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Veteran actor and producer Terry Bird has had a long and varied career across film, TV, and theatre, with credits spanning from In Fabric and Iron Ivan to Jeepers Creepers: Reborn and Call the Midwife. But now he takes on his grisliest role yet: the iconic barber with a vendetta in Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice, arriving on Blu-ray, DVD and digital from 2 June 2025.

Set in the slums of Victorian London, Slice & Dice offers a savage new spin on the legendary tale, with themes that feel disturbingly modern — corruption, exploitation, and the hunger for justice — all wrapped in blood-soaked melodrama. Bird not only plays the lead but also produced the film under his New Town Films banner, with the production dedicated to his late friend, actor Darren Kent (Game of Thrones), whose spirit, he says, inspired the entire project.

As the release date looms, Terry reflects on the horror films...

Victorian vengeance is set to return this summer as Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice prepares to take a swing at the UK’s horror scene. Released on 2 June via Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, the latest retelling of the infamous demon barber stars actor-producer Terry Bird in the title role, bringing a personal and contemporary edge to the classic tale.

Written and directed by Steven M. Smith, the film blends period horror with modern resonance, using its 1846 London setting to explore themes that remain deeply relevant today. From class oppression to corruption, Smith’s vision for Slice & Dice leans into the injustices of the past to reflect on those still present. Bird leads the charge not just on screen but behind the scenes as producer, marking the project as a labour of both artistry and compassion.

Best known for his work in In Fabric, Community, and Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, Bird steps into...

Any mention of Rotten Tomatoes scores must include a brief explanation of how the scores work. First, a critic or outlet needs to be approved by Rotten Tomatoes before they are permitted to submit a review. Approval is based mostly on career longevity, volume of readership, or both. When a critic submits their review to Rotten Tomatoes, they choose for themselves whether the review counts as positive or negative ("fresh" or "rotten" by Rt's gauge). Different critics have different criteria as to what counts as positive or negative. Some, for instance, count a two-and-a-half star review as positive, and others count that as negative.

Rotten Tomatoes then calculates the percentage of positive reviews vs. negative reviews, coming up with an "approval rating." If at least 60% of the reviews are positive, the film is declared "fresh." 59% and below counts as "rotten."

If a film has an Rt approval rating of,...

David Bruckner, who has directed The Ritual, The Night House, and the Hellraiser reboot, as well as segments of The Signal, V/H/S, Southbound, V/H/S/85, and episodes of the Shudder Creepshow series, is gearing up to direct a new remake of The Blob – and Deadline reports that he has already lined up another genre project. Bruckner will be directing the mysterious horror thriller Mice for A24.

Details on the plot of Mice are being kept under wraps. Whatever the story it is, it has come from the minds of writing duo Todd Spence and Zak White. Spence and White also have Creepshow experience, as they wrote the stories Doodles, George Romero in 3D, and Something Burrowed, Something Blue for the fourth season of the series. They have also written and co-directed several short films. A24 picking up the Mice package marks the first time Spence and White...

Inspiration strikes at the oddest times. Recently, I was watching Blumhouse's "Night Swim" and started thinking about all the strangest killer objects in the history of horror movies. "Where would a swimming pool rank on such a list," I pondered. "Would it rank lower or higher than a hungry bed?" These are the hard-hitting questions that race through my head, only eased by tasks like ranking all the craziest, head-scratchiest, most out-of-bounds killer objects in horror movie history.

We're not talking about flesh and blood killers or animal attackers. Even something like "Santa Jaws" is omitted from contention because while you could blame either the magical pen or sketchbook canvas that brings the Great White Santa to life, it's still a jingle-jangling shark gobbling up victims. This list is dedicated to deadly things that should not kill. Monstrous versions of household items that spring to life and slay the innocent with a most baffling reaction.

Director Peter Strickland, of The Duke Of Burgundy and Flux Gourmet fame, says it’s “very tough finding money” for his next film.

British filmmaker Peter Strickland has spent well over a decade captivating audiences with his unsettling and one-of-a-kind films, including Berberian Sound Studio (2012), The Duke Of Burgundy (2014) and In Fabric (2018).

On X (formerly Twitter), however, the writer-director revealed that he’s found it difficult to secure financing for his next project.

“Unlikely we’ll be shooting a new film next year,” Strickland wrote. “Very tough finding money, but we’re trying our best.”

Strickland’s most recent film was Flux Gourmet, a blackly comic drama about gastronomy and performance art told with a distinctly Cronenbergian edge. Starring Asa Butterfield and Gwendoline Christie, it received almost universal praise when it emerged in film festivals last year, which makes Strickland’s difficulty in finding money for his next project even more surprising.

