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Exclusive: Devin Craig (Queen Sugar), Ruby Cruz (Bottoms), Michael Provost (Insatiable) and Roby Attal (Red 11) are heading to class in the upcoming third season of Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble‘s The Sex Lives of College Girls. All four will recur as students at Essex College.

Created by Kaling and Noble, Max‘s The Sex Lives of College Girls follows four college roommates in their first year at New England’s prestigious Essex College. Season 2 picked up with the students returning after their fall break, tackling the challenges that were thrown their way at the end of Season 1, while also facing their next semester filled with new faces, parties and predicaments.

Returning series regulars for Season 3 are Pauline Chalamet, lyah Chanelle Scott, Amrit Kaur, Christopher Meyer, Ilia Paulino and Renika Williams. As we previously reported, Reneé Rapp has exited the series as a regular for the upcoming season. She’ll...

Exclusive: Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom producer Arrow Media is plotting U.S. expansion with the promotion of Stephen Dost to VP, Content.

Dost takes on the role several months after Arrow was acquired by growing Euro producer-distributor Asacha Media Group. He remains the sole Arrow employee in the States.

Reporting to CEO Tom Brisley, Dost’s newly-created role will see him devise and deliver the company’s U.S. strategy and build relationships with new and existing clients. He joined two years ago as an exec overseeing the production of projects for the U.S. market including High Speed Chase, Late Night Lock Up, Hostage 911 and Married To Evil. He previously ran development for true crime, science and history producer Red Marble Media for 13 years.

Arrow calls itself the “UK’s largest supplier of true crime programming.” Shows include Disney+/Nat Geo’s Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom,...

On Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at 10:00 Pm, Investigation Discovery will air the Season 1 Episode 3 of “Hostage 911” titled “Call Me When the Priest Comes.”

In this episode, viewers will be taken into the high-stress world of hostage negotiations. The first scenario unfolds when a 10-year-old girl reports being held hostage by a family friend. Negotiator Mike Newlin faces the challenging task of earning the suspect’s trust and ensuring the safety of the young girl.

The second situation takes place in New Mexico, where an assailant seeks refuge inside a local tourist attraction and takes multiple people hostage. The episode delves into the tense negotiation process and the efforts to resolve the crisis without harm to the hostages.

“Hostage 911” provides a gripping look at real-life hostage situations and the skilled negotiators who work tirelessly to bring these tense standoffs to peaceful resolutions. Tune in to Investigation Discovery to witness the high-stakes drama of “Hostage 911.

Fandoms everywhere can now rejoice, for in October Our Flag Means Death finally returns to our screens for its second season. Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi will be romancing the high seas once more thanks to an enormous outpouring of love and support from the show’s fans. The safety of the cult favorite is not yet known beyond season two, but if this one is as good as the first, it certainly won’t be for lack of trying.

Talking of little shows that could, Doom Patrol is back for its last ever block of episodes, having long outlasted the many of the other ill-fated DC streaming series. Season two of The Gilded Age is also streaming this month, with Bertha challenging both Mrs. Astor and the old system in this new run.

And if none of that is up your street, there’s always Jason Statham punching sharks in the face,...

On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at 11:00 Pm, Investigation Discovery presents the second episode of “Hostage 911.” This gripping series delves into real-life hostage situations, offering a factual and straightforward look at these intense events.

“Hostage 911” provides viewers with an unvarnished portrayal of various hostage scenarios, shedding light on the challenges faced by law enforcement and the victims involved. It seeks to inform and educate viewers about the complexities of hostage situations.

Tune in to Investigation Discovery on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at 11:00 Pm, to watch the second episode of “Hostage 911.” This episode continues to explore the harrowing world of hostage crises, providing an unadorned perspective on these high-stress events.

Release Date & Time: 11:00 Pm Tuesday 3 October 2023 on Investigation Discovery

Hostage 911 Cast – Season 1 Episode 2 Main Cast...

On Tuesday, 3rd October 2023, at 10:00 Pm, Investigation Discovery presents the premiere episode of “Hostage 911.” This gripping new series delves into real-life hostage situations, providing a factual and intense look at the events as they unfolded.

