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Un proyecto vinculado a Save the Children. © Bcn Film Fest

La nueva película de Ibon Comenzana (El bus de la vida), Cuatro paredes, tendrá su estreno mundial en el Bcn Film Fest, que se celebrará entre el 24 de abril y el 2 de mayo.

Según la sinopsis compartida por el Festival de Cine, en Cuatro paredes, una madre y su hija de diez años luchan contra la exclusión social. Algo más avanzó Manuela Vellés en una entrevista para The Objective: «La película es la historia de una madre y una hija que a lo largo de un curso escolar caen en pobreza extrema sin que en su entorno lo sepan.»

Este drama familiar de la productora social Mundo Cero está ligado con Save the Children y está protagonizado por Vellés y Sofía Otero (20.000 especies de abejas), que es la persona más joven (8 años en aquel momento) en ganar el Oso de...

Ibon Cormenzana dirige esta inspiradora historia basada en hechos reales. © AContracorriente

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de la película “El Bus de la Vida”. Una película que promete conmover al público con una trama cargada de emotividad y esperanza.

“El Bus de la Vida” sigue a Andrés, un profesor de música que trabaja en Madrid y que tiene que trasladarse a un pueblo vasco para cubrir una vacante en un instituto. Con 40 años recién cumplidos y sin haber superado nunca el miedo escénico, siente que su nueva vida le aleja de su sueño de ser músico. Cuando llega allí, en su primer día de clase se desmaya a causa de un fuerte zumbido en el oído: es cáncer. Para recibir tratamiento, tiene que viajar al hospital de Bilbao en el Bus de la Vida, un viejo autocar que transporta gratuitamente a todos los enfermos de la zona. Gracias a las risas,...

La película promete ser una mirada honesta, conmovedora y esperanzadora sobre la lucha contra el cáncer. © AContracorriente

Ya se ha publicado el primer avance de la película “El Bus de la Vida”. Una película que promete conmover al público con una trama cargada de emotividad y esperanza.

“El Bus de la Vida” sigue a Andrés, un profesor de música que trabaja en Madrid y que tiene que trasladarse a un pueblo vasco para cubrir una vacante en un instituto. Con 40 años recién cumplidos y sin haber superado nunca el miedo escénico, siente que su nueva vida le aleja de su sueño de ser músico. Cuando llega allí, en su primer día de clase se desmaya a causa de un fuerte zumbido en el oído: es cáncer. Para recibir tratamiento, tiene que viajar al hospital de Bilbao en el Bus de la Vida, un viejo autocar que transporta gratuitamente a todos los enfermos de la zona.

Descúbrelo todo sobre el thriller emocional producido por J.A. Bayona. © Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures ha publicado el tráiler y el póster de “Caída Libre”, un thriller emocional producido por Juan Antonio Bayona que promete ser una adición más al tropo del ‘artista obsesionado’ (ese tropo que vemos en “Whiplash” o “Cisne Negro”).

El filme está protagonizado por Belén Rueda en el papel de una autoritaria entrenadora de gimnasia rítmica cuya vida personal se resquebraja. A sus 60 años, Marisol (Rueda), Es una entrenadora emblemática de gimnasia rítmica de élite, la mejor. Es metódica, controladora, autoritaria, dominante, se irrita con facilidad y carece de la más mínima capacidad de autocrítica. Ha construido un mundo a su medida, que se resquebraja el día en que Octavio, su marido, le confiesa que se marcha de casa para rehacer su vida con una mujer más joven a la que ha dejado embarazada. Ella se embarca...

Citas Barcelona is a television series by Pau Freixas starring Clara Lago, Carlos Cuevas, Pablo Rivero and Manuela Vellés.

Have you heard of the popular dating app that we won’t mention by name? Well, Prime Video has a show about it!

The series is about the ups and downs of online dating. The show is a mix of comedy, romance, and drama, and it’s produced by TV3. It’s a fun and entertaining series that is very much in line with the latest Spanish cinema.

