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ABC's of Death 2 Moves Forward with International Lineup of Directors
15 May 2013 1:06 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Producers Ant Timpson, Tim League, and the Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing announced today the production of ABCs of Death 2, a high energy sequel to the 2012 anthology hit that delivers 26 new dark tales from the industry's most celebrated genre directors. Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs of Death 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.
In a significant departure from the first installment, ABCs of Death 2 is expanding beyond horror directors. The sequel's new roster includes Goya Award winner Álex de la Iglesia (The Last Circus, Oxford Murders); Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Filipino icon - and Director's Fortnight inductee - Erik Matti (Exodus: Tales from the Enchanted Kingdom); and the founder of Nigerian "Nollywood" cinema Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen.
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- MovieWeb
Errors of the Human Body | Review
6 May 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Body Talk: Sheean’s Debut Forgoes Thrills for Moody Drama
Eron Sheean, best known for writing the 2011 Xavier Gens film, The Divide, arrives with his curiously titled Errors of the Human Body, a sort of medical drama thriller that sounds instead like a documentary series on the Discovery channel. At first playing like a treatment by Robin Cook with a mad scientist angle, the film eventually reveals that it has no interest in delivering the thrills or chills that its foreboding first half painstakingly constructs, instead settling for mediocre melodrama.
Geoffrey Burton (Michael Eklund) is a medical researcher that has dedicated his life to finding a cure for Burton’s syndrome, a deadly genetic disease caused by a mutation that claimed the life of his infant son and ruined his idyllic marriage. Taking a job in Dresden, he spends his time developing pre-natal tests and living out an angsty existence »
- Nicholas Bell
Tff 2013: Mr. Jones Review
23 April 2013 6:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Every year, a horror film will emerge and declare itself a game changer. It touts its originality as a benchmark in the genre. It features epic quotes in its trailer from critics that call it “Terrifying” and boast about how they were on the edge of their seat the whole time. Mr. Jones, is not that film.
The story follows Scott and Penny, a young couple who ditch their big city life in favor of a cabin in the countryside. Their intention is to work on their relationship while Scott documents the experience on camera. Over time, strange things begin to happen and they both discover that they share the countryside with Mr. Jones, a mercurial artist whose work is celebrated and feared by the American arts community.
Seeing an opportunity, Scott and Penny convince themselves to investigate Mr. Jones and instead make a documentary about the myth which surrounds »
- Damen Norton
Tribeca: Anchor Bay Snags Distribution Rights to Indie Horror Film 'Mr. Jones'
18 April 2013 12:42 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, Anchor Bay picked up the rights to "Mr. Jones," writer/director Karl Mueller's indie horror film about a young couple (Jon Foster and Sarah Jones) terrorized in (where else but) a remote cabin by a twisted forest-dwelling hermit. No word yet on the North American distribution date of "Mr. Jones," but the film will have its world premiere on April 19th at Tribeca. The plot sure sounds trite, but in a recent interview with Indiewire, Mueller named Danny Boyle and David Lynch as the primary influences for this purportedly surreal flick. Here's hoping he delivers. In 2011, Anchor Bay Films released Mueller's feature film writing debut "The Divide," an apocalyptic thriller directed by Xavier Gens. »
- Ryan Lattanzio
Anchor Bay Acquires Mr. Jones
18 April 2013 11:46 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Anchor Bay Films just announced that they acquired Mr. Jones, a new horror film that will be screening this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival:
New York, NY – Anchor Bay Films has landed the rights to Mr. Jones at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The company has picked up all North American rights to the thriller from writer/director Karl Mueller (screenwriter of The Divide). Mr. Jones is produced by Preferred Film & TV’s Ross M. Dinerstein and executive produced by Content’s Jamie Carmichael. Mr. Jones, starring Jon Foster (Brotherhood, The Informers) and Sarah Jones (“Vegas”, “Big Love”, “Sons of Anarchy”), will have its world premiere at Tribeca on Friday, April 19th. Mr. Jones marks Anchor Bay Films’ third release produced by Dinerstein, having previously released director Zak Penn’s The Grand and Xavier Gens’ The Divide. Bill Clark, Anchor Bay Entertainment president, made today’s announcement. Content »
- Jonathan James
Anchor Bay Films Picks Up Thriller Mr. Jones
18 April 2013 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Anchor Bay Films has landed the rights to Mr. Jones at this year.s Tribeca Film Festival. The company has picked up all North American rights to the thriller from writer/director Karl Mueller (screenwriter of The Divide ). Mr. Jones is produced by Preferred Film & TV.s Ross M. Dinerstein and executive produced by Content.s Jamie Carmichael. Mr. Jones , starring Jon Foster and Sarah Jones, will have its world premiere at Tribeca on Friday, April 19th. The film marks Anchor Bay Films. third release produced by Dinerstein, having previously released director Zak Penn.s The Grand and Xavier Gens. The Divide . Bill Clark, Anchor Bay Entertainment president, made today.s announcement. Content is handling worldwide sales and are co-representing North America with Preferred »
Movie Review: Errors Of The Human Body!!
17 April 2013 6:42 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
There is something about a film that deals with the desire to redeem one’s self, that really appeals to me. I find it enthralling to sit through a character’s journey to right what was wronged, and the personal discoveries that they must go through to succeed in that. Eron Sheean’s Errors Of The Human Body deals with those themes, and makes us as viewers ask, “What is the cost of progress?”
Errors Of The Human Body follows Dr. Geoff Burton (played amazingly by The Divide and The Call‘s Michael Eklund), a geneticist who is completely consumed by the regret of having not been able to save his infant son from a rare disease that took the child’s life. After being kicked out of his previous teaching job, Burton is forced to relocate to a school and research facility in Germany, where he helps a former »
- SMITH
Blu-ray, DVD Release: The ABCs of Death
17 April 2013 3:19 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 21, 2013
Price: DVD $26.98, Blu-ray $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $32.98
Studio: Magnolia
One of 26 fatal segments of The ABCs of Death.
The horror film The ABCs of Death is a high-concept anthology movie if ever there was one: 26 individual “chapters” on the topic of death, each helmed by a different director assigned to a specific letter of the alphabet.
Showcasing the wide variety of possibilities when it comes to that most final of topics, the segments include the fatal visions of such established genre filmmakers as Ti West (The Innkeepers), Xavier Gens (The Divide), Adam Wingard (V/H/S) and Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) amongst a whole helluva lot of them.
The unrated ABCs of Death, which features an ill-fated a cast of performers from around the world, received a limited release to theaters in the U.S. following its rollout to genre film festivals around the world. »
- Laurence
David Slade Discusses ‘Complex’ ‘Daredevil’ Reboot that Never Happened
9 April 2013 10:33 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
This time last year, Twentieth Century Fox’s reboot of Daredevil still appeared to be on track, albeit with a few wobbling wheels, to head into production within a few months. Talk of a reboot began with Frank Miller and Jason Statham expressing an interest, and Hitman director Xavier Gens later tried pitching the project with Sam Worthington pencilled in to play the lead. Fox, who still owned the rights to the character since producing the Ben Affleck-led version in 2003, began turning the gears on a reboot a few years ago in order to ensure that Matt Murdock remained their property.
Fox chose David Slade – director of the gruesome, low-budget thriller Hard Candy and comic book adaptation Thirty Days of Night – to direct the project early on, ...
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- Hannah Shaw-Williams
Tribeca 2013: Poster Debut for Karl Mueller's Mr. Jones
5 April 2013 9:40 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars... Okay, maybe not me, but Mr. Jones sure is thanks to the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival's Midnight section, where the film will make its premiere on April 19th. Check out the poster art!
Mr. Jones, from the producer of the Sundance smash hit The Pact and the writer of Xavier Gens’ The Divide, stars Sarah Jones, Jon Foster, and Mark Steger and is a journey into a nightmare that’s so real, even daylight brings no relief.
