Fairgames
Sony PlayStation has canceled its long-gestating live-service shooting game “Fairgames” at Haven Studios. The title was first announced in 2023 and has been reworked several times , but a recent test of the game with thousands of players did not deliver the results PlayStation expected.
Despite the cancellation, there will be no job cuts with staff set to collaborate with other development teams across PlayStation Studios. PlayStation has canceled several games and closed multiple studios in recent years. [Source: Bloomberg]
Fing
Fantasy feature “Fing!” has been pulled from release in the UK following sexual harassment allegations against actor/author David Walliams who wrote the children’s book on which the film is based.
Angel Studios will reportedly still release the film in January but will remove the author’s name from the movie’s promotion and marketing entirely. Taika Waititi, Mia Wasikowska and Iona Bell star in the film while Walliams makes a cameo. [Source: Variety]
The Confessions
Alexander Skarsgård will re-team with his “Pilion” co-star Harry Melling and will be joined by Hunter Schafer (“Blade Runner 2099”) and Maya Hawke (“Stranger Things”) in the new film “The Confessions”.
The story follows a group of condemned nuns bearing witness to the accursed, globe-spanning love triangle of a missing sea captain and his poet wife. Canadian filmmaking trio Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson and Evan Johnson direct the psycho-dramedy feature with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen producing. [Source: Variety]
Mosquito
Kyle Soller (“Andor”) and Phoebe Fox (“Task”) star with Nicholas Hoult and Daisy Edgar-Jones in “The Great” creator Tony McNamara’s new Disney+ series “Mosquito”. Filming is also underway in the United Kingdom.
The story follows a recently married couple whose secrets begin to reveal as daily life chips away at the personas they present…all started by an intrusive mosquito. [Source: The Playlist]
