Author: Ada Blood

Are you ready for an authorized look at Stars Hollow? More than 25 years after its initial premiere, HBO Max is developing a documentary about the TV show Gilmore Girls. In Waves and War’s Bonni Cohen will direct the currently untitled project.  Gilmore Girls ran from 2000 to 2007 and told the story of 30-something single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) raising her teenage daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel). The documentary will be told by creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. They’ll be joined by various, yet-to-be-identified cast and crew. As it stands, Graham is the only core cast member that…

Is America ready to relive the cultural phenomenon that was Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator? A24’s new film Primetime will star Robert Pattinson (The Odyssey) as the host of the now-defunct series, Chris Hansen. The film is directed by Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven), from a script by Ajon Singh. In the trailer, former NBCUniversal chief Jeff Zucker plays (what we hope is a dramatised version of) himself. We see him getting excited about the insane ratings that To Catch a Predator is getting. So he bumps the show up to a primetime spot, despite not liking it.…

On Monday, an interview was published with filmmaker Eli Roth about his upcoming movie Ice Cream Man. During this chat, he discussed an animated sequence in the film that the interviewer suspected may use generative AI. He initially claimed the sequence was animated via traditional means. However, several early reviewers noticed that AI visual effects company Dark Half is listed in the credits. Roth has since clarified that Ice Cream Man uses some AI.  “I have an animation background and I drew it,” Roth told Polygon in the initial interview. “I worked with an animation team and I wanted it to…

Temple Hill Entertainment has confirmed that Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives, is a go! Like the first film it’s based on Adam Cesare’s novel of the same name. Hudson Morgan and Will Lowell are already attached to write the script.  Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives The film, like the second book in the series, will see final girl Quinn Maybrook in college. This character was played by Katie Douglas (Ginny & Georgia), but there is no word on if she’ll reprise her role. It’s also unknown if Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) will return…

After over a decade of fans pleading for more of Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy, Universal Pictures is moving full steam ahead. Numan Acar (Young Sherlock) has just joined the cast, alongside the returning Kevin J. O’Connor (Catch-22) and Oded Fehr (House of David). Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of Radio Silence (Ready or Not) are co-directing. The new and returning cast will co-star with Michael Johnston (Obsession). Plus returning franchise staples John Hannah (Sandokan), Brendan Fraser (The Whale), and Rachel Weisz (Dead Ringers). O’Connor will be returning as Beni Gabor, because he finally got to the other side of the…

Stephen King’s 1996 novel Desperation is in the works with Searchlight to get a feature film adaptation. Filmmaking duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Final Destination: Bloodlines) are in talks to direct. Ryan Brennan is already attached to write the script. Desperation tells the story of a remote desert town where something evil has awakened. A group of travelers will have to fight to survive when a possessed cop turns routine arrests into a relentless battle.  The novel has only been adapted once before into a TV movie in 2006. And given the current climate, we’re surprised it isn’t…

Production has wrapped on Adam Egypt Mortimer’s (Daniel Isn’t Real) upcoming film Pathetic Fallacy. The supernatural thriller stars Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi (X), Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day), Travis Fimmel (Vikings), and Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face). Pathetic Fallacy is co-written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, the same duo behind Transformers One. The film takes place in a new-age mountain town and focuses on a young widower. He makes the trek there to deal with his grief and search for answers. Instead, the place is home to a murderer and a forest of demonic spirits. They offer him a horrific…

The ever-growing V/H/S franchise is about to have a 9th addition. Shudder has just confirmed that V/H/S/Mixtape will premiere on the streamer in early October. It features segments by  RZA (The Man with the Iron Fists), Ernest Dickerson (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight), Flying Lotus (Ash), and more. Mixtape “cranks the signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the source of terror. United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess, and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter, and…

Ad-supported streamer Tubi quickly became a favorite among fans of obscure films and creators alike. But with so many choices, how do you find that deeply buried gem? Today, we’ll be talking to writer-director-actor Mark Byrne about his movie Blood and Breakfast. Blood and Breakfast tells the story of a group of strangers who each escaped a serial killer. Only to be lured to and then trapped inside a historic inn. As they start being killed off one by one, will they live long enough to figure out who the killer is? Byrne’s Background Ada: What movie made you fall…

Earlier this month, Paul Dano (Bunker) signed on to star opposite Callum Turner (Neuromancer) and Margaret Qualley (How to Make a Killing) in a remake of Possession. Now, Madeline Brewer, Emory Cohen, and Nicholas Alexander Chavez have joined the cast. Parker Finn (Smile) is directing and writing the remake of Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 film. The original film starred Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill playing Anna and Mark, a married couple living in West Berlin during the Cold War. When Anna (Adjani) asks for a divorce, her behavior starts to become more and more erratic. Mark (Neill) suspects she is being…