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Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp again deliver greatness with Black Bag, a crisp spy thriller and whodunit that will keep you guessing until the very end. Their second feature of the new year, after the creepy Presence, and third collaboration overall (including 2022's Kimi), boasts an all-star cast in a twisting odyssey of murder, betrayal, and lust. Black Bag skillfully avoids lame genre clichés by keeping the narrative taut and firmly grounded in realism. There are no overblown action scenes, silly gadgets, macho heroics, or slinky femme fatales here.

The opening scene introduces George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender), a senior British intelligence officer, at a roaring London nightclub. He clandestinely meets Meacham (Gustaf Skarsgård), a colleague assigned with a specific task. Meacham confirms that a top-secret program has indeed been stolen from the government. He hands George a list of five possible suspects with the clearance, aptitude, and opportunity to commit the crime.

Thirteen months ago, we learned that Amanda Seyfried – whose credits include The Dropout, Mank, You Should Have Left, Mamma Mia!, Big Love, Jennifer’s Body, Veronica Mars, the original Mean Girls, and much more – had signed on to star in the suspense thriller limited series Long Bright River for the Peacock streaming service. The series is based on Liz Moore’s bestselling novel of the same name, and a trailer has just dropped online, along with the information that all eight episodes of the show will be available to watch on Peacock as of March 13th. You can watch the trailer in the embed above.

Long Bright River is a suspense thriller series that tells the story of Mickey (Amanda Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.

An idyllic getaway turns into a nightmare in Blumhouse’s latest psychological horror thriller.

One of the huge benefits of a Peacock subscription is that it’s the exclusive streaming home for Universal movies - including terrifying Blumhouse pictures - shortly after their theatrical release… which means you don’t have to wait very long to watch James McAvoy terrorize his guests in the psychological horror thriller “Speak No Evil,” premiering on Friday, Dec. 6. The story follows Ben and Louise, an American couple, who bring their daughter to a British couple’s country estate for what seems like a perfect getaway. But things take a dark turn when they realize their hosts have sinister secrets. Watch “Speak No Evil” with a subscription to Peacock.

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Blumhouse is one of the biggest names in horror, and one of their four-year-old movies has found new streaming success. The production company now regularly releases anywhere between four and 12 movies a year, partnering with distributors like Warner Bros., Universal, Lionsgate, and Paramount, as well as streamers like Netflix, Prime Video, and Peacock. Though the stories, casts, and overall quality for Blumhouse movies vary from title to title, the films are generally made for less than $20 million, and they're generally horror or horror-adjacent.

2020 was a complicated year for Hollywood with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic causing global theatrical shutdowns, but several Blumhouse movies were still able to break through. The company's biggest success story of the year is, of course, Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man, but Freaky and Fantasy Island were also hits. Other titles went straight to VOD, like You Should Have Left and The Craft: Legacy.

Golden Globe Award-winning actor Kevin Bacon has set his next horror movie after starring in the smash-hit A24 slasher MaXXXine, and it's about to be an entire family affair. Bacon, his Emmy Award-winning wife Kyra Sedgwick, and their two adult children, Travis and Sosie Bacon, will star together in a new horror-comedy titled Family Movie.

The talented family will produce this film for Mixed Breed Films in collaboration with Norman Golightly at Dark Castle Entertainment. Dark Castle is best known for being behind other horror movies such as House on Haunted Hill, House of Wax, Orphan and Orphan: First Kill. Besides Family Movie, Dark Castle is currently working on a third Orphan movie.

Neon International will handle the foreign rights and present the horror-comedy at the American Film Market this week, while CAA Media Finance will manage the U.S. rights. Besides producing and starring in the movie, Bacon and Sedgwick will also direct.

A year after premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh’s haunted house experiment “Presence” will finally hit theaters — on January 24, 2025. Neon scooped the movie out of the Park City lineup at the top of this year, now adding “Presence” to its growing roster of horror movies (and isn’t that the growing roster of any Hollywood company right now?) after “Longlegs” and “Immaculate” did strong business this year. In a most unusual twist on the haunted house movie, this film about a suburban family who discovers they are not alone in their new home is shot entirely from the perspective of the ghost. Watch the full trailer for “Presence” below.

Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan play the heads of a family whose marriage is already fracturing when they move into a handsome, century-old home in a good school district (with Julia Fox briefly making a cameo as their...

