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Jinga Films and Danse Macabre have confirmed the worldwide release of A Game in the Woods, a new backwoods horror film written and directed by Mike McCutchen. The title is now available on most major video-on-demand platforms, including Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Sky, Plex and Full Moon. A DVD edition has also been released.

The film centres on Ash (Eleanor Newman), who travels with her cousin (Jameson Pitts) and girlfriend (Emily Skeen) to her late grandfather’s remote ranch. The visit is intended as a livestreamed getaway, but the group are soon drawn into a violent ordeal. The land has been repurposed as a hunting ground where human lives are the prize.

Beyond surreal set design, economic desperation and abundant tension, “Squid Game” became a breakthrough sensation by delivering relatable characters facing an extraordinary life-or-death scenario. But one area that broke down was its fleeting depiction of the game’s shadowy patrons, or VIPs, who the show loathes so unabashedly as to turn them into cartoon caricatures.

That early misstep gets magnified in the show’s third and final season, which lands at an opportune time in terms of tapping into fears about oligarchs exploiting the lower classes but makes the point in such heavy-handed fashion that it undermines its impact.

Given the cultural moment, the third season — while still possessing plenty of the requisite suspense and more visceral thrills — feels like a missed opportunity. By portraying the masked VIPs as such outlandish avatars of evil, “Squid Game” dilutes the deeper understanding of the world the Netflix series inhabits and makes drawing...

In 1924, a short story called “The Most Dangerous Game” was published. The movie version came in 1932. It was remade in 2022. Is The Young and the Restless June 17 episode about to give us the television version?

The Story So Far

In the 100-year-old tale, the story of a hunter who washes up on an island… only to become prey for a General who has gotten bored hunting big game animals and wants a bit more of a challenge. As in, a man-shaped one.

Now, Jack (Peter Bergman), Diane (Susan Walters), Kyle (Michael Mealor), and Audra (Zuleyka Silver) were forced to navigate a maze in order to get to the lunch where Victor (Eric Braeden), Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott), Nick (Joshua Morrow), Sharon (Sharon Case), Billy (Jason Thompson), and Sally (Courtney Hope) are already waiting.

Are they being fattened up? Like lambs to the slaughter, perhaps?

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This week kicks off with four brand new horror movies at home, including a Hellraiser-inspired film starring horror legend Doug Bradley as well as new werewolf and scarecrow flicks.

Here’s all the new horror that released on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

The next movie in the killer scarecrow subgenre is Deescalated Pictures’ indie horror film Field of Screams, and Gravitas Ventures has released it on VOD at home today.

In Field of Screams, “Having recently inherited his late grandfather’s farmhouse, Allen, his boyfriend Justin, and their friends Luke, Lisa, Britt, and Shane clean out the old man’s house and get it ready for sale. While packing and cleaning, the tensions begin to rise as Allen tries to deal with his grief and his boyfriend tries to play nice with the rest of the group.

“Meanwhile, a living...

Only the elite will survive when Primal Games releases on Digital May 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Based on the trailer below, the indie action/sci-fi/horror/thriller mashup seems to draw influence from Richard Connell‘s classic 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game.”

A newlywed couple’s honeymoon turns into a waking nightmare when they are thrust into a sadistic survival game created for the world’s thrill-seeking elite. Hunted and outnumbered, they must fight to survive and uncover the truth about the twisted reality they’ve been dragged into.

Hannaj Bang Bendz, John Love, Gary Kasper, Mark Wood, Liam Matheson, and Ryan Livingstone star.

David Ryan Keith (The Redwood Massacre) writes and directs for Clear Focus Movies and Epic Squirrel Productions.

“Primal Games is a relentless, high-concept survival thriller with strong performances, brutal action, and a unique edge,” said Uncork’d president Keith Leopard. “David Ryan Keith has delivered a...

Exclusive: An eight-figure bidding war has broken out on the rights to a new thriller novel from the unlikely pairing of James Patterson and MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson.

