Kevin Williamson is keeping busy like it’s 1998! Best known for writing Scream, Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty, producing Halloween H20 (while doing uncredited work on the script), and creating Dawson’s Creek, Williamson is currently gearing up to direct his second feature film, Scream 7. (His first was the thriller Teaching Mrs. Tingle, released in 1999.) Back in February, we heard that he and his producer banner, Outerbanks Entertainment, were developing four major projects as part of an overall deal with Universal Television. One of those TV series projects, a crime drama called The Waterfront, was picked up by the Netflix streaming service back in May. Now The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Holt McCallany (The Iron Claw) and Maria Bello (A History of Violence) are set to star in that series!

Inspired by true events, The Waterfront dives into the flawed Buckley family as their attempts to retain control of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to increasingly dangerous means to keep themselves afloat.

Bello is taking on the role of Mae Buckley, who has been running the family business with her son after her husband took a step back. She’s been employing questionable tactics to keep the fishery running in a desperate attempt to save the family. McCallany’s character is Mae’s husband, Harlan.

Universal Television is producing The Waterfront. Williamson is writing the series and executive producing with his Outerbanks Entertainment partner Ben Fast. The first season of the show is expected to consist of eight episodes… and filming is apparently going to take place in Wilmington, North Carolina, which is also where Dawson’s Creek was shot. I Know What You Did Last Summer was filmed in Southport, North Carolina, which is only about 30 miles from Wilmington, and Williamson is from a town that’s 95 miles from Wilmington, so this is an area he is quite familiar with.

It’s cool to see that Williamson is still working on so many projects, and I look forward to seeing how The Waterfront is going to turn out. The other shows currently in development at Outerbanks are a TV series reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, which was itself based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder; The It Girl, based on the novel of the same name by Ruth Ware, which follows a woman on the search for answers a decade after the murder of her friend. Williamson is co-writing the script with Sarah L. Thompson; and The Game, an adaptation of the David Fincher movie. Original screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris are adapting the project.

Does The Waterfront sound interesting to you? What do you think of Holt McCallany and Maria Bello coming on board to star in the series? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Nowadays, there’s always a little something extra we get with what might be called the “trial of the century.” It’s not just the endless media presence, the internet conspiracies or the water cooler stance of innocent vs. guilty – it’s the documentary. When we think of some of these trials tied directly to murder, a few names probably pop up more often than others: Casey Anthony, Amanda Knox, etc. And these subjects usually have no problem sitting down to again tell their side of the story and get the latest word in, even years after the conviction. The latest is Scott Peterson, who you probably remember was found guilty of both first- and second-degree murder of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant at the time of her death.

Twenty years after the conviction, Scott Peterson – and the death of Laci – is the subject of two documentaries: Netflix’s American Murder: Laci Peterson and Peacock’s Face to Face with Scott Peterson. Even though most won’t be convinced otherwise, pinning him as the killer from the get-go, Peterson maintains that he is innocent, participating in interviews for the first time since before the conviction. As he states in Face to Face, “You know, there was a burglary across the street from our home. There were a lot of people in that burglary. And I believe that Laci went over there to see what was going on. And that’s when she was taken…It was the evidence they decided to ignore and to go with the theory…I wasn’t the last one to see Laci that day. There’s so many credible witnesses who saw her walking.” It should be noted that these conversations with Peterson took place from prison, as he is currently serving a life sentence after having initially been sentenced to death.

While officially deemed two separate incidents, the burglary and disappearance of Laci Peterson are at the forefront of this documentary. As per Peacock’s official synopsis, “While many still believe the jury got it right, Scott’s family and experts close to the case have spent over 20 years committed to uncovering inconsistencies in the evidence as well as finding new information around alternative theories surrounding Laci’s murder. And in a shocking twist on a murder the world thought was solved, the Los Angeles Innocence Project takes over Scott’s case.”

Many viewers of the Scott Peterson doc – as with the case of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony, just to cite a couple of other high-profile cases that immediately became media fodder – will never be moved on their stance of the verdict, even with new analyses and potential evidence at the forefront. Knox was found guilty of murdering her roommate before having that conviction overturned, while Anthony was found not guilty of the death of her two-year-old daughter.

Do you see anything working to the advantage of Scott Peterson through the dual documentaries? Will the public perception change? Give us your thoughts and memories of the trial in the comments section below.