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Blumhouse Productions is an American film and television production company most well-known for its releases in the horror genre. While the production company doesn't dabble much outside the genre, it ping-pongs between different horror sub-genres. Slashers, the paranormal, and even killer robots are fair game by Blumhouse's standards. As such, they have produced many experimental films of varying quality.

Jason Blum founded Blumhouse Productions in the year 2000. For the last 24 years, Blumhouse has been behind some of the best modern horror movies. Some notable films include Paranormal Activity (2009), Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), Hush (2016), and the incredible Halloween reboot that came out in 2018. Since 2020, Blumhouse has pumped out some of its best movies yet, including The Invisible Man and Black as Night.

Updated on October 24, 2024, by Natasha Elder: Blumhouse Productions is one of the most prolific film studios in the horror genre due to...

Kevin Bacon has been in the industry for several decades. The actor has delivered many hits, cementing his foothold in Hollywood. His masterful acting and enchanting performances have garnered the actor praise from both fans and critics.

However, most fans don’t know that back in 2009 the Footloose actor was struggling with one film. Bacon was given the opportunity to portray the role of a real-life U.S. Marine, Lt. Col Michael Strobl for the television movie Taking Chance. What he didn’t anticipate was how tough it was for him to play the critical role.

Not a war movie: Kevin Bacon’s life-changing decision

Kevin Bacon‘s extensive filmography has garnered the actor a stellar reputation in Tinseltown. The actor has starred in well-known projects like Footloose, JFK, Super, A Few Good Men, X-Men: First Class, and many more.

Kevin Bacon in Footloose | Credits: Paramount Pictures

However, there was...

Steven Soderbergh built his reputation in part on his “one for them, one for me” mentality, alternating between making high-profile studio projects and offbeat, and often lo-fi, experiments. At first glance, his latest effort, Presence, a haunted house story staged exclusively through the Pov of a ghost, would appear to fall firmly in the latter camp. But while the out-there concept invites a host of tantalizing possibilities, the film’s adherence to conventional and uninspired plotting sees Presence fall into a blasé middle ground.

Opening in an empty suburban house, Presence establishes the viewpoint of its central apparition with a sequence where Soderbergh’s camera roams feverishly through the different rooms and up and down the stairs. Then, a real estate agent (Julia Fox) enters the picture, accompanied by some prospective buyers, a well-to-do married couple, Rebekah (Lucy Liu) and Chris (Chris Sullivan), and their two teenage children, Tyler (Eddy Maday...

Zach Cregger's film "Barbarian" cause a minor stir when it was released in 2022. Made for a downright modest budget of $4.5 million, the film raked in $45 million at the box office, grabbing the attention of many enthused fright fans seeking new voices in the pop horror zeitgeist.

"Barbarian" was also one of many films in the emerging microgenre of Airbnb-related horror -- Fearbnb? -- wherein the protagonists check into a bed-and-breakfast, only to find something eerie or menacing about the house they've paid for. The genre also included films like "The Rental," "Superhost," "You Should Have Left," and "Room for Rent." Fearbnb movies were timely, tapping into the public's uneasiness with a total lack of regulation in the upstart self-rental business; if no one is overseeing your Airbnb, who is to say the homeowner isn't keeping a monster in their basement?

That's certainly the case with "Barbarian." The film...

In horror, we often talk about the final girl, the trope of that virginal teenager who is paying attention to her surroundings while all of her friends are distracted having sex and doing drugs. She's usually timid, but in the third act, she summons the strength to take down her attacker. We don't talk about final boys as often. That's mostly because there haven't been as many. When you look at the heyday of '80s slashers and horror, the three iterations of Tommy Jarvis in the Friday the 13th franchise, or Bruce Campbell's Ash in the Evil Dead movies are the major final "boys" that come to mind for most. We see more of them now, though not boys but men, and not a character, but actors who have made a career out of being called scream kings. Ethan Hawke is one thanks to Sinister, The Purge, and The Black Phone.

During a roundtable interview at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where star Daniel Brühl is being feted with the Kviff President’s Award, the actor-director-producer recalled the “very bittersweet memories” of his directorial debut, the dark German comedy “Next Door,” being chosen for competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, only for the festival to be held virtually that year. Three years later, as part of Kviff’s celebration of Brühl’s career, “Next Door” is set to screen at the Grand Hall, the festival’s premiere venue, with a proper in-person audience.

Inspired by an idea that came to him while dining in a restaurant in Spain a decade ago, Brühl’s prickly film combines a meta examination of movie stardom with a stark critique of rampant gentrification. The two-hander stars Brühl as an egotistical actor, also named Daniel, who stops into a local Berlin...

Kevin Bacon praises Eddie Murphy as an actor in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and in general. Both Murphy and Bacon enjoyed their collaboration, with Murphy calling Bacon the "perfect villain." Murphy is considering a remake of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, potentially reuniting Bacon and Murphy in a new project.

Kevin Bacon speaks on finally getting the chance to work with Eddie Murphy for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. A follow-up to the franchise that started four decades ago, the sequel is a Netflix film that shows protagonist Axel Foley trying to save his daughter when her life is threatened. Bacon steps in to play crooked cop Captain Grant in the film, who serves as the main antagonist for the movie. In addition to Bacon and Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F stars a leading cast including Judge Reinhold, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Taylour Paige.

Speaking with People,...

Kevin Bacon has been in a good number of horror films over the decades, and he has admitted that he’s drawn to working in the genre because he’s a horror fan himself. Now it has been revealed that he and his wife Kyra Sedgwick are such big fans of the genre that they’re planning to co-direct and star in a horror film – and they’ve cast their daughter Sosie Bacon, who starred in the horror hit Smile, as a co-star!

Variety caught up with Sedgwick to interview her about her role in the Off Broadway play All of Me, and along the way they mentioned that she’s currently developing “a horror film she would star in with Bacon and their adult daughter, Sosie. The couple wants to co-direct the film, though the Directors Guild has other ideas.“

Sedgwick told them, “It’s very hard to get dual directing credit.

After 1999's Stir of Echoes, director David Koepp and actor Kevin Bacon teamed up again in 2020 to recreate a psychological horror novella, You Should Have Left. While the film's execution dulls the film down to a B grade, offering slightly eerie chills rather than haunting us, the premise is undeniably strong and intriguing. Bacon steps into the role of Theo, a wealthy man who is navigating his insecurities about being in an age-gap relationship while also tackling the guilt he feels over his past. He is eventually forced to confront the sins of his past through an enduring horror staple, the haunted house. However, as the supernatural aspect of the film is heightened, the house essentially turns into Theo's own psyche, offering an interesting take on the haunted house trope.

You Should Have Left delves into marital issues and guilt, with a unique take on a haunted house ending. Kevin Bacon's character's decision to stay behind symbolizes atonement for past sins in the film. The house in the movie represents a purgatory for sinners haunted by their past actions.

Blumhouse Productions' lesser-known offering of supernatural horror, You Should Have Left, plays with the haunted house sub-genre and places a modern twist on an ending packed with hidden meaning about marital and domestic issues. Starring Kevin Bacon as Theo Conroy and Amanda Seyfried as his wife, Susanna, You Should Have Left is a slow-burn thriller with deeper meaning about the larger ramifications of sin, marital strife, and guilt. Written and directed by David Koepp, You Should Have Left was based on the 2017 novella of the same name by author Daniel Kehlmann.

The ending of You Should Have Left comes to...

Jennifer Nettles, lead vocalist of the country duo Sugarland and a successful solo artist, got into acting by playing Dolly Parton’s mother in the 2015 TV movie Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors. Since then she has appeared in the sequel to that movie, Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love, performed in Chicago and Waitress on Broadway, had roles in the film Harriet and the TV series Underground, and appeared on multiple episodes of the HBO show The Righteous Gemstones… which happens to be executive produced by David Gordon Green, so that paved the way for her to have a role in Green’s most recent film, The Exorcist: Believer. Now Deadline reports that Nettles is following her Exorcist role by being cast in another genre project: the horror action series The Bondsman!

Coming our way from Blumhouse Television and set up at Amazon’s Prime Video,...

Amanda Seyfried – whose credits include The Dropout, Mank, You Should Have Left, Mamma Mia!, Big Love, Jennifer’s Body, Veronica Mars, the original Mean Girls, and much more – has signed on to star in the suspense thriller limited series Long Bright River for the Peacock streaming service. The series is based on Liz Moore’s bestselling novel of the same name, and Deadline reports that word of this project leaked out after Seyfried and Moore were spotted taking a ride-along with the 26th District Police in Philadelphia earlier this week.

Long Bright River will see Seyfried taking on the role of Mickey, a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.

Moore’s novel (pick up a copy Here) has the following description: In a Philadelphia...

