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Author Thomas Harris, the man who brought us the novel The Silence of the Lambs, is back with Cari Mora, his first novel in thirteen years. In the novel, Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, a caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before. Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other
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Fans of “Lucifer” (the show, not the entity) were heartbroken last year when they found out that Fox had axed the supernatural series. But thanks to their dedication and determination, Netflix payed attention and swooped in and saved the show from certain death. The question is, when will season 4 premiere? And we can answer that, sort of. The fourth season of “Lucifer” is set to premiere on the streaming giant this Spring. The exact day is still a mystery, but at least we have a time frame. Not only is the series based on the DC comic book character, but it is also a crime series where Lucifer (Tom Ellis) and his police partner (Lauren German) solve crimes, all why Lucifer lives a playboy life and runs his night club. Lucifer is not the only supernatural character on the series, there’s his brother Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside) who is an angel and there’s Mazikeen (Lesley-Ann Brandt) a demon. Rachel Harris,
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This January and February the Travel Channel has a ton of intriguing, pulse-pounding new series and premieres in store for viewers including the return of “Kindred Spirits“; Pat Spain searches for Ireland’s stolen Crown Jewels on a new episode of “Legend Hunter” and Don Wildman investigates Watergate on a “Mysteries at the Museum” Special. Take a look at what’s headed your way. NEW EPISODES LOST GOLD Travel Channel’s new series, “Lost Gold,” follows brothers Josh and Jesse Feldman as they seek out America’s most fabled missing treasures. With reverence for the past and a taste for adventure, the brothers track legends and clues across the vast American Frontier in search of unfound riches. To unravel these more than 100-year-old mysteries, Josh and Jesse put themselves in the shoes of the people of the era: they search for old maps, diaries, and records, as well as connect with locals who have intimate knowledge of the area. With a family history steeped
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The new trailer for Netflix’s horror film Velvet Buzzsaw aims to make us fear art. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo the film is from Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy. This haunting thriller centers on a quirky but stern art critic (Gyllenhaal) who stumbles across a set of incredible paintings that captivate the art world. The artist issues a demand that paintings be destroyed after his death, but his warning goes unheeded. The paintings soon begin haunting and killing those who get too close. Toni Collette, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen, and John Malkovich also star. Velvet Buzzsaw is set to premiere at Sundance later this month followed by its debut on Netflix on February 1, 2019.
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A lot of fans were disappointed when “The Vampire Diaries” was canceled, so the news we have today should make them extremely excited. We’ve got an update on “Legacies“, the spin-off to “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals”. The first images and plot details are here. The new series will center on Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell), the vampire-witch-werewolf hybrid daughter of Hayley Marshall-Kenner and Klaus Mikaelson. The first season will explore her time at a school for the supernatural called The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. Several of “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals” cast will be appearing in the series including Aria Shahghasemi and Matt Davis. Kaylee Bryant, Jenny Boyd, Quincy Fouse, Peyton ‘Alex’ Smith, Archie Grayson, Karen David, and Demetrius Bridges also star. Hopefully, the premiere date will be announced soon. Take a look at the first images from “Legacies“.
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After five years fans are finally getting a sequel to Marc Forster’s World War Z, based on Max Brooks’ novel of the same name. Fight Club director David Fincher’s World War Z 2 is now going into production early. In fact, it’s set to begin in just a couple of weeks and will film in Spain and Thailand with production expected to stretch into 2020. Brad Pitt is returning to reprise his role as Gerry Lane, former United Nations employee who discovered the “zombie camouflage” in the first film after investigating the origin of the zombie outbreak.
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A new image has landed from James Gunn-produced superhero-horror film Brightburn giving us a closer look at the young alien who seems to be a mashup of Superman and a horror villain. Directed by David Yarovesky (The Hive), Brightburn stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner. Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn penned the script for the film produced by Gunn and Kenneth Huang. Executive producers include Mark Gunn, Brian Gunn, Dan Clifton, Simon Hatt, and Nic Crawley. Brightburn arrives in theaters on May 24, 2019.
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Amblin has snatched up the rights to The White Room, which is being described as Don’t Breathe meets Hereditary. Deadline is reporting that the film is written by Bryce McGuire (Unfollowed) with Rod Blackhurst (Tribeca Fest’s winner Here Alone, Amanda Knox) in the director’s chair. The duo has teamed up before on New Line’s Night Swim. A female-driven thriller, The White Room unfolds over one night in the remote Adirondack Mountains when a mysterious young woman goes missing. It’s up to a hardened local widow to uncover the truth behind the disappearance which may have been caused by something inhuman. Evan Hayes of The Picture Company will co-produce with Alex Heineman as well as Andrew Rona. Noah Lang will produce with ACE founder Justin Barocas executive producing.
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Picture it, it’s 17th century in Lithuania, there is an outbreak of a deadly plague and foreign invaders. A woman desperate to protect her village conjures an ancient entity. The Paz brothers, who brought us the supernatural film JeruZalem (review), have announced the February release of their latest film The Golem. The film centers on, Hanna (Hani Furstenberg), the wife of a rabbi (Ishai Golen), Hanna (Hani Furstenberg). Hanna conjures a dangerous entity to protect her Jewish community from foreign invaders. But the creature is far more dangerous than she knows. During our interview with Yoav Paz, he went into detail about the film as well explaining the history of the golem. He also revealed that the ritual in the film is very real. It features a dark Jewish mythology about a creature. The legends say that when Jews were in danger a Rabi could make a Golem out of clay and mud to protect them. Golems were the basis
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This February Horror director Michael David Pate’s (Gefällt mir, Potato Salad) social media horror flick Haunted Hospital: Heilstätten takes along for an investigation into the haunted past of a famous hospital. The film tells the story of a group of vloggers who travel to Berlin to film a viral social media challenge by illegally accessing the abandoned, derelict military hospital Beelitz Heilstätten that once housed a recuperating Adolph Hitler, and documenting their experience spending the night in the ominous surgery block in the hopes that the video will go viral. They soon experience many strange events which terrorize them both physically and mentally. Nilam Farooq (“SOKO Leipzig”), Farina Flebbe (Alone in Berlin), Sonja Gerhardt (Jack the Ripper), Maxine Kazis, Emilio Sakraya (4 Blocks), and Tim Oliver Schultz (“The Red Band Society”) star in this found footage film. Synopsis: A group of vloggers illegally access a condemned asylum for a “Will you Survive the Night” viral social media challenge. Equipped with
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Author Thomas Harris, the man who brought us the novel The Silence of the Lambs, is back with Cari Mora, his first novel in thirteen years. In the novel, Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, a caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before. Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other
Continue reading →
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Fans of “Lucifer” (the show, not the entity) were heartbroken last year when they found out that Fox had axed the supernatural series. But thanks to their dedication and determination, Netflix payed attention and swooped in and saved the show from certain death. The question is, when will season 4 premiere? And we can answer that, sort of. The fourth season of “Lucifer” is set to premiere on the streaming giant this Spring. The exact day is still a mystery, but at least we have a time frame. Not only is the series based on the DC comic book character, but it is also a crime series where Lucifer (Tom Ellis) and his police partner (Lauren German) solve crimes, all why Lucifer lives a playboy life and runs his night club. Lucifer is not the only supernatural character on the series, there’s his brother Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside) who is an angel and there’s Mazikeen (Lesley-Ann Brandt) a demon. Rachel Harris,
Continue reading →
NewsStreaming TVTravel ChannelTrue Story
This January and February the Travel Channel has a ton of intriguing, pulse-pounding new series and premieres in store for viewers including the return of “Kindred Spirits“; Pat Spain searches for Ireland’s stolen Crown Jewels on a new episode of “Legend Hunter” and Don Wildman investigates Watergate on a “Mysteries at the Museum” Special. Take a look at what’s headed your way. NEW EPISODES LOST GOLD Travel Channel’s new series, “Lost Gold,” follows brothers Josh and Jesse Feldman as they seek out America’s most fabled missing treasures. With reverence for the past and a taste for adventure, the brothers track legends and clues across the vast American Frontier in search of unfound riches. To unravel these more than 100-year-old mysteries, Josh and Jesse put themselves in the shoes of the people of the era: they search for old maps, diaries, and records, as well as connect with locals who have intimate knowledge of the area. With a family history steeped
Continue reading →
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The new trailer for Netflix’s horror film Velvet Buzzsaw aims to make us fear art. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo the film is from Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy. This haunting thriller centers on a quirky but stern art critic (Gyllenhaal) who stumbles across a set of incredible paintings that captivate the art world. The artist issues a demand that paintings be destroyed after his death, but his warning goes unheeded. The paintings soon begin haunting and killing those who get too close. Toni Collette, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen, and John Malkovich also star. Velvet Buzzsaw is set to premiere at Sundance later this month followed by its debut on Netflix on February 1, 2019.
