Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller and star Mads Mikkelsen are now in production on the horror movie Dust Bunny, co-starring Sigourney Weaver

Last November, it was announced that Hannibal TV series creator Bryan Fuller would be re-teaming with Hannibal himself, Mads Mikkelsen, for a family-oriented horror project Dust Bunny. Soon after, we learned that Fuller was also working on a Friday the 13th TV series called Crystal Lake for franchise rights holders Victor Miller and Rob Barsamian (plus Miller’s lawyer Marc Toberoff), A24, and the Peacock streaming service. And while Crystal Lake is currently at a standstill because of the writers strike, the strike hasn’t had any effect on Dust Bunny. Fuller shared a picture of himself and Mikkelsen to celebrate the fact that they’re “back in the saddle” together. You can take a look at the image in the embed at the bottom of this article.

Dust Bunny is currently filming in Budapest, with Fuller directing from his own screenplay. It hasn’t been announced in the trades, but earlier this month Sigourney Weaver told New York Social Diary that she’s in the cast as well. She said, “I’m about to go off to Budapest to do a wonderful small movie called Dust Bunny. I play another person who’s not so nice, opposite Mads Mikkelsen, the brilliant Danish actor (Casino Royale), with a really talented writer/director, Bryan Fuller (Hannibal). And I have really beautiful costumes!“

Fuller is also producing the film with Entertainment One and Thunder Road‘s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee. Said to be “a throwback to the family horror films of the ’80s”, Dust Bunny tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who recruits her strange neighbor to hunt and kill the monster living under her bed. The girl says the monster ate her family, and she wants revenge.

Does Dust Bunny sound interesting to you, and are you glad to see Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen working together again (with Sigourney Weaver in the mix as well)? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.

I’m definitely interested in seeing a throwback to the family horror movies of the ’80s, especially with these names involved. I look forward to seeing how Dust Bunny is going to turn out.

Here’s Fuller and Mikkelsen, reunited:

Before Kara Zor-El met THE FLASH, she faced off against a witchy Faye Dunaway in her failed 1984 screen debut… SUPERGIRL!

Now that The Flash has hit theaters to reset the DC Universe, Awfully Good Movies is running back in time to watch the debut film for one of The Flash’s breakout characters, Helen Slater in 1984’s SUPERGIRL!

In between the disappointment of Superman III and the catastrophe of Superman IV, original franchise producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind decided to switch focus from the Man of Steel to his female cousin Kara Zor-El with an in-universe spinoff that’d have a cameo from Christopher Reeve himself to mentor his fellow Kryptonian and star Helen Slater in the young actress’ debut role. But after Reeve turned the film down before filming, and Warner Bros. grew so fed up with the Salkinds that they sold the distribution rights back to them, Supergirl would instead flop so hard at the box office that the Salkinds just gave up on the Superman film rights altogether, and it’s not hard to see why the Woman of Tomorrow failed here for reasons other than superpowered sexism.

From Slater’s flat lead performance that results from her badly written dialogue, to an incomprehensible plot about retrieving a magic power ball back for a visibly drunk Peter O’Toole before a visibly embarrassed Faye Dunaway uses it to magically take over the world, to special effects on Supergirl that look nearly as bad as her effects in The Flash, it’s no less of a disaster than pairing Superman up with Richard Pryor or nuclear powered musclemen. Still, Supergirl does deserve respect for being the first major female superhero in film history, even if the film itself doesn’t earn a single ounce of respect.

And hey, thank God this would be the last time that the names of Superman or Supergirl would ever be associated with a box office disappointment that suffered from the movie having subpar visual effects. Yep… nothing but cinematic quality from then on from DC… not a SINGLE problem!

