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Exclusive: Hulu has acquired exclusive U.S. rights to Let’s Start a Cult, an indie dark comedy co-written, executive produced by and starring top comic Stavros Halkias, slating it to premiere on February 4.

Directed by Ben Kitnick, the film follows an obnoxious loser who, having missed out on his cult’s long awaited ritual suicide, teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly-bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult… but will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny, or decide this life might be worth living after all?

Released by Dark Sky Films in October, the film should see a major boost in viewership in its Hulu debut. Pic also features well-known comedians including Joe Pera, Tom Papa and Robert Kelly, as well as Ethan Suplee, Wes Haney,...

Things are getting out of this world when UFO starring Gillian Anderson is released digitally and on DVD on September 4th. Also in today's Highlights: the search for new writers is on with Arrow Films FrightFest and Queensbury Pictures' New Blood 2 and a Bonejangles 2 Q&A.

UFO Digital and DVD Release Details: "Tony Award® winner Alex Sharp stars alongside Emmy Award® winner Gillian Anderson and Academy Award® nominee David Strathairn in the edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller UFO, debuting on digital and DVD September 4 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. After a freak UFO sighting at a local airport, a college student searches for the truth while the government tries to cover it up. Written and directed by Ryan Eslinger (When a Man Falls), UFO also stars Ella Purnell (Miss Peregrine’s Home for the Peculiar Children) and Ben Beatty.

Synopsis: Derek (Alex Sharp) a brilliant college student, haunted by a childhood UFO sighting,...

Scriptwriters get ready

Following on from last year's search for horror screenwriters, this year's Arrow Video Frightfest has launched a second New Blood competition and is inviting applications.

In the first instance, writers should submit short synopses and log lines. Those who make the shortlist will be invited to a workshop at the festival's main event in August, where they will workshop their ideas with a group of industry experts. These include genre legend Barbara Crampton, returning from last year; God's Own Country producer Jack Tarling; Giles Edwards of Queensbury Pictures; and Jenn Wexler, who directed this year's opening film, The Ranger. Help will be provider to nurture their scripts all the way to the screen, with one of last year's, Broadcast Signal Intrusion, now in production.

"What’s so exciting about this initiative is that it allows talented UK-based writers to interface with a Us-based production company and get invaluable feedback and.

After the success of last year’s inaugural launch, Arrow Video FrightFest is thrilled to once again use their influence and power to help horror scribes get their project fostered from script to screen with their second annual New Blood talent search. Teaming up yet again with Giles Edwards of Queensbury Pictures, the festival will allow […]

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Mpi Media Group has hired industry veteran Giles Edwards as Head of Acquisitions and Development, Europe. Edwards joins after serving as Head of Acquisitions at Metrodome Distribution and as a distribution consultant in the UK. Edwards will be a key contributor in identifying and developing source material to feed Mpi's in-house production slate, as well as assessing films for acquisition consideration. He'll attend upcoming industry events and markets including Cannes…...

Exclusive: Metrodome strikes for Venice debut starring Berenice Bejo and Robert Pattinson.

Metrodome Distribution has acquired Brady Corbet’s mystery-drama The Childhood Of A Leader for all UK and Ireland rights from Protagonist Pictures.

Metrodome is due to release theatrically in August 2016.

The deal was negotiated between George Hamilton for Protagonist Pictures and Giles Edwards, head of acquisitions for Metrodome.

Written by actor-director Corbet (Simon Killer) and Mona Fastvold (The Sleepwalker), the Venice debut stars Berenice Bejo (The Artist), Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga), Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac), Liam Cunningham (Game Of Thrones) and Yolande Moreau (Amelie).

Producers are Chris Coen (Funny Games), Ron Curtis, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Helena Danielsson and Istvan Major.

In The Childhood Of A Leader an American family settles into the French countryside at the end of the First World War, where the father (Liam Cunningham) is involved in the peace negotiations around the Treaty of Versailles. His wife (Bérénice Bejo...

Exclusive: K5 inks deal with Metrodome for war thriller.

Metrodome Distribution has acquired well-received Tiff drama Land Of Mine for all UK and Irish rights from sales company K5 International.

The deal was negotiated between Carl Clifton for K5 and Giles Edwards, head of acquisitions for Metrodome.

Written and directed by Martin Zandvliet (Applause), Land Of Mine is produced by Mikael Rieks for Nordisk Film Production A/S, and Malte Grunert.

The film, which was the strongest new arrival at the Danish box office last weekend, opened Toronto’s new Platform strand on Sept 10 before berths at London, Rome and Tokyo, where the film’s rising lead actors Roland Møller (A Hijacking) and Louis Hofmann (Alone in Berlin) shared the Best Actor Award.

Inspired by true events, Land Of Mine is set in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and centres on a group of young German POWs in Denmark, who are forced...

Exclusive: Metrodome reteams with Sunset Song director on Emily Dickinson biopic.

Metrodome Distribution has acquired Terence Davies’ drama biopic A Quiet Passion from Double Dutch International.

The Hurricane Films production stars Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon as the celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson.

Jennifer Ehle (Fifty Shades Of Grey) and Keith Carradine (Nashville) co-star.

Shot in studio in Belgium and on location in and around the poet’s town of Amherst, Massachusetts, the film is in post-production with Metrodome due to release theatrically in Q3/Q4, 2016.

The biopic will chart the poet’s life from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive artist.

Dickinson wrote more than 2,000 poems in her lifetime but saw only seven published before her premature death in 1886. She never married and became increasingly reclusive as she got older.

The deal was negotiated between Jason Moring for Double Dutch International and Giles Edwards, head of acquisitions...

Last year the great Johnny Butane had the joy of reviewing a horror short anthology aptly titled Horrorshow (read the review). The anthology's co-creator Giles Edwards recently dropped us a line to let us know that two of the films within the series are now goring up Youtube and are available for your immediate pleasures. Embedded below is the short giallo film "The Incursion" as well as the wild polizia "Neon Killer". Enjoy!

- Tristan Sinns

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