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Stone age horrors will be unleashed in the upcoming Out of Darkness, which had previously been titled The Origin. Deadline brings us the brand new update this afternoon.

Additionally, Deadline reports that Bleecker Street will bring Out of Darkness to theaters on February 9, 2024. Read on for everything you need to know about the film.

Bleecker Street recently acquired North American rights on the upcoming horror film, which is set during the Palaeolithic period – 45,000 years in the past!

We’ve been told, “It’s a tense, emotional, and incredibly crafted film; so much creativity went into making the paleolithic world – including the entire language spoken in the film, which was created specifically for this by a linguist and an archaeologist.”

In The Origin, “A small boat reaches the shores of a raw and desolate landscape. A group of six have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving,...

Exclusive: Bleecker Street’s survival horror thriller The Origin, which debuted at Fantastic Fest in September, is getting a title change. Now known as Out of Darkness, it will hit theaters on February 9.

Directed by Scottish helmer Andrew Cumming and written by Ruth Greenberg (The Spark) in both of their feature debuts, Out of Darkness follows a group of six who have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving, desperate and living 45,000 years ago. First they must find shelter, and they strike out across the tundra wastes toward the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, anticipation turns to fear and doubt as they realize they are not alone. As relationships in the group fracture, the determination of one young woman reveals the terrible actions taken to survive.

The movie was shot on location...

In the 54 years since Diahann Carroll (“Julia”) blazed a trail as the first Black female recipient of a TV Golden Globe, the list of small screen Black actresses who have won the favor of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has grown to include 12 more names, including 2023 comedic and dramatic champs Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”) and Zendaya (“Euphoria”). While this roster has long since covered TV movies and both continuing program genres, no Black woman has yet been awarded a Golden Globe for a limited series performance. There is a decent chance of that soon changing, however, given the winning potential of possible 2024 Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress contenders Uzo Aduba (“Painkiller”) and Dominique Fishback (“Swarm”).

Possible Golden Globes newcomer Fishback stars on Amazon Prime Video’s “Swarm” as Dre Greene, a mentally unstable young woman whose unhealthy obsession with a Beyoncé-esque pop star drives a wedge between her and her foster sister,...

Publishing giant Penguin Random House, free expression organization Pen America and the authors of books banned by Florida’s Escambia County School District have filed a federal lawsuit in hopes of bringing the books back to school library shelves.

Parents of students impacted by the “unconstitutional” book ban are also the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which states that Escambia County School District has restricted and removed access to books that discuss race, racism, and LGBTQ identities.

“Ensuring that students have access to books on a wide range of topics and...

The theatrical market across the Nordics recovered in 2022 without reaching pre-pandemic levels, driven predominantly by U.S. fare, such as “Top Gun: Maverick,” the biggest hit in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” No 1 in Iceland, and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” No 1 in Norway.

As always Danish movies secured the biggest national market share (30), followed by Finland (27), Norway (23) Sweden (19.3), and Iceland (10). Revenues were often more equally split across a larger number of titles, reaching record levels in several territories, as a result of Covid, that created a bottleneck of new releases.

Denmark

After a quiet start of the year with theaters locked down for the first two weeks due to Covid, ticket sales kickstarted again and ended up at 10.23 million, which is 49 up over 2021, but 20 down on pre-pandemic levels.

Revenue-wise, the Danish market hit Dkk 994.67 million (144.3 million), up 52 from the 2021 annus horribilis for cinemas, but just 16 down on the 2019 trawl,...

Complete list of winners and nominees of the 2014 Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on Sunday February 8. Winners will be updated as they're announced during the telecast and pre-telecast. Record Of The Year “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli Xcx “Chandelier,” Sia **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” Sam Smith “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift “All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor Album Of The Year **Winner** “Morning Phase,” Beck “Beyoncé,” Beyoncé “X,” Ed Sheeran “In The Lonely Hour,” Sam Smith “Girl,” Pharrell Williams Song Of The Year “All About That Bass,” Kevin Kadish & Meghan Trainor, songwriters (Meghan Trainor) “Chandelier,” Sia Furler & Jesse Shatkin, songwriters (Sia) “Shake It Off,” Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift) **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters (Sam Smith) “Take Me To Church,” Andrew Hozier-Byrne, songwriter (Hozier) Best New Artist Iggy Azalea Bastille Brandy Clark...

