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‘The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs’ Returns for Third Season; Summer Special!

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The show that broke the internet over two years ago, The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs has been renewed for a third season through the (excellent) horror streaming app Shudder. In addition to that, they will also be doing a “summer sleepover” double feature on Aug. 14 with guests including Adam Green (Hatchet), according to the @shudder Instagram account.

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The official date for the third season has yet to be announced, but it will be sometime in 2021.

The Last Drive-In live streams on the Shudder website and app every Friday when in season with two double feature films, introduced and commented on by host Joe Bob Briggs and mail girl Darcy Prince.

This past season we’ve seen some great flicks such as Chopping Mall, Maniac, Heathers, Deep Red, One Cut of the Dead, Exorcist III, Cannibal Holocaust, and awesome guests such as wrestler Chris Jericho. Significantly in the last season, Shudder’s team and Darcy the Mail Girl worked to secretly finish one of the only films Briggs has ever starred in, the abandoned Hogzilla.

Each week brings amazing new content, and the Shudder team behind it works to make some of the most interesting stylistic choices to add to the movie watching experience, such as recreating sequences from the film being shown.

The show is also unique as it airs live on Shudder, which is pretty much unheard of for a streaming service. This makes the show one of the only communal watching experiences that has yet to crop up for streaming services, with hundreds of Twitter users and Facebook groups getting to talk to each other about the show while it’s airing. It also gives them a chance to talk to Darcy, who is in charge of social media, while the show is playing as well.

The show began in 2018 with a 24-hour special that was meant to be the LAST drive-in for Joe Bob Briggs, but the overwhelming success of it (and the incident that “broke the internet”) led to it being adapted into a full series with two seasons plus holiday specials.

All of this, of course, played into the decision for renewal despite some of the controversies Briggs has faced in recent months particularly over his remarks toward and about certain marginalized groups.

Regardless, Briggs will be back for more in 2021. Let us know what you think about the renewal in the comments below!

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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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.

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“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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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