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Robert King and Michelle King are diving back into the world of legal dramas for a Silicon Valley-based story that’s currently in development for CBS, TVLine has confirmed.

Tentatively titled Cupertino after the city that houses Apple’s headquarters, the project is described as a “David vs. Goliath legal show” set in the San Francisco Bay Area’s high-tech hub. The Kings are writing the script and executive-producing. Liz Glotzer is also on board as an additional EP.

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard will voice the audiobook edition of her first memoir.

Audiobook publisher RBmedia announced Tuesday that Blanchard will narrate the audiobook edition of her first memoir, My Time to Stand: A Memoir. Written by Blanchard with Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani, the memoir will release in December, a year after Blanchard’s release from prison.

Blanchard said in a statement: “I can’t think of a better way to connect with readers than for them to hear my voice as I read the words of my life’s journey so far. By narrating my memoir, My Time to Stand, I hope readers will feel like I’m in the room with them, so they can find the strength, hope and inspiration to explore their own stories and heal. For my whole life I was denied a voice. Now, to be in a place where I am literally speaking...

During the #MeToo movement in 2017, Brie Miranda Bryant and her team at A+E Networks were tasked with making an hour-long roundtable documentary special about the awareness campaign.

As senior VP of Lifetime original programming, Bryant was told to make sure that the doc “echoed after the hour was done.”

“It was such a conundrum,” she says now. “I just thought… how?” So she called former Bunim-Murray Prods. CEO Gil Goldschein and asked him to pitch her a doc he thought she would never buy. That pitch turned out to be “Surviving R. Kelly.” The roundtable was canceled.

“Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired in January 2019, put Kelly’s victims on camera to detail the sexual abuse they claimed they endured at the hands of the singer. The original six-hour docuseries went on to win a Peabody and, ultimately, led to Kelly’s 30-year prison sentence.

The series, which snagged more than 26 million viewers,...

You can’t blame Bill Pullman for feeling hesitant about taking on the lead role in Lifetime’s two-part limited series Murdaugh Murders: The Movie.

It’s not that the SAG-nominated actor was worried about going dark — he’d done so not long ago, and brilliantly, in USA’s The Sinner — he simply just wasn’t aware of the tragic story of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife and son.

“I didn’t know about him!” Pullman revealed during the THR Frontrunners Lifetime Showcase held June 6 at San Vicente Bungalows in Los Angeles. “Then I asked the people in my life about the case, and they said, ‘Oh, I hate that guy!’ I thought, ‘Ok this is a nonstarter.'”

Pullman, who became widely known in the ’90s for playing nice guys in films such as Singles, Sleepless in Seattle, While You Were Sleeping and Independence Day,...

The strikes are behind us, Emmy season is upon us, and it’s time to hear from the creatives and talent behind some of the TV season’s most talked-about nonfiction programs. Deadline’s daylong Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event will offer just that this weekend, giving awards-watchers a chance to kick back at home and take in the tales.

You can RSVP for Saturday’s livestream here.

Starting at 9 a.m. Pt Saturday, the fourth annual event features 20 panels with cast and creatives from series, specials and telefilms.

Here is what and who you can expect to see.

From ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

From Prime Video: Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (Writer/Director...

Paramount+’s drama Happy Face has found its title star.

Dennis Quaid will star with Annaleigh Ashford in the series and will play very much against type in the role of a notorious serial killer nicknamed “Happy Face” because he drew smiley faces on evidence in boasting about his crimes. The series, from executive producers Robert and Michelle King (Evil, The Good Fight) and showrunner Jennifer Cacicio, is based on the real-life story of Melissa Moore, the daughter of the killer; the true-crime podcast Happy Face, from iHeartPodcasts and Moore; and Moore’s autobiography Shattered Silence, written with M. Bridget Cook.

The show will use Moore’s story as a jumping-off point to tell a story of how Melissa (Ashford) is drawn back into her father’s world after decades of not having contact with him. Happy Face (Quaid), in prison for his crimes, finds a way to force himself...

