The Ford Brothers Resurrecting THE DEAD 3

After the hit first film in 2010, Jon and Howard Ford are set to produce the second sequel to The Dead.

With The Deadbeing set in West Africa, and the 2013 sequel The Dead 2: India moving continents, it’ll be interesting to see where the next zombie outbreak will happen.

Synopsis: With the world in chaos, a man, torn apart by the murder of his family, uncovers a global conspiracy which has brought the flesh hungry dead back to life. He will stop at nothing to battle his way across a deadly landscape to unleash a blood soaked, violent, revenge on the greedy, corporate, super rich, hiding in paradise, in secure island fortresses, waiting to inherit what remains, as the world burns in a fire of their own creation.

Jon Ford said today: “I wrote The Dead 3 with more terror, anger and rage coursing through my veins than any ‘sane’ human being should ever know! This, the final and most important film of the trilogy, is going to shock, outrage, and please, in equal measure! It’s been a long time coming…”

Howard Ford added: ‘I get asked almost every day if we are ever going to make The Dead 3 and given the challenges and real life near-death of both 1 and 2 on the incredibly arduous productions we’ve not yet jumped at it, but with Jon’s fiery inspirations to dive back in with a killer script I feel 2026 is the now-or never for the third and final chapter!’ 

We’ll have more details soon…

Check Out the DOCTOR PLAGUE Trailer

The trailer for Ben Fortune’s Doctor Plague has been released.

Synopsis: Cynical London detective John Verney (Martin Kemp) hunts a menacing masked serial killer who stalks London dressed as a 17th-century Plague Doctor. As the body count rises, John finds himself under pressure from his superior, who dismisses the murders as routine gang violence. Adding to the chaos, a swarm of journalists starving for sensational headlines circles ever closer, ready to twist the case into whatever story will sell.

As the pressure mounts to catch the killer, the detective is drawn into a deadly web involving secret cults and even the infamous 19th-century serial murderer Jack the Ripper. When his son vanishes into the hands of abductors and the people he once trusted turn against him, John is forced to take justice into his own hands. Pushed to the edge with nowhere else to turn, he descends into the shadowy maze beneath the city, an underground world where a long-buried malevolence waits. To save his child, he must confront the darkness others refuse to face, even if it costs him everything.

The cast also features a strong supporting ensemble, including Peter Woodward (Babylon 5), David Yip (A View to a Kill), Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Renegades), Wendy Glenn (You’re Next), and Daisy Beaumont (The World Is Not Enough), each bringing their own distinct presence to the film.

Doctor Plague is a Shogun Films Production in association with Empire Studios. Directed by Ben Fortune, produced by Jonathan Sothcott, and written by Robert Dunn and Simon Cluett. The film will be released on UK digital platforms on January 12th, 2026 via Miracle Media. Watch the trailer below:

Scarlett Johansson In Final Talks For THE BATMAN PART II

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Four years after leaving behind her Black Widow suit, Scarlett Johansson is headed to the DC Universe, by way of Gotham City. The actress is reportedly in final talks to join The Batman Part II, the long-gestating sequel to Matt Reeves’ 2022 film.

Reports state she will first film The Exorcist, the upcoming project from Mike Flanagan which she signed onto late last month, before doing Batman. The sequel aims to begin filming next year.

It’s been a long road to The Batman Part II, which Warner Bros. first announced in April 2022. By early 2023, DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran had said the film would be released in October 2025, before pushing it back to October 2026, and now to October 2027. Robert Pattinson will return to star as Bruce Wayne, with filmmaker Reeves both directing and co-writing the script with Mattson Tomlin.

Plot details and any news of additional casting are being kept locked down in Arkham… it’s not even clear whether Barry Keoghan’s Joker, teased in the final moments of the first film, is involved with the sequel.

That hasn’t stopped outlets and fans alike from speculating about who Johansson might play, however. Harley Quinn has already had a lot of screen time with Joker: Folie à Deux, so her character appearing in Reeves’ film seems somewhat unlikely. Likewise, Sofia Falcone is already being played by Cristin Milioti in the spinoff series The Penguin. Speculations abound that Johansson could play Andrea Beaumont, aka Phantasm, an old flame of Bruce’s in the comics and a serial-killer villain. Again, however, this is little more than guesswork at this point.

