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Ahead of a planned 2025 release, the official accounts for the Once Upon a Witch's Death anime today released a brand-new character trailer for Sophie Hayter, the genius "witch of blessings" who performs spectacular magic at festivals across the country and is a sucker for food. Once Upon a Witch's Death Sophie Character Trailer The Once Upon a Witch's Death anime's confirmed cast is as follows: Meg voiced by Yoshino Aoyama Faust voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara Sophie Hayter voiced by Hina Yomiya Fine Cavendish voiced by Rumi Okubo Carbuncle voiced by Miharu Hanai Shirofukuro voiced by Aina Suzuki Mysterious Girl voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki Related: Once Upon a Witch's Death Anime Releases Faust Character Trailer Based on the light novels by Saka and Chorefuji, Atsushi Nigorikawa ( Beast Tamer ) directs Once Upon a Witch's Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy at studio Emt Squared, with series composition by...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced its selection of 20 film projects and four immersive projects for the 42nd edition of CineMart, Rotterdam’s co-production market. The 2025 CineMart runs from Feb. 2 to Feb. 5, 2025. Rotterdam’s industry section, the IFFR Pro Days, is scheduled from Jan. 31 to Feb. 5.

Among the highlights of the projects set for CineMart are Ukrainian auteur Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Something Strange Happened to Me, the director’s follow-up to his acclaimed debut Pamfir; Kenyan filmmaker Angela Wanjiku Wamai’s neo-Western Enkop; and The Uganda Project, the new film from Daniel Mann, whose Under a Blue Sun screened in Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition in 2024.

As is to be expected from a Rotterdam lineup, the 2025 CineMart selection is thematically and geographically diverse. Cheryl Dunye’s Black Is Blue, which explores anxiety over AI, stands alongside Jazmín López’s Faust, an exploration into the origins of authoritarianism. Marcelo Gomes...

Judging by atmosphere alone, Nosferatu is a triumph. Writer-director Robert Eggers has applied his meticulous process to the sighing ossuaries and sickly maidens of gothic horror, adapting Bram Stoker’s seminal Dracula and its illegitimate offspring Nosferatu for contemporary audiences. Sumptuously realized and terminally self-serious, it’s the culmination of...

Ken Page was best known as a stage actor, with Deadline referring to him as one of Broadway’s most familiar character actors, but he did earn several film credits over the decades as well, appearing in films like Torch Song Trilogy, The Kid Who Loved Christmas, I’ll Do Anything, and Dreamgirls, as well as TV shows like Gimme a Break!, Family Matters, Touched by an Angel, and more. Page also did a good amount of voice acting work – with his most popular credit coming when he provided the voice of Oogie Boogie in the Henry Selick / Tim Burton stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. Page would go on to voice Oogie Boogie again for the Kingdom Hearts video games, the video game The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge, and the ride walk-through short Haunted Mansion Holiday. Sadly, it’s being reported that Page passed away in his sleep...

"I didn't make him for you!" is the line from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it's as true of Frank and Rocky and the eponymous film as it is of The Phantom Of The Paradise. Counting among its fans film-makers like Brian De Palma and Edgar Wright, it's a film whose cult following is a testament to its invention and the singularity of its intent.

50 years later it's still impressive that anyone thought it fit to run The Phantom Of The Opera and Faust and the Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Portrait Of Dorian Gray through a blender and garnish it with sex and drugs and rock and roll and, most importantly, make it a musical. The variety displayed here is more than just show. In its depiction of the business there are few holds barred. To take something as weirdly pure and hammer...

Does anyone remember the Satanic panic? It was a bizarre mix of urban legend, conspiracy theory, media frenzy, and religious fanaticism that occurred primarily in the early 1980s. The phenomenon was marked by thousands of alleged incidents of ritualized abuse, often involving children, and desecrations reportedly perpetrated across the nation by scores of so-called Satanic cults in towns and cities everywhere. While many of the reports were later found to be baseless—and the initial investigative techniques used to supposedly substantiate them discredited—the aftermath of the panic remains with us today in the shape of things such as QAnon and PizzaGate.

