THE BOYS Sets Season 3 Release Date

The Boys season 3 premiere date announced by Amazon Prime Video

It’s been a long wait folks, but The Boys Season 3 has finally set an official release date: the superhero satire series will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on June 3rd. The announcement dropped on Twitter by way of a short teaser video showing Homelander’s (Antony Starr) unsettlingly wavering ‘photo op’ smile, as the press snaps picture after picture. Let’s just say that we’re sensing another murder spree up ahead.

Although the news reports from the Vought News Network channel have served to bridge the extended hiatus between seasons, it will still have been 20 long months since we last Butcher’s band of rebels – fair to say that fans have shown remarkable patience. The hit show will return with a three-episode premiere that Friday, with new episodes releasing weekly leading to a season finale July 8th, 2022 – including the much-publicised “Herogasm” episode, which is confirmed to drop June 24th.

In the meantime, we’ve compiled all that we know so far about The Boys’ upcoming third season, including Jensen Ackles’ highly anticipated series debut as Soldier Boy and potential new heroes joining the fold.

You can also check out the Season 3 First Look clip for yourself below, though (in typical fashion) it gives near-nothing away:

SCOTT PILGRIM Anime Series In The Works

Scott Pilgrim vs the World film poster by Edgar Wright

Scott Pilgrim is making its way back to the screen as a planned anime series courtesy of Netflix and UCP (the same people behind The Umbrella Academy and Chucky), reveals The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive. Originally a hit graphic novel series created by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim later gained further recognition after Edgar Wright’s 2010 film adaptation garnered an impressive and dedicated cult following – this despite Bob-ombing at the box office.

Part action fantasy, part romantic-comedy, Scott Pilgrim centres on the titular character and slacker musician (played by Michael Cera), as he attempts to win a competition to receive a record deal while also battling the seven evil exes of his love interest Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The impressive cast also included future MCU heavy-hitters Chris Evans and Brie Larson, and Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza and Mae Whitman.

O’Malley is writing and executive producing the series with BenDavid Grabinski (Are You Afraid of the Dark?) and, should the project receive a series order, would serve as showrunners. Wright and producing partner Nira Park would also receive executive producer credits, along with the Marc Platt Productions team and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World‘s co-writer Michael Bacall.

Fingers crossed it gets picked up, then!

 

 

 

THE LAST THING MARY SAW Brings 1800s Religious Terror To Shudder

The Last Thing Mary Saw trailer lands on Shudder

Orphan star Isabelle Fuhrman heads back to 1843 in the upcoming period horror The Last Thing Mary Saw, releasing exclusively to Shudder on January 20th.

Written and directed by Edoardo Vitaletti in his feature-length debut, The Last Thing Mary Saw opens in Southold, New York. As per the synopsis, we first meet Young Mary (Stefanie Scott, Insidious: Chapter 3), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, as she is being interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death.

As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Fuhrman), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are seeing, speaking, and acting on God’s behalf, view the girls’ relationship as an abomination, to be dealt with as severely as possible. The couple attempt to carry on in secret, but someone is always watching, or listening, and the wages of perceived sin threaten to become death, with the tension only heightened by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger (Rory Culkin, Lords of Chaos) and the revelation of greater forces at work.

Reviewed by STARBURST as part of our FrightFest coverage, The Last Thing Mary Saw is described as “a stunning piece of cinema, beautifully filmed and seething with an oppressive atmosphere… It’s less a story of witchcraft, supernatural, and more of feminine power and the power puritanical religion has to blind and control.”

The Last Thing Mary Saw releases Thursday, January 20th on Shudder. Watch the official trailer below: 

WESTWORLD Creator To Direct FALLOUT Series; CAPTAIN MARVEL Writer Is Showrunner

Fallout 76 video game

The long-gestating series adaptation of the bestselling game franchise Fallout is finally coming together. The series is being co-developed by Amazon Studios and Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films, with Captain Marvel and Tomb Raider‘s Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Silicon Valley’s Graham Wagner now on board as showrunners.

