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Jessie Reyez got emotional in the studio while filming the latest episode of Rolling Stone Recommends. She wasn’t talking about her new studio album Pain in Memories, which arrived last week, on which she unpacks reflections on her relationship with success, becoming a healthier version of herself, and finding the silver lining in heartbreak. No, what brought her nearly to tears was actually the idea of introducing aliens to love by showing them a video captured while she was playing with her niece. But this is where Reyez is right now,...

Exclusive: Bulgaria’s Nu Boyana Film Studios and France’s Free Dolphin Entertainment will take seven films in production this year, and have unveiled their joint EFM slate.

Since last year’s MIPCOM, Nu Boyana and Free Dolphin have been developing a strategy to release a continuous flow of movies for international distribution on ad-supported streaming services, and they are now in Berlin seeking financial and distributor partners on several projects.

The plan is to launch features “monthly” with Film Forge, Nu Boyana’s vocational training program, involved in each production.

Leading the EFM slate is Velvet Curtain (fka Fluxx) a high-concept psychological thriller that we first reported on in December 2023. It now has a U.S. theatrical release planned for this summer.

Brendan Gabriel Murphy’s pic stars Shelley Hennig and Shiloh Fernandez, with Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise) in a key supporting role.

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Measuring 5ft 9 ¼ (175.9 cm), Krysten Alyce Ritter is much taller than the average American woman.

She wears a shoe size 10 (US), which typically converts to a size 40 in Europe (EU), a size 8 in the United Kingdom (UK), a size 9.5 in Australia (Au), and a size 25.5 centimeters (cm) in Japan (Jp).

Krysten Ritter in a straw hat styled with a tee and a skirt in Los Angeles on June 13, 2022 (Credit: BauerGriffin / INSTARimages)

Ritter’s Perspective on Her Height

“A Lot! I’m 5’9″ barefoot,” she told Mars Investigations when asked how much taller she is than Kristen Bell.

“Which isn’t That tall…is it?...

Stars: Aston McAuley, Sophie Simnett, Jason Flemyng, Johanna Harlin, Raza Jaffrey, Shervin Alenabi | Written by Ben Sztajnkrycer | Directed by Renny Harlin

Renny Harlin’s career has come full circle, from low-budget horror and action films like Born American and Prison through blockbusters such as Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger before reverting back to budget-minded films like The Bricklayer and this film, Refuge. This time around, he’s bringing the horrors of war back home as a soldier’s encounter with the unexplained threatens the lives of everyone around him.

Sergeant Rick Pedroni is serving somewhere in Afghanistan when his unit takes a group of Taliban prisoner. Questioned about a nearby cave, they say there’s no more of them in there, in fact, none of them would go in there. Rick volunteers to check it out.

This sets off a long flashback to he and Kate’s wedding day. By...

Director Renny Harlin recently shot an entire trilogy of Strangers movies simultaneously, with The Strangers: Chapter 1 set to reach theatres on May 17th and The Strangers: Chapter 2 and The Strangers: Chapter 3 possibly following by the end of the year… but those aren’t the only Renny Harlin horror movies we’ll be seeing this year. In fact, Vertical will be giving a Harlin-helmed horror movie called Refuge a VOD release this Friday, April 19th – and the trailer for the film can be seen in the embed above!

Scripted by Ben Sztajnkrycer, Refuge has the following synopsis: After a mysterious attack from a malevolent demon during his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sergeant Rick Pedroni returns home a changed man, and more dangerous than ever.

The film stars Sophie Simnett (Daybreak), Raza Jaffrey (The Rhythm Section), Aston McAuley (Rocketman), Johanna Harlin (Class Reunion 3), Shervin Alenabi (Gangs of London), Atanas Srebrev...

Filmmaker Renny Harlin has spent much of his career playing around in the horror genre, directing Prison, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Deep Blue Sea, The Exorcist: The Beginning, and Devil’s Pass, and he’s making his return to horror in a big way with upcoming movies including Deep Water and Lionsgate’s The Strangers reboot trilogy.

And then there’s Refuge, another brand new Renny Harlin movie that is actually releasing this week! From Vertical, Refuge will be released onto VOD outlets on Friday, April 19.

You can watch the official trailer for Refuge down below. Read on for more…

“In this horror-thriller, a U.S. military veteran — Sergeant Rick Pedroni — returns home changed and dangerous after a tour of duty in Afghanistan where he suffered an attack by a mysterious force. While officials dismiss his behavior as Ptsd, and order trauma therapy, Rick’s wife...

Refuge is a film by Renny Harlin (director of Die Hard 2). It stars Jason Flemyng and Sophie Simnett.

Synopsis

The story follows Sergeant Rick Pedroni (Flemyng), who returns home from Afghanistan a changed and dangerous man after suffering an attack by a mysterious force during combat. Officials claim he suffered a heavy brain injury, but his wife Kate (Simnett) knows it is more than Ptsd. As Rick undergoes therapy, Kate discovers he has been possessed by a malevolent spirit, and must race against time to unmask the truth and save her husband from the evil force.

