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Indie horror master Larry Fessenden has secretly shot Trauma, a monster mashup sequel that unites three of Fessenden’s monsters in one film, Variety reports today.

Larry Fessenden’s Trauma Or, Monsters All serves as a sequel to three monster movies that he’s written and directed: 1995’s vampire movie Habit, the 2019 Frankenstein riff Depraved, and his 2023 werewolf feature Blackout.

When we previously spoke with the filmmaker about the latter, he shared his desire to see how all three monsters would fare in one monster mashup feature. “No, what I’m more interested in, I could just say this, is doing a mashup, and that would probably end my business of recreating the Universal Monsters. I want to see them all together, and what would that look like? So, that’s actually what I’m thinking about, and I don’t know who would finance that.”

With the upcoming Trauma,...

Indie film icon Larry Fessenden is planning a monster mash — and it’s gearing up to be a graveyard smash.

The horror multi-hyphenate has just wrapped filming of his upcoming film — “Larry Fessenden’s Trauma Or, Monsters All” — and is heading into post-production, Variety can report exclusively. The film serves as a sequel to three other films he has written and directed: 1995’s vampire tale “Habit,” his 2019 “Frankenstein” riff “Depraved” and 2023 werewolf film “Blackout.”

“It was a slightly absurd mission to present my existential take on these monsters in a contemporary mash-up, but I enjoyed the challenge and I hope the film will feel both familiar and provocative,” Fessenden said in a statement, which also shared that he is “a lifelong fan of Universal Monster classics and the powerful messages about us that they can convey.”

The shoot quietly took place on and off in upstate New York during a three-month stretch.

Stanley Tucci is one of the best character actors in the industry, who has been appearing in films and TV shows since 1985. Over his four decades in the acting field, he has taken on a range of roles, from menacing villain to mentor figure. He has six Emmys and two Golden Globes to back up his acting chops. His only Oscar nomination came for the role of serial killer George Harvey in The Lovely Bones.

Interestingly, his career involved many such deranged characters like Harvey, though many of them aren’t as creepy as that role. He has played a shady assassin, a Nazi, a corrupt CEO, and a sharp-tongued TV host. While he has played other legendary roles as a good guy, here are the ones he nailed as a deranged character.

10. Ethan Skate in The Electric State (2025) Stanley Tucci as Ethan Skate in a still from The Electric State...

Mubi is continuing to expand its business after picking up such projects as last year’s The Substance. According to Deadline, the company has now picked up the rights to the independently produced TV drama series Hal & Harper. The show comes from actor/filmmaker Cooper Raiff, whose resume includes Cha Cha Real Smooth. The business model for indie television is still testing the waters, but Mubi’s acquisition is a big win for the experimental process. The studio is set to stream the show in the U.S. and France, and it has earned good buzz after premiering at Sundance this year.

The series stars Raiff along with Lili Reinhart and Mark Ruffalo. Per Deadline, Hal & Harper “centers on two codependent siblings Hal (Raiff) and Harper (Reinhart), who are facing big life changes. The pair’s intimacy is built on a lifetime of inside jokes and shared pains,...

Exclusive: Mubi has acquired rights to Hal & Harper, the acclaimed indie TV series from actor-filmmaker Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth), for streaming in the U.S. and France, on the heels of its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The eight-episode family drama, co-starring Lili Reinhart and Mark Ruffalo, will premiere exclusively on the service this fall.

Lionsgate financed the series, handled the sale and distributes it worldwide.

This marks another win for independently produced television at a time when the business model is still being tested. Other recent examples of indie series that have gone on to significant streaming deals include Shane Gillis’ hit comedy Tires, which just returned for a second season, as well as Mark Duplass’ Penelope, both of which wound up at Netflix.

Hal & Harper marks the latest acquisition in a notable expansion into series this year for Mubi, following recent acquisitions...