Melissa Moore’s autobiography Shattered Silence inspired the podcast Happy Face, and now the podcast is getting a Paramount+ streaming series adaptation! Annaleigh Ashford – whose credits include B Positive, American Crime Story, and Masters of Sex – has signed on to star in the series, with Michael Showalter on board to direct the first episode.

I mainly know Showalter from an actor in projects like The State and Wet Hot American Summer, but his TV directing credits include episodes of Search Party, Love, Grace and Frankie, In the Dark, The Shrink Next Door, The Dropout, and I Love That for You. He has also directed the feature films Spoiler Alert, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Lovebirds, The Big Sick; Hello, My Name Is Doris; and The Baxter.

Happy Face will see Ashford taking on the role of Melissa, who at age 15, discovered that her beloved father was the prolific serial killer known as “Happy Face.

This is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Thursday, October 12, 2023.

Daniel Gillies is returning to The CW.

The Vampire Diaries and The Originals alum will star in Sight Unseen, a co-production between the network and CTV.

The series focuses on a "top homicide detective (Dolly Lewis) who is forced to quit the job she loves after nearly killing her partner and being diagnosed as clinically blind," according to the official logline.

"Reluctant to accept help, Tess uses an assistance app and connects with Sunny Patel (Agam Darshi), a professional seeing-eye guide and an agoraphobe living 3,000 miles away.

After losing her vision, Tess is haunted by the unsolved cases she left behind.

Using a hidden camera and earpiece, Sunny remotely steers Tess through life's obstacles — and crimes — as the two challenge preconceptions about ability, trust and where to draw the line.

Inspired by one of the co-creators' experiences with sight loss,...

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Decades from now, when historians and epidemiologists look back at the Covid era, they’ll probably have a hard time pinpointing the exact moment the pandemic came to an end in America and normal life resumed. Some will probably point to the day in August 2021 when the vaccination rate hit 70 percent, while others will spotlight April 2022, when airlines dropped their mask mandate, or even Joe Biden’s 60 Minutes...

Stars: Jenny Boswell, Emily Sue Bengtson, Melissa Moore, Madeleine Dee, Laura Dennis, Rick Montgomery Jr., Erin Eva Butcher, Ashton Wolf, Jesse Guilmette, Zach Zebrowski, Chad Patterson | Directed by Dave Parker

I have been a Puppet Master fan since the dawn of my VHS renting days, in fact the original Puppet Master film was – along with various incarnations of the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street franchises – one of the first horror films I ever rented… All under the watchful eye of my mother of course! My Puppet Master fandom has lived with me since then, as I’ve gone down various routes of watching and owning the series – from the early days of ex-rental and sell-thru VHS, to numerous DVD iterations (including the huge Puppet Master boxset Full Moon put our years ago) and even multiple copies of the films on Blu-ray – and own numerous pieces of merchandise,...

Plot: The living puppet Doktor Death hacks and slashes its way through the residents and staff of a retirement home in this spin-off from Full Moon’s Puppet Master franchise.

Review: Back in 1999, Full Moon released an entry in their Puppet Master franchise that was called Retro Puppet Master. That one revealed the living puppets Andre Toulon used to fight the Nazis during World War II weren’t the first group of living puppets he had. He created the first living puppets in 1902, when he found his friends murdered and decided to transfer their souls into the bodies of the puppets they used for their shows at the Theatre Magique in Paris, France so they could battle the undead servants of the god Sutekh. Toulon and those first puppets obviously went through a lot in the early decades of the 20th century and the puppets weren’t around by the end of the 1930s…...

Full Moon founder Charles Band announced very recently that the Puppet Master spin-off Doktor Death will be available to watch on the Full Moon Features streaming service as of October 28th – and with that date only a week away, a trailer for Doktor Death has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.

