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LevelK has boarded Icelandic crime drama “Cold,” directed by Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen and based on the bestselling book “The Undesired” (“Kuldi”) by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir. Still in production, it was recently pitched at Venice Gap-Financing Market.

The story centers on Óðinn, living alone with his daughter Rún. As he investigates decades-old deaths at a juvenile treatment center, he begins to suspect that the sinister secrets are connected to his ex-wife’s mysterious suicide. As well as his daughter’s strange behavior.

“Erlingur is an established, talented director who respects the audiences and finds it fascinating to thrill them,” says LevelK’s CEO Tine Klint.

“We were captured by his take on the book, his style and the entire team behind the production.”

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir and “Woman at War” lead Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir are all set to star.

“On the surface, ‘Cold’ certainly seems like a classic Nordic noir.

Exclusive: As part of Vince Totino and John Hegeman’s newly launched Wayward Entertainment and their new genre slate, we’ve learned that the studio will be going into a production on an English-language take on Erlingur Thoroddsen’s Icelandic horror movie Rift. Oscar winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will produce.

Wayward will be partnering with XYZ Films for the next two years on its slate of filmmaker-driven genre features across all platforms.

Rift is an atmospheric thriller which follows two guys whose broken relationship is tested as they are haunted by a supernatural entity awakened by their emotional turmoil and grief. Cameras will roll this winter.

Rift joins Wayward Entertainment’s previously announced Nick Frost and Simon Pegg production Svalta, which we first told you about. XYZ is also teaming with Wayward on Svalta.

Thoroddsen, who recently wrapped filming on The Piper for Millennium Media, will return to write and direct Rift.

Kate Separovich, Cody Greenwood, Kate Neylon, and Hannah Ngo are the successful recipients of Screenwest’s Breaking the Celluloid Ceiling initiative.

They will each be connected with industry mentors as part of the bespoke program, which is designed specifically for emerging producers of female or non-binary orientation.

Separovich is engaging with executive coach Ellenor Cox and media and communication specialist Karen Eck of eckfactor; Greenwood will be mentored by Liz Watts; Ngo has commenced working with Tess Novak of Lingo Pictures (The Secrets She Keeps); and Neylon will work closely with a soon-to-be-announced experienced producer.

Screenwest CEO Rikki Lea Bestall said the program would assist with the development of their respective slates.

“Kate, Cody, Kate and Hannah are four of our brightest producers and I look forward to seeing these professional mentorships equip them with vital industry knowledge and propel them to take on that next big project,” she said.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart isn’t a very long game, but how long it takes you to beat the game is going to depend on which difficulty setting you choose.

Rift Apart offers five wildly different difficulty settings that drastically change how you play the game. While it’s possible to change the game’s difficulty at any time, most players will probably want to pick an option and stick with it unless they absolutely need to swap.

Which difficulty setting should you choose, though? Well, that’s really up to you, but to help you make that decision, here’s what you need to know about Rift Apart‘s various difficulty options.

Rookie Explorer – A Pure Story Mode Where You (Almost) Can’t Die

If you just want to beat Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart as quickly as possible, then choose the Rookie Explorer difficulty. After all, this option makes...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart may introduce a dimension jumping mechanic that separates it from the other games in the franchise, but at its heart, Ratchet and Clank is still an action platformer game that sees you travel to various planets, battle the various baddies that inhabit them, and try to complete your arsenal of absurd weaponry.

For now, let’s focus on those planets. As longtime Ratchet & Clank fans know, planets are essentially the levels of the R&c universe. Each has its own unique sense of style, available adventures, and collection of unlockable to uncover that often make it worthwhile to revisit them even after you’ve beaten the main objective.

While Rift Apart largely adheres to that format, it introduces a few twists to the planetary level concept that feels very much in the spirit of classic games in the franchise but also takes advantage of Rift...

Many of those lucky enough to own a PS5 have been patiently waiting for the release of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. While Returnal has proven to be one of the year’s best surprises, Rift Apart is really the first major PS5 exclusive we’ve gotten since the console launched last November.

Since we still don’t really know which other upcoming major PS5 games we can expect to be released before the end of 2021, there’s a good chance that PS5 owners will need to rely on Rift Apart for quite a while for their exclusive game fix. Whether they’re trying to show off their new console or simply want to enjoy a next-gen experience they can’t get anywhere else, Rift Apart is looking like many PS5 gamers’ best bet for the foreseeable future.

That being the case, you’re probably wondering just how long Ratchet & Clank:...

As the first major PS5 exclusive released since the console launched last November (with due respect to the incredible Returnal), many fans hope that Ratchet & Clank Rift: Apart will show us what the next generation of gaming technology is capable of.

That’s a lot of pressure to put on any game (even the latest entry in a proven franchise from an incredible studio), but considering that it could be a while before we get another major PS5 exclusive from a PlayStation Studios team, it makes sense that so many PS5 owners (and prospective PS5 owners) are treating Rift Apart as our clearest look yet at the future of console gaming.

Does Rift Apart live up to those lofty expectations? That’s the question we’ll try to answer as we dive into some of the game’s performance accomplishments (and a few shortcomings) to see whether or not this...

Tom Marshall met Trey Anastasio in the eighth grade in Princeton, New Jersey, and they’ve been making music together ever since. Marshall is the lyricist behind some of Phish’s most well-known staples, including “Wilson,” “Bouncing Around the Room,” “Chalk Dust Torture,” “Sample in a Jar,” “Rift,” and more. He has writing credits from the mid-Eighties all the way through Sigma Oasis, the album that Phish released last year. “I have to stay creative to get in shape to be ready for Trey’s incredible [ability] to spit out music,...

Joe Manganiello is returning as Deathstroke for Zack Snyder's Justice League. The actor appeared during the Verizon 5G League of Legends: Wild Rift Invitational on Twitch yesterday sporting a haircut that looks a lot like the one he had for 2017's Justice League. When recently asked about possibly returning, Manganiello played coy and said, "If I was a part of [Zack Snyder's Justice League], that wouldn't be my place to announce that. That would be Zack's place. So, whether or not that's happening, that is an answer that is below my Nda level, or whatever you wanna call it."

According to sources close to the Justice League reshoots, Joe Manganiello is back as Deathstroke. He previously appeared in the post-credit scene of the original 2017 movie, and fans were left wondering what was going to happen next. The actor clearly enjoyed the role and was looking forward to exploring it further, possibly...

Buried deep in the drama of Tuesday’s This Is Us was a joke so subtle, so thrilling (to daytime TV fans), so — dare we say — magical that Tabitha Lenox could’ve summoned it herself.

We’re talking about something Kevin said to Randall in “New York, New York, New York,” at the afterparty for the premiere of Kevin’s movie. The two brothers argued over the best trajectory of care for their mother, Rebecca, who’d recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. (Read a full recap of the episode.) Randall strongly suggested enrolling Rebecca in an experimental, in-patient clinical trial in St.

Rebecca really is making good on her promise to carpe all the diems she has left: Tuesday’s This Is Us finds her wearing a fancy evening gown, walking the red carpet at Kevin’s movie premiere and soaking in all the Big Apple luxury a movie-star salary can provide.

Unfortunately, Mama Pearson’s ongoing plan to suck out all the marrow of life doesn’t take into account Randall’s desire to give her more diems to carpe. And when Kevin backs their mother’s wish to live in the now — rather than relocate for a clinical trial that offers no guarantees?...

Steven Spielberg ruled the '80s movie landscape, and fans of his work were never more excited than when he announced he was making an anthology TV series infused with the same type of magic as such classics as E.T., Gremlins, Poltergeist, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Not only that, he was bringing all of his filmmaking friends with him. As exciting as the show was, it was also very expensive, and only ran for two seasons. That is, until 2020. As we merge into a new decade, Spielberg is bringing back Amazing Stories in an Apple TV+ revival. Today, we have the official premiere date and a first look photo at one of the upcoming episodes.

Amazing Stories will officially return on its new streaming home starting Friday, March 6. The intriguing first image has a mother and son looking to the skies while...

After last week’s surprising announcement from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, that they were stepping back from royal life, Prince William, the brother of Prince Harry, was saddened by the couple’s decision. William reportedly said that, “I’ve put my arm around my brother all our lives and I can’t do that anymore; […]

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If you're looking to camp out on your couch instead of under the stars, Shudder has plenty of horror movies to keep you entertained in the air-conditioned comforts of your own home this month, with Phantom of the Paradise, Knife+Heart, Boar, Hagazussa, The Exorcist, and more horror films joining the streaming service's eclectic lineup (which also includes a new podcast Queer Horror curated collection this month).

You can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this month below, and visit Shudder online to learn more about the streaming service.

"Things get wild this month, starting off with the Shudder exclusive big bad pig pic, Boar; a Pride Month collection headlined by the streaming premiere of Knife+Heart; our latest original podcast, Visitations with Elijah Wood & Daniel Noah; a tour through some of our favorite sub-genres with Sam Zimmerman’s Shudder Guides videos, and new additions...

Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Horror Editor Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. This week, we have a very special guest -- Child Eater and Rift filmmaker Erlingur Thoroddsen. Erlinger and Perri kick things off by sharing memories from their days in film school and the making of Child Eater. We also discuss how his second film came to be, getting into Fantastic Fest, and writing the script for Orian's English-language remake of Rift. Watch or listen to the latest episode of The Collider Podcast below and …...

Orion Pictures has picked up the remake rights to Rokkur (Rift), a gay-themed psychological horror movie hailing from Iceland.

The company has also set Erlingur Thoroddsen, the rising genre auteur who wrote and directed the 2017 movie, to pen the English-language screenplay.

The movie follows two men whose broken relationship is tested as they are haunted by a supernatural entity awakened by their grief.

Rokkur generated buzz for breaking new ground as a socially conscious genre movie, drawing praise for its depiction of an Lgbtq story, something not seen often in genre movies. It earned Outfest’s Artistic Vision Award, CinEuphoria’...

Trion Worlds acquired assets from the now-defunct Gazillion Entertainment, according to a report from VentureBeat.

This acquisition includes “all Gazillion licenses, trademarks, patents and domains, in addition to its library of games” as revealed in an interview with Trion’s CEO, Scot Hartsman. Gazillion’s relationship with Disney ended in November 2017, and their Mmo “Marvel Heroes Omega” was shut down not long after.

The assets Gazillion left behind will provide tools for Trion Worlds to develop their titles, including a game engine that is easier to develop isometric games, in which the player has a bigger, angled view of the game map.

Trion Worlds is the publisher of the 17-million-players strong “Trove,” which has been compared to “Minecraft” and Mmo’s “Rift” and “Defiance.” The new tools will help Trion add to their existing titles and create new games, but they also intend for them to be used by other...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the most overlooked and/or underrated movie of 2017?

E. Oliver Whitney, Screencrush.com, @cinemabite

Despite the critical praise, “A Fantastic Woman” only a one-week qualifying run last month, and I worry is it’ll easily be forgotten this awards season. Daniela Vega gives one of the most astounding performances I’ve seen this year, one that comes from somewhere fierce and internal, portraying the life and struggle of a trans woman that cinema has rarely shown an interest in exploring. But since you can’t see it until it has a proper release in Febraury, do check one of the year’s other...

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.

If you caught my recent review of writer/director Erlingur Thoroddsen‘s slow-burn chiller Rift out of Fantastic Fest, you can probably tell pretty immediately how blown away I was by this rather modest, but deeply affecting film. Rift is not your typical mainstream genre fare, marrying horror, drama, and mystery creatively amidst a markedly paced story about the aftermath […]...

Erlingur Thoroddsen‘s Rift is an icy “cabin in the hills” thriller worth every scenic gawk; Iceland’s genuine production value featured to a remarkable degree (looming mountain regions to jagged lava fields). Landscapes like a Bob Ross painting and tension like a Justin Benson/Aaron Moorhead production might squeeze. It’s such prime location setting, which Thoroddsen skillfully uses to subtlety wall-in characters and inspire tone-snapping hope. This sets the stage for personal rumination in the most idyllic of lands, where evil may present itself as a wolf of our own conjuring – living, not even hiding, in plain sight.

Thoroddsen boils a complicated relationship between two men – Einar (Sigurður Þór Óskarsson) and Gunnar (Björn Stefánsson) – down to psychological fears. Uncertainty. Life. It’s their status as ex-lovers that unites the two men once again, after Einar leaves Gunnar a vague – and cryptic – voicemail. Gunnar, unable to decipher the message’s intent,...

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,...

The 2017 Outfest festival ran from July 6-16.

Los Angeles-based nonprofit Outfest has announced the award winners of its 2017 Outfest Los Angeles Lgbt Film Festival, presented by HBO.

The Us grand jury prize was awarded to Jennifer Reeder for her Chicago-set mother-daughter drama Signature Move (pictured), and the Us documentary grand jury prize went to Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi’s Chavela profiling artist Chavela Vargas.

The Chances, created by Shoshanna Stern and Josh Feldman and directed by Anna Kerrigan, won the Best Narrative Audience Award, while the Audience Award for Best First Us Narrative Feature went to Albert Alarr for A Million Happy Nows.

Outfest’s International grand jury prize was awarded to South African film The Wound, directed by John Trengove. The Us Narrative Jury Prize Best Actor went to Luka Kain for his performance in Saturday Church, while the Us Narrative Jury Prize Best Actress was awarded to Ever Mainard for her role in [link...

"Someone is here with me." A short teaser trailer has debuted for an Icelandic Lgbt horror film titled Rift, made by horror filmmaker Erlingur Thoroddsen. The story is about a guy named Gunnar who receives a mysterious call from his ex-boyfriend, who is living in a secluded cabin. He goes out there to find out what's going on, only to discover there's some weird things happening and something haunting them outside the cabin that wants to get in. Starring Björn Stefánsson, Sigurður Þór Óskarsson, and Guðmundur Ólafsson. The film already premiered at the Göteborg Film Festival earlier this year, and is playing at a few other festivals this summer as well, including OutFest in July. This actually looks pretty good, I'm curious. Here's the first teaser trailer (+ poster) for Erlingur Thoroddsen's Rift, from YouTube (via Dread Central): Months after they broke up, Gunnar receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend,...

He promised that he'd be back, and Space Goat Productions is making good on the T-800's promise with their official board game based on James Cameron's The Terminator, which is now available to pre-order. In today's Horror Highlights, we're also giving Daily Dead readers the chance to win a Camera Obscura soundtrack on vinyl, and we have details on Breaking Glass Pictures acquiring North American rights to Rift and information on how Scream Factory will be celebrating their fifth anniversary.

The Terminator: The Official Board Game: Press Release: "(June 14th, 2017 - Bellingham, Wa) - Space Goat Productions has launched pre-orders for The Terminator™: The Official Board Game, based off of the iconic 1984 film directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pre-orders will be available via Backerkit and will give consumers access to exclusive discounts for 30 days.

The original Terminator Kickstarter made almost 200% of its goal,...

We don’t see many horror films from Iceland, but that’s about to change because Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Erlingur Thoroddsen’s Icelandic Lgbt/horror feature Rift. We have more details below. Rift held its world premiere as… Continue Reading →

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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.

– The Orchard has acquired the North American rights to Jordan Ross’s directorial debut “Thumper,” starring “Orange is the New Black’s” Pablo Schreiber. The gritty crime thriller debuted at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was written and directed by Ross. The movie also stars Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey, Ben Feldman, Grant Harvey and Daniel Webber. Set in a town of low-income and fractured families, “Thumper” is centered around a group of teens that are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives into town hiding a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever.

Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Mubi Buys Philippe Garrel’s ‘Lover for a Day,’ FilmRise...

Exclusive: Icelandic film to debut in winter 2017.

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Erlingur Thoroddsen’s Icelandic Lgbt horror and upcoming Outfest selection Rift.

The distributor acquired North American rights in April and plans a limited theatrical release and festival run followed by a DVD/VOD release early in the fourth quarter.

Rift premiered as the closing film at the Goteburg Film Festival in Sweden and will receive its North American premiere at Outfest in July.

The story centres on Gunnar, who receives a phone call from his distraught ex-boyfriend Einar months after they break up and realises there is more going on then he knew after he drives to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up.

As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, a third person appears to be lurking outside the cabin. Björn Stefánsson, Sigurður Þór Óskarsson, and Guðmundur Ólafsson star.

Búi Baldvinsson, [link...