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Now that his tentpole action franchise, Fast and Furious, is approaching the finish line, Vin Diesel is on the hunt for another series he hopes will dominate the box office. With another Riddick adventure already on the way, Diesel has teased what’s next on his agenda, suddenly teasing a long-awaited sequel to a long-forgotten fantasy action failure.

Taking to Instagram, Diesel shared a “throwback” image of himself sporting the glorious long hair and beard of the movie’s main character, and immortal witch hunter, Kaulder. Pairing the image with the simple caption, “Kaulder…,” it’s obvious that the actor is teasing the return of The Last Witch Hunter franchise. A franchise that, while now largely forgotten, carries a lot of potential for further adventures.

Released back in 2015, The Last Witch Hunter takes inspiration from a character that Diesel himself made for his personal Dungeons & Dragons campaign. The fantasy action outing centers on Kaulder,...

Joseph Kosinski's expensive new blockbuster "F1" centers very attentively on Sonny Hayes, a 60-year-old racecar driver played by Brad Pitt. Sonny appears to be down on his luck, as he lives in a van, and only makes ends meet by winning races here and there. Although he doesn't have a very solid career, Sonny seems content. He ostensibly has a gambling problem, but it never presents any serious obstacles for him. At the start of the film, Sonny's old friend Ruben (Javier Bardem) reappears in his life, saying that his skills are needed. Ruben leads a Formula One racing team that has been repeatedly losing, and Sonny's old-man experience -- not to mention his maverick-like, devil-may-care attitudes -- are required to whip the team into shape.

Sonny takes the job and meets the pit crew. Notably, he becomes the coach of Noah (Damson Idris), a skilled driver, but a cocky hotshot.

A much-maligned Vin Diesel picture is presently finding new life on the Netflix charts. It has an abysmal reputation with both critics and fans but the fact that the flick is charting seems to suggest that there’s a certain merit to it. I’ll level with you, I have a soft spot for this one. The Last Witch Hunter is not necessarily a great movie but it’s an escapist action-horror spectacle that’s never boring.

The Last Witch Hunter landed on the Netflix platform on June 16 and has been making waves since. Today the flick sits in 8th place overall and comes in as the most-watched horror movie on the streamer. This suggests that I may not be the only one with a soft spot for this oft-maligned effort. Sure, it’s not fine art but you could certainly do worse if you tried.

Diesel toplines the picture,...

Vin Diesel is generally synonymous with the Fast & Furious franchise, where he plays Dominic "Dom" Toretto. Outside of the high-octane film series, the actor can be seen in other action-packed movies.

One of them was the highly underrated fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter. The film premiered in 2015 and was critically panned, but Lionsgate still decided to bet on a sequel that has yet to materialize. 10 years after its premiere, The Last Witch Hunter is making a splash on streaming, Tudum reveals.

The Last Witch Hunter premiered on Netflix on June 16, and it didn't take long to attract the subscribers' attention. For the week between June 16 and 22, the film debuted in fourth place on the domestic charts. It fell just behind Gerard Butler's Plane, which rose to the top of the charts in the U.S. with 6.6 million globally, the documentary Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy, and Tyler Perry's thriller Straw,...

Vin Diesel’s 2015 fantasy-action movie The Last Witch Hunter has surged into Netflix’s feature-length top five in the US. The critically panned film starring Diesel in the titular role has become a major streaming hit a decade after taking a respectable $147 million at the box office. The movie’s Netflix success comes despite it being one of the worst-reviewed releases of Vin Diesel’s career.

The platform first dropped The Last Witch Hunter, which features Diesel's most powerful character, on June 16, 2025, for its streaming debut, nine and a half years after it was first released in cinemas. Diesel’s movie going straight into Netflix’s American top 10 movies chart is good news for its prospective sequel, The Last Witch Hunter 2, which is still in development hell several years after the actor first confirmed this follow-up project.

The Last Witch Hunter Starring Vin Diesel Is Now In Netflix’s...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

Vin Diesel will always be known for his work as Dom Toretto in the Fast & Furious movies, but 10 years ago, he starred in a fantasy epic that’s found new life on streaming. Diesel features alongside Elijah Wood and Michael Caine in The Last Witch Hunter, the 2015 film following a witch hunter who stands between humanity and the deadliest witches in history. The Last Witch Hunter began streaming on Netflix not long ago, and the film wasted no time climbing to the top of streaming charts, sitting at #2 at the time of writing, behind only Gerard Butler’s Plane. The Last Witch Hunter earned poor scores of 18% from critics and 42% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $146 million at the box office against a $90 million budget.

