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Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie) has found her co-lead in The Edge Of Normal. Today, Deadline reports that the Kick-Ass actress will be joined in the serial killer flick by Rupert Friend. The actor has been pouring himself into the genre as of late, with his recent supporting role in Drew Hancock’s feature-length directorial debut, Companion. The thriller, which is eyeing a production start date sometime this spring, comes from helmer, Carlota Pereda, and will serve as the director’s first English-language flick. For those who haven’t seen it, Pereda’s most recent production, 2022’s Piggy, was a bloody and brutal entry into the genre, so we’re already expecting more of the same from The Edge Of Normal.

Exclusive: The Riverdale star is attached to star and will produce under her Small Victory’s first look deal at Amazon MGM Studios, Fake Wedding.

The project, based on Ali and Anthony Garland’s short story, is currently being developed with the twosome penning the screenplay. Fake Wedding follows two broke singles who throw a fake wedding to cash in on the registry and the very real problems the make-believe couple encounters. Scott Glassgold’s 12:01 Films assembled the project and is producing. Verve held the auction and sold the project in the low six figures.

Amazon MGM Studios is becoming quite the house of rom-coms. Recently their Reese Witherspoon-Will Ferrell movie You’re Cordially Invited amassed 827M viewing minutes within its first few days of availability on Prime, putting it at No. 6 on Nielsen’s overall Top 10. The pic debuted on the streamer on Jan. 30. Amazon MGM...

Jack Quaid addresses the possibility of reprising his role in the highly anticipated Scream 7. With Scream veterans Kevin Williamson and Guy Busick at the helm, the seventh installment of the horror franchise is set for a harrowing return with Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott once again leading the charge against the enduring murders and mystery of the iconic masked killer Ghostface. Quaid's character, Richie Kirsch, was unveiled as one of the Ghostface killers in the 2022 reboot. Scream 7 is set to arrive in theaters on February 27, 2026.

In a recent interview with Et Online, Quaid responded to questions about his potential involvement in Scream 7. Quaid’s Ghostface reveal in Scream was an interesting twist for the slasher franchise, largely due to his established reputation as an awkward, yet charming actor in roles like The Boys and Star Trek: Lower Decks. His latest role in Companion continues to weaponize his "nice guy" persona.

The Boys star Jack Quaid is going to extremes to promote his new movie. The actor gets battered and bruised while sitting courtside at a Los Angeles Clippers game in a brilliant marketing stunt for Novocaine.

In the short clip shared by Pop Crave on X, Quaid can be seen watching the Los Angeles Clippers take on the Sacremento Kings alongside his Novocaine co-star Amber Midthunder. The actor, who is wearing a cast on his arm, seemingly gets more injured throughout the night. He eventually conducts an interview in the arena wearing a neck brace, with cuts and bruises on his face.

Jack Quaid promoted his new movie ‘Novocaine’ at the Kings versus Clippers game by getting more and more beaten up as the game progressed on. pic.twitter.com/ZWav0EQFUj— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 11, 2025

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Village Roadshow’s Alix Jaffe is joining Miramax as the studio’s new president of television on March 31.

Jaffe, who will report directly to Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman, will be responsible for overseeing the company’s teams in Los Angeles, London and Doha, Qatar. Senior vice president Mirsada Abdool Raman will report to Jaffe.

“I’m thrilled to join Jon and the incredible team at Miramax,” Jaffe said in a Tuesday statement. “I have long admired their rich catalog and look forward to creating bold new shows, developing fresh original content and telling stories that push boundaries and resonate with audiences around the world.”

Jaffe brings over two decades of experience in TV development and production, most recently serving as Village Roadshow Entertainment Group’s executive vice president of television.

At Village Roadshow, she successfully launched and led the company’s independent TV business, overseeing development to production of scripted content and library titles,...

Drew Hancock’s global hit Companion is one of those do-or-die slick-flicks which blend genres and bend the rules of mass entertainment. The unexpected is heaped onto the plot with such weird nonchalance as if to say that cinema is not about fulfilling expectations but building them.