The roots of the Satanic panic were found in the late 1960s and ‘70s, thanks to books like The Satan Seller, social changes like the rise of the counterculture in the national zeitgeist, infamous events like the Manson Family murders, the introduction of new religions into American society,...

The 2000s saw the action genre in a state of flux. The Matrix revolutionized everything at the end of the previous decade, The Bourne Supremacy would make shaky cameras standard practice in 2004, and the MCU would take flight with Iron Man in 2008. At the same time, Michael Bay reached his ultimate form with Bad Boys II, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill made kung fu classy, and Oldboy changed the way we look at hallways.

Within those changes came a host of greats that didn’t get the same attention. Some of these movies represent the first steps in the development of those who would define the genre, such as Scott Adkins and Gareth Evans. Some find stars at the height of the powers, such as Donny Yen and Michael Jai White. And some are just cool, because that’s really all an action movie needs.

If you’ve...

Rebecca Ferguson explains that part of why Isla was killed in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning was because she didn't want the character to become a "team player". Ferguson also reveals that the franchise's production style resulted in a lot of time spent on the sidelines, and she wanted to work more. Mission: Impossible movies under director Christopher McQuarrie have adopted an unorthodox filming style where there isn't always a clear blueprint for the film ahead of time.

Isla Faust actor Rebecca Ferguson opens up about the decision to kill off her character in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Directed by returning filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, the latest installment in the hit action franchise features Tom Cruise returning as Ethan Hunt, this time to face off against a rogue AI enemy known as The Entity. The Mission: Impossible 7 cast features a host of newcomers and familiar faces, but the film...

Juno Films has acquired US and multiple territory rights to Aleksander Sokurov’s Fairytale following its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival last summer.

‘Fairytale’: Locarno Review

The distributor plans a late autumn release in the US after a festival run, and will also distribute the feature theatrically in the UK.

Additionally Juno has acquired rights in Australia and New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands and will handle festival releases in those territories.

Fairytale was blocked by Russian censors and situates 20th century leaders Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Winston Churchill in Purgatory, where they...

Like most movies, The Invisible Man travelled a long and winding road to the silver screen, and perhaps longer and more winding than most. As biographer James Curtis put it in his book James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters, “The gestation of The Invisible Man was the lengthiest and most convoluted of all of James Whale’s films. It involved four directors, nine writers, six treatments, and ten separate screenplays—all for a film that emerged very much in harmony with the book on which it was based.” It was first suggested as a possible follow-up to Dracula (1931), perhaps as a vehicle for new star Bela Lugosi, but was dropped in favor of Frankenstein (1931) due to the complicated special effects it would require. After Frankenstein was an even bigger success, both director James Whale and star Boris Karloff were immediately attached to The Invisible Man and several...

Spanish sales, distribution, exhibition and production outfit has a line-up of 16 titles in different stages of production.

Barcelona-based Filmax, one of Spain’s leading entertainment companies, has lined up its next genre production, El Nido, the third fiction feature from Hugo Stuven following Solo and English-language Anomalous.

A psychological thriller feature, El Nido (which translates to ‘the nest’) tells the story of Marta, who is obsessed with protecting her family from the terrifying outside world and keeps her mother and her young son locked in their home. Everything seems peaceful until, one day, a man arrives, looking to destroy everything Marta has built.

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World.On the steep, cobbled street leading down from the GranRex cinema in Locarno, soon after emerging from El Rio y la Muerte, a deeply engrossing account of a bitter blood feud nourished by generations of Mexican machismo, I thought about Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. This was hardly an isolated incident. I had thought about Jude's movie while taking a bus to the other side of town the day before. I would be thinking about it again on a Zoom call the following week. Conversations with colleagues, a sandwich lunch on a bench, even some of my crisp-hotel-bed dreams were colored by the film, glancing off it, bumping into it, minding their own business only to be startled by it leaping out of a nearby shrubbery. When the guy in the...

Punchdrunk has released new images of The Burnt City as the show enters its final eight weeks. Following a record-breaking eighteen months in London, the final performance of Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City will be held on 24 September 2023.

Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City. Photo by Julian Abrams

Opening in March 2022, the production has sold over 200,000 tickets. By the time it closes, the show will be the longest running mask show that the company has presented in London.

