Mike Flanagan’s New Stephen King Remake Signals a Bigger Hollywood Trend

Mike Flanagan is a standout horror director known for creating genuinely frightening movies like Doctor Sleep and acclaimed TV series such as Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House. Recently announced plans for him to remake Stephen King’s The Mist are proving controversial, and some fear it could start a trend of unnecessary remakes in the horror genre.

R-Rated Superman-Like Movie Produced by James Gunn To Leave Netflix

Soon, the horror movie Brightburn, rated R, will no longer be available on Netflix. What’s on Netflix reports that it will be removed from the streaming service on March 1, 2026. Originally released in theaters in May 2019, the film was produced by James Gunn and Kenneth Huang, and the script was written by Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn.