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A new digital show focused on horror and genre cinema is set to debut at this year’s Marché du Film in Cannes. Titled “The Séance,” the series will be produced by Alex Noyer’s You Know Films in collaboration with the Fantastic Pavilion, Fangoria and Paramount Scares.

Hosted by filmmakers and horror personalities Blair Bathory and Gigi Saul Guerrero, “The Séance” aims to provide viewers with a daily recap of events, interviews, and behind-the-scenes moments from the Fantastic Pavilion, an industry space dedicated to genre cinema located in the Palais des Festivals. The show will also include long-form segments and live content, showcasing both the creative and chaotic energy of the festival from a horror-focused perspective. It will stream on social media platforms including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, with editorial partnerships from Fangoria and Paramount Scares.

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Raven Banner Entertainment has revealed the poster for Love Is the Monster designed by Creepy Duck Design, via Deadline.

Inspired by Finnish mythology, the folk horror film follows troubled couples to Finland for a transformative retreat, where they fall prey to a sinister cult seeking to resurrect an ancient goddess of love.

Madeline Zima (“Californication”), Leonardo Nam (“Westworld”), Kimberly-Sue Murray (“The Boys”), Moe Jeudy-Lamour (“Ted Lasso”), Kristina Tonteri-Young (“Warrior Nun”), Milla Puolakanaho, and Sheila McCarthy (“The Umbrella Academy”) star.

Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence) directs from a script he co-wrote with Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory.

Raven Banner will launch global sales at the Marché Du Film and its Fantastic Pavilion during Cannes.

“I have known the Raven Banner team for some time and their attachment to bold storytelling in horror is what makes this partnership so exciting,” said Noyer. “Love Is the Monster brings about a sort of modern...

Exclusive: Raven Banner Entertainment is kicking off global sales for Alex Noyer’s horror movie Love Is The Monster starring Madeline Zima (Californication) and Leonardo Nam (Westworld) at the Marché Du Film and its Fantastic Pavilion, during Cannes.

Inspired by Finnish mythology, troubled couples head to Finland for a transformative retreat, where they fall prey to a sinister cult seeking to resurrect an ancient goddess of love. Noyer, wrote and directed the feature. Co-scribes are Hannua Aukia & Blair Bathory.

In addition to Zima and Nam, additional cast members include Kimberly Sue-Murray (The Boys), Moe Jeudy-Lamour (Ted Lasso), Kristina Tonteri-Young (Warrior Nun), Milla Puolakanaho (Attack on Helsinki) and Sheila McCarthy (Women Talking).

Madeline Zima, Leonardo Nam

Noyer is a Finnish-French filmmaker with a background in advertising, documentaries, and genre films. After founding You Know Films, he transitioned from advertising to storytelling, producing art and music documentaries, including the acclaimed ‘808’, the first documentary released on Apple Music.

Our friend Alex Noyer, director of Sound of Violence and the upcoming Love is a Monster, has announced that he recently wrapped production on a new film, a drama called These Little Ones Perish. Noyer directed a screenplay written by Patrick Hamilton, adapted from their own stageplay by the same name. The gripping story begins after a young altar boy's tragic death by suicide in a local church. Father Frye (Colin Bates) discovers the body, only to face resistance from the church hierarchy, the local police and the surrounding community. His investigation is driven by the grief and distrust of the boy’s older sister, Siobhan (Ella Kennedy Davis), as well as the church’s apparent...

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Exclusive: Colin Bates (Queer) and Ella Kennedy Davis (Your Friends and Neighbors) will topline These Little Ones Perish, an indie drama from director Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence), which has wrapped production in New York.

For Noyer, the circumstances surrounding the shoot were extraordinary, as he went to set just one week after losing his home in the devastating Palisades fire that destroyed over 6,000 structures. Hailing from Genco Pictures and You Know Films, the project is an adaptation of the play by Patrick Hamilton, who penned the script.

The story begins after a young altar boy’s tragic death by suicide in a local church. Father Frye (Bates) discovers the body, only to face resistance from the church hierarchy, the local police and the surrounding community. His investigation is driven by the grief and distrust of the boy’s older sister, Siobhan (Davis), as well as the church’s apparent urgency to bury the truth.

There are few horror subgenres as shocking as body horror. In a medium filled with countless approaches to petrifying audiences, there aren't many films that are as immediately horrifying as those that use their runtime to showcase the many ways our physical bodies can be destroyed. There are many acclaimed films in this genre, from the Palme d'Or winner Titane to almost every movie from the Cronenberg dynasty. Hidden amongst these is a title that most certainly deserves more appreciation: Alex Noyer's 2021 film, Sound of Violence. Following an audio engineer with a perturbing case of synesthesia, the film pushes its concept further than any other body horror for the way it takes into account every facet of the viewing experience.

We feel silly for letting this one fall under our radar yesterday. Deadline announced that XYZ Films have come on board the thriller Love Is The Monster, which is the new film from Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence). XYZ Films will be handling North American sales at TIFF beginning next month. Written bv Noyer, Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory, Love Is the Monster centers on a couple, Ana and Justin who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the...

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The thriller Love Is the Monster has received a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement, so production is now underway in Canada with Madeline Zima of Californication and Twin Peaks: The Return and Leonardo Nam of Westworld and Werewolf by Night in the lead roles.

Directed by Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence), who also wrote the screenplay with Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory, Love Is the Monster follows a couple, Ana (Zima) and Justin (Nam) who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the idyllic setting soon takes a turn…

Deadline reports that Zima and Nam are joined in the cast by Moe Jeudy-Lamour (Ted Lasso...

Up next from Sound of Violence filmmaker Alex Noyer is Love is the Monster, a new thriller that draws on Finnish mythology Deadline reports today.

Madeline Zima and Leonardo Nam star, and production is currently underway through a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement.

Love Is the Monster centers on “a couple, Ana (Zima) and Justin (Nam) who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the idyllic setting soon takes a turn….”

Intriguingly, Wikipedia offers this description about the goddess Lempo: “After Christianity came to Finland, the reputation of Lempo worsened: it is portrayed in the folklore usually as an erratic spirit, as love can be capricious,...

Exclusive: Madeline Zima (Californication) and Leonardo Nam (Westworld) are currently in production in Canada on Love Is the Monster, a new thriller they’re leading for filmmaker Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence) that has landed a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement. Others set to star include Moe Jeudy-Lamour (Ted Lasso), Kimberly-Sue Murray (Trader), Kristina Tonteri-Young (Warrior Nun), Milla Puolakanaho (Omerta), Tatu Sinisalo (Sisu) and Sheila Mccarthy (Women Talking).

Written bv Noyer, Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory, Love Is the Monster centers on a couple, Ana (Zima) and Justin (Nam) who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the idyllic setting soon takes a turn….

Drawing on...

The Cannes Festival will have for the first time ever a Fantastic Pavilion, a significant booth and exhibition space located at the Cannes Marché du Film in the Palais des Festivals.

Conceived by Pablo Guisa, Grupo Mórbido CEO, Bernardo Bergeret, Ventana Sur co-director, and Daniel de la Vega, co-ordinator of Ventana Sur’s Maquinitas video game forum, the Fantastic Pavilion is hailed by Guisa as “the dawn of a new era for our industry.”

Looking set to both accelerate and symbolise the now significant role that genre plays in international market dynamics, the Fantastic Pavilion is being organised by members of the genre/fantastic film community spread across the world in partnership, crucially, with the Méliès International Festival Federation which groups most of the world’s key genre/fantastic events.

These includes 19 festivals represented in Europe and supporting members in Asia, North America, Latin America and the Middle East, taking in Europe’s Sitges,...

Jasmin Savoy Brown in Sound Of Violence

The story of a young musician with a history of hearing loss who is determined to finish her masterpiece before losing her hearing again, Alex Noyer’s The Sound Of Violence has been making a big splash in the horror film world. It’s currently available to watch on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital, and it recently screened at Frightfest. I met up with Alex just as he was preparing for the festival so we could discuss the story behind it.

“It's a complicated story because it traces all the way back to the last feature documentary I produced,” he says. “Because, you know, before being a director, I've been a producer for now 17 years, but that was mostly in documentaries. And, and I produced a documentary called 808, which was retracing the story of the legendary drum machine the Tr-808 from Roland. And we had great people involved – we.

