MoviePass Launches Annual Subscription Plan

MoviePass have launched a one year subscription plan for $89.95. Deadline reports:

For a limited time, MoviePass is offering a one-year subscription plan for a flat fee of $89.95, which translates to $7.50 a month (that price already includes a $6.55 processing fee). That price is under this year’s 3Q average movie ticket, which the National Association of Theater Owners pegged at $8.93.

J.J. Abrams to Remake ‘Your Name’

J.J. Abrams has signed on to produce a live action remake of the popular anime Your Name. MTV reports:

While anime fans have a reason to be skeptical following the recent unsuccessful live-action remakes of Ghost in the Shell and Death Note, it should hopefully ease some fears knowing that Genki Kawamura, who produced the anime, will also serves as a producer on this film.

‘It’ Isn’t Clowning Around at the Box Office

It had a massive opening weekend, breaking records with its $123 million haul:

With a monster, $123 million opening weekend Warner Bros. and New Line’s It has delivered a record-breaking opening, breathing a little life back into the slumping domestic box office. The film has claimed the largest September opening, largest Fall opening, the largest opening for an R-rated horror film, not to mention the largest opening weekend for a horror film of any MPAA rating, and tops Open Road’s new release Home Again in second place by nearly $110 million. Overall, the film accounted for more than 75% of the combined gross for the weekend’s top twelve, and we’ve only just begun.

Come on, I get one really bad headline every once in a while.