This is not an unwatchable film by any stretch of the imagination. Writer-director Drew Hancock sucks us into the vortex of the blind-dating game and then charts out a living hell for his heroine Iris (Sophie Thatcher), who is taken by her new boyfriend Josh (Jack Quaid) to a posh farmhouse in the back of the beyond. Iris should have known better. But if she had, there would be none of the carefully constructed calamitous happenings that swiftly swerve the romance into the horror-thriller genre.

And yes, there is science fiction, too…oh yes! Iris discovers she is a robot companion to Josh,...

It goes without saying that Stephen King has penned some great horror stories, and people take notice whenever he recommends a genre movie or TV series. From hailing overlooked horror shows like "The Midwich Cuckoos" to explaining why "Night of the Living Dead" is the scariest movie ever made, King isn't shy about expressing his opinions, and many people agree that he has excellent taste. With that in mind, King has now heaped praise on "Companion," the first great movie of 2025, adding to all of the acclaim the horror-comedy has received since its release.

"Companion: A totally fine horror/science fiction movie. (Also pretty funny.) I wish I'd seen it in the theaters, but watched it on Amazon Prime," the author wrote on Threads.

King didn't provide any more insights about the film, though he was probably wary of giving away spoilers. Directed and written by Drew Hancock, "Companion...

Paramount has released a final trailer for Novocaine. The upcoming action movie is currently fresh on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes at 88 percent.

Jack Quaid leads Novocaine as Nathan Caine, a meek bank executive who has a rare disorder that leaves him completely unable to feel pain. When his girlfriend (Prey's Amber Midthunder) is taken hostage by bank robbers, Nathan uses his unique disorder to his advantage, overcoming his fears to come to the rescue. Check out the final Novocaine trailer below.

Dan Berk and Robert Olsen directed Novocaine from a screenplay written by Lars Jacobson. The action movie also stars Ray Nicholson (Smile 2), Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Betty Gabriel (Jack Ryan), and Matt Walsh (Upright Citizens Brigade).

Jack Quaid Is a Star on the Rise

Novocaine was Quaid's first movie to feature him at the top of the call sheet, an experience that the actor told Newsweek was "odd.

Paramount has released the trailer to Novocaine, which stars Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Betty Gabriel, Matt Walsh, Lou Beatty Jr., Van Hengst, Conrad Kemp and Jacob Batalon. The unconventional action comedy features a reluctant hero who has a condition in which he cannot feel pain. This average joe embarks on an adventure that has him facing down a horde of villains and using his abilities as an advantage. The new trailer headlines all the positive buzz the movie is getting from critics, who are all basically calling the movie a violently good time as the premise takes you on a ride and the humor keeps you laughing.

The official synopsis reads,

“When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped, everyman Nate (Jack Quaid) turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.”

Novocaine has been rated R for strong bloody violence,...

Nearly one quarter of the way through the year (yikes!) and already the horror game is strong. So far, we’ve been lucky enough to see a nice hodge-podge of pics come to life thanks to Leigh Whannell’s latest pairing with Universal, Wolf Man, Drew Hancock’s debut foray into feature-length filmmaking in Companion, Josh Ruben’s rom-com horror, Heart Eyes, and Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs follow-up, The Monkey. With fans flocking to their local cinemas to take in the latest and greatest that the genre has to offer, one movie is topping out at the box office, with Perkins’ Stephen King adaptation currently in the number one spot with a staggering financial earning of $39.1 million.

Miramax has acquired the rights to I Can See You’re Angry, an R-rated comedy written by Brandon Cohen. The studio outbid several competitors for the project, which will be produced by Barbarian producer BoulderLight Pictures.

Details about the plot have not been disclosed, but the film is described as being in the style of Wedding Crashers and There’s Something About Mary.

Miramax and BoulderLight have an existing working relationship, with both involved in an upcoming remake of The Faculty. Robert Rodriguez is producing that project, with Drew Hancock writing the script.

BoulderLight has been involved in multiple recent releases, including Companion, a horror comedy that debuted in January starring Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid. The company is also behind Friendship, an A24 dark comedy featuring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. That film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall and is expected to be released this spring.

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Miramax has landed the hot spec I Can See You’re Angry from writer Brandon Cohen. Barbarian producer BoulderLight Pictures will produce the comedy. The studio beat out several suitors for the spec.

Plot details being kept under wraps, but the spec is described as a high-concept R-rated comedy in the vein of Wedding Crashers and There’s Something About Mary.

