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Wonderland Pictures and Imagination Infinite Productions are gearing up to bring the James Dean mythology to the big screen, exploring the legendary curse of his iconic car. Samuel Gonzalez Jr. wrote and will direct the neo-horror film Little Darling which finds a man exploring a small-town junkyard and stumbles upon Dean’s legendary cursed death car. His obsession to rebuild it takes him on a mind-bending odyssey that unleashes the true horror behind the forgotten mystery. “I’m putting the camera deep in engine oil and blood intending to resurrect the Hollywood legend and the ‘ ‘curse of little bastard” with a grounded 90’s based horror ride straight to hell and back.” Gonzalez said. Michael De Roker and Lalit Bhatnagar are producing the film which is set to begin shooting in the Spring of 2022. James Dean, a budding leading man in Hollywood in the 1950s, starred in Rebel Without A Cause and East of Eden. He also was an amateur racer,
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Director Mattie Do‘s The Long Walk will soon arrive. Ahead of its release, the new trailer has been unveiled for the genre-bending film. In The Long Walk, “An old scavenger living on the fringes of a near-future society exploits a ghostly companion’s ability to traverse time, hoping to prevent his mother’s suffering from a terminal illness.” The film made its World Premiered to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and was followed by praise out of the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s the third feature of Lao based director Mattie Do (Chanthaly, Dearest Sister), whose career has been recognized by the Oldenburg International Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival for her breakthrough work as Lao’s first and only woman filmmaker, and the only filmmaker of the country to work in the horror and fantasy genres. A deliberately paced story that burns with intensity and human emotion, The Long Walk is all at
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Let the new trailer for the psychodrama A Banquet whet your appetite ahead of the film’s release this February. Directed by Ruth Paxton and starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, the film centers on widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) “who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.” A Banquet opens in select theaters and arrives on Digital Platforms and VOD on February 18, 2022, from IFC Midnight.
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Sink your teeth into the trailer for the highly-anticipated Gothic horror-thriller The Cursed, originally titled Eight for Silver. The killer trailer teases a dark and violent film filled with tension and horrors. Written and directed by Sean Ellis, the film stars Boyd Holbrook(The Sandman, The Fugitive, Logan), Kelly Reilly (“Yellowstone,” “True Detective”), and Alistair Petrie (“Sex Education,” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Night Manager) and is a reimagining of the werewolf legend for a modern-day audience. Set ”In the late 1800s, a once-peaceful remote country village is under attack—but by who or what, no one knows. Villagers spread rumors of a cursed land, supernatural forces, and even demonic creatures, as the disappearances and killings continue. Pathologist John McBride arrives to investigate the danger, only to discover something much deeper and more sinister than he ever could have imagined.” The film is produced by Ellis, Mickey Liddell, and Pete Shilaimon, and is executive produced by Alison Semenzaand and Jacob
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The Stephen King adaptations just keep on coming (not that we are complaining). Back in September, we published a list of every King adaptation head your way. Now, we can add another. Deadline is reporting that Blumhouse is behind a new series adaptation of King’s best seller Later, which was released in 2021. The cast for the limited series already includes Lucy Liu (Kill Bill) and “True Blood’s” Raelle Tucker who also created the series and wrote the first season. The story centers on “The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret. Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of
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The full cast has now been announced for prolific action director Adrian Grünberg’s (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) survival thriller The Black Demon. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario) join Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) Jorge A. Jimenez (Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, Netflix’s “Narcos”), Héctor Jiménez (Jared Hess’ Nacho Libre), Raúl Méndez (“Narcos”), Edgar Flores (Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre), Venus Ariel (Ava DuVernay’s upcoming “DMZ”) and Carlos Solórzano (Eva Longoria’s upcoming Flamin’ Hot). “We’re so happy with the cast that Adrian was able to unite around this film and cannot imagine a more talented group of actors to create a movie about this Mexican legend,” said producers Javier Chapa and Jon Silk. In the film, based on a Mexican legend, while on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig
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Breaking Glass Pictures has conjured a February release of the female-driven indie witchcraft horror Flee The Light, directed by Alexandra Senza and written by Jennifer Mancini. “The film follows sisters Andra and Delfi, who travel to a remote town after Delfi insists she was once a witch and they must visit the sacred place of her coven. While there, Andra’s infected with an evil force and now it’s up to Delfi to save her sister from a fate worse than death.” Flee the Light, which made its World Premiere at the Great Canadian Horror Film Festival, where it won Best Feature, stars Annie Tuma, Ariana Marquis, Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry, Jamar Adams Thompson, Caroline Raynaud, and Leanne Ofori-Atta. Breaking Glass Pictures and Wazabi Films, our International partners, have been supporting this film since before we got our first piece of financing,” said writer and producer Jennifer Mancini of Mythic Trips Entertainment. “We’re elated to have come this far, and to
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Arrow Films announced today that they have acquired distribution rights to the extraordinary chiller The Righteous, an award-winning standout on the genre festival circuit. The film, a dark chiller about a burdened man who feels the wrath of a vengeful God, after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger, marks the directorial debut or actor and writer Mark O’Brien (AMC’s “61st Street”, Blue Bayou, Ready or Not). Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny (Ready or Not, Mission Impossible, “Revenge”), and Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, “Shadowhunters”) star. A unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, The Righteous tells the story of Frederic (Henry Czerny) a grieving man struggling with his faith, who helps an injured young man, Aaron Smith (Mark O’Brien) who stumbles onto his property one night, claiming to be lost in the woods. Frederic and his wife (Mimi Kuzyk) invite the man to stay for the night, but
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Following its World Premiere at this week’s Sundance Film Festival, Mariama Diallo‘s occult thriller Master is set to arrive on Prime Video this March. The film, which Diallo both wrote and directed, follows “three black women who strive to find their place at the celebrated Ancaster College, an elite university in New England. The school was built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill and the ghostly legacies of Puritan-era persecution haunt the campus in an increasingly supernatural fashion.” Regina Hall (Girls Trip) stars alongside Zoe Renee (“Black Lightning” ), and Amber Gray (Escape at Dannemora). Master arrives on Prime on March 18, 2022. While you wait for the trailer, be sure to check out Diallo’s Sundance “Meet the Artist” profile video in which she discusses the film.
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We just don’t get enough good werewolf movies these days, but director Mark Andrew Hamer aims to change that with his new hair-raising film The Hunting which will leave you howling with excitement. In the film, “When a mysterious animal attack leaves a mutilated body in the forest, a conservative small-town detective must enlist the help of an eager wildlife specialist to uncover the dark and disturbing truth that threatens the town.” The Hunting, starring Peyton Hillis, Joelle Westwood, Joaquin Guerrero, Angela Cole, Keith Migra, Alan Tuskes, Heidi Azaro, Billy Grimm, Daniel Repas, and Matt Tifft, was written by Mark Andrew Hamer as well as Heather Ryan and Terrance Ryan. The Hunting is out today on VOD and is now playing in select theaters.
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Wonderland Pictures and Imagination Infinite Productions are gearing up to bring the James Dean mythology to the big screen, exploring the legendary curse of his iconic car. Samuel Gonzalez Jr. wrote and will direct the neo-horror film Little Darling which finds a man exploring a small-town junkyard and stumbles upon Dean’s legendary cursed death car. His obsession to rebuild it takes him on a mind-bending odyssey that unleashes the true horror behind the forgotten mystery. “I’m putting the camera deep in engine oil and blood intending to resurrect the Hollywood legend and the ‘ ‘curse of little bastard” with a grounded 90’s based horror ride straight to hell and back.” Gonzalez said. Michael De Roker and Lalit Bhatnagar are producing the film which is set to begin shooting in the Spring of 2022. James Dean, a budding leading man in Hollywood in the 1950s, starred in Rebel Without A Cause and East of Eden. He also was an amateur racer,
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Director Mattie Do‘s The Long Walk will soon arrive. Ahead of its release, the new trailer has been unveiled for the genre-bending film. In The Long Walk, “An old scavenger living on the fringes of a near-future society exploits a ghostly companion’s ability to traverse time, hoping to prevent his mother’s suffering from a terminal illness.” The film made its World Premiered to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and was followed by praise out of the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s the third feature of Lao based director Mattie Do (Chanthaly, Dearest Sister), whose career has been recognized by the Oldenburg International Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival for her breakthrough work as Lao’s first and only woman filmmaker, and the only filmmaker of the country to work in the horror and fantasy genres. A deliberately paced story that burns with intensity and human emotion, The Long Walk is all at
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Let the new trailer for the psychodrama A Banquet whet your appetite ahead of the film’s release this February. Directed by Ruth Paxton and starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, the film centers on widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) “who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.” A Banquet opens in select theaters and arrives on Digital Platforms and VOD on February 18, 2022, from IFC Midnight.
