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Robocop 4K Ultra HD 2-Disc Limited Edition Collector’s Set will be available April 12th From Arrow Video

RoboCop, from Orion Pictures, marked director Paul Verhoeven’s (Flesh + Blood) Hollywood debut & now the future of law enforcement is back in a definitive 4K Ultra HD presentation packed with hours of brand new bonus features & exclusive collectible packaging.

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Limited Edition Contents

4K restoration of the film from the original negative by MGM, transferred in 2013 and approved by director Paul VerhoevenNew artwork by Paul ShipperDirector’s Cut and Theatrical Cut of the film on two 4K (2160p) Uhd Blu-ray discs with Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)Original lossless stereo and four-channel mixes plus DTS-hd Ma 5.1 and Dolby Atmos surround sound optionsOptional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingSix collector’s postcards (Limited Edition exclusive)Double-sided...

Blaspheme, Queen: Verhoeven Turns to Nunsploitation in Erotic Melodrama

Occupying a dazzling intersection of exploitation and queer historical recuperation is the long-awaited Benedetta from Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven. The director’s second French film following his 2016 comeback Elle, he reunites with scribe David Birke to (liberally) adapt the 1986 historical study Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy.

Marrying nearly all of Verhoeven’s favored motifs, religion and sexuality, cultural hypocrisy and bodily functions, it hits the sweet spot of sobering outrageousness which is exactly what such a portrait of this time, place and common attitudes demands.…...

Benedetta IFC Midnight Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Paul Verhoeven Screenwriter: David Birke, Paul Verhoeven, based on the non-fiction book by Judith C. Brown Cast: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/20/21 Opens: December 3, 2021 Joan of Arc meets […]

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Catholic protesters descended on Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for the New York Film Festival premiere of Paul Verhoeven’s scandalous lesbian nun drama “Benedetta.” The movie, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to shock and acclaim, stars Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun in the 17th century who joins an Italian convent and has a lesbian love affair with another nun.

IFC Films, which opens the “Basic Instinct” and “Elle” director’s latest on December 3 stateside, confirmed to IndieWire that the protest was, indeed, not a publicity stunt. Festival attendees shared news and photos of the protest on Twitter (see below).

“They are upset about its ‘blasphemous’ portrayal of nuns and Catholicism. They’re repeatedly saying Hail Marys into megaphones,” said IndieWire’s Managing Editor Christian Blauvelt. Protesters, some of whom were seen playing drums and bagpipes, appear to be part of a group called America Needs Fatima.

Exclusive: IFC Films has set a December 3, 2021, theatrical and VOD release date for Paul Verhoeven’s steamy Cannes hit Benedetta.

The anticipated movie will open in New York at the IFC Center and Film Lincoln Center and in LA at the Royal and The Alamo Drafthouse.

The French-language film debuted in Cannes and will get its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival.

Benedetta, which had tongues wagging on the Croisette, follows a 17th-century nun in Italy who suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair. It is based on Judith C. Brown’s book, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy.

Starring are Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin, and Herve Pierre.

Script comes from David Birke, Judith C Brown and Verhoeven.

Paul Verhoeven makes movies as if controversy keeps him warm at night. In 1980 he made “Spetters” (Dutch for “Babes”), which has been described as “the sexually explicit answer to ‘Grease,'” complete with depictions of sexual sadism. Verhoeven said it inspired his native Holland to create NASA — the National Anti-Spetters Association — and to cut off his funding. That led to a move to Hollywood, where he made films like “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls.” More recently he’s favored France, which allows him more freedom to pursue racy subject matter without worrying about what he calls America’s “Puritan” attitudes about sex.

Cannes debut “Benedetta” is his latest provocation, a true story about 17th-century Italian lesbian nuns who were punished for their sins by the patriarchal Catholic Church. This intense religious drama has echoes of Verhoeven’s 1985 Orion Pictures flop “Flesh and Blood,” a historical romance starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh...

Paul Verhoeven makes movies as if controversy keeps him warm at night. In 1980 he made “Spetters” (Dutch for “Babes”), which has been described as “the sexually explicit answer to ‘Grease,'” complete with depictions of sexual sadism. Verhoeven said it inspired his native Holland to create NASA — the National Anti-Spetters Association — and to cut off his funding. That led to a move to Hollywood, where he made films like “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls.” More recently he’s favored France, which allows him more freedom to pursue racy subject matter without worrying about what he calls America’s “Puritan” attitudes about sex.