The debut episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City drew in enough viewers to become the biggest cable drama premiere of the year

We’re about halfway done with 2023, and any cable drama premieres that come along in the second half of the year have a new viewership number to try to beat. The Hollywood Reporter shares the news that the Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (check out our review HERE) is now the biggest cable drama debut of the year, having drawn in 683,000 viewers as it aired on AMC last Sunday, with viewers of the simulcasts on BBC America and IFC, plus replays, boosting the number of viewers to 1.12 million. The Hollywood Reporter notes that “Dead City also became the top series premiere ever on the AMC+ streaming service, in both viewers and acquisition (i.e., people subscribing to watch a show), surpassing Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches (though as usual with streaming platforms, detailed viewing figures aren’t made public).”

Of course, 1.12 million is far below the number of viewers that used to tune in for The Walking Dead at its peak, but it’s about in line with the viewership of the final season’s episodes, and as The Hollywood Reporter points out, “The days of millions of viewers watching a cable series on-air the night it debuts — at least one not named (or related to) Yellowstone — are largely past, but Dead City does compare favorably to several recent AMC premieres. The series beat the same-day viewer tallies for the first episodes of Interview With the Vampire (622,000 viewers), Mayfair Witches (577,000) and Tales of the Walking Dead (572,000).”

Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons, serves as showrunner on The Walking Dead: Dead City. This show sees Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. 

Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been playing Maggie and Negan since season 2 and 6 (respectively) of The Walking Dead. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Cohan was the first to reveal that The Walking Dead: Dead City picks up “a few years” after the conclusion of The Walking Dead.

Joining Cohan and Morgan in the cast are Mahina Napoleon (NCIS: Hawai’i), Zeljko Ivanek (Madam Secretary), and Jonathan Higginbotham (Shining Vale). Gaius Charles (Fright Night Lights) is playing Izaak, who is “confident, ruthless, and unyielding in the pursuit of what he believes is justice, with the force of his will and his menace. Izaak enjoys his work and intersperses humor with the terror he incites. This is a family man, devoted to building a safe world for his wife and daughters. His journey unearths a loss he is haunted by. He has patience and resilience and walks rather than runs from his mistakes.”

Cohan, Morgan, and Jorné are executive producing The Walking Dead: Dead City with Scott M. Gimple, the Chief Content Officer of the Walking Dead Universe.

Did you tune in for the debut of The Walking Dead: Dead City? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

New Killer Klowns from Outer Space Funko POP figures are now available for pre-order and will be shipping out in August

There’s more Killer Klowns from Outer Space merchandise heading our way! A couple days ago, we heard that Spirit Halloween stores are teaming up with Funko for a limited edition Funko POP! figure – called the Killer Klowns Movie Moment Funko – that will only be available in select Spirit stores and on the Spirit website. But that isn’t the only new Killer Klowns Funko POPs we’ll be seeing this year. Entertainment Earth is now accepting pre-orders for Funko POP! figures based on the Fatso and Baby Klown characters. Images of these figures can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Here’s the information on the Fatso POP!:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Fatso Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1423: The circus has come to town, all the way from outer space! Beware of the Killer Klowns when Fatso drops in your Funko POP! collection. Holding a heart-shaped box clown doll, and a blaster, Fatso is an intimidating addition to any horror lineup. This Killer Klowns from Outer Space Fatso Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1423 measures approximately 4 1/2-inches tall and comes packaged in a window display box. Get the troop back together under one big top, and order this Klown today!

And here’s the info on Baby Klown:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Baby Klown Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1422: The circus has come to town, all the way from outer space! Beware of the Killer Klowns when this Baby Klown sprouts in your Funko POP! collection! Growing within a bucket of popcorn this Baby Klown is a terrifying addition to any horror lineup. This Killer Klowns from Outer Space Baby Klown Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1422 measures approximately 5 3/4-inches tall and comes packaged in a window display box. Get the troop back together under one big top, and order this Baby Klown today!

