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Back in January of 2022, we heard that Insidious franchise creator James Wan was producing a “Back to the Future meets Aliens” project that was set to be written and directed by Jeremy Slater, creator of the The Exorcist television series and head writer on the Marvel / Disney+ show Moon Knight. As the Wan / Blumhouse collaboration Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in that series, made its way out into the world last year, it was revealed that Slater’s movie was a spin-off called Thread: An Insidious Tale, which had Mandy Moore (This Is Us) and Kumail Nanjiani (Eternals) on board to star in it. That movie never seemed to go into production, but last year Sony announced an August 29, 2025 release date for the next Insidious movie – not Thread, but Insidious 6. That project hasn’t gone into production yet, either. So it wasn’t a surprise to hear that...

One of the more exciting projects heading to Berlin’s EFM (European Film Market) festival next week is Bad Boy, a genre-bending horror film starring Ke Huy Quan and Lili Reinhart. Keeping Bad Boy on a leash during the fest is the film’s producer, Dave Caplan, who produced last year’s chilling thriller Longlegs and M3GAN with Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath.

Bad Boy stars former Goonie and Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan and Lili Reinhart. Jacob Chase is directing the peculiar feature from a script by Travis Braun. According to Deadline‘s exclusive report, Bad Boy “charts a young woman’s fight to escape a deadly serial killer through the eyes of man’s best friend, his faithful dog.” Huh?! While Quan and Reinhart’s contracts are signed, sealed, and delivered, the production continues searching for a dog co-star, which Deadline hears will be a terrier.

Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q will mark its second season debut later this summer.

The premium cabler shared the news Tuesday that a second season would launch on non-linear platforms on Friday, August 6, ahead of a linear debut on Sunday, August 8.

The sophomore premiere will be available on streaming and on-demand for all Showtime subscribers. 

What's more, new episodes will be available on streaming and on-demand every Friday in a move to capitalize on the streaming audience.

Many networks are adapting to the ever-changing market, allowing viewers to watch shows on their own terms.

AMC has had success streaming many of its original series days before their linear debut, so it will be exciting to see how this works out.

The first five episodes of season two will air Sunday nights, with the final five episodes of the season airing Monday nights at 9 p.m. Et/Pt up until its October 11 season finale.

The L Word: Generation Q will debut its first episode on Friday, August 6, on streaming and on-demand for Showtime subscribers, two days ahead of its on-air premiere Sunday, August 8 at 10 Pm, the premium cabler said Tuesday. Each new episode will be available on Fridays to stream on demand. The first five episodes of season two will air Sunday nights, with the final five episodes of the season airing Monday nights at 9 Pm Et/Pt up until its October 11 season finale. Showtime also released a first look at Season 2 in a teaser above.

Based on the groundbreaking drama series The L Word, season two of The L Word: Generation Q will continue to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals), Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig), Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey), Dani Nùñez (Arienne Mandi), Micah Lee (Leo Sheng), Sarah Finley (Jacqueline Toboni), Sophie Suarez (Rosanny Zayas), Gigi Ghorbani (Sepideh Moafi), and...

“The L Word” returns to Showtime this Sunday with a sequel series that dives right back into the lives of Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals), Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey) and Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig). But the eight-episode show, dubbed “L Word: Generation Q” will also introduce a new generation of queer Angelenos to the mix, including Dani Nùñez (Arienne Mandi), Micah Lee (Leo Sheng), Finley (Jacqueline Toboni), Sophie Suarez (Rosanny Zayas) and Gigi (Sepideh Moafi), as they experience love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A.

And Beals says that “Generation Q” component is one of the main reasons you got “The L Word” back — “because every generation deserves their series of love stories, really.”

“Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey and I all realized that there was a great appetite still for ‘The L Word,’ not long after we went off the air and people were still talking about it online,...

Showtime has released a new trailer for “The L Word: Generation Q,” its follow-up to the groundbreaking series starring Jennifer Beals.

