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Variety reported.In second place was Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” which saw $3.7 million in sales in its debut. The Post said the director “chooses fun over facts” in the fictionalized World War II story.

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” could be getting a reboot sometime in the future, according to the singer.“They’re still working on that,” Parton, 78, recently told Business Insider. “They’re thinking about bringing it back and revamping it.”The Grammy winner was an uncredited producer on the hit supernatural series through her production company, Sandollar Productions.The Joss Whedon-created show debuted in 1997 and ran for seven seasons on the WB/UPN.Sarah Michelle Gellar led the cast as Buffy Summers, who, well … slayed vampires and other paranormal creatures that attacked her and her friends.

ad nauseam. And vampires take center stage: the most famous being Count Dracula, a creation by Victorian novelist Bram Stoker.Horror and comedy fans finally have an entertaining, though not terribly loyal, treatment of the classic novel in Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen’s zippy and zany Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (★★★☆☆).But really, who wants a loyal adaptation when parody can be so much fun? After all, we’ve seen what happens when earnest writers try to adhere to the integrity of the original text.Long-time theater-goers may recall 2002’s Dance of the Vampires, the short-lived (six weeks) Broadway flop starring Michael Crawford with music by the king of melodramatic pop, Jim Steinman. Based on Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Hunters, the incredibly costly dud was never quite certain if it was straight-out melodrama or over-the-top camp.

according to Billboard. “We thought, ‘What if we make a campaign based on the idea that vampires from Transylvania usually suck blood — but in this case, they don’t suck blood, but [rather] donate it?’” co-founder Edy Chereji said of the festival, which takes place in the Transylvanian region’s city Cluj-Napoca at the Cluj Arena.UNTOLD Festival took the premise and flew with it, debuting the blood drive campaign — initially called Pay with Blood — with a whopping1,500 Romanians donating blood around the eastern European country that first year.

What We Do In The Shadows (★★★★☆), FX’s vampire mockumentary based on the 2014 film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Over five seasons, Shadows has evolved into itself while embracing the weirdness that made it worth watching in the first place.

Dracula, where he’s been memorably portrayed by greats like Alexander Granach (in 1922’s silent Nosferatu), Dwight Frye (as a wide-eyed madman in 1931’s Dracula), and Tom Waits (chewing the scenery, and bugs, in 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Renfield is perpetually overshadowed by the blood-sucking count.Universal’s new Renfield (★★☆☆☆), a big-budget spinoff of the Dracula story, set in present-day New Orleans, promises to give the character his overdue shine. Unfortunately, the film is an overcooked clash of genre and tepid grasps at modernization, whose greatest asset is — you guessed it — Dracula himself, played by a glammed-up, fang-gnashing Nicolas Cage.

Variety Thursday.“Nic wanted to emote and annunciate properly, so it was important the veneers were thin,” he said, explaining that the technology allowed him to make quick adjustments to the sharp dentures when needed.In order to put the 3-D printing to good use, Tinsley had to scan Cage’s teeth and then digitally sculpt them so they could fit in his mouth perfectly.The “National Treasure” actor also spent over three hours daily in the hair and makeup chair.“It was a full head of prosthetics, dentures, full body, torso, arms, hands and nails,” Tinsley noted. “Those take time.”Cage also stayed in character for the whole time they were shooting the flick, even when the camera wasn’t on him.

Grey Worm in “Game of Thrones,” takes a bloody turn as Louis in AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire.” The series, airing Sundays at 10 p.m. on AMC (and streaming on AMC+), is based on the 1976 Anne Rice novel which, in turned, spawned the 1994 movie starring Brad Pitt as Louise and Tom Cruise as Lestat (played here by Sam Reid).

Peacock series “Vampire Academy,” it was a dream come true from her younger years. “I read the books when I was a teenager,” Stringer, 25, told the Post, referring to the titular series of novels by Richelle Mead that the show is based on. “My sister was really into them, so I stole her books and read them when I was younger, and loved it. When I got the call saying I got the part, I messaged my sister, and her response was a paragraph of capital letters and nonsense.

“What We Do in the Shadows,” who ended Season 4 Tuesday on FX crooning “Sunrise, Sunset,” the old classic from “Fiddler on the roof.”Don’t ask … you had to be there. In more urgent matters, Colin (Mark Proksch) returned to his adult form as an energy vampire, garbed in his familiar drab suit and glasses and nattering on about his home-improvement ideas — quite a change from the infant who exploded out of dead Colin Robinson’s stomach in the Season 3 finale.Through the magic of the show’s special effects wizards, Proksch spent most of this season acting with his head transplanted onto the body of a child as Baby Colin, who sported an impressive head of hair while playing video games and tap-dancing (with tux and tails) in Nadja’s vampire nightclub.

First Kill (★★★☆☆) is very good when it’s good, and downright terrible when it’s bad.Sometimes it’s so bad, it’s good, but this “teenage lesbian vampire falls for fearless vampire hunter” romance is far from boring.Based on a short story by queer YA and fantasy author V.E. Schwab, First Kill blends a little Buffy, Supernatural, and Charmed with Romeo & Juliet, and a side of Heathers.

short story by V. E. Schwab and follows teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook, “American Crime Story”), who sets her sights on new girl Calliope (Lewis) when it’s time to make her first kill.

Anne Rice, the author of the popular vampire novel series ‘The Vampire Chronicles,’ died Saturday evening, her son Christopher announced on social media.This is a breaking news story. We will continue to update this page as more information becomes available.Dearest People of Page.

is getting adapted into a TV show for AMC. This marks the second Rice series heading to adaptation at the network, as “Interview With the Vampire” will also be hitting the small screen. Based on a trilogy of supernatural novels first published in 1990, the “Mayfair Witches” series will be eight episodes, written and produced by Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford (“Masters of Sex”).

indie films, Cage is coming back to the blockbuster scene.The Oscar winner, 57, will star in Universal Pictures’ big-budget monster flick “Renfield.” Cage will play the infamous vampire Dracula with Nicholas Hoult, 31, playing the title character.Renfield is the name of Dracula’s sidekick and henchman, first seen in Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel “Dracula.”The novel characterized Renfield as a patient held at an insane asylum who had paranoid delusions.“The Lego Batman Movie” director

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi continues the adventures of Nandor, a neurotic former Ottoman Empire warrior, and his fellow vampire roommates in Staten Island: lothario Laszlo (Matt Berry) and sarcastic Nadja (Natasia Demetriou).

FX’s ongoing spinoff series of the same name (Season 3 premieres Sept. 2) is set in the same world and follows different vampire roommates living on Staten Island.

series as part of a deal with the author and her son, Christopher Rice, both of whom will serve as non-writing executive producers.AMC plans to build a multi-show universe around the Rice books.

Vampires and gardening don’t seem to share much in common — but don’t tell that to British comedian Natasia Demetriou.

The goofy, centuries-old vampires of “What We Do in the Shadows” are back for Season 2, still living together in a baroque house on Staten Island with energy-draining “daywalker” Colin Ferguson (Mark Proksch) and Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) — the good-natured sweater-clad human “familiar” to Nandor (Kayvon Novak), his belittling vampire boss.