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Borderlands was a genuine bomb. No doubt about it. The adaptation of the acclaimed video game franchise grossed just $33 million in theaters and was absolutely trashed by critics. During a recent earnings call, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer spoke about the epic failure of Borderlands.

“On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” Feltheimer said. With a budget of around $120 million, Borderlands stands to lose the studio a lot of money. Although Lionsgate did mitigate some of the risks by selling foreign rights, sources told Deadline that Borderlands could still lose as much as $30 million. “The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,” Feltheimer added

Borderlands wasn’t the only...

In the first episode of the fifth and final season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," called "Dos Cerritos," D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) is still living among her fellow Orion pirates, commanding her own vessel and regularly going on plundering excursions. Although Tendi is a capable fighter, she is mild-mannered at heart, trying to rein in the ultra-violent, murder-forward ethos of her crew. Not-so-secretly, Tendi longs to return to the U.S.S. Cerritos, where she can happily be a junior office; medical science, her friends, and gentle service interest her more than looting and violence. Luckily, Tendi's sister D'Erica has offered a deal; salvage a crashed 300-year-old Orion vessel from a distant planet, and Tendi will be allowed to leave Orion again to pursue her Starfleet dreams. 

A snag: when Tendi arrives at the location of the downed Orion vessel, there are others eager to salvage it for themselves. Tendi...

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ directorial debut My Dead Friend Zoe took the Grand Jury prize for Best Feature Narrative Saturday night as the Woodstock Film Festival presented awards for its silver jubilee edition.

The film stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman in a tale of a female veteran of the war in Afghanistan who “comes head to head with her Vietnam vet grandfather at the family’s ancestral lake house.” The feature grew out of a short film directed by Hausmann-Stokes, himself a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq.

The jury, comprised of Oren Moverman, Roger Ross Williams, and Debra Granik, wrote, “For a standout central performance that delves into the darkness of the human psyche in the aftermath of its most extreme brutality, and for shining a light on the tragic consequences of war on those who are sent in our name to fight, we the...

The crowds of film sellers and buyers are still rolling into Toronto from Venice and Telluride, but the puck dropped Thursday night on the acquisitions marketplace with the premiere of Nutcrackers.

David Gordon Green has taken a detour from genre to serve up a Ben Stiller-starrer that proved a crowdpleaser in two opening-night showings.

That kind of movie — with promising premises with stars and directors with proven track records — is all over the schedule. There is a lot to like in this 2024 TIFF acquisitions market. But I’ve just come from an L.A. visit and cannot recall as bleak a black cloud hangover from the twin strikes of last year. It will take time for the business to recover, and this caution could factor into the dealmaking. Also on the minds of distributors is how elusive box office has become. Comparable films to the ones on sale here...

When "Borderlands" opened in theaters on August 9, 2024, it brought in just $8.6 million — an astonishingly low figure for a film that cost more than $100 million to make. Then, things just went from bad to worse for "Borderlands" at the box office, with the movie seeing an almost unprecedented 73% drop in its second weekend. Thus far, the video game adaptation has made just $21 million on a reported $115 million budget — and that's before the marketing cost is accounted for. A very rough estimate typically puts marketing at around half a film's production budget, so we're looking at a movie that likely cost in the region of $170 million, making less than a quarter of that at the box office ahead of its fast-approaching streaming debut.

With this in mind, you might be starting to see how much of a historic blunder we're witnessing with "Borderlands." But that's just the box office. Plenty of movies...

It’s an interesting time to write about video game adaptations, especially in light of the Borderlands disaster.

The entire point was to talk about the colossal leap forward in game adaptations from the days of the Bob Hoskin Super Mario Brothers absurdity to Amazon Prime’s Fallout.

The latter is sitting on 16 awards and nominations, while the former remains the butt of jokes, memes, and gifs to this day.

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Once upon a time, Hollywood just wanted to cash in on a popular video game franchise.

Quality be damned. While the money factor hasn’t changed, Tinseltown now knows the audience is hypersensitive to adaptations of beloved franchises.

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It was husband vs wife this weekend at the top of the box office charts, with Blake Lively’s romantic drama, It Ends With Us, battling it out for the top spot with hubby Ryan Reynolds’s box office behemoth, Deadpool & Wolverine. In the end, the superhero team-up movie managed to hold on to the top spot for a third weekend in a row, grossing an outstanding $54 million, which is only a 44% drop since last week (that’s a great hold), with the film likely to cross the $500 million mark at the domestic box office by mid-week.

However, while it wasn’t able to eke out a win over Deadpool, It Ends With Us, which is adapted from the novel by Colleen Hoover, was still a major win. The Blake Lively vehicle’s $50 million gross makes it one of the highest-grossing romantic dramas in recent memory, with it well on...

Borderlands is an action sci-fi action comedy adventure film directed by Eli Roth from a screenplay co-written by Eli Roth and Joe Crombie. Based on an action role-playing first-person looter shooter video game franchise of the same name developed by Gearbox Software, the 2024 film follows the story of a group of misfits led by Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter as she returns to her home planet of Pandora. Together they fight against alien monsters and dangerous bandits to uncover one of the most dangerous secrets. Borderlands stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramirez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Haley Bennett, Bobby Lee, Olivier Richters, Janina Gavankar, Cheyenne Jackson, and Charles Babalola. While, Borderland isn’t getting much love from the critics or the audience, but if you love the action and bonds between the team in Borderlands here are some similar movies you should check out next.

There are seven games in the Borderlands series, games whose procedurally generated rewards and core mechanics and science fictional nihilism with Western influences could see them described as non-voter oater looter shooters.

I'm not going to say more effort went into trying to construct that sentence than Borderland's script. However there's noises that co-writer Joe Crombie is a) a pseudonym and b) that the pen behind that nom de plume Craig Mazin is disavowing any connection to the script. That's the Craig Mazin who penned video game adaptation The Last Of Us, an episode of which has been nominated for a Hugo award that puts it in the same august company as Dune the novel and Dune the film. They're not quite the Oscars of science fiction, but they are named after a person and they are a big deal. I'm not just saying that because as an...

We have discussed killers that received slasher movies, folklore turned cannibalism, and plenty of possession via person, home, or even object. What we haven’t done too much of is the good old-fashioned cult. While we took a deep dive into Jim Jones and the tragedy of Jonestown paired with the very well-done Sacrament, there are a ton of real-life cults and cult leaders that have been put to celluloid in an attempt to both cash in and tell a compelling story. I mean, I’m writing this right now on the couch while my wife watches a documentary about a cult on Netflix. True crime and religious cult stuff exist in popular forms like podcasts, shows, and of course movies too. Today we will look at two things that don’t get a lot of widespread attention. The 2007 horror movie Borderland (watch it Here) and what it is loosely...

From Henry Cavill to Daniel Craig, it is not uncommon to find stars of Hollywood turn out to be extreme geeks when it comes to gaming. Many of them have stated how it helps them to wind down and relax after a long day of shooting for a film, and it is probably the closest we will ever get to relating with these superstars in real life.

One such rising star, Elizabeth Yu, who stars in the recent Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series, has revealed to fans how she has recently got into the hobby of gaming, courtesy of IGN on YouTube. She engaged in a conversation talking about what video game titles she has played and is currently playing, and her answers filled the community with joy.

Avatar: The Last Airbender | Netflix Elizabeth Yu Reveals Her First-Ever Video Game Titles In An Interview

In the aforementioned interview, she...

It’s official: Netflix has renewed its hit Japanese sci-fi thriller drama Alice in Borderland for a third season. Fans of the show noticed late Wednesday that Netflix had unceremoniously dropped a teaser for a third season, leading to online speculation that more episodes of the live-action show were officially in the works. At the Apos entertainment and media industry conference in Bali, Indonesia, Netflix’s vice president of content in Asia Pacific, Minyoung Kim, made the news official by announcing the renewal during a keynote talk from the stage.

Following its second season debut in December 2022, Alice in Borderland became Netflix Japan’s most-watched title ever, even including anime titles. It shot up to the Top 10 in over 90 countries, claiming the No. 1 spot in 17 of them, and clocked 200 million viewing hours worldwide.

With Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya reprising their roles as Arisu and Usagi in Season 3, Netflix says...

Wolf Garden: "William has gone into hiding in the countryside following horrifically violent events. Struggling to come to terms with reality, he flashes between the past and present, and fantasies involving the woman he loves, Chantelle. As his sanity crumbles, he begins to feed an unseen creature locked inside a shed in the woods. Witnessing apparitions of a ghostly visitor, he realises he must kill the creature and discover a terrible truth about Chantelle before the next full moon."

Starring: Wayne David, Sian Altman, Grant Master & Jake Wood

Wolf Garden is available now on Amazon Prime, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo & Xbox

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Hell's Half Acre: "Twist-fuelled horror film Hell’S Half Acre, directed by John Patrick Tomasek, will be released worldwide this April from Terror Films.

Hells Half Acre follows Marcus as he leads his group of young urban explorers Jessie, Dan, Jose, and Cassie to abandoned locations for their...

Andrew Jara’s new horror / sci-fi film, The Empty Space starring Valerie Alene, Juan Manuel Cazares, and Marlon Lewis was acquired by Bayview Entertainment. The Empty Space is winner of best of the fest at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival. Andrew Jara is best known for his previous films, Borderland and The Last Ones, Aimee …

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Andrew Jara’s new horror / sci-fi film, The Empty Space starring Valerie Alene, Juan Manuel Cazares, and Marlon Lewis was acquired by Bayview Entertainment. The Empty Space is winner of best of the fest at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival. Andrew Jara is best known for his previous films, Borderland and The Last Ones,

Aimee Andrews deals with grief and anxiety after a violent attack.

The Empty Space is coming soon Distribution dates to be announced

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Cate Blanchett has officially signed on to star in Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film, “A Manual for Cleaning Women.”

The film is an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name, which includes 43 stories about women in multiple types of demanding jobs.

It was confirmed to Variety exclusively that the project is in the early stages of development, with Blanchett’s production company Dirty Films producing the feature for New Republic Pictures, in association with El Deseo. Andrew Upton and Coco Francini are producing alongside Blanchett for Dirty Films. Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer are producing for New Republic Pictures alongside Almodóvar.

Blanchett is a revered actress who has won two Academy Awards, for “The Aviator” (2004) in supporting actress and “Blue Jasmine” (2013) in lead actress. She’s in the awards conversation again this year for delivering two powerhouse performances in Guillermo del Toro’s...

The new live action 'survival-thriller' TV series "Alice in Borderland", directed by Shinsuke Satō, adapts the Japanese 'shōnen manga' comic book title by Haro Aso, streaming December 2020 on Netflix:

"...a trio of high school video-game obsessed delinquents, are bored with their current lives. During a firework celebration, 'Arisu' wishes that he could live in a different and exciting world.

"His wish is granted and the three are transported into a post-apocalyptic parallel world of Tokyo. After stepping into what seems to be an empty festival, they are greeted by a woman who tells them that in 'Borderland', they must play games to survive..."

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The Ira thriller from directors the Guard Brothers is also set to star Jack Reynor and Jodie Turner-Smith. John Boyega (Star Wars) will join an exciting cast of Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) in Borderland, a 1970s-set thriller based around the British-ira conflict. It will mark the second feature by Tom and Charles Guard, commonly known as the Guard Brothers. Chris Coen and Rebecca Brown are producing, with Jones as executive producer. The film follows an Irish paramilitary soldier (Reynor), whose pregnant wife is accidentally murdered by a British Sas sergeant (Boyega) in a border ambush. Reynor’s character is then deployed to head up a new armed-attack cell in London, and uses the opportunity to exact revenge on his wife’s killer. With the movie described as being in the vein of Michael Mann’s...

Borderland – not to be confused with the video game adaptation Borderlands – has lined-up a very impressive cast. The Ira thriller will star John Boyega, Jack Reynor, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Felicity Jones, with the Guard Brothers, who were behind the Tale of Two Sisters remake The Uninvited, set to direct from a script they co-wrote with Ronan Bennett. […]

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John Boyega, Felicity Jones, Jack Reynor and Jodie Turner Smith are set to star in a new thriller called “Borderland” set during the time of Ireland’s Ira, or the Irish Republican Army, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Thomas and Charles Guard, better known as The Guard Brothers (“The Uninvited”), will direct the feature from a script they co-wrote with Ronan Bennett (“Public Enemies”). The story is inspired by the non-fiction book “The Road To Balcombe Street: The Ira Reign of Terror in London” by Steven S. Moysey, which was published in 2008 and is a true-crime thriller about an Ira unit placed in deep cover in London.

