One of Time Magazine’s 100 must-read books of 2024, Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the Best Part is getting a movie adaptation from director Greta Lee (actor: Past Lives).

The Hollywood Reporter notes that Greta Lee will make her directorial debut with the film adaptation of The Eyes Are the Best Part, and she’ll also be writing the screenplay.

The novel is being adapted for the screen by Searchlight Pictures.

THR details, “Published in June 2024 by Erewhon Books, the novel is a described as a story about a family falling apart as well as the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Set in Los Angeles, the book tells the story of a woman named Ji-won, whose life unravels after her father has an affair and then leaves the family.

“She finds an inventive way to satiate her rage and hunger.”

The New York Times called The Eyes Are the Best Part “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original,” adding that “this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of murder and cannibalism while also critiquing misogyny, exploring Asian fetishization and stereotypes, sharing what it’s like to navigate two cultures and telling a touching story of a family in turmoil.”

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Filmmaker and VFX artist Gonzalo Gutierrez “G.G.” (El Conde, The Exorcism of God) is taking on practical effects with creature feature Pacifico, and first look images give a glimpse of the monster.

Pacifico follows “a group of young travelers are stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil alien presence that has been hidden from mankind for centuries.”

The first look images introduce a rather unique monster so far.

Manolo Cardona (Death’s Roulette), María Gabriela de Faría (Superman, The Exorcism of God), Ricardo Abarca (Miss Bala), Christopher Von Uckermann (“Demon”), Claudio Cataño (“One Hundred Years of Solitude”) and Maria Nela Sinisterra (Penumbra) star.

Pacifico is produced by Mauricio Brunetti of Patagonia Films and Guido Rud of FilmSharks. Florencia Lemoine executive produces. The film was shot in Bogota and is now in post-production.

“What I love so much about science fiction when bundled with genre,” says FilmSharks CEO/Founder Guido Rud, “when you can create a world that’s never been seen before, and naturally mix in layers of totally refreshing elements. Pacifico is about so much more than its monsters, it’s about how we understand that this is an old planet with so many hidden out this world stories. These are stories about how humanism evolved.”

Stay tuned for more on Pacifico as details arrive, including release announcements.

Related: FilmSharks is also producing new vampire comedy FELIX from When Evil Lurks filmmaker Demián Rugna. 

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You may have seen The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III before, but never like this.

The sequels were originally written and shot as one movie, but directors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz ended up with so much footage that they broke it up into two installments.

36 years later, the initial vision for the sequel has been reconstructed under its original title, Mr. Melvin. Watch the exclusive trailer below.

The 127-minute movie will premiere as part of Troma-Thon 2025 at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater in Lehighton, PA on July 18-19, followed by a screening at Popcorn Frights Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale, FL on August 8.

The filmmakers gave Andrew L. Miller, Kaufman’s assistant, and Adam Peltier, star of Troma’s upcoming film The Power of Positive Murder, their blessing to edit the two sequels together from the recently unearthed original script.

Toxie actor Ron Fazio provides new voiceover for Mr. Melvin. The film also features new opening and end credits by Chris Lanphear, who also handled the graphics in the trailer.

After ridding Tromaville of evil, Melvin Junko, the Toxic Avenger, has nothing left to fight. Evil has been vanquished, his mop is clean, and his heart feels… empty. Depressed and emotionally adrift, a psychiatrist with questionable motives encourages him to reconnect with his long-lost father in Japan. But this heartfelt journey is merely a charade, as Apocalypse Inc. lures Toxie overseas in order to blast him with Anti-Tromatons, corrupting his superhuman senses.

Blinded to the forces of evil, Toxie returns home and becomes a corporate puppet for infernal forces bent on enslaving Tromaville… and the world! Can the Toxic Avenger reclaim his soul and save Tromaville once again, or is the hero of the people doomed to become the very monster he always feared?

Fazio stars alongside Phoebe Legere, John Altamura, Rick Collins, Lisa Gaye, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tsutomu Sekine, Shinoburyû, Mayako Katsuragi, Jessica Dublin, and Michael J. Kaplan.

Troma-Thon tickets are on sale now. Along with Mr. Melvin, the two-night event includes screenings of Surf Nazis Must Die, Rise of the Super Tromettes, Rabid Grannies, Class of Nuke ‘Em High, and Def By Temptation.

Macon Blair, who helmed The Toxic Avenger reboot hitting theaters on August 29, praised Mr. Melvin as “a cinematic treasure reformed from the mists of history as always intended. Troma kids rejoice!”

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In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, the “Poohniverse” gets wilder and crazier with Bambi: The Reckoning.

From Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios, comes Bambi: The Reckoning, the newest entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe. Directed by Dan Allen and written by Rhys Warrington, Bambi: The Reckoning arrives in theaters July 25, 2025 by Seismic Releasing.

Exclusively watch the brand new trailer for Bambi: The Reckoning below, which features early reviews that praise the film for being “a twisted fairytale with teeth,” “one of the strongest additions to the Poohniverse, if not the best,” “wickedly fun” and “nightmarishly nasty.”

In the upcoming public domain creature feature…

“After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother.”

“We are excited to bring the first live-action Bambi film ever to the screens… of course, a horror version,” teases Stuart Alson, President of ITN Studios, making a wild (and true!) point.

Bambi: The Reckoning features Roxanne McKee (“Game of Thrones”), Nicola Wright (Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2), Russell Geoffrey Banks (Who’s Watching Oliver), Tom Mulheron (“Slow Horses”), and Samira Mighty (“Love Island”).

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Lee Cronin‘s The Mummy wrapped production a couple weeks ago, but Deadline just learned that Hayat Kamille (“Vikings: Valhalla”) is part of the cast.

Jack Reynor (Midsommar) and Laia Costa (“The Wheel of Time”) star in the fresh take on the classic monster, opening April 17, 2026 via Warner Bros.

May Calamawy (“Moon Knight”), Veronica Falcón (“Ozark”), May Elghety (Clash), Natalie Grace (“1923”), Shylo Molina (“The Afterparty”), and Billie Roy (Spirit Halloween: The Movie) round out the cast.

Cronin directs from his own script, reuniting with Evil Dead Rise director of photography David Garbett.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Cronin previously said, “This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before. I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.”

The project is the first under the recent Blumhouse-Atomic Monster merger, with the companies producing and co-financing for New Line Cinema. James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville are producing alongside Cronin under his Doppelgängers banner.

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