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Blumhouse’s ‘Firestarter’ – Starring Zac Efron – Has Officially Begun Filming (Video)

Blumhouse announced today via social media that the company’s new adaptation of Firestarter, from Universal Pictures, Blumhouse, and Weed Road Productions officially began filming today in Canada. Take a look at the first footage from the set (below). Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Greatest Showman (pictured) and Michael Greyeyes (Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls, True Detective) star in Firestarter, directed By Keith Tomas (interview) who brought us the fantastic horror The Vigil earlier this year. The script was adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills, Rectify), based on Stephen King‘s classic about “a young girl who develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful gift as a weapon.” Jason Blum and Academy Award® winner Akiva Goldsman will produce. Martha De Laurentiis, who was an associate producer on the 1984 adaptation of Firestarter starring a young Drew Barrymore, will executive produce. Follow Blumhouse on Twitter for more on the company’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 25, 2021
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A First Look At Epix’s New Series “Chapelwaite” Based On Stephen King’s Jerusalem’s Lot

Several years ago it was first announced that Epix would be adapting Stephen King‘s tale “Jerusalem’s Lot,” first published back in 1978. In May we supplied an update, that the series had cast Oscar-winner Adrien Brody in a lead role. Varriety has now shared the first look at the series titled “Chapelwaite‘ images and a teaser traier to whet your appetite. Brody will star as Captain Charles Boone along side Emily Hapshire (“Shitt’s Creek”) as Rebecca Morgan a new character., an ambitious young woman who left the town of Preacher’s Corners to attend college. When she returns home to write a story for the prestigious Atlantic Magazine she finds herself with writer’s block that lifts when Boone (Brody) comes to town along with his children. Ignoring her mother’s protests she applies to be the governess of the Chapelwaite manor for the Boone family. There she not only writes a great gothic novel, but she also begins to unravel a mystery

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 22, 2021
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Netflix Unleashes Trailer For Their “Fear Street Trilogy” Based On R.L. Stine Books

For the first time in history Netflix and in the horror genre, the streaming giant will release a new movie franchise, the Fear Street Trilogy over three consecutive weeks next month. “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected – and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.” We filmed all three Fear Street movies over one crazy, bloody summer. It’s a dream that audiences now get to experience the story in the same way – back to back to back, with only a week of waiting in between. I can’t wait to welcome everyone into the world of Fear Street in 1994, 1978, and 1666!” Leigh Janiak, Director of the Fear Street trilogy states. Fear Street fans are in for a treat–and some major surprises. Readers know that the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 19, 2021
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“Day Of The Dead” Series Premieres This Fall On SyFy

SyFy is gearing up to deliver a new 10-episode series that is a new spin on George A. Romero’s 1985 movie Day of the Dead, titled – you guessed it – “Day of the Dead“. Variety is reporting that the series will now premiere this fall. Written by showrunners and executive producers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, the series centers on six strangers fighting to survive the first 24 hours of the zombie apocalypse. Steven Kostanski, who is directing four of the series’ episodes in the first season has teased that the new series will have ties to the classic horror movie. However, he couldn’t go into detail. The series is produced by Jeff Holland and Drew Brown for Cartel and HiTide Studios’ Jeff Holland, Stan Spry, and Drew Brown are also producing. Steven Kostanski will also serve as executive producer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2021
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‘Morbius’ Delayed Again

Many upcoming films have had trouble nailing down release dates since the pandemic, causing release dates to change over and over again. One of those films is Marvel’s Morbius. Last we reported Morbius was set to be released on January 21, 2020. Now news has come that the movie has been delayed again, this time by a week. Part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Morbius stars Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, a scientist who, while trying to find a cure for a rare blood disease, accidentally transforms himself into a living vampire. Though disgusted by his own bloodlust, he chooses to prey upon criminals he deems unworthy of life. Tyrese Gibson stars as FBI agent Simon Stroud; Jared Harris (“The Terror”) plays Morbius’ mentor; Matt Smith (“Doctor Who”) plays the film’s villain Loxias Crown; and Adria Arjona (Pacific Rim: Uprising) is Morbius’ love interest. Daniel Espinosa (Life) directs from the script penned by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless based

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2021
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‘Resident Evil’s’ Constantin Films Adapting ‘The Walk’ For A Feature Film

Constantin Films, the production company behind the Resident Evil franchise, is adapting The Walk, based on Lee Goldberg’s best-selling 2004 novel of the same name, which centers on a studio executive as he makes a journey through a post-apocalyptic California. In The Walk, described as a “part-adventure, part-horror, and part-comedy,” follows TV Network Studio Executive Marty Slack, making his way from downtown LA to the San Fernando Valley to reach his wife after an apocalyptic earthquake destroys the state. During his journey, he must reluctantly team up with an “unusual traveler” to survive, Deadline reports. Wildfires rage out of control. Floodwaters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After-shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets. There’s no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he’s prepared. He’s wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2021
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“American Psycho” & “Saw” Series Headed To A TV Near You

The horror genre is more popular than ever, and it’s taking over TV (not that we’re complaining). Series like “Chucky,” Amazon’s “Them,” Hulu’s “Into the Dark,” and a host of new series and adaptations are ruling streaming services. Now, a series adaptation of the genre classic American Psycho is on the menu. During a conversation with Deadline earlier this week Lionsgate chairman Kevin Beggs discussed some of the shows in the works from Lionsgate TV, including an “American Psycho” series and possibly a show set in the Saw universe. American Psycho is in development,” Beggs reveals. “We’re always exploring what we can do in television with something like the Saw franchise, so that’s a conversation.” Deadline journalist Nelli Andreeva comments, “Beggs would not elaborate further, but I hear that Lionsgate TV is in early talks on a TV series adaptation of the book of Saw, from Mark Burg and Oren Koules’ Twisted Television. “The Saw film franchise, one of the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2021
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Plot And Cast Revealed For Eli Roth’s ‘Borderlands’ Adaptation

Lionsgate announced today the Edgar Ramirez has joined the cast of Eli Roth‘s film adaptation of Gearbox Software’s bestselling video game Borderlands. Odds are, you’ll Ramirez who starred in films such as Gold, Point Break, Wrath of the Titans, and the 2014 supernatural horror Deliver Us from Evil. Ramirez will play the role of Atlas, a business titan and arms manufacturer, the most powerful person in the universe. Ramirez joins the previously announced cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Haley Bennett, and Jack Black. In Borderlands, “Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 5, 2021
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HBO’s ‘The Last Of Us’ Series Adaptation Will Be The Biggest Production In Canada’s History

HBO’s adaptation of the hit game The Last of Us is set to begin filming on July 5, 2021, in Alberta, Canada, giving it a 2022 premiere date. The series is going to be huge with it being described as having “the largest production in Canada’s history,” outdoing 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife! “The series takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.” “The Last of Us” will reunite “Game of Thrones” actors Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal who will star as Ellie and Joel. Created and written by Neil Druckmann, the series’ pilot will be directed by Kantemir Balagov Since its 2013 release by Naughty Dog, the game had sold over 20 million

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 5, 2021
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Game Of Thrones’ Laurence O’Fuarain Joins Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Prequel

The world on Netflix’s hit game-based series “The Witcher” is expanding with a prequel series, titled “The Witcher: Blood Origin.” Deadline is reporting that “Game of Thrones” and “Vikings” actor Laurence O’Fuarain has been cast in the lead role of Fjall. Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen and Slim) will play the other lead character, Eile. “Born into a clan of warriors sworn to protect a King, Fjall carries a deep scar within, the death of a loved one who fell in battle trying to save him. A scar that won’t let him settle, or make peace with himself or the world around him. In his quest for redemption, Fjall will find himself fighting beside the most unlikely of allies as he carves a path of vengeance across a continent in turmoil.” The new six-part limited series is set in an elven world 1200 years before the time of “The Witcher” and will center on the creation of the first Witcher and the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 27, 2021

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Blumhouse’s ‘Firestarter’ – Starring Zac Efron – Has Officially Begun Filming (Video)

Blumhouse announced today via social media that the company’s new adaptation of Firestarter, from Universal Pictures, Blumhouse, and Weed Road Productions officially began filming today in Canada. Take a look at the first footage from the set (below). Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Greatest Showman (pictured) and Michael Greyeyes (Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls, True Detective) star in Firestarter, directed By Keith Tomas (interview) who brought us the fantastic horror The Vigil earlier this year. The script was adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills, Rectify), based on Stephen King‘s classic about “a young girl who develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful gift as a weapon.” Jason Blum and Academy Award® winner Akiva Goldsman will produce. Martha De Laurentiis, who was an associate producer on the 1984 adaptation of Firestarter starring a young Drew Barrymore, will executive produce. Follow Blumhouse on Twitter for more on the company’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 25, 2021
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A First Look At Epix’s New Series “Chapelwaite” Based On Stephen King’s Jerusalem’s Lot

Several years ago it was first announced that Epix would be adapting Stephen King‘s tale “Jerusalem’s Lot,” first published back in 1978. In May we supplied an update, that the series had cast Oscar-winner Adrien Brody in a lead role. Varriety has now shared the first look at the series titled “Chapelwaite‘ images and a teaser traier to whet your appetite. Brody will star as Captain Charles Boone along side Emily Hapshire (“Shitt’s Creek”) as Rebecca Morgan a new character., an ambitious young woman who left the town of Preacher’s Corners to attend college. When she returns home to write a story for the prestigious Atlantic Magazine she finds herself with writer’s block that lifts when Boone (Brody) comes to town along with his children. Ignoring her mother’s protests she applies to be the governess of the Chapelwaite manor for the Boone family. There she not only writes a great gothic novel, but she also begins to unravel a mystery

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 22, 2021
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Netflix Unleashes Trailer For Their “Fear Street Trilogy” Based On R.L. Stine Books

For the first time in history Netflix and in the horror genre, the streaming giant will release a new movie franchise, the Fear Street Trilogy over three consecutive weeks next month. “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected – and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.” We filmed all three Fear Street movies over one crazy, bloody summer. It’s a dream that audiences now get to experience the story in the same way – back to back to back, with only a week of waiting in between. I can’t wait to welcome everyone into the world of Fear Street in 1994, 1978, and 1666!” Leigh Janiak, Director of the Fear Street trilogy states. Fear Street fans are in for a treat–and some major surprises. Readers know that the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 19, 2021
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“Day Of The Dead” Series Premieres This Fall On SyFy

SyFy is gearing up to deliver a new 10-episode series that is a new spin on George A. Romero’s 1985 movie Day of the Dead, titled – you guessed it – “Day of the Dead“. Variety is reporting that the series will now premiere this fall. Written by showrunners and executive producers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, the series centers on six strangers fighting to survive the first 24 hours of the zombie apocalypse. Steven Kostanski, who is directing four of the series’ episodes in the first season has teased that the new series will have ties to the classic horror movie. However, he couldn’t go into detail. The series is produced by Jeff Holland and Drew Brown for Cartel and HiTide Studios’ Jeff Holland, Stan Spry, and Drew Brown are also producing. Steven Kostanski will also serve as executive producer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2021
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‘Morbius’ Delayed Again

Many upcoming films have had trouble nailing down release dates since the pandemic, causing release dates to change over and over again. One of those films is Marvel’s Morbius. Last we reported Morbius was set to be released on January 21, 2020. Now news has come that the movie has been delayed again, this time by a week. Part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Morbius stars Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, a scientist who, while trying to find a cure for a rare blood disease, accidentally transforms himself into a living vampire. Though disgusted by his own bloodlust, he chooses to prey upon criminals he deems unworthy of life. Tyrese Gibson stars as FBI agent Simon Stroud; Jared Harris (“The Terror”) plays Morbius’ mentor; Matt Smith (“Doctor Who”) plays the film’s villain Loxias Crown; and Adria Arjona (Pacific Rim: Uprising) is Morbius’ love interest. Daniel Espinosa (Life) directs from the script penned by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless based