Release date

April 19, 2024 (United States)

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"I know you think you found something out there. Or something found him..." Vertical has revealed a full official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Refuge, made by the acclaimed Finnish action filmmaker Renny Harlin - also of The Strangers; Chapter 1. Apparently he was already in Bulgaria shooting Ninja Fury when local producers contacted him about making Refuge next. After a mysterious attack from a malevolent demon during his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sergeant Rick Pedroni returns home a changed man, and more dangerous than ever. This is similar to many other solider-returns-home-damaged films but with a supernatural Ptsd twist. The film stars Aston McAuley as Rick, Sophie Simnet as his wife Kate, Raza Jaffrey, Johanna Harlin, Shervin Alenabi, Atanas Srebrev, Max Kraus, and Jason Flemyng. This mostly looks like generic horror mashed up with a soldier story, though it does have some scary scenes in it. // Continue...

Danny DeVito will return to the Broadway stage this October in a new play by Theresa Rebeck called I Need That.

The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor will star alongside his daughter Lucy DeVito and Ray Anthony Thomas in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of what the company describes as “a deeply human new comedy.”

Preview and opening night dates for I Need That at Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre will be announced later.

The synopsis: Sam (DeVito) doesn’t get out much. Actually, he doesn’t get out at all, opting instead for the safety of his house in the company of his things – his many, many things. But when a notice from the government arrives alerting Sam that he must clean up his property or face eviction, he’s forced to reckon with what’s trash, what’s treasure, and whether we can ever know the difference between the two.

Exclusive: Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale), Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer) and Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy) have been tapped to star in a Lionsgate remake of the 2008 horror The Strangers, which has entered production in Slovakia. Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger) is directing the film, which will be the first in a trilogy, having locked in a deal to helm the subsequent pair.

The original film The Strangers was a home invasion pic, which Bryan Bertino wrote and directed in his feature debut, with Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman starring. It registered as a sleeper hit upon its May 2008 release via Universal Pictures and came to be appreciated in the years following as a cult classic, with the sequel The Strangers: Prey at Night being released in March of 2018.

The new Strangers film will follow Petsch’s character as she drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest.

Dorothy Steel, the Black Panther actress who launched her screen career at age 88, died on Friday morning at her home in Detroit. She was 95.

While a cause of death has not been disclosed, her agent Cindy Butler confirmed the news in a post published to Facebook. “It’s with a Heavy heart I announce this morning Dorothy Steel transitioned this morning in her hometown of Detroit. That is what she wanted to be home,” Butler wrote. “Thank you Ms. Dorothy for giving me the opportunity to ride this wave with you. Thank you for all the Casting Directors who hired Ms. Dorothy. Thank you to the world for loving on her from afar.”

Steel was born in Detroit on February 23, 1926, portraying Merchant Tribe Elder in Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed and commercially triumphant Marvel pic, Black Panther. The actress kickstarted her Hollywood career in 2015, with a guest-starring role in an episode of YouTube series,...

Renny Harlin has a lot to say about his movies. So much to say that, in what was supposed to be a career-spanning interview, we only touched on the early days of his career in a half-hour discussion. Harlin was fresh off directing a horror-thriller, The Refuge, and promoting his new comedic crime caper, The Misfits (now on VOD). […]

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Virtual Cannes market sales roster includes After We Fell, The Yacht, The Refuge.

Heading into the virtual Cannes market Voltage Pictures has appointed Patricia Arias vice-president of international sales and distribution with immediate effect.

Arias most recently served as VP of Film Mode Entertainment and reports to Voltage president and COO Jonathan Deckter.

She joins as the company continues to assemble a heavyweight sales roster that features After We Fell, the third instalment in the hit After YA franchise starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford.

Market titles include recent additions The Yacht, a heist thriller starring Ruby Rose, Patrick Schwarzenegger,...

Action thriller stands at $250m-plus internationally ahead of July 14 French bow.

Universal action hit F9 will play at Cannes Film Festival in July, according to sources.

The festival is yet to officially confirm the news, however Screen understands the tentpole has secured a special screening slot and will play for the public on the beachfront.

Cannes head Thierry Frémaux hinted there would be a major Hollywood tentpole at the festival this year, prompting speculation about its identity.

F9 stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and John Cena and is the biggest Hollywood hit since the pandemic began, earning $256.4m over three...

Principal photography underway in Bulgaria on Revelations Entertainment, B2Y Production horror thriller.

Jason Flemyng, Raza Jaffrey and Sophie Simnett (Netflix’s Daybreak) are on board Renny Harlin horror thriller The Refuge, which Voltage Pictures has acquired for worldwide sales ahead of the virtual Cannes market.

Principal photography is underway in Bulgaria on the film from Revelations Entertainment and B2Y Production that marks the latest action foray from the director of Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger.

The Refuge centres on US military veteran Sergeant Rick Pedroni, who returns home a changed and dangerous man after a tour of duty...