Cannes debut “Benedetta” is his latest provocation, a true story about 17th-century Italian lesbian nuns who were punished for their sins by the patriarchal Catholic Church. This intense religious drama has echoes of Verhoeven’s 1985 Orion Pictures flop “Flesh and Blood,” a historical romance starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh...

Benedetta Sometimes it only takes one film to fire up a festival. That film, this year, came in the shape Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, one of a handful that had originally been selected to screen here in 2020, and handed another slot twelve months later. It was Verhoeven’s first film since Elle (also screened in the official competition here back in 2016), and it promised a period piece cribbed from a book by Judith C. Brown: Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Which itself was based on the real-life story of Benedetta, a 17th century Italian nun-turned-abbess of Pescia, Tuscany, put on trial for a love affair with a fellow nun. Verhoeven has never shied away from in-your-face sexual content, so the marriage between director and story felt ripe for all kinds of excesses. But little could have ever prepared me for the wild riot Benedetta would ultimately turn into.

Ever the bad boy even into his 80s, director Paul Verhoeven stirs the pot and turns the heat up to the boiling point in Benedetta, a medieval brew of religious fervor, illicit lesbian sex in a convent, Catholic church politics and — to incidentally add a contemporaneous touch — a plague sweeping the land. Shot three summers ago in Tuscany and delayed in its Cannes Film Festival premiere by a year due to the 2020 edition’s cancellation, the film, like all the director’s work, is wild, intelligent, pulsating, provocative and vibrantly alive. Cecil B. DeMille would be outraged, while Ken Russell would be wildly jealous.

Verhoeven followers will recall that, in contrast to his ribald reputation, he came out with a scholarly book in 2008 called Jesus Of Nazareth, which was generally praised as a deeply researched and intelligent investigation in Jesus’ life and thoughts. When he decided not to pursue that as a film,...

You probably won’t be shocked to hear that Paul Verhoeven’s erotic drama about the relationship between two horny nuns in a 17th century Italian convent — a sacrilegious affair that became one of modern Western civilization’s earliest documented instances of lesbianism after a parish scrivener wrote about it in his diary with curiously exacting detail — isn’t quite the restrained sapphic romance that period films like “Carol,” “Ammonite,” and “The World to Come” have popularized in recent years. On the contrary, “Benedetta” is a movie in which the abbess of a convent gets fucked by a wooden statue of Jesus that someone has whittled into a dildo for her. The director of “Robocop,” “Showgirls,” and “Starship Troopers” has never had much use for subtlety or unspoken yearning, and his unholy adaptation of Judith C. Brown’s history book “Immodest Acts” feels closer in spirit to “The Devils” than...

Paul Verhoeven has made a career out of pushing cinematic boundaries, particularly when it comes to depicting sex or violence on screen.

In films like “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls,” he battled the ratings boards, while blockbusters like “Total Recall” and “Robocop” popularized R-rated action. All that changed in the aughts, as Hollywood abandoned those projects, sanded down the edges of commercial movies, and replaced ice-pick wielding serial killers with caped superheroes that appeal to a-all-four quadrants. But Verhoeven endured, turning his attention to European films such as “The Black Book” and “Elle” and earning the critical respect that often evaded him in the 1990s. He’s back in Cannes this year with “Benedetta,” the story of a lesbian affair between nuns in 17th century Italy. The film will be released in the U.S. by IFC Films.

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Benedetta is an upcoming biographical drama directed and co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, perhaps best known for Robocop and Starship Troopers. The movie stars Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun in the 17th century who joins an Italian convent in Pescia, Tuscany, who then begins a love affair with another woman. Benedetta will have its premiere at Cannes, and was picked up for U.S. distribution by IFC Films.

The film is based on the 1986 non-fiction novel "Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy" by Judith C. Brown. Paul Verhoeven brings back most of his key crew members from his previous film Elle, (which co-starred Efira), producer Saïd Ben Saïd, writer David Birke, composer Anne Dudley, and editor Job ter Burg. You can take a look at the short teaser below.

Benedetta is scheduled to premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d'Or.

Erotic thriller set to world premiere in Competition at Cannes.

IFC Films has secured North American rights to Paul Verhoeven’s erotic drama Benedetta, which is set to premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in July.

The deal was struck with Pathé International, which is handling world sales, and IFC Films plans to release the film this year. The film will receive its world premiere at Cannes on July 9 and release in French cinemas on the same day. Mubi acquired UK-Ireland rights earlier this week.

Originally slated to debut at the cancelled 2020 Cannes Film Festival, Benedetta will now...