In this debut episode, viewers will be taken into the heart of a hostage crisis. The program chronicles the actions of law enforcement, negotiators, and the individuals involved in the high-stress standoff.

“Hostage 911” aims to shed light on the challenges and strategies employed in hostage situations, highlighting the efforts to bring about a peaceful resolution. This show on Investigation Discovery is designed to provide viewers, even those as young as 10 years old, with an informative and unembellished look at real-life incidents that test the skills and determination of those on the front lines of law enforcement. Tune in to witness these intense stories unfold.

Release Date & Time: 10:00 Pm Tuesday 3 October 2023 on...

Rhys Darby in ‘Our Flag Means Death’ season 2 (Photograph by Nicola Dove/Max)

Max’s 2023 October lineup of series includes new seasons of Our Flag Means Death, The Gilded Age, and 30 Coins, as well as the second half of Doom Patrol season four (the final season). A documentary focusing on the notorious Bling Ring premieres on October 1st, along with all five Final Destination films.

In addition to a batch of horror films joining the network’s lineup, Max is celebrating Halloween with new seasons of Ghost Adventures and The Haunted Museum.

Series & Films Arriving On Max In October 2023:

October 1

3 Godfathers (1948)

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)

All About the Benjamins (2002)

The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)

Angels in the Outfield (1951)

The Answer Man (2009)

Anthropoid (2016)

Appaloosa (2008)

The Apparition (2012)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Badlands (1973)

Be Cool (2005)

Bee Season (2005)

Beetlejuice (1988)

The Benchwarmers (2006)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blindspotting (2018)

Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)

Cesar Chavez (2014)

Charlie Wilson’s War...

This article contains Spoilers for Ahsoka episode 6.

Star Wars fans finally witness Ezra Bridger's long-awaited return in Ahsoka, played by new actor Eman Esfandi. Ezra reunites with Sabine Wren and makes his captivating live-action debut, leaving viewers wondering about the actors' other roles. Taylor Gray skillfully voiced Ezra Bridger in Star Wars Rebels, appearing in all four seasons and various animated shorts before Eman Esfandi's portrayal in Ahsoka.

After five years of waiting, Star Wars fans saw Ezra Bridger's return in Ahsoka episode 6 "Part Six: Far, Far Away", played by a new actor. Ezra was the main character of the Star Wars Rebels animated series, a street rat from Lothol who joined the Ghost crew in the fight against the Empire. He trained under Kanan Jarrus to become a Jedi Knight, and at the Battle of Lothol, he disappeared into hyperspace alongside Grand Admiral Thrawn. Ezra's disappearance set up the plot for Ahsoka,...

One of Austin’s hometown filmmakers is bringing his next movie to SXSW.

Director Robert Rodriguez will screen a work-in-progress cut of his crime thriller “Hypnotic,” starring Ben Affleck, for fans at the SXSW Film Festival in the Texas capital on March 12.

In the film, written by Rodriguez and Max Borenstein, Affleck plays a detective who is investigating a series of inexplicable crimes while searching for his missing daughter, whose disappearance is somehow involved with a secret government program.

The film co-stars Alice Braga, Jd Pardo, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey, Jackie Earle Haley and William Fichtner. Along with Rodriguez, Mark Gill, Guy Botham, Lisa Ellzey, Jeff Robinov, John Graham, and Rodriguez’s son Racer Max are serving as producers. Ketchup Entertainment is serving as the U.S. distributor.

Affleck is set to have a busy 2023. He’s starring in his next directorial effort, the Nike biopic “Air,” with Matt Damon,...

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Ezra Bridger is officially headed to live-action, with Eman Esfandi playing the Star Wars animated character in Ahsoka, the Disney+ series toplined by Rosario Dawson.

Esfandi’s credits include the Robert Rodriguez horror film Red 11, which screened at Cannes in 2019, as well as a small role in best picture nominee King Richard. He also appears in the upcoming gay military drama The Inspection, which is getting strong early reviews out of the Toronto Film Festival this week.

