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Exclusive: Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) and Thomas Lennon (Unfrosted) have joined Weekend at the End of the World, an indie horror comedy co-written and directed by Gille Klabin.

The pair stars alongside the previously announced Cameron Fife and Clay Elliott. Details as to their roles are under wraps.

Recently wrapping production in Los Angeles, Weekend follows best friends Karl (Elliott) and Miles (Fife), who find themselves in a secluded cabin in the woods with what they think is an opportunity to get rich, with the only thing standing in their way being the end of the world.

The project marks the second outing for Gille Kalbin as director following the release of sci-fi thriller The Wave, starring Justin Long. Klabin, Elliott, and Spencer McCurnin wrote the script, with Hero Moves and June Street Productions producing.

Best known for starring on teen drama Pretty Little Liars, Bellisario’s feature credits...

Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Today we have this year’s edition, as voted on by more than 375 film executives.

Topping the 2023 edition is Travis Braun’s Bad Boy, which follows a rescue dog who suspects his loving new owner is a serial killer. Other scripts include The Great Pretender, a drama which imagines the kidnapping of Tom Hanks; the Super Bowl-set sniper drama The Nest; the Area 51 thriller 10/24/02; a Hans Christian Andersen meets Charles Dickens fantasy; plus films about Patsy Cline, Didier Drogba, Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan, Ftx’s downfall, and more.

See the list below via Deadline (and Pdf here), ranked from top to bottom by number of votes.

The Black List has revealed its 2023 list of best unproduced screenplays, with scripts that include a biopic of country singer Patsy Cline, the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried crypto empire Ftx, and an action-comedy about Tom Hanks and his doppelganger.

Topping this year’s list is a feature script from Travis Braun titled Bad Boy, with a logline that reads: “A rescue dog suspects his loving new owner is a serial killer.”

Elsewhere on the list is a screenplay about the Broadway playwright behind notorious disaster Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark from writer Hunter Toro, and a script focused on soccer star Didier Drogba from Jackson Kellard.

“This year, the industry was defined by a debate about the value of writers within it, and I think it’s inevitable that this year’s Black List means more than it has in the past,” said Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard.

Something in the Dirt Trailer — Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead‘s Something in the Dirt (2022) movie trailer has been released by XYZ Films. The Something in the Dirt trailer stars Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Sarah Adina Smith, Wanjiru M. Njendu, Vinny Curran, and Gille Klabin. Crew Justin Benson wrote the screenplay for Something in [...]

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Last year, we heard that the filmmaking duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead were “returning to their DIY indie origins” with a new project called Something in the Dirt. Now a teaser trailer for Something in the Dirt has arrived online – and along with that comes the information that the movie is going to receive a theatrical release on November 4th!

Benson and Moorhead directed Something in the Dirt from a script written by Benson. The duo also produced the film and star in it… and the movie was actually filmed in their apartments during the pandemic shutdown. Here’s the story they’re telling with this one:

Two new neighbors witness what seems to be a supernatural event in one of their apartments. At first terrified, they realize that documenting this phenomenon could provide them the lives they’ve always dreamed of.

Benson and Moorhead are joined in...

Be aware there are spoilers for The Wave below. Justin Long takes a hallucinogenic trip down an existential rabbit hole in The Wave, the new psychedelic thriller from filmmaker Gille Klabin. Long stars as an insurance lawyer, Frank, who's a little too good at a very bad karma gig. Celebrating a new promotion, Frank heads out for a night on the town with his co-worker Jeff (Donald Faison) and winds up caught in a surprisingly wild and increasingly bizarre night when he meets a girl (Shiela Vand), does some drugs, and winds up skipping through time in a …...

A sort of “After Hours” update with a lot more drugs and time ellipses, “The Wave” throws Justin Long down a rabbit’s hole of sometimes hallucinatory, sometimes mortal peril when his button-down protagonist makes the mistake of celebrating a career breakthrough a little too adventurously. This surreal comedy from debuting feature director Gille Klabin and writer Carl W. Lucas offers a colorfully diverting ride that invokes the specter of everything from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” to “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

What it doesn’t quite have is the singularity of vision those and other movies had in putting their protagonists through some mind-expanding changes, whether induced psychedelically or supernaturally. This fever dream feels more derivative than distinctive, entertaining and eventful as it is. Still, it’s a well-cast, well-crafted stab at something offbeat that should find a modest but appreciative viewership in limited theatrical release (simultaneous with VOD launch) on Jan.