So if you’re looking for a show that will make you laugh, cry, and feel all the emotions in between, this is the one for you!

Storyline

The world of apps, online dating and more changes radically when the protagonists go from being a picture to having a real face. A series about people looking for a relationship, just sex or simply...

Barcelona-based production-distribution-sales studio Filmax, producer of the original “The Red Band Society,” has taken on international sales on its own production “Dating in Barcelona,” which is backed by Amazon Prime Video and Catalan public network TV3.

An exclusive promo of the six-episode series will be unveiled at MipTV, underscoring how Filmax has consolidated in a matter of years on Spain’s independent production of scene whose ecosystem has solidified during the so called Golden Age of the streamers. Filmax now intends to keep up its momentum despite more general slowdown.

Minimalistic in concept, the series does what its title promises, delivering in 50-minute episodes a deep exploration of modern day dating using a multifaceted Barcelona as its background, capturing not only its plush architecture but nooks and crannies.

This means a lot given the top-tier roster: the ever wonderful Carmen Machi (“Piggy”) and also Manuela Vellés (“Guilt”), Carlos Cuevas (“Smiley...

Spanish company takes world rights to Ibon Cormenzana’s drama.

Barcelona-based Spanish sales agent Filmax International has picked up worldwide rights to Ibon Cormenzana’s Happy Sad ahead of its showcasing in Toronto’s market.

Filmax is offering a promo and private screenings of the film, which was produced by Cormenzana’s own banner Arcadia, to buyers.

Cormenzana’s Barcelona-based production company has previously backed films like Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves and Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn.

Happy Sad, which he also produced, stars Roberto Álamo, Manuela Vellés and Carlos Bardem, and tells the story of Marcos, a fireman used...

An English-language trailer has been released for Jaume Balagueró’s (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, filmed for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. It’s already released in Spain and looking for a U.S. date. “Samuel has been a professor of […]...

The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival will host the premiere of Jaume Balagueró’s (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, filmed for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. Here’s a brand new image to commemorate the new showing. After it screens […]...

The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival will host the premiere of Jaume Balagueró’s (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, filmed for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. Here’s a brand new image to commemorate the new showing. After it screens […]...

Jaume Balagueró (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) directs his ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, filmed for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. It will release in Spain on December 1, 2017, Bloody learned. This weekend we shared some new images (below), meanwhile Bloody reader Howard […]...

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Celebrated horror filmmaker Jaume Balagueró has summoned the first images for his latest English-language effort, Muse, which bows on December 1st, 2017 in the director’s native home of Spain.

Coming to us by way of Bloody Disgusting, the moody stills are designed to be more of a showcase of the film’s international cast than anything else, which includes the great Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling.

As the creative mind behind Sleep Tight and [Rec] – arguably one of the finest found footage films ever made – there’s a particular air of excitement swirling around Jaume Balagueró’s latest creative venture, which itself is based on José Carlos Somoza’s Spanish novel, The Lady Number Thirteen. Balagueró adapted the supernatural thriller to the big screen alongside his frequent collaborator Fernando Navarro, and below you...

Jaume Balagueró (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) directs his ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, filmed for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. It will release in Spain on December 1, 2017, Bloody learned. We also have the first official images to go along with […]...

Jaume Balagueró (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) directs his ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, filmed for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. It will release in Spain on December 1, 2017, Bloody learned. Samuel, professor of literature, flicks at the university since the tragic […]...

Jaume Balagueró (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) directs his ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, filmed for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. Now in post-production, we now have a special behind-the-scenes look at the film, unfortunately not in English. However, it does carry quite a […]...

Jaume Balagueró (Sleep Tight, [Rec]) directs his ninth feature, Muse, adapted by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro himself from the novel “Lady No. 13” by Jose Carlos Somoza. Filmax’s supernatural thriller, starring Christopher Lloyd, Joanne Whalley, Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling, will film for 9 weeks in Ireland, Belgium and Spain. Samuel, professor of literature, flicks at the university since the tragic and unexpected death of his girlfriend. Since then, he […]...

