Amy Madigan Leaves ‘Weapons’ Behind for New R-Rated Drama Officially Coming This Summer [Exclusive]

What a year it was in 2025 for Amy Madigan, who became one of the rare horror stars to take home an Oscar for Supporting Performance in Weapons. The critically acclaimed horror film earned scores of 93% from critics and 85% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes on its way to grossing $270 million at the box office against a relatively modest $38 million budget. It has since been confirmed that a Weapons prequel focused on Madigan’s Gladys is in the works, and it’s even been set for release on September 8, 2028. After winning an Oscar on her first nomination, though, Madigan isn’t slowing down, and is still busy starring in some high-profile projects.

One of the projects in question is Bull Street, a new character-driven drama set in the south and focused on legacy, resilience, and generational conflict. Collider is thrilled to partner with the distributor of Bull Street, Buffalo 8, to exclusively preview the first official trailer for the film, and also share some exciting details. Bull Street is coming to VOD platforms such as Fandango at Home on July 17, but the film will be available for pre-order this weekend, on June 19. Starring alongside Madigan in the film is Loretta Divine, and additional cast members include Malynda Hale, Arielle Prepetit, and Gary Ray Moore. Lynn Dow directed the film.



















Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz
Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?
Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky

Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.

🏕️Jason

🔪Michael

💤Freddy

🎈Pennywise

🪆Chucky

01

Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do?
First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.





02

Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong?
Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.





03

What is your most reliable survival asset?
Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?





04

What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through?
Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.





05

You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role?
Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.





06

What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make?
Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.





07

What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means?
Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.





08

It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it?
The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?





Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated
Your Best Chance Is Against…

Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.


Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees

Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.

  • He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
  • Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
  • The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
  • You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.


Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween

Michael Myers

Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.

  • But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
  • Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
  • Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
  • You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.


Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger

Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.

  • You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
  • The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
  • Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
  • Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.


Derry, Maine · It

Pennywise

Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.

  • The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
  • You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
  • That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
  • It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.


Chicago · Child’s Play

Chucky

Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.

  • You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
  • Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
  • Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
  • Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.

What Is ‘Bull Street’ About?

Buffalo 8 has released an official synopsis for Bull Street, which reads as follows: “Bull Street follows LouEster Sadie Gibbs (Hale), a small-town lawyer raised by her formidable grandmother, Mrs. Big-Gal (Devine). When an Ivy League attorney (Prepetit) challenges the family’s longstanding claim to their home and land, LouEster is thrust into a high-stakes courtroom battle where privilege collides with legacy. Presiding over the case, Judge Motley (Madigan) must determine whether generations of history are enough to secure her birthright.” Weapons has become known as the biggest project of Amy Madigan’s career, but she does have experience acting opposite other famous stars such as Kevin Costner, whom she teamed up with all the way back in 1989 for Field of Dreams. Madigan is also known for her role as McCoy in Streets of Fire, the 1984 romantic action thriller written and directed by Walter Hill.

Check out the official trailer for Bull Street above and stay tuned to Collider for more updates on the film and coverage of Amy Madigan’s future projects.


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Release Date

June 7, 2024

Runtime

118 minutes

Director

Lynn Dow


Cast

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    Loretta Devine

    Mrs. Big-Gal

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    Malynda Hale

    LouEster Gibbs

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    Arielle Prepetit

    Kendra Reed

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    Gary Ray Moore

    Mayor Bucky


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