TV producer extraordinaire Ryan Murphy is on a bit of a tear this week in terms of feeding rabid American Horror Story fans. First he revealed a toothy new poster for AHS Season 10, and now he’s unveiled the first poster and some intriguing details for the AHS spinoff American Horror Stories. The new series will air on FX (and on streaming on FX on Hulu), and until now all we knew was that each episode would be its own self-contained story. But Murphy took to Twitter to reveal that American Horror Stories will consists of 16 one-…

Ryan Murphy has unveiled the first poster for American Horror Story Season 10. The new poster will definitely satisfy any fans who have an intense oral fixation. More importantly, this new poster could offer vital clues to AHS sleuths as they try to figure out the theme of the upcoming season. Sure, Murphy said it has something to do with the weather (I believe "weather-dependent" was his preferred phrasing), but the weather is so broad! Let's focus on these new details and see what conclusion we can come to. So, here's what we know for sure: On …

Who doesn't love a musical?

After mining the depths of American Crime Stories and American Horror Stories to wildly successful results, prolific TV producer Ryan Murphy will combine these two impulses. Per Deadline, Murphy is bringing the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to Netflix in the form of a limited series called Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. And he's bringing quite the creative team with him. Monster (which, it must be said, is also the name of the Charlize Theron-Oscar winning examination of killer Aileen Wuornos' life, and I do find that weird) comes from co-creators Murphy and Ian Brennan, the …

With director Joe Mantello’s fantastic adaptation of The Boys in the Band now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Jim Parsons about being part of the production. If you’re not aware, back in 2018, Mantello and his all-openly gay cast including Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Michael Benjamin Washington, Tuck Watkins, Brian Hutchison, and Robin De Jesús, put on a revival of Mart Crowley’s iconic 1968 work, where it played to sold out audiences and went on to win the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. After …

To say that Ryan Murphy is one of the busiest individuals working in television right now almost feels like an understatement. Best known for creating a number of popular shows — including Glee, American Horror Story, and Pose — Murphy has proven himself a force to be reckoned with when it comes to modern television. Although his usual home base is on the Fox Studios lot, where some of his biggest shows still reign supreme on FX, he made a monumental jump to the world of streaming a couple of years ago. The agreement Murphy signed with Netflix is one of the …

Bright lights, big news: Ryan Murphy's movie musical take on Broadway charmer The Prom finally has a release date. The Prom is the stage-to-screen adaptation of Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin's 2018 musical of the same name. The Prom is one of the numerous projects released through Murphy's massive five-year Netflix deal. Previous to The Prom's premiere, other Murphy 2020 Netflix releases include The Politician Season 2, Hollywood, Ratched, and The Boys in the Band. But now, it's The Prom's turn. A new poster for the movie musical was released on …

Netflix just dropped the final trailer for its upcoming series Ratched, from uber-producer Ryan Murphy. The show stars Murphy regular Sarah Paulson as Nurse Mildred Ratched, the infamous villain from the Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and its iconic film adaptation. Paulson plays a younger version of the character in what purports to be an origin story revealing the reason for her cruelty, and honestly that’s kind of my problem with it. Everything in the trailer looks exceptionally well-produced, with excellent production design that perfectly encapsulates its macabre setting of a brutal …

It's amazing what a round of phone calls can do to a group of friends.

Netflix has unveiled the first The Boys in the Band movie images from the upcoming adaptation, also announcing that it’ll be released on September 30th. Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Mart Crowley, the story revolves around a group of gay friends who reunite to celebrate one of their birthdays, only to have their evening upended when the host’s potentially closeted roommate shows up uninvited. Joe Mantello, who directed the stage play, also directed this feature film adaptation having previously worked with Murphy on the HBO movie The Normal Heart and the Netflix limited …

I can't wait until we all go to Ryan Murphy's prom.

The first images for Ryan Murphy's next Netflix TV series, Ratched, are here. With 11 new photos in hand, fans curious about what this One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next prequel (of sorts) would look and feel like can finally feast their eyes on the end result. With Sarah Paulson leading the way, Ratched looks like another home run for Murphy. [caption id="attachment_915674" align="alignright" width="383"] Image via Netflix[/caption] The first batch of Ratched images tease a series which blends the unsettling energy of American Horror Story with the luxuriousness of Feud or Hollywood. We'…

With the upcoming award season shining a spotlight on exceptional programming and performances, even though there are a lot of TV shows and various networks and streaming services with countless shows to choose from, there are still some real stand-outs. One such performance is the work of Jim Parsons in Hollywood as Henry Wilson, a manipulative agent who has a proven record of developing big movie stars. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, Parsons talked about why he loves working with executive producer Ryan Murphy, his uncanny ability to see the capabilities or possibilities in the …

With the upcoming award season shining a spotlight on exceptional programming and performances, even though there are a lot of TV shows and various networks and streaming services with countless shows to choose from, there are still some real stand-outs. One such performance is the work of Dylan McDermott in Hollywood as Ernie, the pimp with a heart of gold who wanted to be a movie star himself, but now finds himself surrounded by aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood, all trying to make it in Tinseltown. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with …

Stephen King recently released a collection of four novellas titled If It Bleeds and the prolific horror author has just optioned three of the terrifying tales to a trio of Hollywood's top producers. Ben Stiller has optioned Rat, which he intends to direct, produce and star in, while Darren Aronofsky has optioned The Life of Chuck and will produce an adaptation under his Protozoa banner. The latter story follows a middle-aged man named Charles Krantz whose life is segmented into several supernatural chapter breaks. Meanwhile, Rat follows a frustrated writer named Drew Larson who makes a Faustian bargain …

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Not only is Ryan Murphy sticking with American Horror Story on FX, but it appears as though he’s also now working on a spinoff of the popular anthology series. The uber-producer made the announcement on his Instagram page on Monday that he’s working on American Horror Stories, which he says is a spinoff series that will consist of one-hour contained episodes. AHS itself was already a more contained way for Murphy to tell stories, as the show resets each season and tells a complete story from beginning to end. But now it appears he’s going …

The first glimpses of American Horror Story season 10 certainly looked to be teasing some seaside freakiness, but that might all have to change. In a recent interview with The Wrap, AHS creator Ryan Murphy noted that his ideas for season 10 were "weather-dependent" and the COVID-mandated shutdown throughout Hollywood has thrown that plan into uncertain waters. By the sound of it, the idea wouldn't be scrapped, just bumped up the AHS schedule, much like the plan for American Crime Story: Katrina originally got booted for Impeachment. An alternate solution, suggested by me, is to do an …

Hollywood, the new Netflix limited series from writer/producer Ryan Murphy, is an alternate history story about challenging the barriers against equal representation during the Golden Age of cinema. The show follows a diverse group of hopeful young creatives who come together to make Meg, a movie about a struggling Black actress loosely based on the real-life story of Peg Enwistle, an actress who famously committed suicide by jumping off of the Hollywoodland sign in 1932. Midway through the series, director Raymond Ainsley (Darren Criss) decides to change Archie’s (Jeremy Pope) original script about Entwistle into a fictional …

What would have happened if inclusion and representation were taken more seriously in the Golden Age of Hollywood? While we will never actually know, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan attempt to answer the question in their Netflix limited series, Hollywood, which is like a What If…? comic book about Hollywood in the 1940s. The series takes real people like Rock Hudson, Anna May Wong, and Vivien Leigh and combines them with fictionalized aspiring actors and filmmakers who are willing to do whatever it takes to make Hollywood look at every person as equal, no matter their race or sexual orientation. …