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HBO is working on a fourth iteration of True Detective. Deadline understands that the WarnerMedia-owned cable network is developing a new take on the crime drama – tentatively titled True Detective: Night Country – from Issa López and Barry Jenkins. We revealed in February 2021 that HBO was in talks with new writers…

EXCLUSIVE: In competition, New Line has acquired filmmaker Issa López's original screenplay The Girl with a Thousand Names. She will direct and produce the feature for HBO Max. The Girl with a Thousand Names is the first original idea López has brought to the marketplace since the premiere of her acclaimed film Tigers…

Blumhouse and Tigers Are Not Afraid Mexican director Issa López decided to pull a fast one on genre fans last night by dropping a trailer for her new found-footage movie El Chupacabras about the Latin American creature who devours livestock. The trailer, which you can see above, features lots of images of animal and…

Mexican filmmaker Issa López is set to adapt and direct Our Lady of Tears for Blumhouse based on the Daniel Hernandez Epic magazine article "The Haunting of Girlstown” which was published on Vox. Our Lady of Tears will be produced by Blumhouse in association with Epic Media. The article focuses on a mass hysteria…

EXCLUSIVE: Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) is set to write the script and is attached to direct an adaptation of the  Matthew Baker short story Lost Souls, which Searchlight and Noah Hawley optioned last year. The film is set in a world in which some babies are born without souls. A young expectant mother is sent…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for writer-director Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid, a contemporary horror fable set against the despairing backdrop of Mexico’s violent drug wars but presented in a way that manages to be grim and modern but also lyrical, evocative, and eerie. A 10-year-old named Estrella (Paolo…

Shudder, AMC Networks' streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, has acquired all rights to writer/director Issa Lopez's acclaimed feature Tigers Are Not Afraid across all its territories. The film is set to premiere on Shudder later this year. "Tigers Are Not Afraid is a horror fable for the ages…