On December 1, Netflix removed almost all of its interactive TV shows. However, a group of fans (and even some people who worked on the deleted material) are working together to keep these interactive shows around and playable even after Netflix pulled the plug.
On December 1, Netflix removed almost all of its interactive TV shows. However, a group of fans (and even some people who worked on the deleted material) are working together to keep these interactive shows around and playable even after Netflix pulled the plug.
Argentine filmmaker Fabián Forte has a directing career that stretches back more than twenty years, with his credits including Mala carne, La corporación, Socios por accidente, Socios por accidente 2, Dead Man Tells His Own Tale, Cantantes en Guerra, Legions, which was described as being “an unabashed love letter to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead series,” and segments of the anthology films Retratos del Apocalipsis and Cursed Bastards. His most recent feature is The Witch Game, a horror film that drew inspiration from the Harry Potter franchise – and Variety reports that the film is securing distribution deals around the world.
Miracle Media will be releasing The Witch Game in North America and the U.K. sometime in the first quarter of 2025. The film has also landed distribution deals in Latin America (Encripta), Germany and Austria (Lighthouse Entertainment), Spain (Wild Duck), Portugal (Cinema Novo), Serbia (Fox Vision), and Cambodia (Westec).
The movie was made in Argentina and shot in Spanish, but Variety notes that it has an English-language dubbed version, which was created using artificial intelligence technology.
Forte directed The Witch Game from his own screenplay, telling the story of a rebellious teenage girl whose family is besieged by the devil himself. On her 18th birthday, the girl receives a state-of-the-art VR video game headset that allows her to travel into an occult world and a medieval school of magic where she can learn the ways of witchcraft to save her family from the lord of the underworld.
Lourdes Mansilla plays the lead character and is joined in the cast by Ezequiel Rodriguez, Virginia Lombardo, Natalia Grinberg, Alexia Moyano, Martin Borisenko, Sebastian Sinnott, and Denise Barbara.
Hernan Findling and Gabriel Lahaye produced the film for Wip Producciones and Lahaye Media.
Does The Witch Game sound interesting to you? Would you watch an movie that has an English-language dub that was created using artificial intelligence technology, or would you stick with the original Spanish version? Share your thoughts on the latest genre movie from director Fabián Forte by leaving a comment below.
I haven’t seen any Fabián Forte movies yet myself, but after looking over his credits, I’m thinking I might have to catch up on some of them.
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In 2024, there has rarely been a game announced without a small but tiresomely vocal group of grifters attempting to whip up a controversy for their social media followers. No matter what the title, and no matter who the developer, every announcement is meticulously scrutinized for any faint sign of a thoughtcrime, an…
In 2024, there has rarely been a game announced without a small but tiresomely vocal group of grifters attempting to whip up a controversy for their social media followers. No matter what the title, and no matter who the developer, every announcement is meticulously scrutinized for any faint sign of a thoughtcrime, an…
Artificial intelligence is one of the most controversial topics in the tech market today. Whether it leads to medical industry advancements, art generated from stolen assets, or accessibility for the differently-abled, AI continues to grow exponentially with no signs of stopping. John Connor warned us, but did we listen? No, we did not. Contrastly to the fear-mongering above, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is partnering with Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street Productions for an AI thriller starring Anne Hathaway. Gordon-Levitt directs the untitled project from a script he wrote with Kieran Fitzgerald, who co-wrote Oliver Stone’s 2016 biographical thriller Snowden.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kieran Fitzgerald share a ‘story by’ credit with Natasha Lyonne, who stars as Charlie, the lie-detecting investigator, in Johnson’s Peacock series Poker Face. Gordon-Levitt and T-Street are well-acquainted after the studio produced Johnson’s 2005 crime thriller Brick, starring Gordon-Levitt as a teenager who pushes into a crime ring after his girlfriend disappears. Gordon-Levitt and T-Street crossed paths again when he starred as a young Bruce Willis in Johnson’s cyberpunk drama Looper. T-Street’s Bergman also shadowed Gordon-Levitt for his directorial debut, Don Jon, giving the first-time director script notes and analysis of multiple film cuts.
