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Exclusive: Producers Lou Arkoff (George Of The Jungle) and Donna Arkoff Roth (Grosse Point Blank) are teaming up with The Wonder Company (Sacramento) to develop modern reimaginings of vintage genre films from their family-owned catalog of American International Pictures (Aip) movies.

Founded by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson in 1954, Aip was a pioneer in independent filmmaking, helping foster the careers of legendary filmmakers such as Roger Corman, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and John Milius. The Aip library hosts original IP that inspired modern franchises such as The Fast and The Furious, Mad Max and The Amityville Horror.

Arkoff, Roth and The Wonder Company—led by producers Eric B. Fleischman and Chris Abernathy—plan to breathe new life into a curated selection of the films. The partnership will focus on ten titles from Aip’s catalog, such as Day the World Ended, The Undead, and Jailbreakers.

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Renate Reinsve in Handling The Undead. Thea Hvistendahl: 'While I was working on the script, I realised that I was mostly interested in a premise that would be more like, what if you got your biggest wish fulfilled?' Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling The Undead may feature zombies of sorts but they are at their most meditative and melancholic in a story that is focused on the nature of grief and letting go. Adapted by Let The Right One In’s John Ajvide Lindqvist from his own book, the film offers a triptych of stories that unfold after the hot Oslo summer is rocked by a strange event that sees the dead return from their graves. A woman (Bente Børsum) who has just laid her partner (Olga Damani) to rest finds her back at home not long after leaving the funeral parlour, while an...

In honor of the zombie comedy movie's 20th anniversary, Shaun of the Dead has been remastered. The brand-new 4K remaster featuring Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound, and it will be available on digital as well as on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with a limited edition Steelbook.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that the remastered version of Shaun of the Dead will be available on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. The announcement was made 20 years after Shaun of the Dead first premiered in theaters, introducing to the world one of the most celebrated zombie movies of all time. The new release comes with a never-before-seen bonus piece featuring director Edgar Wright along with stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and many other special features will be included as well.

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Dark Horse's Plants vs Zombies story will continue in 2025 with an exciting...

To celebrate The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Season 1 arriving on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital on 30 September 2024 we are giving away a Season 1 Blu-Ray!

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon lives on in this spin-off from one of the biggest TV franchises of all time. Series favourite Norman Reedus (The Bikeriders) reprises his role as the titular Daryl Dixon – a crossbow-slinging, rough and tough zombie slayer who, this time, must battle baguette brain-eaters in France.

With fresh iterations of fear and a new location, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 1 arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 30 September 2024, courtesy of Acorn Media International and follows its transmission on Sky.

With a second season on the way, now is the perfect time to sink your teeth into this acclaimed series starring Clémence Poésy, Adam Nagaitis and Melissa McBride.

Following his departure from The Commonwealth in The Walking Dead finale, Daryl Dixon washes ashore...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz)

Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds at such a deep frequency that the walls of a press-screening room in Beverly Hills began rattling. Once the shaking stopped and it’s realized this was not the third Los Angeles earthquake in as many weeks, the setup of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice is doled out in impressively economical fashion: Rent is due for Frida (Naomie Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat). Rather than pay up and keep the wheels spinning in their going-nowhere-fast lives, Frida has a plan: retrieving a hidden wad of bills, she purchases gowns so she and Jess can crash a fancy gala after their waitress shifts end. Looking suitably glamorous,...

Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 18 titles for its Kinoscope strand and seven for its In Focus section, including a range of 2024 festival hits from Berlin and Cannes.

The Kinoscope selection consists of 12 Kinoscope films, and six titles in genre strand Kinoscope Surreal.

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Titles include Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, which won the Grand Prix in Cannes Competition this year; and Santosh, the debut feature of 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow Sandhya Suri, which debuted in Un Certain Regard.

Guan Hu’s Black Dog, winner of the Un Certain Regard prize,...

Thea Hvistendahl’s Norwegian horror picture Handling The Undead, won the best feature prize at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) in Switzerland. Known as the H.R. Giger ‘Narcisse’ award, the prize is worth 10,000 Swiss francs.

TrustNordisk is selling the film which will be handled in Switzerland by Filmcoopi Zurich.

The international competition jury also gave a special mention to German director Tilman Singer’s Neon-backed horror thriller, Cuckoo, starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens. The Swiss release is handled by Praesens Film.

Among other prizes, the Rts audience award went to Irish director Damian Mc Carthy ’s paranormal horror film Oddity,...

Stars: Renate Reinsve, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars | Written by Thea Hvistendahl, John Ajvide Lindqvist | Directed by Thea Hvistendahl

After a strange electrical storm, three separate families in the same Norwegian town find that their relatives — who have all recently died — have come back to live. Trying to navigate how to live with their dearly departed, each family is confronted by its own sense of grief, loss and love.

If that reads like a loaded synopsis to you, you’re right. Far from the comedic throes of Shaun of the Dead or the traditional horror of Night of the Living Dead, Handling the Undead is a zombie movie we’ve never seen before. Instead of running with terror, thrills or humour, director Thea Hvistendahl chooses to focus on a melancholic sense of brooding. Out of all the zombie films that exist, this is the closest to reality,...

South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) has unveiled the full line-up for its 28th edition, which is set to open with Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding and close with Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.

The festival, running July 4 to 14, will screen 225 films from 49 countries, including 67 world premieres. Titles will also receive online screenings through local Ott platform wavve.

Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart and marks the second feature of UK filmmaker Glass, whose Saint Maud won the Best Director Choice Feature award at Bifan in 2020. The film premiered at Sundance before playing Berlin earlier this year.

Zombies have pretty much been the same since George A Romero took them away from the world of voodoo and made them the flesheaters we know today. Sure, their speed may change depending on the filmmaker, but otherwise, their rules are universal. So it’s always a pleasure when someone comes along that has a different take on an old subject. Because the dead returning to life is more than just teeth and gore, as the emotional impact is a toll that few could likely take. Handling the Undead follows three families as they’re given the ultimate gift: the return of their loved one.

I was able to talk with Norwegian filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl about her new film and all the challenges that came with it. Based on a book by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who already flipped vampires on their heads with Let The Right One In, this has...

Handling The Undead Image: Neon The zombie genre has proven wildly adaptable, transcending cultures and national borders. Plenty of efforts trade in action-horror mayhem, while others use a return of the (generally flesh-craving) undead as an inciting incident for grander social statements or inquiries pegged to societal breakdown. In terms of explorative value,...

Handling The UndeadImage: Neon

The zombie genre has proven wildly adaptable, transcending cultures and national borders. Plenty of efforts trade in action-horror mayhem, while others use a return of the (generally flesh-craving) undead as an inciting incident for grander social statements or inquiries pegged to societal breakdown. In terms of explorative value,...

In A Violent Nature, an undead murderous monster’s slow striding through the woods, has generated IFC Films’ second-best opening ever since its indie horror hit Late Night With The Devil in March.

The artsy slasher written and directed by Chris Nash will see an estimated weekend gross of $2.1 million on 1,426 screens, IFC’s widest opening ever, and a no. 8 spot at the domestic box office.

Late Night, by Cameron and Colin Cairnes, which opened to $2.8 million at 1,034 locations, is pushing $10 million. It returns to theaters June 6 and runs through the weekend on about 500 screens.

In A Violent Nature “has been steadily making waves for redefining the classic slasher genre” since its Sundance premiere, said Scott Shooman, head of AMC Networks Film Group, calling Nash’s feature debut “a film that will have a lasting impact in the horror space.”

At 87% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is one...

Quick Links Handling the Undead Has a Slower Pace With Bigger Pay-Off A New Approach to Handling the Undead

Director Thea Hvistendahl wanted to make a movie about how grief-stricken people would cope with getting their loved ones back, even if they've returned as the undead. Or, as weve all come to know them, zombies. Its a fabulous premise for a psychological horror film in a genre wrought with retreads, but in Hvistendahls inventive new outing, Handling the Undead, that horror is superbly understated. The most terrifying thing about this Norwegian horror mystery is knowing what the living dead are capable of, as the filmmaker delicately moves us through 90 minutes thats light on dialogue yet loaded with intrigue.

