“Every phone call, every killer, has led to this”: a brand-new featurette celebrates the franchise’s legacy in the lead up to Scream 7.
In Scream 7, when a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter (Isabel May) becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.
Scream 7 is directed by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the script for the original Scream as well as Scream 2 and 4. Also starring in this instalment are franchise veterans Courteney Cox as reporter Gale Weathers, who survived a brutal attack in Scream VI, David Arquette as Dewey Riley (despite having been killed in 2022’s Scream), as well as Matthew Lillard as Stu and Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis, the (spoiler) original co-Ghostface killers.
They join Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Chad and Mindy, and Scott Foley as (spoiler again) Scream 3‘s Ghostface, Roman Bridger. Rounding out the cast are series newcomers Michelle Randolph, Joel McHale, Anna Camp, Mckenna Grace, Ethan Embry, Mark Consuelos, Jimmy Tatro, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann and Sam Rechner.
Check out the featurette below. Scream 7 releases in cinemas on February 27th.
The team from FrightFest return to the Glasgow Film Festival for its 21st year this March, and is bringing a cracking line-up with them. Running from Thursday, March 5th, to Saturday, March 7th.
FrightFest kicks off with a special world premiere of Jailbroken. Directed by Vasily Chuprina, it takes place entirely in a prison cell and stars David Hayman, Bryan Larkin, Shauna MacDonald, and Armin Karima. This screening is separate to the festival pass.
The event kicks off proper with the UK premiere of Bury the Devil. Next up is the world premiere of Howard J. Ford’s Bone Keeper. The UK premiere of David Kittredge’s documentary covering the notorious ‘bad’ sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic, Boorman and the Devil follows. The UK premiere of Glenn (I Sell the Dead) McQuaid’s sci-fi comedy The Restoration of Grayson Manor. Friday’s entertainment culminates with the UK premiere of Kenichi Ugana’s internet terror The Curse.
The Restoration of Grayson Manor
Saturday’s programme opens with the international premiere of Connor Marsden’s Violence. The Short Film Showcase is next, featuring eight great shorts from the UK and Ireland, with all the directors and select cast in attendance. The UK premiere of Jiro Nagae’s The Convenience Store follows, with the evening screenings starting with the world premiere of Craig Conway’s directorial debut, Red Riding, a new slant on the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, executive produced by Neil Marshall. The new film from Aleksander Radivojević (co-writer of A Serbian Film), Karmadonna, gets its UK premiere next and the event closes with the Australian fantasy horror Deathkeeper, directed by Tristan Barr, based on the novella series by Vasilios Bouzas.
FrightFest co-director Alan Jones said: “For twenty-one years, FrightFest has joyfully programmed for collective gasps, laughs, screams and applause from our ever-supportive audiences within the Glasgow Film Festival. This year’s prime selection of unusual films will innovate, challenge, thrill and amaze as we platform both features and shorts from the most creative talents working in the genre”.
Karmadonna
FrightFest Passes are £88 and available from 10am on Friday January 16th. Passes will be exchanged for admission wristbands, prior to the first screening on March 6, which must be worn at all times to access all FrightFest films on Friday March 6th and Saturday March 7th ONLY.
Tickets for JAILBREAK, plus individual tickets for the Friday and Saturday films, are on sale to CineCard/CineCard+ members from Friday, January 23rd, at 10am. General sale starts on Monday January 26th at 10am. Prices: £12.00 / £9.60 (concessions).
Please be aware that the FrightFest Thursday night film is not part of the Friday and Saturday pass. This film requires attendees to purchase a separate single ticket.
Individual film tickets will be available from Friday January 23rd at 10am for Cinecard / Cinecard+ members, and from Monday January 26th at 10am for all customers.
Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan, the screenwriting duo behind the award-winning animated film KPop Demon Hunters, have been tapped by Warner Bros. Pictures to pen the screenplay for Tim Burton’s reimagining of sci-fi classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
Burton is directing, and producing alongside Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper. LuckyChap will also produce and develop the project, with Morgan Begg overseeing on the banner’s behalf. Kai Dolbashian is executive producing.
Originally released in 1958, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman told the story of a wealthy heiress, just released from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then gets revenge on her philandering husband and his gold-digging mistress.
Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn was previously attached to pen the screenplay for this adaptation, and reportedly produced a first draft.
Jimenez and McMechan released a statement about the news, stating: “We’re obsessed with the idea of a fifty-foot woman wreaking havoc because a man did her dirty. We have a feeling a lot of people will relate.”
There’s little known yet about casting or a release date, nor any plot specifics on this adaptation. So, as always, stay tuned for updates as soon as we learn them.
Shortly after Disney announced they had cast the two lead roles for the live-action adaptation of Disney’s 2010 animated movieTangled, the studio has now confirmed Kathryn Hahn will be adding another villainess to her credits. Hahn, likely best known for portraying Agatha Harkness in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will play Mother Gothel in the forthcoming Tangled adaptation.
Earlier this week, Walt Disney Pictures revealed they had chosen rising Australian star Teagan Croft and Zombies franchise star Milo Manheim for the parts of Rapunzel, the sheltered but plucky would-be princess with magic hair, and Flynn Rider, the cocky thief who breaks into her tower. The role of Mother Gothel promises to be a fun one for Hahn, with delightfully iconic lines and fun musical numbers, including the iconic “Mother Knows Best.”
Better Man and The Greatest Showman helmer Michael Gracey is directing the feature from a script by Do Revenge’s Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Kristin Burr (Freakier Friday, Cruella) is producing.
Most recently, Kathryn Hahn was seen on the Apple TV+ series The Studio, starring opposite Seth Rogen. She earned an Emmy nomination for the part.
Filming on the live-action Tangled is expected to begin in the UK this summer.
Following the news that Sophie Turner will star as glove-trotting adventurer Lara Croft in Prime Video’s upcoming Tomb Raider series, the rest of the show’s main cast has been revealed.
The video game adaptation has picked up some further names in the forms of Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus, Star Trek Discovery), who play’s Lara’s uncle Atlas DeMornay, Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Ghostbusters, Avatar, and everything else you love) as the mysterious and high-flying Evelyn Wallis, and Celia Imrie (of Celebrity Traitors farting fame) as Francine, a representative of the British Museum.
The cast also includes Martin Bobb-Semple as Lara’s techie friend Zip and Bill Paterson as butler Winston, both characters familiar to Tomb Raider gamers. Additionally, Jack Bannon plays pilot Gerry, Paterson Joseph is government official Thomas Warner, Sasha Luss is Lara’s new adversary Sasha, Juliette Motamed is museum curator Georgia, John Heffernan is exhausted government official David, and August Wittgenstein is illegal raider Lukas.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) is the show’s lead writer and co-showrunner alongside Chad Hodge, while Jonathan Van Tulleken serves as director. The series is due to begin filming later this month, with a release date yet to be announced.
After much speculation and fan casting, the live-action adaptation of Disney’s 2010 animated movieTangled has found its stars: Walt Disney Pictures has chosen rising Australian star Teagan Croft and Zombies franchise star Milo Manheim for the parts of Rapunzel, the sheltered but plucky would-be princess with magic hair, and Flynn Rider, the cocky thief who breaks into her tower.
Better Man and The Greatest Showman helmer Michael Gracey is directing the feature from a script by Do Revenge’s Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Kristin Burr (Freakier Friday, Cruella) is producing.
Croft is best known for playing Raven in the DC series Titans, which ran from 2018 to 2023. She also starred in the Australian film True Spirit in 2023. Meanwhile, Manheim starred in the Zombies musical Disney franchise, appearing in four films. He also starred in the series School Spirits and as Seymour in a revival of Little Shop of Horrors.
The other big role left to cast is Mother Gothel, which at one point was going to be portrayed by Scarlett Johansson. She has since exited the project due to scheduling conflicts.
Filming on the live-action Tangled is expected to begin in the UK this summer. Stay tuned for updates as we hear!
Zazie Beetz tries to survive despite a whole Satanic cult out to get her in the trailer for horror-comedy They Will Kill You. Warner Bros. will release director Kirill Sokolov’s feature on March 27th, 2026.
From New Line Cinema and Nocturna, They Will Kill You follows a newly hired housekeeper (Beetz) at a mysterious New York City hotel known as The Virgil. She soon learns that the building is actually the headquarters for a demonic cult, with the members having selected her as a religious sacrifice. She must outsmart and out-fight the many Satanic followers to make it through the night in their death-trap of a lair, or else lose her life. As the trailer puts it simply, “This building is a temple to Satan. Each month, we must pay with a human sacrifice. Tonight, you are the offering.”
The project has also been described as a tonal mix of Radio Silence’s Ready or Not and The Raid. In any case, it looks like a gory fun time.
Also starring in the very bloody, upcoming feature are Myha’la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette.
Sokolov directs the film from a script he co-wrote with Alex Litvak. Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Dan Kagan are aboard as producers. Litvak and Sokolov executive produce the project alongside Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, and Carl Hampe.