South Korean cinema has been a fixture in the horror genre, especially over the past 25 years. From classics like A Tale of Two Sisters, The Host, and Three... Extremes to more recent masterpieces like The Wailing, Train to Busan, and Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, South Korean horror films have provided unique scares that are perfect for the spooky season. Now, a lo-fi and decidedly bizarre film, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, will be added to that pedigree when it's released in North America on Oct. 20.

The official synopsis reads as follows:

After a mysterious mold starts spreading across the surface of an abandoned mattress, a sentient creature begins to take shape from within. Feasting on its unsuspecting victims' vertebrae while they rest, the creature grows stronger, finding nourishment not only in the bones and sinew it assimilates but also in the hopes, fears, and emotions of all those it encounters.

Starring Jihyeon Park,...

“Talk to Me” has horror fans talking… about how much it scared them and of a certain scene that reminded them of a pivotal moment in another A24 movie, “Hereditary.”

The debut film from Australian directors Danny and Michael Philippou is about a group of friends who discover they can conjure spirits by using an embalmed hand. Their favorite new pastime, unfortunately, also unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

TheWrap’s critic Tomris Laffly called it “an honest-to-god horror movie with genuine scares” in her review. It currently has a 94% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Here’s everything you need to know about the R-rated movie.

When Does ‘Talk to Me’ Come Out?

“Talk to Me” was released by A24 on July 28 exclusively in theaters. Check your local listings.

Is ‘Talk to Me’ Streaming?

“Talk to Me” is not yet available on streaming.

What Is ‘Talk to Me’ About?

A group of high school friends,...

Grimmfest, Manchester UK’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, joins Méliès International Festivals Federation.

Regular attendees that look forward to catching up with the annual selection of short film premieres at Grimmfest, will be pleased to hear that this year, Grimmfest will be hosting three short film programmes across the festival period (6th-8th October 2023), in celebration of their new membership of the Méliès International Festivals Federation.

The Federation, recently held their annual general assembly at Cannes film festival, and the 26 member festivals voted for Grimmfest to join, and thus become the only English festival of fantastic film in the Federation.

Each year member festivals vote for their best ‘Fantastic’ feature film and short film, with an award for each, presented at Sitges. Previous winners have included Alex Garland’s Men, Prano Baily-Bond’s Censor, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Lars Von Trier...

The trope of cursed objects is a unique corner of horror. Not to be confused with killer dolls and mannequins (that's a whole other niche), we're talking about your ordinary household objects come to life to wreck people's lives (and sometimes murder them) in the most bonkers, off-the-wall, and outrageous ways. Perhaps a comet or asteroid crashes into earth, causing a strange transference of energy, or an experiment goes horribly wrong. Sometimes, it's a phenomenon with no logical explanation, so it's even more difficult to defeat.

Cursed and killer objects in the movies ebb and flow with time. The 1970s and '80s were a particularly hot time for the subgenre, featuring a slew of deadly inanimate objects like a killer bed (more on that later), a killer car ("Christine"), a killer elevator ("The Lift"), and a killer lamp ("Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes"). Cursed objects were less prevalent in the '90s,...

Queen Elizabeth I's teenage years will no longer be charted at Starz.

Deadline has revealed the premium cabler has canceled the Alicia von Rittberg series after just one season.

The series launched in the U.S. and Starz territories around the globe in June.

Reviews were decent, but Starz hadn't been forthcoming about viewership statistics, which could signal that the interest was not high enough to sustain the series.

Here's the logline:

Long before she ascended the throne, young Elizabeth Tudor, played by Alicia von Rittberg, was an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court.

The death of King Henry VIII sees his nine-year-old son Edward, played by Oliver Zetterström, take the throne and sets into motion a dangerous scramble for power when Elizabeth, Edward and their sister Mary, played by Romola Garai find themselves pawns in a game between the great...

Peter Strickland’s films have always been as much about mood as plot and perhaps never more so than with his latest. Set with in a culinary institute, it feels more like an amuse bouche than a full meal, while at the same time all proving a bit too much. When one of his lead characters says, “I just like to be in control”, it feels as though she could almost be speaking for the writer/director himself, who finely calibrates every aspect of this environment, from its colour palette and dead-pan humour down to its employment of foreign language and elaborate sound design.

After the everyday, albeit heightened, setting of department stores and washing machine repairs of his previous film In Fabric, this time Strickland’s satire takes pointed aim at the art world, and the interplay between funders and creators. Although the set-up seems deliberately far-fetched – an electro-music group whose.

