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Prime Video is ready to close out the year with a stacked roster of projects, and one of the most anticipated ones just got an exciting new look. Prime Video unveiled the first official looks at Cross, the upcoming crime thriller series which will see Aldis Hodge step into the role of Alex Cross, the famous detective who uses forensic psychology to analyze the minds of killers to solve crimes and help victims. The series is adapted from the Alex Cross novels by James Paterson, and Hodge will take over the role of Cross from Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry, who have both portrayed the character in the past. In addition to Hodge, Cross also stars Ryan Eggold, Jennifer Wigmore, Stacie Greenwell, Mercedes de la Zerda, Sharon Taylor, Ashley Rios, Siobhan Murphy, Darnell Bartholomew, Isaiah Mustafa, Stephanie Belding, Matthew Lillard, and more.

When practical effects drive a film’s talking points, I pause. Gruesome monster designs and caved-in prosthetics merely supplement story, yet a film like Harbinger Down piles all its eggs into one blood-soaked basket. Fans yearn for realistic SFX, and filmmakers always aim to dethrone The Thing‘s bar-setting kingship. But at what cost? Take Astron-6’s The Void. Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski create Lovecraftian hellbeasts from synthetic molding, yet a cultist presence could have used more fleshing out. Bodies splatter, character structures crumble and visuals outweigh storytelling.

Good thing the ratio of destruction:emptiness airs on the side of insanity.

In this Assault On Precinct 13 meets The Beyond smashup, police officer Daniel Carter (Aaron Poole) walks into the wrong hospital. Given his bloodied passenger, he doesn’t have much of a choice – but white-hooded strangers who lurk outside aren’t noticed until far too late. Carter, Dr. Richard...

*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by Screen Media Films. Directors/writers: Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski. Cast: Kathleen Munroe, Ellen Wong, Kenneth Welsh, Aaron Poole, Art Hindle and Stephanie Belding. The Void is an upcoming horror release, from Canadian filmmakers Astron 6. This team has been responsible for a number of decent horror features, including: Manborg (2011), Father's Day (2011), The Editor (2014) and others. Their latest film deals with the horrors of birth and the possible aftermath of death? The film does not have an answer to mortality, or immortality, though. Much of the film takes place in hell and veteran horror fans will see some of Clive Barker's Hellraiser (1987), here. In costume, makeup and setting, this film wears its influences on its sleeve. This viewer enjoyed the practical effects, in the film. But, the film's theme and message comes across as convoluted, for at least one viewer.

Screen Media Films acquired U.S. rights for the horror title “The Void”, which is written and directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski and stars Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding, and Kenneth Welsh, will be released in theaters day-and-date in Q1 2017. The film previously made its world premiere at Fantastic Fest …

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The distributor has acquired Us rights to Cave Painting Pictures’ horror title directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski.

Screen Media has earmarked a theatrical and VOD day-and-date launch for the first quarter of 2017.

Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding, and Kenneth Welsh star in The Void, about a series of transformations at a rural hospital.

The Void premiered at Fantastic Fest earlier this year. Screen Media negotiated the deal with Xyz Films and CAA.

Appropriate Behavior creator and star Desiree Akhavan, is set to direct Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane of American Honey in The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, based on Emily Danforth’s coming-of-age novel set in 1993 about a girl forced into gay conversion therapy. John Gallagher Jr and Jennifer Ehle will also star in the Beachside and Parkville Pictures drama, which Beachside is fully financing. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights.FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights from Submarine and Preferred...

A hospital's halls turn into creepy corridors of horror in The Void, which has been acquired by Screen Media Films for Us distribution following its recent world premiere at Fantastic Fest.

The Void is expected to hit theaters in early 2017. You can read the press below for full details on Screen Media Films acquiring The Void for Us distribution, and in case you missed them, check out Heather's Fantastic Fest review of the movie and her interview with the movie's co-writer/directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, as well as producer Casey Walker.

Press Release: New York, November 18, 2016 – Screen Media Films acquired U.S. rights for the horror title “The Void”, which is written and directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski and stars Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding, and Kenneth Welsh, will be released in theaters day-and-date in Q1 2017. The film previously made its world premiere...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Exclusive: Grasshopper Film has announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to “The Human Surge,” the electrifying debut from Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams, which was recently awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival from a jury led by Dario Argento. The film will open in theaters next year.

The film follows Buenos Aires resident “Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle.