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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Horror Movie ‘Die'ced: Reloaded' Sets Summer Release and Reveals First Trailer (Exclusive)
A feature reimagining of a viral short film has landed a theatrical release and is sharing its first gruesome footage. Die'ced: Reloaded is set to hit theaters Aug. 8 ahead of its VOD launch Aug. 12 from Epic Pictures' horror label Dread, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Writer-director Jeremy Rudd's slasher movie expands upon the story that kicked off with Rudd's 2023 viral short Die'ced. More from The Hollywood Reporter Billy Joel HBO Documentary Trailer Highlights Classical Music to "Uptown Girl" Journey Amid "Hard Lessons": "Life Is a Fight" Scott Derrickson, Maggie Levin Tackling Adaptation of Horror Novel 'Ghost Eaters' for Screen Gems (Exclusive) Mark Duplass, Avan Jogia and More Join Horror Film 'The Backrooms' From A24, Chernin Entertainment Set in 1980s Seattle, Die'ced: Reloaded centers on Benny, a notorious serial killer who flees an asylum on Halloween with the help of a scarecrow mask to begin a trail of carnage. It becomes clear that Benny is hunting a young woman who has unknowingly become his fixation. The trailer can be seen below for the film that stars Eden Campbell (Fear Street: Part Two — 1978), Jason Brooks (The Death of Snow White) and Nigel Vona (The Chronicles of Riddick). Producers include Jeffrey Decker, Chad Ferrin and Tylor Jones. 'I'm excited to bring audiences back to the gritty nostalgia of classic '80s and '90s slasher horror while blending it with modern horror,' says Rudd. 'I can't wait for everyone to meet our final girl, Cassandra, and our soon-to-be iconic villain, Benny.' Adds Epic Pictures CEO Patrick Ewald, 'When I first saw the original short film by Jeremy Rudd, Die'ced, I knew it had the potential to become something bigger, meaner, bloodier and with an ever more unhinged killer, Benny. Die'ced: Reloaded is exactly that. The team at Epic and Dread are proud to have helped bring this savage vision to life and thrilled to unleash it on horror fans who crave brutal creativity and fearless filmmaking.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Solve the daily Crossword
Reuters
23-03-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Muddled inflation expectations no help for Fed
ORLANDO, Florida, March 19 (Reuters) - Keeping inflation expectations under control is arguably a central bank's most important job. But it is also one of the most challenging given that the picture painted by the surveys, models and market prices relied on by policymakers is, at best, unclear, and at worst, so muddled as to be barely useful at all. That's especially true today, and one more reason why the Federal Reserve is proceeding with caution. Consumer expectations can, understandably, be volatile. The layperson is unlikely to have a firm grasp on how global supply chains, commodity prices or monetary policy lags affect prices. They could therefore easily be influenced - or spooked - by news headlines and current conditions. Survey responses are thus often based more on emotion than economic analysis. This helps explain why the five-year inflation outlook in the University of Michigan's latest survey of consumers jumped to 3.9% in February. That's the highest since 1993, and was undoubtedly driven by legitimate fears about the impact U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs could have on prices. Yet the New York Fed's February survey tells a very different story. It shows that the U.S. public's five-year inflation horizon was unchanged from January at 3.0%. Indeed, this report's five-year outlook has been stuck in a 2.5-3.0% range for more than two years. If that's not confusing enough, financial markets' long-term inflation outlook suggests there's no need to worry at all. Five-year/five-year forward breakevens, a measure of expected inflation over a five-year period starting in five years' time, have been trending lower in recent weeks and were last trading around 2.1%. That's the lowest in two years, significantly below current annual CPI inflation of 2.8%, and practically at the Fed's 2% target. This suggests investors believe tariff shocks will pass, the Fed will keep policy sufficiently tight to get inflation down, or growth will be weak. Or some combination of all three. TENUOUS LINK Given that consumer expectations, particularly over the shorter one-year and three-year horizons, are more volatile than market-based measures, how should policymakers make sense of these conflicting signals? A Cleveland Fed paper from October 2021 suggests they should be taken with a grain of salt. It found that the predictive relationship of a range of inflation expectation gauges was hit and miss. And much more miss than hit. Researchers found that consumers are particularly bad at predicting inflation. Again, this may be no real surprise given that people without a financial background often struggle to distinguish between the price level and the rate of price increases. Though, for what it's worth, the Cleveland Fed researchers found that financial markets' predictive power isn't that much better. Another 2021 paper by Fed staffer Jeremy Rudd went further, warning that the relationship between expected and actual inflation "has no compelling theoretical or empirical basis and could potentially result in serious policy errors." That's a troubling conclusion given the importance policymakers put on keeping inflation expectations anchored. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell doesn't seem worried. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday after Fed officials cut their GDP growth projections but raised the inflation outlook, he insisted that long-term expectations remain well-contained even if short-term ones are rising. The recent University of Michigan survey was an "outlier", but will still be factored into policymakers' thinking along with all the other indicators they look at. "We monitor inflation expectations very, very carefully, every source we can find. We do not take anything for granted," Powell said, adding that anchored inflation expectations are at "the very heart of our framework." By Jamie McGeever;
Zawya
20-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Muddled inflation expectations no help for Fed: McGeever
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) ORLANDO, Florida - Keeping inflation expectations under control is arguably a central bank's most important job. But it is also one of the most challenging given that the picture painted by the surveys, models and market prices relied on by policymakers is, at best, unclear, and at worst, so muddled as to be barely useful at all. That's especially true today, and one more reason why the Federal Reserve is proceeding with caution. Consumer expectations can, understandably, be volatile. The layperson is unlikely to have a firm grasp on how global supply chains, commodity prices or monetary policy lags affect prices. They could therefore easily be influenced - or spooked - by news headlines and current conditions. Survey responses are thus often based more on emotion than economic analysis. This helps explain why the five-year inflation outlook in the University of Michigan's latest survey of consumers jumped to 3.9% in February. That's the highest since 1993, and was undoubtedly driven by legitimate fears about the impact U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs could have on prices. Yet the New York Fed's February survey tells a very different story. It shows that the U.S. public's five-year inflation horizon was unchanged from January at 3.0%. Indeed, this report's five-year outlook has been stuck in a 2.5-3.0% range for more than two years. If that's not confusing enough, financial markets' long-term inflation outlook suggests there's no need to worry at all. Five-year/five-year forward breakevens, a measure of expected inflation over a five-year period starting in five years' time, have been trending lower in recent weeks and were last trading around 2.1%. That's the lowest in two years, significantly below current annual CPI inflation of 2.8%, and practically at the Fed's 2% target. This suggests investors believe tariff shocks will pass, the Fed will keep policy sufficiently tight to get inflation down, or growth will be weak. Or some combination of all three. TENUOUS LINK Given that consumer expectations, particularly over the shorter one-year and three-year horizons, are more volatile than market-based measures, how should policymakers make sense of these conflicting signals? A Cleveland Fed paper from October 2021 suggests they should be taken with a grain of salt. It found that the predictive relationship of a range of inflation expectation gauges was hit and miss. And much more miss than hit. Researchers found that consumers are particularly bad at predicting inflation. Again, this may be no real surprise given that people without a financial background often struggle to distinguish between the price level and the rate of price increases. Though, for what it's worth, the Cleveland Fed researchers found that financial markets' predictive power isn't that much better. Another 2021 paper by Fed staffer Jeremy Rudd went further, warning that the relationship between expected and actual inflation "has no compelling theoretical or empirical basis and could potentially result in serious policy errors." That's a troubling conclusion given the importance policymakers put on keeping inflation expectations anchored. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell doesn't seem worried. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday after Fed officials cut their GDP growth projections but raised the inflation outlook, he insisted that long-term expectations remain well-contained even if short-term ones are rising. The recent University of Michigan survey was an "outlier", but will still be factored into policymakers' thinking along with all the other indicators they look at. "We monitor inflation expectations very, very carefully, every source we can find. We do not take anything for granted," Powell said, adding that anchored inflation expectations are at "the very heart of our framework." (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) (By Jamie McGeever;)
