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After a successful run in theaters last October, earning $132 million and becoming one of the year’s top horror films, Black Phone 2 started streaming on Peacock on January 16th. The movie quickly became one of the platform’s most popular titles, reaching the No. 1 spot and staying there, even ahead of well-loved films like Shrek Forever After, Despicable Me, and The Hunger Games. Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, and Madeleine McGraw return in this sequel, which takes place four years after the first movie. It follows Finney, now 17, and his sister Gwen as they grapple with past trauma and a new threat from the Grabber at a winter camp.

Many fantastic TV shows don’t get the chance to run for multiple seasons. While long-running shows often allow for great character development, there have been plenty of excellent series that ended too soon. Interestingly, some of the best shows are actually quite short. Because they have to tell their stories quickly, these series consistently deliver high quality and don’t have any weak episodes.

Despite a lot of excitement for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the latest Tom Cruise film didn’t perform much better than the previous installment, Dead Reckoning, and didn’t reach the top spots for the series’ box office numbers. Additionally, Paramount+ released a Star Trek movie that’s considered one of the worst in decades, and it’s likely to win a lot of Razzie awards. However, the biggest challenge for Paramount this year wasn’t a company takeover attempt or failed merger – it’s the potential departure of Taylor Sheridan, a key creative force behind many of their successful shows.