Story Kitchen and MoonHood Studios have teamed up to create TV and film adaptations of The Midnight Walk. Producers and writers are currently meeting to discuss the game becoming a TV and film project — which is in early development. An official press release also noted that Story Kitchen does have first-look deals with Amazon MGM Studios and DreamWorks Animation for the TV and film adaptations, respectively. Story Kitchen previously...
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news Tuesday that Pixar Animation Studios is going through with a new sequel to 2004’s The Incredibles, but that Incredibles and Incredibles 2 writer-director Brad Bird won’t be at the helm. The movie, first announced at Disney’s D23 expo in 2024, will instead be directed by Peter Sohn, a Pixar animation and voice veteran who made his directorial debut with the short “Partly Cloudy” in...
Dracula is one of the most iconic villains of all time, leading writers and filmmakers to constantly search for new ways to portray him, from focusing on his underling, to putting him on a boat to having him fight the X-Men. The latest version, starring Titus Welliver of Bosch as Dracula’s nemesis Abraham Van Helsing, is changing things up by keeping the Count in the shadows while building up family...
DC Studios head James Gunn has revealed several key things about the future of its cinematic universe, including confirmation that a Wonder Woman movie is currently in development. James Gunn clarified to Entertainment Weekly that Wonder Woman is “a separate thing” from the upcoming HBO series Paradise Island, which centers on the Amazons of Themyscira. While he acknowledged the series is “slow moving, but it’s moving,” he also shared an...
Webtoon is deepening its partnership with Dark Horse Comics by bringing five major franchises to its English-language platform. Newly reformatted for Webtoon’s signature vertical-scroll format, the lineup includes Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins, The Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077, Plants vs. Zombies, and fresh stories from Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra. Dark Horse Comics’ The Witcher follows Geralt of Rivia on new, mostly original adventures. The Legend of Korra (a Webtoon-exclusive...
The bad news: Nintendo and Sony Pictures have delayed the live-action The Legend of Zelda movie. The good? That delay is a mere six weeks, and puts The Legend of Zelda right at the beginning of summer blockbuster season, an indication that Nintendo and Sony are confident in Link’s ability to save the summer of 2027. The untitled Zelda movie was previously slated for a March 26, 2027 theatrical release....
Australian director Sean Byrne is one of horror’s premiere mixologists. His debut, 2009’s The Loved Ones, meshed teen romance with gruesome Hostel-style extremism. 2015’s The Devil’s Candy put a heavy metal spin on the haunted-house romp. His new film, Dangerous Animals, in theaters now, raises a question no one was asking about a classic B-movie subgenre: When is a killer shark movie not a killer shark movie? Answer: When the...
As I see it, Hollywood currently has four stables of movie talent: Movie-movie stars (Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep) HBO-movie stars (Colin Farrell, Steve Carell, Anthony Mackie, and anyone whose TV shows have movie vibes and movies have TV vibes) Streaming-movie stars (Millie Bobby Brown, post-Avengers: Endgame Chris Pratt) Plane-movie stars As I headed to Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest on a cramped United Airlines flight, I went...
Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, you can invite Ryan Coogler’s sexy horror movie Sinners into your home for the first time through VOD demand services. Also available for rent is The Surfer, a psychological thriller where Nicolas Cage loses his mind while trying to...
On June 6, A24 launched the promotional website Black Angel Tapes, meant as an artifact from the shared world of Danny and Michael Philippou’s horror movies Talk to Me and Bring Her Back. Both movies feature creepy artifacts that lead characters to communicate with otherworldly spiritual entities, and Black Angel Tapes is meant to be the website where the characters found those items. In an interview with Polygon, the Philippous...