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There's an extremely strong case to be made in favor of John Carpenter being dubbed the master of horror. Although 2010's "The Ward" was Carpenter's last feature film foray into the genre (along with producing the "Halloween" reboot trilogy), the director's diverse oeuvre is profound enough to sustain us for the ages. Sure, every horror-head would love for Carpenter to helm another project, but for now, all we can do is cherish what we have and hope for the best. In the meantime, we can also talk about an underrated horror gem that Carpenter absolutely adores.

When asked about contemporary horror and its ability to scare him, Carpenter told Comic Book that it is hard for him to distance himself from the lens of a filmmaker while watching them, and scrutinize "the plumbing" of modern horror. However, Carpenter considers a film scary if it is able to bypass these instincts...

Following on the success of the “10 Years” series which features Thailand and Hong Kong editions among others, comes the latest iteration which sees five Burmese filmmakers coming together to conceptualize on the future they envision for their country. The anthology series of five short films is a visual package of this combined thought space, packaged in stylistic arthouse omnibus which is “10 Years Myanmar”.

Ten Years Myanmar is screening at Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival

The first film is “A City of Bougainvillea” by Thaiddhi. A blossoming love between a young couple sees them enjoying sweet nothings atop the city heights. But there is an uncomfortable silence in the air- for the boy might not even be real. The movie that starts of the anthology is perhaps the most poignant one. A morose and dark take on identity and belonging, which is rife with symbolism and leaves a lot to interpretat.

“The Worst Person in the World,” Horror Version, this one is not. For their first post-“Worst Person” team-up, stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie have taken on a human story of a different cast: a zombie tale. What’s more about life than a story about life after death?

Directed by first-time feature filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl, Reinsve and Danielsen Lie both star in “Handling the Undead,” the filmmaker’s adaptation of author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel of the same name. For fans of the writer’s work, like both “Let the Right One In,” the film and the show, “Handling the Undead” should feel both familiar and welcome. (The author also assisted Hvistendahl with her script.)

The film follows a trio of Norwegian families as they grapple with their beloved (and very recently dead) members suddenly coming back to life.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January,...

A grandfather quietly grieves over the fresh, newly dug grave of his preteen grandson. An elderly woman quietly mourns the passage of her life partner. A husband sits at the hospital bedside of the body of his wife. Separated by time and distance, each character, in their turn, faces a heart-shattering, soul-crushing, life-altering change for the worse in Norway’s capital city, Oslo, leaving their lives, individually and collectively, irrevocably devoid of purpose or meaning in Thea Hvistendahl’s deceptively quiet, stunningly brilliant adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s (Let the Right One In) novel of the same name, Handling the Undead (Håndtering av udød). With influences ranging from George A. Romero’s original Dead trilogy, Stephen King’s Pet Semetary, to the more recent French series, The Returned, and...

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Don Mancini’s “Chucky” Season 3 premiered on USA and Syfy earlier this week – the season premiere is also now streaming on Peacock and YouTube – and Bloody Disgusting has now been provided with some Spoiler photos from Episode 1, along with a sneak peek at the upcoming Episode 2. Next week’s episode is titled “Let the Right One In.”

In Season 3, Episode 2, airing on October 11, 2023, “Jake, Devon and Lexy hatch a plan to take down Chucky by befriending the President’s teenage son.”

Preview Episode 2 and recap Episode 1 by checking out the image gallery below!

You can read Meagan’s review of Season 3: Part 1 for Bloody Disgusting right here. She writes, “Once again, ‘Chucky’ delivers excessive blood splatter and campy fun.”

In Chucky’s unending thirst for power, Season 3 now sees Chucky ensconced with the most powerful family in the world — America’s First Family, inside the infamous walls of the White House.

(Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato. In this edition, Matt wants you to "Let the Right One In.")

When Roger Ebert's right, he's right. The prolific film critic called Tomas Alfredson's "Let the Right One In" the best modern vampire movie upon its release, still relevant praise over a decade later. The movie is many things — sweet, compassionate, bloody, and supremely dark. Vampirism is what connects two outcast children, as they perform unspeakable acts for the benefit of each other. Alfredson stays in command of a vampire tale that's often an emotional journey first, relying on adolescent actors who shoulder the beloved international hit.

There's a specific moment where Virginia bursts into flames that is, probably, the most horror-forward shot of the entire film. That'd be most other...

One of the best features of being a Sling TV user is the amount of free content you’ll get. Current Sling customers are finding that out once again, as the service is gearing up to offer another of its Freeview weekends from Friday, March 24 through Monday, March 27.

