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Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer... that's a robust list of directors who've created certain films that frighten the living daylights out of us all. But there's one classic psychedelic feature that a rather special candidate made. Trailblazing graphic designer Saul Bass designed the posters and title sequences for films by those three directors and countless others, and he also released a few short films in his lifetime. However, his sole feature film is a horror offering, Phase IV, released in 1974. It grew to have a legion of fans, not only for its striking sci-fi plot about super-intelligent ants in the Arizona desert, but also for its haunting visual style and score, and its meticulous use of macro-photography.

Although this was the only feature-length film from Saul Bass, he was still a key figure in Hollywood with instantly recognizable work, famous for his distinguished posters and title sequences. Far more than a designer,...

2013's White House Down is about to have a brand-new streaming home.

Per Peacock, the slate of films and TV shows being added to the streaming service's ever-expanding library officially includes White House Down starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx. White House Down will be available for streaming on Peacock beginning March 1.

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Alan Ritchson hypes up Reacher's most hotly anticipated fight scene, calls filming it the "three hardest weeks of my life."

Directed by Roland Emmerich from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, White House Down stars Tatum as John Cale, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan turned Capitol police officer. When Cale's family tour of the White House just so happens to coincide with a brazen attack against the President of the United States, James Sawyer, as portrayed by Jamie Foxx,...

Exclusive: I Also Do This is an occasional look at the surprising creative outlets of members of the Hollywood community. The series began with producer Denise Dinovi’s pandemic plunge into painting after the shocking death of her husband

After bursting on the scene as Friday Night Lights’ hellraising fullback Tim Riggins, Taylor Kitsch tried the fast lane to stardom and found it wanting, with John Carter and Battleship sinking. Kitsch regrouped and found a far more interesting path, playing film and TV roles that captured the heartland sensibilities and vulnerabilities that made the Dillon Panthers’ #33 so appealing, the rough-and-tumble Texas kid with a heart of gold.

Those roles, many of them done in collaboration with director and Fnl exec producer Peter Berg, have ranged from playing the late Patchogue legend Navy Seal Michael Murphy in Lone Survivor; a tragic opioid-addicted everyman in the series Painkiller; and cult leader David Koresh...

Following an onstage fight that apparently broke up Jane’s Addiction, three of the four members are making new music together. Bassist Eric Avery, guitarist Dave Navarro, and drummer Stephen Perkins are recording new songs minus singer Perry Farrell.

Back in September, Jane’s Addiction made headlines when Farrell got into a physical altercation with Navarro during a show in Boston, at one point punching the guitarist onstage. As the two musicians were being separated, it appeared that Avery landed a few blows on Farrell. And a later report from a crew member revealed that Farrell punched Navarro again — this time in the face — backstage shortly thereafter.

The rest of the band’s tour was canceled, and while an official announcement was never made, Navarro suggested that the band had broken up in an Instagram post, saying, “I’m gutted that things ended this way.”

Now, Avery, Navarro, and Perkins...

During the 1970s, American cinema was in the midst of the New Hollywood movement. When the Production Code officially lost all its power in the late 1960s, American films no longer had to abide by the oppressive and restrictive rules that had been in place for the past three decades. The Production Code's dismantling led to an explosion of creativity, particularly in the comedy genre.

In today's cultural climate, comedies do not typically receive the same level of adulation as dramas. However, throughout the 1970s, comedies ranked among Hollywood's most acclaimed genres. Comedies such as M*A*S*H, The Sting, American Graffiti, and Annie Hall each garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, with The Sting and Annie Hall both winning the Oscar's top prize. Filmmakers like Woody Allen, Hal Ashby, and Mel Brooks reigned supreme as some of the best comedy directors working in the United States during the 1970s.

Comedian and “Workaholics” star Adam Devine will host the American Veterans Center’s 2024 Veterans Day broadcast special, “American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes.”

“I’m so happy that we have military men and women who were able to keep us safe. If it were up to my heroic deeds, we would be speaking a different language and all have bad haircuts,” said Devine. “I’ve always looked up to veterans. It’s not only because I am height challenged. Their sacrifices are why I am able to do what I do and be who I am.”

Other celebrities who will appear during the broadcast, which airs the weekend of Saturday, Nov. 16, include Rachael Harris, Taylor Kitsch, Matthew Leitch, James Madio, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jb Smoove, Sawyer Spielberg and Aisha Tyler. Jessica Chastain, Morgan Freeman, Matthew McConaughey, Liam Neeson, Tyler Perry, Chris Pine and William Shatner will all lend their voices to the event,...

The Just Go with It cast is full of A-list movie stars like Adam Sandler and Nicole Kidman and acclaimed comedy talents like Kevin Nealon and Rachel Dratch. A remake of the classic 1969 farce Cactus Flower, Just Go with It reimagines the tale of lies and deception as a feel-good romantic comedy. A cosmetic surgeon recruits his office manager and her kids to pose as his family to woo his latest love interest. In line with rom-com traditions, true love is right in front of the main character as he falls for his fake wife.

Just Go with It was one of Adam Sandlers biggest hits at the box office, grossing roughly $215 million worldwide (via Box Office Mojo). This story of a fake marriage turning into a real marriage also marked the first on-screen pairing of Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. After establishing terrific on-screen chemistry in Just Go with It,...

