It’s been revealed by EW that Rebellion and IM Global will be turning their iconic comic book series Judge Dredd into a live-action TV series! Dubbed “Judge Dredd: Mega City One,” the show will follow a group of Judges and the challenges they face in Mega City One, a megapolis that encompasses much of the United States Eastern Coast.

IM Global president Mark Stern stated, “This is one of those seminal sci-fi properties that seems to only become and more relevant with age. Not only is it a rich world with biting social commentary, but it’s also fun as hell! As a fan of the comics and both films, it’s a dream come true to be able to work with Jason and Chris [Kingsley] in adapting this for television.”

Jason and Chris Kingsley, the owners of Rebellion, add, “We’re very excited to be beginning the journey to get more of Judge Dredd’s Mega-City One on the television screen. Thanks to the legions of fans who have kept up pressure on social media, and a lot of background work and enthusiasm, we aim to make a big budget production that will satisfy both our vast comics audience and the even greater general screen-watching public.”

Judge Dredd has been adapted into two films, one in 1995 with Sylvester Stallone in the lead role and the second in 2012 with Karl Urban donning the imposing helmet. The former wasn’t well-received but has since become a schlocky B cult film, while the latter was critically acclaimed but simply didn’t perform well at the box office. Fans have been aching for a sequel ever since, although with the news of this TV series that seems all but impossible.

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Artist Kevin D. Clark brings his unique brand of cartoon humor to us here at Dread Central weekly. Read on for the latest in horror-themed chuckles.

About the Artist:
Kevin D. Clark is a cartoonist from Scotland who grew up watching classic monster movies, cartoons, and wrestling as well as reading comics. Kevin started drawing at an early age and hasn’t stopped since. His sense of humor is a veritable cornucopia of the wacky and weird inspired by the likes of Monty Python, Mel Brooks, “MST3K,” and Rab C. Nesbitt as well as his older brother.

Kevin was diagnosed with Asperger’s and because of that tries to push himself to work as hard as possible. He has self-published his own comic book and helps run a film club for autistic people. He’s also pretty sure he can take an octopus in fight.

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It’s that time of year again when TV networks engage in what’s become known as “Upfronts,” presentations to advertisers in order for the networks to get the financial support they need to fund their upcoming seasons; and in advance of Fox’s turn on the 15th of this month, they’ve announced the cancellation of “Sleepy Hollow.”

Per EW, the show’s recently concluded fourth season will be its last.  As fans of “Sleepy Hollow” are well aware, it has struggled to stay on track creatively following the departure of original co-lead Nicole Beharie, and Season 4 averaged only 3.3 million viewers and a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49, including DVR. So the writing has been on the wall for a while despite how engaging Tom Mison has been as Ichabod Crane.

As for Fox’s other horror series, “The Exorcist,” it’s looking like we won’t find out that show’s fate until next week… so stay tuned! In the meantime, RIP Ichabod!

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Big Red will soon be back with Neil Marshall pulling his devilish strings, and this news has us just giddy! We already know that “Stranger Things'” David Harbour will be wearing the broken crown and that the Millennium Films project has already been scripted by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, who are shooting for an R rating. Now more has come!

Silver Screen Beat caught up with Cosby to dig a little deeper…

“[This] is a darker, more gruesome version of Hellboy. Neil said from the very beginning that he wanted to walk a razor’s edge between horror and comic book movie, which was music to my ears, because that’s what I was shooting for in the script and precisely what Mignola does so well with the comics. The script is done, but work will continue as we move forward, always trying to make it the best it can be.”

Music to our ears.

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It’s been announced by Variety that Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will be composing the original score for Amazon Studio’s Suspiria remake. This marks Yorke’s first feature film score.

Director Luca Guadgnino states, “Our goal is to make a movie that will be a disturbing and transforming experience: for this ambition, we could not find a better partner than Thom,” adding that working with the eclectic musician was nothing short of, “…a dream come true.”

Related Story: Mia Goth Talks Suspiria Remake and How it Will Shock Fans

Suspiria is written by David Kajganich, who adapts the “remake” from Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s original script, and directed by Luca Guadagnino.

Frenesy Film Company, Mythology Entertainment, First Sun Films, and Memo Films produce. Guadagnino, Brad Fischer, Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, William Sherak, and Silvia Venturini Fendi are producers on the title while James Vanderbilt, Paul Deason, Massimiliano Violante, and Carlo Antonelli exec produce.