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Dope Thief is a crime drama series created by Peter Craig. Based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Dennis Tafoya, the Apple TV+ series is set in Philadelphia, and it follows two best friends who pose as DEA agents to rob drug dealers’ houses. Still, when they accidentally rob someone extremely dangerous, their and their family’s lives are put in danger. Dope Thief stars Brian Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, Marin Ireland, Amir Arison, Nesta Cooper, Kate Mulgrew, and Ving Rhames. So, if you loved the intense story, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in Dope Thief, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Banshee is an action crime thriller drama series created by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler. The Cinemax series is set in the...

There should be some sort of moratorium on streaming while we figure out what on earth is going on with our viewing habits. Just recently, a forgotten Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis movie found a second life on Prime Video despite bearing a miserable 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Now, a new streaming hit has Wilson and Galifianakis beat in that regard, having climbed the Netflix charts with an even lower score.

2016's "Fallen" is a romantic fantasy drama based on Lauren Kate's 2009 novel of same name. It stars Addison Timlin as Lucinda Price, a teen who's sent to the reform academy Sword & Cross boarding school. There, she meets and swiftly develops a deep attraction to Jeremy Irvine's Daniel Grigori. However, as it turns out, Daniel is really a fallen angel who's been battling for Lucinda's affections for centuries. One look at the film's trailer and I can't...

The 2000s were huge for the young adult genre. With fantasy kicking off in the aftermath of The Twilight Saga's success, which adapted Stephenie Meyer's book series, many studios rushed to adapt popular stories.

Aside from Harry Potter and Twilight, some successful adaptations got the opportunity to become great franchises, like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and the slightly less successful Divergent. However, not all adaptations of young adult fantasy stories were a success, such as Lauren Kate's Fallen. The 2009 novel was turned into a film in 2016 and, following a poor reception and commercial run,Fallen has now become a hit on Netflix, Tudum reports.

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The 2016 adaptation became a hit in the U.S., debuting at no. 5 in the charts for the week between Feb.

The film adaptation of Fallen may have been a critical and commercial flop, but it is also gothic teenage heaven. It is based on the young adult book of the same name, the first in a six-book series that centers on a troubled teenage girl, Luce, as she is forced to choose between feelings for two fallen angels, Daniel and Cam. Fallen, like many other young adult series of its time, was a direct product of the Twilight craze, which saw an insatiable public thirst for romances between humans and various brooding non-humans after the release of Stephenie Meyer's hugely popular vampire-werewolf series.

Fallen takes a somewhat biblical approach to the fad, packed to the brim with lore about Lucifer's fall from heaven and reincarnation. Still, in true early-2000s love triangle fashion, most ofFallen's juiciest twists and turns concern "Team Daniel" and "Team Cam." Enjoying an overdue...

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Welcome to your comprehensive look ahead at all the new movies, series, games, and specials, whether Netflix Originals or licensed titles, coming to Netflix in the United States throughout February 2025.

As always, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with Netflix’s removals as much as you will new releases. We’re keeping stock of them in our February 2025 departures post, where we’ve got over two dozen movies leaving on the first, with movies like The Pope’s Exorcist, Despicable Me, and more leaving.

Please note that this is very much a work in progress and doesn’t represent the full list of what’s on the way in February. We’ll continuously update it over the coming days and weeks as and when we learn of new titles on the way!

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Filmmaker Cooper Raiff is a low-key indie darling, thanks to his charming leading and directing films like the SXSW Film Festival award winner "S#!thouse" and "Cha Cha Real Smooth," the latter of which won the Audience Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. If you haven't seen either of those movies, they're both worth your time, if only because both films feature Raiff as such a likable, lost twenty-something stuck in arrested development.

At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Raiff is staying in similar, familiar territory as one-half of the titular duo in "Hal & Harper," but he enters a new arena by writing and directing this project as an eight-episode TV series that he spent six years writing before getting it financed and shooting the 300-page project in just 50 days. The labor of love comes with all the hearty laughs and heartstring-pulling emotions that made Raiff previous cinematic entries such wonderful experiences.

Some fans can't get enough of 2016's Fallen and have begged for a sequel, but whether one will be released is still up in the air.