In a world where superheroes, sequels, horror (thankfully) and anything IP related are king, it seems as though the risqué original thriller has gone by the wayside. Over the past ten years or so you’d be hard pressed to find anything other than The Invisible Man, You Should Have Left, Gerald’s Game, Gone Girl, or Knock, Knock that really fit the mold (albeit with some finagling) and each of those is either tied to popular literature or skews closer to the horror genre.

But the original thriller thrived in the 1990s. Also thriving during this beautiful time in Hollywood were action movies featuring two adversaries face to face on the poster and/or movie cover. Movies like Face/Off, Point Break, Demolition Man, Universal Soldier, and Broken Arrow. 1992’s Unlawful Entry combines both of these elements with two heaping sides of the stalker and slasher horror subgenres. Which is why...

David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer has scared up over $130 million at the box office, and the film is now available at home on Digital outlets. How about streaming?

The Exorcist: Believer comes exclusively to Peacock on December 1, 2023.

Peacock will also have the following Blumhouse content available to stream on 12/1…

Black Phone Dangerous Breed: Crime.Cons.Cats Don’t Let Go Five Nights at Freddy’s Halloween Kickback Sick The Hunt The Invisible Man (2020) The Lazarus Effect The Purge (series) S1 The Purge (series) S2 They/Them Vengeance You Should Have Left

50 years after the most terrifying horror film shocked the world, The Exorcist: Believer is a brand-new chapter in the saga, directly following on the groundbreaking original 1973 film.

Since his wife’s death, Victor (Leslie Odom Jr.) has raised daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) alone. After Angela and her friend (Olivia O’Neill) return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories,...

Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer, the latest in the Academy Award® nominated The Exorcist franchise, streams exclusively on Peacock Dec 1. For more about The Exorcist: Believer on Peacock, click here. In addition to The Exorcist: Believer, Peacock will also have the following Blumhouse content available to stream as of Dec 1: Black Phone Dangerous Breed: Crime.Cons.Cats Don’t Let Go Five Nights at Freddy’s Halloween Kickback Sick The Hunt The Invisible Man (2020) The Lazarus Effect The Purge (series) S1 The Purge (series) S2 They/Them Vengeance You Should Have Left The Exorcist: Believer is the latest ... Read more...

Kevin Bacon is set to star in the Prime Video action-horror series The Bondsman.

Per Deadline, The Bondsman, which comes from the mind of Grainger David, will consist of eight, 30-minute episodes. Erik Oleson will be the showrunner, as his production company CrimeThink has a deal with the streaming giant. Oleson also recently worked on the second season of Prime Video's Carnival Row and The Man in the High Castle along with the third season of Daredevil on Netflix.

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The Bondsman follows Hub Halloran, "a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist."

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Kevin Bacon is an appropriate casting choice for the budding horror drama, as he has an extensive thriller/crime/horror pedigree.

Iconic actor Kevin Bacon has been tapped to join the cast of the Amazon Prime Video series ‘The Bondsman.’

Described as an action series from Blumhouse Television the eight half-hour episodes centre on Hub Halloran (Bacon), “a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.”

The show is an original idea from and has a script by Grainger David, who will also executive produce. Erik Oleson will serve as showrunner and executive producer via CrimeThink. Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold, and Chris Dickie for Blumhouse TV also executive produce, as does Paul Shapiro from CrimeThink. Bacon will executive produce in addition to starring. Oleson and CrimeThink are currently under an overall deal at Amazon Studios.

Bacon has previously worked with Prime Video...

Kevin Bacon has signed up for another horror role in Blumhouse’s “The Bondsman,” a straight-to-series order by Prime Video, according to an individual with knowledge of the move.

The official logline states that it centers on Hub Halloran (Bacon), “a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.”

Amazon has ordered eight half-hour episodes of the drama, created by Grainger David, whose short film “The Chair” competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The beginning of series production awaits as guild negotiations have yet to be resolved.

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Bacon’s casting marks a return to working with both Prime Video and Blumhouse.

One of Kevin Bacon’s earliest roles came in the 1980 slasher classic Friday the 13th, and he has enjoyed returning to the horror genre now and then ever since. A few years ago, he teamed up with Blumhouse Television to try to get a television series follow-up to the creature feature Tremors going at Syfy. That didn’t work out, but now Bacon and Blumhouse Television are joining forces again for a horror action series called The Bondsman!

Deadline reports that The Bondsman is set up at Amazon’s Prime Video. Bacon will be taking on the role of Hub Halloran, a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, and love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.

The first season of the series is expected to consist of eight half-hour episodes.