Vin Diesel’s Fast & Furious co-star, Paul Walker, passed away on November 20, 2013, less than a year before The Last Witch Hunter began filming.

When you think of Vin Diesel, chances are theFast & Furious franchise is the first thing that comes to mind. The billion-dollar juggernaut provided the vehicle with which he rode to superstardom, and while it's often hard to separate Diesel from Dom Toretto, fast cars are not all that the actor is about. Fun Trivia? Diesel is a longtime Dungeons & Dragonsfan, and he even starred in a fantasy action epic based on a character he created for the game. That film, The Last Witch Hunter, flew under the radar for many casual fans, largely due to its unfair critical reception. The few who saw it found it entertaining enough, and now, amidst whispers of a sequel, The Last Witch Hunter is set for greater visibility as it's found a new home on Netflix.

The Last Witch Hunter, released in 2015, was written by Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama, and Burk Sharples, who based...

Vin Diesel’s 2015 fantasy action movie is experiencing a surprising revival nearly a decade after its rocky debut. The movie, which struggled critically and commercially, has returned from the grave. With its theme of magic, immortality, and ancient curses, the movie features a supernatural, mythological twist. And, Diesel is not unfamiliar with this theme.

Now, nearly a decade later, the movie is resurrected on the global streaming giant Netflix, reigniting the long-promised sequel. However, this forgotten flick has a far more emotional backstory for Diesel, something that halted the entire production. The movie is The Last Witch Hunter, and it is getting an unlikely second life on Netflix.

Vin Diesel’s fantasy action The Last Witch Hunter gets a new life on Netflix Vin Diesel in The Last Witch Hunter (2015) Credit: Lionsgate

Directed by Breck Eisner, The Last Witch Hunter stars Vin Diesel as Kaulder. He is a warrior, cursed...

Matthew McConaughey’s first movie in over five years recently debuted at SXSW to a stunning score of 97% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but one of his older films has been stealing the spotlight lately. McConaughey stars alongside Silo Season 2 veteran Steve Zahn in Sahara, the 2005 desert adventure following a master explorer who hunts for a lost Civil War battleship in the deserts of West Africa. Sahara has been streaming on Paramount+ for a while now, but the film recently surged into the streamer’s top 10, sitting at #9 at the time of writing. In addition to McConaughey and Zahn, Sahara also stars Penélope Cruz, and it earned a low score of 37% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a 53% rating from audiences on the Popcornmeter.

Sahara came at an interesting time in Matthew McConaughey’s career. He was still nearly 10 years removed from earning his first Academy Award nomination,...

Action-horror is such an interesting subgenre. The Terminator and Aliens (both Cameron) are classics, adeptly balancing the scope of the action with more intimate, terrifying moments, though they’re more outliers than the norm. Often, especially in the 2010s, action-horror hybrids were costly, star-studded vehicles with fantastical presences and incredulous PG-13 ratings. Remember the two different attempts to launch a Dark Universe with Dracula Untold and The Mummy? Yeah. Well, they didn’t have Vin Deasel.

Remember the Nicolas Cage vehicle Season of the Witch from 2011? What about the adaptation of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant that hurts me to this day? Honestly, I’m not sure it’s ever been profitable enough to dump a bunch of money into an action-horror epic, but studios keep doing it. At least one has defied the odds. You likely don’t remember Breck Eisner’s The Last Witch Hunter, but audiences on Tubi do.

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Did you know Vin Diesel is a big "Dungeons & Dragons" nerd and was once approached for the movie? The man has played the beloved table-top rpg since he was a child and never misses an opportunity to talk up his love for the game, posting "D&d" birthday cakes on Facebook and even writing the introduction to "30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons." If you take a look at his filmography, you can see the glorious nerdiness shining though, with Diesel starring in everything from the "Riddick" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" films to "Babylon A.D." and "Bloodshot."

With all that in mind, you might have expected the actor to appear in the hilarious adventure that was 2023's "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves." But while his fellow "Fast and Furious" family member Michelle Rodriguez did star...

The Crazies and Kick-Ass are celebrating their 15th anniversaries with SteelBook 4K Uhd + Blu-ray + Digital editions. They’re due out on May 13 exclusively from Lionsgate Limited.

Priced at $34.99, The Crazies features new artwork by Attila Szarka. It’s presented in 4K with Dolby Vision Hdr and Dolby Atmos sound.

