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Next month brings the release of The Shrouds, the latest from legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg. The Criterion Channel is celebrating accordingly with a director’s spotlight of his audacious work.

Cronenberg’s The Shrouds will open on April 18 in New York and Los Angeles, before expanding nationwide on April 25, 2025. But you can begin streaming the “Directed by David Cronenberg” titles on Criterion Channel beginning April 1.

The programming selection includes a mix of classic Cronenberg body horror and underseen gems, including racing action movie Fast Company and early sci-fi works. The programming section includes the Criterion Collection Edition of Dead Ringers, in which Jeremy Irons delivers a impressive double performance as twin gynecologists who spiral into a into a dizzying madness exacerbated by drugs and sexual confusion. It’ll include an audio commentary by director David Cronenberg, Irons, and other crew members as well as other supplemental materials.

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Since its surprising theatrical run, The Substance has established itself as an instant classic. It showcased incredible horror scenes and brilliant makeup effects and opened the door for other body horror films in the years ahead. Movies like Together have been picked up by major studios after The Substance‘s success, and there will undeniably be more body horror flicks in production because of Fargeat’s masterpiece. While we wait for those movies, let’s check out some of the great horror, comedy, and drama films that both inspired The Substance and will appeal to fans of the movie.

1. American Mary (2012) Directed by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska

While The Substance is a little heavy on its themes around plastic surgery to maintain youth, American Mary never hesitates to make this part of the text. The indie horror film might not feature great performances, but it does nail a campy, hedonistic...

David Cronenberg, the Canadian body-horror master behind works like Crimes of the Future, Videodrome and Scanners, has shared his opinion about something he doesn't usually address: The Oscars. The director talked about the controversy that Brady Corbet's historical drama The Brutalistfaced before the Academy Awards this year when the film's editor admitted to using AI to make Adrien Brody's Hungarian accent more authentic. Cronenberg attributes the backlash to other Oscar nominees who campaigned against the film: "It's very much a Harvey Weinstein kind of thing."

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Cronenberg was at the London Soundtrack Festival, where he participated in a talk with his frequent collaborator Howard Shore. The composer has worked with Cronenberg on films like Crash, Naked Lunch and Eastern Promises, and he also composed the music for The Shrouds, the director's latest film, which is set to be released in 2025. Shore has also composed the scores for major Hollywood films,...

After his long-awaited return with Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg quickly followed it up with The Shrouds, a darkly funny conspiracy thriller led by Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and newly minted Oscar nominee Guy Pearce. Sideshow and Janus Films have unveiled the new trailer for the Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF selection ahead of an NY and LA opening on April 18 followed by a nationwide release on April 25.

Here’s the synopsis: “In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his ‘shroud’ technology begins to put his enterprise at risk,...

Denis Villeneuve recently revealed that he does not intend on helming a different film first, and his adaptation of Dune: Messiah (though the movie will likely end up being titled Dune: Part 3) will be his next project. Production is expected to get underway later this year, and we now have word on the return of a certain character from the first movie.

Though this won't come as a surprise to anyone who has read Frank Herbert's seminal sci-fi saga, here's your Spoiler warning just in case.

Jason Momoa's Duncan Idaho was killed off towards the end of Dune: Part One, but Jeff Sneider has now confirmed that the Aquaman star will reprise the role for the third film.

How does Duncan return after what looked like such a definitive death? Well, in the Dune universe, an artificial copy (not exactly a clone) of a deceased person known as...

Neon has begun production on stoner comedy The Wrong Girls starring Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat and disclosed further details on what it says is one of the first independent films to shoot in Los Angeles after the wildfires.

Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale are among the supporting cast on Dylan Meyer’s feature directorial debut.

Neon said that over the course of the 29-day production the film will employ approximately 100 people per day, 95% of whom will be local residents, including cinematographer Todd Banhazl (Hustlers), singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall, and costumer Heidi Bivens...

Neon has begun production on stoner comedy The Wrong Girls starring Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat and disclosed further details on what it says is one of the first independent films to shoot in Los Angeles after the wildfires.

Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale are among the supporting cast on Dylan Meyer’s feature directorial debut.

Neon said that over the course of the 29 day production the film will employ approximately 100 people per day, 95% of whom will be local residents, including cinematographer Todd Banhazl (Hustlers), singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall, and costumer Heidi Bivens...

Alia Shawkat, Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox and Tony Hale have joined Kristen Stewart in “The Wrong Girls” at Neon.

The film, which marks Dylan Meyer’s directorial debut, began shooting last week, becoming one of the first independent films going into production in Los Angeles following January’s devastating wildfires. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. and represent the international rights.

Over the course of the film’s 29-day production, which began last week, the film will employ approximately 100 people per day, 95% of which will be local L.A. residents, including Emmy-nominated cinematographer Todd Banhazl, singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall and Emmy-nominated costumer Heidi Bivens (“Euphoria”).

Written and directed by Meyer (“Moxie”), the film follows Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat), codependent best friends living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip, when a case of mistaken identity throws their lives into chaos.

Kristen Stewart (Love Lies Bleeding) and Alia Shawkat (Blink Twice) will topline The Wrong Girls, a new Neon film marking the directorial debut of Dylan Meyer, which is up and running in Los Angeles — one of the first indies to kick off production following the devastating wildfires.

Others in the cast include Seth Rogen — who also produces via Point Grey — as well as Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale.

Written and directed by Meyer, the film follows Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat), codependent best friends living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip, when a case of mistaken identity throws their lives into chaos. Neon will release the film in U.S. theaters and also reps international rights.

The film will be produced by Maggie McLean, Stewart and Meyer for Nevermind Pictures; Alex McAtee, James Weaver, Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Point Grey; and Allison Carter...

Alia Shawkat is joining Kristen Stewart in a lead role for The Wrong Girls, Dylan Meyer’s directorial debut for Neon now shooting in Los Angeles in the wake of the recent wildfires.

Written and directed by Meyer, the film follows Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat) as best friends living paycheck to paycheck, only to see a case of mistaken identity throw their lives into chaos. The Wrong Girls also has supporting roles played by Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox and Tony Hale.

Neon plans to release the film theatrically in the U.S. and shop the international rights. In 2019, Meyer wrote, directed and co-produced her own short film Rock Bottom.

The film’s 29-day production schedule is expected to employ around 100 people per day, 95 percent of which will be local Los Angeles residents, including cinematographer Todd Banhazl, singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall and costumer Heidi Bivens.

Kristen Stewart has found the right co-stars for her upcoming feature “The Wrong Girls.”

Stewart, who will lead the film that is written and directed by her fiancée Dylan Meyer (“Moxie”), will also produce the feature. “The Wrong Girls” was announced in 2023, with Stewart describing it as a “stoner-girl comedy” at the time. Alia Shawkat will also star in the film; Stewart acted alongside Shawkat in “The Runaways” in 2010.

The supporting cast also includes Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. and represent the international rights.

“The Wrong Girls” is Meyer’s directorial debut. The film follows Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat), two codependent best friends who are living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip, when a case of mistaken identity throws their lives into chaos.

Stewart told IndieWire while promoting “Love Me...

Dune and Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve has stated that he has no intention of helming any more movies in the franchise after his planned Dune: Messiah adaptation, but that doesn't mean Warner Bros. will stop after three!

According to scooper Daniel Richtman, the studio is planning to move forward with at least one more Dune movie, and they might be looking at Gareth Edwards to take the helm.

The scooper believes that there's interest in Edwards - who also has Jurassic World Rebirth coming out later this year - stepping in to direct, but isn't sure if he's actually in talks.

The first two movies were big successes, but a fourth chapter would still be somewhat surprising given the direction Frank Herbert's saga goes in after the second book. Villeneuve has shown little interest in adapting the later novels, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune,...

Crimes of the Future: Mascaro Envisions Trouble Ahead

“Getting old ain’t no place for sissies,” a quote often attributed to Bette Davis (or similar variations of the sentiment) easily applies to The Blue Trail, Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s fourth feature which depicts a near-future world where the elderly are conscripted against their will to an isolated concentration camp so the country’s youth can more easily focus on working. While darkly comedic in tone, it’s also a life changing odyssey for its central protagonist, a spry seventy-seven-year-old woman who is unwilling to obey these newly imposed orders. Pleasurably mordant in its critique of governmental propaganda disguising violence and inhumanity, Mascaro showcases lead Daniela Weinberg as a witty, resourceful woman who is far from ready to walk gentle into that good night.…...

Amazon MGM Studios has revealed the official trailer and poster for Picture This, an upcoming British romantic comedy film. The movie will begin streaming globally on Prime Video on March 6.

In this heartfelt rom-com, struggling photographer Pia (Simone Ashley) receives a prediction: true love and career success await her in the next five dates she goes on.

With her sister’s wedding looming and her family playing matchmaker, her ex (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) reappears, throwing both her love and professional life into chaos.