Written by Hvistendahl and John Ajvide Lindquist (Let the Right One In), the drama stars Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjrn Sundquis, Bente Brsum, Bahar Pars, and Inesa Dauksta. We begin the...

Plot: On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?

Review: Zombies have had a prominent place in horror for nearly a century. What started with more voodoo origins became the shambling undead of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. And that’s pretty much where zombies have stayed. Sure, the running variant has been added to the picture, but they still operate in much of the same way: aggressive eating of any human in sight. And in the same way he was able to do with Let The Right One In, screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist provides a new take on zombies in Handling the Undead.

Following three families after they deal with a tragic loss, a strange power phenomenon results in...

Porter+Craig Film and Media Distribution, run by veteran industry executives Jeff Porter and Keith L. Craig has acquired worldwide rights to Gonçalo Galvão Teles’ “Nothing Ever Happened.”

The film has enjoyed considerable success on the festival circuit, including awards in the CinEuphoria Awards, Cinequest, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Mostra Internacional de São Paulo and Punta Del Est Film Festival in Uruguay, as well as 11 nominations in the Portuguese Film Academy’s Sophia Awards.

Produced by Luis Galvão of Portugal’s Fado Filmes and co-produced by Raquel Morte and Antonio Gonçalves Junior, the pic is a co-production between Fado Filmes, Entre Chien et Loup (Belgium) and Grafo Audiovisual (Brazil).

Speaking about the deal, Craig said: “Nothing Ever Happened” aligns perfectly with our strategic focus on distributing films that offer unique perspectives and emotional depth. We see Gonçalo Galvão Teles as an amazing director that we look to showcase to a much wider audience.

Roger Corman, who directed and produced countless B-movies and championed future industry stalwarts Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson, died at his home in Santa Monica, California on May 9, Variety reports. He was 98.

“His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,’” the family said in a statement to the outlet.

For nearly five decades, he dominated the B-movie market, with films that ranged from his early work in the Fifties,...

Roger Corman, the fabled “King of the B’s” producer and director who churned out low-budget genre films with breakneck speed and provided career boosts to young, untested talents like Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Gale Anne Hurd and James Cameron, has died. He was 98.

The filmmaker, who received an honorary Oscar in 2009 at the Governors Awards, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, his family told The Hollywood Reporter.

“He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him,” they said in a statement. “When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that.’”

Corman perhaps is best known for such horror fare as The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and his series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price, but he became celebrated for drugs-and-biker sagas like The Wild Angels...

The zombie genre resides comfortably under the umbrella of horror that it is rarely explored through different means. Then, you have films like Maggie, which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in a rare dramatic turn, that features the concept in a different light. Prepare for the emotion and despair of seeing your loved ones return in an unnatural manner in the trailer for the Norway horror drama Handling the Undead. The film is based on the novel Hanteringen av odöda from the Let the Right One In author, John Ajvide Lindqvist. The new haunting trailer was just released by Neon.

The official synopsis from Neon reads,

“On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they...

A last-minute addition to the May calendar is a reunion between The Worst Person in the World stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie. Thea Hvistendahl’s zombie feature Handling the Undead, adapted by the director and John Ajvide Lindqvist based on the latter’s novel, premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival and will now arrive from Neon starting May 31. Ahead of the release, the new trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car accident; an elderly woman gets the love of her life back the same day she has buried her; a grandfather rescues...

Good One Image: Metrograph Pictures I’ll be the first to admit my bias towards the Chicago Critics Film Festival. I’m part of the organization that puts it together, it takes place at my favorite movie theater (Chicago’s organ-scored Music Box Theatre), and it enriches my local community of arthouse moviegoers.

In a Violent NatureImage: IFC Films

I’ll be the first to admit my bias towards the Chicago Critics Film Festival. I’m part of the organization that puts it together, it takes place at my favorite movie theater (Chicago’s organ-scored Music Box Theatre), and it enriches my local community of arthouse moviegoers.

Handling The Undead Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute The line-up has been announced for Sundance Film Festival: London 2024, which will run from 6 to 9 June at Picturehouse Central in London.

There will be 11 feature films screening along with additional shorts, including Indian coming-of-age tale Girls Will Be Girls, which won the Audience Award at this year's Utah edition. Other highlights in the line-up include the tragicomic Sasquatch Sunset - starring Riley Keogh and Jessie Eisenberg as you've never seen them before (or are likely to see again) - and Norwegian arthose zombie chiller Handling The Undead.

The festival previously announced that the festival will open with the UK premiere of Irish-language Kneecap and close with the UK premiere of Dìdi.

Eugene Hernandez, director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming said: “We’re delighted to return to London to celebrate independent cinema with British audiences. Over the course of four incredible days...

Sundance Film Festival is heading to London again this summer and the programme is full of cinematic goodies. More below.

The days are getting lighter, the sun is shining ever so slightly more now and we’ve packed away our thickest wool jumpers, although we still need some thick socks. That must mean one thing and one thing only.

Sundance Film Festival: London is almost upon us.

Some might say summer is coming too, but we’re mostly excited for Sundance London, which has just revealed their full programme for this year’s festival. The festival brings a fine selection of films which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, in Park City, Utah. The crème de la crème, so to speak.

The festival will open on 6 June with a screening of Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language film and draw to a close on 9 June with Sean Wang...

Italy-based sales firm Tvco has picked up worldwide sales rights to Embers, the feature directorial debut of UK actor Christian Cooke, and is representing the title at this week’s European Film Market (EFM).

Embers stars Cooke opposite Ruth Bradley in the story of a sexual surrogate (Bradley) who is employed to help a high-security psychiatric patient (Cooke) overcome his intimacy issues to make parole.

The film debuted at Raindance Film Festival in October; it is produced by April Kelley and Sara Huxley of Mini Productions, with Arthur Landon of Lorton Entertainment and Cooke.

Cooke broke out as an actor...

NonStop Entertainment has acquired Nordic distribution rights to Mattias J Skoglund’s upcoming horror The Home [working title].

The film will begin production in Gotland, Sweden in spring, produced by Siri Hjorton Wagner for [sic] film. LevelK is handling international sales.

The Home is based on Mats Strandberg’s 2017 novel of the same name, about a man who returns to his small town to care for his dementia-stricken mother, as she experiences terrifying visions of her late abusive husband.

Strandberg is adapting his book in collaboration with Skoglund; co-producers are Elina Litvinova of Three Brothers and Heather Millard of Compass Films. Financing comes from the Svenska Filminstitutet,...

Handling The Undead may be the most depressing zombie movie of all time. Sure, many a horror film has depicted gruesome deaths, desperate actions and humankind’s capacity for depravity, but Thea Hvistendahl’s work is about something more personal and unavoidable: the difficulty of parting with the memory of our dead nearest and dearest. In this case, the undead loved ones’ remains are physically present, rather than simply gone. As you might predict, that doesn’t make things easier. Composer Peter Raeburn put it succinctly after the world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, saying the filmmakers didn’t want to fall into horror, but very much wanted to create a sense of “throbbing terror”.

The film intercuts three different stories, each with loved ones in a different stage of grieving. Anna (Renate Reinsve) and her father (Bjørn Sundquist) have had the most time to deal with the death of their.

Renate Reinsve in Handling The Undead. Peter Raeburn: 'When you're working on a film like this, it's like being part of a band, and I play one instrument, someone else plays another and everyone's very respectful' Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute Zombie movies traditionally involve lurching cadavers and adrenaline-rush horror. Thea Hvistendahl takes an altogether slower and more sorrowful approach with her debut Handling The Undead, which is adapted by Let The Right One In’s John Ajvide Lindqvist from his own book. The drip of dread and the horror of grief come together in this trio of tales in which, after a strange event in a hot Oslo summer, families find their loved ones rising from the grave. In one corner of the city, Renate Reinsve’s Anna and her father (Bjørn Sundquist) try to help her son, with his rasping breath and buzzing flies telling us all...

