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EC Comics and Oni Press will be making this upcoming "Summer of Fear" a time to dismember for horror fans with Blood Type #1 sinking its teeth into shelves on June 11th and Catacomb of Torment #1 slicing and dicing its way to a July 16th release, and you can get into the sinister summer spirit early with our exclusive reveals of Dustin Weaver's Catacomb of Torment #1 variant cover featuring horror host The Tormentor hard at work and Kyle Hotz's Blood Type #1 variant cover featuring horror host The Grave-Digger lurking behind Ada the vampire!

Below, you can check out our exclusive horror host variant cover reveals for Catacomb of Torment #1 and Blood Type #1, and we also have the official press release with additional details, as well as the other amazing cover art for both of these spine-chilling releases and perilous preview pages from Blood Type #1!

Press Release: Portland, Or – These Ghouls Rule!

Update: Rupert Murdoch has suffered a rare defeat with a Nevada court official denying the 93-year-old media mogul’s wish to alter his family trust in favor of his eldest son Lachlan.

While the case took place behind closed doors in Reno earlier this year and all documents are under seal, Deadline has confirmed that commissioner Edmund J. Gorman Jr. has rejected the elder Murdoch’s move. If successful, Murdoch’s reordering of the complex trust would have left once favored siblings Elisabeth and James, as well as eldest daughter Prudence almost powerless to make decisions counter to that desired by Fox and News Corp CEO Lachlan.

The New York Times first reported the decision.

Gorman says in his almost 100-page December 7 ruling that the Australian-born Murdoch acted in “bad faith” seeking to restructure the trust between the siblings and the power balance at Fox News and other holdings once he is dead.

While Gilmore Girls seemingly dropped Jason out of nowhere in season 5, there was a justification for this sudden change. The cast of Gilmore Girls were all compelling in their own right, but the love lives of the show’s heroines were particularly dramatic. Whether it was Gilmore Girls’ Logan in the show’s later seasons or Dean nearer the beginning, Rory’s various relationships were messy enough to still fuel fandom debates to this day. Meanwhile, from Max Medina to Luke Danes, Lorelai had plenty of potential suitors of her own.

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EC Comics’ "relentless return" continues in Epitaphs From The Abyss #5 and Cruel Universe #4! Coming in November from Oni Press, we have all the details on the creative teams for both issues, plus a look at all of the covers you'll want to pick up for yourself!

"This Fall…The Revenge-fueled Return Of EC Comics Rages Onward! Continuing EC’s landmark return, Oni Press proudly announces two new murderous, must-read issues in smash-hit series Epitaphs From The Abyss #5 and Cruel Universe #4! Making their murderous mark on the world this November, find them in comic shops everywhere . . . if you dare!

On November 13th, Epitaphs From The Abyss #5 welcomes you back to the Grave-Digger's cemetery on the edge of the endless, black Abyss that awaits us all . . . some sooner than others, heh heh! Inscribing this month's moribund epitaphs in so much funerary stone, we welcome scribes Matt Kindt (Brzrkr), Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs.

Alongside feature length documentary Bottom: Exposed, two extended episodes of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s sitcom will debut on Gold this month.

As far as double acts go, to a certain generation Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall are at the apex of anarchic comedy.

Beginning their career at the start of the alternative comedy movement, performing alongside the likes of Hale and Pace, Ben Elton and Andy De La Tour, their violent Twentieth Century Coyote stage act went quickly from The Comedy Store to The Comic Strip, which itself made the leap to television with their now iconic first film Five Go Mad In Dorset. It was quite the transformative time for television comedy, as it was broadcast on Channel 4 exactly a week before the first episode of The Young Ones debuted on rival channel BBC Two.

In 1991, meanwhile, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson debuted their masterpiece, Bottom.

“Somewhere on the banks of the great nile works a man whose life is made of mud,” reads the French intertitle at the start of Ali Cherri’s film. Like that mud, this film is, in some ways, elemental but it’s also a slippery customer that shape-shifts when you least expect it. In addition to being a filmmaker, Cherri is a multimedia visual artist and it shows in this enigmatic film - the third part of a trilogy which began with short films Digger and The Disquiet - which is built on strong imagery rather than substantive narrative.

The action takes place near the Merowe dam in Sudan. In docu-real scenes we see men (who are all brick makers in real life) go about their business, digging the mud and pushing it into frames before it sets in the sun. The talk of revolution and the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir overheard.

101 Films presents the Bob Clark: Horror Collection, featuring the director’s highly influential horrors of the early 1970s, brought together for the first time. Though he would achieve wider success in the 1980s with hit comedies such as Porky’s (1981) and A Christmas Story (1983), Clark’s run of three horror movies a decade earlier — low budget horror-comedy Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972), chilling Vietnam War critique Deathdream (Aka Dead of Night) (1974) and genre-defining slasher masterpiece Black Christmas (1974) — ensure his legacy as a master of the horror genre.