Continue reading →
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A lot of fans were disappointed when “The Vampire Diaries” was canceled, so the news we have today should make them extremely excited. We’ve got an update on “Legacies“, the spin-off to “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals”. The first images and plot details are here. The new series will center on Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell), the vampire-witch-werewolf hybrid daughter of Hayley Marshall-Kenner and Klaus Mikaelson. The first season will explore her time at a school for the supernatural called The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. Several of “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals” cast will be appearing in the series including Aria Shahghasemi and Matt Davis. Kaylee Bryant, Jenny Boyd, Quincy Fouse, Peyton ‘Alex’ Smith, Archie Grayson, Karen David, and Demetrius Bridges also star. Hopefully, the premiere date will be announced soon. Take a look at the first images from “Legacies“.
Continue reading →
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After five years fans are finally getting a sequel to Marc Forster’s World War Z, based on Max Brooks’ novel of the same name. Fight Club director David Fincher’s World War Z 2 is now going into production early. In fact, it’s set to begin in just a couple of weeks and will film in Spain and Thailand with production expected to stretch into 2020. Brad Pitt is returning to reprise his role as Gerry Lane, former United Nations employee who discovered the “zombie camouflage” in the first film after investigating the origin of the zombie outbreak.
Continue reading →
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A new image has landed from James Gunn-produced superhero-horror film Brightburn giving us a closer look at the young alien who seems to be a mashup of Superman and a horror villain. Directed by David Yarovesky (The Hive), Brightburn stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner. Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn penned the script for the film produced by Gunn and Kenneth Huang. Executive producers include Mark Gunn, Brian Gunn, Dan Clifton, Simon Hatt, and Nic Crawley. Brightburn arrives in theaters on May 24, 2019.
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Amblin has snatched up the rights to The White Room, which is being described as Don’t Breathe meets Hereditary. Deadline is reporting that the film is written by Bryce McGuire (Unfollowed) with Rod Blackhurst (Tribeca Fest’s winner Here Alone, Amanda Knox) in the director’s chair. The duo has teamed up before on New Line’s Night Swim. A female-driven thriller, The White Room unfolds over one night in the remote Adirondack Mountains when a mysterious young woman goes missing. It’s up to a hardened local widow to uncover the truth behind the disappearance which may have been caused by something inhuman. Evan Hayes of The Picture Company will co-produce with Alex Heineman as well as Andrew Rona. Noah Lang will produce with ACE founder Justin Barocas executive producing.
Continue reading →
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Picture it, it’s 17th century in Lithuania, there is an outbreak of a deadly plague and foreign invaders. A woman desperate to protect her village conjures an ancient entity. The Paz brothers, who brought us the supernatural film JeruZalem (review), have announced the February release of their latest film The Golem. The film centers on, Hanna (Hani Furstenberg), the wife of a rabbi (Ishai Golen), Hanna (Hani Furstenberg). Hanna conjures a dangerous entity to protect her Jewish community from foreign invaders. But the creature is far more dangerous than she knows. During our interview with Yoav Paz, he went into detail about the film as well explaining the history of the golem. He also revealed that the ritual in the film is very real. It features a dark Jewish mythology about a creature. The legends say that when Jews were in danger a Rabi could make a Golem out of clay and mud to protect them. Golems were the basis
Continue reading →
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This February Horror director Michael David Pate’s (Gefällt mir, Potato Salad) social media horror flick Haunted Hospital: Heilstätten takes along for an investigation into the haunted past of a famous hospital. The film tells the story of a group of vloggers who travel to Berlin to film a viral social media challenge by illegally accessing the abandoned, derelict military hospital Beelitz Heilstätten that once housed a recuperating Adolph Hitler, and documenting their experience spending the night in the ominous surgery block in the hopes that the video will go viral. They soon experience many strange events which terrorize them both physically and mentally. Nilam Farooq (“SOKO Leipzig”), Farina Flebbe (Alone in Berlin), Sonja Gerhardt (Jack the Ripper), Maxine Kazis, Emilio Sakraya (4 Blocks), and Tim Oliver Schultz (“The Red Band Society”) star in this found footage film. Synopsis: A group of vloggers illegally access a condemned asylum for a “Will you Survive the Night” viral social media challenge. Equipped with
Continue reading →
