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Hulu is kicking off 2025 with a bang by adding tons of new content for subscribers starting January 1. From popular movies like American Psycho, Heat, and John Wick to new series like Goosebumps: The Vanishing, there’s plenty to check out.

Here’s the full list of movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in January 2025:

January 1 Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025: Special Premiere Kids Diana Show: Let’s Celebrate Together: Complete Season 1 Papa Jake: Epic Box Forts: Complete Season 1 After Earth (2013) American Psycho (2000) The Devil’s Own (1997) The Devil’s Own En Español (1997) Dirty Grandpa (2016) Empire Records (1995) Ender’s Game (2013) The Great Debaters (2007) Heat (1995) Insidious (2011) Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) Insidious: Chapter 2 En Español (2013) Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) Insidious: Chapter 3 En Español (2015) The Intouchables (2011) John Wick (2014) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) The King Of Comedy (1983) Little Manhattan (2005) Man of the House (2005) Man Of The House...

Hulu is starting 2025 strong as the platform will add a lot of new content for its subscribers starting January 1. From movies like American Psycho, Heat, and John Wick to new series like Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Hulu is bringing A Lot to watch.

Here’s every movie & TV show releasing on Hulu in January 2025:

January 1 Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025: Special Premiere Kids Diana Show: Let’s Celebrate Together: Complete Season 1 Papa Jake: Epic Box Forts: Complete Season 1 After Earth (2013) American Psycho (2000) The Devil’s Own (1997) The Devil’s Own En Español (1997) Dirty Grandpa (2016) Empire Records (1995) Ender’s Game (2013) The Great Debaters (2007) Heat (1995) Insidious (2011) Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) Insidious: Chapter 2 En Español (2013) Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) Insidious: Chapter 3 En Español (2015) The Intouchables (2011) John Wick (2014) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) The King Of Comedy (1983) Little Manhattan (2005) Man of the House (2005) Man Of The House...

Ah, January. A new year, a clean slate, a fresh chance to… do what you’ve always done, maybe? Not that we at IndieWire don’t encourage personal growth, but we do support you if you decide to spend a lot of this month recovering from the holidays and melting into your couch in front of a watchlist.

On Disney+, that means new episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” and the premiere of “Goosebumps: The Vanishing.” If you’re into creepy crawlies.

Hulu will keep things busy as always with next-day premieres of network shows on ABC and Fox, including the new series “Going Dutch” starring Denis Leary and “Will Trent” Season. The streamer will continue to release standup under the banner “Hularious,” this time with the special “Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers.” On the originals side, look out for “Whiskey on the Rocks” set in Sweden during the Cold War,...

Over the years, Leonardo DiCaprio has been associated with the likes of Naomi Campbell, Blake Lively, Gisele Bündchen, Camila Morrone, and Gigi Hadid. The actor is now reportedly in a relationship with Italian model Vittoria Ceretti. There are rumors that DiCaprio has finally shed his bachelor image and got engaged to Ceretti secretly.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s rumored fiancée Vittoria Ceretti | Credits: Christopher Macsurak, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ceretti was previously in a relationship with DJ Matteo Milleri and the two tied the knot on June 1, 2020, in Ibiza, Spain. The marriage didn’t last as they filed for divorce in June 2023. Milleri is currently dating another woman, who interestingly connects DiCaprio’s rumored fiancée to Elon Musk.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Girlfriend Has A Bizarre Elon Musk Connection Matteo Milleri aka Anyma and singer Grimes | Credits: @grimes/Instagram

Matteo Milleri, popularly known by his DJ name Anyma, is the...

The 2024 Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf), held its closing and awards ceremony for the Pitching section today (8th). This year’s grand prize, the Taicca X Cnc Award, was awarded to Clouded Leopard by Mangowork Studio Co., Ltd., while the Taicca Award: Best Story went to Rest in Pieces by Balena Islet Publishing Inc. Each winner took home $30,000 Usd and $10,000 Usd, respectively. Additionally, following the jury’s recommendation, a Special Jury Award was introduced due to the exceptional diversity and quality of proposals. This award was presented to the tri-country co-production The Alleyway which received $10,000 Usd in prize money as encouragement to inspire more market-potential projects in the future.

Taicca Chairperson Homme Tsai expressed that the four-day Tccf event received high praise for its international participation and professional quality, with over 10,000 visitors attending. He hopes to invite more major international platforms and production companies to participate in next year’s...

AMC Networks — the company behind such cable channel brands as AMC, IFC and Sundance TV, as well as such streaming services as AMC+, Acorn TV and horror streamer Shudder — reported a 10 percent drop in third-quarter U.S. advertising revenue to $133 million on Friday. It cited “linear ratings declines and a challenging ad market, partly offset by digital and advanced advertising revenue growth.”

Quarterly affiliate revenue decreased 13 percent to $164 million, “primarily due to basic subscriber declines.”

After returning to streaming subscriber growth in the third quarter of last year after two quarters of declines, the company added around 200,000 users in the latest quarter to end September with a total of 11.8 million subs, compared with 11.6 million as of the end of June.

Original series on AMC in the third quarter included The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – the Book of Carol, starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride; season 4 of the dystopian Snowpiercer, starring...

Miyagawa Eriko, producer of the Emmy-winning drama series “Shogun” will be on hand to lead a training session at this week’s Taiwan Creative Content Fest that takes place before the Tccf’s centerpiece pitching sessions.

Miyagawa is joined by Liu Hsinyi, line producer of the British series “Fleabag,” one of the biggest critical and commercial hit comedies in recent years, and Martin Vandas, CEO of the Czech animation company Maur film.

The experts will help improve the content and tune up the presentation of the pitches to increase their chances of entering the global market.

The pitching awards will be judged by a panel that includes: Kwon Hojin, senior executive director of the Seoul Broadcasting System (Sbs); Banjong Pisanthanakun, director of the Thai classic horror film Shutter; and Srishti Behl, senior producer of Phantom Studios and previous Netflix executive in India.

The Tccf Pitching offers an array of prizes – cash and in kind.

As a Halloween week treat for our readers, we have an exclusive first-look preview of Hello Darkness #5, the horrifying continuation to the new ongoing anthology series from Boom! Studios. In today's preview, we have a tease of horror stories from Garth Ennis, Becky Cloonan, Sarah Andersen, Sarah Gailey, Liana Kangas, Jeremy Bastian, Ziyan Qiu, James Tynion IV, and Werther Dell'Edera!

"Boom! Studios today revealed a spooky first look at Hello Darkness #5, the horrifying continuation to the new ongoing anthology series featuring what Boom! Studios is known for–the best in modern Horror, Fantasy, and Mystery, not to mention the darkest stories yet from a murderer’s row of world class creators including R.L. Stine, Francesco Francavilla, Garth Ennis, Becky Cloonan, James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera, John Arcudi, Ryan Sook, Cullen Bunn, Daniel Bayliss, Sas Milledge, Sarah Gailey, Liana Kangas, Marguerite Bennett, Luana Vecchio, Michael W. Conrad, Martín Morazzo, Andy Lanning,...

Scaring Up A Big Win

Jon Bell’s “The Moogai” was Saturday named winner of the Film Prize at Western Australia’s CinefestOZ festival. With a cash award of A$100,000, it is one of the richest film festival prizes in the world.

Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit that she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Fergus, can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her. He does not know if the child-stealing spirit real or is Sarah is in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family. The film stars Shari Sebbens and Meyne Wyatt.

It is produced by Kristina Ceyton, Mitchell Stanely and Samantha Jennings and coproduced by Alex White. International sales are handled by the U.

Hot from its multi-territory success with “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies,” Thai film studio GDH559 set out a powerful production and releasing slate for the coming year. Significantly, four of its next five releases have LGBT themes.

Released in April, “Grandma” earned THB339 million ($9.4 million) in Thailand. It has since broken records in five countries for Thai-language film on its way to earning a cumulative THB1.2 billion ($33.3 million) and plays imminently at the New York Asian Film Festival.

Nearest to release, and most accomplished-looking of the new slate, is “The Paradise of Thorns,” a comedy drama about a man who is cut out of his lover’s durian farm inheritance due to a lack of paperwork and hereto-centric laws. A similar theme was explored earlier this year in Ray Yeung’s Teddy Award-winning drama “All Shall Be Well,” which told its story from a lesbian point of view...

Hong Da-ye majored in film studies in college. She has shot documentary short “Each Vegetarian” (2018) and short films “Shutter”(2020) and “Kill This Love” (2021). “Invisible” is her fourth film, which received the Ulsan International Film Festival Production Fund.

Invisible screened at Busan International Short Film Festival

The movie begins with a Pov sequence through the windshield of a car, which is soon revealed to carry a couple. The man starts talking about Maxim, a foreign worker whom he has granted a room in the motel he runs in the countryside. Jae-hee, the woman is pregnant and is not exactly at her best, with her situation becoming even worse after an episode with a client she experiences while working reception. Maxim comes to her rescue, but his behavior is somewhat condescending and Jae-hee starts feeling a sense of uneasiness around him. The tension soon finds itself in her relationship with her husband,...

Thai production and sales company Gdh 559 has lined up a Cannes slate that includes a trio of directorial feature debuts ready for release this year, following the smash hit box office success of How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.

Boss Kuno’s The Paradise of Thorns is set in Thailand’s mountainous north and revolves around a gay couple who have built a life together on a durian orchard. When one of them dies suddenly, the other must fight to reclaim the fruits of his love and labour as they are not legally married.

The cast is headed...

It’s always fun to discuss horror novels that Aren’T Stephen King. No knock on the monster from Maine, he’s the master of horror novels over the last, oh I don’t know, 50 years, for a reason but its nice to not have the show be solely dedicated to his adapted works. He says knowing that he makes the schedule and decides what books to cover. See you in May, Mr. King! Funnily enough, the man actually loved today’s subject to the degree that he called it one of 2006’s best horror novels, but more on that in a little bit. The Ruins (watch it Here) was one of those hot properties by an author whose previous work was an instant success with critics, fans, and studio executives that put it to celluloid. The book came out and just two years later we were given a movie...

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track… So, we’re going to do the hard work for you.

This week we’re featuring Taweewat Wantha’s Thai horror pic Tee Yod (aka Death Whisperer). A smash in its home market, it set an opening day record for the year in late October and has the distinction of being the first Thai film ever released in IMAX.

Name: Tee Yod (Death Whisperer)

Country: Thailand

Producers: Major Join Film, Bec World, M Studio

Distributor: M Pictures

For fans of: Shutter, Pee Mak, supernatural horror

Following quickly in the footsteps of another 2023 Thai horror hit,...

It’s an interesting month ahead on Hulu, as the streamer rolls out some of the series it’s been keeping in its back pocket for the holiday season.

On December 15, the first season of Such Brave Girls will arrive. The sitcom follows a dysfunctional family – and we mean dysfunctional! – that includes real-life sisters Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson. British comedian Sadler has previously written for The News Quiz, Hypothetical, and Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, but this is her first big TV project. “Everything we joke about in the show is from a place of lived experience,” she told Funny Women. “I wish I could say this is a heart-warming show about overcoming trauma, but that would be a lie. It’s about three toxic, damaged egomaniacs manipulating the world and each other for their own personal gain, vengeance and glory…just like in Little Women.” Sounds good!

Later in the month,...

Make yourself at home for the holidays with Hulu! The streamer is heading into the final month of the year with a wide variety of new and classic movies, series from around the globe, anime subs and dubs, documentaries, and much more to binge your way through your vacation days.

Plus, Hulu is making your travel plans easier, be it domestic with the premiere of the Original documentary “We Live Here: The Midwest” or internationally with final season of Canada’s “Letterkenny” and the United States premiere of the A24 Brit-com “Such Brave Girls.”

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A hospital in the decommissioning process–housing only a skeleton staff and a few patients–receives an ambulance call, which gives no alternative other than to drop off an extremely ill man. When the person arrives, the hospital staff finds a bandaged body constantly oozing a thick green discharge. As the night goes on, it seems to affect the body and mind of those at the hospital, and they transform into violent zombies.

Coming up on Halloween, it was hard not to go with a horror movie, and one that certainly deserves more fanfare is Masayuki Ochiai’s 2004 film “Infection.” An entertaining mix of body horror and supernatural mystery, Masayuki Ochiai makes up for the limited budget by crafting ghastly moments of horror and disgust, like grabbing a handful from the needle dispensary. Moreover, “Infection” leaves much up to interpretation, and the source of the madness that overcomes the hospital...

Paramount will be shutting down Showtime Sports by the end of the year. The news comes in the wake of Showtime’s merger with Paramount+.

“It is with profound disappointment that I shared this morning’s news that the company has decided to shut down Showtime Sports at the end of this year,” president of Showtime Sports Stephen Espinoza wrote in a memo to staff on Tuesday that was obtained by TheWrap.

Espinoza emphasized that Paramount’s decision to cut the division is not “a reflection of the work we have done in recent years, nor of our long and proud history.”

“Unfortunately, in a rapidly evolving media marketplace, the company has had to make difficult choices allocating resources, resetting priorities and reshaping its content offering,” Espinoza continued. The former head went on to say that the shuttering was “entirely out of our control.”

“As we evolve our strategy to...

