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Antichrist ... The Video Game?

12 July 2009 2:48 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

It seems Lars von Trier's Antichrist is far from finished stirring up controversy. His production house Zentropa is working with former Io Interactive writer Morten (Hitman) Iversen to design Eden, a video game based on the film.

Eden is actually planned as a download-only game, which Iverson hopes to get on services like Xbox Live and Steam. In style, he describes it as a “nightmarish version of Myst.” When MTV Movies Blog first learned of the game, they said that it sounds as though Willem Dafoe is in some way involved and that the story will be set after the events of the film.

In a follow-up by MTV Multiplayer, more details came to light. Players can expect some very unique gameplay concepts. When first queuing up the game, they will have to upload a profile, describing what their biggest phobias are. For example, are you afraid of spiders,

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Updated: Platige goes feature length with live action WWII/scifi Hardkor 44

10 July 2009 9:01 AM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Thanks to our friends over at Opium we've got word on Platige's next project, Hardkor 44 which is WWII based scifi and possibly steampunk. It's about the Warsaw Uprising and will be done in cooperation with the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising in an "unconventional way" and will not "hold fast to the original facts". Platige is one of the top animation houses on the planet and even did work on Lars von Trier's Antichrist which you can see here. Our friends tell me that the memory of WWII is kind of a sacred thing in Poland and that this film will be a "breakthrough". It's live action and Heavy on the cgi.

Tomek Baginski, will be announcing more details on the project at the premier of his stunning short Kinematograph tomorrow. Word is Baginski is also writing the script which he'll be working on till December. Hopefully we'll have more details tomorrow.

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20 Most Anticipated Movies Still to Come In 2009

9 July 2009 2:33 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

20 Most Anticipated Movies Still to Come In 2009 At the beginning of the year I made a list of my Top 15 Most Anticipated Films of 2009. Of that list I have now seen five of them. Nine out of the remaining ten made this list as I bumped Alejandro Amenabar's Agora since it has still yet to get picked up by a distributor due to rather weak reactions out of the Cannes Film Festival. However, a few films have made their way onto this list thanks to strong film festival reactions as I have put together a list of 20 films to look forward to as we move into the final six months of 2009. One film I didn't include merely because it is coming out next week and I felt it would be a wasted space is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I am undoubtedly anticipating seeing it and had it been

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International Antichrist Trailers

7 July 2009 11:13 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Two trailers today for Lars Von Trier's controversial film Antichrist for you to dig on! After all, who doesn't need a bit more Dafoe ass in their day?

IFC is giving Antichrist a pre-Halloween theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York on October 23rd, right after its initial VOD launch on October 21st.

After its platform launch IFC hopes to widen the theatrical release. We'll keep our eyes open for listings for you! Dig the trailers below courtesy of Aullidos!

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"Antichrist - UK Quad

2 July 2009 2:11 PM, PDT | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news

Here's the UK Quad for Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" Synopsis Charlotte Gainsbourg ("I'm Not There"; "21 Grams"; "Lemming") and Willem Dafoe ("Spider-man"; "The Last Temptation Of Christ") star as a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping a return to Eden will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. UK release date: 24 July 2009 www.antichristthemovie.com...

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40+ Stills from Antichrist emerge...

2 July 2009 1:12 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

Lars Von Trier's controversial film Antichrist was picked up by IFC at Cannes back in May, and the news continues to trickle out.

Set to receive a limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on October 23rd - two days after it is set to debut on IFC's Video-on-demand service, Antichrist did not impress Fangoria's own Alan Jones, who called it a "self-indulgent, banal and monotonous Freudian talkfest."

Regardless, audiences are still craving more from the sexually explicit film, and this morning over 40 stills from the film have surfaced via Aullidos.

Click here for the full gallery, and click here to learn more about the film, in which Willem DaFoe is "hit in the crotch with a tree trunk and masturbated by [Charlotte] Gainsbourg until he climaxes blood..."

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40+ Sexy Antichrist Images

2 July 2009 12:55 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Just when you thought you'd seen all the writhing bodies and exposed asses that you could handle for one day, out comes over forty images from Lars von Trier's Antichrist!

Antichrist tells the tale of a grieving couple who retreat to ’Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Dig on the rest of the stills by clicking on the image below, and look for Antichrist on July 24th in the UK and a pre-Halloween theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York here in the States on October 23rd, right after its initial VOD launch on October 21st.

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Antichrist's Tree Humping UK Quad Poster

1 July 2009 6:08 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

The UK quad poster for Lars Von Trier's controversial new film Antichrist was unleashed today showing just enough of Willem Dafoe's naked ass to unsettle the masses!

Von Trier weighs in about the film ...

