We are certainly living through the Era of the Remake. When future archeologists dig through our remains, they will be fascinated by the thick layer of Resident Evil remasters and Spider-Man movie franchises. But if there’s one film that shouldn’t repeatedly appear, that no one has the right to attempt to remake, it’s…
Last October, it was announced that writer/director David Robert Mitchell and actress Maika Monroe are reteaming for a sequel to horror film It Follows, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival ten years ago. The sequel is being called They Follow – and earlier this month, Monroe promised the folks at Collider that this film will be “bigger, darker, and more f*cked up” than its predecessor. Now, during an interview with IndieWire, Monroe confirmed that the story picks up 10 years after the events of It Follows, and that she’s excited to get to work on it… especially since this is the first time in her career that she’ll have the chance to reprise a role for a sequel.
Monroe previously told IndieWire, “I really got lucky with It Follows. It sort of changed the game for the horror genre. I think back in the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, there was some really amazing, elevated horror in the genre, and then something got lost somewhere and it was about hot girls and sex and blood. Of course, I had no idea what it was going to be. I had seen David’s previous film, The Myth of the American Sleepover, that was so beautiful and so dreamy, and I was like, ‘OK, maybe this style mixed with a horror film could be very interesting,’ but I had no idea the effect of it and that it [would be] such an important film to so many people, so many years later.“
During the more recent interview – where Monroe revealed that her Longlegs co-star Nicolas Cage told her It Follows is one of his favorite films – the actress said she couldn’t say much about They Follow just yet, but, “I just know that David wouldn’t do a sequel if it wasn’t going to be incredible, and the script is so f*cking good. I’m obsessed. I’m just so excited to step into playing Jay again and just where you find her, it’s going to be great.” As for how she’s going to get back into character after all this time, “I have no idea. This is going to be my first time. It’s going to be such a new kind of adventure for me. Probably a lot of conversations with David and kind of piecing together everything that happened in the 10 years between these films. I think it’s going to be very, very fun.“
Details on the plot of They Follow are being kept under wraps, but the plan is that filming will take at the start of 2025. NEON will be co-producing the film with Good Fear Content. Mitchell is producing with Jake Weiner and Chris Bender of Good Fear Content, as well as the original producers of It Follows, David Kaplan, Erik Rommesmo, Rebecca Green, and Laura Smith.
While we wait for They Follow to go into production, Mitchell has been working on a mysterious project called Flowervale Street for Warner Bros. Pictures, Jackson Pictures, and J.J. Abrams’ company Bad Robot. Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery star in that film, which is set to reach theatres on May 16, 2025 and is said to be “a family adventure set in the 1980s that involves dinosaurs.”
It Follows had the following synopsis: After carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh, for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.
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Inside Out 2 has continued to break records at the box office, with it boasting an incredible $100 million second weekend. Last week, it didn’t have too much in the way of competition, but this weekend, it’s being pitted against two big-budget new releases, A Quiet Place: Day One and Horizon. However, only one of these movies is bound to post any real competition to Pixar’s animated hit.
A Quiet Place: Day One could take the top spot from Inside Out 2 this weekend. The first movie opened with $50 million, while the sequel (despite opening during the pandemic) posted a $47 million opening. The prequel, which lacks the star power of the first two movies (no Emily Blunt or John Krasinski this time), seems likely to open in that range, with it aiming for about $45 million. Will that be good enough to top Inside Out 2?
Here’s the thing – this animated sequel has been a giant hit. Not only are audiences flocking to see it, but they’re going in for repeat viewings. I think it’s likely to have a $55 million weekend, which means it will top A Quiet Place Day One.
But how about Kevin Costner’s Horizon: Part One? Now, this is the big question mark of the summer. Kevin Costner’s already wrapped a second film, which comes out in August, and to many this has been a nearly impossible one to forecast. It could be a hit, or it could be a dud. Given the three-hour running time and the fact that it’s targeting an older audience, which typically doesn’t flock to see a movie its first weekend, I think it has a shot at making about $12 million this weekend. But I also think it could have great legs, so even if people call it a flop after week one, it should be, as one might say, “a grower and not a shower”
Here are my predictions:
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As previously announced, the new anime series, Terminator Zero, is coming to Netflix on “Judgement Day”, August 29th, 2024. The anime hails from Japanese animation studio Production IG (Ghost in the Shell). The eight-episode series will be part of the Terminator universe but will center around new characters. It will be the first-ever iteration of the franchise to be animated.