The remake of George Romero‘s 1973 sci-fi horror film is directed by Breck Eisner (“The Expanse”) and written by Scott Kosar (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Ray Wright (Case 39).

Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, and Danielle Panabaker star.

Lionsgate Limited Extras:

2025 Audio Commentary with Director Breck Eisner Establishing Shot with Breck Eisner Sculpting the Horror of The Crazies Alternate Ending Storyboard to Screen: Car Wash

Legacy Special Features:

2010 Audio Commentary with Director Breck Eisner Behind the Scenes with Breck Eisner Paranormal Pandemics The George A. Romero Template Makeup Mastermind: Rob Hall in Action Episodes 1 & 2 of The Crazies Motion...

Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast and action movie superstar Vin Diesel combined his two favorite things for this panned fantasy action movie, and it’s coming to free streaming. Released back in 2015, The Last Witch Hunter takes inspiration from a character that Diesel himself made for his Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and follows Kaulder, who manages to slay the all-powerful Witch Queen some 800 years ago. But, before her death, she curses the warrior with immortality, separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife.

The Last Witch Hunter is directed by Breck Eisner and written by Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. The fantasy action flick stars Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Michael Caine, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and Julie Engelbrecht alongside Diesel, and is all set to land on free streaming platform Tubi on April 1. You can check out the official synopsis below.

“The modern world holds many secrets,...

Fans now have the opportunity to rewatch Angelina Jolie's action-thriller Salt. The movie debuted in 2010 and was barely profitable, making just over $293 million at the worldwide box office against a $130 million budget.

Salt is now streaming on Peacock. Directed by Phillip Noyce, the movie stars Jolie as the eponymous Evelyn Salt, a CIA operative who, after being accused of being a sleeper agent for the Kgb, goes on the run to clear her name. The movie's ensemble includes Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tika Sumpter, and Corey Stoll.

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Salt received mostly positive reviews upon its debut, with many critics lauding Jolie's performance and its action sequences while reserving criticism for the film's implausible and convoluted plot. The action-thriller holds a 62% critic rating and a 59% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

While Vin Diesel remains synonymous with his Fast and Furious film series, some of his other action-packed efforts continue to fly under the radar. One such effort is his 2015 fantasy film, The Last Witch Hunter, which is set to call Peacock home very soon.

Peacock confirmed that The Last Witch Hunter will be one of many new movies to grace its platform when it debuts on Mar. 1. The film has largely been available for rent or purchase on various digital platforms, including Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.

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Directed by Sahara helmer, Breck Eisner, the son of former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, The Last Witch Hunter sees Diesel portray Kaulder, a witch hunter who slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen...

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The following contains spoilers for The Crazies, now available on Tubi.

The horror genre is rising from the dead in the 2020s, with Robert Eggers' Nosferatu being a major hit and Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man being the first monster movie of 2025. Creature features also involve zombies, which have been touched on in properties like World War Z and The Walking Dead.

Another horror sub-genre is mutants and infected people becoming hungry for flesh and thirsty for blood. I Am Legend is one prime example of this post-apocalyptic, pandemic-style story. One notable movie from 2010 with this kind of plot is a George Romero remake from over a decade ago: The Crazies.

What Is The Crazies About? The Crazies Infected People Devouring an Iowa Town

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Tubi continues to be the gift that keeps giving this holiday season as another film is heading to the free streaming service in the new year. This release emerged during the horror remake craze of the 2000s and is actually better than most that were being cranked out at the time. With a memorable cast, solid direction, and some decent scares up its sleeve, the 2010 remake of The Crazies will be one to revisit once it hits the streaming service.

The Crazies is scheduled to land on Tubi on January 1. As you all know, Tubi is a free ad-supported streaming service that has been gaining more and more traction as other platforms continue raising their prices. As of May 2024, Tubi reportedly had 80 million active monthly users, which has likely increased since those figures were reported. This means that millions of users will get a chance to revisit (or get to...

It can take just a generation for a family name to go from Oscar darling to Razzie frontrunner.

Case in point: Jake Kasdan’s Christmas-themed “Red One” landed in theaters on Nov. 15 with a thud louder than Santa’s sleigh hitting a rooftop. The Dwayne Johnson–Chris Evans pairing, which chronicles the bid to rescue Old Saint Nick after he is kidnapped from the North Pole on Christmas Eve, has mustered just $175 million worldwide to date despite a colossal $250 million budget. For Kasdan, the son of four-time Oscar nominee Lawrence Kasdan, the “Red One” reviews were even harsher than the box office, with the film receiving a 30% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Kasdan — whose track record outside “Red One” was enviable, with $2.5 billion in box office from the recent “Jumanji” films and others — was far from alone this year. The past 12 months have featured a procession of underperformers and downright embarrassments...

The Last Witch Hunter was among Lionsgate’s first-ever 4K releases back in 2016, and now it’s returning to the format with a SteelBook 4K Uhd + Blu-ray + Digital edition.

Coming exclusively to Amazon on January 28, the 2015 sci-fi fantasy film is presented in 4K with Hdr and DTS:x audio.

Breck Eisner (The Crazies) directs from a script by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless (Morbius) and Cory Goodman (Priest). Vin Diesel stars with Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Julie Engelbrecht, and Michael Caine.

Special Features on the Blu-ray disc include:

Audio Commentary by Director Breck Eisner Crafting the Magic: The Last Witch Hunter Animated Short Films: The Origins of the Axe and Cross The Last Witch Hunter Sizzle Reel Deleted Scenes

In the movie, “Immortal witch hunter Kaulder has spent centuries tracking down those who practice evil magic. When history’s deadliest witches resurrect their bloodthirsty queen, Kaulder becomes humanity’s last hope as...

Breck Eisner's 2010 remake of George A. Romero's The Crazies is about to head to a new streaming home.

Per Tubi, the hit horror remake starring Timothy Olyphant will be available for streaming on the platform completely free beginning January 1. This marks yet another fan-favorite addition to the Tubi streaming catalogue that will be arriving on the platform the very same day, placing it alongside the likes of other genre classics such as 1985's The Goonies and 1994's Brainscan.

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George A. Romero's original The Crazies debuted in 1973 and followed the goings-on of a small Pennsylvania town as it descends into absolute chaos with the emergence of a strange pathogen known as Trixie. This virus is...

Today, Variety announced some news that should make any fan of the incredible sci-fi saga The Expanse very happy: Amazon MGM Studios is entering into development on a new series based on The Captive's War, the latest book series from Expanse authors James S.A. Corey! I'm having a hard time even getting that sentence out coherently, because I loved The Expanse, have been really enjoying The Captive's War, and am thrilled about the idea of another television series from these creators. This is a huge win, even more so because The Captive's War isn't some franchise spinoff of The Expanse, but an entirely new series.

The Captive's War follows the humans of the planet Anjiin, a distant world completely disconnected from Earth. In the first book, The Mercy of Gods, the people of Anjiin are conquered by the insectoid Carryx, an alien race which scours the galaxy for intelligent species,...

Despite initially being known as a book-selling website, Amazon has since expanded to become one of the biggest brands in the entertainment industry. The company has produced numerous movies and TV shows, some of which were absolute hits, and based on the information we have, more such hit shows are on the way.

Remember The Expanse, Amazon’s six-season sci-fi series that was a major hit for the company? Well, the series was based on the eponymous novel series by James S. A. Corey (a pseudonym), and we are glad to confirm that another potential hit project is on its way from the same creative team.

Sci-fi fans might know that Corey’s latest book, The Mercy of Gods, was released earlier this year, in August, and that it is set to be part of a trilogy that will be released under The Captive’s War title. Even before the books are out,...

Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man – Universal has brought them all back to the screen in the decades since their glory days in the 1930s and ’40s. But one classic Universal monster who hasn’t had a new movie since the 1950s is the Creature from the Black Lagoon, a.k.a. the Gill Man. The closest we’ve gotten is the unofficial version of the creature that was seen in the 1987 classic The Monster Squad… but last month, it was reported that genre regular James Wan and his production company Atomic Monster are developing “a grounded modernized retelling” of Creature from the Black Lagoon that will lean into “visceral horror while paying respect to the original classic.” Now, Deadline has learned that this Creature from the Black Lagoon reboot will be written by Sean Tretta.

Wan is expected to direct the film and will be producing,...

In addition to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu and Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, another classic horror movie monster is getting ready for a return with director James Wan’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, in the works from Atomic Monster and Universal Pictures. The project has now landed a writer, Deadline reports today.

Sean Tretta will write the film. Deadline notes, “The screenplay is based off a treatment written by James Wan, Rafael Jordan and Bryan Coyne.”

Deadline also reports, “Wan is in early talks to potentially direct a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror whilst paying respect to the original classic.”

Unlike fellow Universal Monsters classics including Frankenstein, Wolf Man, and Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon hasn’t been the subject of countless remakes over the years, which makes it ripe for revival here in the present day. Guillermo del Toro’s...

Wan's remake of Creature From The Black Lagoon will finally bring a famous monster back to life after 40 years of failed attempts. Universal's history of failed attempts with famous directors like John Carpenter makes Wan's revival of the classic monster a highly anticipated endeavor. If the Creature reboot works, maybe Wan could head up a revival of the Dark Universe too.

James Wan's remake of a Universal horror classic can finally bring a famous monster back to life after 40 years of development hell. James Wan's movies primarily belong to the horror genre, though he's dabbled in everything from thrillers (Death Sentence) to blockbusters (Aquaman). Wan famously burst onto the scene with 2004's no-budget horror flick Saw, and over the years has terrified viewers with both the Insidious and The Conjuring movies. According to The Numbers, his directorial work alone has generated over $4 billion worldwide.

In short, not...

Given his experience bringing horror franchises to screens and his time spent on watery adventures with the Aquaman films, it feels somehow natural that James Wan would consider jumping aboard a modernized version of The Creature From The Black Lagoon. So word that he's in early talks for exactly that is not truly surprising.

The 1954 original, directed by Jack Arnold, leaned into the 3D technique to tell the story of the Gill-Man, a prehistoric human-fish hybrid monster who lived in the water and the ichthyologist – played by Julie Adams – who catches his eye.

Various updates have been attempted through the years, including by John Landis, Ivan Reitman, Gary Ross (son of the original film's scriptwriter Arthur A. Ross) and Breck Eisner, but all sank into the development more. An effort to include the Creature in Universal's Dark Universe shared cinematic concept got as far as Will Beall writing the script.

Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man – Universal has brought them all back to the screen in the decades since their glory days in the 1930s and ’40s. But one classic Universal monster who hasn’t had a new movie since the 1950s is the Creature from the Black Lagoon, a.k.a. the Gill Man. The closest we’ve gotten is the unofficial version of the creature that was seen in the 1987 classic The Monster Squad. But now Deadline reports that genre regular James Wan and his production company Atomic Monster are developing “a grounded modernized retelling” of Creature from the Black Lagoon that will lean into “visceral horror while paying respect to the original classic.”

Wan is expected to direct the film and will be producing, with Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Judson Scott serving as executive producers. EVP of Production Development...

While frequent collaborator Leigh Whannell works on bringing The Wolf Man back to life, we’ve learned via Deadline today that James Wan is in early talks to direct a new take on horror classic Creature from the Black Lagoon for Atomic Monster and Universal Pictures!

Deadline notes in today’s report, “James Wan is developing a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror whilst paying respect to the original classic.”

Unlike fellow Universal Monsters classics including Frankenstein, Wolf Man, and Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon hasn’t been the subject of countless remakes over the years, which makes it ripe for revival here in the present day. Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winner The Shape of Water was heavily influenced by the classic tale, though not an official adaptation.

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The Creature From the Black Lagoon is rising once again.

James Wan, the creator of the Saw and The Conjuring horror franchises, is developing a new take on the classic Universal monster property and is in early talks to direct the feature project.

The move comes as Wan and his collaborators presented Universal with a pitch to remake the 1954 monster classic. A writer will now be hired to write a script, working in concert with Wan.

This is the first project Wan has attached himself to as a director following his company’s production banner, Atomic Monster, merging with Blumhouse. Wan was under water for the last few years on DC superhero movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and has been looking to get back to his horror roots in some way.

Wan will act as a producer on Creature, while Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Judson Scott serve as executive producers.

Underrated horror gems often dismissed by critics for relying on jump scares and gore for effect. Critically-acclaimed horror movies may still be misunderstood or underappreciated due to genre bias. Even commercial successes like Jeepers Creepers can be considered average by critics, despite unique elements.

Not all the best horror movies are immediately recognized as such, with some genuine gems of the genre falling by the wayside of critical appeal. Horror movies have often had a contentious relationship with serious cinema critics, easily dismissed as low-brow entertainment reliant on jump scares and gore to get a reaction out of audiences. This can often make it difficult for critics to accurately assess even the greatest horror movies of all time.

Occasionally, critics are able to split the difference between films that raise enough eyebrows to not be considered altogether bad, but aren't enough to be recognized as the great movies they are.

