I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER Sequel Debuts Trailer

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The first trailer for the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel horror film has debuted online, just weeks after it premiered at CinemaCon.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, best known for helming the dark comedy Do Revenge, is directing the new instalment in the slasher franchise for Sony from a screenplay she co-wrote with Sam Lensky, from an original script by Leah McKendrick. Neal Moritz, who produced the original, is back to produce this reboot. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. are reprising their roles from the ’90s.

Billy Campbell, Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Haur-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols, and Gabbriette also star.

The cult classic starred Love Hewitt, Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe. It was written by Scream‘s Kevin Williamson and based on the 1973 novel of the same name by author Lois Duncan. The film followed four friends who, after a night of heavy partying, accidentally ran over and killed a man. When they decide to dump his body to conceal their secret, they’re unaware that the following year will see consequences knocking at their doors.

In this the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel, “When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge.

“As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.”

Check out the trailer for I Know What You Did Last Summer below. The film will release in cinemas on July 18th, 2025.

Check Out This Awesome STAR WARS Fan Film

Now the dust has settled on Star Wars Celebration, the thirst for more Force-related content needs to be satiated. So why not watch this rather fantastic short fan film Echoes of Darkness.

Set almost 30 years after Return of the Jedi, the short tells the story of a ragtag group of scavengers who are hired to find a more recent relic on the Forest Moon of Endor. Unaware of how dangerous their employer is, and the true magnitude of their package, the crew play a dangerous game, making a deal that could make them rich or cost them everything.

It’s written and directed by Gary Scullion (who has worked behind the scenes on such films as Fall and Venom: The Last Dance) and stars Mark Joseph (Followers), Charlie Bond (Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead), and James Hamer-Morton (Eating Miss Campbell). The not-for-profit fan film is a brilliant precursor to The Force Awakens, essentially introducing several key characters in a different setting.

Check out the short film here:

THE REMEDY Heading to Fantastic Pavilion at Cannes

The new film from brilliant director Alex Kahuam (Failure!), The Remedy, has been announced for the Fantastic Pavilion at this year’s Cannes Festival, with the director in attendance.

Alex said of the film: “I promise horror fans that this will be a psychologically-tense, supernaturally-creepy, jump-scares-packed, bloody, big screen experience they will never forget.”

There has also been a new teaser poster released for the movie – see below. The Remedy stars Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why), London Thor (Gen V), Chris Mulkey (Twin Peaks), Doug Jones (The Shape of Water), and Jenny O’Hara (Devil) and is written by Daniel Kuhlman.

More on The Remedy soon.

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READY OR NOT Sequel Taps Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood will be joining Samara Weaving in Searchlight Pictures’ Ready or Not sequel, Ready or Not: Here I Come.

The film, which has already begun production, also stars Kathryn Newton, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell and Kevin Durand (recently seen in Abigail, from the same filmmaking team), as well as acclaimed horror filmmaker David Cronenberg.

Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are back for Ready or Not: Here I Come, as are writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. The first film starred Weaving as a bride who gets caught up in her new family’s wedding night ritual, in which a murderous game is played to appease an ancient family deal with the devil. Plot details for the sequel, however, are still unknown.

President of Searchlight Matthew Greenfield, however, did say: “We’re beyond excited to make another film with the phenomenal Radio Silence. With Ready or Not: Here I Come, we get to go on another ride with the amazing Samara Weaving, mix in awesome new voices, and bring audiences a fresh take that’s every bit as twisted and fun as the first one. This is for those who’ve been waiting, and those who didn’t see it coming.”

Tripp Vinson, James Vanderbilt, Bradley J. Fischer and William Sherak are producing. Executive producers are Chad Villella, Tara Farney, Greg Denny, Paul Neinstein, Busick, Murphy and Weaving. Richard Ruiz and Cornelia Burleigh are overseeing the Ready or Not sequel on behalf of Searchlight.

Ready or Not: Here I Come does not yet have a confirmed release date.

WEAPONS Teaser Trailer Sees Children Disappearing At Night

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The teaser trailer for Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger’s newest horror project, Weapons, sees children disappearing from their homes in a small town. “Those kids walked out of the homes,” someone says in the trailer’s voiceover. “No one pulled them out. No one forced them.”

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. The multi-story film reportedly touches on police corruption, generational trauma, witchcraft, blood rituals, and religious abuse in a small Floridian community.

Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan star in the feature. Cregger, Roy Lee, J.D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules and Miri Yoon serve as producers.

Cregger appeared on the CinemaCon stage earlier this month to share the first footage from Weapons. During the presentation, New Line boss Richard Brener described the movie as “intriguing and unpredictable, with a nice helping of batshit insane.”

Next, Cregger is writing and directing a reboot of the Resident Evil franchise, with Austin Abrams in the lead role.

Warner Bros. releases Weapons in cinemas from August 8th. Watch the eerie teaser trailer below:

Two More Guests Announced for Festival of Fantastic Films

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Another pair of guests have been revealed for Manchester’s Festival of Fantastic Films, which takes place this October.

