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Liev Schrieber In Talks to Star in THE GUNS OF CHRISTMAS PAST

  I'd like to be one of the first to say FUCK YES to this news! I want to see this happen!!! Just putting that out into the universe, lets see what it returns. Scrieber is a versatile performer who makes everything he's involved in a little bit better. I personally love it when he messes around in the genre space. Full details below:  Liev Schrieber is in negotiations for the lead in the new action thriller THE GUNS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, directed by Xavier Gens, with a script by Andrew Hilton. The film is produced by Navid McIlhargey and Erik Olsen, with XYZ Films also producing and financing with investment funding coming from IPR.VC. The film is set to go into production later this year. XYZ Films is handling world rights and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming MarchΓ© du Film in Cannes.   In the genre mash up described as “A Christmas Carol” meets JOHN WICK, ‘Ebb’ is a former hitman for the mob, brought out from hiding when his former best friend and partner (Jacob

Michael Jai White's THE OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK Release Info

  Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that the company has acquired US rights to the western THE OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK, written and directed by Michael Jai White, for a theatrical release on September 15. Donovan De Boer, Michael Jai White and Grant Gilmore serve as producers, with a screenplay by Michael Jai White. SGF also revealed the teaser trailer for the partially crowd-funded Western adventure. From the same team that made the 2009 cult classic BLACK DYNAMITE, THE OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK stars Michael Jai White ("As Good as Dead"), Anika Noni Rose ("The Princess and the Frog"), Erica Ash ("We Have a Ghost"), Byron Minns ("Black Dynamite"), Kym Whitley ("Act Your Age"), and Tony Baker. “We’re thrilled to be reteaming with Michael Jai White after the success of our 2022 action movie AS GOOD AS DEAD. This spiritual successor to BLACK DYNAMITE not only showcases Michael’s abilities as an action and comedy star, but also his skills as a fi

CRACKED, a Bone-Chilling Thai Horror Film Premiering via VOD & Digital on 5/26

  Directed by : Surapong Ploensang Written By : Eakasit Thairaat, Onusa Donsawai, Pun Homchuen, Surapong Ploensang Cast : Chayanit Chansangavej, Byron Bishop, Nichkhun, Nutthatcha Padovan They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in CRACKED, a terrifying new Thai horror film, an inherited painting may be worth a thousand screams…   Ruja (actress/model Chayanit Chansangavej) returns to Thailand from New York with her young daughter Rachel to settle her late father's estate. Included in her inheritance are two mysterious portraits of a bewitching woman that she is told are worth a fortune, if only they weren't damaged. Desperate to sell the paintings, Ruja hires Tim (K-pop star Nichkhun), an art restorer, to prepare the canvases for sale. But the cracks in the paint have begun to reveal long-hidden secrets, and as strange phenomena begin to emerge around them, Ruja and Rachel quickly realize their lives are in grave danger. PREMIERING VIA VOD & DVD ON MAY 26, 2023

Following Films Podcast: Jay Burleson and Darius Willis⁠ on The Third Saturday in October: Part V and The Third Saturday in October: Part I

  Thank you for listening to the following films podcast. Today I’m joined by director Jay Burleson and actor Darius Willis What if a lost horror franchise made during the peak of the slasher genre was unearthed today, but only two of the films could be restored? Filmmaker Jay Burleson (The Nobodies) imagined just that with The Third Saturday in October: Part V and The Third Saturday in October: Part I The Third Saturday in October: Part V and The Third Saturday in October: Part I coming to VOD + Digital Platforms May 5th from Dark Sky Films.

FANGS OUT - Official Red Band Trailer

A Group of college students head to Mexico for some cheap plastic surgery. There they meet Dr. Pavor, a creepy surgeon who is actually a vampire, harvesting victims for his blood cartel. Aided by his blood thirsty nurses he systematically carries out his evil plan. When a detective looking for his missing daughter arrives - all hell breaks loose in a bloody combustible conclusion. Randy Oppenheimer (Rottentail), Veronica Ricci (Bloody Mary), Samuel Code (Run! Die! Kill!) and Angel Juarez (Celest) head up a cast of genre staples.

4K Restoration of TWILIGHT (Not That One) Release Schedule

  After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer – known only as "the Giant”—responsible for the crime. A much admired but long unavailable masterpiece by influential Hungarian auteur and regular BΓ©la Tarr collaborator GyΓΆrgy FehΓ©r, Twilight (SzΓΌrkΓΌlet) is at once an existential murder mystery and an expansive meditation on time and space. Stunningly lensed in rich blacks and cascading grays by DP MiklΓ³s GurbΓ‘n (Werckmeister Harmonies), Arbelos is proud to present Twilight for its first-ever U.S. release in a brand new 4K restoration by the National Film Institute - Hungarian Film Archive and FilmLab, supervised by GurbΓ‘n. Screens Thur Jun 1, 10.00pm At The American Cinematheque, Los Feliz Also coming to Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, and More. Full List of Play Date s   HERE

Wrong Reasons, Coming to Digital and Blu-ray in August 2023

  In this dark, comedic thriller, an ambiguously intentioned masked man (James Parks, The Hateful Eight) kidnaps a drug addicted punk rock singer (Liv Roush, in her acting debut) and triggers a police investigation headed by Detective Charles Dobson (Ralph Garman, Ted) as well as a media circus.   From Executive Producer Kevin Smith (Clerks III, Red State), WRONG REASONS marks the narrative feature debut from director Josh Roush (Magnum Dopus) and features an all-star supporting cast that includes Teresa Ruiz (The Marksman), David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of Don Burgundy) Daniel Roebuck (The Fugitive), Kevin Smith (Clerks) and Keith Coogan (Adventures in Babysitting), boasting a killer punk rock soundtrack with music by Tim Armstrong, L7, Black Flag, The Wipers, Channel 3, William Elliott Whitmore, The Unseen, Bi-Product and more.   Following its debut at Smith’s first annual Smodcastle Film Festival in the fall of 2022, the film was toured theatrically in North America and Aust