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WarioWare: Move It! is the latest installment in the franchise, featuring over 200 microgames and a new multiplayer mode. The game takes advantage of the Switch's motion control capabilities, with players assuming different poses for each microgame. The hands-on preview showcased the fun and chaotic nature of the game, especially in multiplayer, and emphasized its release next month.

WarioWare: Move It! is the latest installment in the chaotic world of Wario and his eccentric allies, bringing with it over 200 microgames and an inventive new multiplayer mode. Though the long-running Nintendo series just celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, it still maintains its trademark brand of comedy and fast-paced gameplay. A recent hands-on preview at a Nintendo Holiday Showcase gave a glimpse at what players can expect from the upcoming title's style, games, and various modes.

Just as its predecessor Wario Ware: Get It Together!, Move It! takes full advantage of the...

Exclusive: Addison Rae looks to have found her next big studio film as the rising star is set to headline Paramount Players’ Fashionista. Laura Terruso wrote the lasted script based off a draft by Amy Andelson & Emily Meyer. Jennifer Gibgot and Andrew Panay are producing on behalf of Ethea Entertainment. Ashley Brucks will oversee for the Studio.

Logline is being under wraps. While no director is attached at this time, the project is in active development with a decision on a director expected in the weeks to come.

Rae recently signed a massive multi-million dollar deal with Netflix that rivals any major A-lister’s overall pact at the streamer. Given her global influencer due to her massive TikTok following, which has more then 80 million followers, more and more companies see her as having an immediate impact on the projects they are developing at their companies.

That said, even with her deal at Netflix,...

Actor Shah Rukh Khan took to Twitter and take a witty jibe while lauding filmmaker and old friend Karan Johar's gender neutral style sense.

At an awards night, Johar turned up nattily dressed in a black and gold dress. He teamed it up with a pair of heels.

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Johar's gender neutral style statement was highlighted on social media by Srk, who posted pictures in which he is seen wearing a 'Dust of Gods' jacket, red shades and his grey cargo pants.

His caption read: "Thanks again @karanjohar for The Dust of Gods jacket. Will never be able to match your Fashionista sense of style... but trying...( somebody get me my heels!! )"...

There really is nothing Beyoncé Knowles can't do. From music and acting to business and style, Queen Bey pretty much does run the world, and nearly everything she touches succeeds. This kind of fame and success also comes with a pretty hefty fortune - but just how much is that fortune?

According to a Forbes article from July 2018 - the most recent reporting of her net worth - Beyoncé has a net worth of a cool $355 million. This put her at No. 53 on the magazine's list of richest self-made women, behind names such as Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg and queen of media Oprah Winfrey. When her net worth is combined with her husband and sometimes-collaborator Jay-Z, the numbers get even more ridiculous. Forbes reports that the Carters' combined net worth crossed the $1 billion mark, with a shared net worth of $1.255 billion!

Beyoncé's income comes mostly from her music empire,...

News came yesterday that Rlje Films have acquired the North American rights for David Ian McKendry's debut feature film and seasonal horror flick All The Creatures Were Stirring. The film had its world premiere at the Chattanooga Film Festival this past Spring.    All The Creatures Were Stirring stars Constance Wu, of the much talked about film of the moment Crazy Rich Asians, and a couple of indie horror darlings Amanda Fuller and Graham Skipper (The Mind's Eye and Sequence Break). Read the synopsis in the press release below and if you pick up a sort of holiday themed The Theatre Bizzare vibe to it all you would not be far off I am told.   Rlje Films will release All The Creatures...

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The cast is growing for Mike Flanagan's film adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining sequel.

Deadline reports that Alex Essoe is set to play Wendy Torrance, the mother of Danny Torrance, in Doctor Sleep, while Carl Lumbly is lined up for the role of Dick Halloran.

Dick Halloran and Wendy Torrance were played memorably by Scatman Crothers and Shelley Duvall, respectively, in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining adaptation. The Doctor Sleep film, meanwhile, will be an adaptation of King's sequel to The Shining novel, which has a different ending than Kubrick's version.

Variety previously reported that Ewan McGregor will play an adult version of Danny Torrance in the Doctor Sleep movie, so Essoe will likely be playing his mother shortly after the haunting events at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining, before the story flashes forward to when Danny is an adult.

The Doctor Sleep movie is slated for a January 24th,...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...

Genre television is in a better place than it has been since the 1980s. Ongoing series like The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, and Stranger Things are among the most popular and successful shows currently in production. Netflix brought back the Black Mirror anthology, while Syfy’s Channel Zero continues to build its well-deserved cult fanbase with every new season. Small screen horror is big business these days.

But just a decade or so ago, that wasn’t the case. So when Showtime announced its Masters of Horror anthology series, it was a pretty big risk. Still one of the most ambitious television horror projects ever attempted, Masters of Horror was the brainchild of director and producer Mick Garris, who dreamed of a series in which he and his fellow genre filmmakers would have free reign to tell whatever stories they wanted to tell, however they wanted to tell them.

People often appear to have a gratifying life to their peers, but the outside world doesn’t always see or understand the true troubles that others are experiencing within their personal ad professional lives. That’s certainly the case for the clothing-addicted protagonist in the new psychological horror movie, ‘Fashionista.’ Actress Amanda Fuller naturally understood the emotional […]

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From 26th March, through Alarm Pictures, Simon Rumley’s award-winning Fashionista will be available to rent and own on digital HD across cable, internet, and satellite platforms including iTunes, Amazon, SkyStore, Xbox, Sony, Google, Rakuten, Chili and Vubiquity (Virgin Media).

Described as an “hypnotic exploration of identity, body image and transformation” and a “sleekly demented De Palma-esque nightmare”, the film is set in the vintage clothing world of Austin, Texas, and tells the story of April (Amanda Fuller) and Eric (Ethan Embry), a 30-something couple who run a vintage clothing store. Business is booming, but cracks are showing in the relationship. When April’s growing fears about Eric’s infidelity prove true, she begins an affair with sharp-dressed playboy Randall (Eric Balfour), a narcissistic control freak with a chic modernist mansion and some pretty extreme sexual appetites. April is launched out of the frying pan and into the furnace as...

The latest from provocative filmmaker Simon Rumley, the obsession-fueled thriller Fashionista arrives today on VOD via Freestyle Digital Media. This writer was a big fan of the film after checking it out during last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, so I jumped at the chance to speak with the film’s star Amanda Fuller about her incredibly complex performance in her latest collaboration with Rumley (the duo previously had teamed together on Red, White & Blue).

During our interview, Fuller discussed the appeal of her character, April, a woman so driven by clothes and textiles that her mania begins to spill over into other aspects of her life, and the toll that the role took on her during production on Fashionista. Fuller also chatted about working with her co-stars Ethan Embry and Eric Balfour, collaborating with Rumley, and much more about her experiences making the film as well.

So great to speak with you today,...

The 37th Cambridge Film Festival, taking place 19th – 26th October 2017, has announced its full programme of 92 feature-length films, 127 shorts, with 18 UK premieres and 4 World premieres representing titles from 33 countries. As ever the festival presents a typically diverse programme and for those, like us here at Nerdly, who wish to venture into the weird and wonderful world of cinema, the festival has programmed a selection of features and accompanying shorts at Arts Picturehouse cinema under the “Lates @Aph” strand.

For more info check out http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk

Icelandic horror Rift directed by Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen and starring Björn Stefánsson, Sigurður Þór Óskarsson, Guðmundur Ólafsson is the first late-night treat on Friday 20/10 (and again on Monday 23/10). After receiving a strange, distressed phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. Gunnar drives up to the isolated cabin where Einar is holed up and they begin to dissect the remains of their broken relationship.

"It's the most wonderful time of the year!" The spooky, Halloween goodness has only just begun! The clothing store Unique Vintage recently teamed up with Nerdist for a Ghoul Gang photo that's featured in today's Horror Highlights. Also: Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival 2017, Coma Ward board game details, Mortal Kombat hits New York Comic Con 2017, Final Girls Berlin Film Fest's call for submissions, and release details and a trailer for Bunnyman Vengeance.

