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‘Insidious: Of the Future’ Review: New Entry in Tired Horror Franchise

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August 19, 2026

The good news about Insidious: Out of the Further, the sixth entry in the hit horror film franchise created by Leigh Whannell and James Wan, is that it deals with a new set of victims. After all, we can all agree that the poor Lambert family has been through enough in the previous installments.

The bad news about the new Insidious movie is that, well, it’s still an Insidious movie. Which means that we have to sit through the spectacle of some unlucky individuals dealing with the Further, that purgatorial netherworld inhabited by demons and the dead that forms the basic mythology of the series.

Insidious: Out of the Further

The Bottom Line

One step further, two steps back.

Release date: Friday, August 21
Cast: Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea, Lin Shaye, Sam Spruell, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Island Austin, Brandon Perea
Director-screenwriter: Jacob Chase

Rated PG-13,
1 hour 46 minutes

It’s never a good sign when a horror film stops dead in its tracks to explain things to a main character and, by extension, the audience. But that’s exactly what happens here when the central character Gemma (Amelia Eve, The Haunting of Bly Manor), a single mother with a young daughter, visits Clare (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), a tattoo artist and part-time medium. Clare conjures up the spirit of now-deceased recurring character Elise Rainier (series mainstay Lin Shaye) to explain exactly what the hell is going on with Clare’s mysterious encounters with three ghostly-looking alta kockers who show up at the most inopportune times. By the time the lengthy scene is over, you’ll wish you had been taking notes.

It turns out that Gemma, whose mother died under horrific circumstances when she was a little girl (an incident harrowingly depicted in the opening sequence), is not only someone who has the ability to enter the Further, which is bad enough, but also a “Courier,” meaning that she can transport things from there to the physical world. It’s a rare talent that greatly interests Cyrus (Sam Spruell), a cult-leader entity who very much wants to escape his confines. To that end, he enlists the services of the aforementioned elderly trio, his Acolytes, to move in next door to Gemma and move things along.

Director-screenwriter Jacob Chase, who has experience with this sort of material thanks to his 2020 horror film Come Play, establishes tension in the opening moments and steadily ratchets it up from there. He certainly knows his way around jump scares, both of the cheap variety (cue the sudden loud noises!) and the more thoughtful kind. His skills are evident in the film’s two most effective sequences — the first involving Gemma venturing into a pillow fort constructed by her daughter Maya (Island Austin, very convincing at looking utterly terrified) that turns into an endless labyrinth featuring demons at every corner.

In the second, Gemma, a dentist by trade, attends to an elderly patient, one of the Acolytes, who clearly has not been paying attention to oral hygiene. The ensuing encounter, probably the most gruesome cinematic dental scene since Marathon Man, will scare you into scheduling a deep cleaning post-haste.

Otherwise, Insidious: Out of the Further proves routine in its elaborate plot machinations that remind you how tiresome a place the Further can be. There are plenty of Easter egg references to the previous films, including the reappearance of numerous demonic entities and the Red Door that serves as an entranceway to the Further’s various portals.

The most notable carryover, of course, is Shaye’s now iconic character of psychic paranormal investigator Elise, who didn’t let her death in the original 2011 film deter her from appearing in all the follow-ups. She pops up here again to guide Gemma through her travails, carrying a lantern like an otherworld Diogenes and clearly taking no crap from a spectral punk like Cyrus. When Gemma thanks her after being rescued at one point, Elise casually responds, “It’s what I do.”

After a while the film’s sustained creepiness gives way to self-parody, with all the grotesquely made-up performers portraying the demonic figures starting to look like exhausted Comic-Con attendees after a very long weekend. It all mainly serves to indicate that this is a series that has long reached the point of steadily diminishing returns.

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Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works

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August 19, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Lord Miller, the production shingle for Academy Award-winning Project Hail Mary helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is set to produce a feature adaptation of Forrest Brazeal‘s forthcoming debut novel Paradox Inc. for Universal Pictures.

Daniel Roher, the Academy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker behind Navalny and this year’s Tuner, will direct and co-write a treatment for the film with Matthew Robinson. Writer of the sci-fi horror flick The Last House, which just topped Netflix’s charts, along with the Gore Verbinski-helmed Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Robinson will adapt the screenplay.

Paradox Inc. is about the rivalry between a scrappy startup and a dysfunctional Big Tech company racing to build the world’s first consumer time machine. The prize: control of reality itself. Maybe… The tech industry’s version of time travel doesn’t seem to work quite the way you’d expect.

First-time novelist Brazeal is no stranger to Silicon Valley. He worked at Google during the peak of the AI and crypto crazes and is otherwise known for co-founding the technology marketing company Freeman & Forrest. Before catching the town’s attention with Paradox Inc., he found a wide audience with YouTube videos and webcomics skewering the tech industry. His novel releases with Penguin Random House on January 19, 2027.