Killer Klowns from Outer Space was directed by Stephen Chiodo from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Charles Chiodo. Stephen and Charles also produced the film with their other brother, Edward Chiodo. It has the following synopsis: When teenagers Mike and Debbie see a comet crash outside their sleepy small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns. They try to warn the local authorities, but everyone assumes their story is a prank. Meanwhile, the clowns set about harvesting and eating as many people as they can. It’s not until they kidnap Debbie that Mike decides it’s up to him to stop the clowns’ bloody rampage.

Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, Royal Dano, John Vernon, Michael S. Siegel, Peter Licassi, and Christopher Titus star.

The Fatso and Baby Klown Funk POP!s are expected to ship out in August. Will you be buying these Killer Klowns from Outer Space figures? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

The acclaimed director of Walk the Line and Logan nearly explored a spin-off of the famous bounty hunter before the Disney+ show.

Before The Book of Boba Fett came into existence, Lucasfilm had planned to release more Star Wars spin-offs following the likes of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo: A Star Wars Story. The director of such popular films as Walk the Line and Logan, James Mangold, was looking to start his working relationship with Kathleen Kennedy and company. He would finally get his chance when he took up the directing position vacated by Steven Spielberg for a fifth entry in the Indiana Jones franchise, and now, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is just over the horizon.

However, Mangold had another project in mind before bringing back Harrison Ford for another archeology adventure. CBR.com reports that Mangold was looking to make a standalone feature film that centered around the popular Star Wars character, Boba Fett. It is not clear when this idea was being developed in relation to The Mandalorian‘s conception in the timeline, but according to Variety, Mangold “’more than flirted’ years earlier with making a Boba Fett movie that would have been a one-off spaghetti Western in the vein of Sergio Leone.” It is revealed that the idea would eventually evolve into the Disney+ series, The Book of Boba Fett.

Although Mangold had opted for Indiana Jones, during the production of Dial of Destiny, Kathleen Kennedy had inquired if he was still interested in exploring a story in the Star Wars universe. Now that Dial of Destiny is in the can, Mangold is now working on ideas for a prequel film tentatively titled Dawn of the Jedi. Mangold recalls when Kennedy asked him if he wanted to do a Star Wars film, “I said, ‘Yes, but it seems like everything you’re developing is continuing forward.’”

The idea for Dawn of the Jedi that Mangold is currently flirting with is “a ‘Ten Commandments’ about the dawning of the Force. It is basically, for fans, a kind of religion. What is it to have found this power and not even understand what it is?” Kennedy loved the pitch and pounced on the idea. She expressed her enthusiasm for working with Mangold again on this project. “Jim’s pretty fast — he’s already got the basic treatment laid out in his head. He has every intention of wanting to move this forward very aggressively, and we want to support that.” Kennedy alludes that once the strike of the WGA is settled and business continues, they will hit the ground running on the movie.

The documentary Sharksploitation, which covers the shark thriller sub-genre, reaches the Shudder streaming service in July

Almost two years have gone by since we heard that Stephen Scarlata, producer of the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, was working on a documentary called Sharksploitation, which will tell viewers all about the shark thriller sub-genre. Now we know when we’re finally get a chance to see that documentary. The Shudder streaming service has announced that they will be releasing Sharksploitation as a Shudder Original on July 21st! The movie will be streaming in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Scarlata directed Sharksploitation and produced it with Kerry Deignan Roy and Josh Miller. The feature-length documentary will delve into the sub-genre of sharksploitation films, from Corman’s 1958 She Gods of Shark Reef to the release of Jaws and the subsequent knock-offs.

An alternative synopsis goes like this: In the wake of blockbuster classic Jaws, a new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and the world’s undying fascination.