Unique Vintage's Ghoul Gang Photo Shoot: "Bring on the gothic glamour! Leading up to Halloween, Unique Vintage is celebrating the spookiest season with Nerdist for a special photo shoot promoting their Ghoul Gang t-shirt and Creepy Collection of retro clothing. Whether you're the daughter of Dracula or a Mistress of the Dark, this collection has something for you!

Inspired by the best-selling t-shirt, the Ghoul Gang includes: Bizarre States podcast host Jessica Chobot as Morticia Addams; Nerdist Editor-in-Chief...

Out today on Blu-ray and DVD from Scream Factory, The Devil's Candy, is Sean Byrne's hard-rocking horror flick. You may have seen that we've given a lot of support to this film, and that's simply because it's awesome. You can read Todd's review here and my own interview with Byrne here, among our other coverage. Because of these previous articles, there's not a whole lot more to be said on the film, I'll mention the basics: Ethan Embry (Cheap Thrills, Fashionista) stars as Jesse, a struggling painter and heavy metal-loving dad who's trying to support his family. He gets an opportunity to do just that, but at what cost? As it turns out, the stakes are high, there's a Faustian deal in the mix, and then there's a...

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Chiefly known for his inventive indie horror and thriller work, Brit director Simon Rumley’s take on the tragic true story of maritime adventurer Donald Crowhurst is notable for several reasons. One is a rare executive producer credit for that grand old alchemist of British cult cinema, Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, Bad Timing), who once tried to film this story himself. Roeg is a key influence on Rumley, not just on the hallucinatory visuals of Crowhurst but also on his stylish 2016 psycho-noir Fashionista.

World-premiered last week at Oldenburg International Film Festival, Crowhurst is also newsworthy because it coincides...

The sophomore year of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is shaping up to be a good one. With a first wave of titles that boasted Can Evrenol's Housewife and Tragedy Girls even more cinematic magic has been added to this year's festival.    Coming to Brooklyn on the second weekend in October are additions like Joe Lynch's Mayhem, German flick Cold Hell, Erlingur Thoroddson has followed up Child Eater with his new flick Rift. Simon Rumley's reunion with his Red, White & Blue star Amanda Fuller Fashionista pays a visit to the festival as well.    In the selection of short films there are some familiar names as well. Our own Izzy Lee has her latest short film For a Good Time Call... in the fest. Gus Cooper's...

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Not even a year has passed since The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival emerged as a must-attend genre festival, but year two is already looking to cement such talk. We Got This Covered reported from the trenches last October, where I served as one of the festival’s inaugural judges. The films were strong and the drinks stronger, only increasing excitement for year two. Fast-forward to September 2017 and the countdown clock has just about run out. Something we couldn’t be happier for.

Birth.Movies.Death. was lucky enough to announce Brooklyn Horror’s first wave, including buzzed-about highlights such as Tragedy Girls (one of my favorites from SXSW) and Sequence Break (a Fantasia Fest favorite for me). You’ve also got Housewife, Baskin director Can Evrenol’s sophomore feature, among other notable selections. Be sure to peruse Wave 1’s sacrificial offerings, but that’s old news – are you ready for Round 2? I know,...

From July 13th through August 2nd, the 2017 Fantasia International Film Festival offered attendees over 400 short, experimental, and feature-length film projects, which is just a mind-blowing fact to me. Over the course of several weeks, I had the opportunity to check out two titles that had been garnering some buzz as of late on the festival circuit—Better Watch Out and Fashionista—and they both delivered very unique but equally thrilling viewing experiences for this writer.

Better Watch Out: A delightfully depraved holiday treat, Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out is one of those rare genre experiences where the less you know going into it, the more satisfying the payoffs are in this biting and darkly comedic spin on the holiday classic Home Alone. But don’t expect toy car shenanigans, slippery ice-covered stairs, or anyone slapping their face in horror after using dad’s aftershave— screenwriter Zack Kahn has more wicked intentions for viewers,...

San Diego's small but mighty Horrible Imaginings Film Festival returns to Balboa Park's Museum of Photographic Arts during September 8 - 10. Southern California fans of horror, thrillers, and all things fantastic will enjoy not only the best in international genre film, but literature, too --- panels and readings, oh my! Thrilling genre authors, such as Bram Stoker Award winner Dennis Ecthison, will take part in a panel and read selected short works. Horror icon Dee Wallace (Cujo, Et, The Hills Have Eyes) will be on hand for a Q&A for the over-the-top Ozploitation slasher Red Christmas, and hot newcomer Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes, Fashionista) will present the new film she stars in, the Hitchcockian web Midnighters, directed by Julius Ramsay (The Walking Dead). Wallace and Essoe will join over...

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Simon Rumley makes challenging films. Not for all tastes, certainly, but for those who want their genre cinema with a finely-honed sophistication in character and drama. His latest, Fashionista, is part relationship drama and part addiction character study, and it is not beyond wandering into some sinister back alleys. Those who stay for (or make it to) the end credits will notice that the director dedicates the picture to British cinematographer and auteur director, Nicolas Roeg; one of cinema's great experimenters who is, remarkably, still with us at age 88. Roeg's 1980 picture, Bad Timing, serves as the starting point for Fashionista, but the director's filmography in general is a helpful guide to Rumley's fractured narrative structure and sensory-driven editing. Amanda Fuller, reuniting with the...

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Throughout his career, Simon Rumley has consistently pushed himself as a filmmaker, and his latest cinematic endeavor, Fashionista, is yet another example of the writer/director evolving as a visual storyteller, as his unforgettable mystery thriller unconventionally explores the darker sides of desire and obsession. Featuring an outstanding ensemble including Amanda Fuller, Ethan Embry, Alex Essoe, and Eric Balfour (amongst others), Fashionista recently played as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival’s impressive 2017 slate.

Recently, Daily Dead spoke with Rumley about his approach to Fashionista, and he discussed how he viewed the project as his statement on consumerism and also chatted about reuniting with Fuller (who starred in Rumley’s Red, White & Blue) to take on her challenging role in this film. Rumley also talked about collaborating with Fashionista producer Tim League and how he managed to assemble the rest of his top-notch cast.

It’s great to speak with you,...

With only four weeks till the start of the festival, Frightfest organisers have announced not only some of the guests set to appear over the August Bank Holiday weekend, but also the addition of another film to the line-up! The 150 plus guest-list this year is as vibrant and eclectic as ever, with nearly 40 of the films represented… New to the film line-up is Jackals, Kevin Greutert’s potent blend of horror thriller, home invasion terror and murder cult chiller, which stars Stephen Dorff and Deborah Kara Unger. The film is scheduled for Saturday 25th August, 4pm and 4.30pm in the main screens at the Cineworld Leicester Square.

Check out the new festival trailer and guest details below:

From the press release:

It’s been five years since Don Mancini and Fiona Dourif raised the Empire roof with Curse Of Chucky and this year they are joined by the irrepressible Jennifer Tilly...

21st edition of Montreal genre festival to also screen Atomic Blonde, Good Time and world premiere of 4K restoration of Suspiria.

Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled its full programme for its 21st edition, which runs from July 13-August 2 in Montreal.

This year’s edition will close with the international premiere of South Korean historical drama A Taxi Driver, starring Snowpiercer’s Song Kang-ho, with director Jang Hoon in attendance.

Fantasia will also host the North American premiere of Cannes Competition title Good Time, starring Robert Pattinson, and a special screening of David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde with Charlize Theron in the festival’s Action! section.

Its Action! section will also feature two films starring Scott Adkins - Boyka: Undisputed and Savage Dog - who will be in attendance at this year’s festival, as well as the North American premiere of the restored 3D version of James Cameron’s classic Terminator 2: Judgment Day. For the first...

Back in the heart of London’s West End for its 18th ‘adults-only’ anniversary, the world renowned horror and fantasy film festival will take place at the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from Aug 24 – Aug 28 2017, taking over five screens to present 64 films including 20 World, 22 European and 18 UK Premieres. Fourteen countries are represented spanning five continents, reflecting the current global popularity of the genre.

The opening night attraction is the global premiere of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s criminally entertaining Cult of Chucky (pictured above), with writer and director Don Mancini and stars Jennifer Tilly and Fiona Dourif in attendance, alongside the iconic deadly doll of destruction himself. Mancini said today:

It’s a true pleasure to be hosting the world premiere of Cult Of Chucky at FrightFest. I have fond memories of unveiling Curse Of Chucky there in 2013 so it’s great to be returning to the...

Simon Rumley (director of Red, White & Blue, Fashionista & Crowhurst) has begun a six week shoot on the brutal gangster thriller Once Upon a Time in London – for Gateway Films – which dramatises the violent reign of two of London’s most notorious gangsters, Billy Hill (Leo Gregory) and Jack ‘Spot’ Comer (Terry Stone), charting the legendary rise and fall of a nationwide criminal empire that lasted until the mid-fifties and which paved the way for the notorious Kray Twins and The Richardsons.

Director and co-writer Simon Rumley commented:

Having spent the last decade or so writing and directing thematically disparate but collectively extreme dramas, it makes absolute sense for me to progress to the gangster genre where love, lust, greed, paranoia, betrayal and violence are every day occurrences. The story of Jack Spot Comer, Billy Hill and their respective battles to become King of London’s Underworld has remained one of Britain’s most dynamic,...

Following its world premiere last year at the SXSW Film Festival, Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word is now out on home media (including DVD and VOD platforms) from Momentum Pictures, and to commemorate the film's release, we caught up with director Simon Rumley in our latest Q&A feature to discuss adapting the tragic real-life story, the film's shooting schedule, what initially drew him to the project, and more.

Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Simon. What drew you to the real-life story of Johnny Frank Garrett?

Simon Rumley: My pleasure! I first watched the documentary called The Last Word by Jesse Quackenbush, which is an amazing viewing experience. Jesse’s an attorney, so it dealt much more with the legalese of the situation and thus the unfairness of the trial and the multiple inconsistencies that were put forward by the prosecution. I...

If you missed it on the festival circuit, Sean Byrne's The Devil's Candy, starring Ethan Embry (Cheap Thrills, Fashionista, Can't Hardly Wait), Pruitt Taylor Vince (Heavy, Monster), Kiara Glasco (Maps To The Stars, Bitten) and Shiri Appleby (Unreal, Roswell) is coming to a theater or TV near you this Friday. You can see the film in select theaters and on VOD and digital platforms on March 17th from IFC Midnight.   Byrne, who previously directed the fan favorite cult horror film The Loved Ones, is back with another fantastic piece of filmmaking. Far from your typical home invasion flick, The Devil's Candy makes you care deeply about its characters. They're not your typical family, for starters. They love heavy metal and weird art, and the family's dad Jesse (Ethan Embry) is a full-time...

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Featured in today's Horror Highlights, we have Splathouse podcast's discussion of the 2001 movie The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, DVD release details for The Abduction of Jennifer Grayson, the SXSW Film Festival poster for Atomic Blonde, details on The Mason Brothers' upcoming theatrical run, a Q&A with Fashionista director Simon Rumley, and a look at the short film Nightmare.

Splathouse Podcast Discusses The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: From Splathouse: "Sleepy skeletons, spirited space aliens, and super-scientists are the focus of this week's show! That's right, we're profiling Larry Blamire's excellent comedy "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra".

Two of the film's featured performers, Brian Howe ("Westworld") and Fay Masterson ("50 Shades Darker"), stop by to talk about their careers and their work on "Lost Skeleton..."

Our good friend Sarah Jane (aka @fookthis on Twitter and Letterboxed, and she of the Talk Film Society) stops by with her cinematic picks for fans of “Lost Skeleton.

Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film Fashionista at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow, Simon Rumley reveals why he’s a fan of drugs in film and his planned foray into London gangster land…

Fashionista finds you back in Austin after Red White and Blue. What excites you about Austin so much? Could Fashionista have been set anywhere else?

I had such a great experience on Red White & Blue for so many different reasons that it was only natural that, at some point, I’d return to Austin. With Tim League (exec producer), Paul Knauss (co-producer) and Karen Hallford (casting director) I’ve got a great bunch of friends who also happen to be great collaborators and they form the core of both films’ Austin based crew and most probably without them neither films would have happened. Beyond that, I love the unique style of Austin, the food, the music,...

Following its world premiere last year at the SXSW Film Festival, Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word is coming to VOD platforms this March courtesy of Momentum Pictures, and we have the release details, trailer, and poster for the new film from Simon Rumley.

Momentum Pictures will release Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word on VOD platforms beginning March 7th.

Directed by Simon Rumley (The ABCs of Death, Red White & Blue) from a screenplay by Tony Giglio (Chaos), Ben Ketai (The Forest) and Marc Haimes (Kubo and the Two Strings), Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word stars Mike Doyle (The Invitation, Jersey Boys),Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder, The Boondock Saints), Erin Cummings (Late Phases, Bitch Slap), and Devin Bonnée (Fashionista).

Synopsis: “Based on a true story, a nun was murdered in her convent bedroom in Amarillo, Texas on Halloween 1981. The police arrested a young man, Johnny Frank Garrett, who always...

Horror Channel FrightFest celebrates 12th year at Glasgow Film Festival with record-breaking fourteen titles – including Ten premieres and a screening of the 4K restoration of Phantasm!

FrightFest Passes are £70 and available from noon on Mon January 16th 2016. Passes cover all films on Fri 24 and Sat 25 Feb Only. Tickets for A Cure for Wellness and Phantasm: Remastered. Individual tickets for the Fri/Sat films are on sale Mon January 23rd from 10am.

To book tickets: +44 (0)141 332 6535 / boxoffice@glasgowfilm.org / www.glasgowfilm.org/festival

From the press release:

Monstrous stories, unspeakable urban legends, brutal acts and fearsome folktales dominate as the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event returns to the Glasgow Film Festival with a record fourteen films, including ten UK premieres, screening from Thurs 23 Feb to Sat 25 Feb 2017 at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre.

Kicking off with a special screening of A Cure For Wellness, an intense psychological ride from Gore Verbinski,...

The horror strand has 10 UK premieres this year.

Horror Channel FrightFest has announced a record-breaking 14 films for its 12th stint at the Glasgow Film Festival (February 23-25).

The 2017 line-up kicks off with a special screening of Gore Verbinski’s A Cure For Wellness, starring Dane DeHaan, Mia Goth and Jason Isaacs.

There are also UK premieres of Patient Zero (see above), with Matt Smith, Stanley Tucci and Natalie Dormer, and $50 million fantasy epic The Warrior’s Gate, starring Dave Bautista and Mark Chao.

Playing on Friday is Colin Minihan’s zombie film It Stains The Sands Red (see below), starring Brittany Allen who will also be in attendance.

Michael O’Shea’s The Transfiguration - which played at Cannes 2016 – will also screen on Friday. O’Shea will discuss the film at the event.

Other UK premieres include Shin Godzilla, Roberto San Sebastián’s The Night Of The Virgin, Gerald Rascionato’s Cave Dive and Simon Rumley’s [link...

Exclusive: Alliance Media Partners teams with Salt executives to launch new company; Matt Bomer thriller on slate.

Production and finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is joining with former Salt sales boss James Norrie to launch London-based sales outfit Amp International, which will take on the Salt slate and some of its staff.

Norrie (below), previously of Icon and Capitol Films, will spearhead sales at Amp International. Joining from Salt will be Nina Kolokouri and Timo Suomi, sales and acquisitions executive.

The current Salt slate includes Walking Out - launching at Sundance in the Us Dramatic Competition later this month - produced by Brunson Green, Laura Ivey and starring Matt Bomer and Bill Pullman; and Malicious, a supernatural horror thriller starring Delroy Lindo, Josh Stewart[/link], Bojana Novakovic, Melissa Bolona and Yvette Yates, directed by Michael Winnick, and produced/financed by Lost Hills Films.

The new Amp group (Alliance Media Partners and Amp International) will work across film sales...

As the closing titles roll on Fashionista, it comes as no surprise to see writer-director Simon Rumley explicitly credit the films of Nicolas Roeg as inspiration. This tribute from one cult British psycho-thriller maestro to another is more than just routine pan-generational lip service. The 88-year-old Roeg recently came out of semiretirement to exec produce Rumley's upcoming feature, Crowhurst.

Fashionista is one of three pictures Rumley has completed this year, but it feels more artistically ambitious than his previous low-budget slasher-horror releases. Reuniting him with many of the key cast and crew from his 2010 revenge thriller, Red White & Blue,...

Told against the backdrop of the Live Music Capital itself, Simon Rumley’s newest feature film, Fashionista, highlights addictive personalities using an unlikely medium.

I sat down with Simon and the cast (Amanda Fuller, Ethan Embry, Alex Essoe, and Devin Bonnee) for an interview during Fantastic Fest- here are some of the highlights from discussing the treacherously seductive film:

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Quiet Earth: All of the characters seem to have different addictions- what made you want to create such a film?

Simon Rumley: I ultimately wanted to make an addiction movie not about drugs. Because I think addiction gives a lot of ability to explore the canvas and use the tools of a filmmaker. I feel that with films like [Continued ...]...

Fantastic Fest has already revealed an amazing lineup over the past month, but their newly announced final wave of programming should cause even more fans to make room on their calendars between September 22nd–29th.

Fantastic Fest's final wave of programming has several big treats in store for horror comedy fans, as Bruce Campbell will be in attendance for screenings of the first two episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 (ahead of the first season's October 2nd premiere on Starz).

Another WolfCop, the sequel to 2014's WolfCop, will make its world premiere, and a special screening of the first episode of HBO's Westworld series will also take place.

The creature feature Colossal will be shown as the festival's closing film, and A Monster Calls and The Autopsy of Jane Doe are also scheduled to screen. For full details, we have the official press release below. Which film are you...

FrightFest panel included actor Andy Nyman, director Simon Rumley and Arrow Films’ Mike Hewitt.

The UK genre scene has experienced a “mushroom cloud of independent filmmaking” in the past decade but getting these films in front of audiences is proving an ever-increasing challenge, according to a panel chaired by Screen at Horror Channel FrightFest.

“In the UK, it’s become very hard to release smaller independent films in the traditional theatrical market without having a star or a specific in-built audience,” said Mike Hewitt, brand marketing and business development manager at distributor Arrow Films.

“There’s been a mushroom cloud of independent filmmaking and genre festivals like FrightFest can show these to their audience, who come and pay to see these films. But the challenge is then to get audiences to pay to see it elsewhere, either by buying the DVD, renting it digitally, or the hardest of all in cinemas.”

British director...

Exclusive: Producers join Marko Mäkilaakso’s pulpy monster movie based on the 80’s video game; Raven Banner sells.

Fledgling UK production/finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is collaborating with Finland’s Roger! Pictures to produce the action-comedy-sci-fi It Came From The Desert.

The film is the first feature from Roger! Pictures, run by producer Teemu Virta and director Marko Mäkilaakso, whose aim is to produce genre films with budgets of under $1m for the international market.

Iron Sky producer Tero Kaukomaa, a shareholder in Roger!, is an executive producer on the film, which is described as “a smart, pulpy, action monster movie, inspired by Cinemaware’s cult 1980s video game of the same name. Its tall tale involves rival motocross heroes (and heroines), kegger parties in the desert, secret underground military bases, romantic insecurities…and giant ants!”

Kaukomaa said: “This deal with Amp gives us an extra power boost to produce this great script into a...