If there’s one positive thing even the many people he’s had feuds with might say about Vin Diesel, it’s that when he latches onto a character or concept, he doesn’t let them go. He may have skipped the first sequel to The Fast and the Furious, but once he did return to the role of Dominic Toretto, he made sure the sequels kept reaching theatres at a fast and furious pace. Few movie-goers seem to care about the Richard B. Riddick character beyond Pitch Black, but that hasn’t stopped Diesel from continuing to push sequels forward – and apparently Riddick 4 isn’t far off from production. Then there’s his 2015 fantasy/action film The Last Witch Hunter, which didn’t gain a lot of fans (although JoBlo’s own Alex Maidy dug it). Diesel liked it, so we might just get a The Last Witch Hunter...

Vin Diesel teases that a sequel to The Last Witch Hunter is in development and reveals that playing Kaulder was very important to him. The Last Witch Hunter earned mostly negative reviews upon its release in 2015. The film was also a commercial disappointment, casting doubt on a sequel getting made at the same budget level.

The Last Witch Hunter star Vin Diesel shares a new throwback image and teases The Last Witch Hunter 2. Released in 2015, the action fantasy film is directed by Breck Eisner, with Diesel starring as Kaulder, the last of his kind and the final line of defense between humanity and a plague created by witches. Despite being a dud with critics and not being particularly successful at the box office, Diesel has long teased a sequel.

In a new post on his Instagram account, Diesel shares a throwback image of himself in costume as Kaulder and...

In 2015, Vin Diesel starred in The Last Witch Hunter, and his latest post hints at a possible continuation.

On Thursday, Vin Diesel hopped on Instagram to share a "Throwback Tuesday" to one of the characters he's played along the way. Diesel is notorious for his Fast & Furious role, Dominic "Dom" Toretto, which he has reprised in almost all the franchise's films so far. He didn't return for the first film's sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and only made a short cameo at the end of the third film, Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift. However, the focus of his post was his 2015 film The Last Witch Hunter.

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So what happens when your first anthology was cancelled but you’ve got round three on the back burner? Well, actually, it’s complicated. We’ve spoken previously about Mick Garris’ Masters of Horror, which brought life into the anthology genre when we needed it again. A year later, Fear Itself brings anthology horror back to primetime.

Now, if you’re me, anthologies are kind of your life. This is one of my favorite parts of Horror, and so being able to see what new takes and tales are on the horizon excites me. Fear Itself was essentially the spiritual third season of Masters. The first episode Eater drug me down the rabbit hole and before I knew...

There’s a solid chance this month’s edition of “Revenge of the Remakes” ends up as one of my favorite column entries. George A. Romero’s The Crazies and Breck Eisner’s The Crazies inspire an exceptional case study about the peaceful coexistence between remakes and originals. Both filmmakers choose unique perspectives when dooming small-town America, even though the early 1970s and dawning 2010s validate eerily similar conspiracy paranoias. Stacking these Trixie-toxin thrillers back-to-back validates why remakes aren’t here to piss all over your safe, swaddling nostalgia blankets. Remakes aren’t the enemy — they’re a golden opportunity.

Romero’s The Crazies could only accomplish so much as a commentary against bureaucratic incompetence given the $270K budget. It benefits from a facelift, much like how Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes reaches its full potential as a bloodthirsty 2000s revamp. That’s not a shot at legends...

Eric Newman didn’t set out to be a writer. In fact, segueing to writing, much less showrunning, wasn’t even his idea. The veteran producer, whose résumé was lined with films like Children of Men and Dawn of the Dead, was down in Colombia making Narcos when, he says, Netflix urged him to take the reins. “It was out of the absolute chaos of Narcos‘ first season that I became a showrunner,” Newman explains. “It was Netflix that said, ‘Hey, you’re down there holding it together. You do it.’ “

Nearly a decade later, he has multiple projects in various stages of development and moves fluidly between behind-the-scenes roles. His reputation for getting stuff made earned the 52-year-old father of three overall deals for film and TV at Netflix, where he’s also produced The Watcher, Bright and, soon, Painkiller, a Peter Berg-directed drama about the opioid crisis.

In a surprise turn of events, The Karate Kid remake star Jackie Chan may return as Mr. Han for Sony's reboot.

Per Discussing Film, Chan is reportedly in talks to reprise his take on Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi from the 2010 remake co-starring Jaden Smith. The recently announced Karate Kid reboot from Sony will be helmed by Jonathan Entwistle, creator of the Netflix series The End of the F***ing World. Sony has not officially confirmed Chan's participation in the reboot and it is unclear if Smith will reprise his role as Chan's student.

