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Sharpen your wrist-blades, ignore the vertigo, and prepare for a pub crawl with Leonardo Da Vinci because Netflix is taking Ubisoft’s iconic Assassin’s Creed video game franchise to screens for a “high-octane” live-action TV series adaptation! Emmy nominees Roberto Patino and David Wiener will serve as creators, showrunners, and executive producers.

“Assassin’s Creed is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will,” the forthcoming show’s logline reads. “The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.”

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,” Wiener and Patino say in a joint statement.

‘Assassin’s Creed’ showrunners David Wiener and Roberto Patino (Photo Credits: Neilson Barnard Getty Images / Courtesy of Netflix)

Netflix has finally officially announced movement on an Assassin’s Creed live-action series. The streamer and Ubisoft made a deal in 2020, and development of a series has been in the works since then.

The series was created by Emmy nominees Roberto Patino and David Wiener who will serve as showrunners and executive producers.

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,” stated Wiener and Patino. “Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour, and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story—about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith. It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance.

It's your moment, video game fans! Netflix has officially greenlit a live-action series adaptation of Assassin’s Creed, marking a major move from the video game world to the streaming screen.

The streaming giant has been creating several TV shows based on popular video games, and its new Assassin’s Creed series is the latest addition to this trend. This show will be joining gaming adaptations already on the platform, including Arcane, Castlevania, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Devil May Cry. Netflix also has the upcoming video game-to-series adaptation Splinter Cell: Deathwatch in the works. That said, video game fans have much to look forward to as Netflix continues to bring beloved gaming worlds and stories to life.

The Assassin's Creed series comes from Roberto Patino and David Wiener. They serve as creators, showrunners, and executive producers. Other executive producers on the series include Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dil, and Matt O’Toole. It's...

The long-awaited live-action adaptation of Assassin’s Creed, one of the biggest global blockbuster franchises in video game history, is officially landing on Netflix.

Nearly five years in the making, the live-action adaptation is the first series to be developed under Netflix’s agreement with Ubisoft for Assassin’s Creed, which was announced in 2020. Read on for everything to know about the Assassin's Creed live-action series.

Who's in the cast?

The project is currently in development, with casting set to begin soon. Stay tuned for updates as the cast is announced!

Who's behind the scenes?

Emmy nominees Roberto Patino and David Wiener will serve as creators, showrunners, and executive producers. In addition to Wiener and Patino, executive producers include Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill for Ubisoft Film and Television, and Matt O’Toole.

"We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we...

One of the biggest global blockbuster franchises in video game history is set to make the leap from interactive platforms to a streaming series. Netflix has given the green to a live-action adaptation of Assassin’s Creed, the beloved franchise launched in 2007 by the French video game publisher Ubisoft.

Emmy nominees Roberto Patino and David Wiener will serve as creators, showrunners, and executive producers.

The Assassin’s Creed series is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,” Wiener...

The battle for human destiny is on.

Netflix has greenlit a live-action series based on the popular Assassin’s Creed video game, the streaming service announced Thursday.

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Assassin’s Creed follows the ongoing, years-old struggle for peace between groups known as the Assassins and the Templars. The Ubisoft video-game franchise started in 2007 with the release of Assassin’s Creed and now includes 13 total video games.

After years of development, Netflix has ordered “Assassin’s Creed” to series as a live-action adaptation of the long-running Ubisoft video game. Roberto Patino and David Wiener (“Halo”) will serve as creators, showrunners, and executive producers.

“Assassin’s Creed is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will,” the forthcoming show’s logline reads. “The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.”

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,” Wiener and Patino said in a joint statement. “Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential...

It’s been nearly five years in the making, but the live-action Assassin’s Creed series at Netflix is finally greenlit with Roberto Patino (Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, The Killing) as creators, showrunners and executive producers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The blockbuster Assassin’s Creed gaming franchise from French video game publisher Ubisoft first launched in 2007. The games have gone on to sell more than 230 million copies worldwide.

Assassin’s Creed jumped from consoles to the big screen in 2016 via Twentieth Century Fox. The movie version made $240 million at the worldwide box office.

The Netflix series’ logline reads: “Assassin’s Creed is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.

The long-gestating “Assassin’s Creed” live-action series adaptation is officially moving forward at Netflix, Variety has learned.

The news comes nearly five years after it was first reported that the streaming giant was developing a series version of the global hit video game franchise under a deal with game publisher Ubisoft. The project has gone through multiple creative teams in that time, with Roberto Patino and David Wiener now set as creators, showrunners, and executive producers.

“We’ve been fans of ‘Assassin’s Creed’ since its release in 2007,” Wiener and Patino said. “Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that ‘Assassin’s Creed’ opens to us. Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story — about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith. It is about...

Nearly five years after Netflix entered into a content agreement with Ubisoft, the streamer has ordered an Assassin’s Creed live-action series, based on the best-selling video game franchise.

The project will be created, showrun, and executive produced by Roberto Patino and David Wiener. Executive producers also include Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill for Ubisoft Film & Television, and Matt O’Toole.

Assassin’s Creed, the series, is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,...

Transforming from light mockumentary to something more sinister, A Bloody Mess is a film about rage that’s a movie about revenge that’s a documentary about shit.

A true-crime documentarian and her loyal crew investigate a small-town tragedy that’s faded into memory as a national joke, but as her determination to uncover the truth becomes more intense, her methods become less ethical — and more dangerous.

Check out an exclusive clip — in which determined director Violet Blank ambushes disgraced District Attorney Elaine Blair — below, along with the trailer.

A Bloody Mess will have its world premiere at Dances with Films in Los Angeles this Saturday, June 28.

Writer-director Daniel Hayden makes his feature debut on the indie comedy thriller.

Sydney O’Toole, Mary Birdsong, Anna Bezahler, Dhruv Uday Singh, James Werner, Jim Woods, Casey Feigh, Cameron Kelly, Betsy Sodaro, and Matt O’Toole star.

The post ‘A Bloody Mess’ Clip – True Crime...

Ronnie Yeskel, casting director of “Pulp Fiction,” “Reservoir Dogs” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died on Jan. 4 at The Motion Picture & Television Fund Retirement Home in Woodland Hills after an extended battle with cancer, AMPAS Governor Richard Hicks confirmed. She was 76.

Yeskel’s career in casting spanned more than three decades, including work across film and television. Her collaborations with Quentin Tarantino included “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs,” with other ’90s film credits including “Bean,” “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” and “Hope Floats.” In the early 2000s, Yeskel’s work included “Blade Trinity,” “Orphan” and casting Kieran Culkin in his first lead role in “Igby Goes Down.”

“Ronnie touched the lives and careers of so many of us with her passion and her talent,” said friend and actor Matt O’Toole. “She always fought for the actor with great respect and kindness. She was so joyful.”

Yeskel was born in raised in...

Ronnie Yeskel, the Emmy-nominated casting director who worked on the Quentin Tarantino films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction and shows including L.A. Law and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died. She was 76.

Yeskel died Jan. 4 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills after a long battle with cancer. The news was announced by casting director and AMPAS governor Richard Hicks, her former business partner.

Yeskel cast Kieran Culkin in his first lead role in Igby Goes Down (2002), and her film résumé also included Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Booty Call (1997), Bean (1997), Permanent Midnight (1998), Forest Whitaker’s Hope Floats (1998), Ken Loach’s Bread and Roses (2000), Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), Waking the Dead (2000) and The Sessions (2012).

She cast seasons five, six and seven of NBC’s L.A. Law (1990-93) and the first three seasons (2000-02) of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, among many other shows. She...

Casting director Ronnie Yeskel, whose career spanned three decades of work in television and film, died Jan. 4 at The Motion Picture & Television Fund Retirement Home in Woodland Hills after an extended battle with cancer. She was 76.

Her passing was confirmed by casting director and AMPAS Governor Richard Hicks, who was Yeskel’s former business partner.

Yeskel collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and cast the hit series NBC series LA Law. She also worked on the first three seasons of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm with casting director Richard Hicks, among others.

She found Kieran Culkin for his first lead role in Igby Goes Down.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Yeskel graduated from the University of Maryland and worked as a stage manager off-Broadway before segueing to casting for theater in New York and Washington, D.C. She then moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her career.