Back in 2020, Full Moon brought us the first “solo puppet” Puppet Master spin-off, Blade: The Iron Cross. Doktor Death was announced soon after the release of that one, and at the time Blade: The Iron Cross director John Lechago was expected to return to the helm. By the time filming began, Dave Parker was in the director’s chair. Parker’s previous directing credits include The Dead Hate the Living! and The Hills Run Red, plus a segment of the anthology Tales of Halloween.

The version of Doktor Death Parker made has the following...

Full Moon has just wrapped production on their new Puppet Master spin-off Doktor Death, directed by Dave Parker. We don’t have release information on the movie just yet, but as it heads into post-production we’re proud to share a batch of Exclusive images from the set. To get an early look at some of the sights Doktor Death will be showing us, take a look at the images at the bottom of this article.

Back in 2020, Full Moon brought us the first “solo puppet” Puppet Master spin-off, Blade: The Iron Cross. Doktor Death was announced soon after the release of that one, and this was the synopsis provided at the time:

Doktor Death, one of the original “living puppets”, is Back, complete with sinister surgeries and deadly drugs. In this stand-alone shocker, a beautiful young med student is trapped in an erotic nightmare and must face-off against the...

Exclusive: True crime remains one of the bedrocks of the podcasting world.

James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman, hosts of popular audio series Small Town Murder and Crime in Sports, are doubling down on the genre and extending into new areas with the launch of Upside Down Digital Network.

The pair have teamed up with Art19, the Amazon-owned podcasting hosting and advertising firm that is involved in shows such as Late Night With Seth Meyers Podcast and Oxygen’s Martinis and Murder, to launch the podcast network. UTA brokered the deal.

The network will feature true crime and comedy podcasts, and will also venture into organized crime, personal narrative, interview-style, and serial/episodic shows. Art19 will facilitate advertising for the new shows.

Podcasts in development include Game of Crimes and Life After Happy Face.

Game of Crimes is hosted by state trooper and detective Morgan Wright and Drug Enforcement Administration agent Steve Murphy,...

New viral variants of the Covid-19 coronavirus are on the way, claimed Moderna scientists and executives in a Thursday virtual investor event, as reported by Barrons.

“As the virus spreads, it is rapidly mutating,” the company’s chief scientific officer, Melissa Moore, said on the call. “Some of these new viral strains appear to be even more transmissible than the original strain… We already know that some of these new strains are less susceptible to neutralization by our current vaccine.”

The company is constantly testing its vaccine against the new variants, she said. But that complex work lags their emergence.

“The shortest time from the detection of a variant of concern to preclinical immunogenicity readout against a panel of pseudoviruses is approximately 2 to 3 months,” said Guillaume Stewat-Jones, a Moderna scientist who works as associate director of antigen design and selection on their infectious disease team. “And new viral variants are...

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he will introduce a proposal that would finally legalize marijuana in New York state.

“I’m announcing a proposal to legalize cannabis and create an equitable adult-use cannabis program in Nys,” Cuomo tweeted Wednesday. “This program will generate much-needed revenue, while allowing us to support those that have been most harmed by decades of failed cannabis prohibition.”

Under the proposal, New York would establish a new Office of Cannabis Management, which would oversee both the recreational program and the state’s preexisting medical marijuana program.

Despite what felt like sea-changing momentum, marijuana legalization in New York and New Jersey have met serious roadblocks — and at almost exactly the same time. Just a few months ago, it had seemed all but certain in both states, with supportive governors backing progressive legalization poised to pass Democratic-controlled statehouses. Then, in the span of just a few days in late March, both states saw their efforts fall apart. Officials remain optimistic, but refuse to give a timetable for possible legalization.

In New Jersey, lawmakers reportedly had the votes...

To save everyone you love, you have to sacrifice one person you really care about in Gremlin, the new horror film from Uncork'd Entertainment that's teased in a trailer and official poster. Also in today's Horror Highlights is the latest episode of the Splathouse podcast (featuring special guest Scott Drebit from Daily Dead) and excerpts from WatchMojo's Read-Only: A Collection of Digital Horror.

