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Row 19 will be Available on Digital, Blu-ray & DVD May 31 with Bonus Features Including an All-New English Dub. Here’s the trailer:

It’s terror in the air when several flight passengers suddenly suffer gruesome, unexplained deaths in the spine-tingling thriller Row 19,debuting on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD May 31 from Well Go USA Entertainment. A young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood. Row 19 stars Svetlana Ivanova (Cosmoball), Marta Timofeeva, Wolfgang Cerni (T-34), Ekaterina Vilkova, Anatoliy Kot and Victoria Korlyakova. The bonus features include an all-new English dub.

When several flight passengers suddenly suffer gruesome, unexplained deaths, a young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood.

Row 19 has a runtime of approximately 78 minutes and is not rated.

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Watch the Short Film Goodnight Darling: "Two sisters wonder if their mother’s strange behavior is a response to a recent family loss, or if something more sinister is at work… “Goodnight Darling” is a horror film about the moment in childhood when we discover our parents aren’t the people we thought they were."

Credits: Adam Azimov, Director/Co-writer Isaac Cravit, Co-writer Pawel Pogorzelski, Editor/Composer Executive Producers: Geno Imbriale Vince Peone Cast: AnnaSophia Robb Vivien Lyra Blair Lauren Bowles April Lan

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Dark Spell: "On July 6, the spine-chilling supernatural horror thriller Dark Spell, directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, will debut on major VOD and digital platforms and on DVD & Blu-ray™ from Shout! Studios and Scream Factory™. The DVD & Blu-ray™ will contain both the original Russian language audio track and an English-dubbed option. Pre-order for the physical releases are available now at ShoutFactory.com and other fine home entertainment retailers.

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced the nominees for the second ever PGA Innovation Award, an honor that recognizes production of a notable and influential new media program that is able to elevate experiences for audiences to new heights.

The announcement of the Innovation Award winner will take place at a new event for the organization, entitled “A Day with the PGA Awards Nominees.” The virtual celebration will be held Saturday, March 20 and will feature panels with nominated producers, as an expansion of the traditional PGA Nominees breakfast which would typically be held the morning of the Awards ceremony itself.

The event will also honor the winners of the Sports, Children’s, and Short Form categories, whose nominations were previously announced. Among the nominees in Children’s Program were new old favorites “Animaniacs” and “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” with both shows being nominated for their first seasons. In Short Form,...

Soaring local box office has pushed the Russian film industry to new heights in recent years, even despite a downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but Vadim Vereshchagin, CEO of leading production and distribution company Central Partnership, says introducing fresh Russian talent to the world remains his outfit’s top priority.

“For us, it’s business as usual—boosting that potential,” Vereshchagin tells Variety. “We’re getting more experience on which titles we should be making. Right now, every big-budget title we make, we’re thinking about the international market as well.” The challenge, he says, “is to get the right stories being made which would be appealing to general international audiences.”

With a library that includes films from top U.S. and European studios, as well as an extensive catalog of arthouse and commercial Russian movies, Central Partnership has been a leading distributor for nearly two decades. After ramping up production in recent years,...

The Widow: "This spring, prepare yourself for one of the most vicious, chilling backwoods terrors when the new supernatural thriller The Widow, directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, debuts on major VOD and digital platforms and on DVD & Blu-ray on March 30, 2021 from Shout! Studios and Scream Factory™. The DVD & Blu-ray will contain both the original Russian language audio track and an English-dubbed option. Pre-order for the physical releases are available now at ShoutFactory.com and other fine home entertainment retailers.

Movie Synopsis:

In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg, people have been going missing for three decades. Very few corpses were ever found, and the few that were recovered were naked. On October 14, 2017, a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others...

For Baobab Studios, partnering with the United Nations on VR short “Baba Yaga” was a natural step. The company, which has won awards for its diverse, engaging content, worked with the U.N. and the org’s ActNow app for action on climate change and sustainability to tell the tale of “Baba Yaga,” inspired by ancient legends of witches who protect nature.

In the short, set to be released in early 2021, Baba Yaga is more a mantle to be handed down through generations. In this case, the title character, voiced by Kate Winslet, passes down the role of teaching others to live harmoniously with nature to young Magda (voiced by Daisy Ridley).

“There are two really important things in the film. One is female empowerment. It’s an all-female cast with all female characters. The second one is environmentalism,” says Baobab’s CEO Maureen Fan. “And we couldn’t think...