Sundance announced its winners on Friday morning, with Alessandra Lacorazza’s In The Summers took the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Brendan Bellomo’s Porcelain War the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s A New Kind Of Wilderness won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, while Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez earned the corresponding world cinema dramatic prize for Sujo.

The pair collaborated as writers on the 2020 World Cinema – Dramatic prize winner Identifying Features directed by Valadez.

The Festival Favorite Award went to Daughters by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, whose film also...

Sundance announced its winners on Friday morning, with Alessandra Lacorazza’s In The Summers took the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Brendan Bellomo’s Porcelain War the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s A New Kind Of Wilderness won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, while Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez earned the corresponding world cinema dramatic prize for Sujo.

The pair collaborated as writers on the 2020 World Cinema – Dramatic prize winner Identifying Features directed by Valadez.

The Festival Favorite Award went to Daughters by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, whose film also...

Sundance 2024 will launch its virtual option this week for badgeholders and individuals who want to buy individual tickets.

It’s a wonderful option for those unable to make the long trip to Utah.

Last year’s Sundance had many great offerings virtually.

Films such as Sometimes I Think About Dying, and Kim’s Video were highlights from the 2023 virtual catalog.

This year has a lot of promising entries, and some have already generated tremendous buzz. For example, Steven Yeun and Kristen Stewart have a movie getting rave reviews.

While the virtual option opens for press tomorrow, movie lovers can dig into the Sundance 2024 line-up beginning Thursday.

Here is a list of films offered online possibly worth streaming this week at Sundance.

Thelma Still image from Thelma. Pic credit: Courtesy of Sundance/David Bolen.

Action movies and senior citizens — what more could a moviegoer want from a Sundance Film Festival entry?...

Thea Hvistendahl’s “Handling the Undead,” fresh off its Sundance premiere, has already scared multiple buyers into submission, Variety has found out exclusively.

Starring “The Worst Person in the World’s” Renate Reinsve and sold by TrustNordisk, it has been picked up by Hungary (Vertigo Media), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), France (KinoVista), Spain (Avalon Distribution), Korea (Pancinema), Japan (Tohokushinsha Film Corp.), Taiwan (Swallow Wings Films) and Anz (Signature Entertainment).

Neon Rated acquired North American and U.K. rights.

In the Norwegian film, Mahler and his daughter, Anna, mourn the too early passing of his grandson. Tora says her final goodbye to her wife at the funeral home, while a family of four face a life without a wife and mother.

Then, a strange electric field and collective migraine spread across Oslo on an especially hot summer day. Television sets, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, and suddenly, it’s all over.

Line-up for the 25th edition of the market includes 16 completed features, 15 Wip, 17 films in development.

Films by Sweat director Magnus von Horn and Margrete: Queen of the North filmmaker Charlotte Sieling will be presented at the 25th Nordic Film Market (January 31-February 2), the film marketplace of Goteborg Film Festival.

The projects are among the 15 Nordic films in post-production being showcased in the Works in Progress strand.

Scroll down for the full Market selection

Swedish director von Horn attends with The Girl With The Needle, a horror story set in 1910s Denmark, starring Trine Dyrholm and produced by Creative Alliance’s Malene Blenkov.

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival unveiled its 2024 lineup today, featuring 250 feature films set to screen across ten days, with highlights including Handling the Undead, Norwegian filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl’s feature debut, starring Renate Resinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie. Other buzzy titles include the Finish title The Missile from filmmaker Miia Tervo and Morbius director Daniel Espinosa’s return to Nordic filmmaker with Madame Luna.

Handling the Undead opens the festival following its debut bow at Sundance. The pic, an adaptation of a novel by Let The Right One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist, tells the story of three families recently left in mourning after the passing of loved ones. Suddenly, the power grid goes out, and the deceased begin to move.

Guests set to pass through Gothenburg include actor Ewan McGregor, who will receive the festival’s honorary dragon award for career achievement. He will also be in town to...

