News from Variety this morning is that the V/H/S horror anthology franchise has been acquired from Studio71 by Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Abu Dhabi.
Louis Koo, Raymond Lam, Jessica Hester Hsuan, Sonija Kwok, and Lai-Ming Tang star in the Hong Kong action movie.
A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton’s (The Imposter)’s adaptation of Don Winslow’s (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up, where you get half of the face, at best, the posters feature a stacked cast of movie stars who regularly moonlight as character actors, including Halle Berry, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Keoghan, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo. The latter is featured here, looking like he just stepped out of a Michael Mann flick — all five o’clock shadow and film grain. (I am not being abstract or figurative here, I mean Collateral to be exact. Ruffalo had a lovely minor part as an bad ass…
John Turturro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany and Will Price star in writer/director Noah Segan’s character study / crime drama.
Russell Crowe also stars in director Padraic McKinley’s crime drama.
Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, and Liam Neeson star in the thriller, directed by Jonny Campbell from a script by David Koepp.
Directed by Josephine Decker, Iliza Shlesinger wrote and stars in the comedy-drama, alongside Garrett Wareing, Lola Tung, Cassidy Freeman, Tom Welling, and Megan Mullally.
French filmmaker and graphic novelist Ugo Bienvenu reflects on authorship in animation, the responsibilities of speculative storytelling, and the challenges of sustaining handcrafted cinema within a rapidly shifting global industry.
Sam Riley and Stacy Martin star in director Jan-Ole Gerster’s sun-soaked thriller.