Kevin Bacon is attached to star in a new Blumhouse Television series that has been ordered straight-to-series at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned.

The action series is titled “The Bondsman.” The official logline states that it centers on Hub Halloran (Bacon), “a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.”

Amazon has ordered eight half-hour episodes. Production on the series will not begin until all guild negotiations have been resolved.

The show stems from an original idea and script by Grainger David, who will also executive produce. Erik Oleson will serve as showrunner and executive producer via CrimeThink. Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold, and Chris Dickie for Blumhouse TV also executive produce, as does Paul Shapiro from CrimeThink. Bacon will...

The massive revamp of the Dcu franchise, which is being orchestrated by acclaimed director James Gunn, is a huge move in one of the most lucrative niches of the film industry that's undoubtedly being closely watched by fans, be it those of the comics and/or those who liked at least some of the previous cinematic adaptations. The person whose perhaps most aware of the near-astronomical expectations of what's to come is of course Gunn himself. In a report from The Direct, the director recently sat down with the Inside of You podcast for an interview about the road ahead with the Dcu, and how he expected backlash from the moment of the first announcement.

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James Gunn is no stranger whatsoever to superhero films. He first helmed the dark superhero comedy Super (2010), which starred...

For the first-ever franchise in A24 history, Ti West recently wrapped production on his third film in his X and Pearl universe trilogy, the sky-highly anticipated MaXXXine.

With a stacked cast boasting the likes of Elizabeth Debicki, Halsey, Kevin Bacon, Lily Collins, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, and Bobby Cannavale and, of course, the mega return of Mia Goth to reprise her role as Maxine Minx, the film will follow the titular character as she chases showbiz life in Los Angeles circa 1985, where production also took place last month. (No word on an official release date yet.) Keeping plot details under lock and key, very little is known about the upcoming film, therefore, so much can be speculated about it.

Here are 10 possibilities, theories, and things we’d love to see in the upcoming MaXXXine. After all, we deserve nice things. We have cosmopolitan taste.

1) An Homage to Kevin Bacon’s...

Peacock has announced Universal Pictures’ M3GAN will stream exclusively on Peacock starting Feb. 24. For more about M3GAN on Peacock. M3GAN is the latest addition to Peacock’s offering of Blumhouse Films such as You Should Have Left and Sinister, and the Peacock Originals Sick and They/Them. M3GAN is the latest addition to Peacock’s growing library of iconic films, including Armageddon Time, Spoiler Alert, TÁR, Violent Night, She Said, Ticket to Paradise, Bros, Nope, Mid-Century and The Silent Twins. https://www.peacocktv.com/collections/must-see-movies-on-peacock About M3GAN She’s more than just a toy. She’s part of the family. From the most prolific minds in horror – Atomic Monster’s James Wan, the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises, and Blumhouse, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man – comes a fresh new face in terror. M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence,...

Despite having his own history with the genre, The Blair Witch Project even terrified Kevin Bacon, says Smile actor and daughter Sosie Bacon. The elder Bacon actor rose to stardom with his role in the original Friday the 13th as one of Mrs. Voorhees before going on to appear in the horror genre a variety of times the following couple of decades, including Joel Schumacher's Flatliners, Ron Underwood's Tremors and David Koepp's Stir of Echoes. The past few years have seen Bacon back in the horror field with the likes of You Should Have Left and They/Them.

Written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, The Blair Witch Project told the story of a group of student filmmakers who head into a Maryland forest to investigate the titular local legend, only to encounter a series of increasingly terrifying events as they got lost. Hitting theaters in...

Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley,” TheWrap has learned.

Franchise star Eddie Murphy returns along with Taylor Paige and Joseph Gordon-Levitt who also star in the third sequel to the 1984 action comedy classic, which follows Detroit cop Axel Foley (Murphy) to Los Angeles, where he gets into trouble investigating the death of a friend.

Last week it was also reported that four original “Beverly Hills Cop” cast members – Judge Reinhold, Paul Reiser, John Ashton and Bronson Pinchot – are also joining the cast.

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The Netflix film, which is currently in production, is directed by Mark Molloy (“Apple At Work – The Underdogs”) and written by Will Beall.

Details about Bacon’s role along with plot details are being kept under wraps.

Along with Murphy, producers are Jerry Bruckheimer...

Kevin Bacon is on board to executive produce and host a new quiz show with the British duo behind “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Claudia Rosencrantz and Adrian Woolfe.

