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Larry Fessenden is back with new werewolf horror movie Blackout, which is Now Available on Digital/VOD at home courtesy of Dark Sky Films.

Blackout is the third film in Fessenden’s monster trilogy, following Habit (vampires) and Depraved (Frankenstein). Watch a clip below for a sneak peek at his latest monster!

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, his flashes of memory of his nighttime grisly acts manifested through his artwork.

Fessenden tells us, “I am interested in finding new truths in the classic monster tropes of my youth. The essence of each creature dictates the milieu of the film, and of course, the werewolf is both out of control and regretful so that duality shaped my story.

Dark Sky Films will be giving Blackout, the latest genre film from writer/director Larry Fessenden, a one week theatrical release at the IFC Center in New York City beginning on March 13th, and that theatrical engagement will feature special cast appearances and a Q&a. The film will then be receiving a nationwide release on digital platforms and VOD as of April 12th. In anticipation of those release dates, a trailer for Blackout has been unveiled, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Blackout has the following synopsis: Painter Charley wakes up in an upstate motel where he appears to have been living for some time. After he packs and leaves he encounters various people in the small town where everybody knows your name. Charley is saying goodbye to the estranged love of his life, Sharon, and settling his affairs with a manic urgency that culminates...

Blackout: "Writer-director Larry Fessenden has created some of the most original and memorable independent horror films of the last 25 years, from Habit and Wendigo to The Last Winter, Skin and Bones, Beneath and Depraved. His latest, Blackout, ranks among his most chilling and thought-provoking works with a cast that includes: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, James Le Gros, Kevin Corrigan, Marshall Bell and Barbara Crampton.

Earning rave reviews on the festival circuit, Blackout marks the long-awaited reunion of Dark Sky Films and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix, two iconic horror companies that brought us contemporary classics such as Ti West's The House of The Devil and The Innkeepers, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land and Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Late Phases.

Blackout will open for a one week exclusive NYC theatrical engagement...

Larry Fessenden (Habit, Depraved) is back with new werewolf horror movie Blackout, and the official trailer has been unleashed today along with release information.

Dark Sky Films will first bring the modern day werewolf movie to theaters in NYC on March 13, followed by a wider release on Digital/VOD at home on April 12, 2024.

The film’s one week exclusive NYC theatrical engagement will take place at the IFC Center beginning March 13th, and it will feature special cast appearances and a Q&a.

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US.

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf.

Larry Fessenden (Wendigo, Habit, Depraved) is back with a new werewolf horror movie titled Blackout, and THR reports today that it’s found a home at Dark Sky Films.

Dark Sky Films has acquired North American rights to Blackout, and they’re aiming to release Fessenden’s latest in theaters and on Digital outlets in the first quarter of 2024.

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US.

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, his flashes of memory of his nighttime grisly acts manifested through...

Larry Fessenden is back with a new werewolf horror movie titled Blackout, and Bloody Disgusting has some exclusive first-look imagery to share today.

Check out the images below and read on for everything you need to know…

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US.

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, his flashes of memory of his nighttime grisly acts manifested through his artwork

Blackout is the third film in Fessenden’s monster trilogy, following Habit (vampires) and Depraved (Frankenstein). This film continues...

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Yellow Veil Pictures announced today they have boarded world sales on Blackout, Larry Fessenden’s werewolf horror film that’s currently in post-production, and have released the first teaser poster. The film wrapped principal photography in the fall in New York’s Hudson Valley and will hit the festival circuit later this year.

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US to great acclaim.

The film follows a fine-arts painter convinced he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town every full moon. It is the latest addition to Fessenden’s own Monsterverse, along with his breakout feature, the vampire-themed Independent Spirit Award-Winning feature Habit (1995) and 2019’s Frankenstein riff, Depraved.

Winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Spirit Award,...

Yellow Veil Pictures announced it has boarded world sales on Larry Fessenden’s upcoming horror film “Blackout,” and also released the film’s first teaser poster. The film, which is currently in post-production, will begin the festival circuit later in 2023 after finishing its photography in Hudson Valley, New York this past fall.