Miramax and BoulderLight already have strong ties after the former tapped the latter to co-produce a remake of The Faculty, with Robert Rodriguez joining as a producer with Companion writer Drew Hancock penning.

BoulderLight has been on a roll as of late starting with the horror comedy Companion, which bowed in January and starred Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid. Next up is the A24 dark comedy Friendship coming this spring. That film stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd and premiered at last fall’s Toronto Film Festival.

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2025 has already provided fans with some intriguing horror movies. Companion focused on a female android having to become a killer to survive. In addition, Josh Ruben's Heart Eyes has done its own take on movies like Scream, but with a Valentine's Day twist.

The latter movie deals with a slasher known as Heart Eyes. The killer goes on a rampage to slaughter lovers on the romantic holiday. Interestingly, Ruben sneaks in a subtle reference to two pop culture icons that fly beneath the radar, all while hinting as to the big plot twist. This centers on Heart Eyes having its own Hobbs and Shaw, two major characters from the Fast & Furious movies.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer may have ended over two decades ago, but it is more relevant than ever. There is a reason why, after all this time, stars are coming out of the woodwork to comment on the recent reboot announcement. No matter the allegations against the series' creator, Buffy still told emotionally resonant tales that appealed to all generations. In her capacity as the famous slayer destined to rid the world of evil forces, Buffy Summers encounters a wide array of monsters, which are just metaphors for the evils of everyday life. Starting in high school, the series becomes more mature as the series continues.

The one recurring theme in Buffy the Vampire Slayer would return to was the most corrosive villain of the series,...

Horror movies have a strange fate in theaters—they often get overlooked by the mass population due to their appealing nature to a particular group of audience. Perhaps, not everyone likes jump scares! Well, whatever the case, the same unfortunate destiny seemingly struck the 2025 American black comedy horror sci-fi, Companion.

A still from Drew Hancock’s Companion (2025) | image: Warner Bros.

Drew Hancock’s movie, starring Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid quietly slipped past many moviegoers. But while the world was busy missing out on the film, James Gunn appeared to be paying undivided attention. And guess what? The Guardians of the Galaxy director took to social media to call the film “freaking incredible”.

James Gunn lauded Drew Hancock’s 2025 horror sci-fi as “incredible”

Given his experience in filmmaking, when James Gunn speaks, movie-buffs offer their full attention to the legend. Known for his bold storytelling and a keen eye for great cinema,...

After hitting theaters near the end of 2024, A24's horror film, Heretic, is heading to its new streaming home in March.

The Hugh Grant-led horror flick, Heretic, officially lands on Max on March 7. The official synopsis for the film reads: "Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse." In addition to Grant, Heretic stars Sophie Thatcher (Companion), Chloe East (The Fabelmans), Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3), and Elle Young (Little Fish). Heretic was written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, best known for the Adam Driver-led film, 65, and as screenwriters of A Quiet Place.

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A vengeful sex bot, a murderous monkey toy, and a blood-sucking icon lead this week’s lineup of new horror movie releases, and they’re joined by a twisted perversion of a pop culture icon.

Here’s all the new horror that released February 17 – February 21, 2025!

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Prepare for a sea of blood, because the public domain slasher Popeye’s Revenge sailed onto VOD exclusively on Amazon via ITN Distribution this past Tuesday, February 18.

The indie horror film turns the classic character into a slasher villain when the legend of Popeye haunts a group of counselors as they intend to open a summer camp.

William Stead directs from a script by Harry Boxley (Cinderella’s Curse).

Steven Murphy stars as Popeye alongside Poohniverse alumni Kelly Rian Sanson, Danielle Scott, Danielle Ronald, and Amanda Jane York.

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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)

Brady Corbet’s long-gestating architecture epic looks and feels as painstakingly crafted as its lead character’s intricate architectonics. For as barren and minimalist as László Tóth’s (a terrific Adrien Brody) designs are, they pack a beautiful, mysterious, occasionally revelatory punch, much like Corbet’s winding three-and-a-half-hour (complete with built-in intermission!) story about a Hungarian architect who immigrated to New York after WWII only to be mentally and emotionally sucked in by the tide of a momentous decades-long project initiated by a ruthless Pennsylvania business tycoon. Its scope is enormous––almost impossible not to get wrapped up in. A sense of impending gravity gives this film the weight of the real, as if we’re witnessing history.