“Lucky 13” is billed as a 60-minute high-stakes general knowledge rolling quiz format, which has the simplicity of “Millionaire,” and is designed for broadcast in primetime or access prime. It’s created by Woolfe, who runs the unscripted label Studio 1 with Rosencrantz. The pair are best known for commissioning “Millionaire” in the U.K. and sending it around the world.

Wolfe and Rosencrantz are executive producing alongside Bacon and David Schiff. Bacon is slated to host the show in some international English-speaking markets.

The actor’s recent hosting and producing credits include the one-hour concert special “Play On: Celebrating the Power of Music to Make Change,” which aired on CBS in 2020. He currently serves as a producer on the Showtime...

They/Them Trailer — John Logan‘s They/Them (2022) movie trailer has been released by Peacock. The They/Them trailer stars Kevin Bacon, Anna Chlumsky, Theo Germaine, Carrie Preston, Quei Tann, Austin Crute, Monique Kim, Anna Lore, Cooper Koch, and Darwin del Fabro. Crew • Executive Producers: Kevin Bacon, [...]

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Kevin Bacon (“You Should Have Left”) has joined the cast of Julia Roberts’ “Leave the World Behind” at Netflix, TheWrap has exclusively learned.

Additionally, Farrah Mackenzie (“United States of Al”) has joined the project, rounding out the cast that includes Bacon, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke and Myha’la Herrold.

Sam Esmail, the creator of “Mr. Robot,” will both write the adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s novel and direct.

The logline for the film is as follows: A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a mysterious blackout. As the threat grows more imminent, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.

Producing are Sam Esmail and Chad Hamilton via their Esmail Corp, along with Julia Roberts, Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill producing through Red Om Films banner. Executive producers are Higher Ground’s Tonia Davis,...

While practically every other filmmaker seems to be pretending that the pandemic never happened, setting their films either before the plague or so far afterward that nobody talks about it anymore, Steven Soderbergh is out there mining the, shall we say, unique circumstances of the last few years for Hitchcockian thrills in “Kimi.”

It’s a low-budget, high-concept thriller that’s refreshingly contemporary on the surface, even though it’s pretty conventional at its core.

Zoë Kravitz stars as Angela Childs, who works for a tech company selling an Alexa-like device called “Kimi.” It works basically the same way all the real voice-activated technology you use does, except whenever it fails to understand a voice command, an actual human being listens to the recording to determine where the mistake was made, and correct Kimi’s programming to prevent future borks.

And if that sounds like a really terrible idea, if...

Exclusive: Kevin Bacon is joining John Logan’s untitled horror project at Blumhouse and will also serve as an executive producer alongside executive producer Scott Turner Schofield. The movie is a Lgbtqia+ empowerment tale set at a gay conversion camp and stars Theo Germaine. The role marks a return for Bacon to the horror genre, a space he appeared in early on in his career with Friday the 13th.

Three-time Oscar nominee, Logan will make his feature directorial debut with the film he also wrote. Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar are producing. Bacon will serve as an EP, alongside Scott Turner Schofield.

Golden Globe winner and Primetime Emmy nominee Bacon recently starred in season 2 of Showtime’s hit series City on a Hill which was renewed for a third season. We reported over the summer that Bacon is joining his wife Kyra Sedgwick’s second feature directorial Space Oddity.

Exclusive: Kevin Bacon, Simon Helberg and Carrie Preston are joining Primetime Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick’s second feature directorial Space Oddity from the 2016 Black List script.

Additionally, Rei Co-op Studios has come on board as producers of the film alongside Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler’s Big Swing Productions.

Penned by Rebecca Banner, Space Oddity tells the story of Alex (Kyle Allen) who, after giving up on Earth and deciding to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, develops an unexpected romance with Daisy (Alexandra Shipp), the enigmatic town newcomer, which forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars and an even more uncertain journey of the heart.

Bacon will play Jeff, Alex’s Father; Preston is Jane, Alex’s mother; while Helberg plays Dimitri, the love interest to Alex’s sister, Liz. Production is taking place in Rhode Island.

Legendary has closed a deal with Kevin Bacon to play the villain in “The Toxic Avenger” opposite Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay and Taylour Paige, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.

Macon Blair will write and direct the adaptation of the cult-classic franchise that centers around the iconic superhero “Toxie.” Production is set to get underway in Bulgaria later this month.