Stars: Kamia Benge, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, Tessa Munro | Written and Directed by Alex Noyer

As a young child Alexis (Kamia Benge) lost her hearing in an accident. At age ten she regained it while bashing her murderous father’s head in with a meat tenderizer. Not only did her hearing come back, she now has a euphoric response to some sound. A sinister form of Synesthesia that is triggered by the sound of violence and pain.

Now grown up Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown; The Leftovers) teaches music to college students. She’s also a musician, converting sounds such as a session between a Dominatrix and her client into electronic music. Unfortunately not only are these sounds not triggering a reaction, she’s beginning to lose her hearing again. And it will take more death to bring it back again.

Sound of Violence starts out like a...

Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thursday August 26th – Monday 30th August 2021 for five days of the very best of global genre cinema.

The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions caused by the pandemic, this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be presented in the main screens are revealed. They include four world premieres and eight International / European premieres.

Global events over the past eighteen months have not only altered most people’s lives but have had a profoundly influential effect on a lot of genre filmmakers and both the opening and closing films this year reflect that.

From the press release:

The festival opens with the European premiere of Demonic, the latest, highly anticipated and petrifying new vision from artist Neill Blomkamp,...

Hear the Sound of Violence on VOD May 21st Scream (2022)’s Jasmin Savoy Brown Headlines as a Killer Making Music with Blood Available on Digital HD and Cable VOD from Gravitas Ventures Following a world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence heads to homes across North America. Starring Jasmin Savoy Brown (the …

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How fitting is it that Alex Noyer’s splatter-deafness movie, “Sound of Violence,” comes to us just a week after the release of “Spiral,” the latest chapter in the big bloody book of “Saw?” The two are kindred spirits, or more like first cousins, in improbable grisly violence, where the enterprising slasher ceremoniously slays their victims with immoderately complicated Rube Goldberg machines.

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Exacerbating humanity’s deepest physical and emotional pain in exchange for personal validation and pleasure has long been one of the most enticing driving forces in genre cinema. Actress Jasmin Savoy Brown’s focused and determined anti-hero of Alexis Reeves in the new horror film, ‘Sound of Violence,’ is a prime example of a strong-willed woman who […]

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Experimental musician, DJ and teacher’s assistant Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown) is working on a seriously killer track. But the high she is chasing, in writer-director Alex Noyer’s uneven but often inventively grisly feature debut, is not that of pop stardom or peer admiration. Instead Alexis, due a condition whereby she experiences the sounds of human pain as a glorious starburst of color and pleasure, is attempting to knit her disorder into a sonic artpiece, no matter the rising bodycount of her “instrumentation.”

With its themes of creative obsession and trauma recycled as psychopathy, not to mention Alexis’ synesthesia giving license for lurid, semi-abstract, technicolor visual sequences, “Sound of Violence” boasts perhaps the greatest giallo premise that Dario Argento never dreamed up. It’s just a shame that Noyer decides that it isn’t enough. The spectacularly gruesome and grotesquely elaborate murder scenes do ample justice to even the...

With the 2021 Oscars in the rearview, Variety looks ahead to what could be a very packed and condensed year with the Awards Circuit Draft for Oscars 2022.

A tradition for the past 16 years, I’ve always thrown shots in the dark in the week immediately following the Academy Awards. For the first time, my year-in-advance top pick, Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” won picture and director. Can lightning strike twice?

The last two years have included thoughts that 2019’s “Harriet” from Kasi Lemmons would have a big Academy debut, with top spots for eventual nominee Cynthia Erivo, but the love ending there. In 2018, I suspected “The Irishman” from Martin Scorsese would arrive in time, but alas, it was pushed to 2019.

Other past choices have included 2017’s “Phantom Thread” (then untitled), 2016’s “Silence” (although I did have “Moonlight” in the predicted 10), 2015’s “The Good Dinosaur”, 2014’s “Inherent Vice” (why not another try for Paul Thomas Anderson?...

Hear the Sound of Violence on VOD May 21st! Scream (2022)’s Jasmin Savoy Brown Headlines as a Killer Making Music with Blood. Available on Digital HD and Cable VOD from Gravitas Ventures.