New MEN IN BLACK Film Is In The Works

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Sony is hoping to see the galaxy’s defenders travel back to the big screen, with news that Chris Bremner has been hired to pen the screenplay for a new feature in the Men in Black franchise. The studio has yet to attach a director or cast for the sci-fi series instalment.

Adapting Lowell Cunningham’s Marvel Comics series, director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1997 film starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as agents of a secret government agency that oversees extra-terrestrial activity on Earth. Smith and Jones would return for 2002’s Men in Black II and 2012’s Men in Black 3.

The franchise was then rebooted in 2019 with Men in Black: International, which starred Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, but in which neither Smith nor Jones appeared.

Bremner is a frequent collaborator of Will Smith, which may indicate the return of some of the original cast. Bremner’s credits include 2020’s Bad Boys for Life and 2024’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which starred Smith and Martin Lawrence. Bremner also worked on Fast and Loose, the upcoming Netflix action feature to which Smith is attached.

Stay tuned for updates on the project as we hear them, including who might direct this next chapter!

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME Drops Trailer!

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At last, the trailer and first poster for Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s sequel film, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, have been released.

Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.

Samara Weaving stars in Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s (Scream VI, Abigail, the forthcoming instalment in The Mummy franchise) sequel Ready or Not 2. Joining the film series are Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Shawn Hatosy, and Elijah Wood (The Monkey). Néstor Carbonell (The Dark Knight), Kevin Durand (Abigail), and David Cronenberg (The Fly) round out the cast. Guy Busick (Abigail, Scream) and R. Christopher Murphy (Castle Rock) return to pen the script, along with producers Tripp Vinson (Murder Mystery), James Vanderbilt (Zodiac), Bradley J. Fischer (Transformers), and William Sherak (Abigail, Scream).

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come will be in cinemas on 10th April 2026. Watch the trailer below and check out the poster:

MOTHER MARY Trailer Teases Psychosexual Thriller

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This is not a ghost story. This is not a love story. This is a prayer, a song, a dress, a communion. A betrayal, a sacrifice, a rebirth. At least, so promises the first official trailer for the much-anticipated A24 film, Mother Mary.

Written and directed by David Lowery (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story), the psychosexual pop thriller stars Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel.

In the film, long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance. Cue spooky seances, simmering sexual tension, and religious symbolism aplenty.

Hunter Schafer, Atheena Frizzell, Kaia Gerber, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alba Baptista, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Sian Clifford, and FKA Twigs also star. The movie features original songs by Jack Antonoff, Charli xcx, and FKA Twigs.

Lowery has called this project a “weird, weird film” that is partly inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. He has also likened it to shooting Apocalypse Now.

Mother Mary is due to release in cinemas in April 2026, with an exact date yet to be announced (so stay tuned). Watch the trailer below:

Supernatural Horror Movie THE NAMELESS BALLAD Starts Shooting

Federico Zampaglioni directs The Nameless Ballad

The Nameless Ballad, the new feature by Federico Zampaglione (Shadow, The Well) has officially commenced filming in Fara Sabina in Italy. After the international success of The Well, the Italian director is back behind the camera to tell a terrifying story steeped in mystery, set in the music scene.

Jamie Ward (His Dark Materials) stars as Sam Gallo, a young, successful musician with a fragile, introverted personality. Crushed by the pressure to create new songs and haunted by addictions, Sam retreats to an isolated villa in search of inspiration. However, his vulnerabilities make him an ideal prey for the dark presences inhabiting the house. Entities that feed on his anguish and deepest fears, luring him into a labyrinth of visions, torment, and self-destruction. His partner, Tania (Alana Boden, I Am Elizabeth Smart) is also drawn into this spiral of horror.

Written by Zampaglione and Barbara Baraldi (Dylan Dog), the film takes the viewer on a journey along the thin line between imagination and nightmare.

The cast also includes: Giglia Marra (Morrison), Fabrizio Ferracane (Black Souls), Seumas Sargent (The Signal), Reed Stokes (The Tour Guide), Mia Desando, Vincenzo De Michele, and Sergio Ceglie. A special additional cast member will be revealed soon, and is set to delight fans of the genre.

