Markiplier Warns Hollywood Against Ignoring YouTubers After His $50 Million Horror Hit Iron Lung

The streamer turned director grinds his axe about not earning traditional prestige in spite of commercial success ...

Markiplier: 'Hollywood was willfully ignoring the potential of YouTubers'

Then his indie film Iron Lung made $50 million at the box office, with a budget of only $4 million.
GeekTyrant

Markiplier Says He’s Taking a Break After IRON LUNG and Wants To Focus on Directing

Iron Lung surprised a lot of people when it hit theaters. What started as a scrappy indie adaptation of a 2022 horror game ...
Military.com

Steven Spielberg Returns to Alien Movies With ‘Disclosure Day’: What to Know

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...
Futurism

If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It Will Pose Serious Issues

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...
Deadline.com

‘Iron Lung’ Director Markiplier On YouTube, Moviemaking & 79,800 Gallons Of Fake Blood – The Deadline Q&A

A bloody cool thing happened at the domestic box office in recent weeks as a low budget sci-film busted out in wide release with an $18 million opening, seemingly out of nowhere but not really if ...
Forbes

Markiplier’s ‘Iron Lung’ Has Now Made 11x Its Budget After Its Second Weekend

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. While Markiplier’s horror film, Iron Lung, was meant to be a limited release, limited-time ...
Florida Today

Are aliens 'real?' Obama comment comes as Congress investigates UFOs

Barack Obama seemingly confirmed the existence of aliens in a podcast, though he later walked back his comments on Instagram. Congress has held multiple hearings on UFOs, now called UAPs, since 2023, ...
Gizmodo

The New ‘Disclosure Day’ Trailer Starts to Reveal Its Alien Mystery

Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor star in the latest alien film from iconic director Steven Spielberg, out June 12. Reading time 1 minute Freshly minted EGOT winner Steven Spielberg has made some of the ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Movie by Cincy's Markiplier is a box office hit. When will it hit streaming?

A new movie, written and directed by Cincinnati native and YouTube sensation Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach, landed in theaters late last month. Markiplier's directorial debut, "Iron Lung," which ...
Comicbook.com

7 Coolest Movie Aliens of All-Time (That Aren’t the Alien or the Predator)

The MCU has had several cool aliens. The Skrulls, the Chitauri, the Abilisk, they all have cool designs and either sharp teeth or interesting powers. But the title of coolest MCU alien is the Flerkens ...
People

Steven Spielberg Says Belief in Aliens Has Reached a 'Critical Mass': 'Not the Possibility but the Guarantee'

Director Steven Spielberg explores the otherworldly in 'Disclosure Day,' in theaters June 12 Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Steven Spielberg reflected on his fascination with what he described as "the ...