A lot of scary movies have been released since then and the audiences of today need a much bigger jolt to get the heart racing. Believer wisely avoids that arms race and instead delivers a heathy dose of nostalgia along with the thrills. This includes the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil and a satisfying cameo that everyone will see coming.

In some way this newest edition ups the ante by featuring two young ladies who become possessed instead of just one. The two teens, Lidya Jewett as Angela and Olivia O’Neill as Katherine are just two normal kids until the devil comes a calling. Their transformations are quick and extreme. The films builds it structure and momentum on the exorcism, not the girl’s transformation.

With the emphasis building up to the clash between good and evil it needed a more robust ceremony to completely sell writer/director David Gordon Green’s vision. His past experience with the horror genre helming the Halloween franchise shows he’s more than capable of providing modern day thrills but this comes up a little short. It took him a few Halloween films to hit his stride and he’s inked in to do the next Exorcist and hopefully it follows his trajectory with those Michael Myers tales.
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Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar® nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own.

But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia O’Neill), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil.

For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.

The film also stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gemstones) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.

When The Exorcist, based on the best-selling book by William Peter Blatty, was released, it changed the culture forever, obliterating box office records and earning 10 Academy Award® nominations, becoming the first horror film ever nominated for Best Picture.

The Exorcist: Believer is directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Sattler (Camp X-Ray) and David Gordon Green, from a story by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), Danny McBride (Halloween trilogy) and David Gordon Green, based on characters created by William Peter Blatty.

The film is produced by Jason Blum for Blumhouse and by David Robinson and James G. Robinson for Morgan Creek Entertainment.

The executive producers are Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Stephanie Allain, Ryan Turek and Atilla Yucer. Universal Pictures Presents a Blumhouse/Mogan Creek Entertainment production in association with Rough House Pictures.
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“The Many Saints of Newark” stars Alessandro Nivola (“Disobedience”, “American Hustle”), Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. (Broadway’s “Hamilton”, “Murder on the Orient Express”), Jon Bernthal (“Baby Driver”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”), Corey Stoll (“First Man”, “Ant-Man”), Michael Gandolfini (TV’s “The Deuce”), Billy Magnussen (“Game Night”, “The Big Short”), Michela De Rossi (“Boys Cry”, TV’s “The Rats”), John Magaro (“The Finest Hours”, “Not Fade Away”), with Emmy winner Ray Liotta (TV’s “Shades of Blue”, “Goodfellas”) and Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air”, “The Conjuring” films).

Alan Taylor (“Thor: The Dark World”), who won an Emmy for his directing work on “The Sopranos,” is helming the film from a screenplay by series creator David Chase & Lawrence Konner, based on characters created by Chase. Chase, Konner and Nicole Lambert are producing the film, with Michael Disco, Marcus Viscidi, Toby Emmerich and Richard Brener serving as executive producers.

Taylor’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Kramer Morgenthau (“Creed II”, “Thor: The Dark World”), production designer Bob Shaw (“The Wolf of Wall Street”, “The Sopranos”), Oscar-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen (“Moneyball”, “A Quiet Place”) and costume designer Amy Westcott (“The Wrestler”, “Black Swan”).

“The Many Saints of Newark” was shot on location in New Jersey and New York, and several beloved characters from the original series that inspired the film are featured in the movie. During its six-season run, “The Sopranos”—widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential television drama series of all time—was honored with 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Peabody Awards, to name only a portion.

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Music is a powerful, original, and celebratory artistic statement and the directorial debut of multi-Grammy nominee and internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Sia. She also co-wrote the screenplay based on her own short story.

Music shines a spotlight on the many talents of a cast that stars Oscar nominee and Golden Globe-winning Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), and Tony and Grammy winner Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton). Maddie Ziegler makes her film debut as Music. Ziegler has been Sia’s friend and creative muse since 2014 when Sia directed her in the video for global smash hit “Chandelier.”

Zu (Hudson) is a free spirit estranged from her family who suddenly finds herself the sole guardian of her half-sister, Music (Ziegler), The musical drama explores the tenuous bonds that hold us together and imagines a world where those bonds can be strengthened in times of great challenge: love, trust, and being able to be there for each other is everything.

What Sia has achieved with MUSIC is a cinematic experience as profound and unique as its title character. In Cinemas January 14
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