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As the format continues to gain traction, here’s our regularly-updated list of upcoming 4K Ultra HD disc releases in the UK.

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A glimpse at upcoming UK DVD and Blu-ray release dates well into 2025: here’s what’s coming to disc and when.

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David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release next month. The Shrouds will be reaching theatres in New York and Los Angeles on April 18th, then will expand nationwide on April 25th. With those dates right around the corner, a trailer has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously worked with Cronenberg on Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, takes on the role of Karsh,...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in 2025. We don’t know a specific release date for this one yet, but the Motion Picture Association ratings board has revealed that The Shrouds has secured an R rating – primarily for sexual content and nudity! Here’s the reason given: Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violent content.

Pyramide Distribution will be giving the film a theatrical release in France on April 30th.

Canadian International Pictures, sister company to the great Arbelos Films, takes upon itself the noble mission of restoring and releasing lesser-seen films from up north. Their next project is a film I’d frankly never heard of, but upon watching a trailer for its restoration I can’t see it soon enough: Allan Moyle’s The Rubber Gun stars Stephen Lack (Scanners) as a Montreal drug-pusher whose makeshift family is put under threat. Ahead of bicoastal premieres––Los Angeles’ American Cinematheque on March 6 (with a Moyle Q&a) and New York’s Roxy Cinema on March 11 (where Lack will do a Q&a on March 15)––we’re pleased to exclusively debut said trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: “Charismatic painter Steve (Scanners star Stephen Lack) has carved out a reputation as Montreal’s premiere drug connection, trafficking narcotics with a crew of friends (and lovers) living as a makeshift ‘family’ on the fringes of society.

There are a lot of Stephen King books out there — and about as many movies based on those King-ly books. The writer earns his title as a horror master not just through craft, but prolificity. He's got multiple works that could contend for "scariest book ever written," but quite a few that aren't so great either.

If you're preparing for a King deep dive, with movies or TV, consider starting with the cream of the crop. One story that's absolutely in that cream is King's novel "The Dead Zone," which fellow horror master David Cronenberg adapted as a movie in 1983. For added convenience, "The Dead Zone" is now streaming for free (with ads) on Pluto TV.

Now, Cronenberg is synonymous with body horror, but "The Dead Zone" is no gross-out picture; the violence happens only in spats. What makes it Cronenbergian is that is about a man undergoing a physical...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in the spring of 2025. We don’t know a specific release date for this one yet, but a new teaser trailer has arrived online and you can check it out in the embed above. We saw the previous teaser trailer eight months ago.

Pyramide Distribution will be giving the film a theatrical release in France on April 30th.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously...

One of the least-expected, most welcome, and coolest surprises on Star Trek: Discovery was the ongoing, recurring presence of David Cronenberg as the mysterious character, Dr. Kovich, who first popped up in season three of the show. Cronenberg has acted on occasion over the years but is far, far better known as the director of such features as The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, Eastern Promises, Cosmopolis, and Crimes of the Future. And now he’s back in the director’s chair for The Shrouds, which, nearly a year after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, will open in the United States on April 25.

Sideshow and Janus Films, which will release the film, just dropped a brief synopsis and a short teaser trailer. The synopsis reads, “Karsh (Vincent Cassel) is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a...

The acclaimed filmmaker behind The Fly, Crash, and A History of Violence recently gave fans a tantalizing glimpse of his upcoming project, The Shrouds, and hinted at his filmmaking future.

Presented during an exclusive screening at La Cinémathèque française in Paris, Cronenberg’s latest film stars Black Swan's Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and The Brutalist's Guy Pearce. The director himself introduced The Shrouds and shared heartfelt reflections on his career, as well as a cryptic promise about what may lie ahead.

Related David Cronenberg's The Fly Is Getting a Follow-Up Film

American director Nikyato Jusu will tackle the new film.

The Shrouds has already sparked intrigue among film enthusiasts, thanks to Cronenberg’s reputation for merging the grotesque with the cerebral. While details about the plot remain scarce, the film promises to explore the dark, existential themes that have defined his work. Speaking to the audience before the screening,...