Caption: (L-r) Sophie Thatcher as Iris and Director and Writer Drew Hancock in New Line Cinema’s “Companion”, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Matt Infante Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. As both the writer and director of the film Companion, Drew Hancock had a clear vision of how he wanted the story to play out on the screen. But one thing he hadn’t really considered was how difficult the leading role of Iris would be for whichever actress wound up playing her. As Hancock explained, it was really like playing two roles in one and, until Sophie Thatcher came along, none of the performers who’d tried out had even come close to winning the role. (Click on the media bar below to hear Drew Hancock.) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Drew_Hancock_Sofie_Thatcher_Companion.mp3 Companion is now playing in theaters.

The less you know about Drew Hancock’s “Companion” the bigger chance you have of enjoying it. The film which stars the Heretic (2024) breakout Sophie Thatcher has a wild twist pretty early into the film. For someone who has seen the trailer for “Companion,” everything, including the ending and the twist, might not feel like they come off as a surprise in any way. So, if you are the select few who went into the film blind and were confused by how the movie pans out, here is a detailed breakdown.

Companion (2025) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

The opening monologue by Iris sort of gives away the “Companion” ending by directly telling you Josh’s eventual fate, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

The story kicks off with Josh (Jack Quaid) and Iris (Sophie Thatcher) driving to a lake house that is secluded and away from any kind of civilization.

One of the surprise hits of the year so far, Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher's starring turns in Drew Hancock's Companion have captured the eyes of the world, shooting the movie beyond the subdued expectations many likely had prior to release. Now, despite having officially landed on digital on February 18, 2025, Companion looks set to continue returning in its theatrical run, with the movie predicted to surpass the $20 million mark domestically by the end of this week. Currently, Companion is on $18.7 million from nationwide theaters, with another $14.2 million from overseas markets combining for a total worldwide haul of $32.9 million.

With movie theaters struggling to pull in the same sized audiences they used to pull in before the pandemic, Hollywood has made considerable changes to their theatres-to-home media windows. Now, if a movie isn’t a financial hit, studios routinely release films to PVOD within weeks of their theatrical debut to capitalize on the publicity of theatrical campaigns. We’ve seen this happen over and over again with movies that didn’t perform up to expectations (such as The Fall Guy), and now New Line’s buzzy horror flick Companion makes its VOD debut only eighteen days after its theatrical release.

Directed by Drew Hancock, Companion is produced by Barbarian’s Zach Cregger, and stars Sophie Thatcher as a young woman on a weekend getaway with her tech-bro boyfriend, played by The Boys’ Jack Quaid. Of course, there’s a Major twist the trailers spoiled, but if you don’t know what it is,...

“Companion”, the 2024 live-action, ‘killer robot’ science fiction psychological thriller, written and directed by Drew Hancock, will be available to rent or own on digital platforms, February 18, 2025, followed by a 4K Uhd, Blu-ray and DVD release April 1, 2025:

“…a billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for ‘Iris’ and her friends…

“…during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate…”

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Companion, a film about a robot named Iris (Sophie Thatcher) whose boyfriend/owner Josh (Jack Quaid) tries to deactivate her after a weekend gone wrong, has been hailed as one of the year's best movies so far. The film has a great score on Rotten Tomatoes, described as an an excellent film with fantastic depth.

In little under three weeks since it released, the film has made nearly triple its budget at the box office - with that sort of success, it’s no wonder director/writer Drew Hancock’s is already soft-planning sequels. For those who haven’t had the chance to see Companion in the theater, the film now has a release date on Digital as well as its physical media release. Per Screen Rant, it will make its Digital debut on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The 4K Uhd, Blu-ray, and DVD release will follow on April 1.

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2024 is over, and while it had some great movies like Dune: Part Two and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, they are nothing compared to what we have coming in 2025. From the first DC Studios film, Superman, to maybe the final Mission: Impossible film in which Tom Cruise will once again put his life in danger to entertain the heck out of us. So, let’s find out which of the movies that are coming in 2025 are the most anticipated.

Companion (In Theaters) Credit – Warner Bros. Pictures

Companion is an upcoming horror thriller drama film written and directed by Drew Hancock. The upcoming film is set during a weekend getaway that turns extremely bloody and violent when a human companion android malfunctions and begins killing people. Companion stars Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillen, and Rupert Friend.

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The first great horror movie of 2025,Companion, is surprisingly releasing soon on digital. The Warner Bros. AI horror movie will premiere tomorrow, Feb. 18, on digital platforms. It will also be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Apr.11, 2025.

Written and directed by Drew Hancock, Companion follows a young couple who have planned a weekend getaway with friends. Iris feels a bit awkward around Josh's old friends, but she tries her best to have fun in the idyllic mansion owned by Sergey, Kat's millionaire boyfriend. What seems like an ideal escape from the city turns into a nightmare for Iris. Sergey assaults her, and in self-defense, she kills him. Everyone's reaction is odd, especially Josh's, who eventually tells Iris to "go to sleep" when she begins asking questions. Iris eventually wakes up and finds out the truth about herself: she's a companion android, designed to do what her owner says.

Find someone made just for you when Companion debuts on Digital tomorrow, February 18 — a mere 18 days after its theatrical release.

The sci-fi horror thriller will be avaialble on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on April 11 via Warner Bros.

Produced by Zach Cregger and Boulderlight Pictures (Barbarian), Companion marks the directorial debut of Drew Hancock, who also penned the script.

Special Features:

I Feel, Therefore I Am – Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher delve into the complex relationships at the heart of Companion Love, Eli – Harvey Guillén and Lukas Gage explore the fun relationship of Patrick and Eli AI Horror – Director Drew Hancock breaks down the fusion of slasher and sci-fi elements in Companion

Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”) and Jack Quaid (“The Boys”) star with Lukas Gage (Smile 2), Megan Suri (“Never Have I Ever”), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), and Rupert Friend (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”).

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review,...

Rupert Friend is heading into the Berlinale a little anxious.

The British actor, a veteran of the industry with major roles in Homeland, Pride & Prejudice and, most recently, Drew Hancock’s buzzy thriller Companion, was only a “whip of a thing” when Chéri premiered in competition at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.

“I was 25 and it was probably my first big lead role,” the now-43-year-old tells The Hollywood Reporter. “From the first 20 seconds, you just felt the audience… lean back. The movie finished and it was the sound of one, slow clap. I just died.”

After this “bombing” of Stephen Frears’ Colette adaptation, Friend was a little wary of the spotlight. It impacted him for a long time after, he confesses, even though he landed the part of a key character in the wildly successful Showtime series Homeland shortly after.

It’s only right that Friend returns to Berlin with a vengeance: not one,...

The teaser trailer for the gonzo horror-sci-fi comedy “Companion” released late last year stated that it was “from the studio that brought you ‘The Notebook.’”

This is cheeky, for sure, but it’s also technically true: “Companion” studio New Line Cinema was responsible for the beloved Ryan Gosling/Rachel McAdams romance. It works to offset your expectations, particularly because the next card reads that the movie is also “from the unhinged creators of ‘Barbarian.’”

More than just a funny marketing hook, the “Notebook”/”Barbarian” comparison also speaks to the vibe of the movie, described by the studio as “a new kind of love story,” which splits the difference between terror and tenderness as it traces the dissolution of a relationship over one chaotic weekend. That’s when Josh (Jack Quaid) and his robot companion Iris (Sophie Thatcher) find their relationship strained – and covered in blood. (The film has grossed a respectable $27 million worldwide so far.

Sophie Thatcher as Iris in New Line Cinema’s “Companion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures Copyright: © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher steps into a gripping new role in Companion, a film that’s already making waves with an impressive 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. This is far from your average weekend getaway. Written and directed by Drew Hancock in his theatrical debut, Companion takes audiences to a remote cabin retreat that spirals into chaos. What starts as an idyllic escape turns dark when a group of friends uncovers a chilling secret. With its tense atmosphere and jaw-dropping twists, critics can’t stop raving. Thatcher was drawn to Hancock’s script and the layered character of Iris, calling the role a challenge she couldn’t pass up. She also shared how the film touches on timely social themes. (Click on...

Drew Hancock's new film, Companion, has quite a few familiar faces in its young cast. The genre blend of sci-fi, thriller, comedy, and horror follows Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and her boyfriend Josh (Jack Quaid) as they arrive at a luxurious hillside house to spend the weekend with Josh's friends. Iris is a loving, doting girlfriend who only wants to make Josh happy, and Josh just wants her to fit in with his friends. When an accident involving the billionaire owner of the house occurs, Iris finds herself in a dire situation.

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Warner Bros’ sci-fi thriller Companion is set to make its digital debut this month following its theatrical release on January 31, 2025. With a gripping story and a star-studded cast, the film has already generated buzz among genre enthusiasts. Here’s everything you need to know about when and where you can stream Companion online.

What is Companion About?

Directed and written by Drew Hancock, Companion follows a group of friends on a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate. What begins as a relaxing retreat quickly takes a sinister turn as they become entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology beyond their comprehension. As tensions escalate and trust is put to the test, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves—and the world around them.

The film boasts an impressive cast, featuring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, and Rupert Friend.

Where to Watch Companion Online?...

While trailers do give away a number of significant plot points. Companion is sufficiently twisty as a comedy-inflected thriller that it gets away with a peek behind the curtain. Though it borrows significantly from genre, particularly science fiction and horror, its multi-hyphenate sensibilities make this closer to crime-gone-wrong antics like The Big Lebowski or Shallow Grave. There's a calculus of capers here. Bad decisions made by bad people don't just make situations worse, they make the movie better.

Writer-director Drew Hancock has plenty of TV credits, but this is a début feature. It's confident, even classy. While it does have smartphones and electric cars it could have been made in the 1970s, and I mean that as a positive. A single location, although extended with flashbacks and dream sequences, a single inciting incident, and plenty of strong performances. Its effects work is minimal. I look forward to a making-of featurette or.

This story contains Major Spoilers for Companion.

In Companion, Josh and Iris are lovers turned enemies, and both fight to kill the other. In real life, Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher get along as right as rain, even more so since Quaid isn’t like his emotionally abusive on-screen counterpart.

Quaid is an actor with a fine list of acting credits to his name, though not many of those roles have seen him end on screen. With his role in Companion, Quaid has been killed exactly three times on screen, all by female co-stars.

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It takes a special kind of actress to inspire sympathy and devotion from their audience, while simultaneously invoking an uncanny-valley creepiness through their performance. Sophie Thatcher effortlessly strikes this balance in her latest film project, Companion. Directed by Drew Hancock, Companion juggles android sex bots straight out of pulpy science fiction with all the blood and guts of a horror thriller. In one of her most stand-out roles yet, Thatcher plays the titular companion, Iris. Thatcher's star power dazzles, with her deep understanding of Iris as a character, she helps the sci-fi and rom-com elements of Companion mesh with the thriller pacing and psychological horror, all while making Iris a compelling and endearing protagonist.

Last weekend, Dreamworks Animation‘s Dog Man took a bite out of the top spot at the domestic box office while howling at the moon with $36M for its opening weekend. Drew Hancock’s psychological thriller Companion trailed behind Dog Man with a pooper-scooper despite favorable reviews (including one from JoBlo’s Tyler Nichols) for a $9.5M opening. As a spinoff of the Captain Underpants books by Dav Pilkey, Dog Man features a starry cast of voice talent, including Pete Davidson, Isla Fisher, Lil Rel Howery, Poppy Liu, and Ricky Gervais. The half-man, half-dog, all-cop animated comedy stands to lift its leg on the number one slot at the box office this weekend with an additional $16M-$20M, even as Super Bowl Lix looks to tackle a majority of audiences.

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Companion Worldwide Box Office: First Tuesday Update( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Jack Quaid starrer R-rated horror flick Companion is defying all odds and earning great numbers at the box office as it has not only recovered its budget but is now very close to its break-even point. The film is fighting PG movies and biggies, including Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King and Dog Man. Keep scrolling for more.

According to reports, it has been compared to the popular and critically acclaimed Netflix series Black Mirror. It features Sophie Thatcher in a leading role, who was also a part of Hugh Grant’s horror flick Heretic, which was also a box office success. The Boys star Jack Quaid appears opposite her, along with Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, and Rupert Friend in supporting roles.

Companion was reportedly poised to earn between $8 million and $10 million in the United States on its opening weekend.

