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Ben Wheatley To Direct HIGH RISE, Based On JG Ballard's Dystopian Novel

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Ben Wheatley To Direct HIGH RISE, Based On JG Ballard's Dystopian Novel

Ben Wheatley To Direct HIGH RISE, Based On JG Ballard's Dystopian Novel

Posted: 29 Aug 2013 04:31 AM PDT

Ben Wheatley seems wedded to making films in England for the time being, with news that he's slated to direct Amy Jump's adaptation of JG Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise, in which the tenants of an affluent self-sustaining building degenerate into a violent, tribal society.From the story on Screen Daily:Set in a luxury high-rise building, the book follows a group of affluent tenants hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on 'enemy' floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for technological mayhem.Human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the ultra-modern high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.For over 30 years, British producer Jeremy Thomas has wanted to make...

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19 Most Thrilling Gas-Guzzling, Car-Chasing, Road-Tripping Movies

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:00 PM PDT

After seeing Courtney Solomon's Getaway at an advance screening -- more on that later -- I began feeling nostalgic for the gas-guzzling car chase movies of my youth. As a kid growing up in 1970s California, that meant the Holy Trinity of Bullitt (made in 1968, but in heavy rotation on TV a few years later), The French Connection and The Seven Ups, which I wrote about for Twitch back in 2006. All three were produced by Philip D'Antoni -- he directed the latter -- and set a gold standard for my impressionable mind. But there is place for all kinds of gas-guzzling, car-chasing, road-tripping movies in the gallery below. The first pick comes courtesy of Twitch's Todd Brown; the next 11 picks are my...

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TIFF 2013: Violent First Trailer for Russian Crime Thriller BREAK LOOSE (Now With English Subs)

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT

It's Russian government billy clubs-a-plenty in the first trailer for the latest from The Edge director Alexey Uchitel. From its opening scene featuring a gritty, take-no-prisoners gang brawl inside a hot and sweaty Russian nightclub, Alexey Uchitel's new crime drama explodes onto the screen. Breathlessly paced, Break Loose hurtles us into a violent rivalry between two groups of street thugs, and offers a classic story of love and camaraderie in a dangerous milieu. Herman, Lykov, Shorokh, and Grekh are the best of friends. Having each done their service in the army, they now serve as operatives in OMON, the Russian special police force. By night, they troll the crime-ridden streets, looking for whatever excitement is to be had. When a simple misunderstanding with the...

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Drafthouse Films Releases THE ACT OF KILLING For Free In Indonesia

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT

In a move that has to be applauded and admired, Drafthouse Films has announced that it will make Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing available to watch for free to the people of Indonesia in perpetuity.From September 30, Drafthouse will make the explosive, acclaimed documentary available as a free digital download geo-blocked exclusively for Indonesia. As a result of the film dealing directly with the former Indonesian death squad leaders who have never left power, a theatrical release in its home territory is impossible, and yet the film is already being seen in secret underground screenings across the country, according to reports.Drafthouse Films founder Tim League commented: "Joshua Oppenheimer's film is a groundbreaking work that demands to be seen and its most essential audience is the...

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Watch An Exclusive Clip From THE CONSPIRACY

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT

It did not take long for XLrator Media to release Canadian chiller The Conspiracy after they picked up rights for the film back in June. They released the film on VOD and iTunes earlier this month and in case you needed a reminder or a little incentive to go and watch it we have been given an exclusive clip to share with you. When our own Peter Martin caught the film at Fantastic Fest last Fall he had this to say,With absolute conviction and unwavering intelligence, The Conspiracy unpacks complex theories and raises disturbing questions that are not easily dismissed.What distinguishes the faux-documentary framework from any number of "mock docs" is that writer/director Christopher MacBride doesn't pretend that his film has been made by clueless amateurs....

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Maisie Williams Gets Close To Wildlife In CORVIDAE With A Gallery Of Art And Photos

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT

I'm not quite the devotee of Game of Thrones as many of my friends (I just can't keep up with all the storylines). But one thing I do know is that my favourite character by far is Arya Stark, played with incredible conviction by Maisie Williams. Not content just to wield a sword or tweet pictures of her pet turtle, Williams recently shot a short film called Corvidae, written and directed by Tom de Ville, who has written for the television series Urban Gothic and Lexx and has projects with music video director Corin Hardy. Corvidae is a dark fairy tale about a young girl who loves birds, and the very strange thing that happens when she tries to protect a wounded crow from the...

