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Silent Hill 2 Film Adaptation 'Return To Silent Hill' Gets January Premiere Date
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Silent Hill 2 Film Adaptation ‘Return To Silent Hill’ Gets January Premiere Date

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Return to Silent Hill, the next film adaptation of Konami’s popular horror franchise, will premiere in January, according to a recent report by Deadline. The movie was first announced to be in production in October 2022 during the first Silent Hill Transmission. 

 

Return to Silent Hill is being directed and co-written by Christophe Gans, who directed the 2006 Silent Hill film. The project also boasts a soundtrack composed by long-time series composer Akira Yamaoka. The movie is an adaptation of Silent Hill 2, which was remade in 2024, and centers on protagonist James Sunderland receiving a letter from his deceased wife, Mary, urging him to find her in the foggy, monster-infested town of Silent Hill. Despite being the third film adaptation of the franchise and the first since 2012’s Silent Hill: Revelation, Return to Silent Hill is not connected to the previous movies.

 

The cast includes Jeremy Irvine as James, Hannah Emily Anderson as both Mary Sunderland and Maria, and Evie Templeton as Laura. You can check out the film’s original 2022 teaser (complete with commentary from Gans) below. Return to Silent Hill is set to premiere in theaters on January 23. 

 

 

 

It’s been an eventful time for the Silent Hill franchise. Konami recently announced that a remake of the first game is in the works. Meanwhile, the next mainline entry, Silent Hill f, got a new gameplay trailer and a September release date during a State of Play this month. 



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Death Stranding animated movie adaptation announced
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Death Stranding animated movie adaptation announced

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Writer Aaron Guzikowski (Raised by Wolves, Prisoners) is attached to write the screenplay for the animated take on Death Stranding. Kojima Productions LA announced the project, which is said to be an original story — not a one-to-one adaptation of Sam “Porter” Bridges’ adventure through a desolated America.

“I love the world of Death Stranding, it’s so creatively freeing, so beautifully dark and yet hopeful,” gushed Guzikowski in a statement alongside the news. “I’m so excited and honored that Hideo Kojima, whose work I’ve long admired, has invited me to dwell within his creation, to birth new stories into this fertile, mind-bending universe.”

Line Mileage chief creative officer Daniel Dominguez likewise geeked out on the forthcoming Death Stranding animation, calling the original game “the most cinematic, thought-provoking video game I have ever played.”

“Playing it gave me the same emotional rush, visceral punch, and intellectual pleasure I had the first time I watched Blade Runner, or Ghost in the Shell,” Dominguez said. “Adapting it into a form it so naturally evokes is an honor. And for Aaron Guzikowski to lend his talents, whose authorial mind and creative energy humble me… needless to say, this project is a dream come true.”

The animated Death Stranding feature — just like A24’s live-action movie — does not have an announced release window. But with Death Stranding 2: On the Beach coming soon, Kojima fans will have plenty to tide them over while they wait.



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Silent Hill 2 PS5 Pro patch still on the way, says Bloober
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Christophe Gans’ Silent Hill 2 movie adaptation gets a release date

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Following last year’s slam-dunk Silent Hill 2 remake, the beloved survival horror sequel is being reinterpreted yet again, this time in the form of new movie adaptation Return to Silent Hill. And now, three years after its announcement, it’s been given a release date of 23rd January 2026.


Return to Silent Hill was originally unveiled in 2022, alongside a variety of gaming projects including the unloved Silent Hill: Ascension, Bloober Team’s masterful Silent Hill 2 remake, the upcoming Silent Hill f, and No Code’s still-mysterious Silent Hill Townfall.


Amid that flurry of gaming news, Return to Silent Hill was perhaps a little lost in the throng, but the key bit of information was that it would see Christophe Gans take on directing duties once more. Gans, of course, previously helmed 2006’s Sean-Bean-starring original Silent Hill movie, which certainly captured the game series’ atmosphere – even if it did all start to fall apart in the last stretch, when it suddenly decided it needed to explain itself in a ham-fisted exposition dump that even some high-velocity barbed wire couldn’t save.

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Since Return to Silent Hill’s initial unveiling, it’s been confirmed War Horse’s Jeremy Irvine will star as Silent Hill 2 protagonist James, with Hannah Emily Anderson in the role of his “one true love” Mary (an early leak suggested the two won’t be married in this version). More recently, Gans insisted his adaptation would be a “faithful” one, although a careful reading of the movie’s synopsis does imply some potentially notable changes:


“James, a man broken after his relationship with the love of his life, Mary, ends,” reads the official synopsis. “When a mysterious letter from her calls him back to Silent Hill, he finds a once-recognisable town transformed by an unknown evil. While James desperately searches for Mary he encounters terrifying creatures and begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to the town. But as he descends deeper into the darkness the secrets he uncovers lead to a horrifying truth, and James finds himself struggling to hold on long enough to save his one true love.”