Zampaglione comments: “Although deeply rooted in the supernatural, this is probably my most personal film, because it is inspired by my work as a musician and singer. With The Nameless Ballad, I brought the story onto an imaginative and daring plane, where, in the shadows of the music world, every note awakens a ghost and some melodies demand blood before fading away.”

The Nameless Ballad is expected to premiere at major genre festivals in 2026.

HELLDIVERS Adaptation Locks In Director

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Nearly a year after Sony Pictures first announced it would bring Helldivers to the silver screen, news has finally come that long-time The Fast and the Furious franchise director Justin Lin is on board to helm the video game adaptation. Gary Dauberman, best known for penning It and Annabelle, has authored the script for the project.

Lin will also produce the film via his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner, with Hutch Parker and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan co-producing.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Lin aims to “find the humanity in the characters and weave timely themes” into the story for the film adaptation while building out the world and mythology. Helldivers launched in 2015 as a top-down shooter game. The 2024 sequel switched to a third-person perspective.

Heavily inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s classic 1997 action film Starship Troopers, Helldivers and its sequels follow an elite unit of shock troopers in the 22nd century who must battle aliens known simply as Bugs, Cyborgs, and Illuminate, who threaten to destroy the interplanetary empire of Super Earth.

Though best known for his work on the Fast & Furious franchise, Justin Lin also directed Star Trek Beyond, and has worked on television series like Magnum P.I., Scorpion, and Community.

Diane Kruger Searches For Her Lost Lover In VISIONS Trailer

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Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, National Treasure) stars in the trailer for the psychological thriller and mystery feature Visions, a French film with some distinct Hitchcockian influences.

Kruger stars as Estelle, a brilliant airline captain who leads a seemingly perfect life with her renowned doctor husband, Guillaume (Mathieu Kassovitz, writer and director of the iconic ’90s film La Haine). However, things are soon thrown into chaos when Estelle falls in love with Ana (Marta Nieto) and begins an intense affair. The situation takes a sinister turn when Ana inexplicably goes missing, and Estelle comes to believe her husband is the one responsible.

Black Box and A Perfect Man director Yann Gozlan helms the film from a script he co-wrote with Michel Fessler, Aurélie Valat, Jean-Baptiste Delafon, and Audrey Diwan.

Amira Casar, Grégory Fitoussi, and Élodie Navarre round out the cast.

Though the film initially premiered on August 24th, 2023 at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival and was later released theatrically in France on September 6th, 2023, it is only now getting its release in the United States. Visions will release in select US cinemas and on VOD on December 12th, distributed by Dark Sky Films.

Watch the subtitled trailer below:

Trailer Teases A Bloody End To The Trilogy In THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3

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The teaser trailer for The Strangers: Chapter 3 has just been released, promising a bloody end to the trilogy that began in 2024 (itself a reboot of the franchise that began with the 2008 film The Strangers, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman). Aiming to be the franchise’s darkest entry yet, Chapter 3 will expand the mythology of the iconic masked killers.

Riverdale‘s Madelaine Petsch returns as Maya for the final girl’s long-awaited vengeance, locked on an unforgiving collision course with the Strangers. Renny Harlin returns to direct from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland. The film also stars Gabriel Basso, Emma Horvath, Pablo Sandstrom, and Richard Brake.

Per the official synopsis, “Maya faces the masked killers one last time in a clash of survival and revenge… this won’t just be another round of cat-and-mouse, but a confrontation that closes the loop on everything the killers have done to her.”

On the third film, director Harlin told Fangoria earlier this year: “Chapter 3 is… I mean, first of all, you have to see all these movies to really enjoy them to the fullest. But when you see what we have in store, in terms of how Madeleine’s character changes and twists… When you’ve been tortured enough and chased enough and pushed hard enough, when you come to a breaking point, what happens? I actually get chills now when I’m thinking about it and talking about it, because it’s going to be such a surprise for the audience. I promise that it’s something that you could not, in your wildest dreams, expect to happen.”

The Strangers: Chapter 3 releases on February 6th, 2026.