co-star as a couple whose family vacation takes a bad turn when an act of cowardice involving a cell phone, an avalanche and the fight-or-flight instinct widens their marriage’s cracks into fissures. Anyone who’s seen the film it remakes — Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s— will know right away that it’s not the sort of twinkly romance usually released on Valentine’s Day, assuming co-directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash keep even a fraction of the original’s acidic observations.
Welcome…to Fantasy Island! From 1977 to 1984, ABC’s hit TV show let viewers spend an hour escaping to a vacation paradise where visitors’ dreams came true . The show’s procession of guest stars usually learned a lesson before each episode ended — and we’re assuming that the morals of the stories are likely to be a little harsher in this Blumhouse-produced horror-movie update on the premise. Michael Peña steps in Ricardo Montalban’s shoes as Mr. Roarke, the island’s mysterious proprietor.