Amazon Studios picked up the project last year for worldwide distribution rights and is financing production.

Synopsis:
Suspiria is based on a young American ballet dancer who travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is something far more sinister and supernatural. She becomes increasingly terrified after a series of gruesome murders ensue and she slowly unravels the dark history of the academy.

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This past weekend a rather troubling story came up when we realized that an international poster for Amityville: The Awakening used imagery from the 2016 horror film The Possession Experiment. Since then we’ve been in touch directly with Blumhouse and Dimension Films, both of which produced the film and the latter of which is handling distribution.

Today I spoke with someone from Dimension Films who explained precisely what happened. Per Dimension, the poster was created by an international distributor out of Malaysia without their knowledge. They tell me that this poster was not approved for release and that it has since been taken down with their apologies. The Dimension Films rep was adamant that they did not have any intention of using imagery from another movie.

To recap: This is a foreign distributor jumping the gun, and there was no ill intent from Blumhouse or Dimension Films. The poster in question is not approved, so it shouldn’t be seen as such.

Below is the official poster.

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CBS Films announced today that the upcoming supernatural thriller Winchester will be released on Friday, February 23, 2018.

The film stars Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester along with Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, and Angus Sampson. Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig wrote and directed. Tim McGahan and Brett Tomberlin produced for CBS Films.

Synopsis:
Inspired by true events, WINCHESTER follows the story of firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), who was convinced that she was haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester Repeating Rifle.

After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, Sarah Winchester threw herself into the 24-hour a day, 7-day a week construction of an enormous mansion designed to keep the evil spirits at bay. But when skeptical San Francisco psychiatrist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is dispatched to the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he discovers that her obsession may not be so insane after all.

The film will take audiences inside the labyrinth-like house that is believed to be one of the most haunted places in the world.

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On VOD right now is the new film from director Rolfe Kanefsky, entitled The Black Room! Here’s a new clip featuring Natasha Henstridge to help you decide if you should check in!

The Black Room is written and directed by Kanefsky (There’s Nothing Out There, The Hazing, Nightmare Man) and produced by Cleopatra Films and The Goods. The special effects were handled by Vincent Guastini.

Natasha Henstridge (Species, Ghosts of Mars) stars alongside Lukas Hassel (“The Blacklist”), Lin Shaye (Insidious, Ouija), Dominique Swain (Lolita, Face/Off), James Duval (Independence Day, Donnie Darko), Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Night of the Demons), Augie Duke (Bad Kids Go to Hell), and Robert Donavan (“Rod Steele 0014”).

Also appearing are Julia Lehman (The Burning Dead, Pretty Cool Too!), Elissa Dowling (We Are Still Here, Cheap Thrills), Victoria DeMare (Killjoy series), Rachel Riley (The Lighthouse), Michael Reed (The Haunting of Alice D.), Caleb Scott, Catherine Annette (Lucky Bastard, Sunset Society), Jill Evyn, and introducing Alex Rinehart and Milena Gorum.

On May 9th The Black Room hit iTunes and VOD via The Orchard, and finally, on June 18th The Black Room arrives on DVD and Blu-ray with a signing to take place at Dark Delicacies with cast and crew.

Synopsis:
A young couple (Henstridge and Hassel) moves into the house of their dreams, which quickly becomes a living nightmare when they discover a dark secret awaiting them in the cellar. It has been locked up for years, trapped inside “The Black Room,” and it wants out now! A demon who seduces with unholy pleasures, feeds off fear, and violently kills all who cross its path.

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More goodies from Alien: Covenant (review) have arrived: one official for you VR heads and one fan-made of the Lego variety. Pick your poison, or just dive into both!

Look for Alien: Covenant everywhere on May 19th.

Related Story: Alien: Covenant Sequel to Film in 2018!

Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, and Benjamin Rigby star in Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott directed the film, which was written by John Logan and Dante Harper based on a story by Jack Paglen and Michael Green.

Synopsis:
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

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Sad news is coming in from the foreign horror scene as Greek newspaper Espresso is reporting that Dogtooth star Mary Tsoni has passed on at the all too young age of just 30.

The site goes on to report that the actress was found dead in her apartment after she had called the police. No cause of death has been identified as of yet. Tsoni burst on to the scene in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated film.

