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Production has wrapped on the conspiracy thriller Lone Wolf, which stars Lily Gladstone – who was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon – and Bryan Cranston, who is best known for starring in the TV series Breaking Bad but also happens to be an Oscar nominee for his performance in the film Trumbo. Lone Wolf is the latest film from director Mark Pellington, whose previous credits include Survive, The Severing, Nostalgia, The Last Word, I Melt with You, Henry Poole Is Here, The Mothman Prophecies, and Arlington Road.

Deadline reports that filming took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gladstone and Cranston are joined in the cast by O’Shea Jackson, Jr. (Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera), Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty), Chet Hanks (Dead Wrong), and Spencer Garrett (Yes Man).

Scripted by Tom Chilcoat, co-writer of the 2022 Brian Austin Green horror thriller Last the Night,...

Plex is gearing up for an exciting lineup of films and series in November 2024. Viewers can look forward to a variety of new additions, including Blue Ridge, But I’m A Cheerleader, Call Jane, and Empire State. Cult classics like The Grudge, Hard Candy, House of 1000 Corpses, and The Midnight Meat Train are also hitting the platform, alongside more recent hits like Wind River and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? For fans of horror, thrillers, and emotional dramas, there’s no shortage of options. However, Plex is also bidding farewell to a number of films and shows in November. Among those leaving are 24 Hours to Live, Drive Angry, The Devil’s Rejects, Snowpiercer, and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. If you’ve been meaning to watch these titles, now is the time to catch them before they disappear. For those looking to binge their favorites, many notable titles are still available for streaming.

Roundtable Entertainment has announced that they’re teaming up with director Mark Pellington – whose credits include Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies, Henry Poole Is Here, The Last Word, The Severing, and Survive, among many other projects – for the adrenaline-fueled human trafficking revenge thriller Mom.

Scripted by Brent Jordan, Mom tells the compelling story of a single mother embarking on a daring cross-country rescue mission, piecing together clues in the search for her teenage daughter who has fallen victim to the horrors of human trafficking.

Casting Director Lisa Zagoria, who assembled the cast for the Best Picture winner Coda, will be handling the casting of this film as well.

Pellington had this to say about the project: “Mom is a fast-moving story of protection and revenge. The film explores the true price of violence and the cost of justice, when an ordinary mom is pushed to an extraordinary place. This is a muscular,...

“Pellington’s boldest and most audacious film to date, an unclassifiable dance movie that plays like a cross between Wim Wenders’ Pina and Saw…Pellington moves beyond the limitations of narrative to get at something primal and raw—but also ultimately transcendent and life affirming—that perfectly conveys the transformative effects of grief and loss.”

– Jim Hemphill, Filmmaker Magazine

“Pellington’s continuing rumination on the progress of grief: now a wildfire, now a slow, creeping cancer, always a constant companion…the answers to The Severing are written in flesh and bone.”

– Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

Kino Lorber presents Mark Pellington’s The Severing, a cathartic dance movement piece created in collaboration with the brilliant choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s Climax) and rising Dutch cinematographer Evelin Rei.

Screening 31st March in NYC at Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan

**Mark Pellington in attendance for Q&a **

Screening 6th April in LA...

Director Mark Pellington has long been one of the American cinema’s great chroniclers of grief, from early genre films like The Mothman Prophecies to more overtly philosophical takes on the subject like I Melt With You, The Last Word, and Nostalgia. While Pellington’s work is undeniably informed by the devastating loss of his wife Jennifer in 2004, it has tended, up until this point, to come at the subject from oblique angles, as in the 2008 dramedy Henry Poole Is Here. With his latest […]

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Director Mark Pellington has long been one of the American cinema’s great chroniclers of grief, from early genre films like The Mothman Prophecies to more overtly philosophical takes on the subject like I Melt With You, The Last Word, and Nostalgia. While Pellington’s work is undeniably informed by the devastating loss of his wife Jennifer in 2004, it has tended, up until this point, to come at the subject from oblique angles, as in the 2008 dramedy Henry Poole Is Here. With his latest […]

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It’s happening. It’s finally happening. What was once a particularly pervasive and aggressive Internet meme is now a reality. HBO Max’s list of new releases for March 2021 is highlighted by none other than the mythical Snyder cut.

The entity now known as Zach Snyder’s Justice League will premiere on March 18. While it was originally planned to be a four-part miniseries, this recut version of 2017’s ill-fated Justice League will in fact be a four-hour movie. But perhaps even four hours won’t be enough for fans who have been waiting years for just such an event.

Read more Movies Zack Snyder’s Original Vision for Justice League Faded Long Before His Exit By Joseph Baxter Movies Justice League: How Christopher Nolan Helped Prevent Zack Snyder from Seeing the Whedon Cut By David Crow

If the Snyder Cut is not to your speed, there are plenty...

Looking for a film of gigantic proportions? Debuting in theaters and on HBO Max March 31, Godzilla vs. Kong shows legends colliding as these mythic adversaries meet in a spectacular battle for the ages, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. The film will be available on HBO Max for 31 days from its theatrical release in the U.S. included at no additional cost to subscribers.

March also brings a spectacular line-up of original programming, kicking-off with the long awaited release of Zack Snyder's Justice League on March 18. Dramedy series Generation joins the platform on March 11, following a diverse group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community. Also new this month are the documentary debuts of Tina, CV Diaries NYC and Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests.

MaryAnn’s quick take… Cantankerous old grump teaches directionless young people about life… in a way that is totally obnoxious and not in the least bit convincing. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

It is not impossible to tell a story about a nasty character and make us like him or her. This is not a movie that achieves that. I will credit The Last Word, however, for flipping on its head that old cliché about a cantankerous old grump finally learning the true meaning of Christmas/life/love/whatever from a spunky young person: here, it’s cantankerous old grump Harriet (Shirley MacLaine: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bernie) who teaches some timid and directionless younger people the true meanings of things… though in a way...

MaryAnn’s quick take… Cantankerous old grump teaches directionless young people about life… in a way that is totally obnoxious and not in the least bit convincing. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

It is not impossible to tell a story about a nasty character and make us like him or her. This is not a movie that achieves that. I will credit The Last Word, however, for flipping on its head that old cliché about a cantankerous old grump finally learning the true meaning of Christmas/life/love/whatever from a spunky young person: here, it’s cantankerous old grump Harriet (Shirley MacLaine: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bernie) who teaches some timid and directionless younger people the true meanings of things… though in a way...

"Is there just one thing you can say about her that is 'nice'?" Bleecker Street has released the trailer for an amusing indie drama titled The Last Word, from director Mark Pellington (Arlington Road, Mothman Prophecies,Henry Poole Is Here), starring Shirley MacLaine as an aging business woman who decides to craft her obituary before her death. MacLaine confronts Anne Sherman, played by Amanda Seyfried, but is not happy with the results. The two start up an unlikely friendship, and learn even more about life as they work together. The cast includes Anne Heche, Thomas Sadoski, Alanna Ubach, Adina Porter, Tom Everett Scott, Joel Murray and Sarah Baker. This is premiering at Sundance in early 2017. Take a look. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Mark Pellington's The Last Word, direct from YouTube: In The Last Word, Shirley MacLaine is Harriet Lauler, a once successful businesswoman in tight control...

MaryAnn’s quick take… The ultimate anti-disaster movie. A supremely gripping and powerfully emotional film about, paradoxically, what happens when everything works as it should. I’m “biast” (pro): I remember that day vividly…

I’m “biast” (con): …but I worried about how it would be dramatized

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

I was still living in New York in January 2009 when Chesley Sullenberger landed a commercial airliner full of passengers on the Hudson River.

Landed a commercial airliner on the Hudson River.

Not in. On.

And almost everyone walked away unhurt. A bit cold and wet. One flight attendant got a nasty cut on her leg. We didn’t know that at the time. All we knew was that a goddamn plane had landed on the river and everything was fine.

It almost sounds like that...

Fox has put in development hour-long paranormal drama Apparition. It centers on a successful New Orleans doctor who is reluctantly pulled into the world of paranormal investigation when she discovers a secret family history that awakens an ability to connect with the afterlife. She teams up with an uncle she never knew she had and a former TV ghost hunter to help troubled souls, dead and live, find peace in this life and the next. Albert Torres (Henry Poole Is Here) will…...

The CW won't be returning to the place that's "not as brightly lit", as the network has apparently passed on the reboot of George A. Romero's 1980s anthology series, Tales From the Darkside.

According to CarterMatt.com, The CW will not be moving forward with their Tales From the Darkside reboot, with the show's anthology format and lack of a showrunner reportedly two of the reasons why the network passed on the series.

Joe Hill (Horns, NOS4A2, Locke & Key) wrote and executive produced the project and Kris Lemche (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Final Destination 3, Ginger Snaps, eXistenZ, Haven) was playing the lead role, a character named Newman who had knowledge of The Darkside and was going to appear in all (or most) episodes.

As fans will remember, the original Tales From the Darkside was a spinoff of Romero's Creepshow efforts. Like a 1980s cousin of The Twilight Zone,...

"...there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit... a darkside." This underworld can now expect its first visitor, as the reboot of George A. Romero's 1980s anthology series Tales From the Darkside, a project that was recently given a pilot order from The CW, has now cast its lead.

Deadline reports that Kris Lemche (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Final Destination 3, Ginger Snaps, eXistenZ, Haven) has signed on for the central role in The CW's pilot for the Tales From the Darkside reboot. The original series was episodic and featured a new set of characters in each installment, but in the reboot, we can expect to see one character appear in every episode, one who has ties to The Darkside. This character, named Newman, will be played by Lemche. Newman is "a weathered and tortured young man... the guide...

“…there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit… a darkside.” Brought to life by living dead legend George A. Romero, anthology series Tales From the Darkside was The Twilight Zone of the 1980’s, delivering stories brimming with horror, science fiction, and dark humor into living rooms from ’84–’88, and continuing to bring the chills and thrills decades later as reruns. Since 2013, a reboot of Tales From the Darkside has been in the works, but now The CW has made it official by ordering the pilot episode.

Deadline reports that an hour-long Tales From the Darkside pilot has been ordered by The CW for their 2015–’16 schedule. The reimagining of Tales From the Darkside was penned by Joe Hill (Horns, NOS4A2, Locke & Key), who will executive produce the project along with Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Heather Kadin, Mitch Galin, and Jerry Golod.

Comic-Con is a wonderful place, one where exciting scoops can emerge from unexpected places. Attendees at the panel for Alexandre Aja’s upcoming Horns, a Daniel Radcliffe-led horror comedy about a young man trying to solve his girlfriend’s murder (which looks amazing by the way), were treated to plenty of information about that project, but one well-placed question led to an update about an entirely different but also promising project – Universal’s comic adaptation Locke & Key.

Joe Hill, the comic-book artist whose novel served as the inspiration for Horns, delivered the news, confirming that the long-in-development project will in fact be a trilogy and is currently taking shape at Universal Pictures. Albert Torres, the screenwriter of Henry Poole is Here, the upcoming Akira remake and an announced live-action version of Ben 10, has been tapped to adapt the L0cke & Key comic-book series, which Hill co-wrote with Gabriel Rodriguez.

Locke & Key is being planned for a movie trilogy.

Joe Hill - the co-creator of the Idw Publishing comic - revealed that Universal Pictures is developing the adaptation as a trilogy during the Horns panel at San Diego's Comic-Con International, reports Dread Central.

Henry Poole is Here, Akira remake and Ben 10 screenwriter Albert Torres was recently announced to be working on a script for the project.

Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's award-winning series follows the adventures of three kids who move across the country with their mother following their father's murder.

They move into the old family home Keyhouse, a place that conceals various magical keys as well as a terrible evil.

A television pilot based on the series was filmed in 2011 but was not picked up by Fox.

The Locke & Key film adaptation has been held up by contractual negotiations between Universal and Fox.

Daniel Radcliffe stars in...

Watching Joe Hill's Locke & Key go from page to screen (big or small) has been nothing short of an exercise in frustration. That being said, some good news has come out of the San Diego Comic-Con regarding the haunting property.

During the Horns panel at the Sdcc Hill revealed that Universal Pictures is currently developing Locke and Key as a trilogy.

Albert Torres has been tapped to write Locke & Key, Universal’s adaptation of the award-winning supernatural comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Bobby Cohen are to produce, as is Ted Adams, the CEO and publisher of Idw Publishing, the company behind the comic.

Locke & Key tells of three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Maine. They soon discover the house has magical keys that give the bearers a vast array of powers and abilities.

Universal Pictures has signed Albert Torres to script its feature film adaption of "Locke & Key," the Idw Publishing comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. Roberto Orci ("Star Trek 3"), Alex Kurtzman, Bobby Cohen and Idw's Ted Adams will produce the project. A New York Times best seller, "Locke & Key" follows Nina Locke and her three children, who return to an old family home in Massachusetts only to be hounded by an evil entity as they realize the house possesses magical keys that grant a vast array of powers and abilities. Torres' resume includes the 2008 Luke Wilson film "Henry Poole is Here," a draft of "Akira" for Warner Bros., "Ben 10" and "Hyde," based on the Dark Horse comic. "Locke & Key" was previously developed as a television pilot in 2011 by 20th Television ...

Universal is wasting no time in getting their adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s Locke & Key off the ground. The studio acquired the rights to Idw Publishing’s supernatural graphic novel series last month and this week, they’ve brought on Henry Poole is Here scribe Albert Torres to pen the screenplay.

Torres’ resume is a bit lacking at the moment, though he’s reportedly been busy “tackling heavy-hitting tentpoles.” He worked on a draft of Warner Brothers’ own long-gestating graphic novel adaptation, Akira, as well as scripts for Silver Pictures’ Ben 10 and Paramount’s adaptation of the Dark Horse comic, Hyde.

The story of Locke & Key focuses on teenagers who go to live with their mother in her Massachusetts home after the murder of their father. Once there, the three kids find that the sprawling mansion, called Keyhouse, holds many secrets behind its closed doors, which...

Pulled out of adaptation purgatory last year by Universal, the comic book series Locke & Key is getting new life. Previously destined to be a TV show on Fox, but never making it past the pilot episode, the comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez is coming to the big screen and a writer has been hired to help get it there.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Albert Torres (Henry Poole is Here) will write the adaptation of Locke & Key. Torres has stayed busy recently on other adaptation projects, having worked on feature film drafts for the long-in-development Akira and the feature film version of Ben 10, as well as an adaptation of a Dark Horse comic titled Hyde. A director has not yet been attached to the Locke & Key adaptation, but we’ll keep Daily Dead readers updated as this movie moves forward.

For those not familiar with the comic book series,...

Over a year ago, it was revealed that writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci would be shepherding an adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic series Locke & Key for the big screen and now The Hollywood Reporter brings word that writer Albert Torres will pen the big screen adaptation. Torres previously wrote the 2008 film Henry Poole Is Here and even scripted a draft of the live action Ben 10 feature film. Check back here for future updates on the film as we learn them.

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It's not clear if Universal and Fox have made a deal yet involving the rights to Locke & Key, but the project does now have a screenwriter. THR is reporting Albert Torres has been hired to write the Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci produced adaption of Joe Hill's comic book series. Albert Torres wrote the screenplay for the 2008 dramedy Henry Poole Is Here starring Luke Wilson, and also worked on a draft of Akira for Warner Bros. and Ben 10 for Silver Pictures....

The Locke & Key film adaptation has hired writer Albert Torres.

The screenwriter has signed onto the Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci-produced comic book film from Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's award-winning Idw Publishing series follows the adventures of three kids who move across the country with their mother following their father's murder.

They move into the old family home Keyhouse, a place that conceals various magical keys as well as a terrible evil.

Torres wrote the 2008 Luke Wilson-starring comedy Henry Poole is Here and has worked on drafts of Warner Bros' Akira live action film, Silver Pictures' Ben 10 and Paramount and Skydance's Dark Horse Comics adaptation Hyde.

A television pilot based on the series was filmed in 2011 but was not picked up by Fox.

The Locke & Key film has been delayed by a rights clash between Fox and Universal.

Dear Video Gods, can it be? Is the feature adaptation of the Joe Hill comic series Locke & Key actually getting moving? After about a year of silence the buzz begins again as a writer has been found to pen the project! Miracles do happen!

THR reports that Albert Torres has been tapped to write Locke & Key, Universal’s adaptation of the award-winning supernatural comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Bobby Cohen are to produce, as is Ted Adams, the CEO and publisher of Idw Publishing, the company behind the comic.

Locke & Key tells of three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Maine. They soon discover the house has magical keys that give the bearers a vast array of powers and abilities. Little do they know (but they soon will) that a devious demon also wants the keys.

Over a year after Universal Pictures acquired the theatrical rights for Locke & Key, the studio has brought on Albert Torres to write the adapted screenplay.

Joe Hill (Horns) and Gabriel Rodriguez created the comic book series, which follows three siblings who move into their creepy ancestral home in Maine, after their father passes away. They come to learn that the house comes with a set of magical keys that gives the user mysterious, supernatural powers, before discovering that an evil demon also wants the keys.

Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Bobby Cohen will produce alongside Ted Adams, the CEO of Idw which publishes the comic book series. No production schedule was given. Locke & Key was previously adapted as a TV pilot for Fox, but it was never ordered to series.

Albert Torres wrote the 2008 drama Henry Poole Is Here. He also worked on a draft for Warner Bros.' Akira adaptation,...

Albert Torres ("Henry Poole is Here") has been selected to pen the latest attempt to adapt Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's award-winning supernatural comic book series "Locke & Key" at Universal Pictures.

Set in a small Massachusetts village, the story follows a mother and her three children who move into their family estate after her husband is murdered. The vast estate has many areas only accessible by special keys, while a malevolent force within the house lures the husband's killer to the town to finish off the rest of the family.

Originally "Transformers" and "Star Trek" scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman had planned to adapt the property into a single film. That collapsed, leading to a TV series adaptation. A Mark Romanek-directed pilot was produced but didn't get picked up to series.

Then in late 2012 came word that Orci and Kurtzman were planning to turn the property into a film trilogy at Universal.

Over a year ago it was revealed that writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci would be shepherding an adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez.s comic series Locke & Key for the big screen and now The Hollywood Reporter brings word that writer Albert Torres will pen the big screen adaptation. Torres previously wrote the 2008 film Henry Poole Is Here and even scripted a draft of the live action Ben 10 feature film. Check back here for future updates on the film as we learn them.

Locke & Key tried to find life on the small screen, but the adaptation of the acclaimed comic book series never made it past the pilot stage. Fortunately for fans, Universal picked up the rights to the comics not too long ago and now they're getting serious about making the film as they've hired a writer to pen the script.

Locke & Key are among some of my favorite comics. They don't feature any superheroes, but it's a powerful story about dealing with loss, the supernatural, and figuring out what it means to grow up. If you haven't read it, the series from Joe Hill has wrapped up and all six graphic novels are available for purchase. I highly recommend them.

As such, I'm pretty excited to hear that Universal (thanks to THR for the scoop) have hired a writer for their big screen adaptation of the series:

Albert Torres has been tapped to write Locke & Key,...

On Wednesday, Feb. 26, ABC premieres "Mixology," a comedy set in one night in one bar -- high-end Manhattan watering hole Mix -- as 10 single people try to find love, or at least lust.

Blake Lee stars as Tom, a man recently dumped by his fiancee, whose friends -- confident Cal (Craig Frank) and fast-talking Bruce (Andrew Santino) -- are tossing him into the singles pool after a decade off the market. First, he meets beautiful but brutal attorney Maya (Ginger Gonzaga), which leaves him in tears. It gets worse after that.

"Cal is the more levelheaded, clear-thinking man," Santino tells Zap2it, "and Tom is very impulsive and nervous and riddled with anxiety, and Bruce is the devil on his shoulder, if you will. I'm trying to get Tom to do something he's not used to. Instead of putting his feet in the water, I tell him to jump all...

Zeroinside Films and Pinnovating Productions are proud to announce that their paranormal thriller “The Black Dahlia Haunting”, written and directed by Brandon Slagle and starring Devanny Pinn (Hold Your Breath, Nude Nuns With Big Guns), Britt Griffith (SyFy’s Ghosthunters), Noah Dahl (Bad Teacher, Henry Poole is Here), Alexis Iacono (World of Warcraft, Blue Caprice), Cleve A. Hall (SyFy’s Monster Man, Troll), Jessica Cameron (Silent Night, TLC’s Brides of Beverly Hills), and Sarah Nicklin (Alice D, … Continue reading →...

We heard some time ago that Joel Silver - producer of, among many others things, Sherlock Holmes, V For Vendetta, and the Matrix trilogy - had signed on to develop a live-action feature film based on Cartoon Network's Ben 10 sci-fi franchise, with an eye toward distribution through Warner Bros. The show's creator gave us an update a while ago, but aside from that all had been quiet since. But now THR report that the movie has a new writer - Ryan Engle, who is also working on New Line’s adaptation of the Rampage video game and New Regency’s The New West, which is based on a comic from Black Bull Media. Engle will work off of the script by Albert Torres (Henry Poole Is Here).

Screenwriter Albert Torres who is currently modifying the script for the live-action Akira movie, will rewrite the screenplay for the feature adaptation of The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel.

The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde follows a recently rehabilitated Dr. Jekyll tracking down a criminal (or monster) using an improved formula from the infamous Hyde Experiment. Awesome book, awesome graphic novel, now if they would only make the film awesome as well – I’d be the happiest person in the world (yeah, I’m That demanding, hahah).

Torres has no actual finished credit to his name other than Henry Poole is Here, which is a low budget Luke Wilson dramedy.

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The Strange Case of Mr Hyde is to be adapted for cinema. Henry Poole Is Here scribe Albert Torres has been hired to pen a screenplay based on the Dark Horse Comics series, The Wrap reports. Created by Cole Haddon and Ms Corley, The Strange Case of Mr Hyde sees Scotland Yard enlist the help of Henry Jekyll after a serial killer seemingly fuelled by the same serum that unleashed Mr Hyde begins terrorising London. (more)...

Screenwriter Albert Torres ("Henry Poole Is Here," "Akira") has come on board to pen a re-write of the film adaptation of Cole Haddon's 2011 graphic novel "The Strange Case of Hyde" at Dark Horse Entertainment, Skydance Productions and the Mark Gordon Company.

A pseudo-sequel to the classic Robert Louis Stevenson story, the action is set five years later with Dr. Jekyll in prison and allegedly rehabilitated.

Inspector Thomas Adye of Scotland Yard commissions Jekyll into hunting down a new terror, a monster that has been murdering prostitutes and appears to be the product of an improved version of the infamous Hyde serum.

Adding to the complications, it seems Jekyll isn't completely cured of Hyde either.

Source: The Wrap...

