The Babadook's Jennifer Kent To Direct Alice + Freda

She's also written the script

She made an impressive debut with chilling horror The Babadook and now Jennifer Kent has set up her next project. The writer/director is on board to adapt Alexis Coe’s non-fiction book Alice + Freda Forever.

Coe researched the real-life tragic love story of Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward, who developed a deep romantic relationship in Memphis, Tennessee in 1892. But when their love letters were discovered, there were forbidden from ever speaking again. While Ward apparently adjusted to the situation, Mitchell’s broken heart drove her to jealous, murderous rage, which then sparked one of the most sensational court cases of its time.

Kent’s first film showed a deft touch with emotional material and a grasp on writing great, nuanced roles for women, so this feels like something she could use to make a great film. Executive producer Carla Hacken, who is on board to shepherd the film alongside Greg Berlanti ad Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, feels Kent is the right choice. “From the moment we saw The Babadook, working with Jennifer became not only a priority but a passion,” Hacken said in a statement picked up by Deadline. Kent is also developing family drama Whoever Brought Me Here and period drama The Nightingale. 

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Have Mercy! The Cast Photo for Lifetime's Full House Tell-All Is Appropriately Awful

Can't wait for Fuller House to premiere? Lifetime's got a tell-all movie to tide you over.

Lifetime has released the cast photo for its upcoming Full House tell-all movie, and after seeing the fictional Tanner family, we're more excited than ever for the train wreck that will be The Unauthorized Full

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Hannibal Returns With a Fresh Start — But It's Delicious as Ever

Given that Hannibal's Season 2 finale ended with nearly all of the main cast bleeding to death at the hands of Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), the show could have gone virtually anywhere it wanted in Season 3. And while the show didn't actually bring in a whole new cast, the early chapters of

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5 Things That Need to Be on ABC's The Muppets or Else

After 17 years away from the small screen, The Muppets are returning to TV this fall on ABC. We already know how the show is gonna be different from the classic '70s variety series -- a mockumentary format with the gang putting on a late-night show -- and while we're sure executive producers Bill

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Emily Blunt May Be The Girl On The Train

She's in talks for the novel adaptation

Things are gathering speed for the adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ thriller novel The Girl On The Train, which DreamWorks is busy developing. The Help's Tate Taylor hopped aboard to direct late last month and now Emily Blunt is in early talks for the titular role.

Hawkins’ novel follows a recently divorced woman called Rachel struggling with her life and sinking into alcoholism to try to cope. She sees a seemingly perfect couple from her London train ride every day and starts to fantasize about their lives. But things take a turn when she returns home covered in blood after a blackout drunk spree, and may have become intertwined with their lives... According to The Wrap, DreamWorks is looking at Fantastic Four's Kate Mara for one of the other main roles.

With roughly two million copies of the tome sold so far, it’s easy to see why DreamWorks might see the potential in this one, with Secretary/Men, Women & Children writer Erin Cressida Wilson at work on the adaptation.

Blunt, last seen in Into The Woods, will be back on screens for crime drama Sicario (out here September 25) and will be heard in animated comedy Animal Crackers, due next year. She’s currently busy shooting Snow White And The Huntsman prequel The Huntsman. 

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Nicolas Winding Refn Plans The Avenging Silence

He's developing a Tokyo-set spy thriller

He’s currently busy editing his latest, LA-set horror thriller The Neon Demon, but as usual Nicolas Winding Refn has a variety of projects in development that could become his next filmmaking gig. Talking to Collider, he revealed that one of the prime contenders is a movie called The Avenging Silence. 

According to Refn, it’s roughly in the spy genre and about the future, but would also dig into his past, focusing on a character – or at least an archetype – from other films he’s made. “It’s basically a character that appears in my other movies that will now appear again. Having done The Neon Demon, which was predominantly women protagonists, but the character that Mads Mikkelsen plays in Valhalla Rising, Ryan Gosling plays him in Drive or Vithaya Pansringarm in Only God Forgives, I want to make a new movie with that character.” 

He’s aiming to film the new project in Tokyo, but wouldn’t be drawn on any other details just yet. And for now, it’s simply under consideration with a variety of ideas, since we know he’s also working up at least two other possibilities including horror scripts The Bringing and I Walk With The Dead. The Neon Demon should be with us next year. 

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The First Z For Zachariah Trailer Gets Post-Apocalyptic

It's the end of the world as Margot Robbie knows it

Not every post-apocalyptic story has to take place in an industrial wasteland, or feature a plucky female hero caught between two potential love interests… Well, okay, Z For Zachariah skips the former but does have the latter. The first trailer for the film is available over at Apple’s site. 

In the story, which for many years was a staple of secondary school classrooms, Margot Robbie's playing Ann, a small-town girl who lives alone on a farm in a valley that boasts one of the few remaining pockets of safely breathable air following a catastrophic nuclear war. 

Her seeming seclusion is rudely interrupted when she encounters Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Loomis, a scientist who has long been searching for just such a safe zone. Half-crazed from radiation exposure, he proves to be a valuable asset, bringing knowledge such as getting gasoline from defunct petrol station pumps. Soon, a connection builds between the two, seemingly to be played out in glorious isolation. Until, that is, Chris Pine’s handsome stranger Loomis turns up, bearing his own agenda and the chiseled good looks of the once and future Captain Kirk. From there, the drama builds… {Z For Zachariah Poster}

Compliance director Craig Zobel is behind this one, working from a script by Nissar Modi that was originally developed by Pall Grimsson and adapted from Robert C. O’Brien’s 1974 novel. Z For Zachariah will be out in the States on August 21, but there’s no word on a UK date yet. 

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