Festival selection includes Nikolaj Arcel’s ‘The Promised Land’ and Ernst De Geer’s ‘The Hypnosis’.

Goteborg Film Festival has selected almost 250 films for its 47th edition, including recent Nordic favourites The Promised Land starring Mads Mikkelsen and The Hypnosis by Ernst De Geer.

The festival, which runs from January 26 to February 4, has also programmed events including a talk between Ruben Ostlund and Cannes director Thierry Fremaux; and selected Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen to receive its Nordic Honorary Dragon award.

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The 10 films competing in the Nordic Competition include Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land,...

John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Let the Right One In (or Låt den rätte komma in) has inspired a Swedish film of the same name, an American film called Let Me In, and a short-lived Showtime series called Let the Right One In, while his short story Gräns served as the basis of the 2018 fantasy film Border. The latest adaptation of his work is the Norwegian film Handling the Undead, based on the novel Hanteringen av odöda. The film will be screening at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival as part of the World Cinematic Dramatic Competition, and has also secured a North American and UK distribution deal with Neon. Now that we know the film is heading to Sundance, a trailer for Handling the Undead has made its way online, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Handling the Undead marks the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl,...

Daniel Hoesl’s Veni Vidi Vici, Klaudia Reynicke’s Reinas and Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead are among the ten titles selected for the needle in a haystack section of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Here are the globe-trotting titles:

Brief History of a Family / China, France, Denmark, Qatar — A middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope. Cast: Feng Zu, Keyu Guo, Xilun Sun, Muran Lin. World Premiere.…...

Festival will take place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City.

Sundance Film Festival’s top brass have unveiled the 40th anniversary edition line-up for 2024 as Steven Soderbergh makes his return as director for the first time since his 1989 breakout sex, lies and videotape, and Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is the opening night film.

The full slate of works announced includes 82 features representing 24 countries, and 91 selections including episodic programmes. World premieres make up 94% of the entire roster, and 40% of the filmmakers are debutants.

The festival will take place January...

The industry programme at the Norwegian festival included a focus on UK projects.

Two veryr different projects from female directors have been the talk of the industry at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market this week.

Amanda Kernell won the pitching prize after the Co-Production Market presentation of her third feature film, The Curse - A Love Story while Thea Hvistendahl’s work in progress Handling The Undead, which reunites Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie after The Worst Person in the World, hugely impressed buyers and festival programmers alike

The Curse will follow Kernell’s Venice 2016 premiere Sami Blood and Sundance 2020 selection Charter.

Hot Nordic works-in-progress at the Norwegian event include ’Handing The Undead’ starring Renate Reinsve.

Haugesund’s New Nordic Films industry event will have a two-year special focus on Nordic co-productions with the UK in 2023 and 2024.

Activities in 2023 include a session with Denitsa Yordanova, head of the UK Global Screen Fund, and a case study of Iceland-shot The Damned, Thordur Palsson’s upcoming psychological horror, with producer Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl of the UK’s Elation Pictures.

At Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market, four UK projects will be presented: Gunnar’s Daughter, produced by Angeli Marie Macfarlane at Script Cube...

Paul W.S. Anderson directed every other entry in the Resident Evil film franchise, so why did he pass on the second and third movies? Horror legend George A Romero was set to helm the Resident Evil movie in the late '90s, but disagreements with Constantin Films over its level of gore led to him being fired. Anderson - who had already directed hit video game adaptation Mortal Kombat - was already working on a very Resident Evil-inspired screenplay titled The Undead. Shortly after Romero's exit, Anderson was hired and the script was reworked into more of a direct Resident Evil movie adaptation.

Anderson pitched his film as a prequel to the Resident Evil games, and it just about works with that take in mind. However, later movies moved further and further away from the source material, with Anderson writing and producing each outing. The story instead remixed...

September has snapped up films from Sundance and Berlin and some Cannes contenders.

Leading Benelux indie distributor September Films has acquired multiple Sundance and Berlin titles as well as some films likely to feature in Cannes in a buying spree of international festival favourites.