Listen, when you declare independence from another country in open rebellion, you tend to hold onto some lingering animosity toward that country even centuries later. It’s called epigenetics, probably — look it up. It doesn’t help when the country in question has a hilarious lexicon that makes even terrible things sound adorable. In England, a sex offender is simply a “sex pest,” an enraged person is “doing their nut” and a film too violent or graphically sexual to be distributed was a “video nasty.”

That’s not to say America hasn’t had its share of dumb moral panics. There was that whole Salem witch thing, which wasn’t cool. When it comes to censorship, no one who was alive at the time will soon forget Tipper Gore arguing in front of the Senate that Prince is 2 filthy. But we just kind of called that “the sex and violence...

Scanners is the cornerstone of 1980s horror/sci-fi and a breakthrough for the now legendary director David Cronenberg, now the seminal shocker is set a mind-blowing Limited Edition makeover from experts in the field, Second Sight Films, this March. Second Sight Films announce the brand-new Scanners Limited Edition 4K/Uhd …

The post David Cronenberg’s ‘Scanners’ set for Dual Limited Edition release from Second Sight Films ‘So good, it’ll blow your mind’ released 31 March 2025 appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.

David Cronenberg’s cult classic Scanners, a defining film in 1980s horror and science fiction, is set for a spectacular re-release with a brand-new Limited Edition 4K Uhd and Blu-ray box set from Second Sight Films. Available from 31 March 2025, this special edition celebrates the groundbreaking effects, unforgettable performances, and haunting themes that have made Scanners an enduring entry in the genre.

Scanners marked a turning point in Cronenberg’s career, cementing his reputation as a master of visceral storytelling. The film’s chilling exploration of telepathy and corporate conspiracy introduced audiences to a terrifying new vision of psychic warfare. Now, with a fresh 4K restoration approved by Cronenberg himself, viewers can experience every unnerving detail with stunning clarity.

The Limited Edition box set features a rigid slipcase with striking new artwork by Krishna Shenoi, paying homage to the film’s eerie, otherworldly tone. Packed with extras, the set includes a...

One of David Cronenberg‘s most beloved films is getting a brand-new ultra-high-definition treatment. Blu-ray.com has revealed that the label Second Sight is going to be releasing new Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays of Scanners. The sci-fi thriller, which features powerful telepaths, is sealed in history as having one of (if not The best) head explosion scenes. And you can now see it in every gory detail when the new physical media is released on March 31.

Scanners stars Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, and Michael Ironside. Following his 1975 film Shivers, Cronenberg penned a treatment for a sci-fi story called Telepathy 2000. The basic idea of the plot concerned a protagonist named Harley Quinn raping a woman telepathically in a subway before revealing itself as a spy story of corporate espionage. The evil Cytodyne Amalgamate Corporation deliberately bred Scanners as a government program to overtake the world. This idea...

David Cronenberg has made a successful career out of helming some of the most visceral and visually disturbing body horrors in cinema. It started back in the 1970s with movies like The Shivers and has continued over the last 50-plus years with notable entries including Scanners in 1981, 1986's The Fly, and most recently, in 2022, with Crimes of the Future. The prolific filmmaker has dabbled in other genres like psychological thrillers and dramas, but he is most notable because of his avant-garde approach to conceptual and experimental horror. He has even made a few cameos in several of his films, appearing in small and largely unnoticed roles. But there have been two occasions in which Cronenberg was tabbed for featured, leading roles, and one of those was when he worked with another horror legend, Clive Barker, in the 1990 surreal cult film Nightbreed. While he isn't known for his acting abilities, Cronenberg...

The Substance is making quite an impression on audiences, as director Coralie Fargeat’s satirical feature turns heads — and maybe some stomachs — with the disturbing physical transformation of its lead, played by Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. If the film lands Oscar recognition for best makeup and hairstyling, it will follow the flight pattern of fellow body-horror flick The Fly.

Starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz, director David Cronenberg’s 1986 cult classic is a remake of the 1958 movie of the same name that is based on a short story by George Langelaan. The movie centers on Seth Brundle (Goldblum), a visionary scientist who suffers a mishap during a teleportation experiment, leading him to slowly and gruesomely transform into a human-fly hybrid.

Special effects and makeup artists Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis, who had previously worked with Cronenberg on 1981’s Scanners, oversaw the look of Goldblum’s monstrous evolution.

Sometimes directors lament over the projects they never got to make, but David Cronenberg - best known for body horror classics The Fly, Videodrome, and Scanners - revealed a film producers desperately wanted him to make, but which he knowingly and proudly turned down, not because he didn't like the script but because he knew he just wasn't the right man for the job.

The film in question? Flashdance, the 1983 feel-good romantic dance drama about a young woman (Jennifer Beals) making ends meet as a welder and an exotic dancer who dreams of joining a prestigious ballet academy. It's an odd pairing to be sure, but as Cronenberg told Variety at the Marrakech Film Festival, the production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer pursued the director relentlessly. He said:

"You might be amazed [they] were totally convinced that I was the right one to direct. Really, I don’t know...

This article contains spoilers for the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl.Created by Craig Mazin in 2019 for HBO, Chernobyl is one of the more haunting horror projects made in the last two decades. Though, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who deems it horror at all, despite utilizing the tropes of the genre better than most full-fledged horror flicks. Written by Mazin, and directed by filmmaking partner Johann Renck (the duo later collaborating on the more conventional HBO series The Last of Us), the sprawling five-and-a-half-hour-long TV series masterfully weaves in disparate, genre-defying storylines that give a broad but chilling glimpse into the impact of the explosion of Reactor #4.

An American production with British actors playing Slavs, Chernobyl dramatizes the April 1986 nuclear accident in northern Ukraine. Soviet leadership serves as the de facto villain, the socialist state's hierarchies never built to be questioned, let alone countermanded. Our protagonist, Valery Legasov (Jared Harris...

Canadian director, screenwriter, producer, and actor David Cronenberg is well-known for his work in body horror a genre he helped originate. With a particular interest in exploring biological and technological transformations, Cronenberg first made his mark as a director with sci-fi horror films like Shivers (1975), the cult classic Scanners (1981), and The Fly (1986) some of Cronenberg's best movies. However, he's not a one-trick pony; he has also employed his taste for gore and violence, sometimes controversial to audiences, into other genres. In fact, two of the most respected action films of the 2000s, or arguably ever, have come from his hand: A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. And he made them back-to-back.

Interestingly, both of these movies include mob or mafia-related themes, a topic rife with opportunity for physical violence, and thus an excellent canvas for Cronenberg to explore his preferred themes. "For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body,...

For the first two or three hours of its campaign, Slitterhead may make you feel like the future of interactive horror is breech-birthing into existence. Those early hours drown the player in smoky, dirty splatterpunk, brilliant body-swapping mechanics, and a patently weird, abstract approach to narrative. But those early hours hit a high that the game can’t sustain, as the later hours see Slitterhead’s ambitions crash against its production limitations, until only pale, tarnished scraps of what could have been remain.

The best shorthand description of Slitterhead’s premise is: What if the eponymous, brain hemorrhage-inducing psychics from David Cronenberg’s Scanners had to save the world from the shape-shifting extraterrestrial organism at the center of John Carpenter’s The Thing? That’s a powerful formula by itself, made even more intriguing by it having been whipped up by none other than Toyama Keiichiro, the creator of Silent Hill and Siren.

Plot: Two Mormons (Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher) on a mission knock on the wrong door and find themselves fighting for their lives, faith, and sanity.

Review: Heretic is the latest horror flick from A24, and like many of their genre efforts, it’s a provocative one. Questions of theology and faith are always timely, and much of this diabolical and impressively harsh horror film deals with whether or not – in the face of great conflict – you can maintain your faith or be swayed by both the desire to save your own life and the evidence you’re being presented with.

