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Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group has taken international rights to This Game’s Called Murder, Adam Sherman’s (Happiness Runs) thriller starring Ron Perlman. Also starring are Vanessa Marano (Switched at Birth), and Natasha Henstridge (Species).

The movie follows the daughter (Marano) of iconic women’s luxury footwear designer Mr. Wallendorf (Perlman) who sabotages her sadistic father’s business in a dark tale of murder, greed, and betrayal based in a consumer-crazed society. Henstridge plays Wallendorf’s wife. James Lastovic, Judson Mills, Tyler Steelman, Annabel Barrett, and Tory Devon Smith round out the key cast.

Sherman, who previously produced Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl and Marfa Girl 2, produces the film alongside Hagai Shaham and Paul Laurens. Noémi Santo co-produced.

Premiere CEO Elias Axume and Carlos Rincon negotiated the deal with producer Adam Sherman and attorney Alana Crow. Rights will be shopped in Cannes.

Sherman said, “The fool who...

Theatrical, premium VOD launch set for July.

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Tokyo-set thriller She’s Just A Shadow, Adam Sherman’s follow-up to his 2012 SXSW selection Crazy Eyes.

Sherman’s third feature centres on a matriarchal crime family embroiled in a brutal gang war as a deranged killer leaves a trail of victims on railroad tracks all over Tokyo. The only thing more dangerous than the killer is the vicious love triangle within the family itself.

The modern take on the gangster genre plays out against a dreamlike backdrop of ultra-violence and sex as everyone...

The year 2018 is not what you would call a Larry Clark moment. The director of “Kids,” “Bully,” “Wassup Rockers,” and the new “Marfa Girl 2” — yes, he has made a sequel to a film that virtually no one saw — is now 75 years old, and he may be the cinema’s last shameless mystic of forbidden sexuality. These days, you know you’re watching a Larry Clark film when the sex scenes are real as opposed to simulated, when the close-ups of genitals (mostly male) are multiple and looming and adoring, and when the performers are non-professional actors whose job is to live up to an ideal of skinny hard-bodied youthful tumescence.

That’s been the Larry Clark fetish going back to his two fabled books of transgressive photographs, “Tulsa” (1971) and “Teenage Lust” (1983), and in 50 years of flesh-gazing it hasn’t changed much. Neither has the fundamental controversy that surrounds and...

Larry Clark has always been a controversial filmmaker. Dating all the way back to when his debut film, “Kids,” was released in 1995, Clark has never been one to shy away from showing graphic depictions of violence and sex in his work. This has led to many of his films receiving adult ratings and/or distribution issues. However, that hasn’t stopped the writer-director, and it looks like 23 years later, he’s still pumping out films, including the recently announced “Marfa Girl 2.”

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Back in 2012, Clark released “Marfa Girl” on his website after a successful launch at the Rome Film Festival.

Continue reading ‘Marfa Girl 2’ Trailer: Controversial Filmmaker Larry Clark Is Back With His Sequel To The 2012 Drama at The Playlist.