From Director Prarthana Mohan (The Miseducation of Bindu), Picture This was written by Nikita Lalwani (Gifted).

The movie stars Simone Ashley (Bridgerton), Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After), Sindhu Vee (Matilda: The Musical), Luke Fetherston (Still Up), Nikesh Patel (Four Weddings and a Funeral), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Anoushka Chadha (You) and Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso).

Picture This was produced by Ben Pugh (The Courier) and Erica Steinberg (Kill Bill...

One of the least-expected, most welcome, and coolest surprises on Star Trek: Discovery was the ongoing, recurring presence of David Cronenberg as the mysterious character, Dr. Kovich, who first popped up in season three of the show. Cronenberg has acted on occasion over the years but is far, far better known as the director of such features as The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, Eastern Promises, Cosmopolis, and Crimes of the Future. And now he’s back in the director’s chair for The Shrouds, which, nearly a year after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, will open in the United States on April 25.

Sideshow and Janus Films, which will release the film, just dropped a brief synopsis and a short teaser trailer. The synopsis reads, “Karsh (Vincent Cassel) is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a...

Body horror fans, get ready to be thrilled by this exciting news! David Cronenberg's latest body horror flick The Shrouds finally has a U.S. release date. When Sideshow and Janus Films picked up the U.S. rights to the film back in September 2024, the companies revealed that it would be hitting theaters in the U.S. in spring 2025. That meant anywhere between March and June. Now, we have an official release date for its U.S. theatrical debut!

Before hitting theaters nationwide, The Shrouds will be released on Friday, April 18, 2025, in New York and Los Angeles. Then, on Friday, April 25, the body horror will be available in theaters across the country. Don't forget to mark your calendar because you won't want to miss this latest chilling creation from David Cronenberg.

If you're familiar with Cronenberg's previous work, you'd know that he's in no way new to the body horror subgenre.

After acquiring horror master David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds after the film’s North American premiere at TIFF, Sideshow and Janus Films has set a Spring release date, Deadline reports today.

The Shrouds will open on April 18 in New York and Los Angeles, before expanding nationwide on April 25, 2025.

Vincent Cassel (Irreversible, Eastern Promises) stars alongside Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”).

In the film, “Karsh (Cassel) is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.”

As Joe Lipsett wrote in his review, we can expect The Shrouds to be among Cronenberg’s more personal works. Lipsett writes, “Cronenberg is on...

After his long-awaited return with Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg returned last year to the festival circuit with The Shrouds, a darkly funny conspiracy thriller led by Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and newly minted Oscar nominee Guy Pearce. Picked up by Sideshow and Janus Films, they’ve now announced the Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF selection will open in NY and LA on April 18 followed by a nationwide release on April 25.

Here’s the synopsis: “Karsh (Vincent Cassel) is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.”

Rory O’Connor said in our Cannes review, “David Cronenberg’s films have often imagined a future where technology would find a way into our collective id.

Scanners is the cornerstone of 1980s horror/sci-fi and a breakthrough for the now legendary director David Cronenberg, now the seminal shocker is set a mind-blowing Limited Edition makeover from experts in the field, Second Sight Films, this March. Second Sight Films announce the brand-new Scanners Limited Edition 4K/Uhd …

The post David Cronenberg’s ‘Scanners’ set for Dual Limited Edition release from Second Sight Films ‘So good, it’ll blow your mind’ released 31 March 2025 appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.

David Cronenberg has made a successful career out of helming some of the most visceral and visually disturbing body horrors in cinema. It started back in the 1970s with movies like The Shivers and has continued over the last 50-plus years with notable entries including Scanners in 1981, 1986's The Fly, and most recently, in 2022, with Crimes of the Future. The prolific filmmaker has dabbled in other genres like psychological thrillers and dramas, but he is most notable because of his avant-garde approach to conceptual and experimental horror. He has even made a few cameos in several of his films, appearing in small and largely unnoticed roles. But there have been two occasions in which Cronenberg was tabbed for featured, leading roles, and one of those was when he worked with another horror legend, Clive Barker, in the 1990 surreal cult film Nightbreed. While he isn't known for his acting abilities, Cronenberg...

Dune and Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve has stated that he has no intention of helming any more movies in the franchise after his planned Dune: Messiah adaptation, but that doesn't mean Warner Bros. will stop making them!

According to scooper Daniel Richtman (and backed up by a report from World of Reel), the studio is planning to move forward with at least one more Dune movie and a second TV series.

HBO's Dune: Prophecy was not as acclaimed as the films, but it reportedly did pretty well from a viewership standpoint.

