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The 1990 television adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel "It" may be best known for Tim Curry's performance as Pennywise, who made an entire generation seriously terrified of clowns, but it would be nothing without the heart and soul of the Loser's Club. In the 1950s, a group of misfit kids growing up in Derry, Maine are brought together, partially because they don't belong anywhere else, but also because they happen to be targeted by the malevolent force that haunts their town, stealing and murdering its local children. Together, they have to face off against Pennywise to stop the killing once and for all. That's what they think, anyway. But despite defeating Pennywise as children, they're forced to return to Derry as adults and once again confront the terrors of their youth.

As a result of this, "It" has an interesting casting dilemma of finding not only seven...

Guillaume Brac's film All Hands on Deck is exclusively showing on Mubi in most countries in the series The New Auteurs, as well as the retrospective Summer Light: Films by Guillaume Brac.Just over a year ago, the director of the Cnsad (Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique—the Higher National Conservatoire for Dramatic Art), Claire Lasne-Darcueil, asked me to write a feature-length fiction film for a dozen young actors from the class of 2020. With one proviso: I had to shoot between summer and autumn 2019, so that the film would be finished by the time they graduated.I immediately saw this as an opportunity to paint the fictional portrait of a generation, just like Pascale Ferran did twenty-five years ago with L’âge des possibles, written for a class at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg. Or the filmmakers of two collections, Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge and Les années lycée,...

Delivering familiar bromides with fresh brio, Green Book is an altogether pleasant and very entertaining trip back in time that is more relevant than ever. More than anything else in the career of director Peter Farrelly, it reminds me of Outside Providence (1999), a warm and affectionate comedy-drama about a young working-class man from Rhode Island who gets sent to a private academy for his senior year of high school. Set in the 1970s, it was based on a novel by Peter Farrelly, who cowrote the screenplay and produced with his brother Bobby Farrelly and Michael Corrente, who directed. Outside Providence is a minor work but a funny, likable effort. The Farrelly Brothers had cleaned up with broad, outrageous comedies earlier in the decade --...

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On Halloween weekend, Nosferatu won't evoke terror or bring plagues upon unsuspecting townsfolk, but rather inspire a night of beautiful music. Also: an update on the Telluride Horror Show, Vampirella #1 and Syfy's Ominous release details, as well as Storm King Productions at New York Comic Con.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror: Press Release: "Over Halloween weekend, on Friday, October 30, at 8 p.m., the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart, in collaboration with Berklee College of Music, will bring the classic 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror to the Symphony Hall stage, with an entirely new full symphonic score composed by Berklee’s finest student film composers. Nosferatu on Halloween is a groundbreaking, unprecedented collaborative project in which eight of Berklee’s finest student film composers will write a full-length symphonic score, under the direction of Professor of Film Scoring Sheldon Mirowitz, for what is widely considered...

The Board of Governors of the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) has re-elected its slate of officers for another term. Continuing to serve in their roles will be Richard Crudo as president; Owen Roizman, Kees Van Oostrum and Lowell Peterson as vice presidents; Matthew Leonetti as treasurer; Fred Goodich as secretary; and Isidore Mankofsky as sergeant-at-arms. Crudo will serve his sixth term as president. In addition to the last two years, he fulfilled the role from 2003 through 2006. The members of the Board, elected in May by the organization?s active membership, include: John Bailey, Bill Bennett, George Spiro Dibie, Richard Edlund, Fred Elms, Daryn Okada, Lowell Peterson, Robert Primes, Rodney Taylor and Haskell Wexler. “I am humbled to once again have the opportunity to serve this great organization,” said Crudo. “As we start to close in on our 100th anniversary, we will continue to honor the intents of our founders...

Exclusive: Shawn Hatosy, who’s set to do a guest arc on Amazon’s February debut series Bosch, has signed with Mgmt Entertainment (née The Schiff Company) for management. The Faculty and Outside Providence thesp earned a Critics’ Choice nomination for his turn on the NBC/TNT police drama Southland and most recently co-starred as a deliciously complex dirty cop on CBS’ short-lived legal drama Reckless. Onstage he earned raves last summer for his turn in Neil Labute’s Reasons…...

