Updates From the Hocus Pocus Sequel, Doctor Strange 2, and More

Tilda Swinton is heading to the publish apocalypse for a cryptic new musical. Jason Blum has Halloween-tier plans for the return of The Exorcist. Jason Reitman talks concerning the splendidly small approach his father contributed to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Plus, a basic Flash returns on Stargirl. Spoilers now!

The End

Tilda Swinton, George Mackay and Stephen Graham will star in The End, an upcoming post-apocalyptic “Golden Age musical” from The Act of Killing director, Joshua Oppenheimer. Though particulars on the plot should not accessible right now, the story is claimed to concern “the last human family” on Earth.

The Bride

According to Deadline, Gossip Girl’s Thomas Doherty has changed Garrett Hedlund in The Bride, an upcoming Dracula-inspired horror movie from author Blair Butler and director Jessica M. Thompson. Co-starring Nathalie Emmanuel, Hugh Skinner, Sean Pertwee, Courtney Taylor, Alana Boden and Stephanie Corneliussen, the movie “tells the story of young woman invited to a lavish destination wedding in England, only to realize her presence at the wedding has sinister motivations.”

The Vanishings At Caddo Lake

M. Night Shayamalan can also be connected to provide The Vanishings At Caddo Lake, a thriller written and directed by Celine Held & Logan George stated to concern an 8-year-old lady who “mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake.” [Deadline]

Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness

When requested to substantiate whether or not he seems in Sam Raimi’s upcoming Doctor Strange sequel, Den of Geek alleges Bruce Campbell “paused for a half-second before saying, ‘We’ll have to wait and see, won’t we?’”

The Exorcist

Jason Blum spoke to CinePOP about his plans for the upcoming comfortable reboot of The Exorcist—written and directed by the identical crew behind his comfortable reboot of Halloween.

What I hope to do with The Exorcist is identical factor we did with Halloween, Blum stated. Halloween, the primary film was nice, and the second film was okay, and the remainder of them weren’t excellent. And then we got here in and form of re-jiggered it, and folks preferred it, so I hope we are able to do the identical factor with The Exorcist. Everyone thinks we’re gonna fall on our face, however I believe, we’ve got the identical filmmaker, the identical author, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. And I believe we’ll reinvent The Exorcist in order that it’ll really feel contemporary, new, totally different, however, , associated to the primary film, but in addition actually, actually scary.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

In dialog with Empire (through SyFy) Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman revealed his father consulted on the colour of the movie’s ectoplasm.

The slime colour has modified from movie to movie, and I needed the original-color slime. We saved zeroing in on, ‘That’s too inexperienced. That’s not viscous sufficient.’ One day, that they had two totally different vats and there was an enormous argument over which one was proper. I stated, ‘Dad, can you come over here?’ And my dad simply went over and pointed to a bucket and stated, ‘That’s slime.’

Hocus Pocus 2

A current Tik Tok video has our first take a look at the set of Hocus Pocus 2 at present filming in Rhode Island.

Stargirl

Jay Garrick pays a go to to Blue Valley in pictures from tonight’s episode of Stargirl. Head over to KSiteTV for extra.

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Finally — Lucy Liu, Billy Dee Williams, Jessica Biel, Sean Astin, Jason Sudeikis, Terry Bradshaw, Run DMC, the Blue Falcon and Dynomutt and (for the second time) Cher guest-star in a brand new trailer for the newest crop of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episodes accessible to stream this month on HBO Max.

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