Gremlin Poster & Trailer: Press Release: "Emmy Award winning director, Ryan Bellgardt’s (Army of Frankenstein) highly anticipated creature feature Gremlin hits VOD July 11 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Godzilla meets The Ring in a thrilling, uniquely-scripted horror jaunt that boasts amazing computer-generated effects and from some of the best in the game.

Adam receives a mysterious box from a relative containing a creature that will kill everyone he cares about. The only way to be rid of the curse is to give the box to someone he loves.

Donald Farmer’s cult classic, Vampire Cop has delighted B-movie fans for over two and half decades since debuting in 1990. It also marked one of the earliest appearances of popular scream queen Melissa Moore. Yet to this day, it’s only been released on VHS…

Now Srs Cinema have announced not only Vampire Cop‘s Blu-ray debut but also, as an added bonus, the release will include the director’s original cut for the very first time anywhere – scenes that were cut by the original distributor prior to release. This original version includes scenes with Melissa Moore and Blood Feast star Mal Arnold that no one has ever scene, besides extending many moments in the movie.

It’s not easy being a cop. Especially when you’re a Vampire Cop like Officer Lucas (Ed Cannon). But with the city in the grip of a psycho drug kingpin, it’s time...

Featuring: Brinke Stevens, Mary Woronov, Melissa Moore, Michelle Bauer, Elizabeth Kaitan | Written and Directed by Donald Farmer

Originally shot in the early 1990s, during the heyday of direct to video and cable TV B-movie horror, Invasion of the Scream Queens is an inside look at what it takes to be a scream queen, with behind-the-scenes stories about the making of some of the most classic horror films of our time, including The Hills Have Eyes, I Spit on Your Grave, Slumber Party Massacre, and many more.

It’s been a Very long time since I last saw Invasion of the Scream Queens, in a badly-copied bootleg that, as a teenager, I coveted and watched on multiple occasions. You see, the films discussed within this documentary were – at the time – the kinds of films that I cherished: the films of Fred Olen Ray and David DeCoteau, films that I rented on...

Do you like samurais? Do you like cops? Do you like deadly vengeance? Do you have a few coins of monetary value lying around that you'd like to donate to a worthy project that just happens to be a sequel? Then have I got a project for you!Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance is the sequel to the 1989 cult hit about a crime fighter with unique style and verve. According to the official synopsis: It's 25 years later, and Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations being committed by a secret group of female vigilante killers.Matt Hannon and Mark Frazer are set to star, alongside the returning Melissa Moore and Gerald Okamura....

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Even though we’re right in the midst of the superhero movie season, that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty being released on Blu-ray and DVD to keep us horror fans happy. This week, we’ve got a handful of new titles coming our way, but also a few retro releases too, including the Roger Corman-produced cult classic Night of the Cobra Woman.

Other new titles arriving on June 17th include the indie sci-fi film Almost Human from Joe Begos, Brett Simmon’s The Monkey’s Paw, as well as the recent remake 13 Sins directed by Daniel Stamm. Teen Wolf Season 3 Part Two makes its home debut this week too, as well as the 20th anniversary DVD edition of Invasion of the Scream Queens.

Spotlight Titles:

13 Sins (Anchor Bay, Blu-ray & DVD)

Elliot (Mark Webber, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) is a bright but meek social services coordinator, drowning...

Wild Eye Releasing has announced that the 1992 documentary Invasion of the Scream Queens will soon be available for the first time on DVD in a Special 20th Anniversary Edition. The film has been rescued from obscurity by Wild Eye and will be released on June 17th.

Directed by Donald Farmer (Demon Queen, Savage Vengeance), Invasion of the Scream Queens was shot in the early 1990s during the heyday of direct-to-video and cable TV B-movie horror. All the babes and all the blood are on full display here in this classic, rare document from the history of horror

It features interviews with legendary horror divas Brinke Stevens (1313: Cougar Cult, Bloody Mary 3D), Mary Woronov (House of the Devil, The Devil's Rejects), Melissa Moore (Samurai Cop, Sorority House Massacre 2), Michelle Bauer (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, 3 Scream Queens), Elizabeth Kaitan (Friday the 13th Part VII, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Part 2), and more.

