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Deadline reports Chazz Palminteri and Kenny D’Aquila are shopping the Unorganized Crime TV show pilot to prospective buyers. The news outlet describes the half-hour project as a "mafia-themed comedic drama series."Written by Palminteri and D'Aquila, the pilot is based on the latter's play of the same name. The cast includes Palminteri, D’Aquila, Lainie Kazan, Alex Meneses, John Pankow, and, Carmine Caridi. Director Nick Vallelonga produced the pilot through Vallelonga Productions, with Ton of Hats' Mike Hatton and Mark Sherman.Read More…...

Coverage of this year's Screamfest La Film Festival continues with Dread Central's event report for Thursday, October 20th, and Friday, October 21st, when we hit the carpet to bring you more photos and caught the premieres of Jack Heller’s feature film Enter Nowhere (Night #7) and of Ryan Schifrin’s No Rest for the Wicked, The Little Mermaid, Infected, and more. (Night #8).

(Editor's Note: In case you're wondering what happened to Night #6, the filmmakers of Livid, the major premiere of that evening, were not in attendance so we opted to give SeanD. a night off of coverage as well. Considering that he's practically been living at the Manns Chinese 6 during Screamfest La's 2011 run, we'd say he certainly deserved it!)

Those walking the black carpet on the 20th and in attendance for the seventh evening of the fest included Enter Nowhere director Heller, writers Shawn Christensen and Jason Dolan, producers Dallas Sonnier and Robert Crippen,...

Sxv'leithan Essex (Bled), try saying that three times fast, will be directing an underground fight styled film with werewolf-like creatures doing battle against "The Brawlers" entitled Growl. Rumours state that Keifer Sutherland will partake (Uhm), with Josh Kelly (Circle of Eight) and Jennifer Lee Wiggins (Murder Inside of Me) confirmed. Filming will take place in Los Angeles with the goal of producing two sequels to form a trilogy (Uhm). Step inside Growl below with an early still from the film and the film's website also located below.

The synopsis for Growl here:

"A traveling underground fight club called 'The Brawlers' arrive at a derelict ghost town tucked away in the Colorado Rockies. They meet the town's only residents, the Maxilla family who want to buy on to a fight card. But the Maxilla family's true intentions for the Brawler's crew is soon revealed in teeth and claws. Some will be hunted,...