Ezra Bridger debuted in 2014 in the animated Star Wars Rebels, where he was voiced by actor Taylor Gray. The character grew from an orphan with a knack for the Force into a Rebel who trained in the ways of the Jedi. The geek culture-focused site Cinelinx first reported the news.

The Disney+ series stars Dawson as titular Jedi Ahsoka Tano, who first jumped to live...

The El Rey Network, which is getting set to make a rare transition from cable TV to free streaming, has set a deal for crucial real estate on the Roku Channel.

Starting tomorrow, the Robert Rodriguez-founded network, will start streaming as a 24-7 linear offering on the Roku Channel, one of more than 190 on the free outlet. Launched in 2013 as a result of the agreement reached by Comcast and NBCUniversal with regulators yielding new commitments to diverse programming options, El Rey targeted young, English-speaking Latino viewers. It wound down its nearly decade-long run on traditional pay-tv at the end of 2020, having peaked at 40 million households. While other channels have gone dark on cable and returned as digital properties, El Rey is one of the first to attempt such a shift during the streaming era.

The Roku Channel, which has 40,000 on-demand film and TV titles in addition to its linear offerings,...

Nearly a decade after fronting the launch of cable TV network El Rey, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is taking its operations into the streaming realm.

In a deal with Cinedigm, which operates a portfolio of targeted streaming offerings like the Bob Ross Channel, Fandor and the Dove Channel, El Rey will continue to have a 24-7 live presence. Distribution partners have not been announced, but targets will include smart-tv and connected-tv platforms and streaming outlets like Pluto and others offering bundles of free channels.

At the beginning of its new phase, the streaming outlet will be less widely available than when it was at its cable peak, when it reached 40 million U.S. households. Even so, backers say its rebooted future is brighter given the overall shift toward streaming. Many of El Rey’s advertising relationships and resources will carry over to the new setup, and Rodriguez is an established figure...

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has taken El Rey Network — once a linear cable TV channel — and revived the Latino-focused brand for the streaming era in partnership with Cinedigm.

Launched in 2013, El Rey Network at its peak reached over 40 million pay-tv households. The cable channel, stocked with a range of English-language scripted and unscripted programming catering to Latino audiences and beyond, shut down at the end of 2020.

In partnership with Cinedigm, El Rey Network will relaunch as a free-to-watch over-the-top streaming service available on platforms including connected TVs, digital set-top boxes, media-streaming devices and the web. In addition, Cinedigm will work with El Rey to ink deals with advertisers for custom content. Cinedigm also will exclusively distribute Rodriguez’s feature film “Red 11” and a companion docuseries, “Rebel Without A Crew: The Robert Rodriguez Film School,” to Ott platforms.

The date of the El Rey Network streaming channel launch has yet to be determined.

Robert Rodriguez’s new super low-budget sci-fi horror pic Red 11 will be hitting Tubi exclusively this summer. The film is based on Rodriguez’s experiences in a medical research facility to finance his first feature El Mariachi. Deadline reports that it […]

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Exclusive: Tubi has scored the exclusive streaming rights to Robert Rodriguez’s sci-fi horror pic Red 11 as well as his docuseries The Robert Rodriguez Film School.

Red 11 is based on Rodriguez’s experiences in a medical research facility to finance his first feature El Mariachi. Pic, which made its world premiere at SXSW and went on to play in the Directors Fortnight section at Cannes, is set in the dark, twisted world of legal drug research. College kids turn lab rats to make quick money. The pic’s protagonist Rob (who is assigned the color and number Red 11), is trying to buy his way out of a huge debt to the tune of $7K. But things get surreal when he’s not sure if the hospital is really trying to kill him, or if it’s side effects from the experimental drugs.

Red 11 will hit the free ad-supported streaming service in the U.

Ben Affleck is all set to star in Robert Rodriguez's mind-bending action thriller Hypnotic. The Academy Award winning actor just reunited with his old friend Kevin Smith for Jay & Silent Bob Reboot where he reprised his role as Holden McNeil. Rodriguez directed Alita: Battle Angel and Red 11, which both hit theaters this year. Production on Hypnotic is scheduled to start in April 2020 and this is the first green lit project under the Studio 8 and Solstice Studios strategic partnership.