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes Save Yourself first details, a new clip from The Well, a look at the first four minutes from Discopath, the teaser trailer for Bestseller, and much more:

New Clip from The Well and Screening Details: “At the edge of an expansive barren valley, all that remains of The Wallace Farm for Wayward Youth is a few hollowed-out husks of buildings. Seventeen-year-old Kendal (Haley Lu Richardson) can barely recall when the Oregon valley was still lush. It’s been a decade since the last rainfall, and society at large has dried up and blown away. Kendal and the few others that remain barely scrape by, while dreaming of escape. When a greedy water baron lays claim to what little of the precious resource remains underground, Kendal must decide whether...

By Todd Garbarini

From the first frame of Amir Shervan's 1989 film Samurai Cop, you know that you're in for a treat. Cheesy 1980s artificial pop music that sounds like it was generated by a Casio keyboard, courtesy of Alen Dermarderossian, with white credits set against a black background (a surefire indicator that you're watching a low-budget film) give way to Okamura (Gerald Okamura) complaining that they are not an established gang, and as such, they should be very cautious to make friends with the Chinese and Japanese gangs. He grunts and groans and makes exclamations that aren't always decipherable. Former porn star Krista Lane, who is part of the gang, says things like, “Here comes the boss!” or “The boss is coming.” Robert Z’Dar, best known for the Maniac Cop films, is an imposing figure who does the boss’s dirty work. Needless to say, they get into...

Before directing Detroit Rock City and unleashing a giant sperm on New York City in the “Wadzilla” segment of Chillerama, Adam Rifkin introduced the world to a horny, psychopathic phantom known as The Invisible Maniac. Not enough movie maniacs have their own personal theme songs, if you ask me.

Working under the alias “Rif Coogan”, Rifkin helmed this 1990 T&A slasher comedy about a sexually repressed nerd named Kevin Dornwinkle, who grows up to invent invisibility only to be mocked by his colleagues. The stinging mockery drives him over the edge so he murders them. He escapes from an insane asylum and goes incognito as a summer school teacher, where he continues to perfect his invisibility formula while taking an unhealthy interest in student bodies, particularly those of scream queens Melissa Moore, Debra Lamb, and the late porn star Savannah.

I’m fairly certain Rifkin is one of the many...

By Erin Lashley, MoreHorror.com

In the 80s, rock music and horror movies went together like acid washed jeans and feathered hair. The trouble is, even though many horror movies had awesome rock soundtracks, the movies that specifically featured rock musician characters as heroes or villains varied wildly in quality. Although the rock horror movie has mostly gone the way of the 80s, I’m not sure any other type of music will ever have such a successful love affair with horror. I can’t picture people turning up for a movie called Pop Divas of the Apocalypse, or Death by Dubstep, or even Bloody Pit of Techno Bastards. But what do I know? I’m still stuck in the 80s. Here are 10 of the movies that are stuck with me.

Rocktober Blood (1984)

Billy (Tray Loren) is a rock star, and also kind of an a-hole, so nobody is real...

-- Bruce Springsteen, "Wrecking Ball" (Columbia)

Nearly three decades ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote with sadness about a man showing his young son a hometown ravaged by outside economic forces, a town the family was about to leave.

He's not sad now. He's angry, mighty angry. On the new song, "Death to My Hometown," he wants to "send the robber barons straight to hell, the greedy thieves who came around and ate the flesh of everything they found, whose crimes have gone unpunished now, who walk the streets as free men now."

With economic injustice, Springsteen's powerful new disc has a subject he can sink his teeth into, and he matches it with music that has some of the same clenched fury.

The working man who "always loved the feel of sweat on my shirt" now wakes up each morning feeling imprisoned in a system stacked against him. In "Jack of All Trades,...