In this, Sister Paxton (Chloe East) and Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) are young Mormons fulfilling their duties as missionaries by essentially going door-to-door to try to convert people to their faith. Neither is a particular stickler for Mormon theology, with the movie opening with them discussing pornography and condoms,...

Exclusive: With a horror project for Universal/Monkeypaw and a Night of the Living Dead sequel still in the offing, Nikyatu Jusu has begun development on The Fly, a new film based on David Cronenberg’s body horror masterwork, which she wrote and will direct for 20th Century Studios and Chernin Entertainment.

While the film’s plot is under wraps, sources stressed that it’s set in the universe of Cronenberg’s film, rather than a straightforward remake. Nikyatu will direct from her own script, with Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping producing. The project coalesces in a moment when body horror is very much back in vogue, with the success of Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes prize-winner The Substance, which has grossed over $43M worldwide and drummed up Oscar buzz for star Demi Moore.

A landmark in both science fiction and horror cinema, Cronenberg’s The Fly follows...

As the final stretch of October sets in, there is still plenty of time to catch favorite flicks, spooky, witchy, scary or cozy in the season of pumpkins, monsters and more. Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween has several classic films airing all month long such as Casper (1995), Arachnophobia, Goosebumps, Edward Scissorhands, etc.

More recent films like 2021’s Ghostbustesr: Afterlife, 2022’s Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) and Haunted Mansion (2023) will also be available. Disney+ is the home of several of the movies in the below list, as is Max. Follow along below for your favorite titles as well as what is available by streamer and network.

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While Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola is streaming on MGM+, several other vampire movies like Interview with the Vampire are available on Max. Peacock also boasts a couple newer fanged flicks like Renfield (2023) and Abigail (2024). Twilight is not streaming anywhere currently, but...

This film will contain spoilers for The Substance and Terrifier 3

Body horror was once one of the biggest sub-genres in horror. The many gruesome ways in which the human body could change, morph, and fall apart fascinated many horror writers and directors, most notably David Cronenberg in the 1980s, whose films Videodrome, The Fly, and Scanners most notably pioneered and popularized the art of crafting effective and truly grotesque ways to destroy and transform the human body into something sinister and unrecognizable. Body horror was a large umbrella, encompassing more 1980s films such as the early Hellraiser movies, and even the death sequences in numerous Nightmare on Elm Street films.

As horror evolved and changed with the decades, it brought new sub-genres to center stage, and while many more body horror films have hit theaters since the 1980s, they were rarer than many other films in the same genre. 2024, however,...

David Cronenberg is certainly one of the most influential filmmakers to have emerged since the New Hollywood era, as he completely redefined the subgenre of body horror cinema into a receptacle canon of classics. Science fiction films that featured graphic distortions of the human body were generally perceived to be nothing more than B-movies, but Cronenberg managed to elevate the genre with socially adept classics like Scanners, The Brood, The Fly, Dead Ringers, and The Dead Zone, which were far more ambitious in their thematic depth. The body horror genre may be his specialty, but one of Cronenbergs best movies is the chilling neo-noir gangster thriller Eastern Promises.

Composer Howard Shore likes to sleep on it.

“I try to get in touch with my inner feelings,” he said at the Zurich Film Festival, explaining his preferred method of working.

“If you think about cinema, you go into a dark room and all this imagery starts appearing. You are in a dream-like state and I like to use that idea when I write music for film. There is some napping involved, you try to be very relaxed and imagine what the piece could be. And then I set to work with my pencil, creating the actual score to what I am dreaming,” he said.

“I don’t study a film: I listen to it. I listen to the rhythm of the actors, the sounds. I kind of imagine the visualization, writing to this more abstract idea in my mind.”

A three-time Oscar winner, Shore received the Career Achievement Award at the Swiss festival,...

David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” has finally found a home.

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to “The Shrouds,” written and directed by Cronenberg and starring Vincent Cassel as a tech mogul who invents a technology that allows you to watch your loved one rot in their grave.

