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Watch Dogs is the latest video game franchise to receive a live-action adaptation. Ubisoft partnered with Columbia Pictures and New Regency for this ambitious endeavor, and the gaming community is rightfully skeptical about this franchise being translated from a video game to a film. Director Mathieu Turi recently announced the project has wrapped filming at an impressive rate.

The gaming community is eager to see how this film will fare. Image Credit: Ubisoft

Most adaptations are not well-received by the gaming community and critics alike. Hopefully, this adaptation will not suffer the same fate as other failed Ubisoft franchises like the Assassin’s Creed movie years ago.

The Live-Action Adaptation of Watch Dogs Has Officially Wrapped Filming

The gaming community was surprised to learn the live-action project is not dead in the water and the producers found the leads in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes star Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde.

“Watch Dogs”, the 2014 video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal, is being adapted as a live-action feature at New Regency, to be directed by Mathieu Turi:

“…while conducting an electronic heist at the high-end ‘Merlaut Hotel’, hacker ‘Aiden Pearce’ and his mentor and partner ‘Damien Brenks’, trigger a silent alarm set by another hacker. Damien tries to find the hacker, giving himself away.

“Fearing for his family, Pearce drives them to safety in the guise of a surprise trip to the country.

“But on the way, the killer ‘Maurice Vega’ attacks them, resulting in a car crash that kills Pierce’ six-year-old niece ‘Lena’.

“It is at that moment that Pearce becomes a vigilante in his quest for revenge after the killing of his niece…”

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“Watch Dogs”, the 2014 video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal, is being adapted as a live-action feature at New Regency, to be directed by Mathieu Turi:

“…while conducting an electronic heist at the high-end ‘Merlaut Hotel’, hacker ‘Aiden Pearce’ and his mentor and partner ‘Damien Brenks’, trigger a silent alarm set by another hacker. Damien tries to find the hacker, giving himself away.

“Fearing for his family, Pearce drives them to safety in the guise of a surprise trip to the country.

“But on the way, the killer ‘Maurice Vega’ attacks them, resulting in a car crash that kills Pierce’ six-year-old niece ‘Lena’.

“It is at that moment that Pearce becomes a vigilante in his quest for revenge after the killing of his niece…”

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Tom Blyth and Emily Bader will star in 'People We Meet on Vacation'.The 29-year-old actor and the 27-year-old actress have been cast in the leading roles in the upcoming adaptation of Emily Henry‘s bestselling book, Deadline reports.Brett Haley will direct the movie for 3000 Pictures and Netflix, with Yulin Kuang adapting the screenplay. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner will produce with Temple Hill’s Laura Quicksilver executive producing. The film is being produced under a new partnership where Sony Pictures will offer Netflix a first look at any films it intends to make for streaming.The book follows best friends and polar opposites Poppy (Bader) and Alex (Blyth) who go on vacation together every summer. After a mysterious falling out, they reunite for another trip, where they question whether their relationship is platonic or romantic.Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that Tom...

Production has begun on a film adaptation of the cybercrime videogame series Watch Dogs – over a decade after it was first announced.

After more than a decade in development, shooting has finally begun on Watch Dogs, the film adaptation of Ubisoft’s series of open-world hacking videogames.

The announcement comes directly from Ubisoft itself, which broke the news on X/Twitter/Muskbook with a photograph of a clapperboard and the caption ‘Lights_Camera_Action.exe’.

Watch Dogs was first announced in 2013, before the first game in the series had even been released. It was a period of excitement for Ubisoft, since it had just set up its own film division and had grand plans of making movies out of several of its properties.

There was even talk of Tom Hardy starring in a Splinter Cell movie. Enthusiasm began to cool when Ubisoft Motion Pictures put out its Assassin’s Creed film...

It’s been a few months since word arrived about Talk to Me star Sophie Wilde leading the cast of Mathieu Turi’s (The Deep Dark, Meander, Hostile) Watch Dogs. The live-action adaptation of UbiSoft’s popular video game series is quietly coming together at New Regency. Still, a new update about the project shows significant movement of the hacker-centric action film.