Deadline understands that Patterson, who is among the book world’s highest grossing authors, and YouTube’s biggest star, MrBeast, have jointly penned the novel, which has shades of Squid Game. We hear UTA has put the novel out for submission and is quickly gaining traction.

Film, TV and novel rights are being shopped, with sources close to the process saying “eight-figure offers” for the publishing rights are being fielded. One source said it was going under the title The Most Dangerous Game, but this hasn’t been confirmed and we hear other titles are being considered.

Logline on the book reads: “Players fight to survive deadly tests held in dangerous locations around the world, as they battle to become ‘The One...

A man goes on a killing spree after he is refused his favorite breakfast dish in Bron Theron’s new film, Pancake Man. Mike Ferguson (Showdown at the Grand), Elissa Dowling (The Most Dangerous Game), Jordan Christopher Michael (Motorama), Zachary Vazquez (The Vampire Diaries), and Niko El Santo Zavero (My Best Friend’s Wedding) all star in [...]

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"Europe is a tough place. And only the strongest of you will make it there." Voltage Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for a Belgian horror thriller survival film called The Hunted, made by French filmmaker Louis Lagayette. This seems to be a promo trailer to attract buyers more than for audiences, since there's no release dates set. After their boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea, a group of refugees are rescued by rich Europeans who offer them shelter on an idyllic island. But the miracle soon becomes a nightmare when the saviours turn into ruthless manhunters. So this is a campy modern twist on "The Most Dangerous Game" story, involving refugees who get turned into the prey when they're taken to a private island. Scary! Starring Lily Banda, Alec Newman, Mylène Jampanoï, Raj Bajaj, Vassilis Koukalani, Aurora Marion, & Daphne Alexander. It's a bit of a manipulative concept, but the...

August isn't especially famous for its great movies. As months go, the eighth one on the calendar has often been a bit of a wasteland for Hollywood, as blockbusters peter off, kids have a lot less free time and money, and studio executives need to find somewhere to dump their proverbial dead bodies.

If you want a good example, you can pretty much throw a dart at any year after "Jaws" popularized the concept of summer blockbuster season. For example, let's take a look at 1993. 30 years ago, August was a month for dreck comedies like "Son of the Pink Panther," family film misfires like "Father Hood" and "Surf Ninjas," and the weird-ass "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday."

But then again, there are exceptions to every rule. There were also a few excellent motion pictures in August 1993. The increasingly timeless classic "The Fugitive" came out that month, along with...

Tom Berenger, Bruce Dern, Judd Nelson star.

UK-based sales firm 101 Films International has boarded worldwide sales excluding North America for Justin Lee’s remake of 1930s survival thriller The Most Dangerous Game.

The film follows a shipwreck survivor on a mysterious island being hunted by a nefarious Baron, who uses the island as a game to hunt humans.

It stars Tom Berenger and Chris ‘C.T.’ Tamburello, alongside Bruce Dern, Judd Nelson and Caspar Van Dien.

101 is launching sales on the title at this week’s online European Film Market, having secured the rights from US producers Greenfield Media.

The Most Dangerous Game...

The classic story The Most Dangerous Game has been turned into countless different movies over the years, most recently Blumhouse’s The Hunt, and it sounds like Lionsgate’s Escape the Field is cut from a similar cloth. Announced by Deadline this afternoon, Escape the Field has been picked up by Lionsgate for a planned “multi-platform release” […]

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A young Iraqi refugee attempts to cross the dangerous border between Turkey and Bulgaria in “Europa,” a gripping drama that takes viewers as close as they would ever want to come to the real-life experiences of those willing to risk everything in the quest for safety and security. Using the conventions of a survivalist thriller to tell , Iraqi-Italian filmmaker Haider Rashid packs enormous punch into the lean running time. Following its debut in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, “Europa” received limited release in Italy in September and is Iraq’s official submission in the Oscar international feature category.

Rashid uses almost no dialogue. Everything willing audiences need to know is laid out in opening text information stating that migrants attempting to enter Europe are routinely abused and intimidated by law enforcement officials and gangs of nationalist civilians calling themselves “Migrant Hunters.”

Carrying nothing but his passport, Kamal comes face to face with...