While it was revealed earlier that Timothy Olyphant will be voicing the Terminator, Netflix has just announced additional casting news:
Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka, Common Ground) will be playing Kokoro – An advanced AI and Japan’s answer to Skynet, if brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power as Skynet. Kokoro must calculate for itself: is humanity the plague Skynet believes? Or are human beings worth saving?
André Holland (Moonlight, The Knick) will voice Malcolm Lee – A genius computer programmer and father of three, Malcolm Lee is haunted by prophetic nightmares of an apocalyptic future. He’s spent the last decade creating a secret artificial intelligence that he believes will be humanity’s last hope.
Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians) plays Eiko – Coming from a post-Judgement Day 2022, Eiko is a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop Malcolm from launching Kokoro.
Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, MASS) is set to voice The Prophet – In the future, the Prophet is the philosophical guide for the human resistance, a light shepherding survivors in the darkness of the unknown future ahead.
Terminator Zero is set in the established Terminator universe but centers on new characters. Mattson Tomlin, who worked on the screenplays for The Batman and its upcoming sequel, is writer and showrunner on this series, which has the following synopsis: 2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity.
Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.
Terminator Zero is directed by Masashi Kudō, who is best known for working on the anime series Bleach. Tomlin serves as executive producer alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger of Skydance.
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The upcoming TV series Welcome to Derry, which will serve as a prequel to Warner Bros’ two-part adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel It (pick up a copy HERE), was originally meant to be a Max streaming service, but we recently learned that it will be airing on HBO as well. The show went into production in Port Hope, Ontario earlier this year, aiming for a 2025 premiere – and Deadline has just revealed the names of ten more actors who are in the Welcome to Derry cast! They are Alixandra Fuchs (Hatfields & McCoys), Kimberly Guerrero (The English), Dorian Grey (Star Trek: Discovery), Thomas Mitchell (Gangland Undercover), BJ Harrison (Family Law), Peter Outerbridge (Saw VI), Shane Marriott (Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent), Chad Rook (Billy the Kid), Joshua Odjick (Little Bird) and Morningstar Angeline (Westworld). Details on the roles these actors are playing are being kept under wraps, but Deadline was able to confirm that they’re all playing recurring characters.
Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice) and Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman), who was a co-producer on It: Chapter Two, are the showrunners on Welcome to Derry. The show is being executive produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the sibling director/producer duo that was behind the two It movies, through their production company Double Dream. Kane and Fuchs are also executive producing, as are Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin. The series is produced by HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television.
Fuchs has written the script for the first episode, working from a story he crafted with the Muschiettis.
The actors listed above join previously announced cast members Taylour Paige (Zola), Jovan Adepo (Watchmen), Chris Chalk (Perry Mason), James Remar (Dexter), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge), and Stephen Rider (Daredevil)… and no, we don’t know anything about their characters, either. But we do know that Bill Skarsgård is on board to reprise the role of Pennywise the clown.
Stephen King had this to say about the series: “I’m excited that the story of Derry, Maine’s most haunted city, is continuing, and I’m glad Andy Muschietti is going to be overseeing the frightening festivities, along with a brain trust including his talented sister, Barbara. Red balloons all around!“ The Muschiettis added, “As teenagers, we took turns reading chapters of Stephen King’s It until the thick paperback fell to pieces. It is an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our It movies. We can’t wait to share the depths of Steve’s novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity, and horror.“
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Maggie Grace stars in a new British thriller Blackwater Lane, and the actress reflects back on her career in her latest interview with The Independent. The actress would become known widely as Liam Neeson‘s daughter from Taken — who went on the fateful trip that led to her kidnapping, which in turn gave Neeson a second career as an action star. She also reflects on her time on the hit ABC TV drama Lost. Grace portrayed Shannon Rutherford on that island as the resident “rich-girl-with-regrets.” The J.J. Abrams-produced and written show had premiered 20 years ago, but Grace still calls her exit from it to be one of the most heartbreaking aspects of her career.
