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Killing Ariel directed by Fred Calvert & David J Negron Jr. and starring Michael Brainard, Axelle Grelet, Joseph Gatt, LIndsley Allen, Suzete Belouin, Shana Betz coming in 2024 from Bayview Entertainment. After a female demon attacks a contentedly married man, his life turns into a nightmare of madness, lust, adultery, and cold-blooded murder. Bayview Entertainment: …

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It's a high seas haunting in the new movie Haunting of the Mary Celeste, which will be available on digital services starting October 23rd, and we have an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers!

"Supernatural thriller film Haunting Of The Mary Celeste is slated for a release on demand and on digital, October 23 via Vertical Entertainment. Emily Swallow, Richard Roundtree (Shaft), Alice Hunter (“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”), Dominic Devore (“P-Valley”),Pierre Adeli and Ava Acres (Free Ride) star.

Swallow stars as Rachel, a concerned researcher whose team who has set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a “rift” between dimensions proves true as the boat breaks down and her crew begins to vanish one by one.

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Initial slate includes The Scrawl and The Mean Tide.

Film and television executives and producers Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson (pictured top) and Matthew Porter announced their full-service feature and television development and production company on Tuesday.

La-based Penchant Entertainment has a mandate to produce two to three features per year for multiple platforms and two to four scripted TV projects for network and non-traditional outlets.

Penchant’s first scripted project is The Scrawl, written by Oscar-nominated writer of The Arrival Eric Heisserer and WGA award-winner Zach Craley (Heroes Reborn).

The Scrawl is a one-hour drama that explores what happens when collective negativity gives birth to an actual monster. Penchant developed the supernatural thriller and serve as executive producers along with Cj Entertainment, whose South Korean film Killer Toon inspired the series.

The feature slate will kick off with The Mean Tide, a dramatic thriller written by Liska Ostojic and Justin Partridge from a screenplay by Mark DeGaetani...

Deadline is reporting that Zoe Kravitz, who was recently seen playing Toast the Knowing in Mad Max Fury Road will play the role of a gun-slinging hit woman in post Civil War America in Shana Betz's Western, Black Belle. From an original screenplay by Tasha Huo (Black Belle is about) a loner/bounty hunter who specializes in revenge killing when a client shows up with information about her mother's murderer. It takes a turn when she realizes just who the alleged killer really is.Tasha Huo was working at Universal when her writing sample The Darkness was chosen from The Black List by Warner Bros at the end of 2013. At the time WB was working with The Black List to reach out to under-served demographics in screenwriting. WB then...

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Jennifer Lawrence has used her Facebook account to post a new photo of herself as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2". Interestingly the pic also includes a June 9th date which could well be the premiere date for a new trailer for the film. [Source: Facebook]

Black Belle

Zoe Kravitz ("Divergent") has joined the cast of the post-Civil War gritty western "Black Belle" which begins shooting in September. Shana Betz helms from a script by Tasha Huo.

Kravitz will play a gunslinging loner/bounty hunter who specializes in revenge killing when a client shows up with information about her mother’s murderer. Things take a turn when she realizes just who the alleged killer really is. [Source: Deadline]

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Director Justin Kurzel and writer Michael Lesslie, whose pairing on the Shakespeare adaptation "Macbeth" was the toast of this year's Cannes Film Festival, are...

She was fantastic as Toast, one of the Five Wives in Mad Max: Fury Road, but now Zoë Kravitz is ready to take centre stage as a gun-slinging hero. She’s signed up for the lead in Western drama Black Belle. The film, which is set just after the Us Civil War, will find her as a lone bounty hunter who specialises in revenge killing, tracking down and shooting people she’s hired to find. But then a client brings her information about her mother’s murderer, and as she digs into the case, she realises, to her horror, that she knows exactly who is to blame. Free Ride director Shana Betz is on to call the shots, working from a script by Tasha Huo. The cameras should be cranking, and the bullets flying, this September. Kravitz, who also appears in the Divergent films, will next be seen in comedy drama Dope,...

A movie called Free Ride that invokes the old "gas, grass, or ass" mantra via voiceover narration pretty clearly wants viewers to consider the possibility that nothing comes easily, especially when said movie is about drug-running in late-'70s Florida.

But Shana Betz's autobiographical film, in which Anna Paquin stars as the writer-director's mother Christina, barely delves into the physical and emotional fallout of this heyday before walking it back with an epilogue that reveals (mild spoilers to follow) things didn't actually turn out so badly in the end.