IFC Films has struck early, nabbing North American rights to “Benedetta” ahead of the erotic thriller’s premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film has drawn interest from a number of distributors due in part to its pedigree. “Benedetta” is directed by a master of the form, Paul Verhoeven, who previously oversaw “Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall” and “Black Book.” It marks Verhoeven’s first directorial effort since his 2016 film “Elle,” which premiered in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and earned an Oscar nomination for its star Isabelle Huppert.

According to the official description, “Benedetta” entangles sexuality, religion, and human ambition in its story of a young novitiate in 17th century Italy who begins an affair with another nun. With plague ravaging the land, Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira) joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany. Tormented by religious and erotic visions and capable from an early age of performing miracles,...

Subversive period drama set to play in Competition at Cannes.

London-based streaming platform and distributor Mubi has secured all UK-Ireland rights to Paul Verhoeven’s period drama Benedetta, which is set to premiere in Competition at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in July.

The deal was struck with Pathé International, which is handling world sales, and Mubi plans to release the film theatrically. The film will receive its world premiere at Cannes on July 9 and release in French cinemas on the same day.

Inspired by true events, Benedetta is set in the late 17th century and stars Virginie Efira as...

In today’s Global Bulletin, U.K.’s National Theatre filmed plays to stream on Amazon Prime Video in the U.K. and Ireland; Mubi boards U.K., Ireland rights for Paul Verhoeven’s Cannes title “Benedetta”; Anton Corbijn directs Sergei Polunin ballet documentary “Dancer II”; Banff sets indigenous screen industry summit; Bild Studios and Lux Machina form Virtual Production partnership; and the third season of International Emmy-winning series “Bluey” will premiere globally on Disney.

Four stage productions filmed by the U.K.’s National Theatre will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the U.K. and Ireland from June 11.

The productions include “Frankenstein,” directed by Danny Boyle and written by Nick Dear, in which joint Olivier Award winners Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate the roles of the creature and Victor Frankenstein; “Fleabag,” written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge; and “Hamlet” with Benedict Cumberbatch, directed by Lyndsey Turner.

After five years away, moviegoers will see the return of veteran director Paul Verhoeven with his new erotic-thriller, Benedetta. A trailer has been released, and the thriller will premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The drama stars Virginie Efira in the title role of Bendetta, a nun that begins an affair with another nun. The picture is produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and will feature composer Anne Dudley. You can check out the first look footage ahead of the movie's debut later this year.

In the world of cinema, the ever changing landscape of actors, directors and genres, breathes new life into old ideas. What was once considered to be the norm can turn on a dime into a dynamic adventure for audiences. Of course, the re-emergence of older directors can also bring about a renewed sense of storytelling, like that of Martin Scorsase or David Fincher. Now, Paul...

Benedetta Trailer — Paul Verhoeven‘s Benedetta (2021) movie trailer has been released by Pathé. The Benedetta trailer stars Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin, Hervé Pierre, Clotilde Courau, Guilaine Londez, Quentin D’Hainaut, Elena Plonka, and Antoine Lelandais. Crew David Birke and Paul Verhoeven wrote the screenplay for Benedetta. Anne Dudley [...]

Continue reading: Benedetta Trailer: Nun Virginie Efira is gifted Miracle Worker but is Plagued by Desires in Paul Verhoeven’s 2021 Movie...

Pathé has dropped the first trailer for Paul Verhoeven’s steamy period drama Benedetta. The latest from the Elle and Basic Instinct director has already been confirmed as an official selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will screen in competition during the event which is scheduled to run July 6-17. Pathé will release locally on July 9.

Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson and Olivier Rabourdin star in the thriller which was originally titled Blessed Virgin. Inspired by true events, it’s set in the late 15th century as plague ravages the land. Benedetta Carlini (Efira) joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany as a novice who has been capable from an early age of performing miracles. Her impact on life in the community is immediate and momentous.

The film is based on the book Immodest Acts: The Life Of A Lesbian Nun In Renaissance Italy which...

Luke Bracey and Brittany Snow have signed on to star in Tom Chilcoat’s debut feature, Big Nickel, with principal photography kicking off in the U.S this winter.

Co-written by Chilcoat and David Birke, the thriller centers on Charlie (Bracey), a charismatic Army recruiter, who is tasked with signing the “big fish” for a promotion. The only person standing in his way is Erik, a disturbed ex-vet that Charlie convinced to enlist years before. A dangerous man with a bone to pick, Erik will not be satisfied until Charlie has paid a heavy price—and as pressure mounts, Charlie is ultimately forced to re-examine his dubious methods, facing a thunderous reckoning of accountability.