As Lost comes up in the conversation, the interviewer insists that what made Grace’s abrupt killing on the show shocking was that she seemed to be the heart of the early episodes and especially shocking as her arc seemingly would start to pick up at that time. “I thought they were gonna take her a little further,” Grace explains. When asked if she had wanted to leave the show, she exclaimed, “No!” Then, she stated, “It’s still the worst heartbreak of my career. I was devastated!” When she was inquired if she knows why they decided to kill her off, Grace replied, “Well, I mean, I do – [she] was sort of a caricature of white privilege before that was a phrase, you know? And maybe I was just too good at my assigned job of being incredibly annoying.”
The actress adds, “I thought maybe she would do something surprising, or have another color [to her personality]. Maybe she’d, at the last moment, redeem herself and be incredibly self-sacrificial in some way. I guess there were flashes of it, but not in the way I hoped in terms of an arc.” Grace would then try to put it in perspective, “That’s a selfish actor’s point of view. They definitely had bigger fish to fry.”
Grace’s new film Blackwater Lane also stars Minka Kelly and Dermot Mulroney. Blackwater Lane is based on author B.A. Paris’s bestselling novel The Breakdown. The film will center on a woman, played by Kelly, who drives by a stranded motorist later revealed to have been murdered. After a series of terrifying events, the woman becomes convinced she is the killer’s next victim while her husband, played by Mulroney, and her best friend, played by Grace, worry about her sanity.
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PLOT: A woman named Sam (Lupita Nyong’o) finds herself trapped in New York City at the start of the alien invasion depicted in the first two Quiet Place movies.
REVIEW: A quick word of warning before I get into my review. Paramount has been pretty smart about avoiding any SPOILERS for this movie, so if you want to go in fresh without knowing anything about it other than whether or not it’s good, I’ll save you the rest of the review. I enjoyed it. It’s not quite as good as the first two movies, but it’s a solid prequel that shares the same DNA as the other movies, delivering a surprisingly affecting human story amid all the carnage.
Still with me? Ok, without getting too much into spoiler territory, Michael Sarnoski’s prequel to the John Krasinski movies has a more dramatic bent than the other two films. Anyone who thought this would be the Aliens to A Quiet Place 1 & 2’s Alien is wrong, as this is perhaps even more performance and character-driven than the other films in the franchise. Sarnoski made a big impact on the indie scene with his incredible Nicolas Cage drama Pig, and A Quiet Place: Day One carries the same humanistic vibe. Sure, there are alien attacks and carnage, but at its heart, it’s a story about two people thrown together by fate. Lupita Nyong’o’s Sam and Joseph Quinn’s Eric have little to nothing in common, but they both have a lot of empathy, and as the film goes on, their bond becomes surprisingly potent.
It’s the characterizations that have always made the A Quiet Place movies so good, with Krasinski, Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe in the first film and Cillian Murphy in the second, all being excellent. The view of humanity in these movies has always been optimistic, save for one violent encounter in the second film, and that vibe carries over to this one.
Lupita Nyong’o’s Sam is a unique protagonist in that, right as the movie begins, we learn that she’s dying of cancer, with her an in-patient at a hospice. She clings to a therapy cat (who must be the most well-behaved screen feline of all time) on her odyssey, with the film being about how, even though she’s going to die either way, she somewhat rediscovers her will to live as the movie goes on. The idea is that every second she gets to live is a victory. By comparison, Quinn’s Eddie, a youthful exchange student from England, is her opposite, with his bright future laid out right ahead of him, only to vanish in the blink of an eye as the attacks start. Nyong’o and Quinn have a good sense of camaraderie, with them realistically heroic as the film goes on, and willing to sacrifice their well-being for the other. Quinn’s become a buzzy star since his breakout role on Stranger Things, and he’s quite good in a relatively low-key everyman role.
While essentially a two-hander, Djimon Hounsou returns from the second film, with this showing how he wound up leading an island of survivors in part two. It’s a small part, but it is a solid connection to the other movies. Alex Wolff, who re-teams with Sarnoski following Pig, is similarly excellent as Sam’s caring and heroic nurse, who’s with her as the attacks begin.
If the acting and characters are so good, why does it fall slightly short of the last two? For me, it’s the fact that those films had a certain degree of realism and practicality to them (or, as realistic as you can get in a movie about aliens anyway), with this one embracing a bit of magic realism through the use of Sam’s cat, who constantly resurfaces, and seems supernaturally in tune with its beloved humans. The fact that the (cute) cat wouldn’t bolt the first time someone made a loud noise is almost harder to swallow than the aliens!
