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James Wan’s Atomic Monster production company has acquired the rights to develop Game Award-nominated indie title “Pacific Drive” into a TV series.

Created by Cassandra Dracott from Ironwood Studios, “Pacific Drive” is a retropunk-style driving and survival game set to an experimental electronic music soundtrack that challenges players to escape a surreal and abandoned exclusion zone with their car as their only companion in the dark and chilling world.

Debuting back in February, “Pacific Drive” was nominated for Best Debut Indie Game at the 2024 Game Awards Dec. 12 and won Best Gameplay at the 2024 Big Festival, where it was also nominated for Best Game. In June, the game was added to the suggested reading list for the Nebula Awards by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.

Wan and Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Rob Hackett will executive produce the TV series adaptation of the project along with Jeff Ludwig of The Menagerie Productions.

Gladiator II Box Office (Worldwide): Beats Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Gladiator II had the potential of grabbing the #3 spot in the US box office chart but missed the spot by a slim margin. It was occupied by Kraven the Hunter and its underwhelming $11 million debut. Ridley Scott’s film has now crossed the global haul of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to move one step ahead towards the top-10 highest-grossing of the year’s list. Scroll below for deets.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was released in May this year and was released by the 20th Century Studios in the US. It was a box office success and was made on a reported budget of $160 million. Directed by Josh Friedman, it is the 4th installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot film series and a standalone sequel to...

Kraven The Hunter Worldwide Box Office: Debut Weekend Update(Photo Credit – YouTube)

Kraven the Hunter had an utterly disappointing debut at the box office in North America and overseas. It has witnessed an even worse opening than Madame Web. Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s rugged looks and smooth actions did not help much to increase the film’s sales in its opening weekend. The movie was mounted on a production budget of $100 million. Scroll below for the deets.

The film was expected to earn between $13-$16 million in the United States, but it failed to even land in the projected range. For the uninitiated, this is the sixth film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, also known as the Ssu. The movie also features Russell Crowe in a crucial role.

According to Luiz Fernando’s report, Kraven the Hunter collected below the industry’s projections, scoring the lowest debut for a major comic...

Smile 2 Box Office (North America): Officially Ends Its Theatrical Run ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Naomi Scott starrer Smile 2 has reportedly ended its box office run in North America after fifty-six days. The movie earned immense praise and accolades and, therefore, turned out to be successful at the box office. It was directed by Parker Finn, and the movie made headlines after collecting $25 million in just four days of release. It left the overseas theatres a few days back with almost equal collections as the domestic gross. Scroll below for the deets.

For the unversed, the first film was released in 2022 and followed Parker Finn’s short film Laura Hasn’t Slept. The short film was released in 2020. It was made on a reported budget of $17 million, and although it recorded a lower opening than the sequel, the 2022 flick is winning the box office race by significant numbers. Smile collected...

The Amazon series based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s bestselling novel “56 Days” has added four new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.

Kingston Rumi Southwick, Ella Victoria, Megan Peta Hill, and Alfredo Narciso have all joined the series, which is now titled “Obsession.” Exact character details are being kept under wraps, but Hill and Narciso will appear in recurring guest star roles while Victoria and Southwick will be guest stars.

They will appear alongside previously announced main cast members Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia, Dorian Missick, and Karla Souza. Recurring guest stars include Kira Guloien, Celeste Oliva, Jesse James Keitel, Matt Murray, and Patch Darragh.

The official description for “Obession” states that it “follows Oliver (Jogia) and Ciara (Cameron), who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body—brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed.

When Nate Bargatze returned to host Saturday Night Live earlier this month, it had been less than one calendar year since his previous headlining gig in October 2023. That’s a pretty speedy reappearance! But it doesn’t even crack the top 20 in terms of quickest returns to 30 Rock between hosting gigs.

Who got back even quicker? Here are the five SNL hosts who returned the fastest…

5 Tie: Buck Henry and Steve Martin: 126 Days

Maybe the hosting talent pool wasn’t as deep in the early days of Saturday Night Live, or maybe Lorne Michaels knew to ride a funny horse once he found one. Take Buck Henry, for instance. He hosted SNL’s 10th episode ever in January 1976, then returned in May of the same year to host the 21st as well. “Buck Henry so totally got it,” Michaels has explained. “When he got there, he said, ‘Do...

Five actors have been cast in Obsession. The upcoming psychological thriller series, based on Catherine Ryan Howard's 56 Days novel, is headed to Prime Video. Patch Darragh, Kira Guloien, Celeste Oliva, Jesse James Keitel, and Matt Murray will all appear in recurring roles.

Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia, Dorian Missick, and Karla Souza have been previously cast in the Obsession series. It tells the story of a couple who fall in love very quickly. Flash forward to 56 days later, and a homicide detective arrives at one of their apartments to find a brutally murdered and very decomposed body. What happened, and did one of them kill the other?

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Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year, and over the last couple of months, casting announcements have been revealing the names of the actors we’ll be seeing on the show. Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles, and now Deadline has revealed that they’ll be sharing the screen with Kira Guloien (The Good Doctor), Celeste Oliva (Julia), Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky), Matt Murray (Snowpiercer), and Patch Darragh (Long Bright River).

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Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year, and last month we learned that Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles. Now they have their first pair of co-stars. Cameron and Jogia are being joined in the cast of Obsession by Karla Souza of How to Get Away with Murder and Dive, and Dorian Missick of The Burial and Shirley.

Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, who were behind the Starz drama The Rook, are writing...

Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia have been cast to lead Amazon Prime Video’s thriller series “Obsession,” which was ordered at the end of last year.

The series is based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s novel “56 Days” and, per the official description, it follows “Oliver (Jogia) and Ciara who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body—brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers’ affair in the past, the series is both a unique crime story and a riveting, erotic, psychological thriller.”

The series is written and executive-produced by Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher. Horror legend James Wan is also on board as one of the executive producers,...

Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year – and now Deadline has learned that Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles.

Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, who were behind the Starz drama The Rook, are writing the adaptation and serve as executive producers alongside Wan and Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Rob Hackett. Danielle Bozzone will oversee the series for Atomic Monster. Howard is a co-executive producer.

Written by Howard during the pandemic lockdown...

Dove Cameron (Descendants, Schmigadoon!) and Avan Jogia (Orphan Black: Echoes) teaming up is our new Obsession.

The pair will star in Prime Video’s upcoming thriller from executive producer James Wan’s Atomic Monster, which was given a series order last year.

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Based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s international best-selling novel 56 Days, the story centers on Jogia’s Oliver and Cameron’s Ciara who,...