Chaaver is an upcoming Malayalam action thriller film directed by Tinu Pappachan and starring Kunchacko Boban, Arjun Ashokan and Anthony Pepe in the lead roles. The film is set to release on October 13, 2023 and promises to be a gripping and entertaining ride for the audience. Here are five reasons why you should watch Chaaver in theatres:

1.The Brand – Tinu Paapachan

Tinu Pappachan is one of the most promising directors in Malayalam cinema, who has delivered two of the best action films ever released in Malayalam: Swantham Rithyam and Ajagajantharam. Both these films gave the best theatre experience to the viewers with their stunning visuals, thrilling stunts and engaging narration. Watching a Tinu Pappachan film in theatres is never going to be a waste of time, as he knows how to keep the audience hooked till the end.

Chaaver Trailer 2. Strong cast from Versatile Kunchako Boban

Chaaver boasts of a strong...

Cities, with their bright lights and endless skylines, may seem like the last place you’d expect to encounter the supernatural or the sinister. The hustle and bustle, the coffee shops at every corner, the never-ending traffic jams – it’s all a part of the metropolitan charm, right? Yet, behind that cosmopolitan allure hides an underbelly of chilling tales, waiting to unfold amidst towering skyscrapers and maze-like streets. Just think about it – those very alleys you consider shortcuts might just be gateways to another realm.

In the grand tradition of taking familiar settings and turning them on their heads, filmmakers have masterfully woven narratives of terror in the very heart of urban landscapes. The next time you find yourself walking down a dimly lit downtown street, you might just wonder which shadowy figure from the world of cinema is lurking around the corner. If you’re a fan of big...

Chaaver, the latest Malayalam action thriller film directed by Tinu Pappachan and written by Joy Mathew, is all set to hit the theatres on September 21, 2023. The film stars Kunchacko Boban, Antony Varghese and Arjun Ashokan in the lead roles, along with Sajin Gopu in a supporting role. The film is produced by Arun Narayan and Venu Kunnapilly under the banners of Arun Narayan Productions and Kavya Film Company.

The film’s title, which means martyrs in Malayalam, hints at the theme of sacrifice and vengeance that runs through the story. The film revolves around three friends who are part of a rebel group that fights against the oppressive regime of a tyrannical ruler. The friends face many challenges and dangers as they try to overthrow the dictator and free their people from his clutches. The film promises to be a gripping and intense drama that explores the themes of friendship,...

Sophon Sakdaphisit has really outdone himself with his new directorial venture Home For Rent. If there is a name that guarantees a proper ‘horror’ experience in today’s films, it is Sophon. As the writer of such films as “Shutter” and “Coming Soon”, his new film Home For Rent is a testament to his ability to create a terrifying world where anything can happen to your loved ones. He doesn’t give scientific explanations in his films to dilute the experience; he just deep dives into the purely supernatural element.

It’s nice to have a director who unabashedly jumps into what could be called old-school horror, and because Sophon has the conviction to pull it off, Home For Rent works really well. The film features some very strong performances by the actors, but it is the casting that has to be credited because it is spot on. The story revolves around Ning,...

It’s a commonly known fact that art reflects culture and society, and movies are no less than art. But I firmly believe that horror movies are a representation of the world and the society they are produced by. Over the years, we’ve seen how the genre adapts with time and brings out new fears that are more relevant to the new generation. Delete may not be a traditional “horror” TV drama, but the way it’s shot, the narrative, and, of course, the broader concept of the whole thing are quite horrifying. So, I think it makes for a good example of what I’m trying to say here.

In our review, we mentioned how Delete bore a resemblance to the early 2000s Japanese technophobia era that ushered in a new wave of horror cinema, including classics like Pulse and Ringu that took the entire world by storm.

Yoshinobu Nakamura started out in the movie business by focusing on his love for photography, a career highlight being the shooting of promotional material for the likes of Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Grant and a myriad of other actors. Not content with still images, the talented newcomer took to the director's seat and began making films independently with his debut effort “Mono yuuni” (2021) screening at local festivals across his native Japan.

Old Photograph is screening at Japan FilmFest Hamburg

The horror genre symbolizes what Nakamura considers scary but also has ‘deep meaning rooted in the culture of the country' [it was made in]. It is no coincidence then that all his work since “Mono Yuuni” has been travelogue-type ‘travel memories' and a series of eerie short films sharing similar ryokan-themed creepiness. Starting with “Ofuda” (2021), “Twitter” (2022) and following up with this one that takes the action right back into the same infamously claustrophobic four walls.

We...

WME Independent is handling international sales on the film at Cannes.

Ananda Everingham, Bront Palarae and Jennis Oprasert have been revealed as the cast of Thai horror The Cursed Land, on which WME Independent is handling international sales at Cannes.

