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The “Marrying the Mafia” series has proved one of the most enduring and popular in Korean cinema, now reaching its fifth instalment and marking its tenth anniversary with “Return of the Family”. This fourth sequel to the original 2002 record-smashing blockbuster appropriately enough goes back to the roots of the franchise, and while the middle three entries followed another mob family, as the title suggests the film again focuses on the Jangs. Directed by Jeong Yong Ki and written and produced by Jung Tae Wong, who previously teamed on the second and third in the series, the film manages to bring back the original cast, including Jung Joon Ho (“My Boss, My Hero”), Yoo Dong Geun (“Sunday Punch”), Sung Dong Il (“The Grand Heist”) and Park Keun Hyung (“Lady President”). The film also bolsters its roster with a number of fresh faces, with various pop idols making their debuts including Yoon Doo Jun of Beast,...

Oscar nominated actor John Hawkes and certified legend Peter Bogdanovich are set to the lead the ensemble of the indie drama "Too Late." The "Martha Marcy May Marlene" star will play the part of a private investigator who is hired to find a missing woman with whom he has a troubled relationship.

Dennis Hauck, director of festival-acclaimed short "Sunday Punch," will be making his feature debut with the project, which he also wrote, and will be challenging himself with a non-linear narrative with which to spin the tale. Natalie Zea ("Justified"), Dichen Lachman ("Dollhouse") and Rider Strong ("Cabin Fever") round out the cast.

"Too Late" will start production in late May in Los Angeles, after which Hawkes will shoot "Switch," the prequel to Quentin Tarantino’s "Jackie Brown," also based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. [THR]...

John Hawkes is set to star in Too Late, an indie drama that is serving as the feature directorial debut of Dennis Hauck, the helmer behind such festival circuit shorts as Sunday Punch.  The script, also by Hauck, reveals in non-linear fashion the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator (Hawkes) and the missing woman he's hired to help find.

Rider Strong (Cabin Fever), Natalie Zea (Justified), Dichen Lachman (Dollhouse), Brett Jacobsen (Myth of the American Sleepover) and Academy Award-nominated director and occasional actor Peter Bogdanovich are also

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The 7th annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival is like having four different fests crammed into an exhaustive three days on Aug. 27-29. It’s an outrageous underground fest, an animation festival, a documentary fest and a horror movie festival: The culmination of a month of fests run by Atlanta’s Festival League. There’s tons of short films, documentaries, features and more.

There’s lots of great stuff to recommend, too. On the last night of the fest, there will be a screening of Chris Hansen‘s second feature film, Endings, which tells the touching story of three people spending their last day on Earth together. The film was reviewed on Bad Lit a few months ago. On the short film front, there’s Loretta Hintz‘s wild lesbian bestiality (sort of) tale, The Sheep and the Ranch Hand and two films by the perpetually awesome Neil Ira Needleman, Meeskit...

Nestled in the foothills of northern California, the Nevada City Film Festival has evolved from a locals-only fest into a four-day international smorgasbord of short films, plus a couple of features thrown in for good measure. There’s also filmmaking panels, award ceremonies, a live comedy show and some very special guests.

This year, Ncff welcomes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of the Adult Swim hit Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! On the 21st, they’ll be screening a very special selection of shorts and music videos from the show.

The features they’re screening are Brett Haley’s The New Year, which stars indie breakout actress Trieste Kelly Dunn (Vacation!); Stuck! by underground bad boy director Steve Balderson; and the innovative animated film Mars, directed by Geoff Marslett, who way back in the day (1999) directed the underground music video Monkey vs. Robot for James Kolchaka.

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Dragon Con SymbolThe Dragon Con Independent Film Festival has announced a full list of short and features films for the event. One of the largest film festivals in America, Dragon Con takes place in Atlanta, Georgia beginning September 3rd. This years feature highlights involve a zombie apocalypse taking place at a prom in As Good As Dead, two students trying to save the world from terrorists in Horrible Turn, and a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien's story The Lord of the Rings in Born of Hope. This is only a brief intro' and fans of independent film and creativity can check out the schedule for the film festival below, or at the Dragon Con website.

The full synopsis for Born of Hope:

"A scattered people, the descendants of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction.