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Two years ago American Burger's Bonita Drake and Johan Bromander pitched the idea of a Swedish Zom-Com at the Frontieres Coproduction Market. Armed with just an idea and a lot of nerves, they made their case to the audience of buyers, sellers and producers, calling their film Stockholm Zombies. Since then they have moved on with a much better title, the double entendre The Morning After.   Drake and Bromander are inching closer and closer to getting production started. They have turned once again to their American Burger and Day of the Dead producer David Ball for help. And help he has. Ball has just enlisted the experience and expertise of horror icon Tom Savini to join the production. Savini will come on board as...

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Two hot TV projects, an environmental zombie and an unhinged park ranger were among highlights at the eighth edition of the horror market.

Frontières International Co-Production Market continued to showcase its growth at Fantasia International Film Festival as it kicked off its eighth edition on Thursday [July 21].

Earlier this year, the genre market announced a new partnership with the Marché du Film at Cannes, and the popularity of its pitching session at Fantasia meant that it moved to the festival’s bigger venue to accommodate the growing industry interest.

This edition’s 20 projects also saw the market’s remit expand to include two television projects for the first time.

House Of Psychotic Women from Rook Films, behind the likes of Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers and Peter Strickland’s The Duke Of Burgundy, is based on horror critic Kier-La Janisse’s acclaimed memoir.

Centred on 15-year-old Carly as she navigates Winnipeg’s child welfare system, each episode...

We at ScreenAnarchy are all looking at our calendars and are counting down the days to the Fantasia International Film Festival this July. I am especially looking forward to the Frontières International Co-Production Market. The second wave of market titles was announced today. There is a great mix of seasoned veterans and young filmmakers looking to make their mark in fantastic film with feature film debuts. Filmmakers with feature length films already on their docket include My Bloody Valentine’s George Mihalka, Attack of the Lederhosenzombies’ Dominik Hartl, American Burger’s Bonita Drake & Johan Bromander and Southbound’s Roxanne Benjamin, which is an anthology, I know, but I am still counting it. The Demolisher’s Gabriel Carrer has a new script he would like to share...

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We at TwitchFilm are all looking at our calendars and are counting down the days to the Fantasia International Film Festival this July. I am especially looking forward to the Frontières International Co-Production Market. The second wave of market titles was announced today. There is a great mix of seasoned veterans and young filmmakers looking to make their mark in fantastic film with feature film debuts. Filmmakers with feature length films already on their docket include My Bloody Valentine’s George Mihalka, Attack of the Lederhosenzombies’ Dominik Hartl, American Burger’s Bonita Drake & Johan Bromander and Southbound’s Roxanne Benjamin, which is an anthology, I know, but I am still counting it. The Demolisher’s Gabriel Carrer has a new script he would like to share...

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We at TwitchFilm are all looking at our calendars and are counting down the days to the Fantasia International Film Festival this July. I am especially looking forward to the Frontières International Co-Production Market. The second wave of market titles was announced today. There is a great mix of seasoned veterans and young filmmakers looking to make their mark in fantastic film with feature film debuts. Filmmakers with feature length films already on their docket include My Bloody Valentine’s George Mihalka, Attack of the Lederhosenzombies’ Dominik Hartl, American Burger’s Bonita Drake & Johan Bromander and Southbound’s Roxanne Benjamin, which is an anthology, I know, but I am still counting it. The Demolisher’s Gabriel Carrer has a new script he would like to share...

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Asia’s largest genre film fest, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) in South Korea has announced this year’s It Project Spotlight on China and is tentatively launching a new programme titled Nordic Genre Invasion.

The project market, part of BiFan’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff), is set to run July 19-22.

Annually, Naff chooses an Asian country from which to spotlight a few genre film projects.

This year’s China focus will feature five projects including Timing director Chan Nga Lei’s supernatural drama The Double Life Of Myself and sci-fi comedy Let’s Shake It, Et!.

The latter is to be directed by Zhao Xiaoxi and produced by Margaret Pu, former Shanghai film fest programmer and assistant business director.

