News Brief: WRONG TURN 7 Begins Production, 2nd GAME OF THRONES Spin-off, MoviePass is Shutting Down, & More

News Brief: Wrong Turn 7 Begins Production, Second Game of Thrones Spin-off, MoviePass is Shutting Down, and More

In brief, new movie news and television show news has broken. Below you will find a succinct rundown on all that news and their most significant segments, distilled down to the most salient information.

Movie News

MoviePass is Shutting Down

This was inevitable. MoviePass is shutting down. The “movie ticket subscription service which offered unlimited tickets for $9.95 a month” will soon be no more. Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY), the parent company of MoviePass, is closing down the ticket service.

Wrong Turn 7 Begins Film Production

The seventh Wrong Turn horror film has officially begun film production in Ohio.

This iteration of Wrong Turn “feature a cross-country hiking expedition that puts a group of friends in the land of an inclusive society called The Foundation, described as people who have lived in the mountains sine before the Civil War. The friends soon discover they are under a different rule of law, and may not be the victims they thought they were.”

Alan B. McElroy wrote the screenplay for the Mike P. Nelson-directed film.

Harbinger Film Adaptation Moves From Sony to Paramount

Valiant Entertainment property Harbinger, with director Justin Tipping and writer Joshua Beirne-Golden, are moving from Sony Pictures to Paramount Pictures. This move will damage the possibility of a Harbinger / Bloodshot crossover and a crossover franchise, culminating in a Harbinger Film. Those plans appear to be put on the back-burner as Harbinger, which will now be put back into development.

A Time Lost Feature Film Being Developed by Netflix

Millie Bobby Brown and Paige Brown pitched an original story to Netflix that has been picked up and moved into active development. That pitch was for a feature film A Time Lost, where “a long-standing feud between two Long Island families comes to a head when one of their teenage daughters is diagnosed with cancer.”

Anna Klassen is writing the screenplay for the film.

TV Show News

The Mysterious Benedict Society Possible Straight to Series Hulu Order

Trenton Lee Stewart’s The Mysterious Benedict Society is close to be given a straight-to-series order by Hulu.

The Mysterious Benedict Society‘s plot synopsis: it is “the story of four gifted orphans who are recruited by a eccentric, benefactor to go on a secret mission. Placed undercover at a boarding school known as The Institute, they must foil a nefarious plot with global ramifications, while creating a new sort of family along the way.

Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay will write the screenplays for the TV series.

American Horror Story: 1984 Retro-style Title Sequence

Kyle Cooper, friend of American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy, has created a retro-style title sequence for American Horror Story: 1984.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2UddI7pAvT/

American Horror Story: 1984 will begin airing on FX on September 18 at 10 p.m. EST.

Game of Thrones Closing Pilot Episode Order for Prequel House Targaryen TV Series

HBO is close to giving a pilot order to a prequel Game of Thrones TV series. The series would delve into House Targaryen and would take place 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones. The new series would be derived from A Song of Ice and Fire-lore, including George R.R. Martin’s recently released Fire & Blood.

Apparently, the potential series

“would lead up to and eventually chronicle the house’s civil war, which is known as the legendary Dance of the Dragons.

For those of you who don’t know, it’s explained that the Dance of the Dragons was “a massive civil war in the Seven Kingdoms held between two rival branches of House Targaryen. The war occurred roughly 200 years before the events in Game of Thrones.”

The story was told in Game of Thrones Season 5, when young Shireen Baratheon read a book about the Targaryen conflict and described the war to her father Stannis:

“It’s the story of the fight between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Aegon for control over the Seven Kingdoms. Both of them thought they belonged on the Iron Throne. When people started declaring for one of them or the other, their fight divided the kingdoms in two. Brothers fought brothers, dragons fought dragons. By the time it was over, thousands were dead. And it was a disaster for the Targaryens as well. They never truly recovered.”

Martin and Ryan Condal will write the script for the pilot episode based on Condal’s new take on Bryan Cogman‘s previous idea for the prequel series.

South Park TV Series Have Been Renewed by Comedy Central

South Park has been renewed for three more seasons ahead of its Season 23 premiere on Comedy Central on September 25, 2019.

His Dark Materials TV Series Premiere Date Released by HBO and BBC

His Dark Materials, the book-to-TV series adaptation, will premiere on November 4, 2019 at 9 PM ET on HBO.

Disney+ Users Videos from The Netherlands

Disney+ has already been released in The Netherlands, two months before it is released in the Unites States on November 12, 2019.

The original Disney+ content is not available yet but all the back-fill material is there and available for viewing.

Videos of the setup and streaming experience is below.

Marvel Comics Animated TV Series Available on Disney+

The following 70-80’s Marvel Comics animated TV series will  be available on Disney+ when it launches: Spider-Woman, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and Spider-Man.

The following 90’s Marvel Comics animated TV series will  be available on Disney+ when it launches: X-Men, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and, Fantastic Four.

The Witcher TV Series Premiere Date Released by Netflix

The Witcher, the book-to-TV series adaptation, will premiere on December 17, 2019 on Netflix.

Party of Five Reboot TV Series Premiere Date Released by Freeform

The Part of Five reboot will premiere on January 8, 2020 on Freeform.

Way Station Book-to-film Adaptation Acquired by Netflix

Netflix and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho have acquired the film rights for Clifford D. Simak‘s Way Station.

Way Station‘s plot synopsis: “For more than 100 years Enoch Wallace has been the keeper of a Way Station on Earth for intergalactic alien travelers as they teleport across the universe. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch’s eyes to humanity’s impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race.”

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