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Following a world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence heads to homes across North America. Starring Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost) and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”), Sound of Violence will debut on cable and digital VOD May 21st from Gravitas Ventures.

Sound of Violence was written and directed by Alex Noyer.

Sound of Violence was produced by Hannu Aukia, Alex Noyer, and is Executive Produced by Mike Macari (Executive Producer of The Ring trilogy).

“I’ve been lucky to be surrounded by people who believed in...

Sound of Violence Review — Sound of Violence (2021) Video Movie Review, a Gravitas Ventures movie written and directed by Alex Noyer, and stars Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, Tessa Munro, Dana L. Wilson, Kamia Benge, Wes McGee, and Mataeo Mingo. In this video review, I talk about the new horror film [...]

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Last week, writer/director Alex Noyer celebrated the world premiere of his feature film debut at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Entitled Sound of Violence, the story follows a young woman named Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown), who had previously recovered her hearing after a brutal family murder, and every day since has been a gift for her as she made her way in the world, studying sound. But as she begins to suspect that her hearing is once again about to fade away, Alexis decides that the only way to stay connected to her sense of hearing is by utilizing various forms of music in extremely violent ways. Sound of Violence also stars Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro.

During the recent press day for Sound of Violence, Daily Dead caught up with both Noyer and Jagger to discuss their experiences collaborating together on the project, as well as what...

It’s hard to believe that it’s already time for the SXSW Film Festival once again, but here we are. For the 2021 iteration of the fest, SXSW is going virtual, which gives more people the opportunity to get to experience their brilliant lineup of films this year. As someone who is already well into my SXSW viewings for this year, I can confidently say that this might be SXSW’s best slate of Midnighters from top to bottom, and a few other genre and genre-adjacent films that are premiering in other sections are very much worth your time as well.

So, if you’re looking to check out some excellent horror and sci-fi cinema during this year’s SXSW from the comfort of your own home, here are 15 different projects you’ll definitely want to make time for. Oh, and because I included both How it Ends and Violation during my Sundance 2021 preview,...

Another year, another opportunity to drown in Cachaca and burst from too much Feijoada is lost to the fricking global health crisis. We knew from our series about film festivals in 2020 that our friends at Fantaspoa in Brazil were already planning another digital edition of their festival for 2021. Things have not been going swimmingly in the country during the health crisis. Good news is that it will be completely free of charge on the streaming service Darkflix.    You know what is also good news? The first half of their lineup! Shuffling ahead of their normal spot in May the festival will take place next month from April 9th through 18th. International titles in the first wave include Alex Noyer's SXSW Midnighter selection...

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Exclusive: The largest genre film festival in South America, Fantaspoa, has unveiled the first half of its program for its seventeenth edition, running April 9-18. Scroll down for the full list.

Like last year, the fest has been forced to run online due to the ongoing pandemic. It will be held completely free of charge with films available to stream in Brazil via a renewed partnership with Brazilian horror streaming service Darkflix. Last year’s event attracted more than 67,000 viewers. While the films are geo-locked, and limited to 3,000 viewers per screening, Q&As and workshops will be available to view anywhere in the world.

There are 25 feature films confirmed to date, including three world premieres, five international premieres, and 10 Latin American premieres. Titles arrive from previous fests including San Sebastian, Rotterdam and Toronto.

This year’s fest has been supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government, which is...

Noyer produced New York Influence City, 808,

Vmi Worldwide has licensed UK rights at EFM to the UK’s Dazzler Media for Alex Noyer’s horror film Sound Of Violence, set to receive its world premiere at the virtual SXSW later this month.

Jasmin Savoy Brown stars as Alexis, an experimental sound recorder who recovered her hearing after witnessing the murder of her parents when she was 10.

As she faces the prospect of losing her hearing once more, Alexis races to complete her sonic masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments.

The cast includes Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro (S.W.

"When I hear certain sounds, I don't just hear them... I see them." A festival promo trailer has debuted for a horror thriller titled Sound of Violence, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Alex Noyer. This is premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this month, playing in the Midnighters section. A girl recovers her hearing and gains abilities during the brutal murder of her family. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, as an adult, she pursues a career in music composing her masterpiece through gruesome murders. Her ultimate creative design comes to fruition with a young drummer and the perfect beat. The cast includes Jasmin Savoy Brown as Alexis, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro. This is a wickedly wild and crazy concept for a horror film, mixing social media craze, fame & fortune, and violence all in one. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Alex Noyer's Sound of Violence,...

Alex Noyer’s slasher pic Sound of Violence is set to make its World Premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in March and Bloody Disgusting has the first footage from the film that stars Jasmin Savoy Brown, who can be seen in next year’s Scream sequel! “The story follows Alexis, who has recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal […]...

Going to be getting a lot of reports like this in the weeks leading up to SXSW next month.    When the official lineup was announced this week we were pleased to see that the new slasher flick Sound of Violence from our friend, Alex Noyer, director of the drum machine doc 808 and the short film Conductor, the precursor to this new film, was in the Midnighters lineup.    A young girl recovers her hearing and gains synesthetic abilities after witnessing the brutal murder of her family. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, as an adult, she pursues a career in music composing her masterpiece through gruesome murders.    Kind of better news. Deadline reported yesterday that Gravitas Ventures has picked the...

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Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Alex Noyer’s slasher pic Sound of Violence, which is set to make its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in March. Gravitas will release the film in theaters and on demand on May 21.

Written and directed by Noyer, Sound of Violence stars Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger and Tessa Munro (S.W.A.T.).

The story follows Alexis, who has recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence.

She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported by her roommate Marie who is...

28th edition of Texas festival will run online-only from March 16-20.

SXSW Online 2021 has unveiled its full film line-up of 75 features as well as shorts, episodics and special events, and announced Charli Xcx documentary Alone Together from Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler as the closing film.

The Headliners selection about quarantined pop star Charli Xcx making an album that unifies a community appears in that section alongside Mary Wharton’s documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, and previously announced SXSW opener Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil.

The 28th edition of SXSW will run from March 16-20. Seven films...

Director Alex Noyer’s documentaries include 808, about Roland Tr-808 drum machine.

Vmi Worldwide has added Alex Noyer’s thriller Conductor starring Jasmin Savoy Brown (The Leftovers), Lili Simmons (Ray Donovan) and Mick Jagger’s son James Jagger and Noyer of You Know Films produced, and Mike Macari (Rings) is executive producer.

Vmi Worldwide’s roster of available sales titles encompasses Wander with Aaron Eckhart and Tommy Lee Jones, Arkansas starring Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth and John Malkovich, and Wake Up with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Francesca Eastwood.

TF1 Studio launches sales on ‘Erna At War’ starring Trine Dyrholm; teases first...

Actress and singer Keala Settle (The Greatest Showman) is set to join Jessica Rothe and Harry Shum Jr. in universal Pictures’ All My Life which is inspired by the real-life story of Jenn Carter and her husband Solomon Chau.

Directed by Marc Meyers (My Friend Dahmer), All My Life is based on Todd Rosenberg’s 2017 Black List script which details the true story of Chau and Carter, a young couple planning their wedding in the face of devastating news. Rothe is set to play a character inspired by Carter, while Shum will portray a character based on Chau. Details about Settle’s role are being kept under wraps.

The film also stars Michael Masini, Chrissie Fit and Greg Vrotsos. Todd Garner and Sean Robins will produce for their Broken Road Productions banner. Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Sara Scott and Director of Development Lexi Barta will oversee the...

Prolific producer Alex Noyer has announced his feature-length directorial debut, a thriller adaptation of his genre short Conductor, to be filmed in Los Angeles starring Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons and James Jagger. Dread central called the short “gruesome yet awesome”, so we’re definitely excited to see how the feature film […]

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Tom Hughes, best known for British TV dramas Victoria and The Game, will co-star in Infinite, Paramount’s sci-fi drama which is directed by Antoine Fuqua. Mark Wahlberg attached to star. Mark Wahlberg toplines the feature alongside

Dylan O’Brien, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Jason Mantzoukas. Based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz, the plot follows Evan Michaels (Whalberg), a man haunted by memories of two past lives. He stumbles upon a centuries-old secret society of similar individuals who make up the Cognomina, possessing total recall of their past lives and whose members have been agents of change throughout history. He seeks to join their ranks. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, John Zaozirny, Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, and Mark Huffam are producing with Fuqua and Raphael Crohn serving as executive producers. Infinite hits theaters August 7. Hughes is repped by UTA and Gordon and French.

Jasmin Savoy Brown is set to star in Conductor, the feature-length iteration to director Alex Noyer’s short film of the same title. The film will mark Noyer’s directorial debut. It’ll also star Lili Simmons and newcomer James Jagger. The pic follows Alexis (Brown), a formerly deaf woman who recovered her hearing and gained synesthetic abilities after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was a child. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, she pursues a career in music, composing her masterpiece through gruesome murders. She is supported by her loving roommate Marie (Simmons), who is blissfully unaware of the part she plays in Alexis’ work. Faced with the possibility of losing her hearing again, Alexis relentlessly pursues her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments on human flesh. Noyer is producing the piece with Hannu Aukia Mike Macari is the exec producer. Brown is repped by ICM Partners, Cinterra Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Simmons by Kate Linden Management and Goodman Schenkman & Brecheen; Jagger by ICM Partners, Framework Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello.

Pearson and The Oath actress Isabel Arraiza has been added to the cast of The Little Things, the Warner Bros thriller that stars oscar winners Denzel Washington, Jared Leto, and Rami Malek. John Lee Hancock wrote and is directing the film, which centers around Deke (Washington), a burned-out Kern County, CA deputy sheriff who teams with Baxter (Malek), a crack Lasd detective, to nab a serial killer. Deke’s nose for the “little things” proves eerily accurate, but his willingness to circumvent the rules embroils Baxter in a soul-shattering dilemma. Meanwhile, Deke must wrestle with a dark secret from his past. Arraiza, who is repped by Gersh and Circle of Confusion, will play Baxter’s wife. Mark Johnson is producing the project.

Artists Abrar Ajmal and Joe Guy Allard have forever captured the likeness of some of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark's most notable characters! Both designs are available on tees right now from Fright-Rags. Also: details on legend Tony Todd's casting for the thriller Realm of Shadows and a teaser trailer and premiere details for Conductor.

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The Roland Tr-808 drum machine is responsible for some of the most influential music from the 1980s through the present day, from artists as diverse as Phil Collins and Lil Wayne. The new documentary “808” chronicles the story of the drum machine that changed the course of music. Narrated by Beats 1’s Zane Lowe, the film features commentary and interviews from Pharrell Williams, Afrika Bambaataa, Questlove, the Beastie Boys, Damon Albarn and more. It also features a journey to Japan where Roland found Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi reveals the untold reason for the machine’s mysterious early discontinuation just as it was turning up on more hit records than any other drum machine. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.

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Three Hollywood insiders explained how they got their first big break in the entertainment industry at TheWrap’s Breaking Into the Business event on Wednesday night. Producer Alex Noyer of You Know Films, actress and screenwriter Katie Nehra and veteran casting director Marci Liroff sat down with TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman in Los Angeles to discuss their careers and give advice to college students looking to break into entertainment and media. Nehra, who co-wrote Chris Messina’s 2014 directorial debut “Alex of Venice,” said that her first break came from playwright John Patrick Shanley, who cast her in his play “Sailor’s Song.

You Know Films and Amoeba Entertainment will produce the eco-horror film and become the first Us companies to benefit from the 25% Finnish cash rebate.

The incentive launches in 2017 and applies to money spent on local goods, services and salaries in conjunction with production work carried out in the Nordic country.

Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, oversees the incentive and Rabbit Films will provide production services in Finland.

Production is set for Finland next summer. You Know Film CEO Alex Noyer’s (pictured) directorial debut Sielu will star Finland’s Jukka Hilden and follows a group of backpackers in the Finnish archipelago who turn on each other when they are affected by a neuro-spore.

Noyer co-wrote the script with Jon and Al Kaplan based on an original idea by Stuart Birchall and Leila Mousavi.

Amoeba Entertainment’s Robyn K. Bennett produces with Noyer, while executive producers are You Know Films, Amoeba Entertainment...