Over 600 people have worked on the show, making it the largest project in Punchdrunk’s history. The epic retelling of the end of the Trojan war, set between the neon-drenched backstreets of downtown Troy and the menacing but opulent shadow of Greece, is played out across two vast warehouse buildings. Part of the old Woolwich Arsenal, these buildings provide Punchdrunk with its first permanent home in London.

Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City. Photo...

You may know him as the villain Le Chiffre from the James Bond movie Casino Royale, or as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in NBC’s TV series Hannibal. He has also starred in a number of Hollywood blockbusters, including Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Doctor Strange. But before he became an international star, Mads Mikkelsen was just a shy boy from Denmark who never expected to achieve such fame.

From humble beginnings to becoming an acclaimed actor on both the big and small screen, this is Mads Mikkelsen’s story. Here we will explore how he rose to fame, discuss his greatest achievements and shed light on some lesser known facts about the man behind the character. Along the way you’ll discover what drives him, what makes him special and how he has stayed true to himself while engaging with Hollywood superstardom.

Mads Mikkelsen. Depostiphotos...

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, known as F. W. Murnau, was a pioneering German film director who significantly influenced the cinematic landscape during the early 20th century. His innovative approach to storytelling, visual style, and groundbreaking techniques laid the foundation for the evolution of cinema. Murnau’s work transcended cultural boundaries, leaving an indelible mark on filmmakers and audiences alike.

Born in 1888, Murnau grew up in a time when cinema was in its infancy. Despite the limitations of the medium during his era, Murnau was relentless in pushing the boundaries of what was possible in film. He was a visionary, an artist who sought to create a new language to express human emotions, thoughts, and experiences through the medium of film.

In this article, we will explore the life and career of F. W. Murnau, delving into his groundbreaking films and techniques, examining his influence on the evolution of cinema, and celebrating his lasting legacy.

Jacques Haitkin, the cinematographer on the first two Nightmare on Elm Street films as well as myriad other horror and action movies, has died. He passed on March, 21 after a battle with Als and Leukemia, according to a Facebook post by his son Zak Haitkin. He was 72.

More recently, Haitkin had worked as second unit director of photography or camera operator on some of the industry’s biggest titles, including Black Panther, Venom, Captain America: Civil War (and Winter Soldier), Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, Captain Phillips, The Expendables, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: The Last Stand and Kong: Skull Island.

Below is his son Zac’s statement.

I am deeply saddened to announce that my dad, Jacques Haitkin passed away peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at the age of 72 in San Francisco, CA after a long and courageous battle with Als and Leukemia. Despite the challenges that he faced,...

As the beginning of his IMDb bio states, “Every horror film buff will recognize the name Jacques Haitkin.” Haitkin was the cinematographer on one of the most popular horror movies ever made, the 1984 Wes Craven classic A Nightmare on Elm Street (watch it Here). And while Craven didn’t return to the helm for A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Haitkin did return to be the cinematographer on that sequel. Sadly, we have to share the news today that Jacques Haitkin is no longer with us. This news was broken on the Facebook account of filmmaker Tony Randel, who is best known for directing Hellbound: Hellraiser II and worked with Haitkin on Galaxy of Terror, Ticks, Fist of the North Star, Rattled, One Good Turn, and Assignment Berlin.

Randel posted, “I knew Jacques Haitkin practically my entire career. We met on a Roger Corman horror/sci-fi epic – Galaxy of Terror.

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster director Thomas Hamilton on his upcoming series Horror Icons on interviewing Roger Corman: “He not only worked with Vincent Price, he worked with Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney.” Photo: Thomas Hamilton

Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Conrad Veidt, Maria Ouspenskaya, George Zukor, Paul Wegener, Emil Jannings, Brigitte Helm, Gale Sondergaard, Gloria Holden, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Duane Jones, Max Schreck, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Lon Chaney Sr., Lon Chaney Jr, Fw Murnau’s Faust and Nosferatu, Arthur Lubin’s Phantom of the Opera, Rowland V. Lee’s Son of Frankenstein, George Waggner’s The Wolf Man, James Whale’s The Invisible Man, Lambert Hillyer’s Dracula’s Daughter, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen’s The Golem, Hanns Heinz Ewers and Stellan Rye’s The Student Of Prague, and George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead...

