Author: Ada Blood

People keep saying AI will replace humans, but only if it can figure out how to shut up about goblins. Starting with OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5.1 model, users began to notice responses mentioning these mythical creatures a lot. So much so that a prompt had to be added to stop it from talking about them and several other real and imagined critters.  On April 27, 2026, a developer under the handle @arb8020 found a snippet from the OpenAI open source Codex GitHub repository, with a file named models.json. “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures…

We make a lot of jokes about how quickly popular books get turned into movies these days. Well, Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid) is attached to star in Hollow, a feature film adaptation of a book that won’t hit shelves until fall 2027. The even more interesting part is that the author, Lindsey Anderson Beer, will also be writing and directing the feature film.  While this is Beer’s first novel, she made her directorial debut with 2023’s Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. Hollow is a reimagining of Washington Irving’s 1820 classic short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It tells the tale of…

Warning! This article will contain major spoilers for the ending of Scream 7. The most recent installment of the Scream franchise resurrected fan-favorite character Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard). Despite having been seemingly killed off in 1996’s Scream after his first attempt to kill Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) alongside friend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich). In the 7th film, he returns with other casualties via AI technology, through menacing phone calls to Sidney. Lillard has been championing a return to the franchise almost as hard as fans have. During Fan Expo in Denver, he revealed that an alternate ending left the door…

Nothing kills a franchise faster than a bad recasting. Thankfully for fans of the Chucky horror franchise, Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif says he’s sticking to the titular role. He first played the fictitious serial killer Charles Lee Ray in 1988’s Child’s Play.  In the film, his soul possesses a Good Guy doll that Dourif has voiced in every installment of the franchise since. (Sans, the 2019 remake, which had Mark Hamill take over the role, but since that takes place in its own universe, we’ll be forgetting about it for now.) In April, we reported that Chucky mainstay Don…

In the past few weeks, Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms have taken the box office by storm. Of course, producers Jason Blum and James Wan couldn’t be happier about that fact. Not just because of the money they are raking in, but because of what it signals for the industry as a whole. On May 30th, Blum and Wan spoke with PGA President Stephanie Allain at a Produced By Conference at Universal Studios. They spoke about the state of theatrical releases in a post-COVID world and the future of Blumhouse–Atomic Monster. Theatrical Releases “Since COVID, there’s been this…

Another year, another attempt at rebooting John Carpenter’s 1981 film Escape From New York. This time, Zack Snyder will write and direct the feature for The Picture Company, through a deal with StudioCanal and Carpenter.  The project is currently being put together to take to market in the next few weeks. Escape From New York takes place in the (at the time) near future of 1997. The United States is so riddled with crime that Manhattan is turned into the country’s only maximum security prison. So a group of anti-government insurgents decides to hijack Air Force One and crash it…

In 2003, Erin Hunter released Into the Wild, the first book in the now best-selling Warrior Cats series. An upcoming television adaptation has just signed on Emmy award winner Rodrigo Blaas (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) to direct, with A.C. Bradley (Ms. Marvel) attached as showrunner.  Publishers Coolabi Group and Tencent Video are backing the project. This will be the first official adaptation of Hunter’s fantasy series. It’s not to be confused with an attempted feature film by Alibaba Pictures, which is now abandoned.   Hunter’s novels center around clans of battling feral cats. The show will be based on the first…

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 James L Edwards and his newest movie, Trivial! The film centers around 5 people forced to play a deranged game show with a bloodthirsty host. Get the answers right, move on to the next level. Get the answers wrong, and pay! Background Ada: When did you first get involved with making films?  James: When I was 12 years old, I had seen an article in my local paper…

Last month, we reported that the long-awaited sequel to the 2006 meta slasher The Rise of Leslie Vernon was still in the works. At the time, the project was full-steam ahead, but launching a Kickstarter for additional funding. The Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon Kickstarter campaign has now closed after meeting several stretch goals!  “The long awaited sequel to the cult classic meta-slasher Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon…. COMING IN 2027!” the page reads.  Director Scott Glosserman and writer David J. Stieve will be coming back for The Return of Leslie Vernon. The…

Tubi has just released the official trailer for the thriller Stepfather. The upcoming film is directed by Chris Stokes (I Didn’t Do It) and stars Taye Diggs (Another Man’s Wife). Stepfather follows Darnell (Diggs), who has spent years joining and then erradicating any family he feels isn’t perfect. He thinks he may have finally found what he is looking for in his new wife, Asia (Tamar Braxton), and her daughters. That is, until his deadly pattern is uncovered, and getting rid of them won’t be as simple as he planned.  While this isn’t being promoted as a remake of The…