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Halloween may be over but the good news is that the horror genre never sleeps. And that’s why the first full week of November is kicking off with Five brand new horror movie releases.

Here’s all the new horror that released on Friday, November 8, 2024!

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

From directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, A24 released Heretic in theaters nationwide beginning last night. A24’s latest big screen horror villain? Hugh Grant!

Hugh Grant (D&d: Honor Among Thieves), Chloe East (The Fabelmans) and Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”) lead the cast of A24’s new horror movie. In the film…

“Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.”

Heretic made its world premiere back in September at TIFF, which...

From Shudder, Sony Pictures Television and Stolen Pictures comes Black Cab, a supernatural horror movie starring Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) that’s headed to Shudder.

Black Cab debuts on Shudder beginning Friday, November 8.

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Nick Frost will play “an erratic cab driver” in the upcoming horror movie from director Bruce Goodison (Murdered By My Father, Leave To Remain, Then Barbara Met Alan).

In Black Cab, “When Anne (Synnøve Karlsen) and Patrick (Luke Norris) hail a black cab after a night out their driver (Nick Frost) is chatty, jovial even, but they are in no mood to talk. In fact, the couple is barely on speaking terms. That is, until they realize the driver has no intention of taking them home.

“Locked in the cab with no means of escape, the driver transports the couple to a stretch of deserted and supposedly haunted road.

London and Paris-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded Bruce Goodison’s supernatural horror Black Cab starring Nick Frost.

Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz star Frost play an erratic cab driver, with Last Night In Soho’s Synnøve Karlsen and The Colour Room’s Luke Norris playing couple who find their jovial black cab driver is not taking them home. Trapped on a desolate, supposedly haunted road, they are faced with their captor’s true intentions.

Sony Pictures Television and Stolen Pictures are co-producing alongside AMC Networks’ genre entertainment streamer, Shudder, which will debut the...

“Shadow and Bone” star Archie Renaux and “Lockwood & Co’s” Ruby Stokes are set to join Jenna Coleman in upcoming BBC thriller “The Jetty.”

In the four-part series, from writer Cat Jones and producers Firebird Pictures (a BBC Studios label), Coleman plays Ember Manning, a rookie detective who finds herself at the center of an unusual case when a vacation home in a peaceful lake-side town in Lancashire goes up in flames. At the same time, there’s a journalist investigating a cold missing person case for a podcast while a man in his twenties is carrying out an illicit relationship between not just one but two underage girls.

As Manning investigates the fire, she finds the threads are connected but the truth has the power to destroy her life, “forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present and the town she’s always called home,...

BBC Taps Dragonfly For Commissioner

The BBC has hired Tom Pullen from Then Barbara Met Alan producer Dragonfly. Pullen will become a commissioning editor on Clare Sillery’s documentaries team. He was previously Head of Documentaries at Banijay UK-owned Dragonfly and has spent the at Gold Rush producer Raw and was Head of Factual Development at Sex Education maker Eleven. Recently, Pullen was executive producer on Jack Thorne’s BBC and Netflix factual-drama Then Barbara Met Alan, which is about two UK trailblazers whose campaigning led to the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act. He also EPed Sky feature doc Forced Out and lined up true crime series Anni for Discovery+ and worked on major Dragonfly shows such as BBC One‘s Life and Death and Channel 4’s What Makes a Murderer. He starts at UK pubcaster the BBC on November 6.

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Liz Jensen’s bestselling 2009 novel “The Rapture” is to be adapted into a five-part drama starring Ruth Madeley, and produced by Mammoth Screen for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

The writer is Bryony Kimmings (“Last Christmas”), with Rebecca Manley, and is directed by Chanya Button.

Recovering from a car crash which has left her paralysed, forensic psychologist Gabrielle Fox (Madeley) takes a job working in a maximum security facility for juvenile patients. Here she meets 16-year-old inmate Bethany Krall, who was found guilty of brutally murdering her mother, and tells Gabs that she has psychic powers. Is she a highly manipulative psychopath or is she telling the truth when she says she can foretell a natural disaster linked to climate catastrophe?

Madeley said: “I loved Liz Jensen’s novel and Bryony Kimmings’ scripts are brilliantly inventive and funny and scary. Gabs is such a rich and complex character, and I cannot wait to play her.

The nominations for the Banff World Media Festival’s Rockie Awards have been announced, with American and British TV producers again set to dominate the international TV competition in the Canadian Rockies this year.

American TV shows earned 52 nominations, with FX Networks, National Geographic and Warner Bros. Discovery each nabbing five mentions for their series. That was followed closely by U.K. producers with 41 nominations, and Canadian producers with 37 mentions.

Among broadcasters, the BBC netted a field-leading 21 nominations for its programming across a range of categories. The Banff Rockies prize-giving will be streamed live on June 12 as part of an in-person event planned by festival organizers in Banff, Alberta.

U.S. producers dominate the best English language drama competition, with nominations for HBO’s Euphoria, House of the Dragon and The White Lotus series, which will vie against the CBC/BET+ drama The Porter and the AMC and BBC drama This Is Going to Hurt.

The BBC’s long-awaited update on the progress of a 2020 fund set up to improve diverse content on the public broadcaster has been met with scepticism from some U.K. industry leaders who have called it “smoke and mirrors.”

The BBC’s Creative Diversity Commitment — made in the wake of the renewed Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020 — pledged to spend £100 million (124 million) of its existing commissioning budget over three years (from April 2021 to March 2024) on diverse and inclusive content, which spans racial representation as well as social mobility and disability. That divides into roughly £33 million a year. (The BBC’s total spend on TV in 2020/2021 was £1.4 billion.)

The fund is intended to apply to a range of genres, and commit the corporation to create content with at least two of the following three priorities: diverse stories and portrayal on-screen; diverse production teams and talent; and diverse-led production companies.

The BBC revealed on Thursday that,...

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The BBC is on track to spend £100 million (121 million) on diverse and inclusive TV content by 2023/2024, a target it set for itself in 2020 in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.

In the first progress update on the network’s Creative Diversity Commitment, the BBC said it had invested £44 million (53 million) on 67 diverse TV programs since 2021. These shows — including Tonight With Target, Then Barbara Met Alan, Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star and Dreaming Whilst Black — were made by 48 different independent production companies, the BBC said, 73 percent of which had diverse leaderships and 10 percent had never been commissioned by the BBC before.

A total of £4 million (4.8 million) had also been invested in supporting 90 diverse radio commissions, with the BBC confirming that this means it was “on track” to investing the full £112 million (135 million) targeted.

“The BBC is for everyone and audiences...