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Tolkien fans, pop culture fans, and football fans alike paused during the third quarter of Super Bowl LVI on Sunday when Amazon transported them on a long-awaited journey back into Middle-earth, with the official trailer for the series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” The stunning 60-second TV spot offered Super Bowl viewers their first-ever glimpses of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fabled Second Age, unveiling a brand-new legend from Amazon Studios and showrunners J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay. Featuring several characters from the ensemble cast—such as Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs—and Arda-spanning environments, the trailer takes viewers on an action-packed journey filled with wonder and excitement in true cinematic splendor. Early this year, Prime Video forged the show’s title treatment in molten metal, reaching an estimated 1 billion impressions worldwide within the first 24 hours. Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled
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In the first trailer for the new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller Firestarter, from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is
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Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games have announced the release date for Evil Dead: The Game along with additional information about Groovy pre-order content. Pre-ordering any version of Evil Dead: The Game grants two bonus Ash outfits: the Ash Williams S-Mart Employee Outfit and the Ash Williams Gallant Knight Outfit. The Standard Edition of Evil Dead: The Game is now available for pre-order for $39.99, while the Deluxe Edition is available for $59.99 and includes Season Pass 1. Season Pass 1 includes four upcoming DLC packs at a discounted rate, with several exciting DLC releases to be announced. Evil Dead: The Game will be raising hell May 13th, 2022 on Epic Game Store, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and to Nintendo Switch later on. Pre-orders are live now for all platforms.
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The highly-anticipated English SimulDub™ release of “Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2” is nearly here, arriving next week! “Many years ago, humanity was forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that lurked outside their fortress. Only the heroic members of the Scout Regiment dared to stray behind the safety of the walls –but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive.” In the epic continuation of the worldwide anime phenomenon, starting with episode 76, the lines between friends and enemies become even more blurred. The War for Paradis explodes in Shiganshina and as battle rages on and the true intentions of the masterminds behind the current state of the world become clear… The series is based on one of the best-selling manga series of all time, having sold over 100 million volumes of the manga in print across the world, and is from the award-winning franchise created by Hajime
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Amazon Studios has ordered the genre series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit “Gimlet” podcast, with the show premiering exclusively on Prime Video. Featuring an eight-episode first season, the series is a contemporary spin on Sweeney Todd and will feature macabre tales of love, betrayal, and cannibalism. Justina Machado, star of The Purge: Anarchy and Final Destination 2, will lead the cast of the series that also includes Alejandro Hernandez (“Gotham”), K. Todd Freeman (Grosse Point Blank), and Kita Updike (The Misandrists). In “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” “Dolores Roach is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. Her is boyfriend missing, her family is long gone, Dolores reunites with an old stoner buddy, Luis, who gives her room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement under his dilapidated storefront, Empanada Loca, the only remnant of her
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2021 saw the premiere of Epix’s brilliant adaptation of Stephen King’s Jerusalem’s Lot, and the prequel to Salem’s Lot, “Chapelwaite,” which landed the second spot on our “Top 10 Shows of 2021” list. Today, we’ve learned that the dark, Gothic series will be returning for a second season, and we couldn’t be happier about it. I guess you could say “Chapelwaite” (review) is one vampire series that definitely doesn’t suck. Starring Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Emily Hampshire, the first season is set in the 1850s and follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations. Rebecca Morgan (Hampshire), an ambitious young woman who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke College and has returned home with an advance to
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Plot “A Lovecraftian horror tale inspired by Native American Myths and colonial times.” This is the description given for Ahmed Alameed’s horror novella Harvest Nights. When comparing to anything, immediate expectations are set and comparing to Lovecraft sets those expectations to lofty heights. With that said, Harvest Nights meets and surpasses those expectations. This unpredictable historical fiction is based in Native American Lore and woven into a gory, twisted, journey into unearthly and unnerving darkness. Based around the famous Comet of 1822, the cosmic event thins the veil between our world and the supernatural world releasing creatures who will do anything to eat. The plot is experienced and told through the young boy Chua (Snake), who teams with a group of people who will do anything to survive. Characters The characters in this story are built exceptionally well. Using both fictional and historical characters, it is a challenge to blend both fictional and historical information…Alameed does this seamlessly. Chua, as
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For a lot of people, their introduction to horror was R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps book series, which spawned the TV series that aired in the 90s and two films. Well, it’s back to introduce a new generation to the genre with a live-action revival series coming to Disney+. The ten episodes first season will center on five-high schoolers who accidentally set loose the forces of evil and have to team up to set things right. The series will pay homage to the books as well as focus on the relationships between all of the kids. Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman (director of the first film), will serve as both writers and executive producers on the show, with Stoller executive producing via Stoller Global Solutions. Letterman will also direct the first episode. Neal H. Moritz, who produced the two Goosebumps movies, and Pavan Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, and Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Entertainment
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A unique spin on the classic tale of “Alice in Wonderland”, the brutal game “American McGee’s Alice,” is getting a series adaptation” by Radar Pictures with David Hayter, the writer behind “Watchmen” and X-Men on onboard to pen the script According to The Hollywood Reporter, Radar and Hayter have partnered with Abandon Entertainment on the adaptation that is based on the 2000 game of the same name as well as its sequel, 2011’s “Alice: Madness Returns.” The games were created by James McGee and published by Electonic Arts. “The TV adaptation will begin after Alice returns from the trip to the Looking-Glass, her house is burnt down and her parents have died in the fire. Alice is the only survivor of the terrible accident. After repeated attempts at suicide, she gets locked up inside a mental institution and is slowly wasting away there before she is summoned to Wonderland again by the White Rabbit. But this time it’s a Wonderland
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Just a few days ago we reported that an adaptation of Stephen King‘s “Later” is being adapted for a new series. Now, news has come that another King adaptation is on its way, based on his short story The Boogeyman, which was featured in King’s collection The Night Shift. Sophie Thatcher, the breakout star from “Yellowjackets”, is set to star in the Hulu Original feature film from 20th Century Fox. Thatcher will star alongside Chris Messina (Birds of Prey). Rob Savage (Host) is in the director’s chair with 21 Laps’ Shawn Levine and Dan Cohen producing. Mark Heyman penned the last version of the script. The original story centers on a man who visits a psychiatrist after coming to believe that his children were murdered by an evil entity known as the Boogeyman. Thatcher will play “a teenage girl who is still reeling from the tragic death of her mother, who, along with her little brother, finds herself plagued by
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Tolkien fans, pop culture fans, and football fans alike paused during the third quarter of Super Bowl LVI on Sunday when Amazon transported them on a long-awaited journey back into Middle-earth, with the official trailer for the series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” The stunning 60-second TV spot offered Super Bowl viewers their first-ever glimpses of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fabled Second Age, unveiling a brand-new legend from Amazon Studios and showrunners J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay. Featuring several characters from the ensemble cast—such as Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs—and Arda-spanning environments, the trailer takes viewers on an action-packed journey filled with wonder and excitement in true cinematic splendor. Early this year, Prime Video forged the show’s title treatment in molten metal, reaching an estimated 1 billion impressions worldwide within the first 24 hours. Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled
Continue reading →
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In the first trailer for the new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller Firestarter, from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is
Continue reading →
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Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games have announced the release date for Evil Dead: The Game along with additional information about Groovy pre-order content. Pre-ordering any version of Evil Dead: The Game grants two bonus Ash outfits: the Ash Williams S-Mart Employee Outfit and the Ash Williams Gallant Knight Outfit. The Standard Edition of Evil Dead: The Game is now available for pre-order for $39.99, while the Deluxe Edition is available for $59.99 and includes Season Pass 1. Season Pass 1 includes four upcoming DLC packs at a discounted rate, with several exciting DLC releases to be announced. Evil Dead: The Game will be raising hell May 13th, 2022 on Epic Game Store, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and to Nintendo Switch later on. Pre-orders are live now for all platforms.
