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Genre festival to run in Montreal from July 14-August 3.

Fantasia International Film Festival will host first wave world premieres for the likes of Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious and Satoshi Miki’s Convenience Story and a career achievement award for John Woo at the upcoming in-person summer edition.

Set to run in Montreal from July 14-August 3, the event will include workshops, and launch events. Screenings and select events will take place in Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at Cinémathèque Québécoise, Cinéma du Musée and McCord Museum. The full line-up will be unveiled in June.

Woo, whose credits include Hard Boiled,...

Summer is around the corner, which means Rooftop Films is almost back. New York cinephiles can look forward to another season of film screenings from the longtime nonprofit, which screens independent films in a variety of outdoor locations throughout New York City. Over time, Rooftop Films has become an essential institution in the indie film world, helping top directors get their work seen while connecting undiscovered artists to the resources that they need.

Notable films on the year’s lineup include Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher,” a Sundance horror hit in the tradition of paranoid classics like “Rosemary’s Baby;” James Morosini’s “I Love My Dad,” a comedy that took the top prizes in the Narrative category at SXSW; and Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection,” a psychological thriller that earned high marks from critics and fans alike at Sundance this year.

Tickets for select upcoming screenings are on sale now via the Rooftop Films website,...

We recorded a new bonus episode of Corpse Club as an exclusive gift for those in our Corpse Club membership system!

Listen as co-hosts Scott Drebit, Bryan Christopher, and Derek Anderson discuss some of their favorite horror movie viewings on the streaming service Tubi, including The Incubus, The Horror Show, Alien: Resurrection, Deadly Blessing, Borderland, and Grave Encounters!

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We're excited that the Overlook Film Festival returns this June! Taking place in New Orleans, the first wave of films and events have been announced, including Clay McLeod Chapman's The Pumpkin Pie Show and a screening of The Black Phone:

"(New Orleans, LA) – The Overlook Film Festival is proud to announce its closing night film and first wave of the 2022 festival lineup. The festival will close with Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s The Black Phone. Based on an award-winning short story from Joe Hill’s best-selling 2005 collection 20th Century Ghosts, this new horror thriller from the filmmakers of Sinister stars four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke and marks the triumphant return to the genre for screenwriter C. Robert Cargill and director-screenwriter Scott Derrickson.

Additional highlights of this wave feature two world premieres, including Swallowed from director Carter Smith (The Ruins) starring Jena Malone as well as Duncan Birmingham’s directorial debut Who Invited Them?...

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The U.K. premiere of “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande,” directed by Sophie Hyde, will open this year’s Sundance London (June 9-12), with lead actors Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in attendance. The festival will close with the U.K. premiere screening of Jim Archer’s “Brian and Charles,” starring actor and comedian David Earl.

In all, the festival will host several features chosen from the larger U.S. Sundance Film Festival. These include Adamma Ebo’s “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul”; Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection”; Max Walker-Silverman’s “A Love Song”; Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick”; Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher”; Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love”; Ed Perkins’ “The Princess”; Joe Hunting’s “We Met in Virtual Reality”; Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s “Free Chol Soo Lee”; and Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching.”

This year, the festival will feature an equal number of male and female directors across features and shorts.

The line-up includes UK premieres of ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Sharp Stick’.

The UK premiere of Good Luck To You, Leo Grande will open the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: London, with lead actors Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack both expected to attend.

The festival, which is running at Picturehouse Central from June 9-12, includes 12 feature films that premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, plus a surprise screening for a film that also bowed at this year’s festival.

Along with Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, titles selected for this year...

Ah, summer at the movies. While the movie-going experience has shifted dramatically over the past couple of years — the days of big-bucket-of-popcorn multiplex-going still exist, but they are no longer the primary option for enjoying massive blockbusters or high-brow hits and everything in between — the thrill of a season spent soaking up a wide variety of new films has not abated. The coming months feature the kind of fare long associated with the summer season, from a brand-new Marvel joint to a long-awaited “Top Gun” sequel, the latest entry into the “Jurassic World” franchise and even a new Pixar outing, but there’s even more to find among the bombastic and just plain big titles.

