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Exclusive: V Channels And Blairwood Entertainment have formed a partnership to present a slate of genres films collected under the title ‘V Channels Originals’ for world sales at the Cannes market, which ends this week.

V Channels have fully financed all the pics, with Blairwood handling sales and introducing the project to theatrical and streaming buyers.

The first pic Dark Parasite is from directors Luca Boni and Marco Ristori and is produced by V Channels. Written by Marco Ristori, the film stars Desiree Giorgietti, Aaron Stielstra, Michael Segal, and David White. Plot follows a group of robbers who take refuge in a shabby apartment building in the suburbs after a robbery. They must wait for their fence in order to place the stolen goods. But they don’t know that an obscure alien creature with telepathic powers hides in the basement.

Second project is Man In The Fields, written and...

A young couple and their child move into possessed home in this turgid tale plagued by diabolical dubbed-in dialogue

This turgid horror feature starts with a young couple in the present: American-accented Alyson (Jennifer Mischiati) and faintly German-sounding Richard (Christoph Hülsen), who move into Alyson’s old home with their infant son after her father commits suicide. That sounds like a bad idea from the start, but then it gets markedly worse. Alyson is plagued by memories of her unhappy childhood in the house, abused by a seamstress mother with mental health issues, while a ghostly apparition that looks like a ravaged mannequin in a greasy wig crops up on the regular to make everyone scream. Eventually the baby gets abducted soon after a visit from a priest (Sean James Sutton) who proves useless at ridding the house of its demonic presence.

Soon after, a bespectacled psychic (Michael Segal) comes...

The big casting news for Ronald D. Moore‘s Scottish time travel series Outlander has been coming monthly, and September is no exception. Sam Heughan as the primary male lead Jamie Fraser was announced in July, Tobias Menzies as Frank Randall/Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall was announced in August.

Starz has waited until September to announce the biggest casting news of all, for the female lead, and the main character of the show, accidental time traveler Claire Randall.

Here she is, Outlander mafia. Wow, does she ever look the part. The inclusion of plaid doesn’t hurt.

The Long Wait For Fans Is Over! Caitriona Balfe Cast As Claire Randall In Starz And Sony Pictures TV’S “Outlander” New Starz Original Series Based on Diana Gabaldon’s International Blockbuster Novels | From “Battlestar Galactica” Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore

Beverly Hills, Calif., September 11, 2013 – Starz in association with Sony Pictures Television has...

The Fantasia Film Festival is taking place from July 18th to August 6th in Montreal and will feature over 100 films from around the world. The initial lineup has just been announced and includes The World’s End, The Conjuring, and a number of horror films making their world premiere:

Official Closing Film – Edgar Wright’s The World’s End (Canadian Premiere)

Fantasia 2013 will come wildly to a close on the night of August 6 with the Canadian premiere of UK filmmaker Edgar Wright’s hotly anticipated apocalyptic comedy The World’S End, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike and Martin Freeman. As Fantasia was the site of the Canadian Premieres of Wright’s landmark 2004 debut Shawn Of The Dead as well as his most recent Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, we couldn’t think of a better way to close this year’s festival.

Joining us in Montreal will be...

The 2-year marriage of Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil came to a formal end in a functional first floor courtroom in London Thursday. As one of 25 couples seeking to dissolve their marriages, Fielder-Civil, 27, was granted the divorce from Winehouse, 25, in a hearing that lasted all of 75 seconds, as the singer admitted adultery, court papers show. Neither she nor Fielder-Civil were at Court Three of the High Court Family Division in London's Holborn area to hear District Judge Michael Segal grant the "quickie" divorce. In a question-and-answer format, the court papers show that it was Fielder-Civil who filed for the split.