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Yellowstone, the mega-hit neo-Western series from superproducer Taylor Sheridan, came to an end after five seasons in 2024, but the show’s universe continues to expand. There are five publicly announced sequels, prequels, and spinoffs in various stages of development. They’ll follow the prequels that have already aired, 1883 and 1923, as well as Sheridan’s collection of non-Yellowstone shows on Paramount+, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, Lawmen, Lioness, and Landman. Here’s everything we know so far about each of Sheridan’s various Yellowstone expansions, from the forthcoming to the off in the distance.

Dutton Ranch

The most direct successor to Yellowstone is the sequel series focused on Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly), John Dutton’s (Kevin Costner) hell-raising daughter, and her husband, tough ranch foreman Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser). While an official title has not been announced, Bloomberg reports that the project is tentatively titled Dutton Ranch, and is expected...

The Yellowstone universe is expanding once again, this time as a direct follow-up to the acclaimed Taylor Sheridan western drama. In addition to the spin-off starring Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, another sequel will follow a fan-favorite character from the 2018 series that started it all.

CBS is moving forward with Y: Marshals, an upcoming spin-off set after Yellowstone that will feature Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton. The show will follow Kayce as he joins an "elite unit of U.S. Marshals," but no other cast members have been announced. Sheridan serves as an executive producer on Y: Marshals, while former Seal Team producer Spencer Hudnut will handle showrunning duties. News of the spin-off was first reported back in March, but now CBS has officially picked up the series to join its midseason lineup. Check out the official logline below:

"With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Dutton joins an elite unit of U.

What Do We Know About the upcoming Yellowstone sequel series The Madison? More than you may think. The Paramount series starring Michelle Pfieffer was first announced in 2023 and is currently in production. From plot, casting news, and more, let’s dive in and look at what is coming up in the new addition to Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone franchise.

What is The Madison about?

The plot of The Madison has been summed up in the logline that it “follows the McIntosh family, originally from New York City, who live in the Madison River valley of central Montana.”

Michelle Pfeiffer leads the cast

Michelle Pfeiffer is set to lead The Madison in the role of Stacy Clyburn, with Patrick J. Adams and Elle Chapman leading the McIntosh clan and Russell and Paige McIntosh. Matthew Fox is also in the cast, playing a character named Paul. Beau Garrett and Amiah Miller will play Abigail and Bridgette Reese,...

The future of Yellowstone Season 6 has been shrouded in uncertainty and mystery. Paramount once made it clear that the show wouldn't return for another season, and the door remained shut until Season 5 B's promotional material started sending mixed signals to fans, hinting that the series finale might not even be in Season 5.Meanwhile, reports about potential spinoffs and cast returns have flooded fans, but hardly anything is confirmed.

1923 is returning for another season to tackle the Dutton family's history. At one point, the spinoff series The Madison was a direct sequel to Yellowstone. However, the story's change of direction in focusing on a new family leaves the Dutton family's post-Yellowstone fate in the air. With the rumor that a Beth and Rip spinoff could potentially pick up where Season 5B left off, many fans wonder what Yellowstone's future looks like now that the Season 5 finale is out.

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Once considered the most disreputable of screen genres, horror has become so pervasive and popular that it’s not unusual now to see a movie presenting itself as such simply for the sake of commercial insurance. That seems the case with “Rounding,” a well-acted and atmospheric psychological thriller with Namir Smallwood as a medical resident who unravels in his new hospital placement. It’s got enough going on that the shoehorning of horror elements — including an eventual monster — feels gratuitous within a tricky narrative already over-compressed into an hour and a half.

Alex Thompson’s sophomore feature was actually made before last year’s acclaimed “Ghostlight,” though it’s only getting released well after a 2022 Tribeca Festival premiere. Doppelganger is distributing to U.S. theaters and on-demand platforms as of Feb. 14.

Working here sans his usual directing and writing partner Kelly O’Sullivan (though she plays a supporting role), Thompson establishes...

Alex Thompson’s thriller Rounding doesn’t lack for details. Early on, after medical resident James (Namir Smallwood) shuffles between hospital rooms in burgundy scrubs, he releases his nervous energy by jogging through a blanket of snow, making the name of the rural town in which the story is set, Greenville, feel like a knowing joke. When he arrives home, it’s to a cramped basement apartment where the sounds of the upstairs neighbors echo through the ceiling. Would that Rounding’s story were as memorable as those details.

