Peacock, the home of the new slasher movie Sick and the upcoming Friday the 13th series “Crystal Lake,” has announced this week that they’ve cancelled “Vampire Academy,” a new series based on Richelle Mead’s line of same-titled books. The drama-horror series had only opened up for business this past September, and it’s gotten the axe […]
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Tommy Wirkola‘s action-thriller Violent Night is coming to Digital on January 20 and Blu-ray on January 24, and we’ve learned today that it’ll also be hitting Peacock this week. The Christmas genre movie begins streaming exclusively on Peacock on January 20. Violent Night is the latest addition to Peacock’s growing library of iconic films, including She Said, Ticket to […]
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From Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder (“Ringer”), Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills and Universal TV, Peacock is in development on supernatural series “St. Donatus.” Deadline reports that “Richard Shepard (The Perfection) will direct in his latest collaboration with Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder after Ringer and The Perfection.” “Written by Charmelo and Snyder, St. Donatus is about a small […]
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Universal is re-imagining Fear, the 1996 thriller that starred Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon, with an upcoming Peacock series, Deadline reports this afternoon. In the James Foley-directed film, Mark Wahlberg played David, an initially charming young man whose extreme dark side soon rears its ugly head. The series adaptation of the 1990s thriller comes courtesy […]
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I didn’t want to write this. “I was rooting for you!” as Tyra Banks would say. It had the perfect setup. Clever title, great concept, brilliant casting. How did a horror film about the queer experience written and directed by a gay man go so wrong on almost every level to the point that They/Them […]
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Each of the first four episodes of Vampire Academy, the new YA series from creators Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre, opens with a quick sequence outlining the three principal roles that characters occupy. The first are the Moroi, vampires (some royal, some not) who have magical Elemental powers, but are basically powerless to defend themselves. […]
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Announced by Deadline this afternoon, Peacock is developing a murder-mystery series from Austin Winsberg (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) titled “The Show Must Go On,” described in their report as “an hourlong murder mystery anthology, which would mark the first time Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera musical is used as part of a TV series.” What […]
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I grew up in a predominantly Christian community in rural West Virginia. Not a day went by that I wasn’t told I was going to burn in hell for all of eternity. I devoured the preacher’s sermon on Sunday morning, attentively completed sailor’s logs for the Patch the Pirate Club, and spent my weeks obsessed […]
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Production on Season one of Peacock’s upcoming TV adaptation of Twisted Metal is in the books. The series’ writer and executive producer Michael Jonathan Smith announced via Twitter earlier this week (along with a picture of an ice sculpture of the series’ logo) that production on the first season had completed filming. Smith elaborated in subsequent tweets, […]
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Running 14-minutes longer than the theatrical cut, the Jurassic World Dominion Extended Edition was released on Digital, 4K, and Blu-ray this week, and up next it’s coming to Peacock. Both the Theatrical and Extended versions stomp onto Peacock on September 2! The extended cut of Jurassic World Dominion comes with 14 minutes of additional footage […]
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Eight years after being turned into a feature film, Richelle Mead‘s line of “Vampire Academy” books are getting the series treatment from Peacock, and the trailer has arrived. Peacock’s “Vampire Academy” opens up for business on September 15, 2022. Sink your teeth into the series trailer below, which brings the fight to the blood-sucking vamps. Here’s the official plot synopsis […]
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In addition to John Wick: Chapter 4, the John Wick Universe is set to expand with prequel series “The Continental,” which will now debut as a Peacock Original Series. As Deadline notes, the three-part event series had previously been set up at Starz. “The unusual move comes more than four years after the project was […]
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Streaming service Peacock has just announced that they’ve given a straight-to-series order to coming-of-age thriller Hysteria!, a drama series that explores America’s dark history of mass hysteria through the shocking story of the teenage Satanic Panic. In the series, “When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s, a struggling […]
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John Woo‘s 1989 action-thriller The Killer is getting a “reimagining” from Woo himself, and Deadline reports today that Omar Sy (Jurassic World) will star in the Peacock film. Action auteur John Woo returns to reimagine and re-direct his own classic with the brand new movie, written by Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell (10 Cloverfield Lane), as […]
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Peacock Original Film They/Them, pronounced “They-slash-Them,” is a slasher horror film set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp, and it’s executive produced, written, and directed by John Logan (“Penny Dreadful”). Whistler Camp takes its name after owner and director Owen Whistler, played by Kevin Bacon, a prolific actor unafraid to play antagonistic characters. And of course, an actor who […]
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