Samuel Brooks

Alien: Romulus will contain a nod to the 2014 survival-horror game Alien: Isolation. Director Fede Alvarez said recently that the Creative Assembly game taught him a lot about horror, and he is honoring the game with a little Easter egg in Alien: Romulus.”The movie is set up in a way [that] every time something bad is about to happen, you will see a phone,” he said on the Inside Total Film podcast. “In the game, every time you knew there’s a phone you’d go, ‘Fuck, I’m about to go into some bad set-piece.’ It’s the same thing here. You’ll see they’re planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it’s like: Brace for impact.” Alvarez went on to say Alien: Isolation was an experience that “made me see that Alien could truly be terrifying and done well [today].””I…

For the second time in the past 12 months, Disney is raising prices for its streaming services, including Disney+. CEO Bob Iger discussed this on the company’s earnings call, saying Disney actually has more pricing leverage–that is, the ability to raise prices–than before thanks to the appeal of the platform as he sees it.”Every time we’ve taken a price increase, we’ve had only modest churn from that. Nothing that we would consider significant,” he said. A “churn” rate refers to losses from people leaving a given service.Iger said the introduction of new features to Disney+ like the upcoming ESPN tile and continuous playlists, along with high-profile movies coming to the platform, gives Disney the ability to raise prices without issue.”The pricing leverage we have is actually in…