and imagining what would the illegible books' meaning be in a readable language, or whether or not those books have a language of their own that simply hasn't been interpreted yet. That said, he continues to be convinced that the library is finite and the Crimson Hexagon details the perfect index, which would help him find the legible books and quit his job. Eventually, in a certain room, he does find a book that reads "INDEX OF THE LIBRARY OF BABEL" - excited, he begins reading it... but in the second page, one single syllable stands out as incorrectly spelled in English. He reads other books in the bookshelves, with all of them referencing an index of the library, but only one contains a somewhat correct, detailed index. However, as he reads this book, he realizes that none of the books matter anyway, because if the library contains all different 410-page, 25 character combinations, then the books are all meaningless in nature and the index is useless.

     

    Depressed, Omar begins a hunger strike and leaves himself to die. But, in a fever dream, he also comes to a conclusion: if the books in the library are language-driven by nature, then it is possible to interpret the books in their own unique way, and even if they are meaningless, they can be repurposed into something that has worth and meaning in its own right. Omar realizes that the beauty of humanity lies in the capacity to turn the meaningless and redundant into the important and useful, because if nothing in life has a true purpose, then it is up to intelligent life to shape the purpose, and human beings are capable of doing that. With a different onset into life, a radiant Omar springs himself back up and restarts his life as a librarian, but he starts an initially underground movement to create his own language and inspire every librarian and person roaming the library to interpret the gibberish books as something with merit and meaning, even if not yet found.

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    Updated as of January 3rd, 2024! Happy New Year, folks 👍

     

    Keynotes:

    • the opening weekends of Showing Up and The Booksellers have been bumped off the Top 100 DOM PTA's list;
    • Tenet and Jackass Forever have been bumped off the Top 100 DOM list;
    • Bullet Train has been bumped off the Top 100 OS list;
    • The Equalizer 3 has been bumped off the Top 100 WW list.
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    @CayomMagazine

     

    This August... the epic journey Summer vacation of their lives!

     

    Olivia Cooke

    Finn Wolfhard

    Naomi Scott

    Dee Bradley Baker

    Billy West

    with Chris Evans

    and Leslie Jones

     

    THEY'RE BACK.

     

    #tatianasjourney

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