Exclusive: Verve has signed writer, director and producer Veronica Rodriguez for representation.
Rodriguez’s feature directorial debut, the TV movie Let’s Get Merried for VH1 and MTV, followed a a hard-partying, down-on-her-luck holiday-hater who decided to get married at a Christmas-themed adventure park to a man she hadn’t yet met, netting her an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Directing.
She is currently a co-producer on Netflix’s comedy series Freeridge, and previously staffed on Disney’s Gabby Duran & The Unsittables, also directing an episode of that series before staffing on HBO’s Betty. She also directed the short film Shoot, which was produced by and starred Insecure‘s Jay Ellis.
The Bay Area native is a graduate of USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program who got her start working at Funny or Die, producing and directing original content for the platform including the viral hit, How To...
Rodriguez’s feature directorial debut, the TV movie Let’s Get Merried for VH1 and MTV, followed a a hard-partying, down-on-her-luck holiday-hater who decided to get married at a Christmas-themed adventure park to a man she hadn’t yet met, netting her an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Directing.
She is currently a co-producer on Netflix’s comedy series Freeridge, and previously staffed on Disney’s Gabby Duran & The Unsittables, also directing an episode of that series before staffing on HBO’s Betty. She also directed the short film Shoot, which was produced by and starred Insecure‘s Jay Ellis.
The Bay Area native is a graduate of USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program who got her start working at Funny or Die, producing and directing original content for the platform including the viral hit, How To...
- 4/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Silambarasan, better known as ‘Simbu’, on Tuesday resumed work on his much-awaited action entertainer ‘Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu’, that is being directed by one of Tamil cinema’s top directors Gautham Vasudev Menon. Posting on social media, a still from the film in which he is seen holding a gun, Simbu announced, “The Shoot begins.” Says […]...
- 12/7/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Isabella Rossellini has a connection to two Hamptons Doc Fest selections: Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer and Stina Gardell’s Movie Man: “She is Stig Björkman’s very good friend over many many years.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed Lisa Hurwitz’s The Automat; Lifetime Achievement Award honouree at the 12th edition of Doc NYC Joan Churchill and her short Shoot From The Heart with Haskell Wexler, Chris Hegedus, and Da Pennebaker; Asaf Galay’s The Adventures Of Saul Bellow; Tasha Van Zandt’s After Antarctica (recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award); Dom Aprile’s Farming Long Island; Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer with a connection to Isabella Rossellini, who is in Stina Gardell’s Movie Man, starring Stig Björkman, director of the Opening Night film Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In...
In the second instalment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed Lisa Hurwitz’s The Automat; Lifetime Achievement Award honouree at the 12th edition of Doc NYC Joan Churchill and her short Shoot From The Heart with Haskell Wexler, Chris Hegedus, and Da Pennebaker; Asaf Galay’s The Adventures Of Saul Bellow; Tasha Van Zandt’s After Antarctica (recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award); Dom Aprile’s Farming Long Island; Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer with a connection to Isabella Rossellini, who is in Stina Gardell’s Movie Man, starring Stig Björkman, director of the Opening Night film Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In...
- 12/4/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
WWII Action Film Begins In Helsinki
Principal photography has begun on Immortal, the World War II action film from Rare Exports director Jalmari Helander, in which a man goes to war against the Nazi army in the Finnish wilderness. Starring are Jorma Tommila (Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale), Aksel Hennie (The Martian), Jack Doolan (The Hatton Garden Job) and Onni Tommila (Big Game). Filming will take place in Lapland and Helsinki, Finland. Petri Jokiranta and Subzero Film Entertainment produce. Executive producers are Mike Goodridge, Gregory Ouanhon and Antonio Salas. As previously announced, Stage 6 Films acquired worldwide rights, excluding the Nordics, which will be handled by Nordisk Film. Pic is backed by the Finnish Film Foundation, Business Finland – Audiovisual Production Incentive and MTV Cmore.
Sony Pictures & EbonyLife Writers Initiative
EbonyLife and Sony Pictures Television are launching Alo, a program for writers of African heritage. The word ‘Alo’ is from the...