Hypnotic is an action thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez (Alita: Battle Angel) and written by Rodriguez and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island). The movie follows a detective (Ben Affleck) who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program - while investigating a string of impossible high-end heists. With production set to begin soon, Affleck is more than likely training at this point in time to prepare for the role.

Joseph Baxter Aug 22, 2019

Netflix film We Can Be Heroes will see Robert Rodriguez direct an alien invasion epic, which has an intriguing cast.

We Can Be Heroes is yet another Netflix film project for which the streaming giant has tapped a high-profile name, in this case that of action auteur Robert Rodriguez. However, this particular offering will see Rodriguez tap into his more family-friendly side, utilizing a cast of kids; a side that yielded him 2000s-era success with the Spy Kids film franchise.

Rodriguez is set to write, direct and produce We Can Be Heroes for Netflix, a genre film set in the aftermath of an alien invasion, leaving the children of superheroes tasked to rescue their kidnapped parents. However, the film’s cast brandishes some notable headliners in Priyanka Chopra, Christian Slater, Pedro Pascal and Sung Kang.

Netflix revealed the full cast of We Can Be Heroes. The adult...

Last year, Daily Dead was proud to once again sponsor and experience The Overlook Film Festival, which took place in the historic (and quite possibly haunted) confines of New Orleans. We're looking forward to sponsoring the third Overlook Film Festival, which is returning to The Big Easy May 30th–June 2nd for another round of immersive events, essential screenings, and live performances, and this year's killer lineup has now been announced!

Featuring The Dead Don't Die as the opening night film and The Lodge as the closing night movie, with plenty of must-see screenings and events in between, including episode two of Swamp Thing, a master class presentation by Robert Rodriguez, two live presentations by author Grady Hendrix, a live recording of Post Mortem With Mick Garris, The Pumpkin Pie Show one-on-ones by Clay McLeod Chapman, and the world premiere of Fangoria's Satanic Panic (directed by Chelsea Stardust).

The third...

Jim Jarmusch’s zombie pic The Dead Don’t Die, which will open the Cannes Film Festival next month, is set to make its U.S. premiere at the Overlook Film Festival, which kicks off May 30 and continues through June 2 in New Orleans. The news was announced today when the horror-centric fest unveiled third festival lineup.

In addition to the 41 films, the fest will feature television presentations, immersive presentations, virtual reality, interactive events, and live performances. This includes their closing night film The Lodge, a sneak preview of the forthcoming Universal Pictures horror Ma starring Octavia Spencer and a screening of DC Universe’s new series Swamp Thing. Robert Rodriguez will also be on hand to hold an educational master class on independent filmmaking before presenting his latest micro-budget independent effort Red 11 and a special screening of the ’90s sci-fi horror The Faculty.

“We’re so proud to unleash this terrifying lineup on audiences.

Following the first batches of Cannes Film Festival lineup announcements, the slate has now been unveiled for the sidebar Directors’ Fortnight. Once again a stellar-looking lineup, it includes Robert Eggers’ The Witch follow-up The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, Bertrand Bonello’s Zombi Child, plus new films from Takashi Miike, Lav Diaz, Bas Devo, and Rebecca Zlotowski (pictured above).

There’s also two Sundance films we’ve already reviewed: Wounds and Give Me Liberty. Premiering as a Special Screening is Luca Guadagnino’s new short The Staggering Girl starring Julianne Moore, Mia Goth, KiKi Layne, Alba Rohrwacher, Marthe Keller, and Kyle MacLachlan. See the lineup below, along with the Acid slate.

Directors’ Fortnight Lineup

Feature Films

Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux) – Opening Film

Yves (Benoît Forgeard) – Closing

Alice and the Mayor (Nicolas Pariser)

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin)

The Halt (Lav Diaz)

Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää...

An Easy Girl stars Zahia Dahar and Mina Farid Photo: Wild Bunch The first Cannes Directors’ Fortnight under the aegis of its new director Paolo Moretti unveiled its 2019 offerings in the Forum des Halles in Paris today (23 April) where many of the titles will screen after the festival.