Written and directed by Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee as their directorial fiction feature debut, the film follows a widower and his daughter who travel to Thailand’s deep south to seek help from a Muslim witch doctor after unleashing a djinn in a rundown house. A first look at Ananda in the film can be seen above.

Ananda is...

Since a certain show about houses and dragons just wrapped, HBO Max has a big scheduling hole fill next month. How will they go about it? Let’s find out with the streamer’s list of new releases for November 2022!

Obviously, there is no replacing House of the Dragon‘s cultural impact so HBO is looking for some singles in November, rather than the homerun. Things get started on in promising fashion on Nov. 3. That date sees the premiere of Titans season 4 and the interesting true crime documentary Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty. The former will continue the adventures of DC’s heralded Titans team (and introduce some new heavy hitters) while the latter will try to keep pace with Netflix’s prolific true crime output.

November is also when HBO Max gets a head start on the holiday season. A Christmas Story sequel, aptly titled A Christmas Story Christmas,...

Dan Levy, Sohla El-Waylly, and Will Guidara in ‘The Big Brunch’ (Photograph by Jeremy Kohm/HBO Max)

HBO Max’s November 2022 lineup will include a new season of Titans as well as Love, Lizzo, a documentary that charts the path of Lizzo’s incredible career. November also serves up The Big Brunch, a cooking competition series hosted by Schitt’s Creek‘s Dan Levy and offering a 300,000 grand prize.

Season two of The Sex Lives of College Girls will premiere on November 17th and season three of We’re Here with Bob the Drag Queen and Shangela debuts on November 25th. The streaming service’s schedule also includes a documentary series on former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal along with season 53 of Sesame Street.

Series & Films Arriving On HBO Max In November 2022:

November 1

!Three Amigos!, 1986 (HBO)

(500) Days of Summer, 2009 (HBO)

50 First Dates, 2004

Accepted, 2006 (HBO)

Amazing Grace, 2006 (HBO)

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince,...

Four features and two series include the latest from award-winning director Wisit Sasanatieng.

Netflix has announced its first ever slate of original features and series from Thailand, directed by a string of award-winning filmmakers and produced by powerhouse studios Gdh and Gmm.

The films include The Murderer, directed by Wisit Sasanatieng, which marks the streaming platform’s first feature in the northeastern Thai dialect. It stars popular Thai comedian Mum Jokmok as a policeman who investigates whether an English man has killed his Thai in-laws.

Wisit is known for titles such as Western homage Tears Of The Black Tiger, which...

International streaming company Netflix has unveiled six new titles representing its first wide-ranging slate of content from Thailand.

Its four films and two series span the comedy, suspense and comedy drama genres and hail from six different local production firms – Gmm Studios, International, Gdh, Song Sound Productions, Transformation Films, 18 Tanwa and Jungka Bangkok. Significantly, too, they are sourced from established directors or producers.

Writer-director Prueksa Amaruji’s dark comedy film “Lost Lotteries” is produced by Ekachai Uekrongtham and will stream from mid-November.

Writer-producer Kongdej Jaturanrasmee and veteran indie producer Soros Sukhum are behind director Sitisiri Mongkolsiri’s “Hunger,” a family drama with food as its central theme. It stars Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, aka Aok Bap, the breakout star of “Bad Genius” and a former Talent to Watch, selected by Variety and the International Film Festival & Awards Macao.

Veteran director Wisit Sasanatieng (“Tears of the Black Tiger”) is directing “The Murderer,...

Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Ho-sun Chan has launched a production company to focus on streaming content, Changin’ Pictures, with a debut slate of five projects and talent including action star Donnie Yen and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.

The new outfit aims to “revolutionize the streaming multiverse in Asia” by signing up leading filmmakers and fresh talent from across the region to create drama series for a pan-Asian audience and beyond. Chan also intends to collaborate with platforms and potential co-production partners who want to jump into Asia’s expanding streaming market.

Changin’ Pictures plans to roll out 20 limited series across various genres from across the Asia Pacific region in its first four years.

The first two projects on the slate are Korean series, both adapted from popular webtoons: One: High School Heroes, produced by Covenant Pictures (Desperate Mr. X), about a bullied high school kid who transforms himself into a...

Projects starring Donnie Yen and Zhang Ziyi are among the independently produced TV series to be launched on the sidelines of this week’s Busan International Film Festival. The company responsible is Changin’ Pictures, a would-be studio being hatched by Hong Kong-based film director and producer Peter Chan Ho-sun.

Propelled by the growing recognition of Asian talent and the worldwide distribution potential of multinational SVOD platforms, Changin’ Pictures aims to be a powerhouse production hub suppling premium drama content to streaming players.

The company has raised very substantial finance from Asian sources and aims to develop and produce series which it will pitch and license to the platforms, without recourse to the Ott companies’ production funding, greenlighting and editorial constraints.

The company expects to sign up a mix of Asia’s top-billing established filmmakers and fresh talents “to create innovative drama series for Pan-Asian netizens, with an eye to cross-cultural global assimilation.

Exclusive: The Kickstarter-backed horror film Shelby Oaks by YouTuber Chris Stuckmann has started production and found its key cast.

Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter) is stepping into the lead role, and is supported by Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2), Michael Beach (If Beale Street Could Talk) Robin Bartlett (Shutter Island) and Keith David (The Thing). Charlie Talbert (The Big Short), Emily Bennett (Alone With You) and newcomer Sarah Durn (Where the Crawdads Sing) round out the cast.

The film centers around Mia’s (Sullivan) frantic search for her sister Riley, (Durn) after Riley ominously disappeared in the last tape of a group of paranormal investigators called the Paranormal Paranoids. As Mia’s obsession grows, she begins to suspect that the imaginary demon from Riley’s childhood may have been real. The project has been inspired by, and accompanied by, a long-lead online marketing campaign around the subject.

YouTube critic and filmmaker Stuckmann is writer-director.

There’s a surprisingly nasty edge to this tolerable yet derivative wannabe franchise-starter about a cursed game from the 80s

It’s strange that the silly but mostly tolerable horror Choose or Die was an acquisition rather than a homegrown Netflix original given how much it seems algorithmically modeled for the notoriously formula-obsessed platform. It stars Asa Butterfield, an in-house star thanks to the success of Sex Education. It’s contemporary-set but baked in 80s nostalgia, something that also inspires the aesthetic of the aforementioned comedy series as well as the entirety of long-running hit Stranger Things. It also focuses on a cursed video game, making it a close cousin to the streamer’s interactive Black Mirror hit Bandersnatch. It’s a film destined to live its days in the “if you like” container.

It’ll probably fare well there as fans of the above might find just about enough...

After bursting onto the scene with the classic effort “Shutter” years ago, Banjong Pisanthanakun and his sometimes partner Parkpoom Wongpoom churned out several fantastic genre fare in Thailand during the waning days of the J-Horror boom of the 2000s. After providing several efforts together before going separate ways, Banjong returns to the genre after several years, to give one of the best films of the year that will thankfully have a wide, deserving audience with its release on the Shudder streaming service.

“The Medium” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

After a special search throughout Thailand, psychic medium Nim (Sawanee Utoomma) is chosen by a special film crew to be followed around and have her work documented. As they watch her go about her business tending to the ill residents of the area or other special requests they may have, they also manage to focus on the strained...

After bursting onto the scene with the classic effort “Shutter” years ago, Banjong Pisanthanakun and his sometimes partner Parkpoom Wongpoom churned out several fantastic genre fare in Thailand during the waning days of the J-Horror boom of the 2000s. After providing several efforts together before going separate ways, Banjong returns to the genre after several years, to give one of the best films of the year that will thankfully have a wide, deserving audience with its release on the Shudder streaming service.

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After a special search throughout Thailand, psychic medium Nim (Sawanee Utoomma) is chosen by a special film crew to be followed around and have her work documented. As they watch her go about her business tending to the ill residents of the area or other special requests they may have, they also manage to focus on the strained relationship Nim has with Noy...

The creepy brilliance of Thailand and South Korea’s horror film traditions find a common vessel in The Medium, the new feature about Southeast Asian shamanism gone insane.

The film is produced by Korea’s Na Hong-jin, the visionary auteur behind The Wailing, Yellow Sea and The Chaser, and it is directed by Thai horror maestro Banjong Pisanthanakun, best known internationally for his 2004 directorial debut Shutter, which was remade in multiple languages.

The Medium follows a documentary film crew tagging along with Nim (Sawanee Utoomma), a Thai shaman, as she travels to her ancestral homeland in the northeastern Isan region of Thailand. There, the team encounters Ming (Narilya Gulmongkolpech),...

The creepy brilliance of Thailand and South Korea’s horror film traditions find a common vessel in The Medium, the new feature about Southeast Asian shamanism gone insane.

The film is produced by Korea’s Na Hong-jin, the visionary auteur behind The Wailing, Yellow Sea and The Chaser, and it is directed by Thai horror maestro Banjong Pisanthanakun, best known internationally for his 2004 directorial debut Shutter, which was remade in multiple languages.