Squid Game star O Yeong-su appeared to acknowledge some guilt as he spoke to the press while entering the courtroom Friday for the first day of his sexual misconduct trial in Seoul, South Korea. Clad in a gray jacket and hat, the 78-year-old actor said to a group of reporters, “I am sorry. I think I behaved badly.”

The stage and screen veteran, best known for his role in the smash-hit Netflix, was indicted by local prosecutors in November for allegedly inappropriately touching a young actress while the two were on tour for a play in 2017. The police report said that O attempted to hug the unidentified woman by force and kissed her on the cheek while they went out for a stroll together. O has admitted that he held the victim’s hand but denies there was any indecent assault. The allegations were originally brought in 2021, but the police...

While the Emmys drew mixed reviews, the film festivals closed to strong applause this week, not only for their movies (we’d forgotten some) but for their star turnout.

Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Taylor Swift and Julianne Moore were out there giving interviews and courting critics as in years gone by. Some had become strangers due to a mix of Covid-caused delays and their own rigid rules of self-protection.

Movie stars once made three or four films a year and were constantly before us, pitching their wares. I once congratulated Tom Hanks three times in a week and the Damon-Affleck team seemed equally ubiquitous. Now even Jennifer Lawrence wants the spotlight again and Harrison Ford has also abandoned invisibility.

Of course, the presence of stars at premieres also guarantees some flying shrapnel on social media. At the Venice premiere of Don’t Worry Darling, did Florence Pugh,...

Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here.

The Diablo franchise has traditionally relied on a fairly simple equipment system. Every player can equip Rings, Pants, Boots, Helmets, and an armory’s worth of weapons, but Diablo Immortal adds yet another item class to that formula.

Throughout the game, Diablo Immortal players will occasionally find Charms: rare, endgame-focused pieces of equipment that provide various buffs. Those items are new to the franchise and function slightly differently than traditional gear such as Amulets and Belts. In fact, Charms are not part of the standard loot table, and you can’t just upgrade them as if they were any other piece of equipment. Despite those differences, many players will probably want to hoard as many Charms as they can, as those items could mean the...

Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here.

Diablo Immortal has only been out for less than a week, but the game’s debut really marks the culmination of years worth of debates, controversies, and scandals.

You don’t have to look hard to find a lot of hate for Diablo Immortal. Depending on where you look, you may even be left with the impression that Diablo Immortal is a universally hated game and a creative and financial failure to boot. In reality, though, it’s neither of those things.

Actually, Diablo Immortal is, in many ways, an incredibly fun game that could easily end up becoming one of those titles that you gleefully play for hours. It’s when you take a deeper look at the reasons why that is a good...

This article contains Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers

If box-office receipts are any indication, you’ve probably watched Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness at least once. You may have loved it, thrilled by Sam Raimi’s wild direction and its gnarly imagery. Or you may have hated it, disappointed by its nonsensical plot decisions and waste of talented actors.

Whether you’re all in or all out on Multiverse of Madness, the latest MCU entry has connections to a bevy of other cinematic offerings. These ten movies are sure to appease those disappointed by Doctor Strange’s trip across alternate realities and sate those hungry for more mind-bending heroics.

Doctor Mordrid (1992)

These days, we think of the MCU as an unstoppable monolith, the king of the pop culture landscape. But that wasn’t always the case. In fact, in the 1990s Marvel Comics filed for bankruptcy,...

Rae Allen, the Tony-winning stage and screen veteran known for her role as nosy reporter Gloria Thorpe in “Damn Yankees” and as Quintina Blundetto on “The Sopranos,” died Wednesday, her rep Kyle Fritz confirmed to Variety. She was 95.

Born in Brooklyn as Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo, Allen began her career on the stage after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1947. Her first Broadway credit was in 1948, as an ensemble member in the George Abbott directed and written “Where’s Charley?” Over the next few years, Rae would continue to appear in Abbott’s various musicals, including “Call Me Madam” in 1950 and “The Pajama Game” in 1954, where she played the small role of Poopsie, a union activist at the factory the show is set in.

