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The Seven Network and Racing Victoria will launch a new free to air television channel devoted daily to Victorian thoroughbred racing.

The new channel . Racing.com . will be the only free to air channel on Australian television dedicated to broadcasting and promoting a single sport and will extend beyond broadcast television across all communication platforms to deliver horse racing to all Australians on any connected device.

.The first day of Racing.com will be this Saturday with coverage of the Group 1 Memsie Stakes Day from Caulfield..

Bruce McAvaney will host this very first broadcast for Racing.com.

Racing.com today also confirmed CrownBet as its premium wagering partner for 2015 and 2016 and Ladbrokes as its Associate partner.

Details on Racing.com were announced today by Tim Worner, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Seven West Media, Lewis Martin, Managing Director of Channel Seven Melbourne, and David Moodie, Chairman of Racing Victoria.

The Seven Network and Racing Victoria will launch a new free to air television channel devoted daily to Victorian thoroughbred racing.

The new channel . Racing.com . will be the only free to air channel on Australian television dedicated to broadcasting and promoting a single sport and will extend beyond broadcast television across all communication platforms to deliver horse racing to all Australians on any connected device.

.The first day of Racing.com will be this Saturday with coverage of the Group 1 Memsie Stakes Day from Caulfield..

Bruce McAvaney will host this very first broadcast for Racing.com.

Racing.com today also confirmed CrownBet as its premium wagering partner for 2015 and 2016 and Ladbrokes as its Associate partner.

Details on Racing.com were announced today by Tim Worner, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Seven West Media, Lewis Martin, Managing Director of Channel Seven Melbourne, and David Moodie, Chairman of Racing Victoria.

The Slamdance competition is open only to under-$1 million budgeted films from first-time filmmakers and runs at the same time as Sundance (in Utah) to show a more truer "independent" film style. This year they've got some great looking films, including a sweet looking vampire flick which has the Karate Kid Ralph Macchio himself, Rosencantz and Guildenstern are Undead. I Sell the Dead which was well received at Tad will be opening the fest. Also playing will be The Broken Lizard's latest film The Slammin' Salmon, and Mum and Dad.

Checkout the full lineup after the break!

Narrative Feature Competition

The Ante

Max Perrier (Director), Danek S. Kaus, James Chancellor & Simon Perrier (Writers)

West Coast Premiere, Black Comedy/Thriller, 2006, Canada, 82 minutes

An innocent man becomes the killer everyone wants him to be when he gambles with his freedom in order to save it.

A Quiet Little Marriage

Mo Perkins (Director/Writer)

Utah Premiere,...

Variety reports that Glenn McQuaid’s graverobbing-and-zombies opus I Sell The Dead (pictured) will be the opening-night feature at the 15th Slamdance Film Festival. The independent-cinema event runs January 15-23 in Park City, Utah.

Written and directed by McQuaid and produced as part of Larry Fessenden’s Scareflix line, I Sell The Dead is a Gothic period chiller starring Dominic (Lost) Monaghan and Fessenden as body-stealers. The cast also includes genre veterans Ron Perlman and Angus Scrimm; you can read our advance rave here and see the film’s official website here. Other genre fare playing Slamdance includes Jordan Galland’s Shakespearean vampire comedy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead, Steven Sheil’s twisted family shocker Mum & Dad, Clint Hutchison’s haunted-cabin flick Conjurer and Zombie Girl, Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall and Erik Mauck’s documentary about preteen horror filmmaker Emily Hagins.

"I Sell the Dead," Glenn McQuaid's darkly comic horror tale about bumbling grave robbers starring Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman, will serve as the opening-night film of the 15th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 15-23 in Park City.

The fest will screen 29 narrative and documentary features, 20 of which come from the U.S. and 31% of which were directed by women. The 100-film lineup also includes shorts and, for the first time, music videos.

"This year we look forward to increasing our audience through new online formats we believe have the ability, in the long run, to level the playing field for the independent filmmaker," Slamdance president and co-founder Peter Baxter said.

Bringing the fest to a worldwide audience for the first time, the films also will stream live at a new Web site, indieroad.net/slamdance, part of Slamdance's newly formed online venture with Indieroad.net.

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Mega-sloppy cult mini-classic Pieces hits DVD this week, but my copy hasn't arrived yet, so check out Bd's fine review by slasher-lover David Harley.

If you like Leprechaun, Warlock, and comic book adaptations, Shock has some good news for you. And Twitchfilm has a great little interview with the director of Tokyo Gore Police. And MTV talks Medusas and Krakens. Oooh, and Lionsgate is planning a My Bloody Valentine special edition DVD to tie in with their remake.

Anyone remember me (and the other horror nerds) raving about a Canadian horror flick called End of the Line? If so you'll be pleased to note that the DVD is now available in R1 -- but only from Canadian distributors. More info here.

Ugo has an exclusive peek at the brand-new trailer for The Grudge 3 right here.

A few weeks back, director Clint Hutchison asked me if I could take a look...

Today the official website was launched for Clint Hutchison's (Terror Tract) latest indie project, Conjurer, which features not only a cool one sheet (which you can see inside), but also a trailer for the film and a bunch of stills. Aith got ahole of the synopsis. Art photographer Shawn Burnett reluctantly agrees to move to a rural farmhouse to help his wife, Helen, recover from the loss of their stillborn baby. Shawn begins experiencing unsettling events, but keeps the strange occurrences to himself to protect Helen's emotional balance. As he investigates the property's history, Shawn encounters disturbing echoes from his own troubled past.

Producers Steven Kaplan and Gregg Daniel have teamed with entrepreneur Richard Katz to form Rainstorm Entertainment, an Encino-based independent film production company. The privately financed Rainstorm is currently involved in the Steve Anderson-directed dark comedy The Big Empty with Echo Lake Prods and Aura Entertainment. The film -- starring Jon Favreau, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kelsey Grammer, Daryl Hannah, Sean Bean, Adam Beach and Joey Lauren Adams -- is in postproduction. The company will also be executive producing Clint Hutchison's Ginger and Jack, which is casting. In addition, Rainstorm has inked a three-picture deal with Anderson as well as a two-picture deal with Hutchison and Lance Dreesen, who co-directed the 2000 project Terror Tract with Hutchison.