The new, 2019 version of “The L Word”returns to the lives of Bette Porter (Beals), Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey) and Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig), and adds a diverse new generation of queer Angelenos to the mix, including Dani Nùñez (Arienne Mandi), Micah Lee (Leo Sheng), Finley (Jacqueline Toboni), Sophie Suarez (Rosanny Zayas) and Gigi (Sepideh Moafi), as they experience love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A.

The eight-episode series is set to debut on Showtime on Sunday, Dec. 8.

Also Read: 'The L Word: Generation Q' - The Old and New Hook Up in Showtime Sequel's First Teaser (Video)

“The L Word: Generation Q” is executive produced by showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan”, along with series creator Ilene Chaiken, Kristen Campo, Steph Green (pilot) and original series stars Beals, Moennig and Hailey.

The Bette Porter L Word fans will remember was embroiled in multiple romantic indiscretions, unsure of whether she wanted to stay in Los Angeles and questioned as part of an active murder investigation. So of course she’s announcing her candidacy for mayor of the City of Angels in the just-released trailer for The L Word: Generation Q (premiering Sunday, Dec. 8 at 10/9c).

The first footage from the Showtime sequel series features returning cast members Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey, who reprise their roles as Shane McCutcheon and Alice Pieszecki. The latter, who appears to host her own talk show,...

If the words “mayoral candidate Bette Porter” don’t give you chills, what exactly were you watching in the mid-aughts? Jennifer Beals returns as the ultimate Los Angeles power lesbian in Showtime’s reboot of “The L Word” (subtitle: “Generation Q”), rocking a whole new closet of impeccably tailored Jil Sander pantsuits, and with fan favorites Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey to back her up. Showtime released the first trailer, scored to queer singer Lizzo’s jubilant “Better in Color,” and it promises plenty of sexy new characters, passionate hook-ups, and amazing fashion. And of course — Shane de-planing a private jet.

Created by lesbian producer extraordinaire Ilene Chaiken, “The L Word” ran for five seasons on Showtime, from 2004-2009. The series, which teetered between progressive comedy and sex-fueled soap opera, became an instant cult hit amongst lesbians and queer people, as it was the first time the community had seen...

Showtime dropped the first teaser for “The L Word: Generation Q” on Thursday, featuring some of the returning cast from the original series while introducing a few new members to the party for the eagerly anticipated sequel.

According to Showtime, the sequel to the original series — which aired on the pay-tv channel from 2004 to 2009 — continues to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals), Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey) and Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig), along with new characters Dani Nùñez (Arienne Mandi), Micah Lee (Leo Sheng), Finley (Jacqueline Toboni), Sophie Suarez (Rosanny Zayas) and Gigi (Sepideh Moafi) as they experience love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A.

And in the teaser above, you’ll see both the old and new cast balancing their work — Bette is running for mayor of Los Angeles! — and personal lives, with some crossover between generations in both the professional and hooking-up departments.

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The L Word will introduce Generation Q later this fall, Showtime has announced. The eight-episode revival, which reunites original series stars Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey, will debut on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 10/9c.

As previously reported, the sequel series will check in with Bette Porter, Shane McCutcheon and Alice Pieszecki, and introduce “a new generation of self-possessed Lgbtqia characters — Dani Nùñez (In the Vault‘s Arienne Mandi), Micah Lee (newcomer Leo Sheng), Finley (Grimm‘s Jacqueline Toboni), Sophie Suarez (The Code‘s Rosanny Zayas) and Gigi (The Deuce‘s Sepideh Moafi) — experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in Los Angeles.

Showtime gave “The L Word” fans an early Christmas present Friday in the form of a premiere date for the groundbreaking series’ upcoming sequel, which the premium cable channel revealed will debut before the holidays.

Titled “The L Word: Generation Q,” the sequel series will premiere on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 10 p.m., Showtime Networks presidents of entertainment Gary Levine and Jana Winograde said during the Television Critics Association press tour Friday.

