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As scary as a cabin in the woods can be, one of the most disturbing backdrops for a film can be the college culture, where horrors that are all too real sometimes take place. Such is the case in Natalie Leite’s M.F.A., which made its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival (read Heather's review here) and has now been acquired for Us distribution by Dark Sky Films.

Press Release: New York, NY (June 8, 2017) - Mpi Media Group announced today that it has acquired all rights in the U.S. to M.F.A., a critically acclaimed powerful thriller starring Francesca Eastwood in a stand out role. The film, from female director and female screenwriter, takes on the searing current issue of sexual violence on campus. M.F.A will be released domestically this fall under the company's Dark Sky Films banner.

The distribution agreement was negotiated by Nicola Goelzhaeuser, Mpi's...

Following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Bitch has been acquired by Mpi Media Group and Dark Sky Films, with a Us release planned for later this year.

Press Release: New York (May 9, 2017) - Mpi Media Group announced today that it has acquired multi-territory rights to Bitch, a dark and unsettling dramedy from writer-director Marianna Palka, who also stars alongside Jason Ritter. The film, which premiered to critical raves at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, is one of the boldest in the growing body of work by new female directors. Mpi Media Group will be handling international territory sales of the film in Cannes and will release Bitch domestically under the company's Dark Sky Films banner later this year.

The distribution agreement was negotiated by Nicola Goelzhaeuser, VP of Digital and International Sales at Mpi along with Giles Edwards, Mpi's Head of Acquisitions and Development, Mpi Europe and

Peter Van Steemburg...

SpectreVision partners actor Elijah Wood, directors Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller and CEO Lisa Whalen have formed a new production entity, Company X, which will produce a diverse array of projects with no limitations on genre or budget. SpectreVision will remain intact, with Company X to become its parent company.

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“Expansion has always been our goal, but we waited until we had a slate of projects we couldn’t pass up,” states Whalen. “SpectreVision exists in a very specific and unique area in the indie genre space. We’re often approached with projects that we love, that aren’t right for SpectreVision’s indie, genre space. Now we can engage with those projects, without stretching the SpectreVision brand. Company X is any genre, at any budget, and allows us to connect with wider and more diverse audiences.”

Under this new arrangement, the...

Roger Corman sat down with Conan O’Brien last week for a spirited interview (promoting his latest Sy-Fy spectacular, Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda) turning in a charismatic performance that provoked a reaction not unlike Dennis Hopper’s besotted appraisal of Dean Stockwell’s spaced-out lounge lizard in Blue Velvet:

“Suave? Goddamn, you are one suave fucker”.

Suave? Yep, that’s Roger.

O’Brien’s wide-ranging conversation with Corman proved that this storied filmmaker is nothing if not a treasure trove of great Hollywood tales, mainly because Roger himself has instigated so many of them. Not the least being the time he decided to drop acid to better direct The Trip, his 1967 psychedelic-psychodrama starring Peter Fonda and, appropriately enough, Dennis Hopper.

As Roger hauled out the anecdote about his blissful LSD experience for Conan, I had a flashback of my own… to that weekend many moons ago when Tim Lucas, editor of Video Watchdog,...

After languishing in development for years, director Joe Dante's Roger Corman biopic The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is finally coming together, with Quentin Tarantino set to play Roger Corman.

The movie almost got off the ground back in 2010, when Colin Firth was attached to star as the legendary B-movie filmmaker. The story is set in 1967, centering on Roger Corman's experience making The Trip, which starred Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in one of his earlier roles. Here's what Roger Corman had to say about the story, adding that he will also appear in a cameo role.

"It's the story of how I made The Trip in the 1960s about LSD. It starred Jack Nicholson in one of his first roles and I took LSD so I knew what it was all about. It was very controversial but it was the only American picture invited...

If you know horror at all, you know Roger Corman’s low-budget but often brilliant works of high-class camp. You also might know that Corman is responsible for giving directing and acting opportunities to the likes of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich…the list goes on and on. Now Corman is getting his own biopic, called The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes, with none other than Quentin Tarantino in the lead role.