The long-awaited return of beloved auteurs, new discoveries, decades-in-the-works passion projects, festival winners, and beyond are among June’s major offerings. Check out our picks for what to see below.

15. Watcher (Chloe Okuno; June 3)

Slipping back into a genre she knows well, Maika Monroe leads Chloe Okuno’s Watcher, a slow-burn thriller with a sense of paranoia seeping into every frame. Jake Kring-Schreifels said in his Sundance review, “Ever since It Follows, the 2014 horror movie about a spectral grim reaper stalking a teenage girl, Maika Monroe has become her generation’s avatar of fear and paranoia. Throughout her filmography, she boasts an inner world of melancholy that begins in a delicate register and then multiplies into a feverish anguish the farther her characters tumble down their own rabbit holes. It’s the kind of psychological spiraling that gives oxygen to director Chloe Okuno’s feature debut, Watcher, a chamber piece...

Co-founder recalls early lessons and its emergence as a major financier of indie filmmaking.

It is 20 years since UK advertising and music photographer Phil Hunt set up Head Gear Films.

The now booming production company and film financier is a major force in the Cannes market this year, involved in films including Mister Smith Entertainment’s He Went That Way, starring Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto, Altitude’s Sentinel, Gfm’s The Accursed and many others, including several titles from its sister company Bankside.

Back in 1998, Hunt had produced his first feature, Fast Food, a micro-budget movie made for £50,000, which...

Co-founder recalls early lessons and its emergence as a major financier of indie filmmaking.

It is 20 years since UK advertising and music photographer Phil Hunt set up Head Gear Films.

The now booming production company and film financier is a major force in the Cannes market this year, involved in films including Mister Smith Entertainment’s He Went That Way, starring Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto, Altitude’s Sentinel, Gfm’s The Accursed and many others, including several titles from its sister company Bankside.

Back in 1998, Hunt had produced his first feature, Fast Food, a micro-budget movie made for £50,000, which...

Co-founder recalls early lessons and its emergence as a major financier of indie filmmaking.

It is 20 years since UK advertising and music photographer Phil Hunt set up Head Gear Films.

The now booming production company and film financier is a major force in the Cannes market this year, involved in films like Mister Smith Entertainment’s He Went That Way starring Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto, Altitude’s Sentinel, Gfm’s The Accursed and many others, including several titles from its sister company Bankside.

Back in 1998, Hunt had produced his first feature, Fast Food, a micro-budget movie made for £50,000, which...

The adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel will be directed by Justin Anderson.

Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott and Mackenzie Davis have signed to star in Justin Anderson’s directorial debut Swimming Home, which Bankside Films is introducing to international buyers at Cannes. US rights are being co-repped by UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent.

The film is an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Deborah Levy and is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa.

Producers are Screen Stars of Tomorrow Helen Simmons, Loran Dunn.

Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn and Hayley Squires will lead the cast of UK writer-director Luna Carmoon’s debut feature Hoard, backed by BBC Film and the BFI and now shooting in the UK.

Hoard is a drama about the close bond between a mother and daughter.

It is produced by Helen Simmons for Erebus Pictures, Loran Dunn of Delaval Film and Andy Starke for Anti-Worlds. Simmons and Dunn were previously named Screen Stars of Tomorrow in 2018 and 2017 respectively.

Quinn was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2018; he will...

“Berberian Sound Studio” and “The Duke of Burgundy” madman Peter Strickland returns with “Flux Gourmet,” another twisted ode to class horror, this time trading in giallo for gastronomy with the story of a collective of gourmands and the internal power struggles that unfold within their midst. Asa Butterfield and “Duke of Burgundy” star Gwendoline Christie lead a cast that also includes Ariane Labed, Fatma Mohamed, Makis Papadimitriou, Leo Bill, and Richard Bremmer. IndieWire exclusively shares the official trailer for the film below.

The sonic collective at the film’s center takes up residency at an institute devoted to culinary perfection, its members going to war with the institute’s head over creative differences. In this universe, music is made with food and youngsters dream of culinary ambitions rather than becoming pop stars. With the various rivalries unfolding, Stones, the Institute’s “dossierge,” has to privately endure increasingly fraught stomach problems...

Starz will take viewers into the early years of Queen Elizabeth I.

The premium cabler announced today a Sunday, June 12 premiere date for Becoming Elizabeth, its upcoming Tudor drama exploring the fascinating, untold story of the early life of England’s most iconic Queen.

On linear, it will debut on Starz at 9:00 Et/Pt in the U.S. and Canada.

