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The All Hallows’ Eve franchise, which introduced the world to the iconic slasher Art the Clown way back in 2013, is back with brand new installment All Hallows’ Eve: Trickster, now streaming on Screambox!

This latest entry into the anthology franchise, which prides itself on spotlighting the hard work of the indie horror community, shines the spotlight on a brand-new crop of filmmakers.

All Hallows’ Eve: Trickster features a collection of short films curated by one of the producers of the indie horror blockbuster, Terrifier 2, Steve Barton, alongside Horrible Imaginings Film Festival executive director Miguel Rodriguez.

In the new movie…

“When a lost traveler comes across an isolated rural gas station on Halloween night, she thinks she’s found her way home. Unbeknownst to her, the eerie gas station is the residence of a family of degenerate, devilish creatures. As the night descends into a hellish nightmare, the young woman becomes...

This Halloween, Ruthless Studios will unleash the third entry of the All Hallows’ Eve series, which introduced the world to the iconic slasher Art the Clown way back in 2013.

Titled All Hallows’ Eve: Trickster, this latest entry into the anthology film franchise, which prides itself on spotlighting the hard work of the indie horror community, is ready to shine the spotlight on a brand-new crop of filmmakers.

Releasing October 2023, All Hallows’ Eve: Trickster will feature a collection of short films curated by one of the producers of the indie horror blockbuster, Terrifier 2, Steve Barton, alongside Horrible Imaginings Film Festival executive director Miguel Rodriguez.

In the new movie…

“When a lost traveler comes across an isolated rural gas station on Halloween night, she thinks she’s found her way home. Unbeknownst to her, the eerie gas station is the residence of a family of degenerate, devilish creatures. As the night descends into a hellish nightmare,...

“I’m just not used to be chased around a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots.”

Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival Brings Frightfully Fun Feature And Short Films To You On Filmocracy.Com October 15-17, 2021. Visit www.SleepyHollowFilmFest.com For Programming & Tickets. Tickets On-sale .

“Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in continual reverie.” —Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

After its thrilling inaugural year in 2019, the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (Shiff) returns this October 15-17, 2021, in the comfort of your very own hollow, virtually bringing you a provocative and exhilaratingly eclectic selection of noteworthy feature films and short films via Filmocracy.com !

In the creative spirit of Washington Irving’s classic tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the actual town that inspired it,...

Imax has landed in Wall Street’s dog house as investors try to figure out whether its weaker than expected attendance numbers are due to short term problems with Hollywood — or a potentially long term business challenge. The share price is down nearly 28% since April 1. Today the stock touched its lowest level since early 2013 after Benchmark Co’s Mike Hickey downgraded his recommendation to “hold” from “buy” noting that the current quarter could be the fifth in a row in…...

Entertainment Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: C Director: Rick Alverson Written by: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker Cast: Gregg Turkington, Annabella Lwin, Michael Certa, Tye Sheridan, John C. Reilly, Mike Hickey Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 11/2/15 Opens: November 13, 2015 “Entertainment” the movie with the year’s most ironic title so far, could have been named “A Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.” The movie could serve as an allegory for Everyman, at least for every man and women who have reached their forties and now realize that they will never accomplish the greatness in their fields that they [ Read More ]

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The comedy featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco generated $15 million online and $2.8 million at 331 box offices — and analysts say that’s not enough to inspire studios to challenge theaters’ role as the exclusive first forum for major new releases. Theaters “would likely continue to boycott those films” that simultaneously debuted online “and it would be difficult for studios to recoup their costs on a digital-only model,” B. Riley’s Eric Wold says. He calls The Interview “a one-off” with an online-and-theater release model that wouldn’t work for “anything larger than a small-budget, independent film.”

Sony Pictures might have been able to generate as much as four times the revenues it saw from digital — where it cost $5.99 to rent the film, and $14.99 to buy — when you consider “the likelihood that more than one person was watching the digital version at the same time,” he says.

Investors seemed to agree that business models remain intact.

Talk about a smack down: WWE shares tumbled about 44% this morning after the company disclosed disappointing terms for its new TV agreement — and laid out the potential risk of continuing losses as its new $9.99-a-month WWE Network online video service cannibalizes its pay-per-view business. The entertainment company says the value of its U.S., UK and Thailand TV agreements now comes to about $200M a year. That suggests a 50% increase in the licensing deal with NBCU unveiled yesterday to renew Monday Night Raw on USA Network and Friday Night SmackDown on Syfy says Benchmark Co analyst Mike Hickey — which is “meaningfully below the guided multiple of 2X to 3X.” Related: NBCU & WWE Re-Up Multi-Year Partnership Meanwhile, WWE didn’t update subscription numbers for the online service as it discussed its potential financial performance. That follows last month’s report showing lower-than-expected 667,287 subs — not including “potential failures to comply with subscription terms.

The stock price is down more than 20% in early trading after the company said that its new online video channel has 667,287 subs — not including “potential failures to comply with subscription terms.” Still, WWE Network is “well on its way to reaching its goal” of 1M subs by year end, the company says. Many investors expected better news after yesterday’s WrestleMania 30, which was offered both on cable and satellite pay-per-view and to subscribers who pay $9.99 a month for the streaming service. Benchmark Co analyst Mike Hickey warned on Friday that the subscription number might come in today between 500,000 and 800,000 — down from his original expectation for as much as 1M after the WrestleMania event. WWE’s stock price is still up about 40% since the beginning of 2014, but began to slip in late March, he noted, because “street expectations [for WWE Network subs] had exaggerated.” Although the network should reach the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,...