Per Showtime, the sequel to the original series — which aired on the pay-tv channel from 2004 to 2009 — continues to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals), Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey) and Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig), along with new characters Dani Nùñez (Arienne Mandi), Micah Lee (Leo Sheng), Finley (Jacqueline Toboni), Sophie Suarez (Rosanny Zayas) and Gigi (Sepideh Moafi) as they experience love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A.

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Showtime’s “L Word” sequel “Generation Q” is adding a trio of recurring cast members, including “When They See Us” breakout star Freddy Miyares.

Miyares, along with Jamie Clayton and Carlos Leal will appear in multiple episodes of the Showtime series, an eight-episode follow-up to its groundbreaking drama that aired from 2004-2009. Miyares played the adult version of Raymond Santana, one of the “Central Park 5” that was depicted in Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries “When They See Us.”

On “The L Word: Generation Q,” Miyares will play José, who is described as “a charming and kind artist who is trying to move on from his complicated past.”

Also Read: Showtime's 'L Word' Sequel Adds 4 New Series Regulars to Cast

Clayton, who starred in Netflix’s “Sense8,” will recur as Tess, “a no-nonsense bartender who sees other people clearly but has a blind spot when it comes to her own relationships.

Showtime has added four new series regulars to the cast of the “The L Word” sequel, joining original cast members Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey for the next chapter of this Lgbtqia drama.

Rosanny Zayas (“Orange Is the New Black”), Arienne Mandi (“Baja”), Leo Sheng (“Adam”) and Jacqueline Toboni (“Easy”) will star as the next generation of characters in “The L Word: Generation Q.”

The original “The L Word” series aired on Showtime from 2004 to 2009. Per the network, the new series “continues to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter (Beals), Alice Pieszecki (Hailey) and Shane McCutcheon (Moennig), along with new characters Dani Nùñez (Mandi), Micah Lee (Sheng), Sarah Finley (Toboni) and Sophie Suarez (Zayas), as they experience love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A. Dani is a powerful and calculating PR executive whose ambition is only tested by her conscience. Micah is an earnest, soft-spoken...

Showtime has revealed the official title of its anticipated sequel to The L Word sequel. The L Word: Generation Q will debut in the fall on the premium channel. The eight-episode series is slated to begin production in Los Angeles this summer.

Marja-Lewis Ryan serves as showrunner and is executive producing the sequel with original series creator Ilene Chaiken and original series stars Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey. Kristen Campo also serves as executive producer. The pilot is directed by Steph Green, who also is an Ep on the episode.

The groundbreaking drama series originally ran on Showtime from 2004-09. In the sequel, Beals, Moennig and Hailey will resume their original roles alongside a new generation of diverse, self-possessed Lgbtqia characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A. The series sparked subsequent versions, including the docuseries The Real L Word and...

At least one thing will be different about The L Word when it returns to Showtime later this year: its title.

The drama’s forthcoming revival will be called The L Word: Generation Q, the premium cabler announced Wednesday.

As previously reported, the sequel series — which received an eight-episode order in January — will reunite original series stars Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey. Per the official logline, their alter egos will be alongside “a new generation of self-possessed Lgbtqia characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in Los Angeles.”

Marja-Lewis Ryan (The Four-Faced Liar) will serve as showrunner...

The trail-blazing Us showrunner was speaking at Miptv in Cannes.

Trail-blazing Us showrunner Ilene Chaiken told a Miptv keynote on Tuesday that she expects the sequel of her pioneering show The L Word to hit Us network Showtime by the end of 2019.

The ground-breaking show, capturing the lives of a group of lesbian women and bisexuals living in Los Angeles, originally ran from 2004 to 2009 and was loosely inspired by Chaiken’s own experiences.

It marked the beginning of a hugely successful career in TV for the former feature film writer which also includes show-running Empire and spearheading The Handmaid’s Tale.

Can you feel the magic in the air?

The Magicians will return for Season 3 on Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 9/8c on Syfy, with the Brakebills gang on a mission to bring back their magical abilities.

RelatedJaime Ray Newman Books Magicians Arc Ahead of Debut in Marvel’s Punisher

Check out an atmospheric trailer for the new episodes below:

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* Showtime’s in-the-works The L Word revival has tapped Marja-Lewis Ryan (The Four-Faced Liar, 6 Balloons) to serve as showrunner.

RelatedThe L Word Revival Eyed at Showtime

* Amazon has announced a release date...

Marja-Lewis Ryan (The Four-Faced Liar, 6 Balloons) has been tasked to spearhead the sequel to The L Word, currently in development at Showtime, as executive producer and showrunner. Mothership series creator Ilene Chaiken also is executive producing, along with Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey, who all starred in the premium network’s original series. “Ilene and the original L Word made me believe that my voice mattered," said Ryan. "I am beyond excited…...

Believe Limited has announced the August 20th DVD release of Drinking Games, a psychological thriller from director Ryan Gielen (The Graduates, Turtle Hill Brooklyn) written by Gielen and Blake Merriman, who also stars. Read on for the artwork, trailer, and more details.

Drinking Games is based on the off-Broadway play "Dorm," also written by Merriman. The film co-stars Rob Bradford ("One Life to Live", The Graduates), Nick Vergara (This Is Our Youth, The Graduates), Riccarda Albrecht, Katy Wright-Mead ("Boardwalk Empire"), Joshua Sterling Bragg, and Adriana DeGirolami (The Four-Faced Liar).

Synopsis:

It's the last night of the fall semester, and all over campus parties are raging. While alcohol flows, Richard and Shawn argue over what to do with Noopie, the mysterious upperclassman passed out on their floor. After a blizzard seals them in the dorm with a handful of hapless friends, Noopie awakes and uses a mix of drugs, booze, and...

Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

Streaming Available: 05/10/2011

Synopsis: At an isolated science station in the Arctic, meteorologist Sergei and young intern Pavel face the impending closure of the now-irrelevant base. While Sergei eagerly anticipates returning to his family, Pavel still hopes for a grand adventure. Average Netflix rating: 3.5

Blue Velvet (1986)

Streaming Available: 05/15/2011

Synopsis: An innocent man gets mixed up in a small-town murder mystery involving a kinky nightclub chanteuse and a kidnapper with a penchant for snorting helium in this moodily surreal mystery from writer-director David Lynch. Average Netflix rating: 3.4

Don Juan Demarco (1994)

Streaming Available: 05/15/2011

Synopsis: Marlon Brando stars as a psychiatrist assigned to diagnose a mysterious man who’s convinced that...

Hey!Let us begin our fireside chat I have to begin each column with so I can get out of the way of the formatting nightmare that is that square thumbnail.Not that I don't like photoshopping my 7 Logo over things, it's just...well, having to come up with something to say here is usually where I end up being apologetic and boring.Those of you that know I have a day job probably also know that that day job switched from a season of one show to a season of another show, so that's where I've been the past few weeks. I knew it was coming, I just neglected to tell you. Be aware this will happen again in, like, 10 weeks, when I have to switch to yet a third show. Pish.Until then, column on Wayne, column on Garth. [Famous Objects From Classic Movies] This website variation on Hangman wants you to identify...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Antichrist" (2009)

Directed by Lars von Trier

Released by Criterion Collection

From its incendiary debut at Cannes to becoming a cult hit defined by the meme "Chaos Reigns," Lars von Trier's psychosexual horror film about a married couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) that repairs to a cabin in the woods to grieve over the death of their young son is receiving the Criterion Collection treatment. Video interviews with von Trier, Gainsbourg, and Dafoe, making-of vignettes and a documentary about the Cannes premiere accompany the feature. (Aaron Hillis' interview with von Trier is here.)

"The Battle of River Plate" (1956)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Released by Hen's Tooth Video

Despite being Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most financially successful film, it has been a rare commodity in America on home video, where people have had to buy the British...