The Dark Horse comic book series The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, by Cole Haddon and M.S. Corley, is on a journey to the big screen. The Wrap is reporting that screenwriter Albert Torres (Henry Poole Is Here) has signed on to re-write the script for the feature adaptation. 

The film is being produced by Skydance Productions, Dark Horse Entertainment and the Mark Gordon Company.

The original comic is described as follows...

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The Dark Horse comic book series The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde , by Cole Haddon and M.S. Corley, is on a journey to the big screen. The Wrap is reporting that screenwriter Albert Torres ( Henry Poole Is Here ) has signed on to re-write the script for the feature adaptation. The film is being produced by Skydance Productions, Dark Horse Entertainment and the Mark Gordon Company. The original comic is described as follows:   Five years after Mr. Edward Hyde's bloody reign of terror, the streets of London run red once again when a series of prostitutes are murdered with surgical precision. Convinced that the killer is using the same serum that birthed Hyde, Inspector Thomas Adye of Scotland Yard seeks assistance from its creator, the...

Screenwriter Albert Torres who is currently modifying the script for the live-action Akira movie, will rewrite the screenplay for the feature adaptation of The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel.

The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde follows a recently rehabilitated Dr. Jekyl tracking down a criminal... or monster... using an improved formula from the infamous Hyde Experiment.

Torres has no actual finished credit to his name other than "Henry Poole is Here," which is a low budget Luke Wilson Dramedy. ...

According to The Wrap, screenwriter Albert Torres (Henry Poole Is Here) has been hired to write a new draft of the planned big screen adaptation of The Strange Case Of Hyde, a Dark Horse graphic novel which was written by Cole Haddon and published last year. The film adaptation is being produced by Dark Horse Entertainment, Skydance Productions and Mark Gordon Productions. The story (which serves as a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde) follows Dr. Jekyll, after he is allegedly rehabilitated, and released from prison to help hunt a new monster who appears to be using an improved version of the infamous Hyde serum. Torres was also hired earlier this year to pen the screenplay for Silver Pictures' planned live action Ben 10 movie, and has also recently been brought on board to re-write Appian Way's Akira remake.

Is there any show that is more shambled, barely wheezing and in a shell of its former self than "The Office"? After Steve Carell exited the show (which was already wobbling in its last season with him), it seems the writers and showrunners had no idea what to do, flailing about as the comedy got much more broad, and the focus shifted away from the absurd mundane workaday life at Dunder Mifflin, into the corporate shenanigans at Sabre -- and all this while trying to establish Rainn Wilson as the show's next breakout star (plans to spin off Dwight Schrute into his own show, "The Farm," seem ill-advised at best). Anyway, long story short, they need some new life and they are pinning the hopes on some young talent.

TV Line reports that Clark Duke ("Greek," "Hot Tub Time Machine") will be joining the cast as a season regular, which...

The first trailer and poster for the upcoming indie comedy-drama Jesus Henry Chris, based on a short that director Dennis Lee made back in 2003, have debuted online. The film centers on a child genius who sets out to find his biological father, only to discover the he was the result of a sperm donation. [...]

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Get ready for even more Ben 10. In the Cartoon Network animated series, Ben Tennyson tangos with aliens. Now Joel Silver has set his sights on making a major live action motion picture out of Ben’s stories. Today we learned the project now has a writer. The scribe’s name is Albert Torres and here is why you should be excited about that.

Torres has been official hired by Silver Pictures to write the script for the live-action Ben 10 movie. He wrote the script for the black comedy, Henry Poole is Here, but also flexed his screenwriting muscle by performing a rewrite on the script for what was supposed to be a life-action version of Akira.

According to Variety, Joel Silver’s baby still doesn’t have a distributor, yet but everyone hopes Warner Bros. will take the bait very soon. will sign on due to the close...

Last summer, we brought you the news when the Cartoon Network signed a deal with Silver Pictures to develop a live action, feature film version of their animated series Ben 10. The series focuses on a boy named Ben Tennyson who gets his hands on an alien, watch-like device called the Omnitrix, that allows him to turn into various alien creatures, which he uses to fight evil, with the help of his cousin Gwen, and Grandpa Max.

