Sandra Bullock should start practicingher blind acting skills because a film adaptation of Josh Malerman's Bird Box sequel,Malorie, is reportedly in the works.

"I cant say much, butI can say that it is in development. Sometimes its weird, all this secrecy, but Im game," the author told Inverse.

It's probably safe to assume that Netflix is the one looking (get it?)to bring the upcoming novel to the screen. The movie version of Bird Box enjoyed the streamer's biggest debut for an original film;over 45 million accounts allegedly watched itwithin the first week.

Going on sale July 21, the follow-up is set more than a decade after the events of the first book. Now living at a defunct summer camp with her son and adopted daughter, the paranoid Malorie Hayes decides to once again brave the world of mysterious creatures that drive people insane.

Chatting with SYFY WIRE, Malerman described Malorie as "pee-your-pants scary fun."

Carina Adly MacKenzie is vacating her position as creator/showrunner of The CW's Roswell, New Mexico. Per The Hollywood Reporter, her "relationship with studio Warner Bros. Television had been strained for some time."

Based on the report, the final straw arrived when WBTV was forced to do "damage control" afterMacKenzie took to Twitter last monthto accusethe U.K.'s ITV of cutting a same-sex "love scene"from a certainepisode. A rep for ITV2 refuted her claims of homophobia and bigotry, stating that "scenes involving sexual content were edited in keeping with the regulator, Ofcom's, guidelines."

"I have made the difficult decision to resign from my role onRoswell, New Mexico. I do not take this decision lightly, but ultimately due to fundamental differences, I must depart and entrustRoswell, New Mexicoto capable hands,"MacKenziesaid in a statement to THR."I am so proud of what we built over the last two years, and I believe in the heart and soul of the show: asking tough questions, striving to make the world better, amplifying marginalized voices, and fighting the good fight."

"The third season of the series will return to The CW as part of the networks 2021 midseason lineup," added a rep for WBTV.

Roswell, NM is the second television translation ofMelinda Metz's Roswell High books.

Ethan Hawke is absolutely electric in the first trailer for Tesla, a biopic about Nikola Tesla, the inventor, who often gets obscured by the looming shadow cast by Thomas Edison. Twin Peak'sKyle MacLachlan co-stars as Edison in the unconventional historical flick fromMichael Almereyda.

Utilizingfourth wall-breaking narration,anachronistic technology, and atmospheric backdrops,the film explores Tesla's "uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition," as well as the"thornier challenges" involved"with his new system for worldwide wireless energy," reads the synopsis.

Watch the trailer below:

Jim Gaffigan andDonnie Keshawarz playGeorge Westinghouse and J.P. Morgan respectively.Eve Hewson takes up the role of Morgan's daughter, Anne, who "analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention."

"Almereyda lays tracks to take Teslain a dozen wild directions,"wroteAmy Nicholson wrote in her review for Variety. "Early on, Anne whips out a MacBook to use Google image search. Later, Edison kills time on a cellphone. Almereydas entitled to meld past and present Tesla was a man of the future. Yet, having ordered the audience onboard, Almereyda doesnt go anywhere with the gambit."

This is the second movie in the last few years to depict the professional and scientific rivalries among Tesla,Edison, and Westinghouse. The first was Alfonso Gomez-Rejon'sThe Current War in 2017.

Hawke andAlmereyda previously worked together on projects like 2000'sHamlet and 2014'sCymbeline.Tesla strikes theaters and VODFriday, August 21.

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