Let’s give Justin Long some overdue credit: few everyman actors actively choose to push the edges of their beta-dude personas. There’s always a need for ordinary guys in rom-coms and sitcoms, and Long could easily coast through them.

As often as not, though, he embraces eccentric efforts that remain under the radar, and surely don’t include a mainstream paycheck. Sometimes these risks are so bananas they become unforgettable, like 2014’s “Tusk,” in which Kevin Smith turned Long into a walrus. And sometimes, inevitably, they’re “The Wave.”

Even here, generous viewers might appreciate Long’s commitment to the unusual and unexpected. Through no fault of his, however, they will find both their loyalty and their patience considerably tested.

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Long plays Frank, a milquetoast lawyer at...

Written by Carl W. Lucas, The Wave is a psychedelic science fiction comedy and the feature directorial debut from Gille Klabin. The extraordinary modern-day parable tells the story of a self-centered insurance lawyer Frank, played by Justin Long (Die Hard […]

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The first thing you need to know when entering director Gille Klabin and writer Carl W. Lucas’ The Wave is that it takes a lot of liberties. The second thing is that doing so doesn’t have to be a problem. So much of what happens on-screen is born from convenience and ultimately has no explanation (if it even needs one) before playing its long-term role within Frank’s (Justin Long) hallucinogenic nightmare of an adventure. Just because he might get a handle on what’s happening to manipulate the experience to his benefit (or at least his will) doesn’t mean he (or we) understand how beyond the notion that the implausible isn’t necessarily impossible when a creative strain of karmic retribution proves to be the goal. The sky’s the limit.

You wouldn’t think as much from the start considering Frank is nothing if not a...

Take The Trip Of A Lifetime With The New Trailer For The Wave In Theaters And On VOD January 17th Indie Sci-Fi Comedy Starring Justin Long and Donald Faison, directed by Gille Klabin Gille Klabin’s psychedelic sci-fi adventure-comedy The Wave opens nationwide in theaters and on VOD January 17th, 2020 from Epic Pictures Justin Long …

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Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell) and Donald Faison (Scrubs) star in The Wave, which is set to hit theaters and VOD on January 17th, 2020. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a trailer for I See You and release details for Clown Fear on DVD, Digital, and VOD.

The Wave Trailer and Theatrical Dates Released: "Justin Long and Donald Faison lead the unique modern-day parable that follows Frank (Long), an opportunistic insurance lawyer, who thinks he’s in for the time of his life when he goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion with his co-worker, Jeff (Faison). But their night takes a turn for the bizarre when Frank is dosed with a hallucinogen that completely alters his perception of the world, taking him on a psychedelic quest through board meetings, nightclubs, shootouts, and alternate dimensions. As Frank ping-pongs between reality and fantasy, he finds himself on a...

Between the outlandish daydream sequences in “Scrubs” and…well, pretty much everything about “Tusk,” Donald Faison and Justin Long, respectively, have proven that they are not afraid to get a little weird and wacky with their creative choices. The duo has joined forces for their next weird project, Gille Klabin’s directorial debut, the trippy new film “The Wave.” The film was featured at Fantastic Fest, so you know it is bound to be the perfect kind of weird.

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Epic Pictures today has debuted a psychedelic and visually-splendiferous trailer for The Wave, an upcoming science-fiction feature that is currently giving me flashbacks to my early college days. Acting as Gille Klabin's feature directorial debut, The Wave is written and produced by Carl W. Lucas. As your attorney I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my briefcase.…...

"The universe is trying to tell you something - pay attention!" Oh yeah - take a big hit of this! Epic Pictures has debuted a full-length official trailer for a wacky, mesmerizing psychedelic thriller titled The Wave, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Gille Klabin. This already premiered at Fantastic Fest and Screamfest this year, and will be available on VOD in January. Justin Long plays a man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is. Seems to be a psychedelic parable about capitalism and the rat race we're all sucked into, a bit like Sorry to Bother You but way, way trippier. The full cast also includes Donald Faison, Tommy Flanagan, Sheila Vand, Katia Winter, Ronnie Gene Blevins, and Bill Sage. Uh yeah, so this looks damn good! Really want to see it,...

Sometimes you just need to shake up your reality to see the world a little more clearly. Today, we're happy to debut the first trailer for The Wave, Gille Klabin's new psychedelic thriller that stars Justin Long as an opportunistic insurance lawyer who gets a mind-bending, reality-altering glimpse at what really matters when he heads out for a night on the town and winds up on a life-or-death quest for answers when he gets dosed with a powerful hallucinogen. I caught The Wave at Fantastic Fest this year, where the film celebrated its world …...

“Have you ever woken up from a dream so real that for a moment you can’t remember where you are?” *Current Theatrical Listings Below* After a celebrated world premiere at Austin’s famous Fantastic Fest and a series of festival screenings, both international and nationwide, Gille Klabin’s psychedelic sci-fi adventure-comedy The Wave is heading to nationwide …

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After a celebrated world premiere at Austin’s famous Fantastic Fest and a series of festival screenings, both international and nationwide, Gille Klabin’s psychedelic sci-fi adventure-comedy The Wave is heading to nationwide theaters and VOD January 17th, 2020 from Epic Pictures […]

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The Wave trailer puts Justin Long in one very trippy dream sequence. The sci-fi thriller, which has also been billed as horror, premiered back in September at Fantastic Fest. "Have you ever woken up from a dream so real that for a moment you can't remember where you are?" Justin Long asks at the start of trailer. "This is a lot like that." And from there, we're off to some mind melting visuals paired with some thrills where Long's character can't seem to separate reality from a dream.

The Wave focuses on Frank (Justin Long), a bored corporate lawyer, who decides to shake it up with a wild night out. In the process, he takes a mysterious drug that launches him into a mind-bending time travel adventure. The movie has been compared to Looper, Groundhog's Day, and Dude, Where's My Car? Those are three pretty random movies, but the trailer...

When we look to the stars, and wonder about our purpose on Earth, we probably ask the same things: “Why are we here? What is it all about? Is there more to the day-in, day-out routine:? Well, I’m sorry to say that I can’t answer that for you. However, director Gille Klabin and writer/producer Carl Lucas try their best to provide answers to those nebulous questions.

But how can they do that which Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan couldn’t? Easy: they use time-travel and drugs. What a concept! In all seriousness, The Wave is a simple story about one man trying to find his place in the world and if you just pay attention to the signs, you’ll see that the universe does have a plan for you.

In the film, Frank (Justin Long), a bored corporate lawyer, decides to shake it up with a wild night out.

One of the more surprising films at Fantastic Fest that this writer encountered was Gille Klabin’s The Wave, which follows a corporate lawyer (played by Justin Long) who is tasked with finding loopholes in the insurance policies of the deceased, a soulless job that has left him feeling empty and looking for something more out of life. One night, he heads out for a night of partying with his pal (Donald Faison) and ends up ingesting a mysterious drug that transforms his life in unimaginable ways, setting him on a personal journey of discovery.

Director Klabin relies on his own unique and strong visual style as a means to make The Wave a standout effort all-around, which is why Daily Dead was excited to speak with the first-time feature filmmaker, with Long and The Wave’s writer Carl Lucas joining in on the conversation. The trio discussed the real-life inspirations behind the story,...

Gille Klabin‘s The Wave starts off seeming like the most annoying bro comedy in recent memory – but don’t be deterred. After that bumpy start, The Wave rolls into something far more engaging, even charming: a fairly clever, trippy saga with its heart in the right place. It’s ultimately a story about coming to terms with your […]

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"How long until this stuff is supposed to kick in?"

Justin Long stars in a new interesting looking psychedelic thriller called The Wave, and today there’s a trailer for you to watch that gives us a taste of the wild ride that this movie is going to take us on. The movie also features a fun cast that includes Donald Faison, Tommy Flanagan, Sheila Vand, Katia Winter, Ronnie Gene Blevins, and Bill Sage.

As for what the film is about, here’s a synopsis that was shared:

Frank (Justin Long), an opportunistic insurance lawyer, thinks he’s in for the time of his life when he goes out on the town to celebrate a soon-to-be promotion with his co-worker, Jeff (Donald Faison), but their night takes a turn for the worst when Frank is dosed with a hallucinogen that alters his perception and changes his life forever. He is...

Gille Klabin's feature directorial debut The Wave will have its World Premiere at Fantastic Fest on Saturday night. Justin Long and Sheila Vand star in the 'psychedelic parable' written and produced by Carl W. Lucas. The trailer dropped ealier this week. We think this is something everyone will enjoy. Have a look for yourself below. Frank (Justin Long), an opportunistic insurance lawyer, thinks he’s in for the time of his life when he goes out on the town to celebrate a soon-to-be promotion with his co-worker, Jeff (Donald Faison), but their night takes a turn for the worst when Frank is dosed with a hallucinogen that alters his perception and changes his life forever. He is thrown into a psychedelic quest through board...

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"How long until this stuff is supposed to kick in?" Epic Pictures has unveiled the first teaser trailer for an intriguing new psychedelic thriller titled The Wave, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Gille Klabin. This film is premiering at Fantastic Fest coming up, hence the new trailer just in time for its debut down in Austin, TX. Justin Long plays a man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is. Seems to be a psychedelic parable about capitalism and the rat race we're all sucked into, a bit like Sorry to Bother You but way, way trippier. The full cast includes Donald Faison, Tommy Flanagan, Sheila Vand, Katia Winter, Ronnie Gene Blevins, and Bill Sage. I am sucker for business world parables like this, and this one looks mad wild and seriously messed up.

Go ahead and snort a scoop of white powder from a stranger at a party. What could possibly go wrong? In the trailer for The Wave, embedded at the top of the article, Justin Long goes on a long, strange trip! Synopsis:The Wave is Gille Klabin’s feature directorial debut and stars Justin Long (Drag Me […]

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Exclusive: Epic Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to The Wave, a sci-fi film starring Justin Long and Donald Faison. Gille Klabin is making his feature directing debut on the pic, written by Carl W. Lucas. Epic will begin selling the film next week at the Cannes market.

Long plays Frank, who on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is. Tommy Flanagan, Bill Sage, Katia Winter, Sheila Vand and Ronnie Gene Blevins also star.

“This film was a tiny passion project Carl and I had dreamed of making over a series of weekends,” Klabin said. “It snowballed into a much bigger production than we ever dreamed possible but was always our little psychedelic baby. It is so overwhelmingly exciting that the film found its home with Epic Pictures, a company that champions...

Justin Long and Donald Faison will co-star in The Wave, an indie film written and produced by Carl W. Lucas and directed by Gille Klabin. The film is about a lawyer who changes his outlook on a high-stakes insurance case when a life-changing, drug-induced night on the town with co-workers actually ends up changing the way he lives life.

According to Deadline, Long will play Frank, an image-obsessed attorney who changes course on a controversial insurance case. Faison is Frank’s coworker Jeff who encourages Frank to live a little and join him for a night out on the town.

Faison is known for his role on Scrubs, and Long is know for his roles in Live Free or Die Hard and Drag Me To Hell. No word on when production will begin or when the film is expected to be released.

Sons Of Anarchy alum Tommy Flanagan and Bill Sage (Hap and Leonard) will join Justin Long and Donald Faison in the indie film, The Wave, which follows an image obsessed attorney (Long) who changes course on a high-stakes insurance case when a life-changing, drug-induced night on the town ends up changing his outlook on life. Gille Klabin is directing from a script by Carl W. Lucas, who also is producing the pic with Joshua Bunting through their EchoWolf Productions label…...

Justin Long and Donald Faison will star in the indie film, The Wave, written and produced by Carl W. Lucas with Gille Klabin directing. The pic is about an attorney who changes course on a high-stakes insurance case when a life-changing, drug-induced night on the town with co-workers actually ends up changing his outlook on life. Long will play Frank, an image obsessed attorney who changes course on a controversial insurance case. Faison is Frank's coworker Jeff who…...

Justin Long and Donald Faison are set for a ride on The Wave.

The indie feature follows an image-obsessed attorney (Long) that changes course on a high-stakes insurance case when a life-changing, drug-induced night on the town with co-workers, including Jeff (Faison), ends up changing his outlook on life.

Gille Klabin will direct from a screenplay by Carl Lucas. Lucas will also produce with Joshua Bunting via their EchoWolf Productions.

Long most recently starred opposite Cobie Smulders in Literally, Right Before Aaron and the coming-of-age indie And Then I Go. He is repped by UTA, 3 Arts and Felker Toczek.

Faison starred opposite Adam Scott in Netflix’s Little Evil and was in Lionsgate's Paula...