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Mutant Wasp Creature Feature STUNG Gets The Green Light, Loads Up On Cast

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

It was almost exactly a year ago that we first wrote about upcoming creature feature Stung in these pages. At the time the mutant wasp film from director Benni Diez was little more than a script and a very impressive visual effects test but a year later the film is financed with cast in place and slated for an October start to production.The story revolves around a pair of caterers caught in a garden party gone very, very wrong when attacked by giant mutant wasps and in the words of director Diez, "Stung, to me, is bringing the creature feature cult film feeling from the 80s into the present and a modern-day fun horror movie."Matt O´Leary (Brick, Frailty), Jessica Cook, Peter Stormare and Lance Henriksen...

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Win A Copy Of Studio Ghibli's FROM UP ON POPPY HILL On DVD And Blu-ray!

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Studio Ghibli's From Up On Poppy Hill hits shelves across the USA in a DVD / Blu-ray combo pack September 3rd and it's a charmer. The sophomore film from Miyazaki Goro - son of the famed studio co-founder, Miyazaki Hayao - tells the story of a school girl in 1963 Tokyo with the story balancing a picture of Tokyo in transition with a wistful coming of age romance.We've got five copies of the combo pack to give away to our American readers. Want one? Simple ... just email me here and name the younger Miyazaki's first film. Winners will be drawn at random. Please include your mailing address....

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Check Out Michael Biehn In First Shot From HIDDEN IN THE WOODS

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Director Patricio Vallarades is hard at work on the English language version of his own Chilean horror film Hidden In The Woods and he has just released the first image from the film, one featuring Michael Biehn looking a little worse for wear.Two sisters and their deformed brother have been raised in isolation, and subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods.Check the image below and remember you can...

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Watch The First Trailer For Jim Mickle's WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Currently gearing up for its theatrical release following a successful festival run that included both Sundance and Cannes, Jim Mickle's remake of Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are has just released its first trailer. And if you wanted a taste of the American gothic tone of this back country cannibal tale, the trailer serves it up in spades. Mickle's one of the best things going in American horror film in recent years and his adaptation of the source material finds more than enough fresh nuance to make it his own. Check the trailer below....

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Telluride 2013 Announces Lineup: GRAVITY, JODOROWSKY'S DUNE, DRAGONS, THE TERMINAL MAN, ZAPRUDER, And More

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT

The Telluride Film Festival has announced its lineup for this year's 40th anniversary editions, which begins tomorrow (Thursday, August 29) and runs through Monday, September 2. As usual, the festival has snared a number of high-profile titles, most notably Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, Jason Reitman's Labor Day, and Errol Morris' The Unknown Known. The strength of the festival, though, lies not only in the curated selection of films expected to compete for year-end awards, but also in the independent and international films that it anoints with a coveted selection, giving those films an extra boost that's much needed in a crowded fall festival environment. This year, that includes Frank Pavich's Jodorowsky's Dune, Mark Cousins' Here Be Dragons and A Story of Children and Film, and Milius,...

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Adventure Amblin Style In Second Trailer For THE GATE OF RAGNAROK

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

If there were any questions about what sort of vibe the creators of Norwegian time hopping adventure film The Gate Of Ragnarok were going for, those are completely cleared up with the just-arrived second trailer. It's Amblin time, people, the trailer evoking the sort of kid friendly high adventure that was Spielberg's stock in trade throughout the life of his beloved production company.Archeologist Sigurd Svendsen (Pål Sverre Hagen) has for years been obsessed with the Oseberg Viking ship. The only inscription found on the ship is the enigmatic ´man knows little` written in runes. Sigurd is sure that the Oseberg ship contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok, the end of days in Norse mythology. When his friend Allan finds similar runes on a...

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Watch The Japanese Teaser For Keanu Reeves' Starrer 47 RONIN

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT

You know, part of me feels bad for 47 Ronin. Plagued by production delays largely laid by press and industry at the feet of Carl Rinsch, the former commercial director seeming to be overmatched by the sheer scale of what he had undertaken as his feature debut, then hammered by Japanophile fans for the massive revisionism of an actual historical event within the film, I can't help but wonder what the response to the first trailer would have been like had the production occurred in a cone of silence with the film named anything other than 47 Ronin. Would some still sneer at the sight of Keanu Reeves wielding a katana? Probably, but it's hard to imagine that the reaction would have been nearly as...

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Destroy All Monsters: Hollywood And Ben Affleck Don't Owe You A Damn Thing

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Look, I was as surprised as anyone else when the Batffleck (note proper spelling, please) casting came down last week . This wasn't because of any presumption on my part about whether Ben Affleck was "right for the role" of Batman (whatever that means) in the Superman vs. Batman project. My surprise was simply because Affleck had spent so much of the last five years credibly demonstrating that he was well past this sort of thing. To analogize him to his closest Hollywood comparison, it was like seeing George Clooney (former Batman, and Affleck's Argo producer), five years after Out of Sight and with Batman & Robin finally low enough in his filmography to stop drawing attention to itself, announcing that he was going to...

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Now On VOD: Fantasia Audience Award Winner REWIND THIS! Hits iTunes

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT

SXSW official selection and Fantasia audience award winning documentary Rewind This! is now available to watch via Apple's iTunes store. This marks the film's first commercial availability after a healthy and successful festival run that has included not only the two fests above, but also the Film4 Frightfest in the UK, PiFan in Korea, the Melbourne IFF in Australia, and about a dozen one-off screenings around the US. While the film continues to tour major markets in one-night-only showings, if you've missed out or you live somewhere that the film won't be, there's no better way to see it than on iTunes, where you can own it for a very reasonable price.I saw the film at SXSW in March and here's a little bit of what...

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CICHONGA: Thou Shalt Not Take His Beer

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

It was May in Buenos Aires and a one week long blackout happened. This was the scenery for Esteban Rojas to start working on Cichonga, his latest film.In the urban jungle of Buenos Aires, Cichonga is the toughest badass around, until his nemesis steals his beer, the secret to his might and superhuman strength. Cichonga will have to pummel his way through to recover what is his.Since his arrival in Argentina in 2006, Esteban Rojas has been part of the low budget independent filmmaking that has been brewing there since the 90's with Pablo Parés and Hernan Saéz Plaga Zombie. So don't be surprised when you spot both of them grinding along in Rojas' film.You should definitely check the trailer that just arrived, and keep...

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LUTHER Prepared To Jump To The Big Screen With Movie Prequel

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 06:33 AM PDT

There are an awful lot of high points in the career of Idris Elba. So many, in fact, that he seems to pretty much live up on some lofty peak all the time, his appearances in even bad movies generally standing out as the strongest element. But for fans of the man his recent stint on dark UK crime series Luther ranks amongst the highest of the high for the simple reason that the show is very, very good. If you haven't seen it yet, it comes very highly recommended and most of it - at least - is available on US Netflix, so get to it.For the past while now there have been rumors rumbling of an impending big screen outing for DCI John...

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Indonesia's First 2D Animated Feature BATTLE OF SURABAYA To Be Released In Theatres In 2014

Posted: 27 Aug 2013 11:30 PM PDT

Indonesia film history dates back almost 100 years, and Indonesian audiences typically love animation in film and on TV, so it's remarkable and strange that the country's first 2D feature animation to ever be released theatrically has taken this long. But it has, and this first animated feature, Battle of Surabaya, is set to be released in theaters in 2014.Produced by M. Suyanto, Heri Soelistio and Adi Djayusman and directed by Aryanto Yuniawan, the synopsis for the film is as follows: Battle of Surabaya tells the story about a shoeshine teenage boy Musa, who work as a courier for Indonesian pro-independence soldiers in the peak of the first and heaviest battle against British Indian Troops after the Proclamation of Indonesia Independence, that became a national...

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China Box Office: JURASSIC PARK 3D Proves Dinosaurs Still Rule The Earth

Posted: 27 Aug 2013 08:00 PM PDT

The up-converted re-release of Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic, Jurassic Park scores a huge opening in China, beating out strong competition from Pixar's Monsters University. Rank Title Origin 19/8 - 25/8 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1 Jurassic Park 3D USA $32.08 $32.08 6 2 Monsters University USA $12.99 $12.99 3 3 Unbeatable Hong Kong/China $7.09 $16.22 10 4 Pacific Rim USA $6.40 $109.99 26 5 Fake Fiction China $5.42 $5.42 3 6 One Night Surprise China $3.86 $26.93 17 7 Tiny Times 2 China $2.72 $47.22 18 8 The Palace China $1.07 $8.57 13 9 A Moment Of Love China $0.92 $0.92 3 10 Fast & Furious 6 USA $0.59 $66.49 31 While the debate continues to rage in Hollywood about the merits of 3D...

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