Principal photography has begun on Immortal, the World War II action film from Rare Exports director Jalmari Helander, in which a man goes to war against the Nazi army in the Finnish wilderness. Starring are Jorma Tommila (Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale), Aksel Hennie (The Martian), Jack Doolan (The Hatton Garden Job) and Onni Tommila (Big Game). Filming will take place in Lapland and Helsinki, Finland. Petri Jokiranta and Subzero Film Entertainment produce. Executive producers are Mike Goodridge, Gregory Ouanhon and Antonio Salas. As previously announced, Stage 6 Films acquired worldwide rights, excluding the Nordics, which will be handled by Nordisk Film. Pic is backed by the Finnish Film Foundation, Business Finland – Audiovisual Production Incentive and MTV Cmore.
Sony Pictures & EbonyLife Writers Initiative
EbonyLife and Sony Pictures Television are launching Alo, a program for writers of African heritage. The word ‘Alo’ is from the...
- 9/21/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman and Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Kollywood ‘Karnan’, which hit the big screens on April 9, marked the first-time collaboration between Dhanush and Mari Selvaraj.Tnm StaffTwitter/Mari SelvarajAfter garnering praise from all quarters for Tamil movie Karnan, actor Dhanush and director Mari Selvaraj are gearing up to team up once again for another project. Popular Kollywood actor Dhanush took to Twitter on Friday to announce that the new untitled project is currently in the pre-production phase. He also added that the movie will start rolling next year. “Elated to announce that after the blockbuster success of Karnan, Mari Selvaraj and myself are joining hands once again. Pre production going on, Shoot will commence next year,” Dhanush’s tweet read. Many fans have been tweeting using the hashtags Dhanush and Mari Selvaraj to hail the news and are also eager to receive further updates about the film. Elated to announce that after the blockbuster success of Karnan,...
- 4/23/2021
- by SaradhaU
- The News Minute
Exclusive: Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) and Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) are set to star in WWII spy thriller Lives In Secret from Resident Evil producer Jeremy Bolt.
Paris-based sales firm Other Angle will be selling the project at this week’s virtual EFM.
Gainsbourg play World War Two intelligence officer Vera Atkins, who made it her mission to discover the fate of missing agents she had dispatched to Occupied France after the conflict.
The feature is adapted from the Sarah Helm’s A Life in Secrets, telling the true story of Atkins, an intelligence officer for Special Operation Executive’s French Section who trained and dispatched hundreds of agents to Occupied France, many of whom didn’t return.
Atkins was also involved in the interrogation of Rudolf Hess, the notorious commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During the interrogation Atkins looked for answers to the fates of those female spies who didn’t return home.
Paris-based sales firm Other Angle will be selling the project at this week’s virtual EFM.
Gainsbourg play World War Two intelligence officer Vera Atkins, who made it her mission to discover the fate of missing agents she had dispatched to Occupied France after the conflict.
The feature is adapted from the Sarah Helm’s A Life in Secrets, telling the true story of Atkins, an intelligence officer for Special Operation Executive’s French Section who trained and dispatched hundreds of agents to Occupied France, many of whom didn’t return.
Atkins was also involved in the interrogation of Rudolf Hess, the notorious commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During the interrogation Atkins looked for answers to the fates of those female spies who didn’t return home.
- 3/1/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Happy Monday, dear readers! We have a brand new slate of home media releases to look forward to as we head into a new month, and there are some great films coming out on Tuesday that genre fans will definitely want to pick up. Rlje Films is finally releasing Horror Noire on both Blu-ray and DVD this week, and they’re also bringing home arguably the most talked-about horror film of 2020 as well: Rob Savage’s Host. Kino Lorber is showing some love to Dark Intruder with their new 2K Blu, and Code Red is giving us more reasons to fear the water with their Blu-ray for The Great Alligator.
Other releases for February 2nd include Satan’s Blood, Sky Sharks, Deadcon, and Hellkat.
Dark Intruder
Brand New 2K Master! Dark Intruder stars Leslie Nielsen (Forbidden Planet) as Brett Kingsford, an Occult expert who is brought in by police to help...
Other releases for February 2nd include Satan’s Blood, Sky Sharks, Deadcon, and Hellkat.
Dark Intruder
Brand New 2K Master! Dark Intruder stars Leslie Nielsen (Forbidden Planet) as Brett Kingsford, an Occult expert who is brought in by police to help...
- 2/2/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Lily James Rom-Com Adds Cast
Sajal Ali, Shabana Azmi, Rob Brydon and Asim Chaudhry have joined the cast of Working Title and Studiocanal’s romantic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With It? Shoot is now underway in London on the pic, which Deadline previously revealed would star Lily James, Shazad Latif and Emma Thompson. Jemima Khan wrote the screenplay and will produce, with Shekhar Kapur directing. Nicky Kentish Barnes is also producing alongside Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, with Sarmad Masud as executive producer. Story is a cross-cultural rom-com about love and marriage and is set between London and South Asia.
‘Last Warrior’ Slays Russian Box Office
Russia’s box office got a big boost in the early part of 2021 as The Last Warrior: Root Of Evil set a record gross of $22.1M across its first ten days of release. Originally opening to $2M on January 1, the movie from...
Sajal Ali, Shabana Azmi, Rob Brydon and Asim Chaudhry have joined the cast of Working Title and Studiocanal’s romantic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With It? Shoot is now underway in London on the pic, which Deadline previously revealed would star Lily James, Shazad Latif and Emma Thompson. Jemima Khan wrote the screenplay and will produce, with Shekhar Kapur directing. Nicky Kentish Barnes is also producing alongside Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, with Sarmad Masud as executive producer. Story is a cross-cultural rom-com about love and marriage and is set between London and South Asia.
‘Last Warrior’ Slays Russian Box Office
Russia’s box office got a big boost in the early part of 2021 as The Last Warrior: Root Of Evil set a record gross of $22.1M across its first ten days of release. Originally opening to $2M on January 1, the movie from...
- 1/15/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Last summer, you couldn’t walk a block in Brooklyn without hearing Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” or “Dior” blasting out of an apartment or passing car. Now, five months after the 20-year-old phenom was shot and killed during a home invasion—an incalculable loss for New York rap—he remains the toast of the city. Since late May, his songs have been repurposed as rallying cries at Black Lives Matter demonstrations, for reasons that have to do with both his story and his sound. He grew up...
- 7/6/2020
- by Danny Schwartz
- Rollingstone.com
World Wrestling Entertainment, which forged an early path in subscription streaming by launching the WWE Network in 2014, has introduced a free version of the service with 15,000 hours of programming.
Weekly show Raw Talk will join the streaming lineup following broadcasts of Monday Night Raw. Recent episodes of Raw, Friday Night SmackDown and Nxt will also be on the free version of the streaming service, along with original series Monday Night War, Ride Along, Table for 3, Photo Shoot and Story Time.
Initially, the free tier will not have advertising. Its main strategic purpose will be to help the company promote its lucrative pay-per-view events and flagship broadcast shows.
“The launch of WWE Network’s free version is a key component of our company’s digitization strategy and a new way for all fans to be able to experience premium WWE content,” said Jayar Donlan, the company’s Evp of Advanced Media.
Weekly show Raw Talk will join the streaming lineup following broadcasts of Monday Night Raw. Recent episodes of Raw, Friday Night SmackDown and Nxt will also be on the free version of the streaming service, along with original series Monday Night War, Ride Along, Table for 3, Photo Shoot and Story Time.
Initially, the free tier will not have advertising. Its main strategic purpose will be to help the company promote its lucrative pay-per-view events and flagship broadcast shows.
“The launch of WWE Network’s free version is a key component of our company’s digitization strategy and a new way for all fans to be able to experience premium WWE content,” said Jayar Donlan, the company’s Evp of Advanced Media.
- 6/1/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Filmax has boarded sales on Basque-language genre movie All The Moons, the new feature from writer-director Igor Legarreta (When You No Longer Love Me). The Barcelona-based outfit is launching the film at the Efm.
Shoot got underway last week on the project, which is set in the north of Spain at the end of the 19th Century. During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside a forest. Badly wounded and close to death, the girl believes the woman to be an angel who has come to take her to heaven. She soon realizes that in fact this strange being has actually given her the gift of eternal life…by turning her into a vampire.
Left with no choice but to accept her new condition, she has to learn to live in the...
Shoot got underway last week on the project, which is set in the north of Spain at the end of the 19th Century. During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside a forest. Badly wounded and close to death, the girl believes the woman to be an angel who has come to take her to heaven. She soon realizes that in fact this strange being has actually given her the gift of eternal life…by turning her into a vampire.
