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'Get Out' Producer Is Catching Heat for Saying Women Don't Want to Direct Horror Movies


Jason Blum is a key figure in the horror movie business. He and his production company, Blumhouse, are responsible for some of the most popular (and critically acclaimed) scary flicks of the past few years, including Get Out, Paranormal Activity, and The Purge. His recent comments about female horror directors, however, aren’t receiving the same praise.

In an interview with Polygon earlier this week, Blum said the reason Blumhouse has never hired a woman director is because female filmmakers aren’t interested in horror. “There are not a lot of female directors period, and even less who are inclined to do horror,” he explained. (Hmmm, we can think of a few.) “I’m a massive admirer of [Babadook director] Jennifer Kent. I’ve offered her every movie we’ve had available. She’s turned me down every time.” Twitter users, unsurprisingly, weren’t too keen on his comments.

Blum was later asked about his comments by Variety, and he admitted that he “totally misspoke.” “I made a mistake about it,” he said. “Our audience is 55 percent women; the executives at the company we have are 50 percent women. I am passionate about hiring women, and I totally made a mistake in the way I represented that. We already work with a lot of women…. Today was a great day for me because I learned a lot and because there are a lot of women out there that I’m going to meet as a result of today, so I’m grateful for it.” To further his point, Blum also issued an apology on Twitter, reiterating how he’ll be more cognizant of women creators going forward.

Let’s hope he stands by his word.

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Jessica Lange's Return to *American Horror Story* Already Has Us Shaking


The moment fans have been waiting (and fearing) for is finally here: Jessica Lange, High Priestess of American Horror Story, is making her return to the series, and we have the first look.

The show’s creator, Ryan Murphy, took to Instagram Wednesday morning (September 19) to share a glimpse of “Queen Constance,” reincarnated seven years after she first scared fans to death.

“To celebrate 300k followers, here’s a first look at the return of Queen Constance…the one and only Lady Lange…being directed by that dynamo of wit and talent Sarah Paulson. Love them both!” he captioned a photo of the happy-looking pair standing in what appears to be a backyard—the backyard of the OG Murder House, perhaps? While there isn’t a whole lot of context to pick up on in the shot, it does confirm that Lange’s appearance will coincide with the special episode Paulson is directing, which, according to Marie Claire, will be the sixth in the season.

Lange is an American Horror Story legend, having appeared on the first four seasons of the horror anthology, but taking a step away for the past three. She first appeared as Constance in season one’s Murder House, followed by Sister Jude in season two’s Asylum, Fiona Goode in season three’s Coven, and Elsa Mars in season four’s Freak Show. Her roles in Murder House and Coven earned her two Emmys and a Golden Globe, so seeing Constance revived for season eight is so much more exciting.

The highly anticipated new season, which began airing last week, is expected to bring back characters from both the Coven and Murder House iterations of the anthology.

In the AHS universe, many Jessica Langes are clearly better, and scarier, than one.

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Everything We Know So Far About 'American Horror Story: Apocalypse'


After seven seasons of American Horror Story, show-runner Ryan Murphy is pretty much master of the fake-out. In advance of each new season, he keeps fans guessing about what is actually going to go down during the eerily named new series with strategically timed. However, we do one thing about the September premiere of American Horror Story: Apocalypse: It’s going to be the season of long-awaited crossover of AHS‘s Murder House and Coven seasons, meaning Emma Roberts will be back to reprise her Madison Montgomery character. And one other thing: it’s going to get “insane.”

“I’m not allowed to say a word, but . . . it’s so insane. It’s just so insane,” actor Billy Eichner revealed on Twitter at the beginning of August. With just weeks left until the season eight American Horror Story premiere, here are a few things we do know for sure about the return of our favorite scary television show.

1. The “apocalypse” may not be quite what we think.

Alexis Martin Woodall—the show’s executive producer—revealed during the Television Critics Association press tour (TCA) that, “The story begins with the end of the world, and then our world begins. It starts in the real world. It’s very tangible.”

Moreover, actress Adina Porter dropped her own little kernel about what the apocalypse means during an interview with Golden Derby. “I thought, because of The 100 and Apocalypse, that I knew everything about what life after an apocalypse would be—but Ryan Murphy and the writers of American Horror Story have shown a whole other side of an apocalypse,” Porter said. “So, I think people will be surprised and intrigued and yet again, I think, blown away by the performances that I’m seeing.”

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2. A ton of people from the show’s past are returning for this epic season.