Starring Addison Timlin and Jeremy Irvine, Fallen follows a young girl as she is sent to a reform school. However, while there, she meets and becomes attracted to an angel seeking her out for thousands of years.

The film was initially released in 2016 and flew under the radar, only grossing $2.5 million at the global box office. It recently made its way to Netflix (which has a lot of big movies releasing in 2025), causing its popularity to skyrocket.

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Sometimes, the first interaction between two characters tells you everything you need to know about their dynamic. When Hal (Cooper Raiff) clambers in through his sister Harper’s (Lili Reinhart) bedroom window at 3 a.m. so that they can go to McDonald’s, it’s clear that this isn’t your average sibling relationship. They have almost no boundaries, they talk constantly, and are more or less the center of each other’s lives. It’s endearing and obviously unhealthy, and Hal & Harper—which Raiff also created, wrote, and directed—spends eight funny, fraught episodes exploring how they ended up this way, and where they go from here.

The story picks up as Hal is fumbling his way through a college course that he doesn’t really care about while Harper is stuck in a soulless office job and a long-term relationship that she’s no longer fully invested in but...

Cooper Raiff is back at Sundance and joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible to talk about his big return to the Park City festival. The director is world premiering his first television series “Hal & Harper” at Sundance. The project was made independently, which surprised some considering his last movie, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” became one of the biggest breakouts of the 2022 fest with a huge $15 million sale to Apple. So what does a deal of that size actually lead to?

“It makes you too confident,” Cooper told Variety‘s Angelique Jackson. “Because of that deal, I thought, ‘Let’s just do it with television.’ That’s what I told everyone. We’re really braving the storm with the series. ‘Cha Cha’ was sold on the backs of so many indie movies. With this, we’re trying to sell this show…so it has to be this undeniable thing...

Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are stopping by IMDb’s portrait studio at Acura House of Energy during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and we’ve got all the photos!

On Friday and Saturday (January 24 and 25), the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Dave Franco, Olivia Colman, Lili Reinhart, Jesse Williams and Callum Turner stopped by to post for celebrity photographer Mat Hayward with their castmates.

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Benedict was joined by Grief is a Thing With Feathers director Dylan Southern. Callum attended with Atropia costar Alia Shawkat and director Hailey Gates.

Dave was there with Bubble & Squeak costars Himesh Patel and Sarah Goldberg and director Evan Twohy.

Olivia was with Jimpa costars Eamon Farren, John Lithgow, Daniel Henshall and Aud Mason-Hyde and director Sophie Hyde.

Lili was joined by with Hal & Harper creator Cooper Raiff and costars Alyah Chanelle Scott, Addison Timlin, Havana Rose Liu and Christopher Meyer.

Hollywood is heading up the mountain for what’s possibly one of the final Sundance Film Festivals to be held in the posh ski-resort town of Park City. It’s a place that’s hosted its fair share of all-night bidding wars, where films ranging from “Reservoir Dogs” and “Napoleon Dynamite” to “Brooklyn” and “The Big Sick” landed massive deals before going on to box office, and in some cases, Oscar glory. But it’s also been the setting of some frenzied sales that didn’t always pay off, like “Happy, Texas”or “Blinded by the Light.”

Sundance has already announced the festival is considering decamping Utah for Ohio or Colorado in 2027. Even if it does stay in the state, the focus of the festival will shift to Salt Lake City, which is better positioned than Park City to host the crowds that the celebration of movies attracts. So will...

While we were eager to tell you last year about Sundance premieres starring Kristen Stewart and Pedro Pascal, the unlikely “Thelma” became the true indie success story of 2024. Unexpected buyer Magnolia Pictures turned the June Squibb film into a hit, opening the doors for other buyers to take their own risks this year.

Heading into 2025, uniqueness is the name of the game, as is picking out the discovery that you won’t see coming, and not necessarily the movie with the big cast, commercial pedigree, or crowdpleaser premise. Last year, we were pretty spot on with “A Real Pain” and “My Old Ass” surviving the long haul, and we were among the few to tell you about “It’s What’s Inside” before Netflix plunked down $17 million to buy it; we were way off on a few others.

The below list is not a collection of movies certain to sell or do so for eight figures,...

It has been nearly two decades since Jeremy Allen White made his debut in the entertainment industry back in 2006, and since then, he has actually earned a lot. Besides making a name for himself in Hollywood, he now holds some really commendable acting credits and has bagged quite a few major awards, not to mention stealing the limelight for his personal life as well.

While his masterpiece projects like Shameless (2011-2021), The Iron Claw (2023), After Everything (2018), and his ever-so-hyped drama series The Bear (2022-present) have earned him global recognition and acclamation, they have also landed the handsome charmer under serious speculation about whom he has dated and been romantically involved with over the years.

Jeremy Allen White. | Credits: The Bear / FX.

As much as the 33-year-old White is famous for his bad-boy heartthrob status which has intrigued fans about his love life, the actor has been relatively private about the...

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The comedy genre has been under attack for quite some time now as the studios have stopped making mid-budget comedy movies and refocused all their attention on big-budget blockbusters. Amidst all this, a niche sub-genre in comedy, like raunchy comedy films, has been forgotten. If it’s not a classic like American Pie or Road Trip, people don’t even remember most of the fantastic raunchy comedies that came out. So, we compiled a list of the best underrated raunchy comedies you might have missed out on.

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The Girl Next Door is a raunchy comedy film directed by Luke Greenfield from a screenplay co-written by Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner, and Brent Goldberg. The 2004 film follows Matthew, a high school senior who thinks that he has found his dream girl,...

High Potential Episode 7 is bannered by several notable guest stars, which include Addison Timlin (Californication), Michael Trotter (Law & Order: Organized Crime), and Jd Pardo (Mayans M.C.).  

"One of Us" enters unfamiliar territory as Morgan and her peers in the LAPD encounter a hostage situation. It comes at a difficult time as well since Morgan has taken Ava inside the headquarters to tour her around. 

High Potential Episode 7 (the show's Fall finale) premiered on ABC on November 12.

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The cinematic landscape of Hollywood is getting ready for not one but two biopics on music two legends: Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. It is old news now that the latter would be led by The Bear actor Jeremy Allen White and is titled Deliver Me from Nowhere. The hype surrounding it is huge, and now with Timothée Chalamet at the forefront of A Complete Unknown, comparisons are inevitable.

Timothée Chalamet in the trailer of A Complete Unknown | Credits: Search Light Pictures

Even though Allen White and Chalamet have previously proven their versatility in the business, their next movie will see them vying for the title of outstanding biopic.

A Biopic Face-Off Between Jeremy Allen While and Timothée Chalamet Jeremy Allen White in The Bear | Credits: FX on Hulu

Time and again, Jeremy Allen White has proved his capacity as a remarkable actor. While many loved his role as a chef on The Bear,...

The “Bluebeard”-like hook of splendors granted on one condition — never, ever enter a household’s specific forbidden zone — raises expectations of a spooky, macabre good time. Those expectations are almost entirely thwarted by “Cellar Door,” even to the degree of our never actually peeking behind the titular locked portal. Starring Jordana Brewster and Scott Speedman as a couple gifted luxe new digs with the aforementioned proviso, Vaughn Stein’s thriller is too simplistic and implausible to provide any chills. But despite some lurid eventual plot elements, it’s also too blandly slick in a TV-movie mode to offer much trashy fun. Lionsgate launches the feature in limited U.S. theaters plus on-demand platforms on Nov. 1.

The Winters are an innocuously attractive and devoted yuppie couple lent little distinguishing personality here by performers or script. John (Speedman) is a valued employee at an architecture firm; Sera (Brewster) a mathematics prof as well as accomplished pianist.

Plot: In this suspenseful thriller, a city-dwelling couple is looking to relocate to the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. While visiting the grandiose home of Emmett, a mysterious man with a talent for pairing the right property with the right people, the couple is suddenly gifted the house of their dreams with one nonnegotiable condition — they must never open the cellar door. As time passes, the couple realizes that old houses are indeed like people…they all have their deep, dark secrets.

Review: There is a great short story by Richard Matheson called “Button, Button,” in which a husband and wife are given a mysterious box that, if a button is pressed, will cause someone to die in exchange for a sum of money. The idea of power and responsibility and what strangers would do with such a decision has been a fascinating one. The new thriller Cellar Door offers a...

The Town That Dreaded Sundown has a hard time fitting in with other slasher remakes, essentially because it’s not really a remake to begin with. At least not in the traditional sense. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and screenwriter Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa instead went beyond the expectations of most horror remakes. In lieu of mere reconstructions and callbacks, they offered a multifaceted story that acknowledges the 1976 film and its real-life basis. The end result is a movie within a movie that escapes simple classification. However, regardless of what this film is labeled as, The Town That Dreaded Sundown remains one of the most experimental slashers from this century.

Ryan Murphy brought a relatively obscure horror film to his friend and later co-producer, Jason Blum, in hopes of remaking what he called a “childhood favorite.” As unusual as it may be to have nostalgia for something like Charles B. Pierce’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown...

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To all YA book lovers out there, stay strong because it is time to be transported back into a decade, which caused bookworms a great amount of disappointment. The 2010s saw many YA book-to-movie adaptations as production companies started to hop onto the same train that took The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen on a trip through the districts. The golden child of YA adaptations certainly led the way by offering a unique story and a twist on how relatable the heroine is. The beginning of the 2010s took the baffling world of Panem out of the imagination of Suzanne Collins readers and brought it to the screen in even more mind-blowing detail. But then came The Mortal Instruments. And Divergent. And The 5th Wave. Apologies, but the list unfortunately goes on,...

Jeremy Allen White received his share of popularity when he participated in the comedy-drama series Shameless, that too for a decade. It was after this show that he got on board The Bear and played the role of chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto. The actor also earned his second Emmy Award for this role.

Jeremy Allen White in The Bear | Credits: Hulu

While his professional life is thriving at the moment, the same cannot be said about his personal life, which has become a topic of confusion among fans. After his divorce from actress Addison Timlin in 2023, the actor was linked to singer La Rosalia. With this relationship still unclear, the actor was recently spotted with another actress.

Jeremy Allen White Seen Embracing Molly Gordon Amid Confusion Over Rosalia Dating Rumors

In 2023, all the media outlets went into a frenzy when actor Jeremy Allen White was spotted with Spanish singer Rosalía at a farmer’s market.

The cast of The Bear especially Jeremy Allen White and Molly Gordon won big during the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards. The success of the show has skyrocketed their careers into the stratosphere, especially for White who plays the lead role on the show.

Jeremy Allen White and Molly Gordon as Carmy and Claire on The Bear | Credits: FX Productions

Before his successful stint with The Bear, White was famously known for his role as Lip Gallagher on Shameless, which ran for 11 successful seasons before running its course in 2021. Gordon also starred in a couple of critically acclaimed projects over the years since debuting on the silver screen at the age of 7.

Jeremy Allen White and Molly Gordon share a kiss in Los Angeles

Jeremy Allen White and Molly Gordon built great chemistry on the set of The Bear, a series that kicked off in 2022. White played the lead character, Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto,...

Well, life imitates art far more than art imitates life, and it looks like Jeremy Allen White is taking that to heart—perhaps a little too literally. On Wednesday, September 25, he was seen sharing a passionate kiss with his The Bear co-star Molly Gordon in the City of Angels. Needless to say, this unexpected public display of affection has everyone buzzing. Adding even more drama to the mix, it happened to be the very same day that Rosalía, who was previously romantically linked to White, celebrated her 32nd birthday.

Jeremy Allen White in a still from The Bear | Credit: Hulu

The news has left fans confused and diving deep into speculation mode. Could this be the nail in the coffin for White and Rosalía’s budding romance? After all, the pair was quite the hot topic when they first appeared together in 2023, turning heads and sparking countless ‘aww’ moments at various events.

Is there romance blooming on the set of The Bear!? Co-stars Jeremy Allen White and Molly Gordon were photographed kissing!

Cameras captured the 33-year-old actor – who has won numerous awards for his portrayal of Chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto – and the 28-year-old actress – who portrays Claire in the FX series – kissing on Wednesday (September 25) in Los Angeles.

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TMZ has the photos, and they’re noting that there were no cameras in sight for this Pda, in case you were wondering if the kiss happened for the show. After they met up and kissed, he opened the car door for her to get in.

Jeremy was most recently linked with singer Rosalia, and they were still together as of a few months ago.

Find out the rumored reason why Jeremy and his ex wife Addison Timlin broke up.

Back in February of 2023, it was announced that Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, Laurence Fishburne, and Addison Timlin had signed on to star in the latest thriller from Terminal and Inheritance director Vaughn Stein, a project that was known as The Offer at that time. The Offer has since made its way through production and been retitled Cellar Door – and Lionsgate will be giving it a theatrical and VOD release on November 1st. With that date just five weeks away, a trailer for the film has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Sam Scott wrote the initial screenplay, which then received revisions from Lori Evans Taylor, who recently wrote and directed the supernatural thriller Bed Rest (starring Melissa Barrera of the Scream franchise) and co-wrote the upcoming horror sequel Final Destination 6, a.k.a. Final Destination: Bloodlines. Cellar Door has the following synopsis: Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage,...

"There's something in this house... We can't stay here, we gotta get out." Lionsgate has revealed the official trailer for a new horror thriller titled Cellar Door, arriving to watch starting in November. This one seems to be less horror, more thriller, as the official synopsis only calls it a "suspenseful thriller" and it's not even opening during October's horror month anyway. Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple find themselves being gifted a massive home of their dreams with one caveat – they must never open the cellar door. But, why? Whether they can live without knowing what's down there triggers shocking consequences. Set in Portland, Oregon. "As time passes, the couple realizes that old houses are indeed like people...they all have their deep, dark secrets." Starring Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, Addison Timlin, Chris Conner, Katie O'Grady, Randy Sean Schulman, and Laurence Fishburne. This does look scary,...

Since The Traitors became one of the best reality shows on TV, the show's fans have loved its many memorable players and have enjoyed looking forward to the third season. That said, there is no doubt that Alan Cumming is The Traitors' breakout star, since the show earned him a slew of new fans.

Since Alan has been so celebrated as the host of one of Peacock's best reality shows, most people weren't surprised he accepted an Emmy Award. However, the thing that most fans of The Traitors didn't expect was for Alan to focus on something so unusual when he gave his truly fascinating acceptance speech.

Alan Cumming Used His Unique And Lovely Acceptance Speech To Thank Two Countries

Throughout Alan Cumming's long and illustrious career, he has won a slew of awards and honors. Alan had also been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards during the 2010s, two...

Apartment 7A Trailer: "Paramount+ today released the official trailer for the all-new psychological thriller Apartment 7A, available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ Friday, September 27 in the U.S. and Canada, Latin America and Brazil and on September 28 in the U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Australia. Availability in additional international Paramount+ markets to come at a later date. In addition to exclusively streaming on Paramount+, the film will be available for purchase on digital beginning Friday, September 27.

Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story prior to the legendary horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, exploring what happened in the infamous Bramford building before Rosemary moved in.

The highly anticipated film will debut at this year’s Fantastic Fest, the world’s largest genre and horror festival based in Austin, Texas, and will be featured in Paramount+ Peak Screaming, a curated collection of fan-favorite horror movies and Halloween episodes from beloved series.

The Becomers: "Forced to flee their dying planet, two body-snatching alien lovers arrive separately on Earth. Determined to find each other, the aliens jump from body to body, but they quickly learn that it's not easy to inhabit their new, fleshy hosts, and that life in modern-day America is more complicated than they could have ever imagined."

"Writer/director Zach Clark’s acclaimed sci-fi genre-bender The Becomers kicks off its U.S. theatrical release on Friday, August, 23rd and arrives on VOD in North America on Tuesday, September 24th. The film will open in New York on August 23rd at Cinema Village, in Los Angeles on August 30th at Lumiere Music Hall, and in Chicago on September 13th at Music Box Theatre, with more cities listed below.