We here at Dread Central would like to offer our sincerest of condolences to Mary’s family members, friends, and constituents. You were taken from us far too soon. Godspeed.

Photo by Boo Productions/REX/Shutterstock (5881531h) Dogtooth (2009)

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Here at Dread Central we play close attention to causes around us that are worthy to take up the mantle of. This is one such case because it affects us all into eternity! The Press-Telegram reports Long Beach’s historic Sunnyside Cemetery is on the verge of insolvency, and that spells really bad news for its residents.

According to the site, Sunnyside’s business depends on plot sales and burials, and the 108-year-old graveyard has run out of both. “We’ve sold every stitch of ground,” says Mike Miner, the 73-year-old manager of the cemetery. “We have nothing left to sell, and burials are getting scarce. We’ve had three this year, and two of them were cremations.”

The drought-busting rains of January dumped more bad news on the 13-1/2-acre cemetery at 1905 E. Willow Street.

“January almost killed us,” Miner says. “Everything just started growing like crazy. By the end of the month, it was 4 feet tall everywhere. Not just grass, but weeds that don’t like to be mowed. They kept breaking our mowers.”

Miner and the cemetery’s only other employee, Jose Robles, just barely were able to keep the onslaught at a somewhat manageable level.

“We’ve got a handle on it now,” he says, but “a handle” merely means the weeds and grass have been knocked down to about a 2-foot level. “We’re not even trying to get flush with the ground,” he admitted.

Lack of financial growth, meanwhile, has put Sunnyside on the brink of insolvency.

To help combat the eventual shuttering of the cemetery, which is home to the resting spots of many of Long Beach’s original pioneers, a GoFundMe page has been set up; and after two months it’s still pretty damned far from its goal of raising $100k.

If you can help out, please do so! I mean, what’s cooler than helping to save a cemetery?!?

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We knew it! They were right all along! In what’s probably the coolest news of the day, The Royal Society is reporting that scientists have discovered a new species of horned, club-tailed dinosaur with a spooky resemblance to the monstrous demigod Zuul, one of the villains of the 1984 Ghostbusters movie, and now the discovery bears its namesake.

Zuul crurivastator’s scaly body stretched some 20 feet long, with an impressive tail that took up half that length. Its tail was lined with forbidding spikes and ended in a sledgehammer-like club. Two horns sat on its skull right behind the eyes, giving it a very Zuul-like look that inspired the genus name.

This amazing discovery of this new type of ankylosaurine dinosaur was unearthed in Hill County, Montana 75 million years after its death. For more click here. Who ya gonna call?

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Looking forward to Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich? Yep, we are too! And that’s why we’re excited to point you to this new behind-the-scenes video that’s brimming with puppety goodness!

Udo Kier, Thomas Lennon (Hellbaby), Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin (Scott Pilgrim, Jobs), Charlyne Yi (Cloverfield), Alex Beh, Barbara Crampton (From Beyond, Re-Animator, You’re Next, Sun Choke), Tina Parker (“Breaking Bad”, The Final Destination), Skeeta Jenkins and Michael Paré (Streets on Fire) star for director S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk).

The storyline for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich follows a recently divorced young man who discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother’s closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose at the Postville Lodge during the auction when a strange force animates all of the various puppets throughout the convention as they go on a bloody killing spree.

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On tap right now we have the second poster for Sleep Tight and [REC] director Jaume Balagueró’s new film, Muse. Check it out!

Filmax’s latest dip into the supernatural is based upon the novel Lady No. 13 by Jose Carlos Somoza; it stars Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés, and Leonor Watling. The flick’s filming locations include Ireland, Belgium, and Spain.

Synopsis:
Since the tragic and unexpected death of his girlfriend, Samuel, a professor of literature, suffers a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered by a strange ritual. When the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in identical circumstances, Samuel sneaks into the crime scene to investigate. There he meets Rachel, a young woman who does not know anything but claims she also dreamed of the murder.

Together, they will make every effort to discover the identity of the mystery woman, plunging into a dark world ruled by the muses that inspired the poets of all time.

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The first poster is here for the Gothic murder mystery The Limehouse Golem, who haunted the UK even before Jack the Ripper.

Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke (“Bates Motel”), and Douglas Booth (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) star in the flick written by Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Woman in Black). Juan Carlos Medina directs.

The film opens in the UK on September 1st. No word on a domestic release yet.

