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Focus, the end-of-year meeting place for the international production community, returns to London as a live event Dec. 5-6. With over 60 conference sessions and more than 150 expert speakers, the event’s ninth edition remains free to attend for industry professionals and embraces the increasing convergence of all screen sectors, gathering thousands of attendees across film, TV, advertising, animation, games and Xr.

“From the first few months of the year, we could feel that Focus was attracting more and more interest from the makers of all the creative screen industries,” says Jean-Frederic Garcia, managing director of Focus. “There is tangible growing interest in the event and we are very excited to be about to open the biggest Focus ever by quite a margin.”

This year’s Focus conference program, presented in association with Variety, will reflect on key industry talking points of the year, from the challenges of financing projects in...

Roughly 400 buyers will get a taste of new Italian and, more broadly, European TV skeins, movies, and docs at Rome’s new concept Mia market, which has assembled a discerning display of potentially hot high-profile content in various stages, set to attract a copious contingent of top-level international execs.

In line with its stated mission of being an “incubator and accelerator” for the Italian industry in the global arena — as market director Lucia Milazzotto said during a recent press conference — the fourth edition of the post-Mipcom pre-afm (Oct. 17-21) event features sneak peeks of upcoming high-profile local goods, such as Rai’s “The Name of The Rose” adaptation toplining John Turturro and Sky Italia’s financial thriller “Devils,” co-starring Patrick Dempsey and Italian A-lister Alessandro Borghi, as well as “Freaks Out” (pictured) the new genre-bending pic by Gabriele Mainetti who made a splash with widely sold sleeper hit “They Call Me Jeeg.

Comet TV has released their lineup of programming for April 2017, and your favorite or soon-to-be favorite movie just might be on the list! Also in today's Highlights: a new trailer for The Black Room, The Thing-Inspired print from Sleep Terror Clothing, Breakdown Lane release details, the La premiere of The Eyes, and the debut of the Zombie Lake soundtrack.

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One more announcement has come out of the UK's Grimmfest 2012 this week: The English premiere of Justin Thomas Ostensen's Below Zero will be taking place during the event, which runs 4th-7th October in Manchester's The Dancehouse theatre.

From the Press Release:

Pitched somewhere between The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Adaptation, with a heavy dose of Fargo in the use of location and performances, this movie plays fascinating games with appearance and reality. It’s as much a study in psychology as it is of extreme horror. Beautifully shot and nicely acted by Edward Furlong, Below Zero also brings horror icon Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes) back to our screens in one of his most interesting performances.

A failing screenwriter attempts to overcome writer’s block by having himself shut away in a meat locker for a week. As he starts to write, the boundaries between reality...