We’re talking about new films from Jordan Peele, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis, Alex Garland, Jeremiah Zagar, Peter Strickland, and Quinn Shephard, and that’s just the start. There are festival hits in the mix,...

Resurrection Review Video — Resurrection (2022) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Andrew Semans, written by Andrew Semans, and starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, and Agnes Wong Carbone. Crew Jim Williams created the music for the film. Wyatt Garfield crafted the cinematography for the film. Plot Synopsis Resurrection‘s plot synopsis: “Margaret (Rebecca Hall) [...]

Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Resurrection (2022): Promising Beginning, Superb Acting, & Excellent Dialog Delivery Converge in this Thriller...

The Flash‘s latest episode gave viewers a lot of new information to upload: the Black Flame that has been terrorizing Central City and seemingly feeding off of grief is none other than… Ronnie Raymond, Caitlin’s long-dead husband?!?

On the heels of the Black Flame’s skull-like visage confronting Caitlin and quoting some of dearly departed Ronnie’s greatest hits, TVLine spoke with series alum Robbie Amell about the nature of his latest encore, which kicks off this Wednesday at 8/7c on The CW.

More from TVLineRiverdale: Kiernan Shipka to Return as Sabrina -- Plus, Season 6's Musical Episode...

The Flash Resurrection Trailer — The CW‘s The Flash: Season 8, Episode 11: Resurrection TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Flash stars Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Danielle Nicolet, Tom Cavanagh, Jesse L. Martin, Kyle Secor, Chris Klein, and Kiana Madeira. The people behind-the-scenes of [...]

Continue reading: The Flash: Season 8, Episode 11: Resurrection TV Show Trailer [The CW]...

After playing Sundance this year, writer/director Andrew Semans‘s Resurrection was acquired by IFC Films and Shudder, and we’ve got a release date for you this morning. Resurrection, which Meagan Navarro calls “a shocking horror thriller with a powerhouse performance by star Rebecca Hall,” comes to select theaters and Digital on August 5, 2022. In Resurrection, “Margaret (Hall) leads a […]

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Independent film supporter Rooftop Films announced the 2022 Filmmaker Fund winners February 28, exclusively on IndieWire.

The prestigious Water Tower Feature Film Cash Grant was awarded to “The 40-Year-Old Version” writer-director-producer-star Radha Blank, for her upcoming untitled dark dramedy.

Environmental director Eleanor Mortimer also won a Water Tower grant for an untitled deep sea taxonomy documentary, which “follows biologists through the intricate process of discovering deep-sea species as they piece together the unknown ecosystems of the largest biome on the planet.”

The $15,000 grants are made possible by generous support from the Laurence W. Levine Foundation.

The Rooftop Filmmakers Fund grants are available to Rooftop Films alumni directors who have previously had their work screened during the annual Summer Series in New York City. Blank screened her debut feature, “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” with Rooftop Films in 2020 at the Queens Drive-In. Mortimer screened her award-winning short film “Territory” at Rooftop Films in 2016.

This year,...

When “Nanny” won the 2022 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival this week, director Nikyatu Jusu became only the second woman in the history of the festival to take home the top prize. But “Nanny” was historic for another reason, too: It was the first outright horror movie to win the most coveted award in independent film, one that has anointed breakouts of the past decade ranging from Ryan Coogler to Damien Chazelle.

And it wasn’t alone. Horror and psychological thrillers made themselves known across the Sundance lineup this year, well beyond the insular Midnight section, and many of the filmmakers behind these highlights are available for hire. The industry — and all those soul-searching directors out there — should pay close attention, because this crop of newcomers points to an ideal happy medium between commercial opportunity and artistic growth.

This year’s Sundance had the usual big sale...