Rounding’s rudderless screenplay, which Thompson co-wrote with his brother Christopher Thompson, casts out in several directions at once, as though hoping that one of them will have a substantial impact on the viewer. James has transferred to Greenville after a breakdown, hoping the rural change of scenery can allow him to get his groove back. But complicating matters is that...

Set in the same universe as ‘Yellowstone,’ ‘The Madison’ will reveal a part of Montana that fans haven’t seen much of from Sheridan so far.

Sad that “Yellowstone” is likely over? There’s no reason for fans to fret; the show’s co-creator Taylor Sheridan isn’t ready to leave the universe of the Dutton family just yet. The next show set in that universe is titled “The Madison,” and will shift the scene slightly to a new part of Montana that likely went unexplored in the five-season run of “Yellowstone.” We’ll share all the information we have about the show, including cast details, where you’ll be able to stream it, and when we think it will be available below!

Everything we know so far about ‘The Madison’ When will ‘The Madison’ be released?

As of February 2025, there is no release date announced for “The Madison.” The...

"There's something off... it just doesn't quite add up.." Doppelgänger Releasing has unveiled a new official trailer for an indie horror film called Rounding, which is finally getting a small theatrical + VOD release starting in February 2025. This one first premiered in 2022 at the Tribeca Film Festival and despite a solid festival run, it was never released. In the meantime, director Alex Thompson went on to make Ghostlight which was a big hit from last year's Sundance. After a traumatic incident, a driven young medical resident named Dr. James Hayman transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start, but the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the case of a patient with mysterious symptoms. Described as a "humanist and unconventional genre vision." The film stars Namir Smallwood as Dr. Hayman, with Sidney Flanigan, Michael Potts, Rebecca Spence. This trailer gets really...

“Ghostlight” and “Saint Frances” writer/director Alex Thompson is back onscreen with another festival hit: “Rounding.”

Thompson’s latest psychological thriller stars “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” breakout Sidney Flanigan as an asthma patient who starts to experience mysterious symptoms. Her stay at the hospital intersects with the arrival of young medical student James Hayman (Namir Smallwood), who previously endured a traumatic incident during his residency before transferring to a rural hospital for a fresh start.

Per the official synopsis, “the demons of James’ past begin to catch up with him when he becomes consumed by the case, and his grip on reality starts to slip as his disturbing nightmares, anxiety-fueled speculations, and physical injuries collide with the harsh realities of the world of medicine.”

Michael Potts and Rebecca Spence also star.

“Rounding” premiered at Tribeca 2022, and went on to screen at Rooftop and the Chicago International Film Festival. The film...

Taylor Sheridan's TV empire is broadening with the announcement of The Madison, an upcoming Western series that is envisioned as a spinoff of Yellowstone. Often confused with the long-gestating Yellowstone sequel series that is still in the works, The Madison will follow the Clyburn family as they relocate to Montana following the death of their patriarch. Many details surrounding the show remain foggy, but A-lister Michelle Pfeiffer is confirmed to lead the new series..

The current state of the Yellowstone universe is murky, and even as the original series prepares to ride off into the sunset in late 2024, the Western franchise is growing. Pre-existing spinoffs like 1888 and 1923 (which is starting a second season) proved that interest was high even outside the original show, and that has spurred a rush to green-light as many projects as possible. Though updates are flowing concerning The Madison, a lot is still unknown.

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The cast for The Madison continues to grow. Four more actors have joined the hotly-anticipated Yellowstone spinoff series, with one of the new additions already familiar with the franchise.

According to Variety, Kevin Zegers (The Rookie: Feds), Rebecca Spence (Lady in the Lake), Alaina Pollack (The Surrender) and Danielle Vasinova (The Bay) are the latest additions to The Madison cast, joining the previously announced Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Ben Schnetzer, and Amiah Miller. Vasinova may not be familiar yet to the Yellowstone fandom, but the actor has already wrapped a role in one of the franchise's other spinoffs, 1923 Season 2. For obvious reasons, Vasinova will not be reprising her 1923 role in the present-day-set The Madison; instead portraying Kestrel, "an indigenous woman married to a Montana rancher who lives with her family on a double-wide trailer on their ranch."

