Updates From Fallout Season 2, and More

The new Silent Hill movie has found distribution. Rebecca Hall’s fighting zombies in her latest film. Final Destination teases Bludworth’s secret origins in new Bloodlines footage. Plus, Spider-Man: Brand New Day brings another star of The Bear to the MCU. Spoilers now!

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Deadline reports that The Bear‘s Liza Colón-Zayas has joined the cast in an undisclosed role (not that that hasn’t stopped people from immediately speculating that she could be playing Miles Morales’ mother Rio, mind).

The Dog Stars

Deadline reports Benedict Wong will star alongside Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce in Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars. Set “in a near future where an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society,” the story follows Hig (Elordi), “a civilian pilot living a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-marine (Brolin). The two men couldn’t be more mismatched but depend on each other to fend off roaming invaders. When a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside the pilot that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail.”

Zero Protocol

According to Screen Daily, Rebecca Hall is attached to star in Zero Protocola “zombie-action” film at Imaginarium Productions. Directed by Debs Hall (Willow), the story concerns “an NYPD commissioner (Hall) who battles to manage a city-wide zombie outbreak exploding in real time, only to discover her teenage daughter is trapped in the middle of the red zone.”

Return to Silent Hill

Variety also reports Cineverse has acquired the distribution rights to Christophe Gans’ Return to Silent Hillthe latest take on the classic horror game series. The story, a direct adaptation of the events of Silent Hill 2concerns James Sunderland, broken by the end of his relationship to the mysterious Mary, as a letter from him draws him back to the titular town–only to find it transformed and filled with horrors as he begins his search for her.

Evil Dead Burn

Meanwhile, Evil Dead Burn is now scheduled for a July 24, 2026 theatrical release date. [Deadline]

Final Destination: Bloodlines

A new Final Destination: Bloodlines featurette promises to reveal the secret origins of Tony Todd’s William Bludworth.

A Useful Ghost

After inhaling toxic dust, a man’s late wife returns from the dead to possess the family vacuum cleaner in the trailer for A Useful Ghost.

Fallout

Walton Goggins took to Instagram to announce that Fallout‘s second season has wrapped filming.

Rick and Morty

Finally, Adult Swim has released the new opening titles for Rick and Morty‘s eighth season.

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