Resurrection, 2022. Written and directed by Andrew Semans. Starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, and Angela Wong Carbone. Synopsis: Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past. Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth […]

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In another exciting deal out of Sundance, IFC Films and Shudder have acquired North American rights to the dark, Rebecca Hall-led thriller "Resurrection." The movie will premiere theatrically and on VOD before landing on the horror streamer.

"Resurrection" made a strong impression at Sundance this past week, thanks to Hall's intense performance as a single mother plagued by the appearance of a mysterious man (Tim Roth) from her past. Though the movie didn't premiere under the festival's Midnight banner, which usually includes most of the fest's horror features, it's a dread-inducing slow burn that's more than a little scary.

The feature...

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“Nanny” was the big winner at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, picking up the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition in a virtual awards ceremony Friday.

Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth” was also a winner, nabbing the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic category, while “Navalny,” a late addition to the festival, won the U.S. Documentary Audience Award. The Sundance jury also recognized “The Exiles” in the documentary category and “Utama” in the World Cinematic category.

This year’s Best of the Fest announcement caps off the second year in a row in which the festival was forced to go virtual amid the pandemic.

Although the awards were announced virtually, the emotion was palpable when juror Chelsea Bernard announced that “Nanny” director and screenwriter Nikyatu Jusu had won for her harrowing story of an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York...

IFC Films and Shudder has acquired North American rights to psychological thriller “Resurrection” following its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The film stars Rebecca Hall as Margaret, a woman who balances the demands of a busy career and single parenthood. Her carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past, David (Tim Roth) returns, forcing her to confront the monster she’s evaded for two decades.

“Resurrection” was written and directed by Andrew Semans and co-stars Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper. IFC Films will release the film in theaters and on VOD with Shudder taking the first streaming window.

“Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth give career-defining performances in Andrew Semans’ revelatory and diabolically entertaining ‘Resurrection,'” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films said. “We are so thrilled to partner with Andrew and the amazing producing team to bring a film to audiences that will completely defy expectation.

IFC Films and Shudder have acquired the North American rights to “Resurrection,” a psychological thriller starring Rebecca Hall that made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this week.

Andrew Semans wrote and directed the film that also stars Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper and that generated buzz at Sundance for its shocking and terrifying themes involving abusive relationships blended with more naturalistic horror elements in the French grand guignol legacy.

IFC Films will release “Resurrection” in theaters and on VOD, while Shudder will take the first streaming window.

Rebecca Hall stars in “Resurrection” as Margaret, who leads a successful and orderly life, perfectly balancing the demands of her busy career and single parenthood to her fiercely independent daughter Abbie. Everything is under control. But that careful balance is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past, David (Tim Roth) returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past.

The usual prep for Sundance involves a good deal of packing (warm coats, snow-ready boots, a dozen thermals and a lot of Theraflu) and several weeks of intense physical training (wind sprints to better catch fast-moving shuttles, long stairmaster sessions for those screenings at the fourth floor Library theater, extreme-cold endurance tests for long waits to enter the Eccles). This year, the suitcases sat gathering dust in the corner and the regimen was simpler: Practice opening your laptop. Now, close it. Repeat several times a day. Press remote button on,...

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The completed film will have its market premiere at next month’s online European Film Market, with a first screening on Friday, February 11.

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This past weekend, writer/director Andrew Semans celebrated the world premiere of his sophomore feature film, Resurrection, during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Rebecca Hall, Resurrection follows a successful woman named Margaret who seemingly has a handle on all aspects of her life, but when a figure from her past (played by Tim Roth) suddenly appears out of nowhere, both Margaret’s life and sanity quickly unravel as she contends with the hold he still has over her after all these years.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Semans about Resurrection, and during our conversation, the writer/director chatted about the inspiration behind his wildly provocative story, collaborating with both Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth, and more.

