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“You guys were magic together,” explained Melissa McCarthy on the latest Fly on the Wall podcast. She’s referring to the chemistry between host David Spade and Chris Farley in their first hit comedy, Tommy Boy. “It’s a perfect movie. And you two together, you could see how much you loved each other. And then it was still so funny.”

The key, responded Spade, was nobody was watching. “That was one where it was low expectations, lower budget, throw Farley and Spade out there and let’s see what happens. And no one really was visiting the set,” he said. If either of the comedians had a funny idea they wanted to try? “Pete Siegel was the director, and he was like, ‘Let’s try it.’”

Things weren’t nearly as relaxed on the Spade/Farley follow-up, Black Sheep. “They go, ‘Oh, we got something here,’ even though it wasn’t like a huge,...

Horror-comedy film 'Black Sheep' is getting a sequel.The 2006 movie, set in New Zealand, followed a group of people who are forced to defend themselves when a genetic engineering experiment turns harmless sheep into flesh-eating zombies.WTFilms is now working with original writer-and-director Jonathan King who will bring the follow-up to the big screen from a story he wrote with Matthew Grainger and Rosie Howells.The plot of 'Black Sheep 2' will follow a young scientist who discovers a new pathogen which is a threat to humanity. She tracks it to her hometown which is located nearby the farm where the events of 'Black Sheep' took place. Actor Nathan Meister will reprise his role as Henry Oldfield, who in the first film is a farmer living with ovinophobia, a phobia of sheep caused by a sick prank his brother Angus plays on him as a child. It is...

Since several decades the horror genre has enjoyed quite a big fan following and popularity with several movies hitting the big screens every now and then. But in this plethora of projects, only a few manage to leave an everlasting impression on the viewers. One such movie was Black Sheep released in 2006, directed by Jonathan King. It presented a very unique combination of horror and comedy with an out-of-the-box storyline.

The movie stars Nathan Meister and presents the plot of genetically modified sheep going on a bloody spree. As soon as it was released, it managed to win the audience over with its quirky horror. Amidst this, fans also wondered if the makers would bring out a sequel to it or not.

A still from Black Sheep | Credits: Icon Film Distribution

Now almost two decades later, King and Meister are all set to bring back the horror-comedy movie Black Sheep...

Fans of cult classic New Zealand horror Black Sheep will be surprised to discover the bonkers gore-fest is officially getting a sequel after almost 20 years. According to Deadline, original director and star Jonathan King and Nathan Meister, respectively, are returning for more of the horror-comedy that answered the question of what would happen if a bunch of sheep turned into bloodthirsty creatures long before The Boys offered up their take on the idea.

For those unfamiliar with the original, Black Sheep took the idea of genetic experiments gone wrong and added a touch of low-budget absurdity into the mix. The end result was a movie that followed Henry Oldfield (Meister), who, while dealing with his phobia-level fear of sheep, becomes caught up in a horrifying nightmare of the wooly kind. What begins as odd behavior among the flocks very quickly becomes something more sinister as the sheep population takes a...

Netflix is set to launch its latest Thai offering, ‘Tomorrow and I,’ directed by Paween Purijitpanya. This four-part anthology delves into a range of contemporary issues including cloning, prostitution, religion, and global warming.

This move by Netflix to introduce sci-fi themes from Thailand showcases a growing library of diverse content.

The series, which begins streaming on December 4, brings together various storylines under the direction of Purijitpanya, known for his works such as ‘Body,’ ‘Phobia,’ and ‘Ghost Lab.’

In making ‘Tomorrow and I,’ he highlights the complexities involved in creating a believable futuristic world. From cityscapes to costumes and technology, every element was crafted to enhance the realism of the series.

The first episode, ‘Black Sheep,’ promises a gripping tale with Boy-Pakorn Chatborrirak, Ink-Waruntorn Paonil, and Poyd-Treechada Hongsyok.

It revolves around a dramatic attempt to resurrect a deceased astronaut. Following this, ‘Paradistopia’ ventures into a realm where intelligent sex robots satisfy human desires,...

Thai film director Paween Purijitpanya has directed “Tomorrow and I,” a four-part anthology series for Netflix. It covers topics including cloning, prostitution, religion and global warming.

The series expands the streamer’s roster of Thai content and represents its first from the country in the sci-fi register. The show will upload from Dec. 4.

Purijitpanya is known for his previous films including “Body,” “Phobia,” “Phobia 2” and “Ghost Lab.” He also directed Gmm series “Girl From Nowhere.” “[‘Making ‘Tomorrow and I’] was challenging because everything had to be newly created — the appearance of the city, clothing, technology, and the shape of various devices. In the end, these elements were essential for building a realistic world and helped the actors understand their characters better,” he said.

The first episode “Black Sheep,” is an intense drama featuring Boy-Pakorn Chatborrirak, Ink-Waruntorn Paonil, and Poyd-Treechada Hongsyok about an attempt to bring back to life a dead astronaut.

The cast and crew of the cult-classic horror comedy Black Sheep are reuniting for a surprise sequel. Directed by Jonathan King, the 2006 feature sees a traumatized farmer's son return home to put his trauma behind him, only to learn his brother has been conducting cruel experiments to turn the docile herbivores into contagious, bloodthirsty mutants. Black Sheep was a success at film festivals, leading to it earning positive praise alongside grossing $5 million from its box office run.

Deadline has reported that French production company WTFilms has joined forces with King to uncover the next stage of the virus seen in Black Sheep with a sequel 16 years after the original movie. While few plot details have been revealed, Black Sheep 2 will see a young scientist set out to cure a potentially deadly pathogen before it can cause a pandemic, only to be brought to the remains of the Oldfield Farm that has stood by her hometown.

The horror genre has expanded in the last few decades. The scary films are divided into different subgenres, including comedy horror, body horror, slashers, supernatural horror, and psychological horror, among others. In 2006, a New Zealand horror comedy put animals at the core of its terror.

Black Sheep, which follows a killer sheep, has since become a cult classic. Because of its ever-growing popularity and positive reviews, the film is moving forward with a sequel 18 years later, Deadline announced. The good side is that many people involved in the original will return to work on the sequel, as well.

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WTFilms announced the revival of the 2006 cult classic horror comedy about a flock of killer sheep, the result of genetic engineering. The...

Back in 2006, writer/director Jonathan King brought us the “nature run amok” horror comedy Black Sheep, about killer, genetically altered sheep. That movie surpassed Peter Jackson‘s early works to become New Zealand’s most successful horror movie ever. Now, Deadline reports that the killer sheep are coming back for Black Sheep 2! King is returning to the helm for the sequel, working from a script he crafted with Matthew Grainger and Rosie Howells.

Black Sheep had the following synopsis: Sheep-fearing Henry (Nathan Meister) returns to his brother’s (Peter Feeney) New Zealand farm, hoping his sibling will buy out his share of the property. However, what he finds are genetically altered sheep that prey on humans and turn their victims into undead, woolly killers. Shear madness ensues as Henry, an animal-rights activist (Danielle Mason) and a farmhand (Tammy Davis) set out to stop the rampaging animals. Meister will be reprising...

Writer/Director Jonathan King’s 2006 wacky zombie comedy Black Sheep is getting a sequel with King back at the helm, Deadline reports today.

King will direct the sequel, currently titled Black Sheep 2, from a story he wrote with Matthew Grainger and Rosie Howells.

The filmmaker isn’t the only one back for this sequel to New Zealand’s most successful horror movie; lead actor Nathan Meister returns to the role of Henry Oldfield. Henry is the “sheep-phobic son of a farmer who discovers his twisted older brother has been carrying out dangerous genetic experiences on his livestock, which transform them from docile vegetarians to ruthless, carnivorous killers.” Meister will be joined by new faces on this outing.

As for Sheep 2’s plot, it’ll “follow a young scientist who is convinced that a dangerous new pathogen threatens the population and tracks it back to her hometown – which is located in...

Exclusive: Paris-based sales and production genre specialist WTFilms has boarded a revival of New Zealand 2006 cult classic horror-comedy Black Sheep, about a flock of sheep transformed into bloodthirsty predators by genetic engineering.

The sequel, entitled Black Sheep 2, reunites key members of the team involved in the original film, which was New Zealand’s most successful horror movie ever.

Original writer–director Jonathan King will direct the sequel, from a story he wrote with Matthew Grainger and Rosie Howells.

Lead actor Nathan Meister returns to the role of Henry Oldfield, the sheep-phobic son of a farmer who discovers his twisted older brother has been carrying out dangerous genetic experiences on his livestock, which transform them from docile vegetarians to ruthless, carnivorous killers.