Here's the logline:

Long before she ascended the throne, young Elizabeth Tudor, played by Alicia von Rittberg, was an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court.

The death of King Henry VIII sees his nine-year-old son Edward, played by Oliver Zetterström, take the throne and sets into motion a dangerous scramble for power when Elizabeth, Edward and their sister Mary, played by Romola Garai find themselves pawns in a game between the great families of England and the powers of Europe...

The untold story of the early life of England’s most iconic Queen has set its release date and issued the trailer and key art.

Starz will bow the drama at midnight on Sunday, June 12 on its app, all streaming and on-demand platforms, and internationally on the StarzPlay premium streaming platform across all territories.

On linear, it will debut on Starz at 9 Pm Et/Pt in the US and Canada.

Long before she ascended the throne, young Elizabeth Tudor, played by Alicia von Rittberg (Fury, “Charité,” “Genius”), was an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court.

The death of King Henry VIII sees his nine-year-old son Edward, played by Oliver Zetterström (The Midnight Gang, “The Romanoffs”) take the throne and sets into motion a dangerous scramble for power, when Elizabeth, Edward, and their sister, Mary, played by Romola Garai find themselves pawns in a game between the great families of England and the powers of Europe who vie for control of the country.

Additional key players include King Henry’s widow, Catherine Parr, played by Jessica Raine, Thomas Seymour, played by Tom Cullen, the new King’s uncle, who quickly marries the widowed Catherine, but soon takes an interest in the teenage Elizabeth and Duke of Somerset, played by John Heffernan (“The Pursuit of Love,” “The Crown”), who loses no time in claiming the position of Lord Protector for himself when the old King dies.

The upcoming drama series also stars Jamie Blackley, Alexandra Gilbreath (Tulip Fever, RSC’s “Provoked Wife”), Jamie Parker (1917, “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child”), Leo Bill (Rare Beasts, In Fabric), Oliver Zetterström (The Midnight Gang, “The Romanoffs”), Bella Ramsey (“Game of Thrones,” “The Last of Us”), Ekow Quartey (“This Way Up,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare’s Globe), Alex Macqueen (“Sally4Ever,” “Peaky Blinders”) and Olivier Huband (“I Hate Suzie,” “A Discovery of Witches”).

Becoming Elizabeth is created and written by playwright and television screenwriter Anya Reiss who also serves as executive producer with The Forge’s George Ormond and George Faber with Lisa Osborne producing.

Watch the trailer below.

Further deals include Australia, Benelux, Greece, and Iceland.

UK sales outfit Bankside Films has sold Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet to Curzon for a theatrical release in the UK, along with a slew of other key territory deals.

Curzon plans to release the title in the UK later in 2022. As previously announced IFC Midnight have North American rights, with a June 24 release date now set.

Deals have also closed with Arcadia for Australia, FilmFreak for Benelux, Cinobo for Greece and Nonstop Entertainment for Scandinavia and Iceland.

Flux Gourmet had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and stars Asa Butterfield,...

About 20 minutes into Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” Montana rancher Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) is staring out at a sunlit mountain range. “What is it you see up there, Phil,” a farmhand asks. “There is something there, right?”

Phil smiles. “Not if you can’t see it, there ain’t,” he says.

What Phil is looking at is a Rorschach-like dog’s face in profile, created by long-cast shadows in the undulating hills. We in the audience get a second chance to spot it about an hour later in the film. This phenomenon is known as “pareidolia,” the observing of familiar shapes or patterns in random objects. In Instagram parlance, it’s also known as Faces in Things.

The barking dog’s face can be seen slightly to the center-right in the mountain range. Here is a closer look:

Credit: Netflix

During the pre-production stage of the film,...

This year’s Oscars Best Cinematography category is another fascinating one, not only due to what was nominated, but also what wasn’t nominated. Of all the black-and-white movies released last year, Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” was the only one to get a nom. “Belfast” Dp Haris Zamberloukos didn’t make the cut, despite being nominated by the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).

Gold Derby’s oddsmakers have “Dune” ahead of the pack to win the Oscar with Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” close behind as a possible spoiler on Oscar night, but I’m not here to make predictions, as much as to shine a spotlight on the great work by all five nominees. Quality cinematography is clearly important to the creative success of any film. Here’s why these five contenders are worthy of their accolades.

SEENadia Stacey (‘Cruella’ hair and makeup...