The mix is as quirky and pioneering as ever with Robert Rodriguez heading to the Riviera for what promises to be a lively masterclass and a starry short film by Luca Guadagnino, The Staggering Girl, having a world premiere with the likes of Julianne Moore in the cast and probably present. After his masterclass, Rodriguez also will introduce the international premiere of his low-budget thriller Red 11 among the 24 features on display.

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse, part of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Photo: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs There is much buzz around Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, a 35mm black and...

We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year’s Directors’ Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four films if you include Robert Rodriguez‘s Red 11 – a Masterclass on the SXSW title). Among those who don’t need an introduction we find the heavily anticipated sophomore film by Robert Eggers. The Lighthouse might have been too avant-garde for the Un Certain Regard and Main Comp and reunites the section with Willem Dafoe who was there with The Florida Project. Lav Diaz makes his first trip to the Croisette with The Halt while master filmmakers we find Takashi Miike with First Love and Bertrand Bonello‘s shot in Haiti Zombi Child (which was still in production in January – so this print will still be wet) are among the headliner names. …...

Robert Eggers’ anticipated “The Lighthouse” with Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, Luca Guadagnino’s medium-length film “The Staggering Girl” and Japanese helmer Takashi Miike’s “First Love” are set to unspool at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight under the new leadership of Paolo Moretti.

Described by Moretti as a “hypnotic two-hander” powered by Pattinson and Dafoe, “The Lighthouse” is a fantasy horror film set in a mysterious island in New England at the end of the 19th century. Eggers previously directed “The Witch.”

As with Cannes’ official selection, Directors’ Fortnight will showcase a wide range of genre movies. Besides “The Lighthouse,” the other anticipated genre films set for Directors’ Fortnight include Bertrand Bonello’s “Zombi Child,” about the Haitian Clairvius Narcisse, victim of a voodoo; Miike’s “First Love”; Babak Anvari’s “Wounds,” with Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson; and Tunisian helmer Ala Eddine Slim’s “Tlamess.”

Moretti, who took over from...

New films from Lav Diaz, Bertrand Bonello, Johnny Ma, Takashi Miike, Rebecca Zlotowski and nearly two dozen other directors have been chosen for the 2019 lineup of Directors’ Fortnight, an independent section that runs concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival.

The lineup brings 16 directors to Cannes for the first time, according to Directors’ Fortnight organizers.

Seven of the films are from France and three from the United States. Those three are Babak Anvari’s “Wounds,” Robert Egger’s “The Lighthouse” and Kirill Mikhanovsky’s “Give Me Liberty.”

Also Read: Cannes Debuts Childcare and Breastfeeding Stations for Working Parents

Additional countries represented in the selection include Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Denmark, China, Japan, the Philippines, Tunisia, Brazil, Argentina and Peru.

“The Staggering Girl,” a short film from “Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino, will also screen as part of the sidebar.

Additional short films are listed on the Directors’ Fortnight website.

The prestigious Directors’ Fortnight, which runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival, has revealed an intriguing lineup which includes Robert Eggers’ (The Witch) Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe drama The Lighthouse, Takashi Miike’s latest feature and Netflix film Wounds, whose inclusion is sure to raise eyebrows due to the ongoing dispute between the streamer and the Cannes Film Festival proper. Scroll down for the lineup in full.

This is the first year at the helm for the section’s new artistic director Paolo Moretti and in keeping with the strand’s history his first lineup is largely made up of emerging directors. The strand will open with French comedy Deerskin, starring Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Adèle Haenel (Bpm), and it will award its Carrosse d’Or career award to U.S. filmmaker John Carpenter.

There will be special screenings of Robert Rodriguez’s Red 11 and Luca Guadagnino’s starry 35-minute short,...

David Crow Mar 26, 2019

Robert Rodriguez talks new thriller Red 11's origins from making of El Mariachi... and where Seth is really going in From Dusk Till Dawn.

When Robert Rodriguez comes by our studio during SXSW, he’s maybe a little nostalgic. Whereas most other filmmakers descend onto Austin in early March for a whirlwind of press and festivities, Rodriguez lives here and will remain long after the banners come down. Thus his trip was one practically across the street when he begins to reflect on the making Red 11, a new thriller intrinsically linked to his first film El Mariachi, plus those early days that’ve become something akin to filmmaking legend. In this vein, he and his children just watched From Dusk Till Dawn for the first-time together—and not the TV series either. This is the 1996 cult classic that starred George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino (who also...