The first two movies were big successes, but a fourth chapter would still be somewhat surprising given the direction Frank Herbert's saga goes in after the second book. Villeneuve has shown little interest in adapting the later novels, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune, as he feels the story starts to become too "esoteric.

The trailer for Love Me unveils more of the post-apocalyptic romance movie. The upcoming release, which is the debut feature of co-writers and co-directors Sam and Andy Zuchero, stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as a buoy and a satellite who assign themselves human forms and fall in love after humanity's end. Early Love Me reviews coming out of the movie's premiere at Sundance in January 2024 have been mixed, resulting in the movie so far earning a 47% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Bleecker Street has now debuted the official trailer for Love Me online. The trailer kicks off by following the initiation of the connection between the two artificial intelligences as they experiment with using virtual avatars inspired by YouTubers who are also played by Stewart and Yeun. As their bond strengthens and they learn about the world through whatever information survives on the Internet, they begin to develop more of...

Native American actors have been getting their much-deserved dues in recent years in Hollywood, with younger and older Indigenous actors benefiting from more opportunities. Native Americans, Indigenous peoples, and First Nations peoples are all names for the peoples who can trace their origins to the original tribes, confederations, and communities that called America home long before any Europeans came ashore. Persecuted from the outset, even modern Hollywood is not free from the sin of disrespecting and disenfranchising Native American actors. There’s a long, sad history of Hollywood whitewashing Indigenous roles, that is when they’re even included at all.

But the story has been changing in the 21st century. Native American movies and TV shows are telling real stories of Indigenous peoples, made by and starring those closest to them. With shows like Reservation Dogs and Dark Winds, and movies like Rez Ball proving popular with critics and audiences alike,...

This is our final round-up before the end of 2024, and it’s a good one. There are plenty of gift ideas lurking here––some choices to enjoy during time off, too. Note also that The Film Stage Holiday Gift Guide includes a list of my favorite cinema books from the last 12 months. One of those picks kicks off this column, and it is written by none other than the great Al Pacino.

Sonny Boy by Al Pacino (Penguin Press)

Al Pacino’s memoir, Sonny Boy, is easily one of the most eagerly awaited books of 2024. And for me, this look at the actor’s life and career more than lives up to the hype. Many highlights have already earned some social-media chatter––most notably young Al’s penis trauma (!), a near-death experience after a recent bout with Covid, and the reasons behind his decision to do Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill.

Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve recently shared a positive update on Warner Bros.' plans for a third movie, confirming that the script for an adaptation of Dune: Messiah is officially in the works.

Villeneuve also confirmed (though it really didn't come as much of a surprise) that Anya Taylor-Joy will return as Alia Atreides following her brief cameo in the last movie.

In Part One, we learn that Paul Atreides' mother, the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica, is pregnant with the late Duke Leto's child. When the Fremen take in the survivors of the Harkonnen massacre, Jessica agrees to become the tribe's new Reverend Mother (she isn't really given a choice) and is "persuaded" to drink the Water of Life (a blue substance that's been extracted from a juvenile sandworm).

This gives Jessica incredible foresight and knowledge of previous generations, while also awakening similar abilities in her unborn daughter,...

Dune and Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve has often mentioned that he is (or was) a huge Star Wars fan, and has even suggested that George Lucas' original trilogy was an early influence on his decision to pursue a career as a filmmaker.

Despite his love for the franchise, Villeneuve has now explained why he has no interest in directing a movie set in the galaxy far, far away.

While chatting to The Town Podcast, Villeneuve said directing a Star Wars movie simply isn't "a dream of his" because "Star Wars became crystallized in its own mythology, very dogmatic, it seemed like a recipe, no more surprises."

He also feels that Return of the Jedi derailed the franchise back in 1983.

“I was the target audience. I was 10 years old. It went to my brain like a silver bullet. I became obsessed with Star Wars. I mean, The Empire Strikes Back...

Despite the first Dune movie picking up a nomination for Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards, Denis Villeneuve was not nominated for Best Director. Understandably, this didn't sit very well with a lot of people - including star Josh Brolin.

Brolin, who played loyal Atreides War Master Gurney Halleck in both movies, was very vocal about Villeneuve being overlooked the first time, and is even more adamant that the filmmaker should be recognized by the Academy for his work on recent sequel, Dune: Part Two.

“If he doesn’t get nominated this year, I’ll quit acting,” Brolin tells Variety. “It was a better movie than the first one. When I watched it, it felt like my brain was broken open. It’s masterful, and Denis is one of our master filmmakers. If the Academy Awards have any meaning whatsoever, they’ll recognize him.”

