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‘The Bear’ Serves Up a Second Season Renewal Order

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Rebecca Murray
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The Bear Series Stars
Jeremy Allen White as Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto, Lionel Boyce as Marcus, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard ‘Richie’ Jerimovich in ‘The Bear’ (Photo Credit: FX)

FX’s The Bear has been renewed for a second season after cooking up rave reviews and earning an impressive 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Set in the restaurant industry, the series stars Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) as James Beard Award-winning Chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto who returns to his family’s Chicago restaurant following the death of his brother.

The season one cast also includes Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard ‘Richie’ Jerimovich, Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu, Abby Elliott as Natalie ‘Sugar’ Berzatto, Lionel Boyce as Marcus, Liza Colón-Zayas as Tina, Edwin Lee Gibson as Ebraheim, and Matty Matheson as Neil Fak.

Christopher Storer (Ramy) created the series and serves as co-showrunner with Joanna Calo (BoJack Horseman). Storer and Calo write, direct, and executive produce. Super Frog’s Hiro Murai and Nate Matteson also executive produce.

“We are so grateful to FX, our insanely talented cast, our crew who worked hard, fast, and in the dead of winter, not to mention everyone who watched. And we can’t wait to bring you all back to The Bear in 2023,” stated Christopher Storer and Joanna Calo.

“The Bear has exceeded our wildest creative, critical and commercial expectations,” said Eric Schrier, FX Entertainment President. “We deeply appreciate the brilliant work led by creator and co-showrunner Christopher Storer and co-showrunner Joanna Calo. Jeremy Allen White’s lead performance is spectacular, as are those of his co-stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce and Liza Colón-Zayas. We can’t wait to get to work on season 2.”

Season one premiered on June 23, 2022 and is currently available to stream on Hulu.

The Plot: The Bear follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (White), a young chef from the fine dining world, who comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop – The Original Beef of Chicagoland – after a heartbreaking death in his family. A world away from what he’s used to, Carmy must balance the soul-crushing realities of small business ownership, his strong-willed and recalcitrant kitchen staff and his strained familial relationships, all while grappling with the impact of his brother’s suicide.

The Bear is about food, family, the insanity of the grind, the beauty of Sense of Urgency and the steep slippery downsides. As Carmy fights to transform both The Original Beef of Chicagoland and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges kitchen crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.




‘Alone’ to Introduce Spinoffs ‘Alone: Frozen’ and ‘Alone: The Skills Challenge’

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Rebecca Murray
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The History Channel’s popular survival competition series Alone has spawned two spinoffs – Alone: Frozen and Alone: The Skills Challenge. Alone: Frozen joins The History Channel’s primetime lineup on August 11, 2022 at 9pm ET/PT. Alone: The Skills Challenge is set to premiere on Thursday, August 4th at 10:30pm ET/PT, moving to its 10pm ET/PT timeslot after Alone: Frozen on August 11th.

Season nine of Alone is currently airing on Thursdays at 9pm ET/PT.

Both new Alone series are produced by Leftfield Pictures, with Shawn Witt, Ryan Pender, Dan Bree, Zachary G. Behr, and Amy Savitsky executive producing Alone: The Skills Challenge season one’s 12 episodes.

Witt, Pender, Behr, and Chet Burns executive produce Alone: Frozen‘s eight-episode first season.

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The season 1 ‘Alone: Frozen’ participants (Photo Credit: The History Channel)

The network provided the following descriptions for the new shows:

Each episode of Alone: The Skills Challenge will feature three former participants from Alone competing in survival build challenges devised by another former participant. Using only basic tools and the natural resources around them, only one survivalist will be deemed the winner, proving they have the skills needed to thrive in the wilderness. Competitors will be judged on their ingenuity, execution, and completion of each task.

From elevated shelters to hand-crafted ovens to watercraft, each episode is self-filmed by the survivalists and will feature some of the most impressive builds ever seen. Returning survivalists of Alone: The Skills Challenge include Callie North (season three), Lucas Miller (season one), Amós Rodriguez (season seven), Britt Ahart (seasons three and five), Jordan Jonas (season six), Joel Van Der Loon (season seven) and Clay Hayes (season eight).

