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Back in 2017, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 was released, now a sequel is coming to the small screen with a live-action series titled “Blade Runner 2099” from Amazon. Deadline is reporting that Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 film, is executive producing along with Silka Luisa (“Shining Girls”) who is also writing the series. Deadline states, “The project, which would mark the first Blade Runner live-action series, is in priority development at Amazon Studios, which is fast-tracking scripts and eyeing potential production dates. Staffing is currently underway for writers to join a room. Scott may direct if the series moves forward, sources said.” In Scott’s original movie, starring Harrison Ford, “A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.” Harrison Ford returned for Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 and stars along with Ryan Gosling. In the film, “Young Blade Runner K’s discovery of a
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1091 Pictures has announced the acquisition of English-speaking territories for To The Moon, the directorial debut from actor-turned-director Scott Friend (The Dark End of the Street), from Yellow Veil Pictures. The poster has just been unveiled and it’s stunning. The film, which is written, directed, and starring Friend, premiered in 2021 at NIGHTSTREAM and was in selection at the 2020 US in Progress industry showcase organized by Wroclaw’s American Film Festival, which later hosted the film’s international premiere. To The Moon follows Dennis and Mia, a young couple who find their weekend retreat becomes a hallucinatory nightmare when Dennis’ estranged brother Roger arrives and begins to distort their senses. Friend and Madeleine Morgenweck star as the young couple at the center of the film. Friend can notably be seen in Dan Sallitt’s Gotham Independent Film award-winning feature Fourteen and the two appeared together in Kevin Tran’s acclaimed indie mystery thriller The Dark End of the Street. Will Brill, best known
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Oscar® winner Jordan Peele, who helped redefine modern horror with Get Out and then Us, is back with a new tale of terror, the horror epic, Nope, whose official trailer has finally just premiered! The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja, “The Walking Dead”) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bears witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.” Aliens? Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, “Westworld”) and Brandon Perea (“The OA,” American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. Nope will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide in theaters on July 22, 2022.
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From directors, Michael S Rodriguez, Montgomery Dodson, and Rick Vasquez comes The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2, set to debut this March. The new trailer is here and takes to a penitentiary where a man on death row wants to hear a scary story. Mike Ferguson (Amityville Uprising/ Death Squad) stars alongside Mel Novak, Maria Olsen, Donna Hamblin, Helene Udy, and Timothy Patrick Quill. In the film, “Double the tales and double the fright as Horror Show returns with tales to keep you up at night; “Killer” Callahan sits on death row wishing to escape when a trustee offers him some escapism through a book filled with disturbing stories.” The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2 is out on March 4, 2022, from Midnight Releasing.
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“Gotham” star Ben McKenzie (pictured) and Beyond Skyline’s Bojana Novakovic are set to star in the upcoming J-horror film Bloat, Variety reports. “Bloat stars McKenzie as a military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife (Novakovic) is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.” Written and directed by Pablo Absento, Bloat is produced by Bazelevs’ Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching, Profile) and is co-production of Pulsar Content, which recently released the fantastic aquatic horror The Deep House. McKenzie and Absent are producing alongside Bekmambetov, Anna Shalashina from Bazelevs, Maria Zatulovskaya, Gilles Sousa, and Marie Garrett of Pulsar Content, Hiroko Oda from flag Co., Ltd, and Dzhanik Fayziev from Okko. The Fantasia Film Festival’s artistic directors Mitch Davis and Aleksandr Fomin are serving as associate producers. Filming has already begun for Bloat in New York and will continue
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“Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus is teaming up with the Jim Henson Co. for a new live-action fantasy series. Variety reports that the project is still in early development and is “creating an entirely new universe of characters by teaming up with Brian and Wendy Froud (“The Dark Crystal”) for a project in the works for Henson. The primetime adventure series, intended for a family audience, will feature an entirely new universe of creatures created by the Frouds.” “Norman Reedus, the Frouds, and the Jim Henson Company coming together to create a show is the mashup of my dreams,” Halle Stanford, president of the TV at The Jim Henson Company said in a statement. “Norman is an artist, and when I suggested to him, what if we create a series with the Frounds together that explores his love of magical creatures, he was so excited.” “They are masters in the fantasy world-building space. I mean, a show about goblins, trolls,
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Keke Palmer (“Scream” series) stars in Alice, a post-Civil Rights tale of modern empowerment inspired by true events, directed by Van Linden. In the thriller, “Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation.” Palmer is also set to star in Jordan Peele’s upcoming mysterious film Nope and will lend her voice to the new animated spin-off of “Big Mouth”, titled “Human Resources.” Vertical Entertainment is set to release Alice on March 18, 2022.
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Principle photography has now officially wrapped in the Dominican Republic on the survival thriller The Black Demon, starring Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) who is featured in the first image from the film (below). Directed by Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo), the film is based on a Mexican legend. While on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig where the sins of his past have put him and all he holds dear in the crosshairs of a sinister force. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”), and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario), also star in The Black Demon, written by Boise Esquerra (Austin Film Festival nominated “Blackwater”). Producers include Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Silk Mass’ Jon Silk, alongside R.U. and Robot’s Petr Jákl with Mucho Mas’ Phillip Braun, Simon Wise, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero,
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Indie game developer Pet Project Games is getting a major boost with their newly formed partnership with legendary game publisher 3D Realms to get their latest project out later this year, first-person sci-fi horror shooter RIPOUT. RIPOUT takes players to the year 2084 as one of Humanity’s lone survivors. Earth developed a bio-weapon to fight off an alien invasion, but in typical sci-fi horror fashion…it turned against us. Now surrounded by mutated creatures once human, you must fight for survival with your living weapon. RIPOUT will feature procedurally generated levels with a variety of objectives, hoards of enemies who can configure their bodies requiring you to exploit their weaknesses, customizable weapon loadouts and character classes, 10 to 20 minute long missions, scalable difficulty (the more players, the harder the gameplay), single-player or online co-op with up to four players. RIPOUT is expected to be released later in 2022 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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Nominated for best picture, Gullermo del Toro‘s beautifully twisted film Nightmare Alley is getting a home release this March after premiering on HBO Max and Hulu earlier this month. Starring Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara, the suspenseful psychological thriller has been nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Picture, 8 Critics’ Choice Awards, a Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett, and BAFTA, SDSA, MPSE, ADG, CDG, VES, and WGA Awards. In Nightmare Alley, “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might
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Back in 2017, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 was released, now a sequel is coming to the small screen with a live-action series titled “Blade Runner 2099” from Amazon. Deadline is reporting that Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 film, is executive producing along with Silka Luisa (“Shining Girls”) who is also writing the series. Deadline states, “The project, which would mark the first Blade Runner live-action series, is in priority development at Amazon Studios, which is fast-tracking scripts and eyeing potential production dates. Staffing is currently underway for writers to join a room. Scott may direct if the series moves forward, sources said.” In Scott’s original movie, starring Harrison Ford, “A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.” Harrison Ford returned for Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 and stars along with Ryan Gosling. In the film, “Young Blade Runner K’s discovery of a
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1091 Pictures has announced the acquisition of English-speaking territories for To The Moon, the directorial debut from actor-turned-director Scott Friend (The Dark End of the Street), from Yellow Veil Pictures. The poster has just been unveiled and it’s stunning. The film, which is written, directed, and starring Friend, premiered in 2021 at NIGHTSTREAM and was in selection at the 2020 US in Progress industry showcase organized by Wroclaw’s American Film Festival, which later hosted the film’s international premiere. To The Moon follows Dennis and Mia, a young couple who find their weekend retreat becomes a hallucinatory nightmare when Dennis’ estranged brother Roger arrives and begins to distort their senses. Friend and Madeleine Morgenweck star as the young couple at the center of the film. Friend can notably be seen in Dan Sallitt’s Gotham Independent Film award-winning feature Fourteen and the two appeared together in Kevin Tran’s acclaimed indie mystery thriller The Dark End of the Street. Will Brill, best known
Continue reading →
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Oscar® winner Jordan Peele, who helped redefine modern horror with Get Out and then Us, is back with a new tale of terror, the horror epic, Nope, whose official trailer has finally just premiered! The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja, “The Walking Dead”) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bears witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.” Aliens? Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, “Westworld”) and Brandon Perea (“The OA,” American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. Nope will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide in theaters on July 22, 2022.
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From directors, Michael S Rodriguez, Montgomery Dodson, and Rick Vasquez comes The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2, set to debut this March. The new trailer is here and takes to a penitentiary where a man on death row wants to hear a scary story. Mike Ferguson (Amityville Uprising/ Death Squad) stars alongside Mel Novak, Maria Olsen, Donna Hamblin, Helene Udy, and Timothy Patrick Quill. In the film, “Double the tales and double the fright as Horror Show returns with tales to keep you up at night; “Killer” Callahan sits on death row wishing to escape when a trustee offers him some escapism through a book filled with disturbing stories.” The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2 is out on March 4, 2022, from Midnight Releasing.
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“Gotham” star Ben McKenzie (pictured) and Beyond Skyline’s Bojana Novakovic are set to star in the upcoming J-horror film Bloat, Variety reports. “Bloat stars McKenzie as a military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife (Novakovic) is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.” Written and directed by Pablo Absento, Bloat is produced by Bazelevs’ Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching, Profile) and is co-production of Pulsar Content, which recently released the fantastic aquatic horror The Deep House. McKenzie and Absent are producing alongside Bekmambetov, Anna Shalashina from Bazelevs, Maria Zatulovskaya, Gilles Sousa, and Marie Garrett of Pulsar Content, Hiroko Oda from flag Co., Ltd, and Dzhanik Fayziev from Okko. The Fantasia Film Festival’s artistic directors Mitch Davis and Aleksandr Fomin are serving as associate producers. Filming has already begun for Bloat in New York and will continue
Continue reading →
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“Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus is teaming up with the Jim Henson Co. for a new live-action fantasy series. Variety reports that the project is still in early development and is “creating an entirely new universe of characters by teaming up with Brian and Wendy Froud (“The Dark Crystal”) for a project in the works for Henson. The primetime adventure series, intended for a family audience, will feature an entirely new universe of creatures created by the Frouds.” “Norman Reedus, the Frouds, and the Jim Henson Company coming together to create a show is the mashup of my dreams,” Halle Stanford, president of the TV at The Jim Henson Company said in a statement. “Norman is an artist, and when I suggested to him, what if we create a series with the Frounds together that explores his love of magical creatures, he was so excited.” “They are masters in the fantasy world-building space. I mean, a show about goblins, trolls,
Continue reading →
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Keke Palmer (“Scream” series) stars in Alice, a post-Civil Rights tale of modern empowerment inspired by true events, directed by Van Linden. In the thriller, “Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation.” Palmer is also set to star in Jordan Peele’s upcoming mysterious film Nope and will lend her voice to the new animated spin-off of “Big Mouth”, titled “Human Resources.” Vertical Entertainment is set to release Alice on March 18, 2022.
Continue reading →
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Principle photography has now officially wrapped in the Dominican Republic on the survival thriller The Black Demon, starring Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) who is featured in the first image from the film (below). Directed by Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo), the film is based on a Mexican legend. While on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig where the sins of his past have put him and all he holds dear in the crosshairs of a sinister force. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”), and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario), also star in The Black Demon, written by Boise Esquerra (Austin Film Festival nominated “Blackwater”). Producers include Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Silk Mass’ Jon Silk, alongside R.U. and Robot’s Petr Jákl with Mucho Mas’ Phillip Braun, Simon Wise, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero,
Continue reading →
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Indie game developer Pet Project Games is getting a major boost with their newly formed partnership with legendary game publisher 3D Realms to get their latest project out later this year, first-person sci-fi horror shooter RIPOUT. RIPOUT takes players to the year 2084 as one of Humanity’s lone survivors. Earth developed a bio-weapon to fight off an alien invasion, but in typical sci-fi horror fashion…it turned against us. Now surrounded by mutated creatures once human, you must fight for survival with your living weapon. RIPOUT will feature procedurally generated levels with a variety of objectives, hoards of enemies who can configure their bodies requiring you to exploit their weaknesses, customizable weapon loadouts and character classes, 10 to 20 minute long missions, scalable difficulty (the more players, the harder the gameplay), single-player or online co-op with up to four players. RIPOUT is expected to be released later in 2022 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Continue reading →
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Nominated for best picture, Gullermo del Toro‘s beautifully twisted film Nightmare Alley is getting a home release this March after premiering on HBO Max and Hulu earlier this month. Starring Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara, the suspenseful psychological thriller has been nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Picture, 8 Critics’ Choice Awards, a Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett, and BAFTA, SDSA, MPSE, ADG, CDG, VES, and WGA Awards. In Nightmare Alley, “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might
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