Joining Graham Humphreys and James Swanton will be Hammer legend Virginia Wetherall and Norman Eschley, a familiar face for many TV fans of a certain age, as well as a star of stage and cinema.

Virginia is best known for her roles in Hammer’s Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Demons of the Mind, as well as appearing in Stanley Kubrick’s iconic A Clockwork Orange. On television, she played many memorable roles, including Dyoni in the Doctor Who serial The Daleks.

Norman trained to be an actor at the Bristol Old Vic with many Shakespearean roles on stage and transitioned to screen acting with his cinematic debut in the 1968 film The Immortal Story, directed by Orson Welles. Eshley gained recognition for his roles in British television, particularly in sitcoms. He is best remembered for portraying Jeffrey Fourmile, the snobbish estate agent in George and Mildred and for his appearances in its predecessor Man About the House. His versatility as an actor is evident in his performances in various genres, including Blind Terror, House of Mortal Sin, and Hammer’s The Lost Continent. Throughout his career, Eshley has continued to appear in numerous popular TV series, such as Department S, I, Claudius, The Sweeney, Secret Army, Return of the Saint, The Professionals, and Minder.

Both Virginia and Norman appear thanks to www.allstarautographs.co.uk.

The Festival of Fantastic Films takes place at Manchester’s Pendulum Hotel from October 24th – 26th. You can buy festival passes here. For more information, visit the Festival website.

2025 BSFA Award Winners Announced

The Winners of British Science Fiction Association Award have been announced. The winners were announced as part of the annual Eastercon event. This year Eastercon was held in Belfast. 2026’s Eastercon will be in Birmingham.

A full list of nominees can be found here. The winners are:

Finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards for publications in 2024.

SHORT FICTION

SHORTER FICTION (NOVELETTE AND NOVELLA EQUIVALENT)

NOVEL

FICTION FOR YOUNGER READERS

COLLECTIONS

AUDIO

ART

SHORT NON-FICTION

LONG NON-FICTION

BEST TRANSLATED SHORT WORK (Juried Award)*

*Our Jurors for this award are Cristina Jurado, Rachel Cordasco and Nadya Mercik.

The UK has a long history of science fiction conventions, dating back to 1891. Eastercon is  traditionally organised around Easter weekend by voluntary self-organising committees, rather than a permanent entity. It has been around since the 1940s. The BFSA Awards first launched in 1970 and has been a fixture of Eastercon ever since.

Eastercon 2026 & 2027 Announced

Iridescence is the name for the UK’s next Eastercon. It will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026.

Eastercon is the UK’s longest-running Science Fiction convention. It mostly focuses on literature and book-related matters, but not exclusively. Its Guests of Honour include RJ Barker, Emma Newman and Karen Lord, who are all well-regarded, award-winning science fiction and fantasy authors.

You can register to attend the event by going to their website Eastercon2026.org .

Details of 2027’s Eastercon have also been confirmed – it will be called Unconfined, and it will run from the 26-29 March 2027 at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow.

Its Guests of Honour include P. Djeli Clark, LR Lam and Tamsin Muir. More details can be found on easterconglasgow.org

Lucasfilm Announces MAUL: SHADOW LORD Animated Series

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Fan-favourite Star Wars villain Darth Maul is getting his own series, titled Maul: Shadow Lord. The new animated series for Disney+ was announced at Star Wars Celebration in the final minutes of a panel spotlighting the 20th anniversary of Lucasfilm Animation.

Rather than any kind of announcement, though, Lucasfilm CCO Dave Filoni simply dropped a full trailer on the assembled crowd (which, to torture the rest of us, they have yet to release online).

The show will tell the story of Maul as the head of his crime syndicate in the Imperial era of the Star Wars timeline, and see him take on an apprentice. The series is expected to debut in 2026, though no release date has yet been confirmed. Sam Witwer, who voiced the character in previous animated series, will reprise the role.

First appearing in 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul cut a memorable figure with his unique colouring and double-edged lightsaber, and proved deadly when he struck down Jedia Qui-Gon (Liam Neeson), Obi-Wan Kenobi’s mentor. Though he was later cut in two by a young Obi-Wan, the character was cybernetically resurrected in the animated series The Clone Wars.

Watch below for the announcement video published on Star Wars’ social media accounts:

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Releases Full Trailer

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A new trailer for the Fantastic Four’s highly anticipated MCU debut, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, finally reveals a first look at Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer. While the trailer had debuted earlier this month at CinemaCon, Marvel have only this week released the footage online, which you can check out below.

Set in a 60s-inspired retro-futuristic world, the upcoming film follows Marvel’s First Family as they rise to defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his herald, the Silver Surfer, even as the people they’re protecting begin to lose faith in the team.

Fantastic Four stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. British actor Ralph Ineson is the big bad villain Galactus, and Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, and Natasha Lyonne also star in as-yet undisclosed roles.

The film hails from WandaVision helmer Matt Shakman, directing from a script by Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. The latest version of the screenplay is from Eric Pearson, who also worked on Marvel’s forthcoming Thunderbolts*. 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be released in cinemas on July 25th, 2025. Watch the trailer below: