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The Taylor Russell movies and TV shows show how she has exploded recently to become one of Hollywood's top go-to young stars. Russell is a Canadian actress who began her entertainment career as a ballet dancer and later as a painter. She moved on to try her hand at music and finally became an actor. Her first role came in 2012, when she was 18, for The CW medical drama Emily Owens, M.D. After a Lifetime television film and one-shot TV appearances, she finally broke out in 2018.

In 2018, Russell picked up the finest leading role of her career by playing Judy Robinson in the Netflix reboot of Lost in Space. That was her big break, but she set her sights next on movies and picked up her first lead role there with the 2019 horror movie Escape Room, which was a box-office success and showed that Russell could lead the way in a successful movie.

Stars: Sasha Luss, Isabelle Fuhrman, Wallis Day, Skai Jackson, Jack Kesy | Written and Directed by Jordan Gertner

Sheroes, the writing and directing debut of producer Jordan Gertner begins with a look into the lives of its four leads Diamond, Ezra, Ryder and Daisy.

Their lives are so hard that all of them end up exclaiming “This is such fucking bullshit” at the misery of private yoga lessons by the pool, selling art in an upscale gallery, being an actress or a professional skateboarder. You really feel bad for these poor young ladies and totally understand their need to jump on Diamond’s father’s private jet and fly to his villa in Thailand for a booze and drug-fueled vacation.

Complications and cliches ensue when one of their suitcases is accidentally switched with one full of cocaine. Which they proceed to snort the hell out of only to wake up the...

Director Rodrigo Cortés has returned with an English-language feature film, Love Gets a Room. Cortés was previously known for his work on the Ryan Reynolds film Buried, as well other films like Red Lights and Down a Dark Hall. Having worked in his native language, Spanish, and English-language cinema, Cortés has repeatedly shown he is capable as a truly international filmmaker, and this newest movie adds to an already impressive filmography. He serves as a co-writer and editor as well in the production process.

This film is co-written with the German novelist and screenwriter David Safier, who has become best known for his work on the television series Berlin, Berlin. Love Gets a Room originally had its debut back in 2021 at the Seville European Film Festival, but is hitting theaters in North America in the summer of 2023; it was released in Spain beforehand. In Spain, the movie has been up...

Why do so many child actors struggle? To be a good actor, you need self-awareness and empathy, and those are traits many children don't have. This makes Isabelle Fuhrman's performance in Jaume Collet-Serra's "Orphan" all the more exceptional.

In "Orphan," a Connecticut couple -- Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) -- is still reeling from the miscarriage of their third child. So, they decide to adopt. They're instantly charmed by a young Estonian girl named Esther (Fuhrman) and welcome her into their home. But Esther shows increasing sadism, culminating in the horrible truth: she's actually a 33-year-old serial killer, afflicted with hypopituitarism that prevented her body from aging with her mind.

"Orphan" -- released in 2009 -- was shot in late 2007 when Fuhrman was only 10 years old. In what was her second film appearance, she was a child playing the part of an adult who is playing the part of a child.

Not many actors can claim a breakthrough performance as impressive as that of Isabelle Fuhrman. In 2009, she took the horror world by storm as Esther, a sweet little Russian girl with a big secret. Orphan was a surprise hit thanks in large part to Fuhrman’s shockingly nuanced performance as an escaped murderer posing as an innocent child.

Fuhrman transitioned this notoriety into a coveted role in the high-profile adaptation of The Hunger Games where she plays another psychotic killer named Clove. Though she’s worked steadily since then, many of Fuhrman’s projects have flown under the radar of mainstream audiences. This month’s release of Orphan: First Kill, William Brent Bell’s prequel to the original film, sees the actress cleverly reprise the role that made her famous. Once again, she shines as Lena/Esther in a fantastically fun film destined to become a camp classic.

But between these more noteworthy roles,...