Known for his guerilla approach to filmmaking, getting shit done efficiently and under budget, Robert Rodriguez is a multi-faceted creator with a passion for championing aspiring artists into the industry. He’s a writer, director, cinematographer, editor, do-it-all auteur and while many filmmakers of his stature may lose sight of those early adventures—those movies practically strung together with gum, tape and popsicle sticks— Rodriguez has never forgotten those roots and humble beginnings always putting a stake in the lessons it’s taught him along the way.

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Shockingly high concept for its astonishingly low budget, Robert Rodriguez’s “Red 11” was never meant to see the light of day, but turned out so well that the director opted to share it with the public as a kind of empowerment tool. Make no mistake: The thriller — which takes place in a medical research lab where young people sell their bodies to science, at a price — is a clunky, badly acted, and frequently embarrassing by-the-numbers picture at best, held together with shoestring and paper clips, but that’s almost beside the point.

Debuting at SXSW just weeks after Rodriguez’s most expensive production yet, “Alita: Battle Angel” (and shot over 14 days during post-production of that project), “Red 11” was inspired by the unorthodox way Rodriguez made his Sundance audience award-winning debut, “El Mariachi,” and designed to prove that resources are irrelevant when it comes to teaching oneself how to make movies,...

Just a few weeks after making the biggest movie of his career, Robert Rodriguez is returning to his roots. While the Austin-based genre filmmaker’s James Cameron-produced “Alita: Battle Angel” has grossed over $350 million worldwide, Rodriguez already has a new movie on the market. He directed “Red 11” with his son Racer as his only crew member and a budget of $7,000, matching the paltry amount Rodriguez famously spent on his 1992 debut “El Mariachi.” That legendary experience spawned the filmmaker’s influential memoir-as-manual “Rebel Without a Crew,” as well as a docuseries with the same name in which filmmakers attempt to do the same thing.

“Red 11” was a dose of nostalgia for Rodriguez, who resurrected a screenplay he wrote in the wake of “El Mariachi.” Drawing on his own experience participating in medical trials in 1991 — the payment helped him finance his debut — “Red 11” revolves around exactly that: a...

"Battle Angel: Alita" director Robert Rodriguez' new film, is the ultra low-budget feature "Red 11", named after the shirt color and patient number Rodriguez was assigned when he sold his body to a research hospital to pay for his first feature "El Mariachi", opening March 15, 2019:

"...Katy Harris, Alejandro Rose-Garcia and Katherine Willis star in this horror thriller set in the 'Legal Drug Research' world. At these 'Facilities', young guys become 'Lab Rats' to make quick money...

"...but our hero 'Red 11' is here to buy his way out of a huge debt, but while under the influence of experimental drugs, Red 11 doesn’t know if what's in front of him is fact or fiction..."

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We at Collider have an exclusive poster debut to share with you today. It’s the one-sheet for Sin City and Alita: Battle Angel filmmaker Robert Rodriguez’s new film Red 11, which was made for just $7,000. That’s in stark contrast to his previous feature, the effects-heavy blockbuster Alita: Battle Angel, but is right in line with Rodriguez’s career thus far. He first burst onto the scene with his low-budget indie El Mariachi, and has since taken a “Diy” approach to his diverse range of films regardless of scale, from Desperado to the …...

Matthew McConaughey’s Harmony Korine-directed comedy The Beach Bum, Jordan Peele’s Get Out follow-up Us and documentaries about Johnny Cash, David Crosby and Lil Peep are among the films that will premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, which opens in Austin, Texas on March 8th.

Us previously revealed that it would open the SXSW film festival on March 8th, a week before its March 15th theatrical release. The Beach Bum, starring McConaughey as a laidback drifted named Moondog, hits theaters March 22nd.

Other premieres set for the festival...

