Small, unruly aliens crash at Timothée Chalamet’s place in Illumination’s latest offering. Evil Dead Burn stars the grandson of a colleague of Professor Knowby’s. Lily James buys a haunted ranch in a new Southern gothic/folk horror mashup. An animatronic tiger shark wreaks havoc at an animal sanctuary in The Bay. Smile, you son of a… it’s Morning Spoilers!
Freddy the 13th
Deadline reports Dan Trachtenberg is attached to direct an animated “horror-based” family comedy at Paramount adapting Freddy the 13th, a graphic novel by Yehudi Mercado. The story follows “the trials and tribulations of the hapless Freddy Vanwinkle, the thirteenth son of a thirteenth-born son who fails at everything in contrast to his brilliant siblings. One night, while looking after his nephew and niece Logan and Lola, he accidentally kills the legendary slasher Nighty Night and automatically inherits the mantle of the monster. With rival killers emerging out of the shadows, Freddy has thirteen nights to break the curse.” According to the outlet, Paramount Animation is “pitching the feature as a PG-rated horror” film “delivering scares and laughs to the whole family.”
Not Alone
Deadline also reports Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Rob Brydon, Diane Morgan, Jamie Demetriou, Brett Goldstein, Allison Janney, and Lamorne Morris will lend their voices to Not Alone, an animated sci-fi family film at Illumination. The project is said to star Chalamet as Joe, “an introverted rocket mechanic who lives a quiet life alone,” opposite Gomez as Fran, “a brilliant astro-botanist who is developing the world’s first-ever plant-fueled rocket.” The synopsis reads: “When Joe and Fran are brought together to prepare for the inaugural launch of this revolutionary rocket, there are immediate sparks, but neither is particularly adept at romance. Life becomes more complicated when three aliens—tiny, unruly and adorable—take refuge in Joe’s home. Dunk, Welly, and Shirm are on the interplanetary run from a zealous-yet-inept officer of the law named Zandro. The aliens determine that Fran’s rocket could provide their means of getting back home to safety.”
Seasons
THR reports Lily James is attached to star in Seasons, a horror movie from Companion director Drew Hancock at Amazon MGM Studios. Adapted from a short story by Matt and Harrison Query originally posted to Reddit, the story follows “a husband and wife who buy their dream ranch only to discover the land is alive with ancient spirits, and survival means submitting to increasingly disturbing rituals with each turn of the season.”
Evil Dead Burn
Speaking with Out Magazine, Evil Dead Burn‘s Hunter Doohan revealed he’s playing a character named Joseph who is the grandson of one of Professor Knowby’s colleagues.
I had seen Evil Dead, the Fede Álvarez one. And I had seen Evil Dead 2. My character Joseph, he’s researching the lore in the story, and so through that audition process, I went and watched it and watched all the movies all over again and checked out the show as well. I was running out of time—but I was all over the Wiki and learning everything I could about the Kandarian Dagger and everything I could get my hands on.
Joseph is working on a book about his grandfather’s research. His grandfather knew Professor Knowby. I loved how this script not only ties back a little bit to Evil Dead Rise—but this movie connects the lore through the whole franchise, which I found really exciting.
Werwulf
In conversation with Letterboxd, Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski hyped Robert Egger’s Werwulf, stating it portrays “a really, really intimate portrait of the experience of a werewolf” that simultaneously interrogates “the horror of living” as it provides “weird shafts of light and hope.”
I promise you, Werwulf is on a whole other level. No one has seen a movie that looks or feels like this movie does.
To deliver the scares that this movie does, but also deliver a really, really intimate portrait of the experience of a werewolf—the emotional experience of a man going through that curse. It’s not just a plot device for Rob. It is a question of the foundational nature of man in the world. That monsters can exist, and the horror of living is so felt and present in this movie, that I really think audiences are gonna respond on a whole other level when they discover what he’s made.
Like all of his films, this has high-level terror and anxiety, but it’s done in a way that gives you these weird shafts of light and hope.
Supergirl
Supergirl fights space pirates until Lobo decides to blow everything up in a new clip from Supergirl.
The Outer Threat
An astrophysicist’s family is hunted by the government after he discovers alien life in the trailer for The Outer Threat, starring Constance Wu, Mark O’Brien, and William Fichtner.
The Bay
A visit to a shark sanctuary goes horribly awry in the trailer for The Bay, a new killer shark movie notably boasting a genuine animatronic tiger shark from Bischoff’s Taxidermy & Animal FX.
My Adventures With Green Lantern/Mr. Miracle
A window display spotted at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival has our first official looks at both My Adventures With Green Lantern and Mr. Miracle.
First look at the DC Animation slate.
Follow @NexusPointNews for the updates from Annecy Animation Festival panels this week. pic.twitter.com/K5QeJP1WE8
— Nexus Point News (@NexusPointNews) June 22, 2026
Rick and Morty
Finally, Rick takes Morty and Summer to an all-you-can-eat beer garden in the teaser for next week’s episode of Rick and Morty.
Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Read the full article here