The latest film from the celebrated American indie filmmaker, the visually striking and outrageously plotted film reverberates with the pulse of politics...

Indie filmmaker Zach Clark is returning to the big screen with the alien sci-fi dramedy “The Becomers.”

Written and directed by “White Reindeer” filmmaker Clark, “The Becomers” centers on two aliens who realize just how messed up America is after landing on Earth.

The official synopsis reads: “Forced to flee their dying planet, two body-snatching alien lovers arrive separately on Earth. Determined to find each other, the aliens jump from body to body, but they quickly learn that it’s not easy to inhabit their new, fleshy hosts, and that life in modern-day America is more complicated than they could have ever imagined.”

Molly Plunk, Mike Lopez, Keith Kelly, Isabel Alamin, and Frank V. Ross star. Sparks lead Russel Mael narrates.

The film is being released by Dark Star Pictures and includes satirical references to Covid, QAnon, and other divisive issues in American politics. The film debuted at the 2023 Fantasia...

Jeremy Allen White is still a star on the rise, but he makes sure to give his heart and soul in every performance, regardless of how small they might be. White made his onscreen debut when he was only 15 years old as a guest star in the TV show Conviction, then went on to alternate between TV and film with a variety of teenage roles.

The actor became everyone's favorite chef following the success of The Bear, but he was already a familiar face in the TV industry by the time the show came out. Allen's big break happened in 2011 when he joined Shameless US, a remake of the British show of the same name. These two series represent two turning points in his career, but there's much more worth checking out.

Updated by Fawzia Khan on July 3rd, 2024: The Bear Season 3 has officially landed on Hulu, and Jeremy...

Exclusive: Andrew McCarthy (Brats), Drew Van Acker (Last Survivors) and Debby Ryan (Shortcomings) have wrapped production in New York on Orion, a new sci-fi thriller from director Jaco Bouwer (Gaia).

Written by first-timer Anne Vithayathil, the film centers around a heated interrogation between a U.S. Intelligence expert tasked to help an amnesiac astronaut recover his memory in order to determine “who” or “what” killed the rest of the crew before they crash landed back on Earth.

Producing the film alongside Van Acker, Elle Army (Life Like) and Scott Army, Sunil Perkash, describes the project as “a very unique world building sci fi thriller that relies on incredibly strong performances from all of the cast and the meticulously curated world building by our director, Jaco Bouwer. We could not be more excited to bring our clever twisting and turning film to audiences worldwide soon.”

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Jeremy Allen White's net worth is estimated at $8 Million, boosted by his role in Shameless and The Bear. As a global ambassador for Calvin Klein, White's influence in fashion and advertising is growing. Despite fans mistaking him for one of Gene Wilder's relatives, Jeremy's acting talent and dedication set him apart in Hollywood.

The Bear actor has quickly become a standout figure in Hollywood, and Jeremy Allen White's net worth reflects precisely that. Rising to fame with his role as Lip Gallagher in the Shameless cast, White has continued to captivate audiences with his dramatic acting skills. He grew up in a family deeply rooted in the performing arts, which helped foster his early interest in acting. Beyond his professional life, Jeremy is also known for his personal life, particularly his marriage to actress Addison Timlin, with whom he shares children. The actor is now dating Spanish popstar Rosalia (via Us).

Over the years,...

In 2019, indie horror filmmaker Larry Fessenden reimagined Frankenstein with a contemporary lens in Depraved. His follow-up, Blackout, takes his exploration of classic movie monsters further with a unique take on the Wolf Man. Alcoholism and lycanthropy afflict an artist in Blackout, the title’s dual meaning apparent, but Fessenden takes it a step further by exploring the volatile nature of a community and the catastrophic yet absurdly funny toll a monster’s destruction wreaks on a small town.

