Author: Amy Davis

English actor/comedian/musician Matt Berry (“What We Do in the Shadows”) may be joining Jason Momoa (“Aquaman”) in the upcoming “Minecraft” movie. The film be directed by Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite”) for Warner Bros. Pictures. While the project is in development, details about the “Minecraft” movie are few and far between. We aren’t sure what Berry’s potential role might be, let alone a plotline. But we do know it will be based on the wildly popular Mojang sandbox video game of the same name. And trying to do a live-action adaptation of one of the highest-selling video games of all time…

Marvel Studios has released character posters and a teaser for their newest Disney+ series “Secret Invasion.” The series will follow Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) as they try to stop an infiltration by the Skrulls. But things like that get complicated when you don’t know who to trust. Since not everyone is who they appear to be. The series of 10 posters show each character’s face in black and white, inter-spliced with a Skrull in full color. The characters include Fury, Talos, G’iah (Emilia Clarke), Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Everett K. Ross (Martin…

The ghost town of Eagle Mountain located in the California desert has been purchased for $22.5 million by a mysterious buyer. Their reasons for purchasing the town are currently unknown.  Founded in 1948, Eagle Mountain is formally a company town that housed employees of Kaiser Steel. Lush with palm trees, the community provided an idyllic backdrop for roughly 4,000 residents. Many of these residents worked for the nearby mine drilling, blasting, and shoving iron ore. At its peak, the mine broke records for daily production levels, unfortunately only a few short years later it was phased out. Leaving the company…

Genre stars Ron Perlman (“Hellboy”) and Rosanna Arquette (“Signs of Love”) will lead a new horror film “Succubus.” This horror-thriller is written and directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna (“Hard Miles”) for Shout! Studios and Convoke Media. Shout! will handle the distribution in North America. “Succubus,” tells the story of a new father going through a separation from his partner. So he does what any single man in the 21st century would do, joins a dating app. On there he matches with a beautiful and mysterious young woman. But her powers of seduction and manipulation pull him into a mystery more…

The 3rd annual World Drive-In Movie Festival and Jamboree will be hitting Las Vegas! The three-day event will be hosted by founder Joe Bob Briggs and Diana Prince, better known as Darcey The Mail Girl. Founded in 2021, the Jamboree has been previously hosted at the Mahoning Drive-In in Pennsylvania, and the Malco Summer Drive-In in Tennessee. But this year, Brigg’s mutant family will be taking over the West Wind Las Vegas Drive-In. A venue that is known for its neon archway entrance on Carey Avenue. The drive-in opened in 1966 and eventually expanded to six screens so it could accommodate…

Cinderella will be joining The Grinch, Winnie The Pooh, Peter Pan, and Bambi in the current trend of remaking public-domain children’s stories into horror movies. This movement is mostly being helmed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, director of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” its upcoming sequel, “Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare,” and the producer of “Bambi: The Reckoning.”  The upcoming “Cinderella’s Curse” is a combo breaker that will be directed and produced by Louisa Warren for ChampDog Films. The script is written by Harry Boxley who wrote the upcoming “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” another horror reimagining. While plot details at this…

With the wild success of 2021’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” it’s no surprise Sony Pictures is game to make a sequel. While some familiar faces will be returning for “Ghostbusters: Firehouse” (working title), it seems Sigourney Weaver will not be one of them.  “Afterlife” is set three decades after 1989’s “Ghostbusters II,” and revolves around Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis)’s estranged family inheriting a farm he left them in Oklahoma. This plotline allowed the creators to bring back legacy characters while also introducing new ones.  One of these legacy characters being Weaver’s Dana Barrett/Zuul, who had a cameo in “Afterlife.” This, of course,…

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch (“Doctor Who”) will play iconic folk musician Pete Seeger in an upcoming biopic about Bob Dylan. Titled “Complete Unknown,” the film comes from Searchlight Pictures. Cumberbatch will be joining the already announced cast of Timothée Chalamet (“Dune”) as Dylan, Elle Fanning (“The Great”) as Sylvie Russo, and Monica Barbaro (“Top Gun: Maverick”) as Joan Baez. “Complete Unknown” is set to chronicle Dylan’s early career once he arrived in New York City. In real life, Seeger had a serious impact on Dylan’s musical upbringing. The young artist often drew inspiration from the folk icon’s music and activism. Seeger…

The Etheria Film Festival has just released the lineup and dates for its 10th anniversary event. Part of the news is that actress/director Brinke Stevens (“The Slumber Party Massacre”) will be receiving the 2023 Etheria Inspiration Award. Etheria is one of the most respected showcase of new horror, comedy, science fiction, fantasy, action, and thriller films made by emerging women directors. The event will kick off at the Screenland Armour Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, July 1st, 2023. But for those who can’t make the trek to Missouri, fear not! The festival will once again be partnering with…

The Supreme Court has ruled artist Andy Warhol violated copyright law with images of the late singer Prince. The dispute involves images created as a commission for Vanity Fair by Warhol in 1984. The artist used photographs of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith as a reference point. Vanity Fair paid Goldsmith to license the photo, but when Warhol created his pieces, he did not pay for or acquire any rights to the photos. Vanity Fair ultimately choose one of these images, Prince with a purple face, to run in the magazine. Then they ran another image from the series after…