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Jordan Jonas (season six) from ‘Alone: The Skills Challenge’ (Photo by: The History Channel)

In Alone: Frozen, six of Alone’s strongest participants from past seasons return to put their survival skills to the test for a second time. Dropped off on the frigid North Atlantic Coast of Labrador, Canada just as winter is setting in, and battling howling winds, constant rain, and North America’s most fierce cold-weather predators, survivalists will set out to last fifty days in a location with the densest population of Polar Bears in the United States and face extreme conditions worse than any previous season of Alone.

With just a few supplies and their previous experiences to learn from, the survivalists who go the distance will win their share of the $500,000 cash prize. Returning survivalists of Alone: Frozen include fan favorites Greg Ovens (season three), Woniya Thibeault (season six), Callie Russell (season seven), Mark D’Ambrosio (season seven), Amós Rodriguez (season seven) and Michelle Finn (season eight).




‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Teaser Trailer Returns Us to Middle-Earth

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Rebecca Murray
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Prime Video’s gorgeous new lengthy teaser trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power invites viewers back to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. The nearly three-minute teaser introduces the key characters and the realms they inhabit while warning, “The past is dead. We either move forward, or we die with it. This could be the beginning of a new era.”

The eight-episode epic saga premieres on Prime Video on September 2, 2022. New episodes premiere weekly on Fridays.

Among the characters featured in the teaser trailer are Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker), Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Elendil (Lloyd Owen), Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle), and Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson).

The teaser also includes the Harfoots Marigold Brandyfoot (Sara Zwangobani), Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh), Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) and Sadoc Burrows (Sir Lenny Henry), The Stranger (Daniel Weyman), Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), and the Dwarves King Durin III (Peter Mullan) and Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur).

Prime Video confirmed the realms shown in the trailer are the Elven realms of Lindon and Eregion, the Dwarven realm Khazad-dûm, the Southlands, the Northernmost Wastes, the Sundering Seas, and the island kingdom of Númenór.

J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay serve as showrunners and executive producers. Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado also executive produce. Ron Ames and Christopher Newman produce, and Wayne Che Yip is a co-executive producer and director. Additional directors include J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.

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Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) and Charlie Vickers (Halbrand) in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ (Photo Credit: Ben Rothstein / Amazon Studios)

Prime Video’s released the following description of season one:

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and one of the greatest villains that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.

Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.




‘Five Days at Memorial’ Trailer: The Horrors of Hurricane Katrina

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Rebecca Murray
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Apple TV+’s official trailer for the limited series Five Days at Memorial is incredibly intense and deeply disturbing, made even more so by the fact the series is based on true events. The limited series chronicles events that took place in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, focusing on the actions of staff at Memorial Medical Center.

Five Days at Memorial reunites Bates Motel star Vera Farmiga with the show’s executive producer, co-creator, and writer Carlton Cuse. Cuse and Oscar winner John Ridley created the series, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink, and serve as writers, directors, and executive producers. Wendey Stanzler (For All Mankind) also directs.

In addition to Farmiga, the series stars Robert Pine (CHiPs), Cherry Jones (Succession), Julie Ann Emery (Better Call Saul), Cornelius Smith Jr. (Scandal), Adepero Oduye (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Molly Hager (It’s Kind of a Funny Story), Michael Gaston (The Leftovers), and W. Earl Brown (Preacher).

Five Days at Memorial premieres on Friday, August 12, 2022 with the release of the first three episodes. New episodes arrive on subsequent Fridays leading up to the September 16th finale.

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Vera Farmiga stars in ‘Five Days at Memorial’ (Photo Credit: Apple TV+)

Apple TV+ released the following synopsis:

“Five Days at Memorial chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a local hospital. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make decisions that would follow them for years to come.”




‘Archer’ Season 13 Details and Premiere Date

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Rebecca Murray
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Archer Season 12 Cast
Algernop Krieger (voice of Lucky Yates), Colt/Scientist (voiced by Eric André), Pam Poovey (voice of Amber Nash), Cheryl/Carol Tunt (voice of Judy Greer) and Cyril Figgis (voice of Chris Parnell) and Lana Kane (voice of Aisha Tyler) in ‘Archer’ season 12 (Photo: FXX)

It sounds crazy, but FX is actually heading into its 13th season – 13th! – of the critically acclaimed adult animated series Archer. The new season of Archer will premiere on August 24, 2022 on FXX, with new episodes arriving on Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT.

Season 12 said farewell to Malory (RIP Jessica Walter, you are missed) in a poignant scene in the finale. Archer finds a note from Malory saying she’s passing the torch but will be watching over him, and then we see Malory and her hubby Ron Cadillac (voiced by Walter’s late husband Ron Leibman) holding hands while relaxing on a beach.

Season 13 features returning voice cast members H. Jon Benjamin as the world’s greatest spy, “Sterling Archer;” Aisha Tyler as the spy with marital troubles, “Lana Kane;” Judy Greer as the crazy office assistant in search of a special skill, “Cheryl/Carol Tunt;” Chris Parnell as the reliable company-man, “Cyril Figgis;” Amber Nash as the enthusiastic offender, “Pam Poovey;” Adam Reed as the opportunist, “Ray Gillette” and Lucky Yates as the experimenter-in-chief, “Algernop Krieger.”

Guest stars for the upcoming season include Kenan Thompson, Alison Pill, Christian Slater, Kayvan Novak, and Stephen Tobolowsky.

Adam Reed created the series and executive produces along with Matt Thompson and Casey Willis at Floyd County Productions.

FX released the following description of season 13:

“This season, Archer and The Agency have been acquired by Fabian Kingsworth and the spy conglomerate known as IIA (International Intelligence Agency). As the gang struggles to find their identity performing odd missions for Fabian, one question arises: will they be able to maintain independence, or will they succumb to their corporate overlords?”




‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 3 Sets August Premiere Date

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Rebecca Murray
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Poster

Paramount+ is sticking with what works, setting an August premiere date for the upcoming third season of the popular animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Season one debuted on August 6, 2020, followed by season two on August 12, 2021. Season three will arrive on August 25, 2022.

New episodes of the 10-episode season will be released on Thursdays. The premiere date announcement was accompanied by a new, colorful poster for the Emmy-nominated series.

Voice cast members reprising their roles as “lower decks” characters include Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner, Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler, Noël Wells as Ensign Tendi, and Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford. Voicing the U.S.S. Cerritos’ bridge crew are Dawnn Lewis as Captain Carol Freeman, Jerry O’Connell as Commander Jack Ransom, and Gillian Vigman as Doctor T’Ana.

Two-time Emmy Award winner Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty) created the series, executive produces and serves as showrunner. Secret Hideout’s Alex Kurtzman and Aaron Baiers also executive produce along with Katie Krentz, Heather Kadin, and Roddenberry Entertainment’s Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.

Titmouse is the animation studio, and CBS’ Eye Animation Productions Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment produce.

Paramount+’s official season three synopsis:

“Season three of Star Trek: Lower Decks challenges the U.S.S. Cerritos ensigns in (hilarious) ways they could never imagine, starting with a shocking resolution for season two’s epic cliffhanger finale.”




‘American Horror Stories’ Season 2 Trailer Welcomes Back AHS Fan Favs

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Rebecca Murray
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FX dropped the official trailer for the upcoming second season of American Horror Stories, a spinoff of the popular, award-winning American Horror Story series. The one-minute trailer teases the return of American Horror Story alumni Denis O’Hare, Cody Fern, Max Greenfield, Nico Greetham, and Gabourey Sidibe as well as the addition of a few new faces including Alicia Silverstone and Bella Thorne.

The seven-episode first season of the horror anthology premiered on July 15, 2021 and kicked off with two dads and their daughter moving into the Murder House. Season two is set to debut on July 21, 2022 on FX on Hulu with a creepy episode titled “The Dollhouse.” And no, I haven’t seen it yet, but come on…anything with dolls is bound to be creepy. Plus, the doll poster for season two is deeply disturbing.