It should also be noted that, after two films that were chock-full of suspenseful set pieces, A Quiet Place: Day One needed something similar. No signature moments really stand out. However, the New York setting is well-used, and the film is thoroughly compelling from start to finish, even if it lacks a little of the extra kick-ass Krasinski doled out in the other movies from time to time.
It has to be said that A Quiet Place has turned out to be a franchise with better legs than any of us thought, thanks to the smart people behind it and the top-notch talent on the screen. While it’s the least of the series, it’s still quite good, and it feels like a franchise that could sustain another movie or two.
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We often tend to associate certain celebrities with the shows they were on and the characters they played, no matter what else they do or how they try to branch out. But it’s far rarer to link a star to a network. But that’s kind of how it is with Jared Padalecki, who made a name for himself on The CW with shows like Supernatural and, most recently, Walker. But now, for Padalecki, CW might stand for “choice words.”
In a new interview with Variety in the wake of Walker – a reboot of Walker, Texas Ranger – being canceled just last month, Jared Padalecki called out the network for how it has shifted recently. “I feel like The CW that I was a part of last year is not The CW that I was a part of under [former chairman and CEO] Mark Pedowitz for that entire, almost 20-year stretch. They’re just changing the network around, where it’s not really going to be a TV network as much as it’s going to be, ‘Here’s something fun for an hour that you’ll never watch again, but hopefully you watch it. And it’s cheap!’” Padalecki would particularly call out the network greenlighting TV versions of board games like Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit, both set to debut in the fall.
Jared Padalecki wrapped up his tear into The CW by saying, “And I hate to say that, but I’m just being honest. I mean, f*ck it. They can’t fire me again. I’m just being brutally honest. I think it felt to me like they were looking for really easy, cheap content that they could fill up time with.” That should be about the end of the relationship between Padalecki and The CW, but that probably won’t bother him at this point. Still, that’s a bit of a shame considering their long relationship, with Supernatural standing as the network’s longest-running series, hitting 14 seasons there (with the first having aired on The WB).
And while there were some rumblings of a 16th season of Supernatural, Jared Padalecki might now be out for good if this is his stance on The CW. But at least that clears up his schedule for a spot on The Boys.
What do you think of Jared Padalecki’s words towards The CW? Will they come back to bite him or can he carry on without the network?
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Sony has given the upcoming live-action Street Fighter movie, which recently parted ways with directors Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me), a release date of March 20, 2026.
More to come…
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When you consider how long both the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises have existed, the list of actors who have appeared in both is surprisingly short, but Ahsoka star Rosario Dawson came close to becoming part of that exclusive club.
While speaking at Fan Expo Boston, Dawson explained that she had been asked to do something in Star Trek but had to turn it down as she had just signed on to do Ahsoka. “I could have been one of Odo’s species, the changeling. I could have been an immortal puddle guys. Do you understand my pain (she said clenching her eyes tight). That would have been really cool,” Dawson said via The Telegram. “I also really pushed to be a ‘Q.’ My dad. That was my dad (donning a masculine voice and pointing to her dad in the audience), ‘Be Q.’ I’m like, I’m trying. Right? Then I can be, you know, annoying…cause chaos, which I love.’“
Changelings are the species played by Rene Auberjonois in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but we haven’t seen all that much of the species since the conclusion of that series. However, a Changeling did appear in an episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery (which was shot the same year as Dawson’s first appearance in The Mandalorian), and Amanda Plummer played the villainous Changeling Vadic in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
Rosario Dawson added that he’s okay to “cross streams” when it comes to Star Trek and Star Wars and she remains a big fan of Gene Roddenberry’s long-running sci-fi franchise. In fact, she confessed that she dropped a lot of Star Trek references on the set of Ahsoka, which apparently drove Dave Filoni crazy. “I’m definitely a ‘Next Gen’ girl. Captain Picard all the way,” she said. “I have a video of me being dressed as Ahsoka holding up the Picard Earl Gray tea bottle. One of these days I will post it.” Perhaps Dawson will get to make the leap to Star Trek sometime down the road.
As for Ahsoka, the second season of the series is in development with Dave Filoni.
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