Kristy Bowen

House of the Dragon star Emma D'Arcy recently revealed the long and arduous audition process going into their much-loved role in the popular Game of Thrones prequel.
D'Arcy, who portrays House of the Dragon's main protagonist Rhaenyra Targaryen's older incarnation (Milly Alcock plays the younger) has been praised for the emotional vulnerability they bring to the role, including some difficult and violent scenes in House of the Dragon season one. D'Arcy's performance also earned the actor a 20...

One particular aspect of HBO's House of the Dragon has garnered recent praise from Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin.
Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, which created the world of the wildly popular Game of Thrones and its more recent prequel House of the Dragon, has spanned five books so far, with more to come devoted to the tales drawn from the fictional lands of Westeros. However, according to Martin, who spoke candidly, House of the Dragon exceeded Game of Thrones in at least o...

Horror director James Wan (The Conjuring, Insidious, Saw) recently mentioned a strong desire to adapt one of literature's most renowned horror classics, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulu.
Lovecraft, known for his unique brand of “cosmic horror," has often been the subject of big and small screen adaptations, including the recent HBO hit series Lovecraft Country and Netflix's Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, which features a whole episode devoted to Lovecraftian horror. Lovecraft...

Alien franchise fans finally have a projected release date for the new installment directed by Fede Álvarez.
The as-yet-unreleased title is the eighth installment in the popular sci-fi/horror franchise, which began with Ridley Scott's epic 1979 hit Alien, where humans faced off against the deadly xenomorphs in deep dark space and are picked off one by one. The concepts, plot lines, and characters have continued through numerous sequels and prequels, games, web series, and other media over the...

According to creator Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror fans may have more reason to be scared this season.
Known for its bleak and dystopian views of the present and future, usually centered around the dangers and pitfalls of modern technology, Black Mirror has often been praised for its twisted visions of things to come. While terrifying in its way, including the bizarre juxtaposition of human nature and the technological gothic, Black Mirror season 6 will lean into its horror elements more than...

Fans of Netflix's popular Wednesday series may be surprised to find a little less romance in season 2, according to its star Jenna Ortega.
Based on the popular Addam's Family franchise, the Netflix series starred Ortega in the lead role of the dour Wednesday Addams as she navigated the pitfalls of adolescence at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday unraveled the Academy's mysteries and monsters, including a love triangle between Wednesday, Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan), and Xavier Thorpe (Percy Hynes ...

Legendary Hollywood director Steven Spielberg sent a letter to the creators of HBO's The Last of Us that caused excitement behind the scenes.
The Last of Us, which finished its first season earlier this year as one of HBO's top series, has garnered critical acclaim and is working on a second season. The zombie drama based on the popular video game chronicles the journey of Pedro Pascal's Joel and Bella Ramsey's Ellie across a landscape filled with good people, questionable people, and mushroo...

The Boogeyman director Rob Savage, the latest director to put Stephen King on the screen, recently discussed his desire to tackle another work by the iconic horror author, the 1990 novella, The Langoliers.
The novella, part of King's Four Past Midnight collection, was previously adapted into a 1995 television mini-series by filmmaker Tom Holland. One of King's lesser-known works, The Langoliers tells the story of a group of airline passengers who awake to discover that something went amiss du...

The proposed Jon Snow spinoff that HBO's Game of Thrones fans have been yearning for may not be a sure thing.
In the wake of the 2019 wrap of Game of Thrones and the wild success of the recent House of the Dragon, Hollywood has been abuzz about the possible sequel series, which would pick up Jon Snow where fans left him, returning to life beyond the wall after killing his beloved Danaerys to save Westeros. Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow for the entirety of the original series, first propo...

A Nightmare on Elm Street's horror icon Robert Englund may have a surprising casting suggestion for future filmmakers looking to fill his blood-soaked, charred shoes as Freddy Krueger: Kevin Bacon.
Englund first donned Freddy Krueger's bladed glove in 1984’s original Nightmare on Elm Street. He reprised the role over multiple subsequent sequels, both good and bad, including Wes Craven's A New Nightmare, where he dually played both himself and the killer. It’s a role he’s played several times ...

Production on Amazon Prime Video's much-anticipated and upcoming sci-fi series, Blade Runner 2099, appears to be another casualty of the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike.
The series, set to take place 50 years after the most recent sequel, 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, and 80 years after the events in 1982's original Blade Runner film, was initially set to start filming in Belfast Ireland's Harbour Studios this spring. Based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, t...

The Book of Boba Fett and Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher recently revealed that her little-known science fiction film, Prospect, which also happened to star the internet’s favorite father figure, Pedro Pascal, almost got a sequel series.
Prospect, released in 2018, stars Thatcher as a young girl, Cee, who travels with her father, Damon (Jay Duplass), to mine gems on a poisonous moon. Recent Hollywood and internet phenom Pascal (The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones, The Last of Us) plays the r...

Game of Thrones actress Faye Marsay recently admitted that the brutality of the social media response to her character on the show drove her away from social media during and after her recurring role.
Marsay, who currently stars in the Disney Plus Star Wars spin-off series Andor, played Aria Stark's (Maisie Williams) chief adversary on the island of Bravos, known simply as The Waif. She reappeared throughout Game of Thrones seasons 5 and 6, often wielding blows and swords at one of the show’s...

Fans of the Flanaverse were recently relieved to hear that Mike Flanagan's much-awaited The Fall of the House of Usher is still on deck for a Netflix release in 2023.

A Netflix series adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic 1839 short story of the same name, Fall of the House of Usher, wrapped up production a while ago. The series stars many of the same cast members fans have come to expect in Flanagan's movies, including wife Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli, and Carla Gugino. In re...

Audiences at the recent New York test screening for David Gordon Green's upcoming The Exorcist: Believer were less than thrilled with the latest installment, taking to social media to criticize the film and its creator.
Green's Blumhouse expansion on The Exorcist has been much anticipated, with its creator plotting an entire trilogy, hoping to breathe new life into the horror classic. Detailing the strange behavior and possession of a young girl, Regan, played expertly by Linda Blair nearly 5...