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“Phoenix Rise,” fresh off its world premiere at Cannes’ MipJunior, is a “show about second chances,” say creators Matt Evans and Perrie Balthazar.

Produced by Canada’s Sinking Ship Entertainment and BBC Kids & Family Productions, it sees six marginalized students forming a bond at their new school in the U.K.’s West Midlands. With 20 episodes clocking in at 30 minutes, it’s targeting an audience of 10 years and older.

Alex Draper, Luca Alves, Lauren Corah, Tara Webb, Krish Bassi, Imogen Baker and Orla McDonagh star.

“Kids lead frantic lives. We wanted to capture that energy while also giving emotional moments some room to breathe,” Evans and Balthazar tell Variety in a joint statement.

“It’s a fast-moving show which reflects the chaos and confusion of being a teenager. Something we all can remember!”

Previously, Evans has been a writer on “EastEnders” or “Riviera.” He will also work on the upcoming...

tNetflix released a trailer for Bear Grylls’ “You vs. Wild: Out Cold,” premiering on Sept. 14.

The interactive movie, set after a plane crash, recruits viewers to help Grylls find his friend and escape danger. As the survival expert navigates huge rock walls, freezing dark tunnels and creepy wildlife creatures, viewers at home help lead him to safety by making choices on their remote.

Grylls, Delbert Shoopman of The Natural Studios, Rob Buchta, Chris Grant, Drew Buckley, Liz Schulze, Ben Silverman and Howard Owens of Propagate Content serve as executive producers, while Ben Simms directs.

Watch the trailer below.

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Warner Bros. and Telepictures announced that Season 8 of talk show “The Real” will premiere on Sept. 20. Additionally, Tenia L. Watson has been elevated to executive producer and showrunner and David Goldman joins as co-executive producer. After Season 7 was shot remotely, hosts Garcelle Beauvais, Adrienne Houghton,...

The Witch in the Window is an elegantly-made and deeply moving family drama wrapped up in an occasionally terrifying haunted house tale. It’s the type of film which plays really well with a festival crowd, particularly a horror audience who usually expect some blood-spilling and things going bump in the night. But Witch has zero of the former and very little of the latter, yet it succeeds in still being a deeply unnerving experience, whilst also balancing an unexpectedly moving and authentic father/son relationship as its emotional beating heart.

Past collaborators and good buddies Andy Mitton and Alex Draper have created a really impressive and unique genre offering, and we managed to sit down with them over closing night drinks to briefly chat about how they achieved what they did on a minuscule budget and with a measly 12 shooting days.

HeyUGuys: Where did the idea for The Witch in the Window originate?...

I haven't yet seen director/writer/editor/composer Andy Mitton's previous two features, We Go On and Yellowbrickroad, but having watched his new film The Witch in the Window (formerly known as The Vermont House) at Fantasia 2018, I'm going to have to rectify that as soon as possible. The story follows New York City denizen and middle-aged dad Simon (Alex Draper) as he picks up his son Finn (Charlie Tacker) from his estranged wife Beverly (Arija Bareikis). The goal is to fix up a house in the middle of nowhere, Vermont, get Finn away from the Internet and city life, and to bond with some quality father-son time. Problem, is the fixer-upper in the countryside already has a resident of the permanent kind, Lydia. The issue with most haunted house...

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The more a father and son renovate their new house, the more powerful a sinister spirit grows within it in Andy Mitton's The Witch in the Window. Before it's released on Shudder in the Us, The Witch in the Window will be screened at the 2018 Fantasia film festival in Montreal, and we have a look at the official poster and new images from the film.

The Witch in the Window will make its world premiere on July 23rd at Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, with a cast and crew Q&A following the screening. Visit here for all of our Fantasia 2018 coverage, and check out the official poster, images, and trailer for The Witch in the Window:

"The Witch In The Window focuses on separated father Simon and his estranged twelve year-old son, Finn, who head to Vermont to repair an old farmhouse and encounter the malicious spirit of a previous owner,...

The more they renovate the house, the more powerful her spirit grows... A fixer-upper is home to more than peeling paint and leaky plumbing (although those issues can seem like they're straight out of hell if you've encounterd them on your home improvement adventures) in the teaser trailer for Andy Mitton's The Witch in the Window, coming soon to Shudder in the Us:

"The Witch In The Window focuses on separated father Simon and his estranged twelve year-old son, Finn, who head to Vermont to repair an old farmhouse and encounter the malicious spirit of a previous owner, an infamously cruel woman named Lydia. With every repair Simon makes, he’s also making her spirit stronger…until a terrifying encounter leaves him doubting whether he can protect his son from the evil that’s making its way into their heads, and hearts.

Starring Alex Draper as Simon and introducing Charlie Tacker as Finn,...

"Do you think there's something with the house?" An official trailer has debuted for the supernatural horror thriller The Witch in the Window, the solo feature debut of horror filmmaker Andy Mitton. The film will premiere at the Fantastia Film Festival in Montreal later this summer, and will likely play at other genre festivals this year before it gets a release. Here's the plot for The Witch in the Window: "When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger." This stars Alex Draper as Simon and introducing Charlie Tacker as Finn, with Greg Naughton, Arija Bareikis, and Carol Stanzione. This first teaser is quite good, might be worth a watch. Here's the first teaser trailer for Andy Mitton's The Witch in the Window,...

The company has picked up all rights for UK, Us, Canada, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

Shudder, the genre-focused SVoD service, has bought a significant list of territories on writer-director Andy Mitton’s ghost story The Witch In The Window.

The company has picked up all rights for UK, Us, Canada, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

UK sales outfit Film Seekers is handling the film in Cannes and has also struck deals with Network Releasing in the UK for physical rights and Falcon for Middle East.

The film stars Alex Draper (Yellowbrickroad), Arija Bareikis (The Purge) and introduces young Charlie Tacker.

It started the summer as part of the Bloody Disgusting AMC Horrorfest, and if you were lucky enough to catch YellowBrickRoad in that brief theatrical run, you had the privilege of enjoying a rather effective horror film. If not, it's recently come to DVD and now you can enjoy the madness, as it slowly seeps into the brains of a group of explorers intent on discovering the lost secret of a legendary town, from the comfort of your own home. Directed by Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland, YellowBrickRoad stars Michael Laurino, Anessa Ramsey, Alex Draper, Cassidy Freeman (Smallville), Clark Freeman, Tara Giordano, Sam Elmore, Lee Wilkof, and Laura Heisler in a refreshing installment in the genre featured at Slamdance 2010, the Atlanta Film Festival 2010, Screamfest 2010, and that won Best Feature at the NYC Horror Film Festival. To help you savor this aforementioned, award-winning madness, JustPressPlay is giving away one copy of YellowBrickRoad on DVD.

We have a contest, giveaway, sweepstakes for one copy of YellowBrickRoad (2010) on DVD for one (1) lucky winner. This YellowBrickRoad DVD contest, giveaway, sweepstakes illustrates YellowBrickRoad‘s release on DVD on August 2, 2011.

YellowBrickRoad was directed by Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton and stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, Alex Draper, Michael Laurino, Tara Giordano, and Sam Elmore.

YellowBrickRoad‘s plot synopsis: “One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire – 572 people – walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No One knows why. A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar’s evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for.

A new clip has arrived for psychological based horror 'YellowBrickRoad' from directing duo Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland. The folks over at Arrow in the Head got their hands on the new clip featuring two of its stars. This is certainly looking like one of the more unnerving features of late. 'YellowBrickRoad' stars Cassidy Freeman ('Smallville') alongside Anessa Ramsey, Clark Freeman, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, Alex Draper, Tara Giordano, Michael Laurino and Sam Elmore...

The Yellow Brick Road Trailer and Yellow Brick Road Poster have premiered. Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton‘s Yellow Brick Road (2010) stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, and Laura Heisler. Yellow Brick Road‘s plot synopsis: “One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire – 572 people – walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No One knows why. A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar’s evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for. Over the years, a quiet cover-up operation managed to weave the story of Friar into the stuff of legends and backwoods fairy tales.

It may look like two of today's news articles are 'The Wizard of Oz' related, however, this actually isnt'. Hello 'YellowBrickRoad', the upcoming Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton horror project. And today it has received a new, and awesome looking, Us one-sheet. AMC theaters will be releasing the movie to a limited number of screens from 1 June across the Us. Sexy 'Smallville' actress Cassidy Freeman stars along with Anessa Ramsey, Clark Freeman, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, Alex Draper, Tara Giordano, Michael Laurino and Sam Elmore. Check out the synopsis details and the good old school poster below....

The Bloody-Disgusting Selects flick Yellowbrickroad (yes, all one word) is a story about a group of researchers and filmmakers who go off into the middle of nowhere, Friar New Hampshire to be exact to try and solve a mystery of why the entire population of this town wondered off to this area back in 1940  only to never be heard from again, only about half were found, long dead. 

Our group takes to the woods and the deeper they get, the weirder this story gets. Music starts playing and we're in the middle of nowhere New Hampshire people! Our team hears this unsettling music that seems to be from the era our townspeople wondered off. Think old 1940's style of light ballads, maybe. Anyway, our researchers start babbling and talking nonsense as the music plays in the background, some just wonder off almost like they have been hypnotized.

Each time this...

Bloody-Disgusting Selects has released this new theatrical trailer for the indie horror film YellowBrickRoad, which I saw a couple years ago up at the Slamdance Film Festival. I really liked the movie, it had a great 1970’s horror film feel to it. There’s no big special effects or anything like that, this movie relies on messing with the audience's heads and making them think. The directors of the movie even said, the the great films of the 70’s were the inspiration for it. Movies like The Shining, Carrie, The Exorcist, and Deliverance. There was most definitely a great Stephen King style vibe to it that I really liked. You can read my review for it here for anyone interested in the film.

Here's the synopsis:

One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness.

Though we're still waiting for some distro news regarding Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton's new psycho-thriller YellowBrickRoad, we did get our claws into some brand new sales art! Dig it!

YellowBrickRoad stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, and Alex Draper.

Check out the one-sheet and trailer below.

Synopsis

One morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No one knows why.

A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar's evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for.

Over the years, a...

While at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival, this writer had the pleasure of meeting the cast and creative forces behind YellowBrickRoad, an indie genre film that ended up being one of the most buzzed about entries in what has turned into Park City’s true independent film festival.

What impressed me most about YellowBrickRoad’s directing duo of Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland was their passion for the film. Now with their Slamdance debut a few months behind them and their film about to play the also prestigious Atlanta Film Festival on April 19th and 20th, I thought the timing was perfect to talk to the pair about their film, their journey to get to this point, and what’s next for them.

Mitton and Holland met while attending school at Middlebury College in Vermont. Brought together through their mutual admiration for both horror films and theater, they found a kindred...

After a quiet but successful run at Slamdance, a new one-sheet has debuted for Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton's new psycho-thriller YellowBrickRoad, and as per usual we have a look at it for you!

YellowBrickRoad stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, and Alex Draper.

Check out the one-sheet, the new stills, and trailer below.

Synopsis

One morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No one knows why.

A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar's evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for.

I’ve been looking forward to Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton’s indie horror, YellowBrickRoad, which will make its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (January 21-28). Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler and Alex Draper star as the expedition group looking for answers to something horrible in the forest, but the forest finds something horrible in them. The synopsis: “One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire – 572 people – walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all [...]