Continue reading →
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The highly-anticipated English SimulDub™ release of “Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2” is nearly here, arriving next week! “Many years ago, humanity was forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that lurked outside their fortress. Only the heroic members of the Scout Regiment dared to stray behind the safety of the walls –but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive.” In the epic continuation of the worldwide anime phenomenon, starting with episode 76, the lines between friends and enemies become even more blurred. The War for Paradis explodes in Shiganshina and as battle rages on and the true intentions of the masterminds behind the current state of the world become clear… The series is based on one of the best-selling manga series of all time, having sold over 100 million volumes of the manga in print across the world, and is from the award-winning franchise created by Hajime
Continue reading →
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Amazon Studios has ordered the genre series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit “Gimlet” podcast, with the show premiering exclusively on Prime Video. Featuring an eight-episode first season, the series is a contemporary spin on Sweeney Todd and will feature macabre tales of love, betrayal, and cannibalism. Justina Machado, star of The Purge: Anarchy and Final Destination 2, will lead the cast of the series that also includes Alejandro Hernandez (“Gotham”), K. Todd Freeman (Grosse Point Blank), and Kita Updike (The Misandrists). In “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” “Dolores Roach is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. Her is boyfriend missing, her family is long gone, Dolores reunites with an old stoner buddy, Luis, who gives her room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement under his dilapidated storefront, Empanada Loca, the only remnant of her
Continue reading →
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2021 saw the premiere of Epix’s brilliant adaptation of Stephen King’s Jerusalem’s Lot, and the prequel to Salem’s Lot, “Chapelwaite,” which landed the second spot on our “Top 10 Shows of 2021” list. Today, we’ve learned that the dark, Gothic series will be returning for a second season, and we couldn’t be happier about it. I guess you could say “Chapelwaite” (review) is one vampire series that definitely doesn’t suck. Starring Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Emily Hampshire, the first season is set in the 1850s and follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations. Rebecca Morgan (Hampshire), an ambitious young woman who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke College and has returned home with an advance to
Continue reading →
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Plot “A Lovecraftian horror tale inspired by Native American Myths and colonial times.” This is the description given for Ahmed Alameed’s horror novella Harvest Nights. When comparing to anything, immediate expectations are set and comparing to Lovecraft sets those expectations to lofty heights. With that said, Harvest Nights meets and surpasses those expectations. This unpredictable historical fiction is based in Native American Lore and woven into a gory, twisted, journey into unearthly and unnerving darkness. Based around the famous Comet of 1822, the cosmic event thins the veil between our world and the supernatural world releasing creatures who will do anything to eat. The plot is experienced and told through the young boy Chua (Snake), who teams with a group of people who will do anything to survive. Characters The characters in this story are built exceptionally well. Using both fictional and historical characters, it is a challenge to blend both fictional and historical information…Alameed does this seamlessly. Chua, as
Continue reading →
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For a lot of people, their introduction to horror was R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps book series, which spawned the TV series that aired in the 90s and two films. Well, it’s back to introduce a new generation to the genre with a live-action revival series coming to Disney+. The ten episodes first season will center on five-high schoolers who accidentally set loose the forces of evil and have to team up to set things right. The series will pay homage to the books as well as focus on the relationships between all of the kids. Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman (director of the first film), will serve as both writers and executive producers on the show, with Stoller executive producing via Stoller Global Solutions. Letterman will also direct the first episode. Neal H. Moritz, who produced the two Goosebumps movies, and Pavan Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, and Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Entertainment
Continue reading →
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A unique spin on the classic tale of “Alice in Wonderland”, the brutal game “American McGee’s Alice,” is getting a series adaptation” by Radar Pictures with David Hayter, the writer behind “Watchmen” and X-Men on onboard to pen the script According to The Hollywood Reporter, Radar and Hayter have partnered with Abandon Entertainment on the adaptation that is based on the 2000 game of the same name as well as its sequel, 2011’s “Alice: Madness Returns.” The games were created by James McGee and published by Electonic Arts. “The TV adaptation will begin after Alice returns from the trip to the Looking-Glass, her house is burnt down and her parents have died in the fire. Alice is the only survivor of the terrible accident. After repeated attempts at suicide, she gets locked up inside a mental institution and is slowly wasting away there before she is summoned to Wonderland again by the White Rabbit. But this time it’s a Wonderland
Continue reading →
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Just a few days ago we reported that an adaptation of Stephen King‘s “Later” is being adapted for a new series. Now, news has come that another King adaptation is on its way, based on his short story The Boogeyman, which was featured in King’s collection The Night Shift. Sophie Thatcher, the breakout star from “Yellowjackets”, is set to star in the Hulu Original feature film from 20th Century Fox. Thatcher will star alongside Chris Messina (Birds of Prey). Rob Savage (Host) is in the director’s chair with 21 Laps’ Shawn Levine and Dan Cohen producing. Mark Heyman penned the last version of the script. The original story centers on a man who visits a psychiatrist after coming to believe that his children were murdered by an evil entity known as the Boogeyman. Thatcher will play “a teenage girl who is still reeling from the tragic death of her mother, who, along with her little brother, finds herself plagued by
Continue reading →
