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  • The Other Woman: Unlikely Trio

    The Other Woman: Unlikely Trio

    Here’s the first featurette for The Other Woman which is out in cinemas two weeks today on Wednesday 23 April. This featurette looks at how Carly (Cameron Diaz), Kate (Leslie Mann) and Amber (Kate Upton) become an unlikely trio as their friendship blossoms in the film.

    This new featurette is called ‘Unlikely Trio’.

    Carly (Cameron Diaz) discovers her new boyfriend Mark (Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is a fraud – and worse – when she accidentally meets his wife, Kate (Leslie Mann). Carly suddenly finds herself comforting Kate, and their unlikely friendship solidifies when they realize that Mark is cheating on both of them with yet another “other woman,” Amber (Kate Upton). The three women join forces plotting an outrageous plan for revenge.

  • Re-Animator Is Back!

    Re-Animator Is Back!

    It gave 80s horror a gore-filled boot up the backside, proudly challenging others to match its level of blood and guts, and now Re-Animator is being brought back to life, this time in a stunning high definition Blu-ray thanks to Second Sight Films.

    And as if that wasn’t enough, this outrageous, game-changing horror directed by Stuart Gordon (From Beyond) and produced by Brian Yuzna (Society), comes complete with buckets of additional features and a stunning Steelbook edition. There’s more gore than ever too – the double-disc Blu-ray contains not one but two versions of the gorefest that is Re-Animator, extended AND deleted scenes, as well as commentaries, a documentary, interviews and more…

    Re-Animator will be released as a limited edition two-disc Blu-ray Steelbook and a two-disc DVD version on 2 June 2014, it will also be available to download on 19 May and via video on demand on 26 May.

    Brilliant, if somewhat deranged, medical student Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic Medical School and immediately sneers at his professor’s outdated views on death. West has his own outlandish theories and has concocted a serum that will bring the dead back to life. Roping in fellow student Dan Cain their shocking experiments work all too well with horrific and very messy results.

  • Hungerford

    Hungerford

    A new British Horror Sci-Fi film, directed by 19-year-old Drew Casson who has made films on YouTube since he was 12, will get its World Premiere at the National Film Theatre in London on 3 May as part of this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival.

    Produced by talent incubator Wildseed Studios and shot in a vlog style, Hungerford paints a thrilling and visceral portrait of a small English town taken over by aliens, which descends into violence and carnage.

    Hungerford’s teen protagonist is Cowen Rosewell, a media student whose first assignment is to record everything in a week of his life. The random acts of violence he films go largely unnoticed, dismissed as the type of trouble to take place in small English towns. However, when one of his best friends is savagely attacked by a stranger a more disturbing reality emerges.

    As events escalate, Cowen and his friends discover that the town has come under a mysterious evil influence which is somehow controlling organised gangs to round people up and take them to a nearby disused factory. The friends hide, hoping to escape, but their sanctuary is discovered. As Cowen makes his way alone to the abandoned factory in search of his loved ones, the malicious force that awaits him there threatens not Cowen, but the entire world.

    Jesse Cleverly, co-founder of Wildseed Studios said: “Drew is typical of the next-generation of film makers we’re investing in – a generation who have grown up on genre movies, who operate outside the institutions of the British Film Industry, and who are utterly fearless and highly proficient with the tools of production and post-production in the pursuit of excitement, scale and an audience. We’re thrilled to have produced Hungerford and thanks to the ingenuity of Drew, the crew and excellent special effects this micro-feature achieves a sense of scale more fitting for a film with 100 times the budget.”

    Hungerford (78 mins) gets its world premiere at the London Sci-Fi Film Festival at the National Film Theatre on 3 May 2014 at 6pm. Buy tickets here.

    A couple stills and the poster are here.

  • Jay Z Is Made In America

    Jay Z Is Made In America

    Signature Entertainment announces that it will release Academy Award-winning Director Ron Howard’s documentary Made In America on VoD and DVD on 19th May 2014. Produced by Grammy Award-winning artist Jay-Z and starring Jay-Z, Kanye West, Rita Ora, Pearl Jam, Run-DMC, Santigold, Jill Scott, Janelle Monae, Skrillex, Odd Future, The Hives, Passion Pit, D’Angelo and Gary Clark Jr, MADE IN AMERICA was shot in 2012 during a two-day set in Philadelphia featuring a host of music’s heavyweights.

    The Budweiser Made in America Festival is an annual music festival held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which launched in September 2012. Sponsored by Anheuser–Busch, the event features several stages that continuously host live music from a wide range of genres including hip hop, rock, pop, R&B, and EDM.

    Ron Howard made his directorial debut with the 1977 comedy Grand Theft Auto, and left Happy Daysin 1980 to focus on directing. His films include Cocoon, Apollo 13, How the Grinch Stole Christmas , A Beautiful Mind, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture in 2002,Frost/Nixon which was Oscar-nominated and most recently Rush about the Formula One rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. In 2002, Howard conceived the idea for the Emmy and Golden Globe winning Fox/Netflix series Arrested Development.

    Signature Entertainment’s Jon Bourdillon said, “We are proud to release MADE IN AMERICA in the UK. With the collaboration of great talents including Ron Howard as director and one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Jay-Z, it is the must-see music feature film of the year.”

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  • Save A Bullet For Me

    Save A Bullet For Me

    Save A Bullet For Me, the latest film from writer / director Adam Rehmeier (pictured), is set to start shooting in British Columbia in late 2014.

    Rehmeier, whose last film, The Bunny Game, caused controversy worldwide and was banned in the UK, has written and will direct what he describes as “A visceral, animal of a film, stripped down to the most primal fight-or-flight level possible.”

    Set amidst a 19th century backdrop, the film focuses on the aftermath of a brutal massacre, where two wounded frontiersmen make a desperate last stand against an Indian war party.

    Rehmeier added: “This is not your grandfather’s Western.  There are no heroes or morality tales.  For me, this film is an opportunity to combine several of my favorite genres in an exciting way, to create something that hasn’t been seen before in the cinema.  It delivers enough splatter to quench any hardcore horror fan’s palate, yet the relentless, wall-to-wall action and historical backdrop will open it up to a wider audience.”

    The film is produced by Shawn Williamson of Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures and UK producer Mark Sandell. 

    Mark Sandell said today, “It’s a great privilege to be working with Adam Rehmeier on this incredible project and to team up with Shawn Williamson and Brightlight Pictures is the icing on the cake.  I couldn’t put the script down and knew immediately I had to make it.  It’s pure, visceral action, which will be executed with a heightened sense of the ‘real’ as opposed to CG.  As such we have very high commercial hopes for this picture.”

    Shawn Williamson from Brightlight Pictures added:  “The film has something I haven’t come across in a script for a long time.  It’s a non-stop, guttural ride that leaves you breathless until the final page.  I am extremely thrilled to be a part of this project.”