"Two years ago, I suffered from depression. It was a new experience for me. Everything, no matter what, seemed unimportant, trivial. I couldn’t work. Six months later, just as an exercise, I wrote a script. It was a kind of therapy, but also a search, a test to see if I would ever make another film. The script was finished and filmed without much enthusiasm, made as it was using about half of my physical and intellectual capacity. The work on the script did not follow my usual modus operandi. Scenes were added for no reason. Images were composed free of logic or dramatic thinking. They often came from dreams I was having at the time,

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Fantasia 2009 Line-Up Announced

30 June 2009 1:35 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

While we wait for the schedule for Fantasia 2009 to be finalized, we did receive a couple of press release announcing the fest's line-up, and per usual, those of you who are planning to attend are in for one helluva genre extravaganza.

First up is a bit of news about the fest's extended schedule: Due to a veritable deluge of feature presentations, Fantasia is extending its 13th edition for two extra days and will therefore be taking place from July 9th to the 29th at Concordia University’s Hall Theatre. As North America’s largest genre film festival, Fantasia will once again make good on its promise to deliver diversity, innovation, entertainment, food for thought and a good dose of eccentric and biting humour.

Next is a message from Fantasia's Co-Director of International Programming, Mitch Davis, highlighting some of this year’s spotlights:

2009 marks the 100-year anniversary of Hong Kong’s film industry,

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Rachel Kendal ('Sein und Werden')

29 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news

Interview by Alan Kelly

Vaudeville, veiled hats, doppelgangers, clowns, macabre, destruction, deformities, ghosts, insane asylums, cut throat razors, creepy dolls, blood baths, Kathy Acker, Sartre, b/w crime photography, oddities, gas masks, medical curiosities, prosthetic limbs, existentialism, surrealism, Bataille, shiny sharp toys, tod browning, cannibalism, serial killers, philia; each word more or less sums up Rachel Kendal’s Sein und Werden (Being and Becoming). Rachel Kendal, the editor of Sein und Werden has agreed to sit down for a few words on the weirdest print/online magazine currently doing the rounds. A magazine that is going from strength to strength...

Rachel Kendal has had many stories published in a number of print magazines, including Nemonymous, Legends, Connections, Horror Express, Scifantastic and Dead Things. And in the anthologies In Blood We Lust and Darkness Rising 5. Later this year will see her essay about House of 1000 Corpses published in Butcher Knives and Body Counts,

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The Controversial "Antichrist" Gets U.S. Release Date And Video-On-Demand Launch!

25 June 2009 11:12 AM, PDT | From Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news

If you're a fan of director Lars von Trier and adore his cinematic sensibilities, then get ready. IFC has announced their plans on the release dates of "Antichrist."

*** In Los Angeles and New York, "Antichrist" will be shown in theaters Oct. 23

*** "Antichrist" will also be available on video-on-demand Oct. 21 (Have I told you I love this feature? Watching new IFC releases on demand?

Charlotte Gainsbourg, who stars as She in the film, won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in this psychological erotic-horror tale.

So Gainsbourg alone is a big reason to watch this haunting film.

But the big question -- will "Antichrist" be shown in the Us uncut similar to its censor-free debut in Britain?

Gosh, I hope so!

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Film News: 24 Minutes of Cameron’s Avatar Screened / Fincher to Direct Facebook Movie? / Antichrist to Open in Time for Halloween

25 June 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | From SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news

24 minutes of James Cameron’s Avatar was screened for the very first time to 1,000 European industry attendees at the Cinema Expo International in Amsterdam.  Cameron’s decade long passion project has been touted as the film that will change how we watch movies forever.  Now that is one hell of an expectation to live up to.  So is that the case?    The insider writes for comingsoon.net: “3-D until now has been used as a gimmick.”  On the human characters he writes:  “It took my breath away. I thought–just like you guys–that I’ve seen it all with Gollum, or The Hulk, but Cameron has done it again. These creatures seem so real, that within minutes you forget you’re watching an enormous and very blue CGI character. Even the eyes are totally convincing. The characters have real personalities and a soul.” … “How the hell is it possible

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‘Antichrist’ Shows Up on Your Doorstep for Halloween

25 June 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

I thought about creating a title that would evoke a sense of the rising of the dark destroyer of the world coming around the time of the spookiest of all holidays, but instead I decided to evoke the image of a young child only dressed as the Antichrist trick 'r' treating in your neighborhood. You're welcome. Unfortunately, since all of you are true Rejects (and therefore film fans), you probably got the image of a naked Willem Dafoe showing up asking for candy. Which is incredibly accurate since IFC Films is going to be shoving Lars Von Trier's (fresh out of Cannes!) Antichrist into theaters in Los Angeles and New York on October 23. I'm guessing they didn't want to go head to head with Saw 39. This raises some awesome questions: Will the MPAA have to create something beyond Nc-17 for an American release of the film? Will I personally hate it (like Dogville) or love it

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Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" Gets U.S. Distribution

25 June 2009 6:06 AM, PDT | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" will be coming to the U.S. The filmmaker's controversial film will be having a pre-Halloween release in Los Angeles and New York on October 23.