American Horror Story creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk executive produce along with Alexis Martin Woodall, John J. Gray, and Manny Coto. The AHS franchise is a 20th Television production.

The first season split critics and sits at 50% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. IndieWire’s Kristen Lopez described it as feeling like “a group of writers sitting around talking about what they’ve watched and listened to and trying to make a horror story out of it.” However, LA Weekly’s Erin Maxwell believes it captured the spirit of AHS, saying, “If you’re a fan of the series and the deranged universe it inhabits, well, good news! All of those elements remain intact, sans the meandering narratives that seemed to stretch into eternity, and made a lot of us give up on past seasons.”

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Poster for American Horror Stories Season 2 (Photo Credit: FX)




‘Best in Dough’ Series Details: Hulu Searches for the Best Pizza Baker

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Rebecca Murray
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Best in Dough Pizza Series
Wells Adams and Daniele Uditi in ‘Best in Dough’ (Photo by: Michael Desmond/Hulu)

Bachelor in Paradise‘s Wells Adams and Pizzana restaurant creator/co-owner Chef Daniele Uditi host Hulu’s Best in Dough, a new culinary competition series that’s all about pizza. Best in Dough premieres on September 19, 2022 and features Michelin star chefs as well as pizza lovers who aren’t employed in the restaurant industry.

Chef Uditi serves as the head judge, with Chef Millie Peartree, baker Bryan Ford, and comedian/food influencer Eunji Kim on board as judges.

The 10-episode first season kicks off with the release of the first three episodes, followed by three new episodes on September 26th. The final four episodes will stream on October 3, 2022.

Hulu released the following description of Best in Dough along with the list of competitors:

“In a world where there seems to be little agreement on anything, there is one great unifier… the universal love of pizza. Best In Dough brings together pizza-obsessed competitors from all walks of life to showcase their pizza-slinging skills and battle it out for a cash prize. Fire up the oven; the first-ever pizza competition is on!”

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Daniele Uditi in ‘Best in Dough’ (Photo by: Michael Desmond/Hulu)

The Season 1 Competitors:

  • Episode 101 ‘Nonnas’ – premieres Monday, September 19
    Nonna Antoinette – Southbury, CT
    Nonna Carmela – Long Island, NY
    Nonna Lina – Queens, NY
  • Episode 102 ‘ Influencers’ – premieres Monday, September 19
    Ashley “Mincey” Mincey – Miami, FL
    Scott Wiener – New York, NY
    Shealyn Coniglio – Brooklyn, NY
  • Episode 103 ‘BBQ’ – premieres Monday, September 19
    Dwayne “Big Daddy” Thompson – Alabaster, AL (Big Daddy Sauces – chef/owner)
    Joe “Joe-Rilla” Youkhan – Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (Smorburger – chef/owner)
    Adrian Davila – Seguin, TX (Davila’s BBQ – chef/owner)
  • Episode 104 ‘College Kids’ – premieres Monday, September 26
    John Laspada – Tallahassee, FL
    Olivia Casterta – Davis, CA
    Yemage Omer – Atlanta, GA
  • Episode 105 ‘Pop Up’ – premieres Monday, September 26
    David Lee – Philadelphia, PA (Pizza Jawn Pop Up)
    Miriam Weiskind – Brooklyn, NY (The Za Report Pizza Pop Up)
    Jhy Coulter – Kansas City, MO (Devoured Pizza Pop Up)
  • Episode 106 ‘Pizza Champs’ – premieres Monday, September 26
    Joe Carlucci – Madison, AL (Valentina’s – owner)
    Leah Scurto – Santa Rosa, CA (Pizza Leah – owner)
    Ali Haider – Los Angeles, CA (786 Degrees – owner)
  • Episode 107 ‘Mother Daughter’ – premieres Monday, October 3
    Barbara + Allison – Walnut, CA / Walnut Grove, CA
    Carmen + Heidi – Los Angeles, CA
    Tiffany + Kelis – Raleigh, NC (Not Now Wontons – owner)
  • Episode 108 ‘Planet Pizza’ – premieres Monday, October 3
    Eduardo Anaya – Los Angeles, CA (TBC) (LA Birria)
    Marcos Roberto – Los Angeles, CA (TBC) (Personal Pizza Chef and Sampa’s Gourmet Pizza)
    Taiki Kuramoto – Tustin, CA (Momoyama – executive chef)
  • Episode 109 ‘Midwest’ – premieres Monday, October 3
    Cliff Skighwalker – Detroit, MI (Cliff’s Pizza – owner)
    Emmett Burke – Chicago, IL (Emmett’s Pizza – owner)
    Michael LaMarca – Cleveland, OH (Master Pizza – owner)
  • Episode 110 ‘Fine Dining’ – premieres Monday, October 3
    Amanda Morris – Las Vegas, NV (Kitchen Vixsn – owner)
    Ian Winslade – Atlanta, GA (Mission + Market – Executive Chef/Partner; Tre Vele – executive
    chef)
    Yoko Hasebe – Los Angeles, CA (Morihiro – sushi chef)