The Medium follows a documentary film crew tagging along with Nim (Sawanee Utoomma), a Thai shaman, as she travels to her ancestral homeland in the northeastern Isan region of Thailand. There, the team encounters Ming (Narilya Gulmongkolpech),...

Sales agency Finecut has secured a flurry of Asian and European deals for supernatural horror film “The Medium,” which is directed by Thailand’s Banjong Pisanthanakun and produced by Korea’s Na Hong-Jin.

From Europe, buyers include France’s The Jokers Films, and Koch Films for German-speaking Europe. Within Asia the film has been licensed to Edko Films for Hong Kong and Macau, to Encore Films for Indonesia and Malaysia, Synca Creations for Japan, Golden Village for Singapore, MovieCloud for Taiwan, M Pictures for Cambodia and Laos and Lumix Media for Vietnam.

Finecut executives report that they are now in advanced negotiations for a deal covering English-speaking territories.

The rural-set picture had its world premiere at the Bucheon international Fantastic Film Festival and there won the ‘Best of Bucheon’ award. It shifted into commercial release in Korea from Wednesday, and on opening day topped “Black Widow” with a $665,000 haul.

“After...

Buyers keen to get the next hit in the vein of The Chaser, The Yellow Sea and The Wailing.

South Korean sales company Finecut has done a raft of deals on Korea-Thailand shaman horror title The Medium, produced by Na Hong-jin and directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun.

The film made its world premiere at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) where it won the top Best of Bucheon prize last night (July 15). It opened locally on July 14 and is sitting atop the box office chart so far with more than 253,000 admissions.

The Medium sold based on a promo reel to...

"A story about shamanism in Thailand..." An early promo trailer has debuted for a new supernatural horror film from Thailand titled The Medium, the latest from acclaimed Thai filmmaker Banjong Pisanthanakun. The film is being sold at the Cannes Market this year and is looking to get some extra buzz with this early trailer drop. The Medium is a rural horror thriller telling the story of a shaman's inheritance in the poor Isan region of Thailand. "The spirit that appears to be possessing a family member might not be the benevolent Goddess they believe it to be." Ohh that sounds very freaky. No cast is announced yet, but the film is being produced by fellow Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin. Horror fans definitely need to keep an eye out for this. It looks utterly terrifying. Here's the promo trailer (+ poster) for Banjong Pisanthanakun's The Medium, from YouTube ...

The creepy fascination for shamanism that continues to exist in modern-day Thailand and Korea will be on full display this summer in “The Medium.” The film is now confirmed for a July commercial release and may be in line for a midnight screening berth in a major festival.

Korean distributor Showbox is gearing up for the film’s outing in cinemas with the release of a first trailer. July and August are prime months for horror in Korea where local audiences believe that on-screen chills provide relief from the oppressive summer heat outside.

The rural horror thriller (aka “Rang Zong”) is the story of a shaman’s inheritance in the poor Isan region of Thailand. And where the spirit that appears to be possessing a family member might not be the benevolent goddess they believe it to be.

“The Medium” is directed by Thailand’s Banjong Pisanthanakun who rejuvenated the...

From the gory to the eerie, horror brings us cathartic chills and gritty adventure. Here are the best horror books coming out just in time for long days in June 2021 …

Survive the Night by Riley Sager

Type: Novel

Publisher: Dutton

Release date: June 29

Den of Geek says: Thriller bestseller Sager returns with the pop scares of the summer.

Publisher’s summary: It’s November 1991. Nirvana’s in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.

Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend,...

In remaking local versions of Thai and Chinese language content Bangkok- and Beijing-based Artop Media may have lucked onto one of the hottest trends of the moment in the Asian TV space.

That’s because Thai content is increasingly successful on mainland Chinese streaming networks, and, as multiple speakers have noted in the first two day of FilMart, Thai content is increasingly working across East and Southeast Asia too.

At FilMart this week Artop is pitching currently in-production series “My Lucky Star” an adaptation of an earlier Taiwanese show. The new version is directed by Pantham Thonsang, well known as a producer and line producer of films including “Shutter,” and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Tropical Malady” and “Syndromes and a Century.” It stars Thanapat Kawila and Anchasa Mongkhonsamai (Bifern) as the male and female leads.

For 2021, it also has 2021 “Meow Ears up!” which was previously a novel in China and an...

Top Thai director Banjong Pisanthanakun and Korean director-turned-producer Na Hong-jin (“The Chaser”) have teamed to create new Thai horror film “The Medium.”