British actress to receive career award; festival guest list includes Tom Hiddleston, Ellen Page, Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro.

Emily Watson, star of Breaking The Waves, The Book Thief and Everest, is receive the Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) in recognition of her 30 years in film.

The British actress will collect the award at a gala on Sept 25 in San Sebastian’s Kursaal Auditorium.

The festival also unveiled some high-profile names and juries for its upcoming edition.

Actors attending include stars of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston and Luke Evans; Freeheld actress Ellen Page; Sicario stars Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro; Tim Roth, at the festival with 600 Miles and Chronic; Louise Bourgoin, star of The White Knights; and Karin Viard and Isabelle Carré from 21 nuits avec Pattie.

Filmmakers in attendance include Pablo Agüero (Eva Doesn’t Sleep), Laurie Anderson (Heart of a Dog), Scott Cooper ([link...

Stars: Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Martijn Kuiper, Xoel Yáñez, Luis Iglesia | Written by Miguel Ángel Vivas, Javier García | Directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas

This Spanish film is the figurative definition of ‘thriller’ (I get told off by my housemate for misuse of literality). Jaime (Fernando Cayo) has just moved to an a beautiful new house with his wife, Marta (Ana Wagener), and daughter, Isa (Manuela Vellés) and already arguments are starting as Isa wants to skip the families first meal together in her new home to meet her boyfriend. None of that matters, however, as the house is broken into that night be three masked men. The leader takes down the card details of each of them and takes Jaime on a drive to get money out while Marta and Isa are left with the other two; one of them a bit crazy and the other very skittish.

If you've never seen Miguel Ángel Vivas' new flick Kidnapped (review here), then you want to pay close attention to the following words ... it will be available via IFC on DVD November 29th. Mark your calendars. Tie a string around your finger. Do whatever you have to do, but make sure you get your hands on this truly brutal flick!

Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener, and Manuela Vellés star as "Jaime, Marta, and their daughter, Isa, who have just moved into a luxurious new house. Marta begins to prepare dinner and puts a bottle of champagne on ice to celebrate the move. As night falls, three hooded men violently force their way into the house. Panic ensues, and soon the real violence will begin."

Again, this is one that you don't want to miss!

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As promised in our Event Report from this year's amazing as always Film4 FrightFest film fest in the UK, we're back with a full gallery of photos from the event taken by our man on the scene, Gareth aka Pestilence, along with a quartet of new reviews.

As you're no doubt aware from our past several years of covering the event, FrightFest is nothing if not eclectic, as evidenced by the films that are the subject of these four reviews from Gareth:

The Glass Man

Starring Andy Nyman, James Cosmo, Neve Campbell, Brett Allen

Directed by Cristian Solimeno

Martin Pyrite has lost his job. But instead of telling his wife, he continues his work routine and gets into enormous monetary difficulties. Then late one night a sinister debt collector bangs on his door with an offer – if Martin helps him carry out an important task, he’ll wipe the financial slate clean.

Title: Kidnapped (Secuestrados) Directed By: Miguel Angel Vivas Written By: Miguel Angel Vivas, Javier Gracia Cast: Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Martijn Kuiper, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Xoel Yanez Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 5/26/11 Opens: June 17, 2011 Hey Mayor Bloomberg! Governor Cuomo! Get your minds off the budget for a couple of days and consider this. Homeowners and residents in New York need guns, just like in Texas. Yeah, the big argument against abolishing gun laws is that honest citizens may not know how to use the equipment and will only get shot by the bad guys who do, but the way around this is...

Reviewed by Samantha Perez

(June 2011)

Directed by: Miguel Ángel Vivas

Written by: Miguel Ángel Viva and Javier García

Starring: Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Martijn Kuiper and Dritan Biba

Best Horror Feature winner at Fantastic Fest 2010, Miguel Ángel Vivas’ film about a family’s first night in their new home gone wrong may leave audiences in a total state of shock.