Left with no choice but to accept her new condition, she has to learn to live in the...
- 2/25/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Originally released in 1996, Hideo Nakata scored one of his earliest genre hits with his tale of a ghostly presence disrupting and terrorizing the crew of a horror-film shoot attempting to complete a troubled movie. The original “Don’t Look Up” emerged as a dry-run for Nakata’s next project, the celebrated “Ringu” and featured many of the same elements that would be honed to perfection in that adaptaton. Over a decade later, Fruit Chan took his talents to America to helm this remake with a bevy of then up-and-coming talent, as well as securing the service of producer/actor Eli Roth, to attempt to do justice to this version, even if he misses the mark quite often with his version.
Heading off to Romania, discredited director Marcus Reed (Reshad Strik) and his producer Josh Petri (Henry Thomas) learn of the existence of a long-lost film, helmed by legendary...
Heading off to Romania, discredited director Marcus Reed (Reshad Strik) and his producer Josh Petri (Henry Thomas) learn of the existence of a long-lost film, helmed by legendary...
- 12/6/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
The young David Novak had good reason to heed his mother's advice to make friends fast. Born in Beeville, Texas, the future inspirational-book author and executive chairman of Yum! Brands - the parent company of fast-food giants KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut - spent his childhood on the move: Every three months, his father's job relocated the family's 40-foot trailer home from one small town to another. by the time he was 12, he had lived in 32 trailer parks in 23 states. But rather than be intimidated as the perpetual new kid on the block, he embraced it. "I did not...
- 7/1/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Hong Kong's densely populated metropolitan society is the on the verge of sliding into chaos, or at least that's the tantalizing possibility explored in wry allegorical terms by director Fruit Chan in his erratic but entertaining post-apocalyptic satire "The Midnight After." The Chinese director's first feature since 2009's ghost story "Don't Look Up" adopts a familiar scenario involving the aftermath of a mysterious event — leaving only a handful of survivors thrust together to sort things out — but fires off in innumerable tonal directions, resulting in a mesmerizing genre hybrid that renders modern China in deliriously cartoonish terms with a dark undertone. "Based on the novel by Pizza," read the opening credits, which don't lie: Fruit's story culls from the 2012 novel "Lost on a Red Minibus to Taipo," serialized online in 2012 and credited to the aforementioned pen name. The viral history of the source material speaks to the nature of a work distinguished by pertinent.
- 2/14/2014
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Feature Andrew Blair 22 Nov 2013 - 06:43
Andrew counts down Doctor Who's 50 scariest moments, feat. Daleks, Cybermen, and Nicholas Parsons...
Doctor Who exists to scare children. It introduces them to Horror in a way that can prepare them for the increased intensity and gore of adult films, while its limited budget and family viewing constraints also mean it has to get under your skin in more creative ways. This list is not intended as anything remotely definitive, more a collection of fifty scary moments, scenes, and ideas that the show has given us over the years. There are obviously hundreds more out there, and a Comments Thread waiting for your suggestions. We begin at the beginning, but not necessarily in that order.
1. The first Tardis journey
Following an unsettling twenty-five minutes of investigation, torture and kidnap, our favourite family show was born. The Doctor decides schoolteachers Ian and Barbara have...
Andrew counts down Doctor Who's 50 scariest moments, feat. Daleks, Cybermen, and Nicholas Parsons...
Doctor Who exists to scare children. It introduces them to Horror in a way that can prepare them for the increased intensity and gore of adult films, while its limited budget and family viewing constraints also mean it has to get under your skin in more creative ways. This list is not intended as anything remotely definitive, more a collection of fifty scary moments, scenes, and ideas that the show has given us over the years. There are obviously hundreds more out there, and a Comments Thread waiting for your suggestions. We begin at the beginning, but not necessarily in that order.
1. The first Tardis journey
Following an unsettling twenty-five minutes of investigation, torture and kidnap, our favourite family show was born. The Doctor decides schoolteachers Ian and Barbara have...
- 11/21/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Since we know you guys are always on the lookout for interesting sounding indie films to check out, today we have the first details on Quinn Saunders' erotic thriller Cherry, being released in the Us and Canada by Mvd Distribution on October 23rd.
