🔎 Frankenstein in the Old West & IP Picks of the Week

🔎 Frankenstein in the Old West & IP Picks of the Week

THE OG While not the first screen adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel (it was likely the fourth), Boris Karloff’s take on the monster in 1931’s Frankenstein remains the defining one nearly a century later. (Photo illustration by The Ankler; Universal)What unites the recent success of everything from Adolescence to A Minecraft Movie to Sinners? Good IP. Studios and streamers are in desperate need of new ideas with franchise potentia…

Courts of the Old West

By Jennifer Uhlarik If you’re anything like me, watching western movies as a kid led to the belief that the western territories and states were a completely lawless land. Sure, I knew there were lawmen—sheriffs, marshals, and the like—and even a plethora of bounty hunters. Western movies, shows, and books were filled with those. But so many westerns, whether on the big or small screen, or in print, conveyed the idea that things were dealt with b…