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Everything New on Peacock in July

Published

1 year ago

June 24, 2022

Sawah

If you missed The Bad Guys in theaters last spring, you’ll get another chance in July when the animated film starts streaming exclusively on Peacock. The NBCUniversal service is also adding Season 2 of Kevin Hart’s Heart to Heart, and the American version of the British dating series Love Island.

In addition, there’s a ton of sports on Peacock in July, including multiple stages of the Tour de France, the Breeders Cup Challenge, and for wrestling fans, two live events: Money in the Bank and SummerSlam. If you’re looking for movies, the new catalog titles include Field of Dreams, Dodgeball, The Big Lebowski, and the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman movies.

Here’s everything streaming on Peacock in July. (An asterisk means the title is currently exclusive to Peacock.)

July 1
Armageddon, 1998
American Pie, 1999
American Pie 2, 2001
American Reunion, 2012
American Wedding, 2003
Antz, 1998*
Away We Go, 2009
The Bad Guys, 2022*
Batman, 1989
Batman & Robin, 1997
Batman Forever, 1995
Batman Returns, 1992
The Big Lebowski, 1998
The Big Wedding, 2013*
Blue Crush, 2002
Blue Crush 2, 2011
Blue Valentine, 2011*
Born On The Fourth of July, 1989
Bridesmaids, 2011*
Bring It On Again, 2004
Bring It On: All or Nothing, 2006
Bulletproof, 1996
Cast Away, 2000
The Change-Up, 2011
Cowboys & Aliens, 2011
Crimson Tide, 1995
Date Night, 2010
Dazed and Confused, 1993
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, 2004
End Of The Line: The Women of Standing Rock, 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004
Gnomeo & Juliet, 2011
Fantastic Four, 2005
Field of Dreams, 2005*
For Love of the Game, 1999
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 2008*
Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991
Get Him to the Greek, 2010
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, 2011
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2009
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2001
He’s Just Not That Into You, 2009
Honey, 2003
Honey 2, 2011
I Think I Love My Wife, 2007
John Wick, 2014*
John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017*
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, 2019*
Just Go With It, 2011*
Liar, Liar, 1997
Little Fockers, 2010
Looper, 2012
Lucy, 2014*
Major Payne, 1995
Marley & Me, 2008
Meet the Fockers, 2004
Meet the Parents, 2000
Mystery Men, 1999
Ocean’s Eleven, 2001
Ocean’s Twelve, 2004
The Other Guys, 2010
Robots, 2005
The Rock, 1996
Role Models, 2008
Shallow Hal, 2001
Shark Tale, 2004*
A Simple Favor, 2018
Sisters, 2015*
The Skulls II, 2002
The Skulls III, 2004
The Skulls, 2000
Stick It, 2006
Trainwreck, 2015*
Tremors, 1990*
Tremors 3: Back To Perfection, 2001
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, 2004
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
Tremors 6: Cold Day In Hell, 2018
Tremors II, 1996
Unbreakable, 2000
What’s Love Got To Do With It, 1992
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, 2008*
American Greed, Season 14
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Shrink, Season 1
Snapped, 19-23
Southern Charm, Season 8, New Episode (Bravo)
Top Chef Last Chance Kitchen, Season 15-18
IndyCar – Mid-Ohio
Tour de France – Stage 1
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)

July 2
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Breeders Cup Challenge
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
IMSA – CTMP
IndyCar – Mid-Ohio*
Pro Motocross – Red Bud
Tour de France – Stage 2*
WWE Money in the Bank*

July 3
Tour de France – Stage 2*
Indy Car – Mid-Ohio*
IMSA – Sportscar Grand Prix
MLB Sunday Leadoff – Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers*

July 4
Below Deck Mediterranean, Season 7, New Episode (Bravo)
Growing Up Chrisley, Season 3
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular
Ukraine: Answering the Call (NBC)

July 5
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Dateline: The Last Day, Season 1, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Tour de France – Stage 4*
USA Softball vs. Australia*
USA Softball vs. Japan*

July 6
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
America’s Got Talent, Season 17, New Episode (NBC)
Dancing With Myself, Season 1, New Episode (NBC)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Tour de France – Stage 5*

July 7
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Tour de France – Stage 6*
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 12, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives of Dubai, Season 1, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip S2, New Episode (Peacock Original)*

July 8
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Southern Charm, Season 8, New Episode (Bravo)
Trigger Point, Season 1, All Episodes (Peacock Original)*
Tour de France – Stage 7*

July 9
American Century Championship
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Tour de France – Stage 8*
Pro Motorcross 2022 – Southwick

July 10
American Century Championship
MLB Sunday Leadoff – Los Angeles Angels at Baltimore Orioles*
Tour de France – Stage 9*

July 11
Below Deck Mediterranean, Season 7, New Episode (Bravo)
Curious George, 2006
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem, Season 2, Episode 1 (Peacock Original)*
Married to Medicine: Atlanta, Season 9, New Episode (Bravo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 14, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives of Potomac, Season 6
The Shallows, 2016*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1, New Episode (NBC)

July 12
American Ninja Warrior, Season 14, New Episode (NBC)
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Dateline: The Last Day, Season 1, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem, Season 2, Episode 2 (Peacock Original)*
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Tour de France – Stage 10*

July 13
America’s Got Talent, Season 17, New Episode (NBC)
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Dancing With Myself, Season 1, New Episode (NBC)
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem, Season 2, Episode 3 (Peacock Original)*
Doom, 2005*
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Make Do & Mend, Season 2*
Tour de France – Stage 11*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)

July 14
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem, Season 2, Episode 4 (Peacock Original)*
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hart to Heart, Season 2, Episodes 1-2, (Peacock Original)*
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
The Open Championship – Round 1*
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 12, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives of Dubai, Season 1, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip S2, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Tour de France – Stage 12*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)

July 15
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem, Season 2, Episode 5 (Peacock Original)*
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Nash Bridges, 2021
IndyCar – Streets of Toronto
Southern Charm, Season 8, New Episode (Bravo)
The Open Championship – Round 1*
Tour de France – Stage 13*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
World Track & Field Championships*

July 16
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
IMSA – Lime Rock
IMSA – Toronto – Porsche Carrera Cup
IndyCar – Streets of Toronto
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
MLB All-Star Futures Game*
Tour de France – Stage 14*
The Open Championship – Round 3
World Track & Field Championships

July 17
IndyCar – Streets of Toronto
MLB Sunday Leadoff – Kansas City Royals at Toronto Blue Jays*
The Open Championship – Final Round
Tour de France – Stage 15*
World Track & Field Championships

July 18
Below Deck Mediterranean, Season 7, New Episode (Bravo)
El Señor de los Cielos, Season 4-7
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Married to Medicine: Atlanta, Season 9, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 14, New Episode (Bravo)
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1, New Episode (NBC)
World Track & Field Championships

July 19
American Ninja Warrior, Season 14, New Episode (NBC)
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Dateline: The Last Day, Season 1, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Exhumed, Season 2, All Episodes (Oygen)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Snapped, Season 31, New Episode (Oxygen)
Tour de France – Stage 16*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
World Track & Field Championships

July 20
America’s Got Talent, Season 17, New Episode (NBC)
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Dancing With Myself, Season 1, New Episode (NBC)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Tour de France – Stage 17*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
World Track & Field Championships

July 21
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hart to Heart, Season 2, Episodes 3-4, (Peacock Original)*
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 12, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives of Dubai, Season 1, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip S2, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Tour de France – Stage 18*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
World Track & Field Championships

July 22
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
IndyCar – Iowa*
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Southern Charm, Season 8, New Episode (Bravo)
Tour de France – Stage 19*
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
World Track & Field Championships

July 23
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
IndyCar – Iowa*
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
The Senior Open Championship
Tour de France – Stage 20*
World Track & Field Championships

July 24
IndyCar — Iowa
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
MLB Sunday Leadoff – Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia Phillies*
The Senior Open Championship
Tour de France – Stage 21*
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 1
World Track & Field Championships

July 25
Below Deck Mediterranean, Season 7, New Episode (Bravo)
Married to Medicine: Atlanta, Season 9, New Episode (Bravo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 14, New Episode (Bravo)
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 2
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)
Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1, New Episode (NBC)

July 26
American Ninja Warrior, Season 14, New Episode (NBC)
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Snapped, Season 31, New Episode (Oxygen)
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 3
U.S. Swimming National Championships – Day 1
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)

July 27
America’s Got Talent, Season 17, New Episode (NBC)
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 4
U.S. Swimming National Championships – Day 2
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)

