In an article called “Meet the Movies of 2025,” Vanity Fair has just unveiled a batch of images that go behind the scenes of several upcoming films – including genre movies like the sci-fi thriller sequel M3GAN 2.0, the Jordan Peele-produced sports horror film Him, director Scott Derrickson’s The Gorge (that’s an image from The Gorge above), and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Let’s take a look at them:

From M3GAN 2.0, we see an image of the killer doll M3GAN, reunited with returning M3GAN star Violet McGraw. Allison Williams is also back for the sequel, as are Brian Jordan Alvarez and Jen Van Epps. This time, they’re joined in the cast by Ivanna Sakhno (Ahsoka), who is said to have landed a major part in the sequel, Jemaine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows), Timm Sharp (Blunt Talk), and Aristotle Athari (Saturday Night Live). Gerard Johnstone is back at the helm, working from a screenplay by Akela Cooper. M3GAN 2.0 is being produced by James Wan, Jason Blum, and Allison Williams, with Johnstone executive producing alongside Mark Katchur, Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Ryan Turek, Adam Hendricks, and Greg Gilreath. The film is set to reach theatres on June 27, 2025.

Formerly known as GOAT, the sports-related horror film Him has a release date of September 19, 2025. Justin Tipping – who made his feature directorial debut with the 2016 drama Kicks – directed the film, with lead roles going to Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie), Tyriq Withers (The Game), and Julia Fox (Uncut Gems). Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie’s script centers on a promising young athlete who is invited to train with a team’s retiring star. How exactly horror enters the picture is being kept under wraps. ComicBook.com has heard that the script centers on a rookie QB who goes to train with a retiring star QB who may hold a secret about how he has played so long at such a high level. So obviously the GOAT has been using unusual methods to achieve his success, and finding out about them are going to cause the rookie some trouble. Wayans plays the greatest-of-all-time athlete, while Withers plays the promising young athlete / rookie QB. Details on the character Fox plays in Him haven’t been revealed. Jordan Peele is producing Him with Win Rosenfeld, Ian Cooper, and Jamal Watson. David Kern and Kate Oh serve as executive producers. Universal’s EVP Production Development Sara Scott and Director of Development Tony Ducret are overseeing the project for the studio.

Based on a spec script by Zach Dean, The Gorge is said to be a high-action, genre-bending love story. We previously heard that it centers on two soldiers (Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller) who are tasked with guarding a seemingly never-ending gorge with one agent posted on either side. IGN revealed that Teller and Taylor-Joy play elite snipers – one American, the other Lithuanian – stationed in watchtowers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge located in a faraway land whose exact location they’re not even allowed to know. Their mission? To safeguard the outside world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late. Sigourney Weaver is also in the cast. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger of Skydance Productions are producing the film with Crooked Highway’s Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, and Sherryl Clark, as well as Zach Dean, Adam Kohlbrenner, and Greg Goodman. Derrickson directed the film, which will be released through Apple TV+ sometime in 2025. The Vanity Fair image gives a behind-the-scenes look at a set piece that involved “a WWII Willys Jeep pulled up the side of a rock wall while under attack. Miles and Anya did most of their own stunts while attached to safety wires.“

Director Guillermo del Toro has been spending this year working on one of his dream projects, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale Frankenstein that is set up at the Netflix streaming service. The behind the scenes image gives us a glimpse of the Frankenstein laboratory, with Frankenstein’s monster lying on the slab. Del Toro’s Frankenstein might have the following logline: Set in Eastern Europe in the 19th Century, the story of Dr. Pretorius, who needs to track down Frankenstein’s monster- who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before–in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein. The film stars Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight), Mia Goth (Pearl), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), with Ralph Ineson (The Witch) showing up for a pivotal cameo. At one point, Andrew Garfield was in the cast, but he had to drop out and was replaced by Elordi… and it has been said that the role Garfield had passed over to Elordi was the Monster.

What do you think of these behind the scenes images? Are you looking forward to these movies? Let us know by leaving a comment below – and if you want to see more images, from the likes of Jurassic World Rebirth, The Amateur, You’re Cordially Invited, The Wedding Banquet, Materialists, The Ballad of a Small Player, Mickey 17, Love Hurts, and Mother Mary, click over to Vanity Fair.