A year later, Rae reunited with Abbott and the composers and lyricists of “The Pajama Game,” Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, for “Damn Yankees.

San Francisco, Feb 13 (Ians) Popular online game Lost Ark has passed 1 million concurrent players after just 24 hours, becoming the second most played game in Steam history by concurrent counts. The Diablo-like Mmo launched yesterday in the West, after Amazon Games collaborated with Smilegate RPG to localise and translate Lost Ark and make […]...

Diving into Lost Ark can be an overwhelming experience, but don’t be surprised if the first thing you find yourself wondering is “How do I change these mouse controls as fast as possible?”

Lost Ark’s mouse controls are…strange. The game’s basic mouse controls require you to attack with the left mouse button and move/interact with the right mouse button, which is a configuration we see in some Moba titles but is also one that will feel odd to anybody expecting the Arpg to play like Diablo.

In a perfect world, there would be a way to mimic Diablo’s mouse controls in Lost Ark (which is basically a way to say that you’d be able to let the left mouse button do most of the work), but that is sadly not the case. If you’re interested, though, there is a way to tweak...

Lost Ark is quickly proving to be one of Steam’s biggest hits of 2022, but the game’s complicated release structure has many people wondering what time the red hot title will fully be released and when they’ll be able to join the millions that are already exploring the game that has a lot of people talking.

Originally released (in full) in South Korea in 2019, Lost Ark is an Mmorpg with Diablo-like Arpg combat. The game quickly grew a sizeable fanbase in that region thanks to its PvP mechanics, extensive content offerings, cinematic style, and all those other Mmo tropes that usually encourage people to gleefully spend a few hundred hours of their lives playing them.

So, while Lost Ark has been playable in South Korea and other regions for quite some time, those in the West who recently pre-ordered any of the Lost Ark Founder’s Pack...

Microsoft is acquiring rival Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal that will reshape the video game sector.

The all-cash transaction, the largest in Microsoft’s history, will vault the company to the No. 3 spot among all global video game companies by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. At $95 per share, the deal represents a 45% premium on last Friday’s closing price of Activision Blizzard stock.

Activision Blizzard’s various divisions make games like Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Call of Duty and Candy Crush, in addition to eSports ventures via Major League Gaming. The company has studios around the word with nearly 10,000 employees.

Gaming has surged during the coronavirus pandemic, and the deal is just the latest combination of significant players. Last week, Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive said it would acquire Zynga, which makes mobile games, in a deal worth $12.7 billion.

Activision Blizzard has been contending with a massive internal disruption as a company,...

Fans of the Diablo franchise can now dive back into arguably the best game in the series, thanks to the recent release of Diablo 2: Resurrected. With drastically improved visuals, better audio, and more, players can rediscover the hack-and-slash's significantly better version compared to the original released over 20 years ago.

Related: 5 Best Video Game Remakes Of 2020 (& 5 Worst)

While the team at Blizzard made sure to stay faithful to the original game’s narratives, items, and classes, they didn’t shy away from revamping other crucial aspects of the game. The improved cult classic role-playing title will definitely keep both old and new players glued to their screens for the next few weeks.

My favorite thing about the Venice Film Festival …

It takes place in Venice. The place is just astonishing. You get to see great films, but you can still escape and see an art exhibition.

My ‘only in Venice’ moment was …

My biggest Venice moments have come when I wasn’t in Venice. We’ve had two films that won the Golden Lion — Alexander Sokurov’s Faust in 2011 and Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left in 2016. Both times I was already in Toronto when the announcement came.

The most inaccurate cliche about Italians that Venice proves wrong is …

I’m French, and there ...

My favorite thing about the Venice Film Festival …

It takes place in Venice. The place is just astonishing. You get to see great films, but you can still escape and see an art exhibition.

My ‘only in Venice’ moment was …

My biggest Venice moments have come when I wasn’t in Venice. We’ve had two films that won the Golden Lion — Alexander Sokurov’s Faust in 2011 and Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left in 2016. Both times I was already in Toronto when the announcement came.