Every so often, a movie comes along that sends culinarily inclined audiences into rapture — “Babette’s Feast,” “Big Night” or “Like Water for Chocolate” spring to mind — getting eyes glistening and mouths watering in anticipation of a meal that only the characters will ever taste. “Flux Gourmet” is not that foodie movie. In fact, “Flux Gourmet” may well send audiences running for the loo, or else reaching for the barf bag, coming about as close to triggering the gag reflux as a film can without actually jamming a finger down your throat.

It’s doubtful that was quite the intention of writer-director Peter Strickland, the content-with-cult-status auteur behind “Berberian Sound Studio” and “In Fabric.” And yet, somewhere around the scene where alimentary performance artist Elle di Elle (Fatma Mohamad) unscrews a stool sample cup and smears the dark chocolaty goo all over her face, audiences will be making like the sickly green Nauseated Face emoji,...

Gwendoline Christie and Asa Butterfield star in this stylish and deeply odd confection about ‘sonic cooking’

Peter Strickland is cinema’s elegant poet of fetish and rapture and oddity, creating movies that are like double-gatefold electro-pop concept albums full of deadpan not-exactly-comedy and strange mitteleuropaïsch pastiche. After his relatively conventional and heroically self-funded debut in 2009, the psychological drama Katalin Varga, Strickland moved into horror and eroticism – or, at any rate, into a world stylistically adjacent to scary or sexy, with his quasi-giallo homages: Berberian Sound Studio in 2012, with Toby Jones as the tormented sound engineer; The Duke of Burgundy in 2014, about Bdsm; and In Fabric in 2018, about a haunted red dress. Now he has gone even further out on his slender limb with this pedantically bizarre creation – in which Peter Greenaway’s influence is making itself felt – occupying a precarious position in its own created world. Flux Gourmet is sometimes funny and always exotic,...

The adage “write what you know” works well for writer-director Peter Strickland with his Berlin Film Festival Encounters feature Flux Gourmet. The former member of The Sonic Catering Band makes rich work of a fictional culinary performance collective, while also tackling taboos in the depiction of stomach problems on screen.

The latter may sound comical, and often is, but there’s also a serious note to Strickland’s flatulent hero, Stones (Makis Papadimitriou), who recounts his suffering in a solemn voiceover as he describes working as a ‘dossierge.’ His job is to interview and document the artist collective in residence at an institute run by an indomitable Jan Stevens (Gwendoline Christie). But Stones finds himself increasingly drawn into their world and their politics, while silently suffering from bowel issues that keep him awake at night.

Desperate to avoid embarrassment, Stones details the measures he takes for his condition to remain undetected,...

A student of vintage Euro-horror whose dreamy tales of killer dresses and kinky lepidopterists are sometimes filed away as the stuff of simple giallo fetishism (even by his fans), British filmmaker Peter Strickland may not be shy about his influences, but the echoes that reverberate throughout his work only tend to clarify the mesmeric power of his own voice. No matter how indebted to Dario Argento or Jess Franco his movies might be — no matter how removed from time these fables always are — the likes of “Berberian Sound Studio” and “In Fabric” are embossed with such palpable sensuality that they soon come to feel as singularly now and present as the touch of a velvet glove on your skin. Sense is substance in Strickland’s films (we’re talking about a guy whose movies are so pungent that “The Duke of Burgundy” even includes a “perfumes by” credit in its...

Outré horror maestro Peter Strickland is back. The filmmaker behind such Eurotica, vintage, throwback classics such as “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012), “The Duke of Burgundy” (2014), and “In Fabric” (2018), returns to the Berlin Film Festival this week, with his latest deliciously bizarro offering, “Flux Gourmet.” The premise? Something like beef within the culinary/sonic art collective world and a whole set of egos and intestinal issues.

Continue reading ‘Flux Gourmet’ Exclusive Poster: Peter Strickland’s Wild New Film Gets Some Beautiful Art To Accompany Its Berlin Debut at The Playlist.

British auteur Peter Strickland is back with his fifth feature, “Flux Gourmet,” and it is as striking and uncompromising as his previous body of work, which includes “In Fabric” (2018), “The Duke of Burgundy” (2014), “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012) and “Katalin Varga” (2009). “Flux Gourmet” world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters strand on Feb. 11.

The film follows a sonic collective trio with rocky interpersonal dynamics, who take up residency at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance and have to answer to the institute’s head, who has her own opinions about their work. Their chronicler, meanwhile, is dealing with stomach problems.

“Flux Gourmet” began life as Strickland was completing “In Fabric” when a producer offered him the opportunity of making anything he wanted, provided the budget was under £1 million ($1.3 million). “When I showed them the script, they ran a mile,” Strickland told Variety. “They said, ‘Do whatever you want,...

