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While its title may be The Good Nurse, Netflix’s upcoming thriller is about someone who is anything but good. Set to premiere this October, the film is based on a real-life serial killer, Charles Cullen, and is an adaptation of Charles Graeber’s 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. The film is from BAFTA-nominated director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter, The Hunt) and Oscar-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917). It stars Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two) and Fantastic Beast’s Eddie Redmayne. In The Good Nurse, an infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients. In reality, Charles Cullen has been implicated in around 300 -yes, you read that right, 300 – deaths and earned himself the title of “Angel of Death.” Born in 1960, after leaving the Navy, the real Charles Cullen spent sixteen years killing while working as a nurse. He confessed to police that in 1988 he took his first victim
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AMC brings Anne Rice’s classic novel “Interview with the Vampire” to life on the small screen just in time for Halloween and the new trailer gives us a taste of what we can expect from the “modern retelling.” Rice’s novel was first released back in 1976 and tells the story of a two-century-year-old vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac who tells his life story to a reporter. It went on to spawn a series of books referred to as “The Vampire Chronicles.” The series centers on Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) in an epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). In 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat de Lioncourt’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. But Louis’s intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the
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CEX Publishing has now announced that The Silencers: The Definitive Edition is arriving at comic book shops and specialty stores Today! The critically-acclaimed, hard-boiled super-crime series that launched the careers of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies, Archer & Armstrong) and artist Steve Ellis (Only Living Boy, High Moon) is back! This time with never-before-seen story pages and an all-new introduction by fan-favorite writer Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, Nightwing)! “THE SILENCERS, led by the legendary assassin Cardinal, are the most feared super-powered mob enforcers in the multiverse. But when they’re betrayed by one of their own, they have to become independent operators–and uncover a threat not just to the balance of power among the Five Families, but to the whole world itself.” This is the definitive edition of the cult classic you won’t want to miss! It lands in stores today, Wednesday, September 7th, 2022! Find a store near you here. Check out a preview below.
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“Walking Dead ” star Samantha Morton is set to lead Paramount+’s upcoming series “Burning Girls” alongside “Bridgerton” star Ruby Stokes, Deadline reports. The show is from Marcella producer Buccaneer Media and is an adaptation of the novel by C.J. Tudor. It has now entered production and follows a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history. “Morton will play Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church and who bears the onus of her husband’s death. Stokes is her daughter Flo, a teenager who marches to the beat of her own drum. Both arrive in Chapel Croft in the hope of a fresh start, however, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets.” Conrad Khan (Peaky Blinders), Rupert Graves (Sherlock, Emma), Stranger Things star Elodie Grace Orkin, Janie Dee, David Dawson (The Last Kingdom), Paul Bradley (EastEnders), Jane Lapotaire (The Crown, Marie Curie), Jack Roth (Bohemian Rhapsody), Mollie Holder (Sanditon), Safia Oakley-Green
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Production has now officially wrapped on Peacock’s upcoming live-action series adaptation of the “Twisted Metal” gaming franchise. Writer and executive producer Michael Jonathan Smith shared the news on social media (below). Peacock has yet to announce the premiere date of season one of “Twisted Metal,” which stars Neve Campbell, Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, Samoa Joe (who will be playing Sweet Tooth) with funny man Will Arnett voicing Sweet Tooth. Anthony Mackie (Captain America franchise) stars as John Doe in the series about a “motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.” Doe is a smart-ass milkman who talks as fast as he drives. “Twisted Metal” is
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Since its launch in early August 2022, The Mortuary Assistant has become an internet phenomenon — achieving a top 10 streamed games spot on Twitch, becoming a Top Seller on Steam, and taking gaming TikTok by storm. It has been played by top gaming YouTubers such as Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, garnering over tens of millions of views. So it’s not a huge surprise that it’s being adapted for a feature film. The feature film adaptation will be written and directed by Jeremiah Kipp, whose credits include Slapface, Draw Up and Stare, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, the Chinese-American co-production Broken Badges, the HP Lovecraft inspired Black Wake (writer/director) and The Sadist (director) starring Tom Savini. He is currently in post productionon his latest feature, The Boo Hag, filmed earlier this year in Savannah, Georgia. The game tasks players with performing routine mortician tasks while enduring increasingly bizarre and horrifying encounters with demonic entities. To survive, players must identify the
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Comedy icons Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are headed to Zombie Town, the upcoming movie based on R.L. Steins’ book of the same name. The two haven’t acted in a film together in over 30 years, with the last being Nothing But Trouble. Chase and Aykroyd also starred together in Spies Like Us, Caddyshack 2, and more. “The pair is joining the ensemble cast led by young actors Marlon Kazadi and Madi Monroe. The story follows Mike (Kazadi), a projectionist at his local movie theater in Carverville. He’s terrified of zombie movies, but his best friend and crush, Amy (Monroe), just loves them. So when the new zombie flick from Amy’s favorite director is set to premiere on Halloween at his cinema, Mike decides to show her the film early. The two find out the reel is cursed, transforming everyone in town, except for them, into the undead.” THR reports. Peter Lepeniotis is in the director’s chair for the movie
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Luca Guadagnino‘s (Suspiria) next horror film, Bones and All, stars Timothée Chalamet (Dune) and Taylor Russell (Escape Room) in what is being described as a cannibal horror love story. Reportedly the film centers on “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” David Kajganich, who also wrote Guadagnino’s Suspiria, penned the script based on the novel penned by Camille DeAngelis. Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese, and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast. Bones and All has been acquired by MGM, and will debut in theaters on November 23, 2022.