The first half of January is always busy in the film community, as Oscar voting comes to a close and the Sundance Film Festival starts its engine. This year, the SXSW Film Festival threw its cowboy hat into the ring, pushing up the initial announcement of its film lineup instead of waiting until after Sundance. The result is an even more complex window into major festival premieres and potential discoveries that will distinguish the first quarter of 2019.

The move is partly the result of Sundance ending later than usual; while the festival normally goes until the end of January, this year, it ends February 3. The constrained timeline also impacted SXSW’s earlier submission deadline, and meant that its programming team had to scramble to lock in this year’s selection. “We were tighter about no exceptions to the deadline,” said SXSW Director of Film Janet Pierson in an interview. “We had to be decisive sooner.

SXSW 2019 ias unveiled the current features and episodic premieres for the 26th edition of the film festival, running March 8 – 17, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Jordan Peele’s highly-anticipated “Get Out” follow-up “Us” was previously announced as the Festival’s Opening Night film, while Olivia Wilde, Jessica Brillhart, and Marti Noxon have already been announced as this year’s Film Keynotes.

Highlights of this year’s film lineup include a number of already-buzzed-about features, including Harmony Korine’s “The Beach Bum,” Wilde’s feature directorial debut “Booksmart,” and an untitled new feature from Jonathan Levine starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron (previously called “Flarsky”). A new documentary about Beto O’Rourke’s recent congressional run will debut in the documentary section, and Robert Rodriguez will screen his microbudget feature “Red 11” in the Visions section. The music-tinged festival will also screen new docs about David Crosby, Rick Rubin, Garth Brooks, and Taylor Swift.

Festival announces 102 features and episodic premieres for 26th edition.

Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum starring Matthew McConaughey as a rebellious stoner, John Lee Hancock’s western The Highwaymen starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, and The Day Shall Come from British arch provocateur Chris Morris will premiere at SXSW in March.

Festival top brass on Wednesday (16) announced 102 features and episodic premieres line-up for the 26th edition of the festival that runs from March 8-17 in Austin, Texas.

Besides The Beach Bum and The Highwaymen, the Headliners programme includes Universal’s sixth grade comedy Good Boys starring Jacob Tremblay, from...

Festival announces 102 features and episodic premieres for 26th edition.

Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum starring Matthew McConaughey as a rebellious stoner, John Lee Hancock’s western The Highwaymen starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, and Taika Waititi’s TV version of his vampire feature What We Do In The Shadows will premiere at SXSW in March.

Festival top brass on Wednesday (16) announced 102 features and episodic premieres line-up for the 26th edition of the festival that runs from March 8-17 in Austin, Texas.

Besides The Beach Bum and The Highwaymen, the Headliners programme includes Universal’s sixth grade comedy Good Boys starring Jacob Tremblay,...

Love the 80s? Love horror movies? Then Hell Fest has you covered on both fronts with a very scary new 80s retro throwback trailer. It's totally awesome, man!

CBS Films and Lionsgate will release Hell Fest in theaters September 28, 2018. This latest Hell Fest sneak peak is taking you back to a more tubular time. Put on your Jordache jeans, buckle your fanny pack, slap on your bracelet, and lace-up your La Gears! Check out this rad new 80's trailer to get in the Halloween spirit! I'm sure you've seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly...

Hell Fest is directed by Gregory Plotkin from a screenplay by Seth M. Sherwood and Blair Butler and Akela Cooper. The story was concocted by William Penick & Christopher Sey and Stephen Susco. This thrilling chiller is produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Tucker Tooley.

The horrors on...

A serial killer is on the loose and brutally murdering people in a horror-themed traveling amusement park in this new red-band trailer for Hell Fest. What makes this film so interesting is that the people who are being hunted down think that all of these killings are fake and all part of the show... at first. Then reality kicks in and they are fighting to survive!

I like the concept of this movie because it's something that I think a lot of us may have thought about while going to these fun and creepy Halloween attractions every year. What if a demented killer went on a killing spree in one of these settings?

The movie stars Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal, Matt Mercurio and Tony Todd, and here's the synopsis:

A masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground,...