“Blackout” depicts a painter who, convinced he is a werewolf, creates chaos in a small town at each full moon.

The horror film joins Fessenden’s own “monsterverse,” with the New York-based actor and filmmaker’s vampire-themed breakout feature “Habit” (1995) and Frankenstein-inspired “Depraved” (2019).

“Blackout” is the second partnership between Yellow Veil Pictures, a New York City and Los Angeles-based film sales and distribution company, and Glass Eye Pix, an American independent film studio Fessenden founded where he serves as CEO. The two joined forces on world sales for “Depraved,” which was released by IFC Midnight in the United States.

Second collaboration with Glass Eye Pix after 2019’s Depraved.

Yellow Veil Pictures has boarded world sales on Larry Fessenden’s werewolf horror Blackout and will launch talks with buyers at the EFM later this month.

The film wrapped principal photography last autumn in New York’s Hudson Valley and is currently in post-production. The filmmakers anticipate a festival circuit run later this year.

Blackout marks the second collaboration between Fessenden’s New York production company Glass Eye Pix and Yellow Veil Pictures after Depraved, a 2019 riff on the Frankenstein story which IFC Midnight distributed in the US.

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Principal Photography Wraps on Larry Fessenden’s Blackout: "Independent production shingle Glass Eye Pix is pleased to announce director Larry Fessenden has completed principal photography on his seventh feature film, Blackout. The picture, which stars Alex Hurt as Charley Barrett, a Fine Arts painter convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town under the full moon, wrapped under the glow of October 8th’s Hunter Moon, with pickups completed October 16th.

The film features an Altman-esque array of co-stars - some newcomers and many long-time members of the Glass Eye Pix stable - including Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck (upcoming Crumb Catcher), Rigo Garay (upcoming Crumb Catcher), John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, and Marshall Bell. Casting was handled by Lois Drabkin, who previously worked with Fessenden on Beneath and The Ranger.

The film was produced by Fessenden,...

Independent production shingle Glass Eye Pix has announced that director Larry Fessenden has completed principal photography on his seventh feature film, Blackout. The picture, which stars Alex Hurt as Charley Barrett, a Fine Arts painter convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town under the full moon, wrapped under the glow of October 8th’s Hunter Moon, with pickups completed October 16.

The film features a cast including Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck (upcoming Crumb Catcher), Rigo Garay (Crumb Catcher), John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, and Marshall Bell.

The film was produced by Fessenden, James Felix McKenney, and Chris Ingvordsen, and Co-Produced by Gaby Leyner. Collin Braizie was cinematographer, following his previous stint on the Glass Eye Pix production Foxhole. Paintings for the main character’s artwork were created for the film by Brooklyn-based artist John Mitchell.

Peter Weller and Sam Elliott on the Forty Deuce under the Times Square Theatre marquee in James Glickenhaus' Shakedown.Movie-lovers!Welcome back to The Deuce Notebook, a collaboration between Notebook and The Deuce Film Series, our monthly event at Nitehawk Williamsburg that excavates the facts and fantasies of cinema's most infamous block in the world: 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. For each screening, my co-hosts and I pick a flick that we think embodies the era of late-night celluloid consumption and present the theater at which it premiered.American writer, director, and producer James Glickenhaus made action movies: eye-for-an-eye fables starring virtuous underdogs and righteous renegades—rogue cops, ex-Army officers, and cunning FBI agents settling scores with street scum, Mafiosi, and the international drug cartel. These low-cost, high-grossing blockbusters projected do-good Nationalism onto the silver screens and boob tubes of the 1980s, encouraging a generation of bleary-eyed Boy Scouts to stay strong,...

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Enlightening interviews with business legends and producers are combined with extended conversations with well-known genre filmmakers. On top of this are the voices of all the key people that marketed...