We’re getting the first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivera in the upcoming fourth season of The Witcher as he takes over the role played by Henry Cavill in the series’ first three seasons. See the image of the two side-by-side as the character above. Check out the first-look footage below.

Production on Season 4 is currently underway in the UK. As previously announced, Season 4 is being shot back-to-back with a fifth and final season, which will complete the adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books. Hemsworth will play Geralt in the final two seasons.

After the shocking, Continent-altering events that close out season three, season four follows Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri who are faced with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons apart from each other. If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the...

Henry Cavill’s days of playing our hero Geralt of Rivia on the Netflix series The Witcher are over, but the streamer is continuing the show without him. Liam Hemsworth is taking over the role of Geralt as of The Witcher season 4 and will stick around for season 5, which was recently announced as the final season of the series. With The Witcher season 4 now in production, spy pics of Hemsworth as Geralt have been leaking online – so Netflix has decided to go ahead and release an official image of him in character through Entertainment Weekly. You can check it out at the bottom of this article, or if you want to see the image in motion, you can watch the teaser video embedded above.

Showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich provided the following statement: “His look has been in development for over a year, so it’s thrilling to finally share an...

The Witcher To Wrap Up After 5th Season. (Photo Credit – IMDb/Instagram)

The Witcher is wrapping up its final Season on Netflix. After Henry Cavill’s exit, the fantasy show is going into production for a fourth season and has been renewed for a fifth and final season. Liam Hemsworth finally takes the baton from Cavill for Season 4. Netflix states that the final two seasons will be filmed consecutively, meaning the grand finale won’t likely have to wait years to arrive. Additionally, they will go over Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow, and Lady of the Lake, three of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books.

After Henry Cavill’s shocking exit from The Witcher, the show was supposed to continue the mystical lore, with Liam Hemsworth taking over Geralt Of Rivia.

According to reports, Laurence Fishburne will also appear in the upcoming Season as Regis, the beloved character from...

Henry Cavill’s days of playing our hero Geralt of Rivia on the Netflix series The Witcher are over – but the streamer is taking the risk of continuing the show without him. Liam Hemsworth is taking over the role of Geralt as of The Witcher season 4, and while we wait to see how Hemsworth is going to do in the role (and whether or not fans are going to accept someone else playing Geralt), Variety has revealed the names of three more season 4 cast members. They are Sharlto Copley (District 9), James Purefoy (The Following), and Danny Woodburn (Seinfeld). They note that “Copley will play the infamous bounty hunter Leo Bonhart from The Witcher novels. Purefoy will play Skellen, a high-ranking spy and court advisor to Emhyr who is also a prominent figure in the novels. Woodburn will play Zoltan, a fan favorite dwarf character from the novels and Witcher video games.

When The Witcher season 4 starts streaming on Netflix, our hero Geralt of Rivia is going to have a whole new look. That’s because Henry Cavill is no longer involved, with Liam Hemsworth taking over the role of Geralt. Today, Deadline has revealed that Hemsworth is being joined in the cast of The Witcher season 4 by Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix and the John Wick franchise), who will be playing a character named Regis.

If you’re like me and don’t have any familiarity with the Witcher franchise outside of the Netflix show, chances are that the first person you think of when you see the name Regis is Regis Philbin. But, of course, Fishburne’s casting on this show is not going to require any sort of Philbin impression. Instead, the Regis character he’ll be playing is someone who was introduced in Andrzej Sapkowski’s novel Baptism of Fire.

The Witcher has found its Regis. Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne is joining the upcoming fourth season of the Netflix series as the fan-favorite character from The Witcher books and games.

Introduced in Sapkowski’s novel Baptism of Fire, Regis is a world-wise Barber-surgeon with a mysterious past who joins Geralt on his journey in Season 4. Geralt will be played by Liam Hemsworth, who takes over the role from Henry Cavill, who exited at the end of Season 3.

After the shocking, Continent-altering events that close out season three, the new season follows Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri who are faced with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons apart from each other. If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the baptism of fire — and finding one another again.

“I’m very excited to be joining...

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has given audiences some creepy serial killers over the years. The first serial killer featured on CSI was Paul Millander (Matt O'Toole), who appeared several times in the series' first two seasons. "The Miniature Killer" taunted the CSI team throughout Season 7, only revealing her identity in the final episode of the season. One of the most offensive serial killers was known as "The Strip Strangler," who stalked and tortured young women and posed them as pinup girls after strangling them to death. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Over its fifteen seasons, CSI introduced viewers to twenty-nine different serial killers. One of the most terrifying came in Season 1, Episode 11. What made the "I-15 Murderer" so chilling is the fact that he is based on real-life serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, known as the "Happy Face Killer." Clearly, CSI likes their serial killer storylines.

Netflix’s The Witcher season three volume two trailer declares that destiny put these heroes together – never lost, always found. The new trailer for the final episodes of season three (also the final episodes with Henry Cavill) arrived along with a batch of new photos.

The Witcher season three part one premiered on June 29, 2023 and included episodes one through five. Part two, with episodes six through eight, launches on July 27th.

Season three stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer of Vengerberg, Freya Allan as Princess Cirilla of Cintra, Joey Batey as Jaskier, Myanna Buring as Tissaia, and Eamon Farren as Cahir. Mimî M Khayisa plays Fringilla, Royce Pierreson is Istredd, Anna Shaffer is Triss Merigold, Mecia Simson is Francesca, Tom Canton is Filavandrel, Mahesh Jadu is Vilgefortz, Graham McTavish is Dijkstra, and Cassie Clare is Philippa.

Additional season three stars include Hugh Skinner as Radovid,...

Netflix has unveiled the latest teaser for Season 3 of The Witcher, in which Henry Cavill prepares to say goodbye to his Geralt character.

The Witcher season 3 is being split into two parts, with the five episodes of part 1 coming on June 29. The next half of the season will come on July 27, with three additional episodes.

Season 3 will debut on the streamer in two parts, with the first five episodes on June 29. The final three episodes will become available on July 27.

The Witcher, which was one of Netflix’s most popular shows of 2019, stars Cavill as the grim Geralt of Rivia, the bane of supernatural beasties, in a story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and where good and evil is not easily identified.

Related: All The News From The Tudum...

The new trailer for season three of Netflix’s The Witcher is giving off heavy “you’re going to miss him when he’s gone” vibes. The official trailer for the upcoming season features Henry Cavill in full-on Geralt of Rivia mode, which makes fans not only anxious for the third season to premiere but also sad that it’s going to be Cavill’s last as Geralt.

The streaming service’s new trailer was accompanied by four character posters along with a batch of new photos.

Joining Cavill in season three are Anya Chalotra as Yennefer of Vengerberg, Freya Allan as Princess Cirilla of Cintra, Joey Batey as Jaskier, Myanna Buring as Tissaia, and Eamon Farren as Cahir. Mimî M Khayisa stars as Fringilla, Royce Pierreson is Istredd, Anna Shaffer is Triss Merigold, Mecia Simson is Francesca, Tom Canton is Filavandrel, and Mahesh Jadu is Vilgefortz.

Additionally, Graham McTavish is Dijkstra,...

Update, 4:30 Pm: Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for Season 3 of The Witcher, in which Henry Cavill prepares to say goodbye to his Geralt character. In the trailer, a sword-wielding Geralt battles monsters, men and anything else that gets in his way.

The Witcher season 3 is being split into two parts, with the five episodes of part 1 coming on June 29. The next half of the season will come on July 27, with three additional episodes.

Watch the trailer above and the teaser trailer below.

Previous, April 25: The Witcher is returning to Netflix this summer.

Season 3 will debut on the streamer in two parts, with the first five episodes on June 29. The final three episodes will become available on July 27. A new teaser for the series released on Tuesday gives a first look at the upcoming season, promising that “everything changes” with these episodes.

Watch the teaser above.

The Witcher,...

Stars: Verity Hayes, Matt O’Toole, Andy Muskett, Jello Biafra | Written and Directed by Kieran Reed

All You Can Eat opens with a shot of the sign for Planet Burrito, a Taco Bell type Mexican restaurant whose mascot is a three-eyed alien with a taste for human limbs that looks as if it was designed by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. It’s a fitting image as writer/director Kieran Reed delivers a thirteen-minute trip down horror’s memory lane with an emphasis on the films of the 80s.

Nola, one of the restaurant’s staff is telling her coworker Gurdip (Matt O’Toole) about an odd occurrence she had as she waited for the restaurant’s owner Kip Meatsock (Andy Muskett) to finish whatever he was doing with some Petri dishes.

A strange voice, former Dead Kennedy’s vocalist Jello Biafra, coming from an ancient payphone delivers a message about ancient...

Originally expected to be a six episode series, The Witcher prequel The Witcher: Blood Origin will be “a four-part special event” when it reaches the Netflix streaming service on December 25th. Our own Alex Maidy already had the chance to watch the show, giving it an 8/10 review you can read Here – and in his review he said, “The limited four-episode run is just long enough to build up the characters without overstaying its welcome. In fact, I would have enjoyed more episodes or even another standalone mini-series focused on this era.” During a recent interview with Netflix, showrunner Declan de Barra said the idea to cut the show down from six episodes to four came up in the editing room so the show could have “optimum story flow”.

The showrunner said, “This felt like a two-part movie. You never want to be watching a movie going, ‘I love this movie.

Netflix has launched the trailer ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ where it was revealed that fan favourite Joey Batey will star as Jaskier in the 4 part event series.

Overseen by showrunner and writer Declan de Barra. It is directed by Sarah O’Gorman and Vicky Jewson and executive produced by Lauren Hissrich, Matt O’Toole, Platige Films (Tomek Baginski & Jarek Sawko), Hivemind (Jason Brown & Sean Daniel).

Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal conjunction of the spheres, when the world of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

Adding a sensational cast to the Witcher Universe, Sophia Brown and Laurence O’Fuarain play Éile and Fjall, two warriors estranged from their opposing clans, Michelle Yeoh takes the role of Scían, a sword master, the last of her tribe,...

Netflix has released its trailer and key art for The Witcher: Blood Origin at the Ccxp event in Brazil, also revealing that Joey Batey will star as Jaskier in the four-part series. It will bow on Sunday, December 25.

Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell the tale of the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal conjunction of the spheres, when the world of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

Sophia Brown and Laurence O’Fuarain play Éile and Fjall, two warriors estranged from their opposing clans, Michelle Yeoh takes the role of Scían, a sword master, the last of her tribe, Mirren Mack is Princess Merwyn, Lenny Henry plays Chief Sage Balor, and Minnie Driver stars as a Seanchaí. Francesca Mills is Meldof, Zach Wyatt and Lizzie Annis are celestial twin sages Syndril and Zacaré.

Netflix has debuted a teaser trailer for the Netflix series ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin.’

Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal conjunction of the spheres, when the world of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

Sophia Brown and Laurence O’Fuarain play Éile and Fjall, two warriors estranged from their opposing clans, Michelle Yeoh takes the role of Scían, a sword master, the last of her tribe, Mirren Mack is Princess Merwyn, Lenny Henry plays Chief Sage Balor and Minnie Driver plays Seanchaí. Francesca Mills is Meldof, Zach Wyatt and Lizzie Annis are celestial twins Syndril and Zacaré. Huw Novelli is Brother Death.

The four-part series, overseen by showrunner and writer Declan de Barra, is directed by Sarah O’Gorman and...

The one-minute teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin reveals the world of elves before the events of The Witcher. The teaser for the four-part prequel was accompanied by new posters featuring the characters Scían (Michelle Yeoh), Fjall (Laurence O’Fuarain), and Éile (Sophia Brown).

The event series’ cast also includes Minnie Driver as Seanchaí, Mirren Mack as Merwyn, Lenny Henry as Balor, Jacob Collins Levy as Eredin, and Lizzie Annis as Zacaré. Huw Novelli plays Callan “Brother Death”, Francesca Mills is Meldof, Amy Murray is Fenrik, Nathaniel Curtis stars as Brían, Zach Wyatt is Syndril, Dylan Moran is Uthrok One-Nut, and Joey Batey is Jaskier.

Declan de Barra created the series and serves as showrunner and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Lauren Hissrich, Matt O’Toole, Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko (Platige Films), and Jason Brown & Sean Daniel (Hivemind Content). Sarah O’Gorman and Vicky Jewson directed the prequel.