A Traction and Arclight Films production, Big Nickel is produced by Traction’s Jason Tamasco and Zak Kristofek. Executive producers include Arclight Films’ Gary Hamilton, Ryan Hamilton and Ying Ye.

A native of Australia, Bracey is best known for turns in Netflix original rom-com Holidate, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate’s Point Break remake, Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate’s Oscar-winning war film Hacksaw Ridge and acclaimed Hulu miniseries, Little Fires Everywhere.

Rising to fame following her appearance on NBC drama series American Dreams, Snow’s TV credits include Ryan Murphy’s Nip/Tuck, David E. Kelly’s Harry’s Law, The CW’s musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Fox’s Almost Family.

On the film side, the actress is internationally recognized for her turn as Chloe in Universal Studios’ Pitch Perfect franchise. Additional big screen credits include The Pacifier, John Tucker Must Die, Prom Night and Hairspray. Most recently, Snow produced and starred in the comedic feature, Hooking Up, also starring in Netflix feature Someone Great, produced by Paul Feig.

Bracey is represented in the U.S. by CAA, Fourward, and attorney Michael Schenkman of Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. In Australia, the actor is repped by Morrissey Management. Snow is repped by The Gersh Agency and Principal Entertainment.

Benedetta

Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne Patakia, Quentin D’Hainaut, Alexia Chardard, Louise Chevillotte

Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie

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Just because it’s Thanksgiving week here in the states, home media releases don’t get any time off, and we’ve got a brand new batch of titles coming our way tomorrow. Scream Factory is giving us a double dose of horror from 1979 with their new Blu-rays for Dracula (1979) and Prophecy (1979), and for those of you RoboCop fans out there, you’ll definitely want to pick up Arrow Video’s brand new Steelbook release as well.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for November 26th include Mary, Don’t Let Go, Shock, First Person Shooter, Eegah, and The Zombie Apocalypse in Apartment 14F.

Don’t Let Go

Detective Jack Radcliff (David Oyelowo) gets a shocking phone call from his recently murdered niece Ashley (Storm Reid). Working together across time, they race to solve her murder before it can happen. Don't Let Go is a classic thriller with a supernatural twist from Blumhouse,...

“Excuse me. I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.”

Robocop 2-Disc Limited Edition Collector’s Set will be available November 26th From Arrow Video

Part Man, Part Machine, All Cop.

RoboCop, from Orion Pictures, marked director Paul Verhoeven’s (Flesh + Blood) Hollywood debut & now the future of law enforcement is back in a definitive Blu-ray presentation packed with hours of brand new bonus features & exclusive collectible packaging.

Limited Edition Contents

4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by MGM, transferred in 2013 & approved by director Paul VerhoevenNewly commissioned artwork by Paul ShipperDirector’s Cut & Theatrical Cut of the film on two High Definition (1080p) Blu-rayTM discsOriginal lossless stereo & four-channel mixes plus DTS-hd Ma 5.1 surround sound option on both cutsOptional English subtitles on both cutsSix collector’s postcards (Limited Edition exclusive)Double-sided, fold-out poster (Limited Edition exclusive)Reversible sleeve featuring original & newly commissioned artworkLimited edition collector...

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Orion Pictures and the makers of The Ring will take the Momo challenge.

Inform everyone you can. This is real. The Mother Bird has landed at Orion Pictures. The studio behind the recent Child's Play reboot is making a Momo movie. The premise of the Momo Challenge viral Internet hoax will be adapted by the studio, Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment and producer Taka Ichise, who brought us The Grudge and The Ring, according to Deadline.

The upcoming horror film wll be based on the work of art that inspired the Momo Challenge. Momo is a sculpture named Mother Bird which Japanese artist Keisuke Aisawa created in 2016 as part of a gallery exhibit in Tokyo. It transformed into rumors of a game which challenged kids to hurt themselves and ultimately commit suicide. The Momo Challenge was allegedly and reportedly shared on message services like WhatsApp. The hoax...

Exclusive: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment will finance and produce Picking Cotton, and the company has set Jessica Sanders to direct a David Birke & Tony Mosher-scripted adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thompson and Erin Torneo.

Sidney Kimmel, Ske president John Penotti and Sanders will produce and Dan Shotz and Brett Winton will be exec producers.