We're sure Brolin won't actually retire if Villeneuve isn't nominated,...

International production banner Studio Galazio has wrapped principal photography on its first project, heist comedy Mykonos, with an ensemble cast of Klelia Andriolatou (Maestro in Blue), Andrew Georgiades, Riccardo Scamarcio (Modi, John Wick 2), Julia Fox (Uncut Gems) and Vito Schnabel (The Trainer), The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal.

Set on the glamorous European island, the film follows a rag-tag band of noble thieves who steal from the boorish elite tourists that destroy their home each summer.

Rounding out the cast are Panos Koronis (The Lost Daughter), Makis Papadimitriou (Suntan), Yorgos Pirpassopoulos (Crimes of the Future) Maria Kavoyianni (Maestro in Blue), Alan Asaad (Black Mirror) and Christos Passalis (Dogtooth).

Director-writer Christopher André Marks on the set of Studio Galazio’s ‘Mykonos’.

Galazio CEO Christopher André Marks (King Otto) makes his feature directorial debut based on his original screenplay. The writer and director said: “It is a privilege to collaborate with such...

Many characters have come and gone from "Yellowstone." The series announced itself as a show unafraid to write off even key characters by immediately killing off Lee Dutton, son of Kevin Costner's John Dutton III, who met his fate at the end of the pilot episode of "Yellowstone." Other characters have faded in and out of the series as it has gone on. Taylor Sheridan cast himself as horse trainer Travis Wheatley, who initially showed up in season 1 for an episode, then a handful of episodes in season 2, before being absent altogether from season 3. The character then cropped up in a recurring capacity in season 4, but was once again missing from season 5A.

Similarly, Canadian actress Tanaya Beatty played the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch horse groomer Avery in season 1. When she's first introduced, Avery is recruited by Cole Hauser's Rip Wheeler from a strip club and has to justify...

Here's some *ahem* buzzy horror movie news for your Tuesday morning. David Cronenberg's seminal 1986 body horror masterpiece The Fly is set to be the basis for a seemingly Nia DaCosta's Candyman style, universe expanding spin-off at 20th Century Studios. Per Deadline's reporting, Nanny filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu is actively developing, well, The Fly, on which the in-demand rising name in horror will serve as both writer and director.

As Deadline are quick to note, whilst plot details for Jusu's films are being kept shtum at the moment, "sources stressed that it’s set in the universe of Cronenberg’s film, rather than a straightforward remake." Yes, it seems we're heading Into The Brundleverse! Now, how exactly Jusu's movie will tie in to Cronenberg's cult classic remains to be seen, but there's no shortage of possible routes to go down — especially in this modern age of increasingly radical, head spinning scientific experimentation.

Scott Speedman is a husband whose dark secrets are bubbling to the surface in Cellar Door. Speedman saw an early skyrocket in his career with back-to-back major roles in Nancy Drew, Felicity and the Underworld movies. In the years since, Speedman has found further success on both the big and small screens with everything from Bryan Bertino's The Strangers to the ABC thriller Last Resort, David Cronenberg's body horror Crimes of the Future and Grey's Anatomy, among many others.

In Cellar Door, Speedman stars as John, a real estate agent looking for a new home with his wife Sera after she suffers a miscarriage and wants to move away from where it happened. After being offered the chance of a lifetime to own a sprawling mansion on the agreement to never open its cellar door, John and Sera begin to find themselves conflicting over the deal. As their conflict worsens,...

Ever wanted to watch so much Cronenberg that your own head explodes? Criterion's got you covered. Tonight, the Criterion Channel will air its live David Cronenberg marathon, with exactly 376 minutes (a little over 6 hours) of the fleshiest, most ungodly horrors the human brain has ever conceived of. "Gooey, splattery,...

“The Last Kingdom” and “My Policeman” star David Dawson leads an international cast in the dystopian thriller “The Flaw,” the feature directorial debut of Theophilos Papastylianos, which is currently filming in Athens.

Dawson is joined by U.K. actors Arthur McBain, Ralf Little (“The Royle Family,” “Death in Paradise”) and Danny John-Jules. Veteran Greek theater director Angela Brouskou also joins the cast in a lead role.

Set in a dystopian world dominated by the Regime, “The Flaw” follows a ruthless Interrogator (Dawson) who is ordered by the Special Service to follow a perfect Plan to prove a Suspect (McBain) is guilty. But once the interrogation gets underway, he comes to realize that there is a flaw not only in the Plan, but also in the Regime itself.