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One upcoming feature we're curious to check out is YellowBrickRoad from writing/directing duo Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton. The indie pic delves into the mystery of a small New Hampshire community that, in the fall of 1940, walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness, never to be seen alive again. The only clue left behind was a single word etched into stone near the forest's edge: Yellowbrickroad. In 2009, the coordinates to the trail were declassified and a team of researchers sets out to find out the truth behind the town's disappearance. (See the trailer here !) The film stars Cassidy Freeman ( Smallville ), Anessa Ramsey ( The Signal ), Laura Heisler ( Numb3rs ), Michael Laurino ( Past Life ), Clark Freeman ( Simulacrum ), Alex Draper ( Joshua ), and...

As a means to gear up for its run at this year's Slamdance 2010, some new stills and even a one-sheet have debuted for the psycho thriller YellowBrickRoad. Which way will you follow?

Written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, YellowBrickRoad stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, and Alex Draper.

Check out the one-sheet, the new stills, and trailer below.

Synopsis

One morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No one knows why.

A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar's evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The...

When the announcement of the lineup for Slamdance 2010 made the rounds last night (see it here), one of the genre films that piqued a bit of interest was Yellowbrickroad, the horror/thriller from first-time filmmakers Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton. Today the filmmakers got in touch with Fango with a pair of stills and a look at the official trailer.

See the videos below, along with a synopsis.

Yellowbrickroad tells the story of an expedition that embarks on a mission to solve the mysterious disappearance of the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire, who, in the fall of 1940, walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness, never to be seen alive again. The only clue left behind was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: Yellowbrickroad. In 2009, the coordinates to the trail were declassified and a team of researchers sets out to find...

Everyone has that one road in their home towns or cities. You know the one you just don't go down and avoid at all costs? Three new stills have surfaced for YellowBrickRoad in anticipation of its debut at Slamdance '10, and we have them for you without the peril caused by all those nasty twists and turns!

Written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, YellowBrickRoad stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, and Alex Draper.

Check out the synopsis, the new stills, and trailer below.

Synopsis

One morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No one knows why.

A search party dispatched by the U.

The slate for the upcoming Slamdance 2010 competition, which now enters it's 16th year and runs from January 21-28 in Park City, Utah, has been announced via Variety . Of a record 5000 submissions, 18 titles were selected, 10 narrative and eight documentary feature films, 11 of them world premieres. ( Paranormal Activity got it's premiere at Slamdance back in 2008) Among the queue is writer/directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton's YellowBrickRoad , which stars stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey ( The Signal ), Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler and Alex Draper ( Joshua ). In the film, an expedition looks for answers to something horrible in the forest, but the forest finds something horrible in them. You can check out the trailer for it at our previous news post here ....

Shock Till You Drop friend Anessa Ramsey (The Signal) just pointed us over to the first trailer for her latest feature YellowBrickRoad . Written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, YellowBrickRoad stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler and Alex Draper (Joshua). The film is currently in post production, but you can hit up the official site right here and bookmark it for future reference. Check out the full synopsis below right after the trailer! Full synopsis: One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were...

Never mind monster movies. You know what scared me as a kid? The Wizard of Oz! All those weird flying monkeys and munchkins! I still wake up in cold sweats because of The Lollypop Guild! Sorry, I know the new thriller YellowBrickRoad has nothing to do with Oz. But damn it, I needed to vent!

Written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, YellowBrickRoad stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, and Alex Draper.

Check out the synopsis and trailer below.

Synopsis

One morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No one knows why.

A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually...

Actors on four continents and in 18 countries will join together to perform the work of British playwright Howard Barker in an event called "21 for 21," a celebration of the 21st birthday of Barker's theatre company, the Wrestling School, that will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Middlebury College affiliated Ptp/NYC, an off-Broadway theatre company, will participate with its own sold-out production of Barker's "Judith, a Parting from the Body" just a few days later on Oct. 26 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea. Ptp/NYC co-director Richard Romagnoli will direct Jan Maxwell, Alex Draper and Stephanie Janssen in the production.