Exclusive: Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club) and Caspar Van Dien (Starship Troopers) have joined Tom Berenger (Platoon) and Chris “Ct” Tamburello (MTV’s The Challenge) in thriller The Most Dangerous Game, a remake of the 1930s classic.

North America home ent firm Mill Creek Entertainment has joined the project as a co-producer, marking their first co-pro on a scripted feature. Mill Creek will oversee the North American release of the film.

The Koenig Pictures production, which is being made in association with Charach Productions, is currently in production and is aiming for a summer 2022 release. Today we can reveal some first look images for the film.

The original “man hunting man” story gets a twist as father and son are washed ashore after their steamership explodes. The men find refuge on a mysterious island where their nefarious host, Baron Von Wolf, reveals to them...

Tom Berenger’s appearance in Inception didn’t set off a Berengerssance of any sort, but maybe it was just a delayed impact: He’s now set to star in a new adaptation of Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game with Chris “C.T.” Tamburello, who you may know from… MTV’s The Challenge and a 2019 horror movie called …...

Exclusive: Chris ‘Ct’ Tamburello (MTV’s The Challenge) and Oscar nominee Tom Berenger (Platoon) have been set to star in a remake of 1930s classic The Most Dangerous Game.

The original “man hunting man” story gets a twist as father and son are washed ashore after their steamership explodes. The men find refuge on a mysterious island where their nefarious host, Baron Von Wolf, reveals to them that the island is his game preserve where human beings serve as the ultimate hunt. Berenger plays a man who has been hiding on the island but who’s sanity is on the verge of collapse.

Writer-director Justin Lee (Final Kill) is currently in production on the project which is being filmed on the Koenig Pictures Backlot in the Pacific Northwest. Other cast members include Elissa Dowling, Kevin Porter, Eddie Finlay and Randy Charach.

Koenig Pictures is producing the picture alongside Quiet On Set,...

From VancouverFilm.Net take a look at director Edward Drake's upcoming action thriller feature "Apex", inspired by the short story "The Most Dangerous Game", starring Bruce Willis, Neal McDonough and Lochlyn Munro, opening November 12, 2021: 

"...five elite hunters pay to hunt down a man on a deserted island, only to find themselves becoming the prey..." 

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Salor Suit and Machine Gun

A perky high-schooler takes on the mob in “Sailor Suit and Machine Gun”, a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama and ‘idol movie’, inventively adapted from Jiro Akagawa’s popular novel by director Shinji Somai, a massively influential figure in Japanese cinema whose work has been little seen outside his homeland.

Hoshi Izumi is a young innocent forced to grow up quickly when her father dies and she finds herself next in line as the boss of a moribund yakuza clan. Wrenched from the security of her classroom and thrust into the heart of the criminal underworld, she must come to terms with the fact that her actions hold the key to the life or death of the men under her command as they come under fire from rival gangs.

Presented in both its Original Theatrical and longer Complete versions, and...

The 73rd Writers Guild Awards is underway in a virtual ceremony, honoring the best in original and adapted screenplay and documentary, TV, new media, news, radio/audio and promotional writing.

For the first time, in recent history, the awards ceremonies for both WGA West and WGA East will be in lock step as both have been merged tonight in one live stream. Typically, two ceremonies are held separately in both L.A. and NYC at the same time, with both reading off winners at separate times. Quite often, the NY awards ceremony will get ahead of LA’s and announce winners, completely spoiling the suspense for anyone in the Beverly Hilton ballroom.

Tonight’s host Kal Penn, clad in a satin purple tux jacket, was live from what looked to be his home. The Harold & Kumar actor mentioned that he just became a WGA member.

“When I joined SAG they just gave me a pin,...

The WGA on Wednesday unveiled nominations for its 2021 WGA Awards in the categories of TV, new media, news, radio/audio and promotional writing during 2020. Winners will be honored March 21 in a virtual ceremony.

AMC’s Better Call Saul topped all shows with five nominations including for Drama Series, joining a list that includes Amazon Studios’ The Boys, Netflix’s The Crown (which led the way on the TV side at the Golden Globe nominations earlier today) and Ozark and Disney+’s The Mandalorian.

Also making noise today is Hulu, the only other company to have multiple noms in the top categories; it scored in Comedy with Tony McNamara’s The Great and Pen15 and FX on Hulu’s What We Do in the Shadows, which are joined in the race by HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso.

Lasso is also nominated in the New Series,...

Stars: John Hennigan, Sean Marquette, Nic Nemeth, Alex Jennings | Written by William J. Stribling, Russ Nickel | Directed by William J. Stribling

Directed by William J. Stribling (Bear With Us), who also wrote alongside Russ Nickel (Zombielust), The Speed of Time is an action-comedy starring WWE Superstar John (Morrison) Hennigan. Meet Johnny Killfire (great name), who’s gotta go back in time to team with his younger self in order to stop TimeBorgs from getting hold of a pizza delivery app that will break the space-time continuum. Yes… that’s the synopsis here, that’s the nutshell explanation of The Speed of Time. I’m in.

Hennigan has been growing as an actor over the years, with films like Boone the Bounty Hunter, The Most Dangerous Game, Strange Nature and small parts in movies like Birds of Prey under his belt. He’s a veteran in the wrestling ring, but he...

I don’t know about you, but this writer is more than ready to start looking forward to the Halloween season. And one of the staples of my own ongoing cinematic celebration every year is checking out all the wonderful classic horror movies that Turner Classic Movies airs on their channel. And considering the mess that 2020 has been over the last several months, I thought this year it might be helpful to also include all the genre films that will be playing on TCM throughout the month of September, as it’s never too early to get ready for Halloween.

Check out all the great classic horror movies playing on the small screen over the next two months on TCM, and be sure to set those DVRs so you don’t miss any of the classic films that are sure to get you into the Halloween spirit this year.

Thursday,...

The peaceful Scottish highlands hide a bloody secret in writer/director Ninian Doff's hilarious rural nightmare Get Duked! (originally titled Boyz in the Wood). A trio of teenage miscreants are given one last chance to turn their lives around by completing the Duke of Edinburgh Award trek across the highlands. Along for ride is one little overachiever who is in this for the opportunity to pad his CV. They don't have anything in common, but the ragtag quartet are dropped in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a map and they have to work together to reach their campsite before dark. However, they aren't as alone as they think, and soon they are being stalked by wealthy aristocrats playing The Most Dangerous Game, and they...

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Lagging a few weeks behind the rest of the world (where Russell Crowe road-rage thriller “Unhinged” released in several territories late last month), the United States is slowly seeing cinemas reopen in anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — still optimistically dated for Sept. 3.

But that doesn’t mean film fans don’t have options, opening on drive-in screens, virtual cinemas and subscriptions services.

With more than 30 new movies releasing in the U.S. this week, Variety helps steer you to the most interesting of these choices. Take your pick of everything from hard-hitting dramas — including stirring Black history lessons “The 24th” and “Emperor” — to action movies such as “Cut Throat City” and “Train to Busan” sequel “Peninsula.” Family audiences will find “The One and Only Ivan” on Disney Plus, while those with more twisted sensibilities can choose to watch a “The Most Dangerous Game”-inspired humans-hunting-humans movie: Cambodian thriller “The Prey.

“The Prey” takes the classic “The Most Dangerous Game” scenario for a spin in the Cambodian jungle. Centered on a wrongly jailed cop being stalked by cashed-up creeps who get their kicks by hunting humans, this survival thriller doesn’t bring anything significantly new to the table but the frequency and quality of its gunplay and martial arts combat should keep most action fans happy. Directed, edited and co-written by Italian expat Jimmy Henderson, whose 2017 prison smackdown “Jailbreak” marked him as a talent to watch and was snapped up by Netflix, “The Prey” debuted at the Busan Film Fetival in 2018 and will open in select North American virtual cinemas on Aug. 21. VOD streaming commences on August 25.