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Disney Dreamlight Valley is a relaxing title filled to the brim with adorable creatures to meet and feed. If you want to befriend them all, you’ll need to know what foods they like and how to feed it to them. This continues in the game’s second expansion The Storybook Vale where you’ll interact with multiple new…

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Disney Dreamlight Valley is a relaxing title filled to the brim with adorable creatures to meet and feed. If you want to befriend them all, you’ll need to know what foods they like and how to feed it to them. This continues in the game’s second expansion The Storybook Vale where you’ll interact with multiple new…

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The renowned animation studio had recently brought a sequel to Chicken Run to Netflix and now the streamer has released the trailer for their new film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Four-time Academy Award-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated Merlin Crossingham return with this new tale of revenge. The film is written by scribe Mark Burton and is produced by Richard Beek. The executive producers on board include Nick Park, Mark Burton, Sarah Cox, Peter Lord and Carla Shelley.

The official synopsis reads,
“Aardman’s four-time Academy Award®-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated Merlin Crossingham return with a brand new epic adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. In this next installment, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!”

Nick Park tells Netflix, “Returning to Wallace and Gromit is like meeting up with family friends. People respond to them because they feel so familiar. They’re like an old married couple in some ways, who know each other so well –– it’s a sort of love-hate relationship, but when the chips are down, they are always there for each other. Wallace pushes Gromit’s loyalty to the extreme, and Gromit always wants Wallace to change. It’s something everyone can relate to.” 

Crossingham added, “One of our most asked questions is ‘When will Feathers come back?’ Well now is the time, and he’s back with a vengeance.” The directors also said, “We are delighted to introduce Norbot, a ‘nifty odd-jobbing robot’ gnome, designed to help Gromit with his gardening chores. Norbot is Wallace’s most proud achievement to date and, according to Wallace, his ‘best invention ever’! Garden gnomes have long been a part of Wallace and Gromit’s world, but this is no cute patio ornament. Norbot is the ultimate gnome — a ‘smart-gnome.’ We’re so excited to see Wallace unleashing his latest invention, Norbot, into the world. However, his long-suffering pooch, Gromit, may be a little less sure …”

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Plot: Follows the elite students of Manchester College, a Washington, D.C.-adjacent university, where reputation means everything, fraternities and sororities are the gold standard, and two ruthless step-siblings, Caroline Merteuil and Lucien Belmont, will do anything to stay on top of the cutthroat social hierarchy. After a brutal hazing incident threatens the entire Greek Life system, they’ll do whatever is necessary to preserve their power and reputation – even if that means seducing Annie Grover, the daughter of the Vice President of the United States. Hearts will be broken, loyalties will be tested, and secrets will be revealed in this modern-day royal court that is Manchester College.

Review: Since the 1988 film version of Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close, Michelle Pfieffer, John Malkovich, and Uma Thurman, there have been ten adaptations of the eighteenth-century bestseller by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos including a 2022 series that aired on Starz. The most popular take on the novel was 1999’s Cruel Intentions, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. Notable for being the film that began the real-life relationship between Witherspoon and Phillippe, Cruel Intentions spawned a lackluster prequel and sequel film and a stage musical in 2015. A television series starring Gellar failed to get past a pilot in 2016. Still, now the contemporary teen-centric romantic update of the classic novel is back for a new generation with Prime Video’s Cruel Intentions. Featuring a cast of relative unknowns in the leads, this version of Cruel Intentions aims to capture the melodrama and eroticism of the films in a long-form series. The question is: were they able to capture the same sexual chemistry as the 1999 film?

The eight-episode first season boasts some changes from the film, notably the shift in setting from New York City to Washington, DC. The school remains the primary location for the new series, with private high school Manchester Prep turning into Manchester College. The aging up of the teenage characters from Roger Kumble’s film does remove some of the creepier underage elements, but with the cast all in their mid-to-late twenties, they all seem too old for their roles. The novelty of rich kids acting naughty is not exactly a new concept, with Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars mining this material for the last decade. Cruel Intentions pushed the envelope of the PG-13 rating back at the close of the twentieth century, and the reboot has no qualms about profanity or sexual content, with the premiere episode boasting everything you can show on screen short of nudity.