The company’s been talking for years about creating a network, but failed to excite cable and satellite distributors. So it now says it will make its WWE Network happen online as a subscription service that will cost $9.99 a month with a six-month commitment. Powered by Mlb Advanced Media, the WWE programming will be available on conventional computers, and apps for Apple and Android devices, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and 4, and Roku — with Xbox One and some Smart TVs following this summer. Customers will be able to watch 12 monthly pay-per-view specials, 1,500 hours of shows from WWE’s library, and several new programs. The network “allows us to transform and reimagine how we deliver our premium live content and 24/7 programming directly to our fans around the world,” CEO Vince McMahon says. “WWE Network will provide transformative growth for our company and unprecedented value for our fans.” The company anticipates...

It’s been years since we’ve seen new models of the major gaming consoles battle head-to-head in the marketplace. And Sony‘s PlayStation 4, in its first weekend, has set a high bar in initial sales for Microsoft to try to beat later this week when it releases the Xbox One. Sony’s stock is +1.5% thus far today — when most stocks are down — following the company’s announcement yesterday that it sold 1M PS4s in the first 24 hours after Friday when it was released in the U.S. and Canada. ”Sales remain very strong in North America, and we expect continued enthusiasm as we launch the PlayStation 4 in Europe and Latin America on November 29,” Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House added. Even so, Benchmark Co analyst Mike Hickey notes that the roll out was “marred” by reports of a problem: “A pulsing blue light in the centre of the console,...

Grand Theft Auto V could be released next summer, according to analysts. The game's recent announcement will ensure a long enough time for marketing into next year, according to Industry Gamers. "We believe Rockstar Games is modelling a four-to-six-month marketing window for their upcoming GTA V release, suggesting a summer '12 launch period," said National Alliance Capital Markets analyst Mike Hickey. Wedbush Securities' Michael Pachter agreed, saying that Rockstar Games would want to "steal everyone's attention" with a June release before next year's E3 expo.

Eedar's Jesse Divnich added that the trailer and (more)...

Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey has claimed that another Grand Theft Auto title will not be released until 2012. According GameSpot, the industry expert predicted that GTA V will launch during Take-Two Interactive's 2012 fiscal year, which runs between April 2012 and March 2013. Hickey went on to say that the crime sim will sell 16 million units and generate $$750m (£480m) in revenue, while (more)...

Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey has predicted the closure of Infinity Ward. According to the industry expert, the mass exodus of staff from the Modern Warfare developer will prove too much for it to recover from. "Continued defections from their Infinity Ward studio have created meaningful uncertainty around the future of their Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise," he said. "We expect Infinity Ward studio will be essentially (more)...

The drama at Infinity Ward may soon come to an end, though not in the way many had hoped. Mike Hickey, analyst for Janco Partners, suggests that Activision may well close Infinity Ward upon the completion of a second map pack for Modern Warfare 2. Says Hickey:

“Continued defections from their Infinity Ward studio have created meaningful uncertainty around the future of their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise. We expect Infinity Ward studio will be essentially closed after their next map pack release, with development work on Modern Warfare 3 spread between two studios not historically tied to the franchise.”

The two studios referenced in Hickey’s remark are likely Sledgehammer Games and Treyarch. Sledgehammer is, indeed, completely new to the franchise, while Treyarch has so far developed only the World War 2 based Call of Duty games. Modern Warfare, of course, had been exclusively developed by Infinity Ward.

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Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey has predicted that Rockstar Games will announce another Grand Theft Auto before this summer's E3. The industry expert claimed that the studio is "building suspension" before unveiling a fifth instalment of the popular crime sim. "Assuming GTA V is in their fiscal '11 period as we have currently modelled, [Take-Two Interactive] should be highly profitable, and likely in excess of current street consensus," he said. "With the Rage engine built, the next (more)...

A leading industry expert has called on Nintendo to slash the price of the Wii in order to compete with Sony and Microsoft. Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey revealed in his latest equity research newsletter that the company needs to reduce the console's retail cost in response to the launch of both Microsoft and Sony's new motion controllers later this year. "We believe Nintendo needs to cut the price of their console from $$200 (£127) to $$150 (£95) immediately, as they should establish as meaningful of an installed base as possible before the Natal and Arc are introduced," Hickey wrote. "We believe they also need to generate strong hardware sales momentum into their competitors release or (more)...

Update: Microsoft has stepped up to clear the air on this rumor. Joystiq reports that the company issued a simple, matter-of-fact statement on the matter: "Microsoft has no plans to purchase Electronic Arts." Move along... nothing to see here.

Electronic Arts saw a huge jump on Wall Street today, going up 8.9% to 20.17 a share. The boost comes from rumors that Microsoft is interested in purchasing the game publishing juggernaut. It seems, though, that the rumors are just that, with industry analysts coming out of the woodwork to deny the possibility of the deal.

Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey said the following: "Speculation Microsoft would acquire Electronic Arts is ridiculous, just ridiculous."

If the deal somehow does manage to occur, it would mirror the recent acquisition of Marvel by Disney, with a leading player in a given field seeking the financial security of a mega corporation.

Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey has claimed that a PlayStation 3 price cut is just days away. Speaking to Edge, the industry expert asserted that Sony must lower the price of the system by $$100 (£70) in order to kick-start sales. "Recent channel checks indicate increased speculation for a PS3 price cut announcement from Sony in the next couple of days," he said. "If Sony does not cut the price of their console, we expect (more)...