Tubi’s next Final Girl is here.

The streamer is set to release a live action adaptation of The Babysitter, based on the popular series of R.L. Stine novels first published in 1989, in 2027. The film’s announcement comes just two days after the Oct. 9 release of Pumpkinhead 2, and ahead of the streamer’s New York Comic Con panel, where Stine appeared alongside Tubi’s Chief Content Officer Adam Lewinson, Pumpkinhead writer-director Jem Garrard, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ contestant and Afraid of Clowns star Jimbo.

The film follows a 16-year-old babysitter, Jenny, who is so desperate to earn enough money for a prestigious writing program that she takes the job despite a prowler terrorizing girls across town. But when she starts receiving threatening phone calls and a dangerous fugitive surfaces in town, Jenny’s suspicion of those around her grows. Meanwhile, danger begins closing in.

Produced by Blue Ice, Garrard will write and executive produce the film, which Trevor Calverleya will direct. The Babysitter will be executive produced by Lance Samuels, Joan Waricha, Jane Stine and Garrard. Producers include Dan Bernard, Yvonne Bernard, Tebogo Maila, Darren Cameron and Adam Friedlander.

“R.L. Stine has an incredible ability to tell stories that are scary, fun and endlessly entertaining, and that combination continues to connect with Tubi viewers,” said Adam Lewinson, Chief Content Officer, Tubi. “With The Babysitter, one of R.L. Stine’s most iconic novels, we’re delivering a fresh, fun thrill ride for longtime fans and a whole new generation.”

The Babysitter not only marks the fourth film in an ongoing partnership between the streamer and the prolific children’s horror author, but also the first not based on a short from Stine’s Nightmare Hour or Haunting Hour anthologies. Check out the teaser, which The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively share, below.

First published in 1989, The Babysitter and its three sequels — The Babysitter II (1991), The Babysitter III (1993), and The Babysitter IV (1995) — were pivotal in defining Stine as a preeminent horror and children’s author. The original book followed the same 16-year-old Jenny, who begins receiving threatening calls and notes after taking on a babysitting gig, before she discovers the threat is coming from inside the house.

The second and fourth books follow Jenny as she attempts to recover in the immediate aftermath of the first book’s events, and years later as she faces her disturbing past and another terrorizing babysitting experience. The third installment pivots slightly, focusing more on the experiences of Debra, who is haunted and hunted in the same way as her cousin, Jenny.

Tubi also recently announced a third Stine adaptation, Afraid of Clowns, based on The Nightmare Hour short and previously developed as a Haunting Hour (2010) episode. Written and directed by Garrard, the film, also set to release in 2027, stars Frankie Honey, Ava Ferrer, Azriel Dalman, Joe Moore and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winner Jimbo, and is teased at the end of Pumpkinhead 2.

The next entry in the Redhaven saga, Afraid of Clowns, sees the arrival of a mysterious clown troupe led by Ringmaster Rollo. A young resident, Frankie, begins to suspect they’re connected to the disappearance of a child years earlier, and in an effort to protect her brother, works to convince her friends to help stop the clowns before her sibling vanishes forever.

Pumpkinhead 2 is currently streaming on Tubi.

Filmmaker James Gray told a London Film Festival audience this morning during a career Q&A that he believes Two Lovers, his fourth feature, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow, was the first time he successfully executed his artistic vision as a director.

“This movie was very important to me. It was the first time I had creative control. The work took on another character,” Gray said after the LFF crowd was shown a clip from the 2008 film.

“I don’t regard the films I made before this very highly. I hope people like them, but I don’t think of them as truly mine. I was still trying to do something. Two Lovers was the first film that felt like who I was trying to be, if that makes sense, because I had total freedom.”

Gray added that Two Lovers was a relatively “cheap movie,” costing around $9.5 million.

“I was left alone. The actors were great. I made exactly what I wanted,” he said. “I don’t know if the film is great, good, or terrible, but my emotional connection to it is profound because it was a beautiful time in my life.”

Directed by Gray from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ric Menello, Two Lovers tells the story of Leonard (Phoenix), an aspiring photographer and introvert who has moved back into his parents’ home following a recent heartbreak. His concerned parents try to set him up with Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the daughter of a family friend. But Leonard meets Michelle (Paltrow), the beautiful but volatile mistress of a wealthy married man who has recently moved into an apartment in his family’s building. He becomes caught between the two women.