Published in 1965, “The Flaw” is the best-known work of Antonis Samarakis, one of the leading figures in modern Greek literature. It has been...

Beta Film has released a swashbuckling, pulse-pounding trailer for “Rise of the Raven,” its epic 10-part drama series based on the bloody 15th-century battle that changed the course of Europe. The show will world premiere at Mipcom in the Grand Auditorium of Cannes’ Palais des Festivals on Oct. 22.

Adapted from author Bán Mór’s bestselling novels, the series tells the story of the Hungarian warrior Janos Hunyadi, who defeated the Ottoman army in 1456 at the Battle of Belgrade, halting its march across Europe and marking a turning point in the history of the continent.

The series is produced by veteran Canadian producer Robert Lantos’ Serendipity Point Films and Beta Film, the production and distribution powerhouse behind series including “Gomorrah” and “Babylon Berlin.” The Munich-based company is also repping the show internationally as part of a packed Mipcom slate.

In a trailer shared exclusively with Variety, Hunyadi (Kádár L. Gellért) delivers...

[This story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Teacup.]

Scott Speedman may have endeared himself to audiences in the late ’90s as heartthrob Ben Covington, the object of Felicity Porter’s (Keri Russell) desires, on the WB college drama series Felicity. But for over two decades, the British-born Canadian actor has carved out a niche for himself in the horror and thriller genres, playing increasingly complicated and tortured men in the Underworld film franchise, The Strangers, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future and the forthcoming Cellar Door. And in recent years, Speedman, with his buzzy roles in Grey’s Anatomy and You, has reentered the cultural zeitgeist.

Now, Teacup marks Speedman’s latest foray into horror. Adapted from Robert R. McCammon’s novel Stinger by Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone, Chicago Fire) and executive produced by James Wan, the eerie eight-part series, which premiered with its first two episodes Thursday on Peacock, follows a disparate group of people in...

Much of the press about The Shrouds since its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year has focused on the deeply personal inspiration for the film: David Cronenberg’s grief over the death of his wife in 2017. For those who are aware of this context going in, one could see signs of that extra investment on the writer-director’s part here and there, especially in the way one of the film’s stars, Vincent Cassel, is made up to look like Cronenberg himself. Lest that suggests something more overtly emotional than what one might expect from the Canadian auteur, though, The Shrouds dispels that notion very early on.

The film’s opening credits sequence features a bunch of swirling dots that eventually form into the outline of a woman. Allied with the insinuating low-pitched electronic droning of Howard Shore’s score, the sequence dissolves into a dreamy...

Back in February of 2023, it was announced that Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, Laurence Fishburne, and Addison Timlin had signed on to star in the latest thriller from Terminal and Inheritance director Vaughn Stein, a project that was known as The Offer at that time. The Offer has since made its way through production and been retitled Cellar Door – and Lionsgate will be giving it a theatrical and VOD release on November 1st. With that date just five weeks away, a trailer for the film has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Sam Scott wrote the initial screenplay, which then received revisions from Lori Evans Taylor, who recently wrote and directed the supernatural thriller Bed Rest (starring Melissa Barrera of the Scream franchise) and co-wrote the upcoming horror sequel Final Destination 6, a.k.a. Final Destination: Bloodlines. Cellar Door has the following synopsis: Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage,...

Fresh off the film’s North American premiere at TIFF, horror master David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds has been acquired for U.S. release by Sideshow and Janus Films.

Deadline notes that they’re planning a Spring 2025 release for the film.

“Building on a long history with David Cronenberg that has included releases of Videodrome, Scanners, The Brood, Crash, Dead Ringers, and Naked Lunch, Janus Films and Criterion are very proud to be working with Sideshow and Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello to premiere The Shrouds, a major new work by the Canadian master in the United States,” Sideshow/Janus said in a statement shared by Deadline this morning.

Vincent Cassel (Irreversible, Eastern Promises) stars alongside Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”).

Variety previews, “The Shrouds centers on Karsh, a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife,...

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg and are planning a spring 2025 theatrical release.

The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition. It played the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Gala program and is set for its U.S. premiere in the Main Slate at the New York Film Festival next month.

The deal was negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with Sbs International. Producers are Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. It’s an Sbs, Prospero Pictures & Saint Laurent Productions Film with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Ontario Creates in association with Sphere Films, Crave & CBC Films with the support of Canal +, Ocs & the Centre National du Cinema et de L’image Animée.

“Building on a...

Exclusive: Serendipity Point Films (Eastern Promises) and January Media, along with their Greek partner Filmiki Productions, are underway in Athens, Greece, on feature Maya & Samar.

Directed by Anita Doron, best known for scripting Oscar-nominated The Breadwinner, and written by Tamara Faith Berger (Lie With Me), the film stars Nicolette Pearse (Maybe It’s You) and Amanda Babaei Vieira (Störung).

Pic is produced by Serendipity’s Robert Lantos, known for movies including Sunshine, Barney’s Version and Eastern Promises, and January’s Julia Rosenberg (Charlotte). Laura Lanktree (Crimes Of The Future), Steve Solomos (The Shrouds) and Filmiki’s Nikolas Alavanos (When We Were Sisters) are co-producers.

Distant Horizon’s Anant Singh (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom) is an executive producer. Vvs’s Harry Grivakis, Ernie Grivakis, Javi Hernandez, and Claire Peace-McConnell are co-executive producers.

The film shoots in Athens, Greece, and Toronto, Canada, with production set to wrap in October 2024. Vvs will release...

Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve recently shared a positive update on Warner Bros.' plans for a third movie, confirming that the script for an adaptation of Dune: Messiah is officially in the works.

Though the filmmaker hasn't full committed to helming the project, we'd be very surprised if he didn't return to finish his take on this saga - although, if and when he does, he won't actually consider it a trilogy.

“First, it’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych,” Villeneuve says of the first two movies during an interview with Vanity Fair. “It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not like a trilogy. It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there,...

Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests.

The Shrouds, Cronenberg’s latest, is even less of a genre film than Crimes of the Future, though it does share its predecessor’s same dark sense of humour, as well as the director’s tendency to revisit or reconsider his previous work.

The film is ostensibly set in 2023, four years after the death of Karsh (Vincent Cassel)’s wife, Becca (Diane Kruger). Becca died of bone cancer and Karsh has yet to recover, as the opening scene of him crying during a visit to the dentist proves.

The introductory scenes also establish the...

Although Dune: Part Two didn't reach $1 billion at the global box office as some had predicted (always a long shot in the current climate), it did pass $700 million worldwide, meaning a third film based on Frank Herbert's second novel, Dune: Messiah, always seemed likely.

Part Three still hasn't been officially greenllt by the studio, but director Denis Villeneuve has now shared a very positive update on Warner Bros.' plans for the final chapter.

While speaking to Variety at TIFF, the filmmaker confirmed that the script for Dune: Part Three is officially "in the works."

#Dune director Denis Villeneuve says that the script for the third film is "in the works." #TIFF https://t.co/5iTjRpVd1p pic.twitter.com/FPKDv3zPoT

— Variety (@Variety) September 8, 2024

This is obviously a strong indication that Villeneuve intends to return to complete the trilogy, but he hasn't always sounded too certain about it.

Ontario talent has long starred onscreen in Hollywood, from Ryan Gosling and Mike Myers to Rachel McAdams and Sandra Oh.

But just as the province has become a key Hollywood production hub for the major studios and streamers, top global film and TV producers are also embracing local below-the-line talent to realize their creative ambitions behind the camera.

“When the amazing shows come and they bring the crazy scripts and the ambitiousness of it all, we’re able to meet the challenge, which is satisfying to see,” Shayne Fox, who has just received her third Emmy nomination for her production design work on the series What We Do in the Shadows, tells The Hollywood Reporter about doing her best work in the FX sandbox.

From Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian epic Megalopolis to Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Ontario talent is bringing its A-game to some of the biggest titles of the fall,...

Nick is introduced as a patient in Season 14, showcasing passion for his career and forming a strong bond with Meredith. Nick and Meredith date in Season 18, highlighting a positive connection despite distance challenges and differences. Nick ultimately moves to Boston to be with Meredith, leaving room for potential developments on Grey's Anatomy Season 19.

Nick Marsh on Grey's Anatomy is one of the most dynamic and significant characters introduced in recent seasons of the hospital drama. Surgeon Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) has always met with a huge number of patients, by virtue of her job, but not many of them make this kind of lasting impression. After losing her soulmate, Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), and following her best friends Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) and Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) moving away, Meredith wasn't always accepting of new people.

Scott Speedman has played many TV characters in his career, including Matthew Engler in season 3 of You,...

As we enjoy the back half of the year, I can't help but get excited for horror releases coming in 2025. From returning franchises such as Saw and I Know What You Did Last Summer to anticipated adaptations like The Monkey, next year will surely rival this year in terms of the horror genre. And one release we just got an exciting update on is Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard's feature-length directorial debut, Hell of a Summer. Wolfhard co-wrote and co-directed the film with Billy Bryk.

Though Hell of a Summer was filmed in 2022 and made its premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, it had yet to score a distributor until now. As reported by Deadline today, hot studio Neon has acquired the U.S. rights to the movie, which is a horror-comedy. The production and distribution company shared the news on social media, posting a still from Hell of a Summer...

David Cronenberg's influence has shaped the modern horror landscape, blending metaphysical and physical elements for provocative storytelling. Cronenberg's impact on body horror is evident in films like American Mary, Slither, and Kuso, pushing boundaries with grotesque transformations. Newer films like Censor and Possessor continue Cronenberg's legacy, exploring themes of anatomy, self-transformation, and the blurred lines between reality and fiction.

The modern horror landscape wouldnt look the same without the influence of body horror maestro David Cronenberg. Since his debut, Shivers, a sticky satire about an apartment complex infected with an erotic virus clearly meant to critique the sexual revolution, his work has provoked by combining metaphysical with the very-physical on screen, plumbing the depths of the human animals urges by testing its boundaries, usually proving them much too porous for comfort, from The Fly to The Brood, to Videodrome.

The once-polarizing Cronenberg has become an elder statesman in horror over the years.

It’s the second and final day of Amazon’s annual Prime Day, with hundreds of products discounted — including prices slashed on horror movies!

Many of yesterday’s sales are still active, plus a bunch of new deals below…

4K Ultra HD Collections:

Scream / Scream 5 – $22.99 The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Vol. 3 – $36.99 Jurassic World: 6-Film Ultimate Collection – $42.99 Resident Evil Collection [Steelbook] – $109.16

Individual 4K UHDs:

The Suicide Squad – $9.99 Parasite – $10.39 Batman – $10.99 300 – $10.99 Edge of Tomorrow – $10.99 V for Vendetta – $10.99 A Clockwork Orange – $10.99 M3GAN – $11.99 Pan’s Labyrinth – $11.99 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World -$11.99 Beetlejuice – $12.99 Battlestar Galactica – $12.99 Brightburn – $13.95 The Shallows – $13.95 Monster Hunter – $13.95 Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City – $13.95 Leon The Professional – $13.95 Blade – $14.99 The Nun II – $14.99 Evil Dead Rise – $14.99 Sleepy Hollow – $15.99 The Witch – $15.99 Event Horizon – $16.49 Crimes of the Future – $17.29 Scream 2 – $18.39 Scream 3 – $17.94 Enter the Dragon [Steelbook] – $19.99 Night of the Living Dead – $24.99

Blu-ray Collections:

Dirty Harry: 4-Film Collection – $11.99 Cloverfield: 3-Movie Collection – $12.99 Hammer Horror: 8-Film Collection – $16.99 Memento / Insomnia / Batman Begins / The Dark Knight...

Guillermo del Toro’s boundless imagination, from the gothic horrors of “Crimson Peak” to the creature-feature-inspired “The Shape of Water,” has been cultivated by a lifelong love of cinema. The Mexican filmmaker proudly wears his influences on his sleeves, while championing the past and future of moviegoing and movie-making. Just take his latest projects.

There’s the stunning, stop-motion “Pinocchio” reimagining, which is leagues better than Disney’s straight-to-streaming competitor — far too slick for its own good (no matter how much Tom Hanks tried). And, also at Netflix, there’s the “Cabinet of Curiosities“: an eight-part horror anthology that unfortunately does not include any directing from del Toro, but does feature his writing, producing, and a Rod Serling-like “Twilight Zone” style intro for each episode.

Before that, the 2021 show business noir “Nightmare Alley” saw del Toro loosely remake a 1947 classic, but he also imbued plenty of his own...

1997 was far more than merely a popular setting for sci-fi films, feeding into Y2K tech paranoia and dystopian themes. Films like Escape from New York, Predator 2, and Terminator 2 showcased unique visions of the worst ways for America to crumble. James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day established what is perhaps the most significant date in sci-fi lore, marking the day the evil computer network Skynet gained self-awareness and instigated a war against humanity.

For all the talk about the mind-blowing science-fiction released in 1997, Starship Troopers and Gattaca to name a few, we forget that the year was always special in movies. No, not in the way you'd think, not the real-life chronology, but in regard to the narratives taking place in the made-up year of 1997. For a lot of sci-fi authors, they never thought we'd escape the year, let alone the 20th century. As far as the fictional protagonists go,...