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Netflix has snagged the adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill‘s (King’s son) In the Tall Grass. With the continuing interest in King’s work and the multitude of adaptations of his writings headed our way, it’s no surprise that Netflix is on the bandwagon. But the giant streaming service is not new to King’s tales, they released the adaptation Gerald’s Game last year along with 1922. “Westworld” actor James Marsden is currently in negotiations to star in the film directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice), Variety reports. In the film, “after hearing a young boy’s cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of grass in Kansas but soon discover that there may be no way out. ” Splice’s Steve Hoban, Jimmy Miller from Mosaic, and M. Riley will produce. Miller and Riley together produced 2015’s The Lazarus Effect. In the Tall Grass will begin production in Toronto this Summer.
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If you aren’t watching Netflix’s zomedy (zombie comedy) Santa Clarita Diet, then I might question your tastes. The series a gore-filled, fun ride. And Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant are a great fit. Fans will be happy to learn that the hit series has been renewed for season 3! Slated to return in 2019, the third season will feature 10 episodes. In the meantime, you can catch up on the first two seasons now streaming on Netflix (or here). The series follows real estate couple Joel and Shela Hammond struggle to keep things together for themselves and their daughter (Liv Hewson) as Shela struggles with a taste for human flesh and their search to find a cure. Season 1 Trailer: Season 2 Trailer:
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The final trailer for Netflix’s apocalypse series “The Rain” is here and teases the journey of two siblings as they take refuge in a bunker to avoid the poison-laced rain that has killed much of the world. The series, “picks up six years after a brutal virus carried by rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, and follows two Danish siblings as they emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone and very few survivors. Set free from their collective past and societal rules, the group set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life. However, the task is complicated when tensions in the group start to rise as the rain pours in.” Jannik Tai Mosholt (Follow the Money), Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear), and Christian Potalivo (The New Tenants) created the Danish series that stars Alba August, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, and Lars
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Netflix’s untitled Sabrina series, based on the Archie Comics graphic The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, has already been approved for its first two seasons and with filming underway, the images have begun coming in from various sources. The latest image from the one-hour series is of a black goat named Black Narcissus (above), teasing that the series is going to be dark. The image was shared by fan site @SabrinaChilling, who also shared several behind the scenes shots. More Behind the Scenes photos of the cast filming #ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina in Vancouver. #SabrinaOnNetflix #SabrinaHorror (Via Just Jared). pic.twitter.com/6f4TBb9OCq — Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (@SabrinaChilling) April 5, 2018 In the series, “Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.” Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) will be playing the role of Sabrina.
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Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant will soon be returning to Netflix for season 2 of the zomedy (zombie-comedy) “Santa Clarita Diet”. I don’t know about you, but we couldn’t be happier. The show has it all including a new blood-soaked trailer. In “The Santa Clarita Diet” Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) are husband and wife realtors leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson), until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending their lives down a road of death and destruction…but in a good way. Picking up right where we left off, Season 2 of “Santa Clarita Diet” finds the Hammonds trying to adapt to Sheila’s now-advanced undead state — even though she’s desperately working to hold on to her suburban lifestyle and not be defined as just another monster. Unfortunately — while the family has become markedly better at murder — the number of missing people in
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Prometheus and Alien: Covenant actor Guy Pearce has signed on the star in Netflix’s supernatural series “The Innocents”. The newly renamed series will also star Percelle Ascott (Wizards vs. Aliens) and Sorcha Groundsell (Clique), THR reports. The eight-episode British series was both created and written by Hania Elkington (The North London Book of the Dead) and Simon Duric (Black Mirror). “The Innocents”, “will explore what happens when teenagers Harry (Ascott) and June (Groundsell) run away from their repressive family lives to be together. They’re quickly thrown into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery that derails their innocent dream: Secrets kept from them by their parents test their love to the breaking point, and the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever. Pearce will play a character named Halvorson.” New Pictures produced the series. Farren Blackburn (Doctor Who) will direct along with Jamie Donaghue, as well as executive produce with New Pictures founders Charlie Pattinson, Elaine Pyke
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Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant will soon be returning to Netflix for season 2 of the zomedy (zombie-comedy) “Santa Clarita Diet”. I don’t know about you, but we couldn’t be happier, the show has it all. Today, we’ve got a first look at the show’s second season which will premiere this Spring. “In “Santa Clarita Diet” Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) are husband and wife realtors leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson), until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending their lives down a road of death and destruction…but in a good way. Picking up right where we left off, Season 2 of “Santa Clarita Diet” finds the Hammonds trying to adapt to Sheila’s now-advanced undead state — even though she’s desperately working to hold on to her suburban lifestyle and not be defined as just another monster. Unfortunately — while the family has become markedly
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Netflix has announced two new cast members for their dark “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” series adaption of the graphic novel, Variety reports. Unlike the ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ that aired from ’96 to 2003, this series will be a dark drama. Sabrina finds herself wrestling with her duel-nature, half witch, half human while trying to find her way she will fight the evil force that threatens her and her family. Chance Perdomo is set to play Ambrose Spellman, Sabrina’s warlock cousin from London. Ambrose has been put on house arrest by the Witches Council and is stuck in the funeral home where he lives with the Spellman women. ‘Doctor Who’ actress Michelle Gomez has been cast as Mary Wardell, Sabrina’s favorite teacher and mentor. When Mary is possessed by the devil’s handmaiden, Madam Satan, Ms. Wardell is changed into a cunning manipulator always tempting to lure Sabrina down a dark path. Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) will play Sabrina Spellman in
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We reported back in April that a series adaption of’ ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ had been ordered by Netflix. A few days ago we announced that Annabeth Gish has joined the cast. Today, we have another update and a premiere date. The adaption of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel by the same name will see Mike Flanagan in the director’s chair. The 10-episode first season is being referred to as a “modern re-imagining” with Daryll frank and Justin Falvey will be executive producing. Timothy Hutton, Annabeth Gish, Selena Anduze, Amber Chaney, Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson, Anna Enger, Nelson Bonilla, McKenna Grace, Carla Gugino, Michiel Huisman, and Robert Longstreet will star. Huisman is set to play the role of Steven Crane. Mike Flanagan is well known in the horror genre for his film Ouija: Origin of Evil, Hush and Netflix’s adaption of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game. ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ has been adapted twice before as films under the title
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Netflix’s zombie drama Cargo has now entered post-production. Based on the short film by the same name, it is the first Australian film to fly under the Netflix Original banner. Written and co-directed by Yolanda Remke and Ben Howling, the film centers on a father, played by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), who is stranded in rural Australia after an accident with only 48 hours to find a new home for his baby daughter after he is infected by a pandemic. Freeman stars alongside Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius, Susie Poter, David Gulpilil, and Simone Landers. Ian Kirk, Jeff Harrison, Craig Deeker, Fergus Grady, Phil Hunt, Ian Dawson, and Compton Ross serve as executive producers. Below is the short film that inspired the full-length feature. Be sure to have Kleenex in hand, it is heartbreaking. Cargo will be released in 2018.
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Netflix has snagged the adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill‘s (King’s son) In the Tall Grass. With the continuing interest in King’s work and the multitude of adaptations of his writings headed our way, it’s no surprise that Netflix is on the bandwagon. But the giant streaming service is not new to King’s tales, they released the adaptation Gerald’s Game last year along with 1922. “Westworld” actor James Marsden is currently in negotiations to star in the film directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice), Variety reports. In the film, “after hearing a young boy’s cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of grass in Kansas but soon discover that there may be no way out. ” Splice’s Steve Hoban, Jimmy Miller from Mosaic, and M. Riley will produce. Miller and Riley together produced 2015’s The Lazarus Effect. In the Tall Grass will begin production in Toronto this Summer.
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If you aren’t watching Netflix’s zomedy (zombie comedy) Santa Clarita Diet, then I might question your tastes. The series a gore-filled, fun ride. And Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant are a great fit. Fans will be happy to learn that the hit series has been renewed for season 3! Slated to return in 2019, the third season will feature 10 episodes. In the meantime, you can catch up on the first two seasons now streaming on Netflix (or here). The series follows real estate couple Joel and Shela Hammond struggle to keep things together for themselves and their daughter (Liv Hewson) as Shela struggles with a taste for human flesh and their search to find a cure. Season 1 Trailer: Season 2 Trailer:
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The final trailer for Netflix’s apocalypse series “The Rain” is here and teases the journey of two siblings as they take refuge in a bunker to avoid the poison-laced rain that has killed much of the world. The series, “picks up six years after a brutal virus carried by rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, and follows two Danish siblings as they emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone and very few survivors. Set free from their collective past and societal rules, the group set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life. However, the task is complicated when tensions in the group start to rise as the rain pours in.” Jannik Tai Mosholt (Follow the Money), Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear), and Christian Potalivo (The New Tenants) created the Danish series that stars Alba August, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, and Lars
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Netflix’s untitled Sabrina series, based on the Archie Comics graphic The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, has already been approved for its first two seasons and with filming underway, the images have begun coming in from various sources. The latest image from the one-hour series is of a black goat named Black Narcissus (above), teasing that the series is going to be dark. The image was shared by fan site @SabrinaChilling, who also shared several behind the scenes shots. More Behind the Scenes photos of the cast filming #ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina in Vancouver. #SabrinaOnNetflix #SabrinaHorror (Via Just Jared). pic.twitter.com/6f4TBb9OCq — Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (@SabrinaChilling) April 5, 2018 In the series, “Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.” Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) will be playing the role of Sabrina.