Christina and her two daughters (one of whom would go on to make this movie) go from sleeping in their car to living in a house of their own mere weeks after the matriarch starts working for a powerful drug s...

It’s this coming Friday that we official begin to segue from final 2013 calender offerings (we’ve got several Best of Lists coming at you) and into the 2014 theatrical slate. Among the indie offerings being released this weekend, we have the true rags to riches to further complications drama that premiered at the Hamptons Int. Film Festival. Starring Anna Paquin, Drea de Matteo, Stephen Moyer and Cam Gigandet, Free Ride (which got picked up by Phase 4 Films in Cannes) will be released simultaneously on VOD with theatrical releases in NYC and Los Angeles. We’ve got your first look at the theatrical one-sheet featuring a fantasy mug shot of Paquin’s character.

Written and directed by Shana Betz, in search of a better life for her family and desperate to escape her tumultuous relationship, Christina (Anna Paquin) hastily moves to Florida and enters the dangerous world of the high-stakes underground drug scene.

It's a bit disorienting to see Anna Paquin walk into a bar and not be surrounded by vampires and a shape-shifting boss, but this is not True Blood, it's Free Ride, and she's not Sookie, she's Christina, an enterprising young woman who enters the underground drug scene in Florida. Once she gains entry to the criminal world, she discovers, according to the official synopsis, that "dealing drugs at the height of South Florida's smuggling heyday has its price. As law enforcement closes in on Christina and her drug operation, she must find a way to salvage the life she has desperately worked to repair before it all comes crashing down." Shana Betz wrote and directed the film, based on her own real-life experiences. Drea de...

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Back in September, ShockYa had the privilege of unveiling a brand new still from Shana Betz’s first feature and Cannes Film Festival official selection, “Free Ride,” and now we’re honored to give you the chance to delve even further into the Phase 4 Films release with an exclusive clip from the movie. Inspired by Betz’s own mother, “Free Ride” takes place in the 1970s and stars Anna Paquin as Christina, a mother of two who relocates her family from Ohio to Florida in search of a better life. She gets a job working as a maid in a wealthy neighborhood, but when Christina is offered the opportunity to come home [ Read More ]

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Back in May at the Cannes Film Festival, Phase 4 Films snatched up the Us and Canadian rights to writer-director Shana Betz’s first feature, “Free Ride,” and now ShockYa.com has the pleasure of unveiling a brand new still from the film. “Free Ride” is a true crime drama set in 1978. Anna Paquin leads as Christina Milland, a downtrodden mother of two who decides there’s nothing left for her family in blue-collar Ohio, so relocates to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The weather, lifestyle, and her new job cleaning houses in a wealthy neighborhood are invigorating, however, eventually, Christina comes to want more for her family and realizes that she can get [ Read More ]

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Here's today's latest casting news: Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) and Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga) will star in Anton Corbijn’s Life, as James Dean and Magnum photographer Dennis Stock, respectively. Drea de Matteo (Sons of Anarchy) will join writer-director Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Dark Places in a spot recently vacated by Christina Hendricks, who graduated to a lead role. Sophie Cookson has landed the female lead in Matthew Vaughn's The Secret Service opposite Colin Firth and Taron Egerton. Hit the jump for more on each casting story. First up from ScreenDaily comes the news of DeHaan and Pattinson in Life. The Luke Davies (Candy) script follows the friendship between Stock (Pattinson) and Dean (DeHaan) that started when the former was commissioned to photograph the budding young actor. An accomplished photographer himself, Corbijn will likely have some interesting takes on the material. His upcoming feature, A Most Wanted Man, is currently in post-production.

It.s strange how a television character can forever change someone.s concept of an actor. Despite being one of the only people on True Blood I had even heard of before the show began, Anna Paquin is the only person from that show whose on-screen character.s ridiculous accent can no longer be separated from her other cinematic performances. Even when I see her earlier, younger performances, I can't stop thinking about Sookie Stackhouse. It.s my cross to bear, and I.ll soon have another chance to finally get over it. Paquin.s next film is the true story crime drama Free Ride, the directorial and screenwriting debut for Shana Betz, whose own past was the inspiration for the film. Deadline reports Phase 4 Films has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights for Free Ride, which was produced by Casm, the company founded by Paquin and her...

Phase 4 has acquired North American rights to "Free Ride" starring Anna Paquin and directed by Shana Betz. It's the first film produced by Casm, Paquin's production company with Stephen Moyer. Written by Betz and based on her own life story, Paquin stars as a single mother who moves to Florida and gets pulled into the high-stakes drug trade.The drama also stars Cam Gigandet and Drea De Matteo. Producers are Susan Dynner, Cerise Hallam Larkin, Chris Swinney and Paquin; executive producers are Mark Larkin and Moyer.   The deal was negotiated by Phase 4's Larry Greenberg and Katharyn Howe with Paradigm's Nick LoPiccolo and attorney Ron Levin on behalf of the filmmakers. Featured Artists Agency's Brian Dreyfuss reps Betz and was heavily involved in packaging the movie. Cargo Entertainment is handling international sales.

Phase 4 Films has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to writer/director Shana Betz’s feature directorial debut Free Ride, starring Anna Paquin and Cam Giganet. In the crime thriller set in the 1970s and based on Betz’ own life story, Paquin plays a single mother who moves to Florida with her daughters in search of a better life only to get pulled into the high-stakes drug-trade business. Photos: Star-Studded Jury Lands in Cannes The cast also includes Drea De Matteo, Liana Liberato, Jeff Hephner, Brit Morgan and Ava Acres. The film was produced by Susan Dynner,

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Phase 4 Films acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to writer-director Shana Betz’s feature directorial debut Free Ride. The film stars Anna Paquin, Cam Gigandet, Drea De Matteo, Liana Liberato, Jeff Hephner, Brit Morgan and Ava Acres. Scripted by Betz, the film is produced by Susan Dynner, Cerise Hallam Larkin, Chris Swinney and Paquin, and executive produced by Mark Larkin and Stephen Moyer. This is the first film production from Paquin and Moyer’s new production company Casm. Phase 4 will release the film later this year in theaters and on demand. Paquin and Moyer star together in HBO’s True Blood. Set in the 1970s and based on her life story, Betz’s accomplished directorial debut is a provocative crime thriller: Paquin plays a single mother who moves to Florida with her daughters in search of a better life but gets pulled into the high-stakes drug-trade business. Related:...

Breaking: Cargo Entertainment has acquired international rights to Free Ride, a Shana Betz-directed crime drama that stars Anna Paquin and Twilight Saga‘s Cam Gigandet. True Blood star Paquin plays a single mom who moves to Florida with her daughters to try and make a better life but gets caught up in the drug-trade business in the late 1970s. Gigandet plays Paquin’s love interest. Betz, who’s making her directorial debut, wrote the script based on her own life story. The film also stars Liana Liberato, Ava Acres, Drea De Matteo, Jeff Hephner and Paquin’s True Blood cohort Brit Morgan. Cerise Hallam Larkin, Susan Dynner, and Paquin are producing and Mark Larkin and Stephen Moyer are exec producers. Lindsay called Betz’s story “riveting and awe-inspiring.” Paradigm’s Nick LoPiccolo brokered the deal with Ronald J. Levin and Cargo’s Mark Lindsay and Marina Grasic, and Featured Artists Agency...

Since his great turn back in The O.C. as Volchok in days gone by, Cam Gigandet has been getting some pretty great screen-time, even if some of his films haven’t found the recognition they deserve.

He was great in Never Back Down back in 2008, and had an entertaining part in last year’s Emma Stone-starrer Easy A (if you’re a John Hughes fan, I highly recommend this film), and starred alongside Paul Bettany in Priest this year, which I thought was much better than its box office takings reflect.

Variety are now reporting that Gigandet is set to join indie film, Free Ride, which is to be led by Anna Paquin, of True Blood/X-Men/The Piano fame – the last of which won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

“Based on a true story, “Free Ride” finds Paquin playing an abused single mother who moves to...

Variety is reporting more casting news for our first bad boy vampire, Cam Gigandet. Cam has just been cast in Free Ride, a film where he’ll star opposite of Anna Paquin (Sookie in True Blood). Read below for all the details:

“Twilight” thesp Cam Gigandet is set to join “True Blood” star Anna Paquin in Shana Sosin’s indie drama “Free Ride.”

Pic marks the first production for Paquin’s production company Scamp, whose other principals include Cerise Hallam Larkin, Mark Larkin and Paquin’s husband and “True Blood” co-star Stephen Moyer.

Based on a true story, “Free Ride” finds Paquin playing an abused single mother who moves to Florida with her daughters amid the colorful yet turbulent culture of the late 1970s.

Gigandet will play Paquin’s love interest. Pic co-stars Drea De Matteo (“The Sopranos”), Liana Liberato (“Trust”), Ava Acres (“Five”), Jeff Hephner (Starz’s “Boss”) and another “True Blood” thesp, Brit Morgan.

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Go Cam! He’s been quite the busy guy since his days in Twilight.

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Nobody is dead forever in James Cameron's sci-fi universe, so don't expect Sigourney Weaver to be sitting out of "Avatar 2."

"When you have a science-fiction series, a science-fiction franchise, you’re never dead, unless your DNA is expunged from the universe. And then there’s always time travel!" he explained in an interview with Vulture. "

But that's not his only explanation for how the late Doctor Grace Augustine might return to the "avatar" universe: "Have you ever heard of nonlinear storytelling? A lot happens on that planet before she shows up, and before Jake shows up to join her. She’s there for fifteen years ahead of time."

Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!

Javier Bardem Confirmed For "Bond 23"

It's not a huge surprise that Javier Bardem is finally, finally confirmed for "Bond 23," rumored to be called "Skyfall." In an interview with Nightline,...

Hunter Killer

Previously reported and now confirmed, Gerard Butler is in negotiations to play submarine Captain Joe Glass in Antoine Fuqua's "Hunter Killer" at Relativity Media.

An adaptation of Don Keith and George Wallace's novel "Firing Point", the story tells about a team of Navy Seals in a submarine sent on a mission to Russia to stop an admiral from starting war with America. [Source: Coming Soon]

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An offer is out to Jack Nicholson to star in the Brian Helgeland-directed Jackie Robinson biopic at Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures.

No word on what role Jack’s been offered but it's likely Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey. [Source: Vulture]

Arthur Newman, Golf Pro

Anne Heche has joined Dante Ariola's dark comedy "Arthur Newman, Golf Pro".

Colin Firth stars as Wallace Avery, a man who hates his job and is despised by his family. He decides to fake his own death and create a new identity,...

[1] Ben Stiller is set to star in the supernatural comedy RentaGhost, which Fox has recently acquired from Warner Bros. In its WB incarnation, Russell Brand was slated to play the lead. Written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Night at the Museum), RentaGhost revolves around a recently deceased man who decides to be more productive in his afterlife than he was during his regular life. He launches a service which allows living folk to rent ghosts and other paranormal beings. The story is based on a children's BBC series than ran from 1976 to 1984. Stiller's been keeping fairly busy as of late. His next onscreen appearance will be in next month's Tower Heist, directed by Brett Ratner. He is currently filming Neighborhood Watch with Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill, and is slated to reunite with his Greenberg director Noah Baumbach for While We're Young. [Variety [2]] After the jump, two vampire franchise stars find non-vampire love,...

Author Charlaine Harris, whose writings the HBO show "True Blood" is based around, has stated that main character/telepath/world-class hottie Sookie Stackhouse will never pull a Bella Swan and become a vampire herself despite being very much immersed in their neck-sucking shenanigans.

The show's star Anna Paquin, however, is planning to engage the enemy at close range when she co-stars with an ex-"Twilight" bloodsucker in an upcoming indie pic.

According to Variety, Cam Gigandet joins Paquin in the small-scale drama "Free Ride" where she will play "an abused single mother who moves to Florida with her daughters amid the colorful yet turbulent culture of the late 1970s."

Gigandet of course portrayed the vicious tracker vampire James in the original "Twilight" movie and the skilled actor/martial artist scored a "Best Fight" trophy at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards for his trouble. He's since been seen in the likes of "Burlesque,...

Based on the real-life story of writer/director Shana Sosin the indie film Free Ride takes place in late 1970s Florida. For her, it marks full-length movie debut featuring major stars such as Anna Paquin and Cam Gigandet along with Drea de Matteo and Liana Liberato. After fleeing an abusive relationship, Mom turns to the marijuana [...]

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When she's not busy snogging vampires and other associated supernatural types on True Blood, Anna Paquin is keeping her film career ticking over . and now she's moving into producing as well as starring with indie drama Free Ride. She's just scored a co-star for the film, in the shape of Cam Gigandet.