Gray is at the LFF with his latest feature, Paper Tiger. The film screened last night in London.

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller star in the pic set in 1986 Queens, NY, in which two brothers become entangled in a scheme that ends up involving the Russian mafia, putting their family at risk. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Neon will release the film theatrically on November 13.

The LFF runs until October 18.

Spanish star Javier Bardem thanked a BFI London Film Festival crowd for getting out early on Sunday morning to attend a Screen Talk session with him.

Bardem, whose other half, Penelope Cruz, is also enjoying some time in the spotlight this year (thanks to a trifecta of buzzy films: La Bola Negra, The Invite and Bunker), is in the British capital promoting his and Cruz’s Bunker as well as The Beloved, in which he co-stars with Victoria Luengo.

During the talk, Bardem reflected on a glittering career, from his early life growing up in one of Spain’s most prestigious acting families to winning an Oscar and, this year, finally conquering his fear of the stage.

In one of the session’s lighter moments, Bardem, known for roles in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) and the Dune franchise, spoke about initially declining one of his most iconic roles, as the villainous but sexually magnetic former agent of Judi Dench’s M, Raoul Silva, in 2012’s Skyfall.

The actor said about turning down the part at first: “I guess I was nervous. Like, ‘What am I doing in the James Bond movie? What can I do?’ But then we sat down. Sam Mendes is a genius, and we went through the reading of it, and he was so open to what I was proposing, which had to do with the sexuality of the guy.”

Bardem was thinking outside the box when it came to his depiction of Silva, and pitched this to the filmmaker. “I said, ‘Listen, all the villains have done everything to destroy the world, but what about becoming personal? What about something besides destroying the world? [Like] he wants to have sex with Mr. Bond?’ And [Mendes] said, ‘I’ll talk to the studio and get back to you,’” said Bardem, erupting into laughter, before referencing one of the movie’s standout scenes where Bardem’s character suggestively strokes the thighs of a tied-up Daniel Craig.

“The studio was very brave,” continued Bardem. “And I think that scene lasts in the memory of the audience… Because we went a little bit further with it. It’s a way to say, ‘Okay, how do you really put Mr. Bond out of his place with a situation that he hasn’t been there before?’ And the way he comes out of it is brilliant.”

Bardem expressed his disbelief, to this day, that he shared the screen with Dame Judi Dench, and even confessed to forgetting his lines when Mendes first called action because he realized where he was. “[Mendes] said, ‘Cut! Javier, what’s going on?’ [I said], ‘Well, sorry, I just realized that I’m in a James Bond movie. Excuse me, I just saw Judi Dench and James Bond looking at me and said, ‘Fuck! I’m in a James Bond movie! Sorry, let’s do it again.’ I was absolutely taken by the joy of it.”

Unfortunately, the Bond franchise star was not probed on who he thinks would make a good Bond for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming movie for Amazon MGM Studios, as rumors continue to swirl around who might next don the tuxedo of Ian Fleming’s beloved spy.

Bardem took the crowd through a prolific filmography, particularly some impressive Spanish-language projects such as Jamón jamón (1992) and Biutiful (2010). When the discussion came to his Oscar-winning turn in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007), the audience was shown the nail-biting coin toss scene between Bardem’s terrifying killer Anton Chigurh and supporting actor Gene Jones.

“Half of the Oscar I have is his,” said Bardem about Jones, who only appears in that single, four-minute scene. “Because he plays fear, the insecurity and uncertainty so beautifully that he makes the scene,” explained the star. “I do my part, but he does the horror. He’s fantastic. That’s what I mean: You are not working alone. You need your partners. You need to create a moment of commonality.”

Toward the end of the session, when Bardem was asked about what advice he has for aspiring actors just making their start in the industry, he joked: “Choose another job. Why would you do that to yourself?” He then continued: “No, it’s a great profession. And in this world of AI, where many other professions are going to go, unfortunately, down, to be able to be a person who shows emotions and has a connection with the audience, it’s an important job to have and to preserve, because it creates a connection between us.”

Florian Zeller’s Bunker, also starring Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger, follows a renowned architect offered the chance to secretly design a survival bunker for a billionaire who is convinced that the end of the world is near. As he lets himself be seduced by this morally ambiguous project, his wife begins to question their marriage.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beloved, meanwhile, stars Bardem as a two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker who casts his estranged daughter in his new period piece.

The 70th BFI London Film Festival runs Oct. 7-18.