Say what you will about British horror director Peter Strickland, but his films are anything but dull. He broke out with 2005’s “Berberian Sound Studio,” a twisted tribute to 1970s Italian horror that established him as one of the genre’s most unique voices. Recent films “The Duke of Burgundy” and “In Fabric” continued to show off his distinctive visual style and unapologetic embrace of weirdness. His fans have nothing to worry about with latest film “Flux Gourmet,” which debuts at the Berlin Film Festival this week and appears to be firmly within his wheelhouse.

As “Berberian Sound Studio” focused on people who make horror movies, “Flux Gourmet” follows a collective of gourmands and the internal power struggles that unfold within the organization. Asa Butterfield and Gwendoline Christie lead the cast, which also features Ariane Labed, Fatma Mohamed, Makis Papadimitriou, Leo Bill, and Richard Bremmer.

The official synopsis for “Flux Gourmet...

Paralympics

U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has revealed a disabled presenting team for the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, who will present on the ground in China. Award-winning presenter Ade Adepitan will front the daily highlights show, with former rugby player Ed Jackson and Paralympic champion triathlete Lauren Steadman presenting the “Breakfast Show.” Recently retired Paralympic swimmer Ellie Robinson will be joined by British racing car driver Billy Monger as on-screen reporters and former sit-kier Sean Rose as pundit. Tokyo 2020 presenter Arthur Williams will lead overnight sports coverage.

Over 80 hours of the games will be on Channel 4 live from Beijing and will also stream on the broadcaster’s streaming on YouTube platform.

Channel 4’s director of programs Ian Katz said: “Channel 4 is incredibly proud to announce a stellar presenting team and — in a first for any broadcaster around the world — an entire presenting team who are disabled. This is testament to...

Flux Gourmet

Moving from the clothes we wear (with accompanying antagonist forces of everyday appliances) to the food we eat (or can’t eat), Peter Strickland is one of the best British filmmakers since breaking onto the scene with sensorial items such as 2009’s revenge drama Katalin Varga, and following that by 2012’s Berberian Sound Studio and 2014’s The Duke of Burgundy. With several coals in the fire, Strickland turned to low budget pandemic filmmaking lassoing muses Fatma Mohamed and Gwendoline Christie (the both recently appeared in In Fabric), in addition to the likes of Asa Butterfield, Ariane Labed, and Makis Papadimitriou to the fold last June for his fifth feature film.…...

Cinematographer Ari Wegner won’t consider taking on a project unless she falls in love with the script first.

Indeed, a screenplay that knows exactly what’s it’s trying to achieve is the throughline in the Australian Dp’s diverse body of work, an impressive oeuvre that spans the buttery textures of William Oldroyd’s “Lady Macbeth,” the Giallo-soaked tint of Peter Strickland’s “In Fabric,” the fiery vistas of Justin Kurzel’s “True History of the Kelly Gang” and the frenzied vibrancy of Janicza Bravo’s “Zola.”

“I need to have a gut reaction to the script,” Wegner tells IndieWire in a recent interview. Wegner, who wrapped Sebastián Lelio’s new film “The Wonder” earlier this year, is deservedly in the ongoing awards conversation with Jane Campion’s lyrical epic “The Power of the Dog.” “It’s such a commitment to do a feature film. If I’m not really excited about it,...

Australian cinematographer Ari Wegner will be presented with the Variety Artisan Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

The prize recognises a distinguished creative who has excelled at their craft and made an outstanding contribution to cinema and entertainment.

Wegner joins distinguished company, with previous recipients of the award including cinematographer Roger Deakins and composer Terence Blanchard.

Wegner lensed Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, screening as a special presentation at TIFF, with other credits including Zola, The Girlfriend Experience, True History of the Kelly Gang, In Fabric, The Kettering Incident, Stray, Ruin and Lady Macbeth.

The Power of the Dog premiered overnight at Venice Film Festival to four minute standing ovation and Oscar buzz, and will also play Telluride.

“We are absolutely thrilled to honour Ari Wegner with this year’s TIFF Variety Artisan Award and to showcase her illustrious career in film and television,...

The Toronto Film Festival will honor cinematographer Ari Wegner with the Variety Artisan Award at this year’s Tribute Awards, co-heads Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey announced.

Each year, the award recognizes a creative who has excelled at their craft and made an outstanding contribution to cinema and entertainment. The Tribute Awards will be broadcast on the final day of the festival, Saturday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. Et on CTV. They will also be streamed to a global audience by Variety, the exclusive trade media partner of the event.