Now, Variety reports that Albert Torres (Henry Poole Is Here), who most recently rewrote the Akira script for Warner Bros. Pictures has been hired by Silver Pictures to write the script for the big-screen project.

No production or release dates have been announced for Ben 10.

A lengthy seven and a half months after Joel Silver got his hands on the property, Variety reports that a screenwriter has boarded a live-action take on Ben 1o Alien Force, simply titled Ben 10. That fellow is Albert Torres, writer of Henry Poole is Here and, no less, one of the many names attached to the script of Warner’s Akira. For Silver — and, it looks like, Warner Bros. — he’ll be adapting the tale of “Ben Tennyson, a boy who can transform into 10 different alien creatures with the help of a glovelike device called the Omnitrix.”

This, on the surface, will come across to some as a minor update, but it’s actually a big step forward — especially since I thought this project just kind of fell by the wayside. Now, I don’t know if Torres can actually make something strong out of this material — his weak...

Today we have seven new photos, featurette, promo clip and TV spot for Mark Pellington’s (Henry Poole is Here) new movie, I Melt With You. Richard (Thomas Jane), Ron (Jeremy Piven), Jonathan (Rob Lowe) and Tim (Christian McKay) are old college buddies who gather for a week each year in Big Sur to celebrate Tim’s [...]

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In spite of the fact that the 2011 Sundance Film Festival press screening of director Mark Pellington's (Henry Poole is Here) new movie, I Melt With You, resulted in what New York Magazine (Nym) described as a "moviegoer exodus," speculatively attributed to the "movie's constant drug-taking, which is so immense that the characters may have more lines of coke than lines of dialogue," Magnolia Pictures picked up the distribution rights to the movie and will be releasing it On Demand on Nov. 4, before its limited theatrical run on Dec. 9.

Written by Glenn Porter, I Melt With You stars Rob Lowe, Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven and Christian McKay as four former high school friends who reunite at a summer beach house to, as Nym puts it, "do drugs, cry and scream about their midlife crises, and do more drugs." Watch the new Red Band trailer and see for yourself why some...

Cocaine. I think the "you" in the title is cocaine. Magnolia Pictures has passed along the red band trailer for the Mark Pellington-directed (Arlington Road, Henry Poole Is Here) I Melt With You. From the look of the trailer, the mid-life crisis ensemble drama is some kind of mash up of The Big Chill and Stag. Or Very Bad Things if you prefer Christian Slater to Mario Van Peebles. Either way, it's middle-class to rich white guys lamenting the dead ends of their lives in drug-o-vision, and I think I might have to sit this one out. Alright, that's not even being close to fair--but there's something off-putting about the combination of the music and the cast of actors looking sad about growing older...

It's been three years since Mark Pellington directed the spiritual dramedy, Henry Poole is Here, about a lonely man who gets more attention than he bargained for when people start seeing of image of Christ on the side of his home. A polarizing film to be sure, but to me it was thoughtful and funny enough to work even if you're not a person of deep faith. Pellington also directed the American...

Back in May of this year, we told you that Albert Hughes (Book of Eli) was no longer to direct Warner Bros’ live-action adaptation of the anime cult classic, Akira, originally a graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo. Hughes reported left due to “amicable creative differences.” Keanu Reeves, who had been the front-runner to star as Kaneda, had also passed on the project in May.

Now, Variety reports that Warner Bros has tapped Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown, Orphan) to helm the project.

Steve Kloves, (Harry Potter 1-8) has written the latest draft of this live-action Akira. Book of Eli writer Gary Whitta, Albert Torres (Henry Poole is Here), and Iron Man scribes Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have also contributed drafts in this development process. With the WB drawing from talent it has worked with successfully before like Kloves and Collet-Serra, it looks like this project is finally getting its legs underneath it.