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The original soundtrack for the frightening film Downrange is now available on Digital. Featuring the film’s powerful original score by Aldo Shllaku, Downrange is the second collaboration between director Ryuhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train, Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars) and composer Aldo Shllaku and was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film has just arrived on the premium video streaming service Shudder. For the melodic material, a serial system was conceived with a 7 note series derived from DOWNRANGE, the title of the film. The director and the cast was used in vocally performing letters and other interpretations of the title of the film. This recorded material was then the source in creating additional soundscapes and other sound design effects used in the score as part of the texture and ambiance. Weapons from the film were used as percussive instruments part of the rhythm section. A percussive sound library was created by recording and hitting the
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Ahead of the Marche du Film in Cannes, which runs from May 8th through the 17th, genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed the first title in their Cannes lineup, the sci-fi horror-comedy Canaries. They have also released the film’s first trailer. From Welsh writer-director Peter Stray, the film centers on a group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party in the Welsh Valley where the group is forced to fight against an invasion force of time traveling aliens. Robert Pugh (Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Master & Commander) and Hannah Daniel (Netflix’s Hinterland) star.
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Entertainment One and CBS Films have just announced that they will co-finance Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The feature film, based on Alvin Schwartz’s best-selling scary book series of the same name, will be directed by André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), Deadline reports. Del Toro who penned the script for the adaptation along with Daniel and Kevin Hageman. Toro will also produce with Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, Elizabeth Grave, and J. Miles Dale. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark follows a group of teenagers who must solve the mystery of a series of disturbing deaths in their small hometown. Set to begin filming this summer in Toronto, Ontario, the film will be distributed by Lionsgate.
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From 1978 to 1986, the Golden State Killer (aka The East Area Rapist) took the lives of 12 people and raped 46 women in California. He often tied up men and forced them to watch their companions being raped before he killed them. The Golden State Killer’s murders and rapes were not linked until 2000. He remained nameless and free until Wednesday when a task force of local law enforcement and federal investigators announced that they had finally arrested a suspect. Tuesday afternoon Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was taken into custody at his Sacramento home and charged with eight counts of murder. All of Wednesday and today authorities have continued to search home and property for clues. Scott Jones, the Sacramento County Sheriff, stated that the task force had been keeping surveillance of the 72-year-old man and retrieved his DNA from a discarded item. The DNA matched samples left at crime scenes. One of the disturbing aspects of the case
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After making one hell of an impact at the box office, pulling in over $200 million worldwide, it’s no surprise that Paramount has now officially confirmed during CinemaCon that A Quiet Place is getting a sequel. Jim Gianopulos, Paramount Studio’s chairman made the announcement. A Quiet Place writer’s Bryan Woods and Scott Beck made it clear that they have plenty of ideas for the sequel. It’s such a fun world,” Woods told Fandango during a conversation a couple of weeks ago. “There are so many things you could do.” Beck added, “There are so many discarded set pieces, too, just hiding out on Word documents on our computer. So, yeah, there are certainly so many stories you could tell.” There is been no word of when the sequel might see release or if John Krasinski, who both starred, co-wrote, and directed A Quiet Place, will be involved. Krasinski recently filled in fans on the origin story of the creatures in
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The fourth issue of the six-part comic series Pacific Rim Aftermath by Legendary Comics is now available online and in stores. The comic series takes place after the events of the first Pacific Rim film and is the official prequel to the movie’s sequel starring John Boyega. The series focuses on the criminal underworld born out of the rubble of Santa Monica after the first Kaiju war where the giant fighting robots known as Jaegers are used as mob muscle. The series follows a former Jaeger pilot turned mob enforcer, Griffin, and Jake Pentecost (John Boyega’s character). In the latest issue, Griffin learns more about a cult of Kaiju worshipers as new threats are beginning to make their presence known in the slums of Santa Monica. The gritty adventure continues as the series’ end approaches who will come out on top?
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The 22nd Annual Webby Awards has posted the list of winners this morning along with the winners of the People’s Voice Awards. The Webby Award is decided by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences while The People’s Voice winners are voted on by the general public. The following is the list of winners from the Video gaming category. The complete list of all winners of the Webby and People’s Voice can be found HERE. Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Cuphead StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. Games Features Best Art Direction Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Overwatch Blizzard Games Features Best Game Design Webby Award Winner Farpoint (Original Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design People’s Voice Winner Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Original Game Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Star Wars: Jedi Challenges Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media Games Features Best Use of Augmented Reality People’s
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WARNING: The following information and images may be disturbing to some In a shocking twist that would be something out of a Hitchcock film, Hans Asperger, the Austrian Pediatrician, Medical Theorist, and a professor was on the wrong side of history, make that, the darkest wrong side of history. Though Asperger is known and celebrated for his research in childhood autism and discovering the higher functioning spectrum of it which was named after him (Asperger Syndrome), he was involved in a dark chapter in history many are not aware of, Action T4. On April 19, 2018, Molecular Autism published their findings after eight years of peer review concluding that Asperger, who has said in the past that he defended his patients against the Nazis, in fact, partook in Action T4 (Aktion T4) the systematically forced euthanasia of mentally handicapped children. Asperger himself did not actively murder any of his patients but referred them to one of eight euthanasia sites, Am
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Filmmakers Jacob Wasserman, Adam Donald, and Ant Gentile have announced the formation of Hidden Content, a full-service virtual reality company. Their first project was unveiled earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of their narrative 360 Cinema project The Caretaker, the first installment of an original horror anthology series. Created by Wasserman and Donald as well as filmmaker Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes Of My Mother, Piercing), The Caretaker stars Adelaide Clemens, Tom Lipinski, Clara Wong, and Diana Agostini. The project was produced by Max Born and Schuyler Weiss and executive produced by Gentile and Kimberly Parker. The pilot was a co-production with RealMotion Inc. and audio services were provided by Hobo Audio. Hidden Content has also teamed with film producer and financier Max Born to produce and acquire a slate of VR films and series, as well as develop a VR/AR distribution platform. Wasserman, Donald, and Gentile have been working in the virtual reality and
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NetflixNewsStreaming TVTrailers
The final trailer for Netflix’s apocalypse series “The Rain” is here and teases the journey of two siblings as they take refuge in a bunker to avoid the poison-laced rain that has killed much of the world. The series, “picks up six years after a brutal virus carried by rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, and follows two Danish siblings as they emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone and very few survivors. Set free from their collective past and societal rules, the group set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life. However, the task is complicated when tensions in the group start to rise as the rain pours in.” Jannik Tai Mosholt (Follow the Money), Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear), and Christian Potalivo (The New Tenants) created the Danish series that stars Alba August, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, and Lars
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The original soundtrack for the frightening film Downrange is now available on Digital. Featuring the film’s powerful original score by Aldo Shllaku, Downrange is the second collaboration between director Ryuhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train, Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars) and composer Aldo Shllaku and was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film has just arrived on the premium video streaming service Shudder. For the melodic material, a serial system was conceived with a 7 note series derived from DOWNRANGE, the title of the film. The director and the cast was used in vocally performing letters and other interpretations of the title of the film. This recorded material was then the source in creating additional soundscapes and other sound design effects used in the score as part of the texture and ambiance. Weapons from the film were used as percussive instruments part of the rhythm section. A percussive sound library was created by recording and hitting the
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Ahead of the Marche du Film in Cannes, which runs from May 8th through the 17th, genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed the first title in their Cannes lineup, the sci-fi horror-comedy Canaries. They have also released the film’s first trailer. From Welsh writer-director Peter Stray, the film centers on a group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party in the Welsh Valley where the group is forced to fight against an invasion force of time traveling aliens. Robert Pugh (Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Master & Commander) and Hannah Daniel (Netflix’s Hinterland) star.
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Entertainment One and CBS Films have just announced that they will co-finance Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The feature film, based on Alvin Schwartz’s best-selling scary book series of the same name, will be directed by André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), Deadline reports. Del Toro who penned the script for the adaptation along with Daniel and Kevin Hageman. Toro will also produce with Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, Elizabeth Grave, and J. Miles Dale. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark follows a group of teenagers who must solve the mystery of a series of disturbing deaths in their small hometown. Set to begin filming this summer in Toronto, Ontario, the film will be distributed by Lionsgate.