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2021
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‘Resident Evil’s’ Constantin Films Adapting ‘The Walk’ For A Feature Film

Constantin Films, the production company behind the Resident Evil franchise, is adapting The Walk, based on Lee Goldberg’s best-selling 2004 novel of the same name, which centers on a studio executive as he makes a journey through a post-apocalyptic California. In The Walk, described as a “part-adventure, part-horror, and part-comedy,” follows TV Network Studio Executive Marty Slack, making his way from downtown LA to the San Fernando Valley to reach his wife after an apocalyptic earthquake destroys the state. During his journey, he must reluctantly team up with an “unusual traveler” to survive, Deadline reports. Wildfires rage out of control. Floodwaters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After-shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets. There’s no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he’s prepared. He’s wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2021
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“American Psycho” & “Saw” Series Headed To A TV Near You

The horror genre is more popular than ever, and it’s taking over TV (not that we’re complaining). Series like “Chucky,” Amazon’s “Them,” Hulu’s “Into the Dark,” and a host of new series and adaptations are ruling streaming services. Now, a series adaptation of the genre classic American Psycho is on the menu. During a conversation with Deadline earlier this week Lionsgate chairman Kevin Beggs discussed some of the shows in the works from Lionsgate TV, including an “American Psycho” series and possibly a show set in the Saw universe. American Psycho is in development,” Beggs reveals. “We’re always exploring what we can do in television with something like the Saw franchise, so that’s a conversation.” Deadline journalist Nelli Andreeva comments, “Beggs would not elaborate further, but I hear that Lionsgate TV is in early talks on a TV series adaptation of the book of Saw, from Mark Burg and Oren Koules’ Twisted Television. “The Saw film franchise, one of the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2021
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Plot And Cast Revealed For Eli Roth’s ‘Borderlands’ Adaptation

Lionsgate announced today the Edgar Ramirez has joined the cast of Eli Roth‘s film adaptation of Gearbox Software’s bestselling video game Borderlands. Odds are, you’ll Ramirez who starred in films such as Gold, Point Break, Wrath of the Titans, and the 2014 supernatural horror Deliver Us from Evil. Ramirez will play the role of Atlas, a business titan and arms manufacturer, the most powerful person in the universe. Ramirez joins the previously announced cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Haley Bennett, and Jack Black. In Borderlands, “Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 5, 2021
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HBO’s ‘The Last Of Us’ Series Adaptation Will Be The Biggest Production In Canada’s History

HBO’s adaptation of the hit game The Last of Us is set to begin filming on July 5, 2021, in Alberta, Canada, giving it a 2022 premiere date. The series is going to be huge with it being described as having “the largest production in Canada’s history,” outdoing 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife! “The series takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.” “The Last of Us” will reunite “Game of Thrones” actors Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal who will star as Ellie and Joel. Created and written by Neil Druckmann, the series’ pilot will be directed by Kantemir Balagov Since its 2013 release by Naughty Dog, the game had sold over 20 million

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 5, 2021
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Game Of Thrones’ Laurence O’Fuarain Joins Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Prequel

The world on Netflix’s hit game-based series “The Witcher” is expanding with a prequel series, titled “The Witcher: Blood Origin.” Deadline is reporting that “Game of Thrones” and “Vikings” actor Laurence O’Fuarain has been cast in the lead role of Fjall. Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen and Slim) will play the other lead character, Eile. “Born into a clan of warriors sworn to protect a King, Fjall carries a deep scar within, the death of a loved one who fell in battle trying to save him. A scar that won’t let him settle, or make peace with himself or the world around him. In his quest for redemption, Fjall will find himself fighting beside the most unlikely of allies as he carves a path of vengeance across a continent in turmoil.” The new six-part limited series is set in an elven world 1200 years before the time of “The Witcher” and will center on the creation of the first Witcher and the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 27, 2021
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