Hulu has opted not to proceed with itsBuffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, starring and executive produced by Sarah Michelle Gellar. She broke the news to fans on Instagram Saturday morning.
About a year ago, fans were excited about the return of BUFFY on the streaming platform.. Hulu ordered a pilot for the project, tentatively titled Buffy: New Sunnydale, with Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a self-professed lifelong Buffy fan, directing from a script written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face).
Sources described the pilot as “not perfect,” noting the Zhao’s sensibility may not have been the perfect match for the reboot.
The fast changing nature of entertainment hit Gellar on this one, too.. DEADLINE’s Nellie Andreeva reported that she was not aware of this before it was announced.. MORE.. Gellar was notified Friday night of the decision, which came as a surprise to her. She had been in Austin, TX for the SXSW premiere of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which took place Friday afternoon.
The 59-second 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, seen by billions of people over the decades, is often cited by proponents as proof that the giant, hairy creature exists
A new documentary — Capturing Bigfoot — uses recently unearthed footage to prove that the 1967 film was an “incredible hoax,” says director Marq Evans
“I think for a lot of people who have so much history and belief tied up in this story, it’s going to be really hard to accept,” says filmmaker Evans
Yes, it’s Friday the 13th. But it’s something else you might have missed. You might have forgotten it, but there’s something else.
March 13th, 2020. Another Friday the 13th in history.
Donald Trump was still president back then, just like he is now. It’s weird, right? But he, and many other world leaders, also shut down the planet. The COVID lockdowns began on this date six years back.
Listen, nobody wants to talk about it. We moved on since then, but we also haven’t. We have gotten ourselves mired endlessly in debate about politics and war, and there’s been conflict and hatred and chaos and disagreement. We moved on since then and we were told to trust the science back then, to the point now where we doubt everything.
But during those fateful first days, things were really weird, weren’t they? Remember. Unless maybe only remember for a minute and then move on, right? But they were weird. I distinctly remember my son was only nine, in fourth grade. School got closed for that two week period of time and all of us knew in the back of our heads this will not end this year. And it didn’t. Along with the not ending, it just kept getting worse.
We’re not going to go back and revisit history, but we’re going to go back for a moment just to put things in perspective. The perspective of time.
Think about this, kids who graduated during COVID most likely have now been graduated for about a year or so from college. That’s how fast time has gone. Kids who were freshmen during COVID are in their first or second year of college now, or their first or second year of whatever lifestyle and future they chose or ended up with.
Many people who were sick during COVID in those early days in nursing homes and care centers died alone. Families have had to grapple with that since.
Yes, the media promoted dancing nurses, whatever that was, and Italian people singing songs on their porches and balconies in Italy.
They didn’t really show the images of family members gathered outside a window in the cold watching mom or dad die in a hospital bed inside alone without the grasp of human connection at the very end. We also perhaps have moved on because we just don’t want to talk about that anymore.
But I’m bringing it up to get it back into your brain, just to consider where we were and what we were and how we were.
My son being nine, I remember filling a bathtub for him and I had a mini panic attack about the idea that life will never return back to normal ever again. That what we were confined with in our homes would be forever. Or that we would all die like in Stephen King’s The Stand.
Well, we didn’t all die. But many of us did lose people. My mom did. Maybe yours did too. Eventually, from the stress of all of it, my father passed away not long after my mom.
And when my mom was passing away in a nursing home, we all had COVID in November of 2021.
That’s my personal tale, but that’s not something I’m going to dwell on because you have your personal tales as well.
There are some good memories too. Listen, for some people who don’t like going out in public, maybe lockdowns weren’t all that bad in a sort of funny way.
I remember one of my dreams to this day. It was in the midst of COVID. I think I even wrote about it back then here somewhere.
I dreamed I was looking out my back window of the home and I was watching myself and my son dig a hole that, for some reason in my dream, I remembered being for my father.
That stood out to me. A lot of things stand out to me.
I remember all of us as a society becoming very overworked because we didn’t know when to shut the computer down or turn things off.
But it’s all over now, right? It’s all done. It changed us, but it’s all done. I think it changed us in ways we don’t even realize. Yes, the obvious stuff is there. It created mental health and physical health ailments. It made schooling be a bit dicey. It made the workplace be a bit strange. It changed ways of life for good to the point where there are very few diners open at 2:00 in the morning to get an apple pie and a coffee like in a good 1980s movie. Most of the time things are closing up at 8:00 or 9:00 at night. So we’ve been changed in little ways and big ways too.
Six years is a long time.
But yet, in some weird way, it felt like timelines got altered and it all just went by in the blink of an eye.
The Bigfoot Society, a podcast and online community dedicated to collecting eyewitness accounts of Sasquatch encounters, says it had received six separate reports between March 6 and March 10 in wooded areas near Mantua and Garrettsville, southeast of Cleveland.
The group has described the cluster as a possible “flap,” a term used in cryptozoology for multiple sightings within a short time span.