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Game Pass Standard, a new middle tier in the Netflix-like subscription service’s ever-expanding menu of options, won’t get some games that hit the higher tiers on day one for up to a year or longer, Microsoft revealed today. The cheaper version is going into preview mode for Xbox Insiders for $1 ahead of its official…

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Game Pass Standard, a new middle tier in the Netflix-like subscription service’s ever-expanding menu of options, won’t get some games that hit the higher tiers on day one for up to a year or longer, Microsoft revealed today. The cheaper version is going into preview mode for Xbox Insiders for $1 ahead of its official…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is taking a more action-oriented approach to combat than its predecessors. Early footage shows the sequel looking like it borders on a character action game, so as someone who plays a mage in every single one of these games, I was curious how The Veilguard was going to adapt the…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is taking a more action-oriented approach to combat than its predecessors. Early footage shows the sequel looking like it borders on a character action game, so as someone who plays a mage in every single one of these games, I was curious how The Veilguard was going to adapt the…

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A while back, Stranger Things and Ghostbusters: Afterlife actor Finn Wolfhard made his feature directorial debut with a horror comedy called Hell of a Summer, which he directed alongside Billy Bryk, who also appeared in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray had the chance to watch the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and gave it a 5/10 review than can be read at THIS LINK – and now, Variety reports that Hell of a Summer has secured a U.S. distribution deal with NEON, which sent Longlegs and Cuckoo out into the world. The company is planning to give Wolfhard and Bryk’s film a theatrical release sometime in 2025.

Months before Hell of a Summer was officially announced, Wolfhard said that he was planning to make his feature directorial debut with “a horror-comedy-slasher movie that takes place at a camp.” Sure enough, that’s what this movie is. The story follows counselors who are getting Camp Pineway ready the night before campers arrive when a masked killer begins slaughtering the staff. Variety notes that Wolfhard and Bryk have said they wrote the film with a goal of upending Gen Z stereotypes.

Wolfhard and Bryk both star in their directorial effort and are joined in the cast by Fred Hechinger (the Fear Street trilogy), D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs), Abby Quinn (Mad About You), and Pardis Saremi (Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem).

30West financed and executive produced Hell of a Summer. Hechinger produced the film alongside Aggregate Films, Parts and Labor Production, Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan, Drew Brennan, and Jay Van Hoy. Filming took place in Ontario, Canada. 30West also co-represents the U.S. rights alongside CAA Media Finance. 

Are you interested in seeing a horror comedy directed by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk? Share your thoughts on Hell of a Summer by leaving a comment below. I’m very curious to see this one, as I’m a big fan of camp-set horror movies like Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part 2, Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI, Sleepaway Camp, The Burning, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, etc.

Are you looking forward to seeing Hell of a Summer in 2025? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Few PlayStation 5 owners dare to dream of a day when all of their games can be downloaded and installed on the console at the same time. But thanks to a new 8TB SSD, that dream is becoming a little more real, and very expensive.

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Few PlayStation 5 owners dare to dream of a day when all of their games can be downloaded and installed on the console at the same time. But thanks to a new 8TB SSD, that dream is becoming a little more real, and very expensive.

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Three actors are ready to check into Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone sequel series, The Madison. The series stars Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn, a family matriarch who moves her family from New York City to the Madison River Valley of Montana after her husband’s death. Today, The Madison welcomes Suits actor Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman (The Girl in the Mirror, A Man Called Otto), and Beau Garrett (Firefly Lane, Tron: Legacy) as primary cast members.

MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios, and Bosque Ranch Productions produce The Madison, which aims to be a sincere exploration of grief and human connection after Stacy Clyburn’s family moves to Montana to start life anew. Patrick J. Adams joins The Madison as an investment banker, Russell McIntosh, while Chapman and Garrett play Clyburn’s daughters.

Elle Chapman is Paige McIntosh in The Madison, “a somewhat self-centered woman who indulges in a luxurious New York lifestyle provided by her parents and investment banker husband, Russell McIntosh (Adams), who has followed the life path set before him from the start.” The Madison is Chapman’s television debut after starring alongside Tom Hanks in Marc Forster’s A Man Called Otto and joining multiple projects like the Michael O Sajbel-directed Western Florida Wild and David Chang’s Refraction. Both films are in post-production.

Beau Garrett plays Abigail Reese, “a resilient and sardonic New Yorker who is a recently divorced mother of two.” After completing 24 episodes of the Netflix series Firefly Lane, Garrett stars in the upcoming drama James the Second. Max Amini directs James the Second from a script by Tim Tuchrello. The coming-of-age story stars Lynn Collins and Nick Stahl and focuses on a 13-year-old boy who can’t feel pain or emotion. Only when his classmate, Kristen, takes a liking to him does James’ condition improve. Actual events inspire James’ journey through adolescence and love.

Despite Yellowstone’s end later this year, Taylor Sheridan continues to expand the rough-and-tumble universe through multiple spinoffs. In addition to Yellowstone, Sheridan’s world expands to 1923, 1944, 2024, and 6666. He’s also got the standalone series Lawmen: Bass Reeves and Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone as Dwight “The General” Manfredi, a New York mafia capo.

Are you excited for Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, and Beau Garrett to join The Madison cast? Let us know in the comments section below.

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