Steve Rogers is a dad, Thor is tired, and octogenarians Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are still locked into Marvel contracts: welcome to Avengers: Doomsday. The latest of three teaser trailers has been released, this time confirming the return of the X-Men to fight Phase 6’s Big Bad. It follows confirmation that Chris Evans would unexpectedly return as Steve Rogers/Captain America (formerly), and another teaser in which Chris Hemsworth’s Thor prays to Odin for the strength to defeat one more enemy.
In this X-Men teaser, we see the return of Stewart as Charles Xavier/Professor X, McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, and James Marsden in a comic-accurate suit as Scott Summers/Cyclops.
While Patrick Stewart made a cameo appearance as a multiversal variant of Professor X in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, it’s been over a decade since fans last properly saw these X-Men incarnations. Marsden and McKellen last played these roles in 2014’sX-Men: Days of Future Past. And while they don’t appear in this particular teaser trailer, we also know that franchise OGs Alan Cumming will return to Avengers: Doomsday as Nightcrawler, alongside Rebecca Romijn as Mystique and Kelsey Grammer as Beast.
Avengers: Doomsday releases December 18th, 2026. Before then, there’ll be Spider-Man: Brand New Dayon July 31st, 2026.
James Gunn has ended weeks of speculation as to who would play the villain opposite David Corenswet’s Superman in Man of Tomorrow, confirming that Lars Eidinger would step into the role of Brainiac. The German actor is known for the acclaimed series Babylon Berlin and worked on the Shawn Levy miniseries All the Light We Cannot See, as well as Noah Baumbach’s White Noise.
Brainiac is a classic Superman villain, having debuted in Action Comics No. 242 in 1958. Hailing from writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the issue introduced Brainiac as a hyper-intelligent alien who uses a shrink ray to shrink Metropolis and place the city amongst his collection of alien cities he keeps in bottles.
Corenswet returns to Man of Tomorrow as Clark Kent/Superman, and Nicholas Hoult reprises his role as Lex Luthor. Rachel Brosnahan, Frank Grillo, and Isabela Merced are also expected to return. Sources state the sequel will see Superman and Lex Luthor form an uneasy alliance to take down Brainiac. James Gunn will also return to both write and direct the feature.
Man of Tomorrow is set to release on July 9th, 2027. Before that, there’ll be the releases of Supergirl this summer, and Clayface shortly after.
The British Horror Studio has announced the winners of its inaugural awards season, celebrating outstanding achievement across British independent horror filmmaking and signalling a major step forward in the organisation’s cultural reach.
The awards, spanning Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and the newly introduced British Indie Horror Artist of the Year, were decided through a combination of public voting and an independent jury selection. More than 5,000 votes were cast by film industry peers and horror fans worldwide.
The milestone reflects the British Horror Studio’s evolution from a production label into a broader genre institution within the UK. The organisation now encompasses the revived Amicus Productions, Hex Studios, The B-Team, and the registered charity Fife Creative Studios, with a growing emphasis on grassroots participation and artistic development.
In the public vote, the Best Director award resulted in a rare tie, with Sean Cronin (Bogieville) and Warren Dudley (Fright) named joint winners. Best Actor was awarded to Stephen Corrall (Shiver Me Timbers), following a contest that attracted over 1,000 voters.
The most closely contested category was Best Actress, where Megan Tremethick (The Reign of Queen Ginnarra) emerged victorious after a dramatic second-round surge. Tremethick, often described by critics and fans as the “Vivien Leigh of indie horror”, overcame strong competition including Ayvianna Snow (Bogieville), widely referred to in the British press as the “Queen of British Horror”. The category alone drew more than 2,500 votes and significant online engagement.
Alongside the public vote, a separate jury selection focused on artistic ambition and creative risk. Led by Prof Peter F Mahoney CBE PhD MBA FRCA, the jury awarded Best Director to Simon Rumley (Crushed), while the Best Actor category resulted in joint winners Chris Black (The Slave and the Sorcerer) and Jonathan Hansler (Bogieville). Best Actress was awarded to Nicolette McKeown (Mercy Falls).
The British Horror Studio also introduced a special honour, British Indie Horror Artist of the Year, recognising individuals making exceptional contributions to the independent sector. The inaugural recipients were Ayvianna Snow, for her advocacy work and artist support; Dorian Todd, for his rapidly emerging career as both performer and filmmaker; and Andrew Gourlay, recognised for his acclaimed performances following recovery from serious illness.
The awards coincided with the British Horror Studio’s explosive growth, expanding its membership by more than 1,200, underscoring the continued rise of grassroots-driven initiatives within UK independent film. The organisation notes a growing concentration of activity and talent in Scotland, positioning the region as an increasingly important centre for British horror production.
For more information about the British Horror Studio and to join, head here.
