Sophie Thatcher, one of the breakouts from Showtime sensation Yellowjackets, has nabbed the titular role in Companion, the sci-fi thriller from the team behind last year’s horror hit Barbarian. The project has been casting up ahead of a hoped-for summer start of production and has Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri and Harvey Guillén on the call sheet. Drew Hancock wrote the original script and is making his directorial debut with the feature, the many plot points of which are being kept hush-hush.

Bruce MacVittie, the veteran character actor who was a mainstay on and off Broadway for 40 years and a guest star on TV series starting with Barney Miller in 1981, has died. He was 65. He died on May 7 in a New York City hospital room, The New York Times reported on Thursday. No cause of death was available. Born on Oct. 14, 1956 in Providence, Rhode Island, MacVittie began acting in high school and graduated from Boston University before a move to New York City in 1979.

Filmmaker David F. Sandberg, who has spent the past several years in the land of superheroes, is returning to his horror roots. The Shazam! helmer has signed a deal to direct Until Dawn, an adaptation of the PlayStation horror video game being made by Screen Gems and PlayStation Productions. All three units fall under the Sony corporate umbrella.   Gary Dauberman, the screenwriter behind hit horror franchises It, Annabelle and The Nun, is doing a pass on the a script originally written by Blair Butler, who previously wrote Sony’s vampire thriller, The Invitation.

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Edward Allen Covington, who pleaded guilty to the 2008 triple murder of then-girlfriend 26-year-old Lisa Renee Freiberg and her two young children, Zachary and Heather Savannah, is still awaiting execution. He was given three death sentences, in addition to 20 years in prison for abuse and cruelty charges, in 2015. ID's Evil Lives Here will chronicle the narrative of the convicted murderer in an upcoming episode titled He Was Born Evil, which is scheduled to air on Friday, December 16, at 7.