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Films by José Luis Guerin, Alberto Rodríguez, and José Mari Goneagaand Aitor Arregi are among the 17 Spanish features selected for the 2025 San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff), taking place from September 19-27.

Guerin’s feature documentary Good Valley Stories sees the return of the director 24 years after winning the festival’s special jury prize for In Construction. The Spain-France co-production documents a suburb in Barcelona where different generations of migrants coexist.

Competing in the main section for the fourth time are Basque filmmakers José Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi with Maspalomas, about an elderly gay man whose life takes a...

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28 Days Later was a surprise hit with critics, audiences, and the box office alike because it came out of nowhere and felt like no film ever before it. An astounding feat all on its own, but even more so when you consider it did all this as a zombie movie. Well, they aren’t zombies. But you get what I mean. When it was over, and that plane flew over Jim, Selena, Hanna, and their handmade Hell sign… nope… Help sign, everyone wanted to know what happened next. Not only to them… but to the rest of the world. Which left director Danny Boyle and company in quite a predicament. How do you follow up a one-of-a-kind hit film that feels like no other when there is no surprise element anymore, your lead actors, and even you yourself aren’t available due to scheduling issues? It’s...

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Beta Fiction ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de Voy a pasármelo mejor, la secuela de la comedia musical de 2022 Voy a pasármelo bien.

Voy a pasármelo mejor está ambientada en 1991 cuando los Pitus ya tienen quince años y al llegar el verano se van de campamento para aprender inglés. Eso sí, lo hacen como aprendíamos inglés a principios de los noventa: en un campamento no muy lejos de casa y con profesores españoles cuyo acento dejaba bastante que desear. Al ritmo de las canciones más llamativas del año, cada uno de ellos se enamorará con la ilusión que solo se tiene a los catorce años. Ellos no lo saben, pero será el mejor verano de su vida.

La película marca el debut en la dirección de Ana de Alva y está escrita nuevamente por David Serrano, con un...

Streaming charts aren't just packed with empty impressions of what movies should be like. Try as they might to devalue the currency of moviemaking with slickly hollow fare like "The Electric State," the Russo brothers and their streaming overlords are yet to completely eradicate wonder and imagination from the film industry (though Joe Russo's vision of an A.I.-driven garbage future often seems as though it's fast-approaching). For the time being at least, there's still plenty of good stuff out there, and sometimes it finds its way onto the streaming charts, right alongside the dross.

If you take a look at Hulu's charts over the first half of 2025, we've seen some great stuff popping up in the rankings, from Chloe Fineman's critically acclaimed comedy to 2025's Best Picture winner "Anora." It's not just new stuff hitting the streaming charts, either. Often we'll see forgotten, overlooked, or...

The next sequel to 28 Days Later is coming to theaters this summer. Intended to launch a new trilogy of films, 28 Years Later serves as a follow-up to 2002's 28 Days Later with original director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland reuniting to continue the story.

As fans of the franchise will know, 28 Years Later is not the first follow-up film to 28 Days Later. In 2007, the first sequel, 28 Weeks Later, was released, but with different filmmakers; Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed with a screenplay co-written with Rowan Joffe, E.L. Lavigne, and Jesus Olmo. In a new interview with The Playlist, Garland commented on getting back together with Boyle to revisit the franchise after the duo's absence for 28 Weeks Later. The writer said that the only follow-up story the two of them could tell personally required a certain amount of time to first go by.

“It was this,...

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Arranca el rodaje entre Madrid, Valladolid y México de Voy a pasármelo mejor, la secuela de la comedia musical de 2022 Voy a pasármelo bien, que reunió a más de 360.000 espectadores en su estreno en cines y fue número 1 en Prime Video.

Voy a pasármelo mejor está ambientada en 1991 cuando los Pitus, al llegar el verano, se van de campamento. Al ritmo de las canciones más llamativas del año, cada uno de ellos se enamorará con la ilusión que solo se tiene a los catorce años.

La película marca el debut en la dirección de Ana de Alva y está escrita nuevamente por David Serrano, con un reparto encabezado por los jóvenes talentos Izan Fernández, Renata Hermida, Michel Herráiz, Rodrigo Gibaja, Diego Montejo y Rodrigo Díaz, acompañados de Raúl Arévalo y Karla Souza.

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Exclusive: Goodfellas is expanding its footprint into Spain in a new production venture with prolific local producer Enrique López Lavigne aimed at producing ambitious projects with Spanish talent with international appeal.

Bannered Goodapatxe – in a nod to Lavigne’s Apache Films company, which he runs alongside El Studio – the venture aims to get two to three productions off the ground a year.

