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Ben Stiller and Sean Penn won’t be making movies in Russia any time soon.

On Monday, the country’s foreign ministry announced a list of 25 Americans — “high-ranking officials, representatives of the business and expert communities, as well as cultural figures” — who have been permanently barred from entering Russia. The list comes in response to the still-escalating international tensions brought on by Russia’s hostile invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

Stiller and Penn independently spoke out against Russian president Vladimir Putin in recent months. A representative of the Un Refugee Agency, Stiller spent World Refugee Day (June 20) with Ukrainian refugees currently living in Poland. The Emmy-winning writer-director-actor then met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, at one point telling the embattled leader, “You’re my hero.”

Penn began filming a documentary for Vice about the war in Ukraine in June, having visited the previous fall to prepare a production plan should the worst occur.

Famed actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn have been permanently banned from entering Russia, according to an announcement from the country’s foreign ministry Monday.

Stiller and Penn were named on a list of 25 “high-ranking officials, representatives of the business and expert communities, as well as cultural figures” that can no longer legally enter the country.

Both Stiller and Penn have been active in their support for Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of the Eastern European country. The actors have visited the country, met with leaders and been vocal in their support for Ukraine and opposition of Russia’s attacks.

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This year, Penn traveled to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky while filming a Vice documentary. At the time, he released a statement condemning President Vladimir Putin. “Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts broken,...

Sean Penn and Ben Stiller today were among 25 “high-ranking officials, representatives of the business and expert communities, as well as cultural figures” banned from Russia today by that country’s foreign ministry.

Also on the list are Senators Rick Scott, Mark Kelley, Pat Toomey, Kevin Kramer and Krysten Sinema as well as numerous U.S. trade officials, including U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the list is based on the “principle of reciprocity.”

More: “The hostile actions of the American authorities, which continue to follow a Russophobic course, destroying bilateral ties and escalating confrontation between Russia and the United States, will continue to be resolutely rebuffed.”

Of course it’s Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that has, more than anything else, destroyed bilateral ties and escalated confrontation between Russia and the United States.

Penn traveled to Ukraine earlier this year, meeting with Ukraine...

Indie horror film maven and star of our very own web series, Mkc: Monster Killers Club, Creep Creepersin has two new flicks haunting the halls at Afm, and we have a look at both right here!

From the Press Release

Creepersin Films has released two new trailers at this year's Afm in Santa Monica for its highly anticipated films Brothers Cannibal and Lake Death. Both films are written and directed by Creep Creepersin.

Brothers Cannibal is a very dark comedy about two brothers who get more than they bargained for when their meeting with a strange girl turns deadly. Starring Matt Turek, Buz Wallick, Elissa Dowling, Charlie Vaughn, Alexandra Ackerman, John Karyus and Joel Hebner.

Lake Death is a slasher film where 8 people reunite after 10 years at a high school reunion in the mountains. One of them has changed a little too much over the years. People disappear, and the...