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In last year’s Scream movie, which came to us from the filmmaking trio known as Radio Silence, there’s a moment where the characters realize the latest iteration of the Ghostface killer is “making a requel”. It breaks down like this: “You can’t just reboot a franchise from scratch anymore, but you can’t just do a straight sequel either. You’ve got to build something new. It’s got to be part of an on-going storyline. New main characters, yes, but supported by and related to legacy characters. Not quite a reboot, not quite a sequel.” Some prefer to term “legacyquel” over “requel”, but in a new interview with ComicBook.com Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett confirmed they’re planning to make an Escape from New York “requel”.

It was announced back in November that Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are attached to direct a new take on John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi...

“Escape from New York,” John Carpenter’s post-apocalyptic masterpiece, has constantly been threatened with a remake. Everyone from now-disgraced action auteur Brett Ratner to “The Invisible Man” mastermind Leigh Whannell has taken a crack at the material over the years. But it seems like a remake is closer than its ever been, thanks to a new version from the filmmaking team Radio Silence.

Villella recently told Entertainment Weekly that the project is in “very, very early stages” and get this – it’s not a remake but a continuation of the original.

The “Escape from New York” from 1981 followed criminal Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), who is recruited to save the President (Donald Pleasence) after his plane goes down in New York City, now a walled-off penal colony full of the worst of the worst. Defined largely by its believably decayed production design (assisted by a young James Cameron), a supporting cast...

Update 2: It would seem that Radio Silence are indeed going to direct the new Escape from New York movie as Deadline has also confirmed the news, adding that original director John Carpenter is onboard as an executive producer.

Update: Our friends at Bloody Disgusting have been able to confirm that Radio Silence is in early talks with 20th Century Fox about directing an Escape from New York project, but Kurt Russell has not been contacted at this time.

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A remake of John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi action film Escape from New York (watch it Here) has been in development for many years, passing through the hands of filmmakers like Len Wiseman, Brett Ratner, Breck Eisner, Robert Rodriguez, and Leigh Whannell. But now a Rumor has emerged, via GiantFreakinRobot, that the remake plans have been scrapped and we’re actually going to be getting a sequel to Escape from New York,...

Lynn Lowry achieved cult status early in her career, thanks to her work in the likes of George A. Romero’s The Crazies, David Cronenberg’s Shivers, and Paul Schrader’s Cat People. At the age of 75 and with over 100 acting credits under her belt, she’s still going stronger than ever.

I recently caught up with the prolific horror icon at the Shawna Shea Film Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was in attendance to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her work in independent cinema, so we took the opportunity to discuss her career at length.

Born in Illinois and raised in George, Lynn moved to New York City in the late 1960s to pursue acting. Her first film role was The Battle of Love’s Return, a 1971 comedy directed by future Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman. Their meeting was pure happenstance, but Kaufman immediately saw something in the young actress.

George Romero is widely known as the director responsible for creating the idea of the modern zombie, thanks to the continuing cultural impact of 1968's "Night of the Living Dead." Arguably, he could also be credited for starting the trend of pandemic films with his 1973 military thriller "The Crazies." Shot on what would be considered a shoestring budget today, Romero managed to tell a sprawling story about a mysterious biological weapon codenamed "Trixie" that infects a small town's water supply, driving them all totally insane. If you look at "The Crazies" as being patient zero, pandemic-themed entries like "Outbreak" and Steven Soderbergh's frighteningly realistic account in "Contagion" can be traced directly back to Romero's take on the subject. 

"The Crazies" was made just about the time Vietnam was coming to an end, but the country had already been living with an unjust war for the better part of a decade.

Back in early 2014, it was announced that David Bruckner – who had previously directed segments of The Signal (2007) and V/H/S/ – had signed on to direct a new Friday the 13th film. Bruckner was attached to the project through two different approaches. At one point, he was working with The Autopsy of Jane Doe screenwriters Richard Naing and Ian B. Goldberg to develop a found footage Friday the 13th movie. When the found footage angle was dropped, he worked with Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca on a script that had a heavy focus on character and was supposed to be packed with ’80s songs. Dazed and Confused was a source of inspiration for that one. At the end of 2015, Bruckner moved on from Friday the 13th. He has gone on to direct The Ritual, The Night House, and the new Hellraiser movie (read our review Here)… and now, he doesn...

Exclusive: Production has begun on the fourth season of the global hit Israeli series Fauda, from Tel Aviv-based yes Studios. The new season will return with four new cast members led by Inbar Lavi, along with Mark Ivanir, Amir Boutrous, Lucy Ayoub and Loai Noufi. Character details are being kept under wraps.

