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Outer Range actor Tamara Podemski, Dana Solomon and Melanie Bray star alongside writer-director Gail Maurice in Blood Lines, an Indigenous drama that just wrapped production in northern Ontario.

Maurice, wrote, directed and produced her second feature. Her TV acting credits include Cardinal, Barkskins and Trickster. Her first feature, Rosie, which expanded on an earlier short film and of the same name, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in 2022 and was named to TIFF’s annual year-end Canada’s Top Ten list that year, while also winning the Audience Choice Award at the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2022.

In Blood Lines, Maurice plays Leonore, an estranged mother whose homecoming upends the life of Beatrice (Solomon), a headstrong Métis storyteller and grocery store clerk. Derica Lafrance plays Chani, an alluring woman who enters the lives of Beatrice and Leonore, while Podemski takes the role of Pehmee.

Set in the small Métis community of Wapamon Sipi,...

Paramount+’s Peak Screaming collection returns to the service today with a monster-sized lineup of thrills for audiences to enjoy this Halloween season. The popular Peak Screaming collection expands each year and features more genre-defining hits and classics than ever before, with over 450 new originals, fan-favorite horror movies, and iconic Halloween episodes from beloved series.

The seasonal collection will include the debut of the Paramount+ original film Apartment 7A (September 27), a haunting prequel to the cult classic Rosemary’s Baby, and SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp (October 10), a new hour-long special where, while at Kamp Koral for a reunion, SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one by one.

The curated Peak Screaming collection brings the household together by providing a scare for everyone with terrifying thrillers, spine-chilling films, and frights for the fainthearted, with 25 expertly curated carousels. New and returning...

Exclusive: Jon Watts, his production company Freshman Year and producer Dianne McGunigle have been staked to a first-look feature deal with Walt Disney Studios. Under the deal, Watts will direct feature-length projects for Disney live action and 20th Century Studios with the option to produce.

Watts came from the low budget well-received Sundance indie film Cop Car to be chosen to join Tom Holland and Zendaya in the third iteration of the Spider-Man franchise. Some $4 billion in gross later spread over three films, Watts stepped out and wrote, directed and produced Wolfs, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, for Apple. That film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, gets a limited theatrical release before bowing September 27 on Apple TV+. Watts has made a deal for a sequel of the slick thriller about two competitive shadowy guys who quietly fix messes that powerful people get into.

Watts has a relationship...

Just in time for the Halloween season, the Peak Screaming Collection from Paramount+ has returned to the service today with a monster-sized lineup. The collection expands each year and this year features more genre-defining hits and classics than ever before, with over 450 new originals, fan-favorite horror movies and iconic Halloween episodes from beloved series.

The seasonal collection will include the debut of the Paramount+ original film Apartment 7A (September 27), a haunting prequel to the cult classic Rosemary’s Baby; and Spongebob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp (October 10), a new hour-long special where, while at Kamp Koral for a reunion, SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one by one.

The curated collection brings the household together by providing a scare for everyone with terrifying thrillers, spine-chilling films and frights for the fainthearted, with 25 expertly curated carousels. New and returning subgenres include the...

Two-time The Challenge champ Jonna Mannion and veteran KellyAnne Judd previously worked together during All Stars 3, and they developed a friendship outside the game. Therefore, it surprised KellyAnne when Jonna considered voting her into one of the first eliminations of the global spinoff World Championship. The two had a conversation where Jonna seemingly validated their friendship, making it hurt more when the back-to-back All Stars winner voted her in anyways, especially without warning. Many viewers thought KellyAnne spiraled as Jonna considered what to do. She recently clarified her actions and explained why the betrayal went beyond the game during a conversation with MTV’s Official Challenge Podcast.

Jonna Mannion blindsided KellyAnne Judd during ‘The Challenge: World Championship’

Before entering The Challenge: World Championship, KellyAnne Judd and Jonna Mannion were friends.

Therefore, the former expected the two-time champ not to throw her into elimination—especially the first one.

Jonna's got a Big decision to make.

The Challenge frequently incorporates themes including Rivals, Bloodlines, and Ride or Dies, forcing players to compete with their nemesis, friends, or family members for the grand prize. Both installments of Battle of the Exes (2012) were very popular among the fan base as they guaranteed drama, but the show hasn’t incorporated the former lovers twist since 2015. However, recent seasons seem to hint that a third Exes season is right around the corner.

‘The Challenge’ already gave it a trial run with Tori Deal and Jordan Wiseley in ‘Ride or ‘Dies’

The Challenge champ Jordan Wiseley proposed to Tori Deal during 2019’s War of the Worlds 2, but the engaged couple split in November 2020.

While she claimed she would do an Exes season with him, he initially insisted he wouldn’t compete with her again.

Tori and Jordan met on The Challenge, fell in love on The Challenge, and now they just...

This post contains spoilers for "Star Trek: Picard" season 3, episode 2.

If you're caught up on your "Star Trek: Picard," then you know we find out that Jean-Luc (Patrick Stewart) and the young Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) have more in common than the retired Starfleet admiral thought. That's right — Jack is Picard's son, the result of his and Beverly Crusher's (Gates McFadden) romantic entangling before she mysteriously disappeared a couple of decades ago.

We don't know yet why Beverly decided to keep Jack away from Jean-Luc, but when I asked showrunner Terry Matalas when the idea to give the show's titular character a son was hatched, he shared that he wanted to explore this type of relationship for Picard from the get-go.

"The first question I asked, even before the 'Next Generation' characters came into it, was, 'What's the last unexplored relationship in Captain Picard's life?'" he told me in...

Terribly sad news in the horror world this weekend with reports of the passing of Declan O’Brien, the writer and director of three Wrong Turn sequels, Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, and Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines. Deadline shared the surprising news this morning, writing that Declan O’Brien actually passed away […]

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Declan O’Brien, a writer, producer and director who specialized in horror fare with credits including three sequels in the Wrong Turn franchise, died on February 16 at age 56.

Born in 1965, O’Brien knew from a young age that he would be involved in film. He left for California from Rochester, NY to become an actor. When that didn’t work out, he decided to go to college and get a film degree and graduated from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. He was able to turn that into a full-time profession and became a producer, writer, and director for film and television domestically and internationally.

He made a name for himself in the horror genre by directing and writing Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, and Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines. Additionally, he directed other horror films including Joy Ride 3: Roadkill, and 2010’s Sharktopus.

O’Brien...

Two of singer-songwriter Terry Allen’s Eighties-era releases will be reissued by the indie label Paradise of Bachelors this May: 1980’s Smokin’ the Dummy and 1983’s Bloodlines. Both albums have both been long out of print, having last been reissued as a joint single album in 1997 by Sugar Hill Records, and are currently unavailable on streaming services.

The cult West Texas country singer and mixed-media artist has been enjoying a re-emergence in the past several years as his back catalog has been slowly reissued by Paradise of Bachelors, exposing the...

The CW has started making pilot orders.

Supernatural prequel The Winchesters, a Walker spinoff and DC universe-set Gotham Knights all have been picked up to pilot.

The move means that both stars of The CW’s Supernatural will be producing pilots for the upcoming season: Jensen Ackles with The Winchesters and Jared Padalecki with Walker: Independence.

The trio of pilot orders is unsurprising – Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva pointed to all three likely making the cut in her Pilot Season 2022 rundown. The network also handed an additional six scripts to the female-fronted Zorro series project.

2022 The CW Pilots & Series Orders

Deadline revealed in June that The Winchesters was in the works at The CW. The drama is centered on Dean and Sam Winchester’s parents – John and Mary – and tells the epic love story of how they met and how they put it all on the line to not only save their love,...

The CW is going back in time to expand the world of Supernatural, handing a pilot order to the prequel spinoff The Winchesters, exec-produced by original series star Jensen Ackles, TVLine has learned. It was one of three projects The CW ordered to pilot on Thursday; for details on the other two — Gotham Knights and Walker: Independence — click here.

The Winchesters centers around Dean and Sam Winchester’s parents, John and Mary, and is described as “the epic, untold love story of how John met Mary and how they put it all on the line to not only save their love,...

Arkane Studio’s Deathloop is one of the year’s best games as well as one of the studio’s most complete, fascinating, and unmissable titles yet. Of course, it’s also a relatively short game that many will be able to beat after about 15 hours of losing themselves in it.

So if you’ve just beaten Deathloop (or if you haven’t had a chance to play it yet due to the game’s PS5 and PC exclusivity), you may be wondering what comes next. Well, it thankfully turns out that there is an elite selection of games out there which either share quite a bit of design DNA with Deathloop or do a really good job of emphasizing one of the elements that make that game great. In either case, these 10 titles will give you plenty to do while you wait for Arkane’s next immersive simulation project.

Bad Candy: "On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy (Corey Taylor) and Paul (Zach Galligan) tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths. Residents of the small-town experience horrifying paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end."

Directed by: Scott B Hansen & Desiree Connell

Written by: Desiree Connel & Scott B Hansen

Cast: Zach Galligan, Derek Russo, and Corey Taylor

Producers: Steve Gebara, Richard Fitzpatrick, Mitchell Cox, Bret Disend, Desiree Connell, Scott B Hansen, Jacob Kasher

Genre: Horror

Run Time: 100 minutes

Rating: Not rated

Distributor: Dread

In Select Theaters September 10, On VOD September 14 + Blu-ray September 28

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Midnight Syndicate Releases Bloodlines Mini-album, A Prequel To The 13th Hour: "Midnight Syndicate has just released a mini-album entitled Bloodlines. Their 14th studio album, Bloodlines is a prequel to the duo’s best-selling, haunted mansion-themed, The 13th Hour. The new release draws listeners deeper into the world of the Haverghast family,...

This article contains Black Widow spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review here.

The MCU is finally back on the big screen! Marvel’s Black Widow was supposed to be the official kickoff of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but then the pandemic happened, it got bounced around the release calendar, and Disney managed to release three MCU TV shows before Natasha got to take her curtain call on the big screen.

But that’s thankfully behind us, and Black Widow delivers terrific blockbuster action in the mighty Marvel manner. And you know what that means! Let’s try and spot all the cool MCU references and Marvel Comics Easter eggs in Black Widow.

The Prologue Setting this prologue in 1995 gives us the approximate age of Natasha. If she’s supposed to be about 11 or 12 here, that conveniently makes the character the same age as Scarlett Johannsson, who was born...

This article contains Black Widow spoilers.

Black Widow has one of the best openings of any MCU movie yet, and I will fight you on that.

The story begins in Ohio, circa 1995, where a young Natasha Romanov is living with her Soviet spy family in quasi-but-not-totally-fake family bliss. The domestic dream ends once Alexei has completed his mission, forcing the family to make a dangerous getaway from the suburbs that ends in a tarmac shootout in which Melina gets shot and pre-teen Natasha has to pilot a plane on her own in order to save her family. Once the family lands safely in Cuba, everything falls apart for Natasha and little sister Yelena. They are drugged and integrated back into the Red Room program, which trains (read: brainwashes) young girls into becoming super spies.

We see that process in the film’s opening credit montage, which is set to a familiar song…...

This Star Wars: The Batch article contains spoilers.

Back in 2002, it was impossible for fans to predict that Star Wars: Attack of the Clones would set in motion stories that we’d still be revisiting almost 20 years later. Indeed, like The Clone Wars animated series before it, The Bad Batch continues to pick up plot threads from the second prequel, presenting them in new and interesting ways.

For example, the new show explores how the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire have changed Kamino, home to the cloning facilities where the soldiers of the Bad Batch, Omega, and all the other clones in Star Wars were created. We learn very early on in the premiere episode that the clone army’s victory over the Separatists (and the Jedi Order) may in fact lead to the downfall of the Kaminoans and the clones they created. Imperial leadership, including Admiral Tarkin,...

Supernatural may be over, but the beloved CW drama could be lining up another spinoff.

Per Deadline, The CW is eyeing another spinoff with a prequel titled The Winchesters, which would follow younger versions of Sam and Dean Winchester's parents.

The project is in development at the network, with Jensen Ackles set to narrate.

Danneel Ackles, who appeared on multiple episodes of the original series, is also attached to spearhead the series.

"Before Sam and Dean, there was John and Mary," reads the Deadline description.

"Told from the perspective of narrator Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), The Winchesters is the epic, untold love story of how John met Mary and how they put it all on the line to not only save their love, but the entire world."

Jensen and Danneel will exec produce through their company, Chaos Machine productions, which is in an overall deal with Warner Bros. TV group.

Less than a year after Supernatural wrapped up its 15-season run, The CW and original series star Jensen Ackles are eyeing an expansion to the franchise with The Winchesters. The network is developing the prequel spinoff about Dean and Sam’s parents, young John and Mary Winchester, with Ackles and his wife Danneel Ackles attached to executive-produce. (Was Jared Padalecki blindsided by this news? Read about his “gutted” reaction.)

Per our sister site Deadline, the potential offshoot — which has a script commitment — is described as the epic, untold love story of how John met Mary, and how they put it...

Exclusive: Supernatural, one of the most important series in the history of the CW, is eyeing a comeback with a new iteration with prequel The Winchesters, centered on Dean and Sam Winchester’s parents. The project, now in development at the network, is executive produced by Supernatural star Jensen Ackles, who will also reprise his Dean Winchester character as a narrator of the new show, and Ackles’ wife, Supernatural recurring guest star Danneel.

The Winchesters, which has a script commitment, is written/executive produced by another Supernatural alum, former co-executive producer Robbie Thompson.

Before Sam and Dean, there was John and Mary. Told from the perspective of narrator Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), The Winchesters is the epic, untold love story of how John met Mary and how they put it all on the line to not only save their love, but the entire world.

Jensen and Danneel Ackles executive produce through their company,...

