Even before yesterday's announcement that Nicolas Cage of all people would be playing goddamn Dracula, there was plenty of reasons to be hyped over Renfield despite the fact a new spin on the Count seems to enter development on an almost monthly basis.
Having started out life as a Spanish network TV series, nobody could have predicted where Money Heist would eventually find itself. After the early seasons were picked up for distribution by Netflix, the show became an international phenomenon and one of the streaming service's most popular episodic offerings ever.
A movie that flopped at the box office, was panned by critics and has been cited by no less an authority than star Arnold Schwarzenegger as the single biggest mistake of his career hardly sounds like the ideal candidate for a remake, but Hollywood has been trying to get a new version of Red Sonja off the ground since 2008.
The horror genre has never been shy in jumping on a bandwagon, because if a certain style or trend worked for one movie, then there's no reason why it won't work for countless others.
In news that makes total and complete sense when you think about it, Fangoria Studios have announced that Anna Chazelle is set to write, direct and executive produce a horror movie revolving around Medusa.
Today is the first day of the month, and once you've wrapped your head around the fact that it's already December, it's time to fire up Netflix to check out the bounty of new titles that have arrived on the platform as the library gets its annual refresh.
For a while, it looked as though Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit against Disney over Black Widow's Premier Access release was set to cause an industry-wide shift in how the major studios compensated talent for how movies are released and distributed in the age of streaming.
As recently as a few years ago, the major studios in Hollywood viewed Netflix as a noisy upstart that posed no real threat to the established system that had run the industry for over a century. Of course, that's all changed in a major way, with the streaming service now a serious player and regular winner at every major awards ceremony.
It must be a nice position to find yourself in as an up-and-coming talent in the industry, having the opportunity to audition for a pair of high-profile blockbusters that each boast a massive fanbase and multi-billion dollar box office totals.
Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal has been quietly going about his business and building up a reputation as one of the horror genre's finest and most reliable talents for the better part of a decade, and we're now at the stage where any new project he signs on for is guaranteed to draw interest from fans of being frightened.