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André Øvredal to direct mysterious horror project for Paramount
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At the start of last year, former DC Films boss Walter Hamada signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures, the idea being that he would become, as Deadline put it, “the architect of Paramount’s mainstream horror genre pod, with the mission to release several low- to mid-budget films per year across theatrical and streaming.” Recently, there have been casting announcements for a movie called Primate, which is being directed by genre regular Johannes Roberts and is part of Hamada’s horror-minded efforts at Paramount. Now, Deadline has broken the news that another Hamada horror project that’s moving forward at Paramount has gotten another genre regular, Andre Ovredal, to sign on as director.

Ovredal will be directing this other film from a screenplay written by Zachary Donohue and T.W. Burgess. Donohue previously directed and co-wrote the 2013 found footage horror film The Den and wrote and directed the TV series The Unknowable.
See full article at JoBlo.com
  • 10/9/2024
  • by Cody Hamman
  • JoBlo.com
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Primate: 10 join Troy Kotsur and Johnny Sequoyah in the cast of horror film
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Back in July, it was announced that Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur (Coda) had signed on to star in the horror film Primate. Since then, Johnny Sequoyah (pictured above) of Dexter: New Blood has signed on to star in the film with Kostur – and now, as the project draws closer to production, Deadline has revealed that ten more actors have joined the cast. Here’s the line-up: Jessica Alexander (Amadeus), Victoria Wyant (My Fault: London), Benjamin Cheng (d’Illusion: The Houdini Musical), Gia Hunter (Sherlock and Daughter), Miguel Torres Umba (National Theatre co-production Kin), Kae Alexander (Ready Player One), Tienne Simon (Grime Kids), Charlie Mann (Lazarus), newcomer Amina Abdi, and Albert Magashi (National Theatre Live: Dear England).

Unfortunately, we’re not able to tell you anything about the roles these actors will be playing, because all plot and character details are currently being kept under wraps.

At the helm of Primate is genre regular Johannes Roberts,...
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  • 10/4/2024
  • by Cody Hamman
  • JoBlo.com
Jessica Alexander Among 10 Rounding Out Cast Of Paramount Horror Pic ‘Primate’
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Exclusive: The Paramount horror movie Primate is rounding out its cast with 10 actors: Jessica Alexander (Amadeus), Victoria Wyant (My Fault: London), Benjamin Cheng, Gia Hunter (Sherlock and Daughter), Miguel Torres Umba (National Theatre co-production Kin), Kae Alexander (Ready Player One), Tienne Simon (Grime Kids), Charlie Mann (Lazarus), Amina Abdi and Albert Magashi (National Theatre Live: Dear England). They join the previously announced leads Troy Kotsur and Johnny Sequoyah.

Details regarding the film’s plot and character descriptions are under wraps.

Deadline revealed the project was in the works back in July from producer Walter Hamada and starring Oscar winner Kotsur. The project falls under Hamada’s exclusive first-look deal with Paramount which began on January 1, 2023. Sequoyah came aboard in August.

Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera penned the screenplay, with the former also set to direct. Hamada produces Primate via his 18hz production company alongside John Hodges and Bradley Pilz.

Alexander...
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 10/3/2024
  • by Rosy Cordero
  • Deadline Film + TV
Johnny Sequoyah To Star Opposite Troy Kotsur In Paramount Pictures’ Horror Feature ‘Primate’
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Exclusive: Johnny Sequoyah has been cast opposite Troy Kotsur in the Paramount Pictures horror feature Primate.

Details regarding the film’s plot and character descriptions are under wraps.

Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera penned the screenplay with the former also set to direct. Walter Hamada produces Primate via his 18hz production company, as part of his first look deal with the studio, alongside John Hodges and Bradley Pilz.

Sequoyah is most known for playing ‘Bo Adams’ on the NBC TV series Believe, created by Alfonso Cuarón and produced by J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot. She can recently be seen as one of the female leads on the hit Showtime limited series, Dexter: New Blood in the role of Audrey Bishop opposite Michael C. Hall.

On the features side, her credits include The Enchanted Stallion, Plastic Jesus, I Believe in Unicorns and Ass Backward. She can also...
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 8/1/2024
  • by Rosy Cordero
  • Deadline Film + TV
Troy Kotsur To Lead Cast Of Johannes Roberts Horror Feature ‘Primate’ From Walter Hamada
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Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has greenlit the Johannes Roberts horror film Primate, with Oscar winner Troy Kotsur (Coda) set to lead the cast. Roberts will direct the Walter Hamada-produced feature, which Roberts co-wrote with Ernest Riera.

