John Carpenter: Last News

Aramide Tinubu From “Halloween” to “The Prince of Darkness,” after nearly five decades in the industry, legendary director John Carpenter has earned his title as a master of the horror genre. With his terrifying jump cuts and ominous musical scores, Carpenter has always had the ability to thread a sense of terror and foreboding throughout his films, making them viscerally frightening. Now, with his first-ever television project, “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams,” the filmmaker is turning his lens on real-life evil.

John Carpenter and Bong Joon-ho have agreed to work with each other on the latter’s new horror film.The two directors made the pact at a recent screening of a 4K restoration of Carpenter’s The Thing, as Bong teased one of his future projects.The Mickey 17 director said his “next next” project would be a horror and wanted his fellow director to do the score.“I wanna do your score,” Carpenter then interjected before the two agreed to the idea with a handshake.BONG X CARPENTER pic.twitter.com/TlHefx9FCP— karen han (@karenyhan) March 23, 2025Carpenter is well known for composing scores alongside his directing work, which includes classics such as Halloween, Christine and The Fog.Bong’s recently released his latest film Mickey 17, his first feature project since 2019’s Oscar-winning Parasite. The film stars Robert Pattinson as a disposable worker who is cloned each time he dies for research purposes.In NME‘s four-star review of the film, we said: “Above all, there’s an infectious warmth to proceedings that makes you stick with Mickey 17 (and 18) through thick and thin.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Peter Jason, a character actor known for his roles in “Deadwood,” “48 Hrs.” and “Prince of Darkness,” along with his many television appearances, died Thursday in his West Hollywood home. He was 80. Jason’s death was confirmed by a rep from Tribesmen Pictures, with the cause of death being cancer.

Deadwood star Peter Jason has died at the age of 80 as fans and loved-ones pay tribute.

The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell has picked out what he believes to be the scariest scene in the history of horror cinema.The filmmaker, whose latest feature Wolf Man is due out early in the new year, picked a tense scene from John Carpenter’s 1982 classic The Thing in an article for The Hollywood Reporter.“The blood test scene in John Carpenter’s The Thing is a high water mark of terror for me,” Whannell wrote. “Kurt Russell’s character MacReady is using a flamethrower to heat up a wire and then stab it into a blood sample taken from every member of the science team.

EXCLUSIVE: Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (KFD) has acquired worldwide sales rights for Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters, the documentary about British studio Hammer Films we first told you about in August.

Halloween Ends arrives on Netflix this week, but is Michael Myers really dead at the end of the movie? Read on for all the details.The film was the final in a trilogy of sequels to John Carpenter’s highly influential 1978 slasher, following on from 2018’s Halloween and 2021’s Halloween Kills.David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Joe) directed all three films, which saw Jamie Lee Curtis return to the franchise in her role of Laurie Strode, the high school student targeted by serial killer Myers in the original film.Halloween Ends is set four years after the events of Halloween Kills and finds Strode attempting to move past her trauma while living with her granddaughter Allyson. However, 21-year-old Corey, who has his own history with Myers, becomes involved with Allyson, and by extension, with Strode.In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “Less concerned with making a slick modern horror than with doing something genuinely interesting with the franchise – Green’s trilogy makes much more sense when you can see the whole picture.

Selena Kuznikov Jamie Lee Curtis was awarded with an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute at the conservatory‘s commencement ceremony. The Oscar winner was the keynote speaker at the event, held Aug. 10.

Movie star legend, Charles Cyphers, has sadly passed away at the age of 85 after a battle with a brief illness.Tributes have flooded in for the actor, who was best known for starring in the Halloween franchise, with his former co-star left distraught by the news. Charles appeared in the 1978 movie Halloween as Sheriff Leigh Brackett and reprised his role in the 1981 sequel Halloween II and 2021’s Halloween Kills. His manager, Chris Roe shared the heartbreaking news that Charles passed away on Sunday, 4 August in Tucson, Arizona.

Variety. “He always had the best stories, and you got a full performance while he told you.

Variety yesterday that he passed away on Thursday (May 9) at his home in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by family members.Corman was seen as a trailblazer in the world of independent film, producing and directing hundreds of low-budget movies and giving an early platform to leading figures in the industry, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro.“His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,’” the family said in a statement.Known variously as ‘The Pope of Pop Cinema’ and ‘The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood’, he made his name in the 1960s, creating his own studios New World Pictures and New Concorde, and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2009 for his “rich engendering of films and filmmakers”.His own films were often made quickly with low budgets and specialised in genres such as horror, science fiction and action.Several major names received early credits in Corman’s work, including Nicholson in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Scorsese with Boxcar Bertha (1972), Cameron with Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and Ron Howard with Grand Theft Auto (1977).Howard himself joked that Corman told him during the tumultuous making of his first film Eat My Dust that “if you do a good job on this film, you won’t ever have to work for me again!”Tributes have come in for Corman, with director John Carpenter writing on X: “Roger Corman, one of the most influential movie directors in my life, has passed away.