Naff managing director Jongsuk Thomas Nam told ScreenDaily: “We decided to focus on China because in recent times there have been record numbers of genre films coming out at the Chinese box office...

Artery-clogging calories and pink slime aren't the only things on the menu in the upcoming horror comedy American Burger, which now has a premiere date and even a sequel. Read on!

As per Screen Daily, Berlin-based sales and production company Picture Tree International will show a work-in-progress cut of the film at the European Film Market, taking place February 6th-14th. In addition, Swedish production company LittleBig Productions is preparing an online release of American Burger, set to hit the net in May.

As for the sequel, which is already in the works, you can check out the plot rundown below, along with the trailer for its predecessor!

The flick, directed by Bonita Drake and Johan Bromander, stars Liam Macdonald, Benjamin Brook, Aggy Kuk, Gabriel Freilich, Ben Thornton, Fredrik Hiller, Madeleine Borg, Lena Bengtson, Hanna Nygren, Charlie Petersson, and Hjalmar Strid.

American Burger Synopsis

A busload of American students on...

Berlin-based sales and production company Picture Tree International (Pti) has secured distribution rights to four new titles ahead of this year’s European Film Market (Efm).

The fledgling outfit, which will be represented at the Efm with a stand for the first time, has world sales rights for German blockbuster Suck Me Shakespeer (Fack Ju Göthe) which has sold more than six million tickets and made in excess of $60m to become Germany’s most successful box office release of 2013.

The Constantin Film release will receive the Audience Award at the Bavarian Film Awards in Munich tonight (Friday). Pti will market the film’s TV rights in cooperation with Red Arrow, the international sales arm of ProSiebenSat.1.

Pti will also bring Damian John Harper’s feature debut Los Ángeles, which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Forum. Inspired by the Us-born director’s experiences spent during a year in a small Southern Mexican village...

Tagline: "Only the finest ingredients - 100% Dead Meat!" American Burger is a horror film from Sweden. This title blends comedy with thrills as a group of tourists find themselves part of a strange menu. American Burger will release late in 2013. The film's story is fleshed out more in the film's trailer. In the clip, several students take a bus ride out to a remote farm. At the farm, the students find out that they are part of the menu. Some try to escape, while other are simply shuttled down the assembly line. Film fans can watch the madness unfold below, with more specific release details on American Burger soon to come. Release Date: Q4 2013. Director/writer: Bonita Drake and Johan Bromander. Cast: Liam Macdonald, Benjamin Brook, Aggy Kuk, Gabriel Freilich, Ben Thornton, Fredrik Hiller, Madeleine Borg, Lena Bengtson, Hanna Nygren, Charlie Petersson, and Hjalmar Strid. The first official trailer for...

America is the only country in the world whose favorite topping on a hamburger is another hamburger. Still, they are damned tasty! In the new horror comedy American Burger, ground beef mixed with pink slime will be the least of your worries!

The flick, directed by Bonita Drake and Johan Bromander, stars Liam Macdonald, Benjamin Brook, Aggy Kuk, Gabriel Freilich, Ben Thornton, Fredrik Hiller, Madeleine Borg, Lena Bengtson, Hanna Nygren, Charlie Petersson, and Hjalmar Strid. Check out the trailer and more below!

Synopsis

A busload of American students on a culture trip in Europe stumble upon a mysterious hamburger stand in the deep European woods. Trapped in this unknown territory, they are about to realize that the European notion of American hamburgers is terrifyingly different from what they’re used to...

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One hundred percent red meat? One hundred percent dead meat. That's the promise made by Bonita Drake and Johan Bromander's upcoming horror comedy American Burger. A busload of American students on a culture trip in Europe stumble upon a mysterious Hamburger stand in the deep European woods. Trapped in this unknown territory, they are about to realize that European notion of American Hamburgers is terrifyingly different from what they're used to...Drake and Bromander state that they hope to do for burgers what Jaws did for sharks and while there is no trailer available yet we do have the opportunity to meat the chef responsible for these grisly treats in the promo below....