Film & TV Reporter
Charles Pulliam-Moore is a Film & TV writer for The Verge focusing on genre entertainment and how disparate, fandom-specific conversations coalesce into what we know as "the discourse."
Before coming to The Verge, Charles wrote about comic books, labor, race and a multitude of other topics at io9 and Gizmodo, and his writing has also been featured on NPR's Code Switch blog.
When he isn't reading the source material for a piece or decompressing with a comfort horror movie, Charles is usually somewhere on his bike.
It’d be nice to know a little bit more about the film, but for now, A24 just wants you to know that it has greenlit Bushido, a new project from Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Widow’s Bay). The studio is describing it as “a high-stakes action film set against the backdrop of feudal Japan.”
Between being paid a pittance for creating Squid Game and losing multiple teeth from stress during the first season’s production, it would be understandable if Hwang Dong-hyuk had walked away from his hit franchise.
But in a new interview with The BBC, he explains that the streamer’s choice to finally push some serious cash his way is what brought him back for season 2.
HBO’s It prequel series Welcome to Derry still doesn’t have a concrete release date. But the network’s new 2025 sizzle reel features a fresh look at Pennywise (in human disguise) as well as a whole bunch of footage from Creature Commandos, The Chair Company, Dune: Prophecy, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Arcane’s second season is a revolutionary powderkeg
Arcane’s final season puts an even finer point on its story about revolutionary war.
It’s wild to think that Alien: Romulus was at one point going to debut on Hulu, but following its wildly successful theatrical run, the film is reportedly heading to the streamer on November 21st.
Though Netflix insists that it has been following tax law to the tee, the BBC reports that the streamer’s European headquarters in Amsterdam and its office in Paris were raided as part of an investigation into whether it has been “covering up serious tax fraud and off-the-books work.”
Invincible Fight Girl’s creator wants to keep the dream of serialized animation alive
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