In both Dangerous Liaisons and Cruel Intentions films, the main thrust of the plot centers on a wager between step-siblings to see if the brother can seduce a new student at their school. With manipulation and trickery, the brother develops feelings for his conquest, to the chagrin of his step-sister. In the new series, there is still a psycho-sexual battle waged between the siblings, now named Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook playing the equivalent role played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess in Ryan Phillippe’s role). Their conquest changes from Reese Witherspoon’s virgin headmaster’s daughter to Annie Grover (Sara Silva), the daughter of the Vice President. Some supporting roles are similar, with Lucien still having a gay friend, now called Blaise Powell (John Harlan Kim playing Joshua Jackson’s role), who seduces a dimwitted student, Scott Russell (Khobe Clarke). Selma Blair’s naive Cecile is now CeCe (Sara Silva), and rather than being Caroline’s enemy, she is her second-in-command at their sorority. Through the first season, the relationship between Caroline and Lucien shifts from an alliance to a rivalry and back again.

The eight-episode first season does not follow the original film outside of key plot points, with this adaptation being a wholly original look at the spoiled and wealthy behaving badly. While series like Succession offer solid writing and biting commentary, Cruel Intentions is just sex and revenge thrown together and repeated. There are callbacks to moments from the original film, along with the inclusion of Sean Patrick Thomas in the cast, albeit in a very different role than he played in 1999. Most of the series is focused on the youthful ensemble, with some, notably John Harlan Kim, Sara Silva, and Brooke Lena Johnson, standing out as more interesting than the rest. Zac Burgess is the least interesting character in this series and has virtually no charisma compared to those who have played the role before. The adult cast boasts some nice supporting roles for Claire Forlani, Jon Tenney, and Nikki Crawford, but

The first season of Cruel Intentions, with episodes directed by Adam Arkin, Nick Copus, and Iain B. MacDonald, was created by Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman, with the duo writing three of the eight episodes. Roger Kumble, writer/director of the 1999 film, serves as executive producer, which may account for the similarity in the title font and the repeated use of The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony,” which was the theme song for the original film. Phoebe Fisher’s experience writing for Prime Video’s short-lived I Know What You Did Last Summer and Sara Goodman’s tenure writing for The Hardy Boys series show in the CW-caliber writing of this series. The characters are all atrocious and bad people, making it hard for the audience to root for anyone to win against the other nasty characters. The affluence on display is gross, but none of this series qualifies as satire or commentary and instead is just wealth porn.

The original Cruel Intentions was not entirely well-received by critics and has become a cult classic over the last twenty-five years. The film still remains a showcase for three actors with great potential. The new Cruel Intentions will share a similar critical consensus as it is nowhere near as good as the source material that inspired it. This series can only distinguish itself from its predecessor in the fact that the leads in this version do not boast anything close to the talent that the 1999 cast had. I am sure there will be an audience who enjoys watching overly thin actors get naked with each other and treat one another like sex toys, but there is a way to make a series erotic and entertaining rather than just nasty. This new series’s creators had the best intentions with their reimagining, but the results are just plain cruel.

Cruel Intentions premieres all eight episodes on November 21st on Prime Video.

Cruel Intentions

NOT GOOD

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There are a whole bunch of quality-of-like changes that Pokémon TCG Pocket could stand to introduce, not least giving its UI a significant overhaul to make certain features much clearer. One of those buried features that’s genuinely useful, and yet almost no one seems to know about, is wishlisting.

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There are a whole bunch of quality-of-like changes that Pokémon TCG Pocket could stand to introduce, not least giving its UI a significant overhaul to make certain features much clearer. One of those buried features that’s genuinely useful, and yet almost no one seems to know about, is wishlisting.