Synopsis:
Set on the unforgiving, squalid streets of Victorian London in 1880, our tale begins in the baroque, grandiose music hall where the capital’s most renowned performer, Dan Leno (Douglas Booth), takes to the stage. The whimsical thespian performs a monologue, informing his dedicated audience of the ghastly fate of a young woman who had once adorned this very stage, his dear friend Elizabeth Cree (Olivia Cooke); for the beguiling songstress is facing up to her forthcoming death by hanging, having been accused of murdering her husband, John Cree (Sam Reid). Lizzie’s death seems inevitable, until Detective Inspector John Kildare (Bill Nighy) is assigned to the case of the Limehouse Golem – a nefarious, calculating serial killer, murdering innocent, unconnected victims, leaving behind barely identifiable corpses – and his distinctive signature in blood. All is not what it seems and everyone is a suspect and everyone has a secret.

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On tap right now we have the first trailer and two one-sheets for the new film starring Dan Stevens (The Guest, “Legion”) entitled Kill Switch. Look for it on Ultra VOD on May 19, and in select theaters and On Demand starting on June 16, 2017.

Dan Stevens, Charity Wakefield, and Bérénice Marlohe star for director Tim Smit (Last Passenger, Tiger House).

Synopsis:
Set in a future version of the world, the video game style plot follows an experiment for unlimited energy, harnessing parallel universes, which goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, pilot and physicist Will Porter must race through an imploding world to get the Redivider box to a tower, which will save humanity, including his family, in the real world.

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Two new international posters have arrived for Alien: Covenant (review) and we have every pixel of ’em here for your perusal.

Look for Alien: Covenant everywhere on May 19th.

Related Story: Alien: Covenant Sequel to Film in 2018!

Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, and Benjamin Rigby star in Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott directed the film, which was written by John Logan and Dante Harper based on a story by Jack Paglen and Michael Green.

Synopsis:
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

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We told you about Cut Shoot Kill from Devilworks last January, and news has come out of the Cannes Market that the flick has landed distro through Freestyle Digital Media. Look for it to be released on August 8, 2017.

Michael Walker directs. Alexandra Socha and Phil Burke star.

Synopsis:
Serena Brooks (Socha), an ambitious young actress, signs on as the star of a horror film with a crew of backwoods filmmakers that have worked together for years. When the cast starts disappearing, Serena has to become her character if she wants to survive.

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that Deep Silver had quietly pulled the plug on Dead Island 2. It was announced last year that UK-based Sumo Digital would handle development, but there have been no further updates since.

However, Eurogamer recently contacted Deep Silver to inquire about the game’s status and was told the following: “Dead Island 2 is in development at Sumo Digital, and we are excited by the progress the team are making with Deep Silver’s most successful IP. When we are ready to share more information, we will.”

So there you have it. Dead Island 2 has not been cancelled after all. Does this mean that it might be unveiled at E3 next month? Seems pretty damn likely.

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Before he achieved cult status for his performance as Mark in Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, Greg Sestero was best known for playing the lead role of Andre Toulon in Retro Puppet Master, which is coming to Blu-ray on May 16.

From the Press Release:
Get ready for the seventh spellbinding entry in Full Moon’s iconic Puppet Master series: Retro Puppet Master! Directed by insanely prolific genre legend David DeCoteau (Puppet Master III, Creepozoids) and produced by Charles Band (Puppet Master, Hideous!), Retro Puppet Master dials back the clock, serving as both a thrilling prequel to Puppet Master III and as one of the most unique, evocative films in the franchise.

Actor and author Greg Sestero (The Room) stars as the young Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-World War I Paris and courting the lovely Ilsa, the Swiss ambassador’s beautiful young daughter. But the strings of fate that guide Toulon’s destiny are about to pull him into an unexpected direction after he encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh. When Sutekh’s sinister servants arrive, and make Ilsa a part of their diabolical plans, it’s up to Toulon and his army of custom made puppets to stop them at any cost!

Featuring the final appearance of actor Guy Rolfe as the elder Toulon and boasting rich production values, a fine score by John Massari and a much stronger emphasis on human drama, Retro Puppet Master is a trip back in time with a very different pack of puppets.

Full Moon is proud to premiere this picture on Blu-ray completely remastered from the original 35mm camera negative.

Retro Puppet Master is available on May 16th. Special features include New Director’s Commentary, 2 hours of behind the scenes footage (with commentary), vintage Videozone special and more.

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