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Grimmfest has revealed its final feature film addition for this year’s programme, with Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy announced as the surprise title. The film, which reimagines a haunted house story through the perspective of a loyal dog, joins the already extensive line-up of premieres and international highlights set to screen across the festival’s four days in Manchester from 9 to 12 October.

Good Boy, which has drawn attention on the festival circuit for its unusual point of view, sees a canine protagonist defending his owner against malevolent forces that occupy their home. Leonberg’s film is positioned alongside an eclectic programme that mixes world premieres with rediscovered talent, international works,...

The folks over at Grimmfest have managed to land a special preview screening of Good Boy during their festival in October. Good Boy opens in cinemas in the UK on Friday, October 10th, so this means that is will likely play after the festival's opening film, Past Life, during the opening night of the festival. This was the festival's yet to be announced "surprise" film.   A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most. Grimmfest has also announced...

David Ellison’s new Paramount is reportedly in talks with Legendary Pictures to strike a global theatrical distribution deal.

The latest development comes less than two weeks after Ellison’s Skydance Media and RedBird Capital acquired Paramount in an $8.4bn merger that has seen the young mogul and his executives race to build a robust pipeline.

It is understood the deal would exclude China and comes after Legendary’s prior output deal with Sony Pictures expired last December.

Prior distribution partner Warner Bros still releases the Dune and ‘Monsterverse’ films, and the partners teamed up onA Minecraft Movie, which on...

David Ellison’s new Paramount is reportedly in talks with Legendary Pictures to strike a global theatrical distribution deal.

The latest development comes less than two weeks after Ellison’s Skydance Media and RedBird Capital acquired Paramount in an $8.4bn merger that has seen the young mogul and his executives race to build a robust pipeline.

It is understood the deal would exclude China and comes after Legendary’s prior output deal with Sony Pictures expired last December.

Prior distribution partner Warner Bros still releases the Dune and ‘Monsterverse’ films, and the partners teamed up onA Minecraft Movie, which on...

Manchester’s genre showcase Grimmfest has unveiled its complete programme for 2025, confirming twenty-one new features across four days at the Odeon Great Northern. Running from 9 to 12 October, the festival will host an extensive slate of world, international, European, UK and Northern premieres, alongside appearances from high-profile actors including Dev Patel, Jeremy Piven, Pixie Lott, Aneurin Barnard, Jon Heder, Tim McInnerny, Rosy McEwen, Richard Roxburgh, Shawnee Smith, Torry Hanson and Thomas Lennon.

World premieres form the backbone of the event. Among them is Past Life, directed by Grimmfest co-founders Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones, a Manchester-made psychological thriller about regression therapy and unresolved crimes from the 1980s. Tom Botchii follows his earlier feature Artik with Syphon, a violent cat-and-mouse revenge story about a hacker who finds himself hunted. Manu Herrera offers Lily’s Ritual, a supernatural tale of witchcraft and demonic vengeance, while Tim Connery’s anthology feature The Driftless delivers...

Our friends at Grimmfest have revealed the full lineup for this year's festival, to be held at the Oden Great Northern in Manchester, from October 9th through to the 12th. Always a perfect primer for spooky season this year's seventeenth edition comes with the expected thrills and chills the festival is known for.    This year's festival boasts four world premieres including locally made thriller Past Life, directed by  the festival's director himself, Simeon Halligan. The thing that we appreciated about Grimmfest's lineups is that they don't go for all the greatest hits from the festival circuit, rather choosing a lot of titles that we're not familiar with, yet.   Two titles that do jump out to us are Don't Leave Kids Alone, the LatAm horror...

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Exclusive: The world premiere of Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones’s Past Life will open the UK’s horror festival Grimmfest,which runs October 9-12 in Manchester.

Jeremy Piven, singer Pixie Lott, Aneurin Barnard and Tim McInnerny starPast Life, a tale ofrepressed memory, regression therapy and a series of unsolved murders from the 80s. Directors Halligan and Richardson-Jones are also the directors of Grimmfest.

Further world premieres include Tom Botchii’s Syphon,about a computer hacker who learns a hard lesson; Manu Herrera’s 80s horror homage Lily’s Ritual; and Tim Connery’s TheDriftless,an anthology inspired by Midwest mythologies.

Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, is delighted to announce the full feature film line-up for 2025!

The festival returns to the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester from October 9 to October 12 to showcase the very best in new genre cinema. It’s going to be four fear-filled days, with 21 brand new feature films and more World and International premieres than ever before. Lucky Grimmfest attendees will be some of the first people in the world to see many of our 2025 lineup, which includes four World Premieres, seven International Premieres, two European Premieres, four UK Premieres, and four Northern UK Premieres.

Grimmfest directors Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones will be opening this year’s festival with the World Premiere of their new ‘Made in Manchester’ thriller Past Life. Jeremy Piven stars alongside Pixie Lott, Aneurin Barnard, and Tim McInnerny in a twisted tale of repressed memory, regression therapy, and a...

Exclusive: This is news Law Order: Svu fans — and series’ star/executive producer Mariska Hargitay — have been awaiting for two and a half years: Kelli Giddish is returning to the venerable NBC crime drama full-time, reprising her Amanda Rollins role as a series regular for its upcoming 27th season.

In one of the most talked about cast exits in Svu history — up there with original co-lead Christopher Meloni’s shocking 2011 departure — Giddish left as a series regular midway through Season 24 after Rollins married Ada Sonny Carisi Jr (Peter Scanavino) and left her Special Victims Unit detective job for a teaching career at Fordham University.

She never stayed away for long, returning in the Season 24 finale and appearing in two Season 25 episodes and five more this season. This will mark Giddish’s 15th season on the show overall.

Rollins continued to pitch in on cases before leaving her university position and...

Exclusive: Screen has obtained the first-look image of Jeremy Piven in the thriller Past Life, one of several new titles on the Cannes sales roster at Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment. The slate includes Cuba Gooding Jr. sci-fi Quantum Supremacy, thriller Speak Up, and horror 13 Souls.

Past Life follows an investigative reporter, played by Aneurin Barnard, who witnesses a murder through the eyes of a psychotic killer while under hypnosis at an event. He partners with the hypnotist (Piven) to use past life regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the 1980s, unwittingly reawakening a psychotic killer’s tendencies.

Ariana Grande has been more creatively busy than ever. Following the release of her seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine, last year and her well-received performance as Glinda in the Jon M. Chu-helmed Wicked film (which will soon return for a second part this November 21), the Grammy winner is officially closing the door on a past era to usher in a new one with the release of the futuristic brighter days ahead short film. The 26-minute visual, written and directed by Christian Breslauer and Grande herself, comes shortly after the release of Eternal Sunshine’s deluxe edition.

The short film brings viewers back to Peaches, a character first seen in the Evan Peters-starring “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” music video, and what transpired after she decided to wipe her memories off at the Brighter Days center. Only this time, 70 years after the events of the first video,...

A year after her powerful Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande still can’t let go of the lingering romantic dreams and bitter nightmares she was exploring in those songs. In her self-described “really vulnerable concept album,” she set out to make her answer to the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, in a hazy psychedelic break-up suite of love and grief. But she keeps the story going in the extended version Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead, with a short film of the same title.

Eternal Sunshine was her sixth Number One album, with...

Ariana Grande is ready for a new chapter and she sings about moving on in her song “Past Life” from the deluxe version of the Eternal Sunshine album.

The Grammy winner seems to sing about finding herself again and deciding to leave a relationship, even if that means leaving someone behind.

Ari sings, “Always wondered what would happen if I let you lose me / Always wondered what would happen if I let myself need more / Might f–k around and elevate my expectations / Now I’m fine to leave you in a past life.”

She’s seemingly singing about her divorce from Dalton Gomez.

There are six new songs on Ari‘s deluxe album!

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Ariana Grandehas had a busy start to 2025. After returning to her acting roots in Wicked, for which she was honored with her first-ever Oscar nomination for "Best Supporting Actress" as Glinda, Grande is now doubling down on her slate of talents, dropping a special deluxe version of her seventh studio album Eternal Sunshine, featuring six brand-new songs.

Titled Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead, the extended album will be unveiled on Friday, March 28. Ahead of the record's release, the "thank u, next" songstress took to Instagram for a special unveiling of the new track titles. This includes an extended version of the first track on the main record, "Intro (End of the World)" and new songs: "Twilight Zone," "Warm," "Dandelion," "Past Life," and "Hampstead." The song titles lean into the ongoing themes of both the record and the upcoming short film, very much alluding to someone getting flashbacks of a previous life.