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Please be warned: this article contains spoilers for Scream 7. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, proceed with caution! As fans know, Matthew Lillard returned as Stu Macher, a killer from the original Scream, in a surprising twist. While Stu didn’t literally come back from the dead, the new killers used artificial intelligence to convincingly impersonate him. In a recent interview with Esquire, director Christopher Williamson explained that the idea for this twist came from writer Guy Busick. Williamson initially wondered how the AI concept would work and if audiences would be disappointed that Stu wasn’t truly back. They even filmed scenes both with and without the AI element to see what worked best, wanting to have the best of both worlds.

When it first launched, Highguard attracted over 2 million players globally. Players typically spent about 91 minutes per session playing the game, averaging around 3.5 matches each time they logged in. According to Grenier, these numbers are very positive.

I just finished the latest Starfleet Academy episode, and wow, it really got to me. Seeing Robert Picardo’s Doctor forced to confront his past when SAM was deactivated was powerful. He stepped up as a father figure for her, and honestly, that’s what brought her back. It was amazing to see him finally get a name that meant something – ‘Dad’! It felt like the culmination of his centuries-long journey to understand what it truly means to be human. Okay, maybe getting a holographic daughter isn’t the typical path to that realization, but he was searching for emotional connection, not a purely logical, Data-like understanding. And while it was a happy ending for him, the episode also dropped a huge bombshell about the trauma he’s carried for 800 years, all stemming from something a Voyager crew member did.

Recent Far Cry games, despite being large, have been criticized for feeling bland, with weak stories and repetitive gameplay. This could lead Ubisoft to revisit and remaster older, more beloved titles instead of creating new ones. Fans particularly remember the variety of action in Far Cry 3, and other games in the series have also experimented with different gameplay features to keep the experience interesting.

Released in 2021 for the PlayStation 5, Returnal is a fast-paced, third-person shooter with roguelike elements. The game follows an astronaut stranded on the planet Atropos, searching for a mysterious ‘White Shadow.’ She quickly becomes trapped in a time loop, meaning that when she dies, she restarts at the beginning of one of the game’s two main areas. This creates a unique story that shares similarities with the film Edge of Tomorrow. While Returnal received critical acclaim and many awards, it didn’t achieve massive sales numbers. A follow-up game called Saros is scheduled to be released in April 2026.

Many direct-to-video and streaming sequels have been poorly received, especially those from Disneytoon Studios, which produced several disappointing follow-ups to popular Disney films. However, this list will skip those obvious examples and instead concentrate on sequels that originally had a wide release in theaters, just like the first films.