Scarlata had this to say about the project: “The movie Jaws had a massive impact on me becoming a filmmaker, and it began my lifelong fascination with sharks. … I love these films, and with each one I watch, my love grows more vital for the species, and my heart breaks more over the horrors they go through in everyday life, from overfishing to shark finning. This documentary is the ultimate love letter to the shark movie genre, filmmakers who work hard to make these films, and to the misunderstood species themselves.“

Sharksploitation includes interviews with Roger Corman (who recently produced the likes of Sharktopus and Dinoshark), Piranha director Joe Dante, Jaws 1-3 writer Carl Gottlieb, 47 Meters Down and 47 Meters Down: Uncaged director Johannes Roberts, and Jaws: The Revenge cast member Mario Van Peebles. Scarlata and his collaborators also secured an interview with marine and environmental conservation advocate Wendy Benchley, the widow of Jaws author Peter Benchley.

This documentary is a “must-watch” for me. Are you a fan of shark thrillers and will you be watching Sharksploitation when it reaches Shudder? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

We interview No Hard Feelings co-star Andrew Barth Feldman about working with Jennifer Lawrence on an R-rated comedy and more!

The age of raunchy comedies is back with No Hard Feelings which his theaters everywhere on June 23. This feature comedy Sees Maddie (played by Jennifer Lawrence) on the brink of losing her home, so she finds an intriguing job listing: helicopter parents looking for someone to bring their introverted 19-year-old son Percy out of his shell before college. She has one summer to make him a man or die trying.

Today on JoBlo, we go one on one with the Percy himself Andrew Barth Feldman as he talks about filming a raunchy comedy, working with Jennifer Lawrence, the musical number in the film, as well as the fun he had on set with everyone and more! To note, this was Feldman’s first major movie, and it was actually shot right around where he grew up, in Upstate New York. A self-admitted nerd in high school, one thing Feldman said he was happy the movie did was that it didn’t resort to stereotypes. In the movie, Percy, while shy, has a good heart, which makes the relationship that springs up between him and Jennifer Lawrence more palatable that you’d think given the raunchy premise. Yet, the movie doesn’t shy away from R-rated hijinks, which Feldman says Lawrence jumped into fearlessly.

You can expect our No Hard Feelings review soon, and the movie opens in theaters tomorrow.

Sony’s Dumb Money red-band trailer finds Paul Dano as a stock market exchange Robin Hood, with GameStop executives as the bullseye.

Excuse me while I put my feet up, burn one, and bask in the glow of executives getting screwed over by their own hubris. Why am I lounging? I just watched Sony’s trailer for Dumb Money, the Craig Gillespie-directed comedy-drama retelling the GameStop stock debacle that sent several fat cats to their financial ruin. The Dumb Money red-band trailer features Paul Dano as Keith Gill, the financial analyst who invested his life savings into a failing GameStop stock that eventually made him (and others) a millionaire. Gill’s story is a wild one, filled with twists and turns. Gillespie’s new film explores the YouTube sensation’s story, with both sides incurring blowback from a dangerous numbers game.

Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen star alongside Dano in Sony’s Dumb Money red-band trailer. Gillespie directs from a script by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo based on the book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich.

Presented as a David-vs.-Goliath story, Dumb Money investigates how a group of private investors and internet trolls on a Wall Street subreddit called WallStreetBets hoodwinked one of the most formidable hedge funds known to eager investors. The carefully orchestrated attack on the market sent shockwaves through money lenders’ lifeless souls, sewing chaos in an infrastructure that had worked for generations. As a result of the debacle, a handful of first-time traders got stupidly rich, while influential players in the market had their coffers emptied in a matter of moments.

Teddy Schwartzman and Gillespie produce, with Mezrich, Michael Heimler, John Friedberg, Johnny Holland, Schuker Blum, Andrew Swett, Angelo, Kevin Ulrich, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss executive producing.

I remember the seeds of chaos sewn in real-time when this unprecedented situation unfolded. I won’t pretend to understand the ins and outs of stock trading. However, I enjoy watching billionaires sweat. Sony’s Dumb Money red-band trailer brings Gill’s fascinating story to life in a way that – while heightened for Hollywood storytelling – even people with no stock market knowledge can enjoy.

Dumb Money comes to theaters on September 22, 2023.