Cinematographer Roger Deakins and composer Terence Blanchard are previous recipients of the award.

Wegner has worked on both television and film projects, and her career started to take off with Zia Mandviwalla’s “Night Shift,” which screened in Cannes in 2021. She has also shot “The Girlfriend Experience,” “True History of the Kelly Gang,” “In Fabric,” “Stray,” “Ruin” and “Lady Macbeth.”

Most recently,...

Exclusive: Australian producer-distributor Arcadia, whose recent credits include Netflix pic 2067 with Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten, has made two hires and revealed its upcoming distribution and development slates.

Bec Janek is joining as Head of Production and Anna Dadic will take the role of Head of Development.

Janek comes into the role after a close collaboration with Arcadia, more recently as a co-producer on sci fi feature 2067 and line producer on Sissy, starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type). Prior to those films, Janek produced Cannes 2018 shhort Dots and was a former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm.

Janek will be responsible for shepherding projects into production and will take the lead on select projects.

Dadic, a former theatrical agent at Hla Management, will manage Arcadia’s feature development slate and expand Arcadia’s slate of scripted TV.

Already underway in development under Dadic are the sci-fi series The Immaculate Void,...

There's a playful confidence to Quentin Dupieux's Deerskin, which is perhaps no surprise given that the French writer/director and sometime electro musician has previously got decent mileage from a killer tyre (Rubber) and would continue in similar vein with outsize bug flick Mandibles. The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

In this case, the object that holds the narrative focus is what Georges (Jean Dujardin) considers to be a jacket with "killer style" - a phrase that will, like so many pieces of cursed clothing from Hans Christian Andersen's red shoes to the red dress in Peter Strickland's In Fabric, take on the full double meaning during the course of this film. The jacket is a distinctive, if outdated, fringed, suede affair, made from Bambi's relative, of course, that could have moseyed on in from.

“Flux Gourmet,” the new film from Peter Strickland, will be released by IFC Films in North America. The movie, which is backed by IFC Films, Bankside Films, and Head Gear/Metrol Technology, quietly wrapped production. The cast, which has not previously been announced, includes Asa Butterfield of “Sex Education” fame and “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie.

“Flux Gourmet” reunites IFC Films with Strickland — the indie studio previously collaborated with the auteur on his English-language debut “Berberian Sound System” and his follow-up feature “The Duke of Burgundy.” A24 released his most recent film 2018’s “In Fabric.”

IFC Films will release “Flux Gourmet” in 2022. The film is set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.

“‘Flux Gourmet’ came about through a personal frustration with how alimentary disorders or food allergies have been comically portrayed in some films,...

Released in cinemas 18th June with previews on 17th June, In The Earth is an atmospheric new horror from visionary writer-director Ben Wheatley. To celebrate the release, we are giving away 3 limited edition t-shirts featuring an original design by Wheatley himself.

As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.

In The Earth stars Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia (Midsommar), Mark Monero and John Hollingworth.

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Universal Pictures UK has released the trailer for the latest horror ‘In The Earth’ from ‘Kill List’ and High Rise’ filmmaker Ben Wheatley.

As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.

Written and directed by Ben Wheatley, the movie stars Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia (Midsommar), Mark Monero and John Hollingworth.

Also in trailers – Toni Collette & Anna Kendrick star in trailer for ‘Stowaway’

The film is set for a UK release, June 18th

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Peter Strickland's Cold Meridian is exclusively showing on Mubi starting December 11, 2020 in the Luminaries series.Cold Meridian started life as a commission from the London Short Film Festival in 2019 when they were planning an Asmr event. My most recent feature film, In Fabric, embraced the possibilities of the phenomenon known as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and I felt that it was time to move on, especially as my previous films all unwittingly employed similar sonic tropes before I even knew that there was a name for such a euphoric response to certain tactile sounds. However, as soon as I decided to move away from Asmr, this commission came along.My connection to Asmr goes way back to childhood, only I never really questioned it. If a friend peeled off football stickers to put into an album or if a librarian was whispering, I experienced a mild form of euphoria...

Exclusive: Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Blindspot) has been tapped for a new series regular role opposite John Krasinski in the upcoming third season of Prime Video’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a co-production of Amazon Studios, Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television.

Jean-Baptiste will play Elizabeth Wright, the Chief of Station. There is no production start date yet; filming is expected to begin in 2021.

Jack Ryan is executive produced by Andrew Form, Krasinski, Allyson Seeger, Vaun Wilmott, Brad Fuller and Michael Bay alongside Clancy, Skydance’s David Ellison and Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross and Mace Neufeld.