During the show’s TCA presentation, actress Sarah Paulson told the crowd, “I have the great pleasure of letting you know [Jessica Lange] will be back.” Paulson also shared that she will be playing both Billie Dean and Cordelia in the upcoming season.

For her part, Roberts noted that her character will get even nastier. “I was told by the director to be bitchier this season,” she said. “So it’s delicious to get to play her this season for sure.”

Beyond Roberts, Eicher, Lang, and Paulson, Vanity Fair reported that Cody Fern, Evan Peters, Connie Britton, Kathy Bates, and Billie Lord are all confirmed to return. Joan Collins and Billy Porter will also make their first appearances this season. And in, a now-deleted tweet Murphy shared, “All the witches are being asked back.” If that is true, it could mean the return of Angela Bassett, Taissa Farmiga, Jamie Brewer, Gabourey Sidibe, and Lily Rabe, though they have yet to be announced.

3. Paulson’s character Cordelia is still the Supreme. “For now.”

According to Paulson herself, Cordeilia will still be the Supreme, at least for episode one.

“At the beginning of our story that is the title she still holds,” she received at the TCA. “I don’t know how long that’s going to last, and enjoyment is not possible at this juncture in the story,” she added. However: “She’s not running around like her mother and snorting cocaine and throwing young witches against the wall.”

4. Season eight will come with lots of hair.

According to the stars of the show, there will be plenty of amazing hair this season. As Entertainment Weekly reported, Bates’ hair will be shaved on the sides and dyed black.

Bates didn’t exactly mind, as she noted at the TCA event: “It’s not essential to the plot. But it’s fun. I turned 70 this summer, around the same time they did this to me, and it certainly eased the blow. So I’m thinking about keeping it.” Paulson added, “You have a birdcage on your head at some point.”

5. The show returns on September 12.

There truly aren’t any more spoilers floating around, but one other thing we do know is the show is set to premiere Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 10 P.M. ET. Set your iCal reminder now, everyone.

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Ryan Murphy Just Revealed the Themes of Season 8 and Season 9 of 'American Horror Story'


The new year might have just started, but American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy is thinking way past 2018. Murphy revealed during the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour in Pasadena on Friday that season eight of AHS will take place in the—wait for it—future.

“All I’ll say about it is I want to go to the future — still topical, but the future, which I’ve never done,” Murphy said, according to Entertainment Weekly.

This probably means it’ll be years, maybe decades, after season 7’s present-day setting in Trump’s America—but it could be a look at the aftermath. And even though he’s keeping quiet about other details, we do know what the season is not about: outer space, as Murphy confirmed.

The writers won’t start working on the script until February, but the storyline has been approved by FX. “I pitched it to [FX chief] John Landgraf today right after his TCA panel, and he loved it, but he’s asked me not to say what it is,” Murphy said. “I told him, and he fell out of his chair with joy. I think people will like it; it’s different from what we’ve done before, but I always try and do the opposite of what I’ve done on that show.”

Given that the show had literally just been pitched, Murphy says he hasn’t started casting yet, but he hopes that Evan Peters—who is also working on Murphy’s new FX drama Pose—will come back for another season. “It’s conceivable that they could overlap. I mean, Sarah Paulson has done two shows for me that were shooting at the same time,” he explained. “Usually, with the actors, I think of a role and then go to them and they either want to do it or not, so I haven’t even talked to Evan about what the role might be, but I would hope so. I think so.”

Surprisingly, even though season eight is in the early stages of coming together, season nine of AHS has actually already been in the works. The season will be the much-anticipated crossover between Murder House and Coven from seasons 1 and 3. “We’re working on it, but it’s not going to be the next season,” Murphy said. “Next season is season eight, and it’ll probably be the one after that. “We’ve already met about it and outlined it, but it won’t be next, because some of the people are not available.”

Murphy wants all of the original cast members back together for the crossover including Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Jessica Lang, and Kathy Bates. “Everybody who is involved in the show has always said, ‘Yeah, that sounds like fun, let’s get the band back together again.’ So that is one of the reasons why the writing process of that season is taking longer because it’s literally 25 people’s schedules. But I’m hopeful they will all be back.”

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Lucy Hale's New Horror Movie Looks Scarier Than Every Episode of 'Pretty Little Liars'


Pretty Little Liars wasn’t a scary TV show, but it did have its creepy moments. Remember the time Aria (Lucy Hale) was covered in rats? Or the time Emily was almost sawed in half? Plus, there’s the fact that Spencer’s evil British twin was pulling the strings for the entire series—like, who the hell saw that coming? For all its campy one-liners and humorous moments, PLL did manage to make us jump every now and then.

But the show pales in comparison to Hale’s new horror movie, Truth or Dare, which hits theaters in April. It centers on a group of very hot young people—including Hale and Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey—who are tricked into playing a game of “Truth or Dare” that actually comes to life. The game literally starts following them after they play one round, and the stakes increase astronomically: If they don’t tell the truth or complete the dare each time, they die. It sounds strange, I know, but it’s executed with enough of a diabolical wink that it works. Well, that’s what this just-released trailer suggests, at least. Watch it for yourself, below:

Yeesh, imagine if the Pretty Little Liars gals had to play this game. They’d all die! All they did for seven straight seasons was lie, lie, lie. And there’s no way Hanna (Ashley Benson) would do a crazy dare. She’d scoff and walk away like the queen she is. (Can you tell that I miss Pretty Little Liars?)

Truth or Dare is slated for an April 27, 2018 release. I’m never playing this game again.

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Adam Scott talks Big Little Lies, Ghosted on Fox, and the nineties horror franchise he could never infiltrate


Before posing for this adorably pensive portrait (not pictured: standard issue New Balances), Adam Scott, 44, had never been photographed by a woman for a major magazine. Seriously. First, as part of Glamour‘s second-annual “Powered by Women” initiative, we fixed that. And then we called up the brainy funnyman for a tour of his beautiful mind. Turns out he’s dreamier than we could have ever imagined.

GLAMOUR: Ghosted, your new buddy comedy series with Craig Robinson, loves to put you in awkward situations. Why do you think you’re so comfortable playing the punch line?

ADAM SCOTT: I guess I’ve always felt kind of weird. I went through a long and fruitful overweight-awkward stage, and I got teased. I had a taste—well, more than a taste—I was kind of living in that space for a while. That’s the kind of thing that shapes you.

GLAMOUR: You and Craig have an unbelievable physical comedy dynamic. What’s it like to be the little dude in the little dude-big dude paradigm?

AS: Craig is such a sweet guy, but when you look at Craig and me from the outside, there couldn’t be two more different-looking people. The writers have fun trying to subvert that and play with it.

GLAMOUR: So do you toss all the “buff guy gets girl” scripts out the window?

AS: Oh, I gave up on trying to get those parts 20 years ago. I auditioned for every ­nineties flick, but it never happened for me. I think I auditioned for all the *Screams*, actually, and didn’t get any of them. And there are a lot of those movies.

GLAMOUR: Wait, you went out for Skeet Ulrich’s role in Scream?

AS: That must have been it. That had to be it. I think it was.

GLAMOUR: As someone who was 12 when Scream came out, this is a big reveal. It doesn’t matter, though, because you went on to play Amy Poehler’s love interest on five seasons of Parks and Recreation, which led to more than one fangirl listicle. Is it cool being a hipster-nerd sex icon now?

AS: When that stuff first started happening, I was hyperaware of it. But as it continued, I grew more and more weary of it. I can only imagine if I’d had any success when I was 19 or 20. That would have surely gone to my head.

GLAMOUR: What was it about Ed, Reese Witherspoon’s hopelessly devoted husband on Big Little Lies, that
made you want to play him?

AS: He genuinely loved Madeline. And he was determined to clear the way for her. He’s there to protect her and keep her safe, which makes him feel safe. They end up finding their way on the show, which is nice. But yeah, it obviously wasn’t the healthiest relationship.

GLAMOUR: I’ve got to ask: What exactly are you doing right now? It’s awfully noisy where you are.…

AS: I’ll tell you what I’m doing! I have to get to work, and I am the last one in the house, so I have to put the dog in the kitchen. Then we have this, like, smoothie delivery service, so I’m putting a bunch of them in the freezer for my wife. I am also trying to set the alarm so I can get out of here.

GLAMOUR: I always joke that men can’t multitask, but here you are, a renaissance man.

AS: Exactly. [Laughs.] Please put that in the article.

GLAMOUR: Of course! Okay, time for a truly loaded question: “Fuck, Marry, Kill” with Madeline McKinsey, Leslie Knope, and Party Down‘s Casey Klein.

AS: Oh, boy, that’s dangerous territory. Okay, so I think any sane person would marry Leslie Knope, right?

GLAMOUR: Absolutely.

AS: I feel like Casey Klein would just be heartbreak. And we saw what kinda trouble Madeline brings. I don’t want to kill any of them, though. The other two I am just going to leave up in the air and it could be, like, interchangeable.

Ghosted premieres on Fox October 1.



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