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 Cinedigm Announces New Features For Streaming Service Fandor

 Cinedigm Announces New Features For Streaming Service Fandor

Cinedigm, the leading independent streaming entertainment company super-serving enthusiast fan bases, announced today the evolution of its pioneering streaming service Fandor, named the “Netflix for Indie Film” by The Wall Street Journal, has begun. Fandor will come with a wider footprint and with hundreds of new acquisitions from an array of rights holders and film distributors. Subscribers will have access to over 1,000 hours of independent titles, including exclusive acquisitions from international film festivals and acclaimed titles from existing partners and key providers. The updated platform features a brand-new design and an intuitive user experience, with a continuous refresh of independent titles each month—all designed to create the ultimate celebration of Cinephile culture. With over a decade of experience in streaming independent cinema, we are proud to bring new life to a service so dedicated to independent filmmakers and the incredible films they create,” said Phil Hopkins, president of Fandor. “We are confident audiences will enjoy the thousands of hours

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Horror-on-Sea Film Festival Announces 10th Anniversary Lineup and Opens Ticket Sales

The January Discover ‘Monster In The Closet’ (Trailer)

Back in 2015, the Snygg brothers‘ horror-comedy Beaster Day premiered on Hulu. Now, their back with a new tale of terror, Monster in the Closet. And we’ve got the new trailer. In the film, “When famous horror author Raymond Grant dies under mysterious circumstances, his daughter returns home to investigate his death. Jasmin discovers her father was using evil black magic to write his newest horror masterpiece. When the author’s audiobook is played out loud monsters, zombies and terrifying beings spring from the undead pages to haunt the living. Never open a Pandora box that can’t be closed!” Monsters in the Closet will be released on VOD by Gravitas Ventures on January 4, 2022, from Gravitas Ventures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Join FX Artist Todd Masters Live During SYFY’s “Day Of The Dead” Premiere

Join FX Artist Todd Masters Live During SYFY’s “Day Of The Dead” Premiere

The creative forces behind the new upcoming SYFY series “Day if the Dead” turned to Emmy Award-winning makeup FX artist Todd Masters and his company MASTERSFX to create all of the zombie makeup for their new zombie series which Masters will also executive produce. We started meeting and designing our makeup FX work for this project while we were still under Covid and government lockdown,” Masters said. “Literally, the moment we were allowed to re-open our shop, we did, and we hit the ground really rocking and rolling. We had a small army of our amazing artists start immediately throwing themselves into this huge project… there were zombies everywhere! At that time, due to the ongoing Covid situation, we still had no idea how we were going to safely work with the cast and other crew. We ended up devising several new techniques, like making monster dentures digitally, and, in some cases, integrating touchless scanning as opposed to face casting,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
The Legend Of “Green Eyes” Comes To Life In The ‘They’re Ouside’ Trailer

The Legend Of “Green Eyes” Comes To Life In The ‘They’re Ouside’ Trailer

From directors Airell Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly comes They’re Outside, starring Hellraiser’s Nicholas Vince. In They’re Outside while filming a documentary about an agoraphobic woman, a celebrity psychologist is drawn into supernatural events. Emily Booth (Grindhouse, Event Horizon), Tom Clayton-Wheatley (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), and Christine Randall (9 Full Moons) star in They’re Outside, available October 29, 2021, worldwide on digital from Terror Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
30 ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ Facts To Celebrate It’s 30th Anniversary!

30 ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ Facts To Celebrate It’s 30th Anniversary!

The crime horror/thriller film that gave us the loveable cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter turned 30 this year on Valentine’s Day (when it was released in 1991). Since we’re getting closer to Halloween, why not share some interesting facts from both the film and the book that it came from, here are 30 facts about The Silence of The Lambs for you to chew on with a nice Chianti. Hannibal never once said “Hello Clarice” in the film, the misquoted line actually goes “Good evening, Clarice.” Ted Levine drank a lot of coffee before his audition to play Buffalo Bill resulting in a performance that impressed everyone. The real-life “Death’s Head Moth” (known as the Lesser Death’s Head Hawkmoth) does not have a pattern that looks like a skull on its back, but it does resemble a hooded face. Sir Anthony Hopkins based Hannibal’s voice on a combination of Truman Capote and Katherine Hepburn. The infamous dancing scene with