Exclusive: New Line has made a preemptive deal for a music-driven holiday comedy pitch that will be fashioned as a potential star vehicle for Jennifer Hudson, the Oscar-winning Dreamgirls star who’ll next star as Aretha Franklin in the upcoming Respect.

The film will be scripted by Ira Madison III, and Hudson will make her debut as producer, alongside Glickmania’s Jonathan Glickman, who’s produced the MGM drama Respect, the drama in which, Aretha Franklin, before she died, handpicked Hudson to star in the story of her life.

The New Line film calls for Hudson to sing Christmas standards, as well as new holiday tunes. She has been getting into the holiday swing lately, singing Oh Santa! with singing divas Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande, for Carey’s Magical Christmas Special on Apple TV+. The video has become a viral sensation.

The hope is for Hudson to play a...

“Nomadland” has received the Golden Lion Award as the best film of the 2020 Venice International Film Festival, a jury headed by Cate Blanchett announced on Saturday.

The Searchlight drama, a simultaneous premiere by the Venice, Telluride and Toronto festivals, was directed by Chloe Zhao and stars Frances McDormand as a woman who travels through the American West in a van after losing her job and her home. Apart from McDormand and David Strathairn, almost all of the actors in the film are actual “nomads” that Zhao cast on her own travels through the area.

“Nuevo Orden” (“New Order”) by Mexican director Michel Franco won the Silver Lion, the festival’s second-place award, while acting prizes went to Vanessa Kirby for “Pieces of a Woman” and Pierfrancesco Favino for “Padrenostro.”

Kiyoshi Kurosawa was named the festival’s best director for “Wife of a Spy.”

Ahmad Bahrami’s “The Wasteland” won the...

We’re kicking off September’s home media releases this week with a great group of titles that include cult classics, indie horror, and a handful of Shudder Originals. Vinegar Syndrome is showing some love this Tuesday to both The Eleventh Commandment and Larry Cohen’s Perfect Strangers, and for those of you who may have missed seeing them on the aforementioned Shudder, now you can catch up with Z, Blood Quantum, and Terrified on both Blu-ray and DVD.

Other home media releases for September 1st include Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest from Scream Factory, Limbo, Widow’s Point, and Beetlejuice in 4K.

Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest

A young family moves to a new apartment in the outskirts of the big city. The nanny they hired to look after their newborn daughter quickly becomes trustworthy. However, the eldest boy notices frightening behavior of the woman, but...

Ahead of of the release of Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital next week, Shout! Studios has provided us with an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers:

"This fall, brace yourself for one of the most unflinchingly tense supernatural terrors when the new horror thriller Baba Yaga: Terror Of The Dark Forest, directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, unleashes on VOD, Digital, and home entertainment shelves everywhere for watch-at-home on September 1, 2020 from Shout! Studios, in collaboration with Leda Films. The collectible Blu-ray and DVD release boast spectacular movie presentation, English and Russian audio tracks, and English subtitles. A must-have for horror enthusiasts and movie collectors, Baba Yaga: Terror Of The Dark Forest will be available in stores at Walmart and other fine retailers. Pre-order is available now at ShoutFactory.com

Based on the legend of the ancient Slavic lore, this gripping horror feature uniquely blends suspense,...

Daisy Ridley was under the impression that nobody wanted to hire her after The Rise of Skywalker hit theaters late last year. While the Star Wars sequel movies were divisive, Ridley's performances were always praised by critics, and for the most part, by the fans too. But after the final movie in the trilogy hit theaters, the phone stopped ringing for the actress, which was a good thing at first. She explains.

"It was so sad to finish Star Wars. When the film was released, I was like, 'Oh my God.' It was such a huge chapter. And, weirdly, the past few months of not having much... Obviously now it's really nice to be working, but not having much [at the time] I feel like I processed the last five years. To be forced to slow down, it was good mentally for me because [Star Wars was] a big thing in my life.

The Venice Film Festival’s Virtual Reality section is going entirely online this year, but expanding its scope via a platform and also a satellite network that will make it accessible worldwide.

In normal times the competitive sidebar launched in 2017 by co-curators Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal – who put Venice ahead of the curve in the VR arena – was held on the Lazzaretto, a tiny island a stone’s throw from the Lido that was a leper colony in the 15th century. But due to the coronavirus pandemic this year it’s been rebranded Venice VR Expanded and moved to a digital platform supported by Htc Viveport, Facebook’s Oculus, VRChat and VRrOOm that will allow various types of access using a VR headset and a PC.

Venice VR Expanded will present a total of 44 projects from 24 countries, 31 of which are in competition. These include “Gnomes & Goblins,” co-directed by “The Lion King...

Kate Winslet, Jennifer Hudson and Glenn Close have joined previously announced lead Daisy Ridley in the cast of VR animated film “Baba Yaga,” which will make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Hudson is also an executive producer on the pic from Baobab Studios, which will make a push for the Oscar for animated short.

The film plays in Venice on Sept. 2 as part of Venice VR Expanded, the Virtual Reality section of the event. It was written and directed by Eric Darnell, whose credits include the “Madagascar” franchise and “Antz,” and co-directed by Mathias Chelebourg.

In “Baba Yaga,” viewers will be invited as a character into a fairytale world, and their choices could determine the ending of the story. The enigmatic witch Baba Yaga (Winslet) uses her powers to stop the villagers whose settlement encroaches on her enchanted Forest (Hudson). When the viewer’s mother, the Chief (Close), falls deathly ill,...

Kate Winslet, Jennifer Hudson and Glenn Close have joined previously announced lead Daisy Ridley in the voice cast of Venice Film Festival-bound VR project Baba Yaga.

Hudson is an executive-producer on the immersive short film set in a haunting fairytale world where viewers can decide the direction of the story. The experience follows enigmatic witch Baba Yaga (Winslet) who uses her powers to stop the villagers whose settlement encroaches upon her enchanted Forest (Hudson). When the viewer’s mother, the Chief (Close), falls ill, it is up to them and their sister Magda (Ridley) to enter the forbidden rainforest, uncover its hidden mysteries and get the cure from Baba Yaga.

Directed and written by Baobab Studios co-founder Eric Darnell (Madagascar franchise), and co-directed by Mathias Chelebourg, the experience is a contemporary portrayal of the Eastern European folk story re-imagined with illustrative 2D pop-up animation and hand-drawn and stop-motion styles.

The...

Oscar winners Kate Winselt, Jennifer Hudson and Glenn Close have joined Daisy Ridley in the all-female voice cast of Baba Yaga, an immersive VR animated film that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month.

In the VR experience, viewers enter a haunting fairytale world, joining their sister Magda (Ridley) on a quest to heal their mother (Close) by entering an enchanted forest (Hudson)  to obtain the cure from the enigmatic witch, Baba Yaga (Winslet). The choices the viewer makes determine the outcome of the story. 

Baba Yaga is the latest VR film from Baobab Studios, producers of Emmy and Annie-award ...

The creative duo behind the hugely successful John Wick franchise, Chad Stahelski and Derek Kolstad, have another action movie project in their sights, namely a remake of The Man from Nowhere for New Line. Stahelski is on board to produce the remake, which Kolstad will reportedly be writing the script.

The original The Man from Nowhere hails from South Korea and was the highest grossing movie of the year there back when it was released ten years ago, making $42 million and holding the number one spot for a total of five weeks. Directed by Jeong-beom Lee and starring Won Bin and Sae-ron Kim, The Man from Nowhere follows a quiet, mysterious pawn shop owner, who is drawn into a convoluted drug-and-organ trafficking ring in order to save a young girl who is his only friend. Thankfully, said pawn shop owner turns out to be an ex-special agent and possesses all...

While Kantemir Balagov’s “Beanpole” and Larisa Sadilova’s “Once in Trubchevsk,” both screening in Un Certain Regard, fly the flag for Russian arthouse filmmaking at the Cannes Film Festival this year, the Russian pics in the market reflect the wide diversity of genres being produced in the country.

The 27-year-old Balagov took a Fipresci prize in the same section at Cannes in 2017 for his feature debut “Closeness,” a ’90s-set story of a small-town kidnapping. With the film, Balagov, a protégé of Alexander Sokurov, established a reputation for thoughtful, atmospheric studies of complex characters facing dire struggles.

His second feature, produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, the man behind Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated films “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” is the tale of two female soldiers looking for hope and meaning in the aftermath of the WWII siege of Leningrad.

The film, being sold by Wild Bunch, offers a more nuanced look at war...