Trumpeted as Cambodia’s first million-dollar action movie, “The Prey” can’t match “Jailbreak” for sheer excitement but does suggest that with more original and ambitious material Henderson could become a real force in Asian genre cinema.

Darkstar Pictures is releasing Jimmy Henderson's human prey action flick The Prey in virtual cinemas in the U.S. and on VOD in the States and up here in Canada later this month.    A red band trailer was released today. Check it out below.    Loosely based on Richard Connell's story of survival and adventure The Most Dangerous Game,  The Prey comes from writer/director Jimmy Henderson and the team behind genre festival hit Jailbreak.    Undercover Chinese cop Xin (newcomer Gu Shangwei), is on a secret international mission when a surprise raid puts him in a remote Cambodian jungle prison that plays by its own rules.Ruthless warden (Vithaya Pansringarm of Only God Forgives ) sells prisoners as human prey for rich hunters looking for thrills...

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Tremors 7 has been given an official title, as well as a rating from the MPAA. The sequel in the long-running creature franchise, which will once again bring back Michael Gross as the gun-toting Burt Gummer, was originally going under the title of Tremors: Island Fury. The movie is in the can and is expected to arrive later this year in the fall. Now, we have word that the title has changed ahead of the release to Tremors: Shrieker Island. Additionally, the latest entry in the series has been handed a PG-13 rating, which is right in line with what we've come to expect in the past.

Per the Motion Picture Association of America, Tremors: Shrieker Island is rated PG-13 "for creature violence, language throughout, some gore and suggestive/drug references." While no full synopsis has officially been revealed by Universal Pictures at this time, the latest sequel is said...

Ever since Netflix introduced its first-ever awards contender “House of Cards” in 2013, streaming services have emerged as major Emmy players alongside cable and broadcast TV. Now Netflix just scored the most nominations, while the newest streaming platforms to compete – Disney +, Apple TV+ and Quibi – make notable entries to the Emmy derby.

Disney+ drew 19 nominations, 15 of those for Jon Favreau‘s “Star Wars” spin-off “The Mandalorian.” Most impressive? Baby Yoda and the gang got into the race for Best Drama Series, making it the first of the sci-fi saga’s many properties to claim a major showbiz nod since the original 1977 space opera earned a Best Picture Oscar slot.

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Apple TV+ amassed 18 nominations, 8 of them for its flagship offering “The Morning Show,” which launched last November. The new drama series that revolves around the cutthroat world of a...

Loosely based on Richard Connell’s story of survival and adventure “The Most Dangerous Game”, “The Prey“ comes from writer/director Jimmy Henderson and the team behind genre festival hit “Jailbreak”.

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Undercover Chinese cop Xin (newcomer Gu Shangwei), is on a secret international mission when a surprise raid puts him in a remote Cambodian jungle prison that plays by its own rules.Ruthless warden (Vithaya Pansringarm of “Only God Forgives”) sells prisoners as human prey for rich hunters looking for thrills in the jungle.

After years of hunting down ruthless criminals, Xin suddenly finds himself running for his life. If Xin manages to survive this sadistic game, he’ll walk out of the jungle the same way he came in: as a free man. If Xin fails, he’s just another hunting trophy.

Jimmy Henderson’s film, which screened at Busan International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and Fantasia Film Festival,...

Quibi is not just another streaming service offering a stable of original programming. It sets itself apart from all of the competition because it features mobile content designed to be consumed in “quick bites.” Developed by former studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg and executive Meg Whitman, the streamer has attracted a bounty of A-list talent to its high-quality series and specials across a number of genres including dramas, comedies, reality and variety.

See Quibi’s ‘Dishmantled’ is a must-see for everyone who loves Tituss Burgess, cooking shows and blowing ‘some s*** up’

Given the impressive talent quotient and slick production values featured on its platform, expect to see a bunch of its series and specials up for Emmy nominations this year in the relatively new expanded short form categories. One drama that might attract the most attention come Emmy time is “Most Dangerous Game,” starring Liam Hemsworth as a down-on-his-luck real...

