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Margaret Atwood recalls MGM’s straight-to-series order in 2016 to adapt her dystopian classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale as a Hulu series as being a touch risky.

“It was a gamble. And the gamble paid off. Anybody approaching me earlier who said we wanted to make a film about The Handmaid’s Tale, I would have said, ‘Who’s going to watch that?’” she told the second annual Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Canada gala at the Ritz Carlton in Toronto on Thursday.

“When it came out, a certain number of people felt it was illuminating because, surely, the United States would never, ever do such things,” the acerbic Canadian author, poet and activist said as she picked up the Icon Award at the Ritz Carlton. She talked about the success in adapting her 1985 dystopian novel just as Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale has reached the climax for its sixth and final season,...

Professional wrestling is already pretty intense, with brutal take-downs happening left and right, but what happens when pro-wrestlers actually try to kill each other? Shudder is bringing that disturbing hypothetical to life in an upcoming wrestling horror film called Dark Match, starring pro-wrestler and Terrifier actor Chris Jericho. The recently released trailer shows off the moves – and gore – of the high-stakes wrestling matches in the wild new film set to release on Shudder on January 31.

Jericho is the perfect Awe wrestler to spearhead this violent wrestling film, with one of his signature wrestling personas being "The Painmaker," a spooky combination of a serial killer and a wrestler. Dark Match has everything wrestling and horror fans want: There's blood, broken bones, fire, glass-shard fists, and a mysterious dark lord. The violence in the trailer is about as absurd as the catchphrases. Besides the intense levels of violence in the ring, the...

ScreenRant is proud to present the official trailer for Shudder's new film, Dark Match. The horror-thriller stars Aew Wrestler, Chris Jericho, and releases exclusively on the streaming service on Friday, January 31. Jericho also serves as an executive producer alongside Eleanor Wiebe. Ayisha Issa (Transplant), Steven Ogg (Westworld), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries), Michael Eklund (The Call), and Jonathan Cherry (Goon) make up the rest of the main cast.

The story centers around a small-time wrestling company that "accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match." It is written and directed by Lowell Dean, who has worked on projects such as 13 Eerie, Hi Opie!, and Wolfcop. Prior to Dark Match, Dean wrote and directed Carrie-Anne Moss and Frank Grillo's 2024 movie, Die Alone.

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