The last Hell Fest trailer played it safe, slowly creeping audiences into the nightmarish amusement park at its center. Now, Lionsgate and CBS Films have unleashed a nightmarish new red band trailer that shows off some of the goods this early fall horror ride has to offer.

CBS Films and Lionsgate will release Hell Fest in theaters September 28, 2018. The more scared you seem, the more they're gong to come after you in director Gregory Plotkin's slasher odyssey. He is working from a screenplay by Seth M. Sherwood and Blair Butler and Akela Cooper, with a story from William Penick & Christopher Sey and Stephen Susco. And you know its going to be good, as Hell Fest is being delivered by producers Gale Anne Hurd and Tucker Tooley.

The creepy soundscape heard in the movie is scored by legendary composer Bear McCreary, who has The Walking Dead, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and...

What if the blood-stained scares at an immersive horror experience were actually happening in real life... and you didn't realize the truth until you became the next addition to the haunted attraction? That creepy question is examined in the new horror movie Hell Fest, and ahead of the film's September 28th theatrical release from CBS Films and Lionsgate, a new red band trailer has been unleashed, inviting you into the deadly depths of a terror-filled theme park.

Directed by Gregory Plotkin (the editor of Get Out and Happy Death Day) and produced by Gale Anne Hurd (AMC's The Walking Dead), Hell Fest stars the aforementioned Forsyth, Taylor-Klaus, and Todd, as well as "Reign Edwards, Christian James, Roby Attal, [and] Matt Mercurio."

Before it's released in Us theaters on September 28th from CBS Films and Lionsgate, you can experience immersive mazes based on scenes from Hell Fest at the Fright Fest...

Welcome To Hell Fest.

A masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.

The upcoming film stars Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal, Matt Mercurio and Tony Todd.

Watch the teaser for the film below.

College student Natalie (Forsyth) is visiting her childhood best friend Brooke (Edwards) and her roommate Taylor (Taylor-Klaus). If it was any other time of year these three and their boyfriends might be heading to a concert or bar, but it is Halloween which means that like everyone else they will be bound for Hell Fest – a sprawling labyrinth of rides, games, and mazes that travels the country and happens to be in town. Every year thousands follow Hell Fest to experience fear at the ghoulish carnival of nightmares.

CBS Films and Lionsgate have released the spooky first trailer for Hell Fest, their new horror outing that's in theaters September 28. Welcome to a terrifying new playground. You better buckle up for this teaser. Just keep telling yourself it's all just part of the show.

In Hell Fest, a masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show. The film stars Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal, Matt Mercurio and Tony Todd.

College student Natalie (Forsyth) is visiting her childhood best friend Brooke (Edwards) and her roommate Taylor (Taylor-Klaus). If it was any other time of year these three and their boyfriends might be heading to a concert or bar, but it is Halloween which means that like everyone else they...

Have you ever been to a haunted house that was so scary, it made you think the things you saw were real? An immersive horror-themed amusement park become a little too immersive when a serial killer stalks unsuspecting victims within the attraction's creepy confines in the teaser trailer for Hell Fest, co-starring Amy Forsyth (Channel Zero: No-End House), Bex Taylor-Klaus, and Tony Todd (Candyman).

Directed by Gregory Plotkin and produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Hell Fest stars "Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal, Matt Mercurio and Tony Todd." Hell Fest is slated for a September 28th theatrical release from CBS Films & Lionsgate:

"A masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.

College student Natalie (Forsyth) is visiting her childhood...

Welcome to Hell Fest, a terrifying new vision of horror from director Gregory Plotkin and Producer Gale Anne Hurd.

If you dare, prepare yourself for unimaginable scares in the Green Band Teaser Trailer coming next week…

CBS Films and Lionsgate will release Hell Fest in theaters September 28, 2018

About Hell Fest

Distributors: CBS Films & Lionsgate

Directed by: Gregory Plotkin

Written By: Seth M. Sherwood

Produced by: Gale Anne Hurd

Starring: Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal, Matt Mercurio and Tony Todd

A masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.

College student Natalie (Forsyth) is visiting her childhood best friend Brooke (Edwards) and her roommate Taylor (Taylor-Klaus). If it was any other time of year these three and their boyfriends might...

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