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Patricia Arquette will star as Maggie Murdaugh in the limited series about the powerful Murdaugh family of South Carolina for Hulu. Per Variety, the show was first reported to be in development at Hulu in November 2022, but has now officially been ordered to series.

The official synopsis for the as-yet-untitled show reads that it “is based on Maggie (Arquette) and Alex Murdaugh’s stranger-than-fiction family drama, a riveting account drawing from countless hours of reporting by Mandy Matney – journalist and creator of the popular ‘Murdaugh Murders Podcast’ – as well as exclusive, insider knowledge from years spent following the case.”

The Murdaugh family were powerful players in the Lowcountry region of South Caroline, but were accused of involvement in a variety of crimes, ranging from fraud to murder. In addition to the “Murdaugh Murders” podcast, they have been the subject of multiple docuseries and news specials. Alex Murdaugh was convicted of the 2021 fatal shootings of Maggie and their son Paul, and is serving two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have revealed the cast of their next Netflix project, titled The Boroughs.  

Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters and Bill Pullman will star in the eight-episode drama, with details on their roles are being kept under wraps for now.

The Boroughs comes from writers and showrunners Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, with the show’s logline reading: “In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have — time.”

In addition to The Duffer Brothers, “The Boroughs” is executive produced by creators and showrunners Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (“The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance”), Upside Down Pictures’ Hilary Leavitt and Ben Taylor, who will direct multiple episodes including the pilot.

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Game of Thrones alum Emilia Clarke will star in the spy thriller PONIES at Peacock.  Peacock gave a straight-to-series order to the 1970s espionage thriller, also executive produced by Clarke.  The Cold War-era show is co-created, co-written and executive produced by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, and exec produced by Jessica Rhoades.

The series, set in Moscow in 1977, “follows two “PONIES” (persons of no interest) who work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.”

Clarke is currently filming Criminal for Amazon’s Prime Video, where she stars Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes and Adria Arjona based on the graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

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Sony Pictures has released the trailer for “Venom: The Last Dance,” the final film in the ‘Venom’ trilogy.

Tom Hardy returns as Eddie Brock, better known as the symbiote Venom from the “Spider-Man” comics. Per the official logline, “Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie’s last dance.”

Along with Hardy, the cast for Venom: The Last Dance includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach and Stephen Graham.

Venom: The Last Dance premieres in theaters Oct. 25. See the trailer: HERE.

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Charlie Hunnam is the latest star of the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s Monster series. The ‘Sons of Anarchy’ actor, 44, is set to play the role of serial killer Ed Gein – often referred to as “the Butcher of Plainfield” – in the third season of the Netflix anthology series.  Netflix announced Hunnam’s casting on social media, as well as plans to start production next month. No other casting or premiere date have been announced yet.

Each season of the Monster franchise tackles a different true-crime story, with the first season debuting in 2022 regarding serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Season 2 just premiered last month, and focused on the infamous Menendez brothers, who were convicted of killing their parents in 1989, with the case becoming a media sensation in the 1990s when it went to trial.

According to Variety, Gein — who was from Wisconsin — became popular in the 1950s after he was found to have killed multiple people and dug up graves near his home. He then used the corpses to make household items and clothing. Convicted of murdering two women and suspected of killing seven others, Gein died in a psychiatric facility in 1984 at age 77.  He is also said to have inspired numerous horror movie villains including Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill and Leatherface.

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Apple TV+ will premiere the new limited series Disclaimer, featuring Cate Blanchett. The psychological thriller is based on the Renée Knight novel, with the seven-part television adaptation written and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, Gravity).

Blanchett stars as Catherine Ravenscroft, an acclaimed journalist “who built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her deepest secrets and threatens to destroy her family.  As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys her life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).”

The streaming service dropped a trailer for Disclaimer, which shows Catherine (Blanchett) try to keep her “deadly secret” as flashbacks show glimpses of a romantic tryst from her past. Meanwhile, the author of the book appears to be a grieving father (Kevin Kline).  Louis Partridge, Lesley Manville, Leila George and Hoyeon also star.

Disclaimer will have a two-episode premiere Oct. 11, followed by new episodes every Friday. See the trailer: HERE.

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