Ultra Music Festival has dropped a massive recap film this week, delivering over an hour of 4K footage detailing their worldwide events from last year. Set to a star studded soundtrack that features the likes of Skrillex, Martin Garrix, Steve Angello and more, the epic aftermovie boasts high production values and incredible footage shot around the globe at Ultra’s many events in 2015.

The Ultra recap video captures all the excitement and craziness of one of the world’s biggest festival brands, with plenty of live performances, crowd shots and incidental footage from its exotic locations portrayed in the film. It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive memento of a year’s worth of Ultra events, and the new recap is the perfect way to relive your favorite events from 2015.

With live appearances from major talent like Oliver Heldens, Nervo, Disclosure and more, the new aftermovie is by far the craziest recap Ultra Music Festival has produced yet.

Check it out at the top of this page along with the track list below and let us know if you were able to attend any of the events this year.

1. Sam Feldt – Show Me Love (Edx’s Indian Summer Remix)

2. Michael Calfan – Mercy (Original Mix)

3. Oliver Heldens & Shaun Frank – Shades of Grey (Ft. Delaney Jane) (Club Mix)

3.5 Oliver Heldens and Shaun Frank – Shades of grey (Josh Philips remix)

4. Zonderling feat. Bishøp – Crazy For You (Extened Mix)

5. Martin Garrix – Poison

6. Martin Garrix vs Matisse & Sadko – Dragon

7. Nick Martin – Red Lion (Deniz Koyu Edit)

8. Firebeatz & Jay Hardway – Home (Extended Mix)

9. Nicky Romero & Stadiumx – Harmony

10. Curbi & Bougenvilla – Butterfly Effect (Extended Mix)

11. Tiesto & Tony Junior – Get Down

12. Goldfish – Heart Shaped Box feat Julia Church (Radio Edit)

13. Mercer – Encore (Extended Mix)

14. Martin Solveig & GTA – Intoxicated (Sleepy Tom Remix)

15. Valentino Khan – Deep Down Low

16. Skrillex Ragga Bomb Feat Ragga Twins Skrillex & Zomboy Remix

17. Fono – Real Joy

18. Hi-lo – Renegade Mastah

19. Chocolate Puma – Popatron

20. Sultan + Shepard vs. Futuristic Polar Bears – Manila (Original Mix)

21. W&W – The One

22. Holl & Rush – Napoleon (Original Mix)

23. Raiden – Heart Of Steel feat.Bright Lights (Extended Mix)

24. John Christian, Arin Tone & Corey James – Collage

25. Steve Angello ft. Mako – Children Of The Wild (Simon Alex Remix)

26. Bobby Burns feat. Hannah Robinson – Satellites (Asonn Remix) v3

27. Alpharock – Fawl

28. Martin Garrix – Break Through the Silence

29. Fedde Le Grand feat. Mozella – Beauty From The Ashes (Original Mix)

30. Fedde Le Grand feat. Jared Lee – Shadows (Original Mix)

31. Julian Jordan – Lost Words

32. Danny Avila & Kaaze – Close Your Eyes

33. Deniz Koyu & Amba Shepherd – The Way Out

34. Martin Garrix – ‘Now That I’ve Found You

35. Steve Angello feat. The Presets – Remember (Original Mix)...

Ultra Korea has given Edm fans all across South Korea a reason for excitement. Following another massive year for the festival, organizers have announced that it will span three days in 2016 – and they’ve released the official aftermovie of the 2015 edition to celebrate.

Shot and edited by decorated Edm filmographer Final Kid, the Ultra Korea 2015 aftermovie features a variety of crowd shots, stage shots and footage from the surrounding metropolis that captures the excitement of this year’s festivities. Tracks like Raiden’s “Heart of Steel” featuring Bright Lights and John Christian, and Arin Tone and Corey James’ “Collage” set a celebratory mood for the whole of the video, with Deniz Koyu’s “The Way Out” featuring Amba Shepherd closing it out in style.

With the ever-growing Ultra brand seeing continued success overseas, it’s safe to assume that the 2016 edition of Ultra Korea – which will mark its fifth anniversary...