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Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant will soon be returning to Netflix for season 2 of the zomedy (zombie-comedy) “Santa Clarita Diet”. I don’t know about you, but we couldn’t be happier. The show has it all including a new blood-soaked trailer. In “The Santa Clarita Diet” Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) are husband and wife realtors leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson), until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending their lives down a road of death and destruction…but in a good way. Picking up right where we left off, Season 2 of “Santa Clarita Diet” finds the Hammonds trying to adapt to Sheila’s now-advanced undead state — even though she’s desperately working to hold on to her suburban lifestyle and not be defined as just another monster. Unfortunately — while the family has become markedly better at murder — the number of missing people in
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Prometheus and Alien: Covenant actor Guy Pearce has signed on the star in Netflix’s supernatural series “The Innocents”. The newly renamed series will also star Percelle Ascott (Wizards vs. Aliens) and Sorcha Groundsell (Clique), THR reports. The eight-episode British series was both created and written by Hania Elkington (The North London Book of the Dead) and Simon Duric (Black Mirror). “The Innocents”, “will explore what happens when teenagers Harry (Ascott) and June (Groundsell) run away from their repressive family lives to be together. They’re quickly thrown into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery that derails their innocent dream: Secrets kept from them by their parents test their love to the breaking point, and the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever. Pearce will play a character named Halvorson.” New Pictures produced the series. Farren Blackburn (Doctor Who) will direct along with Jamie Donaghue, as well as executive produce with New Pictures founders Charlie Pattinson, Elaine Pyke
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Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant will soon be returning to Netflix for season 2 of the zomedy (zombie-comedy) “Santa Clarita Diet”. I don’t know about you, but we couldn’t be happier, the show has it all. Today, we’ve got a first look at the show’s second season which will premiere this Spring. “In “Santa Clarita Diet” Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) are husband and wife realtors leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson), until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending their lives down a road of death and destruction…but in a good way. Picking up right where we left off, Season 2 of “Santa Clarita Diet” finds the Hammonds trying to adapt to Sheila’s now-advanced undead state — even though she’s desperately working to hold on to her suburban lifestyle and not be defined as just another monster. Unfortunately — while the family has become markedly
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Netflix has announced two new cast members for their dark “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” series adaption of the graphic novel, Variety reports. Unlike the ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ that aired from ’96 to 2003, this series will be a dark drama. Sabrina finds herself wrestling with her duel-nature, half witch, half human while trying to find her way she will fight the evil force that threatens her and her family. Chance Perdomo is set to play Ambrose Spellman, Sabrina’s warlock cousin from London. Ambrose has been put on house arrest by the Witches Council and is stuck in the funeral home where he lives with the Spellman women. ‘Doctor Who’ actress Michelle Gomez has been cast as Mary Wardell, Sabrina’s favorite teacher and mentor. When Mary is possessed by the devil’s handmaiden, Madam Satan, Ms. Wardell is changed into a cunning manipulator always tempting to lure Sabrina down a dark path. Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) will play Sabrina Spellman in
Continue reading →
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We reported back in April that a series adaption of’ ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ had been ordered by Netflix. A few days ago we announced that Annabeth Gish has joined the cast. Today, we have another update and a premiere date. The adaption of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel by the same name will see Mike Flanagan in the director’s chair. The 10-episode first season is being referred to as a “modern re-imagining” with Daryll frank and Justin Falvey will be executive producing. Timothy Hutton, Annabeth Gish, Selena Anduze, Amber Chaney, Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson, Anna Enger, Nelson Bonilla, McKenna Grace, Carla Gugino, Michiel Huisman, and Robert Longstreet will star. Huisman is set to play the role of Steven Crane. Mike Flanagan is well known in the horror genre for his film Ouija: Origin of Evil, Hush and Netflix’s adaption of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game. ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ has been adapted twice before as films under the title
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Netflix’s zombie drama Cargo has now entered post-production. Based on the short film by the same name, it is the first Australian film to fly under the Netflix Original banner. Written and co-directed by Yolanda Remke and Ben Howling, the film centers on a father, played by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), who is stranded in rural Australia after an accident with only 48 hours to find a new home for his baby daughter after he is infected by a pandemic. Freeman stars alongside Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius, Susie Poter, David Gulpilil, and Simone Landers. Ian Kirk, Jeff Harrison, Craig Deeker, Fergus Grady, Phil Hunt, Ian Dawson, and Compton Ross serve as executive producers. Below is the short film that inspired the full-length feature. Be sure to have Kleenex in hand, it is heartbreaking. Cargo will be released in 2018.
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