It’s also been confirmed that Nolan is due to direct the series premiere, which will begin production later this year. Though best known for his producing work, Nolan has also proven himself in the director’s chair, having directed the pilot episode of HBO’s Westworld (which he also co-created and executive produces with Joy) as well as its Season 1 finale and Season 3 premiere.

Fallout 4 game still

The show was first announced in July 2021. “Fallout is one of the greatest game series of all time,” Joy and Nolan said in a joint statement at the time. “Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studios.”

It’s still unclear whether the Amazon series will directly adapt the plot of one of the post-apocalyptic games, or if it will tell its own original story set within the Fallout universe, but stay tuned for more details.

 

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Film & Peacock Series Will Share A Universe

Battlestar Galactica centurion

While promoting his star-studded actioner The 355, director Simon Kinberg also provided some updates on his upcoming Battlestar Galactica film. It’s been almost 13 years since the SYFY reboot wrapped up its fourth and final season, and some 43 years since the short-lived but much-loved original series concluded, but fans now have a new series and a film to look forward to; and as it turns out, those two projects are more interlinked than originally thought.

Speaking with Collider, Kinberg revealed that his movie for Universal will share a universe with Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail’s planned Peacock series: “In terms of the situation with Sam and the show, I can’t say too much about it other than there is synergy between the two enterprises and constant communication between us. We’ve become close and been having a really good time together and there will be, for lack of a better phrase and it’s an overused phrase, a shared universe.” Kinberg adds that “there are connections [to the 2004 series] but it is certainly not simply a continuation or a remake of Ron Moore’s masterpiece.”

Battlestar Galactica 2004 cast

As for how much longer fans will have to wait for the film, “we are in the process of going out to directors and the hope is to attach a director and start prepping the movie this year,” says Kinberg. “It’s a megillah, humongous film and the prep will be a very long prep period so I would imagine even if we attached a director today it would take six, nine months to prep this movie properly. So at the earliest, we’d be shooting at the end of this year. We’d probably be shooting at the beginning of next year.”

Neither the Battlestar Galactica film nor the television series have yet received release dates, but stay tuned for more information as we get it.

Stephen Moyer & Alicia Silverstone Face The Apocalypse In LAST SURVIVORS

Alicia Silverstone in Last Survivors

Vertical Entertainment has just released the official trailer for Last Survivors, an apocalyptic thriller directed by Drew Mylrea from a script by Josh Janowicz.

“After the wars, it was very obvious who was prepared and who wasn’t,” narrates Drew Van Acker (Titans, Pretty Little Liars) in the trailer’s opening frames. “There’s those who are prepared for opportunities and setbacks, and those who are not. I feel real lucky to have the dad I do.”

Last Survivors takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where Troy (True Blood’s Stephen Moyer) raises his now grown son, Jake (Van Acker), in a perfect wooded utopia thousands of miles away from the decayed cities. When Troy is severely wounded, Jake is forced to travel to the outside world to find life-saving medicine. Ordered to kill anyone he encounters, Jake defies his father by engaging in a forbidden relationship with a mysterious woman, Henrietta (Alicia Silverstone). As Jake continues this dangerous affair, Troy will stop at nothing to get rid of Henrietta and protect the perfect utopia he created.

Last Survivors releases February 4th. Check out the trailer below, and our FrightFest review of the film here.

Andrea Riseborough Is A Grief-Stricken Mother In HERE BEFORE

Here Before from writer-director Stacey Gregg stars Andrea Riseborough as Laura

The ever-talented Andrea Riseborough – who has appeared in some of the best cult genre films of the last few years, such as Mandy and Possessor – stars as a grieving mother in Saban Films’ newest release, the Belfast-set Here Before. 

The psychological thriller follows Laura (Riseborough), a grieving mother who comes to believe her neighbours’ daughter Megan (newcomer Niamh Dornan), is the reincarnation of the child she lost. As her convictions grow stronger and her obsession becomes all-consuming, the lines between what’s real and what’s imagined begin to blur… and Laura’s behaviour becomes all the more dangerous.

After premiering at SXSW Film Festival last year, writer-director Stacey Gregg‘s debut feature film is finally releasing commercially this February. Ahead of this, Saban Films has released the film’s first official trailer, which also stars Jonjo O’Neill, Jesse Frazer-Filer, Martin McCann, and Eileen O’Higgins.

Here Before releases in cinemas February 11th, before landing on VOD platforms February 15th. Watch the trailer below:

ARCHIVE 81 Supernatural Thriller Series Teases Something Sinister

Archive 81 Netflix series trailer

Netflix has just released the first trailer for its upcoming series Archive 81, from showrunner, writer and executive producer Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, The Vampire Diaries). Horror titan James Wan also exec produces the supernatural thriller.

The series, inspired by the popular 2018 podcast of the same name, follows archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie, the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion, Underwater) who takes on a mysterious job restoring a collection of damaged videotapes from 1994. He finds himself reconstructing the work of documentary filmmaker Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi, Altered Carbon, Daredevil), who was investigating a dangerous demonic cult; as Dan delves deeper into the archives, he becomes convinced that he can save Melody from a terrifying fate.

Archive 81 also features Martin Donovan, Matt McGorry, Julia Chan, Evan Jongikeit and Ariana Neal.

The series premieres on January 14th. Watch the full trailer below.

 

Keanu Reeves In Talks To Star In THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Keanu Reeves to star in series adaptation of The Devil in the White City. Still from The Matrix Resurrections

It seems The Matrix and John Wick‘s Keanu Reeves is headed to the 1893 World’s Fair in The Devil In The White City. Deadline reports that Reeves is in negotiations to star in the television adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 nonfiction book, which interweaves two plotlines: the story of Daniel H. Burnham, a brilliant architect trying to make his mark on the world, and of Dr H. H. Holmes, a charismatic criminal figure – often credited as the first modern serial killer – who lured victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed “Murder Castle”, a palace he built to seduce, torture and mutilate young women. There’s no word yet on which of the two roles Reeves might play, though we’d love to see him tackle the latter.

The project has been stuck in development hell since 2010, when Leonardo DiCaprio won the rights to the book and brought Martin Scorsese on to direct a big-screen adaptation – the long-time collaborators are still attached as executive producers, despite the project moving from Warner Bros. to Paramount, for a release on Hulu. Todd Field (Little Children) is on board to direct the first two episodes of the series, with Castle Rock creator Sam Shaw as lead writer.

 

Marvel’s MORBIUS Delays Release Date

Jared Leto in Morbius

Less than a month ahead of its intended January 28th release and amidst the current Omicron surge, Marvel and Sony have announced that Morbius has again had its theatrical release date pushed back, this time to April 1st – this despite the incredible success which the studios are currently enjoying with Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Jared Leto stars as Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who unintentionally turned himself into a living vampire while attempting to cure a rare blood disease – the comics anti-hero’s newfound abilities include increased strength and speed, as well as some form of ‘bat radar’. However, Morbius soon discovers that the cure comes at a great cost: an urge to hunt and consume blood that he struggles to control.

Daniel Espinosa directs the pic, which also stars Matt Smith as Loxias Crown, Jared Harris as Emil Nikols, Tyrese Gibson as Simon Stroud and Adria Arjona as Martine Bancroft. Michael Keaton is also expected to feature and reprise his Spider-Man: Homecoming role as Adrian Toomes, aka The Vulture.

This is far from the first time that the horror thriller has had its release date moved, though it’s hopefully the last. In the meantime, you can check out the full trailer for the upcoming Sony-Marvel film here.