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Mattel and Universal are partnering on a Monster High movie. The Monster High toy line features characters who are teenagers inspired by classic monsters. The already robust Monster High franchise could potentially support a live-action blockbuster.

Monster High will be following Barbie to the big screen. The latter title, which was a Greta Gerwig-directed live-action comedy starring Margot Robbie as the titular doll, was a worldwide phenomenon when it was released in 2023. The Barbie box office ballooned to $1.45 billion by the end of its theatrical run, breaking records and becoming the highest-grossing movie of the year. In the wake of the movie's success, other movies based on Mattel toys have either gone into pre-production or progressed further in development including Polly Pocket and Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.

Per TheWrap, the latest Mattel toy to join these movie properties is Monster High. The characters in the toy line, which was launched in 2010, are supernatural,...

Released last Halloween, Nickelodeon’s live action Monster High: The Movie was a hit for Paramount+, and the brand new trailer for Monster High 2 unveiled today promises school is back in session sooner than expected.

Monster High 2 is set to premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday, October 5, 2023.

The movie will also premiere on Nickelodeon on the same day at 7 pm Et/Pt. Encores air every weekend in October on Nickelodeon, as part of their Monster Movie Madness programming.

The new trailer below reintroduces our favorite Monster High students, along with a feisty new student, werecat Toralei Stripe (Salena Qureshi). Expect ghoulishly fun songs for the Monster High fan as Clawdeen, Draculaura, and Frankie find their groove back at Monster High for their sophomore year.

Based on the popular Mattel toy franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, Monster High and Monster High 2 come from Nickelodeon and Mattel Television.

Monster High: The Movie...

"Monster High 2" is a new Mattel Television live-action musical fantasy feature, based on Mattel's "Monster High" franchise, directed by Todd Holland, starring Miia Harris, Ceci Balagot, Nayah Damasen, Case Walker, Marci T. House, Jy Prishkulnik, Lina Lecompte, Justin Derickson, Lilah Fitzgerald and Nasiv Sall, streaming October 5, 2023 on Nickleodeon and Paramount+:

"...the first movie followed the story of 'Clawdeen Wolf' (Harris) and the second film will focus on 'Draculaura' (Damasen), trying to find her place in a Monster World, with lots of singing and dancing..."

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Released last Halloween, Nickelodeon’s live action Monster High: The Movie was a hit for Paramount+, and it looks like a brand new sequel is on the way this Halloween season.

“Who’s ready for a ghoul-amorous return? Monster High 2 is coming soon to Paramount+,” the streamer’s official account tweets tonight. No premiere date at this time. Stay tuned.

Based on the popular Mattel toy franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, Monster High and Monster High 2 come from Nickelodeon and Mattel Television.

Monster High: The Movie is streaming on Paramount+. You can read Meagan’s review here.

Miia Harris, Ceci Balagot, Nayah Damasen, Case Walker, Kyle Selig, Marci T. House, Scotch Ellis Loring, Steve Valentine, Jy Prishkulnik, Lina Lecompte, Justin Derickson, Lilah Fitzgerald and Nasiv Sall lead the cast of the live-action franchise.

“Monster High follows Clawdeen Wolf (Harris), who was born half human and half werewolf,...

Released earlier this month, Nickelodeon’s live action Monster High: The Movie has proven to be a big time success, and just like that a sequel has now already been ordered up!

Deadline reports, “Nickelodeon and Mattel Television have given a green light to a sequel to the live-action movie musical. Based on the Mattel franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, the feature-length TV movie will begin production in January in Vancouver, Canada, and will air on Nickelodeon and stream on Paramount+ in 2023.”

Monster High: The Movie is now streaming on Paramount+, where millions have tuned in to watch since the film’s premiere on October 6. You can read Meagan’s review here.

“We are ecstatic to tell the monstrous next chapter of this beloved franchise to our audience,” said Zack Olin and Shauna Phelan, Co-Heads of Nickelodeon & Awesomeness Live-Action. “Monster High’s message of embracing one...

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A sequel to Monster High The Movie, based on the popular Mattel toy line, is in the works from Paramount+, Nickelodeon and Mattel Television.

The latest live action TV movie will once again be based on the Monster High Mattel toyline that features teenage children of monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman undergoing the trials and tribulations of high school.