So great to speak with you, Andrew, and I'm really glad I had a chance to see this. Like pretty much everybody else who's ever seen her in anything, I'm...

by Jason Adams

Wanna know how you're in the hands of a smart filmmaker? Well there are two signs, and funny enough they both involve Rebecca Hall. The first sign is thatthey hire Rebecca Hall. That's as smart as it gets! They do that much you know you're in good hands. The second sign is they give Rebecca Hall a five minute centerpiece monologue to deliver and they hold the camera on Rebecca Hall's face the entire time without cutting. That right there is what the movies were invented for, and that's how you know that Andrew Seman's film Resurrection, fresh outta Sundance, is worth its weight in Tim Roth's discarded teeth. What? Isn't that how you measure weight? I sure do now, anyway...

The new horror film “Resurrection” has utterly terrified its virtual Sundance audience, winning over critics with writer-director Andrew Semans’ twisted look into how obsession and fear can destroy a person’s mind.

The film stars Rebecca Hall as Margaret, a high-powered exec moving up in the world, with a 17-year-old prepared to head off to college. But when an abusive, older former boyfriend (Tim Roth) suddenly shows up again threatening to use a secret to destroy her life, the scars of her past threaten to consume her whole as she begins having nightmarish hallucinations and clings to her daughter right as she’s getting ready to strike out on her own.

In an interview at TheWrap’s virtual Sundance studio, Semans said “Resurrection” was partially inspired by his own fears as an expectant father of failing to keep his child safe, which led him to look at parental vigilante films like the “Taken” series.

Rebecca Hall is one of the best actresses working right now. No matter what the material, Hall appears to throw herself into the role, building a unique, believable character every single time. Blockbusters, indie titles — it doesn't matter. She always delivers. Hall also has a knack for playing solitary women coming completely unmoored — something she did so well in films like "Christine" and "The Night House," and something she does again with "Resurrection," a disturbing little thriller from writer-director Andrew Semans. Just because Hall is playing yet another woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown doesn't mean she's repeating herself, though. No, Hall is...

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Not all is well from the opening scenes of Andrew Semans’ Resurrection, based on his own Black List-charting script, which begins as a chilly, slick workplace and mother-daughter drama before exploding into a stomach-churning psychological thriller. Though its preposterous narrative ends up getting into rather silly territory that obfuscates its initial, more pertinent thematic ideas, the film is another stellar showcase for the immense talent of Rebecca Hall. One also can’t entirely fault the director for following through and taking his rather illogically extreme set-up to its most logically absurd conclusion.

Single mother to a teenage daughter, Margaret (Rebecca Hall) is an established businesswoman—not only seemingly the leader of her team but also a trusted source of romantic wisdom, offering advice to a female co-worker who is in a bad relationship. She’s also seeing one of her married co-workers on the side, attempting to juggle her relatively...

When pressing play on a Sundance film you can never be sure what you’re in for. Some films can catch you by surprise with their quality, message, and, unpredictability. Some films can just absolute shock you. Resurrection is one of those movies.

Resurrection is a psychological horror/thriller that left me absolutely shaking and bewildered long past the credits. Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth take on roles unlike anything they have been in before, and two actors of such high acclaim and talent take the disturbing material to another level.

A film like Resurrection is best experienced with as little to no knowledge of the plot that you can manage. But, I’ll attempt to try to give you the most spoiler-free depiction.

Rebecca Hall masterfully portrays Margaret, a single mother who has a massive secret that has come back to haunt her and her daughter. The film starts...

A blistering psychological thriller and enigmatic horror film that already has Sundance audiences divided thanks to its provocative, polarizing premise, filmmaker Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection” is emotionally searing, wildly unhinged and maybe even a little batshit crazy. However, as anchored by its two fiercely committed and convincing lead performances (Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth), a menacingly disquieting tone, and a frightening ambiguity about a disintegrating mental state, “Resurrection” is a deeply distressing and compelling drama that will shock and shake you to your core.

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Resurrection, 2022. Written and Directed by Andrew Semans. Starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, Angela Wong Carbone, Winsome Brown, and Josh Drennen. Synopsis: Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past. When […]

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There are very few actors with Rebecca Hall’s facility for making difficult, even contradictory characters seem plausible. So it’s quite something to say that even her knack for the dignified and intelligent portrayal of mental and behavioral instability meets its Waterloo with Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection,” a psychological thriller that starts off promisingly before swerving into serious (and sadly self-serious) derangement. It winds up several stops north of bonkers, in a finale that shoots for transgressive, psycho-biological role-reversal, but plays like 1994’s Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy “Junior” given a torture-porn makeover.

Initially, Margaret (Hall) is an aspirational figure. With a glass-walled office at her lucrative pharma job, a well-appointed apartment and intimate yet no-strings sex-on-demand with married co-worker Peter (Michael Esper), she is also a doting mom to 17-year-old Abbie (Grace Kaufman), who is about to head off to college. (On one level “Resurrection” can be read as the mother of all empty-nest breakdowns.

Resurrection is a tedious, one-note paranoiac thriller that never shifts gears to get out of its rut. With classy production values and a tony cast led by Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth, writer-director Andrew Semans’ first feature in a decade, since the similarly plotted Nancy, Please, grinds on trying to build suspense but doesn’t have much of a clue as to how to tease and tantalize an audience. A significant theatrical release for this Sundance Premieres item seems most unlikely.

As her character slides from fear and concern into all-out anger and legitimate paranoia, Hall is asked to carry the film almost entirely on her own, which would be beyond the talents of almost any performer given the virtual single-track emotional journey involved. There are no sub-plots or side trips here, no nuances or, God forbid, dark humor, only an increasingly tiresome trip that never pays off for either the characters or the audience.

When Rebecca Hall came across a copy of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing” almost 15 years ago, she immediately began picturing how she would make the film. “It just started playing in my mind,” she recalls. “Black and white, in 4:3.”

Hall, who has starred in fare as varied as “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and, more recently, “Godzilla vs Kong,” was just a few dozen pages into the novel at the time and had never previously directed. But as soon as she finished the book — about two Black women who reconnect in adulthood when one has begun “passing” as white — Hall pulled out her computer and began writing the screenplay. When she finished, she shoved it into a drawer, where it stayed for the next six years.

“I think I sort of vomited out the first draft in 10 days,” says Hall. “And then I was terrified of it. It sat on my computer.

With 2021 coming to a close and everyone putting their best-of lists together, the Sundance Film Festival is on the horizon giving us a wave of new movies to look forward to. The festival has released a batch of first-look images (see below) for the upcoming slate of festival entries including films such as “Resurrection,” “Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul,” and “Call Jane.” All three projects will have their World Premiere at Sundance alongside many other feature films and documentaries.

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Fernando Díaz’s Machaco Films and Roxana Ramos’ Aramos Cine have partnered to set up a joint venture: La Puerta Roja, focused on horror and fantasy movies as well as working with prominent genre directors from Ibero-America. Both companies are based in Buenos Aires.

The idea sprang from Machaco and Aramos’s co-production partnership on Demian Rugna’s next project “When Evil Lurks.” Machaco had already produced Rugna’s “Terrified,” awarded at the Austin Fantastic Fest among a flurry of international kudos, and whose remake rights were acquired by Guillermo del Toro.

A cinema-tv production company, Machaco Films was founded over 20 years ago. Productions include Fernando Díaz’s “Soul’s Square,” and Rossana Díaz Costa’s “Trip to Timbuktu” and “A World for Julius,” based on Alfredo Bryce Echenique’s same-titled novel.

As for Aramos, it has raised international expectations with Alexi Tolstoy’s short story adaptation of “Vurdalak Blood,...

Jesse Metcalfe has signed on for MGM and Lightworkers’ new faith-based family drama “On a Wing and a Prayer,” starring opposite Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham.

