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Earlier this year, Full Moon founder Charles Band announced that his company was launching a new production label called Pulp Noir, which will focus on “edgier, weirder, darker horror and dark fantasy films.” They also set up a Patreon account where fans can subscribe and show their support for the company while getting a behind-the-scenes look at the making of these films. The first movie in the Pulp Noir line, a female serial killer story called Quadrant, was given a Blu-ray, DVD, limited edition VHS, and streaming release on August 23rd… and now, on September 20th, a black & white “noir version” of Quadrant is set to start streaming on Full Moon Features and Prime Video. Update: The noir version of Quadrant has now been released! A black and white trailer can be seen in the embed above.

As Band says in the latest episode of his Full Moon Universe show,...

Eight actors were announced as recurring cast members for the upcoming Nicolas Cage-led Spider-Noir, although details on their specific characters were not released.

Per Deadline, Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives), Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur (The Righteous Gemstones)p, Joe Massingill (Barry), Whitney Rice and Amanda Schull, have all joined the cast of the MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Spider-Man Noir comic from Marvel.

Actor Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter) will portray the main villain in the series, starring Cage as Spider-Man Noir and recent Emmy Award winner Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson. Li Jun Li will play a New York nightclub singer and Abraham Popoola a World War I veteran. Earlier this month, it was announced Jack Huston (Mayfair Witches) was joining the cast of the highly-anticipated series.

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The “Spider-Noir” series at Amazon has added eight recurring cast members, Variety has learned.

The series, which is the first live-action project to feature the character Spider-Man Noir, has cast: Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, and Amanda Schull. Exact character details are being kept under wraps.

The new additions join series lead Nicolas Cage as well as fellow cast members Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, Abraham Popoola, Li Jun Li and Jack Huston. As previously reported, the show will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear channel and then globally on Amazon Prime Video.

Per the official logline, the show “tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.”

Haas is repped by Paradigm, Lbi Entertainment,...

Earlier this year, Full Moon founder Charles Band announced that his company was launching a new production label called Pulp Noir, which will focus on “edgier, weirder, darker horror and dark fantasy films.” They also set up a Patreon account where fans can subscribe and show their support for the company while getting a behind-the-scenes look at the making of these films. The first movie in the Pulp Noir line, a female serial killer story called Quadrant, wrapped production a while back and Full Moon has announced that the movie will be getting Blu-ray, DVD, limited edition VHS, and streaming release on August 23rd! But before we reach that date, Full Moon will be releasing a special called Quadrant: The Joe Bob Briggs Screening on August 22nd!

The announcement lets us know, “Full Moon Features will be Exclusively premiering a very special Quadrant special feature on Thursday, August 22nd.

Spider-Noir star Lamorne Morris is excited about the upcoming series and thinks fans should be as well. Morris is best known for playing the role of Winston Bishop on the hit series New Girl from 2011 to 2018, but he has also appeared in films like Game Night and Jumanji: The Next Level and will next be seen playing comedian Garrett Morris in the upcoming film, Saturday Night. Earlier this year, he was cast in the upcoming Spider-Man Noir series, titled Spider-Noir.

Morris is set to play the role of Robbie Robertson in the Spider-Verse live-action spin-off that will see Nicolas Cage once again play Spider-Man Noir. As the first live-action Spider-Man series since The Amazing Spider-Man from 1977 to 1979, many fans are curious about what is in store. While speaking with Comic Book.com, Morris revealed that he will be bringing a bit of himself to the role of Robbie Robertson and...

The Notebook Primer introduces vital figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Baazi.Cigarettes, card games, taxi rides, nightclubs, jail cells. No matter the setting of a film noir, certain things remain constant. In Hindi crime films of the 1950s, Bombay—the most populous and densest city in India—came to stand in for New York. Both cities attain a certain romance when it rains. In both, taxis honk incessantly while the downtrodden brush shoulders with the rich and glamorous. Guru Dutt’s Baazi, the first film in what would be an illustrious career, introduced Indian audiences to a new kind of genre filmmaking, unsubtly inspired by the conventions of 1940s Hollywood noir. The box-office success of the film, the second highest grossing of 1951 behind Raj Kapoor’s iconic Awaara, proved to financiers that films about antiheroes and criminals could have mass popular appeal. Although its popularity waned within a decade,...

Brazilian actors Alice Braga (“Queen of the South”) and Bianca Comparato (“3%”) have joined forces to launch South, a new production label based out of Los Angeles, New York and São Paulo. The company was established with financial support from Flagcx, the largest independent creative services holding company in Latin America.

South will debut its first feature project, Gabriela Amaral Almeida’s body-horror story “She, Crocodile,” at this year’s 12th edition of the San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, which will take place from Sept. 25 -27.

Described by the producers as a “horror fable,” “She, Crocodile” is the story of a young woman, the sole heiress to a luxury real estate brokerage in Rio de Janeiro, who slowly transforms into one of the titular reptiles. As a project, it received backing from the MacDowell Institute Residency program where Amaral wrote a full-50 page treatment.

According to Amaral, a rising genre...