Exclusive: Shawn Hatosy, who’s set to do a guest arc on Amazon’s February debut series Bosch, has signed with Mgmt Entertainment (née The Schiff Company) for management. The Faculty and Outside Providence thesp earned a Critics’ Choice nomination for his turn on the NBC/TNT police drama Southland and most recently co-starred as a deliciously complex dirty cop on CBS’ short-lived legal drama Reckless. Onstage he earned raves last summer for his turn in Neil Labute’s Reasons To Be Pretty at the Geffen Playhouse. Hatosy’s credits over two decades of screen acting include Nick Cassavetes’ John Q and Alpha Dog, Wayne Wang’s Anywhere But Here, In & Out, The Cooler, Public Enemies and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. He continues to be repped by Paradigm.

Masturbation is still a bit of a taboo subject in our society, but that didn't stop one sex-toy store from marking May as National Masturbation Month in the mid-90s. No joke.

As the month of May comes to an end, HuffPost Entertainment would like to send it off with a mash-up dedicated to the self-loving deed: "Masturbation In Film." Cinema hasn't shied away from masturbation, whether it's the comedic ("Fast Times At Ridgemont High"), the tragic ("Black Swan") or the just plain weird ("Grandma's Boy"). While the mashup does not include all masturbation scenes, we tried to pay tribute to a handful of the best.

Watch the Nsfw video for "Masturbation In Film" above.

Full list of movies in the order of their appearance:

"Fast Times At Ridgemont High"

"American Beauty"

"American Pie"

"Little Children"

"Happiness"

"Secretary"

"Adaptation"

"Being There"

"Love And Death"

"Your Friends & Neighbors"

"Black Swan"

"Tommy...

Oh, how the mighty fall.

This week on Criminal Minds we saw an all-around collapse of authority. First, the Colonel's devious ways were uncovered, then Strauss' dirty little secret was revealed. Coming off of a few week break, this episode came out swinging.

One of the biggest pieces of reader feedback this season has been your desire to not know who the UnSub is right away, but you can't say that "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" didn't keep you on your toes. The is-he-a-victim-or-the-aggressor? storyline that swirled around Josh for most of the episode was constantly changing, and it required some careful following along in order to keep up. Further, the introduction of the young cadet who killed himself's father, and then the killing of him off, was an interesting twist.

The message that the writers were sending with this episode - that of corruption and secrecy at upper levels of military authority...

Street Kings 2: Motor City

Stars: Ray Liotta, Shawn Hatosy, Inbar Lavi, Clifton Powell, Corey Emanuel Wilson | Written by Ed Gonzalez, Jeremy Haft | Directed by Chris Fisher

“Marty Kingston is an undercover narcotics detective who is shot and barely survives a drug bust gone wrong to save the life of his partner. When his partner is killed by a masked gunman four years later, Marty must team up with hothead homicide detective Dan Sullivan to investigate a string of brutal cop murders and hunt down the cop killer. The investigation that ensues is shrouded in deception and loaded with plot twists that question the line between the rules of law and justice.”

The direct to DVD bastard offspring of the original 2008 Keanu Reeves starring crime drama, Street Kings 2, as the title suggests, moves the action to Detroit, the motor city, and this time follows Detectives Kingston and Sullivan, played by...

David O. Russell is sure having fun discussing what projects he could direct post-Oscar nominated for The Fighter, but he doesn’t seem all that desperate to actually get anything in front of camera’s. He’s become something of the master of first dates, a guy who initially shows interest in a long commitment only to rarely call back and he certainly never takes his date home.

Vulture reports that O. Russell has become interested in directing yet another project, this time a biopic of long-time former Providence, Rhode Island mayor Buddy Cianci who held office for a whopping 21 years in two lengthy separate terms. During that time he took down mobsters, revived the ‘dying’ Providence but went out on a conterversial note in 2002 when he was imprisoned for five years on rackeeting charges.

Jane Rosenthal, the co-founder of Tribeca Film Festival and long time business partner of Robert De Niro...

In 1996, Wes Anderson directed a small, little seen moved called Bottle Rocket that he co-wrote with his best friend Owen Wilson, who also starred in the film with his brother, Luke. Based on a short film of the same name that was a huge success at Sundance, the feature version of Bottle Rocket would tank commercially before being saved from obscurity by a legions of film critics and a small but clever audience that appreciated great storytelling and a unique voice, not to mention an MTV Movie Award to Anderson for Best New Filmmaker, maybe the last award the network has given a deserving filmmaker. Martin Scorsese even called Bottle Rocket one of the ten best films of the 90s. The success of Bottle Rocket had as much to do with Owen Wilson as it did Wes Anderson: In his character, Dignon, Wilson created this remarkable blend of deadpan and enthusiasm,...