Based on a true story, Quaid stars as Doug White, who’s forced to fly a plane after the pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight.

The movie is the latest production from MGM’s Lightworkers — the company, founded by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, is behind “The Bible” miniseries and MGM and Paramount’s contemporary “Ben-Hur” adaptation. Downey will produce the movie alongside Autumn Bailey-Ford, with Burnett serving as an executive producer. Directed by Sean McNamara from a screenplay by Brian Egeston, “On a Wing and a Prayer” is currently in production and slated for release on Aug. 31, 2022.

After kicking off his career with heartthrob roles on “Passions,” “Desperate Housewives” and the 2006 hit teen comedy “John Tucker Must Die,” Metcalfe has found massive success on the...

Amazon Studios has given a formal series greenlight to a YA spinoff from the Emmy-nominated superhero drama The Boys, produced by Sony Pictures Television. Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters have come on board to serve as showrunners and executive producers on the yet untitled series, which assembled most of its main cast in anticipation of the series order.

As previously announced, Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Shane Paul McGhie, Aimee Carrero, Reina Hardesty, and Maddie Phillips are set to portray young superheroes on the show set at America’s only college exclusively for young-adult superheroes (run by Vought International). The Untitled The Boys spinoff is described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. It’s part college show, part Hunger Games— with all the heart,...

Exclusive: Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is set to headline Hide, a drama series in development at Peacock. Tennant is attached to star and executive produce alongside his wife, actor Georgia Tennant. The project is written/executive produced by WGA Award-nominated showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters (Agent Carter) and directed/executive produced by Emmy-, BAFTA- and DGA-nominated director Julie Anne Robinson.

In Hide, a Jekyll & Hyde tale by way of a conspiracy thriller, a disgraced journalist (David Tennant) stumbles upon a story that could resurrect his career. But he quickly learns he’s seen something he shouldn’t have, and is now the target of unknown adversaries who will do anything to silence him. On the run as people around him go missing or die, a serious accident has an extraordinary side effect, and he realizes there are monsters in the world – and he may be one of them.

Completing the accusation-towards-the-system “Resurrection Trilogy”, following “Wolf’s Calling” and “The Day of Destruction”, eloquently titled “Go Seppuku Yourselves” is another audiovisual extravaganza, this time aiming at the samurai system and particularly the Bushido, alongside politicians.

“Go Seppuku Yourselves” is screening at Japan Cuts

The 25-minute short begins with a rather impressive scene, where a geisha is moving in slow motion through the narrow street of a village during the samurai era. The camera follows her from behind, but when it turns to her face, a black oni mask is revealed, before she cuts off her little finger, which is then showed being dropped somewhere. The whereabouts are revealed in the next scene, which changes completely setting, inside the “den” of a pharmacist, where a samurai, Danbe, enters, informing the owner that a well has been contaminated by an oni (a Japanese demon). Danbe also cautions the pharmacist, that the authorities,...

Halloween Kills is stalking its way into theaters this October. Although she technically died in Halloween Resurrection, the film will mark the sixth time Jamie Lee Curtis has played the iconic Final Girl Laurie Strode, the strong and ferocious fighter who ably fends off the murderous Michael Myers time and again.

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However, Laurie isn't the only Final Girl in the franchise to triumph over the notorious masked killer, nor is Jamie Lee Curtis the only actress who has portrayed the character on the big screen. While some have shown more grit, courage, and steely determination than others, most of the Final Girls in the Halloween franchise have fought back to give Michael Myers all he can handle.

Although he could’ve easily phoned in a haunted house movie set in space for a quick paycheck, when Ridley Scott was hired to direct Alien for 20th Century Fox, he went above and beyond. Scott elevated Alien’s B-movie premise into high art with Hitchcockian tension and strong thematic substance.

