The Boy (2016)

The Revenant finally had its day in the sun (or at least out of the cold) this weekend, holding out a little stronger than its major competition to land a weekend at number one.

In addition to generally wreaking havoc in the Northeast, Winter Storm Jonas could have a huge impact on the box office numbers for new movies opening this weekend like Dirty Grandpa, The 5th Wave, and The Boy.

We’re getting deeper and deeper into the year 2016, and we’ve got three flicks coming your way this week. Get ready for Dirty Grandpa, The Boy and The 5th Wave.

We are now only a little over a month away from the start of the annual SXSW Film Festival in Austin, and judging from the list of features that will be both premiering and screening, this year’s event should wind up being a great one. But amongst all of the titles, which ones are the big standouts?

It looks like Lauren Cohan could be taking a much-needed respite from the world of shamblings, sickness and psychopaths on The Walking Dead to tangle with creepy demonic dolls. The actress has recently signed on to star in an upcoming horror thriller film called The Boy.

When we first reported on the serial killer horror The Boy, Elijah Wood’s genre-based production company SpectreVision snatched up the rights, and it sounded like a project that would get made for zero money with actors who we’ve never heard of. I couldn’t have been more wrong about that, as the thriller has landed a group of familiar faces to star.