‘The Silent Twins’ Trailer: Sisters Share a Unique Relationship

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Rebecca Murray
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Focus Features has released the official trailer for The Silent Twins, based on a fascinating true story. Letitia Wright (Black Panther) and Tamara Lawrance (Invasion) star as the siblings who communicated only with each other.

Author Marjorie Wallace was a journalist when she first heard the story of twins June and Jennifer Gibbons. Wallace pursued the story and met with the girls’ parents, and they allowed her to visit June and Jennifer’s room. There, she discovered the twins’ journals filled with diary entries, short stories, and poems. Marjorie Wallace then spent years visiting the twins after they were convicted of arson and committed to Broadmoor (a high-security psychiatric hospital in England).

“They desperately wanted to be recognized and famous through their writings, to have them published and to have their story told. And I thought that maybe one way of freeing them, liberating them, would be to unlock them from that silence,” explained Wallace in a 2015 interview with NPR.

The film is based on Wallace’s book that chronicles her encounters with the twins and the emergence of their personalities over time.

Agnieszka Smoczyńska directed and Andrea Seigel adapted Wallace’s book for the screen. Leticia Wright, Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Joshua Horsfield, Ben Pugh, Ewa Puszczyńska, Anita Gou, and Alicia Van Couvering produced.

Focus Features will release The Silent Twins in theaters on September 16, 2022.

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Tamara Lawrance stars as Jennifer Gibbons and Letitia Wright as June Gibbons in ‘The Silent Twins’ (Photo Courtesy of Lukasz Bak/Focus Features)

‘Orphan: First Kill’ Trailer: What’s Up with Esther?

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Rebecca Murray
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Isabelle Fuhrman reprises her role as the psychotic main character from the 2009 film Orphan in the prequel, Orphan: First Kill, which just unveiled a lengthy trailer. The original film starred Fuhrman (then 12 years old) playing a nine-year-old masquerading as the lost daughter of a couple played by Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga. The big twist was that Esther wasn’t actually their daughter and she wasn’t nine; she was in her 30s.

The prequel subs in Rossif Sutherland (Catastrophe) and Julia Stiles (Jason Bourne) for Sarsgaard and Farmiga. However, Fuhrman once again slips into the role of Esther, this time as an adult playing a child playing an adult.

“We didn’t use special effects, we didn’t use any crazy makeup tricks. And I think that’s what makes the movie work, is because you really can’t figure out how I look like a [9-year-old], but I do. And it’s really creepy,” said Fuhrman in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

The original film was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise, Black Adam) and William Brent Bell (The Boy, The Boy II) directs the sequel. David Coggeshall wrote the screenplay.

Orphan: First Kill will be released in select theaters, on digital, and on Paramount+ on August 19, 2022.

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The Plot: Esther’s terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Yet, an unexpected twist arises that pits her against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous “child” at any cost.




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