Netflix Picks Up Worldwide Rights to Horror Film ‘Curs>r,’ Starring Asa Butterfield

Lauren Ash as Diane Dunbrowski. Diane has always been and always will be the life of the party, even when the party has long since been over.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered the adult animated series “Chicago Party Aunt,” inspired by Chris Witaske’s Twitter account of the same name.Netflix has ordered 16 episodes of the half-hour series, with the first eight slated to drop on Sept. 17.

Netflix continues to expand its animation slate with a 16-episode series order to Chicago Party Aunt, a half-hour adult animated comedy from Chris Witaske (What Men Want), Jon Barinholtz (Superstore), and Katie Rich, who also star, Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment and Titmouse (Big Mouth, Human Resources).

Mark Gordon Pictures has snapped up the screen rights to Walter Isaacson’s latest book, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race, about Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of CRISPR technology Jennifer Doudna which the label will develop as a limited series.

With the Cannes Film Festival in the rearview, the next big festival to focus on this fall will be the 78th Annual Venice Film Festival. Major films are already tipped to debut there, Denis Villeneuve‘s sci-fi blockbuster “Dune” Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana drama “Spencer,” “Halloween Kills,” and new films by Pedro Almodovar and Jane Campion.

Anthony Mackie and David Harbour are teaming up for a new Netflix movie together!

The cinema of filmmaker Gaspar Noé tends to skew toward the younger, stickier parts of life. Since the name-making controversy of his second feature, “Irreversible” (2002), the Argentinian filmmaker has become synonymous with a world of parties, loud music, drug-taking, and sex.

Anthony Mackie, David Harbour and Tig Notaro will headline a new family adventure film set at Netflix called “We Have a Ghost.” Christopher Landon, known for “Happy Death Day” and “Freaky,” will direct the film and adapt the screenplay based on a short story by Geoff Manaugh called “Ernest.” Landon will direct a cast that also includes Jahi Di’Allo Winston (“Charm City Kings,” “Queen & Slim”), Jennifer Coolidge, Erica Ash, Isabella Russo, Niles Fitch, Faith Ford and Steve Coulter.“We Have a

Netflix has set the premiere date for and released the first teaser of its “Brand New Cherry Flavor” TV series.Based on Todd Grimson’s 1996 novel of the same name, the series tells the story of filmmaker who heads to Hollywood in the early ‘90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge – and kittens. “Brand New Cherry Flavor” will launch Friday, Aug.

Conspiracy theorists have spent more time researching their subjects than you have and have facts ready at their disposable with which to bury you in. Take filmmaker Oliver Stone, for example.

Note to self: do not get old. The alternative, i.e., death, may not be very pleasant but, sedate and dignified and swathed in vaguely biblical white sheets, it doesn’t get anything like the bad press that old age does in Gaspar Noé‘s “Vortex.” Let’s not forget that in “Enter the Void,” this same director made death seem like quite the trip – infinitely preferable to the progressively demeaning ravages of dementia or the Sword of Damocles that is a dodgy ticker.

for everyone but it is about everyone – what we’re doing here on this earth and the spirits with whom we share it for whatever transient, ungraspable time we’re here. It’s not the sort of thing that needs poster quotes and star ratings.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix has become the first studio to hire The WonderWorks mobile nursery, which will be in use on Gareth Evans’ crime drama film “Havoc” when it shoots in Wales this summer.

Netflix has announced a release date for The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf – you can watch a new teaser trailer below.The new anime film will arrive on the streaming service on August 23, ahead of the highly-anticipated second season of The Witcher which is set for a December 17 release.The release date for The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf was shared on Friday (July 9) during WitcherCon.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Small Engine Repair, the film based on the critically acclaimed stage play (LA Critic’s Choice and New York Times Critic’s Pick).

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Flux Gourmet,” the new film from Peter Strickland, will be released by IFC Films in North America. The movie, which is backed by IFC Films, Bankside Films, and Head Gear/Metrol Technology, quietly wrapped production.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has swooped on world rights to horror film CURS>R out of the Cannes virtual market, we can reveal.

Netflix has taken worldwide rights outside of France on Cédric Jimenez’s The Stronghold (Bac Nord) ahead of its Cannes World Premiere August 18 out of competition.