According to Turi’s Instagram account, production on Watch Dogs is in full effect. Turi posted an image of a clapboard for Watch Dogs alongside a caption featuring a pair of curious googly eyes. With over 50 million players since the franchise began in 2014 with the release of Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, the film adaptation finds French genre filmmaker Mathieu Turi in the director’s chair. Turi directs Watch Dogs from a script by Christie LeBlanc, who wrote the Alexandre Aja-directed Netflix film Oxygen.

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La lucha contra Ctos llega a la pantalla grande.

De acuerdo con Deadline, Sophia Wilde (“Talk to Me”) y Tom Blyth (“Los Juegos del Hambre: Balada de Pájaros Cantores y Serpientes”) protagonizarán la adaptación cinematográfica live-action del videojuego “Watch Dogs”, que comenzará su rodaje a finales de este verano.

La franquicia “Watch Dogs” incluye tres juegos hasta la fecha. Cada juego presenta historias diferentes en un mundo en el que hackers rebeldes intentan luchar contra las injusticias que permite Ctos, un sistema de información digital que conecta ciudades enteras en una única red. Desde Aiden Pearce en Chicago a Marcus Holloway en San Francisco, pasando por los ciudadanos de un Londres distópico, los miembros de la organización de hackers DedSec utilizan sus avanzadas aplicaciones y artilugios para socavar el opresivo reinado de Ctos y descubrir la corrupción que se esconde tras el sistema.

La adaptación cinematográfica estará dirigida por el director francés Mathieu Turi,...

Tom Blyth will star in the 'Watch Dogs' movie.The 29-year-old actor has joined Sophie Wilde in the cast of the new film that is based on the hit Ubisoft video game franchise.The picture is being directed by French filmmaker Mathieu Turi from a script written by Christie LeBlanc with revisions by Victoria Bata.The 'Watch Dogs' games immerse players in the world of skilled hackers as they use technology to combat oppressive forces that control major cities around the globe.The series has captivated audiences through the exploration of hacking culture and has over 50 million players worldwide. The most recent game, 'Watch Dogs: Legion', was released in 2020 and the franchise extends to other forms of media including both books and comics.Meanwhile, Tom portrayed a young Coriolanus Snow in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' last year and expressed an interest in returning to the...

Tom Blyth, the breakout star of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is all set to lead another popular IP. He is confirmed to be the lead in the film adaptation of Watch Dogs, the hit video game from Ubisoft. New Regency will produce the film helmed by French director Mathieu Turi. Blyth will star opposite Talk to Me fame Sophie Wilde.

A still from Watch Dogs (2014) | Ubisoft

The film adaptation comes after years of being in development hell. Rumors of a film adaptation began in 2013, and it went into development in 2014. Interestingly, the positive update on the film comes at a time when fans largely believe that Ubisoft is done with the franchise.

Watch Dogs Live-Action Movie Casts Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde In The Lead

Tom Blyth in a still from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Lionsgate Films

Tom Blyth and...

Exclusive: Following his breakout role in Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes, Tom Blyth is now ready for his next big potential franchise as he is set to co-star opposite Sophie Wilde in New Regency’s Watch Dogs, an adaptation of the popular UbiSoft hit video game. Deadline first reported earlier this year that Wilde was in talks and now both are confirmed to star in the pic that will be directed by French genre director Mathieu Turi.

Christie LeBlanc penned the original draft with new revisions by Victoria Bata. Yariv Milchan, Chairman and CEO of New Regency, and Natalie Lehmann, President of Motion Pictures and Television at New Regency, will produce with Margaret Boykin, Head of Content at Ubisoft Film & Television.

The Watch Dogs series video game series from Ubisoft, immerses players in the world of skilled hackers who use technology to combat oppressive forces controlling major cities across the world.

Ubisoft’s free-roam sci-fi action-adventure game series Watch Dogs has received mixed reviews from critics and players alike. The game did have an interesting premise, but some felt it didn’t break out of the Ubisoft open-world formula enough to stand out among other games like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.

It seems the potential of the series has been noticed by people outside of the gaming community as well. It’s common for popular franchises to get adapted into other media, and the same is happening with a live-action movie for Watch Dogs. But is Ubisoft taking on more than it can handle?

The Watch Dogs Movie will be Created by New Regency

A Watch Dogs adaptation may not be the best idea for Ubisoft currently.

Deadline was the first to report on this matter. The movie will reportedly feature Sophie Wilde, who debuted in A24’s Talk to Me...