The sibling directors behind Dumb & Dumber talk to Chris Lee about living up to the comedy standard they set, "sharting" and why Sean Penn should be a Stooge.

For their latest film, Hall Pass, directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly cast Wedding Crashers' star Owen Wilson and Saturday Night Live cast member Jason Sudeikis as two horny doofuses from suburban Rhode Island whose long-suffering wives grant them a "week off from marriage."

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The new raunch comedy, in theaters Friday, gets its laughs from a certain kind of situational humor: explosive diarrhea, premature ejaculation, prison rape, and public masturbation. In one scene, for example, a character defecates in a golf course sand trap after eating a pot brownie-it's that kind of a movie. The Farrelly brothers, the gross-out auteurs responsible for Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary, are clearly back...

The Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges may have found a permanent home. The project has switched studios several times over the last decade. It was first at Columbia Pictures, then it went to Warner Bros., and finally MGM where it was delayed along with several other projects. Deadline Hollywood reports that MGM’s bankruptcy plan was approved today, and that opened to the door for Twentieth Century Fox to grab the film.

Bobby and Peter Farrelly are still directing the script written by Mike Cerrone (Outside Providence, Me, Myself and Irene), but no cast has been secured. Jim Carrey recently announced that he’s out (here), and Sean Penn has been in and out of the project for a while. It was then the financial problems at MGM occurred, and the film was delayed. It’s uncertain if Benicio Del Toro is still attached to play Moe as well. However,...

You may recognize Maryland-born actor Shawn Hatosy for his roles in The Cooler, Outside Providence and Alpha Dog but you would probably have a hard time pegging him to Dexter. Not because you haven't seen Showtime's serial killer drama series, but because Hatosy was completely unrecognizable as Boyd Fowler, an offbeat sociopath who collects roadkill for the Department of Sanitation by day, and tortures, electrocutes and disposes of young women by night.

William Forsythe and Joe Pantoliano have joined the cast of the independent drama-comedy "Loosies."According to Variety, the cast includes Peter Facinelli, Michael Madsen, Vincent Gallo and Jaimie Alexander.Verdi-Corrente Productions and Facinelli Films are producing. Michael Corrente ("Outside Providence") is directing from a script by Facinelli.The film focuses on a successful con artist (Facinelli) enjoying his life until confronted with an old one-night stand who tells him she's pregnant with his child.Forsythe.s credits include "Once Upon a Time in America," "Raising Arizona" and "American Me."Pantoliano is best known for his roles as Ralph Cifaretto on HBO.s "The Sopranos" and Guido the Killer Pimp in "Risky Business."...

Jaimie Alexander ("Thor"), William Forsythe and Joe Pantoliano are in "Loosies." They join star Peter Facinelli ("Twilight") in the indie comedy/drama. Also cast are Michael Madsen and Vincent Gallo. Alexander will play Facinelli's love interest in the film produced by Facinelli Films and Verdi-Corrent Productions. Facinelli wrote the screenplay for "Loosies," which is being helmed by Michael Corrente ("Outside Providence"). Facinelli will play a successful pickpocket who meets old one-night stand who tells him she's pregnant with his baby. Verdi-Corrente's first feature is the horror film "Inkubus" which is currently in post-producion and stars Robert Englund.

Now that The Twilight Saga has reinvigorated his career, Peter Facinelli, also known as Dr. Carlisle Cullen, is stretching his cinematic reach and writing his own gigs. Variety reports that the actor has penned a new film called Loosies, which will put him alongside the likes of Michael Madsen and Vincent Gallo. Michael Corrente (Outside Providence) will direct when production kicks off next month.

Facinelli will star as "a successful pickpocket living the outlaw lifestyle until confronted with an old one-night stand who tells him that she's pregnant with his child." If the IMDb cast list is right, it looks like the one-night stand could be played by his real-life wife Jennie Garth. As for Madsen and Gallo, there's no word on what sort of characters they'll play, but considering the subject matter, I think it's fair to say that they're a part of the pickpocket's "outlaw lifestyle."

Since this is Facinelli's first screenplay,...

Vincent Gallo and Michael Madsen are attached to star in the indie feature "Loosies" for Verdi Corrente Productions says The Hollywood Reporter.