“The Toxic Avenger” follows the monstrous protector of Tromaville, N.J., born when the mild-mannered Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. He’s transformed into a repulsive yet lovable mutant hero who stands up to bullies and corruption with irreverent zeal — doing good and brutally mauling evil in a no-holds-barred fashion.

Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment will serve as producers. Alex Garcia and Jay Ashenfelter will oversee for Legendary.

An Emmy Award nominee and SAG Award winner, Bacon currently stars in the...

It’s a wonder that “holiday horror” isn’t a recognised subgenre given there are so many films about vacationing families, friends or couples coming up against a plethora of maniacal/supernatural rivals, as in the recent likes of You Should Have Left, The Rental, Koko-di Koko-da, Death of Me and Get In.

This latest, The Resort, centres on Lex (Bianca Haase), a writer and determined “final girl” type visiting a supposedly haunted resort on Hawaiian island Kilahuna, and with a group of friends in tow to celebrate her birthday. Lex wants to visit the island to conduct research for a writing project, but the group soon find themselves stalked and at the mercy of a skulk of malevolent spectres.

Supporting characters/genre stereotypes arise in the guise of Lex’s friends meat-head/jock douche with a heart of gold, Chris (Brock O’Hurn), the sarcastic, booze abusing Sam (Michael Vlamis...

Neighbor Labor: Brühl Gruels Through Interesting Scenario, Banal Characters in Debut

Gentrification is supposedly the thrust of Next Door, Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut which showcases the vulnerability of a narcissistic, self-consumed actor and a resentful man who has an axe to grind. Said axe makes more sense as an overarching metaphor than a logical dramatic, catalyst concerning this increasingly intense two-hander which starts off in menacing Pinteresque mode and then turns into a soap opera. But the script from Daniel Kehlman has enough subtexts to make one curious as to where the chips will fall and evokes the uneasy spirit of gentrification as euphemism considering the cultural take over of East Berlin after the fall of the wall.…...

It’s that time of the month where we can give you a look ahead at what Sky Cinema has planned for the coming weeks, and since it doesn’t look like many of us are going very far, hopefully some of these upcoming movies will help to keep us busy during lockdown.

Without further ado, he’s what Sky Cinema has lined up for us…

Premieres

The 24th – 2nd February

BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods writer Kevin Willmott brings us the story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and delves into the the Houston Riot of 1917.

Weathering With You – 3rd February

In this acclaimed animated film, impressionable young Hodaka meets the conflicted Hina, who can control the weather. It’s really touching, funny and wonderful, and also a perfect movie for fans of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name.

Bull – 4th February

Bull, which was a hit at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival,...

David Koepp has been tapped to write the script for Universal Pictures and Amasia Entertainment’s The Green Hornet and Kato.

This past April, Universal optioned rights to The Green Hornet from Amasia, after co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo acquired control of the motion picture franchise from the family of the original creator George W. Trendle in a competitive bidding war in January.

Helfant, the former president of Marvel Studios, and Gallo will produce the film for Amasia.

The Green Hornet was one of early radio’s most popular adventure shows (predating Superman), before being turned into 1940s movie serials (from Universal ) and the 1966 TV series that introduced Bruce Lee (Kato) to the U.S. The classic story focuses on Britt Reid, owner-publisher of The Daily Sentinel. Armed with knowledge from his sources, cool weapons, a supercar known as the Black Beauty, and teamed with his trusty aide Kato,...

“The Green Hornet and Kato” film at Universal and Amasia Entertainment’s has landed a big franchise writer, David Koepp, known for “Jurassic Park,” the original “Mission: Impossible” film and the first “Spider-Man” film, among many more.

“The Green Hornet and Kato” was optioned and announced back in April after Amasia co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo acquired the movie franchise rights from the family of the original creator George W. Trendle in a bidding war in January.

Helfant, the former President of Marvel Studios, and Gallo will produce the film for Amasia.

David Koepp is attached as a writer on the next Indiana Jones movie and Universal’s “Bride of Frankenstein,” and he most recently wrote and directed the Kevin Bacon thriller “You Should Have Left.”

“The Green Hornet” was one of early radio’s most popular adventure shows — even predating “Superman” — before it became a set of movie...

Over the course of the global pandemic, Universal Pictures was the first studio to bypass theaters and release select films via streaming, strike the only deals with major exhibitors to shorten the theatrical window, and introduce a new hybrid window that straddles theaters and homes.

That’s why 2020 will be remembered as a year full of bold moves for the trio of Universal marketing executives Variety is honoring with this year’s Marketing Visionary Award presented by Spotify: president of worldwide marketing Michael Moses, co-president of domestic marketing Dwight Caines and president of international marketing Simon Hewlett.

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It would be an understatement to say Covid-19 upended their business as the plans for dozens of movies scheduled over dozens of months to run in thousands of multiplexes worldwide had to be completely rethought. It was like nothing Moses experienced over the two decades he’s been promoting movies at Universal.

Exclusive: Kevin Bacon has come aboard Andrew Baird’s action thriller One Way, joining already announced cast Colson Baker and Travis Fimmel.

In One Way, Freddy (Baker) goes on the run with a bag full of cash after a robbery of his former crime boss goes wrong. With a potentially fatal wound, he slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. After a call for help, Freddy’s estranged father (Bacon) betrays him, notifying the crime boss where he is. With his life slipping through his fingers, Freddy is left with very few choices to survive.

Production is expected to commence in February in Los Angeles and Tulsa, Ok. Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales during the virtual AFM for the title, which is scripted by Ben Conway.

“Kevin Bacon is one of the most talented and internationally recognizable actors of his generation. We are thrilled that...

The Gerad Butler-fronted disaster movie Greenland will now be released via premium video-on-demand in the U.S. this December, skipping theaters entirely. Originally scheduled to be theatrically released on June 12, 2020, Greenland faced several delays and release date push backs and is now scheduled to hit PVOD on December 18, priced at $19.99 for a 48-hour rental.

"Greenland has been a hit everywhere in the world, so it's exciting to bring it to American audiences on PVOD," Adam Fogelson, chairman of the STXfilms Motion Picture Group, said in a statement.

Greenland was recently pulled from release indefinitely, before being moved to August and then again to September, before now going straight to streaming later this year. Alongside the domestic PVOD release in December, the streaming rights to Greenland reportedly sold to HBO for $20-30 million, who will release it in early 2021 and have it stream on their exclusive service HBO Max. Greenland will...

To mark the release of You Should Have Left on 12th October, we’ve been given 1 copy to give away on Blu-ray.

In this psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation in a remote home in the Welsh countryside. What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a terrifying nightmare when reality begins to unravel, dark episodes from the past resurface, and a sinister force in the house refuses to let them leave.

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Having broken through off Broadway with Sean Penn and Val Kilmer, it’s no surprise that the actor has spent 35 years striving to put being a teen idol behind him. ‘I’m drawn to dark things,’ he says

Alarm bells would ring for most couples if one partner suggested marriage as the perfect subject for a horror movie. Kevin Bacon does not seem perturbed, though, that his latest film, You Should Have Left, was inspired by just such an idea that his wife, the actor Kyra Sedgwick, came up with.

“I’m drawn to dark things,” he says down the phone from their farm in Connecticut. “On some level, it’s therapeutic. I have a marriage that works and I didn’t have a tremendous amount of trauma as a child and yet I feel all human beings have darkness in their souls. Fear and anger and doubt live within us.

In terms of dealing with the pandemic and how to release existing or finished films without having movie theaters available until recently, Blumhouse has been one of the leaders. The company — in conjunction with its primary distributor, Universal Pictures — shifted the arrival of its summer horror movie, You Should Have Left, from theaters to VOD seamlessly, while movies that came out in theaters right before the coronavirus shut everything down — like The Invisible Man and The Hunt — also made the transition quickly and smoothly, extending their shelf life and possibly their audiences.

Now, with many theaters reopened around the country but not pulling in a lot of customers (and some closing again soon), Blumhouse has another surprise up its sleeve: the company has partnered with Amazon Prime to release eight new films through the platform, as part of an anthology series called Welcome to the Blumhouse. Two of the films,...

Even though it once seemed like a borderline impossibility, Happy Death Day 3 now has new life. Producer Jason Blum has revealed that he has every intention to make the planned third movie in the time-bending slasher trilogy. What's more, the recent trend of premium VOD releases may be the thing that gets it done.

Blumhouse Productions head Jason Blum is currently promoting the release of Welcome to the Blumhouse, a series of four movies produced by the studio that are heading to Amazon Prime Video this Halloween season. During a recent interview, Blum was asked about the status of Happy Death Day 3. He explained that director Christopher Landon still wants to do it and that they may give it a go following the release of his new movie Freaky. Here's what Blum had to say about it.

"It's a trilogy. I've got to make the third one. Maybe after Freaky we'll figure it out.