Things will go wrong on an indie film set. As a producer, or anyone in a leadership role, the key to solving problems is: Don't Panic! This was pivotal for me as a new producer on the set of "Tar Pit" (2015). Potential disasters came at me a mile a minute, but recalling this simple rule allowed me to move (most of) them swiftly aside—even on that day in June of 2014 when we shot "Tar Pit"'s last gun battle at an absolutely revolting pig farm and slaughtering field deep in the country of northern New York state. Hot, dusty air carried the stink of rotting pig carcasses over junked trailers, over putrid milk feeding troughs, over masses of hogs, living and dead. It was a location that director and seasoned indie filmmaker, the brilliant J. Christian Ingvordsen, had arranged for our crime drama. Our gifted Dp and screenwriter Matthew Howe was unfazed.

We had a few cool, organic locations in and around Bovina, New York (way upstate), where the dauntless and masterfully innovative indie filmmaking pair, director J. Christian Ingvordsen and Dp/screenwriter Matthew Howe (along with myself, the newbie producer), filmed our rural crime drama "Tar Pit." There in the northern Catskills, we knew of a trailer-park-esque pig farm and slaughtering field that couldn't have been art directed with more genius than by the blood-spattered pig farmer/butcher who owned the place. We also had access to a gorgeous, Adirondack camp-style mansion, which cost a wonderfully small fee to rent for the day. Its sumptuous interior served as the lavish home of our country drug king pin. In terms of aesthetics and versatility, one of our best locations was a crumbling, abandoned, colonial Georgian mansion built in 1912. That old stone mansion worked perfectly for a drug lab, a mechanic's workshop and for one of our gunfights.

While some people's idea of the perfect New Year's Eve is to stay in and watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV with Ryan Seacrest (or Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin), all cuddled up with a loved one and a bottle of Cabernet, many others will dance 'till the sun comes up.

DJs are the new rock stars -- and they're the tastemakers of the year's biggest party night. So what constitutes the perfect New Year's Eve playlist? ETonline reached out to the world's biggest DJs -- many of whom regularly play to crowds of tens of thousands -- to get their go-to tracks and tips for curating the soundtrack for the perfect New Year's party.

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Colin Firth in Tom Ford's A Single Man (top); Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side (middle); Christopher Plummer in Michael Hoffman's The Last Station (bottom) Christian Bale, Jacki Weaver: Oscar Veterans 2010 Colin Firth Colin Firth received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his bereaved gay professor in Tom Ford's A Single Man. He lost to Jeff Bridges in Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart. That was Firth's first nomination, even though the actor had appeared in nearly 50 movies since his debut in Marek Kanievska's 1984 gay/political drama Another Country.   Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock won what amounted to a career Oscar for her performance as a middle-class white woman who helps out a homeless black teenager (Quinton Aaron) in John Lee Hancock's blockbuster The Blind Side. That was Bullock's first nomination. Bullock began her film career in a supporting role in J. Christian Ingvordsen's 1987 adventure-thriller Hangmen.

Release Date: May 15

Director/Writer: Bent Hamer

Cinematographer: John Christian RosenlundStarring: Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Githa Nørby

Studio/Run Time: Sony Pictures Classics, 90 mins.

Arresting cinematography fuels quirky character study

Mainstream cinema has experienced a noteworthy decline in starring roles for seasoned actors since the ’60s and ’70s. In beautifully shot character analysis O’Horten, Norwegian director Bent Hamer (Factotum) shows there’s still vibrant intrigue to be mined from our golden years. The film trails a stoic locomotive engineer (Baard Owe) who succumbs to retirement, wishing his life could remain as frozen as the icy mountains he crossed in years past. Lost and reborn, Horten embarks on a series of random misadventures that charmingly illustrate the miracle of spontaneity. The film’s environmental cinematography provides a lonely mirror of whitewashed desolation for the title character’s odyssey, reflecting as much splendor as melancholy in the fairytale streets of Oslo.