Alex Rider is coming to an end.
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When cousins Robbie and Stephen Amell teamed with filmmakers Jeff Chan and Chris Paré in 2016, on the short film Code 8, they had little concept for the journey that laid ahead of them, which would see them build their own successful sci-fi franchise from the ground up.
After self-financing the 10-minute film and watching it garner over 7 million views on YouTube, the team moved to crowdfund a Code 8 feature via Indiegogo, far surpassing their goal at a take exceeding $2.5MM. When the film debuted on Netflix at peak Covid, in April 2020 — four months after hitting theaters and VOD — it achieved such strong viewership that Netflix moved to finance a sequel itself, one that would mark the service’s first original English-language Canadian feature. It debuted at #1 on its English-Language Films chart for the week of February 26 and brought the original film atop the charts once more, at #4.
Robbie Amell leads the films as Connor, a young man with supernatural abilities living in Lincoln City, where those like him (known as “Powers”) are heavily policed and otherwise marginalized. Against this backdrop, he begins working with a group of criminals, led by telekinetic Garrett (Stephen Amell), to raise the funds necessary to care for his sick mother. Finding themselves at odds by film’s end, the pair are reunited after being sought out by Pavani (Sirena Gulamgaus), a teenager with powers who has just witnessed the murder of her brother and a subsequent law enforcement cover-up.
Speaking to the success of the sequel, co-writer, director and producer Chan shares that Netflix has been a great partner to the filmmakers, who not only allowed them to make the new film “in the same spirit” as the first, but also fully supported
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Ellise Shafer If you’ve been on TikTok in the last few weeks, chances are you’ve heard Djo’s “End of Beginning,” a synth-heavy psychedelic track soaked in nostalgia. But you may not know that the man behind Djo is none other than Joe Keery, best known for playing lovable jock Steve Harrington on Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Keery has been releasing music under the moniker since 2019, but it wasn’t until last month that the sudden TikTok popularity of “End of Beginning” — a non-single track off his 2022 album “Decide” — took the musical project into the mainstream, with the song’s 2.2 million video creations on the app catapulting it to No.
Alex Garland took SXSW 2024 by storm last night with the world premiere of his latest film, “Civil War.” And the new feature, about a near-future United States fractured into warring factions, has many moviegoers excited and anxious about the film’s imminent release in theaters and IMAX next month. THR reports that Garland took questions about his new movie at a Film & TV panel in Austin today to explain why he chose to make “Civil War,” if he’s trying to say anything explicit about American politics, and whether A24‘s release of this film before the 2024 US presidential election is deliberate bad timing or coincidental.
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Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Upload‘ has been renewed for Season 4 at Amazon Prime Video, which will also be the show’s last season. Thee third season of the sci-fi comedy series debuted back in October 2020 with the season finale dropping on Nov.
Code 8.Directed by Jeff Chan and based on the 2016 short film of the same name, Code 8 follows Connor Reed (Robbie Amell) who uses his superhuman abilities to help a group of criminals in order to raise money to help his sick mother.The first film, after a brief run in cinemas, was released on Netflix in 2020. A sequel, titled Code 8: Part 2, was released on the platform in February 2024.At the time of writing (March 6), a sequel to Code 8: Part 2 has not been officially announced.