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AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,
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What started out as a fun newsletter between friends in the 80s, became a magazine in the 1990s. Now, Weird NJ is being adapted for TV series. The live-action horror-comedy series is from Vertigo, “Little Demon” co-creator Kieran Valla, and filmmaker David Kaufmann, who happens to be an NJ native. First published in 1993, Weird NJ, which has just released its 58th issue, is a beloved travel guide to places you won’t find on any map and features locations and stories of weird or unique spots, folklore, and facts. The series will center on an estranged family that is forced by destiny to protect New Jersey from evil, they must temper their resentments and battle a supernatural adversary, who plans to destroy the Garden State and then the world. “Vertigo Entertainment brought the project to the studio alongside a unique story developed by Valla and Kaufmann. The show will utilize the true-life mythology and legends of Weird NJ paired with
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While its title may be The Good Nurse, Netflix’s upcoming thriller is about someone who is anything but good. Set to premiere this October, the film is based on a real-life serial killer, Charles Cullen, and is an adaptation of Charles Graeber’s 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. The film is from BAFTA-nominated director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter, The Hunt) and Oscar-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917). It stars Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two) and Fantastic Beast’s Eddie Redmayne. In The Good Nurse, an infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients. In reality, Charles Cullen has been implicated in around 300 -yes, you read that right, 300 – deaths and earned himself the title of “Angel of Death.” Born in 1960, after leaving the Navy, the real Charles Cullen spent sixteen years killing while working as a nurse. He confessed to police that in 1988 he took his first victim
Continue reading →
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AMC brings Anne Rice’s classic novel “Interview with the Vampire” to life on the small screen just in time for Halloween and the new trailer gives us a taste of what we can expect from the “modern retelling.” Rice’s novel was first released back in 1976 and tells the story of a two-century-year-old vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac who tells his life story to a reporter. It went on to spawn a series of books referred to as “The Vampire Chronicles.” The series centers on Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) in an epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). In 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat de Lioncourt’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. But Louis’s intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the
Continue reading →
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CEX Publishing has now announced that The Silencers: The Definitive Edition is arriving at comic book shops and specialty stores Today! The critically-acclaimed, hard-boiled super-crime series that launched the careers of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies, Archer & Armstrong) and artist Steve Ellis (Only Living Boy, High Moon) is back! This time with never-before-seen story pages and an all-new introduction by fan-favorite writer Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, Nightwing)! “THE SILENCERS, led by the legendary assassin Cardinal, are the most feared super-powered mob enforcers in the multiverse. But when they’re betrayed by one of their own, they have to become independent operators–and uncover a threat not just to the balance of power among the Five Families, but to the whole world itself.” This is the definitive edition of the cult classic you won’t want to miss! It lands in stores today, Wednesday, September 7th, 2022! Find a store near you here. Check out a preview below.