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This time, Sling is serving up a free weekend of the premium cable channel Showtime. That will give Sling users free access to the second season premiere of “Yellowjackets,” as well as “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the movie that just took home the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2022.

Additional highlights of Showtime’s programming lineup that will be available for free to Sling users this weekend include:

“The L Word: Generation Q”: Centers on a group of diverse LGBTQ+ characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks, personal growth and success in Los Angeles.

“Let the Right One...

Exclusive: Ed Skrein (Deadpool) has replaced Rupert Friend in Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic Rebel Moon for Netflix, following Friend’s exit from the project due to scheduling conflicts, with Cleopatra Coleman (Dopesick), Fra Fee (Hawkeye) and Rhian Rees (Nope) also signing on for roles. The actors join an ensemble that also includes Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Stuart Martin, Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Michiel Huisman and Alfonso Herrera, as previously announced.

Rebel Moon is set in a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy that finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, then dispatching a young woman (Boutella) with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand. While Skrein will be playing the film’s principal antagonist, details with regard to the characters the other new cast members will be playing have not been disclosed.

April is here and that means there’s a whole slew of new releases headed to Hulu to meet your streaming needs.

In the realm of original films, Hulu has the queer rom-com “Crush,” starring Rowan Blanchard and Auli’i Cravalho, which debuts April 29. Meanwhile, new library arrivals this month include the Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt sci-fi mind-bender “Looper,” both “Shrek” and “Shrek 2,” and all four films in “The Twilight Saga.”

April is also a big month for new TV shows on Hulu. Andrew Garfield’s hot streak continues with the FX drama “Under the Banner of Heaven,” which debuts exclusively on Hulu April 28. For reality TV fans, “The Kardashians” premieres on April 14. Hulu also has two franchise spinoff kids shows returning with Season 7 of “Madagascar: A Little Wild” on April 4 and Season 2 of “The Croods: Family Tree” on April 5.

These are but a few highlights in a rather...

Showtime is officially opening the door to a new vampire series.

The premium cable channel has given a series order to "Let the Right One In," a television adaptation of the Swedish novel and its spectacular 2008 film adaptation. Showtime has ordered ten episodes of this new show, which will begin production in New York City sometime in early 2022.

Oscar-nominated actor Demián Bichir ("A Better Life") plays the lead role, and the series also stars Tony winner Anika Noni Rose, Grace Gummer ("Frances...

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Hot off her role in Amazon Prime’s buzzy Them, Anika Noni Rose has boarded the pilot for Let the Right One In, Showtime‘s “elevated genre series” inspired by the 2004 Swedish vampire novel (by John Ajvide Lindqvist) and subsequent 2008 film.

The prospective series follows a father, Mark (played by The Bridge‘s Demián Bichir), and his 12-year-old daughter, whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Since age 12 (and perhaps forever), Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with...

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Michael Almereyda has tackled science (as a topic of either biopics or dramas) in a fascinating way in “Experimenter” and “Marjorie Prime,” and now he’s bringing that same energy to the inventor-biopic with “Tesla” (Shout Factory/IFC), a bold and audacious look at the life of Nikola Tesla. Ethan Hawke, in the title role, is evenly matched by Eve Hewson’s Anne Morgan, and they both nail Almereyda’s unique tone, which throws in anachronisms and green-screens to tell the story of someone who stretched the notions of what his peers imagined could be possible.

Also available: Madison Iseman plays a young girl with mental-health issues who can’t convince anyone she’s witnessed a crime in “Fear of Rain” (Lionsgate); 2012 indie “Watching TV with the Red Chinese” (Mvd Visual), co-starring Constance Wu and Gillian Jacobs, makes its U.S. DVD debut; Sienna Miller and Diego Luna...

You might think there’s a world of difference between producing and directing a series in the unscripted world and writing and directing a feature film, but you’d be wrong. There’s a pretty significant overlap in both genres, and the skills I learned in the former actually gave me an advantage in the latter.

I began my career in entertainment in the early 1990s as a creative exec working on television comedies and dramas, but eventually got sidetracked into the genre of unscripted entertainment. Reality TV was just beginning to surface and so I created a number of shows, including “Making the Band” and “America’s Next Top Model.” Producing these shows in that era of television was an amazing learning experience, especially in the early years.

Back then, you had to be a jack of all trades. You not only had to produce the show — you also had to write it,...