Now in post-production, “The Medium” is a horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not be as benevolent as it first appears.

The film (aka “Rang-Zong”) was developed by Na with the backing of Korean studio Showbox. Local production is by Thailand’s Gdh 559. Co-production is by Na’s company Northern Cross, with the film marking Na’s debut as a producer.

International rights are being handled by independent sales firm Finecut, which will launch the film at Berlin’s European Film Market. Finecut previously handled two of Na’s earlier films “The Chaser” and “The Wailing,” both of which premiered in the Cannes festival’s official selection.

An Asian horror dream team has formed around The Medium, a supernatural horror flick that will be co-produced by South Korea’s Showbox and Thai studio Gdh 599.

Korea’s Na Hong-jin, the visionary auteur behind The Wailing, Yellow Sea and The Chaser, will produce the film based on an original story he developed. The Medium is Na’s first effort as a producer, working under his production banner Northern Cross.

The Medium is directed by Thai horror maestro Banjong Pisanthanakun, best known internationally for his 2004 directorial debut Shutter, which was remade in multiple languages, including the 2008 Hollywood remake under the same name. In the years since,...

An Asian horror dream team has formed around The Medium, a supernatural horror flick that will be co-produced by South Korea’s Showbox and Thai studio Gdh 599.

Korea’s Na Hong-jin, the visionary auteur behind The Wailing, Yellow Sea and The Chaser, will produce the film based on an original story he developed. The Medium is Na’s first effort as a producer, working under his production banner Northern Cross.

The Medium is directed by Thai horror maestro Banjong Pisanthanakun, best known internationally for his 2004 directorial debut Shutter, which was remade in multiple languages, including the 2008 Hollywood remake under the same name. In the years since,...

France’s The Jokers Films has acquired French rights to the project, directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun.

The Wailing director Na Hong-jin is producing a Thai supernatural film, directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun, whose 2013 Pee Mak is Thailand’s highest-grossing film of all time.

Major South Korean investor-distributor Showbox announced the project today (September 23) along with news that the film has been pre-sold to The Jokers Films for France.

The film, which deals with shamanism, has the Thai working title of Rang-Zong, meaning ‘medium’.

It will be Na’s first film since his bombshell Cannes horror title The Wailing in 2016. The Korean...

I did a double take when I saw the headline myself. Despite only launching a week ago, a not inconsiderable number of titles will be leaving HBO Max at the end of June. Logically, distribution contracts that were already running out weren’t going to stop running out just because Warner launched their new service, so you best get on these quick.

Here’s the list of all the movies leaving HBO Max on June 30th:

The Abyss

Akeelah and the Bee

American Wedding

An Ideal Husband

Arthur

Asylum

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Big Green

Blindspotting

Bye Bye, Love

Empire of the Sun

Glengarry Glen Ross

Grandma’s Boy

Great Expectations

A Handful of Dust

Head Full of Honey

Heaven & Earth

Hellboy

The Hoax

I Love You Phillip Morris

Indignation

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Jobs

Johnny English

Keeping Up with the Steins

Kin

Les Miserables

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At one point, back in the noughties, it seemed like there was a mad craze for adapting Asian horror cinema for Western audiences. Beginning with the unexpected commercial and critical success of Gore Verbinski’s The Ring (based on Hideo Nakata’s Ringu and Koji Suzuki’s 1991 novel), the remake trend only grew but sadly not in quality. As pale imitators like The Eye, One Missed Call, Shutter and The Uninvited poured in, one of the most successful was The Grudge in 2004. Based on Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), this remake was also directed by Shimizu and went on to earn mixed reviews but a near $200 million haul worldwide. Naturally a sequel followed in the puzzling The Grudge 2 (also from Shimizu) and even worse straight-to-disc film The Grudge 3. I mention this history for two reasons. One because this new film simply titled The Grudge was initially a...

“Shutter,” the commercially successful Thai horror film that has spawned three remakes, among which an American one that received mostly negative reviews but was a huge box office success, has divided critics since it was first screened at the Bangkok International Film Festival. However, audiences around the world seem to love it and it has been heralded by many as one of the greatest Asian horror films of the 21st century. I personally believe that “Shutter” offers a few elements to be considered a cut above the rest, but ultimately fails to overcome its overabundance of clichés and lack of compelling scares.

After a long night of drinking with friends, Tun and Jane, a young couple, hit a woman with their car while returning home and they flee the scene of the accident. The following days, many bizarre happenings occur and they start noticing some strange shadows...