Another big deal for the horror genre out of Sundance today, as Deadline reports that Hulu is in the process of acquiring worldwide rights to Dear White People director Justin Simien‘s Bad Hair (read Meagan’s review) for north of $8 million. Deadline adds, “The deal calls for a global theatrical release with a P&A spend.”
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Osgood Perkins has been a horror director on our radar for years now, and after the 1-2-3 punch of The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and this weekend’s impressive Gretel and Hansel you can damn well bet we’re interested in whatever his next project is going to be.
Our world is no longer our own. Another new take on the classic H.G. Wells story “War of the Worlds” is headed to Epix, with Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary) and Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) leading the cast. The series will premiere on Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 9pm, we’ve learned this week, and we’ve also been provided with the
Set to premiere at Berlin, Variety shares the first trailer for The Intruder (El Prófugo), described by its makers as a “psycho-sexual fantastic thriller.” The Intruder tells the story of a woman who suffers a trauma, meets the man of her dreams, only for her life to become a nightmare. The Intruder stars two of
Will The Crow ever take flight again? You can’t help but feel like this franchise is cursed, from the shocking on-set death of Brandon Lee to Dimension Films’ butchery of The Crow: City of Angels back in 1996. In fact, it’s been 15 years since the direct-to-DVD release of The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which put
“We’re all rational when the sun’s shining. It’s different when it goes dark.” Originally published in 1961, Agatha Christie‘s novel “The Pale Horse” is headed into 2020 with a series adaptation courtesy of Amazon, and the official trailer has arrived this week. “The Pale Horse” follows the story of Mark Easterbrook, whose name appears on
This morning I learned that Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, the French directors behind Inside, Livid, Among the Living, and Leatherface, have just started production on the aquatic horror The Deep House. In doing some research, I also discovered that the duo have already completed a demonic horror story about a demon named Kandisha. In the
In the wake of Bumblebee, Deadline reports tonight that Paramount is working on *two* new Transformers movies, one of which will reportedly bring Beast Wars to the big screen! The site reports that one of the films will be written by Joby Harold (Army of the Dead) and the other by James Vanderbilt (Murder Mystery),
Last week, composer Benjamin Wallfisch (Lights Out, It, It Chapter Two) got Mortal Kombat fans speculating when he tweeted out an image of the video game franchise’s iconic logo, pinning it to the top of his page with no caption attached to the image. It seemed Wallfisch was probably hinting that he was scoring the
With a title like Shirley and Elisabeth Moss featured as acclaimed horror author Shirley Jackson, the default expectation is that this film would be a period biopic. The reality is anything but; based on the novel of the same name by Susan Scarf Merrell and adapted by Sarah Gubbins, Shirley instead relays a captivating fictional
Previously announced at Gamescom 2019 for the Nintendo Switch, the Hotline Miami Collection (which contains Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2) now appears to possibly be headed to the Xbox One. Publisher Devolver Digital took to Twitter with the obvious question of whether fans would like to see the games on the Xbox One, with
La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, is one of the most well-known figures in Latin American folklore. The details of her origins may differ, but the general conceit of her lore tells of a woman whose husband leaves her for another. In her grief, the woman drowns her two children in a river, and then
We got a new trailer earlier this month for Josh Boone‘s The New Mutants, finally being released in April, so it only makes sense that we now also have a brand new poster. And it’s a pretty cool piece of poster art, peeling back the layers to expose the fact that this particular Disney/Marvel film
“I create funny animations and videos. Usually they are all about explosions and all kinds of madness,” Patiffonka explains over on his Patreon page, and that’s a pretty perfect introduction for the latest video he released this week. For good reason, it’s gone viral. In the 13-second short, which currently has 1.1 million views from
From the Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning director of “The Night Manager” and In a Better World, and the Emmy-winning creator of “Big Little Lies,” comes HBO‘s new limited series “The Undoing,” which stars Nicole Kidman and now has an official teaser. Premiering this coming May, the series stars Kidman and Hugh Grant as Grace
Loving slo-mo shots of 80’s CRTs with wood-grain paneling. The click-clack of keyboard keys as you enter a text command. The whiny whir of a microfiche reader zooming in on black-and-white film. Stories Untold is a throwback to old-fashioned parser-based text adventures modernized to take advantage of the atmospheric tension that 3D art can provide.
The Science Channel is headed to the mysterious Bermuda Triangle next month with brand new series “Curse of the Bermuda Triangle,” we’ve learned today via The Wrap. Described as “a new investigative series about the mysterious region famous for its long history of lost ships and missing persons,” it will be premiering on February 9,
Announced by Deadline tonight, Tigers Are Not Afraid director Issa López has set up her next project: Book of Souls for Searchlight, an adaptation of a Matthew Baker short story. In addition to directing, Lopez is also writing the script. “The film is set in a world in which some babies are born without souls. A