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Indie Horror ‘Demigod’ Opening In Theaters

Indie Horror ‘Demigod’ Opening In Theaters

From award-winning filmmaker, Miles Doleac comes a new tale of terror, a macabre riff on the Cernunnos myth, Demigod. In the film, “Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany’s Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaits them.” Co-written by Doleac and Michael Donovan Horn, Demigod stars Rachel Nichols (Continuum, Star Trek), Jeremy London (Mallrats), and Elena Sanchez (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). Doleac, James Victor Bulian, Lindsay Anne Williams, and Wesley O’Mary produce and are the same team behind the 2020 horror-thriller The Dinner Party. Demigod (review) is out in theaters and available On Demand on October 15, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures. Theater Listings: Premiere Date Market Address 10/15/21 Los Angeles LA Arena Cinelounge 10/15/21 Boston (Manchester) Entertainment Cinema 100 Searstown Mall 10/15/21 Dallas-Ft. Worth Fun Movie Grill Richardson, TX 10/15/21 Cleveland-Akron (Canton) Cooperative Thtrs Ravenna 7 Movies(Ravenna, OH) 10/15/21 Detroit MJR Troy Grand Digital Cinema (Troy, MI)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
The Trailer For The Asylum’s ‘Planet Dune’ Has Landed

The Trailer For The Asylum’s ‘Planet Dune’ Has Landed

Asylum Entertainment has just unleashed the out-of-this-world trailer for their new sci-fi flick Planet Dune. In the movie, a crew on a mission to rescue a marooned base on a desert planet turns deadly when the crew finds themselves hunted and attacked by the planet’s apex predators: giant sand worms. Directed by Glenn Campbell and Tammy Klein, and written by Lauren Pritchard and Joe Roche, Planet Dune stars Sean Young (Dune, Blade Runner) Emily Killian, Tammy Klein, Clark Moore, and others. Planet Dune lands on October 29, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ Is Out This October On Blu-ray

M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ Is Out This October On Blu-ray

Visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, who brought you films such as The Sixth Sense and Glass, unveils a chilling, mysterious new tale, Old. In this unnerving film, a family on a tropical holiday discovers that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly. Both written and directed by Shyamalan, the film is an adaptation of the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters, which made its debut in 2011. Old stars an impressive international cast including Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal (Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Rufus Sewell (Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle), Ken Leung (Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Jupiter Ascending), Abbey Lee (HBO’s Lovecraft Country), Aaron Pierre (Syfy’s Krypton), Alex Wolff (Hereditary), Embeth Davidtz (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Eliza Scanlen (Little Women), Emun Elliott (Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens), Kathleen Chalfant (Showtime’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Horror Fuel

Movies That Made Us

Netflix’s hit documentary series “The Movies That Made Us” will delve into the untold stories behind the horror classics A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday The 13th, and Halloween, on October 12, 2021. The show’s third season will also feature three other blockbuster films: sci-fi action blockbusters Aliens and Robocop and Eddie Murphy’s comedy Coming To America. The series looks inside the movies that have shaped generations and what it took to make them happen, telling the story of how these movies were made, the involvement of studio producers, writers, directors, and BTS tidbits shared by cast and crew. The show was created and produced by Brian Volk-Wess and The Nacelle Company, the studio also behind Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us, Behind The Attraction for Disney+ and the Emmy Award winning Down To Earth with Zac Efron.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
M. Night Shyamalan Producing Thriller ‘The Vanishings At Caddo Lake’

M. Night Shyamalan Producing Thriller ‘The Vanishings At Caddo Lake’

News has come today via Deadline that M. Night Shyamalan is set to produce the upcoming thriller The Vanishings At Caddo Lake under his Blinding Edge Pictures banner. The film is written and directed by Celine Held and Logan George (Topside) who directed two upcoming episodes of Shyamalan’s award-winning Apple TV+ series “Servant“. The film centers around an 8-year-old girl who mysteriously vanishes at Caddo Lake, where a series of deaths and disappearances have taken place. Dylan O’Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Lauren Ambrose, Eric Lange, Sam Hennings, and Diana Hopper star in The Vanishings At Caddo Lake.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021