The story line follows a New York City pickpocket who is confronted by a pregnant woman with whom he had a one-night stand. Actor Peter Facinelli ("Twilight," "Damages") wrote the screenplay and will also star.

Michael Corrente ("Outside Providence") is directing and will produce alongside Chad A. Verdi and Glenn Ciano. Shooting kicks off in July.

Vincent Gallo and Michael Madsen are attached to star in the indie feature "Loosies" for Verdi Corrente Prods. "Nurse Jackie" and "Twilight" actor Peter Facinelli, who wrote the screenplay, is already set to star.

The story line follows a New York City pickpocket who is confronted by a pregnant woman with whom he had a one-night stand.

Vcp managing partner Michael Corrente ("Outside Providence") is producing and directing the project, which begins filming in July. Vcp managing partner Chad A. Verdi is also producing along with Glenn Ciano, who directed the company's forthcoming "Inkubus."

"Madsen and Gallo are an incredible duo," Corrente said. "They elevate the project to a whole new level."

Gallo recently starred in Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro." Madsen recently starred in "The Killing Jar" and "Hell Ride."

The newly formed Vcp just wrapped its first feature, the Robert Englund-toplined horror film "Inkubus," which they hope to spin into a franchise.

Robert Englund's highly anticipated return to the screen as a demonic killer in "Inkubus" wrapped filming today. Check the synopsis and teaser poster after the break...

From the Press Release:

Chad A. Verdi, producer of the film stated, "Vcp has provided all funding for the development and filming of 'Inkubus.' We have an excellent script written by Carl Dupré ('Detroit Rock City,' 'Hellraiser: Hell World') and Glenn Ciano ('Homie Spumoni'), and we are excited to get started on the first installment of this budding franchise."

Producer Michael Corrente ("Outside Providence," "American Buffalo," "Brooklyn Rules," "A Door in the Floor") stated, "I was pleasantly surprised at how the project came to fruition: This film comes out of a screenwriting competition I started two years ago in Providence. To watch this project evolve into a film with this cast and story is amazing."

The cast includes...

And it's a wrap on the new thriller starring Robert Englund. Of course we are referring to Verdi Corrente Productions' Inkubus, and now that it's in the can, we have a couple of more details for you including a website and a synopsis.

From the Press Release:

Chad A. Verdi, producer of the film stated, "Vcp has provided all funding for the development and filming of 'Inkubus.' We have an excellent script written by Carl Dupré ('Detroit Rock City,' 'Hellraiser: Hell World') and Glenn Ciano ('Homie Spumoni'), and we are excited to get started on the first installment of this budding franchise."

Producer Michael Corrente ("Outside Providence," "American Buffalo," "Brooklyn Rules," "A Door in the Floor") stated, "I was pleasantly surprised at how the project came to fruition: This film comes out of a screenwriting competition I started two years ago in Providence. To watch...

Like we needed to tell you Robert Englund was the original "Freddy". I suppose from now on we will have to do that, just to make sure Robert isn't forgotten. We just got word that Englund joins the already impressive cast of 'Inkubu'...

Englund will play the monster and the cast so far includes William Forsythe ("Halloween," "The Devil's Rejects," "The Rock," "Raising Arizona"), Joey Fatone ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "The Cooler," "Homie Spumoni"), Jonathan Silverman ("Weekend at Bernie's," "Brighton Beach Memoirs," "Death Becomes Her"), Mike Cerrone ("Me Myself and Irene," "Stuck on You," "Outside Providence") and Michelle Ray Smith ("Wedding Daze") will complete this exciting ensemble cast with Glenn Ciano sitting in the directors seat.

Plot Synopsis: "Inkubus" tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus (Robert Englund...

Berklee film scoring professor and composer Sheldon Mirowitz (Outside Providence, Missing in America) says,

"There are two parts to creating. One is exploring and the other is culling. If you confuse them, then you won't get anywhere. Mick Goodrick once said to me, 'When you swim, there is stroking and then there's gliding. And if you only stroke you won't be able to swim, because you won't get anywhere. You need to be able to glide in between strokes.' There's a period of time when you are capturing the things floating around through you, and you have to be very careful not to be judgmental at that point. There is also the point when you need to be critical and throw things out, but if you go there at the wrong point in the process you'll simply muck it up."

Here is a great video of Mirowitz talking to...