From Berlin it has picked up Christian Petzold’s Golden Bear contender Afire (sold by The Match Factory); And The King Said, What A Fantastic Machine (sold by Heretic and having its European premiere in Berlin’s Generation 14plus and Xavier Legrand’s thriller The Successor (being sold by mK2’s in the European Film Market...

(Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.)

In this edition of Superhero Bits:

James Gunn on the cancellation of "Titans" and "Doom Patrol."

"Avatar: The Way of Water" dethrones "Avengers: Infinity War" at the box office.

The official Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline gets officially announced.

Lots and lots of people watched "The Boys" last year.

All that and more!

Meet Junk Rabbit, The New Superhero That Is Swamp Thing Meets RoboCop

Image Comics has announced a brand new superhero series by Jimmie Robinson ("Bomb Queen") that will bring a pretty unique dystopian hero to the world. Titled "Junk Rabbit," the book is being described as a mix between "Swamp Thing" and "RoboCop.

Neon has acquired North American and UK rights to the horror-drama Handling the Undead, marking the narrative feature debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who previously directed the documentary Adjø Montebello and several short films, including the SXSW Grand Jury Award-nominated Virgins4lyfe. The project reteams the distributor with Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie, who starred in its Oscar-nominated romantic drama The Worst Person in the World, directed by Joachim Trier.

Handling the Undead picks up on an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, as a strange electric field surrounds the city, with a collective migraine spreading across town. TVs, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over.

The film currently in production is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the renowned writer of bestselling horror novels and the screenplays Border and Let the Right One In, who co-wrote the script with Hvistendahl.

Border screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist wrote novel on which feature is based.

Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.

The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.

Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.

Border screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist wrote novel on which feature is based.

Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.

The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.

Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.

Much has been made about George Romero‘s legendary Japanese commercial for Resident Evil 2, but at least that was filmed. George Romero’s Resident Evil film, however, is a different story. We talked about this ultimate “What if?” a few years ago, and now thanks to Jason Bareford (George’s Production Assistant) and director Brandon Salisbury, we’ll finally be getting George A. Romero’s Resident Evil, a long-overdue documentary on the film that could’ve been.

Per Dawn of the Discs on Twitter, images were snapped of the upcoming documentary about Romero’s never-filmed Resident Evil project, which was revealed during the recent Creature Feature Weekend in Gettysburg, Pa. In an interview with The Resident Evil Podcast, Salisbury stated that he wanted to pay homage to Romero’s style and the game itself with George A. Romero’s Resident Evil, which is currently scheduled for a 2024 release. As a result,...

The Finnish Film Affair’s 11th edition runs September 21-23.

The Finnish Film Affair’s 11th edition (September 21-23) will showcase around 30 Nordic films in development or production and four Finnish TV series projects in early development.

Some of the projects being presented are Selma Vilhunen’s Four Little Adults, a polyamory drama now in post; Katja Gauriloff’s second fiction feature Je’vida, the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language; Teemu Nikki’s fantasy comedy for all ages Snot And Splash; the third instalment in the Niko animations, Niko - Beyond The Northern Lights, by Kari Juusonen...

John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Let the Right One In (or Låt den rätte komma in) has inspired a Swedish film of the same name, an American film called Let Me In, and an upcoming Showtime series called Let the Right One In, while his short story Gräns served as the basis of the 2018 fantasy film Border. Now Variety reports that we’re getting another film based on Lindqvist source material, and this time it’s a zombie movie called Handling the Undead, based on the novel Hanteringen av odöda. TrustNordisk has picked up the international sales rights to the character-driven horror drama, which is currently filming.

Handling the Undead marks the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who is working from a screenplay written by Lindqvist himself. (He also handled the screenplay adaptation of Let the Right One In himself.) This one begins

during an especially hot summer day in Oslo,...

The themes of the day are “The Undead” and “The Apocalypse”! A shame Halloween just passed, but nothing’s stopping you from still channeling the spooky spirit, and the folks at Dynamite have some killer comics horror fans will want to take a look at! In one apocalypse, only the powers of rock n’ roll can save […]

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