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 Cinedigm Announces New Features For Streaming Service Fandor

 Cinedigm Announces New Features For Streaming Service Fandor

Cinedigm, the leading independent streaming entertainment company super-serving enthusiast fan bases, announced today the evolution of its pioneering streaming service Fandor, named the “Netflix for Indie Film” by The Wall Street Journal, has begun. Fandor will come with a wider footprint and with hundreds of new acquisitions from an array of rights holders and film distributors. Subscribers will have access to over 1,000 hours of independent titles, including exclusive acquisitions from international film festivals and acclaimed titles from existing partners and key providers. The updated platform features a brand-new design and an intuitive user experience, with a continuous refresh of independent titles each month—all designed to create the ultimate celebration of Cinephile culture. With over a decade of experience in streaming independent cinema, we are proud to bring new life to a service so dedicated to independent filmmakers and the incredible films they create,” said Phil Hopkins, president of Fandor. “We are confident audiences will enjoy the thousands of hours

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Horror-on-Sea Film Festival Announces 10th Anniversary Lineup and Opens Ticket Sales

The January Discover ‘Monster In The Closet’ (Trailer)

Back in 2015, the Snygg brothers‘ horror-comedy Beaster Day premiered on Hulu. Now, their back with a new tale of terror, Monster in the Closet. And we’ve got the new trailer. In the film, “When famous horror author Raymond Grant dies under mysterious circumstances, his daughter returns home to investigate his death. Jasmin discovers her father was using evil black magic to write his newest horror masterpiece. When the author’s audiobook is played out loud monsters, zombies and terrifying beings spring from the undead pages to haunt the living. Never open a Pandora box that can’t be closed!” Monsters in the Closet will be released on VOD by Gravitas Ventures on January 4, 2022, from Gravitas Ventures.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Join FX Artist Todd Masters Live During SYFY’s “Day Of The Dead” Premiere

Join FX Artist Todd Masters Live During SYFY’s “Day Of The Dead” Premiere

The creative forces behind the new upcoming SYFY series “Day if the Dead” turned to Emmy Award-winning makeup FX artist Todd Masters and his company MASTERSFX to create all of the zombie makeup for their new zombie series which Masters will also executive produce. We started meeting and designing our makeup FX work for this project while we were still under Covid and government lockdown,” Masters said. “Literally, the moment we were allowed to re-open our shop, we did, and we hit the ground really rocking and rolling. We had a small army of our amazing artists start immediately throwing themselves into this huge project… there were zombies everywhere! At that time, due to the ongoing Covid situation, we still had no idea how we were going to safely work with the cast and other crew. We ended up devising several new techniques, like making monster dentures digitally, and, in some cases, integrating touchless scanning as opposed to face casting,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
The Legend Of “Green Eyes” Comes To Life In The ‘They’re Ouside’ Trailer

The Legend Of “Green Eyes” Comes To Life In The ‘They’re Ouside’ Trailer

From directors Airell Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly comes They’re Outside, starring Hellraiser’s Nicholas Vince. In They’re Outside while filming a documentary about an agoraphobic woman, a celebrity psychologist is drawn into supernatural events. Emily Booth (Grindhouse, Event Horizon), Tom Clayton-Wheatley (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), and Christine Randall (9 Full Moons) star in They’re Outside, available October 29, 2021, worldwide on digital from Terror Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
30 ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ Facts To Celebrate It’s 30th Anniversary!

30 ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ Facts To Celebrate It’s 30th Anniversary!

The crime horror/thriller film that gave us the loveable cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter turned 30 this year on Valentine’s Day (when it was released in 1991). Since we’re getting closer to Halloween, why not share some interesting facts from both the film and the book that it came from, here are 30 facts about The Silence of The Lambs for you to chew on with a nice Chianti. Hannibal never once said “Hello Clarice” in the film, the misquoted line actually goes “Good evening, Clarice.” Ted Levine drank a lot of coffee before his audition to play Buffalo Bill resulting in a performance that impressed everyone. The real-life “Death’s Head Moth” (known as the Lesser Death’s Head Hawkmoth) does not have a pattern that looks like a skull on its back, but it does resemble a hooded face. Sir Anthony Hopkins based Hannibal’s voice on a combination of Truman Capote and Katherine Hepburn. The infamous dancing scene with