Title 029 on the 101 Films Black Label, this limited-edition set also features new Bob Clark documentary ‘Dreaming of Death’, stunning newly commissioned artwork for all three titles with reversible sleeves, a booklet with new writing on Clark’s career, a set of art cards, and extensive additional content.

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things

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Another month, another exciting selection of foreign and indie titles to combat the Hollywood machine. And with that exciting selection comes some exciting imagery to hopefully turn heads in the lobby and remind patrons what else is coming.

The fact that all nine titles below are theatrical releases (with a couple going streaming and/or VOD same day) shows the studios (big and small) have officially reverted to pre-covid status quo whether audiences are ready to comply or not. While there are many positives and negatives born from that unavoidable development, one of the former is unquestionably being able to see these beauties printed and hung on a wall.

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LA adheres to the “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” rule to wonderful effect with their sheet for Firestarter. Even if you’re unaware of the Stephen King source material, seeing Drew Barrymore and Ryan Kiera Armstrong...

Memento International has sold Ursula Meier’s drama “The Line” to major markets, including the U.S. with Strand Releasing, on the heels of its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

A poignant study of acceptance and delicate family bonds, “The Line” stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“La Fracture”) and Stephanie Blanchoud (“Ennemi Public”) as a mother and daughter whose turbulent relationship and explosive fight lead to a retraining order. “The Line” also stars musician-turned actor Benjamin Biolay, who composed a song for the film produced by Bandita Films, Les Films de Pierre and Les Films du Fleuve.

“We’re thrilled to be working with Meier’s dynamic film. Ms. Meier’s direction and collaboration with Blanchoud and Bruni Tedeschi create a credible tale of family tensions, said Jon Gerrans from Strand Releasing who negotiated the deal with Mathieu Delauney, head of sales at Memento Films International.

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Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to “Marx Can Wait” by Italian film master Marco Bellocchio, who received the honorary Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Represented in international markets by The Match Factory, “Marx Can Wait” is a moving and personal family tale exploring how the suicide of his twin brother Camillo shaped Bellocchio’s life and body of work. The documentary played at New York Film Festival and is eligible for this year’s Academy Awards.

In “Marx Can Wait,” Bellocchio tackles the trauma of Camillo’s death and invites family members to present their memories of his twin brother. The narrative and observational documentary shows how this loss has loomed over Bellocchio’s work like an unexpressed taboo marked by guilt, remorse and longing.

“We’re so thrilled to be partnering once again with The Match Factory and with Bellocchio on this beautiful,...

Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Georgis Grigorakis’ feature debut “Digger,” Greece’s official entry for the Oscars’ international feature film race.

Set in the rich forests of Northern Greece, “Digger” is a modern-day psychological Western starring Vangelis Mourikis as an iconoclastic farmer at war against the encroachments of a ravenous industry and the demons of his past. When his estranged son appears on his doorstep, with a motorcycle and a grudge, nature itself will shake at their clash.

Grigorakis wrote the film, which was produced by Athens-based banner Haos Film. “Digger” had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival where it won the Cicae prize and went on to have a successful career in festivals, including Sarajevo, Thessaloniki and Philadelphia, and won several awards at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards. The movie has also had a strong box office run in Greece.

”We’re thrilled to...

To the uninitiated, Princess Diana biopic “Spencer” might appear like the quintessential British film, albeit with a Chilean director and an American star. But it is, in fact, German, Simone Baumann, managing director of German Films, says. It’s a German-u.K. co-production to be exact, but shot in Germany, with a German producer, Komplizen Film, on board, and 70% of the financing was German.

Other German co-productions this year include Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” with Studio Babelsberg as a co-producer, as well as a host of arthouse films not in the German language, such as Leos Carax’s “Annette,” which was co-produced by Detailfilm, Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco,” co-produced by Essential Filmproduktion, and Tatiana Huezo’s “Prayers for the Stolen,” co-produced by Match Factory Productions.

At AFM, there are 31 German productions and co-productions screening, represented by nine German sales companies, gathered under the German Films umbrella. German...

Greek indoor cinemas are confirmed to reopen from July 1.

Georgis Grigorakis’ Digger, starring Vangelis Mourikis and Argyris Pandazaras, dominated the Hellenic Film Academy (Helfiac) Iris awards on June 16, winning 10 of the 14 awards for which it was nominated, including best film, director, first film and screenplay.

Digger tells the story of a father-son reunion set against the backdrop of rural and environmental issues.

The Greek-German-French co-production is a collaboration between Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Haos Films, Christos Konstantakopoulo of Faliro House, Fenia Cossovitsa’s Blonde and Gabrielle Dumon’s Le Bureau Films. It premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale...