The French Directors’ Guild (SRF) will fete UK director Andrea Arnold with its honorary Carrosse d’Or (Golden Carriage) award at the upcoming edition of its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Jeff Bridges will receive the 2024 Chaplin Award from Film at Lincoln Center — and, well, you know, that’s not just like, uh, our opinion, man.

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story, a feature documentary about Debra Hill, the late producer and co-writer of classic movies such as Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980), has moved into production with Causeway Pictures. 

John Carpenter has said that he is still in shock after watching the Barbie movie this summer.The Halloween director opened up about watching the film to Los Angeles Times saying parts of Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking film “went right over my head.”He went on to say that he watched the movie at home, not in the cinema, and that he loved Margot Robbie’s performance, deeming it “fabulous”.He told the publication: “I watched Barbie. I can’t believe I watched Barbie. It’s just not my generation.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Horror master John Carpenter told the Los Angeles Times that he’s heard about the negative reaction to Universal and Blumhouse’s “Exorcist” reboot, which currently sits at a paltry 23% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and opened to under $30 million at the box office. Universal spent $400 million on rights to the franchise with the intent of starting a new trilogy. The reboot, titled “The Exorcist: Believer,” is directed by David Gordon Green, who worked with Carpenter on the most recent “Halloween” reboot trilogy.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Lawrence Turman, producer of films including Oscar winner “The Graduate,” and longtime chair of the Peter Stark Producing program at USC, died Saturday at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills. He was 96. Turman’s producing career spanned 50 years, and he served as director of USC’s Peter Stark Producing program from 1991 until he retired in 2021 at age 94. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Turman graduated from UCLA and broke into the industry after answering an ad in Variety to work at the Kurt Frings agency. He represented actors, and after getting a meeting with Alfred Hitchcock through their friend Ernest Lehman, he was able to book four of his agency’s clients in “North By Northwest.”

Marta Balaga Brazil’s Lupa Filmes has revealed first-look images for Cristian Ponce’s upcoming survival horror “A Mother’s Embrace” ahead of its bow at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion, where genre industry professionals will also be treated to the sneak peak of the trailer. Previously behind animated webseries “The Kirlian Frequency”, acquired by Netflix, in 2020 Ponce directed big breakout “History of the Occult,” which marked his feature debut. The film was described as the highest-rated horror movie of 2021 on Letterboxd’s Year in Review roundup, as voted by users of the film rating social platform. Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, “A Mother’s Embrace” will see a team of firefighters trying to evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing. But its mysterious residents have other plans.

Tom Joyner, who was First AD on such notable titles as Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, George Roy Hill’s Slapshot and Clint Eastwood’s Bronco Billy, died February 22 after a long battle with cancer and heart disease. He was 79.

Angelique Jackson Jamie Lee Curtis has picked up her first Oscar, winning the best supporting actress trophy for her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself but I am not, I am hundreds of people. I’m hundreds of people. Where are the Daniels?,” she asked in her emotional acceptance speech, continuing to list of all the people who supported her. “Halloween” director John Carpenter was one of the first to congratulate the longtime horror star, tweeting “Congratulations Jamie Lee! You are the bomb!”“To all the people who have supported the genre movies that I’ve made for these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together!,” she said.

John Carpenter has shared a list of his favourite films of all time.The director, known for making horror classics like 1978’s Halloween and The Thing, revealed his picks for the greatest films ever in a poll for Sight And Sound magazine.Since 1952, the magazine has asked filmmakers every decade for their lists of the greatest films of all time. As part of the Winter 2022-23 issue, directors including Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson and Barry Jenkins were invited to contribute.Carpenter’s list ranges from gangster classics to epic westerns. You can check out his list of favourite films below.1. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)2. Campandas A Medianoche (1966)3. Rio Bravo (1958)4. Le Charme Discret De La Bourgeoisie (1972)5. Chinatown (1974)6. Bringing Up Baby (1938)7. The Searchers (1956)8. The Exterminating Angel (1962)9. Scarface (1932)10. Vertigo (1958)The director’s top pick, Only Angels Have Wings, is directed by Howard Hawks.