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David Bruckner Sets Next Horror Project At A24

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David Bruckner, the filmmaker known for his work on the cult horror anthology series V/H/S, Southbound, The Ritual, 2022’s Hellraiser, and The Night House, has set his next horror movie project over at A24. The film will be titled Mice, from a script by first-time screenwriters Todd Spence and Zak White.

The plot for Mice is being kept tightly under wraps for now, but we do know it’s being sold as a horror thriller.

Considering that A24 has become one of the leading forces in today’s horror movie landscape, with upcoming projects including Ti West’s trilogy-concluding MaXXXine, The Front Room, Heretic, and more, we can expect that Mice is an impressive package to have attracted the studio.

It was also reported earlier this year that David Bruckner would be remaking the classic sci-fi horror The Blob, both writing and directing the project for Warner Bros. David Goyer and Keith Levine are set to produce this new take on the genre classic. At this point, it’s unclear how both projects will fit in Bruckner’s filmmaking schedule, so there’s no indication of when we might expect Mice to begin production.

Stay tuned for more plot details, casting news, and release information as we hear it!

New VAN HELSING Series In The Works

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Vampire slayer Abraham Van Helsing will return to the silver screen in a new Van Helsing series for CBS.

Jonathan Lee, the author behind Netflix and the BBC’s upcoming drama series Lockerbie, has been tapped to write the television series, with Deadline reporting that the show “is believed to have landed at CBS after a hotly contested auction”. Elementary’s Rob Doherty will be executive producing the horror series alongside Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman under their deal with Lionsgate Television.

The show is intended as a contemporary take on the monster hunter; Dr. Abraham Van Helsing uses his uniquely inquisitive mind working alongside his ex, relentless FBI special agent Mina Harker, to solve New York City’s most harrowing cases.

The recent Syfy series, also titled Van Helsing, was a five-season long horror-fantasy show centred on a new character played by Kelly Overton, Vanessa Van Helsing, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing. The iconic vampire-hunting character also got a solo movie back in 2004, with Hugh Jackman starring in the title role.

No word yet on who might star in this new Van Helsing series, but stay tuned to find out more about casting, a release date, and more as we hear it!

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Joins DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN

Sarah Michelle Gellar is the latest star to join Showtime’s prequel series Dexter: Original Sin, to play CSI Chief Tanya Martin and unwittingly train a certain serial killer-to-be.

She joins Patrick Gibson (Shadow and Bone), Christian Slater, and Molly Brown in the upcoming series, with Gibson playing the younger version of Michael C. Hall’s titular Dexter Morgan. James Martinez also stars as Angel Batista, with Christina Milian as Maria LaGuerta, Alex Shimizu as Vince Masuka, Reno Wilson as Bobby Watt, and Patrick Dempsey as Aaron Spencer, Captain of the Miami Metro Homicide Division. Dexter’s showrunner, Clyde Phillips, returns to showrun this prequel series.

The 10-episode original drama series from Paramount+ With Showtime, Dexter: Original Sin takes place in 1991 Miami, and revolves around Dexter as he goes from student to avenging serial killer. With guidance from his father, Harry (Slater), Dexter adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people without being discovered by law enforcement. At the same time, he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Police Department.

“Sarah Michelle Gellar is a pop culture icon who perfectly rounds out our best-in-class cast featuring Christian Slater and Patrick Dempsey among others,” shared Nina L. Diaz, President of Content and Chief Creative Officer, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks. “We’re thrilled to have her return to the Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios family and join the origin story of the Dexter franchise.”

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Ryan Gosling And Amazon MGM Team For Zombie Comedy

Amazon MGM Studios has landed the zombie comedy film package I Used to Eat Brains, Now I Eat Kale, with Ryan Gosling attached to produce the feature alongside Jessie Henderson, his partner in the production banner General Admission. This project falls under their newly-signed first-look deal with Amazon MGM.

Adam and Daniel Cooper, aka the Cooper Twins, wrote the unpublished short story and will write the script adaptation for the film. Details are being kept under wraps, but I Used to Eat Brains has been described as being set in a “post-post-apocalyptic” world in which former zombies are trying to reintegrate into mainstream society. Ryan Gosling is not, as of yet, attached to star in the film, nor has a director been tapped.

Daniel and Adam Cooper have written and directed several award-winning short films, which have received acclaim at such festivals as Cannes, TIFF, HollyShorts and Hamptons. This zombie comedy marks their first feature film project.

Gosling’s next project is also at Amazon MGM: He is starring in and producing Project Hail Mary, the long-awaited adaptation of the sci-fi novel from The Martian‘s Andy Weir, which Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are directing from a script by Drew Goddard.

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LANTERNS Series Gets The Green Light

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HBO has, at long last, given a series order for Lanterns, based on the DC Comics characters John Stewart and Hal Jordan. Ozark’s Chris Mundy will serve as showrunner on the eight-episode series and co-write alongside Damon Lindelof, best known for his work on Watchmen and Lost, and Tom King, known for his work on a number of Batman titles.

The news comes after an almost five-year-long development process at HBO Max, as they were originally developing the series with producer Greg Berlanti, the mastermind of the DC Arrowverse on The CW and one of the writers on the ill-fated, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively-starring 2011 Green Lantern feature film. Initially, the series was going to centre on Guy Gardner and Alan Scott, with Seth Grahame-Smith coming aboard as writer and showrunner, even writing a full season’s worth of scripts for the show.

With a creative overhaul in 2022, however, Grahame-Smith’s vision was scrapped and the powers that be chose to refocus the series around John Stewart, another member of the Lanter Corps and the first Black superhero to appear in DC Comics.

“We’re thrilled to bring this seminal DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom at the helm,” DC Heads James Gunn and Peter Safran said in a statement. “John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life in an original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with Superman.”