Plot details are being kept under wraps.

The project falls under Hamada’s exclusive first-look deal with Paramount which began January 1, 2023, making him “the architect of Paramount’s mainstream horror genre pod, with the mission to release several low- to mid-budget films per year across theatrical and streaming.”

The former DC Films boss steered DC to its highest-grossing movie Aquaman with $1.1 billion worldwide. He was also behind The Conjuring franchise, the highest-grossing horror series ever with more than $2 billion in global box office, 2017’s It and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, to name a few.

Hamada is producing via his 18hz production company alongside Bradley Pilz and John Hodges. Up next, Paramount and Hamada are...
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 7/10/2024
  • by Rosy Cordero
  • Deadline Film + TV
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Night Shift clip and trailer preview Phoebe Tonkin thriller now in theatres and on VOD
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Although Phoebe Tonkin was in the 2012 shark thriller Bait and the high profile 2022 flop Babylon, most viewers probably know her from her work in television: she has been on multiple episodes H2O: Just Add Water, Home and Away, The Secret Circle, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Westworld, Safe Harbour, and more. I just finished watching a Netflix series she was in, Boy Swallows Universe, which I thought was pretty great. Now Tonkin has the lead role in a thriller called Night Shift, which just received a VOD and limited theatrical release today, courtesy of Quiver Distribution. To help you figure out whether or not Night Shift is a movie you’d like to see, we have a clip and the film’s trailer embedded above.

Written and directed by Paul China and Benjamin China, a.k.a. The China Brothers, Night Shift has the following synopsis: While working her first...
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  • 3/8/2024
  • by Cody Hamman
  • JoBlo.com
Horror Highlights: Night Shift, Queer Horror, Fantaspoa, Boston Underground Film Festival, Rock Paper Scissors
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Night Shift: " While working her first night shift at a remote motel, a young woman, Gwen Taylor (Phoebe Tonkin), begins to suspect that she is being followed by a dangerous character from her past. As the night progresses, Gwen’s isolation and safety, however, are made all the more worse when she starts to realize that the motel might also be haunted."

Writer & Director: The China Brothers (Paul & Ben) Cast: Phoebe Tonkin, Lamorne Morris, Madison Hu, Patrick Fischler, Lauren Bowles, Christopher Denham. Producers: Eric B. Fleischman, Maurice Fadida, John Hodges, Bradley Pilz, Dennis Rainaldi Runtime: 82 minutes Rated: TV-ma Distributor: Quiver Distribution

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Queer Horror - A Film Guide: "From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay directors such as F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and James Whale, Lgbtqia characters have rarely been portrayed in full view. For decades, filmmakers have...
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  • 3/8/2024
  • by Jonathan James
  • DailyDead
Quiver Distribution Dates Thriller ‘Night Shift’ Starring Phoebe Tonkin, Lamorne Morris & Madison Hu – Watch The Trailer
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Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has unveiled release plans and a new trailer for its thriller Night Shift, making the directorial debut of brother filmmakers Paul and Ben China. Starring Phoebe Tonkin (Boy Swallows Universe), Lamorne Morris (Fargo) and Madison Hu (The Brothers Sun), the film is set to hit select theaters and VOD on March 8. Check out the trailer above.

Night Shift tells the story of a young woman, Gwen Taylor (Tonkin) who, while working her first night shift at a remote hotel, begins to suspect that she is being followed by a dangerous character from her past. As the night progresses, Gwen’s situation spirals further when she starts to realize that the motel might also be haunted.

Pic’s producers are Eric B. Fleischman, Maurice Fadida, John Hodges, Bradley Pilz, and Dennis Rainaldi.
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  • 2/8/2024
  • by Matt Grobar
  • Deadline Film + TV
Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman reunite with ‘The Kill Room’, set for Sep 28 release
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The Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman starrer comedy-thriller film ‘The Kill Room’ has now gotten its confirmed release date, with the film dropping in theatres worldwide on September 28.

The movie will see the two actors reuniting for the first time in decades since their work in Quentin Tarantino’s classic film ‘Pulp Fiction’.