Free Ride, which is based on a true story, will see Paquin as an abused single mother in the 1970s fleeing to Florida with her two daughters in order to start a new life for herself. Gigandet will be playing her love interest as she explores the new possibilities open to her.

Shana Sosin has written the script and aims to kick off directing the film later this month in Florida.

Gigandet was most recently seen in the distinctly dodgy duo of The Roommate and Priest, and has Joel Schumacher's Trespass due for release over here on November 11. Paquin,...

Vampire worlds will collide in a movie that has nothing to do with vampires. Twilight.s Cam Gigandet is set to join the cast of indie drama Free Ride, which has True Blood star Anna Paquin in the lead role for the film. According to Variety, the actor joins Paquin in Free Ride, a drama set to be directed by Shana Sosin, which is based on a true story. Set in the late 70.s, Paquin.s character is a single mother who moves her kids to Florida .to make a life for herself amid the colorful yet turbulent culture of the late 1970.s.. Gigandet will play her love interest. Cam Gigandet has done a number of big screen projects since playing villainous vampire James in the original Twilight movie, including Easy A, Priest and Burlesque, however he seems to be hanging on to Twilight as his most known claim to...

Cam Gigandet is joining the cast of the indie drama Free Ride. Written and directed by Shana Sosin, the indie drama tells the true story of an abused single mother in the 1970s who moves her two daughters to Florida to make a new life for herself. Anna Paquin stars as the mother, and also has a hand behind the scenes as Free Ride marks the first production for her production company Scamp. Variety reports that Gigandet will play Paquin’s love interest. The film also stars Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos), Liana Liberato (Tresspass), Ava Acres (Five), Jeff Hephner (Hellcats) and Paquin’s fellow True Blood alum Brit Morgan. Paquin is producing alongside Cerise Hallam Larkin, Susan Dynner, and her husband/True Blood star Stephen Moyer. Production is set to begin later this month in Sarasota, Florida. Paquin will go straight into Free Ride after filming Straight A’s with Ryan Phillippe.

When she’s not busy snogging vampires and other associated supernatural types on True Blood, Anna Paquin is keeping her film career ticking over – and now she’s moving into producing as well as starring with indie drama Free Ride. She’s just scored a co-star for the film, in the shape of Cam Gigandet. Free Ride, which is based on a true story, will see Paquin as an abused single mother in the 1970s fleeing to Florida with her two daughters in order to start a new life for herself. Gigandet will be playing her love interest as she explores the new possibilities open to her.Shana Sosin has written the script and aims to kick off directing the film later this month in Florida.Gigandet was most recently seen in the distinctly dodgy duo of The Roommate and Priest, and has Joel Schumacher’s Trespass due for release over here on November 11. Paquin,...

Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles.

Mr. Hughes – Christopher Nolan is moving on from billionaire Batman Bruce Wayne to billionaire bat-crazy Howard Hughes with his next film - a pet project based on Michael Drosnin's biography "Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness," which recounts the wealthy aviator's extensive handwritten memoir.

The Look of Love – Diane Keaton and Ed Harris star in the romancer from Arie Posin about a widow who finds herself overcome with emotions when she meets a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

The Boom Boom Room – Christopher Walken, Shirely MacLaine, Adam Beach and Ashley Greene star in Aussie filmmaker Lian Lunson's fairy tale drama about a pair of desert-dwelling former Vaudeville stars whose lives become intertwined with a young, beautiful girl. Bono and director Wim Wenders serve as the film's executive producers.

Free Ride – Aberration Films' Susan Dynner (Punk's Not Dead) produces this indie project written and directed by Shana Sosin that was recently selected to participate in Film Independent's 10th annual Director's Lab. The film centers on a single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s as she struggles to make a better life for her two daughters.

The Bridge on the Drina – Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica's latest opus takes place in a Bosnian town and chronicles three centuries of the war-torn region's transformations. Kusturica will adapt the screenplay based on Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric's 1945 novel of the same name.

If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.

Film Independent named five projects to participate in its 10th annual Directors Lab taking place in Los Angeles through the end of March. The Lab is an intensive nine-week program designed to assist directors with "strong, original voices" develop new narrative feature films, improve their craft, and advance their filmmaking careers. This year’s Lab Mentors include Keith Gordon ("The Singing Detective," "Waking the Dead"), Karyn Kusama (“Jennifer’s Body,” “Girl Fight”), and Jeremy Podeswa (“The Pacific,” “Fugitive Pieces”).