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"No one is going to help you. You can only count on yourself." Saban Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie zombie horror thriller film titled Silent Zone, made in Hungary by a big group of Hungarian filmmakers. The film is still in English and will be released in March on VOD for anyone to watch. The only synopsis available vaguely explains: In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty. Not sure what else is going on in this, as that's the only real description available so far. Silent Zone stars Matt Devere, Luca Papp, Nikolett Barabas, Declan Hannigan, with Alexis Latham. The only zombie movie I'm excited about is 28 Years Later. Everything post-apocalyptic nowadays must be like "The Last of Us" with a grizzled guy and a young girl. And this...

2025 is shaping up to be a big year for zombie fans! Among other big releases, another exciting movie is on the way—’Silent Zone!’ This is the feature film debut of director Peter Deak, and it promises to bring intense action, survival, and emotional depth to the zombie genre.

The movie takes place in a world overrun by zombies. It follows a resourceful teenage girl and her protector as they fight to survive. Along the way, they face constant danger while also testing their limits of hope and loyalty. The story is expected to focus not just on action but also on the emotional struggles of surviving in such a terrifying world.

You can check out the movie’s first trailer below:

‘Silent Zone’ features a talented group of actors, including:

Matt Devere Luca Papp Nikolett Barabas Declan Hannigan Alexis Latham

Fans won’t have to wait too long to see Silent Zone!

As one of the last major Oscar contenders to release in 2024, finding out where to watch The Brutalist is a significant question for all awards season enthusiasts. Ever since Brady Corbet's movie debuted at the Venice International Film Festival, it has been seen as a contender for the 2025 Oscars season. Starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, and others, The Brutalist follows Brody's character, László Toth, as he journeys to America to start fresh and blazes a trail thanks to incredible architectural abilities. It put Adrien Brody firmly in the list of predicted 2025 Oscars Best Actor nominations.

Although buzz for The Brutalist's cast and crew began back at Venice following its September debut, the film was first seen without confirmed distribution plans. A24 acquired the rights to the film afterward, reportedly for around $10 million (per Variety), and elected to give the film a wide theatrical release - far...

A24 now confirms the U.S. release date for The Brutalist. Directed by Brady Corbet, the historical epic stars Adrien Brody as Hungarian-born Jewish architect, Lszl Tth, who flees post-war Europe with his wife to begin a new life in America, with a mysterious client then changing the course of their lives forever. The Brutalist reviews were glowing from critics following the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival, with A24 subsequently securing domestic distrubution rights.

Now, per Deadline, A24 has set The Brutalist's limited U.S. release date for December 20, 2024. An exact number of theaters the film will play in has not yet been released. The release date confirmation arrives as The Brutalist remains at an impressive 98% on Rotten Tomatoes following its 13-minute standing ovation at Venice, at which Corbet won the Golden Lion award for Best Director.

What The Brutalist's Domestic Release Means For The Film Corbet's...

I'm not someone who naturally gives preference to a film based on the size of its ambition. The filmmaking challenge of marshaling a massive production doesn't guarantee the final product will be any more impactful as a piece of art. But there's nothing quite like a big swing that connects, is there? The Brutalist is a colossal achievement, balancing intimacy and scale at every level of craft. At 3 hours, 35 minutes, it asks a lot from its viewers. Every second is well spent.

The Brutalist

Director Brady CorbetRelease Date October 12, 2024Writers Brady Corbet, Mona FastvoldCast Stephen Saracco, Laura Bta, Daniel Washington, Zephan Hanson Amissah, Robert Jackson, Peter Linka, Rudolf Molnr, Jaymes Butler, Michael Epp, Natalie Shinnick, Peter Polycarpou, Jeremy Wheeler, Matt Devere, Nick Wittman, Emma Laird, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Isaach De Bankole, Joe Alwyn, Stacy Martin, Alessandro Nivola, Raffey Cassidy, Jonathan Hyde, Adrien BrodyGenres Drama

The film follows Lszl Tth...

Action scenes in animated movies need to serve the story to create a lasting impact, even if they aren't hyperrealistic. The best animated action movies have a visual style which makes their action scenes pop. Japan leads the way with animated action movies, while Western animation is usually reserved for children's movies.

Action movies work by delivering a visceral impact, so it's difficult to marry this concept with the medium of animation. Over the years, filmmakers have adopted vastly different approaches to animated action. Some have tried to create hyperrealistic animations to dissolve the line between fiction and reality, while others have leaned even further into the stylistic beauty that animation offers.

Action doesn't always have to be realistic to create a lasting impact, even in live-action. The most important thing, in both animation and live-action, is for the action scenes to serve the story. If audiences are emotionally invested...

The 2023 film The River Wild and its 1994 predecessor are not based on true stories, so viewers can rest assured that real-life tragedy did not occur during a whitewater rafting trip in Idaho. The original River Wild movie from 1994 drew inspiration from a fly-fishing article, highlighting the intriguing connection between two seemingly unrelated activities. The remake of the 1994 film was motivated by the original thriller but features a different storyline focused on estranged siblings and their disturbed childhood friend.

The River Wild documents a terrifying whitewater rafting trip where members of the group start turning up dead, so, of course, one must wonder if the film is based on a true story (and if they should avoid off-the-grid whitewater rafting trips in the future). The 2023 thriller movie, starring Leighton Meester, Adam Brody, and Taran Killam, focuses on three characters — Joey, Trevor, and Gray — reuniting to embark on a treacherous journey through desolate woods in Idaho.

Where to Watch Powered by The River Wild remake was filmed in Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Slovakia, and Bosnia, to capture the spooky and treacherous aesthetic of the movie. The exact filming locations in these countries, including cities and landmarks, are mostly unknown, but it's possible that some scenes were shot near the Danube River. The cast, including Taran Killam, trained at an Olympic whitewater facility in Slovakia to prepare for the intense scenes in the movie.

The River Wild is a 2023 reimagining of the 1994 film starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, and it takes viewers on a dangerous ride as the characters embark on a whitewater rafting trip that turns deadly fast. The 2023 movie, available to stream on Netflix, stars Leighton Meester as Joey, Taran Killam as Gray, and Adam Brody as Trevor, and the three of them have a past that comes into play as people...

Imagine a shrink being driven nuts by characters from 13 of the world’s most famous paintings, each of whom want to attack him. That’s the premise of this mesmerizing mindbender and the fiction feature debut of Slovenian-born artist Milorad Krstic, who’s starting his potently promising film career at the ripe young age of 66. Produced in Hungary, this English-language film thrusts us into the world of Ruben Brandt (voiced by Ivan Kamaras), a psychotherapist with nightmares he can’t explain or control. In the first dream scene, set on...

“Possess your problems to conquer them.” That’s the credo psychotherapist Ruben Brandt preaches to his criminally-inclined clients in this stylish, fast-paced, English-language animated thriller for adults. But when Brandt’s patients help him to apply his own advice, he becomes “Ruben Brandt, Collector,” ringleader of a gang responsible for the theft of 13 of the world’s most famous paintings. In this entertaining romp, his fiction feature debut, multi-hyphenate Milorad Krstić literally puts the ”art” in “arthouse,” using 2D and 3D animation techniques to depict the tropes of film noir and action-adventure, all the while paying clever homage to the worlds of film and fine art. Further festival play is a given, with niche distribution a solid bet for most territories.

Brandt (Iván Kamarás) is the offspring of an East German émigré whose knowledge of subliminal programming with 16mm film was exploited by the CIA — and used to experiment on his own son.

'The Martian' with Matt Damon: Box office record? 'The Martian' fights 'Gravity' for October box office record; actual winner, however, is an Earthbound comedy Released by 20th Century Fox, Ridley Scott's extremely well-received The Martian, starring Matt Damon in the title role as a U.S. astronaut fighting for his life after being left behind all alone on Mars, opened with an estimated $18 million on Friday, Sept. 30, '15, at 3,831 North American theaters, about two thirds of which in 3D. Bear in mind that the Friday estimate includes $2.5 million from Thursday evening and midnight screenings. Directed by eventual Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, Warner Bros.' Gravity, another extremely well-received space movie about a pioneering American fearlessly kicking death's ass while stranded in a – literally – alien realm, collected $17.48 million over the same weekend back in 2013. Sandra Bullock starred as the lost-in-space astronaut and middle-American Mom struggling to...

'The Martian' movie: Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars. 'The Martian' movie review: Ridley Scott still has 'greatness left in him' The Martian is the story of a man in trouble and in desperate need of saving. Brilliant and resourceful, he must marshal all of his creative powers to solve a series of difficult problems or all is lost. That man is Ridley Scott. The Oscar-nominated British director has been mired in a late-career slump after a run of middling films that only served to dent his legacy, namely The Counselor, Prometheus, and Exodus: Gods and Kings. Scott, at the Omg age of 77, can still put together a movie, but fans have been wondering if he had any greatness left in him. The Martian answers that question with a pleasantly enthusiastic yes. That enthusiasm comes tempered as we wonder if Scott would have approached The Martian in the...

Chicago – In our latest fantasy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Season of the Witch” with Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman!

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