The film, which garnered almost a unanimous rant when it premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival, was snapped by IFC, which will bring the psychological erotic-horror thriller in the country, Variety says.

The distributor has also set a Video on Demand release date for the film on October 21.

"Antichrist," which stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsborough, had come under attack for its explicit sexual and violent mutilation scenes.

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IFC to Fete Antichrist just before Halloween

25 June 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- I would dress up as Willem Dafoe this coming Halloween, but then I'd get the same questions over and over again like why is there blood around my crotch area? and what the deal is with the heavy weight stuck to my leg? Lars von Trier's Antichrist will be receiving an October 21st (VOD) and 23rd release (New York & L.A) via IFC. But let's get some things straight. This is not a horror film in the "usual horror film" sense of the word. This is horror as in horrific, as in terrible things occur to this couple, horrific actions are taken between two. To be honest, I was thinking of Kubrick's The Shining in terms of tone (not your classic horror flick) all the way up to the moment where Dafoe and Gainsbourg's character head to the cabin to continue their therapy. No reasons were given for the selected dates,

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IFC Showing Lars von Trier's Antichrist in Theaters in October

25 June 2009 2:12 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

One of the most controversial films of the year is officially getting a pre-Halloween limited release in Los Angeles and New York. IFC has set Lars von Trier's Antichrist for release on October 23rd. IFC will widen the theatrical release after its initial opening. It's also slated to show via their Video On-Demand service starting on October 21st as well, if you prefer to watch this in the comfort of your own home. No confirmation on whether the theatrical version will be Nc-17 or not, though from the sounds of it, that's how it'll be shown in theaters. It was confirmed a few weeks ago that the Nc-17 cut would show in the UK. Antichrist, which premiered at Cannes in May, is controversial not only because of its content, but the polarizing reactions from the fest. Anne Thompson on Variety said in May after it was picked up by

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The 2010 Oscar Best Picture Race... What are We In For?

25 June 2009 2:07 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

As I sit down to ponder yesterday's news announcing the Oscars have increased the number of Best Picture nominees from five to ten beginning with the 2010 Oscars I have Michael Mann's Last of the Mohicans playing in the background. It wasn't one of the five films nominated for Best Picture at the 1993 Oscars, but with the new rules would it have been? I'm not quite sure, but I would assume The Player, Glengarry Glen Ross, Reservoir Dogs and Malcolm X would have definitely been in the mix. But would it have really mattered? The Academy's decision to shake things up according to AMPAS President Sid Ganis is to return "to some of its earlier roots." By this he is referring to the period between 1932 and 1943 when the Best Picture category was usually made up of ten films. The exceptions in those years included the 1931/1932 ceremony with eight nominees and 1934/1935 ceremony with 12. However,

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IFC Unleashes Antichrist in October

25 June 2009 2:05 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Lars Von Trier's film Antichrist has been enjoying quite a buzz in and around the industry, but the one question on everyone's mind has been, "When can we see it?" Finally we have an answer!

Variety reports that IFC is giving Antichrist a pre-Halloween theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York on October 23rd, right after its initial VOD launch on October 21st.

After its platform launch IFC hopes to widen the theatrical release. We'll keep our eyes open for listings for you! Dig the trailer below!

Antichrist - Trailer 1

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Lars Von Triers Antichrist Gets October Release Dates

24 June 2009 8:54 PM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news

Antichrist, the new film from Lars Von Trier that divided audiences at Cannes and is even getting a video game (!?!) has been set for a late October theater bow in New York City and Los Angeles, according to Variety. IFC will release the film on the coasts on October 23, two days after an October 21 On Demand premiere. Saying that the film 'divided audiences' at the festival is being generous. Most people seemed to hate it, but it quickly became one of those films that had writers revisiting their critical take after the fact. Has Trier created a post-modern joke just to poke at audiences, or is Antichrist really a powerful meditation on fear and tensions between men and women? Gainsbourg won the fest's Best Actress award, and IFC quickly bought the picture for distribution in the states. The company will do a platform release pattern after the Oct ...

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The Antichrist to bow on October 23

24 June 2009 7:18 PM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

Variety reports that Lars Von Trier's Antichrist will get a limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on October 23rd - two days after it is set to debut on IFC's Video-on-demand service.

IFC, the biggest buyer at this year's Cannes Film Festival, snapped up the psychological erotic-horror title during the fest. Pic, which has sexually explicit content, stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. Meta Louise Foldager produced and Peter Aalbaek Jensen and Peter Garde exec produced.

The Cannes jury presented Gainsbourg with its actress award.

IFC will widen the theatrical release after the platform launch.

See the trailer and three clips right here, and read Allan Jones' report from Cannes here.

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