Two lesbian dramas, Ned Farr's "A Marine Story" and James Kent's "The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister," earned jury awards Sunday as outstanding U.S. dramatic feature and outstanding international dramatic feature, respectively, at Outfest, the 28th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

"Marine" also picked up the audience award for outstanding dramatic feature, and Dreya Weber was named outstanding actress in a feature as the fest handed out its prizes at its awards luncheon.

Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara's "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields" took the jury prize for best documentary feature, and Michelle Lawler's "Forever's Gonna Start Tonight" copped the audience award for best feature doc.

An audience award also went to Jacob Chase's "The Four-Faced Liar," voted outstanding first U.S. dramatic feature film.

"Bearcity" earned two jury awards -- for outstanding feature actor Stephen Guarino and outstanding...

Very few first-time filmmakers get to see their work in front of more than a few friends or family members, let alone the elite crowds that grace the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals, but that’s exactly what Marja Lewis Ryan, writer, co-producer and co-star of The Four-Faced Liar has just experienced.

Just after the mania of Sundance 2010, the newcomer to the silver screen (and self-proclaimed “theater kid”) talked to us about the film and the festival experience from the other side of the aisle.

AfterEllen.com: So how was the experience, going to Sundance and Slamdance?

Marja Lewis Ryan: It was unbelievable. We were talking about it — I don’t know what we were expecting necessarily, but anything that we thought was going to happen — happened ten times over [laughs]. We had this publicist, Jim Dobson — he did the publicity for Buried with Ryan Reynolds. So basically, everywhere that Ryan was asked to go,...

Steeped in the hipster glow of Slamdance recognition (the ultimate in truly indie street cred), The Four-Faced Liar is a romantic comedy/drama for the gen Y crowd. Writer Marja Lewis Ryan adapted her own play for the screen, co-produced, and stars in the film, which features a lesbian romance at the center of its examination of 20-something relationships.

We begin with introductions all around. Trip (Todd Kubrak) is a cool, New Jersey-bred literature major that lives in a fabulously grungy New York City apartment with Bridget (Marja Lewis Ryan), an equally cool, womanizing lesbian with a real thing for Emily Bronte. In fact, we meet our heroine as she sits on a toilet, smoking a cigarette, a copy of Wuthering Heights in hand.

Along with Trip’s girlfriend Chloe (Liz Osborn), they meet a small town couple — Greg (Daniel Carlise) and Molly (Emily Peck, a dead ringer for Scarlett Johansson...

Slamdance, which runs concurrently with Park City’s Sundance Film Festival, has announced its 2010 line-up, and there are several choices that look to make genre fans sit up and take notice.

Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:

Narrative Competition:

Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.

Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...

What's that? You can't wait to hear about the Irish post apocalyptic film One Hundred Mornings? Well you don't have to because we already have a review of it right here! Our own Alan Maxwell called it an "uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society." Yeah, it's good.

So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.

Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?

Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?

Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.

Partial lineup after the break!

Narrative Competition

Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.

Drones (Amber Benson...

Slamdance, Sundance’s indie little brother, has announced the 18 films that will be playing in competition next month. While the economy might be slowing down, there was no shortage of submissions, as Slamdance reports they had 5,000 films vying for a spot in the Festival. Of the 18 films in competition, ten are narrative, eight are documentaries, and eleven are world premieres.

“The quality of indie filmmaking is getting higher while productions costs are getting lower,” said Slamdance prexy and co-founder Peter Baxter. “Far apart from the apparent industry downturn, there appears a great sense of what is possible rather than impossible with our submissions.”

Of course this year will be very interesting at Slamdance after the success Paranormal Activity. If you didn’t know, Activity screened at the 2008 Festival and has since made over $100 million at the domestic box office. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a few more buyers looking for a repeat performance.

The competitive lineup for the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival (of which Fangoria is a media sponsor) has been revealed via an announcement on Variety. "As in years past, competing films are by first-time feature directors working with limited budgets and without domestic theatrical distribution in place. Among the 18 titles, 11 are world premieres." the trade reports.

Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.

Narrative Competition

“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...