This weekend at the box office featured two new arrivals, with Dog Man and Companion, both of which performed well enough to take the top two spots. Companion fell in second place after opening with $9.3 million, well behind Dog Man's whopping $36 million, which was enough by itself to make it the highest-grossing movie of the year domestically. Companion has since added a few million to its total and crossed the $10 million threshold at the domestic box office, currently sitting at $11.2 million at the time of writing. The film has also earned $5.2 million internationally for a worldwide gross of $16.5 million. The film stars Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher alongside Lukas Gage and Megan Sur, and it was written and directed by Drew Hancock.

It has often been said that cinema reflects our collective anxieties, and in Companion, writer-director Drew Hancock zeroes in on one of our most persistent modern fears: the encroachment of artificial intelligence into the deeply human realm of intimacy.

At once a darkly comic sci-fi thriller and a razor-sharp satire on misogyny in the digital age, Companion takes well-worn genre tropes and injects them with a pulpy, anarchic energy. But while it boasts a game cast, a thrillingly unhinged lead performance from Sophie Thatcher, and some wickedly effective tonal shifts, the film ultimately struggles to distinguish itself from the weighty lineage of AI-fixated thrillers that precede it.

Thatcher plays Iris, a seemingly ideal girlfriend, meticulously dressed in 1950s technicolor housewife garb as she wanders through an eerily vacant supermarket in the film’s opening moments. This Stepford Wives-esque introduction sets the stage for the film’s biting critique of patriarchal fantasy—because,...

There’s a lot of good stuff coming down the pipeline for horror fans over the next year. Audiences have already been treated to Drew Hancock’s feature-length directorial debut, Companion, and also have titles like Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, and Josh Ruben’s Heart Eyes to look forward to. Meanwhile, there are a slew of next chapters in already established franchises, like Final Destination: Bloodlines, The Conjuring: Last Rites, and the untitled I Know What You Did Last Summersequel. Mixed in with the others will be the return of the dancing AI helper turned hunter in Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN 2.0. While not much has been released about the M3GAN follow-up at this time, save for a brief teaser set to Chappell Roan’s “Femininomenon,” audiences can’t wait to see the killer bot back in action following the 2022 breakaway movie.

The following contains major spoilers for Companion, now playing in theaters.

Companionstar Jack Quaid is no stranger to blood and gore. However, the actor recently revealed that making movies can be difficult for him too.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Quaid opened up about one particular scene in the sci-fi thriller Companionthat made him more than a little nervous. "There was this one stunt that is small in the grand history of things I've done on screen, but I don't know why. It just gave me the heebie-jeebies," he said. Referring to a scene with co-star Sophie Thatcher, who plays Iris, he added, "She closes a car door on my hand, and it was the one stunt where I was like, 'I don't know.' It was perfectly safe - they had a stopper there in case anything went wrong. But it was the one time I was like, 'Can we...

“You don’t really know what a movie is about until you see what it is,” says “Companion” writer and director Drew Hancock on his journey with his horror tour de force. “It was an exercise in writing something I wanted to see because I love genre stuff but wasn’t getting an opportunity to write any. All I cared about was writing it and getting it made, no matter who directed it.”

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“Companion” stars Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid as Iris and Josh, as they embark on a weekend getaway among friends at a remote cabin, which unravels into chaos after it’s revealed that one of the guests is a companion robot.

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Jack Quaid bounds up the stairs of Manhattan’s Midtown Comics like a Golden Retriever on a long-promised walk, his plaid winter jacket fluttering behind him in the January chill. Sandwiched between a 99-cent pizza joint and a smoke shop, the Times Square institution is one of the largest stores of its kind in the world — which makes it all the more surprising that the 32-year-old self-professed comic-book geek has never paid a visit before. “Every time I’m on location somewhere, I always Google the nearest comic book store,...

Lukas Gage is ready to tell on himself. The 29-year-old actor will make his writing debut with a memoir, “I Wrote This for Attention,” out in October.

He says the book shines a light on what he’s learned from his past mistakes. “I was a wild kid,” Gage tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I partied too much. But I’m so proud of that boy, especially looking back on him, all that he experienced, all the experiences he had, all the mistakes he made.”