Contrary to popular belief, Quibi has not deleted itself from existence out of sheer embarrassment…yet. The young streaming platform is still around, but with apologies to The Most Dangerous Game and every other thing Quibi has produced so far, the service desperately needs a big crossover hit – and Ride Along and Central Intelligence star Kevin Hart just […]

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With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.

The signature appeal of Spike Lee’s early films have Ernest Dickerson’s cinematography to thank as much as Lee’s own cinematic flourishes. Dickerson’s eye helped give many Spike Lee joints their distinctive look; it was a symbiotic pairing that would continue through much of their careers. But directing was always in Dickerson’s future. After making his debut with “Juice” in 1992, Dickerson took on one of the most adapted literary works of all time, Richard Connell’s 1924 short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” He did so with mixed results, but introduced some provocative ideas that are still worth exploring today. “Surviving the Game” is a worthwhile flashback, given the current racial and political climate in America, as protests continue...

With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.

The signature appeal of Spike Lee’s early films have Ernest Dickerson’s cinematography to thank as much as Lee’s own cinematic flourishes. Dickerson’s eye helped give many Spike Lee joints their distinctive look; it was a symbiotic pairing that would continue through much of their careers. But directing was always in Dickerson’s future. After making his debut with “Juice” in 1992, Dickerson took on one of the most adapted literary works of all time, Richard Connell’s 1924 short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” He did so with mixed results, but introduced some provocative ideas that are still worth exploring today. “Surviving the Game” is a worthwhile flashback, given the current racial and political climate in America, as protests continue...

HBO Max launched on May 27th and has been off to a pretty good start with well over 10,000 hours worth of content on the service from day one. If you’re a horror fan, you may be excited to hear that a fairly decent portion of those 10,000 hours include some of the biggest and most popular horror films of all time. So, if you haven’t subscribed yet, now might just be the time to do so.

Do you like Steven Spielberg and massive sharks eating people? If so, you’ll be delighted to hear that you can catch the entire Jaws franchise – which spans four films – on HBO Max right away. If you haven’t ever seen them, now’s a great opportunity to take a trip back in time to catch up on what was arguably the very first blockbuster movie series.

The majority of the Aliens films...

Much like everyone else, I wasn't sure what to make of Quibi when it first launched in April. That's when I discovered that Liam Hemsworth had a new show called Most Dangerous Game. In case that title sounds familiar, you may have read the original in English class. The Most Dangerous Game is a short story that follows what happens when a big-game hunter gets stranded on an island only to find out he's not alone as he's hunted by a deranged Russian aristocrat. Hemsworth's version has been updated for modern day and takes place in Detroit. Fearing that he only has a few weeks left to live due to cancer, Dodge (Hemsworth) takes up businessman Miles (Christoph Waltz) on his offer to to serve as prey in a 24-hour hunt.

The 15-episode series goes by far quicker than you might expect. It's the perfect series to watch when you...

Continuing our series of writers recommending underappreciated movies is an ode to a 2017 drama about an actor struggling to make it in New York City

What happens when a man who is accustomed to being the centre of attention finds himself becoming invisible? When a life busked from cash in hand jobs trips into freefall? Julia Solomonoff’s delicately textured character study follows Nico (Guillermo Pfening), the former star of an Argentinian soap opera, who trades autograph hunters for anonymity and moves from Buenos Aires to New York to take a role in an indie movie. Instead he finds himself unmoored in a city which sees him as just another Hispanic immigrant. If it sees him at all.

Related: My streaming gem: why you should watch The Most Dangerous Game...

Scorpion creator Nick Santora, showrunner of Skydance Television’s upcoming Jack Reacher series, is expanding his relationship with the studio, signing an exclusive, multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, Santora will create, develop and produce event-level original scripted series for Skydance TV.

Santora currently serves as showrunner and executive producer on the studio’s upcoming series Jack Reacher for Amazon Prime. Jack Reacher is a drama based on Lee Child’s bestselling international book series, which has sold 100 million copies in almost 50 languages and more than 100 territories to date. Season one will be based on the first Jack Reacher novel Killing Floor and is produced by Amazon Studios, Skydance Television and Paramount Television Studios.

