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Apple TV+ sets June 5 premiere for Nick Antosca’s 10-episode Cape Fear limited series starring Amy Adams and Javier Bardem; UCP/Amblin produce with executive producers Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese attached and Morten Tyldum directing the pilot.
$2.92B-grossing Avatar franchise; Q’orianka Kilcher sues James Cameron, Lightstorm, Disney, 20th Century and VFX vendors alleging unauthorized use of her likeness in Neytiri’s design and violations of California’s deepfake statute, seeking damages, disgorgement and injunctive relief that could reverberate across IP and biometric-rights practices in visual-effects pipelines.
Ari Aster’s Scapegoat; Scarlett Johansson attached as lead with A24 returning as distributor; production window being coordinated around Johansson’s other commitments and Aster producing via Square Peg with Lars Knudsen.
A24’s Backrooms boards 20-year-old Kane Parsons as youngest director in A24 history; Atomic Monster, 21 Laps and Chernin co-producing with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve attached; signals studios are mining YouTube/Gen Z creators as low-cost franchise pipelines.
Melissa Barrera is attached to lead Inhabit, a psychological supernatural horror from writer-director Adam Alleca; Logical Pictures is financing and launching international sales at Cannes while Cinemachine and Range Select are producing/rep'ing U.S. rights, positioning the contained, trauma-driven horror for festival-market sales.
Melissa Barrera addresses her 2023 firing from the Scream franchise; confirms Spyglass cut ties after her social comments, underscoring ongoing reputational and talent-franchise friction that continues to complicate Slasher franchise casting and studio PR strategies.
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