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Bad News For “Lovecraft Country” Fans

Back in 2020, Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams‘ brilliant HBO series “Lovecraft Country” made one hell of an impact on viewers with an amazing story, a brilliant cast, and a ton of fantastic special effects, and exploration of racism in the Jim Crow era, which makes the fact that the show has just been canceled somewhat of a surprise. We will not be moving forward with a second season of ‘Lovecraft Country,’” HBO said in a statement. “We are grateful for the dedication and artistry of the gifted cast and crew, and to Misha Green, who crafted this groundbreaking series. And to the fans, thank you for joining us on this journey.” The reason the cancelation is not completely a surprise is the fact that the series, based upon the novel by Matt Ruff, has run its course with its main star being killed off. In all honesty, the story would more than likely suffer if it was to continue.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 3, 2021

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Hulu’s “Castle Rock” Ends After Just Two Seasons

We have sad news for fans of Hulu’s original series “Castle Rock” series. After just two seasons, the streaming network has canceled the series based on the world created by Stephen King. Deadline reported the news and stated “there were no expectations for a third installment, and the decision to end the series after two seasons was made awhile ago. Once one of the first suppliers of Hulu after it branched out into premium original content, Warner Bros. TV has focused its attention to supplying recently launched sibling HBO Max. There are no plans for Castle Rock to continue on HBO Max, we hear.” “Castle Rock” premiered back in 2018 with the first season centering on Bill Skarsgård‘s character, a mysterious inmate at Shawshank State Penitentiary. The second season revealed the origin story of Annie Wilkes from King’s Misery, played by Lizzy Caplan. Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason created “Castle Rock” which was produced by J.J Abrams

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 4, 2020

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‘The New Mutants’ And ‘Antlers’ Pulled From Release

As events and locations continue to close due to the Cronoa Virus pandemic, movies have begun to cancel their releases. Yesterday, we reported that A Quiet Place II had canceled its release for later this month, Now, The New Mutants and Antlers have been pulled from the release schedule with no new date announced. The New Mutants stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin, known Magik; Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie who plays Cannonball; Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair/ Wolfsbane; Henry Zaga co-stars as Roberto da Costa, known as Sunspot, a mutant with the ability to absorb and channel solar power; and Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar, a Native American telepath known as “Mirage”. Alice Braga stars as Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a doctor with the ability to generate a protective bio-field around herself but is capable with more power than she lets on. In the movie, “Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 13, 2020

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Amazon Cancels Their Series “The Dark Towers”

For years Amazon has been teasing that a new series based in Stephen King’s The Dark Towers was coming. In fact, they were even announcing cast members this summer. Unfortunately, the series has now been canceled. Damn it. Deadline is reporting that the streaming service feels that series from showrunner and executive producer Glen Mazzara was “not on the level of other large scope elevated genre series,” like their upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series. The series would have followed King’s Novel closer than 2017’s film adaptation which bombed. It would have explored the origin story of Roland Deschain and his fight with the man in black. The cast was rumored to include Michael Rooker, Jerome Flynn, and Joana Ribeiro, among others.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 16, 2020

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Netflix Has Sadly Cancelled Teen Apocalypse Series “Daybreak”

We have disappointing news, Netflix has chosen to cancel “Daybreak” after just one season. The news came via co-creator Aron Coleite late last night. We learned last week that Daybreak will not be returning for a second season,” Coleite stated. “We’re so sorry we couldn’t share it with you sooner but also so grateful that we got to hang out in these last few live tweet sessions with all of you. Thank you for picking up what we put down, for running with it in all of your amazing, weird, monstrous ways and for being such an important part of this show and our experience making it. “In this post-apocalyptic, genre-bending series, the city of Glendale, California is populated by marauding gangs of jocks, gamers, the 4-H Club, and other fearsome tribes who are kicking ass as they fight to survive in the wake of a nuclear blast.” I don't even know how to say this, so we prepared a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 19, 2019

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