The most inaccurate cliche about Italians that Venice proves wrong is …

I’m French, and there ...

Wild Bunch International has acquired world sales rights to Vladimir Bitokov’s “Mama, I’m Home,” which will have its world premiere next month in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival, Variety can reveal.

Bitokov’s second feature, which follows his 2018 Karlovy Vary premiere “Deep Rivers,” is a Non-Stop Production and Ar Content film produced by two-time Academy Award nominee Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov. It was written by Maria Izyumova and stars Kseniya Rappoport, Yura Borisov, Ekaterina Shumakova, Alexander Gorchilin, Natalia Pavlenkova, Darren Kushkhov, Mazhit Zhanguzarov and Valeriy Balkizov.

“Mama, I’m Home” is the story of a bus driver, Tonya, who lives in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya eagerly awaits the return of her only son, who is fighting for a private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told...

Mubi, the London-based streamer and theatrical distributor that’s been on a buying spree this week in Cannes, has acquired the rights for North America, U.K., and a host of other territories for Kira Kovalenko’s “Unclenching the Fists,” which took home the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Variety can reveal.

Set in a former mining town in Russia’s North Ossetia region, “Unclenching the Fists” is the story of a young woman, played by Milana Aguzarova, who struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she both loves and rejects. The film is produced by two-time Oscar nominee Alexander Rodnyansky.

The deal includes all rights for North America, U.K., Ireland, Latin America and India. Wild Bunch International, which is handling the film’s world sales, has also closed deals for France (Arp), Benelux (September Film), Greece (Cinobo), Italy (Movies...

When she was growing up in Nalchik, the capital of Russia’s remote Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Kira Kovalenko wasn’t particularly interested in cinema. She can cite few films that inspired her as a girl. “In all honesty, I never wanted to be a director,” she tells Variety.

The 31-year-old filmmaker has traveled a long way since, as she prepares to bow her second feature, “Unclenching the Fists,” in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Produced by two-time Oscar nominee Alexander Rodnyansky, her sophomore effort marks her as a rising talent in a country with a venerable tradition of arthouse auteurs.

Sitting in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, Nalchik is far from Russia’s cultural lode stars in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It’s a city that likely would never have produced a single filmmaker to walk the red carpet in Cannes — let alone two — were it not for Alexander Sokurov,...

An animated series adaptation of comic book series “Faust” is in development at Sony Pictures Television, TheWrap has confirmed.

The project will be written by Matteo Pizzolo, creator of the “Godkiller” franchise.

Written by David Quinn with art by TIm Vigil, “Faust” was first published in 1987. The series centers on John Jaspers, a mental patient-turned-vigilante who sells his soul in exchange for super powers and then must use them to save his lover from his former boss.

The series was published across 15 issues between 1987 and 2012. The series became known for its graphic violence and sexual content, with the first issue going on to sell 100,000 copies. In 2000, an English-language feature adaptation directed by Brian Yuzna was released in Spain under the title “Faust: Love of the Damned.”

Pizzolo’s recent writing credits include the illustrated “Godkiller” film trilogy, as well as the speculative fiction comic book series “Calexit” with Amancay Nahuelpan.

Deadline has announced that Sony Pictures Television have picked up the rights to Faust, the superhero horror comic written by David Quinn and illustrated by Tim Vigil. The studio have enlisted Matteo Pizzolo (Godkiller) to pen the adaptation which will be developed as an animated series [Seemore] First released by Rebel Studios back in 1987, Faust follows John Jaspers, "a tormented…...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television has acquired Faust, the superhero horror comic book from writer David Quinn and artist Tim Vigil, to develop as an animated series. Godkiller writer Matteo Pizzolo will write the adaptation under his first-look deal with Spt.

Released by Quinn and Vigil’s Rebel Studios in 1987, Faust follows John Jaspers, a tormented vigilante who sells his soul in exchange for super powers and must then rise against Mephistopheles to rescue his lover Dr. Jade DeCamp and win back his soul.

Comic’s creators Quinn and Vigil will serve as consulting producers on the adaptation, with Black Mask Entertainment’s Brian Giberson executive producing.