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Yellowstone's upcoming spinoff The Madison has added four new cast members to its growing roster, including one actor who has a role in 1923. The story of The Madison follows Stacy Clyburn (Michelle Pfeiffer), a woman who relocates her family from New York to Montana following the tragic death of her husband in a plane crash. Other core cast members portraying various important characters include Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Amiah Miller, and Ben Schnetzer. As of writing, it's unclear just how direct the show's connection to Yellowstone is going to be.

Now, Variety has confirmed four new actors will be joining The Madison, those being Kevin Zegers, Rebecca Spence, Alaina Pollack, and Danielle Vasinova. Zegers plays Cade, Stacy's neighbor and previous caretaker of her Montana home. Spence portrays Liliana Weeks, another woman from New York City who's friends with the protagonist. Polloack is Abigail's (Garrett) daughter Macy,...

Yellowstone spinoff The Madison is rounding out its ensemble.

Kevin Zegers (The Rookie: Feds), Rebecca Spence (61st Street), Danielle Vasinova (The Bay) and Alaina Pollack have been cast in the Taylor Sheridan offshoot, Variety reports. They join previously announced series regulars Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Fox (Lost), Patrick J. Adams (Suits), Beau Garrett (The Good Doctor), Amiah Miller (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) and Elle Chapman.

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The Yellowstone universe is continuing to expand in a manner that the Dutton family would never have approved of on their once great ranch. Taylor Sheridan’s latest spinoff series, The Madison, has added four new cast members as production continues on the highly anticipated project. Variety reports that Kevin Zegers (The Rookie: Feds), Rebecca Spence (Lady in the Lake), Alaina Pollack, and Danielle Vasinova(1923, The Bay) have all joined the series, set in the picturesque Madison River valley of Montana.

“The Madison,” the new upcoming series in the “Yellowstone” universe, has added four new cast members.

Variety has learned that Kevin Zegers, Rebecca Spence, Alaina Pollack and Danielle Vasinova have all joined the new Taylor Sheridan series. They will appear alongside previously announced cast members Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Ben Schnetzer and Amiah Miller.

The official logline for “The Madison” describes it as a “heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.”

Zegers will play Cade, described as “Stacy’s (Pfeiffer) new neighbor, asked to look out for the place until the family showed up.” Pollack will play Macy, said to be “Abigail’s (Garrett) youngest daughter, who also grew up in a wealthy New York City family.” Spence will play Liliana Weeks, “Stacy’s friend and a fellow member...

Yellowstone star Cole Hauser teases the future of the franchise as the main series officially comes to an end.

Speaking to People, Hauser discussed both the overall reaction to the franchise and what the future may look like following the recent Yellowstone series finale. "I think America has spoken. They still love the show," Hauser said. "There's obviously just tons of people that every Sunday get together with their families, and we give them the experience of taking 'em out of their own living rooms and putting 'em in Montana and entertaining them."

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Rip and Beth are officially starring in their own spinoff after the Yellowstone series finale, but their series needs to include one other character.

With regard to what part his character Rip Wheeler will play in future entries in the Yellowstone universe, Hauser stated,...

Get ready for a brilliant psychological thriller from Apple TV+ in its latest series, Lady in the Lake. Created by Alma Har’el, the Apple TV+ series is based on the 2019 novel of the same name by author Laura Lippman. Lady in the Lake has brilliant performances from its two leading actors and a thrilling story that will have you glued to your screens.

Lady in the Lake is set in 1960s Baltimore and it follows the story of Maddie Schwartz, an investigative journalist as she ditches her overbearing husband to pursue her career and work on the murder case of two mysterious separate killings, which brings her in conflict with a woman working to advance the agenda of the city’s Black community.

Lady in the Lake – Episode Guide (When Will The New Episodes Come Out?) Credit – Apple TV+

Lady in the Lake consists of seven episodes in total. The...

61st Street season 2 premieres July 22 at 9pm on the CW. The show faced distribution challenges but was eventually picked up by the CW. CW's interest in the series was likely due to its strong cast and themes.

The release date for 61st Street season 2 has been revealed by the CW. 61st Street is a crime drama show that follows the story of high school athlete Moses jones who finds himself swept up in the corrupt criminal justice system of Chicago. 61st Street feature a leading cast including Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Tosin Cole, Mark OBrien, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Bentley Green, Holt McCallany, Julian Parker, Jarell Maximiilian Sullivan, and Rebecca Spence.

As per Deadline, a release date has been revealed for 61st Street season 2. The series sophomore season will premiere on Monday, July 22. The show will air on the CW on Mondays at 9pm.

