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On The Pill

SCI-FACTS! Joost and Schulman co-directed the third and fourth instalments of the Paranormal Activity franchise.

NO SUPERHEROES, ONLY SUPERPOWERS. That’s the mantra directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman adopted for their new Netflix feature Project Power. The crime thriller/action film’s premise involves a drug that grants its user extraordinary abilities – but only for five minutes. From that premise, Project Power could have spiralled into a metahuman free-for-all. Well, this isn’t that movie.

“That’s part of what attracted us to the project,” Joost tells

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