Jean-Baptiste, an Oscar nominee for Secrets and Lies, was recently seen in Peter Strickland’s feature film In Fabric and in series Soundtrack on Netflix and Homecoming on Amazon. She will next be seen in Eshom and Ian Nelms’ dark comedy, Fatman. Her TV series credits also include CBS’ Training Day and Without a Trace and NBC’s Blindspot.

Horror likes to warn of us many societal ills. Last year, Peter Strickland made the horror-comedy “In Fabric,” about a hexed killer dress that curses everyone who wears it. This year, Justin Simien, the filmmaker behind the film and series version of “Dear White People” sends-up the image obsession in black culture with straight hair in the horror satire, “Bad Hair.”

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‘2067.’

Seth Larney’s 2067, which stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten, Deborah Mailman, Aaron Glenane, Damian Walshe-Howling and Leeanna Walsman, will be released in the US by AMC Networks’ Rlje Films.

Produced by Arcadia’s Lisa Shaunessy, Futurism Studios’ Jason Taylor and Kate Croser for Kojo Entertainment, the sci-fi mystery thriller set on an Earth ravaged by climate change where humanity is forced to live on artificial oxygen will be released in cinemas and on VOD and digital on October 2.

The international sales agent XYZ Films, which took over from the failed Kew Media, sealed the US deal after selling the film to multiple markets including the UK (Signature), France (Koba Films), Germany and Italy (Koch Films), Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India and Singapore as well as Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific.

Umbrella Entertainment will soon announce a release date in Australia/New Zealand, which will follow the Adelaide Film Festival premiere,...

One of Fantasia 2020’s hottest premieres is Kriya, which comes from writer/director Sidharth Srinivasan of Reel Illusion Films (Soul of Sand), and producers Tejash Shah of Accord Equips Pvt. Ltd. (Headhunter) and B. S. Narayanaswamy (Court).

DJ Neel encounters the ravishing Sitara while working a club set one night and is transfixed by her. They return to Sitara’s place where Neel is horrified to see the gagged and shackled body of her dying father – Sitara’s grieving family keeping vigil around it. Caught completely unawares, Neel’s compassion is nevertheless aroused and he stays on. In India, patriarchal custom dictates that only a son can perform a parent’s last rites, but no such person exists in Sitara’s family. So when her father actually dies during the course of the night, Sitara coerces Neel to officiate the rituals of death. Thrust into a world of magic and transgression,...

Colombian folk horror tale set to open in US through Dark Sky Films.

Mpi Media Group has struck another key deal on Colombian dark western fairy tale Luz: The Flower Of Evil, securing Mexican distribution deal on the Sitges and Morbido selection.

Juan Diego Escobar Alzate’s film won the Silver Skull for best Latin American film at Morbido last year and has sold to elevated genre specialist Mantícora Distribución, whose recent releases include Peter Strickland’s In Fabric and a restored version of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre.

Mantícora Distribución will partner with genre aces Mórbido Group to promote...

(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Knives Out Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video Release Date: 2019 Genre: Mystery Director: Rian Johnson Cast: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith […]

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The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 24th edition as a virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada, with a wild assortment of scheduled screenings, panels, and workshops taking place online from August 20 through September 2, 2020. The decision to launch a digital edition of the famed genre festival was born from Fantasia’s desire to keep the health and safety of its attendees a top priority during the current global health crisis, while still offering daring, much-needed new genre entertainment to residents of Canada and supporting the breakout filmmakers of the year.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August. In the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a selected first wave of titles.

Makoto Tezuka adapts the legendary manga “Tezuka’s Barbara”!

One night, a famous novelist encounters a young, seemingly homeless woman in an overpass tunnel. He brings her home, which sets him...

From the moment Georges (Jean Dujardin) steps into the frame of Quentin Dupieux’s weirdo pseudo-western horror hybrid “Deerskin,” there’s something off about him. Maybe it’s his uneasy gait or shifty eyes, but just watching him can make you a little nervous. That strangeness only intensifies under the influence of a newly purchased vintage deerskin jacket.

Like Peter Strickland’s luridly violent “In Fabric” or Chuck Russell’s comedy “The Mask,” “Deerskin” is the story of an article of clothing with a mind of its own. The film, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and is now receiving a virtual-cinema release in place of its canceled theatrical opening, asks if the inanimate object is influencing its owner to destroy all the jackets in a small town so that it can be the only one, or was Georges’ madness merely unlocked with its acquisition?

As Dupieux’s thriller descends into Georges’ madness,...