Black Sheep 2 will follow a young scientist who is convinced that a dangerous new pathogen threatens the population and tracks it back to her hometown – which is located in...

Eric Trump is once again sharing his thoughts on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

And it seems that Donald’s second son is still not a fan of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Back in August, Eric commented on the controversy surrounding Harry’s visa.

Eric Trump, son of former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

(Conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation had sued to have Harry deported after he admitted to past drug use in his memoir.)

Now, he’s speaking out about the Sussexes once again. And as you might’ve guessed, his views on the couple are still less than favorable.

Eric Trump Blasts Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex smile during...

Despite behind-the-scenes drama, Black Sheep is a nostalgic comedy gem in Chris Farley's career, pitting SNL talent in a 90s time capsule. David Spade and Farley's second and last film together, Black Sheep, may have faced challenges, but their chemistry shines in this rollicking flick. Spade's rocky relationship with the director led to creative clashes, but the duo's dedication to making the film work paid off in Farley's legacy.

The David Spade and Chris Farley 1996 comedy Black Sheep had some behind-the-scenes drama that nearly stopped production. Black Sheep is one of the funniest movies of Chris Farley's tragically short career, and it's a nostalgic and seminal work in David Spade's thankfully long one. In the film, a political aide named Steve Dodds (Spade) is assigned to look after Mike Donnelly (Farley), the black sheep brother of a political candidate. With a cavalcade of SNL talent on the job,...

Now, this is a story all about how the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff will reunite for A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop.

The live concert special, airing Sunday, Dec. 10 at 8:30 pm Et/8 pm Pt on CBS and streaming on Paramount+, will feature an on-stage reunion between Will Smith and Jeffrey Allen Townes (aka DJ Jazzy Jeff), who collaborated musically on hits like “Summertime” and co-starred together in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has been busy spreading the holiday spirit on YouTube. On Christmas Eve, she posted a nine-minute long video singing about her followers’ hopes for 2021 to her own guitar accompaniment, and she ended the clip with a reprise of “Black Sheep,” the song that she performed in 2010 movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

In this seriously underrated Edgar Wright film, Larson played Envy Adams, Scott Pilgrim’s ex-girlfriend and the lead singer of The Clash at Demonhead (which also boasts former Superman Brandon Routh on bass). It’s a stone-cold banger and her performance is a highlight of the pic.

For my money, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World making only half of its $85 million budget back at the box office is one of cinema’s greatest injustices, as it’s an amazing film with a ton of awesome gags and shows off Wright’s many directorial talents.

Chris Farley's name is trending on social media as fans pay tribute to the late comedian on the 23rd anniversary of his passing. A one-of-a-kind performer, Farley was one of the biggest stars of the 1990s, starring on Saturday Night Live for several years and appearing in many popular comedy movies. He was just 33 years old when he passed away in 1997, and 23 years later, the legendary funnyman is still being celebrated by fans across the world.

"It's really been 23 years today since the man, the legend, Chris Farley died?" says a fan on Twitter. "I am 1000% going to watch Almost Heroes sometime later today. It's my all time favorite Farley movie."

It’s really been 23 years today since the man, the legend, Chris Farley died?...

Altitude is handling global sales on Diana and will be releasing theatrically in the UK and Ireland.

Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn’s London and Los Angeles-based Lightbox is producing Diana, Ed Perkins’ feature documentary about Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, the first theatrical documentary about Diana who died in 1997. UK sales outfit Altitude is handling international rights and will release the film in the UK and Ireland in the summer of 2022 to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.

Altitude has already pre-sold the film to theatrical buyers in multiple territories, including: Benelux (Piece of Magic), Germany and Austria...

Altitude and Lightbox on Monday unveiled plans for Diana, a theatrical documentary about Princess Diana.

Directed by Academy Award nominee Ed Perkins (Black Sheep), it is planned for a 2022 release in cinemas.

“After its worldwide theatrical release, the film – produced in association with HBO and Sky – will have its television premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max in the U.S.; and on Sky Documentaries in the U.K.,” the companies said. “Diana is the first theatrical release documentary ever to be made about the Princess of Wales and is slated to open in cinemas worldwide ...

Altitude and Lightbox on Monday unveiled plans for Diana, a theatrical documentary about Princess Diana.

Directed by Academy Award nominee Ed Perkins (Black Sheep), it is planned for a 2022 release in cinemas.

“After its worldwide theatrical release, the film – produced in association with HBO and Sky – will have its television premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max in the U.S.; and on Sky Documentaries in the U.K.,” the companies said. “Diana is the first theatrical release documentary ever to be made about the Princess of Wales and is slated to open in cinemas worldwide ...

U.K./U.S. production outfit Lightbox, and U.K. sales agent and distributor Altitude, have announced “Diana,” the first theatrical release documentary about Princess Diana.

The documentary is set for a summer 2022 theatrical release worldwide to mark the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death. The film, produced in association with HBO and Sky, will have its television premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max in the U.S.; and on Sky Documentaries in the U.K. Altitude Film Distribution will release the film in the U.K. and Ireland.

Lightbox is the company co-founded by Simon Chinn, double Oscar winner for “Searching for Sugar Man” and “Man on Wire,” and Jonathan Chinn, double Primetime Emmy winner for “LA 92” and “American High.”

Using an archive-only approach, “Diana” will draw on thousands of hours of news reports, previously unseen footage and photographs, to create a documentary record of...

At the beginning of the Netflix documentary Tell Me Who I Am a British man takes a seat in front of the camera and calmly describes a mystery.

“I don’t know who I am,” he says evenly. “Not just the story of who I am, but really who I am. The real me.”

For Alex Lewis these words are not an exaggeration or metaphorical, but literal. At the age of 18—as we come to understand in the film directed by Ed Perkins—Lewis sustained a traumatic brain injury in a motorcycle accident. He emerged from a coma with no memory of his previous life.

“I didn’t even know my own name,” he shares. “Everything had gone.”

Everything but one important detail. He recognized the 18-year-old young man at his hospital bedside as his twin brother Marcus.

“Even though I wasn’t sure of what was going on around me,...

Wme has signed Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Ed Perkins, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The director's latest feature, Tell Me Who I Am, follows a pair of British twin brothers, one of whom suffered near-total amnesia in a motorcycle accident in 1982, leaving the other with the task of helping to reconstruct his memories.

The Lightbox-produced doc, which is 95 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, premiered at Telluride in August and is now on Netflix.

Perkins started the year with his first Academy Award nomination, for the documentary short Black Sheep. His previous films, which he directed and lensed, include 2014's Garnet'...

Wme has signed Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Ed Perkins, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The director's latest feature, Tell Me Who I Am, follows a pair of British twin brothers, one of whom suffered near-total amnesia in a motorcycle accident in 1982, leaving the other with the task of helping to reconstruct his memories.

The Lightbox-produced doc, which is 95 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, premiered at Telluride in August and is now on Netflix.

Perkins started the year with his first Academy Award nomination, for the documentary short Black Sheep. His previous films, which he directed and lensed, include 2014's Garnet'...

The premise is irresistible: After a motorcycle accident, 18-year-old Alex Lewis wakes up in an English hospital and sees a man and a woman on either side of his bed. He instantly recognizes his twin brother Marcus, but doesn’t know his mother. Marcus starts to fill in Alex’s empty, amnesiac brain with all the people, places, and things he needs to know in order to function at home, at school, and in the world.

But Marcus creates an alternate reality from the one they actually grew up in. He paints a prettier picture of Lewis family life, invents vacations they never took, and leaves things out, including their childhood sexual abuse. After the brothers first told their story to The Sunday Times, followed by 2013 U.K. bestseller “Tell Me Who I Am,” young British documentary filmmaker Ed Perkins chased them down and spent five years working with them to dig deeper.

There’s nothing quite like a documentary crafted as a mystery. This morning, Netflix debuted the trailer for Tell Me Who I Am. It looks to be the next riveting, buzzed-about doc that gets people talking, insisting you see it before it’s spoiled. The film is directed by Ed Perkins, who was Oscar-nominated this year for his 2018 documentary short, Black Sheep. This project, his first documentary feature, looks like the stuff Hollywood films are made of. A guy has an accident, falling into a coma. He wakes up, and he can’t recall who he is, …...

There is no shortage of badass, kickass villain songs in cinema. Often the difference between a standard villain and a truly memorable one is whether they get a showstopping, catchy as all hell song. Whether they're proclaiming their greatness, their plans sure-fire imminent success, or just trying to get our heroes to be 'more chill' they're often the most memorable parts of the movie.