Georgis Grigorakis's Digger is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting February 16, 2021 in the series Festival Focus: Berlinale.The spark for the story is the character of Nikitas, a man who lives and works alone in the heart of a beautiful mountain forest. He battles with an industrial Monster that eats away the land he is on, threatening his property, but more importantly his way of life. He can’t leave this place as all he has is associated with it and he continues living there under constant threat. The forest protects him, and he protects it. Is he a man consistent with his values, who takes it to the end to support his life choices? Or an obsessive, who denies the dead end and suffers because of his inability to change. Does truth lie somewhere in the middle? Every truth is half a truth. It’s is a universal law of nature.

The drama is directed by Mexico’s Fernandez Valadez

Mexican director Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features has won the Golden Alexander-Theo Angelopoulos for best film at Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) which took place entirely online from November 5-15. The award is a cash prize of £15,000.

The Mexico–Spain co-production previously won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Award at Sundance earlier this year followed by more trophies at San Sebastian, Zurich and Morelia. The film is about on a mother searching for her missing son who tried to emigrate illegally to the US. Alpha Violet handles world sales.

“Identifying Features,” Fernanda Valadez’s searing abduction drama set along the U.S.-Mexico border, was awarded the Golden Alexander for best feature film at the 61st Thessaloniki Film Festival.

The awards were announced Monday at the conclusion of the Greek fest’s digital edition, which ran Nov. 5-15. Valadez’s feature debut, which was a double award winner in the World Cinema dramatic competition in Sundance, follows the extraordinary ordeal of a woman who sets out in search of her teenage son two months after he left their village to find work in the U.S.

“In a cruel world of heartbreaks, tragedy and survival, a story of an unexpected bond is born,” the international jury said in its decision. “The film stands as a reminder of the limitless space artistic expression can take.”

Greek director Georgis Grigorakis took home the Silver Alexander Special Jury Award for his feature debut,...

This summer a new board of directors took the reins at the Greek Film Center (Gfc), the body that oversees all aspects of the country’s film policy, from bolstering the development and production of local cinema to luring international film and television shoots to the Mediterranean nation. Despite recent years in which the Gfc has often appeared adrift, industry veterans have thus far been cautiously optimistic that the shake-up will bring much-needed stability and continuity to the organization.

Markos Holevas, who was recently named president of the Gfc’s board, told Variety that the center would waste little time in ensuring that the Greek industry hits the ground running in 2021. “We want to change many things before the end of the year, to begin the new year with a new profile,” he said.

As the Thessaloniki Film Festival winds down, Holevas said the new board was now determined “to...

With days to spare before the opening night of this year’s Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival, organizers were suddenly forced to contend with a dramatic spike in coronavirus cases in Greece’s second city, prompting them to scrap plans for a hybrid edition and move entirely online.

The sudden reversal, said festival director Orestis Andreadakis, was “really, really difficult,” but not entirely unforeseen, as the country grapples with a second wave of Covid-19 that has far outpaced the first wave in the spring. Contingency plans were already in place, as Andreadakis and his colleagues spent months preparing for a variety of scenarios. “It was extremely difficult, because it was as if [we were] preparing three festivals” at the same time, he said.

On Nov. 3, the Greek government introduced a raft of new measures determined to halt the pandemic’s spread, including a curfew in both Thessaloniki and the country’s capital, Athens,...

After being forced to pivot entirely online last-minute due to a Covid spike, Bosnia’s Sarajevo Film Festival is coming to a close and has unveiled its prize winners for this year’s edition.

A jury chaired by Michel Hazanavicius and featuring Berlinale director Carlo Chatrian, actress Jadranka Đokić, director Srdan Golubović and the Morelia Film Festival’s Andrea Stavenhagen, awarded the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo, to Visar Morina’s Exile. The pic stars Misel Maticevic and Sandra Huller in the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who plunges into an identity crisis. It debuted at Sundance this year.

The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director went to Ru Hasanov for The Island Within, while Best Actress went to Marija Škaričić for Mare, and Best Actor went to Vangelis Mourikis for Digger. You can see the list of awards below, as well as the festival’s industry winners.

Ceremony took place remotely, after festival shifted online week before opening.

Psychological thriller Exile has won the best film prize at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, which took place online this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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In a virtual awards ceremony, streamed on the festival’s VoD platform, Kosovo-born writer-director Visar Morina accepted the Heart of Sarajevo prize via a video message after jury president Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) made the announcement from his own home in France. The award includes a prize of €16,000.

Exile, first seen at Sundance and in the Berlinale’s Panorama strand,...

Visar Morina’s “Exile,” a tense psychodrama about a Kosovan pharmacologist in Germany who becomes increasingly paranoid over a series of menacing events, won the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival, earning the Kosovo-born German director the Heart of Sarajevo.