“Nick has impeccable taste and an amazing facility for all aspects of creating and producing television,” said Bill Bost, President, Skydance Television. “He is masterful at telling sophisticated stories for a global audience and we are...

The release of the new film The Hunt was met with widespread criticism due in no small part to the controversial nature of its plot, which involves human hunting. Though it was directed by Craig Zobel, it was co-written by Damon Lindelof, who also served as a producer.

Related: The Hunt: 10 Other Movies Inspired By "The Most Dangerous Game"

Lindelof has actually had quite a successful career in Hollywood as both a writer and a producer, bringing several high-profile films and television to the screen. From the new Star Trek films to hit television series such as The Leftovers and Watchmen, here are the ten best ranked according to Rotten Tomatoes.

After months of Quibi building up its roster with countless stars and absurdist premises, the streaming service of “quick bites” has finally arrived. The platform features abbreviated episodes only available on phones in order to cater to people with precious little time in between commitments — and yes, the timing of this launch during a nationwide quarantine is, to say the least, ironic. Nevertheless, Quibi is here and ready to entertain you, 6-10 minutes at a time, with a slate of strange, ambitious, and downright ridiculous shows.

Fifty shows are available to stream on the app right now, featuring game shows, comedies and dramas with talent including everyone from “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner, to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner Sasha Velour, to Chrissy Teigen and Queen Latifah. Ahead of the April 6 launch, Variety’s chief TV critics Daniel D’Addario and Caroline Framke took a look at some of the offerings...

Though Blumhouse's The Hunt was met with its fair share of controversy, the story's bones come from one of the most frequently adapted stories in literature. Published in 1924, Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game" about a big-game hunter who finds himself tracked and pursued like an animal by a Russian aristocrat has provided ample fodder for countless re-imaginings since the earliest days of film.

Related: 10 Times Movie & TV Release Dates Were Pushed Back For Sensitivity

The Hunt captured the ideological divisions of our time with its casting of red-staters as the prey to a cabal of liberal elites, but the basic story has emerged with different political—or totally apolitical—implications in every decade of cinema. Below are ten of the most notable.

Social commentary is definitely all the rage nowadays. Jordan Peele’s films definitely come to mind as successful paradigms of what can only be called a new sub-genre of the horror/thriller variety. Some films that preceded this come to mind, like 1932’s The Most Dangerous Game (which has been inevitably compared to The Hunt) and The Purge franchise (although The Purge had a definitely more clear-cut and chewed for the audience message).

Related: The Hunt: Top 10 Most Shocking Moments, Ranked

But what was it about The Hunt that made everyone rage about it on Social Media? Did it actually make us think? Or was it pure shock value? The answer lies somewhere in the middle.

If you want to make the big bucks, throwing a little bit of caution to the wind is a necessity. That goes for those who want to climb the corporate ladder at their job and everyone else who—maybe—just wants to make some quick cash. “Most Dangerous Game” throws money at its “contestants,” but many may not live to see a dollar spent.

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Emmy winner Phil Abraham (“Mad Men” and “The Sopranos“)directs at least two installments of the upcoming Quibi series, an adaptation of Richard Connell’s 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” It is not a true TV show but—instead—classified as a “movie in chapters,” and each episode i.e.

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Once upon a time, the theatrical window that comprised the weeks or months between a movie’s opening weekend and home media debut was a sacred thing. It was so pronounced, it led to debates between famous directors and other members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as to whether streaming giant Netflix should even be allowed to win Oscars. That all went out the window a week ago.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to change in big and small ways how people lead their lives, it’s left the moviemaking industry in a state of anxious upheaval. Currently movie theaters have been closed by the city governments of New York and Los Angeles, and major theater chains nationwide are shutting down in both the U.S. and UK. As a consequence, studio movies currently in theaters have no (or very few) theaters to play in.

So...

[This story contains spoilers for The Hunt]

The Hunt is #Canceled. Well, at least it was until a month ago. Universal and Blumhouse’s politically charged horror-satire came under fire last year ahead of its September release after concerns over gun violence and criticisms from President Donald Trump over its perceived plot and message. The controversy over director Craig Zobel’s film, written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof, stems from a narrative centered around a group of “liberal elites” hunting “redneck deplorables” for sport in a loose riff on Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.”...