In “Borderland,” after a border ambush goes wrong, an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an Sas sergeant Tempest (Boyega). When Tempest is sent back to London to lead a covert counter-terrorist operation,...

Sometimes it doesn’t matter what the plot of a film is about, but there’s enough star power in the cast to warrant a watch. And that appears to be the case with the upcoming feature “Borderland.”

According to Deadline, actors John Boyega, Jack Reynor, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Felicity Jones have all signed on to star in the new thriller, “Borderland.” The film follows the story of an Irish paramilitary fighter who watches his wife get gunned down by a Sas sergeant.

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“Star Wars” actor John Boyega will star alongside Jodie Turner-Smith (“Queen & Slim”), Felicity Jones (“The Theory of Everything”) and Jack Reynor (“Midsommar”) in thriller “Borderland,” to be directed by the Guard Brothers (“The Uninvited’).

The film will follow an Irish paramilitary soldier who witnesses the shooting of his wife by an Sas sergeant and makes it his personal mission to extract revenge.

The script by Ronan Bennett, BAFTA-nominee and Royal Television Society Awards winner for “Top Boy,” and the Guard Brothers, is inspired by the novel “The Road to Balcombe Street,” by Steven S. Moysey. Chris Coen, Rebecca Brown, Rocket Science and Piecrust Productions will produce the film, with Jones serving as executive producer.

The film will shoot at U.K. locations in early 2021. Rocket Science is arranging financing and handling international sales. Endeavor Content is co-representing U.S. rights.

“’Borderland’ is a vengeance-fueled chase movie, fusing some pulse ticking...

Charles and Thomas Guard will direct the thriller.

John Boyega, Felicity Jones, Jack Reynor, and Jodie Turner-Smith are set to star in Charles Guard and Thomas Guard’s UK revenge thriller Borderland, which aims to shoot on location in the UK early next year.

Known professionally as the Guard Brothers, the director pair previously made 2009 horror The Uninvited. They have co-written the screenplay for Borderland with Ronan Bennett, inspired by Steven S. Moysey’s book The Road To Balcome Street.

Reynor will play an Irish paramilitary whose wife is shot by a Sas sergeant, to be played by Boyega. The...

Star Wars alum and BAFTA winner John Boyega is set to star alongside Jack Reynor (Midsommer), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and BAFTA and Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (Star Wars: Rogue One, The Theory of Everything) in the high-octane thriller Borderland. 

The Guard brothers (The Uninvited) will direct, while Chris Coen (The Childhood of a Leader), Rebecca Brown and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. Piecrust Productions will also produce. The film will shoot on location in the U.K. in early 2021. Rocket Science is arranging the financing and handling international sales. Endeavor Content are co-repping ...

Star Wars alum and BAFTA winner John Boyega is set to star alongside Jack Reynor (Midsommer), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and BAFTA and Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (Star Wars: Rogue One, The Theory of Everything) in the high-octane thriller Borderland. 

The Guard brothers (The Uninvited) will direct, while Chris Coen (The Childhood of a Leader), Rebecca Brown and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. Piecrust Productions will also produce. The film will shoot on location in the U.K. in early 2021. Rocket Science is arranging the financing and handling international sales. Endeavor Content are co-repping ...

Grindhouse Trailer for Borderland Andrew Jara’s Borderland will be released on VOD Amazon and Roku on March 24, 2020 through Meridian Releasing. It is currently available on DVD and Blu-ray. In anticipation, a 1970’s Grindhouse style trailer has been released to promote Borderland. Borderland Synopsis: On the border, the only thing that matters is what …

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Borderland Is Now Available on DVD & Blu-ray @ Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon and Deep Discount DVD For Immediate Release: Borderland, directed by Andrew Jara, is now available on DVD and Blu-ray at Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon, Deep Discount DVD and many other locations. Synopsis: On the Border, all that matters is what you can give to …

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Netflix has announced that they will be producing a live-action adaption of Haro Aso's Alice in Borderland manga and that it will be coming in 2020.

The manga centers on Ryōhei Arisu (pronounced the same as "Alice" in Japanese), “a male high school student who is irritated with his intolerable everyday life. One night, he tags along with his bad friends Karube and Chōta to hang out in town. However, the town is suddenly covered in giant fireworks. When he comes to his senses, Ryōhei notices that no one else is around. Finding themselves in a different world, Ryōhei, Karube, and Chōta are forced to participate in survival games or die right off the bat. The three fight to live, as well as to find a way back to their own world.”

This is the official synopsis shared by Netflix:

"Ryohei Arisu has been irritated with his intolerable everyday life. One day,...

The film is written and directed by Nathalie Biancheri.

Irish actor Barry Keoghan, whose credits include The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, American Animals, and the Emmy-nominated series Chernobyl, is in talks to star in Nathalie Biancheri’s Wolf, a high-concept arthouse drama about a boy who believes he is a wolf.

It is being produced by Ireland’s Feline Films with Polish outfit Lava Films.

Wolf will be the third feature by Irish writer-director Biancheri following her documentary I Was Here, co-directed with Ola Jankowska, which debuted at Cph: Dox earlier this year, and the drama Nocturnal, starring Sadie Frost and Cosmo Jarvis,...

The film is written and directed by Nathalie Biancheri.

Irish actor Barry Keoghan, whose credits includeThe Killing of a Sacred Deer, American Animals, and the Emmy-nominated series Chernobyl , is in talks to star in Nathalie Biancheri’s Wolf, a high-concept arthouse drama about a boy who believes he is a wolf. It is being produced by Ireland’s Parallel Films with Polish outfit Lava Films.

Wolf will be the third feature by Irish writer-director Biancheri following her documentary I Was Here, co-directed with Ola Jankowska, which debuted at Cph: Dox earlier this year, and the drama Nocturnal, starring Sadie Frost and Cosmo Jarvis,...

The film is written and directed by Nathalie Biancheri.

Irish actor Barry Keoghan, whose credits includeThe Killing of a Sacred Deer, American Animals, and the Emmy-nominated series Chernobyl , is in talks to star in Nathalie Biancheri’s Wolf, a high-concept arthouse drama about a boy who believes he is a wolf. It is being produced by Ireland’s Parallel Films with Polish outfit Lava Films.

Wolf will be the third feature by Irish writer-director Biancheri following her documentary I Was Here, co-directed with Ola Jankowska, which debuted at Cph: Dox earlier this year, and the drama Nocturnal, starring Sadie Frost and Cosmo Jarvis,...

Tim Blake Nelson, Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall, Ben McKenzie, and Matthew Rhys have joined the independent CIA drama “The Torture Report.”

Previously announced cast include Annette Bening, Adam Driver, and Jon Hamm. Imr International is launching foreign sales at the Cannes Film Festival. Production began last week in New York.

Scott Z. Burns is directing from his own script. Vice Studios is producing and financing for the project, which centers on the CIA’s extreme interrogation program on detainees following the 9/11 attacks.

Along with Burns, producers are Danny Gabai, Eddy Moretti, Jennifer Fox, Michael Sugar, Steven Soderbergh, and Kerry Orent. UTA is repping North American rights to the film.

Burns has written screenplays for “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Informant!,” “Contagion,” and “Side Effects.” He was a producer on “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2006.

Nelson’s credits include “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,...

Steven Soderbergh producing Vice Studios CIA drama.

Imr will launch sales in Cannes next week on Vice Studios’ CIA drama The Torture Report starring Tim Blake Nelson, Matthew Rhys, Annette Bening, and Adam Driver.

Scott Z. Burns directs the feature, which began production began last week in New York and takes place immediately after the 9/11 attacks, and focuses on the CIA’s extreme interrogation programme on detainees during the war on terror.

Rounding out the key cast are Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall and Jon Hamm. UTA represents North American rights.

Steven Soderbergh and Jennifer Fox are producing alongside Burns,...

Simon Russell Beale also joins Studiocanal project, which will star Rosamund Pike.

Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard and Simon Russell Beale have joined Rosamund Pike in Radioactive, Marjane Satrapi’s biopic of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie.

Principal photography is getting underway in Budapest this week.

Director Satrapi was Oscar-nominated for her 2007 feature Persepolis. Producers on Radioactive are Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner with Shoebox Films’ Paul Webster. The screenplay was written by Jack Thorne, adapted from Laura Redniss’ graphic novel.

Amazon Studios has come onboard as a co-financier and will also distribute in the Us.

Studiocanal will distribute in the UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

During the recent European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin, Studiocanal also inked deals on the title with Impuls Pictures in Switzerland, Ab Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia, Lusomundo in Portugal, Gussi in Latin America, Kino in Japan, Huayi Brothers in China, Golden Scene in Hong Kong...

Pair in negotiations to play resistance fighter and SS commander respectively.

Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming Kursk) are in talks to take key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance.

Jesse Eisenberg is playing legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau in the film, which details his involvement in the French Resistance during the Second World War.

Bennett will play a resistance fighter who plays a vital role in inspiring Marceau to join her to rescue thousands of children, while Schweighöfer will play a notorious SS commander who is personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance.

Rocket Science is co-financing and producing the project and is selling it at this week’s European Film Market (Efm). CAA handles domestic rights.

Pantaleon are co-financing and producing, with Epicentral co-producing. Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag.

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Feature debut from writer/director Cameron Norrie about a child who brings hope with his guitar.

La-based Premiere Entertainment Group is touting worldwide rights at the Efm to Jk Simmons family comedy A Boy Called Sailboat and horror thriller You’re Not Alone.

Jake Busey and newcomer Julian Atocani Sanchez star alongside Simmons in A Boy Called Sailboat, about a child who brings hope with his guitar playing to his small town filled with charming and offbeat characters.

Cameron Nugent makes his feature directorial debut from his original screenplay and produces alongside Richard Gray, Andrew Curry and Nelson Khoury.

You’re Not Alone is currently in post and stars Katia Winter as a mother who regains custody of her young daughter when a mysterious entity begins to torment her new home.

Brian Kirk (Game Of Thrones, Luther) will direct the 1970s London-set feature.

Jamie Dornan, riding high on the $140m global debut of Fifty Shades Freed, will star opposite Sam Clafin in the Ira action thriller Borderland, which Imr International has introduced to Efm buyers here in Berlin.

Brian Kirk (Game Of Thrones, Luther) will direct the 1970s London-set feature, described as being in the vein of Michael Mann’s crime thriller Heat. CAA and UTA Independent Film Group represent Us rights.

Borderland will focus on two men on opposite sides of the bloody conflict between the Ira and the British government.

When an Ira operative (Dornan) is dispatched to London to head a new unit and wreak havoc, he uses the move to hunt down the person responsible for the accidental lethal shooting of his wife – an Sas captain (Clafin) who happens to be hunting the Irishman.

Production is scheduled to kick off this summer in London...

Other recipients include Rosie, written by Roddy Doyle and Pat Collins’ Folkland.

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The Irish Film Board has backed a major new international production from the creator of Game of Thrones in its latest round of funding decisions.

Filming is due to get underway this spring on Nightflyers, the first production based out of Limerick’s newly built Troy Studios. The forthcoming production was granted €850,000 by the Ifb - the single biggest award in its latest round of funding decisions. New features by Cathy Brady, Brian Kirk and Paddy Breathnach are also being supported.

Sets are currently being constructed in Troy’s vast studio space based in Ireland’s mid-west, with filming due to begin in the coming weeks. Originally commissioned as a pilot, Syfy confirmed it was going to series after creator George Rr Martin revealed the plans on his blog. Martin and Jeff Buhler are credited as co-writers, with Mike Cahill (Another...

Other recipients include Rosie, written by Roddy Doyle and Pat Collins’ Folkland.

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George Rr Martin

The Irish Film Board has backed a major new international production from the creator of Game of Thrones in its latest round of funding decisions.

Filming is due to get underway this spring on Nightflyers, the first production based out of Limerick’s newly built Troy Studios. The forthcoming production was granted €850,000 by the Ifb - the single biggest award in its latest round of funding decisions. New features by Cathy Brady, Brian Kirk and Paddy Breathnach are also being supported.

Sets are currently being constructed in Troy’s vast studio space based in Ireland’s mid-west, with filming due to begin in the coming weeks. Originally commissioned as a pilot, Syfy confirmed it was going to series after creator George Rr Martin revealed the plans on his blog. Martin and Jeff Buhler are credited as co-writers, with Mike Cahill (Another...

You didn’t need to look far to find escapism in the horror genre this past year. If you felt like losing yourself in a movie, Pennywise was waiting with open arms in the sewer drain. If you wanted to feel like a kid again, Mike and his friends were waiting for you on Netflix, their bikes parked at the Hawkins arcade when they're not fending off the Demidogs. Looking back on 2017, here are some of my favorite slices of escapism oases in the horror genre:

Stranger Things Season 2: Whether you look at it from a character, creature, or story standpoint, Stranger Things Season 2 was the Aliens to the first season’s Alien. Despite having a bigger story, The Duffer Brothers never lose sight of the characters, further exploring the tested friendships of Mike’s group (if you can even call it Mike’s group anymore, since Dustin, Lucas,...

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Newsflash will see Chris Pine as legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite, set in 1963 during the Kennedy assassination story.

Chris Pine is getting ready to trade the catchphrase, "beam me up," for “that's the way it is.” That's because the Star Trek and Wonder Woman actor has landed the role of legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite in a fact-based drama, called Newsflash.

The November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, TX – one of the biggest stories of the 20th century – will serve as the historical backdrop for Newsflash, in which Pine will portray Cronkite, confirms Deadline. Indeed, the film will center on the CBS news anchor’s monumental report that kicked off when he famously interrupted daytime soap opera As the World Turns to break the initial report of shots being fired at Kennedy’s presidential motorcade. The 38-year-old leading man Pine will likely be made...

Set to visit 16 cities in 2014, Wizard World’s plethora of comic book booths, clothing vendors, and impressive line-up of celebrities are always enough to sate the appetite of any pop culture enthusiast, but prior to their visit to Minneapolis May 2nd–4th, I was wondering how much horror would be had in the aisles within the Convention Center’s cavernous confines.

As it turns out, Wizard World had more than enough entertainment for horror fans to dig into, and they picked the perfect horror headliner for Wizard World Minneapolis: Robert Englund, best known as Freddy Krueger, the living legend of our nightmares and realities.

One of my first destinations upon entering Wizard World Minneapolis was Robert Englund’s booth. I weaved my way through a crowd of eye-grabbing cosplayers—Hellboy, Darth Maul, and a perfectly matched Spider-Man and Black Cat couple were of particular notice—before stepping in line to...

Today we have the trailer for "Touchback" sports drama, starring Kurt Russell, Brian Presley (Borderland, Home of the Brave), Melanie Lynskey and Christine Lahti. Check it out below. Plot: On the game winning play of the biggest game of his life, the best high school football player (Presley) in the nation injures his knee and destroys his dreams of a college and professional career. But fifteen years later, he receives the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to go back and change history. The new movie is written and directed by Don Handfield, and is scheduled to hit theaters on April 13th, in limited release. Trailer:...

Whoa, what a way to start the new year! After several weeks of desolate conditions in terms of horror title releases, the floodgate just burst open.

This is the week you may want to think about using up those giftcards and cash you got from returning your holiday presents. Major releases are vying for your greenbacks alongside re-releases in Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D (in case Santa brought you a 3D TV recently), and other more independent titles. In addition to movies, there's also a Buffy motion comic and the next volume of a vampire's diary in paperback.

The Last Exorcism (Review)

Directed by Daniel Stamm

Starring Patrick Fabian (Interview), Ashley Bell, Louis Herthum, Tony Bentley

When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort,...

Check out a Movie Jungle Exclusive red band clip from "Once Fallen" starring Brian Presley, Taraji P. Henson, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Peter Weller, Ash Adams and Chad Lindberg. Ash Adams directs and writes the First Look distributed, action-packed film which is being sent out on Blu-ray and DVD on November 2nd. When Chance (Brian Presley, Home of the Brave, Streets of Blood, Borderland) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Academy Award ® nominee and Golden Globe® winner, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, A History of Violence), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend’s outrageous debt to a local mobster.

"I'm in the low budget horror world...it's got a little unfulfilling lately"

Rider Strong talks to Pure Movies (Photo: Jessica Drossin)

Rider Strong, star of hit 90s kids TV show Boy Meets World talks exclusively about his upcoming DVD release Borderland, life after Boy Meets World and life in the low budget horror world.

Pure Movies: Borderland is getting released on DVD here in the UK on 15 February, can you give us a little synopsis; tell us about the character you play?

Rider Strong: Well, it’s about three friends who have just finished college and head down to Mexico for a weekend of partying and having a good time.

Fans of the blood-drenched, sick and twisted movies "Hostel" and "Saw" will lap up the dark and bloody scenes of "Borderland" as Momentum Pictures releases this brutal horror on DVD on 15 February 2010. Based on the real story of a drug dealing Mexican cult who practised human sacrifice, "Borderland" blends the raw fear of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with the gritty true crime realism of In Cold Blood as Sean Astin ("Lord Of The Rings" trilogy), Brian Presley ("End Game", "Home Of The Brave"), Rider Strong ("Cabin Fever") and Jake Muxworthy ("CSI-ny", "24") take you on a journey to a world of paranoia, death and terror that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Ed (Presley), Henry (Muxworthy) and Phil (Strong) are three Texas University seniors who decide to take a road-trip to a...

Image Ent. has acquired all North American rights to Jinga Films' supernatural horror Finale. Described as an homage to Dario Argento's Suspiria, John Michael Elfers' debut feature stars Carolyn Von Hauck as a grieving mother who discovers that her deceased son had been dabbling in black magic. Image has skedded the release for May. On Monday, Jinga announced it had added Federico Zampaglione's psychological horror Shadow to its Berlin market slate. Produced by Massimo Ferrero, the English-language, Italian horror pic stars Jake Muxworthy (Borderland), Karina Testa (Frontiere), Chris Coppola (Friday 13th) and Nuot Arquint (The Passion of Christ). The pic centers on an American Iraq War vet whose romantic vacation in the Italian Alps turns into a Deliverance-style nightmare after a confrontation with local hunters.

Grisly horror flick Borderland - based on the real story of a drug-dealing Mexican cult that practised human sacrifice - is coming out on DVD in the UK on Monday, February 15.

Described as a must for fans of Hostel and Saw, the movie is said to "blend the raw fear of Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the gritty true crime realism of In Cold Blood."

It stars Sean Astin (who played Frodo's companion Sam in the Lord of the Rings films), Brian Presley (End Game, Home of the Brave), Rider Strong (Cabin Fever) and Jake Muxworthy (CSI, 24) as they journey into a world of paranoia, terror and death.

Ed (Presley), Henry (Muxworthy) and Phil (Strong, pictured below) are three Texas University seniors who decide to take a road trip to a Mexican Border town on the eve of their graduation for a final weekend of drinking and debauchery.

As one of the group heads home early,...

Forget Swine Flu, the only illness you want to be innoculated against is the flesh-rotting sickness that spread through Cabin Fever!

When Cabin Fever opened in 2002, with it's audacious mix of horror, gore and comedy, it was a surprise hit. Introducing the world to Fango reader-turned-filmmaker Eli Roth and scream queens Cerina Vincent & Jordan Ladd, Cabin Fever got strong reviews and the cover of Fangoria. Even though it had an ending that left itself open for one in a genre that thrives on them, Cabin Fever never got a sequel... until now.

Seven years after the original, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever made it's world premiere at Screamfest Horror Film Festival at Hollywood's Mann Chinese 6 this past weekend. Directed by Ti West (House Of The Devil), it picks up where the original left off.

"The Down Home Water Company bottles unfiltered water from the stream where the original Cabin Fever...