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Lower the lights, close the curtains, and leave one headphone halfway off your ear to detect outside noise because Rory Culkin and Paris Jackson will lead the 1990s-set softcore porn comedy Skinemax. The project comes from Adam Sigal, who directs Skinemax from a script he wrote. Production for Skinemax recently wrapped in Budapest, with the film sounding like it could deliver some blush-worthy laughs.

Skinemax focuses on the softcore porn industry in 1990. You know, the decade when adult film icons like Silvia Saint, Asia Carerra, Peter North, and Jack Napier were the kings and queens of fictitious bedroom gymnastics, and adolescents prayed for scrambled channels to display even a single private part long enough to feel as if they’d won the porn lottery. Yeah, that magical time. The film follows Morgan Sands (Culkin), a failing indie film director, and his unlikely friendship with Jessie Hudson (Jackson), a popular adult film star.

Exclusive: Rory Culkin (Lords of Chaos) and Paris Jackson (Gringo) lead the cast of Skinemax, a comedy from writer-director Adam Sigal (Chariot), which has wrapped production in Budapest.

Examining the softcore porn industry of the early 1990s, the film follows Morgan Sands (Culkin), a failing indie film director, and his unlikely friendship with Jessie Hudson (Jackson), a popular adult film star.

Pic’s cast also includes Crispin Glover (Mr. K), Oliver Trevena (Plane), Will Peltz (Unfriended), Mark Boone Jr. (Memento), GaTa (Anyone But You), Jared P-Smith (FBI), Vladislav Lapidus (Dead Man’s Wire), Zac Coats (Crave), Sierra Nowak (Lucifer), and Maren Altman (If It Bleeds).

The film is produced by Jon Wroblewski and Christian Sosa of Roosevelt Film Lab, Trevena of Ollywood Media, and David Treatman of Grapevine Films. Exec producers include Dane and Elizabeth Fiori, Lars and Janice Letonoff, Michael Santos, Christian Sheedy, Dalas Lamberson, Maxwell Johnson of Grapevine, and Andre Champagne of Passcode.

Kevin Lewis directs the film, which stars Joey Lauren Adams.

Production has wrapped on Kevin Lewis’ independent US-uk horror Oak, which Gfm Film Sales has boarded ahead of Cannes.

First footage of the film will be available in at the market; Screen can reveal a first look at the film above.

Oak is produced by George Lee and Marcus Englefield for the Blood Red Films and Ryan Smith for Thomasville Pictures, both from the US. Executive producers are Kevin Lewis, Jeremy Ross and Fred Hedman of the UK’s Evolution Pictures; financing comes from Head Gear Films, Thomasville and Storyoscopic Films.

Kevin Lewis directs the film, which stars Joey Lauren Adams.

Production has wrapped on Kevin Lewis’ independent US-uk horror Oak, which Gfm Film Sales has boarded ahead of Cannes.

First footage of the film will be available in at the market; Screen can reveal a first look at the film above.

Oak is produced by George Lee and Marcus Englefield for the Blood Red Films and Ryan Smith for Thomasville Pictures, both from the US. Executive producers are Kevin Lewis, Jeremy Ross and Fred Hedman of the UK’s Evolution Pictures; financing comes from Head Gear Films, Thomasville and Storyoscopic Films.