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Indie Horror ‘Demigod’ Opening In Theaters

Indie Horror ‘Demigod’ Opening In Theaters

From award-winning filmmaker, Miles Doleac comes a new tale of terror, a macabre riff on the Cernunnos myth, Demigod. In the film, “Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany’s Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaits them.” Co-written by Doleac and Michael Donovan Horn, Demigod stars Rachel Nichols (Continuum, Star Trek), Jeremy London (Mallrats), and Elena Sanchez (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). Doleac, James Victor Bulian, Lindsay Anne Williams, and Wesley O’Mary produce and are the same team behind the 2020 horror-thriller The Dinner Party. Demigod (review) is out in theaters and available On Demand on October 15, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures. Theater Listings: Premiere Date Market Address 10/15/21 Los Angeles LA Arena Cinelounge 10/15/21 Boston (Manchester) Entertainment Cinema 100 Searstown Mall 10/15/21 Dallas-Ft. Worth Fun Movie Grill Richardson, TX 10/15/21 Cleveland-Akron (Canton) Cooperative Thtrs Ravenna 7 Movies(Ravenna, OH) 10/15/21 Detroit MJR Troy Grand Digital Cinema (Troy, MI)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
The Trailer For The Asylum’s ‘Planet Dune’ Has Landed

The Trailer For The Asylum’s ‘Planet Dune’ Has Landed

Asylum Entertainment has just unleashed the out-of-this-world trailer for their new sci-fi flick Planet Dune. In the movie, a crew on a mission to rescue a marooned base on a desert planet turns deadly when the crew finds themselves hunted and attacked by the planet’s apex predators: giant sand worms. Directed by Glenn Campbell and Tammy Klein, and written by Lauren Pritchard and Joe Roche, Planet Dune stars Sean Young (Dune, Blade Runner) Emily Killian, Tammy Klein, Clark Moore, and others. Planet Dune lands on October 29, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ Is Out This October On Blu-ray

M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ Is Out This October On Blu-ray

Visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, who brought you films such as The Sixth Sense and Glass, unveils a chilling, mysterious new tale, Old. In this unnerving film, a family on a tropical holiday discovers that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly. Both written and directed by Shyamalan, the film is an adaptation of the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters, which made its debut in 2011. Old stars an impressive international cast including Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal (Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Rufus Sewell (Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle), Ken Leung (Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Jupiter Ascending), Abbey Lee (HBO’s Lovecraft Country), Aaron Pierre (Syfy’s Krypton), Alex Wolff (Hereditary), Embeth Davidtz (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Eliza Scanlen (Little Women), Emun Elliott (Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens), Kathleen Chalfant (Showtime’s

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
Horror Fuel

Movies That Made Us

Netflix’s hit documentary series “The Movies That Made Us” will delve into the untold stories behind the horror classics A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday The 13th, and Halloween, on October 12, 2021. The show’s third season will also feature three other blockbuster films: sci-fi action blockbusters Aliens and Robocop and Eddie Murphy’s comedy Coming To America. The series looks inside the movies that have shaped generations and what it took to make them happen, telling the story of how these movies were made, the involvement of studio producers, writers, directors, and BTS tidbits shared by cast and crew. The show was created and produced by Brian Volk-Wess and The Nacelle Company, the studio also behind Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us, Behind The Attraction for Disney+ and the Emmy Award winning Down To Earth with Zac Efron.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
M. Night Shyamalan Producing Thriller ‘The Vanishings At Caddo Lake’

M. Night Shyamalan Producing Thriller ‘The Vanishings At Caddo Lake’

News has come today via Deadline that M. Night Shyamalan is set to produce the upcoming thriller The Vanishings At Caddo Lake under his Blinding Edge Pictures banner. The film is written and directed by Celine Held and Logan George (Topside) who directed two upcoming episodes of Shyamalan’s award-winning Apple TV+ series “Servant“. The film centers around an 8-year-old girl who mysteriously vanishes at Caddo Lake, where a series of deaths and disappearances have taken place. Dylan O’Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Lauren Ambrose, Eric Lange, Sam Hennings, and Diana Hopper star in The Vanishings At Caddo Lake.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 21, 2021
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