Sanders is the Oscar-nominated, Sundance- and Cannes-winning docu director of After Innocence and Sing!. Picking Cotton is the riveting true story of Jennifer Thompson, a Southern white college student who was violently raped at knifepoint, and Ronald Cotton, the black man she identified as her attacker in a lineup. After spending 11 years in prison, Cotton was exonerated and freed by DNA evidence. He acclimates to life as a free man and his accuser struggles with her guilt, and in an unlikely turn they become close friends and activists for criminal justice reform.

Benedetta

Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven made a whopping comeback with his first French language film in 2016’s Elle, which snagged Isabelle Huppert (check out our interview) a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. The film’s success has allowed for Verhoeven to announced plans for future projects with producer Said Ben Said. After serving as Jury President at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, Verhoeven set his sights on Benedetta (initially announced as Blessed Virgin). Screenwriter David Birke (Elle) returns as screenwriter while actress Virginie Efira (most recently seen in Catherine Corsini’s Un amour impossible and who had a minor supporting role in Elle), takes center stage.…...

Stars: Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, Alex Fitzalan, Taylor Richardson, Javier Botet, Jessica Blank, Michael Reilly Burke, Kevin Chapman, Miguel Nascimento | Written by David Birke | Directed by Sylvain White

Small-town best friends Hallie, Chloe, Wren and Katie go online to try and conjure up the Slender Man – a tall, thin, horrifying figure whose face has no discernible features. Two weeks later, Katie mysteriously disappears during a class trip to a historic graveyard. Determined to find her, the girls soon suspect that the legend of the Slender Man may be all too real.

Slender Man is without a doubt a disgrace to the genre of horror… and a multitude of issues arises with this latest attempt at creating a horror franchise from Sony Pictures.

Firstly, the smallest issue at hand is the fact that Sony waited almost six years after the initial infamous game that spawned Slender...

Featuring the modern-day boogeyman for a generation of horror fans, Slender Man is coming home in time for Halloween, as the horror film based on the viral character created by Victor Surge has now been unleashed on digital platforms ahead of its Blu-ray and DVD release on October 30th via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. To celebrate today's digital release, we've been provided with an exclusive clip from the movie's featurette "Summoning Slender Man: Meet the Cast," which explores the tight-knit friendships from the film, both in front of and behind the camera.

You can watch the cast discuss their genuine friendships with one another in our exclusive clip below, keep an eye out for Slender Man on Amazon and iTunes beginning today, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's review of the horror film!

Press Release: Culver City, Calif. – Fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man,...

Featuring the modern-day boogeyman for a generation of horror fans, Slender Man is coming home in time for Halloween, as we can exclusively reveal that the horror film based on the viral character created by Victor Surge will be unleashed on Blu-ray and DVD on October 30th via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, following an October 19th digital debut. In addition to the movie's Blu-ray and DVD cover art, we've also been provided with the official release details to share with Daily Dead readers!

The Slender Man Blu-ray and DVD releases will each come with featurette “Summoning Slender Man: Meet the Cast." Below, we have the official press release with full details, as well as a look at the cover art:

Press Release: Culver City, Calif. – Fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles (“The Affair”), Jaz Sinclair (When the Bough Breaks) and Annalise Basso...

Based on an internet meme that led to a brutal stabbing, this doctored frightener has truly missed its moment

A Slender Man movie might well have been a commercially viable option earlier this decade, when the spectral figure created by Eric Knudsen for somethingawful.com was one of the internet’s creepier memes. That was before the near-fatal 2014 stabbing of a 12-year-old Wisconsin girl by classmates claiming to serve the fictional creation, the objections the victim’s father raised to the then-shooting project, and the cuts designed to both appease the relatives and secure a teen-baiting rating. Sony have hustled the results out into scattered late-night slots without fanfare, perhaps understandably, as there’s not much left to distribute: if you thought the bogeyman was slender, wait till you see the film.

Writer David Birke and director Sylvain White here graft together material from The Ring, the Blair Witches and Wes Craven’s Nightmares,...

You know that Slender Man movie that had been in the works? Sony actually released it in theaters last weekend. Nobody would blame you if you didn't notice. The studio ended up not getting behind the project and, due to some serious behind the scenes drama, they just sort of dumped it and are moving on. What is perhaps the most interesting element to the drama leading up to its release is that the studio actually cut several major scenes and heavily edited down Slender Man before its release. Essentially, they released an incomplete movie in theaters.

