Like a macabre pilgrimage, the Overlook Film Festival summons genre film obsessives from around the country and beyond to the party-friendly streets of New Orleans, Louisiana—a city whose one-of-a-kind history with the otherworldly befits the event’s atmosphere.

Dedicated to the late Doug Jones, a longtime festival programmer and esteemed member of the Los Angeles film community, the 2024 edition featured repertory presentations from his personal wish list. Throughout the weekend (April 4-7), festival co-directors Landon Zakheim and Michael Lerman paid tribute to Jones at multiple screenings, highlighting his contributions to Overlook over the years and his devotion to both film and music.

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Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett‘s horror “requel” “Scream” was a surprise success this past January. And everyone knows what that means: “Scream 6” is on the way, and fast. The sequel hits theaters next March, with Ghostface leaving Woodsboro for the first time to track down survivors from the last film. A slasher icon like Ghostface in NYC? Let’s hope “Scream 6” doesn’t end up like “Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.”

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“Scream” star Melissa Barrera shut down any fears like that about the sequel in a new interview with Collider.

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It looks like Ghostface has a couple of more victims to slice and dice. And one of the new faces joining “Scream 6” has worked with directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett before: “Ready Or Not” star Samara Weaving.

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Bloody-Disgusting reports that Weaving joins the sequel’s cast after Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett first wanted her in “Scream,” their installment in the slasher franchise from earlier this year.

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No one expected ‘Scream,’ the fifth installment in the meta-horror franchise, to do well at the box office. But the movie did alright for the first in the series since 2011’s ‘Scream 4,’ taking in $140 million worldwide at the box office. So, naturally, Paramount wants another sequel out in theaters ASAP, and plenty of teen actors are willing to line themselves up as Ghostface’s next victims.

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Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, aka Radio Silence, made a name for themselves with the excellent 2019 original horror hit, “Ready or Not.” From there, as they say, the horror world was their gory little oyster. So, what did the up-and-coming team decide to take on next? A “Ready or Not” sequel? Hogwash! It turns out that the duo was basically gifted a much more enticing prospect in the form of a “Scream” sequel — the first that wouldn’t involve the late Wes Craven.

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Somewhere between “The Most Dangerous Game” and all those artfully designed board games littering Kickstarter lies “Ready or Not.” It’s hard to believe that this is the inaugural Fantasia Film Festival for directorial team Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, collectively credited as Radio Silence. The filmmaking duo previously cut their teeth with segments in “V/H/S” and “Southbound,” as well as making their feature-length debut with “The Devil’s Due.” Making its World Premiere at the Montreal genre festival, “Ready or Not”—with its acidic humor and copious gore—is a tailor-made fit for Fantasia’s famously rowdy audience.

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