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Welcome to this review of this past Friday’s episode of Smackdown, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s show…

Match #1: Bayley def. Candice LeRae The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Looking to get back to her winning ways, Bayley took on the surging Candice LeRae. Bayley tried getting the win with the top-rope elbow drop, but LeRae wisely rolled out of the way. After The Role Model chased The Poison Pixie around the ring, LeRae feigned an injury, but Bayley rolled up LeRae for the pinfall.

My Score: 2.5 out of 5 Match #2: #DIY def. Pretty Deadly The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Tommaso Ciampa jumped on Pretty Deadly from the opening bell, launching Kit Wilson into the ring post and repeatedly slamming Elton Prince on the announce table. Ciampa went on a rampage, refusing to tag in Johnny Gargano...

When it came to the bombing of Borderlands, among other late summer and fall releases, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer made no bones about emphasizing culpa nostra.

“On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” the Lionsgate boss said during Thursday’s on today’s earnings call to discuss second-quarter 2024 earnings.

The $120 million feature adaptation of the famed video game starred Jack Black, Kevin Hart and, most glaring of all, two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett in a renegade action role. The movie grossed $15.4M domestic and close to $33M worldwide. Lionsgate mitigates risk on its movies by selling off foreign rights. Still, Borderlands, per sources, is expected to lose as much as $30M. It was a clear case of...

Like a veteran high roller playing the odds, indie film execs crowding the new Vegas venue at the Palms Casino for this year’s American Film Market are hedging their bets. The independent film business, a risky proposal at the best of times, has becoming increasingly precarious with theatrical releases an all-or-nothing proposal — the jackpot of Longlegs versus the bust of Borderlands and Megalopolis — and buyers hesitant to place their chips on anything that doesn’t look like a sure thing.

For indie movies at the AFM, that means a doubling down on genre films, particularly horror and action, and a move away from drama and comedy titles, which are considered riskier bets internationally.

“People are really focused on genre, even some of the smaller international sales companies are boosting their genre slates,” notes one U.S. seller. “Success has become impossible to predict and everyone is looking for anything that has a built-in audience.

Exclusive: After signing on to a handful of promising indies, 1883 breakout Isabel May has come aboard to star opposite Past Lives‘ Teo Yoo in Karoshi, the mysterious action thriller that Takashi Doscher wrote and will direct for Lionsgate.

May’s role is being kept under wraps, as is the plot of the film, which is described as a corporate thriller with a samurai twist. 87Eleven Entertainment’s Chad Stahelski, Alex Young, and Jason Spitz will produce as one of the first projects through their first-look production deal with Lionsgate.

Best known for her breakout role of Elsa Dutton in Taylor Sheridan’s Western drama 1883, which she reprised as narrator of 1923 — another of Sheridan’s prequels to hit Paramount+ series Yellowstone — May is coming off of a role in Apple TV+’s starry miniseries Masters of the Air.

Upcoming projects for May include the horror film Menace, which she also...

It’s been absolutely lovely to witness Ke Huy Quan’s return following the success of Everything Everywhere All at Once, and he’s showing no signs of slowing down. Lionsgate announced today that it has just closed a deal for Ke Huy Quan to star in Fairytale in New York, a new action thriller from Sisu director Jalmari Helander.

The official description reads: “On Christmas Eve in New York City, an unassuming cab driver takes one last ride before going to celebrate the holiday with his estranged son. After a run-in with a gang of criminals, he embarks on a relentless pursuit to retrieve his kid’s priceless Christmas gift.” The film is written by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, with Beau Flynn producing through his FlynnPictureCo. banner.

Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said, “As soon as we watched Sisu, we knew Jalmari was a filmmaker we...

New action dream team alert: Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) is teaming with Sisu director Jalmari Helander on the new action thriller Fairytale in New York for Lionsgate, Deadline reports today.

The new action film will take place on “Christmas Eve in New York City, as an unassuming cab driver takes one last ride before going to celebrate the holiday with his estranged son. After a run-in with a gang of criminals, he embarks on a relentless pursuit to retrieve his kid’s priceless Christmas gift.”

Jalmari Helander is no stranger to holiday fare, having previously helmed Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani wrote the screenplay for Fairytale in New York.

In a statement on the new project, Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said, “As soon as we watched Sisu, we knew Jalmari was a filmmaker we wanted...

Ke Huy Quan, who made a Hollywood comeback with Oscar-winning work Everything Everywhere All at Once, is continuing his action hero streak.

The actor has closed a deal to star in Fairytale in New York, an action thriller that will be directed by Jalmari Helander, the filmmaker behind the pulpy Nazi-crushing flick Sisu.

Beau Flynn, whose credits include the action spectacles Red Notice, Jungle Cruise and Black Adam, will produce the feature via his FlynnPictureCo. banner.

Lionsgate is launching international sales for Fairytale at AFM.

With a script by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, the story is set on Christmas Eve in New York City and centers on an unassuming cab driver, to be played by Quan, who takes one last ride before going to celebrate the holiday with his estranged son. After a run-in with a gang of criminals, he embarks on a relentless pursuit to retrieve his kid’s priceless Christmas gift.

An official website and X (formerly Twitter) account opened today announced that a TV anime adaptation of isekai fantasy series Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! is in the works for a 2025 broadcast. A key visual and a trailer were also revealed, along with the main cast and staff. Key Visual The anime's main cast is as follows: Dennosuke Uchimura voiced by Yuki Ono Ulmandra voiced by Konomi Kohara Demon Overlord voiced by Akio Otsuka Dennosuke Ulmandra Demon Overlord Related: Loner Life in Another World TV Anime Reveals New Trailer and More Based on the manga by Benigashira and Muramitsu, Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! is directed by Michio Fukuda ( Failure Frame ) at studios Geektoys and CompTown, with series composition by Hiroko Fukuda ( Taiso Otome Fairy Tale ), character designs by Ayumi Nishihata ( Otherside Picnic ) and music by Takafumi Wada ( The Seven Deadly Sins...

The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will take place on February 23, 2025, and will be live-streamed on Netflix, the SAG Awards announced on Tuesday.

Submissions for nomination consideration will open on August 29 this year, when producers, studios and networks, agents, managers and publicists can submit a performance with the actor’s permission in a category of the actor’s choosing, or the actor may submit their own performances.

Eligible performances must air or premiere from January 1-December 31, 2024. The nominations will be announced on January 8, 2025.

Oppenheimer dominated the feature contenders at the 2024 ceremony, earning the cast award while Cillian Murphy and...

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...

Ariana DeBose voices Asha and Chris Pine voices Magnifico in ‘Wish’ (Photo © 2023 Disney)

Who could ever forget Disney’s classic animated film Pinocchio and the song that opened the fairy tale, “When You Wish Upon a Star,” sung by Cliff Edwards, the voice of Jiminy Cricket? The 1940 animated film is true Disney cinematic magic. That is not the case, however, with Disney’s latest animated film Wish which pays tribute to classic Disney films, including Peter Pan, Bambi, and of course the aforementioned Pinocchio, but pales in comparison.

Wish is a fairy tale lacking engaging characters, memorable songs, and any sense of true magic.

The soulless film opens with a voice-over by Asha (voiced by Ariana DeBose), a 17-year-old native who belts out the song “Welcome to Rosas” which serves to explain the legend of the island (called Rosas). After the loud, energetic number, Asha is off to interview for...

The candy-colored look of Barbie delivered colorist Yvan Lucas of Company 3 the FilmLight Color Award for a theatrical feature.

The third annual awards — organized by FilmLight, the maker of the Baselight color grading system, in collaboration with Camerimage — were presented Sunday at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival in Toruń, Poland. From roughly 400 entries, honorees were selected by a jury chaired by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lawrence Sher (Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux), who presented the awards.

Of his award-winning work on Barbie, which was directed by Greta Gerwig and lensed by cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, Lucas tells The Hollywood Reporter, “Rodrigo Prieto and I both like to work together on the overall look of a film before production starts. Creating LUTs (Look Up Tables) that define the way color and contrast will be affected helps Rodrigo, the director and the department heads all work toward a common goal.

“For the majority of Barbie,...

Color grading system developer FilmLight announced the nominees for its Color Awards, which recognize the work of colorists on movies, TV and short-form content.

In their third year, the competition attracted roughly 400 entries. Winners, which will be selected by a jury led by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lawrence Sher (Joker), will be announced Nov. 12 at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival.

“The diversity of talent and work is, as expected, very high. Our jury meetings so far, with talented cinematographers, colorists and filmmakers, have illuminated how fundamental the colorists’ work is in the filmmaking process and it’s been a complex job to determine the nominees. Everyone that has made it through these early rounds has, in our eyes, already won.”

The complete list of nominees follows:

Grading in a theatrical feature:

Asteroid City – Gareth Spensley at Company 3 Barbie – Yvan Lucas at Company 3 Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Damien Vandercruyssen...

Crunchyroll and Gsn, each a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment, have joined forces to launch a new 24/7 anime streaming channel.

Starting today, viewers can find the new Crunchyroll channel on Amazon Freevee, LG Channels, the Roku Channel and Vizio WatchFree+. An announcement of the venture says its linear-style roster of fan-favorite titles is intended for an “anime-curious audience.” Among the series available at launch are Horimiya, Ranking of Kings, Moriarty the Patriot, Psycho–Pass, Arifureta, Sugar Apple Fairytale, To Your Eternity and Code Geass.

New and premium anime content will remain on Crunchyroll’s SVOD and AVOD services, the companies said.

Sony acquired Crunchyroll from AT&T in 2021 and merged it with anime specialist Funimation. The avid base of anime fans globally has propelled Crunchyroll past 10 million paid subscribers, Sony Corp. announced last summer. Sony also bought AT&T’s 42% stake in Gsn in 2019, becoming the sole owner of the cable TV network.

Disney+ superhero series Moving was the big winner at Busan Film Festival’s Asia Contents Awards & Global Ott Awards, scooping six prizes, including Best Creative and Best Writer for Kang Full.

The series also took Best Lead Actor for Ryu Seung Ryong, who portrays a father with a superpower attempting to save his family, Best Newcomer Actor (Lee Jung Ha), Best Newcomer Actress (Go Youn Jung) and Best Visual Effects.

Best Ott Original was awarded to Weak Hero Class 1, which is being broadcast simultaneously on platforms including Kocowa in the U.S. and iQiyi in the U.S. and Taiwan.

Netflix Indian series Scoop, directed by Hansal Mehta, won awards for Best Asian TV Series and Best Lead Actress, for Karishma Tanna’s performance. Best Reality & Variety was won by Let’s Feast Vietnam, produced by Bhd Vietnam Media Corp, and Netflix Korea’s Physical: 100.

Hsueh Shih-Ling won the Best...

“An interim agreement allows microbudget movies to see the light of day,” star-producer says.

Circle Collective’s independent anthology What Doesn’t Float has secured a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement, paving the way for star-producer Pauline Chalamet (Sex Lives Of College Girls) to promote ahead of the imminent release in New York and Los Angeles.

Chalamet will do press next week to support the releases in New York on September 22 at Roxy Cinema and Los Angeles on October 6 at Brain Dead Studios. It is a timely boost for arthouse distributor Circle Collective, which has already virtually sold out the New York opening day.

Five years after "The Nun" became the biggest movie in the history of The Conjuring Universe, Valak the demon nun is back for more. That's right! After being caught in development and, no thanks to the pandemic, delayed for a little while, "The Nun II" is finally upon us, with Bonnie Aarons returning as Valak and Taissa Farmiga suiting up once again as Sister Irene to fight the evil being in the lord's name. Let's get ready to rumble.

It's clear that Warner Bros. has no plans on ending this franchise any time soon, as "The Conjuring 4" and a TV series set in the universe are already in the works. So, does "The Nun II" contain any teases of what's to come? Does this sequel contain a post-credits scene of some kind? We're here to give you a spoiler-free answer to that question, as well as some context to help...

New Line Cinema brings you the horror thriller “The Nun II,” the next chapter in the story of “The Nun,” the highest grossing entry in the juggernaut $2 billion “The Conjuring” Universe. 1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

Check out how the movie has spread across social media.

The Nuns are spreading across the country, and everyone else is running out of time. The Nun II – Only in Theaters September 8. Get Tickets Now – Link in Bio. #ISawANun #TheNun2 pic.twitter.com/oQ0876wWBa

— The Nun (@thenunmovie) August 31, 2023

Director Michael Chaves says:

“I think that the Demon Nun is one of those iconic movie monsters. I mean, you see it on a poster and it’s like a little bit of a throwback to Dracula. You see a little bit of Pennywise.

A galaxy of stars popular across Pakistan, South Asia and beyond headline Netflix’s first Pakistan-themed original “Jo Bachay Hain Sang Samait Lo.”

The series is an official adaptation of Farhat Ishtiaq’s bestselling 2013 Urdu-language novel of the same name. It revolves around Sikandar, a Harvard law student who experiences a life-changing incident that makes him keep others at bay, and Liza, a talented artist who is bursting with life but has had a troubled past. They meet in Italy.

The cast includes Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan — who starred together in “The Legend of Maula Jatt,” the highest-grossing Pakistani film of all time — as well as Sanam Saeed, who was one of the leads in Zindagi series “Barzakh” alongside Fawad Khan. Ahad Raza Mir, who featured in Netflix series “Resident Evil” and made a splash in Season 2 of the BBC’s “World on Fire,” is also among the lead cast.

“Whatever you do, whatever you hear, Do. Not. Look. Away.” On September 8th, the greatest evil in the conjuring universe returns. But before you head out to your local cinemas, check out this 30 second international promo for The Nun II.

New Line Cinema brings you the horror thriller “The Nun II,” the next chapter in the story of “The Nun,” the highest grossing entry in the juggernaut $2 billion “The Conjuring” Universe. 1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading.

The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun. Taissa Farmiga returns as Sister Irene, joined by Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell and Bonnie Aarons (reprising her role from “The Nun”), surrounded by an ensemble cast of international talent.

Michael Chaves (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”) directs, from a screenplay by Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing and Akela Cooper,...

Welcome to Emmy Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and Experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Emmy race — via Slack, of course. This week, we discuss the limited/TV movie races, where “Beef” is predicted to win multiple categories.

Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! It’s Friday and as you’re reading this someone probably just voted for their 2023 Emmy Award winners (2024 edition). That’s right: Emmy voting is happening now and while the winners will be chosen by end of the month, they won’t be announced until next year. Such is life! We’re already spoken and typed about how that’s a big swing and a miss on the part of the Emmys’ broadcast partner, so instead, let’s keep things positive and look at some fairly competitive races. I’m typing, of course, about the limited series and movie categories where,...

The French festival closed in Marseille on Sunday July 9.

Background, the second feature from Syrian director Khaled Abdulwahed, won the €8,000 grand prix of the international festival at the FidMarseille festival in France on July 9. The fesival showcases discoveries and innovative features and projects to a public and industry audience.

The experimental documentary explores concepts of memory and identity as Abdulwahed pursues the story of his father who studied in Germany in the 1950s along with the director’s own journey to Germany, where he is now based following Syria’s devastating civil war.

Abdulwahed previously co-directed 2020 refugee documentary Purple Sea...

Warner Bros has debuted the trailer for the horror sequel ‘The Nun II.’

1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

Taissa Farmiga returns as Sister Irene, joined by Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell and Bonnie Aarons (reprising her role from The Nun), surrounded by an ensemble cast of international talent.

Michael Chaves (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It) directs, from a screenplay by Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing and Akela Cooper (M3GAN, Malignant”, with a story by Cooper, based on characters created by James Wan & Gary Dauberman.

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The movie hits cinemas on September 8th.

The post “Something doesn’t feel right…” Trailer drops for sequel ‘The Nun II’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.

Guess who’s back, back again, Valak’s back… tell a friend.

The first trailer dropped on Thursday for the The Nun II, in cinemas on September 8.

Michael Chaves (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”) directs, from a screenplay by Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing and Akela Cooper, with a story by Cooper, based on characters created by James Wan & Gary Dauberman.

New Line Cinema brings you the horror thriller “The Nun II,” the next chapter in the story of “The Nun,” the highest grossing entry in the juggernaut $2 billion “The Conjuring” Universe.

1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

Taissa Farmiga returns as Sister Irene, joined by Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell and Bonnie Aarons (reprising her role from “The Nun”), surrounded by an ensemble cast of international talent.

Heading to theaters on September 8th, we have a look at the brand-new trailer for The Nun II:

"New Line Cinema brings you the horror thriller “The Nun II,” the next chapter in the story of “The Nun,” the highest grossing entry in the juggernaut $2 billion “The Conjuring” Universe.