Faust was a deconstructed superhero comic contemporaneous with Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and The Crow. The first issue sold over 100,000 copies, with later issues averaging 50,000. The core series and its various spinoffs ran for 25 years from a host of publishers including Northstar Comics, Caliber Comics,...

With a remastered edition of the more popular Diablo II announced, it might be time to revisit the third entry in Blizzard's hack-and-slash series. Whether players want to pick up where they left off or start completely anew, the first thing they'll need to do is pick a class.

Related: 10 RPGs That Are Better Played With Friends

Diablo players have a well-seasoned cast of characters to choose from in Diablo III, no matter their preference. Whether they enjoy the hard and hearty warriors, stealthy ranged classes, or powerful magic-users, there's a character class to satisfy any adventurer's appetites. But just what kind of player do these vocations attract?...

Developer Tuque Games’ Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is one of the most anticipated games of 2021 for many of those who grew up with the original Baldur’s Gate Action-rpg spinoff series and fondly remember those games as some of the best co-op console dungeon crawlers ever made.

A lot has changed since Dark Alliance first stole our hearts in 2001, but given that the original games got so much mileage out of intelligently reimagining Diablo-style gameplay for consoles while brilliantly utilizing the incredible universe they were based on, many hope this new Dark Alliance would be able to revive that series’ best qualities while incorporating elements of modern game design.

Well, the first Dark Alliance reviews seem to agree that the game suffers from quite a few technical and design problems, but it feels like there’s a bit of a divide forming in regards to how much they will impact...

The CW’s live-action adaptation of “The Powerpuff Girls” was one of the most anticipated pilots this year, with Diablo Cody co-writing and Greg Berlanti on board as executive producer. But the network announced Monday that the project was being sent back to the drawing board for retooling.

“The reason we do pilots is sometimes things miss,” The CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz explained on a call with reporters on Tuesday. “This was just a miss. We believe in the cast completely. We believe in Diablo and Heather [Regnier], who are writing, and we believe in the auspices of Greg Berlanti and Warner Studios. In this case, the pilot didn’t work.”

He went on to explain that the version of the pilot that was shot earlier this year “felt a little too campy.”

A live-action sequel to the beloved Cartoon Network series created by Craig McCracken, “Powerpuff” follows heroines Blossom,...

While some gamers have spent the last few years speculating that Blizzard’s string of public problems meant that the company was in serious trouble, a recent report from IGN seemingly confirms that the company is at least struggling to maintain its culture and standards just as new financial issues make the upcoming releases of Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo 2: Resurrected more important than ever.

If you haven’t read the report, please be sure to find the time to do so. It’s a fascinating look at the state of Blizzard and how the company seems to be at a crossroads at the moment in regards to where they’ve been and where they’re going.

However, if I had to pull one line from the article that most clearly summarizes the significance of what’s happening inside the company, it would have to be this one...

The deadly corners of cyberspace are home to sadistic killers and the bloodthirsty fans who fuel them in Ed Piskor's new comic book series Red Room. With the first issue of Piskor's Red Room now available from Fantagraphics, we caught up with the talented and bold artist to discuss the creative freedom of his new series, how real-life online horrors inspired Red Room, and more!

You can check out our Q&a with Piskor, official press release, and preview pages from Red Room below, and to learn more about the comic book series, visit Fantagraphics' official website!

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Ed, and congratulations on your new comic book series, Red Room! How would you describe this ambitious series to readers who are discovering it for the first time?

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In the Russian artist Uldus Bakhtiozina’s retro-futurist, feminist spoof on costume dramas, Tzarevna Scaling (Doch Rybaka), a young woman, Polina (Alina Korol), who works at a fried-fish food truck, is offered a mysterious herbal tea to assuage her insomnia. Upon drinking it, Polina wakes up the next day, only to be transported to a bizarro parallel universe. In it, an outlandishly dressed royal—a kind of pissy, mean-spirited fairy-godmother—leads Polina through a test, to prove if she has what it takes to become a tzarevna. Since Polina learns about her unique chance through an old, clunky television set, it’s possible that the entire dreamworld is a trap inside the television set, and Polina’s ordeal is nothing more than a cynical beauty contest.In Bakhtiozina’s Alice-in-Wonderland meets Cinderella quest, the final showdown gets solved quickly when Polina’s asked, rather predictably, what makes her think that she’s so special,...

