ROBOCOP Series To Be Produced By James Wan

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Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with their planned RoboCop television series, now with horror genre titan James Wan on board to executive produce through his Atomic Monster label.

Peter Ocko has also been brought on to write, executive produce and showrun the project. He is best known for his writing and producing work on a number of popular television series, including Pushing Daisies, The Office, The Leftovers, Elementary, Black Sails, and recently Lodge 49.

As Deadline states, “The series will follow the premise of the films, focusing on a giant tech conglomerate which collaborates with the local police department to introduce a technologically advanced enforcer to combat rising crime — a police officer who’s part man, part machine.”

This isn’t the first time that RoboCop has been adapted to television. The first film, starring Peter Weller, premiered in 1987. It was followed by two sequels, Robocop 2 in 1990, Robocop 3 in 1993 and 2014’s Robocop, a remake of the 1987 film. After the first three films were released, RoboCop: The Series premiered in 1994 with Richard Eden in the titular role, though the series lacked the graphic violence of the first two films and was targeted more towards children and teenagers.  

Matthias Schoenaerts Is SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW’s Villain

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Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts has secured the villain role in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow opposite House of the Dragon star Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El. The DC Studios pic is being directed by Craig Gillespie.

The feature is inspired by the 2021 Tom King and Bilquis Evely comic run and will, therefore, mark a departure from the sweet, earnest take on the character we’ve previously witnessed in the CW Supergirl series. Woman of Tomorrow will reportedly be more akin to a grand sci-fi adventure film, based on the eight-issue miniseries that focused on Kara Zor-El’s quest in space, aided by Krypto, and was told from the perspective of the new character Ruthye, an alien girl that Kara meets and is looking for justice for her father’s death. In the comics, the villain who kills the girl’s father is Krem of the Yellow Hills. It’s unclear whether that’s who Schoenaerts will portray. The screenplay adaptation hails from Ana Nogueira.

Matthias Schoenaerts is best known for his starring role in 2012’s Rust and Bone and The Loft, as well as Red Sparrow and A Hidden Life. He starred opposite Charlize Theron in the superhero film The Old Guard, and will reprise his role in the upcoming sequel.

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is expected in cinemas on June 26th, 2026.

Kyle Chandler Is LANTERNS’ Hal Jordan

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HBO‘s DC series Lanterns has found its Hal Jordan in Emmy winner Kyle Chandler. The Friday Night Lights and Godzilla franchise star is set to play the legendary member of the Green Lantern Corps.

Lanterns is described as having a gritty, True Detective vibe as it focuses on Jordan reluctantly mentoring a younger Lantern, John Stewart. The story sees the two characters investigating an Earth-bound murder with larger implications.

Hailing from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof (Lost, Watchmen) and comics writer Tom King, Lanterns scored a straight-to-series order this summer after years trapped in development hell. The three are co-writing and exec producing the series.

As we reported at the time: “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 Lantern 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.””

Casting is ongoing, though the series is looking to begin filming next January in Atlanta, so we should find out soon who will star opposite Kyle Chandler.

The Devil Follows Michael B. Jordan Home In SINNERS Trailer

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Black Panther and Creed helmer Ryan Coogler’s mysterious horror movie Sinners is on its way to our screens early next year, and Warner Bros. has finally released the official trailer for the Michael B. Jordan-starring flick.

Set in 1930s Jim Crow-era Louisiana, Sinners: Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan in a dual role) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. After all, you keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home…

Early reports of the project described it as a period vampire film, though the trailer leaves it unclear whether that remains the case.

Jordan is joined by an impressive cast, including Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee, Hawkeye), Jack O’Connell (Ferrari, the upcoming 28 Years Later), Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country, Deadpool & Wolverine), Jayme Lawson (The Woman King, The Batman) and Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods, The Harder They Fall).

Coogler writes and directs the Deep South-set horror, and co-produces the film under his banner, Proximity Media. Sinners is Jordan and Coogler’s fifth film together, following Fruitvale Station, Creed, and the two Black Panther films. 

Sinners releases in cinemas from March 7th, 2025. Watch the trailer below:

V/H/S/BEYOND Trailer Unleashed For Halloween Season

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The V/H/S franchise is back with a brand new Shudder Original, V/H/S/BEYOND. The horror anthology has released the first official trailer ahead of its release to the Shudder platform on October 4th, just in time for the Halloween season.

The seventh instalment in the series “will feature six new bloodcurdling tapes, placing horror at the forefront of a sci-fi-inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense”. The other entries include V/H/S/2, V/H/S: Viral, V/H/S/94, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/85, and two spin-offs, Siren and Kids vs. Aliens.

Here’s the full list of segments and directors for the upcoming anthology, packed with big and exciting names in the genre realm:

Stork – directed by Jordan Downey, screenplay by Downey and Kevin Stewart
Amidst a string of baby disappearances, a police unit finds itself searching for clues inside a dilapidated house.

Fur Babies – written and directed by Christian Long and Justin Long
Animal rights activists sneak inside a taxidermist’s house, only to discover a gruesome secret in her basement.

Live and Let Dive – directed by Justin Martinez, story by Martinez and Ben Turner, screenplay by Turner
A group of friends go skydiving for the first time. Mid-air, their plane collides with a UFO, causing them to free fall. Upon landing in an orange grove, the group’s fight for survival begins.

Dream Girl – directed by Virat Pal, written by Pal and Evan Dickson
Two paparazzi sneak behind the scenes on the set of a Bollywood movie. The celebrity chasers discover consequences for their so-called “found footage” way worse than trespassing charges when they find superstar Tara waiting in her trailer.

Stowaway – directed by Kate Siegel, written by Mike Flanagan
A woman sets out to document the appearance of strange lights hovering above the Mojave desert.

V/H/S/Beyond is presented by Jay Cheel.

The MCU’s Shadier Characters Unite In THUNDERBOLTS* Teaser Trailer

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Brace yourselves, but here’s a teaser trailer for a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie that actually looks… well, good? The first trailer for Thunderbolts* (the asterisk is new but apparently mandatory) opens with Florence Pugh’s depressed assassin, Yelena Belova, expressing a lack of fulfilment in her present career. That slump does not last long though, as she is soon crossing paths with a collection of the franchise’s shadier characters.

“Everyone here has done bad things,” Yelena tells her fellow depressed antiheroes, including John Walker, aka U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Ava Starr, aka Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Antonia Dreykov, aka Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), as they are trapped by an unseen actor. The trailer also sees Lewis Pullman as Bob/Sentry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian and of course, Sebastian Stan returning as Bucky Barnes. We also get a brief glimpse of Geraldine Viswanathan as Val’s assistant, Mel.

It’s a compelling teaser trailer, with lots of gritty, grounded action. Though it’s a full three-and-a-half-minute preview, very little plot is revealed, as the Marvel powers that be focus instead on introducing the new team’s roster.

– this one arrives hot on the heels of Captain America: Brave New World, hopefully a one-two punch of pacy political thrillers to kick-start Marvel’s year. Elsewhere, we see the return of Julia Louis Dreyfus’ meddling Val and a brief glimpse of Geraldine Viswanathan’s incoming assistant Mel. Oh, and was that Loki’s sceptre in a glass case? Given that this is a three-and-a-half-minute teaser, there’s relatively little plot here – the real focus is on introducing the members of the team. Check them out here in poster form:

Jack Schreier directs the flick. Thunderbolts* will arrive hot on the heels of Captain America: Brave New World, and will release May 2nd, 2025. It’s intended to be the last entry of Phase Five.

Watch the Thunderbolts* teaser trailer below:

NYX UK Celebrates Bela Lugosi’s Birthday This October Plus More Premieres

This October on NYX UK promises to be extra horrific with 12 channel premieres, a celebration of Bela Lugosi in honour of his birthday, and a fitting screening of a John Carpenter classic.

Amongst the premieres are Alejandro Jodorowsky’s superb Santa Sangre (1989), Stewart Sparke’s indie goryfest Book of Monsters (2018), Hank Braxton’s zom-com Glowzies (2023), Michael Pereira’s debut Beyond the Chamber of Terror (2021), Edward Sánchez’s Lovely Molly (2011), Israel’s first horror movie Rabies (2010), and the 2020 remake of Castle Freak. Other premieres include Roxanne Benjamin’s Body at Brighton Rock (2019), Stephen Cognetti’s Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire, the superb mockumentary Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018), Danny Draven’s Restitution (2024), and William Peter Blatty’s The Ninth Configuration (1980).

To commemorate the birthday of horror legend Bela Lugosi on October 20th, there are screenings of two of his best, White Zombie (1932) and Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932).

On Halloween night itself, what other film is more fitting than John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 Halloween?