Continue reading →
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Sink your teeth into the trailer for the highly-anticipated Gothic horror-thriller The Cursed, originally titled Eight for Silver. The killer trailer teases a dark and violent film filled with tension and horrors. Written and directed by Sean Ellis, the film stars Boyd Holbrook(The Sandman, The Fugitive, Logan), Kelly Reilly (“Yellowstone,” “True Detective”), and Alistair Petrie (“Sex Education,” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Night Manager) and is a reimagining of the werewolf legend for a modern-day audience. Set ”In the late 1800s, a once-peaceful remote country village is under attack—but by who or what, no one knows. Villagers spread rumors of a cursed land, supernatural forces, and even demonic creatures, as the disappearances and killings continue. Pathologist John McBride arrives to investigate the danger, only to discover something much deeper and more sinister than he ever could have imagined.” The film is produced by Ellis, Mickey Liddell, and Pete Shilaimon, and is executive produced by Alison Semenzaand and Jacob
Continue reading →
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The Stephen King adaptations just keep on coming (not that we are complaining). Back in September, we published a list of every King adaptation head your way. Now, we can add another. Deadline is reporting that Blumhouse is behind a new series adaptation of King’s best seller Later, which was released in 2021. The cast for the limited series already includes Lucy Liu (Kill Bill) and “True Blood’s” Raelle Tucker who also created the series and wrote the first season. The story centers on “The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret. Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of
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The full cast has now been announced for prolific action director Adrian Grünberg’s (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) survival thriller The Black Demon. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario) join Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) Jorge A. Jimenez (Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, Netflix’s “Narcos”), Héctor Jiménez (Jared Hess’ Nacho Libre), Raúl Méndez (“Narcos”), Edgar Flores (Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre), Venus Ariel (Ava DuVernay’s upcoming “DMZ”) and Carlos Solórzano (Eva Longoria’s upcoming Flamin’ Hot). “We’re so happy with the cast that Adrian was able to unite around this film and cannot imagine a more talented group of actors to create a movie about this Mexican legend,” said producers Javier Chapa and Jon Silk. In the film, based on a Mexican legend, while on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig
Continue reading →
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Breaking Glass Pictures has conjured a February release of the female-driven indie witchcraft horror Flee The Light, directed by Alexandra Senza and written by Jennifer Mancini. “The film follows sisters Andra and Delfi, who travel to a remote town after Delfi insists she was once a witch and they must visit the sacred place of her coven. While there, Andra’s infected with an evil force and now it’s up to Delfi to save her sister from a fate worse than death.” Flee the Light, which made its World Premiere at the Great Canadian Horror Film Festival, where it won Best Feature, stars Annie Tuma, Ariana Marquis, Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry, Jamar Adams Thompson, Caroline Raynaud, and Leanne Ofori-Atta. Breaking Glass Pictures and Wazabi Films, our International partners, have been supporting this film since before we got our first piece of financing,” said writer and producer Jennifer Mancini of Mythic Trips Entertainment. “We’re elated to have come this far, and to
Continue reading →
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Arrow Films announced today that they have acquired distribution rights to the extraordinary chiller The Righteous, an award-winning standout on the genre festival circuit. The film, a dark chiller about a burdened man who feels the wrath of a vengeful God, after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger, marks the directorial debut or actor and writer Mark O’Brien (AMC’s “61st Street”, Blue Bayou, Ready or Not). Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny (Ready or Not, Mission Impossible, “Revenge”), and Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, “Shadowhunters”) star. A unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, The Righteous tells the story of Frederic (Henry Czerny) a grieving man struggling with his faith, who helps an injured young man, Aaron Smith (Mark O’Brien) who stumbles onto his property one night, claiming to be lost in the woods. Frederic and his wife (Mimi Kuzyk) invite the man to stay for the night, but
Continue reading →
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Following its World Premiere at this week’s Sundance Film Festival, Mariama Diallo‘s occult thriller Master is set to arrive on Prime Video this March. The film, which Diallo both wrote and directed, follows “three black women who strive to find their place at the celebrated Ancaster College, an elite university in New England. The school was built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill and the ghostly legacies of Puritan-era persecution haunt the campus in an increasingly supernatural fashion.” Regina Hall (Girls Trip) stars alongside Zoe Renee (“Black Lightning” ), and Amber Gray (Escape at Dannemora). Master arrives on Prime on March 18, 2022. While you wait for the trailer, be sure to check out Diallo’s Sundance “Meet the Artist” profile video in which she discusses the film.
Continue reading →
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We just don’t get enough good werewolf movies these days, but director Mark Andrew Hamer aims to change that with his new hair-raising film The Hunting which will leave you howling with excitement. In the film, “When a mysterious animal attack leaves a mutilated body in the forest, a conservative small-town detective must enlist the help of an eager wildlife specialist to uncover the dark and disturbing truth that threatens the town.” The Hunting, starring Peyton Hillis, Joelle Westwood, Joaquin Guerrero, Angela Cole, Keith Migra, Alan Tuskes, Heidi Azaro, Billy Grimm, Daniel Repas, and Matt Tifft, was written by Mark Andrew Hamer as well as Heather Ryan and Terrance Ryan. The Hunting is out today on VOD and is now playing in select theaters.
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