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Whether these guys and gals are just misunderstood misanthropes or genuinely evil anarchists, these are the tunes that you'll find yourself tapping and humming to on the other side. Honorable mentions to Black Sheep from Scott Pilgrim, The Doldrums from Phantom Tollbooth, Hellfire from Hunchback of Notre Dame, and In The Dark Of The Night from Anastasia. All awesome, but not quite catchy enough.

When David Spade decided to get some new ink, he turned to his go-to tattoo artist to help out, Sean Penn.

The comedian, 55, told his viewers on Thursday’s episode of Lights Out with David Spade, that “it was time for some more ink,” joking he needed to “solidify my hard rep on the streets.”

To create the artwork, Spade called upon the best person he knew for the job, his “favorite tattoo artist and author,” Penn, who had already given Spade his first tattoo during a Saturday Night Live sketch in November 1995.

This time around, Spade got a tattoo...

Marshall Curry’s Oscar-nominated short film “A Night at the Garden” brings viewers inside a 1939 Nazi rally held in New York City, and now distributor Field of Vision is set to disrupt Fox News with footage of the rally. Field of Vision will debut a television spot for “A Night at the Garden” during the Monday, February 11 airing of “Hannity.”

“A Night at the Garden” assembles archival footage to show viewers what a Nazi rally in America really looked like in 1939. The event depicted took place at Madison Square Garden and was attended by 22,000 Americans. The short runs seven minutes and features a speech from Fritz Julius Kuhn, the leader of the pro-Nazi organization German American Bund. The rally’s 80th anniversary occurs February 20.

“I hope that by showing the ‘Hannity’ audience how manipulative leaders in the past have attacked the press, scapegoated minorities, made light of violence against protesters,...

Skye Fitzgerald, director of the Oscar-nominated short documentary “Lifeboat,” has a defining memory as a filmmaker. When he was 21, he saw a car accident and watched a man die as he was being tended to by a first responder. To this day, that image has guided the stories he’s chosen to tell.

“The only principle I use when I’m selecting a story is: if I walk out of this theater tonight and I get hit by that bus, am I proud of the stories I’ve chosen and how I’ve chosen to tell them?” Fitzgerald said during a post-screening panel held by TheWrap on Tuesday.

It was that question that led Fitzgerald to create short documentary about the volunteer crews that rescue refugees lost adrift on the Mediterranean Sea, and a similar desire to tell important global stories fueled the creation of the other four nominated films...

The range and sophistication of today’s documentary filmmaking can be clearly seen in the themes and cinematic methods of the short subject documentary Oscar nominees. Nominated filmmakers recount how they found their stories.

Black Sheep

“Black Sheep” blends dramatic recreations and interview footage to tell Brit Cornelius Walker’s story. As a teenager of Nigerian descent, he went to extremes to fit into an all-white and racist neighborhood outside London. Produced by Jonathan Chinn and directed by Ed Perkins, the short earned the top prize at the Sheffield Documentary film fest. Perkins met Walker via an informational interview and credits Walker’s uncanny ability to relate his difficult and ambiguous early life story. “He’s able to convey complicated emotions that become easy to relate to and emphasize with. He was willing to be vulnerable and brave enough to sit down in front of camera and bare his soul,...

In the run-up to the Oscars, you may well have already seen all of the contenders — except for those in the shorts categories. Now’s your chance, with the 2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films program, to catch up on these underrated contenders before the office Oscar ballots come around.

They may not have big-name stars or auteur directors behind them, but several of these mini-movies are as effective as a Best Picture nominee when it comes to working on your emotions and leaving you thinking long after their credits roll. And if there’s ever a title that’s not working out for you, a new short will soon follow in its place, like revolving appetizers at a reception.

The shorts are divided into three categories of five titles each: Live Action, Documentary and Animation. Those in the Live Action competition are generally some of the heaviest, most dramatic shorts from filmmakers around the world.

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing each short category. See the Live Action section below and the other shorts sections here.

A Night at the Garden – USA – 7 minutes

On February 20, 1939, Fritz Kuhn — a naturalized American citizen of German heritage who would later be deported — held a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden under the auspices of “pro-America” sentiments for Gentile-Americans looking to escape the Jewish-led media and Jewish Moscow-directed domination of labor unions. Twenty thousand white men and women attended with arms raised in Adolph Hitler’s salute towards this German American Bund leader against a backdrop of George Washington next to swastikas, stars, and stripes. Children cheered as twenty-plus police officers accosted a protestor, dragging him off the stage while Kuhn laughed. And some still wonder why we say white supremacy is alive and well today.

Director Marshall Curry doesn’t have to do anything but...

For most people, the news that the Oscar-nominated short films will soon (Feb. 8) be coming to a theater near you may not be the hallelujah moment it is for lovers of the short form and for those nerds among us trying to get a leg up in our office Oscar pool.

The three short film categories – documentary, live-action and animated – at the Oscars are invariably the hardest ones to handicap, especially if you haven’t seen them and when meeny, miney, mowing them only gives you a 20% chance of picking the winners. Yet, there they are, three mysteries that can ruin your ballot or put you on top.

I’ve just finished watching all 15 nominees and know which ones I like best. But picking the eventual winners at the Academy Awards is still a chore. Based on our predictions Pixar’s “Bao” is a huge favorite to win animated short.

Starting off today's Horror Highlights are details on Comet TV's September Prize Pack contest in association with the Charge! network. Also: Shriekfest 2018's final three films revealed, Darkness Reigns DVD giveaway details, Molly Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD release details, and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival lineup.

Comet TV's September Contest Details: "Comet TV September Contest: "Are you ready for a Spacey-week?

I hope so because Comet TV has so many cool things in September! Comet TV is the new home of the cult classic Space: 1999! The out of this world series starring Martin Landau is a fun retro adventure, you’ll love!

Plus, there are Godzilla Double Features, Dr. Who, and more!

Plus, we can’t forget the action network Charge! There is a Rocky marathon featuring the classic film series all month long!

Charge! is an action network showing the most “kickin’” and “punchin’” films ever created.

Friends Forever: Clement & Waititi’s Pleasantly Charming Vampiric Mock-Doc

That immortal cinematic archetype, the vampire, has once again been commandeered into the periphery of independent cinema, at least indicated by recent examples of decidedly offbeat fare from the likes of Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, and now from New Zealand, co-directors Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, who have made the next logical step with a vampire comedy as faux documentary with What We Do in the Shadows. After premiering at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, the title has gone on to tour fests, including SXSW and Toronto (where it won the audience award in the Midnight Madness section), and received generally enthusiastic reception. But after securing a distribution deal, the filmmakers provocatively went to Kickstarter to establish a wider release platform beyond New York and Los Angeles, which means the independent title will now see its limited release extend to seventy plus cities.

A still from Vinay Shukla and Khushboo Ranka’s Proposition for a Revolution

Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab has announced its selection in Fiction and Documentary categories.

The Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab gives filmmakers a chance to have their rough-cut feature-length films viewed by an eminent panel of international advisers. These advisers have a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker with an intention to help the filmmaker achieve an accomplished final cut of the film.

Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 will be held from November 20-24 in Goa Mariott Resort.

Work-in-Progress Lab 2014:

Fiction :

Bokul by Reema Borah Highway by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Nil Battey Sannata by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Tathagat by Manav Kaul Thithi by Raam Reddy

Documentary :

12 Acres by Rajesh Thind Maidaan (Home Ground) by Kavita Carneiro Nehi Mozo Hanü Dizo Le (Without You, I am Nothing) by Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar Proposition for a Revolution by Khushboo Ranka...

Exclusive: Titles include Angel at my Table and Once Were Warriors.

HanWay’s boutique label HanWay Select has inked a deal with the New Zealand Film Commission to sell the latter’s film library.

Among the more than 50 titles in the deal are Jane Campion’s An Angel At My Table, Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors, Taika Waititi’s Boy and Eagle vs Shark, Jonathan King’s Black Sheep, Vincent Ward’s The Navigator and Vigil, and Roger Donaldson’s The World’s Fastest Indian.

The deal was negotiated by Mark Gooder and Nzfc marketing manager Jasmin McSweeney, and Mark Lane, director of sales and distribution, HanWay Select, and Thorsten Schumacher, managing director, HanWay Films.

Lane said: “We are thrilled to add another distinctive film collection to the HanWay stable; everyone remembers the visceral experience of a film like Once Were Warriors. However, newer genre-bending titles such as Black Sheep illustrate the diversity of this unique...

Tiff’s Midnight Madness program turned 25 this year, and for two and half decades, the hardworking programers have gathered some of the strangest, most terrifying, wild, intriguing and downright entertaining films from around the world. From dark comedies to Japanese gore-fests and indie horror gems, the Midnight Madness program hasn’t lost its edge as one the leading showcases of genre cinema. In its 25-year history, Midnight Madness has introduced adventurous late-night moviegoers to such cult faves as Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. But what separates Midnight Madness from, say, Montreal’s three and half week long genre festival Fantasia, is that Tiff selects only ten films to make the cut. In other words, these programmers don’t mess around. Last week I decided that I would post reviews of my personal favourite films that screened in past years. And just like the Tiff programmers,...

Jane Campion‘s limited series Top Of The Lake debuts on the Sundance Channel on March 18. The seven-part drama screened as a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, a first for a longform series. Campion wrote the BBC Two/UKTV/Sundance Channel co-production with Gerard Lee and directed along with Garth Davis. Elisabeth Moss stars as a detective investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl, who is also the daughter of a local drug lord. Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan and David Wenham also star in the New Zealand-shot series. Emile Sherman and Iain Canning (The King’s Speech) and Philippa Campbell (Black Sheep) are producers. Here’s the trailer:...

It should come as no surprise that we are big fans of Black Sheep and Under The Mountain director Jonathan King around here at Twitch. We've not only covered the New Zealand director's film work but some of his comics as well and we've been waiting to see what would come next for the director in the four year span since the release of his kid friendly fantasy Under The Mountain.Well, after teasing it on Twitter over the past few weeks King has finally shared something definitive on his personal blog, where he released the first two images from the micro budget scifi film Realiti. Though he is still playing quite coy with plot details, King shares the thought process behind his deliberate choice to...

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I really don’t know what this movie is about, but apparently it has something to do with a guy who turns into a goat. Did you hear me? A Guy Who Turns Into A Goat. I know this concept was covered in director Jonathan King’s enjoyable horror/comedy “Black Sheep”, but I think this one is being played straight. Could be a freaking godsend, could be utter rubbish — I guess we’ll just have to play the waiting game. My theory: Therianthropy equals excellence. If you love a lengthy synopsis, you’re gonna love this: After being discharged from the army, Chuan brings a lost goat home as no one claims it. On his way to the station, the goat starts talking and tells him an ancient Chinese ghost story… Yet, Chuan finds himself on a train. He tells the young girl beside him about this bizarre dream.

Australia may not have an overabundance of horror films but they’ve managed to produce some quality genre pictures. The recent success of the acclaimed documentary Not Quite Hollywood has shed light on a much overlooked aspect of Aussie genre filmmaking, from lowbrow slashers to twisted thrillers and gross-out horror comedies. Back in the 70′s a number of prominent filmmakers began to develop a film movement that would eventually see the successes of such films as Mad Max and The Last Wave. It was during this time that Australian cinema as a whole experienced resurgence due to increased governmental funding and eventually gave way to what international film critics termed the “Australian New Wave” or the “Golden Age of Australian cinema”.

New Zealand hasn’t produced many horror films over the years, but those it has given birth to are remarkably strong entries. In fact one of the biggest filmmakers...

What do you do if you're a movie director in between projects? Well, if you're Black Sheep and Under The Mountain helmer Jonathan King you get to work writing your next film, sure, but you also vent your creativity in slightly faster and less expensive mediums. Like comics.

Yup, among other things King is also a comic artist, and a very good one. He's been drawing strips and posting them to his Tumblr account for a little while now and two in particular - involving invasions by iconic Brit scifi villains which the locals can't be much bothered by - strike me as being particularly good. Ready? Because it's time for Oh No, It's The Daleks! which you confuse with the similarly themed Oh No, It's The Tripods! at your own peril.

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore is released on 29th November and it made me think that another post was in order looking at the ‘top 10 evil animals in film’! I have two cats myself (Dennis and Harry) and they’ve helped me to compile this list of who they think are the meanest animals in film!

No doubt i’ll miss hundreds so please let me know who you think should go on the list in the comments section below.