Synopsis:
Scott and Penny just moved to a remote cabin to escape the pressures of the world and breathe new life into their art. Their only neighbor for miles is a strange hermit who only comes out at night, under the shroud of darkness. As Scott and Penny get deeper into his world, they start to suspect that this man is actually an infamous artist known only as "Mr. Jones, »
- The Woman In Black
Us Trailer And Fresh Stills For Eron Sheean's Errors Of The Human Body
3 April 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
With the Us release of Eron Sheean's scientific thriller Errors Of The Human Body just around the corner a new Us trailer has been released along with a handful of new stills. Best known as the writer of Xavier Gens' The Divide, Sheean makes his feature directorial debut here with a thriller anchored in real world science and shot on location in the largest genetics research facility in the world.Seeking a new laboratory to pursue his controversial genetic research, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at the world-renowned Institute for Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most top-secret project - a human regeneration gene - has the potential to make something extraordinary out of a personal tragedy...
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Dread Central Hits the Red Carpet Hollywood Premiere of Stitches
3 April 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
With Conor McMahon’s killer clown horror comedy Stitches having bowed this week on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD via Mpi/Dark Sky Films, we hit the premiere of the flick the other night at Cinespace on Hollywood Blvd. and brought back some ocular candy and interviews from the carpet. Read on!
Gracing the Stitches event were an assortment of hired creepy clowns, sword swallowers and stilt-walkers amidst bags of popcorn, cotton candy and an open bar along with Stitches co-writer and director Conor McMahon, Stitches actor Tommy Knight ("Doctor Who"), and V/H/S and V/H/S 2 segment writer Simon Barrett, who was on hand to moderate the Q&A session post-screening.
Also in attendance were actress Danielle Harris (who dished on Hatchet III), Sushi Girl writer Destin Pfaff with actress Rachel Federoff, V/H/S segment director Adam Wingard, actresses Bai Ling (The Crow), Frida Ferrell (Behind Your Eyes »
- Sean Decker
The ABCs of Death is a Hit and Miss Affair: A Movie Review
2 April 2013 4:00 AM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Directors: Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Xavier Gens, Lee Hardcastle, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard, and Yudai Yamaguchi. Writers: Kaare Andrews, Simon Barrett, Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Lee Hardcastle, Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Simon Rumley, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Nacho Vigalondo, Dimitrije Vojnov, Ti West, and Yudai Yamaguchi. The ABCs of Death is a horror anthology, composed of twenty-six shorts. This anthology brought twenty-seven directors from fifteen countries together to create a fairly entertaining outing. Understandably, some of the shorts are stronger than others, while some are...
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- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
The ABCs of Death
7 March 2013 11:59 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Nacho Vigalondo, Angela Bettis, Ti West, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Adam Wingard, Srdjan Spasojevic, Ben Wheatley, Jason Eisener, and more
Running Time: 2 hrs 9 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Plot: 26 filmmakers from around the world were each given one letter of the alphabet. From there they had free rein to create a killer short horror film based around words ranging from “Apocalypse” to “Zetsumetsu.”
Who’S It For? Some segments will be loved, others hated, but anyone who likes the idea of a horror anthology needs to check this out.
Overall
Twenty-six shorts from 26 directors based on the 26 letters of the alphabet is one ambitious experiment. As a fan of anthologies, I went into The ABCs of Death wanting to like it, but even I’m surprised by how successful I found the film as a whole. Sure, there are a handful of middling entries that »
- Shane T. Nier
'The ABCs of Death' review: It takes many directors to run through the alphabet
7 March 2013 5:00 AM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
"A" is for agonizing, awful and apocalyptic.
"B is for bizarre, brutal and bloody.
"D" is for disturbing, deeply disturbing, "S" for subversive, "T" for twisted and trangressive.
"The ABCs of Death" is an instant midnight movie, a morbid mishmash of styles and filmmaking formats -- 26 films, 26 filmmakers from the four corners of the horror globe, all making short films about death.
It's not for everyone.
Spanish director Adrián García Bogliano's "B is for Bigfoot" is an amusing account of a sexually aroused woman warning her boyfriend's little sister that girls who don't go to sleep by 8 are carried off and eaten by an abominable snowman who now lives in Mexico City. Yes, it has a gory payoff.