Directed by Nicol Paone with a script penned by Johnathan Jacobson, ‘The Kill Room’ focuses on an art dealer who joins forces with a deadly hitman and his boss for a massive money laundering heist which doesn’t really go as planned and now has its own twist which was unexpected.

In the midst of pulling off the crime, the hitman gets spotted and becomes prey. Finding herself caught in the crosshairs, this shady art dealer needs to make some quick and tough decisions as she faces off another world of criminal underbelly for which she...
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  • 7/28/2023
  • by Agency News Desk
  • GlamSham
‘The Kill Room’ Release Date: Shout! Studios’ Thriller Starring Uma Thurman, Joe Manganiello & Samuel L. Jackson Sets Fall Launch
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Exclusive: Shout! Studios has set a September 28th nationwide theatrical release date for The Kill Room, the darkly comedic thriller from Yale Entertainment that marks the first reteam for Pulp Fiction stars Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson in decades.

Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike) also stars in the pic directed by Nicol Paone from Jonathan Jacobson’s script. Pic tells the story of an art dealer (Thurman) who teams with a hitman (Manganiello) and his boss (Jackson) for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Among those rounding out the cast are Debi Mazar (Younger), Dree Hemingway (The Unicorn), Amy Keum (Honor Society), Candy Buckley (Bachelorette), Larry Pine (Succession), Jennifer Kim (Mozart in the Jungle), Matthew Maher (Air), Tom Pecinka (The Survivalist) and Alexander Sokovikov (For All...
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  • 7/27/2023
  • by Matt Grobar
  • Deadline Film + TV
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‘The Kill Room’ – Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson Team Up on Shout Studios Thriller
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Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson and Joe Manganiello are set to team up in upcoming Shout Studios thriller The Kill Room, Variety reports today.

The dark comedic thriller was directed by Nicol Paone and written by Jonathan Jacobson.

The Kill Room follows “an art dealer (Thurman) who teams with a hitman (Manganiello) and his boss (Jackson) for a money laundering scheme. The plan accidentally turns the hired killer into an overnight avant-garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.”

“’The Kill Room’ is a sharp, darkly comic evisceration of the art collecting scene, delivered with wily relish by Uma Thurman and director Nicol Paone. We’re confident this will play very well with audiences who like their entertainment both witty and visceral,” Jordan Fields, senior VP of acquisitions and originals at Shout, told Variety.

The cast also includes Debi Mazar, Dree Hemingway (“The Unicorn,” “Starlet”), Amy Keum (“Honor Society,...
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  • 7/6/2023
  • by Meagan Navarro
  • bloody-disgusting.com
Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson Thriller ‘The Kill Room’ Lands at Shout Studios (Exclusive)
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Shout Studios acquired North American rights to “The Kill Room,” a thriller starring Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson and Joe Manganiello.

The distribution and production division of indie Shout Factory has emerged victorious in a bidding war at Cannes Film Festival. Shout Studios plans to release the film in theaters this fall.

“The Kill Room” was directed by Nicol Paone and written by Jonathan Jacobson. The dark comedic-thriller follows an art dealer (Thurman) who teams with a hitman (Manganiello) and his boss (Jackson) for a money laundering scheme. The plan accidentally turns the hired killer into an overnight avant-garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.

“’The Kill Room’ is a sharp, darkly comic evisceration of the art collecting scene, delivered with wily relish by Uma Thurman and director Nicol Paone. We’re confident this will play very well with audiences who like their entertainment both witty and visceral,...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 7/6/2023
  • by Rebecca Rubin
  • Variety Film + TV
‘Baby Blue’ – Adam Mason’s Stephen King Tribute Heads to EFM Ahead of U.S. Release in Spring 2023
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Jackrabbit Media will begin sales talks at EFM this week on supernatural horror Baby Blue, ScreenDaily reports this morning. Additionally, the website reports that Baby Blue will get its North American release via XYZ Films this coming Spring.

In the film from Microdose Entertainment and director Adam Mason, “A group of teens stumble across the story of the dead serial killer Baby Blue. When they turn him into the subject of a podcast they soon learn that his murder spree never ended and they are being targeted from beyond the grave.”

Simon Boyes (Songbird, Hangman) wrote the script for Baby Blue, which was Executive Produced by Johannes Roberts, who horror fans know as the director of 47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and even The Strangers: Prey at Night.