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Sequel To Bob Odenkirk’s NOBODY Finds Director

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The sequel to the 2021 action-thriller Nobody, which starred Bob Odenkirk, has found its director and has been slated for a summer 2025 release: Timo Tjahjanto is set to helm the follow-up film for Universal Pictures and 87North.

The script comes from Odenkirk, Derek Kolstad, Aaron Rabin and Umair Aleem. Plot details are still under wraps, however, with Ilya Naishuller’s initial film centring on family man Hutch Mansell, who picks his secret career as an assassin back up after he and his loved ones are targeted by a Russian crime boss. Variety suggests that Connie Nielsen will return as Becca Mansell, the wife to Odenkirk’s lead. No other casting has been announced.

Tjahjanto is known for his work on the V/H/S horror film franchise, specifically in V/H/S/2 and V/H/S/94, and has also helmed the Netflix-released Indonesian features The Night Comes for Us, May the Devil Take You, and The Big 4. He is also one half of the filmmaking duo the Mo Brothers, alongside Kimo Stamboel. Together, they have written and directed the films Macabre, Killers and Headshot.

At the time of the first film’s release, STARBURST’s Paul Mount wrote: “Utterly preposterous verging on the ludicrous, Nobody explodes off the screen like a big box of firecrackers and it will demand you set aside your critical faculties and just revel in the madness and the utter chaos unfolding before your very eyes. File this one alongside last year’s Unhinged as a guilty pleasure you really shouldn’t feel guilty about for one second.”

Nobody 2 is set to release in cinemas from August 15th, 2025.

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Hugh Grant Stars In HERETIC Trailer

Hugh Grant ditches the orange face paint and green hair in favour of a large country house in the first trailer for A24’s psychological horror feature, Heretic.

Hailing from writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Grant stars opposite Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. In Heretic, two Mormon missionaries are invited into the house of Mr. Reed (Grant) after knocking on his door. However, they soon realise that the sinister homeowner has ulterior motives and wants them for a series of psychological experiments.

“I won’t keep you if you wish to leave,” Grant tells his guests, leading them to two closed doors on which he writes “belief” and “disbelief”. “But I want you to choose which door to go through, based on your faith.” He goes on to say: “It will make your hearts beat faster. It may even make you want to die.”

Beck and Woods, who first rose to prominence for writing the 2018 horror hit A Quiet Place – the prequel for which releases in cinemas this week – are also known for writing the Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman and directing the sci-fi action film 65, starring Adam Driver.

Watch the trailer for Heretic below. The film releases in cinemas from November 15th.

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NYX UK’s July Line-Up Includes Modern Shockers

Our favourite free-to-air horror channel, NYX UK, has a great line-up of new and classic films for July. These include Seed (2007, screening on July 16th) from the notorious director Uwe Boll, to humorous shocker Discopath (2013, July 5th), Reeker 2 (2008, July 11th), Mid-Century (2022, July 12th), Black Circle (2018, July 18th), and The House at the End of Time (2013, July 26th).

Among the classics highlighted in July include the channel premiere of the superb giallo Amuck (1972, July 9th). There’s also a celebration of the birthdays of a pair of Italian legends, Sergio Martino on July 19th and Mario Bava on July 31st. For Sergio, NYX UK is showing the gloriously gory Torso (1973) and the brilliant, Poe-influenced (and contender of the greatest title of all time) Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have a Key (1972). The late Mario Bava’s tribute boasts the forerunner to the slasher movie, A Bay of Blood (1971) and The House of Exorcism (1975), which stars Telly Savalas and Elke Sommer.

Check out the channel’s weekly schedule, which also includes classic anthology TV shows such as Tales of the Unexpected and One Step Beyond and the bizarre kid’s show The Hilarious House of Frankenstein, as well as Elvira’s Movie Macabre, over at https://www.nyxtv.co.uk/tv-guide.

Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU Drops Teaser

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The first teaser trailer for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu has finally released, giving fans their first glimpse at the auteur filmmaker’s dark new take on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The horror film stars Bill Skarsgard as Count Orlok (aka the Nosferatu, or Dracula), along with Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson. As writes Focus Features, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession, set in 19th-century Germany, between a haunted young woman (Depp) and the terrifying vampire (Skarsgard) infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.” The teaser smartly keeps Skarsgard’s version of Nosferatu under wraps for now, but it does let slip some chilling glimpses.

Eggers previously promised that his fourth film – having previously directed The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman, – would deliver on the scare-factor. “There hasn’t been an old-school gothic movie that’s actually scary in a while. And I think that the majority of audiences will find this one to be the case.”

Following Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), it is the second remake of the 1922 silent film written by Henrik Galeen and directed by F. W. Murnau, which in turn is an unauthorised adaptation of Stoker’s Dracula.

Watch below for the Nosferatu teaser trailer. The film will release in cinemas from December 25th in the US, and January 1st, 2025 in the UK.

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The Seventh Doctor to Materialise in Bury!

Fancy a local comic con that’s free and accessible plus features a classic Doctor? Well, head over to Bury on June 30th. Following the success of the event in Sale earlier in the month and two previous comic cons in Bury, there’s another free family fun day out happening at various locations across the town: the Fusiliers Museum, Bury Art Gallery, Mill Gate Shopping Centre, and The Rock Shopping Centre.

A host of guests, TV and film props, and many different traders will provide plenty to do for all ages. The top guest is Sylvester McCoy, and he will head up the Doctor Who Zone, which also features actors Kai Owen (Torchwood) and Clem So (who has appeared in several Who episodes as well as a number of James Bond movies and Star Wars films). The Zone will also feature a Tardis, Daleks, and other Who props. There will also be comic book artists and other attractions.