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Shudder has announced more news straight from San Diego Comic-Con, and it involves another acquisition. At The Bold Voice of Contemporary Horror panel, the horror streaming platform stated that it has acquired The Mortuary Assistant, which is an adaptation of the popular horror video game of the same title.

In The Mortuary Assistant, newly certified mortician Rebecca goes to work at the River Field Mortuary, where she is required to embalm bodies while working solo on the night shift. Rebecca discovers that there is something sinister going on, and that she herself is at risk of being possessed by a demonic entity.

Shudder showed an exclusive clip from the film at the panel discussion, along with a first-look image showing actress Willa Holland (Legion) as Rebecca. In the clip, Holland is shown beginning the embalming procedures on a body when the lights start to flicker (not a situation I would want to be in).

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Watch the Teaser Trailer for Silent Night, Deadly Night: "A reimagining of the controversial 1984 cult horror classic – When Billy witnesses his parents’ grisly murder on Christmas Eve at the hands of Santa, it ignites a lifelong mission to spread holiday fear. Every Christmas, he dons the jolly red suit and delivers a blood-soaked massacre to feed his twisted sense of justice. This Christmas Eve, Billy wants to know: “Have you been naughty?”"

Written & Directed By: Mike P. Nelson

Cast: Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, Mark Acheson, David Lawrence Brown, David Tomlinson

Executive Producers: Yolanda Macias, Erick Opeka, Steven Schneider, Jed Benedict, Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, Anthony Masi, Victor Zimmerman, Sarah Eilts, Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Grady Craig

Producers: Scott Schneid, Dennis Whitehead, Jame R. Thompson, Erik Bernard, Jeremy Torrie, Tanya Brunel

In theaters December 12, 2025



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Shudder Acquires 'The Mortuary Assistant' Based on the Best-Selling Horror Video Game: "Shudder announced today,...

Google announced on Friday that it will replace Google Assistant with its new AI-powered assistant, Gemini, on Android devices later this year. The transition will roll out gradually, with more users being upgraded from Assistant to Gemini “over the coming months,” the company said in a blog post. By the end of the year, Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices and will…

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Actress and student Storm Reid has found a unique way to balance her bustling acting career with her college studies at the University of Southern California (USC). Recently, Reid partnered with Adobe to promote the company’s AI-powered tools, particularly the Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, as part of her academic journey and holiday gift guide for students. In an exclusive interview…

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Exclusive: Universal Television’s EVP of Talent and Casting Beth Klein will be leaving the studio at the end of the year when she will retire after a 37-year career as a casting executive. There is no immediate replacement.

Klein has been Universal TV’s first — and only — head of casting. She joined the studio, now a division of Universal Studio Group, in September 2011 as part of a new executive team for the unit as it was being rebranded from Universal Media Studios to Universal TV.

With Chicago Fire and Brooklyn Nine-Nine among her first shows, Klein has spearheaded casting for four Peabody Award-winning series and 20 Emmy-winning series, most recently, Hacks, as well as the the Law & Order, One Chicago and FBI franchises, The Gilded Age, Loot, Schmigadoon! and “Girls5eva, Bel-Air, Never Have I Ever and The Best Man: The Final Chapters, among others. She also oversaw casting on NBC’s live musicals,...

The beloved 90s sitcom The Drew Carey Show is finally available to stream online, much to the delight of its devoted fans. After years of navigating hurdles, viewers can now binge all nine seasons of the show for absolutely no charge on Plex, which is an ad-supported streaming service. This marks the first time the series has been accessible on a streaming platform.

Drew Carey has worked tirelessly to bring the show online so that it can be a nostalgic trip down memory lane for long-time fans and a new experience for first-time viewers. In a June interview with TV Insider, he revealed the challenges he was facing in the process of securing the rights to stream the series.

Its not in syndication because of music rights and stuff. Were going to try to change that around and get it back out there. Its pretty funny, and a lot of its kind of timeless.

San Francisco, Sep 10 (Ians) Gaming platform Roblox has announced ‘Roblox Connect’ at its annual developer’s conference — a new feature for friends to call each other as their avatars — together in a shared experience.

The company will launch the feature later this year.

“Launching later this year, Connect will enable people to call a friend from their Roblox friends list using their real name and facial expressions — conveying nuance with their own body language — and be transported to a shared immersive space on Roblox for their conversation, sitting together by a campfire or standing beside a waterfall,” Roblox said in a blogpost.

The product will be made available to developers, allowing for additional innovations from its creator community.

Additionally, the company plans to incorporate motion mapping for hand gestures and upper body movements into its avatars down the road.

Those features probably would be available on a wide range of...

The Guardians of the Galaxy are back for their third and final adventure together.

The original team has grown to include Nebula, Kraglin, an alternate-universe Gamora and Cosmo the Space Dog. They band together to help one of their own — Rocket — in his time of need.