Mr. Tinkles – white Persian cat (Cats & Dogs, 2001 and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, 2010)

Since this was the inspiration for the post, it had to start with Mr. Tinkles! The master villain of the first movie, this delightfully insane feline criminal mastermind cameos in the second film strapped up behind Perspex in a really rather amusing Silence of the Lambs parody.

The Sheep (Black Sheep, 2007)

More hilarious than terrifying,...

With word coming down on the deal swung between the government of New Zealand to keep the production of The Hobbit - a deal that included increased financial subsidies and promised legislation to alter New Zealand labor law - we thought the thing to do was get a little bit of local perspective on the issues at hand. And so earlier today I approached a pair of active New Zealand film makers - Jonathan King (Black Sheep, Under The Mountain) and Jason Stutter (Predicament) - for their take on the situation and the issues at hand from the perspective of directors actually working in the country affected by these decisions. Their complete responses are below.

From Jonathan King:

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Speaking as someone who has never worked for Peter Jackson or any other Hollywood film shot here -- and remains unlikely to --...

With word coming down on the deal swung between the government of New Zealand to keep the production of The Hobbit - a deal that included increased financial subsidies and promised legislation to alter New Zealand labor law - we thought the thing to do was get a little bit of local perspective on the issues at hand. And so earlier today I approached a pair of active New Zealand film makers - Jonathan King (Black Sheep, Under The Mountain) and Jason Stutter (Predicament) - for their take on the situation and the issues at hand from the perspective of directors actually working in the country affected by these decisions. Their complete responses are below.

From Jonathan King:

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Speaking as someone who has never worked for Peter Jackson or any other Hollywood film shot here -- and remains unlikely to --...

First impressions are deceiving with this Carlos Brooks release entitled Burning Bright. It starts off cliché enough, with the stereotypical foreboding opening of 'unsuspecting character' whose pride leads to mortal danger. It seems as though this film is going to follow the tried and overdone formula of most horror/thriller B movies, with half-hearted characters and gratuitous gore to supplement bad writing and production, but 20 minutes in, it's evident this one's quite different.

Burning Bright centers around Kelly (Briana Evigan) and her 12 year old autistic brother Tom (Charlie Tahan), who are trapped in their home with a blood-thirsty tiger while a hurricane rages outdoors. Evigan does a great job as this sensitive but tough character, who is forced to battle her own mounting problems, in addition to the menacing tiger. If I only had one reason to recommend this film, it would simply be to just watch her. Staying true...

“The goal is to have you sit back, relax and have one hell of a good time. Mission accomplished.” Unfortunately this reviewers comment isn't about Jonathan King's Under the Mountain, but rather Jonathan King's earlier venture Black Sheep. It's a shame it doesn't apply. King has proven himself in the past as a director with the ability to engage and entertain, however I just don't think children's fantasy is his forte. Even if it is from New Zealand.

Under the Mountain has a rich history behind it, as it's based on the popular novel by Maurice Gee and the children's series that ran on Nz's Kiwi TV under the same name starting back in 1981. For audiences familiar with the series (mainly those living in New Zealand), Under the Mountain may prove a nostalgic adventure, but for new audiences (mainly everyone else), it leaves us with way more questions than we started out with.

I am the father of a nine year old boy. Therefore I see a lot of bad movies marketed to children and made by people who clearly don't remember what kids are actually like. More to the point, I try to deprogram my son from Wanting to see bad movies marketed to children and made by people who clearly don't remember what kids are actually like despite the best efforts of companies spending millions of dollars convincing him that these movies are the greatest things ever. I won on The Last Airbender front. On others I have not been so lucky.

And while big bags of money are thrown into the marketing furnace supporting inferior product every now and then a film that's actually good appears and disappears without much notice. Hello, Under the Mountain.

From director Jonathan King of Black Sheep fame - the zombie sheep one, not the...

The director of the splattery good gore-fest Black Sheep (review here), Jonathan King, has a new flick coming out from Lionsgate and Lightning Media called Under the Mountain, and though it's been given a PG-13 rating, we're still confident enough in King's filmmaking chops to insist that this one is worth a look!

Look for the flick to hit DVD courtesy of Lionsgate on August 10th. Sam Neill, Sophie McBride, Tom Cameron, Leon Wadham, and Oliver Driver star.

Synopsis

When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland’s ring of extinct volcanoes.

Guided by the mysterious Mr. Jones and with the help of their older cousin, Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them.

Under the Mountain - Festival Trailer

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