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Before the Resident Evil franchise ended up in the hands of Paul W.S. Anderson, the filmmaker who was developing a cinematic adaptation of the zombie video game series was the one who first brought us the concept of flesh-eating zombies: Night of the Living Dead (and Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead) director George A. Romero. For decades, fans have been pondering what it would have been like if Romero had been able to bring his vision of Resident Evil to the screen – and that’s the subject of the upcoming documentary George A. Romero’s Resident Evil. We’ve been waiting for this one for a while, and now our friends at Bloody Disgusting have learned that it’s set to receive a Digital and On Demand release on January 7th!

Directed by Brandon Salisbury, George A. Romero’s Resident Evil is being produced by Key 13 Films in association with Point Five Films. During an interview with the Resident Evil Podcast, Salisbury revealed that he didn’t want George A. Romero’s Resident Evil to be your average “talking heads” documentary. So he had the idea to shoot interviews in an abandoned mansion that has been made up and lit to look like the mansion from the Resident Evil video game. He also got permission from the game rights owners at Capcom and the film rights owners at Constantin Film to film some scenes from Romero’s script that were based on iconic scenes from the game, but it’s not clear if they were able to shoot those.

George A. Romero’s Resident Evil received some input from Romero’s personal assistant Jason Bareford. As the story goes, Romero had an assistant play through Resident Evil so he could watch the gameplay while writing the adaptation – and Bareford was that assistant. When the project was first announced, Bareford said the mission with this documentary was to set the record straight on what really went on behind the scenes when Romero’s version of Resident Evil was in the works. He was in the room when decisions were being made, and when Romero was informed that Constantin Film no longer intended to make the movie with him.

Salisbury provided the following statement: “George Romero gave birth to modern horror, the modern zombie, and ultimately Resident Evil. I am honored to bring fans the untold story of his most important unmade project, to celebrate the legacy of the man that inspired me to pursue filmmaking as a career. I hope fans enjoy this ultimate experience in survival horror.“

Will you be watching George A. Romero’s Resident Evil when Uncork’d Entertainment gives the documentary a Digital and On Demand release in January? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Director Panos Cosmatos’ revenge film Mandy quickly gained a devoted cult following when it was released back in 2018 – and one member of the Mandy cult is singer/songwriter Miley Cyrus, who is such a fan of the movie that she not only named one of her dogs after it, but she even contacted Cosmatos about collaborating on a musical remake of the film! If this musical remake had gone forward, Cyrus was wanting to play the character who was first brought to life by Nicolas Cage.

Set in the primal wilderness of an apocalyptic 1983, Mandy has the following synopsis: The quiet life of devoted couple Red (Nicolas Cage) and Mandy (Andrea Riseborough) takes a dark and bizarre turn when a nightmarish cult and their maniacal leader (Linus Roache) seek to possess Mandy… body and soul. A shocking assault on the innocent pair leads to a spiraling, surreal, bloody rampage of all out, mind-altering vengeance.

Speaking with Harper’s Bazaar, Miley Cyrus said that Mandy is one of the inspirations for the album she’s currently working on. She mentioned trying to get a musical remake off the ground and that “I wanted to play Nicolas Cage. “I love that it’s a romance revenge story. Romance and revenge—those are some of the greatest tragedies. I forever and always will be interested in those.“

Cyrus got in contact with Cosmatos, and while they won’t be making that musical remake, he is heavily involved in the making of Cyrus’s new album, which is said to be as much visual as it is musical. Cosmatos said, “[The album is] more experimental than anything she’s ever done, but in a pop way that I love.“

Cyrus added that the album is also inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall, particularly the 1982 film that was based on the album, a movie that she first saw on the big screen when she was a teenager. With a good friend and one of her brothers, she smoked some weed, rented a limo, put on ’70s-style fur coats, and went to see The Wall. “We really leaned in. And so I have this heart-first attachment to it. My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.“

So we have a Wall-inspired Cyrus and Cosmatos collaboration to look forward to, but the musical remake of Mandy appears to be off the table. What do you think of all this? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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There’s a tradition when writing previews of games that says one must hold back on judgments, as a game is not yet finished and could see enormous changes before it’s released. I am, however improper it might be, going to ignore this principle on this occasion, because after spending at least six hours with the…

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