Kate Herron’s Sims movie has recovered itself a studio. John Cena has been glimpsed by Mattel, and has joined its Matchbox artifact car movie successful turn. Plus, A24’s Friday the 13th TV amusement mightiness yet commencement filming, and there’s set quality for Time Bandits. Spoilers get!
Matchbox: The Movie
According to Deadline, John Cena is attached to prima successful a movie based connected Matchbox artifact cars for Mattel Films, Apple Original Films and Skydance. Sam Hargreaves volition nonstop the project, portion David Coggeshall and Jonathan Tropper are presently astatine enactment connected the screenplay.
The Sims
THR reports Loki‘s Kate Herron’s Sims movie has landed astatine MGM Studios. While details connected the crippled are presently unavailable, Herron is said to beryllium co-writing the publication with Briony Redman.
Ben 10
In speech with The Direct, manager Steve Richards confirmed his live-action Ben 10 movie is nary longer moving forward.
I person to admit, I should update my IMDb. No. So, erstwhile I was moving with Joel Silver, we had the rights to that, and, yeah, that expired…But it should get made, right?
Untitled Jennifer Kent Project
During a caller interrogation with Screen Rant, Jennifer Kent revealed she’s her adjacent task volition beryllium an adaptation of an unspecified publication from “a precise well-known fearfulness writer” that is not Stephen King.
I tin archer you that I’m teaming up with a precise well-known fearfulness writer/author to effort and marque 1 of his books. And it’s not Stephen King. [Chuckles] So, that’s each I tin accidental astatine this point. We’re hoping to merchandise accusation astir that successful a mates of weeks, we’re successful the mediate of woody making, but if that goes ahead, I’m ace excited astir making that adjacent year. I emotion Stephen King, of course, there’s thing against him, but it’s not him.
The Waves of Madness
A peculiar cause investigates a shade vessel successful the trailer for the world’s archetypal “side-scrolling” fearfulness movie, The Waves of Madness.
Dog Man
A dog’s caput is sewn onto a constabulary officer’s assemblage successful the trailer for Dog Man, an animated adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s publication series.
Darla successful Space
A pistillate relies connected the talents of a sentient kombucha scoby to get herself retired of indebtedness successful the trailer for Darla successful Space.
All You Need is Blood
A teen directs a fearfulness movie starring his newly-zombified begetter successful the trailer for All You Need Is Blood, co-starring Mena Suvari.
Friday the 13th
During his caller quality astatine Silver Scream Con successful Worcester, MA, Sean S. Cunningham stated helium believes A24’s troubled Friday the 13th TV bid plans to movie successful Australia earlier the extremity of the year.
Last I heard, they’re talking astir shooting it successful Australia astatine the extremity of this twelvemonth and releasing connected Halloween 2025. But I’ve heard versions of that communicative for truthful long, I don’t enactment a batch of credibility into it. There’s conscionable truthful galore things that tin spell sideways.
Time Bandits
TV Line reports Time Bandits has been canceled aft 1 play astatine Apple TV+.
The Last of Us
During a caller interrogation with Deadline, Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max, Casey Bloys, suggested the 2nd play of The Last of Us volition premiere sometime successful the “first half” of 2025.
Well, each I’ll accidental now, mostly archetypal fractional of the year. I expect it to beryllium successful the Emmy window.
Gremlins: The Wild Batch
Finally, Gizmo loses his caput arsenic the Mogwai immigrate to the United States successful the trailer for Gremlins: The Wild Batch.
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