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) have just moved to a remote gated community in Madrid. Their teenage daughter Isa (Manuela Vellés) is not happy about the transition; she constantly and unapologetically fights with her mother. As the family prepares to celebrate their first night in the new house, three men break in and take them hostage. One man takes Jaime out to collect cash from various ATMs in town while the other two stay behind with the women to torment them.

What the family...

Reviewed by Samantha Perez

(June 2011)

Directed by: Miguel Ángel Vivas

Written by: Miguel Ángel Viva and Javier García

Starring: Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Martijn Kuiper and Dritan Biba

Best Horror Feature winner at Fantastic Fest 2010, Miguel Ángel Vivas’ film about a family’s first night in their new home gone wrong may leave audiences in a total state of shock.

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) have just moved to a remote gated community in Madrid. Their teenage daughter Isa (Manuela Vellés) is not happy about the transition; she constantly and unapologetically fights with her mother. As the family prepares to celebrate their first night in the new house, three men break in and take them hostage. One man takes Jaime out to collect cash from various ATMs in town while the other two stay behind with the women to torment them.

What the family...

From the opening shot of a bound, prostrate man struggling to breathe with a bloody plastic bag over his head, the Spanish thriller Kidnapped declares that it isn’t kidding around. Miguel Ángel Vivas’ home-invasion drama joins a subgenre well-populated by the likes of Desperate Hours, Funny Games, Panic Room, and The Strangers, and while Kidnapped doesn’t add anything substantially new to the tradition, Vivas hits his marks with ruthless efficiency. He begins with the family: cheery, well-to-do couple Fernando Cayo and Ana Wagener and their huffy teenage daughter, Manuela Vellés. Then he moves them into a house ...

Year: 2010

Directors: Miguel Ángel Vivas

Writers: Miguel Ángel Vivas/Javier García

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: agentorange

Rating: 8 out of 10

Nice middle class families being terrorized by violent thugs is a staple of the horror genre. From the street gangs of Death wish to the upper-class, post-modern angst of Michael Haneke's Funny Games there's always been room to play with the terrifying notion and twist its parts around to come up with something new and consistently shocking.

Kidnapped is the latest Spanish export grabbing festival goers by the balls and it adds an entirely new layer of realism to the experience of this kind of movie. In what must have been a laborious process of staging and choreography, it makes you endure an entire night's home invasion in as close to real-time as you can probably get. This technique means that there is absolutely no escape from enduring...

Originally reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.

A hallmark of Spanish horror in recent years has been the long take, something that's been perfected by the disciples of Guillermo del Toro like "The Orphanage"'s Juan Antonio Bayona and "Julia's Eyes"'s Guillem Morales and the filmmakers behind shockers like "[Rec]." Of course, slow burns have always been part of the genre, but the lack of cutaways feel particularly disconcerting to an increasing Add generation and have been used to convey a reality to the terrifying creep of zombies, ghosts and other monsters of the night. Strangely, the trend towards unflinching takes has largely ignored the horror potential of actual reality, something that writer/director Miguel Ángel Vivas appears to be well aware in his arresting sophomore feature.

I wasn't counting, but I'd be surprised to learn if there were more than 50 cuts in "Kidnapped," Vivas' 86-minute endurance test about the home invasion...

Title: Kidnapped (Secuestrados) Directed By: Miguel Angel Vivas Written By: Miguel Ángel Vivas, Javier Gracia Cast: Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Martijn Kuiper, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Xoel Yanez Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 5/26/11 Opens: June 17, 2011 Hey Mayor Bloomberg! Governor Cuomo! Get your minds off the budget for a couple of days and consider this. Homeowners and residents in New York need guns, just like in Texas. Yeah, the big argument against abolishing gun laws is that honest citizens may not know how to use the equipment and will only get shot by the bad guys who do, but the way around this is...