The Right One starring Nick Thune, Cleopatra Coleman, Iliza Shlesinger and David Koechner will be available On Demand and Digital Worldwide February 5th. Here’s the Trailer:

In this heartfelt and hilarious rom-com, Sara, a novelist struggling with writer’s block, needs inspiration — and finds it when she serendipitously meets Godfrey, a down-on-his-luck oddball who constantly changes personas and alter egos in order to cope with his past and avoid reality. Just as Godfrey begins to open up to Sara, he discovers that she’s been using him as inspiration for her next novel, and he vanishes from her life. Did Sara just lose the man of her dreams, or will she be able to find him and make things right?

The Right One is written and directed by Ken Mok

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An imaginative romance comes with surprising conditions in the upcoming Lionsgate release “The Right One.” In the film, a case of writer’s block leads one novelist to meet a mysterious stranger. Cases of writer’s block seem to be a recent go-to strategy for filmmakers—Steven Soderbergh’s “Let Them Talk” is a fantastic example with writer Deborah Eisenberg positioning it as more than a character trait.

Continue reading ‘The Right One’ Trailer: Cleopatra Coleman Isn’t Sure Who She Really Is Dating In This New Rom-Com at The Playlist.

"Who the hell are you?!" Lionsgate has unveiled an official trailer for an indie romantic comedy titled The Right One, marking the feature directorial debut of acclaimed writer Ken Mok. The film itself is also about a writer. Godfrey is the story of man so traumatized and guilt ridden by a personal tragedy that he's dealt with it in a profound way: he's decided to be anyone besides himself. One day he adopts the persona of a haughty art critic, then a Poet, the next a rave DJ, a female singer, and many other witty personas. Godfrey's coping mechanism keeps him sane, but he's a man who has completely lost the idea of who he is. Enter Sara Dash, a smart, insightful writer with writer's block who struggles with her own sense of self. Intrigued by his personas, Sara tries to unravel the mystery of Godfrey, while using him to write her new novel.

Condé Nast Entertainment hired Geneva Wasserman as senior vice president of motion pictures, overseeing development of the media company’s slate of feature film properties.

Wasserman, a nearly 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, most recently served as co-founder and executive producer of production firm Project Z Entertainment.

She takes over the role at Cne after the departure earlier this summer of Jeremy Steckler, previously Evp of film at Condé Nast Entertainment, to join Imperative Entertainment as president of film production. Wasserman will be based in L.A. and reports to Oren Katzeff, president of Condé Nast Entertainment.

“Geneva’s mix of creative brilliance and business savvy made her the ideal candidate,” Katzeff said in announcing her hire. “I know she’ll bring an innovative spirit, helping Cne capture the best that this industry has to offer, and pushing us to expand the way we think about filmmaking.”

Wasserman joins...

Condé Nast Entertainment has named Geneva Wasserman as its new senior vice president of motion pictures, the company announced on Wednesday.

Wasserman will be based in Los Angeles and report to Oren Katzeff, president of Condé Nast Entertainment (Cne), the company’s content generation studio that produces across digital video, social, virtual reality, Ott channels, film and television.

Wasserman joins the company as the production studio expands its footprint with more than 65 active film and TV projects, 175 new digital pilots, two Ott channels and a new GQ Sports channel coming in fall 2019. At Cne, Wasserman will work closely with Katzeff to further increase the company’s global film footprint and develop diverse feature properties.

Also Read: 2 Top Condé Nast Executives to Exit Amid Restructuring

“I’m thrilled to have Geneva join the team to help lead our efforts in world-class storytelling through film,” Katzeff said in a statement. “Geneva’s...

In today’s film news roundup, John Amos returns for “Coming 2 America,” Nick Thune and Cleopatra Coleman are cast and “Plácido Domingo Gala” and “Birds Without Feathers” get release dates.

Castings

John Amos is set to reprise his role as Cleo McDowell in Eddie Murphy’s upcoming film “Coming 2 America.”

“Hustle & Flow” helmer Craig Brewer is directing the project with Murphy, Kevin Misher and Kenya Barris producing for Paramount.

The 1988 original movie, directed by John Landis, starred Murphy as the charming African prince Akeem, who traveled to New York City to escape an arranged marriage. Amos portrayed Akeem’s employer and the father of Shari Headley, who played Akeem’s love interest. The comedy was a major hit, grossing nearly $300 million at the worldwide box office.

In the sequel, Prince Akeem is set to become king of the fictional country of Zamunda when he discovers he has...