July 28
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hart to Heart, Season 2, Episodes 5-6, (Peacock Original)*
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 12, New Episode (Bravo)
The Real Housewives of Dubai, Season 1, New Episode (Bravo)
The Resort, Season 1, Episodes 1-3 (Peacock Original)*
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 5
U.S. Swimming National Championships – Day 3
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)

July 29
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
IndyCar – Indianapolis
Southern Charm, Season 8, New Episode (Bravo)
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 6
Watch What Happens Live, Season 19, New Episode (Bravo)

July 30
Amor Valiente, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
Hasta Que La Plata Nos Separe, Season 1, New Episode (Telemundo)
La Casa de los Famosos, Season 2, New Episode (Telemundo)
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
NASCAR Xfinity Series Race – Indianapolis
Nitro Rallycross – Sweden
IndyCar — Indianapolis
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 7
WWE SummerSlam*

July 31
Love Island, Season 4, New Episode (Peacock Original)*
Nitro Rallycross – Sweden
MLB Sunday Leadoff – Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays*
Tour de France Femmes – Stage 8
US Classic Gymnastics – Men’s

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Review: SAMARITAN, A Sly Stallone Superhero Stumble

Published

1 year ago

August 29, 2022

Sawah

Hitting the three-quarter-century mark usually means a retirement home, a nursing facility, or if you’re lucky to be blessed with relatively good health and savings to match, living in a gated community in Arizona or Florida.

For Sylvester Stallone, however, it means something else entirely: starring in the first superhero-centered film of his decades-long career in the much-delayed Samaritan. Unfortunately for Stallone and the audience on the other side of the screen, the derivative, turgid, forgettable results won’t get mentioned in a career retrospective, let alone among the ever-expanding list of must-see entries in a genre already well past its peak.

For Stallone, however, it’s better late than never when it involves the superhero genre. Maybe in getting a taste of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) with his walk-on role in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel several years ago, Stallone thought anything Marvel can do, I can do even better (or just as good in the nebulous definition of the word).

The property Stallone and his team found for him, Samaritan, a little-known graphic novel released by a small, almost negligible, publisher, certainly takes advantage of Stallone’s brute-force physicality and his often underrated talent for near-monosyllabic brooding (e.g., the Rambo series), but too often gives him to little do or say as the lone super-powered survivor, the so-called “Samaritan” of the title, of a lifelong rivalry with his brother, “Nemesis.” Two brothers entered a fire-ravaged building and while both were presumed dead, one brother did survive (Stallone’s Joe Smith, a garbageman by day, an appliance repairman by night).

In the Granite City of screenwriter Bragi F. Schut (Escape Room, Season of the Witch), the United States, and presumably the rest of the world, teeters on economic and political collapse, with a recession spiraling into a depression, steady gigs difficult, if not impossible, to obtain, and the city’s neighborhoods rocked by crime and violence. No one’s safe, not even 13-year-old Sam (Javon Walker), Joe’s neighbor.

When he’s not dodging bullies connected to a gang, he’s falling under the undue influence of Cyrus (Pilou Asbæk), a low-rent gang leader with an outsized ego and the conviction that he and only he can take on Nemesis’s mantle and along with that mantle, a hammer “forged in hate,” to orchestrate a Bane-like plan to plunge the city into chaos and become a wealthy power-broker in the process.

Schut’s woefully underwritten script takes a clumsy, haphazard approach to world-building, relying on a two-minute animated sequence to open Samaritan while a naive, worshipful Sam narrates Samaritan and Nemesis’s supposedly tragic, Cain and Abel-inspired backstory. Schut and director Julius Avery (Overlord) clumsily attempt to contrast Sam’s childish belief in messiah-like, superheroic saviors stepping in to save humanity from itself and its own worst excesses, but following that path leads to authoritarianism and fascism (ideas better, more thoroughly explored in Watchmen and The Boys).

While Sam continues to think otherwise, Stallone’s superhero, 25 years past his last, fatal encounter with his presumably deceased brother, obviously believes superheroes are the problem and not the solution (a somewhat reasonable position), but as Samaritan tracks Joe and Sam’s friendship, Sam giving Joe the son he never had, Joe giving Sam the father he lost to street violence well before the film’s opening scene, it gets closer and closer to embracing, if not outright endorsing Sam’s power fantasies, right through a literally and figuratively explosive ending. Might, as always, wins regardless of how righteous or justified the underlying action.

It’s what superhero audiences want, apparently, and what Samaritan uncritically delivers via a woefully under-rendered finale involving not just unconvincing CGI fire effects, but a videogame cut-scene quality Stallone in a late-film flashback sequence that’s meant to be subversively revelatory, but will instead lead to unintentional laughter for anyone who’s managed to sit the entirety of Samaritan’s one-hour and 40-minute running time.

Samaritan is now streaming worldwide on Prime Video.

Samaritan

Cast

Sylvester Stallone
Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton
Pilou Asbæk

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Matt Shakman Is In Talks To Direct ‘Fantastic Four’

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1 year ago

August 29, 2022

Sawah

According to a new report, Wandavision’s Matt Shakman is in talks to direct the upcoming MCU project, Fantastic Four. Marvel Studios has been very hush-hush regarding Fantastic Four to the point where no official announcements have been made other than the film’s release date. No casting news or literally anything other than rumors has been released regarding the project. We know that Fantastic Four is slated for release on November 8th, 2024, and will be a part of Marvel’s Phase 6. There are also rumors that the cast of the new Fantastic Four will be announced at the D23 Expo on September 9th.

Just announced in Hall H:
Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four, in theaters November 8, 2024. #SDCC2022 pic.twitter.com/z4j7tsfKl9
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) July 24, 2022

Fantastic Four is still over two years from release, and we assume we will hear more news about the project in the coming months. However, the idea of the Fantastic Four has already been introduced into the MCU. John Krasinski played Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The cameo was a huge deal for fans who have been waiting a long time for the Fantastic Four to enter the MCU. When Disney acquired Twenty Century Fox in 2019 we assumed that the Fox Marvel characters would eventually make their way into the MCU. It’s been 3 years and we already have had an X-Men and Fantastic Four cameo – even if they were from another universe.

Deadline is reporting that Wandavision’s Matt Shakman is in talks to direct Fantastic Four. Shakman served as the director for Wandavision and has had an extensive career. He directed two episodes of Game of Thrones and an episode of The Boys, and he had a long stint on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There is nothing official yet, but Deadline’s sources say that Shakman is currently in talks for the job and things are headed in the right direction.

To be honest, I was a bit more excited when Jon Watts was set to direct. I’m sure Shakman is a good director, but Watts proved he could handle a tentpole superhero film with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Wandavision was good, but Watts’ style would have been perfect for Fantastic Four. The film is probably one of the most anticipated films in Marvel’s upcoming slate films and they need to find the best person they can to direct. Is that Matt Shakman? It could be, but whoever takes the job must realize that Marvel has a lot riding on this movie. The other Fantastic Four films were awful and fans deserve better. Hopefully, Marvel knocks it out of the park as they usually do. You can see for yourself when Fantastic Four hits theaters on November 8th, 2024.

Film Synopsis: One of Marvel’s most iconic families makes it to the big screen: the Fantastic Four.

Source: Deadline

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Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase Star in ‘Zombie Town’ Mystery Teen Romancer (Exclusive)

Published

1 year ago

August 29, 2022

Sawah

Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase have entered Zombie Town, a mystery teen romancer based on author R.L. Stine’s book of the same name.

The indie, now shooting in Ontario, also stars Henry Czerny and co-teen leads Marlon Kazadi and Madi Monroe. The ensemble cast includes Scott Thompson and Bruce McCulloch of the Canadian comedy show Kids in the Hall.

Canadian animator Peter Lepeniotis will direct Zombie Town. Stine’s kid’s book sees a quiet town upended when 12-year-old Mike and his friend, Karen, see a horror movie called Zombie Town and unexpectedly see the title characters leap off the screen and chase them through the theater.

Zombie Town will premiere in U.S. theaters before streaming on Hulu and then ABC Australia in 2023.

“We are delighted to bring the pages of R.L. Stine’s Zombie Town to the screen and equally thrilled to be working with such an exceptional cast and crew on this production. A three-time Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award winner with book sales of over $500 million, R.L. Stine has a phenomenal track record of crafting stories that engage and entertain audiences,” John Gillespie, Trimuse Entertainment founder and executive producer, said in a statement.

Executive producers are Trimuse Entertainment, Toonz Media Group, Lookout Entertainment, Viva Pictures and Sons of Anarchy actor Kim Coates.

Paco Alvarez and Mark Holdom of Trimuse negotiated the deal to acquire the rights to Stine’s Zombie Town book.