The Wrong Turn movies have been scaring audiences since 2003 with stories about families of deformed cannibals who reside deep in the wilderness of West Virginia and take advantage of those who make the titular ‘wrong turn’ into their territory. Throughout the years, we received five straight-to-dvd sequels via Dead End, Left for Dead, Bloody Beginnings, Bloodlines and Last Resort. Most of them have been pretty terrible, though, and none have lived up to the original.

However, next year may change that as Wrong Turn, a reboot/reimagining from The Domestics director Mike P. Nelson, will arrive and so far, it looks pretty promising. The recent trailer teased a relevant horror pic about a divided America, with a group of metropolitan liberals being taken captive, tortured and killed by the rural cannibals. It appears to be playing on the big political divide in the US at the moment and seems like...

The Wrong Turn movies have been scaring the crap out of hikers since 2003. The horror franchise is about families of deformed cannibals who live deep in the wilderness of West Virginia and prey on those who take the titular ‘wrong turn’ into their territory. Since the first film, we’ve seen five straight-to-dvd sequels in the form of Dead End, Left for Dead, Bloody Beginnings, Bloodlines and Last Resort. These have been of variable quality and, save for a couple of fun scenes, largely failed to live up to the original.

In 2021, though, that may be set to change with Wrong Turn, a reboot of the first outing from The Domestics director Mike P. Nelson. The trailer dropped yesterday and teases an extremely relevant horror film about a divided America, showing a group of metropolitan liberals being captured, tortured and killed by the rural cannibals. Despite having been shot in...

Rob Schmidt’s Wrong Turn wasn’t exactly a huge hit when it arrived back in 2003, earning just $28 million on a budget of $12 million. Reviews, meanwhile, weren’t particularly enthusiastic, either, with a lot of critics feeling that it was a formulaic and uninspired slasher that didn’t really bring anything new to the genre. Still, somehow, despite all that, it went on to launch a multi-film franchise. One that will continue next month with a reboot titled Wrong Turn.

Over the years, the series has become a fixture of the VOD realm with sequels Dead End, Left for Dead, Bloody Beginnings, Bloodlines and Last Resort debuting between 2007 and 2014. All of them are low budget slashers that only helped further run the concept into the ground, but it seems distributor Saban Films has high hopes for this latest effort, as it’ll be hitting theaters for one night only on...

As this writer continues to play post-Halloween catch up with reviews, here’s a look at two films I recently had the pleasure of checking out: His House from up-and-coming filmmaker Remi Weekes and Tremors: Shrieker Island, the seventh film in the Tremors franchise.

His House: After premiering earlier this year at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Remi Weekes’ His House is now available to stream on Netflix. By blending together a haunted house story with his poignant examination of the dehumanizing treatment of refugees, Weekes creates a truly haunting experience where trauma and terror manifest in very personal ways, resulting in one of the most harrowing genre films to come along this year.

In His House, we follow Bol (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù), his wife Rial (Wunmi Mosaku), and their daughter (Malaika Wakoli-Agibaba) as they are desperately fleeing a war-torn Sudan in hopes of finding a better life in the U.

Rob Schmidt’s Wrong Turn was hardly a massive success at the box office back in 2003 after raking in $28 million on a budget of $12 million and reviews were far from enthusiastic, with many critics labeling it a formulaic and uninspired slasher that brought nothing new to a genre that had already been done to death a thousand times over, but it still went on to launch a multi-film franchise.

None of the following installments were even released in theaters, but Wrong Turn quickly became a fixture of the VOD realm with sequels Dead End, Left for Dead, Bloody Beginnings, Bloodlines and Last Resort arriving between 2007 and 2014. The second movie is the only one that was received enthusiastically, while the rest were standard low budget slashers that well and truly ran the concept into the ground.

First Poster For Wrong Turn Remake Teases The Arrival Of New Villains 1 of 2

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 developer Hardsuit Labs, Inc. revealed via Twitter that the game has been delayed until 2021.

Today we have an important announcement in regards to the release date of Bloodlines 2.

Castlevania season 3 has come and gone. Long did fans wait for the third season of the animated series, and after just 10 half-hour episodes of monster-hunting adventures, we’re left to wait again. Unlike season 2, which tied up its Dracula storyline in a neat, blood-stained bow, season 3 leaves viewers with more questions than answers.

One of the central mysteries of the season is the origin and function of the Infinite Corridor, an alternate plane that contains doors to different points in time (and perhaps even dimensions) across the Castlevania universe. It’s with the Infinite Corridor that creepy Dracula acolyte Prior Sala hopes to open a door to Hell and bring the Dark Lord back from the dead.

Longtime fans of the Castlevania franchise will undoubtedly recognize the Infinite Corridor, which is taken straight from the games. It was first introduced in 2005’s Curse of Darkness as an alternate dimension where...