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While more recent Alien movies like Resurrection, Prometheus, and Covenant have arrived as disappointments that the fanbase forgot about the second they left the theater, the 1979 original remains a timeless classic to this day, thanks to these elements.

Vertical Entertainment has released a trailer and poster for writer-director Eddie Arya’s sci-fi thriller Risen which follows exobiologist Lauren Stone as she finds herself in a race against time to save mankind while investigating a meteorite that hit an isolated Alaskan town, contaminating the area and turning it inhabitable. Check them out here… Disaster unfolds […]

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"They say if it's out of this world, you will find it." Vertical Entertainment has released an intriguing new trailer for a science fiction thriller titled Risen, the latest film from Australian director Eddie Arya (of The Navigator and The System previously). The film is about a mysterious meteor that crash lands in a small, isolated town in Alaska. Exobiologist Lauren Stone is called to find answers to the unearthly event. As she begins to uncover the truth, imminent danger awakens and it becomes a race against time to save mankind. What's hiding in the rock?! Another mysterious extraterrestrial plot. The film stars Nicole Schalmo, Jack Campbell, Dominic Stone, Caroline McQuade, and Kenneth Trujillo. We've seen this kind of "alien microbes" film before, but I'm always still curious to see what each new film has to offer. Check it out below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Eddie Arya's Risen,...

Exclusive: Logan Marshall-Green (How It Ends), Matt Craven (Sharp Objects) and newcomer Ridley Asha Bateman have joined the cast of Lou.

They’ll appear, in the Netflix film, opposite previously announced cast members Allison Janney and Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country).

In Lou, a massive storm rages. A young girl is kidnapped. Her mother, with no other option, teams up with the mysterious older woman next door to pursue the kidnapper – a journey into the wilderness that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.

Anna Foerster is directing the film, from a script by Maggie Cohn.

JJ Abrams, Jon Cohen and Hannah Minghella are producing the feature. Its exec producers are Braden Aftergood, Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Lindsey Weber and Cory Bennett Lewis. Jeannette Francis is also on board as an associate producer.

Marshall-Green recently appeared in the film How It Ends,...

Over the course of a pair of films and a television series, Nicholas Britell and Barry Jenkins have become one of the more exciting composer-director pairings working today. The upcoming series “The Underground Railroad” provided each of them with their widest canvas yet.

One of the best examples is the sequence featuring “Bessie,” the track embedded below. It is one of 25 cues that will appear on “The Underground Railroad: Volume 1,” set to be released by Lakeshore Records next week when the series debuts on Amazon Prime Video.

“It’s always an interesting question for me and for Barry, ‘What are we trying to say with the music?’ For us, the orchestra became a tool for a certain type of tone. ‘Bessie’ is really the most full realization of that idea within the world of ‘The Underground Railroad,'” Britell said. “That’s the sound of 50 strings together. We recorded it at Air Studios in London.

Discovery Plus is venturing into scripted development, with the streamer acquiring the TV rights to the book “Girls with Bright Futures” by Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman, Variety has learned exclusively.

The move to develop the series, which is in the very early stages, is significant given that Discovery Plus is largely made up of original unscripted programming and library content from channels like HGTV, TLC, Discovery Channel, and Food Network among others. There are scripted library shows available on Discovery Plus already, however, including scripted shows from Discovery Channel and acquired titles from Lifetime. There is also the film “Resurrection” from MGM and Lightworks. According to an individual with knowledge of the plans, Discovery Plus will still focus mainly on unscripted going forward.

The plan is currently to develop “Girls With Bright Futures” as a miniseries. The book was originally published in February 2021. It deals with a college admissions...

“The Sinner” is adding Frances Fisher to the cast of the fourth season.

Producer Michelle Purple told me the news Thursday night at the premiere of her and producing partner Jessica Biel’s latest project “Cruel Summer.” She’s “super excited” about the “Watchmen” actor joining the USA Network anthology series along with new addition Alice Kremelberg and returning star Bill Pullman.