This was a major "cut your losses" kind of move. Before digging into what was cut, per some anonymous insiders, let's discuss what led to this decision by Sony and Screen Gems. Initially, the script for Slender Man, written by David Birke, was much darker. The studio insisted on a PG-13 rating. That's not inherently an issue,...

The quartet of teenage female protagonists at the center of Slender Man will remind horror fans of a certain age of The Craft, another film that featured a foursome of high schoolers navigating the perils of adolescents along with some supernatural terror. Unlike that film (and just about every other film that features a group of young women) they never turn on each other, fight over boys, or ever refer to one another as bitches or sluts (even in that joking-but-not-joking way). They don't always see eye-to-eye and they occasionally butt heads, but never denigrate or demean each other-even though such behaviors are often emphasized and even encouraged in portrayals of teenage hotties. For this reason alone, Slender Man director Sylvain White and screenwriter David Birke deserve recognition and applause.

For the uninitiated, Slender Man is based on the fictional villain created by Victor Surge in the early 2000s. The tall,...

Eric "Victor Surge" Knudsen is the original creator of Slender Man, having conjured the iconic character nearly one decade ago in a Photoshop competition. For years, Surge offered glimpses of the Slender Man haunting humans with his imposingly tall, terrifyingly tentacled form in photos shared online. Now, Surge has brought the Slender Man back to the online realm. With a movie based on the urban legend slated to haunt Us theaters this Friday from Screen Gems, we've been provided with an exclusive look at two photos of the Slender Man ahead of the movie's release, giving readers a closer look at the enigmatic character's ominous presence over the years.

After a period of Slender Man sighting inactivity from Victor Surge, he just recently started posting a series of new photos and explains the reason why:

As a child, I was plagued by terrible sleep paralysis that made me feel like someone was always watching me.

A tasteless and inedibly undercooked serving of the internet’s stalest Creepypasta, “Slender Man” aspires to be for the YouTube era what “The Ring” was to the last gasps of the VHS generation. But while both films attempt to mine full-fleshed horror mythologies from spooky viral videos, luring their hapless characters into an unwinnable war of attrition with an evil force that lurks on the fringes of the visible world, there’s one fundamental difference that sets the two movies apart: “The Ring” is good, and “Slender Man” is terrible.

And while the awfulness of a mid-August studio movie can easily be taken for granted, “Slender Man” isn’t just bad, it’s also disappointing. As problematic as it was always going to be, the idea of a horror film based on the world’s most pervasive digital folklore was full of raw potential. The character of Slender Man has...

In “Slender Man,” the title demon is one of those spectral showbiz creeps from another dimension who’s coming to get you. He’s like Freddy Krueger, in that he targets teenagers and spirits them away the moment they let their defenses down. He’s like the force from “Ringu,” in that the trouble all starts when you watch an evil black-and-white digital file full of flickering imagery that looks like “Un Chien Andalou” crossed with a Tool video. He’s like Candy Man, in that he’s a historical ghost with a two-word name ending in “Man,” or Pennywise from “It,” in that he targets a close-knit group of friends, knocking them off one by one.

In this case, though, when you glimpse the character of Slender Man (Javier Botet) in the background of photographs or amateur videos, or even when you see him up close, he remains an oblique phantom: tall and spindly,...

"He gets in your head like a virus..." With Slender Man now slated to haunt Us theaters on August 10th from Screen Gems, a new trailer has been released for the horror film, giving horror fans a deeper look at how the titular character can infect your mind... and make you lose it.

Directed by Sylvain White from a screenplay by David Birke (based on the character created by Victor Surge), Slender Man stars Joey King, Julia Goldani-Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, and Javier Botet as Slenderman. One of the most talented performance artists working today, Botet also recently played the Neibolt House hobo in the new It movie as well as "KeyFace" in Insidious: The Last Key.

Synopsis: "In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing,...

The urban legend is officially headed for theaters as we now have a brand new trailer for Slender Man, Screen Gems and Sylvain White’s horror flick which is due to arrive next month.

Taking inspiration from the titular Internet phenomenon, one hatched by Eric Knudsen almost 10 years ago, Slender Man is a thriller from the mind of writer David Birke, who’s perhaps best known for his contribution to Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. It’s been in development for a long, long time and after facing numerous delays and setbacks, it’s finally ready to haunt audiences – as evidenced by this chilling new footage from the film.

For the uninitiated, Slender Man is a creepy, wire-thin figure that really needs no introduction at this point. Considered to be something of an Internet legend since its inception in 2009, ol’ Slender has stalked nightmares and effectively clawed his way into popular...

Exclusive: Oscar-nominee Charlotte Rampling is attached to join the cast of Elle and Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven’s upcoming steamy thriller Blessed Virgin, I can reveal. Rampling is being lined up for a key supporting role alongside Virginie Efira (Elle), Lambert Wilson (The Matrix Reloaded) and rising Belgian-Greek actress Daphne Patakia (Djam).

Pathé handles international sales and French distribution on the anticipated French-language drama, which reteams Elle duo Verhoeven and Belgian actress Efira. The latter stars as Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun capable of performing miracles, who joins an Italian convent in the late 17th century, as plague is ravaging the land. While at the convent she begins a love affair with another woman. Script comes from Verhoeven and his Elle co-writer David Birke.

The feature, which mixes religion and erotica, is an adaption of Judith C. Brown’s academic work Immodest Acts: The Life Of A Lesbian Nun...

The modern-day boogeyman of the internet will have to wait a bit longer to haunt theaters in 2018, as Screen Gems has changed the release date for their Slender Man movie.

According to Box Office Mojo, Slender Man is now scheduled to come out in theaters on August 24th, moving it about three months from its previous May 18th release date.

Bloody Disgusting reports that Screen Gems has also taken the Shay Mitchell-starring horror film Cadaver off its release schedule. The movie was also slated to come out this year, but we'll have to wait and see where the new horror film—which follows a cop fighting an evil force in a hospital morgue—will land next on the calendar.

Directed by Sylvain White from a screenplay by David Birke (based on the character created by Victor Surge), Slender Man stars Joey King, Julia Goldani-Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, and Javier Botet as Slenderman.

Beware the Slender Man.

Eric Knudsen’s modern-day boogeyman has been the talk of the town ever since that haunting trailer reveal, and though the Sony horror flick resonated with many, it’s now been hit with a fairly big delay. Originally set to be with us on May 18th, the studio has shifted it to August 24th. It’s not the end of the world, of course, but those looking forward to seeing the pic will surely be left a bit disappointed.

Lifting inspiration from the titular Internet phenomenon, one created by Knudsen almost 10 years ago, Slender Man is a long-brewing thriller from the mind of David Birke, who’s perhaps best known for his contribution to Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. This time around, he’s working with a modern-day myth, as Slender Man has spawned countless memes, video games, and even an attempted murder in 2014, when two young...

The character who has become the modern-day boogeyman haunts high schoolers who summon him in the official trailer for Slender Man, the new movie based on the creepy online creation from Eric Knudsen, aka Victor Surge.

Directed by Sylvain White from a screenplay by David Birke (based on the character created by Victor Surge), Slender Man stars Joey King, Julia Goldani-Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, and Javier Botet as Slenderman. One of the most talented performance artists working today, Botet also recently played the Neibolt House hobo in the new It movie as well as "KeyFace" in Insidious: The Last Key.

Slender Man is scheduled to come out in theaters from Screen Gems on May 18th, 2018. Will you be adding it to your watch list this spring? Let us know and check out the synopsis, trailer, and poster below.

Synopsis: "In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls...

The urban legend of the Slender Man grows. Director Sylvain White (I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer) helms this film, from a script written by David Birke (13 Sins, 2014) and Victor Surge. The film stars: Joey King (The Conjuring, 2013), Julia Goldani Telles and Annalise Basso. In the film, an unnatural man haunts a local forest, leading to the disappearance of dozens of children and teenagers. A Mythology Entertainment and Madhouse Entertainment production, the film's first trailer is available here. In the trailer, a voice-over asks "Where is my daughter?" There is no answer. Meanwhile, more and more young women are drawn into the woods. Strange, short images haunt the trailer, with the Slender Man appearing at night and in fog. The Slender Man will show in May of 2018. Sony Pictures Releasing will host the United States' release, which begins May 18th. Fans of creepy horror titles are...

He gets in your head like a virus.

Watch the brand new trailer for Slender Man now. The film stars Joey King, Julia Goldani-Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso and Javier Botet.

In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, His latest victim.

Some facts before you see the film:

Victor Surge is the original creator of Slender Man, the mythical Internet character who inspired Wisconsin 12-year-olds Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier to stab their friend in Waukesha woods on Sunday. Surge was the first to make a Photoshopped image of Slender Man, submitting it to a forum called Something Awful (Sa) in 2009. From there, Internet users created backstories and more manipulated images of the character, and it grew...

