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Director Yeon Sang-ho‘s Train to Busan made waves internationally back in 2016, since then, fans of the action-packed zombie film have been chomping at the bit to see a sequel and now it’s finally on its way. Today, we have an update. Well Go USA has now acquired the distribution rights to Peninsula. for the US. Train to Busan is timeless. Four years after its North American release, it’s still one our top-performing titles. Our fans can’t get enough of it, so when we heard about Peninsula, we knew that not only was this a title that belongs under the Well Go brand, but also a story we wanted to continue to tell.” Doris Pfardrescher, president and CEO of Well Go US states. “Peninsula takes place four years after the outbreak of zombies that were chasing the protagonists in a bullet train to Busan. The Korean peninsula has been devastated and Jung-seok, a former soldier who managed to escape outside
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The dead walk among us in the first trailer for A Wakefield Project, a unique sci-fi horror film premiering this March. Directed by L.A. Lopes, the story follows a group of townspeople suddenly seeing the dead living among them. “Eric (Anthony Bewlz, Tooth Fairy) and Reese (Dennis Andres, Workin’ Moms) invest in a property in the little town of Wakefield. Chloe (Lindsay Seim, Insidious: Chapter 2) a medium, who used to live in Wakefield returns to her roots to enlighten the new entrepreneurs on the history of the town. The property was originally owned by Nathan Cross (Rob Archer, Lost Girl), who’s post mortem crimes stain the entire town. On a day when unprecedented solar flares target North America, Wakefield becomes the center of a temporary shift in atmospheric energies. The living are seeing the dead walk among them. As they find themselves in the heart of this nightmare until dawn, they need to face history in the flesh, and
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Meet Miles, (Daniel Radcliffe) a game programmer who spends way too much time trolling the fans of Skizm, a life or death game that has taken the world by storm. Miles bullies the wrong person and ends up waking up with guns bolted to the palms of his hands. But it gets worse, the guy he pissed off runs Skizm and he’s sent his best player after Miles, the psycho killer Nix (Samara Weaving). And the shit hits the fan! There are so many great things about Guns Akimbo. The nearly constant action is more than enough to make your head explode. The acting is top-notch. Director Jason Lei Howden has created a hardcore action flick that will leave you cheering. When I first heard that Radcliffe was set to star in action flick I was a bit surprised. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a fan since his Harry Potter days, but Radcliffe has never played a part like
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Later this year, writer-director Andre Welsh‘s thriller Disrupted is set to arrive in theaters and digital. For longtime Oakland resident, Pete, survival is an endless struggle in a gentrified, tech-driven world that’s left him in its dust. But he’s clean and sober, has rectified a relationship with his daughter, and the memories of his wife’s unsolved murder from decades ago rarely haunt him these days. That is until a local killing is strikingly familiar. Reluctantly pulled back in by the retired detective who worked the original case, Pete again sets out to find his wife’s killer and is quickly consumed by his rekindled thirst for justice, a pursuit that cost him everything once before. Starring Ron Kaell, Geoffrey Lower, and Chioke Jelani Clanton, Marie Wilson, Drew Seeley, Amy Paffrath, and Daniel Roebuck. Mark Gogolewski, Steven Siig, and Jared Drake are producing. Jeff Gadigan co-produced. Disrupted will make its World Premiere as an Official Selection of the 2020 Cinequest Film &
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Just because Bruce Campbell (interview) has retired from his role as Ash Williams doesn’t mean that we have seen the last of the Evil Dead franchise. It was announced several months ago that a new Evil Dead movie is in the works, one that will see a still-unnamed young unnamed filmmaker in the director’s chair. During a Q&A at the Fan Expo in Vancouver last weekend Campbell teased that the new installment may begin filming this year. We’re producing more Evil Dead movies. Maybe one later this year. Sam Raimi has hand picked the next guy to make another creepy Evil Dead. It just won’t have Ash. Yeah, it’s cool. There are more stories to tell, sir.” While we all wish Campbell would come out of retirement, I am happy to see a new Evil Dead movie. I do wonder if it is a true sequel or if it will more resemble the “Ash vs Evil Dead” series or Fede
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“The Haunting of Hill House” fans are eagerly awaiting the second season of Mike Flanagan‘s horror anthology, The Haunting of Bly Manor“.”We can report today that filming has officially wrapped. Flanagan made the announcement via Twitter. https://twitter.com/flanaganfilm/status/1230874025590575104 Loosely based on the 1898 novella The Tuning of the Screw by Henry James, the film’s cast includes returning season one actors Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Victoria Pedretti, Kate Siegel, Henry James, and Catherine Parker. Rahul Kohi, T’Nai Miller, Amelia Eve, Amelie Smith, and Benjamin Ainsworth will join them. The series is written and directed by Flanagan who also executive produced with his partner Trevor Macy, Amblin’s Darryl Frank, and Justin Falvey. We should have a trailer soon.
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News has come out of EFM that Zach Braff (Golden State, “Scrubs”) is set to face off against sharks in survival thriller Tiburon. Directed by Alistair Legrand (The Diabolical) and written by Jonathan WC Mills (Nothing Left to Fear), Tiburon follows a young family trapped in a camper van, stranded on a flooded tidal basin near the beach. As the water rises, the family must make a choice, flee through the shark-infested water or face a sadistic fugitive. Paula Patton (Traffik) and Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) also star, ScreenDaily reports. Culmination co-founders Tom Butterfield and Harry White are producing alongside Mills. By the way, Tiburon means “shark” in Spanish. Production is set to begin this spring in South Africa.
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Norman Patridge‘s horror novel Dark Harvest is set to be adapted by David Slade, the director who brought us Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, and “Hannibal”. Deadline is reporting that the adaptation, written by Michael Gilio, has found a home at MGM. The novel is set on Halloween 1963 in a small Midwestern town where “ the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. One teen, Pete McCormick, knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in the one-horse town. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror – and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy.” The casting process should begin soon. You can pick up your copy of Norman Patridge‘s Dark Harvest now on Amazon.
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“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars alongside Famke Janssen (Hause on Haunted Hill) in The Postcard Killings, the film adaptation of the best-selling book by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. In the trailer, we meet a troubled detective on the hunt for a twisted serial killer. NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon (Morgan), whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Cush Jumbo, Steven Mackintosh, Joachim Król, and Denis O’Hare round out the cast. Witness The Postcard Killings in theaters on March 13, 2020.
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The official poster and new images from A24’s Saint Maud will leave you on your knees. The satanic thriller is the debut feature from Rose Glass. Described as “a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world,” the film centers on Maud (Morfydd Clark, Love & Friendship), a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul. However, sinister forces and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy mission. BAFTA-winning actress Jennifer Ehle (The Miseducation of Cameron Post) also stars. Saint Maud, said to have the feel of films such as The Witch, Blackcoat’s Daughter, and Hereditary, will arrive in select theaters on April 1, 2020, followed by a wider release.
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Director Yeon Sang-ho‘s Train to Busan made waves internationally back in 2016, since then, fans of the action-packed zombie film have been chomping at the bit to see a sequel and now it’s finally on its way. Today, we have an update. Well Go USA has now acquired the distribution rights to Peninsula. for the US. Train to Busan is timeless. Four years after its North American release, it’s still one our top-performing titles. Our fans can’t get enough of it, so when we heard about Peninsula, we knew that not only was this a title that belongs under the Well Go brand, but also a story we wanted to continue to tell.” Doris Pfardrescher, president and CEO of Well Go US states. “Peninsula takes place four years after the outbreak of zombies that were chasing the protagonists in a bullet train to Busan. The Korean peninsula has been devastated and Jung-seok, a former soldier who managed to escape outside
Continue reading →
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The dead walk among us in the first trailer for A Wakefield Project, a unique sci-fi horror film premiering this March. Directed by L.A. Lopes, the story follows a group of townspeople suddenly seeing the dead living among them. “Eric (Anthony Bewlz, Tooth Fairy) and Reese (Dennis Andres, Workin’ Moms) invest in a property in the little town of Wakefield. Chloe (Lindsay Seim, Insidious: Chapter 2) a medium, who used to live in Wakefield returns to her roots to enlighten the new entrepreneurs on the history of the town. The property was originally owned by Nathan Cross (Rob Archer, Lost Girl), who’s post mortem crimes stain the entire town. On a day when unprecedented solar flares target North America, Wakefield becomes the center of a temporary shift in atmospheric energies. The living are seeing the dead walk among them. As they find themselves in the heart of this nightmare until dawn, they need to face history in the flesh, and
Continue reading →
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Meet Miles, (Daniel Radcliffe) a game programmer who spends way too much time trolling the fans of Skizm, a life or death game that has taken the world by storm. Miles bullies the wrong person and ends up waking up with guns bolted to the palms of his hands. But it gets worse, the guy he pissed off runs Skizm and he’s sent his best player after Miles, the psycho killer Nix (Samara Weaving). And the shit hits the fan! There are so many great things about Guns Akimbo. The nearly constant action is more than enough to make your head explode. The acting is top-notch. Director Jason Lei Howden has created a hardcore action flick that will leave you cheering. When I first heard that Radcliffe was set to star in action flick I was a bit surprised. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a fan since his Harry Potter days, but Radcliffe has never played a part like
Continue reading →
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Later this year, writer-director Andre Welsh‘s thriller Disrupted is set to arrive in theaters and digital. For longtime Oakland resident, Pete, survival is an endless struggle in a gentrified, tech-driven world that’s left him in its dust. But he’s clean and sober, has rectified a relationship with his daughter, and the memories of his wife’s unsolved murder from decades ago rarely haunt him these days. That is until a local killing is strikingly familiar. Reluctantly pulled back in by the retired detective who worked the original case, Pete again sets out to find his wife’s killer and is quickly consumed by his rekindled thirst for justice, a pursuit that cost him everything once before. Starring Ron Kaell, Geoffrey Lower, and Chioke Jelani Clanton, Marie Wilson, Drew Seeley, Amy Paffrath, and Daniel Roebuck. Mark Gogolewski, Steven Siig, and Jared Drake are producing. Jeff Gadigan co-produced. Disrupted will make its World Premiere as an Official Selection of the 2020 Cinequest Film &
Continue reading →
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Just because Bruce Campbell (interview) has retired from his role as Ash Williams doesn’t mean that we have seen the last of the Evil Dead franchise. It was announced several months ago that a new Evil Dead movie is in the works, one that will see a still-unnamed young unnamed filmmaker in the director’s chair. During a Q&A at the Fan Expo in Vancouver last weekend Campbell teased that the new installment may begin filming this year. We’re producing more Evil Dead movies. Maybe one later this year. Sam Raimi has hand picked the next guy to make another creepy Evil Dead. It just won’t have Ash. Yeah, it’s cool. There are more stories to tell, sir.” While we all wish Campbell would come out of retirement, I am happy to see a new Evil Dead movie. I do wonder if it is a true sequel or if it will more resemble the “Ash vs Evil Dead” series or Fede
Continue reading →
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“The Haunting of Hill House” fans are eagerly awaiting the second season of Mike Flanagan‘s horror anthology, The Haunting of Bly Manor“.”We can report today that filming has officially wrapped. Flanagan made the announcement via Twitter. https://twitter.com/flanaganfilm/status/1230874025590575104 Loosely based on the 1898 novella The Tuning of the Screw by Henry James, the film’s cast includes returning season one actors Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Victoria Pedretti, Kate Siegel, Henry James, and Catherine Parker. Rahul Kohi, T’Nai Miller, Amelia Eve, Amelie Smith, and Benjamin Ainsworth will join them. The series is written and directed by Flanagan who also executive produced with his partner Trevor Macy, Amblin’s Darryl Frank, and Justin Falvey. We should have a trailer soon.
Continue reading →
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News has come out of EFM that Zach Braff (Golden State, “Scrubs”) is set to face off against sharks in survival thriller Tiburon. Directed by Alistair Legrand (The Diabolical) and written by Jonathan WC Mills (Nothing Left to Fear), Tiburon follows a young family trapped in a camper van, stranded on a flooded tidal basin near the beach. As the water rises, the family must make a choice, flee through the shark-infested water or face a sadistic fugitive. Paula Patton (Traffik) and Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) also star, ScreenDaily reports. Culmination co-founders Tom Butterfield and Harry White are producing alongside Mills. By the way, Tiburon means “shark” in Spanish. Production is set to begin this spring in South Africa.
Continue reading →
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Norman Patridge‘s horror novel Dark Harvest is set to be adapted by David Slade, the director who brought us Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, and “Hannibal”. Deadline is reporting that the adaptation, written by Michael Gilio, has found a home at MGM. The novel is set on Halloween 1963 in a small Midwestern town where “ the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. One teen, Pete McCormick, knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in the one-horse town. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror – and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy.” The casting process should begin soon. You can pick up your copy of Norman Patridge‘s Dark Harvest now on Amazon.
Continue reading →
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“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars alongside Famke Janssen (Hause on Haunted Hill) in The Postcard Killings, the film adaptation of the best-selling book by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. In the trailer, we meet a troubled detective on the hunt for a twisted serial killer. NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon (Morgan), whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Cush Jumbo, Steven Mackintosh, Joachim Król, and Denis O’Hare round out the cast. Witness The Postcard Killings in theaters on March 13, 2020.
Continue reading →
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The official poster and new images from A24’s Saint Maud will leave you on your knees. The satanic thriller is the debut feature from Rose Glass. Described as “a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world,” the film centers on Maud (Morfydd Clark, Love & Friendship), a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul. However, sinister forces and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy mission. BAFTA-winning actress Jennifer Ehle (The Miseducation of Cameron Post) also stars. Saint Maud, said to have the feel of films such as The Witch, Blackcoat’s Daughter, and Hereditary, will arrive in select theaters on April 1, 2020, followed by a wider release.
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