We’ll know if Return to Silent Hill does its source material justice when it hits the big screen on 23rd January next year. However it ends up, Bloober’s remake – which has now sold over 2m copies – is a fine way to experience a bonafide gaming classic. And the studio is about to do it all over again, as it embarks on its recently announced remake of Silent Hill 1.



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Gachiakuta trailer is loud and angry as the anime adaptation should be
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Gachiakuta trailer is loud and angry as the anime adaptation should be

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The anime summer season is close — and there will be lots of big names for us to look forward to. In such a packed season, Gachiakuta is one of the most anticipated and Crunchyroll just dropped a new trailer for the show which is airing next month July 6, 2025, alongside some details on the voice actors we are going to see giving life to important characters.

The show is an adaptation of the manga written by Kei Urana and it has been published by Kodansha in their Weekly Shonen Magazine since 2022. Gachiakuta is Urana’s first series after her two one-shots – Nokase (2018) and Shikido (2019) – and this year the show is receiving the anime treatment by the hands of studio Bones Films, the one responsible for Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia ILLEGALS.

In this new trailer, we learn more about the world of Gachiakuta, which we have only seen some flashes of in the announcement trailer. This second trailer gives us an idea of why Rudo, the show’s protagonist, ends up in the Pit. Other key concepts of the manga are introduced as well, such as Gachiakuta’s power system that works around people called Givers who draw out power from objects they give life.

While the trailer brings the energy you expect to see in a show like Gachiakuta – a few intense action scenes with the show’s opening song “HUGs” by Japanese band Paledusk –, it doesn’t fail to make it clear that Gachiakuta has a central social commentary on how society segregates people, throwing them away like garbage.

Alongside the trailer, Crunchyroll also shared with us the names of two voice actors that will be in the Gachiakuta. Regot, the man who raises Rudo in the show, is voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa, present in other important recent shows such as Ranma ½. Morikawa was also the Japanese voice of Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth. Yuki Shin is the other name and he is coming to Gachiakuta to voice Jabber. The artist has voiced secondary characters in shows like Attack on Titan, Given, and My Hero Academia.



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The Last of Us is Craig Mazin's last video game adaptation, or so he says
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The Last of Us is Craig Mazin’s last video game adaptation, or so he says

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The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin has said this show will be his “video game swansong”, but that hasn’t stopped him joking about 19 seasons of something GTA 5-flavoured.

Mazin has so far been at the helm of two seasons of The Last of Us, alongside Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann. A third season is already confirmed to be in the pipeline, although at least one more season after that is still expected to wrap up the games’ narratives.

But, once all that is done and dusted, Mazin won’t be looking to head up another video game to TV adaptation, he has said.

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Speaking with SciFiNow, the showrunner was asked which other video game series he would like to adapt, to which he replied: “Well, I’m not ever going to, of course, because where can you go from here?”

That said, he joked that as he is a “masochist”, he was tempted to reply with Grand Theft Auto 5, because “I just think that would be like 19 seasons of TV”, or even something like Candy Crush, which is quite the thought.

However, these game adaptations are all just a jokey reply, and The Last of Us will be Mazin’s “video game swansong”, he said. He would still happily lend a hand to those looking to adapt a video game for TV, though.

“Mostly, I’m excited to watch what other people do, even if I help. I have no problem being a helper. I would love to help produce some good adaptations of video games, just a couple in mind that I actually have,” Mazin said.

“But in terms of writing and dedicating myself on a day-by-day basis… this one’s my video game swansong.”

Image credit: HBO

The Last of Us’ second season concluded last week, after seven episodes. The finale welcomed 3.7 million cross-platform viewers in the US, which was significantly lower than the season’s opening episode, which premiered with 5.3 million same-day US cross-platform viewers.

As for its next outing, last month The Last of Us’ cast and crew shared some insight into where the show will go during its third season.

For more on the show, you can check out my discussion feature: The Last of Us season two wraps with episode seven, but was it a satisfying finale?



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Kojima Productions is working on an anime adaptation of Death Stranding
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Kojima Productions is working on an anime adaptation of Death Stranding

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Hideo Kojima has confirmed that an anime based on his Death Stranding game is in development.