“It’s normal for there to be Bigfoot sightings all over the United States, but it’s not normal to have multiple sightings in a small area within a short number of days,” Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, told Fox 8.
FBI warns California law enforcement of potential Iranian drone threat..
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The FBI distributed a bulletin warning that Iran had allegedly aspired to launch drone attacks against California targets in retaliation for U.S. military strikes on Iran.
The intelligence indicated UAVs could potentially be launched from a vessel off the West Coast, but officials stressed there was no confirmed information on timing, targets, or perpetrators. A counterterrorism source told the LA Times the threat has “not been deemed credible at this time.”
The warning came just before the U.S. and Israel launched major strikes on Iran on February 28th, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei. Governor Newsom confirmed his office is aware of the intelligence and has directed Cal OES to elevate its security posture and coordinate around the clock with state and federal partners.
Trump, when asked, said he was not worried about Iran-backed attacks on U.S. soil.
William Neil McCasland, 68, was reported missing after leaving his Albuquerque, N.M., home on foot, according to local authorities, who have teamed up with the FBI to find the former military official.
To Coulthart, the way McCasland vanished — reportedly along a running trail without his watch and phone — suggests something nefarious…
Dmitry Peskov had the hopeful message being reported in world fish wrappers..
Putin’s mouthpiece said today: ‘There have been worse things in human history… but we weren’t alive then, so it seems to us that the end of the world is upon us.’
Amid the war in the Middle East, Putin, who illegally invaded Ukraine four years ago, believes ‘we have all lost what we call international law’, said Peskov.
‘To be honest, I don’t even understand how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. It no longer exists.”
People on toilets people undressing, maybe even you in a very personal moment. A personal moment that now is shared with whoever for whatever reason with people in Kenya..
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Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses are reportedly collecting sensitive user data, including intimate footage, which is then reviewed by workers in Nairobi, Kenya, according to a Swedish newspaper.
The glasses, which allow users to activate an AI assistant with voice commands, process images, and record short videos, rely on a subcontractor, Sama, to train AI systems.
We learned some unfortunate news today as actress Jennifer Runyon has passed away at the age of 65. While her family did not disclose the exact cause of death, they shared that she was surrounded by love and family at the end after what they described as an arduous ordeal.
Runyon appeared in the 1984 blockbuster Ghostbusters in the memorable psychokinesis experiment scene, one of those small but recognizable moments that fans of the film still remember today. She built a steady career throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and became a familiar face across television and film during that era.
She had a lead role as Gwendolyn Pierce on the fan favorite sitcom Charles in Charge and also appeared on the soap opera Another World. Her television credits extended to appearances on series such as Quantum Leap and Murder, She Wrote, making her one of those actresses many viewers instantly recognized even if they did not always know her name.
For horror fans, Runyon also had roots in the genre, getting her start in the early 1980s slasher film To All a Goodnight. It was a modest beginning that helped launch a career that would stretch across multiple genres during one of television’s most recognizable decades.
Yet another star gone too soon, and one that many fans grew up watching across television screens throughout the 80s and 90s. May she rest in peace.
Sometimes a movie just sort of appears out of nowhere and you realize Hollywood expected it to be a big deal, but the audience never really got the memo.
That seems to be what happened with The Bride!, the new Frankenstein-inspired film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. On paper, the movie had some things going for it. The Gyllenhaal name carries weight in Hollywood, the source material comes from one of the most famous monster stories ever created, and studios have been trying for years to find a way to revive the old Universal-style monster movies for modern audiences. But when the film actually arrived in theaters this weekend, the numbers told a very different story.
The film opened to roughly $7.3 million domestically, with another $6.3 million internationally, bringing its global opening weekend to around $13.6 million worldwide. That would be fine for a small horror movie, but The Bride! reportedly cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 to $90 million to produce, which suddenly makes that opening weekend look extremely rough.
What makes the situation even more interesting is that many people, including horror fans, seemed genuinely confused about what the movie actually was. The trailers presented it as a strange mix of gothic horror, romance, and what almost looked like an art-house style period piece. That might work for a smaller experimental film, but it is a harder sell when you are spending blockbuster-level money.
The marketing also did not seem to find its audience. Personally, I only saw a few ads for it, and even then it was not clear what niche the film was trying to target. Was it meant to be a serious monster movie, a dark romantic drama, or a stylized reinterpretation of the classic Bride of Frankenstein story? The messaging never quite landed.
To make matters worse, the movie opened against more broadly appealing releases, including a major animated film that dominated the weekend box office. That kind of competition is always risky, but it becomes even more dangerous when the film you are releasing already has a somewhat unclear identity.
In the end, The Bride! might become one of those films that finds a second life later on streaming, where audiences sometimes embrace unusual projects that struggled in theaters. But at least for now, the opening weekend suggests this was a big-budget gamble on a very niche idea, and it is one that did not quite connect with audiences the way the studio probably hoped.