The latest freakout from the Canadian auteur premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year (where it screened in competition) and recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival as a special presentation. It will have its U.S. premiere next month as part of the main slate of the New York Film Festival. Sideshow and Janus are planning a spring 2025 release.

The deal was negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with Sbs International. The producers of the film are Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. It is an Sbs, Prospero Pictures and Saint Laurent Productions Film,...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Deadline reports that Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in the spring of 2025.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously worked with Cronenberg on Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, takes on the role of Karsh, “an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art though controversial cemetery allows him and his...

Fresh off the film’s North American premiere at TIFF, horror master David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds has been acquired for U.S. release by Sideshow and Janus Films.

Deadline notes that they’re planning a Spring 2025 release for the film.

“Building on a long history with David Cronenberg that has included releases of Videodrome, Scanners, The Brood, Crash, Dead Ringers, and Naked Lunch, Janus Films and Criterion are very proud to be working with Sideshow and Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello to premiere The Shrouds, a major new work by the Canadian master in the United States,” Sideshow/Janus said in a statement shared by Deadline this morning.

Vincent Cassel (Irreversible, Eastern Promises) stars alongside Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”).

Variety previews, “The Shrouds centers on Karsh, a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife,...

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg and are planning a spring 2025 theatrical release.

The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition. It played the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Gala program and is set for its U.S. premiere in the Main Slate at the New York Film Festival next month.

The deal was negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with Sbs International. Producers are Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. It’s an Sbs, Prospero Pictures & Saint Laurent Productions Film with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Ontario Creates in association with Sphere Films, Crave & CBC Films with the support of Canal +, Ocs & the Centre National du Cinema et de L’image Animée.

“Building on a...

Netflix is developing an animated series based on the Splinter Cell series, and here is why actor Michael Ironside isn't voicing the franchise's protagonist Sam Fisher in the upcoming show Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. Netflix has been seriously delving into the world of video game adaptations in recent years, with series like Castlevania, Arcane, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, The Cuphead Show, and more making their way onto the streaming service. More details on some upcoming video game adaptations were given at Netflix's Geeked Week '24, including the highly anticipated Splinter Cell: Deathwatch animated series.

The first teaser for Netflix's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is out now, giving a first look at the upcoming animated series. Rumors of a partnership between Netflix and Ubisoft that would culminate in a Splinter Cell series have been making the rounds for years now, and the newly announced adaptation of the acclaimed video game series is the culmination of...

David Cronenberg is certainly one of the most influential filmmakers to have emerged since the New Hollywood era, as he completely redefined the subgenre of body horror cinema into a receptacle canon of classics. Science fiction films that featured graphic distortions of the human body were generally perceived to be nothing more than B-movies, but Cronenberg managed to elevate the genre with socially adept classics like Scanners, The Brood, The Fly, Dead Ringers, and The Dead Zone, which were far more ambitious in their thematic depth. The body horror genre may be his specialty, but one of Cronenbergs best movies is the chilling neo-noir gangster thriller Eastern Promises.

David Cronenberg is easily one of the most innovative filmmakers within the body horror genre, as his work on classics like Scanners, The Brood, The Fly, and Dead Ringers and more made him so prominent that the term Cronenbergian has often been utilized to describe similar work. There are certainly many innovative filmmakers who have played around with elements of body horror, but Cronenbergs aptitude for telling rich human dramas with an undercurrent of political satire distinguished him as an artist who could never be accused of putting style of substance. Cronenberg is an original voice responsible for creating many great characters, but hes often been at his best when working with previously established material and molding it in his own image. In fact, one of Cronenbergs best movies to date is based on the DC graphic novel A History of Violence.

Writer/director David Cronenberg is well known for his science fiction and horror films, with grotesque gore gags and body horror prevalent throughout much of his work. This is the man who brought us the nightmarish Brundlefly mutant in "The Fly" and the freaky surgery sex of "Crimes of the Future," but one of his most impressively shocking moments came early in his career: the head explosion in the 1981 movie "Scanners." In the film, 237 people have become "scanners," or beings capable of immense telepathic and psychokinetic powers. Early on in the film, powerful scanner Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside) uses his powers to explode the head of a rival scanner (Louis Del Grande), and it is truly grotesque. Gore shoots in all directions as the scanner's head explodes, his face trapped forever in a moment of surprise. It's gross, it's gory, and it's glorious. It was also surprisingly simple to create.

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has unveiled the first wave of its honorees for this year, naming Canadian directing legend David Cronenberg as the recipient of the Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award and Amy Adams as the winner of this year’s TIFF Tribute Performer Award.

Cronenberg is among the most unique and influential filmmakers of his generation an auteur who has created a bespoke brand of intellectual horror with films such as Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Crash and A History of Violence. His latest, The Shrouds, premiered in competition in Cannes last month. Shawn Levy (Free Guy, Deadpool & Wolverine) received the inaugural Norman Jewison career award in 2023.

Adams, a six-time Oscar nominee (for Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, American Hustle and Vice), will be seen next in Nightbitch, a comedy horror film from director Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) adapted from Rachel Yoder’s debut novel of the same name.

The Zurich Film Festival (Zff) will honor legendary film composer Howard Shore with its career achievement award. The triple-Oscar winner, best known for his iconic scores for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies, will receive the award at the 20th Zff in October.

In addition, Shore will head up the Zff’s international film music competition for its 20th edition. As jury president, the Canadian composer will judge young talents each tasked with creating an original score to the same 8-minute short film. The three compositions will be performed live by the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under the direction of Frank Strobel on Oct. 5 during Zurich’s Cinema in Concert gala in the presence of the three nominees. The winning composition will receive a Chf 10,000 ($11,500) cash prize.

“I am honored to come to Zurich for the festival’s 20th anniversary, to receive this career achievement...

David Cronenberg is one of our greatest living directors; a Canadian auteur who made a name for himself with body horror masterpieces like "Scanners," "The Fly," and "Videodrome," just to name a few. And every now and then, Cronenberg will step in front of the camera, too. He has a memorable supporting turn as the villain in Clive Barker's "Nightbreed." And he has cameos in films such as "To Die For" and "Jason X." He also appeared in several seasons of "Star Trek: Discovery" as the character Doctor Kovich. 

With Cronenberg having spent so much time on the series, you might have wondered: why didn't he direct any episodes? He is, after all, a director first, actor second. Well, according to Cronenberg himself, it's not a gig he's particularly interested in. When asked by StarTrek.com what would happen if he was asked to direct an episode of the show,...

Netflix executives rejected David Cronenberg's concept for a 10-episode series, leading him to turn it into a film instead. The Shrouds is deeply personal for Cronenberg, echoing his own experiences with loss and grief after his wife's death. Despite mixed reviews, Cronenberg defends the film's narrative direction and highlights its exploration of conspiracy theories surrounding death.

The Shrouds from seminal director David Cronenberg premiered at Cannes this week, but its journey began as a concept for a 10-episode series pitched to Netflix. During a press conference for the sci-fi thriller, Cronenberg revealed that Netflix execs rejected the project (via The Hollywood Reporter). According to Cronenberg, the streamer's executives liked the script for the first episode but did not want to move forward after the second episode.

"They said and this is a very Hollywood thing to say 'It's not what we fell in love with in the room,'" Cronenberg said.

After 27 years, Demi Moore returned to the Cannes red carpet following the world premiere of her body horror The Substance, starring Margaret Qualley. Directed by French director Coralie Fargeat, the horror thriller has made waves, with critics deeming it Moore’s best big-screen role in decades.

The plot revolves around a new product, The Substance, which promises people to transform into the best version of themselves. However, it comes with a twist and the new horror is definitely not for the faint-hearted, as critics deemed it among the best films the genre has to offer.

The Substance Doesn’t Disappoint in the Body Horror Front Per Critics Demi Moore | Credit: Indecent Proposal ( Paramount Pictures)

Demi Moore‘s new film is a complete departure from her Industry image, which has earned her and the crew a 13-minute standing ovation at Cannes. Revolving around self-hatred, The Substance doesn’t shy away from...

In the year 2070, evolution has begun to give birth to a new race of humans: the Espers. Blessed with psychic abilities, many of them choose to live in peace. Some, though, have chosen to use their gifts to assert dominance over humanity. In response, others have opted to join the advanced defense agency known as Minerva to stop them. One of them, Luna, has now been bonded with a Neurodiver, a lab-grown cephalopod Esper that enhances her abilities, allowing her to explore memories as if she’s living them.

On paper, that sounds like an ambitious, big-budget remake of David Cronenberg’s Scanners, one of many a sci-fi fan’s dreams, and really, that’s part of the problem with Read Only Memories: Neurodiver. Its premise opens the door to an immense, far-reaching embarrassment of creative options that the game—a bright, breezy, anime-flavored follow-up to 2064: Read Only Memories...

The Shrouds teaser reveals Cronenberg's return, featuring Cassel as a widower who creates a device connecting the living with the dead. Cassel's intense performance infuses the film with tragedy as Karsh questions the morality of his invention amid desecration of graves. The star-studded cast, including Pearce and Kruger, promises brilliance in this supernatural, psychological horror movie premiering at Cannes in 2024.

Director David Cronenberg's much-awaited project, The Shrouds. has revealed its first teaser trailer, giving just a small glimpse of what the master of boundary-pushing cinema is unleashing this time. The upcoming movie, along with his previous movie Crimes of the Future, marks Cronenbergs return to the directors chair after a long hiatus helming films. The last feature Cronenberg previously directed was 2014s Map of the Stars. Cronenberg has created some of the most iconic horror films in the 80s such as The Fly, Scanners, The Dead Zone and Videodrome.

David Cronenberg is hailed as the master of body horror, with films like Scanners and The Fly among the genre's finest. Cronenberg's upcoming release, The Shrouds, is a personal and autobiographical project that may resonate emotionally with audiences. The film delves into the passing of Cronenberg's wife and is expected to blend emotions with the horror genre, offering a poignant and intense viewing experience.

While he's tackled several genres throughout his wide-ranging career, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg is most prominently known for pioneering a fan-favorite realm of cinema: body horror. From Scanners (1981) and VideoDrome (1983) to The Fly (1986) and Crimes of the Future (2022), several of the subgenre's most superb entries ever were both written and directed by the famous Canadian filmmaker.

He's dipped his toes into several other genres, but no matter their tone or style, Cronenberg's movies are always made with world-class technique. In all likelihood, The Shrouds (2024) will continue this trend.

David Cronenberg is a man of many talents. He's a screenwriter, actor, and even the author of a globe-trotting, geopolitical horror novel. Listen, we all know where this man is at his best, though. Cronenberg has spent the last half a century as one of the most inventive and disgusting filmmakers on the planet, drudging up one instant classic body horror film after the next. The '60s saw him kick off his career with the bizarro experimental trip that is Stereo (Tile 3B of a Caee Educational Mosaic), a film that even the biggest Crone-heads will have a tough time wrapping their brains around. With the '70s and '80s, Cronenberg came into his own with body horror classics like Shivers, Videodrome, Scanners, and, of course, The Fly his masterpiece. As the iconic filmmaker made his way into the 1990s and 2000s, he proved that he was anything but a one-trick pony.

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Humane, the debut feature film from director and acclaimed photographer Caitlin Cronenberg, is a chilling look at an alternate present where a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce Earth's population. Part horror, part satire, and all family drama, the film examines themes of wealth, addiction, and social class in an all-too-real way that leaves the viewer believing this is something that could actually happen if we're not careful with our fragile planet. However, one has to wonder... is it already too late?

Joining Cronenberg on her first voyage into feature films are stars Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek) and Jay Baruchel (BlackBerry), two fellow Canadians who play siblings Jared and Rachel York in Humane, and could be brother and sister in real life despite there being no blood relation between them. MovieWeb caught up with the...

If you're in the mood for a movie that will make you throw up, all you need to do is dig into the sick works of David Cronenberg. For decades, Cronenberg has shocked audiences, mutilated bodies, and blown the heads off of characters in one dumbfounding horror classic after another. Everyone knows the heavy hitters like Scanners, Videodrome, and, of course, The Fly, but Cronenberg has much more to his name than that. Genre fans shouldn't miss his bizarre debut, Stereo (Tile 3B of a Caee Educational Mosaic). They should also be sure to check in on his low-budget zombie vampire hybrid, Rabid — an absolute trip in and of itself. Don't forget his late-stage return to gross-out cinema with 2022's Crimes of the Future. Cronenberg's movies are always steeped in symbolism. Whether he's exploring disease, critiquing aspects of the hippie movement, or the trials of divorce, Cronenberg is rarely one to shoot his ideas straight.

Stars: David Dastmalchian, Michael Ironside, Georgina Haig, Fayssal Bazzi, Ian Bliss, Rhys Auteri, Laura Gordon, Ingrid Torelli | Written and Directed by Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes

Late Night With the Devil, the latest film from Cameron and Colin Cairnes, the team who made 100 Bloody Acres and Scare Campaign, opens with scenes of violence caught in the lens of the TV camera. As we watch, Michael Ironside tells us about America in the 1970s, and then segues into the career of radio man turned late night TV host Jack Delroy.

His show, the syndicated Night Owls, has run a close second to Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show, but never managed to catch up to it in the ratings wars. And since the death of Jack’s wife Madeline his life and his ratings, seem to be in free fall. With sweeps week kicking off on Halloween Eve and his career on the line,...

Sometimes a film can have a single moment that nearly overshadows the rest. Not that the 1981 film Scanners isn't a good movie, it belongs in the pantheon of great sci-fi horror that came out in the 1980s, and is considered a cult classic. It was the public's first exposure to the master of body horror, writer-director David Cronenberg, this being his breakthrough onto the scene after a few years of honing his craft in grindhouse cinema. It's known for its comparatively creative use of psychokinesis as a tool for horror. It's one thing to throw people around and crash some cars, Carrie-style, but Cronenberg took the idea to a new, stomach-turning level.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is an epic science fiction movie that is the sequel to 2021’s Dune and the second of the two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. The movie stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, and more. The performances of the actors have been highly lauded by the audience and the critics.

The movie follows the story of Paul Atreides uniting with the Fremen people of the desert planet Arrakis to execute a war against House Harkonnen. Actors including Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, LéaSeydoux, Christopher Walken, and Souheila Yecoub joined the cast for the sequel, which was released on March 1st, 2024. Dune: Part Two has managed to break records of two highly successful and critically acclaimed movies in just mere days of its release.

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The gang in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" are always getting themselves into trouble, but the series creators can't be quite as reckless as their characters. As lawless as the series may seem, they have to abide by the same safety codes as every other major network show. The much-needed protection of unions and insurance has made it so cruder methods used in the filmmaking days of yore are no longer kosher on set. Unfortunately, that means that certain dangerous practical effects from the gritty New Hollywood era have gone the way of the Dodo. So when the "Sunny" creators wanted to mimic an effect from acclaimed filmmaker David Cronenberg's early career hit "Scanners," they ran into a major roadblock.

An important moment in American history is re-imagined in "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell," in which the gang's timeless adversary Rickety Cricket gets his head blown off violently (albeit accidentally) with a musket.

Clockwise from bottom left: Scanners (New World-Mutual), Tremors (Screenshot: YouTube), M3GAN (Universal Pictures) Graphic: The A.V. Club The grimmest month of the year, January brings almost nothing in terms of new entertainment. The gaming and music industries stop dead to let our wallets regain a bit of heft, while...

Clockwise from bottom left: Scanners (New World-Mutual), Tremors (Screenshot: YouTube), M3GAN (Universal Pictures)Graphic: The A.V. Club

The grimmest month of the year, January brings almost nothing in terms of new entertainment. The gaming and music industries stop dead to let our wallets regain a bit of heft, while...