61st Streets Rough Path To Season 2 Explained...

Bank robbers tend to be fairly easy to root for in movies. After all, it’s not the audience’s money getting pocketed onscreen. They typically don’t want to kill anybody, and their schemes tend to be pretty spectacular. “Heist 88,” a new Showtime release inspired by a real-life Chicago robbery from the year 1988, doesn’t trust viewers to be so accepting, so it spends most of its time underlining the generic reasons that its aggrieved crack team have for taking on the job. It’s a crime film that finds little joy in criminality, crammed with characters who’ve been backed into a corner, hindered by an overarching morality that doesn’t match the material.

Courtney B. Vance leads the feature as Jeremy Horne, an over-the-hill thief about to head back to prison. At a celebration of life for his brother, remembered as a Black community leader, Horne...

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When medical resident James (Namir Smallwood) is assigned an acting class to improve his bedside manner, he bristles at the idea, describing it as “dishonest.” The teacher (David Cromer) gently pushes back. “Don’t your patients lie sometimes?” he asks. “They might,” James replies. “Their bodies usually don’t.”

The irony is that James will spend the bulk of Rounding obsessed with the idea that one specific body might be, if not lying, at least telling less than a complete truth — all while his own body betrays the fictions he tells himself, namely that he’s totally fine and in control. Those tensions make for a tense, occasionally terrifying thriller that’s hard to look away from, though what it’s ultimately trying to accomplish with all that energy isn’t always so clear.

Rounding opens with what will turn out to be...

Not many filmmakers can boast a 99 Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes for their small-scale debut, as Alex Thompson earned with 2019’s “Saint Frances.” Fewer still follow up with an even stronger second act.

Thompson co-wrote “Rounding” with his physician brother Christopher, and their psychological freakout is possessed of an almost visionary intensity. He’s described this film as inspired by the B-movie thrillers he watched on TV as a kid, but that significantly undersells its lingering power.

Indeed, the B-movie moments — ominous threats, manifested demons — are the weaker spots in an otherwise taut and terrifying emotional nightmare.

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Namir Smallwood (“American Rust”) is exceptional as James, an ambitious medical resident who falls off the fast track when one of his patients dies. Though his sympathetic mentor urges him to push on, a shell-shocked James insists...

Stars: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Tony Todd, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Brian King, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Rebecca Spence, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Estelle Williams | Written by Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld | Directed by Nia DaCosta

Director Nia DaCosta and producer Jordan Peele resurrect the Candyman in this part-sequel, part-reboot of the 1992 cult classic. Taking several cues from the original film, it’s an intelligent and provocative horror, though straight-up slasher fans may be a little disappointed.

Bernard Rose’s 1992 film was an adaptation of a Clive Barker short story (The Forbidden), which cleverly relocated the action from London to Chicago. It also turned Tony Todd’s titular villain into a terrifying figure of vengeful violence, who could be summoned by uttering his name five times while standing in front of a mirror.

The new film essentially treats the 1992 movie as a source of urban legend. Set in the now gentrified...

Candyman Review — Candyman (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Nia DaCosta and starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Brian King, Miriam Moss, Rebecca Spence, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Christiana Clark, Michael Hargrove, Rodney L Jones III, Heidi Grace Engerman, Ireon Roach, Breanna Lind and Tony Todd. Director [...]

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Michael Hargrove as Sherman Fields in Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta.

Hey, is this the end of August and near the end of Summer), or is it October, around mid-Fall? Just wondering since this is the third weekend in a row with the release of a new horror flick to theatres. Hmm, maybe the studios are getting a bit of a “head start” in case our health situation goes ‘sideways” (as if that thought’s not scary enough). Last week’s release was an original idea, while the 8/13 premiere was a sequel to a flick from five years previous. Now the roots for this week’s big shocker go back nearly thirty years, but it’s not really a reboot, remake, or a “re-imagining”. The marketeers are dubbing this a “spiritual sequel” as it harkens back to that 1992 original and ignores its sequels (much as the 2018 Halloween only references the...

“Candyman,” the 1992 slasher movie starring Tony Todd as a vengeful specter in a floor-length fur-lined coat, with a hook for a left hand and a devoted swarm of killer bees, was an urban-legend horror film that was ahead of its time but also, just maybe, a little too much of its time. Todd’s scowling ripper started off as an enslaved person’s son, Daniel Robitaille, who in the late 1800s was a successful artist. But then he had a relationship (and fathered a child) with a wealthy white ingenue whose portrait he’d been commissioned to paint. Her father hired a lynch mob to go after him. The mob tore off his hand and covered him in honey, and a swarm of bees stung him to death. Candyman is the violent ghost he became.