Chris Miller and Phil Lord will produce the feature take through Lord Miller’s first-look deal with Universal Pictures. Lucy Kitada, who brought the book to the company, and Aditya Sood will also produce for Lord Miller, with Brazeal exec producing. Senior Vice President of Production Development Ryan Jones and Director of Production Development Christine Sun will oversee for Universal.

Roher won an Oscar for his 2022 doc Navalny on the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist turned political prisoner of the same name. His first narrative feature, the crime thriller Tuner starring Dustin Hoffman, Leo Woodall and Havana Rose Liu, released in May, and he also this year unveiled The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, a Focus Features doc produced by the Everything Everywhere duo of Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang, among others. Currently, he’s in post on the Netflix caper Positano, produced by Working Title and starring Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldaña. He is repped by UTA, Range and Gang, Tyre, Ramer.

Lord Miller has had a banner year between Project Hail Mary, the Andy Weir adaptation sending Ryan Gosling on an interstellar mission, and the Nicolas Cage-led Spider-Noir series for MGM+ and Prime Video. Project Hail Mary has become Amazon MGM Studios’ highest-grossing film to date with a $684M worldwide release and is viewed as a likely awards contender. Spider-Noir, meanwhile, is up for 11 Emmy nominations.

Upcoming, Lord Miller has Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third film in the Spider-Verse series, releasing in June 2027. Projects in the pipeline for Universal include Murder She Wrote; a live-action Archie movie; an adaptation of the novel The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America’s First Women Astronauts; The Last Expedition by Carly Wray, based on a story by Weir; and Everyday Parenting Tips. There’s also Netflix’s The In-Claus, based on a short story by Travis Braun and Gabrielle Meyer.

Lord and Miller and their production banner are repped by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Robinson is repped by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham; Brazeal by Circle Management + Production and Eric Showers at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

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Jane Curtin Boards Anne Hathaway-Produced ‘Little Five’ Film

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August 19, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Jane Curtin (Coneheads, Saturday Night Live) will round out the cast of Little Five, from Anne Hathaway‘s production company Somewhere Pictures and Pigasus Pictures.

An original cast member of Saturday Night Live, Curtin will play Dean Weston, the formidable academic leader at Indiana University who serves as a crucial mentor and foil to the young team of female cyclists determined to break into the university’s male-dominated sports culture.

Production on the 1980s period film is already underway in Bloomington, Indiana, where the local community’s hundreds of residents have turned out to serve as extras in some of the film’s largest and most pivotal scenes.

Set against the backdrop of Indiana University in the early ’80s and inspired by the iconic Little 500 bicycle race, Little Five follows four unlikely young women who come together to chase one impossible dream. As they fight for a place in one of America’s most storied collegiate sporting traditions, they discover that true greatness isn’t achieved alone, and that changing history sometimes begins with a single team.

Previously announced cast members include Sasha Frolova and Nadia Alexander, who joined Rain Spencer and Ariana Greenblatt as the film’s four central young women, who come together as teammates to make history as part of the first women’s Little 500 bicycle race. Drew Powell will play Will, and Max Cortezi will play TFG. Deadline recently broke the news of these castings alongside David Oyelowo.

Ian Samuels will direct from a screenplay by Gillian Williams and Paul Shoulberg. The film is inspired by true events.

Curtin is represented by CAA.

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José Suárez Dies: Telemundo Executive Was 55

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August 19, 2026

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José Suárez, president and general manager of Telemundo 31, Telemundo 49, and Telemundo Ft. Myers–Naples, died. He was 55.

The Telemundo executive died on Wednesday, August 19, following a helicopter crash in Kenya, NBC6 reports.

“We are heartbroken to learn the tragic news that José was killed in a helicopter accident in Kenya,” NBCU Newsgroup Chairman César Conde, NBCU Local Chairman Valari Staab, and Telemundo Station Group President José Cancela said in a statement.

The statement continued, “José was an exceptional colleague who cared deeply about his teams, the communities they served and the important role our stations play in people’s lives. He brought energy, humor, warmth and a strong sense of purpose to his work, and his impact was felt far beyond the stations he led. Our hearts are with his loved ones, and with all of José’s colleagues and friends who are grieving this terrible loss.”

Suárez was previously the President and General Manager of the Telemundo stations in Fresno (KNSO), Sacramento (KCSO), and Utah (KULX). In his position, he led all station operations, including news/digital, sales, marketing/promotions, human resources, community affairs, and technology/operations.

Before that, Suárez worked at NBC 6 / WTVJ, where he worked as Director of Creative Services and Local Programming, Executive Producer for the station’s local weekday entertainment show 6 in The Mix, and as an Executive Producer for NBC 6’s local weekday newscasts.

Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Suárez worked as News Director for CW South Florida / WSFL, Fox Toledo / WUPW and NBC 3 San Angelo / KSAN.

Over the years, Suárez received numerous awards, including a Suncoast Chapter Emmy award for “Outstanding Station Promotion Image” for his work at NBC 6, three Cleveland chapter Emmy awards for “Outstanding Daily Newscast” (Market 41+), and numerous Associated Press awards for his work at Fox Toledo / WUPW.