1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

Taissa Farmiga returns as Sister Irene, joined by Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell and Bonnie Aarons (reprising her role from “The Nun”), surrounded by an ensemble cast of international talent.

Michael Chaves (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”) directs, from a screenplay by Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing and Akela Cooper, with a story by Cooper, based on characters created by James Wan & Gary Dauberman.

The Safran Company...

As “The Bachelorette” Season 20 enters its second week, former Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher shared her words of wisdom for leading lady Charity Lawson, urging her not to “self-sabotage.”

“You’re gonna go through a whirlwind of emotions — it’s going to be the best thing that you ever do, some of the best times of your life, but you’re also going to have moments where you feel completely alone, confused, isolated, and at times really struggling,” Fletcher told TheWrap during a recent interview. “I think in those moments, it’s very easy to start to self-sabotage, and to start to doubt all the things that are actually good … so I always just say, ‘don’t self sabotage, really just be in the moment [and] feel everything that you’re feeling — all those feelings are normal.

Fletcher, who noted that she got to chat with Charity on the ABC reality show, also...

“It’s been life-changing and always very enjoyable,” declares cinematographer Adriano Goldman about what it means to him to be a part of the creative team behind Netflix’s flagship drama “The Crown.” For our recent webchat he adds, “There’s no lack of perfectionism, because you think that season after season you would be able to find some sort of a comfort zone. That’s never been the case with ‘The Crown.’ We always want to deliver something better and stronger and richer.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

See Exclusive Video Interview: Elizabeth Debicki (‘The Crown’)

“The Crown” was created by Oscar and Tony-nominated and Emmy-winning writer Peter Morgan, who is currently in production on the show’s anticipated sixth and final season. The Netflix drama uniquely reinvents itself every two seasons by replacing its main cast, as the royal family continue to evolve and age over time.

Stephen King turns 75 years old this week, just two weeks after the publication of his 64th novel, the already acclaimed Fairy Tale. Aside from a trickle of short stories he sold for a number of years starting in 1967, his career really began in earnest with the 1974 arrival of Carrie, his first published novel.

While the book sold modestly in hardcover, it was the sale of the paperback rights and the novel’s subsequent success in that format which enabled King to become a full-time writer and launch the historic career that is still going strong 48 years later and has made him one of the most successful and well-known writers of all time.

It was in paperback that I first encountered the work of Stephen King as well, although it wasn’t Carrie. Instead it was King’s second published novel, ‘Salem’s Lot, which I spotted on one of those spinning...

A new prequel film based on “The Shining” has been axed by Warner Bros. Discovery due to the poor box office performance of 2019’s “Doctor Sleep,” according to the film’s director Mike Flanagan.

“We were So Close. I’ll always regret this didn’t happen,” Director Mike Flanagan tweeted.

We were So Close. I’ll always regret this didn’t happen https://t.co/0hr3hUTMhg

— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) September 18, 2022

When asked by a Twitter user why the movie wasn’t happening, Flanagan responded, “Because of Doctor Sleep’s box office performance, Warner Bros opted not to proceed with it. They control the rights, so that was that.”

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Paul Greengrass to Adapt and Direct Stephen King Novel ‘Fairy Tale’

Because of Doctor Sleep’s box office performance, Warner Bros opted not to proceed with it. They control the rights, so that was that.

— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) September...

This news may shock no one, but Stephen King is the living author with the most film adaptations to his name. Hollywood and TV have adapted his work for decades, almost since he first broke out on bestseller lists in the mid-70s. So, no surprise that “Fairy Tale,” his latest bestseller, which only came out in hardcover earlier this month, will get a big-screen adaptation of its own.

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But it who’s adapting King’s novel that’s newsworthy this time.

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"All things serve the Beam" of Stephen King adaptations, including director Paul Greengrass, who has hitched himself to an adaptation of King's latest runaway bestseller, "Fairy Tale," published just this month. No sooner do we get a trailer for the upcoming Netflix film "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," based on the novella from King's "If It Bleeds" collection, than news of yet another adaptation lands across our desk, with its elf-infested typewriter.

Who remembers King's story, "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet?" Though "Fairy Tale" might sound like it, too, involves elves, the book's official Simon & Schuster publisher page describes it as "a spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war." Deadline reports that King sold Greengrass the "Fairy Tale" rights "at the usual 1 against a healthy backend."

Greengrass' last film, "News of the World," paired him with his old "Captain Phillips" collaborator,...

Paul Greengrass has optioned the rights to “Fairy Tale,” a new novel from Stephen King that just published earlier this month, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Though the film is just at a package stage at this point and has yet to land at a studio, Greengrass is developing the feature and will write, direct and produce “Fairy Tale.” Greg Goodman will also produce.

“Fairy Tale” is a dark fantasy novel from the master of horror as published by Scribner, and it follows a 17-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a terrifying world where good and evil are at war. The stakes could not be higher – for that world or ours – as he journeys into the mythic roots of human story telling, according to the official logline.

Both King and Greengrass also confirmed the news of the feature adaptation.

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Stephen King’s latest novel was published just last week, and there’s already a feature-film adaptation in the works. Deadline has reported that Paul Greengrass will write, direct, and produce an adaptation of Stephen King’s Fairy Tale.

Fairy Tale tells the story of a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher — for that world or ours. In a statement, Stephen King said, “Needless to say, I’m a Paul Greengrass fan and think he’s a wonderful choice for this film.” Paul Greengrass added, “Fairy Tale is a work of genius. A classic adventure story and also a disturbing contemporary allegory.” Deadline says that the project will be shopped around very soon and that plenty of studios and streaming services will likely jump at the chance to snap it up. Here...

Peter Straub, a bestselling novelist who co-authored two beloved books with Stephen King, has died at the age of 79.

Straub’s daughter, Emma Straub, also a novelist, confirmed the news Tuesday on her Instagram account.

According to The New York Times, his wife, Susan Straub, said his death was caused by complications from breaking a hip. He died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Fellow writers and collaborators have been mourning the author’s death on social media, including Neil Gaiman, who was one of the first to express his sadness at Straub’s death.

King, whose latest novel “Fairy Tale” debuts in bookstores Tuesday, wrote: “Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.”

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Straub’s first horror novel, “Julia,” was published in 1975 by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. It was adapted into a feature, known as either “Full Circle...

We have sad news to report this afternoon, as it has been announced that author Peter Straub – whose best known works include the 1979 novel Ghost Story (which served as the basis for the 1981 film of the same name) and his Stephen King collaborations The Talisman and Black House – has passed away at the age of 79.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in March of 1943, Straub was a voracious reader as a child and said he became aware of his own mortality at an early age, as he survived being hit by a car when he was just seven years old. Although his father wanted him to be a professional athlete and his mother was hoping he would become a Lutheran minister, Straub was more interested in becoming a writer – and after earning an Ma degree in English and working as an English teacher for a while, he began his professional writing career with the novel Marriages,...

We’ve learned the terribly sad news from frequent collaborator Stephen King this afternoon that American novelist and poet Peter Straub has passed away at the age of 79.

Stephen King tweets this afternoon, “It’s a sad day because my good friend and amazingly talented colleague and collaborator, Peter Straub, has passed away.

“Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.”

King’s collaborations with Peter Straub include 1984 novel The Talisman, soon to be adapted into a Netflix series, as well as the novel Black House decades later in 2001.

Peter Straub’s horror novels also include Julia in 1975, If You Could See Me in 1977, and Ghost Story in 1979, the latter of which became one of his most well-known works.

Straub’s Ghost Story was turned into the same-titled feature film in 1981.

Peter Straub also wrote the novels Shadowland (1980), Floating Dragon (1983), Koko (1988), Mystery (1990), The Hellfire Club...

The hotly anticipated next book in the Locked Tomb series emerges from the dark this month, along with Stephen King’s pandemic preoccupation and reality plane-hopping. Here are our top picks for the best new fantasy books in September 2022.

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Type: Novel

Publisher: Tordotcom

Release date: September 13

Den of Geek says: Gideon the Ninth‘s characters and voice have made it a fandom favorite. The third book in the series comes with a lot of excitement and expectations.

Publisher’s summary: Her city is under siege.

The zombies are coming back.

And all Nona wants is a birthday party.

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona’s not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger’s body,...