Details of the first projects are under wraps, but the partners have revealed they are in development on a Spanish historic film noir, a western and science fiction picture and four additional genre feature films directed by young Spanish authors.

Lavigne has been a driving force in the Spanish independent cinema scene for more than 30 years.

He started out as a film buyer for Canal Plus, before moving into distribution at Sogecine. He branched into producing in the late 1990s, taking credits on a host of early films...

Luis Ortega’s “Kill the Jockey” gallops onscreen with a surreal drama of mob hit men, romance, and spiraling self-destruction.

The feature, which premiered at Venice and will screen at TIFF, is directed by Ortega from a script he co-wrote with Rodolfo Palacios and Fabián Casas. Nahuel Pérez Biscayart leads the film as a wayward jockey caught up in a mob-run racing syndicate while suffering from substance abuse. Oh, and he’s trying to outrun someone they’ve sent to kill him.

The official synopsis reads: “Remo Manfredini (Biscayart) is a legendary jockey, but his self-destructive behaviour is beginning to outshine his talent and threaten his relationship with his girlfriend Abril (Úrsula Corberó). On the day of the most important race of his career that will clear him of his debts from his mobster boss Sirena (Daniel Giménez Cacho), he has a severe accident, disappears from the hospital and wanders the streets of Buenos Aires.

Madrid-born horror meister Adrián García Bogliano, behind “La Exorcista,” one of 2022’s highest-grossing films in Mexico, has unveiled a teaser and first still of his new thriller “Someone’s at the Door,” which had a special presentation at Cannes’ genre business hub Fantastic Pavilion last May.

Produced by Carlos Meléndez’s Mr.Blue as well as executive producer Andrea Quiroz’s Salto de Fe Films, “Someone’s at the Door” features newcomer Alexis Cárdenas, Samantha Coronel (“Medea”) and “This Is Not Berlin” actor Mauro Sánchez Navarro.

García Bogliano’s love triangle drama follows the unexpected reunion between former high school classmates Alicia and Marianela, whose initially warm meeting takes a sinister turn. Alicia, portrayed by Cárdenas, becomes deeply suspicious of Marianela, played by Coronel, as she senses an affair between her husband (Sánchez) and her mentally perturbed friend.

García Bogliano describes his film as a “suspense machine” that delves into...

28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle’s terrifying vision of London in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, immediately sparked renewed interest in the genre when it debuted in 2002. Boyle’s fly-on-the-wall perspective, released during the dawn of digital innovation, became an instant classic because of its humanist drama and biting political allusions. All zombie movies have to live in the long shadow of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, but Boyle's innovative take on a 21st-Century post-apocalypse emerged as a worthy contender. Understandably, expectations were high for the follow-up, 28 Weeks Later. Boyle was out, choosing instead to work on the sci-fi epic Sunshine, another collaboration with screenwriter Alex Garland. Filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo stepped in as director, but his script—co-written with Rowan Joffé, Enrique López-Lavigne, and Jesus Olmo—would follow an entirely different cast of characters.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 28 Years Later could reinvigorate the franchise and prove the blockbuster potential of a zombie movie trilogy. The success of the 28 Years Later trilogy could demonstrate that The Walking Dead's over-reliance on TV series could be its undoing. The Walking Dead's planned Rick Grimes movie trilogy faced an uphill battle, ultimately making The Ones Who Live TV series a better way forward.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's highly anticipated 28 Years Later could make another zombie franchise's abandoned movie trilogy plan look even worse. Green-lit in mid-January 2024, Boyle and Garland's 28 Years Later sequel marks the first entry in a planned post-apocalyptic horror film trilogy. The franchise began in 2002 with 28 Days Later — a film that redefined the genre. Inspired by George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead films, 28 Days Later stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma...

Buoyed with Paco Plaza’s “Sister Death” riding high in Netflix non-English film global rankings for a second week running, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Madrid-based El Estudio has named seasoned Spanish showrunner Tirso Calero, creator and script co-ordinator on “Servir y Proteger,” “Bandolera” and “L’Alqueria Blanca,” as TV contents director in Spain. He is based out of Madrid. His incorporation coincides with the creation of a TV division at El Estudio, which Calero will head up.

Taking effect from last week, the appointment makes large strategic sense. El Estudio founders and chiefs Enrique López Lavigne and Pablo Cruz are among the top and most cosmopolitan film producers in the Spanish-speaking world, Cruz ranking as Mexico’s best-known arthouse/crossover movie honcho and a driving force behind modern-day Mexican cinema when heading up Canana; and López Lavigne rating as one of Spain’s most innovative producers, seen most recently in...