That’s a potentially incendiary premise, but in 1992, amid a swarm of boilerplate sequels featuring Freddy Krueger,...

“You can really make the story your own. But some of the specifics should be consistent.” So says William Burke (Colman Domingo), the aging keeper of the Candyman legend. And so say writer-director Nia DaCosta (“Little Woods”) and co-writers Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld (“The Twilight Zone”), the inventive re-creators of the “Candyman” franchise.

The filmmakers built their movie by deconstructing another one: Bernard Rose’s 1992 original, which was in turn based on Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden.” Though it was embraced by genre fans at the time (including a teenage Peele), Rose’s version is long overdue for a contemporary revision. It’s hard to imagine one with more searing impact than this.

The pandemic pushed the movie’s release date back a year, so the story opens in 2019 Chicago, long after the Cabrini-Green housing project of the original was razed to make way for gentrification.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Art-House Animation

If your eyes are tired of the latest cookie-cutter animation from the Hollywood mill, Criterion is featuring quite a line-up of inventive arthouse offerings in the field. With works by Marcell Jankovics, Satoshi Kon, Ari Folman, Don Hertzfeldt, Karel Zeman, and more, the series includes The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962), Belladonna of Sadness (1973), Fantastic Planet (1973), Watership Down (1978), Son of the White Mare (1981), Alice (1988), Millennium Actress (2001), Mind Game (2004), Paprika (2006), Persepolis (2007), Waltz with Bashir (2008), Mary and Max (2009), It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012), Tower (2016), The Wolf House (2018), No. 7 Cherry Lane (2019), and more.

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Neo-Noir

One of the greatest series to arrive on the Criterion Channel thus far is this selection of neo-noir offerings, including Brian De Palma’s masterpieces Blow Out and Body Double,...

Candyman Trailer 2 — Universal Pictures has released the second movie trailer for Candyman (2021). View here the first Candyman film trailer. Cast and crew Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman, produced by Jordan Peele, stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Tony Todd, Vanessa Williams, Rebecca Spence, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Rodney L Jones [...]

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Don’t say his name.

Universal and MGM released a terrifying new trailer for Nia DaCosta’s supernatural slasher film, hitting theaters on Aug. 27, 2021.

The trailer gives a backstory to the classic Candyman character, who is said to be an innocent man killed by police after being suspected of putting razor blades in kids’ candy.

“Candyman ain’t a ‘he.’ Candyman is the whole damn hive,” Colman Domingo says in haunting narration in the trailer.

Serving as a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 horror pic of the same name, “Candyman” follows visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his girlfriend, art gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), as they move into the newly gentrified Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago. When McCoy learns about the tragic true story of Candyman, he begins incorporating the vengeful spirit — summoned if someone says his name into a mirror five times — into his art, unlocking a...

Namir Smallwood and Sidney Flanigan will star in “Rounding,” a new dramatic thriller from “Saint Frances” director Alex Thompson. “Rounding” follows a driven young medical resident (Smallwood) who transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start. There, the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the case of a young asthma patient (Flanigan). The film was shot in secret in Chicago and just wrapped production.

Smallwood is an ensemble member at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He has also appeared in the television shows “Rust” and “Chicago Fire.” This is his feature film debut. Flanigan had critics raving with her work in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a drama about a young woman’s efforts to obtain an abortion. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit nomination for best female lead and won prizes from the Boston Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle.

One of the biggest disappointments of the shutdown of theaters last year was that the release of the highly-anticipated new Candyman feature produced by Jordan Peele and directed by Nia DaCosta was pushed back by a full year. In a recent interview, Colman Domingo, who appears in the movie, told Et Canada that the epic nature of Candyman is something that audiences need to experience in cinemas.

"It does need to be on a big screen, I believe that. Nia DaCosta directed something that is really epic and it's really visually stunning, and I think you need to be in an audience and be shocked and at the same time, and laugh at the same time, and go 'oh' at the same time."

The upcoming Candyman is not a reboot of the original 1992 horror classic of the same name, but rather a continuation of the story in modern times. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II...

