Just when we thought 2024 was going to be a horror movie wasteland, we got a few good ones in succession, Usiku Wakumapeto Ndi Mdyerekezi ndi Zachikale. The former will be available on Zovuta starting April 19, the latter just had a surprise drop on VOD ($19.99) today and will be getting physical on June 11.

Mafilimuwa Sydney Sweeney fresh off her success in the rom-com Anyone but You, mu Zachikale, she plays a young nun named Cecilia, who travels to Italy to serve in a convent. Once there, she slowly unravels a mystery about the holy place and what role she plays in their methods.

Thanks to word of mouth and some favorable reviews, the movie has earned over $15 million domestically. Sweeney, who also produces, has waited a decade to get the film made. She purchased the rights to the screenplay, reworked it, and made the film we see today.

The movie’s controversial final scene wasn’t in the original screenplay, director Michael Mohan added it later ndipo anati, “It is my proudest directorial moment because it is exactly how I pictured it. “

Whether you go out to see it while it’s still in theaters or rent it from the convenience of your couch, let us know what you think of Zachikale and the controversy surrounding it.

Incredibly, what some people thought they would get with an Omen prequel turned out to be better than anticipated. Maybe it’s partly due to a good PR campaign. Maybe not. At least it wasn’t for a pro-choice Missouri politician and film blogger Amanda Taylor who received a suspicious mailer from the studio ahead of The First Omen’s kumasulidwa.

Taylor, a Democrat running for Missouri’s House of Representatives, must be on Disney’s PR list because she received some eerie promo merch from the studio to publicize Chizindikiro Choyamba, a direct prequel to the 1975 original. Usually, a good mailer is supposed to pique your interest in a film not send you running to the phone to call the police. 

“I was freaking out,” says the blogger who filed a police report about #TheFirstOmen PR. “My husband touched it, so I’m screaming at him to wash his hands.” The studio, for its part, regrets frightening anyone but notes that “most people had fun with it” https://t.co/9vq7xfD8kI pic.twitter.com/9KUMgvyG2Q

- Mtolankhani wa Hollywood (@THR) April 13, 2024

Malinga ndi THR, Taylor opened the package and inside were disturbing children’s drawings related to the film that freaked her out. It’s understandable; being a female politician against abortion it’s no telling what kind of threatening hate mail you’re going to get or what might be construed as a threat. 

“I was freaking out. My husband touched it, so I’m screaming at him to wash his hands,” Taylor told THR.

Marshall Weinbaum, who does Disney’s public relations campaigns says he got the idea for the cryptic letters because in the movie, “there are these creepy drawings of little girls with their faces crossed out, so I got this idea to print them out and mail them to the press.”

The studio, maybe realizing the idea wasn’t their best move, sent out a follow-up letter explaining that it was all in good fun to promote Chizindikiro Choyamba. “Most people had fun with it,” adds Weinbaum.

While we can understand her initial shock and concern being a politician running on a controversial ticket, we have to wonder as a film enthusiast, why she wouldn’t recognize a crazy PR stunt. 

Perhaps in this day and age, you can’t be too careful. 

Aliyense alandilidwa A24 ku magulu akulu! Kanema wawo waposachedwa nkhondo Civil wathyoka a zolemba zochepa kumapeto kwa sabata. Choyamba, ndi filimu yotsika mtengo kwambiri ya R pachaka. Chachiwiri, ndiye filimu yotsegulira kwambiri kumapeto kwa sabata ya A24. 

Ngakhale kuti ndemanga za filimuyi zikuyenda bwino, zidakopa chidwi cha okonda mafilimu. Ngakhale kuti chiwonetsero chazithunzi chosamveka sichinawakhumudwitse, adawoneka kuti amachipeza chosangalatsa. Kuphatikiza apo, ogula matikiti ambiri adayamika kamvekedwe ka filimuyi komanso mawonekedwe a IMAX. 

Ngakhale kuti si kanema wowopsa wowongoka, imaluka ulusi pamphepete mwa mtunduwo chifukwa cha nkhani zake zosokoneza komanso zachiwawa. 

Yakwana nthawi kuti A24 atuluke m'makanema odziyimira pawokha ndikulowa mgulu la blockbuster. Ngakhale mawonekedwe awo akulandilidwa ndi gulu la niche, inali nthawi yoti asinthe mipanda kuti apange tsiku lalikulu lolipira kuti apikisane ndi ma studio a behemoth monga. Warner Bros. ndi Universal omwe akhala akupanga ndalama nkhonya pazaka zingapo zapitazi. 

pamene Nkhondo Yapachiweniweni $ Miliyoni 25 kutsegula sikuli ndendende mphepo m'mawu a blockbuster akadali olimba mokwanira mu wamba mafilimu-kupita nyengo kulosera kupambana kwina, ngati si pakamwa, ndiye ndi chidwi. 

A24's wopanga ndalama wamkulu mpaka pano ndi Chilichonse paliponse Nthawi yomweyo ndi ndalama zoposa $77 miliyoni zapakhomo. Ndiye izo Ndilankhuleni ndi oposa $48 miliyoni m'nyumba. 

Si nkhani yabwino yonse. Kanemayo adapangidwira m'nyumba $ Miliyoni 50 kotero ngati ikafika sabata yachiwiri, ikhoza kukhala kulephera kwa bokosi. Izo zikhoza kukhala zotheka monga anyamata kumbuyo Fuula kuyambiransoko, Radio chete, adzakhala pabwalo lachifumu chifukwa cha kunyada kwawo kwa vampire Abigayeli pa Epulo 19. Filimuyi yatulutsa kale nkhani zabwino.

Zoyipa kwambiri nkhondo Civil, Ryan Gosling ndi Emma Stone's omwe akuchita nawo masewera Munthu Wogwa wakonzeka kulanda Nkhondo Yapachiweniweni IMAX zogulitsa nyumba pa Meyi 3. 

Chilichonse chomwe chingachitike, A24 yatsimikizira kumapeto kwa sabata kuti ndi nkhani yoyenera, bajeti yowonjezereka, komanso kampeni yotsatsa yotsatsira, tsopano alowa m'macheza a blockbuster.