Cherry, from Jinga Films, stars Rey Valentin (Crossing Over), Lili Bordán (The Best Man, "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome"), David Crane (Brain Dead), and Ben Digregorio (Don't Look Up). It premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic and won "Best Production" at the Beverly Hills International Film Festival.
Synopsis:
When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angelino, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly he is drawn into a twisted love triangle that includes Jules and his best friend, Sam. When Jules eventually leaves him for Sam, Cherry decides on...
Cherry, from Jinga Films, stars Rey Valentin (Crossing Over), Lili Bordán (The Best Man, "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome"), David Crane (Brain Dead), and Ben Digregorio (Don't Look Up). It premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic and won "Best Production" at the Beverly Hills International Film Festival.
Synopsis:
When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angelino, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly he is drawn into a twisted love triangle that includes Jules and his best friend, Sam. When Jules eventually leaves him for Sam, Cherry decides on...
- 9/21/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Kurt Angle as the leader of an evil pagan cult! Tom Savini as a hard-nosed sheriff! Psycho Sid Vicious as an asskicker in a muscle car! Throw in Maniac Cop Robert Z'Dar, a few more pro wrestling stars, and more Druids than an Undertaker ring entrance; and you get the recipe for Bruce Koehler's Death From Above.
An ancient Druid demon has returned to claim his prize... to reign over the world through one thousand years of darkness. The last time Druid-Demon Thule (Kurt Angle) walked the earth was during the Dark Ages. Now after one thousand years, he has returned from beyond to assemble his pagan monk worshippers and to wreak havoc on the natural world. Gunnar Halgrim (Tna Wrestling's James Storm), an ordinary blue-collar steelworker, is plagued by disturbing nightmares and discovers through a clairvoyant gypsy that his ancestral bloodline and a family heirloom place him in...
An ancient Druid demon has returned to claim his prize... to reign over the world through one thousand years of darkness. The last time Druid-Demon Thule (Kurt Angle) walked the earth was during the Dark Ages. Now after one thousand years, he has returned from beyond to assemble his pagan monk worshippers and to wreak havoc on the natural world. Gunnar Halgrim (Tna Wrestling's James Storm), an ordinary blue-collar steelworker, is plagued by disturbing nightmares and discovers through a clairvoyant gypsy that his ancestral bloodline and a family heirloom place him in...
- 4/7/2011
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Although the late John Cassavetes set a sterling example of a director who also acted in films that he didn't direct, and Alfred Hitchcock set the bar for directors who stubbornly insisted upon making cameos in their own movies, today's living directors seldom hit such heights in their own attempts to make a tidy living from an acting side gig. For purposes of this list, I'll be discussing a handful of directors who think they can act rather than actors who have subsequently progressed to directing. The latter are in plentiful supply, but the former make up a short list of men who, for better (and mostly worse) have decided that the camera just can't spare their visual presence.
Woody Allen: For quite a lengthy run, Allen has starred within his own movies to great effect from Annie Hall to Manhattan to Husbands and Wives and Mighty Aphrodite. However,...
Woody Allen: For quite a lengthy run, Allen has starred within his own movies to great effect from Annie Hall to Manhattan to Husbands and Wives and Mighty Aphrodite. However,...
- 3/23/2011
- by Agent Bedhead
It's that most wonderful time of the year once again, and as always I'm here to help you spread as much high-definition holiday fear as possible! Wondering what's worth the cash to get for the lucky horror-loving folks on your lists? Wonder no more!
There's no doubt Blu-ray players will once again be a pretty hot item this year, but what of the movies available for them? If you already own the DVD of your favorite flick, is there a need to replace it with a Blu-ray? I'm here to answer all of your questions in the third annual ...
Before we get into my picks (most of which are also available in new DVD versions; see review for information), let's take a second to explain once again how I rated them. They're broken down into three categories:
Can't Miss -- Must Haves: These are the cream of the crop! The...
There's no doubt Blu-ray players will once again be a pretty hot item this year, but what of the movies available for them? If you already own the DVD of your favorite flick, is there a need to replace it with a Blu-ray? I'm here to answer all of your questions in the third annual ...
Before we get into my picks (most of which are also available in new DVD versions; see review for information), let's take a second to explain once again how I rated them. They're broken down into three categories:
Can't Miss -- Must Haves: These are the cream of the crop! The...