In addition to The High Evolutionary, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s” big bad, there is a slew of furry friends — Lylla the otter, Teefs the walrus, and Floor the rabbit.

Click through to find out who voices these newcomers in our complete “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” cast and character guide.

Photo credit: Marvel Studios

Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt)

A half-human, half-Celestial raised by space pirates, Quill has found a new family with the Guardians but longs for deeper personal connections.

Actor Chris Pratt got his big break in the NBC comedy “Parks and Recreation.” He’s starred in the...

San Francisco, Aug 1 (Ians) Google is working on ‘supercharged’ Assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, similar to those that power ChatGPT and Bard.”Since we launched Assistant seven years ago, we’ve built great experiences for the hundreds of millions of people who use it every month. And we’ve heard people’s strong desire for assistive, conversational technology that can improve their lives,” the tech giant said in an internal email sent to employees on Monday, seen by Axios.

“We’ve also seen the profound potential of generative AI to transform people’s lives and see a huge opportunity to explore what a supercharged Assistant, powered by the latest Llm technology, would look like,” it added.

According to the company, a portion of the team has already started working on this, beginning with mobile.

The company is also “eliminating a small number of roles within the team”, according to the email.

New Delhi, July 19 (Ians) Leading caller identification app Truecaller on Wednesday launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ‘Assistant’ in the country.

Only available on Android, Truecaller Assistant is an innovation that leverages machine learning and cloud telephony to create a helpful call-screening solution, the company said in a statement.

The new Assistant is a customisable, interactive, digital receptionist that answers the users’ calls for them and helps them avoid unwanted callers.

It also responds quickly and understands the users’ caller with high accuracy.

“You can see a live transcription of what the caller is saying, so you know who they are and why they’re calling,” the company said.

Then users can decide if they want to take over the call, ask the caller for more information with just a tap or mark it as spam.

“Until now, Truecaller would show you who’s calling but now you can let...

Tag Jones from Friends was only a recurring character on the sitcom, but he left his mark on the show in the few episodes he appeared in, and the actor who played him is a staple of television. In Friends season 7, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) is working at Ralph Lauren, and when she is given the opportunity to hire an assistant, she chooses Tag over more qualified candidates because she finds him attractive. While Ross (David Schwimmer) is Rachel's main love interest in Friends, Tag plays an important part in Rachel's character arc, and there's a case to be made that Rachel and Tag should have ended up together in Friends.

While Rachel and Ross have a bumpy Friends relationship timeline, with a will-they, won't they dynamic that lasts the entire series, her crush on Tag is immediate, though she is repeatedly told to not pursue a romance because of the...

NBCUniversal Launch, the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion home for entertainment television, has developed new unscripted inclusion initiatives to increase representation in key behind-the-camera roles and create lasting change.

The Unscripted Producers Program are aimed at boosting diversity by establishing a pipeline of diverse talent for unscripted series and providing participants with on-the-job experience and opportunities to grow their skill sets. Its focus is to identify and hire mid-level producers from underrepresented groups directly onto NBCUniversal unscripted shows. “American Ninja Warrior,” “America’s Got Talent,” “Password,” “The Real Housewives” franchise, “The Voice” and “Winter House” are among such shows where the program is already in motion.

Jeanne Mau, senior vice president of TV programming diversity, equity and inclusion at NBCUniversal, spoke at the launch event sharing the company’s vision for the program which has been a goal of hers since she joined two years ago. NBCU continues to make...

After scaring the crap out of players on Steam, DreadXP and DarkStone Digital’s The Mortuary Assistant has made the leap to the Nintendo Switch. And it’s brought along a friend in Beeswax Games’ Spookware.

Available now on the Nintendo eShop for $24.99, The Mortuary Assistant centres on Rebecca Owens, a recent Mortician Studies grad, who on her first night at River Fields Mortuary, learns of a sinister presence that resides there. As the dead awaken and malevolent spirits bind themselves to her, Rebecca has to learn how to combat the demons (including the figurative demons of her past) and survive the night.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for something a little more lighthearted, Spookware is also available via the Nintendo eShop for $9.99. The game involves the three skelebros -Lefti, Midi, and Righti- on a grand road trip through the cutesy world of the dead. After realizing they wasted their lives watching horror movies,...

Duolingo Max is a new Duolingo subscription plan that brings two AI features based on the Gpt-4 platform. OpenAI – the creators of the infamous ChatGPT model – recently launched Gpt-4. The new version can handle even more complex tasks and claims to be more factually accurate. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is now being used by a slew of apps, including Snapchat, Grammarly, and Slack. Even the microblogging platform Koo has made it easier for people to draft posts using AI integration.

Duolingo is no stranger to using AI tools to help users learn new languages. The new Duolingo Max subscription tier offers everything users get with a Super Duolingo subscription, with the addition of two new features powered by Gpt-4 – Explain My Answer and Roleplay. Users in the U.S., Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will be the first to gain access to Max when it goes live, with other countries to be added later.