Screen Gems has released the first trailer for the Slender Man movie, a horror adaptation of the famous Slender Man lore that was created from the Something Awful forum. Sylvian White (The Losers) directs the film with a screenplay by David Birke (Elle), which takes place in a small Massachusetts town where four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the Slender Man myth. But when one of the girls goes missing, they begin to suspect Slender Man might just in fact be real. This trailer offers up a sufficiently creepy vision for this story, but …...

The urban legend is officially headed for theaters as IGN has premiered the inaugural trailer for Slender Man, Screen Gems and Sylvain White’s horror flick due to arrive on May 18th.

Lifting inspiration from the titular Internet phenomenon, one hatched by Eric Knudsen almost 10 years ago, Slender Man is a long-brewing thriller from the mind of David Birke, who’s perhaps best known for his contribution to Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. This time around, he’s dealing with a modern-day myth, as Slender Man has spawned countless memes, video games, and even an attempted murder in 2014, when two young girls stabbed one of their classmates in an alleged ‘sacrifice’ to the online boogeyman. Chills.

And like all great horror stories, that impossibly tall ghoul has even inspired some half-baked clones, including The Tall Man and The Bye-Bye Man. Neither film was really up to snuff, though, which lends Slender...

Beware, for the first Slender Man trailer is here. 2017 was a banner year for horror movies in general, be it small budget flicks that did big business or massive hits like It that proved horror can hang with the biggest movies out there. 2018 has a lot of interesting horror offerings coming out as well, and Slender Man is one of them. This internet created creepypasta has been terrifying people online for years and now, he's heading to the big screen and the first trailer is online to give us a much better idea of what to expect from the movie.

Up to this point, word on the Slender Man movie has been pretty quiet, but now it looks like Screen Gems and Sony are looking to make people aware of the movie. They recently released the first simplistic, yet very creepy Slender Man poster online ahead of the trailer debut.

Simon Brew Jan 24, 2018

A new horror movie based on the Slender Man meme is coming - but it's moved back to the end of the summer.

Just a quick update here. Slender Man had been set for a UK release in May, but - in line with a delay in the Us - that's likely to change. Sony is shifting the release to August 24th 2018 in the Us, a delay of three months (reports Bloody Disgusting). We fully expect the UK date to follow suit...

Previously

The Slender Man myth is heading to cinemas later this year, with a movie based on the meme arriving this coming May. The film – Slender Man – has been directed by Sylvain White, and this project has the involvement of Victor Surge, crucially. Surge is the creator of Slender Man, and he’s co-written the script for the movie alongside David Birke.

The film stars Javiet Botet,...

At this point, Slender Man needs no introduction. A creepy, wire-thin figure, he’s been revered as something of an Internet legend since his inception in 2009, stalking nightmares and effectively clawing his way into popular culture thanks to a string of nerve-shredding short films, an appearance in Microsoft’s über-popular Minecraft and even two video games.

For having so much exposure in the horror scene, it’s small wonder then why it’s taken so long for a Hollywood studio to fast-track a live-action feature film, but thankfully, Screen Gems jumped at the chance in early 2016. Scribe David Birke (Elle, 13 Sins) is handling the script, with French director Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard, The Losers) doling out the scares from behind the camera. And now, with production underway, the studio has debuted the chilling first poster, which can be seen below.

Chilling First Poster For Slender Man Debuts 1 of 2

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Some film projects just appeal to you on a personal, spiritual level. For me, this is one of those jams. Annie Clark, better known as her stage name as musician St. Vincent, is set to direct an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray for Lionsgate. But that's just the start of the good news. Per Variety, he script will come from Elle screenwriter David Birke, who is also set to pen Screen Gems' upcoming Slender Man movie, and they'll be putting a twist on Oscar Wilde's classic Victorian novel by gender-swapping the titular lead character. …...

Musician, filmmaker, and passionate defender of the word “fuck” Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, has set her feature-film directorial debut, according to Variety. The project will be in the spirit of Clark’s directorial debut, period, a segment in the female-focused horror anthology Xx; as Variety notes with glee, it’s an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Portrait Of Dorian Gray, but with a woman in the title role. This variation on the theme has been done once before, in the 1983 made-for-tv movie The Sins Of Dorian Gray, starring Belinda Bauer as an actress whose soul is trapped on film instead of in a painting.

Clark’s attempt at ruining Victorian childhoods is still in its earliest stages, but Elle screenwriter David Birke has been hired to write the script. We were mixed on Clark’s segment in Xx, writing in our review: “’The ...