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Actor Ted White passed away on Friday at the age of 96, reports Bloody Disgusting. In horror circles, White is best known for playing slasher icon Jason Voorhees in 1984's Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.The news came from film producer Sean Clark, who was informed that White passed peacefully in his sleep. “I’ve had the pleasure of knowing him and working with him for close to 20 years. He was my adopted grandpa and hands down the best storyteller you could have ever met,” wrote Clark. “I am going to miss you…

Deepcake, a Russian tech company, previously created Willis’ deepfake for a 2021 phone commercial.Image: Theo Wargo (Getty Images)Bruce Willis was back in headlines last week as news broke that the actor had seemingly sold the rights to his face to Deepcake, a Russian AI company specializing in deepfakes. Willis’ representatives, however, are contesting these reports. Willis and Deepcake previously collaborated on a 2021 Russian phone ad, with an AI-generated likeness of the actor appearing in the spot. The sale of…

Image: AMCGet a new look at Hocus Pocus 2. Jamie Lee Curtis teases her final scrap with Michael Myers in a new Halloween Ends featurette. Plus, a look at the new Orphan Black spinoff, and what’s coming on The Handmaid’s Tale. Spoilers get!MagicAppearing as a guest on Post Mortem with Mick Garris, producer Roy Lee revealed he’s financing a remake of Magic—the 1978 homicidal ventriloquist movie—helmed by director Sam Raimi. I’ve only worked with as a producer on films…actually…the first time I’m gonna work with him as a…

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Knock at the Cabin is not, in fact a comedy. It’s not even a satire (at least, I don’t think it is...). I’ll admit I was fooled by both the initial cast announcement, the jaunty opening soundtrack, and the kind of absurd mishmash title, complete with ‘broken’ font, that might all point to some kind of tongue-in-cheek reversal of the cabin in the woods slasher genre, but... no. Check out the trailer below.Knock at the Cabin - Official TrailerThe film is M. Night Shyamalan’s newest horror flick, starring Dave Bautista,…

This fall, from the writer of Rogue One, The Book of Eli, and After Earth, a brand new sci-fi adventure is on the way. Set in a future where Earth has been conquered by giant alien mechs, a young woman finds a map that might hold the key to saving humanity. Sounds cool, right? Well, it’s called Gundog but can’t see it in theaters. In fact, you can’t “see” it, period, which is very much by design.“At the beginning of my career, like almost 20 years ago, I would have written Gundog as a spec screenplay,” writer Gary Whitta…

Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images)Quentin Tarantino and Miramax have reportedly buried the hatchet in their dispute over NFT auction excerpts of Pulp Fiction. The quiet resolution brings an end to a legal skirmish that could have had profound implications in determining who gets paid for NFTs based on films if it had gone to trial. The settlement also comes amidst a brutal cryptocurrency downturn that’s all but killed the once seemingly unstoppable NFT hype train.The conflict kicked off last November when Miramax sued…

The Cinema Foundation, in an effort to make up a holiday that would appeal to both consumers and theaters, has announced that this Saturday—September 3—is National Cinema Day. Some 3,000 theaters across the U.S. are officially participating in the promotion, from chains like Regal and AMC to smaller art-house theaters. Jaws is even making a big-screen return!Some summer blockbusters may have already left the silver screen, but there are plenty of great films still out there. If you were asking me to give you a…

A crop of the cover of the book.Image: Insight EditionsGrab those Reese’s Pieces, your bicycle, and get ready to fly. This week, a brand new book diving into the making of Steven Spielberg’s beloved E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is being released. Written by Caseen Gaines, with a foreword by star Drew Barrymore and introduction by producer Kathleen Kennedy, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The Ultimate Visual History promises to explore every aspect of what was, at the time, the highest-grossing movie ever.The book is out…

Stallone does beat up a lot of kids in Samaritan. Image: MGM/Prime VideoThe biggest problem with Samaritan, a brand new superhero movie starring the one and only Sylvester Stallone, is a lack of identity. That’s oddly fitting since the movie itself is about a young boy trying to figure out the identity of a man who lives in his neighborhood. Is he the long-lost superhero Samaritan? Will the movie Samaritan ever figure out what it wants to be? The answers to those questions are “What do you think?” and “Not really.” But…