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Wet Your Appetite With The Trailer For Cannibal Comedy ‘Corporate Animals’

Following its premiere and Sundance earlier this year Patrick Brice‘s cannibalistic comedy Corporate Animals will be coming to theaters and On Demand this September. Today, we’ve got the first trailer. Demi Moore stars alongside Jessica Williams (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Ed Helms (The Hangover), Karan Soni (Pokemon Detective Pikachu), and Nasim Redrad (Aladdin). In the film, “Lucy (Moore) is the delusional CEO of a struggling startup aimed at millennials. In her infinite wisdom, Lucy leads her staff, including her long-suffering assistants Jess (Williams) and Freddie (Soni), on a team-building retreat in the caves of New Mexico led by an overeager guide (Helms). When disaster strikes and the food runs out, mandatory office bonding becomes a lot more…appetizing.” Written by Sam Bain, the film is produced by Jess Wu Calder Keith Calder, Mike Falbo, and Ed Helms. Corporate Animals will open in theaters and arrive On Demand on September 20th, from Screen Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 20, 2019

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Lupita Nyong’o Protects Her Class From Zombies In The ‘Little Monsters’ Trailer

Following her breakout role in Jordan Peele’s Us (review) Lupita Nyong’o stars as a schoolteacher in the horror-comedy Little Monsters, written and directed by Abe Forsythe (Down Under). The new trailer reveals the military gearing up to battle the undead and a field trip gone wrong. Nyong’o plays Miss Caroline, a teacher who fights to protect her students from a zombie outbreak during a field trip gone to hell. Miss Caroline teams up with Dave (Alexander England), a washed-up musician, and kids’ show host Teddy McGiggle (Josh Gad) to defeat zombies while trying to keep her students unaware of the outbreak. Little Monsters, which premiered at Sundance will hit theaters in the U.K. and Ireland on November 15th. A U.S. release date has yet to be announced.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 1, 2019

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Don’t Be Brain Dead, Go See ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ In Theaters Now

The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled” gather for the zombie apocalypse in t The Dead Don’t Die from director Jim Jarmusch and Focus Features. The cast for this zomcom stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, Tom Waits, RZA, Sara Driver, Rosie Perez, and Carol Kane. “In this peaceful town, on these quiet streets, something terrifying, something horrifying is coming,” a voiceover intones, followed by the town’s cafe getting invaded by the undead.” Don’t be brain dead, go see The Dead Don’t Die in theaters now!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 15, 2019

Film Festivals

Movie Reviews: Dances with Films Festival premieres: Driven, Would You Like to Try Again? and Wowzers

In this creep column, I’m focusing my putrid peepers on three vastly different flicks that will be prancin’ across the sinful silver screen this month at the Dances with Films Festival! Playing Saturday, June 15th at 11:45 pm at TCL Chinese Theatre is: Driven (2019) Ride share fright flicks are en vogue these days; and as a relatively new phenomena they are ripe for exploration and fresh ideas, and Driven exemplifies this fully! Emerson (Casey Dillard who also wrote and co-produced the film) is havin’ the usual ass-pain of a night schlepping around various annoying fares, but things take a turn for the batshit when she picks up Roger (Richard Speight Jr.). You see Rog-baby is lookin’ to dump off a curse handed down through the generations, and now he and E-dawg are in for a night of supernatural shenanigans as they attempt to confront a preternatural evil. Sounds like a Tuesday to your’s cruelly… The lions share of what

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DanXIII

Jun 11, 2019

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Supernatural Comedy Ghost Light Coming To Digital

Giant Pictures has acquired North American digital rights for Ghost Light, a supernatural comedy with a horrifying twist, arriving on digital this June. Ghost Light is the tale of a disgruntled actor who disregards the superstition surrounding Shakespeare’s Macbeth and unwittingly unleashes the play’s legendary curse on the troupe, with tragic consequences. The award-winning ensemble cast of Ghost Light includes Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights), Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons, The Collection, Starfish, Dark Heart), Roger Bart (Episodes, Revenge, The Producers, American Gangster), Carol Kane (The Princess Bride, Annie Hall, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Shannyn Sossamon (Sleepy Hollow, Wayward Pines, A Knight’s Tale, Wristcutters: A Love Story, The Rules of Attraction), Danielle Campbell (Tell Me a Story, The Originals, Runaways, Being Frank), Scott Adsit (Big Hero 6, 30 Rock, Moral Orel, The Terminal), and Steve Tom (Major Crimes, Dumb and Dumber To, Funny or Die Presents…). In the movie, a band of rag-tag summer stock actors