"Out of Darkness" finds Sabine growing frustrated with Hera and Kanan’s secrecy. The Mandalorian demands to accompany Kanan on a rendezvous with a mysterious contact, but the two find that their meeting place is infested with deadly fyrnocks. They escape, and Sabine learns to have faith in Hera’s leadership. At the Art and Science of Lucasfilm panel, the Star Wars Rebels team spoke with local students. Art director Kilian Plunkett showed the design process for Chopper and Kanan; it begins with 2-D illustrations, and both characters went through significant evolutions. Chopper originally had a very Artoo-like dome, and Kanan did not always have his trademark ponytail and goatee. Sculpted maquettes finalize the process, showing how the character looks in three dimensions. In “Out of Darkness,” Hera and Sabine take center stage. Pablo Hidalgo tells Lucasfilm’s Andi Gutierrez that Hera is “the true believer of the show. She...

Fox have had quite a week. After announcing they had secured Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., they scored further points by treating fans to a teaser trailer. Their autumn line-up continues to revive franchises and they’re not stopping at Marvel. They’ve also added Sleepy Hollow to their 2013-2014 season, and there’s a brand new promo spot to give us a look at what to expect.

This version of Sleepy Hollow will update the tale of Ichabod Crane, dragging him into the 21st century. Expanding on the original story, the show will follow on from Irving Washington’s tale of soldier Crane as he battles against the fearful Headless Horseman. Two centuries pass and Crane is resurrected and must continue his fight against his age-old nemesis. This time around he teams up with a cop to put a stop to the Horseman’s latest spate of beheadings.

Clocking it at 4 minutes,...

The legagy of Halo video game franchise hangs high over the sense of anticipation for Destiny, the company's next video game. The success of Halo was bigger than anyone, including its owner Microsoft, ever dreamed of: not only did Halo become one of the handful of video games that attained mainstream attention, it remains just as popular ten years after the first game as it did a console generation ago.

Bungie is betting a considerable amount of their reputation that Destiny will reach, if not capture, Halo greatness. After a four-game exclusive contract with the Xbox 360 owner, Bungie struck out on their own and started secret development on Destiny, their next sci-fi action title. In November 2012 concept artwork and a basic premise about Destiny leaked out on the internet, and that whet the appetite of gamers to know more about the title.

Destiny's concept is this: it's 700 years after an...

Almost everyone we know has heard of Bungie‘s world-wide gaming phenomenon, the ultimate mega-success Halo franchise, even if they may not know anything about the game. But what’s next for Bungie? Finally we have been given a glimpse into the company’s “next” and it is impressive. It is Destiny.

“We’re creating something completely new, and it’s a scary place. But if it’s not scary, it’s not going to be good.” And wait until you see… The game website has now opened, and here’s a taste of it right here and now, starting with the launch trailer, followed by some gorgeous screenshots and a bit more info about the setting:

Trailer: Destiny – Official Destiny ViDoc: Pathways Out of Darkness

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The Traveler

Fireteam

House Of Devils

The Citadel

From the creators of Halo® and the publisher of...

Bungie released the Pathways Out Of Darkness ViDoc for “Destiny” coming soon to Xbox 360, and PS3. Game Description:From the creators of Halo and the publisher of Call of Duty comes Destiny. With an unprecedented variety of Fps gameplay, Destiny promises to deliver an incredible story set within a newly-imagined, always-connected universe filled with action and adventure. Everything changed with the arrival of the Traveler. It sparked a Golden Age when our civilization spanned the solar system … but it didn’t last. Something hit us, knocked us down. The survivors built a city beneath the Traveler, and have begun to explore our old worlds, only to find them filled with [ Read More ]

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Bungie has announced its upcoming title Destiny with a new trailer entitled Pathways Out of Darkness. Players will travel to the near future as Guardians and scour the solar system in order to save the last city on Earth. A sci-fi, out-of-this-world adventure is ahead!

From the Press Release

Today, Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: Atvi), together with critically-acclaimed developer Bungie, revealed the first sneak peak of their partnership. The game, called Destiny, is an ambitious evolution of the first-person action genre that brings gamers together in a shared, persistent world. The result of a large-scale collaboration between Activision, the publisher of such mega franchises as Call of Duty, Skylanders Spyro's Adventure and Skylanders Giants, and Bungie, the creators of Halo®, Destiny is poised to become the next advancement in interactive entertainment by melding first-person action gaming with a persistent, dynamic online world.

As promised, Bungie (the creators of the Halo franchise) officially revealed Destiny today, a new first-person shooter where players take part in an always-on persistent-world.

Destiny‘s story is set on a future version of Earth long after an unknown enemy destroyed most of human civilization. Prior to the attack, humans had managed to spread out over the entire system in a “bright and hopeful time” known as the “Golden-Age”.

