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UPDATE: Almost exactly one year to the date after it was announced that Taylor Russell and Jenna Ortega will be starring in a Single White Female reboot, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the project is moving forward under the title Single Female, with Bodies Bodies Bodies screenwriter Sarah DeLappe signing on the write the script.

Russell and Ortega are producing the film with Stacey Sher and Marisa Paiva.

The original article, posted on March 14, 2025, follows:

Industry scooper Jeff Sneider of The InSneider reports that Taylor Russell (Bones and All) is in talks to star in a reboot that has been in the works for years, an update of the 1992 thriller Single White Female. Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) is also reportedly in talks to star in the film, which is set up at Sony and 3000 Pictures. Variety quickly confirmed Sneider’s report.

As Sneider notes, “Obviously, the title would likely change, as Ortega and Russell are women of color, and neither identifies as white.” Maybe they’ll just drop the middle out and call it Single Female.

Directed by Barbet Schroeder from a screenplay by Don Roos, the ’92 film was based on the novel SWF Seeks Same by John Lutz. Here’s the synopsis: Having recently split from fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young women quickly form a bond, but as Allison starts to rethink her engagement, Hedra grows jealous and hostile. As Allison learns new details about her roommate’s life, Hedra gets violent in her efforts to get Sam out of the picture. With Hedra turning more menacing by the minute, Allison finally understands what she’s up against. Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh starred.

More than eight years have passed since we heard that a TV series based on Single White Female was in the works at NBC, but that show never made it into production. So the plan has changed and Sony is looking to make another movie out of the concept. The original film was made on a budget of $16 million and earned more than $84 million at the box office. Sony previously cashed in on the title with a 2005 direct-to-video sequel called Single White Female 2: The Psycho, starring Kristen Miller and Allison Lange.

What do you think of the idea of Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell starring in a new take on Single White Female? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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I’ve been to a few nightmare weddings in my day, but nothing quite like this. On Friday, Netflix unveiled a new and disturbing trailer for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, a new horror series from Haley Z. Boston and the Duffer Brothers, of Stranger Things fame, of course. The new psychological horror series premieres on March 26, with all eight episodes dropping on the same day.

What Happens in the New Trailer?

In the new trailer for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, Rachel (Camila Morrone) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco) want to get married. However, instead of making it a big to-do, Nicky has the not-so-brilliant idea of hosting the celebration at his parents’ vacation cabin in the woods. It’s at the cabin where Rachel meets Nicky’s family, and things quickly take a turn for the invasive and terrifying. How do I put this? There’s something wrong with Nicky’s family. They’re creepy, have no concept of privacy, and if I didn’t know any better, I’d say there’s some strange occult s**t going on. Unfortunately for Rachel, she won’t have too much time to figure things out, because to survive the ordeal, she’ll need to reconsider her vows and get the hell out of dodge before she’s celebrating her future as a corpse bride.

Boston on Her Approach to Horror

Tudum recently spoke with Haley Z. Boston, the creator of the new series, about her unnerving approach to horror.

“I love horror. It’s natural to me, [it’s how] I process my own emotions and feelings and my own understanding of the world,” Boston told Tudum. “I think horror allows you to explore taboo feelings and take all of these fears and give them some bite.”

The show isn’t about jump scares. Instead, as Boston puts it, the tone is “unsettling, getting-under-your-skin dread,” mixed with character-driven storytelling. “I love to explore characters. I think sometimes that’s lacking in the horror genre,” she says. “My natural approach is from a place of character and dialogue and humor and then infusing that with unsettling horror … I’m like, ‘I want to be unsettled. I want to be freaked out.'”

Who stars in Something Very Bad is Going to Happen?

Something Very Bad is Going to Happen stars Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & The Six, The Night Manager) as Rachel, Adam DiMarco (The White Lotus, Overcompensating) as Nicky, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fargo, Annihilation) as Victoria, Ted Levine (Monk, Big Sky) as Boris, Gus Birney (Shining Vale) as Portia, Jeff Wilbusch (Unorthodox, Oslo) as Jules, Karla Crome (The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, Lazarus) as Nell, Sawyer Fraser (The Good Doctor) as Jude, and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness).

What do you think about the new trailer for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen? I plan to check this out as soon as it drops on Netflix on March 26 and hope it’s as creepy as it looks. The last time I enjoyed something wedding-related, it was 2019’s Ready or Not, so I’m due for some frightening events revolving around young love and nutulas gone wrong. Let’s go!

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More than a year and a half has gone by since AMC announced that they had ordered a third season of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire – and that with season 3, the show would be moving on to the events of the second novel in Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series, The Vampire Lestat. Now, we finally have a premiere date, as it has been announced that the first episode of The Vampire Lestat will arrive on AMC and AMC+ on June 7th. Along with that announcement comes the unveiling of the opening title sequence, which can be viewed in the embed above.

Cast and Synopsis

In this story, Lestat becomes the frontman in a rock band, something that carries over into the events of the third book, The Queen of the Damned. That’s why those books were mashed together for the 2002 film Queen of the Damned, where Lestat’s singing voice was provided by Jonathan Davis of Korn. Here’s the synopsis for Interview with the Vampire season 3 / The Vampire Lestat: Resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller Interview with the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.

Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson reprise the roles of Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac. They are joined in the cast by Jennifer Ehle (Lioness) as Gabriella, Christopher Heyerdahl (Under the Banner of Heaven) as Marius, Damien Atkins (Slings & Arrows) as Magnus, Ella Ballentine (Black Conflux) as Baby Jenks, and Jeanine Serralles (Apples Never Fall) as Christine Claire, with Assad Zaman returning as Armand.

New additions include Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek), Ryan Kattner (Destroy All Neighbors), Seamus Patterson (Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities), and Sarah Swire (The Boys). Reid plays Larry, Kattner plays Salamander, Patterson is Alex, Swire is TC… and Atim is taking on the role of a major character: Akasha, Queen of the Damned.

Alan Taylor, who directed the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark, executive produces and directed the first two episodes of Interview with the Vampire. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul producer Mark Johnson is overseeing the building of AMC’s Vampire Chronicles franchise. Rolin Jones, co-creator and showrunner on the first season of the HBO series Perry Mason, is the creator, showrunner, and writer of the Interview with the Vampire series. Jones and Johnson executive produce the show alongside Taylor. Anne Rice’s son Christopher Rice is also on board as executive producer, and the late Rice receives an executive producer credit as well.

Will you be watching The Vampire Lestat when it premieres in June? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Director Fede Álvarez’s contribution to the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus (you can read our review HERE), was a success – so it was no surprise to hear, just a couple of months after the film’s theatrical release, that 20th Century Studios was working with Álvarez to develop a sequel to the film. All this time, we’ve been expecting Álvarez to direct the follow-up as well, becoming the first director other than Ridley Scott to helm two films in the franchise – but around six months ago, we heard the surprising news that Álvarez will not be directing the sequel, choosing to “pass the torch” instead. Now, it’s being reported that Michael Sarnoski (A Quiet Place: Day One) might end up being the director to replace Álvarez at the helm.

Alien: Romulus

The story Álvarez and co-writer Rodo Sayagues crafted for Alien: Romulus slots right in between the events of Alien and Aliens. It has the following official logline: The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. The cast includes Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Isabela Merced (Madame Web), David Jonsson (Industry), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Spike Fearn (The Batman), and Aileen Wu (Away from Home).

Sequel

The sequel is expected to center on Alien: Romulus survivors Rain (Spaeny) and Andy (Jonsson).

Speaking with Empire last year, Álvarez confirmed that he and Sayagues were working on the script for the Alien: Romulus sequel. He said, “We’re excited about where it can go. We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters. I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.”

Now, Nexus Point News is reporting that Michael Sarnoski is being considered to direct the follow-up, with their sources indicating that Sarnoski is currently the preferred candidate for the job. On the Hot Mic podcast, industry scooper Jeff Sneider of The InSneider confirmed that his sources have also told him that Sarnoski is on the short list of potential directors.

Sneider went on to address a rumor that’s been floating around online: that Álvarez decided to step away from directing the film because David Jonsson doesn’t want to reprise the role of Andy. Rather than the issue coming down to an actor named David, Sneider heard that Álvarez actually wanted to use the David android, who was played by Michael Fassbender in the Ridley Scott-directed films Prometheus and Alien: Covenant story. This supposedly caused friction with Scott, who remains on board all new Alien projects as a producer, who didn’t want him to put David in the movie. And that may be why Álvarez took a step back.

We’ll have to wait and see how this all pans out. In the meantime, let us know: would you like to see Michael Sarnoski get the Alien: Romulus sequel directing job?

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The combination of director Steven Spielberg and UFOs has previously brought us Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and War of the Worlds. (Not to mention Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.) This year, Spielberg returns to the subject matter with his latest event film, Disclosure Day, which is set to reach theatres on June 12th – and exactly three months out from that date, a new trailer for the film has dropped online! You can watch it in the embed above.

Cast and Synopsis

The official press release for Disclosure Day reads:

Universal Pictures is proud to release a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars SAG winner and Oscar^® nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Oscar^® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple) and two-time Oscar^® nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin).

Based on a story by Spielberg, the screenplay is by David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Combined, those films earned more than $3 billion worldwide. Koepp also wrote the script for 2025’s Jurassic World Rebirth.

Disclosure Day is produced by five-time Academy Award^® nominee Kristie Macosko Krieger (The Fabelmans, West Side Story) and by Spielberg for Amblin Entertainment. The executive producers are Adam Somner and Chris Brigham. 

There has been speculation that Disclosure Day could be some kind of secret follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Spielberg has said that he made this film because “I’ve always been fascinated with things that cannot be explained. When I was just a little kid, I remember developing a real curiosity about the sky at night, and what’s happening up there. And, also, not the possibility, but the guarantee that there is life off this planet.“

Are you excited to see Spielberg digging into the concept of UFOs and aliens again? Take a look at the new Disclosure Day trailer, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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One of the things I love about horror is how scary a simple concept can be. In The Blair Witch Project, you have amateur filmmakers face the unknown. And then there was the success of the Paranormal Activity franchise that brought the chills of a haunting to a suburban nightmare. Since then, we have seen many a flick with a smaller budget that has captured the attention of horror connoisseurs. The latest thriller to give the audience a chill is the Ian Tuason indie, Undertone.

The story revolves around Evie (Nina Kiri), a host of a popular paranormal podcast. Along with her co-host, Justin (Adam DiMarco), the two find themselves facing very dark and horrific content. After she is sent 10 audio recordings of some very spooky material, things get really spooky for Evy. The film connected with much of what made both Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity work for this viewer. It is a dark and trippy flick that uses audio beautifully to ratchet up the scares.

Last week, I sat down with the writer/director Ian Tuason, along with both Nina Kiri and Adam DiMarco. It was wonderful meeting Mr. DiMarco. He opened up about the success he found at Fantasia, Sundance and how Undertone became an A24 release. As for Ms. Kiri, she opened up about carrying so much of the film, and frankly, it sounds like they had a blast. When it came to Adam DiMarco, he discussed creating an on-screen relationship while maintaining an off-screen one.

It was such a pleasure chatting paranormal with these three. At the end of the discussion, I was curious if they decided to take a chance at a ghost hunt to bring spooky energy to the production.

Are you looking for supernatural frights? You will probably want to check out Undertone with a packed audience ready to get scared. Look for it this weekend at a theatre near you. Check out our review HERE.

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Last week, legendary drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs had to break some bad news to his fans: the Shudder streaming service had cancelled his show The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs, and last Friday’s episode was the series finale. But there’s a silver lining here, as not only has Shudder commissioned Joe Bob to shoot four specials that will air through the rest of the year – but as of January 1st, he’s a free agent who’ll be able to take his movie-hosting talents anywhere, and he’s already weighing the options for another TV show! He let Variety know that he’s also planning to launch a genre-movie production company.

Joe Bob Briggs

Joe Bob Briggs made his debut as a drive-in movie critic in the early ’80s and soon earned a job hosting movies on The Movie Channel, where Joe Bob’s Drive-in Theater ran from 1986 to 1996. That was followed by the TNT series MonsterVision, which he hosted from 1996 to 2000.

That was followed by an eighteen-year stretch of darkness, but then he made his triumphant return with The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder. The Shudder era began with a 13-film marathon on July 13, 2018 – an event that Joe Bob thought might be his last rodeo. But so many people tuned in for that marathon, it crashed Shudder’s servers and convinced them to give him an on-going series, mixed with holiday specials.

On The Last Drive-In, the world’s foremost drive-in movie critic hosts eclectic horror movies, talking about their merits, histories and significance to genre cinema. The show is produced by Matt Manjourides and Justin Martell and directed by Austin Jennings. Joe Bob is joined on every episode by Diana Prince as Darcy the Mail Girl.

The Next Step

Speaking with Variety, Joe Bob said that Shudder never told him exactly why they were cancelling The Last Drive-in, but when the show started, Josh Sapan, who he had worked for in the Drive-in Theater and MonsterVision days, was running the streamer’s parent company, AMC. Sapan has since retired – and with him gone, it seems AMC’s priorities or their vision for Shudder have changed.

“As soon as people knew about (the cancellation), the phones lit up, the e-mail inbox filled up. I couldn’t keep up with all the texts because everyone was saying, ‘I’m shocked. You have to take the show somewhere else.’ Nobody was saying, ‘Well, the show finally played out, didn’t it? It ran its course.’ You know, nobody was doing that narrative on this one.” Offers for a new show are rolling in, but Joe Bob is eager to get feedback from fans to find out if they want him to continue his hosting duties or do something a bit different. (My suggestion: keep doing it like you’ve been doing it!)

He added, “We had actually thought that we had the show placed with another company. But when the word got out about the cancellation, other people called. So we may do it in a different way, of somehow preserving The Last Drive-in without using the name Last Drive-in.“

Production Company

What else is on the table? Producing movies!

Joe Bob told Variety, “I had been developing a horror production company for a while. My old friend Bob Bernie at Picturehouse said he wants to do it. Now, we’re signing the final papers for it. We have a production slate. We have projects to make, and I’ll be able to spend time on that.“

I’m glad to hear that’s moving forward, because I remember that Joe Bob was talking about starting a production company a long time ago, way before The Last Drive-in came along.

Specials

While we wait to find out what exactly is coming next, Joe Bob will be wrapping up his Shudder obligations.

The first of the four post-series specials will be Joe Bob’s Wicked Witchy Wingding, will is coming our way April 24th at 9pm ET. The double feature of occult flicks continues Briggs’ eternal campaign to establish Walpurgisnacht as an American horror holiday.

That one will be followed by a summer special featuring a title Joe Bob has been trying to get on the air for 30 years. (Fans have already been able to deduce that it’s I Spit on Your Grave, with special guest Camille Keaton.) Then we’ll get a Halloween special and one last Christmas special. By holding auctions during the Christmas specials, The Last Drive-in has been able to raise $1 million for charity over the years.

Are you a fan of Joe Bob Briggs, and are you looking forward to seeing what the post-Shudder era is going to be like? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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