[This story contains spoilers for The Hunt]

The Hunt is #Canceled. Well, at least it was until a month ago. Universal and Blumhouse’s politically charged horror-satire came under fire last year ahead of its September release after concerns over gun violence, and criticisms from President Donald Trump over its perceived plot and message. The controversy over director Craig Zobel’s film, written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof, stems from a narrative centered around a group of “liberal elites” hunting “redneck deplorables” for sport in a loose riff on Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.”...

While the platform to target people with different political views has drastically changed since The Most Dangerous Game was released almost a century ago, the basic human condition has remained the same. The Hunt, which was inspired by Richard Connell's classic short story, and is one of the year's most controversial horror films, is now in theaters nationwide.

Director Craig Zobel's horror thriller satirizes the current hostile political climate in the U.S. In The Hunt, “Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen… for a very specific purpose… The Hunt.

In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a bunch of elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt humans for sport. But the elites’ master plan is about to be derailed because one of the hunted,...

On August 3rd, 2019, a gunman killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart with a semiautomatic rifle after posting a manifesto online decrying a “Hispanic invasion.” Hours later, a shooter killed nine people with an Ar-15-style semiautomatic pistol at a bar in Dayton, Ohio. The shootings reignited the gun-control debate in America, as well as criticisms of President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.

A few days later, the Hollywood Reporter ran a story about ESPN pulling ads for an upcoming film titled The Hunt that, according to a copy of the script obtained by THR,...

If you look at the current poster for The Hunt, the latest from Blumhouse, you’d think the advertising itself was a clever parody with all the ridiculously negative quotes printed on it. What’s really funny is that all the quotes were true, and they were made well before the movie had been seen. While you can certainly find similarities with something like The Most Dangerous Game, and even The Hunger Games franchise, the Craig Zobel directed flick takes on modern politics with…...

A vicious reflection of election cycle politics, The Hunt is bloody fun if you like your violence and exploding body parts played for laughs. If you’re looking for an edgy political subtext that you may have heard about (this film was supposed to open last September but was postponed when President Trump tweeted about it), you’ll likely be disappointed. There’s style and attitude to spare, but The Hunt struggles to balance its comedic and satiric elements.

After a gruesome (if unnecessary) prologue set aboard an airplane, The Hunt finds twelve right-wing archetypes suddenly awake and lost in the middle of a field with a large wooden crate full of firearms to choose from. Also in the crate is a playful pig wearing a white shirt, the first of the script’s many references to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. But before you can say “Arnold Ziffel”, these...

Arriving in theaters nationwide this Friday, March 13th, is the highly anticipated—and equally controversial—horror thriller, The Hunt. Co-written and executive produced by Nick Cuse, and loosely inspired by Richard Connell’s classic 1924 short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” in The Hunt: "...a bunch of elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt humans for sport. But the elites’ master plan is about to be derailed because one of the hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin), knows The Hunters’ game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (Hilary Swank) at the center of it all."

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Cuse, and he discussed how he worked with his co-writer, Damon Lindelof, to infuse the polarizing elements of the internet conspiracy...

It was last August when a movie called The Hunt, scheduled to be released by Universal Pictures in the usually arid moviegoing month of September, became a national news story. Word got around that the film, written by Damon Lindelof (Watchmen) and Nick Cuse (The Leftovers), was a liberal screed about a bunch of political lefties hunting and killing right-wingers in a variation on the old The Most Dangerous Game narrative. The outrage machine then went into overdrive.

With recent mass shootings in three states—California, Ohio, and Texas—still fresh, the current occupant of the White House and his allies jumped all over the film sight unseen, with President Donald Trump declaring it a “liberal fantasy” designed to “inflame and cause chaos.” The echo chamber effect of those words, combined with the sensitivity over the shootings, led an uneasy Universal to pull the film from its schedule and possibly consign it to permanent limbo.