- 11/29/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
From the Brothers Strause, the effects team behind Avatar, comes Skyline, in cinemas, Friday 12th November. After a late night party, a group of friends wake to an eerie blue light that attracts people like moths to a flame, sucking them skywards!
The friends soon learn that an extraterrestrial force is swallowing the entire human population and that they must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them! You can watch the trailer here
The film stars Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, David Zayas, Donald Faison, Brittany Daniel and Neil Hopkins. Remember, don’t look up!
To be in with the chance of winning one of five Skyline goodie bags, including a t-shirt, Usb memory stick, film poster and Skyline-branded glow sticks just answer the following question:
In Skyline, an eerie extraterrestrial light sucks up unsuspecting citizens. What is the tagline for the film? Close your eyes Don't look up...
The friends soon learn that an extraterrestrial force is swallowing the entire human population and that they must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them! You can watch the trailer here
The film stars Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, David Zayas, Donald Faison, Brittany Daniel and Neil Hopkins. Remember, don’t look up!
To be in with the chance of winning one of five Skyline goodie bags, including a t-shirt, Usb memory stick, film poster and Skyline-branded glow sticks just answer the following question:
In Skyline, an eerie extraterrestrial light sucks up unsuspecting citizens. What is the tagline for the film? Close your eyes Don't look up...
- 11/4/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
With its November 12 release date looming on the horizon, Universal has released a new clip for their Sci-Fi/Horror film Skyline, showcasing a big, bad-ass alien tearing up a parking garage. Looking more and more like a cross between Cloverfield and Independence Day, it's definitely become one of my most anticipated movies for the remainder of 2010. Here's hoping it can capture the intimate, fun attitude of the former, and Just the epic-scaled nature of the latter. Check past the break for the clip. In the sci-fi thriller Skyline, strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Don't Look Up.
- 10/28/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
Skyline, directed by AvP: R helmers Greg and Colin Strause, started as an under-the-radar sci-fi indie that no one really expected would go anywhere, only to become one of the most anticipated movies of the fall season after Universal picked up domestic distribution rights over the summer. Now, with the November 12th release date quickly approaching and the film's P.R. machine ramping up big time, the Strauses late last month invited B-d to preview some action-heavy footage from the film at their Santa Monica offices. See inside for our reaction! In the sci-fi thriller Skyline, strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Don't Look Up.
- 10/11/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
Thanks to everybody for checking out last weeks Obscure Horror Watch List, and remember join in on this! If you can think of a movie you think should be included just leave a comment below or message me on my personal Facebook page because I'm seeing what all of you have to say! Kicking off week 2 of our obscure horror watch list for the month of Halloween. Here we go: 6. Babysitter Wanted- I don't know why I put this one off for so long! I finally watched it this week and I knew it had to go on this list! If you like little demon children, Bill Moseley and The House of the Devil then you'll have a lot of fun watching this! Plot: Angie applies for a babysitting job and finds herself on a remote farm before the Stanton family and their little boy, Sam. But Angie's first...
- 10/9/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Here's a question: is fear more tangible when you cannot see what it is you are supposed to be frightened of? For example, where does the horror really lie? Does it lie in the monster that's about to eat you, or how the darkness in the room forbids you from seeing it? Trick question. The real horror is movies like Don't Look Up that take this notion and hack it to death with a dull knife.
Horror movies have such terrific potential for being memorable; fear is probably the most powerful emotion, and when a film can successfully exploit it, the audience will go home and have trouble sleeping soundly. A person might refuse to watch said horror movie a second time; not because it is a poorly made film, but for the exact opposite reason.
The main players in Don't Look Up would probably agree; they themselves are filmmakers.
Horror movies have such terrific potential for being memorable; fear is probably the most powerful emotion, and when a film can successfully exploit it, the audience will go home and have trouble sleeping soundly. A person might refuse to watch said horror movie a second time; not because it is a poorly made film, but for the exact opposite reason.
The main players in Don't Look Up would probably agree; they themselves are filmmakers.
- 8/21/2010
- by Ryan Katona
- JustPressPlay.net
As if the trailer for Fruit Chan's Don't Look Up wasn't ghastly enough, some really disturbing "birthing" photos have come our way that should be more than enough incentive to invest in condoms.
The story follows the slow descent into madness of a film director when malicious spirits from another era invade the film stock of his latest effort and open a window to evil!
Don't Look Up, starring Henry Thomas, Kevin Corrigan, Lothaire Bluteau, Carmen Chaplin, Reshad Strik, and Eli Roth, will be playing at The Sitges Film Festival.
Dig the stills below after the trailer.
Dont Look Up - Trailer
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The story follows the slow descent into madness of a film director when malicious spirits from another era invade the film stock of his latest effort and open a window to evil!
Don't Look Up, starring Henry Thomas, Kevin Corrigan, Lothaire Bluteau, Carmen Chaplin, Reshad Strik, and Eli Roth, will be playing at The Sitges Film Festival.
Dig the stills below after the trailer.
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- 8/8/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
"Set in an abandoned film studio from another era, Don't Look Up, charts the unraveling sanity of a director and his crew, when spirits invade the film stock of their production." The film stars Henry Thomas, Kevin Corrigan, Lothaire Bluteau, Carmen Chaplin and Reshad Strik. Update: Horror-Movies.ca has learned that the film will be making its debut at the Sitges Film Festival. Check out the disturbing trailer and pictures below.
- 8/7/2009
- by Press Release Robot
- HorrorYearbook
At the American Film Market last year, we showed you the first photo and some promotional art that surfaced for Don't Look Up - the English-language horror film from Fruit Chan. Another teaser piece has surface, thanks to an astute reader who tossed it our way. Set in an abandoned film studio from another era, Don't Look Up charts the unraveling sanity of a director and his crew when spirits from that bygone era invade the film stock of the contemporary production and, in a few stark frames, open a horrifying window on a terrible curse from the past. We haven't heard a peep about distribution for this one, we'll keep you posted...
- 5/28/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
- They championed such cinematic wonders as Synecdoche, New York and Lars and the Real Girl, but the truth is: the market has changed and we might see the company being more selective and that is why Sidney Kimmel Entertainment's Kimmel International can get behind more fair by aligning their troupes with other indie producers. Kimmel are coming to Cannes loaded with several items that I'll be on the look out for 2009/10 such as the new Natalie Portman indie film Hesher, Mark Ruffalo's Sympathy for Delicious and the New York shot Paper Man from directors Michele and Kieran Mulroney (starring Lisa Kudrow, Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds). All's Faire In Love by Scott Marshall - Completed Don't Look Up by Fruit Chan - Post-Production Hesher by Spencer Susser - Pre-Production Invisible Sign, An by Marilyn Agrelo - Post-Production Motherhood by Katherine Dieckmann - Completed Paper Man by Michele & Kieran Mulroney
- 5/13/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Henry Thomas has joined the cast of "Dear John," a love story Lasse Hallstrom is directing for Screen Gems. Temple Hill is producing.
Based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, the story centers on a soldier on leave (Channing Tatum) who falls for a woman (Amanda Seyfried) but then re-enlists after Sept. 11.
Thomas plays an older man whom the woman falls for while the soldier is away.
Relativity Media is financing.
Thomas, of "E.T." fame, next stars in Fruit Chan's horror flick "Don't Look Up"; last year he landed a recurring role on CBS' "Without a Trace." Some of his other credits include "Gangs of New York" and "All the Pretty Horses."
He is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, the story centers on a soldier on leave (Channing Tatum) who falls for a woman (Amanda Seyfried) but then re-enlists after Sept. 11.
Thomas plays an older man whom the woman falls for while the soldier is away.
Relativity Media is financing.
Thomas, of "E.T." fame, next stars in Fruit Chan's horror flick "Don't Look Up"; last year he landed a recurring role on CBS' "Without a Trace." Some of his other credits include "Gangs of New York" and "All the Pretty Horses."
He is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
- 10/24/2008
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The L.A. Times scored some behind the scene images on the set of Fruit Chan's Don't Look Up over the weekend, revealing a monstrous 'baby-thing,' a hot chick covered in something, and a cameo by Eli Roth in front of a green screen! If you're surprised to see Roth up in the mix, join the party, as I couldn't even find his name on the film's IMDb page. But wait, what's Don't Look Up all about anyway? Check it out: Evil spirits released from old celluloid causes a film crew to slowly go...
- 8/18/2008
- by Ammon Gilbert
- ArrowInTheHead.com
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