Quick Links Batman Returns Is a Dark Superhero Movie The Batman Merchandise Tie-Ins Didn't Help Tim Burton Had His Vision for Batman, and It Changed the Franchise Forever

1989's Batman plays like a standard studio movie more often than a Tim Burton original because that's exactly what it was. But when that movie proved to be a success, Warner Bros. was antsy to get a sequel into production. Given that the movie was a hit with both critics and audiences, the studio was looking to get Burton back on board.

But Burton didn't feel quite as excited. In fact, he didn't really care to make a sequel at all, given that he felt he would again be restricted by the studio's requests to make as macro-scale-appealing a blockbuster as possible. So, to return, Burton required total creative control, and Warner Bros. agreed. In fact, they were even excited about the...

Exclusive: Rock star Adam Clayton will explore the unique phenomenon of the Irish showband in doc series Ballroom Blitz. The show, from Dublin based Sideline Productions, has been commissioned by Irish pubcaster Rte. Seasoned international exec Michael Murphy will be at MIPCOM looking to attach a distributor.

The Irish showbands entertained young audiences in Ireland during a moment of growth and prosperity in the 1960s. They were normally a seven or eight piece outfit with powerful horn sections and they interspersed waltzes, Irish music and jazz with the pop hits of the day.

There is a U.S. dimension to the story. Sixty years before U2 played Las Vegas at the Sphere in 2024, Irish showbands entertained American audiences during residencies in Vegas and packed out Irish ballrooms in New York, Boston and Chicago. Their U.S. success was managed by the mercurial Bill Fuller who ended up owning over thirty ballrooms in Ireland,...

Updated with Farrell statement: Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Ferrell apologized this morning for a onstage confrontation he initiated with the band’s Dave Navarro in Boston on Friday.

In a statement issued to multiple outlets, Ferrell said, “This weekend has been incredibly difficult and after having the time and space to reflect, it is only right that I apologize to my bandmates, especially Dave Navarro, fans, family and friends for my actions during Friday’s show. Unfortunately, my breaking point resulted in inexcusable behavior, and I take full accountability for how I chose to handle the situation.”

Ferrell’s onstage combustibility has long been a powerful feature of the band’s presence, with the singer often riffing between songs on issues both political and personal. But over the weekend his invective was turned directly on Navarro. The singer shouted at the guitarist during a portion of the band’s fierce,...

If you are a horror fan then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription you might be wondering what’s in store for you in September 2024. Don’t worry there is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month and we have listed the 10 best movies coming to Shudder in September 2024.

Candyman (September 1)

Candyman is a gothic supernatural horror film written and directed by Bernard Rose. Based on a short story titled The Forbidden by Clive Barker, the 1992 film follows the story of Helen as she investigates a local legend of the Candyman but her investigation takes a dark turn when a series of brutal murders start happening. Candyman stars Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Bernard Rose, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Xander Berkeley, Stanley DeSantis, and Ted Raimi.

There are some actors who you recognize immediately. They are unique, iconic, and simply stand out because they have a magic about them that can’t be replicated. Sadly we lost one of these icons recently when the news was reported that Shelley Duvall had passed away at the age of 75. Duvall had gone out of the public eye for a number of years until quite recently. But with her passing the world lost an actress that was unique, talented, and brought to the screen a special sort of magic that’s hard to find. So in celebration of the life of Shelley Duvall, let’s take a look back on Whatever Happened to This Horror Star.

Shelley Duvall was born in 1949 in Blanco, Texas. Shelley was the oldest child of her parents Bobbie Ruth and Robert Duvall. Her other three siblings were all sons, Scott, Shane, and Stewart. I...

In 1960, Kirk Douglas had helped to break the Hollywood Blacklist with "Spartacus" by publicly crediting then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo as the screenwriter. But in 1969, he found himself working with a director who had been anything but helpful to his Hollywood colleagues during the height of McCarthyism. Sadly, this team-up between Douglas and director Elia Kazan also had the unfortunate distinction of being one of the Greek-American filmmaker's most derided films.

"The Arrangement" currently has a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which should tell you pretty much all you need to know about how this ill-fated drama was received upon release. The film is an adaptation of Kazan's own 1967 novel of the same name and follows LA advertising executive Evangelos Topouzoglou/Eddie Anderson (Douglas) as he endures a protracted nervous breakdown (which is what watching this incredible trailer feels like). Critics at the time were merciless with their condemnation of Kazan's film,...

Exclusive: Previously unseen photos and video footage from a career that took in studio sessions with Blondie, The Knack, The Sweet and Suzi Quatro will illustrate Simply The Best: The Mike Chapman Story, a documentary about the eponymous songwriter and producer.

As well as co-writing The Best, the Tina Turner anthem that informs the doc’s title, Chapman has worked with a plethora of star names. He produced several Blondie albums including Parallel Lines. The band’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein will appear in the film and serve as executive producers.

Jason Bick will direct and produce. Mark Myers’ LA-based Citizen Skull and Michael Murphy’s Rockabill Media are also attached as producers.

“After several years of putting this together I am looking forward to getting it out there,” Chapman said. “It’s a story of how music changed and shaped me as I fought my way through decades of ups and downs.

Quick Links Davey Osborne Creates a Fantasy World and an Imaginary Hero Cloak & Dagger Is a Hitchcockian Children's Thriller Jack Flack Always Escapes Until Children Stop Believing Cloak & Dagger tiptoes the line between thrilling and too dark for kids by placing a child in danger without going too far. The film blends fantasy and thriller elements, borrowing a style from Alfred Hitchcock to create a unique viewing experience. By portraying villains as one-dimensional automata, Cloak & Dagger keeps a light tone despite its intense storyline.

When a film places a child in danger, as is the case throughout the 1984 childrens action-adventure film Cloak & Dagger, such a film risks offending an audiences sensibilities. The ability of Cloak & Dagger, which pushes the boundaries of just how exciting and intense a childrens movie should be, to navigate this tricky genre tightrope represents the films supreme achievement.

While Cloak & Dagger...

Dabney Coleman, the character actor who delighted audiences in films like 9 to 5, Dragnet, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Tootsie, WarGames, Cloak & Dagger, You’ve Got Mail, and the TV shows The Guardian and Boardwalk Empire, has died at 92. The news leaked earlier today but has only just been confirmed by his daughter, Quincy Coleman. Often underappreciated in Hollywood’s vast populous of show-stopping performers, Dabney Coleman was a master of playing smarmy, selfish, hot-headed, and dick-ish characters with class and playfulness. Details about Coleman’s passing spread quietly on Twitter before getting confirmed by mainstream outlets, with many showing their love for Mr. Coleman’s rich body of work and unforgettable contributions to the entertainment industry.

Dabney Coleman made his Broadway debut in a brief run of A Call on Kuprin before setting up camp in the television space with roles in Kraft Suspense Theater’s The Threatening Eye and as Dr.

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Ghost Face Figure from Mezco Toys

Ghost Face is slashing into Mezco Toyz’s One:12 Collective line. Due out in November, the 6.5″ action figure costs $95. Shipping is free with the code WINTER79.

The Scream slasher has over 28 points of articulation, a black robe with poseable hood and sleeves, four interchangeable heads, and eight interchangeable hands.

Other accessories include: butcher knife, hunting knife, hunting knife with blood effect, scythe, remote control, popcorn bowl, three attachable blood effects, and display base with adjustable post.

Phase IV 4K Uhd from Vinegar Syndrome

Phase IV crawls onto 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on March 26 via Vinegar Syndrome. The 1974 sci-fi horror cult classic has been newly restored in 4K from its...

Mark Wahlberg's war movie Lone Survivor enjoys new success on Netflix, ranking sixth in the Global Top 10 for the week of November 13 to November 19. Based on a nonfiction book, the 2013 film follows Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell and a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to find Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. With 8 million hours viewed and 4 million total views, Lone Survivor has proven its lasting appeal and continues to captivate audiences.

Mark Wahlberg's 10-year-old war movie, Lone Survivor, finds new success streaming on Netflix. Based on the nonfiction book, the 2013 war film follows Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell alongside a team of fellow Navy SEALs tasked with tracking down the Taliban leader Ahmad Shah during the war in Afghanistan. Other than Wahlberg, the cast also includes Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana. Lone Survivor was a box office hit, grossing $154 million on a $40 million budget, and went...

Lone Survivor utilized convincing locations to make the events of war appear as authentic as possible. Director Peter Berg and cinematographer Tobias Schliessler carefully crafted each scene to maximize the effectiveness of their locations. The attention to detail used for the locations helped better convey the film's themes of honor, valor, and one's duty to their country.

Based on the 2007 book of the same name, Lone Survivor features different locations filled with lush photography of desert landscapes, emerald green forests, and stunning nighttime shots to effectively engage viewers with its dramatic subjects. One of the highest-grossing war movies made, Lone Survivor follows a group of Navy SEALs as they hopelessly fight against Taliban forces after deciding against neutralizing a goat-herder. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, and Ben Foster, Lone Survivor utilized a series of convincing locations to make the events seen on screen appear as authentic as possible.

James Sanders in Celluloid Skyline: New York And The Movies quotes Deborah Kerr with Cary Grant in Leo McCarey’s An Affair To Remember: “It’s the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York.”

In the first instalment with architect, author, and filmmaker James Sanders, we discuss his timeless and profound book, Celluloid Skyline: New York And The Movies, in which he explores how deeply one informs the other. From Joan Didion’s wisdom to Cedric Gibbons’s dream sets in the sky, we touch on George Stevens’s Swing Time (starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) and Robert Z Leonard’s Susan Lenox (with Greta Garbo and Clark Gable); East River running with Jill Clayburgh and Michael Murphy in Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman.

James Sanders with Anne-Katrin Titze: “One of the aspects of a mythic city is that it can go anywhere ”

The mansion...

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Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for “Jaane Jaan,” “Kahaani” filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh‘s Indian adaptation of Japanese author Higashino Keigo’s bestselling 2005 novel “The Devotion of Suspect X.”

The cast is led by Bollywood royalty Kareena Kapoor Khan and also includes Jaideep Ahlawat (“Paatal Lok”) and Vijay Varma (“Dahaad”).

The film follows a single mother and her daughter who commit a crime and a neighbor who helps them cover it up amidst a police investigation.

The novel has been adapted numerous times including in Japan as “Suspect X” (2008), in Korea as “Perfect Number” (2012) and in China as “The Devotion of Suspect X” (2017). A Hollywood version is in development.

“Jaane Jaan” is produced by 12th Street Entertainment and Northern Lights Films in association with Kross Pictures and Balaji Motion Pictures. Producers include Jay Shewakramani, Akshai Puri , Hyunwoo Thomas Kim, Shobha Kapoor and Ekta R. Kapoor.

Kapoor Khan said: “This...

When Robert Aldrich’s 1968 Hollywood insider yarn, “The Legend of Lylah Clare” screens at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine, it will represent much more than a simple revival of a New Hollywood-era roman à clef.

The film’s presentation on July 12 will include a discussion between actor Michael Murphy, who co-stars in the film, and former MGM publicity director Mike Kaplan, who has from the film’s earliest screenings defended both the film’s director, who Kaplan feels was “grossly maligned” by the depiction of him in Ryan Murphy’s limited series “Feud,” and the film, which monumentally tanked both critically and commercially when first released.

Kaplan recalls “I loved the script, and I loved the film. MGM had an unexceptional slate at the time. I was a big fan at the get-go.”

But as MGM’s New York City-based publicity chief, Kaplan watched helplessly as others,...

Busan Funding Revealed

The Busan festival’s Asian Cinema Fund has announced 14 film projects to which it will give financial support. Three projects at script stage, black comedy “Chronicles of a Confession,” by Prateek Vats (India), “To Kill a Mongolian Horse” by China’s Jiang Xioaxuan and Suraj Paudel “Where the Rivers Run South” (Nepal) each receive a KRW10 million cash grant and will be invited to the 2023 edition of the festival’s Asian Project Market.

Four projects receive post-production funding and are expected to make their world premieres at Busan this year. They are “Concerning My Daughter,” by Lee Mirang, and “Lay Off” by Park Hongjun, both from Korea. They are joined by “Solids by the Seashore,” from Thailand’s Patiparn Boontarig and “The Spark,” by Indian veteran Rajesh S. Jala.

Seven feature documentary projects each receive up to KRW20 million from the Asian Network of Documentary Fund. The...

In White House Down, U.S. President James Sawyer is presumed dead and officially replaced by Vice President Alvin Hammond, in accordance with the film's interpretation of the 25th Amendment. Set against the backdrop of a terrorist attack on the White House, the action-thriller depicts the prospective political consequences of the imagined event, including the workings of the transfer of presidential power under extraordinary circumstances. As the story unfolds, Sawyer is exposed to an increasing number of threats, and one specific instance eventually leads to his office being assigned to his deputy.

With White House Down's top-tier cast, the story centers around a fictional paramilitary team's attempt to violently overtake the White House, with Capitol Police Officer John Cale (Channing Tatum) attempting to protect President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) from the assault. In the wake of an explosion caused by a shootout on the White House lawn, speculations about the...

Peter Berg has had an interesting career trajectory, and has earned his reputation as a filmmaker unafraid to tackle nearly every genre. While Berg has certainly not had a perfect track record, his greatest achievements suggest that he’s on the verge of creating a truly sensational project if handed the right material. Berg began his career primarily working in action films, including Dwayne Johnson’s star-making adventure film The Rundown and the military thriller The Kingdom. After the highly negative reaction that his science fiction film Battleship received, Berg took a break from crowd pleasers to initiate a new partnership with Mark Wahlberg.

Wahlberg was in a similar place as an actor; he seemed to be interested in everything from prestigious arthouse projects to generic studio comedies. However, the duo successfully worked together on the films Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day, each of which analyzed a recent...

Gordon Pinsent, the admired Canadian actor who starred opposite Julie Christie as a husband losing his wife to Alzheimer’s disease in Sarah Polley’s Away From Her, died Saturday, his family announced. He was 92.

A household name in his country, Pinsent also appeared on the big screen in Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Lasse Hallström’s The Shipping News (2001), Michael McGowan’s Saint Ralph (2004) and Don McKellar’s The Grand Seduction (2013).

On television, he played Possum Lake resident Hap Shaughnessy, a teller of tall tales, on the Canadian comedy The Red Green Show from 1991-2004 and was Chicago-based Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant Bob Fraser on the CTV/CBS series Due South from 1994-99.

And he served as the distinctive voice of Babar the Elephant in film and TV from 1989 through 2015.

In Away From Her (2006), which marked Polley’s directorial debut — she also received an Oscar nomination...

Gravitas Ventures said Friday that Nolan Gallagher, who founded the indie distributor in Los Angeles in 2006, will be stepping down as CEO and leaving March 31 to focus on soccer team ownership in Cleveland.

The news was revealed by Anthem Sports & Entertainment, which acquired Gravitas Ventures in November 2021 and owns a range of entertainment properties including Axs-tv, HD Net Movies, Fight Network and Impact Wrestling.

Under Nolan’s leadership, Gravitas became a global all-rights theatrical distribution company that released more than 3,000 films on VOD, winning recognition from the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and numerous film festivals.

In 2019, co-owners Gallagher, Michael Murphy and Brendan Gallagher moved Gravitas Ventures to Cleveland to further economic momentum for media & entertainment in their hometown. To continue that economic impact, Nolan Gallagher and Murphy recently announced they were awarded ownership of a Major League Soccer Next pro men’s...

Nolan Gallagher, the CEO of the Cleveland-based film distributor Gravitas Ventures, is stepping down from the company he founded to run a new expansion soccer team he bought last year.

It’s not the typical trajectory for most media execs, of course. After relocating Gravitas Ventures to his hometown of Cleveland in 2019, Gallagher and the distributor’s co-owner Michael Murphy were awarded ownership of a new soccer team through Major League Soccer (Mls) Next Pro in November 2022 (via their nonprofit Cleveland Soccer Group Foundation). The team doesn’t have a name yet, but Gallagher is focusing his full time on the club ahead of kickoff in 2025.

Gallagher will step down effective March 31, 2023. His exit comes on the heels of Anthem Sports & Entertainment’s acquisition of Gravitas Ventures in November 2021.

Mls Next Pro, for those keeping score at home, is within the third tier of American soccer, or the reserve clubs for the Mls.

Nolan Gallagher, the founder of Gravitas Ventures, will step down as CEO and leaving the film company on March 31, 2023.

Gravitas was sold to Anthem Sports & Entertainment, the owner of Fight Network and HD Net Movies, in November 2021. Gravitas has released more than 3,000 films on video on demand (VOD) during Gallagher’s time at the company. Some of those films also had theatrical releases. Gravitas’ recent films include “Mack & Rita” with Diane Keaton; “Our Friend,” starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, and Jason Segel; and “Vanguard,” starring Jackie Chan.

Anthem said it has retained an advisor to identify a successor to Gallagher and expects to make a decision within the coming months.

In 2019, Gallagher and co-owners Michael Murphy and Brendan Gallagher moved Gravitas Ventures from Los Angeles to Cleveland, Ohio. Gallagher and Murphy recently announced they were awarded ownership of a Major League Soccer (Mls) Next Pro men’s professional...

Nolan Gallagher’s time running Gravitas Ventures will soon come to an end.

After 17 years, the founder and CEO will depart the distribution company as of March 31, after which time he will focus on an upstart Major League Soccer Next Pro men’s professional soccer team in Cleveland. The team is scheduled to begin league play in 2025. Per today’s news, Gravitas owner Anthem Sports & Entertainment — a multinational media company founded by Leonard Asper — is expected to announce new leadership in the coming months.

He won’t be relocating to Cleveland as he’s already there. In 2019, Gallagher and Gravitas co-owners Michael Murphy and Brendan Gallagher moved the company to the Ohio city in a bid to “further economic momentum for media and entertainment in their hometown,” per the company. The soccer team is the latest push to continue those efforts.

In a statement about his exit, Gallagher explained...

Donald Glover is attached to star in and produce a movie based on Spider-Man villain Hypno-Hustler, based on Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters.

Michael Murphy, the son of actor and comedian Eddie Murphy, is attached to write the script. The untitled project is in very early development.

Hypno-Hustler is a rather villain who first appeared in 1978’s “Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man” #24, and was created by Bill Mantlo and artist Frank Springer. The character’s unmasked name is Antoine Desloin, and he is the lead singer of the Mercy Killers. Hypno-Hustler uses hypnosis equipment in his instruments to rob the audience. In the comics, Spider-Man was able to defeat Hypno-Hustler by removing his headphones, causing him to become a victim of his own hypnosis.

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The Count Yorga Collection

Blu-ray

Arrow Video

1970, 1971 / 1.85: 1 / 190 Min.

Starring Robert Quarry, Michael Murphy, Mariette Hartley

Written by Bob Kelljan, Yvonne Wilder

Directed by Bob Kelljan

An aristocratic bloodsucker from the old country is the main attraction of Bob Kelljan’s Count Yorga, Vampire, but what drives the movie is an actual motor, a 1969 Volkswagen bus with a blood red trim. That amiable vehicle, the stoner’s favorite mode of transportation, is front and center in several pivotal scenes (Yorga even hitches a ride) and comes to symbolize the film’s premise; an old-fashioned vampire at large in The Me Decade. The set-up is ripe for a satire like Joe Dante’s The Howling, but instead of taking the stuffing out of horror movie cliches, Kelljan is dead serious about the undead.

Robert Quarry plays Yorga, a vampire whose standard uniform of cape and tuxedo sets him apart from the...

One of hockey’s brightest stars is moving on.

Taking to his Instagram account on Tuesday, Canada’s own New Jersey Devils star announced that he is retiring from the NHL after 13 years with the league.

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“I remember my dreams of playing in the NHL and winning a Stanley Cup, similar to the guys on the Don Cherry Rock’em Sock’em tapes at the end of every volume, with the black eyes, broken bones, and tears of joy,” the 33-year-old wrote. “To this day, I still dream about it.”

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“However, the end of this chapter is closing and after 13 years in the NHL, I have made the decision to retire,” he continued.

Subban explained, “I never looked at myself or ever felt I was ‘just a hockey player.

A top Las Vegas-area public official was arrested tonight in connection with the fatal stabbing of a well-known investigative journalist on Friday night, according to multiple news reports.

Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles was taken into custody at his home this evening by a Swat team as part of the investigation into the killing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German. The arrest came after police spent hours searching Telles’ home, where they confiscated a vehicle that resembled the SUV tied to the stabbing suspect: a red or maroon Gmc Yukon Denali.

Telles himself was observed this afternoon at his home. He was later taken into custody after a standoff with police with what ABC News described as “non-life-threatening self-inflicted stab wounds.”

Robert Telles just arrived at his house. Reporters asked him if he had any comment. I asked why police towed his vehicle. He had no comment.

For my money, director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton’s second Caped Crusader collaboration Batman Returns (1992), written by recurring podcast guest Daniel Waters and Tfh Guru Sam Hamm, might very well be the best theatrical Batman flick ever. The Dark Knight has appeared in 15 theatrical feature films as of this writing, if you include his two Lego movie appearances. Released 30 years ago today, Returns was a definite hit, but received a slightly more muted box office reception than its 1989 smash predecessor.

When it was first unspooled, the moody, morbid and magnificent sequel grossed 162.8 million stateside (and 266.8 million worldwide), making it the third-biggest domestic blockbuster of 1992. Per The Numbers, that sum is equivalent to 359.8 million in 2022 dollars, a tastier tally than that brought in by the latest celluloid matchup between the Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin, the Robert Pattinson-starring three-hour crime epic The Batman.

The film received mixed-to-positive notices from critics,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)

In the first hour of Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Dogs, we see the title character running around 1920s Berlin, bumping into eccentric characters at bars and nightclubs while the camera moves and cuts at a whirlwind pace. It’s a time of indulgence and recklessness for Fabian and other young people in Germany, and then he finds himself standing face to face with a young woman in the back of a club. The camera cuts to a rapid-fire montage of both characters together and in love, scenes from later in the film we haven’t gotten to yet. Up to this point, Fabian was living in the present; without warning he begins to see a future,...

Sally Kellerman, who was Oscar nominated for her supporting role as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in Robert Altman’s “Mash” feature film, died Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 84.

Her publicist Alan Eichler confirmed her death, and her daughter Claire added that she had been suffering from dementia for the past five years.

Among her other roles were a cameo in Altman’s “The Player,” a professor in Rodney Dangerfield’s “Back to School” and a Starfleet officer in the “Star Trek” episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before.”

The willowy blonde actress with the characteristically throaty voice appeared in two Altman films in 1970; the other was the more experimental “Brewster McCloud,” in which she starred with Bud Cort and Michael Murphy. In this film, which did not have a conventional narrative, Kellerman played Louise, the mother of Cort’s bewinged character, Brewster.

She next starred opposite Alan Arkin...

Red Arrow Studios has agreed to sell Gravitas Ventures, the prolific narrative film and documentary distributor with a 3,000-title catalogue, to Anthem Sports & Entertainment, a multi-platform media company with offices and studios in Los Angeles, Denver, Nashville, New York, Kansas City and Toronto.

Red Arrow is the content production and distribution arm of Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Group.

The deal, which will launch Gravitas into television distribution, was based on a cash purchase price of $73 million and an additional common stock consideration component.

Anthem owns seven consumer-facing streaming channels: Axs TV (music and entertainment) and Hdnet Movies — acquired from Mark Cuban in 2019; Impact Wrestling; Invicta Fighting Championships (all-women mixed martial arts); Fight Network (combat sports); Game+ (esports and gaming); GameTV; and a significant ownership in outdoor network Pursuit Channel. Anthem and Gravitas will develop new themed channels.

Cleveland-based Gravitas was founded in 2006 and acquired by Red...

Anthem Sports & Entertainment has acquired Gravitas Ventures’ 3,000-title content library from ProSieben’s Red Arrow Studios for $73 million in cash.

The transaction also includes an undisclosed amount of Anthem stock. The Toronto-based media company headed by longtime Canwest TV executive Leonard Asper plans to use the range of documentaries and narrative movies in the Gravitas vault to fuel new free ad-support streaming TV channels, which offer content owners a ready path to monetize movie and TV libraries.

Gravitas’ recent releases include the ensemble comedy “Queen Bees” toplined by Ellen Burstyn and James Caan. Anthem also owns the Axs TV, HD Net and Pursuit TV channels as well as the Impact Wrestling franchises. All told, the Gravitas

Based in Cleveland, Gravitas has acquired and released a wide range of movies since its launch more than 15 years ago. The company’s top executives will join Anthem Sports’ executive roster, including Gravitas founder and CEO Nolan Gallagher,...

Entire Gravitas Ventures organisation to remain intact.

Multi-platform media company Anthem Sports & Entertainment has acquired Gravitas Ventures from Red Arrow Studios for an undisclosed sum.

The cash and common stock transaction means Gravitas joins a stable that includes Axs TV, HDNet Movies, Impact Wrestling and Game+ and GameTV.

Founder and CEO Nolan Gallagher, president Michael Murphy, EVP and general counsel Brendan Gallagher and CFO Brian Kenyon will be joining the Anthem executive team. The entire Gravitas Ventures organisation will remain intact.

Gravitas Ventures was acquired by Red Arrow Studios in November 2017 and typically releases more than 300 films and documentaries a year.

Director, producer and screenwriter Michael Laughlin, whose credits include Two-Lane Blacktop, Town & Country and Strange Behavior, died on October 20th at the age of 82.

Laughlin succumbed to complications related to Covid-19 and passed in his residence in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Michael Stoddard Laughlin was born in 1938 and brought up in Minonk, Illinois. Laughlin played basketball at Stanford University, later graduating from Principia College in 1960.

Shortly after, he moved to London where he started his career as a film producer. He worked on projects like The Whispers and 1968’s Joanna directed by Michael Sarne. Laughlin married French actress Leslie Caron during his time in Europe. They divorced in 1980.

In the ’70s, Laughlin helped produce the Monte Hellman-directed cult classic Two-Lane Blacktop, starring James Taylor. In 2012, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Other credits include 1981’s Strange Behaviors,...

Michael Laughlin, a filmmaker and producer whose credits included the likes of 1971’s “Two-Lane Blacktop” and 1981’s “Strange Behavior,” died on Oct. 20 from complications related to Covid-19. He was 82 years old.

Laughlin’s death was confirmed to Variety by his friend Brooke Nasser. He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, where had been living for many years.

Laughlin was born and raised in Illinois. He was recruited to play basketball at Stanford University and graduated from Principia College in 1960.

After moving to London, Laughlin began a career as a film producer, working on projects such as Bryan Forbes’ 1967 thriller “The Whispers” and the 1968 feature “Joanna,” director Michael Sarne’s precursor to “Myra Breckinridge.” He met and married French actress and ballerina Leslie Caron during his time abroad. The two separated in 1975.

During the 1970s, Laughlin helped bring eight independent features to fruition, including the Monte Hellman-directed cult classic “Two-Lane Blacktop.” Interviews...

” You like killing too, huh? There’s nothing about it. We’re killers. “

Destroy the Brain‘s monthly ‘Late Nite Grindhouse’ film series is back! Head to the Marcus Des Peres Cinema this Friday and Saturday (September 24th and 25th) at 10pm for Wes Craven’s 1989 horror saga Shocker. Advance tickets can be purchased Here

As Shocker proved, back in 1989, that even Wes Craven’s lesser films were almost always wildly imaginative and invested with a distinctive horror style. Shocker’s central plot is that a mad killer named Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi) can survive the electric chair and invade dreams. High school stud Jonathan (Peter Berg) is having dreams where he can see the identity of a serial killer terrorizing the city. His father, Detective Don Parker (Michael Murphy), doesn’t initially take his son seriously. But after he loses some of his men during a raid on an abandoned machine shop,...

Vision Film has acquired rights to I Love Us, a romantic drama from Danny A. Abeckaser’s 2B Films. Abeckaser stars with Jackie Cruz, Katie Cassidy, Harlow Jane, David James Elliott, Robert Davi, Jasper Polish, Greg Finley, James Madio, David James Elliott, Elya Baskin and Courtney Lopez in the ensemble, which wrapped production at the end of March after a shoot in Los Angeles. It will get a 10-city theatrical run along with VOD in September.

In the script by Kosta Kondilopoulos, a seasoned thief (Abeckaser) trades in his criminal ways for a “normal” married life after falling in love with a single mother (Cassidy) that catches him off guard. But when tragedy strikes, he’s forced to take one last job to pay off old debts and keep his new family together, creating conflict all around him.

Abeckaser also produced with Wild7Films’ Kyle Stefanski and Mike Hermosa, and Above the Clouds’ Jeff Hoffman. Executive producers are Katie Cassidy, Ron Rofe, Isaac Gindi, Eddie Gindi and Gustavo Nascimento.

“I Love Us was such a passion project and a labor of love. I felt the movie deserved to be with a company that really believes and loves the movie like I do. Lisa Romanoff at Vision was the right person for this journey for myself as director along with producers Kyle Stefanski, Mike Hermosa and Jeff Hoffman. We are excited for people to see it.”

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Level 33 Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Rollers, written and directed by Isaiah Smallman. The film will be available in theaters and on VOD on June 25.

The plot centers on Rufus Paisley (Johnny Ray Gill), a closet alcoholic and whose everything he loves is smashed together into one place: Rollers. He gave up a promising career as a musician in order to keep it alive, but the historic venue, once owned by his parents, is in trouble and he’s running out of ways to save it, and himself. His friends urge him to move on, but can he?

Kevin Bigley, Vicky Jeudy, Kate Cobb, Joel Allen and Spencer Rayshon Stevenson also star. Smallman and Tara Ansley produced the pic, which was executive produced by Tiffany Boyle, Bryce McGuire, Elsa Ramo and Eric Costello.

The deal was negotiated by Boyle and Erika Canchola on behalf of the filmmakers and by Andreas Olavarria and Kate Sheffield on behalf of Level 33.

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Gravitas Ventures has acquired rights to the sports documentary Resurgence, directed by social media fitness stars Heber Cannon and Marston Sawyers (aka the Buttery Bros). The pic, which follows the shakeup of the worldwide annual fitness competition The CrossFit Games in the midst of the pandemic, will debut on iTunes and Apple TV on July 20, followed by digital platforms and VOD on August 3.

“With Covid-19 restrictions allowing for only 10 athletes versus the usual 80-100+, it’s the first and possibly last year we will be able to tell interesting angles from every athlete competing,” the directors said. “We are honored to have been there for this intimate event, and excited for the world to see the behind the scenes of what went on at the 2020 CrossFit Games.”

“The collaboration among the Buttery Bros., CrossFit HQ, and Gravitas has been smooth and it’s great to get the band back together,” said Michael Murphy, President of Gravitas Ventures. “Previous CrossFit films are immediate best-sellers, and we expect the same from Resurgence which is awesome in scope, story-telling, and quality.”

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The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles‘ Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature went toTamil director Thamizh’s debut film Seththumaan (Pig) as the 19th edition of the fest wrapped its run this week. The Features Jury gave honorable mention to Malayalam film Biriyaani, directed by Sajin Baabu. Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature Fire in the Mountains won the Audience Award for Best Feature.

The Grand Jury Prize for Best Short went to Karishma Dev Dube for Bittu, while the Audience Award for Best Short went to Aarti Neharsh’s queer love story The Song We Sang.

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Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American VOD rights to the World War II feature documentary Lost Airmen of Buchenwald. It will hit digital platforms June 15.

Written and directed by Mike Dorsey, the doc tells the story of the 168 Allied airmen in World War II who fought for survival in Germany’s infamous Buchenwald Concentration Camp after they were caught by the German Gestapo while hiding with the French Resistance. Facing starvation, disease, execution, forced marches, and even a bombing by their own side, the airmen are in a race against time to get out of Buchenwald alive.

Dorsey, Gerald Baron, Frank Imhof and Duane McNett are producers. Freestyle negotiated the deal with A3 Artists Agency representing Dorsey.

Here’s the trailer:...

It was 18 years ago — how time flies in the indie world — that the married directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman brought us “American Splendor,” an achingly humane, scabrously funny, miraculously playful and inventive lower-depths comedy based on the life and work of the lumpen verité comic-book diarist Harvey Pekar, played by Paul Giamatti in a performance of irascible brilliance. The movie was an audacious triumph, and going forward one wanted, and expected, more great things from Pulcini and Berman. In the years since, however, nothing they’ve done has come within miles of living up to the promise of that landmark film. The odd thing is that their earnest empathy and craft is always on display; they have an instinct for pace, for camera angles, for how to seek out three dimensions in places where too many filmmakers settle for two. Yet lightning has never struck again for them.

Exclusive: Nick Isaak, who helped run Amazon Prime Video’s Film Festival Stars program before stints at MGM Studios and Microsoft’s Xbox, is joining indie distributor Gravitas Ventures as head of sales. He will report to Gravitas president Michael Murphy.

“We’re thrilled that Nick has joined our team and know that his entrepreneurial spirit and analytical mind will help us lean into sales especially in SVOD, AVOD and television,” Murphy said Tuesday.

At Amazon, Isaak helped grow Prime Video Direct’s content partnerships including the Film Festival Stars program, which struck deals to provide an online platform to indie films seeking wider distribution; it ended up securing hundreds of films in the initiative. He later worked in worldwide digital sales at MGM Studios and managed international Tvod for Microsoft’s Xbox service.

Said Isaak: “In previous roles I’ve been able to work with the team at Gravitas...

We're back with another installment of Horror Highlights, with details on the release of the Ghoulies, Troll, and TerrorVision soundtracks to vinyl, news of Shelter wrapping filming and some stills from the movie, and photos from the world premiere of Archenemy!

Ghoulies, Troll, Terrorvision Vinyl Soundtracks: "Established by producer and director Charles Band in 1983, Empire Pictures quickly became notorious for the horror-comedy classics made during its brief but legendary lifespan. With wild special effects, outrageous humour and over-the-top horror action Ghoulies, Troll and TerrorVision were three of Empire Pictures finest works, and each movie featured an unforgettable score by Charles’ award-winning composer brother Richard Band.

Now, these scores have been carefully remastered and are presented for the very first time on half-speed mastered, Limited Edition 180g coloured vinyl in stunning packaging with liner notes from composer and master of the horror and science-fiction soundtrack Richard Brand.

Ghoulies features the full uncut original soundtrack,...

Kate Llewellyn-Jones.

Beyond International is merging its two London-based distribution outfits, Beyond Distribution and the recently acquired Tcb Media Rights.

Kate Llewellyn-Jones, a former MD of Tcb Media Rights, has been named CEO of the new entity, Beyond Rights.

In addition to the Beyond and Tcb teams in London, the new business will incorporate Beyond’s office in Dublin and team members based in Sydney, including Joanne Azzopardi, senior VP, international sales and acquisitions for Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

For the past 18 months, Llewellyn-Jones has been a commercial consultant. She served as MD of Tcb Media Rights from 2015 to 2018. Before that she spent 12 years at Cineflix Rights.

Michael Murphy, Beyond Distribution’s general manager, will remain with the Beyond Group in an executive director role, working alongside Mikael Borglund, CEO and MD of Beyond International, on recent joint venture BeyondTNC, as well as corporate administration and business development.

Beyond...

Sam Mendes’ Theatre Arts Fund has raised £1.6 million ($2 million) to support out-of-work theater professionals across the U.K. by offering quick and easy access to a £1000 grant. Although the fund has supported 1,600 freelancers so far, it’s a far cry from the nearly 4,000 applications it received in just one week.

Launched July 6, the fund was established with a £500,000 donation from Netflix, and has since received another £85,000 in donations from public and industry donors via the online donation platform Enthuse. The rest of the $2 million total came from various organizations such as The Estate of Sir Peter and Lady Suanders which joined Netflix as a headline supporter, as well as The Mackintosh Foundation, Eileen Davidson Productions, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Linbury Trust and others.

After recognizing generous support from high-profile individuals such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Colin Firth, Tom Hiddleston, Edgar Wright, Michaela Coel, Emma Thompson, Mark Strong,...

Exclusive: Deadline hears that WME has signed actor Jovan Adepo, the star of such movies as Denzel Washington’s Oscar-winning Fences and the Bad Robot WWII genre movie Overlord.

In Fences, Adepo played Cory Maxson, the son of Washington’s Troy Maxson. Adepo recently starred in the HBO DC series Watchmen as the superhero Hooded Justice, as well as the Facebook series, Sorry For Your Loss, opposite Elizabeth Olsen, as her love interest. He also co-starred in the second season of the Amazon series Jack Ryan, as a series regular opposite John Krasinski.

Adepo can next be seen leading the cast with Grace Van Patten in the independent feature The Violent Heart, which was part of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival premiere selection, and he’s a series regular lead in the upcoming CBS All Access series, Stephen King’s: The Stand, opposite James Marsden, Amber Heard and Whoopi Goldberg.

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