The new season starts shooting in Nova Scotia in May. Pullman has appeared in every season as police detective Harry Ambrose.

Fisher played Jane Crawford on the award-winning HBO adaptation of “Watchmen.” She portrayed Rose’s mother in “Titanic” and is also well known for “Unforgiven.” Her TV credits include “Resurrection,” “Masters of Sex,” “The Killing,” “Torchwood” and “Eureka.”

The first season of “The Sinner,” which earned Emmy and Golden Globe acting nods for Biel as well as a Globe nomination for best miniseries or television film, was...

David Fincher’s “Mank” and Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” were among the winners at the Art Directors Guild Awards on Saturday night — both are also Oscar nominees for best production design.

In a hybrid ceremony, the Adg (IATSE Local 800) awarded 11 categories across television, film, music videos and commercials.

Other winners included, “Da 5 Bloods” (Wynn Thomas), and “Soul” (Steve Pilcher).

In the television category, “The Mandalorian: Chapter 13: The Jedi,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” and “What We Do in the Shadows: Resurrection” were all recognized.

Comedian Jb Smoove, co-star of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” served as the evening’s host, entertaining a global audience. Nelson Coates, Adg president, and Mark Worthington, art directors council chair, presided over the awards ceremony.

“I’m grateful we were able to share our open awards event with all of our members, their families, friends, and coworkers this year,” producer Scott Moses said. “The show...

“Mank,” “Tenet,” “Da 5 Bloods” and “Soul” have won the feature-film awards at the 25th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, which were handed out in a virtual ceremony on Saturday.

“Mank” won in the period-film category, the Adg category that most closely corresponds to the Oscar for Best Production Design. “Tenet” won in the fantasy category, “Da 5 Bloods” in the contemporary category and “Soul” in the animated category.

In the 14 years since the current Adg categories were established, the winner in the period category has gone on to win the Oscar for Best Production Design six times, the fantasy winner has taken the Oscar four times, and the contemporary winner has won the Oscar once. In all but three of those years, the Oscar has gone to one of the Adg winners.

“Mank” and “Tenet” are both nominated for the Best Production Design Oscar; “Da 5 Bloods” and “Soul” are not.

The 25th Annual Art Director’s Guild Awards took place tonight as a reimagined virtual show, with Mank,, Tenet and Da 5 Bloods taking home top film honors.

Hosted by Curb Your Enthusiasm’s J.B. Smoove, the event celebrates outstanding production design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, animated features and music videos. For all the winners and nominees, see the list at the bottom of this post.

Ryan Murphy received Cinematic Imagery Award honoring his work reflecting the highest quality of production design. The award was presented by Matt Bomer, star of many of Murphy’s shows including Boys in the Band.

Other presenters included Jordi Molla (Jack Ryan); Nicco Annan (P-Valley); Tyra Banks; Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Aasif Mandvi (Evil); Jenna Elfman (Fear the Walking Dead) and Brian Tee (Chicago Med).

Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Emmy-winning production designer Stuart Wurtzel (Ad), set designer Martha Johnston (Sdmm...

“Raya and the Last Dragon,” which grossed $32 million for its first month in theaters, made a strong general-public premium VOD debut. Everyone can now buy it at $29.99; previously, only Disney+ subscribers had the privilege with the same upcharge. The animated film took the top spot at FandangoNow as well as AppleTV which ranks by purchase volume.

“Black Widow” and “Cruella” are expected to follow suit in the coming months, but Disney+ availability looks a lot less threatening after the box-office success of “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which grossed $48.5 million — over 9 million tickets sold — even while available on HBO Max. In Canada, where most theaters are not yet open, it took in around $3 million U.S. as a PVOD offering.

After several weeks at $19.99, “Wonder Woman 1984” benefited from a price reduction to $5.99 three months after its theatrical debut — Aka normal practice. It is #1 at Google Play, and #2 at AppleTV and FandangoNow,...