The film stars Aramis Knight (“Ms. Marvel”), Ally Ioannides (Synchronic), Cyrus Arnold (Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, Zoolander 2), Lia Mchugh...
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  • 2/14/2023
  • by John Squires
  • bloody-disgusting.com
Jerry O'Connell and Bailee Madison in Play Dead (2022)
Play Dead trailer: Patrick Lussier’s morgue thriller gets UK release dates
Jerry O'Connell and Bailee Madison in Play Dead (2022)
We still don’t know when Play Dead, the morgue-set thriller from Patrick Lussier, director of My Bloody Valentine 3D (watch it Here) and Drive Angry (watch that one Here), is going to be released in the US… but we do know when it’s going to be released in the UK. Screen Daily reports that Icon Film Distribution has acquired the UK distribution rights to the film and will be making it available to watch exclusively on the Icon Film Channel as of February 13th. A theatrical release will follow on March 17th. Voltage Pictures has also unveiled a trailer for Play Dead, and you can check that out in the embed above.

Play Dead stars Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Jerry O’Connell (Piranha 3D), Anthony Turpel, Chris Butler (Designated Survivor), Chris Lee (Legacies), and Jorge-Luis Pallo (Cry Macho).

Written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, the...
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  • 1/13/2023
  • by Cody Hamman
  • JoBlo.com
Play Dead: Bailee Madison says Patrick Lussier’s morgue thriller is horrifying
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We’re patiently waiting to hear of a release date for Play Dead, the morgue-set thriller from Patrick Lussier, director of My Bloody Valentine 3D (watch it Here) and Drive Angry (watch that one Here). And while we continue to wait to hear when we’re going to have the chance to see the movie, star Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night) has taken the chance to build the hype for the film, describing it as “really horrifying”.

Speaking with Collider, Madison said Play Dead is “very different” and “so messed up. It’s basically just Jerry O’Connell and I the whole movie, and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever done. It’s really… it’s really horrifying. Play Dead takes place in a morgue… it’s really all I can say. It’s really… yeah, my sister can’t watch it. I showed it to her a couple of weeks ago,...
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  • 12/6/2022
  • by Cody Hamman
  • JoBlo.com
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‘The Visitor’ – Clip from Blumhouse & Epix Horror Movie Sends in the Frogs [Exclusive]
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Paramount Home Entertainment has released the psychological horror/thriller film The Visitor on Digital and On Demand today, ahead of a premiere on Epix in December 2022.

To whet your appetite, Bloody Disgusting is debuting an exclusive clip this afternoon. In the clip, our main characters have a strange experience with some mysterious frogs…

Find out what this is all about by watching The Visitor on Digital/On Demand now!

You can also watch the official trailer for The Visitor here.

In the film…

“When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’.

“Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.”

The Visitor stars Finn Jones...
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  • 10/7/2022
  • by John Squires
  • bloody-disgusting.com
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**Official Trailer The Visitor starring Finn Jones – On Digital and On Demand October 7, 2022 and On Epix December 2022
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Starring: Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Dane Rhodes, Donna Biscoe Directed By: Justin P. Lange Written By: Adam Mason & Simon Boyes Executive Producers: Bradley Pilz, Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, Jeremy Gold, Chris McCumber, David Grove Churchill Viste, Jason Blum When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old …

The post **Official Trailer The Visitor starring Finn Jones – On Digital and On Demand October 7, 2022 and On Epix December 2022 appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.
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  • 9/2/2022
  • by Adrian Halen
  • Horror News
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The Visitor trailer: Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee star in Blumhouse / Epix horror film
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The latest collaboration between Blumhouse and Epix is the horror film The Visitor, which will be available on Digital and VOD as of October 7th before reaching Epix in December. In anticipation of the October release, a trailer for The Visitor has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Justin P. Lange (The Seventh Day) directed The Visitor from a screenplay by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, who previously wrote the Into the Dark movie Blood Moon for Blumhouse and Hulu. For this one, Mason and Boyes crafted the following story:

When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’. Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that...
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  • 9/1/2022
  • by Cody Hamman
  • JoBlo.com
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‘The Visitor’ Trailer – Blumhouse TV and Epix Paint Fresh Horrors in October
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Paramount Home Entertainment will release the psychological horror/thriller film The Visitor on Digital and On Demand on October 7, 2022, and on Epix in December 2022.

While you wait, check out the official trailer for The Visitor below.

In the film…

“When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’.

“Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.”

The Visitor stars Finn Jones (“Game of Thrones”), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Dane Rhodes (Where the Crawdads Sing) and Donna Biscoe (“Saints & Sinners”). The film was written by Adam Mason (Songbird) & Simon Boyes (Songbird) and directed by Justin P. Lange (The Seventh Day).

The film was Executive Produced by Bradley Pilz,...
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  • 9/1/2022
  • by John Squires
  • bloody-disgusting.com
‘The Visitor’ – Death Follows Images and Artwork from Blumhouse TV and Epix [Exclusive]
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Paramount Home Entertainment will release the psychological horror/thriller film The Visitor on Digital and On Demand on October 7, 2022, and it will stream on Epix in December 2022, Bloody Disgusting learned today.

With the news comes the first art and stills, exclusively to Bloody, which warn, “Where he goes, death follows.”

In the film…

“When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’.

“Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.”

The Visitor stars Finn Jones (“Game of Thrones”), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Dane Rhodes (Where the Crawdads Sing) and Donna Biscoe (“Saints & Sinners”). The film was written by Adam Mason (Songbird) & Simon Boyes...
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  • 8/31/2022
  • by Brad Miska
  • bloody-disgusting.com
‘WWE Raw’s Liv Morgan To Make Film Debut In ‘The Kill Room’; Brooke Timber Finds First Big-Screen Role In Michel Franco’s ‘Memory’
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Exclusive: WWE Superstar Liv Morgan will make her film debut in Yale Entertainment’s darkly comic thriller, The Kill Room. She joins an ensemble that also includes Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar, Larry Pine, Dree Hemingway and Leah McSweeney, as previously announced.

The film centers on hitman Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Morgan will play an art purist who bemoans the vapidness of art dealers.

Nicol Paone is directing from Jonathan Jacobson’s script. Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, William Rosenfeld of Such Content, and Bill Kenwright of Bk Studios.
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  • 6/2/2022
  • by Matt Grobar
  • Deadline Film + TV
Bobby Lee Boards Indie ‘The Throwback’; Leah McSweeney Finds First Film Role In ‘The Kill Room’
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Exclusive: Bobby Lee (And Just Like That…) has signed on to star alongside Justina Machado, Will Sasso, Gregg Sulkin and Michelle Randolph in Mario Garcia’s feature directorial debut, The Throwback, which is currently in production in the Tampa Bay area.

The indie comedy follows Kate (Machado) and Matt (Sasso), a married couple in full-blown midlife crisis who are thrown into further turmoil when the former, an underappreciated and stressed ‘supermom,’ suffers a post-traumatic breakdown during the holiday season, causing her to regress to her 19-year-old college party-girl self. Lee will play an ad agency art director and longtime colleague of Sasso’s character Matt, who fancies himself a ladies’ man. Garcia penned the script and is producing via his company Garcia Interactive, alongside Michael A. Alfieri of Miantri Films and Doug Fox. Danielle Del is exec producing alongside Machado and Sterling Macer Jr.

Lee is an actor, comedian and...
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  • 5/24/2022
  • by Matt Grobar
  • Deadline Film + TV
Yale Entertainment’s Thriller ‘The Kill Room’ Adds Dree Hemingway
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Exclusive: Dree Hemingway (The Unicorn) is the latest addition to the cast of Yale Entertainment’s darkly comedic thriller The Kill Room, from writer Jonathan Jacobson and director Nicol Paone. She joins an ensemble that also includes Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar and Larry Pine, as previously announced.

The Kill Room centers on hitman, Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Hemingway will play Anika, the owner of a successful art gallery that rivals Thurman’s.

Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, and William Rosenfeld of Such Content. Executive producers include Robert Kapp,...
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  • 5/19/2022
  • by Matt Grobar
  • Deadline Film + TV
Voltage to launch Cannes sales on ‘Play Dead’ led by rising star Bailee Madison (exclusive)
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Patrick Lussier, whose credits include Drive Angry, My Bloody Valentine and Dracula 2000, directs.

Voltage Pictures will commence sales in Cannes on the morgue-set thriller Play Dead co-written by genre aces Adam Mason and Simon Boyes and starring Bailee Madison, the fast-rising talent whose credits include Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and The Strangers: Prey At Night.

Patrick Lussier, whose credits include Drive Angry, My Bloody Valentine and Dracula 2000, directs from the screenplay by Mason and Boye, the writers behind Blood River, Song Bird and Hangman.

Play Dead is currently in post-production and centres on criminology student Chloe (Madison), who...
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  • 5/5/2022
  • by Jeremy Kay
  • ScreenDaily
Joe Manganiello Joins Samuel L. Jackson & Uma Thurman In Thriller ‘The Kill Room’, Great Escape To Sell At Cannes Market
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Exclusive: True Blood and Justice League star Joe Manganiello has joined Oscar winner Samuel L. Jackson and Oscar-nominee Uma Thurman in the upcoming dark comedic thriller The Kill Room.

Principal photography is set to begin this spring in New Jersey and New York on the movie which will chart the story of a hitman (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), and an art dealer (Thurman) whose money laundering scheme accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight avant-garde sensation forcing Thurman’s character to play the art world against the underworld.

The project marks another screen team-up between Pulp Fiction stars Jackson and Thurman after they recently appeared onstage at the Academy Awards ceremony as a part of a Pulp Fiction reunion.

The Kill Room is written by Jonathan Jacobson and will be directed by Nicol Paone. Yale Entertainment produces and its recently launched sales and distribution banner, Great Escape, is handling international sales and co-repping the U.
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  • 4/22/2022
  • by Andreas Wiseman
  • Deadline Film + TV
Finn Jones & Jessica McNamee To Star In Blumhouse’s Latest Epix TV Movie ‘The Visitor’
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Exclusive: Epix and Blumhouse TV have set their next small-screen feature – The Visitor starring Finn Jones and Jessica McNamee.

The film, which is directed by Justin P. Lange from a script by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, is the latest TV movie as part of the two companies’ deal to produce eight standalone films.

Dickinson and Awake star Jones and Battle of the Sexes and Mortal Kombat star McNamee lead the cast of the psychological horror-thriller.

After a series of tragedies including the death of his father-in-law, Robert and his wife Maia leave their home in London to move back to her childhood home. But when Robert discovers an old portrait in the attic of a man who is his spitting image, he goes down a rabbit hole to discover the identity of this mysterious doppelganger known only as the visitor. It isn’t long until he realizes – where the visitor goes,...
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  • 10/5/2021
  • by Peter White
  • Deadline Film + TV
Justin Chu Cary & Charlie Weber Join Dustin Hoffman In Mayim Bialik’s ‘As Sick As They Made Us’ – Cannes
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Exclusive: Cast has rounded out on As Sick As They Made Us, the feature directing debut of The Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik.

As Deadline previously revealed, Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, and fellow Big Bang Theory cast member Simon Helberg will lead the comedy-drama. New additions are Justin Chu Cary (Black Summer) and Charlie Weber (How To Get Away With Murder), with Dianna Agron also in the cast.

The story is as follows – a new romance with Jay (Justin Chu Cary) for recently divorced Abigail (Dianna Agron), who has just split from her husband (Charlie Webb), arrives right in the midst of her parents’ (Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen) chaotic antics. After a lifetime of dysfunctional hilarity, the family, accompanied by an estranged brother (Simon Helberg) find it within themselves to embrace for one final goodbye.

Filming is now underway in New Jersey on the movie. Screen Media Ventures,...
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  • 6/23/2021
  • by Tom Grater
  • Deadline Film + TV
Phoebe Tonkin, Lamorne Morris & Madison Hu To Star In Horror Indie ‘Night Shift’ From Defiant Studios
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Exclusive: Phoebe Tonkin, Lamorne Morris, and Madison Hu are set to star in Night Shift, a horror film being directed by brothers Paul and Benjamin China, in their first feature directorial outing. The film hails from Defiant Studios with Eric B. Fleischman and Maurice Fadida producing alongside John Hodges, Bradley Pilz, and Dennis Rainaldi.

Rounding out the cast are Patrick Fischler, Lauren Bowles, and Christopher Denham.

The horror-thriller, written by the China brothers, follows a young woman (Tonkin) working her first night shift at a remote motel as she begins to suspect that she is being followed by a dangerous character from her past. As the night progresses and supernatural events occur, she quickly finds out that nothing is what it appears to be.

Executive producers include Jan McAdoo, Sylvain Gehler, Victor Shapiro, Raphael Swann as well as Kodiak Pictures, which is providing the financing. Production is slated to take...
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  • 4/15/2021
  • by Amanda N'Duka
  • Deadline Film + TV
Eric Bana
Film News Roundup: Eric Bana Boards ‘Mike the Bike’ Motorcycle Movie
Eric Bana
In today’s film news roundup, Eric Bana and Melissa Leo launch movie projects, Paradigm names four agents, Michael B. Jordan is being honored and Hilary Swank’s “Fatale” gets a release date.

Project Launches

Eric Bana’s Pick Up Truck Pictures and Robert Connolly’s Arenamedia have secured rights to the “Mike the Bike” motorcycle story.

Bana will star as Mike Hailwood, considered among the greatest motorcycle racers of all time. Bana and Connolly will direct from a screenplay written by Bana. The story will focus on the story of Hailwood, a nine-time world-champion motorcycle racer returning to the Isle of Man race in 1978 after an 11-year hiatus. Run on public roads on the British Island, The Isle of Man is among to most dangerous races in the world, with 151 fatalities since its inception in 1907.

“We are absolutely thrilled that Eric Bana and Robert Connolly have taken Mike’s...
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  • 2/26/2020
  • by Dave McNary
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Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo & Zazie Beetz To Star In ‘Shelter’ For Mandalay Pictures & Exec Producer Sam Rockwell
Melissa Leo
Exclusive: Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Joker and Atlanta actress Zazie Beetz have been set to star in drama pic Shelter.

Jen Gerber is directing from a script by David Rysdahl, who is also in the cast as a troubled father who reconnects with his estranged daughter after they find themselves homeless in the middle of a winter storm. Desperate for shelter, the duo returns to his mother’s (Leo) home in rural Minnesota, where they fake an illness in hopes of quickly getting back on their feet. Hala Finley (Man With a Plan) stars as the daughter.

Producers are Jason Michael Berman (Mediterranea) of Mandalay Pictures and Mark Berger of Play Hooky Productions, along with Bradley Pilz and Datari Turner. Executive producers are Sam Rockwell, Beetz and Will Raynor. The movie will shoot in New Ulm, Mn.

“At a time when this country is so politically divided, I’m...
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  • 2/25/2020
  • by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
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Naomi Watts in The Wolf Hour (2019)
Naomi Watts Thriller ‘The Wolf Hour’ Picked Up for U.S. by Brainstorm Media
Naomi Watts in The Wolf Hour (2019)
“The Wolf Hour,” a psychological thriller starring Naomi Watts and Jennifer Ehle, has been picked up for North America by Brainstorm Media. HanWay Films has also closed sales for a host of European and Asian territories.

Directed by Alistair Banks Griffin, “The Wolf Hour” features Oscar-nominated Watts as June, a former countercultural celebrity who lives as a recluse in New York’s South Bronx in the late 1970s. Outside, the city is on edge, with the Son of Sam killer on the loose and the July 13, 1977, riot over an electricity blackout about to erupt. June’s world starts to unravel when an invisible tormentor begins to crack her defenses.

Other cast members are Ehle (“Pride and Prejudice”), Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, and Jeremy Bobb.

Banks Griffin’s debut feature film, “Two Gates of Sleep,” played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2010. “The Wolf Hour” is produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones...
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  • 6/26/2019
  • by Henry Chu
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Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts Thriller ‘The Wolf Hour’ Sells To Brainstorm Media For North America & Uphe For Slew Of Int’l Markets
Naomi Watts
Brainstorm Media has acquired North American rights to Alistair Banks Griffin’s thriller The Wolf Hour, which has also sold around the world for HanWay Films.

The Sundance debut stars Naomi Watts together with Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, and Jeremy Bobb. Watts also executive produced.

Set against the ‘Summer of Sam’, the film charts the story of a once well-known, now reclusive writer caught up in the tension of late 1970s New York. The deal was negotiated between Brainstorm and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers together with HanWay. Brainstorm will release theatrically in fall 2019.

HanWay has also closed deals with Odeon (Greece), Nos Lusomundo (Portugal), Fabula (Turkey), Discovery (Former Yugoslavia), DDDream (China), Klockworx (Japan), Shaw (Singapore), Cinesky (airlines / ships) and Uphe Content Group.

The film is produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Bailey Conway Anglewicz from Automatik along with Bradley Pilz under Bradley Pilz productions. Felipe Dieppa and Taryn Nagle are exec producers for The Big Picture Company with Linda Moran of Belladonna Productions and Fred Berger of Automatik.

“Naomi Watts gives a riveting performance in this tense thriller. We are very excited to bring this movie to U.S. theaters nationwide,” said Michelle Shwarzstein, VP of Marketing and Acquisitions for Brainstorm Media.

Banks Griffin’s first feature Two Gates Of Sleep screened in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2010 and competed for the Camera d’Or.
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  • 6/26/2019
  • by Andreas Wiseman
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Vertical Entertainment Nabs Rights To Horror Pic ‘Boo!’
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has secured the North American distribution rights to director Luke Jaden’s horror film, Boo!, with plans to release the pic in limited theaters April 12 as well as a digital rollout on platforms including iTunes and Amazon and through local cable providers.

Co-written by Jaden and Diane Michelle, the Midland Entertainment and Bardha Productions film stars Aurora Perrinea, Jaden Piner, Jill Marie Jones, Rob Zabrecky, and Charley Palmer Rothwell. The plot centers around a torn suburban family who refuses to heed the warning of an innocent prank left upon them which causes an unknown supernatural force to wreak havoc.

Phil Wurtzel and Ele Bardha produced, while Jaden, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Bradley Pilz, Nicolas Chartier, and Jonathan Deckter served as exec producers. Voltage is handling international rights.

The deal was brokered by Peter Jarowey and Josh Spector at Vertical and Jonathan Deckter at Voltage on behalf of the filmmakers.
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  • 3/22/2019
  • by Amanda N'Duka
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Carlos Leal
Ser’Darius Blain Cast In ‘Against All Enemies’; Chris O’Shea Joins ‘Modern Persuasion’; Carlos Leal In ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’
Carlos Leal
Ser’Darius Blain, last seen on the big screen in Sony’s blockbuster, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, has been cast in Against All Enemies, joining Kristen Stewart, Jack O’Connell, Vince Vaughn, and Anthony Mackie. Directed by Benedict Andrews, the political thriller follows iconic actress Jean Seberg (Stewart) who, in the late 1960s, was targeted by the illegal FBI surveillance program Cointelpro in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party. Blain will play Louis Lewis, a Black Panther who is arrested by the FBI. Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik are producing alongside Kate Garwood and Stephen Hopkins, as well as Bradley Pilz, Alan Ritchson, and Marina Acton. The script is by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, both of whom will serve as executive producers. Blain, who up next stars in the CW’s Charmed reboot, is repped by Paradigm, Grandview, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman,...
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  • 7/26/2018
  • by Amanda N'Duka
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Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn Joins Kristen Stewart in ‘Against All Enemies’
Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn has come on board the independent political thriller “Against All Enemies,” starring Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg.

International sales have launched at the Cannes Film Festival through Memento Films International. UTA is repping U.S. rights.

Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz and Colm Meaney are also starring. Benedict Andrews is directing from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.

The story centers on attempts by the FBI to discredit Seberg through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party. Those efforts included creating a false story in 1970 that the child Seberg was carrying was not fathered by her husband, but by a member of the Black Panther Party.

Vaughn will play Carl Kowalski, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation. Mackie will portray a civil rights activist, and O’Connell has been cast as an FBI agent assigned to surveil the actress.
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  • 5/9/2018
  • by Dave McNary
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Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn & More Join Kristen Stewart In Jean Seberg Thriller ‘Against All Enemies’ – Cannes
Vince Vaughn
Exclusive: Against All Enemies, the political thriller that stars Kristen Stewart as iconic actress Jean Seberg, has added key cast components. Vince Vaughn, Zazie Beetz, Yvan Attal (Munich) and Stephen Root (Get Out) are all now on board for the Benedict Andrews-directed film.

Fred Berger (La La Land) and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik are producing alongside Kate Garwood and Stephen Hopkins. Phreaker Films, led by Alan Ritchson and Marina Acton, has come on board to produce and finance. Bradley Pilz of Bradley Pilz Productions is also producing. Sales kick off in Cannes this week via Memento Films International. UTA is repping U.S. rights.

Along with Stewart — also at Cannes as a member of the festival’s competition jury — Deadline previously revealed the cast includes Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley and Colm Meaney. Filming is set for June in Los Angeles.

Seberg, an American...
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  • 5/9/2018
  • by Nancy Tartaglione
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