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 8, 2019

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Saban Films Snags Horror Comedy ‘Come To Daddy’ Starring Elijah Wood

Saban Films has snagged the U.S. rights to producer Ant Timpson‘s Come to Daddy, his directorial debut which made its world premiere at Tribeca last month before heading to Cannes. Starring Elijah Wood, the horror-comedy centers on a man in his thirties who travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father. Stephen McHattie (Watchmen, Pontypool) also stars along with Wood and Martin Donavan (Ant-Man, “Big Little Lies”). Toby Harvard penned the script based on Timpson’s story. The film was produced by Mette-Marie Kongsved and Laura Tunstall for Nowhere, Katie Holly for Blinder Films, Daniel Bekerman for Scythia Films, Emma Slade for Firefly Films, and Toby Harvard. Tango Entertainment financed the film which is a Canadian, New Zealand, and Irish co-production that also had support from the New Zealand Film Commission. A theatrical release date should be announced soon for Come to Daddy. Take a look at the clip titled “Impress Me” that features Wood’s character Norval having

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 19, 2019

News

Movie Review: Shed Of The Dead

From writer-director Drew Cullingham comes Shed of the Dead, a horror comedy starring horror icons Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th franchise, Hatchet franchise), Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects, Three from Hell), and Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, The Devil’s Rejects). Meet Trevor (Spencer Brown) a hen-pecked, jobless guy who spends his days hiding from his wife in a shed or playing war games (think D&D) in the basement of his buddy Grahams’ house. When Trevor learns that his neighbors have signed a petition to have his retreat leveled and to have him kicked off his allotment he is furious. Trevor finally grows some balls and confronts Mr. Parsons (Hodder) things don’t go as planned. Luckily, the zombie apocalypse is about to begin. Trevor comes across like your average loser, he refuses to take responsibility for his problems and would rather blame his wife than ask himself why she acts the way she does which makes him far from a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 18, 2019

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DREAD Snags Horror Comedy ‘Harpoon’ At Cannes

Recently acquired out of the Cannes market for US rights by Epic Pictures, Rob Grant’s horror comedy Harpoon is thrilled to release a new hysterically deranged sales trailer. Repped by genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures and coming to DREAD, Epic’s celebrated genre label, the film stars Munro Chambers (star of Epic Pictures’ cult hit Turbo Kid), Emily Tyra (Code Black), and Christopher Gray (The Mist). Harpoon is a black comedy about the rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension that amount when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances. Written by Grant, HARPOON is a brutal and absurd genre film that brings a new twist to the lost at sea genre. Michael Peterson (Knuckleball), Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive) and Julian Black Antelope (True Fiction) produced for 775 Media Corp. Laurie Venning executive produced for Venntertainment. Harpoon made its world premiere this year at the International Film

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 17, 2019

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‘The Dead Don’t Die’ In New Restricted Trailer

“The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled” gather for the zombie apocalypse in the new “Kill the Head” restricted trailer for The Dead Don’t Die from director Jim Jarmusch. The cast for this zomcom stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, Tom Waits, RZA, Sara Driver, Rosie Perez, and Carol Kane. “In this peaceful town, on these quiet streets, something terrifying, something horrifying is coming,” a voiceover intones, followed by the town’s cafe getting invaded by the undead.” The Dead Don’t Die opens in theaters June 14, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 14, 2019

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Zombieland: Double Tap’s Arrival Delayed

After waiting ten years for a sequel to Zombieland, it appears we’ll have to wait an extra week, Zombieland: Double Tap will arrive in theaters a week later than previously announced, it’s moved from October 11th to October 18th. Ruben Fleischer is back in the director’s chair for the sequel that will see the return of all four of its stars, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin. The ragtag crew of survivors will be joined by Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Luke Wilson, and Rosario Dawson. “In this next installment, through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, the zombie slayers must face off against many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.” Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese returned to pen Double Tap‘s script and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 11, 2019

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