The feature-length TV movie will also again be produced in Vancouver and will air on Nickelodeon and stream on Paramount+ in 2023. The first live-action movie for the franchise, Monster High The Movie, successfully debuted on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on Oct. 6, 2022.

The sequel is being penned by Matt Eddy and Billy Eddy, based on a story they wrote with Todd Holland, who will direct and executive produce the sequel.

“We are ecstatic to tell the monstrous next chapter of this beloved franchise to our audience.

Exclusive: On the heels of the successful premiere of Monster High The Movie, Nickelodeon and Mattel Television have given a green light to a sequel to the live-action movie musical. Based on the Mattel franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, the feature-length TV movie will begin production in January in Vancouver, Canada, and will air on Nickelodeon and stream on Paramount+ in 2023.

Monster High The Movie, which premiered on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on October 6, was the No. 1 kids and family movie on Paramount+ during its launch week and reached more than 4M total viewers across its premiere weekend on linear. In L+3, the linear simulcast posted triple-digit increases, up more than +100 with Kids 6-11 and up 45 with total viewers.

The Monster High animated series is also slated to premiere on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. (Et/Pt) on Nickelodeon.

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Mattel’s Monster High toy line gave a classic monster twist to dolls along with a web series that segued into other forms of media to flesh out the dolls’ fictional stories. Its popularity only continues to grow, resulting in a new live-action movie for tweens, full of catchy tunes and monster charm – just in time for Halloween.

Clawdeen Wolf (Miia Harris) struggles to find her place in the world as a half human and half werewolf teen. Feeling shunned by humans, Clawdeen decides to follow in mom’s footsteps and attend Monster High, a school reserved solely for those with true monster hearts. That means she’ll have to keep her human heritage a secret. Clawdeen quickly makes friends with roommates Frankie Stein (Ceci Balagot) and Draculaura (Nayah Damasen), enemies with Cleo de Nile (Jy Prishkulnik), and even forms a crush on the kind Deuce Gorgon (Case Walker). All...

HBO Max announced that “Search Party” will end with its fifth season, which will premiere with all 10 episodes on Jan. 7, 2022.

The thriller comedy, which premiered on TBS in 2016 before moving to HBO Max for Season 3, follows a group of 20-somethings who end up on a dark path while searching for a missing college acquaintance. Season 5 will see Dory (Alia Shawkat) enter a business partnership with tech billionaire Tunnel Quinn (Jeff Goldblum) after a near death experience, bringing her friends Portia (Meredith Hagner), Elliott (John Early) and Drew (John Reynolds) along in the venture.

Cast members newly joining “Search Party” in Season 5 include Kathy Griffin, John Waters, Aparna Nancherla, Angela Trimbur, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Greta Titelman, Joe Castle Baker, Larry Owens and Michelle Badillo. Jeffery Self and Clare McNulty return as recurring guest stars.

Showrunners Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers executive produce with Michael Showalter and Jax Media’s Lilly Burns and Tony Hernandez.

Succession star Jeremy Strong is taking on a new role, headlining and exec-producing the 9/11 first-responder limited series The Best of Us, per The Hollywood Reporter.

The in-development project explores the human fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks, with a focus on the first responders, students, teachers, New Yorkers and volunteers who worked on “The Pile” and how they were affected and treated. A network is not yet attached to the series.

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Nickelodeon and Mattel have scared up a cast for its upcoming live-action TV musical movie Monster High, tapping Miia Harris, Ceci Balagot, Nayah Damasen, Case Walker, Kyle Selig and more.

Directed and executive produced by Todd Holland, Monster High follows Clawdeen Wolf (Harris), who was born half human and half werewolf, after she arrives at her new school, Monster High. She quickly makes friends with her classmates Frankie Stein (Balagot) and Draculaura *Damasen), and for the first time in her life, Clawdeen feels like she has finally found a place where she fits in and can truly be herself, despite keeping her human half a secret. When a devious plan to destroy Monster High threatens to reveal her real identity, Clawdeen must learn to embrace her true monster heart and find a way to save the day.

Also joining the cast are Marci T. House, Scotch Ellis Loring, Steve Valentine,...

Christine Ko (Dave), Malcolm Barrett (Genius: Aretha), Sally Pressman (Good Girls), Cedric Joe (Women of the Movement), Riki Lindhome (Another Period) and Tim Heidecker (Moonbase 8) are among 17 cast in Disney+’s Just Beyond, a supernatural anthology series from writer Seth Grahame-Smith and 20th Television, part of Disney TV Studios.

Gabriel Bateman (The Mosquito Coast), Cyrus Arnold (8-bit Christmas), Arjun Athalye (Are You Afraid of the Dark: Curse of the Shadows), Jack Gore (Things Heard and Seen), newcomer Logan Gray, Elisha Henig (Ramy), Rachel Marsh (NCIS: Los Angeles), Jy Prishkulnik (Escala), Megan Stott (Little Fires Everywhere), Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Bly Manor) and Izabela Vidovic (Wonder) round out the cast of the series based on the bestselling Boom! Studios graphic novel series from iconic children’s writer R.L. Stine (Goosebumps). They join previously announced series leads Mckenna Grace and Lexi Underwood.

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HBO Max’s “Generation” will return with new episodes starting June 17.

Rounding out Part 2 of Season 1, the series will launch three episodes on June 17, two on June 24 and two on July 1, with the finale premiering on July 8.

The half-hour dramedy series follows a diverse group of high school students exploring themselves and their sexuality in a conservative community.

The ensemble cast includes Nathanya Alexander, Chloe East, Nava Mau, Lukita Maxwell, Haley Sanchez, Uly Schlesinger, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Chase Sui Wonders, Justice Smith and Martha Plimpton, with recurring guest stars J. August Richards, Mary Birdsong, Alicia Coppola, Patricia De Leon, Diego Josef, Anthony Kevyan, Sydney Mae Diaz, John Ross Bowie, Marwan Salama, Marisela Zumbado and Sam Trammell.

“Generation” is created by Zelda Barnz and Daniel Barnz, who executive produce with Ben Barnz for We’re Not Brothers Productions, Lena Dunham for Good Thing Going Productions, Sharr White and John Melfi. Sono Patel co-executive produces,...

Exclusive: The Birch, Crypt TV’s Facebook Watch horror drama, has added a slew of cast for its second season as production gets underway.

The series, which follows a group of young adults whose lives end up entangled with a vengeful woodland tree monster, has added Amanda Brooks, who has starred in Aquarius and Nashville, Jordyn Dinatale, who played the young Connie Sheeran in The Irishman, Nikko Austen Smith, who starred in Queen Sugar, and Samuel Taylor.

They join Xaria Dotson, who is reprising her role as Evie Grayson, in the ten-part drama, which is based on the 2016 short film of the same name from Anthony Melton, Ben Franklin and Cliff Wallace. Dempsey Bryk, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Sheaden Gabriel, Jy Prishkulnik and Brady Romberg also return.

Jane Casey Modderno returns to write with John William Ross returning as director. Filming is underway in the Pacific Northwest. Crypt TV produces with Jack Davis,...

It takes a math genius to raise a lot of money with pennies.

In Christopher Boone’s directorial feature film debut, Cents is a story about a Latina middle-schooler Sammy Baca as she uses her brilliant math skills to befriend the cool kids with the school penny drive.

The film stars the emerging talents of Julia Flores, Lillie Kolich, Jy Prishkulnik and Claire Carter.

Lrm has an exclusive clip from the inspirational film. The clip is entitled, “It’s Not Possible, It’s Math.”

Cents is available on VOD today.

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"I will not have you trivialize everything I have sacrificed to make things better for you." This fun indie flick plays nicely with the trailer for Gifted, also about a precocious young mathematician trying to hold her own in school. Cents is a coming-of-age film about a 12-year-old girl, played by Julia Flores, who uses her calculus skills to transform the penny drive at her school into a pyramid scheme. The cast includes Lillie Kolich, Jy Prishkulnik, Claire Carter, Monique Candelaria and Esodie Geiger. I was hoping this might be a hidden gem, but the trailer doesn't show much promise, unfortunately. Still worth a quick look. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Christopher Boone's Cents, direct from YouTube: Sammy (Julia Flores), an uncommonly smart twelve-year-old girl, uses her gift for mathematics and enlists her frenemies to revamp the school penny drive into a major moneymaking operation. Cents is both...