The controversial and contentious experiment where Warner Bros. has debuted its 2021 slate of feature films on HBO Max will hit a crescendo in October thanks to the releases of “The Many Saints of Newark” and “Dune” on the streaming platform. Both “Many Saints” producer and co-writer David Chase and “Dune” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve have criticized the corporate decision to release films day-and-date in theaters and via HBO Max, but despite the outcry, the two highly anticipated features lead a massive lineup of acclaimed library movie titles and Emmy Award-winning original series coming to the network in October 2021. Highlights include:

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (October): Larry David’s Emmy Award-winning series returns for its 11th season in October and will tackle the coronavirus pandemic in a way that feels organic to the show and its protagonist. “We figured out a way that we are definitely living in a reality where the pandemic has happened,...

Stars: Stefanie Scott, Isabelle Fuhrman, Judith Roberts, Rory Culkin | Written and Directed by Edoardo Vitaletti

The Last Thing Mary Saw begins with an ominous quote from John Calvin, “All events whatsoever are governed by the secret counsel of God.” And God, or a twisted interpretation of His words, will have a large part to play in the events that unfold before us.

It’s December 3rd 1843 in Southold, New York. A young woman, Mary, is being interrogated about a series of deaths at her family home. A blindfold covers the two empty sockets where her eyes used to be so she doesn’t see the rifles aimed at her as she tells her story.

Mary is the daughter of a wealthy family. It’s also a repressively devout one and her life has little joy apart from her relationship with her maid Eleanor. A relationship that brings disapproval and harsh punishment from her family,...

Project produced by Studio Pow, which has credits including ‘Funny Cow’ and upcoming Brian Epstein film ‘Midas Man’.

Filming has completed on location in Wales on the latest comedy feature from UK director Jamie Adams.

The cast of the untitled film is led by Fleabag star Sian Clifford, Russell Tovey, whose more recent credits include The Good Liar and Years And Years, and Rosie Day, who has starred in episodes of Outlander and feature Down A Dark Hall. Day was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2013.

Screen can also reveal an exclusive first-look at the film, which shot in...

Lionsgate has struck a first-look television deal with Twilight producer Temple Hill.

The Orange Is The New Black producer has inked a multi-year deal to develop and produce scripted programming with the company across broadcast, cable and streaming.

On the television side, Temple Hill is behind series including HBO’s The Outsider, Hulu’s Love, Victor and Looking For Alaska, and Fxx’s Dave and Mr. Mercedes.

This comes after the two companies worked together on the feature side on the Twilight Saga movie franchise as well as on Power Rangers, Uncle Drew and Down a Dark Hall.

Temple Hill Productions was founded in 2006 by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, the latter recently rejoining the company after serving as president of Paramount’s Motion Picture Group. Along with Godfrey and Bowen, Temple Hill’s television team includes Head of Television Adam Fishbach and VP Julie Waters.

“Temple Hill has been...

Back in 2018, writer Evan Dorkin and artists Veronica Fish and Andy Fish first enrolled comic book readers in Blackwood College, a supernatural place where surviving to see another day takes precedence over getting passing grades in your classes. Following the macabre mayhem of the series' first four-issue run, Dark Horse Comics is bringing readers back to Blackwood College for another round of gory fun in Blackwood: The Mourning After. With the first issue coming out on February 12th, we recently had the pleasure of catching up with Evan, Veronica, and Andy for our latest Q&a feature to discuss what deadly pleasures readers can look forward to experiencing next at Blackwood College.

You can read our full Q&a with Evan, Veronica, and Andy below (as well as preview pages from the first issue), and to learn more about Blackwood: The Mourning After #1, visit Dark Horse Comics' website.

Thanks for...

Supernatural TV series "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina- Part 3", based on the "Archie" comic book characters starts streaming January 24, 2020 on Netflix:

Previously in "Chapter Twenty: The Mephisto Waltz" :

"The 'Dark Lord' visits 'Greendale' in his angelic form and designates 'Sabrina' as the 'Queen of Hell', intending to usher in the 'End Times' following Sabrina's coronation. He also reveals to Sabrina that he, and not 'Edward Spellman,' is her real father. Angry that 'Lucifer' has chosen Sabrina over her as his Queen, 'Lilith' conspires with the Spellmans and Sabrina's mortal friends to defeat the Dark Lord's plans. 

"Meanwhile, a jaded 'Father Blackwood' poisons most of the coven and flees with his twin infants. 'Prudence' and the Spellmans save several witches and warlocks but others perish. 

