Michael Shannon, Rami Malek, and Russell Crowe star in James Vanderbilt’s stolid historical drama.
Independent Film Company and Shudder have acquired Joshua Giuliano’s (pictured above) debut feature film, a survival slasher called River. The flick is currently in post, and Independent will introduce it to buyers at the upcoming AFM. The company plans on doing its own theatrical release, but no date was shared today. River is based on Giuliano’s short film In Sound We Live Forever, which received a special mention from the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2019. We have provided it for you to watch below. INDEPENDENT FILM COMPANY AND SHUDDER ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF A SHUDDER ORIGINAL PRODUCTION “RIVER” Starring Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe and Dane DiLiegro, The Shudder Original Production will release theatrically through Independent Film Company Independent Film Company and Shudder…
Lynne Ramsay studies how pain takes shape. The Scottish director harnesses a poetic, sensory style in which her intimate stories of grief are barbed and transcendent. She is drawn to haunted characters, whether that be openly or implicitly. These stories are often fixated on the question: what happens next? She probes the mind of a mother whose son committed a school massacre in We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and examines the complex emotionality of a jaded hitman in You Were Never Really Here (2017). Ramsay doesn’t deliver a necessarily palatable story, but still, it has you chomping at the bit. On November 7, Ramsay’s fifth feature film will grace theaters across the United States. Die My Love features Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson…
The folks at Beyond Fest have announced their first geographical expansion, heading to the Windy City in April, 2026. The festival will bring their eclectic programming style to the Music Box Theatre, no stranger to weird, wonderful and wacked-out genre cinema from around the globe. This is a built-in audience that will be eager to shake off Winter’s chill and welcome Spring with some genre madness come April. Submissions through the festival’s FilmFreeway account are now open, with a special emphasis for local filmmakers in and around Chicago, the Midwest, and the Great Lakes region. Links to that are below in the opening announcement from the festival. BEYOND FEST EXPANDS TO CHICAGO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MUSIC BOX THEATRE THE BIGGEST GENRE FESTIVAL…
Rekindling an ancient rivalry in the modern day in the anime adaptation.
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and Sissy Spacek star in Lynne Ramsay’s explosive vision of a woman oppressed.
The return of the Samain du Cinéma Fantastique was a huge success, according to festival staff. “The festival saw a fantastic public turnout and an enthusiastic response from audiences and filmmakers alike, a real celebration of genre cinema on the French Riviera”. With the weekend wrapped up, they passed along the winners of this year’s awards. Alex Ullom’s It Ends won the Best Film and Director awards, of course. It’s fantastic. On the side of funny, Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead won best horror comedy feature, and Hoku Uchiyama’s Whitch won best horror short film, which also, incidently, has one of the best punchlines this year. Best Film & Best Director — It Ends by Alex Ullom Best Screenplay (ex aequo) — The True…
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We have an exclusive clip on behalf of the upcoming film, Exit Protocol, from those dependable purveyors of indie action cinema, Saban Films. We also have your first look at a new poster released today, featuring one of it’s stars, the action icon, Dolph Ludgren. An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both. Directed by Shane Dax Taylor and written by prolific screenwriter, Chad Law, Exit Protocol stars Scott Martin, Dolph Lundgren, Charlotte Kirk, Lina Maya, Stephanie Beran and Michael Jai White. The film will be released in select theaters,…