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Amazon has found itself the home of Flying Lotus’ new sci-fi thriller Ash. Gerard Butler is back to be menaced by comets in Greenland 2. Plus, what’s to come as True Detective: Night Country nears its end. Spoilers, away!Spoilers of the Week | June 17thThe Fantastic FourJeff Sneider claims that Galactus is the villain Marvel will build the Fantastic Four movie around, with Javier Bardem allegedly being considered for the roleA Head Full of GhostsVariety reports Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (The Lodge, Goodnight Mommy)…

The piracy app Kimi, which let users watch stolen movies and TV shows on their iPhones, briefly surpassed streaming heavyweights on Apple’s App Store rankings before being removed by the company for violating its rules.IMDb Changes Rating System After Little Mermaid Review-Bombed | Future TechAccording to data from app intelligence firm Appfigures, Kimi managed to snag 4th place on the App Store’s free entertainment apps list on Monday and ranked 12th on top apps overall. This put it ahead of HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix,…

True crime documentaries are so ubiquitous that the subgenres now have subgenres. You’ll find countless serial killer stories, with various wrinkles to distinguish one from the next. And lately we’ve seen an influx of projects featuring citizen investigators sifting through their own family histories — Great Photo, Lovely Life, and Born in Synanon come to mind — in search of closure.   The Truth About Jim, the new Max Original docuseries from Investigation Discovery, is a sort of mashup of the above. It…

After much speculation about BLACKPINK’s Lisa Manobal making her acting debut, it has been officially confirmed that she will join the cast of HBO’s The White Lotus Season 3, as reported by Variety. The upcoming season, slated to begin filming in February, will take place in the stunning locations of Koh Samui, Phuket, and Bangkok. While specific details about Manobal’s character and the storyline are being kept “under wraps”, it is known that the narrative will introduce a new group of…

Image: ShowtimeAcross two seasons of Showtime’s Mick Garris-created anthology series, which ran from 2005-2007, you’ll find 26 eerie episodes, each around an hour long, directed by, as the title suggests, the era’s reigning masters of horror: Don Coscarelli, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, Dario Argento, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Takashi Miike, Ernest Dickerson, and others. The line-up of genre-superstar directors is all men and mostly white, so if any TV execs out there want to bring Masters of Horror back…

Update: After WarnerMedia and Discovery merged to form Warner Bros. Discovery, the company relaunched HBO MAX as simply “MAX” which has HBO, Warner Bros and Discovery content in the same app. A lot of what is mentioned here still applies to MAX, however. WarnerMedia has just launched its much anticipated second plan for HBO MAX. Now you can get HBO MAX with Ads, and it’ll cost a third less than regular HBO MAX would cost you. Making it just $9.99 per month. Of course, the big differentiator here is that it does have ads.…

Photo: Charley Gallay (Getty Images)Isabela Merced’s resume is already stacked, but the star of underrated gem Dora the Explorer and The Lost City of Gold is just getting started. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the young actress—who’s soon to enter Sony’s live-action Marvel universe as Anya Corazon (whose spider-sona is Araña) in Madame Web—discussed two other major projects she has in the pipeline: James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy and The Last of Us season two.Sean Gunn on Working With His BrotherMerced shared…

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, now streaming on Max. Midway through our penultimate installment, the combined investigation of Annie K’s murder and the death of the Tsalal scientists seems to grind to a halt. The forensics team in Anchorage attributes the Tsalal deaths to a “weather event.” And if Ted Connelly isn’t in the pocket of Silver Sky Mining, he’s at least political enough to decide that law-enforcement is not well-served angering big business just to…

Image: HeadpressOk, this isn’t a sci-fi or fantasy book, but it’s definitely in the realms of horror. In the hands of film scholar and director Kier-La Janisse—who made Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, the definitive documentary on folk horror—it’s guaranteed to be a fascinating adaptation. Severin Films announced the project earlier this week in a press release, and described the book as follows: “Documenting the intersection of ethnographic documentary, the dystopic future visions of JG Ballard, and the 1970s snuff…

With Dune: Part Two about to hit theaters, it’s easy to forget a time when that wasn’t a certainty. When the first film was released in 2021, it was advertised as just “Dune.” Some fans knew it was only the first half of Frank Herbert’s book, made and released with a hope and a prayer that, if it was a success, the second half would come out later. But most moviegoers did not. They probably expected the full story and only got a taste.Spoilers of the Week April 24-29In choosing to make only half of the story, there was a…