After joining forces with Eddie Murphey for the long-gestating sequel Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Gordon-Levitt starred in Potsy Ponciroli’s Greedy People and Philippe Lacôte’s crime drama Killer Heat. JGL’s next acting project is the Seductive Poison TV series starring Chloë Grace Moretz, which recounts how Layton rose through the ranks of the People’s Temple cult, eventually entering the inner circle of Christian Socialist preacher Jim Jones.
Anne Hathaway, who starred alongside Gordon-Levitt in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, has two films in post-production. One is David Lowery’s Mother Mary, which focuses on the relationship between a fictional musician and famous fashion designer, and the other is the David Robert Mitchell-directed mystery thriller Flowervale Street. It’s about a family in the ’80s who notice bizarre happenings in their neighborhood.
Plot details for Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anne Hathaway’s AI thriller remain a mystery. Still, with Rian Johnson’s T-Street Productions involved, audiences can expect something worth watching. Would you like to learn more about this mysterious project? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Director J.D. Dillard has gotten a lot of press for projects that he was attached to, but they fell apart. There was a remake of The Fly, a Star Wars movie and a sequel to The Rocketeer… But while those high-profile projects have gotten away from him, he has managed to make a few movies in recent years: the sci-fi crime drama Sleight, the creature feature Sweetheart, and the Korean War movie Devotion. He has also directed episodes of Utopia, The Twilight Zone, The Outsider, and Two Sentence Horror Stories. Now, Deadline reports that Dillard has signed on to direct an adaptation of the 2023 sci-fi thriller novel The Strange, which was written by Nathan Ballingrud. Aisha Porter-Christie is writing the screenplay and the project is set up at Black Label Media, the company that also produced Devotion.
Ballingrud’s novel is set in New Galveston, Mars in the year 1931. In the desolate frontier of a Martian colony, 14-year-old Anabelle Crisp embarks on a perilous quest through the desert, vowing revenge on the man who doomed her father to the gallows and stole her prized possession — the last known recording of her mother’s voice. The book is said to evoke the gritty, lawless atmosphere of True Grit combined with the raw intensity of Mad Max, following a young girl’s relentless search for justice as she battles ruthless outlaws and haunting mysteries on the rugged, untamed Martian landscape.
Dillard is producing The Strange with David Eisenberg, as well as Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Rachel Smith, Thad Luckinbill, and Trent Luckinbill. Black Label is providing the financing.
Aisha Porter-Christie is co-showrunner of the Amazon MGM Studios series Citizen, a series from John Wick and Nobody writer Derek Kolstad. She has also previously worked as a consulting producer on the Marvel / Netflix (now on Disney+) series Daredevil and as a co-executive producer on Amazon’s Gen V.
Ballingrud’s other works include Crypt of the Moon Spider, North American Lake Monsters, and Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell. His novella The Visible Filth was turned into the 2019 film Wounds, directed by Babak Anvari.
Does The Strange sound like an interesting project to you? Let us know by leaving a comment below – and if you have read the Nathan Ballingrud novel, let us know what you thought of it!
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Marvel Rivals is out now and free to play on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The hero shooter pretty shamelessly draws inspiration from Overwatch. As a result, NetEase’s swing at the genre feels like putting on a familiar glove to long-time players of Blizzard’s game. However, there are a few bits of minutiae…
Marvel Rivals is out now and free to play on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The hero shooter pretty shamelessly draws inspiration from Overwatch. As a result, NetEase’s swing at the genre feels like putting on a familiar glove to long-time players of Blizzard’s game. However, there are a few bits of minutiae…
I thought I’d reached a point of cynicism when it comes to Slay the Spire’s roguelite format. You can’t just take the framework and replace the cards with just anything! That’s silly. Except, no, I’m wrong, it totally works every single time, even when it’s pachinko. (Heck, does this mean Bookworm was the earlier…