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Andrew Divoff Wants to Come Back for a New Wishmaster Sequel
With over 100 different acting credits to his name, memorable character actor Andrew Divoff has a resume bursting with notable roles, including a terrific stint as the villainous Mikhail on Lost.
Divoff is truly a chameleon, able to portray just about any ethnicity or accent without fail, and able to be slotted into any type of genre and blending in as if he’d never acted outside those confines a day in his life.
For horror fans though, easily Divoff’s most iconic role is that of the Djinn in the first two Wishmaster films. Blessed with a devilish smile and hypnotizing voice, Divoff plays the Djinn in both his natural monstrous look and his alternate human identity Nathaniel Demerest, and is equally as fun in both guises.
With the entire Wishmaster series now available in a kickass Blu-Ray box set from Lionsgate, fans can finally revisit Divoff’s wish-based hijinks in glorious HD.
Unfortunately, only two of the films in the set contain Divoff, as he departed the series prior to Wishmaster 3 and 4’s production, with those films suffering immensely as a result. To be fair though, their scripts were so bad that it’s arguable not even Divoff could have saved them.
With nearly 20 years now having passed since Divoff played the Djinn in Wishmaster 2, one would think he might have put it behind him, but that’s not the case. In a recent chat with Geekadelphia, Divoff made it known that he would love to return to the role, should a Wishmaster 5 ever end up being made:
Well, you know what, if I had one [wish] I might as well go ahead and say it. Wishmaster 5. I will answer the lingering question, I would love to do it again. But whether it is me or not I think the franchise has a lot of life left in it.
These comments are somewhat similar to recent sentiments expressed by Divoff’s Wishmaster 1 co-star Robert Englund, who feels that the series has the potential for more entries.
Will Divoff ever again receive the opportunity to grant horrific wishes? It’s hard to say, but us Wishmaster fans can certainly continue to wish for his idea to become reality.
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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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