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| April 2025 | The series is renewed for a third season |
| March 2025 | Disney announces that the 'Tiana' series has been shelved due to production challenges. A special featuring the characters is in early planning stages, with Joyce Sherri and Steve Anderson attached as writer and directors. |
| February 11 2025 | Amy Adams was cast as Amanda Bowden in the Cape Fear television adaptation. Both Adams and Bardem will executive produce the series in addition to starring |
| January 5 2025 | Second season of Mayfair Witches premiered. |
| 2024 | The TV series received critical acclaim for its second season, with Rotten Tomatoes reporting 98% positive reviews and an average rating of 8.85 out of 10. |
| 2024 | Interview with the Vampire was named Best Television Show of the Year by Collider, TV Guide, and TV Insider. |
| 2024 | Fourth season, titled True Detective: Night Country, aired starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, with Issa López as writer and director, marking Nic Pizzolatto's first time not being involved as writer or showrunner. |
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Sugar Hill
A poster for Sugar Hill appeared in a pivotal scene of 'Salem's Lot to establish the film's 1970s period setting.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The film was released in Russia, grossing $36,879 at the international box office.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
For the film's 50th anniversary, the film was released to Ultra HD Blu-ray and re-released to VHS in a collector's edition.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The film is selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, recognizing its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Variety selected the film as the greatest horror movie of all time, cementing its enduring legacy in cinema history.
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| November 18 2024 | Javier Bardem was cast as Max Cady in the Cape Fear television adaptation |
| November 15 2024 | Tiana's Bayou Adventure opened at Disneyland. |
| August 19 2024 | Series will be made available on US Netflix for a year. |
| June 28 2024 | Tiana's Bayou Adventure opened at Magic Kingdom. |
| June 26 2024 | AMC renews the series for a third season, which will adapt the second book in the series, The Vampire Lestat. |
| May 17 2024 | Milan Records released the second season soundtrack album, coming five days after the season's premiere. |
| May 12 2024 | Second season of the series premiered. |
| February 2024 | David Costabile joined the cast as a guest star upon the announcement of the second season's release date. |
| January 14 2024 | True Detective season 4: Night Country premiered on HBO. |
| 2023 | Ben Daniels and Roxane Duran joined the cast to play Santiago and Madeleine. |
| 2023 | Tiana appears in two significant media events: the Lego Disney Princess: The Castle Quest animated special and the short film Once Upon a Studio by Walt Disney Animation Studios. |
| 2023 | A reboot of the film was released, 20 years after the original movie, directed by Justin Simien. |
| November 21 2023 | Television adaptation of Cape Fear was announced, with multiple networks competing to air the series. Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese signed on as executive producers, with Nick Antosca as the showrunner. The series is set to be released on Apple TV+ |
| October 2023 | Joyce Sherri replaces Stella Meghie as writer and director of the series. |
| October 2023 | Cast and crew, including Rob Minkoff, David Berenbaum, Mona May, Mark Mancina, and Nathaniel Parker, reunite for a 20th anniversary livestream on The Tammy Tuckey Show to celebrate the film. |
| October 2023 |
Pumpkinhead
Scream Factory released a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray of the film.
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| October 21 2023 | Nominated for World Soundtrack Awards' Best Original Song. |
| October 6 2023 | The film was re-released in cinemas across the UK for one week as part of Disney's 100th anniversary celebration. |
| October 2 2023 | Filming resumed after a roughly 10-week hiatus, following AMC Networks' interim agreements with the union and the conclusion of the WGA strike. |
| September 26 2023 | RLJE Films released the first season on DVD and Blu-ray in region A, including French and Spanish dubs and the series' panel from the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con. |
| July 2023 | Filming was halted due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. |
| July 28 2023 | The Haunted Mansion reboot film was released in theaters. |
| May 2023 | The Disneyland version of Splash Mountain closed in preparation for the transformation. |
| May 7 2023 | Won MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Song with 'Carolina' by Taylor Swift. |
| May 3 2023 | AMC spokesperson confirmed that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike was not expected to disrupt the series' schedule, though script rewrites were not permitted. |
| April 3 2023 | Second season of the TV series officially began filming, with shooting planned to take place primarily in Prague, standing in for Paris, and including locations in Paris and New Orleans. |
| March 2023 | The series' release date is changed, and the show's page is updated to 'coming soon to Disney+' with no specific date mentioned. |
| March 12 2023 | Shortlisted for Academy Awards' Best Original Song category. |
| March 5 2023 | Nominated for Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film. |
| March 3 2023 | Nominated for Satellite Award for Best Original Song. |
| February 2023 | HBO CEO confirms scripts were developed for the True Blood reboot, but the project did not progress further. |
| February 2023 | The series is renewed for a second season |
| February 2023 | AMC renews Mayfair Witches for a second season following the success of its initial run. |
| February 15 2023 | Nominated by Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards for Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production. |
| January 2023 | Mark Johnson announced potential crossover discussions between Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches series within Anne Rice's Immortal Universe franchise. |
| January 2023 | The Magic Kingdom version of Splash Mountain closed in preparation for the transformation. |
| January 2023 | Eddie Murphy publicly criticizes the film, stating: 'It wasn't very good'. |
| January 15 2023 | Nominated for Critics' Choice Award for Best Song. |
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Sugar Hill (1974 film), The Haunted Mansion (2003 film), Pumpkinhead (film), True Detective, Cape Fear (1991 film), True Blood, Interview with the Vampire (TV series), Mayfair Witches, Where the Crawdads Sing (film), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre & The Princess and the Frog, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.