Horror movies centering around the experience of African-American characters have seen a new prominence in pop culture, thanks to the success of Get Out, US, and Lovecraft Country. Filmmaker Nia DaCosta is gearing up to make her own contribution to the genre with the upcoming Candyman reboot. During an interview for the Nightstream Film Festival, DaCosta weighed in on the effect that the horror genre can have on Black filmmaking

"I kind of see it two-fold, right? Like, one is like it's really great that we have this tool, I think genre is really important, especially horror. Well, not especially horror. Let's say for now, in particular, horror, for getting more people just to come see what the movie is, because people watch horror films. Then, too, really getting inside of an experience and inside of a place where they feel what the characters are feeling, at least enough to...

The upcoming fourth installment of the iconic horror franchise Candyman by filmmaker Nia DaCosta will see a new character take on the mantle of the dreaded Candyman. During the Virtual Fireside Chat at Nightstream Fest, DaCosta revealed that her film will differ from the original Candyman in revealing the process by which a mortal man becomes the immortal monster known only as Candyman.

"In the original, he's already a fully formed...I guess monster, we'll say, because that's definitely how he's positioned in the original film, as a monster. And so, it's really like a reveal of like, 'Here's my chest. I'm fully formed, I'm fully grotesque' and in this one, we really wanted it to be a slow progression, and for me, I really wanted to trigger the response of like, you know when all of us have had a rash or something, and we're like, hmm, what's that?...

The long-awaited follow-up to the cult classic horror movie Candyman has been delayed yet again. After waiting for the release for almost a year, fans have started asking that the movie be allowed to bypass a theatrical release and go directly to streaming via VOD. In answer to such requests, the director of the movie, Nia DaCosta, took to Twitter to explain why a theater distribution model was so important for Candyman:

"We made Candyman to be seen in theaters. Not just for the spectacle but because the film is about community and stories--how they shape each other, how they shape us. It's about the collective experience of trauma and joy, suffering and triumph, and the stories we tell around it. We wanted the horror and humanity of Candyman to be experienced in a collective, a community, so we're pushing Candyman to next year, to ensure that everyone can see the film,...

It’s been over 20 years since Hollywood evoked the vengeance-fueled specter of horror franchise Candyman, but the hiatus is coming to an end. With Hollywood’s reboot/remake epoch showing no signs of slowing down, and the buzz surrounding Blumhouse’s recent Halloween sequel/reboot, it appears that the Candyman’s cinematic rebirth is nigh.

Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions have conjured a new Candyman manifestation. Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directed the film off a screenplay by Peele and Win Rosenfeld. The film is a “spiritual sequel” that “returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood.”

The project arose after the rights—originally held by the now-defunct PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and distributed by Tri-Star—recently became available. MGM will produce with Monkeypaw, with Universal Pictures set to distribute.

Candyman Remake Release Date

Candyman is now set to...

Hey, fellow "Empire" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's episode 15. Now that it's officially in the history books, it's time to see what the next week's new episode 16 will throw at you guys. The folks over at Fox served up a new press release for episode 16, and it looks like it's pretty packed with a lot of teaser intel. So, that's what we'll certainly be using for this spoiler session. To get everything started, Fox's press release revealed that this 16th episode is labeled, "Never Doubt I Love." Episode 16 sounds like it will feature some very dramatic and interesting scenes as that very intense investigator lady ,Meghan Conway, continues her pursuit of taking down the Lyons! Damon tries to expose Cookie! Beautiful Teri has a secret to unleash. Andre seeks more help from Lucious and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Meghan Conway situation.

Stars: Zazie Beetz, Joe Keery, Hannibal Buress, Katherine Cunningham, Chris Parnell, Y’lan Noel, Paul Scheer, Rae Gray, Austin Vesely, Chance the Rapper, Rebecca Spence, Will Brill, Kelli Simpkins, Lakin Valdez, Gary Houston | Written and Directed by Austin Vesely

Slice posits itself as A24′s 80′s horror throwback in the same vein as John Carpenters eerie methodical camp aesthetic in The Fog, combined with his comedic prowess of Big Trouble Little China, albeit threaded together on a very, very bad day at the office.

In a spooky small town, when a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job, two daring survivors (Zazie Beetz and Chance the Rapper) set out to catch the culprits behind the cryptic crime spree. Slice is director Austin Vesely’s first feature film after helming music videos for Chance’s “Sunday Candy” and “Angels.” Somehow, this mystery involves both a werewolf and a...