Marcel Sarmiento's "D is for Dogfight" may be the most disturbing (which is saying something), a vivid, ugly slow-motion parable about an underworld where dogs fight homeless men to the death. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
The ABCs of Death Movie Review
6 March 2013 10:58 AM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: The ABCs of Death Directed By: Bruno Forzani, Helene Cattet, Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, Adrian Bogliano, Jason Eisner, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, Xavier Gens, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Jbanjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard, Yudai Yamaguchi, Lee Hardcastle You can have one good short film. You can even have five that are all solid. But 26? “The ABCs of Death” is a horror anthology consisting of 26 shorts from 26 different directors all of whom accepted the challenge of taking a single letter of the [ Read More ]
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- Perri Nemiroff
'The ABC's Of Death' Directors Q & A February 20th
19 February 2013 11:10 PM, PST | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
By Michael Juvinall, MoreHorror.com
The hit anthology film that features 26 different directors and 26 different ways to die, The ABC's of Death is having a live Q & A with 17 of its directors on February 20th.
17 directors and producers from film The ABC's of Death will be answering your questions live on Reddit.com tomorrow! Tune-in for a chance to get your questions answered.
When: Tomorrow, February 20, 2013 from 11:00am Pst – 2:00pm Pst
Who: The following Directors and Producers are participating in the Reddit Ama Live Chat:
Nacho Vigalondo - A is for Apocalypse
Adrían Garcia Bogliano - B is for Bigfoot
Ernesto Díaz Espinoza - C is for Cycle
Marcel Sarmiento - D is for Dogfight
Thomas Malling - H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion
Jorge Michel Grau- I is for Ingrown
Simon Rumley - P is for Pressure
Adam Wingard - Q is for Quack
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Chat Live with Some of the Filmmakers Behind The ABCs of Death
19 February 2013 4:42 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Can't wait for the screening of The ABCs of Death at the CineMayhem Film Festival? Want to chat with a few of the flick's directors? We have your hookup right here. Read on for details.
From the Press Release
When: Tomorrow, February 20, 2013, from 11:00am Pst – 2:00pm Pst
Who: The following directors and producers are participating in the Reddit Ama Live Chat:
Nacho Vigalondo - A is for Apocalypse
Adrían Garcia Bogliano - B is for Bigfoot
Ernesto Díaz Espinoza - C is for Cycle
Marcel Sarmiento - D is for Dogfight
Thomas Malling - H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion
Jorge Michel Grau- I is for Ingrown
Simon Rumley - P is for Pressure
Adam Wingard - Q is for Quack
Srdjan Spasojevic- R is for Removed
Lee Hardcastle - T is for Toilet
Ben Wheatley - U is for Unearthed
Kaare Andrews - V is for »
- Uncle Creepy
Movie Review: The ABCs Of Death
17 February 2013 5:30 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
26 films. 26 directors. 26 ways to die. So goes the twistedly inventive structure of Magnet Releasing and Drafthouse Film’s newly released genre anthology, The ABCs Of Death. Horror anthologies are seeing something of a resurgence in Hollywood and independent cinema as of late. Once a quite thriving sub-genre on both the silver & small screen in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, the segment based tales of terror seemingly vanished (well, the memorable one’s anyway) from prominence. Thanks to recent successes like American Horror Story, V/H/S, it’s upcoming sequel V/H/S/2, and now The ABCs Of Death, it seems anthology storytelling has returned in full force to frighten, disgust, and entertain one chapter at a time.
And frighten, disgust, and entertain it does.
Spanning the course of two hours, with four minute segments directed by some of the best (and strangest) talent currently in the indie biz, The ABCs Of Death »
- Justin Edwards
Paul Walker to Star as Agent 47 in Hitman Remake for Fox
6 February 2013 9:01 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Twentieth Century Fox is planning a reboot of Square Enix's video game adaptation Hitman with Paul Walker taking the lead as Agent 47. Timothy Olyphant originated the role in Fox's 2007 flop Hitman, which failed to ignite a franchise.
The film, to be titled Agent 47, is written by A Good Day to Die Hard scribes Skip Woods and Michael Finch. No plot details have been released.
Commercials director Aleksander Bach is making his feature helming debut with Chuck Gordon, Alex Young, and Adrian Askarieh producing.
Hitman was directed by Xavier Gens and was also written by Skip Woods back in 2007. The project brought in over $100 million dollars worldwide.
Production will begin in Berlin and Singapore this June. It is not yet clear if Paul Walker will go completely bald for the role of Agent 47, as Timothy Olyphant did back in 2007.
Agent 47 comes to theaters in 2014. »
- MovieWeb
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