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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Return to Horror-Comedy with Their New Production Company
If someone were to ask me to name my favorite comedy comedy duo, my answer would always be Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Actually, if I’m being truly honest, it would be Abbott and Costello, but I don’t think they will be making more movies anytime soon. That is not true of Frost and Pegg, thankfully, due to their new production company Stolen Picture.
You may remember these guys from the horror-comedy turned classic Shaun of the Dead (2004) or the other two films of their Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy: Hot Fuzz (2007) and The Worlds End (2013), as well as the highly underrated Paul (2011). It seems they will be returning to their horror-comedy roots with Stolen Picture’s first movie, Slaughterhouse Rulez.
According to Deadline Hollywood, the story will center around a new kid on the block named Don Wallace, who attends a prestigious boarding school named Slaughterhouse (oh yeah, seems like a safe space). There the school hopes to breed students for greatness and power (a school full of Slytherins). It would seem the standard school hierarchy (albeit more intense) will apply including the existence of the most wanted girl in school, Clemsie, who no one dares to talk to.
When fracking on school grounds causes seismic activity, a sink hole releases a nightmare on the student and faculty. Don Wallace goes from navigating his place in Slaughterhouse to a fight for survival and while the attack throws the intense school hierarchy out of whack.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will both act as executive producers on the film and the script was penned by director Crispian Mills and Henry Fitzherbert. They’ve even gotten Sony Pictures to back the film. Pegg and Frost hope to produce projects with Stolen Picture aimed world-wide for both television and movies.
Keep checking in for more updates on Slaughterhouse Rulez and for new projects coming out of Stolen Picture.
Can’t get enough horror-comedy? Check out the new paranormal series coming to FOX starring Adam Scott and Craig Robinson.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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