The award ceremony took place online Thursday night, with Morina winning top honors from a jury led by Academy Award-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) and comprised of Carlo Chatrian, artistic director of the Berlin Intl. Film Festival; Croatian actress Jadranka Đokić; Serbian director Srdan Golubović; and Andrea Stavenhagen, head of industry and training projects at the Morelia Film Festival.

Director Michel Franco and actor Mads Mikkelsen were given honorary Heart of Sarajevo awards.

The timely drama from Morina, who was named one of Variety‘s 10 Europeans to Watch earlier this year, is a poignant study of identity and belonging at a time of ongoing uncertainty in Europe over...

A few minutes before the end of “Digger,” first-time feature director Georgis Grigorakis arrives at a closing shot for the ages: an ambiguous, breath-halting ellipsis that distills all the film’s themes of dueling familial, economical and community values into one spooky, funny man-versus-machine tableau. Except, as it turns out, it’s not the closing shot, as “Digger” continues into a needless bow-tying epilogue that double-underlines points the film has already made elegantly clear.

A little like the clashing men at its center — an estranged father and son fighting for family land in an absurd, escalating war of physical and emotional attrition — Grigorakis doesn’t exactly know when to quit. The rest of his debut, however, could hardly be more exactingly poised and composed, drenched in thick, cloudburst-blue mood that lends heft and consequence to its small-scale storytelling.

A Berlinale Panorama premiere which later resurfaced in the Sarajevo lineup, “Digger...

Digger (2017) By Kengo Yagawa (15.3 Minutes)

There is a fierce competition going on every night in the woods, a secret ritualistic meeting of disenfranchised businessmen. Each armed with a shovel, their challenge is to dig for as long as they can. The nightly competition attracts a nameless and silent protagonist, an office worker who spends his days fantasizing about the act of digging. He must face some fierce competition in order to make it to the top and beat the man who silently watches over the event.

“Digger” is an example that in the world of the absurd, anything can become a competition. This short film, which features no dialogue and a lot of digging is more fun in execution than concept. The late night rituals the men perform in the short makes it feel as if this is just an event that has been and always will be, steeped in...

Festival will world premiere 12 features across its dramatic and documentary competitions.

Eight features have been selected for the main competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which is taking place as a physical event from August 14-21.

They include the world premieres of More Raça’s Andromeda Galaxy; Fatih Özcan’s Mavzer; Ruxandra Ghițescu’s Otto The Barbarian; and Ru Hasanov’s The Island Within. A further three films played in the Berlinale’s Panorama section earlier this year: Visar Morina’s Exile; Andrea Staka’s Mare; and Georgis Grigorakis’ Digger, which won the strand’s Cicae Award.

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"Just sell it and give me my share. You owe me." The Match Factory has revealed an official sales promo trailer for a film called Digger, a Greek contemporary western that marks the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis. This just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last month, playing in the Panorama section. Digger is about a father and his "long lost" son, who returns to his secluded home on a motorbike and demands the inheritance that he's owed. Berlinale describes: "Director Georgis Grigorakis sets his rain-drenched woodland Western against a majestic backdrop and finds robust yet tender images to tell this tale of rapprochement between two men. A story of resistance more powerful than the strongest excavator." Starring Vangelis Mourikis, Argyris Pandazaras, and Sofia Kokkali. From this footage, it reminds me a lot of the German film Western, which is also an examination of masculinity in modern times.

The company has also secured deals on Berlin titles ‘Bad Tales’ and ‘Father’.

German sales firm The Match Factory has racked up sales on several Berlinale films, led by Christian Petzold’s competition title Undine.

The film, which won the Fipresci prize and Silver Bear for actress Paula Beer, has been sold to Spain (Golem), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Italy (Europictures), Scandinavia (Future Film), Portugal (Leopardo), Austria (Polyfilm), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), ex-Yugoslavia (Demiurg), Greece (Ama), Hungary (Vertigo), Poland (Aurora), Romania (Independenta) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi).

IFC Films acquired Us rights to the film during the festival.

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Greek filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis' first feature is a contemporary western which will world-premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section. We present the trailer for the first feature by Greek director Georgis Grigorakis, Digger, which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section on Monday 24 February. Written by Grigorakis and with the story credited to him, Maria Votti and Vangelis Mourikis, who also stars along with Argyris Pandazaras and Sofia Kokkali, Digger is a contemporary western about a native farmer who lives and works alone in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he has been fighting against an expanding industrial monster digging up the forest, disturbing the lush flora and threatening his property. Yet the greatest threat comes with the sudden arrival of his young son, after a 20-year separation. They turn into enemies under one roof. Father and son...