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Deals announced in run-up to Cannes virtual market.

Raven Banner has swooped on Canadian distribution rights to horror Z, contagion thriller Sea Fever starring Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott, and supernatural thriller and Fantasia audience award winner Dead Dicks.

Z (pictured) explores what happens when a young mother begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend may be terrifyingly real.

Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool) star. Brandon Christensen directed Z, and wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder,...

Deals include UK and Ireland, Canada, Russia, and Benelux.

Genre specialist Devilworks has sealed multiple deals on Canadian title Dead Dicks, which won the audience award for best Canadian feature at last year’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal.

The film has sold to the UK and Ireland (101 Films); Benelux (TakeOne Films); Russia (Kinologistika); Korea (Doki Entertainment); and Taiwan (MovieCloud).

It is about a woman who discovers her brother’s body has been cloned by a supernatural entity growing in his bedroom. The cast is headed by Matt Keyes, Heston Horwin and Jillian Harris,

Dead Dicks was written,...

Lionsgate’s feel-good drama Military Wives is the latest feature to break the traditional theatrical window due to the ongoing closure of cinemas. The film will arrive on premium VOD in the UK on March 27. It was released theatrically on March 6, grossing close to $3M before cinemas were shuttered last week. Lionsgate CEO Zygi Kamasa said the decision was made to “continue to make Military Wives available to consumers”. Other releases to have broken the window in these extraordinary circumstances include Disney Pixar’s Onward.

London-based Noah Media Group has boarded sales rights to feature documentary The Australia Dream, about Australian Rules Football legend Adam Goodes. The company will handles rights through its sales and distribution arm Noah X, marking the first time it will handle a third-party product. Directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Daniel Gordon, written by Stan Grant, and produced by Oscar-winning John Battsek,...

The cloning thriller won the audience award at the genre fest.

Genre sales specialists Devilworks has taken world rights to sci-fi thriller Dead Dicks.

Starring Matt Keyes (Dark Phoenix), Heston Horwin (Rock Steady Row) and Jillian Harris, Dead Dicks is about a woman who discovers that her brother’s body has been cloned by a supernatural entity growing in his bedroom.

The Canadian production was written, produced and directed by Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer under production banner Postal Code Films. Other producers are Albert I Melamed and Matt Keyes; executive producer is Heston Horwin.

The film won the...

Stars: Heston Horwin, Jillian Harris, Matt Keyes, Kristina Sandev | Written and Directed by Chris Bavota, Lee Paula Springer

Genre cinema has often been used as an allegory for societal ills – Night of the Living Dead was an allegory for the inherent racism of the time; Deathdream was an allegory for the horrors of war and the effects of Ptsd (before Ptsd was ever a thing really); and Dead Dicks follows the same path – despite the silly title and the comedic aspects of the films, it is an actually an allegory for the effects of mental health.

A relatively small-scale film, Dead Dicks has some loftier ideas than its simple black horror comedy set-up would suggest. The film, on the surface, tells the story of Becca a would-be nurse, who receives a distressing call from her suicidal brother Richie. Having problems with Ritchie is nothing new, but the urgency of his...

Dead Dicks, an independent horror film starring Heston Horwin, Jillian Harris and Matt Keyes, will have its World Premiere on July 25th at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. Tickets are available here When a young nursing student named Becca receives a series of panicked messages from her older brother Richie, she rushes over …

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