“For a while I was really hard on myself and I was really disappointed and felt like a failure,” he continues. “I felt like I had fucked up so much. But then looking back, a meeker and more obedient kid would not have been able to pull off what I pulled off and would not have been...

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Written and directed by Drew Hancock, Companion is a wild science fiction horror comedy that follows a couple, Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and Josh (Jack Quaid), who visit an acquaintance’s remote lake house for a quiet weekend gateway. What begins as a rather innocuous holiday quickly devolves into something much more sinister when the host and lake house owner, Sergey (Rupert Friend), is killed by Iris in self-defense after he attacks her on the lakeshore. When she returns to the house covered in his blood and shocked by her own actions, Josh and her friends Eli (Harvey Guillén), Patrick (Lukas Gage), and Kat (Megan Suri) are stunned.

As she begins to panic along with the others,...

The following contains major spoilers for Companion, now playing in theaters.

Director Drew Hancock delivered one of 2025's best-reviewed films with Companion, a satirical sci-fi thriller starring Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid. After receiving praise from critics and audiences alike, Hancock recently revealed that his new film may not be a one-off, and he already has some ideas about where to go with a potential sequel.

In an interview with Variety, Hancock teased that if a potential sequel were given the greenlight by Warner Bros., he believes there are several ways in which the story would go. The film centers around a couple, Iris (Thatcher) and Josh (Quaid), who join a group of friends at a remote cabin owned by a billionaire named Sergey (Rupert Friend). During the weekend retreat, Iris kills Sergey during an attempted rape, only to find out later that she is a "companion" robot, who was...

(L-r) Director and Writer Drew Hancock and Sophie Thatcher as Iris in New Line Cinema’s “Companion”, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Cara Howe Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. After spending a couple of decades writing and directing in television, Drew Hancock makes his big-screen debut as a writer and director with the sci-fi thriller Companion. During the writing process, Hancock said he encountered a little bit of writer’s block, but a gift from a friend helped him break through … and even changed his attitude about what it means to be a writer. (Click on the media bar below to hear Drew Hancock.) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Drew_Hancock_Companion_Inspiration_.mp3 Companion is now playing in theaters.

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Sophie Thatcher may not quite be a household name, at least not yet, anyway. For horror lovers of the world, however, she has quickly ascended the Hollywood ranks to become one of our modern go-to stars for high-profile genre fare. To that end, Thatcher is now headlining director Drew Hancock's "Companion," which /Film's Chris Evangelista hailed as the first great movie of 2025. Not only is the movie damn good, but it also had a damn fine opening weekend at the box office.

"Companion" opened to an estimated $9.5 million, debuting in second domestically behind the unexpectedly big animated hit "Dog Man" ($36 million), which hails from DreamWorks. Coming in second was by no means a bad thing, though, as Hancock's twisty sci-fi thriller cost a mere $10 million to make (before marketing). Considering it also pulled in $5.5 million overseas, it's well on its way to becoming profitable for Warner Bros. It might not be a massive hit,...

Jack Quaid stars in Companion and is opening up about his experience filming the Drew Hancock-written and directed thriller.

The actor said in a recent interview that a stunt in the movie gave him the “heebie-jeebies,” and he had to have a stunt double help him with the scene.

“There was this one stunt that is small in the grand history of things I’ve done on screen, but I don’t know why; it just gave me the heebie-jeebies,” Quaid told Entertainment Weekly.

Quaid continued, “She closes a car door on my hand, and it was the one stunt where I was like, ‘I don’t know… It was perfectly safe — they had a stopper there in case anything went wrong. But it was the one time I was like, ‘Can we please just have a stunt double do it?'”

Companion follows Quaid’s Josh and girlfriend Iris,...

Sophie Thatcher is a force to be reckoned with, and one simply cannot dismiss her undeniable screen presence. She began her acting career with productions like Prospect, where she held her ground against seasoned actors. But her role in Yellowjackets is what cemented her status as a rising star, leading to more interesting projects like Companion.

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The Drew Hancock directorial stars Thatcher and Jack Quaid in the lead, and has earned immense critical acclaim. Even this time around, the actress has proved that she can bring nuance and depth to complex characters.

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Sophie Thatcher has stepped into the role of Iris in Companion, a character that required her to dive into profound levels of introspection and physical discipline. In an interview with IndieWire, the actress spoke about how important...