NYX UK can be found on Freeview 271, Channelbox App, TCL TVs, and Distro TV

For more information, head over to www.nyxtv.co.uk

Netflix Debuts Trailer For Sam Raimi-Produced Thriller DON’T MOVE

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Strap yourselves in for some Sam Raimi-approved horror thrills this Halloween season, as Netflix debuts the full official trailer for the cat-and-mouse thriller Don’t Move. Starring Kelsey Asbille and Finn Wittrock and produced by Raimi, the film premieres on the streaming platform on October 25th.

In Don’t Move, a grieving woman (Asbille) hoping to find solace deep in an isolated forest encounters a stranger (Wittrock) who injects her with a paralytic agent. As the agent gradually takes over her body, she must run, hide and fight for her life before her entire nervous system shuts down.

Written by T.J. Cimfel and David White, the film was directed by Adam Schindler and Brian Netto. It was produced by Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi of Raimi Productions, Christian Mercuri’s Capstone Studios, Alex Lebovici of Hammerstone Studios, and Sarah Sarandos.

Asbille is best known for her roles in TV shows Fargo and Yellowstone, while Wittrock is best known for his work across multiple seasons of American Horror Story. Netto previously directed the pregnancy horror Delivery, which he had co-written with Schindler; in turn, Schindler has directed Intruders, which was written by Cimfel and White.

Watch the full trailer for Don’t Move below:

Samara Weaving “All In” On READY OR NOT 2

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Scream queen Samara Weaving has said she’s “all in” to reprise her role as bridal final girl Grace Le Domas for a potential sequel to the 2019 horror hit Ready or Not, which elevated Radio Silence directing duo Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin to household names. The pair have since directed Scream, Scream VI – in which Weaving had a memorable cameo – and Abigail.

Speaking with ComicBook.com, Weaving said: “I’m all in. I think we’re all in, I don’t know. I think we’re all in. I don’t know if we’ve had our blood handshake, but pretty much. We’ve done the spit handshake, but we haven’t cut each other’s hands and rubbed our blood together.”

A sequel to Ready or Not was announced earlier this year, though there’s no release date yet on the project. Adam Robitel, best known for helming Escape Room, has reportedly been tapped to direct the sequel.

“It’s getting figured out,” Gillett told EW in April. “That’s what we’ll say: Ready or Not 2 is getting figured out. What we can say is that there is a script that is an absolute f—ing banger of a sequel. And however it gets made, and in whatever capacity we are helping get it made, we are so excited that it’s happening. That movie is truly the love of our creative lives in a lot of ways.”

Back in 2019, Weaving teased that she thought authorities might not believe her when they came to investigate what had happened to the wealthy Le Domas family and found only corpses and exploded bodies. “I wonder what happens afterwards. Does she go to jail? Does she go to an asylum for psychiatric help? Does she inherit everything? I don’t know,” Weaving had said. “Or the police would say that she did it on purpose. I don’t know… Sitting in a jail cell for 90 minutes, just going insane.”

Samara Weaving will next be seen in survival horror Azrael.

New Posters Revealed for JITTERS

Red or Green what can it mean? There are dark things at play in Jitters… Check out the brand-new posters for Marc Zammit’s thriller chiller Jitters, which is currently in production in the UK.

Following the success of his recent film Witch, Marc Zammit’s new feature produced alongside James Fuller of Aptitude Films, Jitters is set to be a nerve-jangling original chiller starring Fabrizio Santino as Detective Collymore, Anto Sharp as Detective Harding, DanielJordan as Jitters and featuring Boo Miller as Taylor, Jess Impiazzi as Tiff, and Richard Wiskers as Jake.

Synopsis

When Detective Collymore, a divorced single father, stumbles upon a disturbing case that involves the death of a woman, he refuses to believe that she died of natural cause. Delving deep into the case, he soon discovers someone or something that tips his world on its axis and sends him headlong into the twisted, perilous world of Jitters… Entering the unknown, he’s thrown into a mind-bending journey where reality blurs and nothing is what it seems. In a battle of wills, he must determine what’s real and what’s fantasy and outsmart this malevolent force… but is it real, or is it the stuff of nightmares you may never wake up from?

This spine-chilling thrill ride is full of intrigue and psychological twists galore; prepare for a fear-filled journey beyond your wildest fears.

Keep watching for more news on Jitters. You can find more images from the film here.