Continue reading →
BooksNewsTrue CrimeTrue Story
From 1978 to 1986, the Golden State Killer (aka The East Area Rapist) took the lives of 12 people and raped 46 women in California. He often tied up men and forced them to watch their companions being raped before he killed them. The Golden State Killer’s murders and rapes were not linked until 2000. He remained nameless and free until Wednesday when a task force of local law enforcement and federal investigators announced that they had finally arrested a suspect. Tuesday afternoon Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was taken into custody at his Sacramento home and charged with eight counts of murder. All of Wednesday and today authorities have continued to search home and property for clues. Scott Jones, the Sacramento County Sheriff, stated that the task force had been keeping surveillance of the 72-year-old man and retrieved his DNA from a discarded item. The DNA matched samples left at crime scenes. One of the disturbing aspects of the case
Continue reading →
MoviesNews
After making one hell of an impact at the box office, pulling in over $200 million worldwide, it’s no surprise that Paramount has now officially confirmed during CinemaCon that A Quiet Place is getting a sequel. Jim Gianopulos, Paramount Studio’s chairman made the announcement. A Quiet Place writer’s Bryan Woods and Scott Beck made it clear that they have plenty of ideas for the sequel. It’s such a fun world,” Woods told Fandango during a conversation a couple of weeks ago. “There are so many things you could do.” Beck added, “There are so many discarded set pieces, too, just hiding out on Word documents on our computer. So, yeah, there are certainly so many stories you could tell.” There is been no word of when the sequel might see release or if John Krasinski, who both starred, co-wrote, and directed A Quiet Place, will be involved. Krasinski recently filled in fans on the origin story of the creatures in
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsNewsProduct
The fourth issue of the six-part comic series Pacific Rim Aftermath by Legendary Comics is now available online and in stores. The comic series takes place after the events of the first Pacific Rim film and is the official prequel to the movie’s sequel starring John Boyega. The series focuses on the criminal underworld born out of the rubble of Santa Monica after the first Kaiju war where the giant fighting robots known as Jaegers are used as mob muscle. The series follows a former Jaeger pilot turned mob enforcer, Griffin, and Jake Pentecost (John Boyega’s character). In the latest issue, Griffin learns more about a cult of Kaiju worshipers as new threats are beginning to make their presence known in the slums of Santa Monica. The gritty adventure continues as the series’ end approaches who will come out on top?
Continue reading →
EventsGamingNews
The 22nd Annual Webby Awards has posted the list of winners this morning along with the winners of the People’s Voice Awards. The Webby Award is decided by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences while The People’s Voice winners are voted on by the general public. The following is the list of winners from the Video gaming category. The complete list of all winners of the Webby and People’s Voice can be found HERE. Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Cuphead StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. Games Features Best Art Direction Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Overwatch Blizzard Games Features Best Game Design Webby Award Winner Farpoint (Original Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design People’s Voice Winner Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Original Game Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Star Wars: Jedi Challenges Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media Games Features Best Use of Augmented Reality People’s
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WARNING: The following information and images may be disturbing to some In a shocking twist that would be something out of a Hitchcock film, Hans Asperger, the Austrian Pediatrician, Medical Theorist, and a professor was on the wrong side of history, make that, the darkest wrong side of history. Though Asperger is known and celebrated for his research in childhood autism and discovering the higher functioning spectrum of it which was named after him (Asperger Syndrome), he was involved in a dark chapter in history many are not aware of, Action T4. On April 19, 2018, Molecular Autism published their findings after eight years of peer review concluding that Asperger, who has said in the past that he defended his patients against the Nazis, in fact, partook in Action T4 (Aktion T4) the systematically forced euthanasia of mentally handicapped children. Asperger himself did not actively murder any of his patients but referred them to one of eight euthanasia sites, Am
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsNews
Filmmakers Jacob Wasserman, Adam Donald, and Ant Gentile have announced the formation of Hidden Content, a full-service virtual reality company. Their first project was unveiled earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of their narrative 360 Cinema project The Caretaker, the first installment of an original horror anthology series. Created by Wasserman and Donald as well as filmmaker Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes Of My Mother, Piercing), The Caretaker stars Adelaide Clemens, Tom Lipinski, Clara Wong, and Diana Agostini. The project was produced by Max Born and Schuyler Weiss and executive produced by Gentile and Kimberly Parker. The pilot was a co-production with RealMotion Inc. and audio services were provided by Hobo Audio. Hidden Content has also teamed with film producer and financier Max Born to produce and acquire a slate of VR films and series, as well as develop a VR/AR distribution platform. Wasserman, Donald, and Gentile have been working in the virtual reality and
Continue reading →
NetflixNewsStreaming TVTrailers
The final trailer for Netflix’s apocalypse series “The Rain” is here and teases the journey of two siblings as they take refuge in a bunker to avoid the poison-laced rain that has killed much of the world. The series, “picks up six years after a brutal virus carried by rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, and follows two Danish siblings as they emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone and very few survivors. Set free from their collective past and societal rules, the group set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life. However, the task is complicated when tensions in the group start to rise as the rain pours in.” Jannik Tai Mosholt (Follow the Money), Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear), and Christian Potalivo (The New Tenants) created the Danish series that stars Alba August, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, and Lars
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