Kevin Bacon is bringing his whole family together for a new horror comedy. Get a look at doomsday musical in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End. Plus, what’s coming on Invincible Fight Girl. Spoilers get!
Orphan 3
Variety reports a third film in the Orphan franchise is now in development at Lionsgate with Isabelle Fuhrman confirmed to return once again as Esther. Orphan: First Kill writer David Coggeshall and director William Brent Bell are additionally confirmed to return for the sequel.
Family Movie
Variety also has word Kevin Bacon, Krya Sedgwick and their children Travis and Sosie Bacon will star in Family Movie, a horror/comedy said to concern “an eclectic but tight-knit family of filmmakers who suddenly find themselves in a real-life horror movie when a body turns up on the set of their latest low-budget slasher. As the production spirals comically out of control, they realize the only solution to keep filming is to cover up the murder, by any means necessary.” Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are additionally attached to direct the project, as well.
Spaceballs 2
Josh Gad is eager to hype up his script for the surprise sequel in an interview with Forbes.
Without MGM taking me into their Culver prison cells, I can tell you that the draft is done. Everybody who’s read it has been blown away. The process of working on this with and alongside Mel Brooks has been one of the highlights of my career.
It’s a dream to be able to finally make the reality prophesied by Yogurt in the first movie happen. I can’t say more than that. I can’t tell you anything beyond [the] process at this point, but I can tell you every hour of every day right now is spent making this project closer and closer to reality—and I think we’re nearing the end zone here.
Futra Days
A company allows its customers to see the future in the trailer for Futra Days, starring Tania Raymonde.
The End
Elsewhere, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny and Lennie James star in The End, a musical set in a doomsday bunker from director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing).
The Night Before Christmas
We also have a trailer for a new animated adaptation of The Night Before Christmas starring Gerard Butler at the voice of Saint Nick.
Invincible Fight Girl
Finally, Adult Swim has released a trailer for the third episode of Invincible Fight Girl.
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