No one remembers what exactly happened or who attacked us, but they do know that those who survived “own their lives to the Traveler” — a mysterious sphere that continues to orbit low over the Earth “keeping silent watch”.

In the years that followed “the collapse of the Golden-Age” humans built the last remaining city on Earth in the shadow of the Traveler. Now they have “begun to venture back into the wilds, only to find that [they] are not alone.” Strange...

Finally relenting their endless barrage of spoiler-ific images on our eyes, the creative team behind “Prometheus” have decided their latest reveal to be through the film's soundtrack details, and boy, do they give a clear look at the storyline's direction. Warning: Spoilers ahead for those wanting to go in blind!

Reading straight through like writer Damon Lindelof's base outline for the film, the tracklisting to the soundtrack composed by Marc Streitenfeld boasts some pretty interesting names indeed. Kicking off the Ost are tracks “A Planet” and “Going In,” which reflect the initial mission and contact of the space crew involving Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba and Charlize Theron, points well trodden in the film's trailers so far. However, we then reach a track named “Discovery,” and after that it basically lays out every beat of the second and third acts (Track 17 is of particular interest).

While no clips of the score have been released yet,...

Ghostface returns for a belated killing spree in Scream 4. But has time been kind to Wes Craven's slasher franchise? Here's Ryan's spoiler-free review...

More than a decade has gone by since Ghostface last terrorised the teen residents of Woodsboro, and much has changed since. We’re now in an age of social networking, citizen journalism, smart phones and Jedward.

The Scream franchise has always attempted to monitor the changing landscape of teen culture as well as the conventions of slasher horror, so it’s unsurprising that this latter-day entry tackles all these technological and social changes head-on (well, apart from Jedward), while simultaneously poking fun at its own patchy lineage.

In its matryoshka-doll like opening sequence – which, by the way, I found the most fun and surprising since the original movie way back in 1996 – a character mocks the Stab franchise, the fictional film series inspired by the earlier killings in Woodsboro.

Diana Ross says hello to 67 today. Born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross, the singer’s music has appeared in many films including Happy Gilmore, Why Do Fools Fall In Love and Slaves Of New York. The film Lady Sings The Blues kick-started her acting career. She later appeared in Mahogany, The Wiz, Out Of Darkness and Double Platinum.

Actor Keith Diamond welcomes 49. You’ve seen the New York native on Martin, The Cosby Show, Prison Break, Criminal Minds, Weeds, Charmed, NCIS, The Closer, Burn Notice and Bones.

Teddy Pendergrass would have been 61 today. The soulful singer, who sang with Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, made his acting debut as a night club singer in the movie Soup For One. His songs can be heard in films such as The Nutty Professor, Undercover Brother and Alfie.

Since I seem to be on a sort of nostalgia kick lately, let me add one more to the mix. Now I will admit openly that I have never been a fan of Diana Ross (so go ahead and shoot me..), but I have to say that there is one thing she’s done that absolutely impressed me and convinced me that she had the goods to be a truly wonderful actress (maybe even a great one), and I’m talking about the now sadly forgotten 1994 ABC TV movie Out Of Darkness.

In the film Ross played a once promising medical student who battles with schizophrenia for almost 20 years. Eventually after therapy and intense work, she’s seemingly “cured” and starts a new life, even getting involved in a romantic relationship with a new man. Unfortunately, when everything seems to be going great, she falls again into the abyss, losing everything.

Interview With A Vampire author Anne Rice has turned her back on Christianity after becoming troubled by recent controversies surrounding the church.

The writer, whose gothic novel inspired the hit Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise movie of the same name, has been a follower of the faith for years and released her memoir, Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession, in 2008.

But on Wednesday, Rice stunned fans on her Facebook.com page when she posted a note which read: "In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control.

"In the name of... Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen."

Rice admits she has harboured doubts about her religion for the past two to three years following the revelations of certain scandals involving the church, particularly allegations of child abuse, and she felt compelled to make a personal stand by declaring she was no longer a Christian.

She tells the Associated Press, "I believed for a long time that the differences, the quarrels among Christians didn't matter a lot for the individual, that you live your life and stay out of it. But then I began to realise that it wasn't an easy thing to do.

"I came to the conclusion that if I didn't make this declaration, I was going to lose my mind."...

HollywoodNews.com: Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire, is widely regarded as the original queen of vampire fiction, but more recently, she’s better known as a Christian writer and outspokenly devout Catholic, having made a public (and controversial) re-conversion to Christianity several years ago. This week, however, Rice announced on her official Facebook page that she is once again leaving the church.

“I quit being a Christian,” she writes. “I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian…I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being ‘Christian’ or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply...