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Exclusive: Twenty years ago, the Fdny (New York Fire Department) suffered one of the darkest days in its history with multiple deaths across different incidents. It was known as Black Sunday.

This tragedy is being commemorated with a new feature documentary from former MLB star Eric Hosmer, Australian filmmaker Shane Abbess (The Beast in Me) and director Luke Wheatley (Grounded).

It also comes as firefighters have played a central, and inspiring role, in the wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles over the last two weeks.

Black Sunday tells the story of a group of New York City firefighters who faced one of the most devastating events for the Fdny since September 11. It recounts the impact of the day, which saw three firefighters die in two fires, one a tenement fire in the Bronx and one at a house fire in Brooklyn. It marked the first time that firefighters had died...

Principal photography scheduled for late April/early May.

Russell Crowe and Daniel MacPherson will star in hot EFM package The Beast In Me, an Mma action drama from Broken Open Pictures, Storm Alley Entertainment, Armagh and Eclectik Vision.

Lisa Wilson’s The Solution Entertainment Group is commencing talks with buyers in Berlin this week on the project, which is scheduled to start principal photography in late April/early May.

MacPherson will play an out-of-work former fighter who suffers a personal tragedy. With the help of a veteran trainer he sets out to avenge the past by fighting a Mixed Martial...

Chris Peckover.

Writer-director Chris Peckover is preparing to shoot Limbo, a horror/thriller about a young mother whose body is possessed by an evil spirit.

Tony Award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose will play the lead. Filming will start in April.

The protagonist morphs into a disembodied spirit which starts to take over her life and threatens her family so she is forced to protect her loved ones while also finding a way back to her body before it’s too late.

Miramax is funding the film co-scripted by Peckover and Matthew Jennison, produced by former Lionsgate chief marketing officer Tim Palen under his Barnyard Projects banner. Additional casting is yet to be revealed.

It’s the director’s follow-up to Better Watch Out (formerly Safe Neighborhood), a Sydney-shot thriller starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould and Levi Miller, produced by Storm Vision’s Brett Thornquest and Sidonie Abbene and Best Medicine...

Well Go USA has released a new age-restricted red band trailer and an all-ages green band trailer for the upcoming Better Watch Out, which puts a sadistic spin on the 1990s classic Home Alone. While this is certainly not a remake of Home Alone, this Christmas thriller has been described by critics as "Home Alone meets The Strangers," and there's even a Home Alone reference in the trailer, where Ed Oxenbould's Garrett mentions that Levi Miller's Luke is "Home Aloning" Ricky (Aleks Mikic), tossing a weighted paint can tied to a rope, that connects with Jeremy's face. If that wasn't enough, we also have a new poster as well.

The red band trailer is age-restrictive, and shouldn't be watched by any one under the age of 18, featuring no shortage of adult language and blood. If naughty language isn't your thing, then we also have the green band trailer from Well Go USA YouTube,...

Although it may be hard to believe, it's already been five years since Cavitycolors started releasing eye-popping horror apparel, and they're celebrating this week with a special new enamel pin. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have a trailer and key art for The Gracefield Incident and details on Rlj Entertainment acquiring North American rights to The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume 1, starring Kellan Lutz.

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Distributor plans theatrical and VOD day-and-date autumn launch.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired North American rights to action sci-fi The Osiris Child starring Kellan Lutz from the Twilight franchise.

Shane Abbess directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Brian Cachia that takes places in a future where planetary colonisation has become a lucrative business.

Lutz plays a drifter who teams up with a military contractor to rescue the latter’s daughter as catastrophe looms.

The cast includes Daniel MacPherson, Isabel Lucas, Temuera Morrison, Rachel Griffiths, and newcomer Teagan Croft.

Matthew Graham, Brett Thornquest, Sidonie Abbene and Abbess produced via Storm Alley and Eclectik Vision in association with Phonetic Images. Steven Matusko served as executive producer.

Rlj Entertainment brokered the deal with Xyz Films and plans to release The Osiris Child theatrically and on VOD this autumn.

“We’re excited to be releasing this action-filled, science fiction film,” the distributor’s chief acquisitions officer Mark Ward said. “Writer-director [link=nm...

Well Go USA is looking to give fright fans another holiday horror film to add to their seasonal viewing slate, as the company has acquired North American distribution rights to Better Watch Out, formerly known as Safe Neighborhood.

According to THR, Well Go USA has scheduled Better Watch Out for an October 6th release in theaters and on digital platforms.

Directed by Chris Peckover from a screenplay he wrote with Zack Kahn, Better Watch Out stars Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Dacre Montgomery, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Warburton, Ed Oxenbould, and Aleks Mikic.

Set around Christmastime, Better Watch Out follows "a babysitter that must defend her 12 year-old ward... from intruders that have planned an extraordinary home invasion."

Better Watch Out is produced by Thornquest and Sidonie Abbene of Storm Vision Entertainment, with Hambel and Paul Jensen of Best Medicine Productions also on board as producers. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates.

Holiday horror movie Better Watch Out has been picked up by Well Go USA for North America.

Starring Olivia DeJonge (The Visit), the film follows a babysitter that must defend her 12-year-old ward, played by Levi Miller (Pan), from intruders that have planned an extraordinary home invasion. 

Virginia Madsen and Patrick Warburton also star, along with Ed Oxenbould, Aleks Mikic and Dacre Montgomery. 

Chris Peckover directed Better Watch Out, which he wrote with Zack Kahn from a story by Kahn. The film was produced by Thornquest and Sidonie Abbene of Storm Vision Entertainment and Hambel and Paul Jensen of Best Medicine Productions.

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First look: Olivia DeJonge as Ashley with Levi Miller as Luke in Safe Neighborhood. Photo by Sean O'Reilly

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Virginia Madsen (Joy, Sideways) and Patrick Warburton (Ted, Family Guy, Seinfeld) have joined the cast of Safe Neighbourhood, currently shooting at Sydney's Fox Studios and starring Olivia DeJonge (M. Night Shyamalan.s The Visit), Levi Miller (Pan, Jasper Jones, Red Dog: True Blue) and Ed Oxenbould (The Visit, Paper Planes).

Also joining the cast are Dacre Montgomery (Lionsgate.s upcoming Power Rangers) and Aleks Mikic (Joe Cinque.s Consolation, Secret City).

The Storm Vision Entertainment and Best Medicine production is described as "Home Alone meets Scream".

"Set in a quiet American suburb on a snowy evening on the lead up to Christmas, Ashley (Olivia DeJonge), the regular babysitter for Deandra (Virginia Madsen) and Robert Lerner (Patrick Warburton), has to defend their twelve-year-old son (Levi Miller) from strangers breaking into the house -...

Levi Miller, Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould. Photo Credit: Sean O'Reilly.

A corner of Fox Studios has been turned into a quiet, snow-covered American street over a white Christmas.

Olivia DeJonge (The Visit), Ed Oxenbould (Paper Planes) and Levi Miller (Jasper Jones) have begun shooting Safe Neighborhood, a.thriller directed by Chris Peckover (Undocumented), who wrote the script with Zack Kahn (Mad)..

The Storm Vision Entertainment and Best Medicine production is about three kids who endure a home invasion in a so-called 'safe neighborhood' in the American 'burbs.

The film is being produced by Storm Vision.s Brett Thornquest and Sidonie Abbene (Infini, Terminus and SFv1) and Best Medicine Productions. Brion Hambel and Paul Jensen (Scenic Route, Natural Selection), and executive produced by Steven Matusko, Shane Abbess and Lorenzo De Maio..

.Safe Neighborhood is Home Alone meets Scream",.Thornquest said. "Chris and Zack have written a killer script and this...

After making their Hollywood debuts Olivia DeJonge and Levi Miller will star in Safe Neighborhood, a Us-set thriller which will shoot in Sydney in January.

Us-based Australian Chris Peckover will co-write and direct the film produced by Storm Vision.s Brett Thornquest and Sidonie Abbene and Best Medicine Productions. Brion Hambel and Paul Jensen.

DeJonge ( (M. Night Shyamalan.s The Visit, Hiding, Scare Campaign) will play a babysitter in a quiet Us suburb who is forced to defend a 12-year-old boy (Miller) from strangers breaking into the house.

To her horror she discovers this is far from a normal home invasion. Supporting cast will be announced soon. Miller.s credits include Pan, Jasper Jones, Terra Nova and Blue Dog.

.We think it.s quite a coup to get Olivia and Levi,. Thornquest tells If on the line from Los Angeles, where the project is being pitched to international buyers at the Afm by French-based Versatile,...

Chris Peckover’s Sydney-set home invasion thriller to shoot early 2016.

Levi Miller, the young star of Pan, is joining Olivia DeJonge in Chris Peckover’s Sydney suburbia-set thriller Safe Neighborhood about a babysitting gig that takes a terrifying turn.

Miller will play a 12-year-old boy with a devious side, with DeJonge as a babysitter battling to protect her young charge in a home invasion with a surprising twist.

The film, which Peckover co-wrote with Zack Kahn, is due to shoot in Australia in January 2016. “Safe Neighborhood is Home Alone meets Scream,” said producer Brett Thornquest of Australian Storm Vision Entertainment, which is producing the film alongside Los Angeles-based Best Medicine Productions.

“Chris and Zack have written a killer script and this film will be equally smart and stylish, scary and tense - a sure-fire white-knuckle ride that pushes the thriller genre in a whole new terrifying direction.

Alongside Thornquest, other producer credits include Sidonie Abbene, also at Storm...

Chris Peckover’s Sydney-set home invasion thriller to shoot early 2016.

Levi Miller, the young star of Pan, is joining Olivia DeJonge in Chris Peckover’s Sydney suburbia-set thriller Safe Neighborhood about a babysitting gig that takes a terrifying turn.

Miller will play a 12-year-old boy with a devious side, with DeJonge as a babysitter battling to protect her young charge in a home invasion with a surprising twist.

The film, which Peckover co-wrote with Zack Kahn, is due to shoot in Australia in January 2016. “Safe Neighborhood is Home Alone meets Scream,” said producer Brett Thornquest of Australian Storm Vision Entertainment, which is producing the film alongside Los Angeles-based Best Medicine Productions.

“Chris and Zack have written a killer script and this film will be equally smart and stylish, scary and tense - a sure-fire white-knuckle ride that pushes the thriller genre in a whole new terrifying direction.

Alongside Thornquest, other producer credits include Sidonie Abbene, also at Storm...

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Daniel MacPherson and director Shane Abbess are mates and close creative collaborators, but that didn.t stop the pair having some robust discussions before the actor signed on for futuristic thriller SFv1.

MacPherson had appeared in Abbess. Infini and was developing several projects with the director when he was offered the co-lead role of Kane.

The actor did not have a clear sense of the narrative or the characters in the screenplay by Abbess and co-creator Brian Cacha, which is divided into multiple chapters, and asked for elucidation.

.We had a couple of heated creative discussions before I got on board,. MacPherson tells If. .But once I was in, I was 110 per cent in. Shane gives the cast the absolute freedom to own their characters. It.s a pretty extraordinary, ambitious movie with breathtaking sets by George Liddle..

Set during a period of interplanetary colonisation, SFv1stars Twilight.s Kellan Lutz as Sy,...

Aussie actors Isabel Lucas ("Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen") and Luke Ford ("The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor") have joined the cast of the sci-fi thriller "SFv1".

Set in the future when humanity has spread out into interplanetary colonies, Kellan Lutz plays a drifter who falls in with an off-world military contractor (Daniel MacPherson) trying to rescue his daughter (Teagan Croft) from peril while evading a global crisis caused by the military contracting company he works for.

Lucas and Ford will play the roles of Gyp and Bill respectively. The film is currently shooting in both Sydney and the Australian Outback. Temuera Morrison, Bren Foster, Rachel Griffiths, Firass Dirani, Dwaine Stevenson and Grace Huang also star.

Matthew Graham, Brett Thornquest, Sidonie Abbene and Shane Abbess are producers. Abbess directs from his own screenplay

Source: Deadline...

Isabel Lucas and Luke Ford have joined the cast of Shane Abbess. new sci-fi feature SFv1.

They join Kellan Lutz (Expendables 3, Hercules 3-D, The Twilight Saga) and Daniel MacPherson (Infini, Shannara Chronicles, The Cup).

The ensemble cast includes Temuera Morrison (Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III . Revenge of the Sith, Once Were Warriors), Bren Foster (Infini, The Last Ship, Terminus, Days Of Our Lives), with Rachel Griffiths (Saving Mr Banks, Beautiful Kate, Brothers & Sisters, Six Feet Under, Muriel.s Wedding), Firass Dirani (House Husbands, Underbelly: The Golden Mile, The Combination, The Black Balloon) Dwaine Stevenson (Infini, Gabriel), Grace Huang (The Man with the Iron Fists 1 and 2, Infini, Hiding) and introduces Teagan Croft.

Currently filming in Sydney and outback South Australia, the film is set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, when Sy (Kellan Lutz), a drifter,...

The global rights deal on Marc Furmie’s sci-fi becomes the second such pact for the La-based distributor as it continues its strategic expansion.

Jai Koutre, Kendra Appleton, Bren Foster and Todd Lasance star in Terminus, which marks the second collaboration between Vertical and Storm Vision Entertainment.

The film will be available globally on iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Google Play and other digital platforms day-and-date with the Us theatrical launch on January 22, 2016.

Terminus follows a man who makes a profound discovery about the fate of the earth after he is blinded by the light from a falling meteor.

Vertical’s first worldwide acquisition, He Never Died starring Henry Rollins, will open on December 18.

Furmie co-wrote with Shiyan Zheng and Gabriel Dowrick. Brett Thornquest and Tim Maddocks produced and Steven Matusko, Shane Abbess and Sidonie Abbene served as executive producers.

Nate Bolotin and Mette-Marie Katz of Xyz negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Rich Goldberg and Peter...

Kellan Lutz, Daniel MacPherson, Temuera Morrison, Rachel Griffiths and newcomer Teagan Croft are starring in Shane Abbess. futuristic sci-fi feature SFv1.

Set during a period of interplanetary colonization, the film is Abbess. follow-up to Infini, which has been sold to every major market and was released on digital platforms by eOne in Australia and by Vertical Entertainment in the Us.

It.s shooting for nine weeks in Sydney, the outskirts of Sydney and outback South Australia.

.This is a bigger film with a lot more action than Infini,. says Eclectik Vision.s Brett Thornquest, who is producing with Abbess and Sidonie Abbene.s Storm Alley Entertainment and Matthew Graham.s Phonetic Images.

Xyz Films, which sold Infini to North America and repped Marc Furmie.s Terminus (produced by Thornquest and Tim Maddocks. Maddfilms) is handling worldwide sales.

Lutz (The Expendables 3, Hercules 3D, The Twilight Saga) plays Sy, a mysterious...

Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Australian filmmaker Shane Abbess' sci-fi thriller "Infini".

Daniel MacPherson, Luke Hemsworth, Grace Huang, Bren Foster and Luke Ford star in the story which centers on a search and rescue team transported through deep space in the 23rd century to a distant mining colony to save the sole survivor of a biological outbreak.

During their mission, they find a lethal weapon which is set to arrive on Earth within the hour. Vertical plans to release the film both in cinemas and on VOD platforms day-and-date on May 8th.

Abbess ("Gabriel") directed from his own script. Abbess, Sidonie Abbene, Matthew Graham, and Brett Thornquest serve as producers.

Source: Variety...

Candy director Neil Armfield will adapt gay memoir Holding The Man, one of five projects backed in Screen Australia’s latest funding round.

Screen Australia will invest in Holding The Man, an adaptation of a popular gay memoir from director Neil Armfield (Candy), and A Long Way Home, from Garth Davis, Jane Campion’s co-director on the series Top Of The Lake.

The government agency also decided this week to put finishing funds into Infini, a follow-up to debut film Gabriel for writer/director/producer Shane Abbess, and into two feature-length documentaries.

“It is ultimately a love story about gay soulmates and we haven’t seen much of that in cinema,” Holding The Man producer Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires) told ScreenDaily. “We think it’s good timing because of the worldwide debate on gay marriage. It’s not what the film is about but it is part of why Tim (Conigrave) wrote his memoir.”

That memoir...

Candy director Neil Armfield will adapt gay memoir Holding The Man, one of five projects backed in Screen Australia’s latest funding round.

Screen Australia will invest in Holding The Man, an adaptation of a popular gay memoir from director Neil Armfield (Candy), and A Long Way Home, from Garth Davis, Jane Campion’s co-director on the series Top Of The Lake.

The government agency also decided this week to put finishing funds into Infini, a follow-up to debut film Gabriel for writer/director/producer Shane Abbess, and into two feature-length documentaries.

“It is ultimately a love story about gay soulmates and we haven’t seen much of that in cinema,” Holding The Man producer Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires) told ScreenDaily. “We think it’s good timing because of the worldwide debate on gay marriage. It’s not what the film is about but it is part of why Tim (Conigrave) wrote his memoir.”

That memoir...

See-Saw Films. A Long Way Home and Goalpost Pictures. Holding the Man were the only features that received production investment from Screen Australia at the March 26 board meeting.

The agency also committed post production funds to director/producer/writer Shane Abbess.s futuristic sci-fier Infini and two feature documentaries, Damon Gameau.s That Sugar Film and Gracie Otto.s The Last Impresario.

In this funding round, the second last of the current financial year, a total of $4.3 million was invested.

Top of the Lake co-director Garth Davis will direct A Long Way Home, based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated.

It will be produced by See-Saw and Sunstar Entertainment, which optioned the rights to Brierley.s autobiography last year. He was five when he fell asleep on a train bound for Calcutta. Scared and alone, he...