Continue reading →
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“Walking Dead ” star Samantha Morton is set to lead Paramount+’s upcoming series “Burning Girls” alongside “Bridgerton” star Ruby Stokes, Deadline reports. The show is from Marcella producer Buccaneer Media and is an adaptation of the novel by C.J. Tudor. It has now entered production and follows a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history. “Morton will play Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church and who bears the onus of her husband’s death. Stokes is her daughter Flo, a teenager who marches to the beat of her own drum. Both arrive in Chapel Croft in the hope of a fresh start, however, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets.” Conrad Khan (Peaky Blinders), Rupert Graves (Sherlock, Emma), Stranger Things star Elodie Grace Orkin, Janie Dee, David Dawson (The Last Kingdom), Paul Bradley (EastEnders), Jane Lapotaire (The Crown, Marie Curie), Jack Roth (Bohemian Rhapsody), Mollie Holder (Sanditon), Safia Oakley-Green
Continue reading →
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Production has now officially wrapped on Peacock’s upcoming live-action series adaptation of the “Twisted Metal” gaming franchise. Writer and executive producer Michael Jonathan Smith shared the news on social media (below). Peacock has yet to announce the premiere date of season one of “Twisted Metal,” which stars Neve Campbell, Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, Samoa Joe (who will be playing Sweet Tooth) with funny man Will Arnett voicing Sweet Tooth. Anthony Mackie (Captain America franchise) stars as John Doe in the series about a “motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.” Doe is a smart-ass milkman who talks as fast as he drives. “Twisted Metal” is
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Since its launch in early August 2022, The Mortuary Assistant has become an internet phenomenon — achieving a top 10 streamed games spot on Twitch, becoming a Top Seller on Steam, and taking gaming TikTok by storm. It has been played by top gaming YouTubers such as Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, garnering over tens of millions of views. So it’s not a huge surprise that it’s being adapted for a feature film. The feature film adaptation will be written and directed by Jeremiah Kipp, whose credits include Slapface, Draw Up and Stare, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, the Chinese-American co-production Broken Badges, the HP Lovecraft inspired Black Wake (writer/director) and The Sadist (director) starring Tom Savini. He is currently in post productionon his latest feature, The Boo Hag, filmed earlier this year in Savannah, Georgia. The game tasks players with performing routine mortician tasks while enduring increasingly bizarre and horrifying encounters with demonic entities. To survive, players must identify the
Continue reading →
AdaptationMoviesNews
Comedy icons Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are headed to Zombie Town, the upcoming movie based on R.L. Steins’ book of the same name. The two haven’t acted in a film together in over 30 years, with the last being Nothing But Trouble. Chase and Aykroyd also starred together in Spies Like Us, Caddyshack 2, and more. “The pair is joining the ensemble cast led by young actors Marlon Kazadi and Madi Monroe. The story follows Mike (Kazadi), a projectionist at his local movie theater in Carverville. He’s terrified of zombie movies, but his best friend and crush, Amy (Monroe), just loves them. So when the new zombie flick from Amy’s favorite director is set to premiere on Halloween at his cinema, Mike decides to show her the film early. The two find out the reel is cursed, transforming everyone in town, except for them, into the undead.” THR reports. Peter Lepeniotis is in the director’s chair for the movie
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Luca Guadagnino‘s (Suspiria) next horror film, Bones and All, stars Timothée Chalamet (Dune) and Taylor Russell (Escape Room) in what is being described as a cannibal horror love story. Reportedly the film centers on “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” David Kajganich, who also wrote Guadagnino’s Suspiria, penned the script based on the novel penned by Camille DeAngelis. Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese, and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast. Bones and All has been acquired by MGM, and will debut in theaters on November 23, 2022.
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AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,
Continue reading →
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What started out as a fun newsletter between friends in the 80s, became a magazine in the 1990s. Now, Weird NJ is being adapted for TV series. The live-action horror-comedy series is from Vertigo, “Little Demon” co-creator Kieran Valla, and filmmaker David Kaufmann, who happens to be an NJ native. First published in 1993, Weird NJ, which has just released its 58th issue, is a beloved travel guide to places you won’t find on any map and features locations and stories of weird or unique spots, folklore, and facts. The series will center on an estranged family that is forced by destiny to protect New Jersey from evil, they must temper their resentments and battle a supernatural adversary, who plans to destroy the Garden State and then the world. “Vertigo Entertainment brought the project to the studio alongside a unique story developed by Valla and Kaufmann. The show will utilize the true-life mythology and legends of Weird NJ paired with
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