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Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Monster” Season 3 has added Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hollander, and Olivia Williams to its cast, Variety has learned exclusively. The trio join previously announced cast member Charlie Hunnam, who will star as Ed Gein in the next season of the Netflix anthology series.

The third season of the hit Monster anthology series on Netflix is in the works!

British actress Barbara Leigh-Hunt, whose film and TV career spanned more than five decades, has died at her home in Warwickshire, her family has said. Barbara, who began her career on the stage and won an Olivier Award for her performance at the National Theatre in An Inspector Calls in 1993, was best known on screen for her roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972 thriller Frenzy, the historical drama Henry VIII and His Six Wives and as the vice principal in Billy Elliot.

Barbara Leigh-Hunt, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock‘s Frenzy, dozens of other films and TV and on West End and Broadway stages, has died. She was 88.

Guy Lodge Film Critic “The first version is the work of a talented amateur,” said Alfred Hitchcock to François Truffaut of his 1934 thriller “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” remade by Hitch himself in 1956. “The second was made by a professional.” Few are the filmmakers who gather sufficient career mileage and goodwill to take a second pass at their own work; fewer are those who make something worthwhile in the process.

Netflix’s Monster as notorious serial killer Ed Gein.The announcement was made by series creator Ryan Murphy onstage during a promotional event for season two of the show, which focuses on the Menendez brothers and the murder of their parents (via Variety). Season two will debut on Netflix this Thursday (September 19).Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch star in the new season as Lyle and Erik Menendez, while Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny will play their parents – you can see the trailer below.Series one, meanwhile, focussed on the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and received critical acclaim for the performances of Evan Peters as Dahmer (who won a Golden Globe for his role) and Niecey Nash (who won an Emmy) as Glenda Cleveland.

Naman Ramachandran Emma Rice‘s U.K.-based theater company, Wise Children, has unveiled its upcoming season, headlined by a new adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic 1959 film “North by Northwest.” The production, described as a “riotously funny reworking that turns the original thriller on its head,” adapted and directed by Rice, will play at York Theatre Royal on March 28, 2025, before touring to Manchester, Liverpool and other U.K. venues.

Terrified 3 landed this week (August 28) – check it out below.The first teaser for the film was released back in July saw Art go on a killing spree at Christmas. While the extent of his kills remains under wraps, we get glimpses of the psychotic killer clown and his latest victims.

Leonard Engelman, who lobbied the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch and served as its first governor when they did so, died Thursday at 88 in Northridge Hospital Medical Center.

A British-Nigerian horror film inspired by Jordan Peele and 'spooky' African folklore has landed on Amazon Prime Video today (July 12).

Ben Croll Since taking over in 2022, NIFFF director Pierre-Yves Walder has made the festival’s socially tinged retrospective program a hallmark of his tenure. Rounding out a so-called trilogy that started with queer representation then followed with a gender focus that put the femme fatale and scream queen under the spotlight, this year’s retrospective will tackle class conflict in cheeky terms, putting the screws to those swells with a 20 film program titled Eat the Rich.

Cate Blanchett blew kisses to the Cannes Film Festival audience as her new film, “Rumours,” earned a four-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night. The crowd welcomed the film’s dark humor, laughing throughout the entirety of the late-night screening. While some of the auditorium emptied out while the credits rolled, the majority of filmgoers waited patiently to pay their respects to the film’s stars.

CGI movie technology, it is getting harder and harder to deliver that true spine-chilling internal fear that makes horror films so great.Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids may arrogantly scoff at retro scary movies, but it hasn’t always been this way.There was once a time when picture-goers were so viscerally terrified by what they were seeing on the big screen that it would trigger powerful physical reactions right there in the theater.During Jaws (1975) people fainted and vomited in the cinema during some of the gruesome scenes, while others stopped going swimming in the ocean altogether out of pure fear.Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho (1960) sparked mania during the infamous shower stabbing scene, with reports of people hyperventilating and passing out in their cinema chairs.However, one of the most horrifying movies to ever hit the big screen, causing widespread panic, fear and repulsion, is William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973).Based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel, the film follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.With some wildly disturbing scenes, including some bizarre 360 degree head spinning, eerie spider-walking on the stairs and some disgusting projective lime-green vomit, it shocked those 1970s audiences to their core.One particular vulgar scene involving a crucifix — that is too crude to describe here — shocked and upset many, especially considering the percentage of people who were religious back then.The flick was so scary that even renowned Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert was at a loss for words about how it made him feel.“I am not sure exactly what reasons people will have for seeing this movie; surely

The Tribeca Festival has unveiled its reunions, retrospectives and talks series for the 23rd edition unspooling in June including a Storyteller Series with Judd Apatow, Andy Cohen, Kieran Culkin, Kerry Washington, Laverne Cox, Jon Batiste, and Michael Stipe.

Kyle MacLachlan has shared a list of 10 films that he thinks would be his Twin Peaks character Dale Cooper’s favourites – check out the list below.MacLachlan played the FBI agent Cooper in David Lynch’s cult show Twin Peaks in its initial run in 1990 and 1991, its 1992 spin-off film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and its 2017 revival, Twin Peaks: The Return.The eccentric investigator is assigned to the town of Twin Peaks in the show to look into the brutal murder of the high school student Laura Palmer, although he is often more interested in the quality of the coffee and a good cherry pie than anything else.Now, in a post on the film social networking site Letterboxd, MacLachlan has posted a list of films that he has described as “Dale Cooper’s picks”.The list includes the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window, the subversive 1977 Italian horror film Suspiria and the satirical 1979 Peter Sellers comedy-drama Being There.It also includes a couple of noir classics – 1944’s Laura and Double Indemnity – as well as Ingmar Bergman’s arthouse gem Persona, the James Stewart courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder and the 1981 sex comedy Waitress!In a moment of meta self-reflection, the list is rounded out by Blue Velvet, Lynch and MacLachlan’s previous collaboration, and Fire Walk With Me itself.MacLachlan is currently starring in the highly anticipated television adaptation of the video game franchise, Fallout, which arrived on Prime Video earlier this month.And the actor, at the request of his Fallout co-star Ella Purnell, recently sent the “sweetest” video to a Twin Peaks mega fan.Speaking to NME, Purnell revealed that she’d left it late to get her friend – who was a huge fan of the David Lynch show – a Christmas gift and so

Following the death of OJ Simpson this week, veteran TV presenter and comedienne Ruby Wax has written about the time she spent interviewing the footballing legend turned pariah for her BBC chat show.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Euro Gang Entertainment, the company launched last year by Hollywood veterans Gianni Nunnari (“300,” “Immortals”) and Simon Horsman (“Legacy: The True Story of the L.A. Lakers”) is ramping up operations in Italy through a partnership with Rome-based Alfred Film, the young shingle co-founded by experienced producers Roberto Amoroso and Maria Theresia Braun.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre will host a special screening series to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the podcast “You Must Remember This,” created and hosted by Karina Longworth. Longworth has now spent a decade examining the untold histories of show business — including watercooler seasons spent revisiting the Manson murders, the Star Wars franchise and the life and career of Joan Crawford. The Egyptian, owned by Netflix, has curated a three-day screening series featuring the films of Hollywood bombshell Kim Novak.Novak was the subject of the “lost” and first-ever recorded episode of “You Must Remember This.” Longworth has previously said a corrupted audio file and “large swaths” of copyrighted music led to the shelving of the episode, which will finally be released [Editor’s note: In the TV series that launched and catapulted Ryan Murphy to stardom, “Popular,” a fictional girl’s room at a Southern California high school was named for Novak after a donation from the star.

EXCLUSIVE: A young LL Cool J, a not so young Alfred Hitchcock. Photographer James Hamilton shot them all – Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicholson, Federico Fellini, Meryl Streep and more — capturing not only the famous but ordinary people in striking, candid moments.

Martin Scorsese accepted the PGA’s David O. Selznick Achievement Award tonight and took the Hollywood & Highland Ovation Ballroom down memory lane — about 60 years ago, when he accepted a PGA award for his student film, It’s Not Just You, Murray!, at the ripe age of 22 years old.

Charles D. King made history tonight, becoming the first African American producer to accept the PGA Milestone Award.