Originally expected to be a six episode series, The Witcher prequel The Witcher: Blood Origin has been condensed into “a four-part special event” that will be reaching the Netflix streaming service on December 25th. With the premiere date just over a month away, a teaser trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above!

Set in “an elven world” 1200 years before the events we saw in The Witcher, The Witcher: Blood Origin tells a story lost to time – the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

Blood Origin stars Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall, who was born into a clan of warriors sworn to protect a King and is now on a quest for redemption; Sophia Brown as Éile,...

Netflix had announced that the prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin, which is set in “an elven world” 1200 years before the events we saw in The Witcher, would have a six episode run. But now the Witcher fan site Redanian Intelligance reports that they’ve heard the show is being condensed from six episodes down to four.

Here’s the Redanian Intelligence report:

Keep in mind that the footage was already shot as six episodes, which likely means heavier editing and potentially lots of footage on the cutting room floor. To support that, we learned the writing credits for all of the Blood Origin episodes and they go like this:

Episode 1: Declan de Barra

Episode 2: Alex Meenehan/Aaron Stewart-Ahn

Episode 3: Tania Lotia/Kiersten Van Horne

Episode 4: Declan de Barra/Tasha Huo

We can’t claim to know all the ins and outs of how crediting works...

Netflix has handed an early renewal to the widely popular series The Witcher, greenlighting Season 3 months before Season 2 drops in December.

The streamer unveiled a slew of The Witcher news at its virtual fan event Tudum on Saturday. The Witcher, which was one of Netflix’s most popular shows of 2019, stars Henry Cavill as the grim Geralt of Rivia, the bane of supernatural beasties, in a story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and where good and evil is not easily identified.

Set to debut on December 17, The Witcher Season 2 will follow Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia who, convinced that Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) died at the gruesome Battle of Sodden, seeks to bring Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen.

Exclusive: Lenny Henry (Lord Of the Rings Series), Mirren Mack (The Nest), Nathaniel Curtis (It’s A Sin) and Dylan Moran (Black Books) are among cast to join Netflix fantasy series The Witcher: Blood Origin, which is now filming in the UK.

Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell chart the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal ‘Conjunction of the Spheres’, when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

Laurence O’Fuarain (Vikings), Sophia Brown (Marcella) and Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians) lead the six-part prequel series.

Also newly joining are Jacob Collins Levy (Young Wallander) in the role of Eredin, Lizzie Annis in the role of Zacaré, Huw Novelli (The Capture) in the role of Callan “Brother Death”, Francesca Mills (Harlots) in the role of Meldof, Amy Murray in the...

Salma Hayek channeled Britney Spears in a video posted to Instagram promoting Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard. A sequel to 2017's The Hitman's Bodyguard, the new movie brings back Hayek as Sonia Kincaid, the wife of notorious hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson). Helmed by returning director Patrick Hughes, the sequel also stars Ryan Reynolds as bodyguard-for-hire Michael Bryce.

Ahead of the movie's release this month, Hayek celebrated by showing off her dance skills on Instagram. To the music of "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears, Salma Hayek and a crew of backup dancers lip-sync and dance along with the actress adding some extra maneuvers in honor of her action movie character. She is also hoping to get the fans involved by coining the #hitmanschallenge hashtag, encouraging others to do the same. You can look at the post below.

"Show me your #hitmanschallenge baby! Muéstrame tu mejor #hitmanschallenge baby! I'll be watching.

After Disney plopped its Ryan Reynolds action comedy Free Guy from 20th Century Studios on August 13, a week before Lionsgate’s sequel The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard which also stars Reynolds, it stood to reason the latter would move. The new date for the Reynolds-Samuel L. Jackson sequel, which also stars Salma Hayek, is June 16.

The announcement was made Monday by Ron Schwartz, Lionsgate’s president of worldwide distribution. The sequel, on its new date, arrives the weekend after Warner Bros/HBO Max’s feature musical In the Heights, and the weekend prior to Universal’s F9 on June 25. Also opening the weekend of June 16-18 is Focus Features’ Edgar Wright-directed feature documentary The Sparks Brothers.

Schwartz said, “This is the kind of summer action film that delivers even more comedy and more thrilling action than the first film – and it’s perfect for fans new to the franchise as well.