Human Flowers of Flesh.For its second edition under director Giona A. Nazzaro and the first fully physical iteration since 2019, the Locarno Film Festival sought to reestablish itself in 2022 as one of the preeminent destinations for cinephiles looking to simultaneously discover fresh talent, take in new work by veteran directors, and dive deep into film history. While Nazzaro’s stated intention to make the festival more audience-friendly—if not outright commercial—was met with skepticism by critics accustomed to Locarno’s tradition of championing art cinema, it’s clear after two years that these comments didn’t portend a drastic realignment of programming values so much as anticipate a reevaluation of the festival’s perceived strengths. Due to the elimination of a couple of sidebars, the curatorial focus is now centered directly on the International Competition and Filmmakers of the Present sections, with even some clever cross-pollination between these strands...

Last year, Jessica Hobbs became just the fourth woman to win the Best Drama Directing Emmy when she prevailed for helming “War,” the Season 4 finale of “The Crown.” This year, three women have a chance to grow that number to five and make it back-to-back female champs for the first time ever.

Karyn Kusama (the “Yellowjackets” pilot), Lorene Scafaria (“Too Much Birthday” from “Succession”) and Cathy Yan (“The Disruption” from “Succession”) are vying for the prize alongside former champ Jason Bateman (“A Hard Way to Go” from “Ozark”), Hwang Dong-hyuk, Mark Mylod (“All the Bells Say” from “Succession”) and Ben Stiller (“The We We Are” from “Severance”). Kusama, Scafaria and Yan are looking to join Hobbs, Karen Arthur (“Cagney & Lacey,” 1985) and Mimi Leder and Reed Morano as the handful of women to win the category.

That number is embarrassingly small, but voters have been nominating more women in recent years.

Legendary author Stephen King doesn’t like former US President Donald Trump and he is very public about it, reports Variety. The author used words like “horrible President”, “horrible person” and “sociopath” to describe the former U.S. President, whose administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date for the final withdrawal.

In an interview with the ‘Sunday Times’, where he was in conversation with ‘Pointless’ presenter Richard Osman, King said, quoted by Variety: “I happen to think that Trump was a horrible President and is a horrible person.”

“I think he actually engaged in criminal behaviour and, certainly, I felt that he was a sociopath who tried to overturn American democracy not out of any political wish of his own but because he could not admit that he had lost.”

According to Variety, when...

“It” and “The Shining” author Stephen King has made his views on former U.S. President Donald Trump clear.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, where he was in conversation with “Pointless” presenter Richard Osman, King said: “I happen to think that Trump was a horrible president and is a horrible person. I think he actually engaged in criminal behavior and, certainly, I felt that he was a sociopath who tried to overturn the American democracy not out of any political wish of his own but because he could not admit that he had lost.”

When asked about the rise of fascism in the U.S., King said: “There is a strong right wing, a political right wing in America, and they have a megaphone in some of the media. They’re not fascists but they’re hard right-wingers. They’re certainly climate change deniers, so that is a real problem.

“Rule 34,” a challenging and sexually explicit film from Brazilian director Julia Murat, has emerged as the surprise winner of the Golden Leopard award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival — an edition where typically audacious and formally ambitious work dominated the program. Marking a strong ceremony for female filmmakers, the main competition jury at the Swiss festival also handed an impressive three awards — best director and a brace of acting prizes — to gritty coming-of-age drama “I Have Electric Dreams,” an auspicious debut feature from Costa Rican writer-director Valentina Maurel.

A character study of a young female law student pursuing a parallel calling in amateur online pornography — while defending female abuse victims in her day job — “Rule 34’s” title stems from the popular online meme that “if it exists, there’s a porn version of it.” Murat’s film wasn’t among the buzzier entries in this year’s competition,...

All through Fairytale (aka Skazka), characters recite the opening of the Divine Comedy and Dante’s preamble to his plunge into hell. But the black-and-white world Alexander Sokurov’s souls are stranded in feels closer to a kind of purgatory. A liminal wasteland of derelict buildings, rubble, and skeletal trees, it’s a nightmare yanked out of a Gustav Doré print, and no surprise one of its denizens—none other than Winston Churchill himself—should wonder early on if it is all a (very bad) dream. Churchill shares the hallucination with a number of other iconic figures from the twentieth century, a sordid cast that includes the likes of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. But Fairytale has no cast, strictly speaking: these four play themselves. The film’s sleight of hand—and the source of its disquieting allure—lies in its technical wizardry. Brought to life by Sokurov...

Planet Terror: Sokurov Gets Purgatorial in Nightmare on 20th Century Tyrants

“Death is the solution to all problems,” said Joseph Stalin. It turns out this is something of a fallacy, at least as examined in the latest film from Russian auteur Aleksandr Sokurov with Fairytale, an ironic title for this nightmarish animated film about the leaders, oligarchs and tyrants who mangled and corroded the globe with a terror irreparably defining the twentieth century. Culling archival footage and splicing together the who’s who of WWII into a shadowy nether world wherein notorious historical figures bicker, berate, and exchange backhanded compliments with one another, it’s a subversive reflection on the past as well as a hypnotic provocation.…...

Many people, when faced with the old question of who they’d invite to their dream dinner party, dutifully reel off a list of historical titans, which tends to prompt further, usually unasked questions: Would these undoubtedly interesting and consequential individuals make for great company together? Would they have much to say to each each other? And would it make for a better evening than, say, a gathering of your regular, undistinguished drinking buddies? Ever-experimental Russian formalist Alexander Sokurov drolly hints at the answer in his eccentric new film “Fairytale,” though not exactly in a dinner party context: Most of us aren’t hungry to spend an evening clinking glasses with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, after all. Still, this brief, dreamlike musing assembles them — along with other daunting dead men of history, from Churchill to Mussolini to Jesus himself — in a kind of misty purgatory where they’re at liberty to converse.

Welcome to this review of this week’s Monday Night Raw, right here on Nerdly. This is post-Summerslam for the company and is, undoubtedly, the beginning of the Triple H era… Let’s get into the review!

Match #1: Triple Threat Match – Aj Styles def. Mustafa Ali and The Miz The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Aj Styles overcame Mustafa Ali and The Miz in an ultra-fast slugfest. Seconds after Ali hit Miz with the 450 Splash, The Phenomenal One used Ali’s momentum to grab him and execute the Styles Clash for the three-count. The win earned Styles the right to compete for a United States Championship opportunity later in the evening.

My Score: 4 out of 5 Match #2: Seth Rollins def. Montez Ford The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

In an incredible showdown, Seth “Freakin” Rollin overcame the high-flying Montez Ford. When Ford went for the Splash off...

Andrea Arnold turns her astute observational skills to the bovine world in Cow, a Cannes Premiere with a difference. It’s a documentary that follows a cow on an English farm over time, watching her intently as she gives birth and gives milk. Humans are only featured when they enter her orbit, and snatches of dialogue inform us of basic information. Her name is Luma, she is protective of her calves, and she isn’t getting any younger.

As with Cannes Film Festival favorites Fish Tank and American Honey, Arnold has cast a charismatic screen newcomer and kept the camera close to her throughout. While Luma may not be able to speak, the camera lingers on both her eyes and her point of view, inviting the viewer to project their own assumptions onto her. Outside of overheard dialogue, we’re not informed of any of the processes of the farm,...

Bon Jovi dropped a new holiday music collection, covering seasonal songs by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Elvis Presley and the Pogues.

The musician’s three-song set featured renditions of Petty’s “Christmas All Over Again,” Presley’s “If I Get Home on Christmas Day,” and the Pogues’ 1987 ballad “Fairytale of New York.” Exclusive members of the Bon Jovi fan club can watch videos for each track, as well as outtakes and other footage.

Last month, Bon Jovi released their concert film On A Night Like This — Bon Jovi 2020 via Facebook,...

When it comes to music documentaries, there isn’t anybody more accomplished than Julien Temple, and he returns with one of his trickiest subjects to date, chronicling the life and career of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. Temple talks about the genesis of the project, and on the vital involvement from producer and long-time friend of MacGowan, Johnny Depp.

We also discuss the challenging aspects in focusing on a man who has a reputation for not necessarily making life easy for those around him, while Temple also talks about the delicate handling of the theme of alcoholism, which of course plays a part in the telling of this story. He speaks about the unconventional structure, the animated interludes, and on the brilliance of the Christmas single Fairytale of New York. We also speak about the worrying future of the arts in the wake of Covid, and we ask the filmmaker what...