Talbot Falls artist Charley (Alex Hurt) is at a significant crossroads. His binge drinking has made a mess of his life and relationships, including former love Sharon (Addison Timlin) and her ruthlessly power-crazed dad Hammond (Marshall Bell). His drinking has left him prone to blackouts, complicating matters when he begins to suspect he may be the werewolf savagely ripping people apart during the Full Moon. Never mind that he has deep-seated father...

Larry Fessenden is back with new werewolf horror movie Blackout, which is Now Available on Digital/VOD at home courtesy of Dark Sky Films.

Blackout is the third film in Fessenden’s monster trilogy, following Habit (vampires) and Depraved (Frankenstein). Watch a clip below for a sneak peek at his latest monster!

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, his flashes of memory of his nighttime grisly acts manifested through his artwork.

Fessenden tells us, “I am interested in finding new truths in the classic monster tropes of my youth. The essence of each creature dictates the milieu of the film, and of course, the werewolf is both out of control and regretful so that duality shaped my story.

Stars: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Marshall Bell, Rigo Garay, Michael Buscemi, James Le Gros, Barbara Crampton | Written and Directed by Larry Fessenden

With his latest film, Blackout (not to be confused with The Blackout), Larry Fessenden finally gets around to tackling the werewolf mythos. He’s dealt with vampires in Habit, Frankenstein and his creation in Depraved, and even the Wendigo in the film of the same name. Now he ventures to Talbot Falls, I wonder where he got that name from, for a tale of lycanthropy, small town corruption and what it means to be human.

Blackout begins traditionally enough for a horror film with a couple having sex outdoors, running afoul of a large, hairy creature before introducing us to Charley. He’s an artist with a drinking problem, or at least that’s what he tells people is the cause of his monthly blackouts. Of course, he,...

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Blackout

Larry Fessenden, indie horror auteur, is back — with a werewolf movie. But "Blackout" isn't your typical lycanthrope flick. This is more like a quirky indie character drama that also happens to be about a werewolf.

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Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White posed for the camera after winning Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series awards for The Bear during the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

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Dark Sky Films will be giving Blackout, the latest genre film from writer/director Larry Fessenden, a one week theatrical release at the IFC Center in New York City beginning on March 13th, and that theatrical engagement will feature special cast appearances and a Q&a. The film will then be receiving a nationwide release on digital platforms and VOD as of April 12th. In anticipation of those release dates, a trailer for Blackout has been unveiled, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Blackout has the following synopsis: Painter Charley wakes up in an upstate motel where he appears to have been living for some time. After he packs and leaves he encounters various people in the small town where everybody knows your name. Charley is saying goodbye to the estranged love of his life, Sharon, and settling his affairs with a manic urgency that culminates...

Blackout: "Writer-director Larry Fessenden has created some of the most original and memorable independent horror films of the last 25 years, from Habit and Wendigo to The Last Winter, Skin and Bones, Beneath and Depraved. His latest, Blackout, ranks among his most chilling and thought-provoking works with a cast that includes: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, James Le Gros, Kevin Corrigan, Marshall Bell and Barbara Crampton.

Earning rave reviews on the festival circuit, Blackout marks the long-awaited reunion of Dark Sky Films and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix, two iconic horror companies that brought us contemporary classics such as Ti West's The House of The Devil and The Innkeepers, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land and Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Late Phases.

Blackout will open for a one week exclusive NYC theatrical engagement...

"Everyone needs to go home - there's something out there on the loose and dangerous." Dark Sky Pictures has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Blackout, the latest genre creation from horror regular actor / filmmaker Larry Fessenden. This premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, with additional festival appearances at Sitges, Woodstock, and the Brooklyn Horror Festival. In a small town in upstate New York, Charley, a werewolf who's been infected with the curse and is responsible for a series of brutal murders, confronts the most corrupt person in the area – a real estate tycoon named Hammond. At the same time, he will try to win back his ex-girlfriend Sharon, the tycoon's daughter. Described as a "new twist on the lycanthrope myth." Starring Alex Hurt as Charley, with Addison Timlin, James LeGros, Kevin Corrigan, Barbara Crampton, and indie regular Joe Swanberg. This actually looks pretty...