Tron: Ares is the third Tron movie after Tron and Tron: Legacy, but Legacy director Joseph Kosinski wouldn’t, per se, call it a sequel to his installment.
December 2025
James Cameron got some familiar feedback from test audiences when he screened Avatar: Fire and Ash in advance, but he was more than prepared for it.
The all-horror streaming service Shudder has been celebrating its 10th anniversary all year long, and they’re promising that they’re only getting started as we head into Year Eleven.
Shudder has released a 10th birthday celebration video tonight featuring birthday greetings from various actors and filmmakers whose work has been featured on Shudder over the years, and it also features first-look sneak peeks at some upcoming Shudder nightmares.
Shudder’s 2026 slate includes The Mortuary Assistant, The Crazy Old Lady, Mother of Flies, Bodycam, Honey Bunch, Night Patrol, and Whistle, with many more titles sure to be announced throughout next year. Check out the video below for sneak peeks!
In case you’re wondering, The Mortuary Assistant is indeed an adaptation of Brian Clarke’s popular horror video game, which is being directed by Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface).
The story for The Mortuary Assistant involves mortician Rebecca Owens, who on her first night at River Fields Mortuary, learns of a sinister presence that resides there.
As the dead awaken and malevolent spirits bind themselves to her, Rebecca has to learn how to combat the demons (including the figurative demons of her past) and survive the night.
Stay tuned for more on that movie and all of Shudder’s upcoming releases.
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At the start of the pandemic, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride was given a fun DIY remake featuring a slew of famous faces playing the familiar characters.
Don’t be defeatist, dear, because Netflix is about to have the streaming rights to a 2022 film from everyone’s favorite British family drama.
A gory shark thriller set amidst World War II, Beast of War will stream exclusively on Shudder beginning January 16.
The Australian film is written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood, Sting).
When their boat is sunk while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a young troop of Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking life raft.
Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
Mark Coles Smith, Joel Nankervis, Maximillian Johnson, Lee Tiger Halley, Sam Parsonson, Tristan McKinnon, and Sam Delich star.
Formation Effects handled the movie’s special effects, utilizing a mix of prosthetics, animatronics, puppetry, and CGI.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “A familiar historical account gets an invigorating reinterpretation in Beast of War, one that places equal weight on every single vital component, from the soldiers to the breathtaking animatronic shark.”
Roache-Turner is currently working on another World War II monster movie, Dogs of War.
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Christian Bale is Frankenstein’s Monster and Jessie Buckley is the Bride of Frankenstein in director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, and Entertainment Weekly has shared several new images along with fresh insights from the filmmaker this afternoon.
The Bride! is set for theatrical release on March 6, 2026, and Gyllenhaal explains to EW that the project was born out of her realization that James Whale’s original classic Bride of Frankenstein isn’t actually about the iconic Bride of Frankenstein at all.
“Three minutes [of screentime], maybe, and honestly, not until the very end. It’s a Frankenstein movie,” Gyllenhaal explains. “And I will say, a lot of people, friends or people who’ve heard I was making this, would say, ‘Oh, you’re making Frankenstein.’ And I just sort of sweetly say, ‘No, I’m making the Bride of Frankenstein.’ And, in effect, it’s actually just the Bride, you know?”
Gyllenhaal teases, “We get to see a little bit of who she was before she’s brought back to life as the Bride. In a way, everything about the movie has an extreme mythological quality. She’s almost every woman in a way. Before she’s brought back, you watch her deal with a lot of shit. And she puts up with it, but she comes back with a very strong need to express herself.”
Head over to Entertainment Weekly for more insights from Maggie Gyllenhaal.
In the upcoming film, “A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!”
The film also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, and Oscar winner Penélope Cruz. Maggie Gyllenhaal directs from her own screenplay.
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Before becoming in-demand filmmakers with Final Destination Bloodlines, Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein helmed 2018’s Freaks.
Deadline reveals that the pair quietly wrote, directed, and produced Freaks 2 earlier this year.
Production took place after Bloodlines wrapped post-production but before the film’s press cycle started, affording Lipovsky and Stein the opportunity to expand on the world of their indie sci-fi thriller.
Freaks and Bloodlines editor Sabrina Pitre is cutting the sequel. No further details are available at this time.
In Freaks, 7-year-old Chloe is kept locked inside the house by her father. She lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where “abnormals” create a constant threat – or so she believes.
When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what’s really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn’t so simple, the danger is very real.
Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew, and Lexy Kolker star.
Rafael Motamayor wrote in his review, “Freaks feels like an even more grounded, small-scale version of the X-Men, a sci-fi film filled with surprises, a message about parenthood and wanting to keep your child safe and isolated from the world, and a future star in Lexy Kolker.”
Lipovsky & Stein’s upcoming slate includes co-writing Gremlins 3 with Chris Columbus, directing the sci-fi survival film The Earthling for Columbia, directing the psychological horror film Long Lost for Amblin, and directing the sci-fi drama The Traveler for Paramount.
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Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise) and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise) have been cast in Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol from director Ti West (X, The House of the Devil), Deadline reports.
Other new additions to the cast include Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”).
Johnny Depp stars in the title role alongside Andrea Riseborough (Mandy), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), and Tramell Tillman (“Severance”).
Written by Nathaniel Halpern (“Legion,” “Tales from the Loop”), the new take on Charles Dickens‘ classic 1843 novel will be released on November 13, 2026 via Paramount.
A thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, the film follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present, and future and fight for a second chance.
Sources say Grint will play Bob Crachit, Scrooge’s selfless employee, while Tillman is rumored to be the Ghost of Christmas Present.
Emma Watts is producing. Executive producers include Stephen Deuters, Jason Forman, Adam Bohling, and David Reid.
Rupert Grint in “Servant”
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Fallout season 2 has brought Justin Theroux into the mix as Robert House, so let’s take a moment to introduce newcomers to the Fallout: New Vegas character.