Joe Dante will be directing The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes, a comedic take on the director’s life that focusses on the making of The Trip, a 1960s slice of weirdness centering around an LSD trip. The original film starred Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern and Peter Fonda, with Corman behind the camera. Corman himself will have a cameo in Dante’s film, as a film producer trying to stop Roger Corman from making the movie.

Update: Not so fast. Thompson On Hollywood has reached out to Joe Dante directly, who has kiboshed these rumors: "Quentin is a great filmmaker and a good friend, however there is absolutely no truth to the stories in the press and on the web that he is going to play Roger Corman in my upcoming film' The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes.' " Quentin Tarantino isn't afraid to put himself in front of the camera, even though he essentially can't act. No matter where you stood on "Django Unchained," his late appearance was distracting at best, ill-conceived at worst, and there's a pretty good reason why he hasn't led a film since "From Dusk 'Til Dawn." But it would appear that the director is gonna take a quick break from writing whatever his next movie is to play a moviemaking legend who has had a huge influence on his career. According...

Update: Looks like Qt won't be playing Roger Corman. Director Joe Dante confirmed it over Twitter earlier this afternoon

Quentin is a great filmmaker and a good friend, however there is absolutely no truth to the stories that he is going to play Roger Corman.

- Joe Dante (@joe_dante) September 20, 2013

Earlier: There are few Hollywood legends as beloved and bizarre as B-movie kingpin Roger Corman. He's a director and producer who, through his various entities, was responsible for releasing foreign movies into art houses (things by Godard and Kurosawa). He also cultivated a number of big time directors, giving initial breaks to everyone from Francis Ford Coppola to Jonathan Demme.

It's a great story. But now it's being made into a narrative feature, and, according to an interview with Corman in the Telegraph, the filmmakers found a very unusual choice for his stand-in: Quentin Tarantino.

The movie is called "The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes,...

Joe Dante set to direct a long-gestating biopic about legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman.

Corman is the founder of New World Pictures and the man behind such cult classics as The Masque Of The Red Death (1989), Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and Death Race 2000 (1975).

The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes will be produced by Said Ben Said of Sbs Productions.

Set in Hollywood in the late 1960s, the film is billed as a comedy. Corman is to make a cameo as himself and has given the project his full blessing.

Sbs is likely to handle sales as well as to produce the film, which will be financed through European sources.

Also new from Sbs is Brian De Palma’s loose adaptation of Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin, featuring both period and contemporary elements. Emily Mortimer will play the lead.

The story is about a film director and two actors shooting a movie version of Zola’s novel and finding...

With all the big news this week about films nearing production like Rock of Ages, Iron Man 3, The Great Gatsby and the remake of Logan's Run (finally), there were also many new projects recently added to IMDbPro's database of in-development titles. Here's a glimpse at some of the noteworthy additions:

Untitled Mahalia Jackson Project – Former American Idol favorite Fantasia Barrino hopes to hit a career high note with a biopic about the "Queen of Gospel" who began recording in the 1930s and performed at JFK's inauguration and MLK's March on Washington. Euzhan Palcy directs.

Concrete Island – Decades after Christian Bale's breakout role in Spielberg's version of J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun, the actor is returning to the who helped make him famous. He's also reuniting with The Machinist's writing-directing team of Brad Anderson and Scott Kosar in Ballard's urban tale of a man living inside his car on a man-made island between two London roadways.

Voices from the Dead – Speaking of Spielberg, the filmmaker's tapped Changeling scribe J. Michael Straczynski to pen this drama based on the friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle and involves a murder investigation led by a medium who may or may not be the real thing.

He Loves Me – Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are jumping back on bus with Paul Dano in this high-concept romantic comedy about a writer who wills his own love interest into existence. Zoe Kazan wrote the script and will co-star. Sunshine producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are also on board.

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes – This U.S.-U.K. co-production from filmmaker Joe Dante (Gremlins, The 'burbs) that follows strait-laced exploitation movie legend Roger Corman as he sets out to capture the trippy, psychedelic world of LSD on film in 1967.

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