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Classic 1990s horror franchise Candyman is back thanks to Jordan Peele, and they have the bloody good trailer to prove it....

It’s been more than two decades since Hollywood evoked the vengeance-fueled specter of horror franchise Candyman, but the hiatus is coming to an end. With Hollywood’s reboot/remake epoch showing no signs of stopping, and so much good will about Blumhouse's Halloween sequel/reboot resurgence, Candyman’s cinematic rebirth is nigh. And a little bit like that Halloween reboot, this appears to be more of a sequel and belated continuation on the earliest film in the franchise. They both even have that confusing trick of sharing the same title!

The new Candyman is being conjured by Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions. Further Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) will direct from a screenplay by Peele and Win Rosenfeld. The film is a “spiritual sequel” that...

Betty Dodson has made a career out of teaching women to masturbate, but she’s only one woman. “You first have to be self-sexual, and then you can have sex with other people,” Dodson said recently, summarizing a life philosophy that has crowned her the grand dame of radical sex positivity. “The love affair — the sex affair — that we have with ourselves is the primary one. It should be ongoing throughout our life, and we should honor it.”

Dodson’s ideas reached a wider audience last fall, when “Broad City” sent Ilana to a sex therapist named Betty in search of her lost orgasm. (The culprit: Donald Trump.) Titled “Witches,” the episode spawned countless think pieces and was a standout in a series that has promoted sex positivity from the beginning. But “Broad City” is a comedy, and while its impact is vast, it is largely felt by a self-selecting...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah)

When miniscule-budget films like Coherence can deal with multiple dimensions in endlessly fascinating ways and mid-budget Hollywood films like Life have the guts to get impressively nasty while riffing on the sci-fi classics that came before it, there’s no excuse for The Cloverfield Paradox to fall as blandly down the middle of the road as it does. The most memorable aspect of the...

In 2017 many of us went to the movies to try and find what we feared we would lose in real life. I found myself particularly drawn to films led by women and people of color that would reassure me that there was something worth staying alive and fighting for when it seemed the world was on fire. By the third time I found myself sitting down to watch Wonder Woman on the big screen, popcorn and candy in hand, I realized I kept coming back because its powerful message compelled me to return. When Amazon princess Diana explains, “Only love can save this world. So I stay. I fight, and I give,” it was as if the movies were giving me a mission: go out and be the best person you can be, help others, and come back to us when you need to refuel. So, here’s what I...

A year of uncertainty–to put it lightly–at every waking moment, 2017 won’t be remembered fondly. Offering brief moments of solace, the best cinema of the year included both escapism and a glimpse of humanity that was undetectable when looking at headlines. It was also the rare year that didn’t ramp up in quality in latter months; in fact, only one film in my top 10 actually premiered in the fall, with a trio of others getting theatrical releases during that time.

It hurt to leave off Lady Bird, The Untamed, The Other Side of Hope, Ex Libris – The New York Public Library, and the year’s best blockbuster, Okja, but when all is said and done, here are the 15 films that most resonated with me this year. Along with the below feature, one can see a vague ranking of all ~150 films I’ve viewed here, as well as...

Coming-of-age story Princess Cyd is a last-minute addition to best-of-the-year lists, while even Daniel Craig enjoys himself in Steven Soderbergh’s crime caper

It’s the last day of 2017, all the “best of the year” lists have been compiled, read and discarded, yet a few hours remain for me to champion a last-minute highlight, silently shuffled off to an online-only premiere in the UK after touring American art houses to strong notices. Stephen Cone’s Princess Cyd (on iTunes and Amazon) is a soft-treading beauty, warm, light and perceptive on fragile questions of feminine sexuality, gender identity and finding your place in your skin.

It’s a coming-of-age story, though the two women on whom it focuses – motherless, 16-year-old Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) and her middle-aged writer aunt, Miranda (Rebecca Spence) – are equally undefined in certain ways: what exact number does “coming of age” refer to anyway?

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Princess CydStephen Cone has been making movies at a steady clip for over a decade and yet remains largely unknown. It is a momentous and wholly deserved occasion then for him to receive a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Despite mixed receptions and even more erratic distribution patterns, his collection of films isn’t as motley as one might think. While each might tiptoe in a different direction, they maintain a hand in the Stephen Cone universe, imprinted by the same particular humanistic insight. In one of his earliest films, In Memoriam (2011), a young man so subsumed with the sudden death of a couple, fallen from a roof during the throes of pleasure, conducts his own investigation into their ill-fated demise. Innocuous curiosity masks what is essentially an existential inquiry and takes a self-referential pivot when he decides to recreate and film the events,...

As we gear up for an awards season ripe with many quality queer films, it’s important to remember smaller successes who may get lost in the shuffle. Lgbt-themed film festivals Outfest and Frameline kicked off the summer, while New York’s own NewFest wrapped up last week. It’s always thrilling to see a gay film get awards attention, like the kind lavished on Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name” and foreign language contender “Bpm (Beats Per Minute).” But it’s been a banner year for nuanced queer films across the board, and especially ones from queer-identified filmmakers.

From up-and-comers making splashy debuts, to longtime favorites who have stepped up their game, the filmmakers on this list represent a varied swath of not only the Lgbt spectrum, but vastly different artistic styles. That means they have the potential to reach different audiences — and open up perspectives across demographics.

Stephen Cone has the tenacity of first-time director, yet he has eight feature films and dozens of shorts to show for it. His vision for filmmaking, grit in self-fundraising, and ability to collaborate with fresh faces (like Joe Keery of Stranger Things fame) and veteran actors alike results in nimble productions with a quick turn-around.

The Film Stage’s Jose Solís reviewed Cone’s newest film Princess Cyd, which opens today in NY and Chicago, saying: “With this, Cone also continues to be one of the few directors who has chosen to contextualize faith rather than demonize it. He shows greater interest in the places where we are like each other, all while celebrating what makes us different.”

Offering a look into his still-young career, Eric Hynes, Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, programmed Talk About the Passion: Stephen Cone’s First Act, going from...

In brief—this interview is long as is—Stephen Cone’s new feature Princess Cyd begins with what’s almost a feint: a phone call to 911 reporting trouble next door and a potentially helpless young girl, heard before we actually see now-grown protagonist Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) on the soccer field. 16-year-old Cyd comes to Chicago to spend some time away from her father, crashing with her writer aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence). They’re opposites: Cyd’s all body and bluntly atheist, Miranda is cerebral and Christian. The question of what happened to Cyd fades away over the course of a seemingly low-key movie in which Cyd […]...

Too often, the nuances of female desire and exploration are painted with broad strokes by filmmakers of all stripes, but especially male ones. Which is why Stephen Cone’s beautifully rendered portrait of one teen’s innocent romantic experiments comes as such a delightful surprise. But there is more at play in “Princess Cyd,” which also explores a middle-aged woman’s relationship to her sexuality in equally delicate measures. The relationship between the two women is the film’s major driving force, which is apparent in the first trailer for the engaging and understated film.

“Princess Cyd” follows 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin (Jessie Pinnick) over a summer visit to her novelist aunt (Rebecca Spence) in Chicago. Estranged since the death of Cyd’s mother, Miranda and Cyd gently dance around each other as they re-establish an adult relationship. Meanwhile, Cyd seeks guidance during her dalliance with cute neighborhood barista Katie...

"It is not a handicap to have one thing, but not another..." Wolfe Releasing has debuted the first official trailer for Stephen Cone's latest film Princess Cyd, a light coming-of-age comedy set mostly in Chicago. The story follows a young 16-year-old woman who goes to spend the summer with her novelist aunt at her home in Chicago's suburbs, discovering her sexual attraction to another girl in the neighborhood. Newcomer Jessie Pinnick stars as Cyd, and the cast includes Rebecca Spence, Malic White, James Vincent Meredith, Tyler Ross, and Matthew Quattrocki. I caught this just recently at the London Film Festival, and while it is solid overall, none of it really impressed me and it doesn't have anything unique to say at the end. There's so many other better films exactly like this, but it's also not that bad either. Take a look below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster...

There are few directors working today that love their characters more than Stephen Cone. After reaching a wider audience with one of 2015’s best films, Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party, he’s returning this year with Princess Cyd. Following a 16-year-old’s summer in Chicago, where she clashes and connects with her aunt and learns more about her own sexuality and faith, the first trailer has landed. Also, if you’re in NYC and have yet to see Cone’s film, a retrospective will be held at the Museum of Moving Image from November 3-12.

In a rare A-grade review for Princess Cyd, we said, “Watching his films, one gets a sense that he doesn’t use the medium simply to tell stories but to exercise his curiosity and discover the things that make us human. In the hands of another filmmaker, Princess Cyd‘s two leads would’ve been...