The 10-episode Season 4, which will be filming throughout Israel and in the Ukraine, picks up after Season 3’s heartbreaking loss of one of the unit’s core members. Doron, played by series co-creator Lior Raz and the team face simultaneous unrest on two fronts – by Hezbollah activists from Lebanon and Palestinian militants in the West Bank.

Lavi, Ivanir, Boutrous, Ayoub and Noufi join returning cast members Itzik Cohen (Captain Ayub) Rona-Lee Shimon (Nurit) Idan Amedi (Sagi) Doron Ben David (Steve) Yaacov Zada Daniel (Eli) and Meirav Shirom (Dana)

Fauda,...

Exclusive: Inbar Lavi and Jack Kesy have signed on to star in Vronika, a psychological thriller from writer/director Geert Heetebrij.

Heetebrij’s debut feature centers on strong-willed Roni (Lavi) and her ambitious husband Stephen (Kesy), a stay-at-home crypto-currency day trader who manifests a twin version of his wife named Vronika (also played by Lavi), to assist him in winning trades.

Vronika is being exec produced by Sid Jansma, Jr. and Kelly James Clark with Wolverine Films in cooperation with producers Eric Machiela, Zach Runge, and Ross Vande Waa of Grla. Pic is currently in production, filming in locations throughout West Michigan.

Lavi has appeared on the TV side in series including Lucifer, Stumptown, Imposters, Prison Break and The Last Ship. On the film side, she has appeared in Collin Friesen’s Sorry for Your Loss, Breck Eisner’s The Last Witch Hunter and more.

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “The Expanse” Season 5 finale, “Nemesis Games.”]

All the way up until its enigmatic, red-hued final moments, Season 5 of “The Expanse” had its share of mammoth-scale moments. But in the season finale, the quietest ones might end up being the longest-lasting.

In the moment, the rescue of Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper) is certainly one of the most striking. Completing an arc that began with a daring hard vacuum escape, Naomi’s second untethered journey through space ends with the life-saving help of Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams). As Naomi processes everything that’s happened to her since leaving her son, the camera stays on Tipper’s face.

“The length to which that scene goes on, it never cuts. You’re just with her,” executive producer and co-showrunner Naren Shakar said. “I remember the first time I saw it on the first director’s cut, and that’s essentially unchanged from what it was at that point.

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “The Expanse” Season 5, Episode 9, “Winnipesaukee.”]

The end of “The Expanse” Season 5 is turning out to breathtaking in more ways than one. After building to an oxygen-gasping hard vacuum jump just a few weeks ago, the show embraces that kind of tension on an even bigger scale in its penultimate episode, “Winnipesaukee.” Switching its attention from the void of space to the aftermath of Marco Inaros’ devastating attack on Earth, “The Expanse” follows the group led by Amos (Wes Chatham) as they try to board and rig a private shuttle to escape the planet.

The episode culminates in a dazzlingly executed sequence where this ragtag crew fights to fend off the private security forces bent on taking the shuttle for themselves. From the surprise ambush, all the way through the fiery launch, it’s a real-time battle that’s as impressive in its conception as it is in its execution.

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Stampede Ventures and wiip have partnered to adapt the first book in Gareth L. Powell’s epic sci-fi novel series “Embers of War” as a television show, Variety has learned exclusively.

Gary Graham is attached to adapt the book for the screen, with Breck Eisner onboard to direct. Both will also executive produce along with Greg Silverman and Paul Shapiro of Stampede alongside wiip. Powell will serve as co-executive producer.

“Embers of War” is the first book in the series, which was published in 2018. The second installment, “Fleet of Knives,” followed in 2019, while the third, “Light of Impossible Stars,” came out last year.

In the story, the sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress.

Warning: This The Expanse article contains Major spoilers for Season 5, Episode 3.

While most of The Expanse Season 5 will be dropped on a weekly basis, we got the first three episodes of the all new season all in one go—and what a three episodes they are. The last of the three installments, “Mother,” ends with one of the stealth asteroids Marco Inaros launched at Earth at the end of Season 4 finally hitting the planet. We talked to the director of the episode—none other than Thomas Jane (aka Miller) himself—about how the climactic scene came together, as well as, generally, what it was like to step behind the camera for an episode of The Expanse.

Den of Geek: I am curious how this all came about? What made you want to direct an episode of The Expanse? This feels like the sort of thing that maybe you talked about...