Netflix releases trailer for prequel to Spanish horror film Veronica, titled Sister Death, which focuses on the origin story of the character Narcisa. Sister Death is set in post-war Spain and follows a young nun with supernatural powers as she unravels the secrets surrounding a convent-turned-school for girls. Directed by Paco Plaza, known for his work in Spanish horror, Sister Death is highly anticipated as a follow-up to the critically acclaimed and terrifying Veronica.

Netflix has just released a trailer for Paco Plaza's Sister Death (Hermana Muerte), a prequel to 2017's Spanish horror film, Veronica (Verónica). The film serves as an origin story for the titular character, who audiences met through Consuelo Trujillo's portrayal in Veronica. This time around, Sister Death, or Narcisa, is played by Aria Bedmar. Set in post-war Spain, the upcoming supernatural film centers on the story of Narcisa, a young nun with supernatural powers, who...

Five years ago, [Rec] franchise co-creator Paco Plaza‘s horror movie Veronica was released through the Netflix streaming service, and Netflix subscribers reportedly found the film to be so terrifying that they would have to stop the movie mid-stream because they couldn’t handle the scariness. With that sort of press, it’s no surprise that Plaza and Netflix have chosen to expand the concept into a franchise with a prequel called Sister Death, or Hermana Muerte. Now the streaming service’s Tudum site has revealed that Sister Death will be released this October! They haven’t revealed the specific release date yet, but it’s nice to know this movie will be a viewing option during Halloween season this year.

The screenplay for Sister Death was written by Jorge Guerricaechevarria, who frequently works with popular genre filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia. The story he crafted has the following synopsis: In post-war Spain,...

The undead may rise again in the potential sequel 28 Years Later. Back in 2002, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland released their acclaimed zombie movie 28 Days Later. Starring Oppenheimer's Cillian Murphy, the film picks up with a man in London awakening from a coma to discover that the city has been decimated by a highly contagious zombie-like virus. The film is among the most highly-praised zombie movies ever made, even going on to directly inspire the immensely successful TV series The Walking Dead.

In 2007, a sequel was released. Called 28 Weeks Later, the follow-up film was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo who co-wrote the screenplay with Rowan Joffe, Enrique Lopez Lavigne, and Jesus Olmo. As the title suggests, the film is set around 28 weeks after the viral outbreak, though it follows a new cast of characters that included Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, and Idris Elba.

El Estudio and Morbido are launching The Latin House of Horror, a hugely ambitious feature film slate channelling the voices of a powerful new generation of genre directors – and indeed writers – emerging in Spain and, most especially, Latin America.

The slate is designed to supercharge genre production in Latin America, in ambition, profile and exports, just as Filmax’s Fantastic Factory did a generation ago in Spain, El Estudio producer Enrique López Lavigne told Variety.

Mexico’s Sula Films, headed by Mexican producer Alejandro Sugich (“Los Hermanos Salvador”), will also produce the series. Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment is handling world sales.

Announced at Cannes, the House’s first slate of six movies features established talent such as Adrián García Bogliano, a founding figure of modern Argentine scarefare, now based out of Mexico; and Isaac Ezban, who rapidly established a reputation for films wrapped in hauntingly surreal scenarios: Think “The Incident” and “The Similars.

In a bid to give more opportunities to women directors and boost the romcom genre, Sony Pictures International has teamed up with Maria Ripoll’s Cahuenga Filmmakers and transatlantic production shingle El Estudio to launch The Love Collection, a series of romantic comedy features to be written and helmed by women.

Ripoll, best known for her romcom “Ahora o nunca,” the highest-grossing femme-directed film in Spain, will serve as executive producer on all the titles, and will direct the first in the collection, “Yo no soy esa,” (roughly translated to “I’m Not That One” or “I’m Not Her”) starring Verónica Echegui. El Estudio’s Enrique López Lavigne will serve as producer on all the titles.

In “Yo no soy esa,” Susana (Echegui) wakes up after a 20-year coma. Stuck in a grown woman’s body but emotionally and psychologically still a teenager, Susana must learn to navigate an unfamiliar world and rediscover herself.

Fifteen years have gone by since the release of the 28 Days Later sequel 28 Weeks Later, and ever since then we’ve been hearing rumblings that we might someday receive another sequel called 28 Months Later. Way back in 2009, we even heard that Paul Andrew Williams (The Cottage) was on board to direct the film. Since then, every once in a while, we would hear 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland mention 28 Months Later, say there was a great idea for the sequel, then later say it might never happen. Now in an NME interview, Boyle has said that Garland already wrote the script for 28 Months Later a couple years ago and he thinks now might be a good time to make it.

Boyle said, “I’d be very tempted [to direct it]. It feels like a very good time actually. It’s funny, I hadn’t thought about...

Danny Boyle’s 2002 film “28 Days Later” was a watershed moment for horror cinema, bringing back a moribund subgenre (the zombie film), establishing Cillian Murphy as a genuine star and proving that Boyle could literally do any genre he wanted and probably succeed. Now, 20 years later, in a retrospective piece by NME, Boyle and Murphy say they’re ready to return for a new sequel, once again written by Alex Garland who has completed a script.

Murphy said the sequel is still very much on his mind. In the first film he played a bicycle messenger who awakens from a coma to a nearly abandoned London, full of zombies. He survives the film but doesn’t appear in the follow-up, “28 Weeks Later,” which was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written by Fresnadillo, E. L. Lavigne, Jesus Olmo and Rowan Joffé.

“Every time I do bump into Danny or Alex I always mention it.

Buoyed by the success of last year’s one-to-one networking sessions, Madrid’s 2nd Iberseries & Platino Industria market is launching a new TV forum aimed at fostering co-production and financing pacts between selected producers and potential partners or investors.

“We are functioning as an accelerator in a way as the selected projects have at least 40 of their financing in place and just need that final push to see the light,” said Iberseries director Samuel Castro, who adds that these series have budgets ranging from €5 million-€30 million ( million-30 million) .

The 10 companies, selected out of some 25 submissions, include some heavy hitters led by Spain’s Zebra Prods (Grupo Izen), Gato Grande-MGM, Argentina’s Storylab and El Estudio, founded by former Canana producing partner Pablo Cruz, producer Enrique López Lavigne and former Sony Pictures Intl. Prods. head, Diego Suárez Chialvo.

Projects include animated features, thrillers, romantic comedies and dramas.

Forum coordinator Rodrigo Ros has been playing matchmaker,...

Stephen Kronish and Jon Cassar, showrunner and director-producer respectively of “24,” the ratings and critical hit which ran on Fox network for nine seasons, have boarded upcoming thriller series “Barcelona.”

The news was jointly announced by transatlantic production company El Estudio, Jeff Berg’s Northside Services, Todd Slater’s Convoke Media (“King of Killers”) and Karen and Howard Baldwin (“Ray”) of Kemb Prods. who have teamed up to produce the ambitious project.

“Barcelona” is one of 10 series being presented at the inaugural Co-Production and Financing Forum at Madrid’s 2nd Iberseries & Platino Industria TV event.

Based on Irish writer David Fennelly’s trilogy of novels, the three-season series set in Barcelona is described as a cross between “Homeland” and “Fauda” and “explores the origins of terrorism in Barcelona.” Fennelly and his manager Larry Levitsky also form part of the pool of producers on the project.

“This is a step forward in our growth strategy.

Easily one of the best movies of its kind, J.A. Bayona’s minute-by-minute tale of survival poses an immediate challenge to audiences: could I survive that? The genuinely terrifying true story of one family lost in the middle of a devastating disaster is even more relevant now, with similar disasters seemingly happening daily. The near-flawless direction concentrates on the direct experience of a mother and son, who in just a couple of days learn the meaning of human concern and kindness. It’s a Spanish production (in English); Naomi Watts received an Oscar nomination and Ewan McGregor and young Tom Holland give strong performances. We reach back ten years for this review.

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Starring: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast, Marta Etura, Sönke Möhring, Geraldine Chaplin, Ploy Jindachote, Jomjaoi Sae-Limh,...

Production on 1980s-set story to take place in Mexico.

El Estudio, Morbido and Vision Entertainment have set Tribeca Festival filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera to adapt and direct That Summer In The Dark (Ese Verano a Oscuras).

The project is based on the story of the same name by award-winning Argentinian journalist and writer Mariana Enríquez about two teenage friends obsessed with American serial killers. The bored youngsters spend the summer fantasising about gruesome murders until the true horror of it all is brought home when a neighbour kills his wife and daughter.

Mexican filmmaker Cervera, whose feature debut Huesera premiered...

Madrid — Paco Plaza, co-director of [“Rec”] and Netflix hit “Veronica” – is attached to write and direct “Roman Ritual,” inspired by the cult graphic novella from Spain’s El Torres, and created together with producer Enrique López Lavigne.

Envisaged as an event series – and sure to discomfit some and scandalize others, the original comic book being rejected by multiple publishers – “Roman Ritual” turns on a Pope who, like Pope Benedict XVI, is forced to quit – but this time round it’s because he’s possessed by the Devil.

Now in development, “Roman Ritual” is set up at El Estudio, the highly connected independent L.A., Mexico City and Madrid-based production house launched at February’s Berlin Film Festival by Canana head Pablo Cruz, López Lavigne and former Sony Pictures Intl. Productions head Diego Suárez Chialvo.

Showrun by Plaza and López Lavigne, the series looks set to follow the main thrust of the graphic novel,...

Trans-Atlantic Spanish-language production powerhouse El Estudio and Mexico’s Morbido Group have joined forces in the largest genre, horror and fantasy production initiative in the Spanish-speaking world.

Feature films, series, remakes and reboots of classic IP and even unscripted programming are all part of the plan going forward for El Estudio and Morbido. Already, the companies have one series, three films and a talk show in development which they will announce in the coming months.

Production is hardly the endgame for the two companies, however, as they will look to change the genre industry on a fundamental level. Other initiatives include consolidating theatrical distribution circuits across South and Central America, supporting industry acceleration hubs, producing local events in major Latin American countries, talent management, a comic book/graphic novel division and expanding the Morbido brand into Spain and the U.S.

Pablo Guisa’s Morbido Group, based in Mexico City,...

Berlin — Teaming two of the most energetic players on the new Spanish-language content scene, El Estudio and Infinity Hill are teaming to produce “Amor es Amor,” Rob Schneider’s Spanish-language movie debut as both an actor and director.

A comedy, “Amor es Amor” turns on Enrique Juarez, an up-and-coming Mexican telenovela actor on the verge of breakthrough as a leading man, who has to hide his true self in order to achieve stardom.

That includes creating a fake relationship with former pop sensation, Sofia. The mastermind behind the whole scheme is Julian Rodin (Schneider), a big TV network honcho, who is secretly having an affair with Sofia.

“Amor es amor” marks the latest turn in a career which saw Schneider debut in 1990 as a writer and soon after cast member on “SNL,” then break out out in movies in “Deuce Bigalow – Male Gigolo” in which he created one of his most famed characters,...

Sony Pictures Intl. Prods. and El Estudio, a major new independent production player in the Spanish-speaking world, are teaming to produce a Mexican version of breakout Cuban feature “Juan of the Dead,” with Emilio Portés directing.

Chronicling a U.S. zombie invasion of Mexico, the remake marks one in a strong first slate of titles from El Estudio, launched at the Berlin Festival by three of the most connected producers in the Spanish-speaking world: Ex-Canana producer-partner Pablo Cruz, “The Impossible” producer Enrique López Lavigne and former Sony Pictures Intl. Prods. head Diego Suárez Chialvo.

Based out of Mexico, Los Angeles and Madrid, El Estudio has 63 projects in development or production. El Estudio is represented by CAA. Partners on early titles include Sony Pictures Intl. Prods., Netflix, HBO, Lionsgate, Viacom Intl. Pictures, Movistar Plus and Beta Film, El Estudio told Variety, announcing some of its 2020-21 projects:

“Verguenza” stars Mexico’s...

As the calendar changes from October to November, Mexican horror fans will ascend for the twelfth year on Morbido Fest, a Mexico City-based festival dedicated to all things macabre, organized and executed by Morbido Group CEO and founder Pablo Guisa Koestinger.

This year’s festival will kick off Oct. 30 with a spectacle grander in its ambition than any Morbido inauguration before. Taking place within the Esperanza Iris City theater, more than 60 artists will perform six choreographed musical numbers with Guisa taking the reigns as master of ceremonies. Those familiar with Guisa and his public persona won’t be surprised to hear that his opening night wardrobe alone includes eight costumes, with more to come in the following days.

Somehow, the TV network owner, festival director, writer, publisher and radio host found time to make appearances in three high-profile films screening at this year’s fest: Paco Plaza’s “Eye for an Eye,...

In its continued bid to invest in Spanish film production, Sony Pictures International Productions has pacted with Enrique López Lavigne’s Apache Films to co-produce “Adios” by Spanish writer-director Paco Cabezas, who marks his return to Spain with the crime drama.

Cabezas has been building a notable international portfolio that includes “American Gods,” “Penny Dreadful,” “The Alienist,” “Fear the Walking Dead,” and “Neon Flesh.”

“Returning to Seville, the South, to the streets where I grew up, to shoot this film is a dream come true,” Cabezas said. “I’ve learned much from my work in Hollywood; each series, from “Penny Dreadful” to “American Gods,” has helped me grow as a director.”

“And I was dying to find a powerful story, moving, action-packed, made not only for a Spanish audience, but with an international [appeal], to be told in my land,” he added.

Mario Casas, who starred in Cabezas’ “Neon Flesh,” leads...

Exclusive: Upcoming horror follows a woman who attempts to bring back her dead father through a Ouija ritual.

Film Factory has licensed French rights to [Rec] director Paco Plaza’s upcoming horror film Veronica.

Arp Selection will distribute the story which producer Apache Films claims to be based on the only unexplained supernatural case in the annals of the Spanish police.

Sony has earmarked an autumn release in Spain on Veronica, about a young woman who must protect her younger brother and sister after she attempts to bring back the spirit of their dead father through a Ouija ritual.

Ana Torrent will star with Leticia Dolera, Consuelo Trujillo and newcomer Sandra Escacena in the lead role.

Enrique López-Lavigne from Apache Films serves as producer. Film Factory chief Vicente Canales brokered the deal with Michèle Halberstadt and Laurent Petin for Arp Selection.

“We’re glad to have closed this deal with such a good company as Arp Selection and to...

Exclusive: The La-based graphic novel publisher has made its latest move in an aggressive push into film and TV, teaming on the eve of Comic-Con with multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Robert Silverberg.

The pact will see Humanoids adapt selected novels from the Silverberg oeuvre into comic books and live action content and follows separate deals announced earlier this year with Paris-based Full House and China’s Jetavana.

The first property to move forward under the Silverberg deal is Downward To The Earth (artwork pictured), which Humanoids will publish as a graphic novel in 2016 from writer Philippe Thirault (Miss: Better Live Through Crime) and artist Laura Zuccheri (The Swords Of Glass).

The company will attend Comic-Con in San Diego and is actively developing a live content version of the 1970 sci-fi novel, styled by fans as a transcendent tale about a former colonial officer who believes the native species from an off-world settlement may hold the key to...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes release details for Out of the Dark, Travelogue of Horror, and The Hunted, a trailer for The Scribbler and The Pyramid, a look at The Walker Stalkers’s music video Talk Dead to Me, advanced screening details for L.A. Slasher, and much more:

Out of the Dark Release Details and Photos: “Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media today announced that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark, and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.

Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.

The distributor has taken Us rights to Participant Media’s supernatural thriller starring Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman and has scheduled an early 2015 theatrical release. Bloom handles international sales.

Out Of The Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family embarking on a new life is forced to confront ancient legends and a family secret. Stephen Rea also stars.

Lluís Quílez shot the Spain-Colombia thriller in Colombia and directed from a screenplay by Alex Pastor, David Pastor and Javier Gullón.

Vertical will present the film in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. Out Of The Dark is produced by Apaches Entertainment, Cactus Flower and Fast Producciones in association with Dynamo and Xyz Films.

Belén Atienza, Cristian Conti, Enrique López Lavigne and Andrés Calderón produced and the executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Roy Azout and Nick Spicer.

Vertical brokered the deal with Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films and Jeff Ivers for Participant...

The supernatural thriller starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea has been tapped for an early 2015 theatrical release. No date has been set, but Vertical Entertainment, which acquired the U.S. rights to Out Of The Dark from Participant Media, is looking at February as a possible theatrical release month. Traditionally, supernatural thrillers and horror films do well at the beginning of the year. The deal was announced today.

Out Of The Dark, directed by first-timer Lluis Quilez, is a ghost story about a new family in South America who must confront ancient legends, ghosts and a “haunting family secret.” The picture will be presented by Vertical in association not only with Participant but also Image Nation, having been produced by Apaches Entertainment, Cactus Flower, and Fast Producciones, in association with Dynamo and Xyz Films.

Related: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman Inhabit Haunted House Pic ‘Out Of The Dark’

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It's been a long while since last we talked about the new horror flick starring Julia Stiles, Out of the Dark, but with the passage of time have come new stills and more. Read on for the details, and look for more on this one soon!

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Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media announce that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.

Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.

Out of the Dark will be presented by Vertical in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. It is a production of Apaches Entertainment,...

Well, I said in my review that the high-tension Brazilian kidnap thriller "A Wolf at the Door" was highly impressive stuff, and it seems the jury at the Miami Film Festival agreed. Not only did Fernando Coimbras' debut feature take the top prize at last night's festival awards ceremony, beating nine other films in the Knight Competition for Spanish and Latin American narrative cinema, but Coimbras was further rewarded with the Best Director award. That the jury -- led by Spanish producer Enrique Lopez Lavigne, whose credits include "The Impossible" -- chose to doubly honor Coimbras in this fashion marks a serious show of faith in a filmmaker whose snappy arthouse-genre chops have serious crossover potential. ("A Wolf at the Door" also won the Latin Horizons section last year at the San Sebastian fest, where it premiered; Brazil has a formidable candidate for Oscar submission here.) It's not as if...

Check out interviews with Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland and director Juan Antonio Bayona for Summit Entertainment's The Impossible drama. The film which is helmed Bayona from the script by Sergio G. Sanchez, opens December 21st. Also in the cast are Geraldine Chaplin, Oaklee, Pendergast and Samuel Joslin. Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín, Ghislain Barrois and Enrique López Lavigne produce. A powerful story based on one family's survival of the 2004 tsunami, The Impossible follows Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons who begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying...

Check out interviews with Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland and director Juan Antonio Bayona for Summit Entertainment's The Impossible drama. The film which is helmed Bayona from the script by Sergio G. Sanchez, opens December 21st. Also in the cast are Geraldine Chaplin, Oaklee, Pendergast and Samuel Joslin. Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín, Ghislain Barrois and Enrique López Lavigne produce. A powerful story based on one family's survival of the 2004 tsunami, The Impossible follows Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons who begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying...

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ("28 Weeks Later") has dropped out of directing the reboot of the "Highlander" franchise at Summit Entertainment.

The exit is reportedly amicable and over creative differences after Fresnadillo helped develop the project with Summit for over a year. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway penned the script, with the latest draft by Noah Oppenheim.

Ryan Reynolds remains attached to play the title character in the film, though it seems unlikely they'll stick with the original film's ancient Scottish setting.

Neal H. Mortiz, Peter Davis, Enrique López Lavigne and Belen Atienza will produce.

Source: Deadline...

Exclusive: When it comes to directors on the movie Highlander, there can be only one. But it won’t be Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. The 28 Weeks Later helmer has exited Summit’s reboot of the film, which still has Ryan Reynolds poised to play the title character. I’m told that his exit is amicable, and that after a year of working on the project, he and Summit could not get past the fact they had differing views of the film, and finally agreed to disagree. Fresnadillo left a remake of The Crow to join Highlander. It’s unclear at the moment whether that is an option, but come Monday, he will be looking for another movie, and Summit will be looking for another Highlander helmer. Summit Entertainment remains bullish on Highlander, which has a script by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, with the latest draft by Noah Oppenheim. It’s produced by Neal H.

A little over a year after he first signed on to the project, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is leaving Summit Entertainment's upcoming reboot of the Highlander franchise. Deadline has the news, saying that while creative differences between Fresnadillo and the studio led to an amicable split, Ryan Reynolds remains attached to the project to play the leading role. In Highlander , after centuries of dueling to survive against others like him, Connor MacLeod, an immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his kind, a murderously brutal barbarian, who lusts for the Prize. Written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Highlander will be produced by Neal H. Mortiz, Peter Davis, Enrique López Lavigne and Belen Atienza. Rcr Media Group's principles Rui Costa Reis and...

It seems like every other day we're writing about Elijah Wood starring in or producing some new project, and today we learned he has joined Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo’s first English-language picture, Open Windows. And filming has already begun in Madrid!

Open Windows, an innovative, high-tech suspense thriller unfolding on the screen of a laptop connected to the Internet, is Vigalondo’s third feature after the 2008 time-traveling tale Timecrimes and Extraterrestrial, a hit on the fantasy film festival circuit over the past 12 months.

Per Screen Daily, Wild Bunch, which is co-producing the Spanish-French picture with Madrid-based Enrique López Lavigne and Belen Ateinza’s Apaches Entertainment and Antena 3 Film, is launching sales on the film at the currently running Afm. Elijah Wood’s production company Woodshed, Basque broadcaster Etb, and Canal Plus are associated partners.

“Open Windows develops in real time, delivering 90 minutes of suspense in a tense, fast-paced, high-tech thriller with action and terror,...

The new flick from Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Intruders (review here), is getting set to make its debut on Blu-ray and DVD, and we've got all the details for you right here!

From the Press Release

From visionary filmmaker and Academy Award® nominee Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Best Short Film, Live Action, Linked, 1996; 28 Weeks Later, the upcoming Highlander reboot), the psychological thriller Intruders comes to Blu-ray, DVD and VOD July 17th from Millennium Entertainment. The chilling story of two children living in different countries, each visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them, Intruders stars Academy Award® nominee Clive Owen (Best Actor, Supporting Role, Closer, 2004; Killer Elite, Children of Men, Inside Man) along with Carice Van Houten (TV’s “Game of Thrones,” Valkyrie) and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds). Bonus features include a "Making Of" featurette and "Inside Look," a behind-the-scenes look at the film. Intruders will be...

Intruders received a limited theatrical release earlier this year and is headed to Blu-ray, VOD, and DVD in July:

“From visionary filmmaker and Academy Award® nominee Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Best Short Film, Live Action, Linked, 1996; 28 Weeks Later, the upcoming Highlander reboot), the psychological thriller Intruders comes to Blu-ray, DVD and VOD July 17th from Millennium Entertainment.

The chilling story of two children living in different countries, each visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them, Intruders stars Academy Award® nominee Clive Owen (Best Actor, Supporting Role, Closer, 2004; Killer Elite, Children of Men, Inside Man) along with Carice Van Houten (TV’s “Game of Thrones,” Valkyrie) and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds). Bonus features include a “Making Of” featurette and “Inside Look,” a behind-the-scenes look at the film. Intruders will be available on Blu-ray ($29.99 Srp), DVD ($28.99 Srp; also available with Digital Copy) and VOD.

Intruders is produced by Enrique López-Lavigne (28 Weeks Later,...

by MoreHorror.com

From the visionary fimmaker of 28 Weeks Later comes a creepy little film called Intruders. This one looks right up our alley and releases in March. Check out the trailer under the official details.

Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia (Ella Purnell) is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

From visionary filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later, the upcoming Highlander reboot), Intruders is the chilling story of two children living in different countries, each visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them.

Third poster for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders, starring Clive Owen, Carice Van Houten and Daniel Brühl Intruders also stars Kerry Fox, Pilar López de Ayala, Ella Purnell, Izán Corchero. Mercedes Gamero, Belén Atienza and Enrique López Lavigne produce the film which was seen at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in theaters in April via Millennium Entertainment. Intruders tells of the origin of the monsters that are born in childhood, and then passed on by the family. Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marques wrote the script. Fresnadillo helmed zombie sequel horror 28 Weeks Later. Owen was just seen in James Marsh's Shadow Dancer which showed at this year's Sundance Film Festival. That film also stars Gillian Anderson, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen and Domhall Gleeson, and is based on scribe Tom Bradby's novel.

Third poster for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders, starring Clive Owen, Carice Van Houten and Daniel Brühl Intruders also stars Kerry Fox, Pilar López de Ayala, Ella Purnell, Izán Corchero. Mercedes Gamero, Belén Atienza and Enrique López Lavigne produce the film which was seen at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in theaters in April via Millennium Entertainment. Intruders tells of the origin of the monsters that are born in childhood, and then passed on by the family. Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marques wrote the script. Fresnadillo helmed zombie sequel horror 28 Weeks Later. Owen was just seen in James Marsh's Shadow Dancer which showed at this year's Sundance Film Festival. That film also stars Gillian Anderson, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen and Domhall Gleeson, and is based on scribe Tom Bradby's novel.

Third poster for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders, starring Clive Owen, Carice Van Houten and Daniel Brühl Intruders also stars Kerry Fox, Pilar López de Ayala, Ella Purnell, Izán Corchero. Mercedes Gamero, Belén Atienza and Enrique López Lavigne produce the film which was seen at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in theaters in April via Millennium Entertainment. Intruders tells of the origin of the monsters that are born in childhood, and then passed on by the family. Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marques wrote the script. Fresnadillo helmed zombie sequel horror 28 Weeks Later. Owen was just seen in James Marsh's Shadow Dancer which showed at this year's Sundance Film Festival. That film also stars Gillian Anderson, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen and Domhall Gleeson, and is based on scribe Tom Bradby's novel.

F. Javier Gutierrez will direct Relativity Media and Apaches Entertainment's remake of the 1994 cult classic "The Crow."According to The Hollywood Reporter, this comes days after Relativity and The Weinstein Company settled their litigation over distribution rights to the film.Gutierrez directed the Spanish horror film "Before the Fall" ("Tres Dias").Jesse Wigutow will write the script.The original "Crow" producers Edward R. Pressman and Jeff Most are producing along with Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh, and Apaches Entertainment's Enrique Lopez Lavigne and Belen Atienza.No cast has been set yet."The Crow" is based on a black and white comic book series by James O'Barr that centers on rock musician Eric Draven, who is murdered while trying to save his wife from thugs. He is supernaturally...

Summit Entertainment wants to ensure we know they are responsible for more than those annoying Twilight movies. Here’s a look at their 2012 release schedule although release dates are subject to change.

Summit Entertainment Presents

A di Bonaventura Pictures Production

Man On A Ledge

Directed by Asger Leth (Ghosts Of CITÉ Soleil)

Written by Pablo F. Fenjves

Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Red, Salt, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen) and Mark Vahradian (Transformers)

Starring Sam Worthington (Avatar, Clash Of The Titans,

Terminator Salvation), Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days, W., The 40-year-old Virgin), Jamie Bell (King Kong, Billy Elliot), Anthony MacKie (The Hurt Locker, Million Dollar Baby, 8 Mile), Ed Burns (27 Dresses), Titus Welliver (The Town), Genesis Rodriguez, Kyra Sedgwick (TV’S The Closer) and Ed Harris (National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, A History Of Violence)

From the ledge of the 25th floor of a NYC skyscraper, where one wrong step means death,...