The YouTuber’s cinematic debut defies low expectations. When all the lights go out in the universe, only a moon engulfed by ...

Mark has been making content for YouTube for over a decade. He was one of the early pioneers of “Let’s Play” videos—where he plays video games and comments on them for his fans. In his time on YouTube ...

In its second weekend, Iron Lung brought in an addition $6.2 million from 2,930 theaters across the US, Variety reported. The movie cost an estimated $3 million to make, and with a worldwide haul of ...

By Luke Thomas, February 10, 2026 Very early on in “Iron Lung,” a down-on-his-luck Simon, welded into a scrappy SM-15 submersible engulfed in an ocean of blood, asks an intercom what exactly he’s ...

Nothing made me happier when I was 14 than starting off a YouTube video hearing “Hello everybody, my name’s Markiplier” followed by a video full of narration, rage quitting and belly laughs. Now, ...

Game designer David Szymanski and game streamer Mark Fischbach, aka Markiplier, know who their real audience is.

While 'Iron Lung' could use a trim, director Mark Fischbach impresses with his blood-soaked, atmospheric feature horror debut ...

Directed by, written, and starring YouTube personality Mark Fischbach, the horror game adaptation Iron Lung is a future cult ...

Mark Fischbach – aka Markiplier – makes his feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the indie video game. Read the Empire review.

Creative pioneer Markiplier is disrupting the film industry with his debut feature film 'Iron Lung.' Read our cover story ...

Sometimes the most exciting movie stories don’t come out of Hollywood boardrooms. They come from creators betting on ...

The creator explains self-distribution, rural theaters, and why he’d rather build a repeatable model than chase studio scale.