In an interview with Vogue Japan, Kojima talked about the live-action movie based on his game, Death Stranding, and also confirmed work on an animated adaptation was similarly underway.

“I am currently working with A24 on a live-action film adaptation of Death Stranding,” Kojima said (translated by VGC). “When it comes to adapting games into visual media, there are works like The Last of Us, which stay true to the original storyline, and films like The Super Mario Bros Movie, which are more of a service to fans of the game.

“While these works have their own merits, as a film enthusiast, I want to pursue the expressive potential of cinema,” he added. “I aim to create a Death Stranding that can only be realised through film, one that could win awards at festivals like the Cannes Film Festival or the Venice Film Festival. In fact, we are also currently working on an anime adaptation.”

A24 and Kojima Productions, led by Hideo Kojima, announced they would be teaming up to produce a live-action Death Stranding movie back in December 2023. As yet there’s no concrete release details.



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Until Dawn Movie Adaptation Releases On Digital, 4K Blu-Ray Preorders Are Live
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Until Dawn Movie Adaptation Releases On Digital, 4K Blu-Ray Preorders Are Live

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While movie adaptations of video games can be very hit or miss, Until Dawn was one of the more memorable projects thanks to the film putting its own spin on the game’s choose-your-own-design mechanics. In case you missed it on the big screen, Until Dawn is now available to watch from the comfort of your own couch. You can rent or buy the digital release from Prime Video for $20-$25. If you prefer physical media and don’t mind waiting, Until Dawn’s 4K Blu-ray combo pack is up for preorder at Amazon and Walmart ahead of its July 8 release date.

Until Dawn is the third video game film adaptation from PlayStation Productions following Uncharted and Gran Turismo. The production company, which was founded in 2019, is also credited with the TV adaptations of Twisted Metal and the critically acclaimed HBO series The Last of Us.

$50 | Releases July 8

Until Dawn’s 4K Blu-ray edition also comes a 1080p Blu-ray disc and digital copy of the film. Along with native 4K resolution, Until Dawn will support Dolby Atmos audio on supported devices.

Amazon and Walmart have the 4K Blu-ray combo pack priced at $50 at the moment. That said, we expect the price to drop prior to launch. Both retailers offer preorder price guarantees, so you’ll be eligible for any future discounts from the moment you place your order until your Blu-ray ships.

Until Dawn is also getting a DVD release, in case you want to experience the horror film in spine-tingling 480p resolution. Amazon has the DVD version priced at $28.60, while Walmart listed it for $35.

Here’s the full list of Until Dawn special features:

  • Adapting a Nightmare – Director David F. Sandberg and writer Gary Dauberman discuss the inspirations of the film and how they built off of the game world from the hit PlayStation game.
  • Death-Defying Cast – Meet the cast
  • Practical Terrors – A look at the practical effects and props used to garner realistic reactions from the actors and actresses.p
  • Audio Commentary with director David F. Sandberg and producer Lotta Losten
  • Deleted and extended scenes

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If you don’t want to wait, you can rent Until Dawn for $20 or buy a digital copy for $25. If you buy the film, you can watch it whenever you want, but rentals on Prime Video have a couple of rules to keep in mind. You’ll have 30 days to start watching the movie after making your purchase. Once the movie begins, it will be returned to Amazon in 48 hours. Your rental/purchase grants access to the 4K and standard definition versions of Until Dawn.

In case you missed it, Until Dawn tells an original story and is set within the same universe as the game. Connecting the video game and the film is Stormare’s character, Dr. Hill, who appeared in both mediums. Another nod to the game is that the movie has the same tone and vibe, as the main characters find themselves caught in a time-loop where they frequently die due to a variety of grisly means. The only way to break this vicious cycle is to survive…until dawn. The film has received mixed reviews, but if you’re in the mood for a cheesy horror-comedy with slick direction, Until Dawn is an enjoyable watch.

You can also pick up the game on PS5, which was given a “cinematic update” with enhanced visuals and sound design. Remade entirely in Unreal Engine 5, the game now has updated character models, environments, interactable props, visual effects, and animations alongside its artistic changes. You can also pick up a few other creepy games from Until Dawn creator Supermassive Games, as the studio specializes in interactive horror stories.

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PlayStation Movie & TV Adaptations

Uncharted Steelbook Edition | The Last of Us Season 1 Steelbook Edition

As mentioned, PlayStation Productions has three films under its belt: 2022’s adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted, 2023’s Gran Turismo, and now Until Dawn. But the studio’s biggest hit–by a wide margin–is The Last of Us, which has its Season 2 finale this Sunday, May 26. PlayStation Productions also has a bunch of other adaptations in various stages of production, including the reboot of the Resident Evil franchise in 2026, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, and a sequel to Uncharted.

But there have been other films and TV shows based on PlayStation games that predate the formation of PlayStation Productions, including Ratchet & Clank and Heavenly Sword, which received a new Blu-ray release last year. Though not technically a PlayStation franchise, the animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children served as a sequel to the hit PS1 console exclusive by Square Enix.

Most of current movie and TV adaptations based on PlayStation video games are available on Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray. The Last of Us Season 1 recently received a Steelbook Edition, and Uncharted’s Steelbook Edition comes with Nathan Drake’s ring/necklace. Gran Turismo also has a Steelbook Edition, but it’s exclusive to Walmart and is the 1080p Blu-ray version.

Nintendo fans who are interested in watching one of the wildest video game adaptations ever made–the 1993 Super Mario Bros. live-action film–can pick up the limited 30th Anniversary remaster on 4K Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray at Amazon right now. The standard Blu-ray edition is “temporarily out of stock,” but you can still place your order. For the 4K edition, you may need to click “Other sellers on Amazon” and choose the option that is shipped and sold by Amazon.

Meanwhile, Walmart has an exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook of the 2023 animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, which remains the most successful video game film adaptation of all time. A Minecraft Movie won’t be able to catch it, but there’s a chance it will soon become the second game adaptation to cross the billion dollar mark at the box office. You can preorder A Minecraft Movie’s 4K Steelbook Edition for $38 at Amazon; meanwhile, Walmart has an exclusive edition with packaging that can be folded to resemble the Minecraft’s Crafting Table.



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FromSoftware and A24 to produce Elden Ring adaptation
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FromSoftware has partnered with A24 to produce a film adaptation of Elden Ring.

Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland has been signed on to direct. He’s also known for writing 28 Days Later and Sunshine, in addition to the upcoming 28 Years Later and its sequel The Bone Temple.

Author George R. R. Martin, who provided worldbuilding for Elden Ring, is on board to produce. Peter Rice and Vince Gerardis are also producing, alongside Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA Films.

Last year, Martin teased a potential adaptation or TV series of the game.

“Oh, and about those rumours you may have heard about a feature film or a television series based on Elden Ring… I have nothing to say,” he wrote in a blog post.

“Not a word, nope, not a thing, I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me, mum mum mum. What rumour?”

FromSoftware’s president Hidetaka Miyazaki also spoke about the potential adaptation during an interview with The Guardian.

“I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example,” said Miyazaki. “But I don’t think myself, or FromSoftware, have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium. So that’s where a very strong partner would come into play.

“We’d have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is we’re trying to achieve, but there’s interest, for sure.”

Elden Ring isn’t the only game adaptation in the works at A24, as it’s also co-producing a Death Stranding movie with Kojima Productions. A Quiet Place: Day One’s Michael Sarnoski is reportedly signed on to direct.



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Michael Bay Skibidi Toilet adaptation officially in production
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Michael Bay Skibidi Toilet adaptation officially in production

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A Skibidi Toilet adaptation from Michael Bay is officially in production.

The project was first floated last year, when it was reported there had been talks to launch a Skibidi Toilet film and TV franchise, with The Rock and Armageddon director attached. It left me scratching my head a bit, to be honest.

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But fast forward to today, and those talks are now firmed up, with the news that yes, we are indeed going to be getting a Skibidi Toilet adaptation from Michael Bay.

Media Company Invisible Narratives – of which Bay serves as a chief creative advisor – will be producing, developing, and financing the project. You can see an image of its Skibidi Toilet project on the company’s website (or you can look at the screenshot I took below).

Bay along with partner Jeffrey Beecroft have reportedly been working on their Skibidi Toilet project since last summer, with a press release stating it is “an early creative take on the franchise”, which will bring “Bay’s signature visual intensity to one of the internet’s most unlikely breakout IPs”.

Image credit: Invisible Narratives

Skibidi Toilet, for those still mercifully unaware, is an enormously-popular online animation series made using Valve’s Source Filmmaker software and featuring assets from Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike. It features a race of evil toilets with human heads, and has clocked up a whopping 65bn views on YouTube, another 15bn on Tiktok, and is ubiquitous on Roblox, where countless spin-off games lie.

Elsewhere in adaptation news, yesterday Netflix announced it was gearing up to release a Clash of Clans animated series, which will feature a “determined but in-over-his-head Barbarian who must rally a band of misfits to defend their village and navigate the comically absurd politics of war”.



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