Title: Kidnapped Directed By: Miguel Ángel Vivas Starring: Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener, Manuela Vellés, Xoel Yáñez, Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Martijn Kuiper Yes, we want our horror films to be scary, but being too scary is a major genre pitfall. Often this stems from a film being exploitative and dousing us in incredibly gory or disturbing visuals, but sometimes we get the beautiful juxtaposition of a film being so well done that it feels too real. What can be more genuinely horrifying than that? Jaime, Marta (Fernando Cayo and Ana Wagener) and their daughter, Isa (Manuela Vellés), move into a gorgeous new home. Marta wants to have a family dinner...

There’s nothing as frightening as that feeling you get when you are home alone, late and you start to hear noises. Is it something supernatural? Is it someone trying to get into your house? Is it just the house settling? The only feeling that’s worse than that, is the feeling you have when someone breaks into your house and holds you hostage without giving you any reason. Miguel Ángel Vivas has masterfully crafted a film that makes you feel dread, horror, fear and sorrow all at the same time.

Kidnapped starts out with a shot of someone, somewhere outdoors with a bag on their head. Vivas holds the shot for about 45-60 seconds and the viewer doesn’t know what to make of it. Finally the person takes a breath, but they are having trouble breathing due to the bag. They get up and start running through what...

IFC continues to do themselves proud. They seem to have a love of quality film that is not constrained by genre. My first real experience with them was when they aired the horror themed documentary The American Nightmare over the Halloween season years ago. I was blown away and gained huge respect for the company. I still watch it every now and then to remind myself how good horror can be.

As announced recently IFC will be distributing the french zombie film The Horde and now have added two more foreign horror flicks to their catalog, this time both originating from Spain.

The films are Manuel Carballo’s supernatural chiller Exorcismus and Miguel Ángel Vivas’ home-invasion flick Kidnapped. Both films will be released through the IFC Midnight label theatrically and on its video-on-demand platform in early 2011.

In Exorcismus, a rebellious young girl (Sophie Vavasseur) discovers that she’s possessed by...

IFC Midnight has acquired Manuel Carballo's Exorcismus (aka The Possession of Emma Evans ) and Miguel Angel Vivas' powerful and shocking home invasion flick Kidnapped ( review ). Both films will be released through the IFC Midnight label theatrically and on their video on demand platform in early 2011. In Exorcismus , a rebellious young girl (Sophie Vavasseur) slowly discovers that she is possessed by a twisted, evil force. She is soon forced against her will to use extreme measures to free herself. Kidnapped follows Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener), a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Vellés). As the family moves into a new home and gathers to celebrate, everyone.s evening is ruined when a gang makes a home invasion.

Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.

A hallmark of Spanish horror in recent years has been the long take, something that's been perfected by the disciples of Guillermo del Toro like "The Orphanage"'s Juan Antonio Bayona and "Julia's Eyes"'s Guillem Morales and the filmmakers behind shockers like "[Rec]." Of course, slow burns have always been part of the genre, but the lack of cutaways feel particularly disconcerting to an increasing Add generation and have been used to convey a reality to the terrifying creep of zombies, ghosts and other monsters of the night. Strangely, the trend towards unflinching takes has largely ignored the horror potential of actual reality, something that writer/director Miguel Ángel Vivas appears to be well aware in his arresting sophomore feature.

I wasn't counting, but I'd be surprised to learn if there were more than 50 cuts in "Kidnapped," Vivas' 86-minute endurance test about the home invasion of...

After the announcement of Matt Reeves Let Me In for opening night, Fantastic Fest has unveiled another slew of exciting premieres and titles for its 2010 line-up.

The festival has added a Gala screening of Buried, a claustrophobic thriller starring Ryan Reynolds, on Thursday, September 23 (a day before its released in select theaters). Reynolds and director Rodrigo Cortés will be in attendance. Fantastic Fest is also adding it to their “Rolling Roadshow” list, which prides itself on an immersive experience for seeing the film (e.g. the classic On the Waterfront projected on a New Jersey pier). The twist — and there’s always a twist with these guys — is that four people will be selected to watch the film while actually buried. (More info here.)

The festival will also host the U.S. premiere of Stone with star Edward Norton in attendance, the vampire sequel 30 Days of Nights: Dark Days, and...

Fantastic Fest 2010 Adds New Films To Its Incredible Lineup

Austin, TX---Friday, August 27, 2010--- Fantastic Fest welcomes a bayou-dwelling psycho-killer, a disturbed housemaid, Muay Thai bone-crushers, blood-sucking vampires, undocumented immigrants, cannibal families, and more to its genre-bending lineup of mind blowing films for 2010. The lineup includes a Gala Screening for Stone on Friday, September 24 at The Paramount Theatre with Edward Norton, director John Curran and more in attendance.

Gala

Stone (2010)

Us Premiere, USA, director: John Curran

Director John Curran and Edward Norton live in attendance.

A seasoned corrections official and a volatile inmate find their lives dangerously intertwined in Stone, a thought-provoking drama directed by John Curran and written by Angus MacLachlan. Stone features powerful performances by Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and Oscar® nominee Edward Norton, and a startlingly raw, breakout performance from Milla Jovovich as the sexy, casually amoral woman they both desire.

As parole officer Jack Mabry...

The second wave of programming for the sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 23rd-30th in Austin, Texas, has been announced; and if you were on the fence about attending, well, you just may want to start booking your flight immediately!

Sixteen films are listed in the latest press release for the Fest, and we're including them all here, even if a few aren't strictly horror, just to give you an idea of how truly diverse Fantastic Fest is. For the other films screening that week, click here for all our Fantastic Fest 2010 coverage.

Fantastic Fest welcomes a bayou-dwelling psycho-killer, a disturbed housemaid, Muay Thai bone-crushers, blood-sucking vampires, undocumented immigrants, cannibal families, and more to its genre-bending lineup of mind-blowing films for 2010. The lineup includes a Gala Screening for Stone on Friday, September 24, at The Paramount Theatre with Edward Norton, director John Curran, and more in attendance.

Gala Screening:

Stone (2010)

Us Premiere,...

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: We knew about “Buried,” and that “Let Me In” would kick things off. Now organizers of this year’s Fantastic Fest – set to take over Austin, Texas Sept. 23-30 – are unveiling a second wave of anticipated programming, and man, does it look intriguing.

The highlight, from a potential awards standpoint, would be the Gala screening of John Curran’s “Stone,” which stars Robert De Niro as a corrections officer working with a devious inmate (played by Edward Norton).

In addition, Fantastic Fest announced a series of “Featured” screenings, including an early look at that “I Spit On Your Grave” remake and the sequel to “30 Days of Night.”

The full list is below:

30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)

World Premiere, USA, director: Ben Ketai

Director Ben Ketai, Kiele Sanchez & Steve Niles (co-writer, author) in attendance (schedules permitting).

It’s been almost a year since the...

Fantastic Fest welcomes a bayou-dwelling psycho-killer, a disturbed housemaid, Muay Thai bone-crushers, blood-sucking vampires, undocumented immigrants, cannibal families, and more to its genre-bending lineup of mind blowing films for 2010. The lineup includes a Gala Screening for Stone on Friday, September 24 at The Paramount Theatre with Edward Norton, director John Curran and more

Gala

Stone (2010)

Us Premiere, USA, director: John Curran

**Director John Curran and Edward Norton live in attendance.**

A seasoned corrections official and a volatile inmate find their lives dangerously intertwined in Stone, a thought-provoking drama directed by John Curran and written by Angus MacLachlan. Stone features powerful performances by Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and Oscar® nominee Edward Norton, and a startlingly raw, breakout performance from Milla Jovovich as the sexy, casually amoral woman they both desire.

As parole officer Jack Mabry (De Niro) counts the days toward a quiet retirement, he is asked to review the...

Edward Norton and director John Curran will bring the Us premiere of "Stone" to Fantastic Fest on September 24th, the big news in the latest round of programming announcements from the Austin-based genre festival. Norton plays an inmate eligible for early release, whose wife (Milla Jovovich) sets out to help him manipulate his parole officer (Robert De Niro).

Also set for a gala screening -- indie buried alive thriller "Buried," with Ryan Reynolds and director Rodrigo Cortés appearing in person. The line-up also includes Mexican cannibal family drama "We Are What We Are," Hong Kong actioner "Fire of Conscience" and the 1960 original and new remake of Korean thriller "The Housemaid."

The rest of the lineup, descriptions courtesy of the festival:

30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)

World Premiere, USA, director: Ben Ketai

Director Ben Ketai, Kiele Sanchez & Steve Niles (co-writer, author) in attendance (schedules permitting).

It's been almost a year since...

Stone, Ong Bak 3, and the remake of I Spit on Your Grave are some of the films that have just been added to this year’s Fantastic Fest line-up. We’ve received a press release announcing the inclusion of those films, along with 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Carancho, Drones, Fire of Conscience, Hatchet 2, The Housemaid (the original and the remake), Kidnapped, Legend of the Fist, Redline, Skate Land, Undocumented, and We Are What We Are. Previously announced films include Buried and Let Me In.

Hit the jump for a brief synopsis for each of these films. Fantastic Fest will run from September 23 – 30th in Austin, Texas.

Here’s the press release which has a synopsis for each film:

Fantastic Fest 2010 Adds New Films To Its Incredible Lineup

Austin, TX—Friday, August 27, 2010— Fantastic Fest welcomes a bayou-dwelling psycho-killer, a disturbed housemaid, Muay Thai bone-crushers, blood-sucking vampires, undocumented immigrants, cannibal families,...

As we end the Summer of 2010, we leave a series of box office bombs behind us, and look forward to an incredible film festival season this fall. With such film festivals as Toronto, New York, and Venice to look forward to, this year may still be saved for the cineastes of the world. One film festival in particular that may not be on your radar, but deserves to be placed alongside those others, is Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, taking place September 23-30.

Last month they announced their first wave of films (listed below), and this morning, they’ve announced their second wave, a total of 16 more films. It is an incredible line up of horror, martial arts, sci-fi, and other genre films. I’ve listed the films announced below, and while I won’t be able to make it to Austin next month to attend, I can tell you that if you are going,...

Principal photography is complete on Miguel Ángel Vivas' (Reflejos) latest thriller. Secuestrados tells the story of how a Spanish family suffers an express kidnapping that takes place during one single night and is handled by a group of criminals from Eastern Europe. The Orphanage's Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener and Manuela Vellés (“Camino”) portray the family victim of this model of kidnapping imported from the South American mafias that have installed themselves in Spain - it's a phenomenon that has become increasingly popular in recent times. Vivas commented that his aim is to transport this new reality into a genre film setting, using documentary film techniques as well as the use of split screen and long takes to maximize the sense of actually “being there” feeling. The film is a co-production between Spain's Vaca Films (Celda 211) and France's La Fabrique 2. Check out the production blog here.

• Before the critical acclaim of Sex and Lucia, if you weren’t a hardcore fan of subtitled, auteur films from Spain, then there was little chance you knew who Julio Medem was. The Spanish director took a mighty fall with his last feature entitled Chaotic Ana (Caótica Ana), a tale about a young woman's (played by first timer Manuela Vellés) awakening and introduction to the offerings of the world outside her secured, literal cave surroundings. She goes from costal Spain to shiny lights of the big apple. The picture is a mess. At least the 2007 Toronto Int. Film Festival edition is. Despite the non-acclaim of his last picture, Medem is setting up back to back projects which come across as titillating projects which may find more interest from the international buyer crowds. Variety reports that Morena Films' Alvaro Longoria will produce Medem first English films. First up is Room

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