Hot off the success of The Housemaid, Sydney Sweeney is set to star in another adaptation of a thriller novel — this time with a supernatural twist.

THR reports that Sweeney will lead The Caretaker, based on the upcoming novel by Marcus Kliewer, for Universal.

David Bruckner (The Ritual, Hellraiser) is set to write and direct the horror thriller, based on earlier drafts by Karl Gajdusek (Oblivion) and Drew Crevello (“WeCrashed”).

Michael Bay & Brad Fuller are producing via Platinum Dunes under its first-look deal with Paramount, alongside Sweeney for Fifty-Fifty Films and Scott Glassgold (Tarot) for 12:01 Films.

Publishing April 21 via the newly launched 12:01 Books, The Caretaker follows Macy Mullins, a young woman who answers an urgent job posting that promises competitive pay for three days of work.

What starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare. An incomprehensible evil may dwell on the Oregon Coast property — and Macy might just be the only thing standing between it and the rest of humanity.

Sweeney’s other upcoming projects include The Housemaid’s Secret, due out December 17, 2027, and Netflix’s live-action Gundam movie.

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Brad Pitt and his loyal German Shepherd companion will face bears, wolves, and the Alaskan wilderness together in Heart of the Beast.

The survival thriller is directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury) and written by Cameron Alexander.

In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after suffering a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.

J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) round out the cast.

Damien Chazelle produces with Olivia Hamilton via their Wild Chickens Productions, through its first-look deal with Paramount, along with Pitt for Plan B Entertainment, Ayer for Crave Films, and Temple Hill Entertainment (Smile, First Man).

Heart of the Beast is expected to be released in theaters later this year from Paramount.

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The safety of home begins to collapse under the weight of something inhuman in the trailer for A Mother’s Recall.

Said to be “based on real fears,” the Argentine psychological horror film fuses slow-burn dread, intimate character drama, and supernatural terror.

It follows Genaro, a teenage orphan who appears to be given a chance at belonging by a new family. But as he settles into his new home, he begins to feel that something is profoundly wrong.

As he grows closer to his troubled sister, the two uncover a dark and malevolent force lurking within the house. Bound together by fear, grief, and the search for truth, they must face the sinister presence that feeds on their pain and threatens to consume them all.

With an emotionally charged descent into the unseen forces that can shape a family from within, writer-director Mauro Iván Ojeda explores universal fears of abandonment, identity, and the desperate need for connection.

Santino Resta, Julieta Palermo, Vilma Echeverría, Edgardo Molinelli, Virginia Garófalo, Mayra Sánchez, Mateo Berti, Lorenzo Crespo, Guadalupe Aldaz Gallo, and Miguel Bosco star.

Black Mandala is handling international sales on the project. Stay tuned for US release details.

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Matt Smith (“House of the Dragon”) and Imogen Poots (Green Room) are attached to star in the absurd mystery-thriller The Salamander Lives Twice, Deadline reports.

The project reunites director Ant Timpson and writer Toby Harvard for their third film following 2019’s Come to Daddy and 2024’s Bookworm.

Smith will star as a debonair stranger who washes ashore on a remote island wearing a Rolex and holding an briefcase he can’t open, with no memory of who he is or why he is there.

Taken in by the sole inhabitants – Iris, a glamorous wine-soaked matriarch, her erudite daughter Goggy (Poots) and Baby, their giant naked butler – he is drawn into their bizarre and decaying world.

But this is no accident. What begins as sanctuary turns into something far stranger, far darker – a world of pent-up revenge, sinister family betrayal, and shocking violence.

Emma Slade & Roxi Bull of Velvet Moss (Come to Daddy) and Andy Starke (Possessor) of Anti-Worlds will produce.

The team is eyeing a February 2027 shoot on a remote island. Embankment Films has boarded the project for sales ahead of next month’s Cannes film market.

Embankment’s Archie Faulks describes the film as “a wildly entertaining Hitchcockian thriller served up on a gourmet platter of absurdist comedy and psychological suspense. It keeps audiences guessing right up to an ending they won’t see coming and won’t forget.”

An earlier version of The Salamander Lives Twice was set to star Vera Farmiga and Adrien Brody back in 2020, but the pandemic halted that iteration.

Matt Smith in ‘Morbius’

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Steven Spielberg is looking up at the night skies once again with Disclosure Day this summer, and he offered a pretty intriguing tease live on stage at CinemaCon tonight.

Discussing Film reports from the event, “Steven Spielberg has revealed that the entire third act of Disclosure Day is being kept out of the marketing.”

The official CinemaCon account similarly tweets, “Spielberg says he was very careful and protective of NOT revealing the third act in any of the trailers or previews.”

Spielberg also said during Universal’s CinemaCon presentation tonight, “I really truly believe that this movie is going to answer questions and cause you to ask a lot of questions.”

He teases, “All you need to get from the beginning to the end (of this movie) is a seatbelt.”

All will become clear when the sci-fi blockbuster invades theaters and IMAX June 12.

The vague synopsis for Disclosure Day reads: “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to Disclosure Day.”

David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Spider-Man) wrote the script, based on a story by Spielberg.

Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place), Josh O’Connor (Wake Up Dead Man), Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Eve Hewson (Bridge of Spies), Colman Domingo (The Running Man), and Wyatt Russell (“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”) star in Spielberg’s latest.

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Director Tommy Wirkola is back to direct sequel Violent Night 2, and we’ve learned out of CinemaCon tonight that Kristen Bell will be playing Mrs. Claus in the upcoming film.

Kristen Bell will star alongside David Harbour as Santa Claus.

Violent Night 2‘s cast also includes Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, Joe Pantoliano, Jared Harris, Daniela Melchior, and pro wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman.

87North and Universal will release Violent Night 2 in theaters December 4, 2026. Pat Casey and Josh Miller are back to write the film, which promises more bloody mayhem.

“There’s stuff we left on the floor like the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, the elves,“ Tommy Wirkola noted last year. “But story-wise, I think we have a really, really cool idea that expands on the world and scope but still keeping that tone that we love from the first one.”

In 2022’s Violent Night, “A team of elite mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage. But the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.”

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for BD, “Director Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) infuses his gore-soaked sense of humor into an amalgamation of familiar holiday fare, ushering a new crowd-pleasing Christmas-set actioner eager to splatter the snow red.”

‘Violent Night’

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