The reveal of Diablo 2 Resurrected didn’t exactly catch fans by surprise (the project has been rumored to be in development for a while and was leaked ahead of the announcement), but there’s something undeniably exciting about seeing Blizzard finally revisit what many consider to be the finest Arpg ever made.

Even better, much as it was for World of Warcraft Classic, Blizzard and newly acquired developer Vicarious Visions, the team responsible for the brilliant Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake, is committed to preserving the original Diablo 2 experience as much as possible.

“This isn’t a remake,” said Rod Fergusson, executive producer of the Diablo franchise, in an interview with Polygon. “We’re not reverse-engineering it; we’re not rebuilding it and trying to make it look and sound like [Diablo 2]. This is [Diablo 2]…It’s right there, underneath the surface.”

What does that mean? Well, some things will certainly be different about Diablo 2 Resurrected.

Late last month, we covered a report from Bloomberg that a remake for Diablo II was in the works. Today, Blizzard confirmed that report with the announce trailer for Diablo II: Resurrected. Diablo fans will attest that Diablo II did absolute wonders for the series and the action rpg genre in general. Now, they’ll be able […]

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BlizzCon 2021, the biggest Blizzard celebration of the year, is finally here! And this is where you can keep up with all of the big announcements, gameplay footage, and trailers. The show kicks off on Friday, Feb. 19 at 5 pm Et and runs through Feb. 20. You can check out the full schedule here.

Although the virtual nature of the event means that attendees won’t be able to gather under one roof for exciting tournaments and a surprise-filled Opening Ceremony, Blizzard is still bringing quite a lot to this year’s event. The studio has promised to reveal what’s next for most of its major properties, which means we’re bound to get a few big announcements and surprises during the Opening Ceremony on Friday.

What could be on the docket? Well, Blizzard accidentally leaked that fans will learn more about what’s next for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, including the...

The Covid-19 pandemic took its toll on the entire gaming industry last year, especially when it came to conventions and trade shows. E3 2020 was canceled and so were a myriad of other events, including BlizzCon, Blizzard’s biggest event of the year where fans come together to celebrate World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, Hearthstone, and Overwatch.

Fortunately, BlizzCon 2021 is here to make up for lost time with an all-digital event full of updates on the latest and greatest from Blizzard Entertainment. This means that if you’ve been waiting to hear more about all of those new Diablo projects, Overwatch 2, and what’s new with World of Warcraft, now’s your time!

Although the virtual nature of the event means that attendees won’t be able to gather under one roof for exciting tournaments and a surprise-filled Opening Ceremony, Blizzard is still bringing quite a lot to this year’s event.

Blizzard released the full schedule for the upcoming BlizzConline, set to take place February 19-20. “The fun kicks off with the Opening Ceremony at 2 p.m. Pst on Friday. After that, you can plot your own journey through six different streaming channels: five channels dedicated to World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo, Overwatch, and a Strategy […]

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The CW is planning for the return of The 4400.

The broadcast network has handed out a straight to series order for a remake of the sci-fi series that aired on USA from 2004-07. Additionally, The CW has ordered pilots for a live-action, grown-up Powerpuff Girls from Diablo Cody and for projects from Ava DuVernay and Jane the Virgin showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman.

The CW put a remake of The 4400 in development more than two years ago. Like the original, the new version will focus on 4,400 overlooked, undervalued and marginalized people who disappeared over the past 100 years who are all returned in ...

The CW is planning for the return of The 4400.

The broadcast network has handed out a straight to series order for a remake of the sci-fi series that aired on USA from 2004-07. Additionally, The CW has ordered pilots for a live-action, grown-up Powerpuff Girls from Diablo Cody and for projects from Ava DuVernay and Jane the Virgin showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman.

The CW put a remake of The 4400 in development more than two years ago. Like the original, the new version will focus on 4,400 overlooked, undervalued and marginalized people who disappeared over the past 100 years who are all returned in ...