Stars: Samuel LeBihan, Amir El Kacem, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Thomas Solivérès, Diego Martín, Marc Riso, Bruno Sanches | Written and Directed by Mathieu Turi

It’s 1856, and in the historic coal mines of Northern France, a group of miners find themselves trapped in the subterranean depths after a cave-in. But they soon realise they are not alone… Decades later, veteran miner Roland is forced by management to accompany Professor Berthier underground to take samples and measurements. A sudden landslide prevents them from surfacing, and they, too, must face the ancient mutant that constantly craves blood.

Miners in 50s France come face to face with a monstrous disciple of The Old One, which has recently been a major trope in horror cinema – it seems whilst the work of Lovecraft is unfilmable, homaging it is not. We’ve had films like The Deep Ones, The Old Ones, The Lighthouse et al and now this...

New Regency and Ubisoft Entertainment are teaming up for a live-action feature film based on the action-focused tactical hacker video game, “Watch Dogs.” The studio previously landed French director Mathieu Turi (“Meander“) and has chosen the first actor to lead the video game adaptation. Deadline reports that young Aussie actress Sophie Wilde has joined the project.

If you’re not familiar with the original ambitious video game, below is the official logline via Ubisoft’s website as a refresher:

You play as Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker and former thug whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy.

Continue reading ‘Watch Dogs’: Sophie Wilde Tapped To Star In Movie Adaptation Of Hacker Video Game at The Playlist.

Talk To Me breakout star Sophie Wilde is set to appear in Watch Dogs, a long-in-gestation adaptation of Ubisoft’s hacking-based videogame series.

As such Hollywood films as Blackhat and Hackers have taught us, only the coolest and most photogenic people engage in cybercrime. The cool-and-trendy-hacker theme was continued in Watch Dogs, a series of sandbox action adventure videogames first published by Ubisoft in 2014.

Spawning a hit franchise comprising two sequels and counting, Watch Dogs sees high-tech outlaws cause all kinds of digital mischief in cities around the world, with each game taking in stealth, driving, fisticuffs, shooting and tinkering with electronic devices.

A film adaptation based on the series was first floated by Ubisoft Motion Pictures back in 2013, before the original game was even released. The division’s plans for a multitude of movies based on its games took something of a body blow, however, when 2016’s Assassin’s Creed,...

“Watch Dogs”, the 2014 video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal, is being adapted as a live-action feature at New Regency, to be directed by Mathieu Turi:

“…while conducting an electronic heist at the high-end ‘Merlaut Hotel’, hacker ‘Aiden Pearce’ and his mentor and partner ‘Damien Brenks’, trigger a silent alarm set by another hacker. Damien tries to find the hacker, giving himself away.

“Fearing for his family, Pearce drives them to safety in the guise of a surprise trip to the country.

“But on the way, the killer ‘Maurice Vega’ attacks them, resulting in a car crash that kills Pierce’ six-year-old niece ‘Lena’.

“It is at that moment that Pearce becomes a vigilante in his quest for revenge after the killing of his niece…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

As the trend of turning video games into movies gains momentum, it appears that Watch Dogs is gearing up to join the league. According to reports from Deadline, the Ubisoft video game Watch-Dogs is set to receive the live-action movie treatment.

Watch Dogs: Legion

Actress Sophie Wilde is in talks to star in the film. This live-action movie will be based on the hit Ubisoft video game and take place within the same universe we know from playing the game.

Sounds like a thrilling ride for fans! However, amidst this exciting news, some fans have a few concerns as well.

Live-Action Movie Adaptation of Watch Dogs in the Works

The popular video game Watch Dogs might be getting its own movie adaptation. According to a recent report, Ubisoft’s hacking adventure is being eyed for a live-action film. As per reports from Deadline, A24 horror hit Talk To Me actor...

The video game Watch Dogs is headed to the big screen, and Deadline reports today that Sophie Wilde, the breakout star of last year’s Talk to Me, is attached to lead the film’s cast.

New Regency is adapting the video game from Ubisoft. Mathieu Turi (The Deep Dark) is directing the Watch Dogs movie, written by Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen).

Deadline notes in their report today, “The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.”

The site goes on to report, “The popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who, while having different goals to achieve, find themselves involved with the criminal underworlds of their respective cities. The antagonists are usually corrupt companies, crime bosses, and rival hackers who take advantage of ctOS...

Hack the planet! Oh, wait, that’s a different movie about hackers. Never mind. After scaring the daylights out of horror fans in A24‘s Talk to Me – which recently won the Best Horror category at the 22nd Golden Schmoe Awards – Sophie Wilde is lining up her next project with New Regency’s adaptation of the UbiSoft video game Watch Dogs. With over 50 million players since the franchise began in 2014 with the release of Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, the film adaptation finds French genre filmmaker Mathieu Turi in the director’s chair. Turi directs Watch Dogs from a script by Christie LeBlanc, who wrote the Alexandre Aja-directed Netflix film Oxygen.

UbiSoft’s Watch Dogs franchise includes the games Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, Watch Dogs 2, Watch Dogs: Legion, and Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline. The franchise plot varies from game to game, though Watch Dogs generally...

Exclusive: Following her breakout role in the A24 horror hit Talk To Me, Sophie Wilde has found her follow-up project as she is in talks to star in New Regency’s Watch Dogs, an adaptation of the popular UbiSoft hit video game. The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.

The film is being directed by acclaimed French genre director Mathieu Turi, from an original screenplay written by Christie LeBlanc, known for writing the Netflix original sci-fi thriller Oxygen based on the 2016 Black List script O2, and revised by Victoria Bata.

Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann will produce for New Regency Pictures, alongside Margaret Boykin for Ubisoft Film & Television.

While plot details are being kept under wraps, the popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who,...

FrightFest, the UK’s No.1 horror fantasy event, returns to the renowned Glasgow Film Festival for its 19th year, from Thursday 7th March to Saturday 9th March 2024. This year’s diverse and creative line-up, once again housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, showcases the latest new releases from the horror, chiller and fantastic realms by auteurs from all over the globe who are not only transforming the genre in exciting ways but also celebrating its consistent appeal at the box office. This year we will be presenting twelve films from eight countries, spanning three continents, including two world and eight UK premieres.

FrightFest kicks off in thrilling style on Thurs 7 March with a special UK premiere screening of twisted terror tale You’LL Never Find Me, a bold directorial debut from Australian filmmaking duo Josiah Allen & Indianna Bell and featuring outstanding central performances from Jordan Cowan & Brendan Rock.

FrightFest’s...

Exclusive: Screamfest Horror Film Festival has unveiled the first-wave lineup for its 23rd edition, taking place at the Tcl Chinese Theatre from October 10-19, announcing that it will kick off with a screening of Eddie Alcazar’s much-discussed Sundance 2023 mind-bender Divinity.

Tickets to the fest go on sale soon.

Set in an otherworldly human existence, Divinity follows scientist Sterling Pierce (Scott Bakula), who has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, as he slowly creates the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named Divinity. Jaxxon Pierce (Stephen Dorff), his son, then comes to control and manufacture his father’s once-benevolent dream. When two mysterious brothers (Moises Arias and Jason Genao) arrive with a plan to abduct the mogul, with the help of a seductive woman named Nikita (Karrueche Tran), they will be set on a path hurtling toward true immortality. Also starring Bella Thorne, Michael O’Hearn and Emily Willis,...

Few fears are more universal than claustrophobia. Many of us have probably experienced that twinge of anxiety when elevator doors close behind us, but few of us have likely ever been down in the depths of a coal mine, where the elements at play have a potentially fatal outcome. This fear is what writer/director Mathieu Turi tries to tap into in The Deep Dark, to moderately successful results.

Following an 1856-set prologue in which a group of miners encounters a mysterious creature before an explosion traps them all underground, we are propelled forward 100 years to 1956, where Amir (Amir El Kacem) leaves his home country of Morocco out of financial necessity. He is sent to Pas-de-Calais to work in the worst mine in France, known as the Devil’s Island. Shortly after his orientation, he’s assigned to a group led by Roland, Brotherhood of the Wolf) that has been...

Up next from French filmmaker Mathieu Turi is The Deep Dark, which looks to be headed to theaters in France beginning on November 29, 2023.

We don’t yet have any idea when the film will be released here in the United States, but a French trailer for The Deep Dark has surfaced this week. You can check it out below.

The Deep Dark is said to have “Lovecraft vibes,” and the end of the trailer teases some kind of skeletal creature. My Bloody Valentine meets Lovecraftian creature feature? We like it.

The film is set in 1956, in the north of France…

“A band of underground miners is forced to lead a professor to take samples a thousand meters underground. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, and unknowingly wake up something that should have remained asleep.”

Samuel Le Bihan, Amir El Kacem,...

The new video game "A Plague Tale Requiem" is now available as a sequel to the first game "A Plague Tale: Innocence”, currently being developed as a live-action TV series, directed by Mathieu Turi for Focus Entertainment:

“…set in 14th century France, ‘A Plague Tale: Innocence’ follows 'Amicia de Rune' and her brother ‘Hugo’, who has been ill since birth. The pair flee their home from the ‘French Inquisition’ and must navigate their way to safety while avoiding soldiers as well as fleas on rats carrying the dreaded ‘black plague’….”

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Hostile and Meander (pictured above) director Mathieu Turi is next getting behind the camera for Dark Faces (Gueules Noires), which he has brought to Cannes, Bloody Disgusting learned. The film takes place in 1956, north of France. “A bunch of coal miners must embark with a strange professor to get some samples, 1000 meters underground. […]

The post ‘Dark Faces’- Coal Miners Discover an Ancient Crypt in ‘Hostile’ Director’s Next! appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

The Asobo action adventure video game “eSA Plague Tale: Innocence” is being adapted into a live-action TV series, to be directed by Mathieu Turi for Focus Entertainment:

“…set in 14th century France, ‘A Plague Tale: Innocence’ follows the story of ‘Amicia de Rune’ and her brother ‘Hugo’, who has been ill since birth. The pair flee their home from the ‘French Inquisition’ and must navigate their way to safety while avoiding soldiers as well as rats that are carrying the dreaded ‘black plague’….”

A new game “A Plague Tale: Requiem”, will be released June 17, 2022 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.

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Add Asobo’s A Plague Tale: Innocence to the list of upcoming video game-to-tv series adaptations. According to French publication Allocine, the adaptation of A Plague Tale will have French director Mathieu Turi (who directed 2017’s Hostile and 2020’s Meander) directing the series, while Merlin Productions and the game’s publisher, Focus Entertainment, will be in charge […]

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"A Plague Tale," a beautiful and horrifying game by Focus Home Interactive, is getting the TV show treatment. Director Mathieu Turi announced the news on Twitter yesterday with a link to French website Allocine, and it was later confirmed via IGN.

On paper, "A Plague Tale" doesn't sound like an easy story to adapt, as it's at once a harrowing and emotional historical story and a supernatural thriller. Also, there are lots and lots of rats. The game is a visual stunner, though, with striking art design that means Turi and his team have their work cut out for them.

The filmmaker, who has...

The post A Plague Tale Is Being Adapted Into A TV Series appeared first on /Film.

The Asobo action adventure video game “A Plague Tale: Innocence” is being adapted into a live-action TV series, to be directed by Mathieu Turi for Focus Entertainment:

“…set in 14th century France, ‘A Plague Tale: Innocence’ follows the story of ‘Amicia de Rune’ and her brother ‘Hugo’, who has been ill since birth. The pair flee their home from the ‘French Inquisition’ and must navigate their way to safety while avoiding soldiers as well as rats that are carrying the dreaded ‘black plague’….”

A new game “A Plague Tale: Requiem”, will be released in 2022 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.

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Of the claustrophobic thrillers inspired by the 1998 cult classic, “Cube,” “Meander” might just be the greatest and most realistic. That realism is part of what makes this movie work because, as directed by Mathieu Turi, the film gives the audience the feeling of being trapped in a tight and confined space. And that feeling is as thrillingly unpleasant as it is a sweaty-palmed nightmare.

Continue reading ‘Meander’ Is A Taut, Claustrophobic Thriller That Explores A Labyrinth Of Emotions [Review] at The Playlist.

Photo: 'Meander'/Gravitas Ventures Officially, the closest I've ever come to being buried alive is watching director Mathieu Turi's 'Meander'. A suffocating and claustrophobic experience, Turi’s new sci-fi horror is a puzzling narrative from start to finish, and is a story that presents as much of a cerebral challenge to the viewer as the many life-threatening obstacles that surround its ill-fated protagonist. At first, 'Meander' is almost uncomfortably familiar. It feels cut from the same cloth as 'Cube' and the 'Saw' franchise, except with less authentic texture and even wilder plots that attempt to dull all senses of logic. Related article: ‘In the Heights’ – Behind the Scenes and Full Commentary/Reactions from Cast & Crew Related article: A Tribute to Cannes Film Festival: A Celebration of Cinema, Glamour, and Humanity | Statement From The Hollywood Insider’s CEO Pritan Ambroase But fortunately,...

Hostile director Mathieu Turi is back with his insane sci-fi thriller Meander, in which a woman (Gaia Weiss; “Vikings”) wakes up in a strange tube full of deadly traps and her only option is to keep moving forward. Bloody has the exclusive clip from the claustrophobic thriller that looks like an interesting blend of Vincenzo Natali’s sci-fi horror Cube and […]...

Ben Wheatley’s ‘In The Earth’ is playing in the main competition of the Swiss festival.

UK director Ben Wheatley’s in The Earth is among the competition contenders in this year’s 20th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival which will take place as a hybrid edition from July 2-10 in Switzerland.

It is taking place under the interim directorship of Loïc Valceschini before a new head, Pierre-Yves Walder, takes up the reins in July.

The event includes 55 films, eight short films, eight immersive installations and two TV productions. Among the special guests will be legendary VFX artist Volker Engel,...

French-made suspense thriller “The Pilot” will join the slate of Hong Kong-, Paris- and Los Angeles-based sales agent All Rights Entertainment at the upcoming film markets.

The story follows a drone pilot in Mali whose wife and daughter are kidnapped by terrorists. They will be executed if he doesn’t derail the capture by his team of the head of a jihadist network. Soon to wrap in Almeria, Spain, “The Pilot” will be ready for delivery by the end of this year and released in the first quarter of 2022.

The film is the latest example in the screenlife genre, in which everything the viewer sees happens on a computer screen, a smartphone or a tablet and the entire film plays out on screens. Other recent successful examples include “Searching,” “Unfriended” and “Profile.”

“The Pilot” is the feature debut of Paul Doucet, following his string of award-winning shorts. It is produced by Ocs and Fulltime Studio,...

"You're stuck in a pipe full of deadly traps. How far will you go?" Gravitas Ventures has unveiled an official US trailer for a French sci-fi thriller titled Meander, another Cube-inspired stuck-in-rooms genre movie. This premiered at the Sitges Film Festival last year, and also played at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival and Monster Fest. A woman wakes up locked in series of strange tubes full of deadly traps. Every 8 minutes, she must move forward or die. But why? Is there any escape? That's the premise for this one - which is a lot like Cube, but with a few diuniqurfferent aspects. Starring Gaia Weiss as Lisa, with Peter Franzén and Romane Libert. This gets very strange with some weird zombies and freaky stuff. I'm sold! Need to see it. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Mathieu Turi's Meander, direct from YouTube (via B-d): You wake up.

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Meander, a horror thriller written and directed by Mathieu Turi. It will now get a July 9, 2021 release date in theaters and on on-demand platforms.

The film stars Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen and Romane Libert. Weiss plays Lisa, who after getting a car ride from an unknown man wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, she will have to face the memories of her dead daughter.

“Gravitas is thrilled to be able to present audiences with one of the best new additions to the sci-fi and horror genres in the past decade,” said Brett Rogalsky, Gravitas Ventures’ acquisitions manager. “What Mathieu...

Mathieu Turi, director of the post-apocalyptic film Hostile (which releases Sept. 4) is finished his next film, the intriguing sounding thriller, Meander and it's coming out this month in Europe.

Vikings star Gaia Weiss is in the film playing a woman who gets locked in series of strange tubes full of deadly traps and now we have the first trailer!

Recommended Release: Hostile...

Bloody has scored even more new images from Hostile director Mathieu Turi’s sci-fi thriller Meander, which was shared at last year’s Virtual American Film Market after touring several others. “In the film, a woman (Gaia Weiss; “Vikings”) wakes up in a strange tube full of deadly traps. Her only option is to keep moving forward. But it is […]...

Distributor Altitude has picked up a slate of four films for the U.K. and Ireland, including Adam Egypt Mortimer’s “Archenemy,” Quentin Dupieux‘s “Mandibles,” Mathieu Turi’s “Meander” and Philippe Lacôte’s “Night of the Kings.”

Spectrevision’s “Archenemy” stars Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) as a hero from another dimension exiled to Earth, while the Venice Film Festival’s sleeper hit “Mandibles” is a surreal buddy road movie starring comedy duo David Marsais and Grégoire Ludig, known for “La Folle Histoire du Palmashow,” as well as Coralie Russier (“120 Bpm”), Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is The Warmest Color”) and rapper Romeo Elvis.

Thriller “Meander” features Gaia Weiss (“Vikings”) as a woman who wakes up in a seemingly never-ending metal tube and is forced to overcome a variety of deadly traps to survive.

Venice title “Night of the Kings,” which won the Amplify Voices Award at Toronto International Film Festival...

Drama is Ivory Coast’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar.

Altitude Film Distribution has secured UK and Ireland rights to Philippe Lacôte’’s Venice competition title Night Of The Kings from Memento Films.

The film is Ivory Coast’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar and also played at Toronto, where it won the Amplify Voices award.

This drama follows a young man on his first night in the infamous Ivorian prison La Maca. He is told he must entertain his fellow prisoners as the designated storyteller until morning, risking death should he fail.

Altitude...

UK distributor Altitude has announced four acquisitions for the UK and Ireland: Archenemy from Adam Egypt Mortimer, Quentin Dupieux‘s Mandibles (as previously announced), Mathieu Turi’s Meander and Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings.

Archenemy stars Joe Manganiello (True Blood) as Max Fist, a hero from another dimension exiled to Earth. The film heralds from Mandy producer Spectrevision and writer and director Adam Egypt Mortimer.

Thriller Meander comes from writer and director Mathieu Turi (Hostile) featuring Gaia Weiss (Vikings) as a woman who wakes up in a seemingly never-ending metal tube and is forced to overcome a variety of deadly traps to survive.

Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings is set in the notorious La Maca, Ivory Coast’s largest prison ruled by its own inmates with unique laws and rituals. The film premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, won the Amplify Voices Award at...

Meander is sci-fi horror thriller. In production since 2020, this title involves a woman who is kidnapped. Strangely, she finds herself trapped in a series of pipes, with little time to escape each section. This film has been developed by Mathieu Turi (Hostile). As well, Meander stars Gaia Weiss ("Vikings") and Peter Franzen (The Gunman). More story details have been released for the film, along with two early stills. A longer synopsis mentions a fire burning in a series of pipes. The protagonist only has eight minutes to escape each length, before fire burns the section. Lisa must crawl her way to safer sections, while confronting memories of her dead daughter. The two new stills show Lisa in frame. In one still, she looks at her daughter, with little light. In another, Lisa is navigating the system of pipes, in search of a way out. Both stills focus on few characters and a tight squeeze.

“Vikings” star Gaia Weiss has joined the cast of the sci fi thriller “Meander” directed by Mathieu Turi, whose post-apocalyptic debut, “Hostile,” was a genre film hit. WTFilms, a co-producer on the film, is handling worldwide sales and has unveiled the first still from the movie.

Written and directed by Turi, the English-language film stars Weiss as a woman who wakes up in a labyrinth of strange tubes full of deadly traps. Her only option is to keep moving forward, but it is not clear how far she can get. Peter Franzen, who also starred in “Vikings,” plays a man whose intentions are mysterious.

“Meander” is produced by Eric Gendarme, Thomas Lubeau, Marc Olla and Jordan Sarralie at Fulltime Studio, and Sandra Karim, Julien Deris and David Gauquie at Cinefrance Studios.

“With Mathieu’s vision added to Gaia’s talent, we have no doubt this will be a breathless film...

Announced one year ago, ScreenDaily reports that Meander, an upcoming sci-fi horror film to be directed by France’s Mathieu Turi (Hostile), is finally set to go into production this coming August. Sounding like a cross between Saw and Cube, the English-language film stars Berenice Marlohe (pictured; Skyfall). “In the film, a woman wake up in a strange tube full of […]...

Horror film “Meander” starring Berenice Marlohe (“Skyfall”) has set August as start date for production. WTFilms will act as sales agent.

Written and directed by France’s Mathieu Turi, whose post-apocalyptic debut “Hostile” was a genre film hit, “Meander” had been expected to shoot last year. Turi says that the English-language picture will shoot at the end of this summer. He will be at the Cannes Film Festival this month to launch the film’s commercial career.

The English-language film sees a woman wake up in a labyrinth of strange tubes full of deadly traps. Her only option is to keep moving forward. But it is not clear how far she can get.

“Meander” is being produced by Thomas Lubeau, Eric Gendarme, Marc Olla and Jordan Sarralie at Full Time Studio. CineFrance has come on board as co-producer. Wtf co-produces and will handle world sales, while Alba Films will co-produce...

Attendees of this year’s Star Wars Celebration finally got to watch their first footage from The Mandalorian, and so far, fans are liking what they see.

In a panel focused on the first live-action Star Wars TV series, a behind-the-scenes promo was screened, along with some clips from the actual show. And while none of this content has been officially released online yet, the social media response bodes very well for the show’s premiere later this year:

Standing ovation after seeing the Real footage and an entire scene from #TheMandalorian at #StarWarsCelebration2019 #StarWarsCelebaration

— Amanda Taylor (@geeklyamanda) April 14, 2019

Dude #TheMandalorian looks sweet. I love the minatures used like the old movies. Gonna be a great show. The “Razorcrest” ship looks sweet. Gonna be such a good series! #StarWars pic.twitter.com/i6skynp1yf

— Ethan (@NinjaPups) April 14, 2019

Seems like @Jon_Favreau is the right man for the job. #TheMandalorian...

San Sebastian — Smart genre, zombies and throwbacks to the ’70s and ‘80s are some of the current trends in genre cinema, according to some specialists in the field. It’s a cyclical dynamic now offering meaningful box office hits such as Corin Hardy’s “The Nun” or Ari Aster’s “Hereditary.” Genre cinema always attracts the attention of industry players. These are some of them.

An auteur-driven trend commands greatest consensus among experts. Matteo Lovadina, CEO of Paris-based sales and co-production company Reel Suspects, observed that some great examples recently of genre film have, “thanks to their clever storytelling,” been able to attract both auteur and genre audiences.

“Films like Joachim Trier’s ‘Thelma,’ Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’, David Robert Mitchell’s ‘It Follows’ or ‘Hereditary,’ have brought genre cinema again into focus and restored a certain credit to this hidden part of the cinematic world,” Lovadina observed.

A “pure genre player,...

Mathieu Turi's debut feature may have just released yesterday from Sony Pictures, but he's far from a newbie. In fact, the French director has been working behind the scenes of many huge franchise films for years, including G.I. Joe, Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, to name a few. But after years of being assistant to the assistant, Turi knew he needed to make the leap into directing his own material and so took the plunge after meeting producer Xavier Gens. He pitched a few ideas and Hostile, a post-apocalyptic chamber piece of sorts, won out for its high-concept and low budget, and he was quickly off to the races. I had the chance to speak with Turi about...

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Stranded in a car wreck in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Juliette (Brittany Ashworth) has to fend off a strange creature who isn't interested in giving her a hand in Hostile. With the new horror movie out now on VOD platforms and DVD from 4Digital Media, we caught up with writer/director Mathieu Turi to discuss combining genres, the influence of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, and working with Javier Botet.

Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Mathieu. How and when did you first come up with the idea for Hostile?

Mathieu Turi: I previously did two short films, Sons of Chaos (2010), a post-apocalyptic/action/creature short which received official selection in multiple film festivals around the world and officially competed at Sitges in 2011. The second film, Broken (2012), is a love story/drama set in an elevator. So, in a way, Hostile is a mix of the two short films.

We've been tracking the career of Mathieu Turi since we debuted his first short post-apocalyptic film Sons of Chaos nearly ten years ago.

Synopsis:

A worldwide epidemic has killed most of the planet’s population. The few survivors struggle to find food and shelter. But they are not alone…On her way back from a scavenging mission, Juliette (Brittany Ashworth) has a terrible accident.

Stuck in her car, with a broken leg, in the middle of an unforgiving desert, she must survive the perils of the post-apocalypse, while a strange creature prowls around…

Check out our interview with Mathieu Turi as well as the film's trailer below:...