This week’s documentary-themed episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 interrogates the biggest issue with the streaming-era Star Trek franchise.
August 2025
The trailer for The Pitt season 2 features some unexpected familiar faces back from season 1, along with some new doctors at the titular hospital.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia pays tribute to late cast member Lynne Marie Stewart, who played Charlie’s mom, in the season 17 finale.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia ended its 17th season by reuniting Danny DeVito with one of his greatest comedy scene partners.
One of the stars of Severance managed to blow director/producer Ben Stiller away with their audition video (which is now available to the masses).
Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Rebel Ridge) is back in the A24 business with the upcoming October, and Deadline reports today that Chase Sui Wonders (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me) have signed on to star in the movie.
Cory Michael Smith, who played “SNL” alum Chevy Chase in Jason Reitman’s based-on-true-events movie Saturday Night, will also star in the Halloween-set “horror action thriller.”
Deadline details, “No word on the role Smith will be playing in October. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but sources described the project as a fugitive thriller set during Halloween. Saulnier will direct from his own script, with A24 producing and financing.”
Producers for the film include Rich Peete, Eli Bush, and Jeremy Saulnier & Skei Saulnier, with Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Traci Carlson and Elliott Coley and Macon Blair.
Macon Blair, who previously starred in Saulnier’s films Murder Party, Blue Ruin and Green Room, directed upcoming reboot The Toxic Avenger, only in theaters on August 29, 2025.
Pictured: Chase Sui Wonders in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (2025)
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A big live-action Elden Ring movie is on the way, but first, another popular FromSoftware game is getting an adaptation of its own.
Survival is the only victory in director Kiah Roache-Turner‘s (Wyrmwood) World War II shark attack horror movie Beast of War, and the film has received an “R” rating from the MPA ahead of its premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas this coming September.
Beast of War is rated “R” for “bloody violent content, gore and language.”
The period WWII film is loosely based on real-life events, pitting soldiers against a great white shark, and will be released in theaters and on VOD from Well Go USA on October 10.
Beast of War “follows a warship carrying hundreds of Australian soldiers across the Timor Sea to the frontline of WWII. Suddenly, Japanese fighter jets scream out of the sky, and within minutes the ocean becomes a hell of steel, fire, oil, and blood. While a handful of soldiers build a makeshift raft from floating debris as they cling to their lives, their biggest battle is yet to come. In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.”
The horror movie stars Joel Nankervis, Mark Coles Smith, Sam Delich, Lee Tiger Halley, Sam Parsonson, Maximillian Johnson, Tristan McKinnon, and Aswan Reid.
Formation Effects handled the movie’s shark effects, utilizing a mix of classic old school animatronics and puppeteering, with that practical work aided by cutting edge visual effects.
The team previewed in an official press release sent out this month, “The shark, an epic scale that hasn’t been done in Australia before, was a multidisciplinary approach across prosthetics, animatronics, puppeteering and CG animation, all led by the Formation team.”
“This project was an absolute dream for a creature maker,” said Steve Boyle. “The shark couldn’t just be a visual effect; it had to feel like a living, breathing presence. We built it to perform in real water with the actors, ensuring every scene felt authentic.”
Boyle’s statement continued, “The digital effects then pushed the creature beyond the physical to deliver full-scale, heart-pounding attack sequences.”
The press release goes into further detail: “At the heart of the shark’s creation was a custom-engineered, half-ton animatronic powered by a unique compressed-air propulsion system, enabling it to move through the water with tremendous weight and presence. Covered in meticulously crafted silicon skin, the animatronic featured fully articulated mechanics controlled by puppeteers, who ensured its jaw and body motion felt organic in every shot.”
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The masked maniacs will unleash bloody carnage once again in The Strangers: Chapter 2 this coming September, and the film has received its official “R” rating from the MPA this week.
The Strangers: Chapter 2 is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, and language.”
How does that rating compare to the three previous films in the franchise? They have all been rated “R” from the beginning, but for slightly different reasons. Here’s the breakdown…
- The Strangers (2008): “Rated R for violence/terror and language.”
- The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018): “Rated R for horror violence and terror throughout, and for language.”
- The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024): “Rated R for horror violence, language and brief drug use.”
Just over one year after The Strangers: Chapter 1 kickstarted a new trilogy of terror tales, Lionsgate is getting set to unleash The Strangers: Chapter 2 in theaters on September 26.
Here’s the official synopsis: “The Strangers are back – more brutal and relentless than ever. When they learn that one of their victims, Maya (Madelaine Petsch), is still alive, they return to finish what they’ve started. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Maya must survive another horrific chapter of terror as The Strangers – driven by a senseless, unceasing purpose – pursue her, more than willing to kill anyone who stands in their way.”
Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Deep Blue Sea) directed both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, as well as the upcoming The Strangers: Chapter 3.
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The Fallout season 2 trailer is a stellar example of the way previews can be crafted when the people involved care about the project they’re marketing.
