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Shawn Ashmore (X-Men) and Garret Dillahunt (“Fear the Walking Dead”) star in The Huntsman, a serial killer thriller based on the 2022 novel of the same name by nurse-turned-author Judith Sanders.

Strive Global Media is serving as the sales representative for the film, which will premiere at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, Deadline reports.

Ashmore stars as ICU nurse who volunteers as a reader for a recovering coma patient (Dillahunt) who is the prime suspect in the savage murders of six young women in a small southwestern town.

Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lost”) co-stars as the suspect’s wife, struggling with the mounting complexities of the investigation. With a seasoned detective, played by Jessy Schram (“Chicago Med”), on the case, numerous suspects come to light, and each new revelation leads to a shocking twist.

Kyle Kauwika Harris directs from a script he co-wrote with Steven Jon Whritner.

“The Huntsman is that rare gem,...

Exclusive: Strive Global Media has picked up The Huntsman, an adaptation of a Judith Sanders novel of the same name, starring Garret Dillahunt.

Strive will premiere the film at the upcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.

Written by Steven Jon Whritner and Kyle Kauwika Harris, the film also stars Shawn Ashmore, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Jessy Schram.

The film is produced by Safehouse Films and Plymouth Rock Entertainment. The story follows an ICU nurse (Ashmore) who volunteers as a reader for a recovering coma patient (Dillahunt), who is the prime suspect in the savage murders of six young women in a small southwestern town. The suspect’s wife (Mitchell), refusing to believe that her husband is the killer, struggles with the mounting complexities of the investigation.

Warning! This article contains Spoilers for South Park: The End of Obesity

South Park: The End of Obesity retires a major recurring gag, focusing on the major social issue of healthcare. The special mocks the American healthcare system and pharmaceutical industry while integrating dark humor. The ending reveals Cartman's true intentions, ironically highlighting the show's underlying messages about kindness.

Although South Park: The End of Obesitys ending is pretty bleak, the story does promise to retire one major recurring gag that has lasted throughout the shows 27-year history. South Park: The End of Obesity is the latest of the shows feature-length specials and, like its predecessors, the hour-long outing doesnt focus on one timely current event. The shows uniquely fast turnaround time means that most of its episodes take on a single event, but South Parks longer movies tend to center on a bigger issue and delve deeper into the topic.

Warning! This article contains Spoilers for South Park: The End of Obesity

South Park: The End of Obesity brings back a classic gag from the show's early seasons for a nostalgic throwback to its origins. Kenny's death in the special signals a return to the series' anarchic humor, showcasing the show's enduring love for its iconic jokes. Tony the Tiger's role in killing Kenny adds a new twist to the running gag, proving that South Park's humor remains sharp and relevant.

After a few years spent steering clear of the classic gag, South Park: The End of Obesity brought back the shows most famous recurring joke. South Park has a love/ hate relationship with its early seasons. Before the show became a topical political satire, South Park originally focused on gross-out humor, shock value, and obscenity to garner laughs. The shows plots were much more random and chaotic,...

The serial killer thriller The Huntsman is set to begin filming in Oklahoma on May 22nd, and with that date just a few weeks away we’ve received a press release that reveals some casting information: Shawn Ashmore of Adam Green’s Frozen and the X-Men franchise is set to star in The Huntsman alongside Garret Dillahunt (Fear the Walking Dead), Elizabeth Mitchell (The Purge: Election Year), and Jessy Schram (Unstoppable). Out of Exile director Kyle Kauwika Harris takes the helm of this “gritty psychological thriller”, working from a screenplay by Steven Jon Whritner that’s based on author Judith Sanders’ novel of the same name.

The Huntsman will see Ashmore taking on the role of a repressed ICU nurse volunteering as a reader for a recovering coma patient (Dillahunt), the prime suspect in the savage murders of six young women in a small southwestern town. The suspect’s wife...

Exclusive: Garret Dillahunt (Where the Crawdads Sing), Elizabeth Mitchell (The Purge: Election Year), Shawn Ashmore (ABC’s The Rookie) and Jessy Schram (Unstoppable) have been tapped to star in The Hunstman, a psychological thriller from director Kyle Kauwika Harris (Out of Exile) that’s going into production in Oklahoma next month.

An adaptation of Judith Sanders’s novel scripted by Steven Jon Whritner, the film centers on a repressed ICU nurse (Ashmore) volunteering as a reader for a recovering coma patient (Dillahunt), the prime suspect in the savage murders of six young women in a small southwestern town. The suspect’s wife (Mitchell), refusing to believe that her husband is the killer, struggles with the mounting complexities of the investigation. With a dedicated detective (Schram) trying to solve the mystery before more bodies turn up, numerous other suspects take the case on a spiraling journey.

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The key to understanding Conan O’Brien’s comedy is knowing that it comes from a point of kindness. Yes, I know in this age of comics punching down, this kind of compliment may leave you with a neon “Must Avoid!” sign flashing in your bleary eyes — but stay with me.

Here is an example. Early in the first episode of his new, four-episode Max travel show “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” Conan — who has earned the right to be referred to by his first name. See: Carson, Johnny — travels to Oslo, Norway. There, he pops in on Jarle, a Norwegian waif of a rapper that Conan had originally met on a segment of his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast. In the podcast video, Jarle’s hair was combed and he seemed coherent. Then Conan surprises him. Jarle comes to the door, and he’s maybe 110 pounds in a long sleeve T-shirt,...

From The Flintstones and Superman to the Bible and beyond, writer Mark Russell is no stranger to giving unique twists to well-known stories and iconic characters, and over the past several years in Ahoy Comics' Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of… anthologies, readers have been treated to Russell's epic, tragic, and altogether gothic take on the monstrous mascots of cereals from a bygone era of Saturday morning cartoons and bottomless bowls of sugar-sweet bliss that were all part of a balanced breakfast.

Brought to ghoulishly gorgeous life on the paneled page by artist Peter Snejbjerg, Russell's breakfast-centric stories are collected for essential consumption in Ahoy Comics' new volume Cereal, which includes three never-before-published chapters that bring this bittersweet saga to a chillingly tragic conclusion. To celebrate the release of Cereal in bookstores, we caught up with Mark Russell in a new Q&a feature to discuss the origin of his Cereal comics,...