Costume designer Joanna Mae Park and her husband Steven Jones, a production designer, had been working on Netflix’s “Pieces of Her” in Canada in mid-March when television and film productions the world over began rapidly shutting down amid a collective effort to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

The couple had moved all the way from Sydney for the job, having their 18-year-old and 21-year-old remain at home while enrolling their youngest, a ninth grader, in a new school in Vancouver. The project had been in its ninth week of pre-production and just a week away from filming when work was first suspended, and then forced to a halt. That meant a sudden move back to Australia — the country’s officials had on March 16 urged its citizens to fly home before overseas travel became “more complex and difficult” — and another change of schools for their son, who had...

The third entry in the popular action-thriller Olympus Has Fallen series will be unleashed into a theater near you next month. It stars Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman. And today we have the new trailer for director Ric Roman Waugh's London Has Fallen follow-up, Angel Has Fallen for you guys to check out.

Much like the previous two movies in this rock 'em, sock 'em action movie trilogy, Angel Has Fallen looks to be brutal and bloody good times to this here movie fan. And while the new trailer does make all of it seem like tip-top action, I do have to put out there that some of that CGI presented in the preview looks a bit on the shoddy side. But that said, I'm thinking they will correct all of that before the movie finally storms it's way into theaters next month. Fingers crossed that is.

As mentioned above,...

I don't think any of us will be quite surprised by this news, but all the same, here it is. Today we have word via Stranger Things and Black Widow star David Harbour that, go figure, there is no plan for a sequel to director Neil Marshall's recent reboot of Mike Mignola's classic comic book character Hellboy.

David Harbour admits this.

"I don't think there'll be much of a light. There's a lot of people who reach out to me who really loved it and really enjoyed the new take and were just happy to see him back on the screen, but I know in the culture at large, I don't think it was very well received."

He continues.

"I don't think it made a lot of money. I don't really keep up with those things too much, to be honest, but I don't think the perception was that it was a hit,...

Millennium Films' Angel Has Fallen has added another new cast member, with Piper Perabo signing on in an unspecified role. While it is not known who she is playing, the actress joins Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen stars Gerard Butler (Mike Banning) and Morgan Freeman (Alan Trumbull), along with franchise newcomer Holt McCallany (Mindhunter). McCallany will be playing an old friend of Banning, Wade Jennings, an ex-military man who is now the head of a technology company.

This story will follow Mike Banning as he becomes the target of a terrorist attack, only this attack will take place on Air Force One, in mid-flight. While promoting his new film Geostorm in October, Gerard Butler offered some new plot details, comparing this story to Logan, hinting that his character Mike Banning is "paying the price" for everything he went through physically in Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen.

Exclusive: Hunter Killer, the Gerard Butler-Gary Oldman action drama that got stalled by Relativity’s plunge into Chapter 11, has a new director and a start date from Millennium Films. iNumber Number director Donovan Marsh has taken the helm, and a July 25 start date has been set in London. Original Film’s Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe — who fought to extricate the film from Relativity when its production start was stalled while Martin Campbell was directing — is producing with Butler, Tooley Productions CEO Tucker Tooley, Alan Siegel, and Mark Gill.

Peter Craig and Jamie Moss wrote the script based on the George Wallace and Don Keith novel Firing Point, and Arne Schmidt is also a writer and producer on the pic. It’s an action thriller about an American submarine commander sent deep in Russian waters to save the elected Russian president in the midst of a military coup.

Having watched five seasons of "Tim and Eric, Awesome Show Great Job!" -- the irreverent, awkward comedy show on Adult Swim -- you half-expect that an in-person interview with the duo is all part of some elaborate prank that will end with you having a giant bucket of puke dumped on your head. In truth, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, the creators of "Awesome Show" and stars of the upcoming spinoff, "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," are totally normal guys. The film, which hits theaters in limited release this weekend, follows the duo as they try to repay their billion-dollar debt by re-opening a suburban mall. Poop gags, uncomfortable sex scenes and plenty of fake blood soon follow. Moviefone recently sat down with Tim and Eric to discuss "Billion Dollar Movie," jokes they consider off-limits, creating awkward comedy, and the walkouts that happened during their film's premiere at Sundance.