"Following a failed assassination attempt on the Dark Lord, 'Nick' come up with a plan to trap the Dark Lord in an 'Acheron Configuration'.

Fair warning, witches: We’re about to spoil Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Part 3 premiere. Abandon complaints, all ye who enter here!

Exactly one month has passed since Sabrina Spellman trapped her father inside her boyfriend and sent them both to hell, and not a day has gone by that she hasn’t attempted (and failed) to rescue poor, hot Nicholas from the underworld. Fortunately, she’s aided by the world’s most understanding ex-boyfriend, who tells Sabrina that he’ll guard the mine “as many times as you want” while she attempts to open the fiery gates. Few, if any,...

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 3 aka the first half of Chilling Adventures Season 2 premieres on Friday, January 24.

Beginning one month after the events of the previous season, nobody is safe with Nick trapped in hell, Lucifer trapped in his body, and Faustus on the run.

But Sabrina Spellman is an incredibly resourceful witch and daughter of the devil himself, so don't count her family and friends down and out.

Before launching into the review proper, I need to take a moment to lament the advent of streaming and how detrimental it is to the conversation surrounding series television.

Every episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 3 is like a little movie, and each deserves our full attention.

They're lovingly filmed and acted with smart dialogue that elicits emotional investment in the characters while providing a fair share of macabre chills.

But the amount of work that goes into a streaming...

Michael Shanks.

Michael Leonard and Jamie Helmer’s The Diver was awarded Best Australian Short Film at the closing of Flickerfest in Sydney yesterday evening, while Michael Shanks’ Rebooted took home the Best Australian Short Animation prize.

Other winners included Alana Hicks, who took home Best Direction in an Australian Short Film for Chicken and Lydia Rui, who was named Outstanding Female Director for This Perfect Day.

The Diver, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last year, follows Callan, played by Nicholas Denton, whose rage, chaos and confusion that can only be tamed by the soothing solitude of the world underwater. It was produced with Justin Pechberty and Damien Megherbi.

Jane Cho’s The Egg, produced by Ilana Lazar, also earned a special mention in the Best Australian Short category.

Shanks’ Aacta-nominated Rebooted, produced by Nicholas Colla and Chris Hocking, follows an ageing movie star – a stop motion...

The Spanish filmmaker is back in the director’s chair with a psychological suspense flick about problematic motherhood, featuring sparse dialogue and starring Rosie Day and Harriet Sansom Harris. Shot last summer over a period of six weeks, at various locations in the provinces of Álava and Biscay, Baby – which is currently in post-production – will be the sixth fiction film by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, a director who, at the tender age of 24, scooped the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival with his feature debut, Alas de mariposa. This movie was followed by others such as La madre muerta, Airbag, Frágil and Gypsy King (2015). Now he is back with another psychological drama, shot in the Basque language and featuring sparse dialogue, in which motherhood will be a driver of conflict. Starring British actress Rosie Day (Down a Dark Hall) and Us thesp Harriet Sansom...

Canadian actor Taylor Russell started out in TV roles on The CW and Lifetime, advancing to the big screen in movies like “Before I Fall” with Zoey Deutch, “Down a Dark Hall” with Uma Thurman and “Hot Air” with Steve Coogan and Neve Campbell. In A24’s “Waves,” now in theaters, Russell plays Emily, a shy teenager in a family dealing with loss; her parents lavish most of their attention on her older brother (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.). The actor uses dreams to influence her performance: When she was offered the role of Emily, she texted writer-director Trey Edward Shults with lines of poetry that came to her while she was sleeping.

What was the audition process for “Waves” like?

I was filming a movie, and Kelvin was friends with one of the people in it. I was on FaceTime with him, and Kelvin was like, “Hey, you could...

In today’s film news roundup, Freida Lee Mock gets a lifetime honor, Isabelle Fuhrman and Penn Badgley get cast, AFI is unveiling rare footage of Alfred Hitchcock, and a faith-based baseball drama and a spy comedy get release dates. Career Honor The International Documentary Association has selected Freida Lee Mock as the recipient of its career achievement award, to be presented at the 35th Annual Ida Documentary Awards on Dec. 7 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Mock has been nominated for five Academy Awards, winning for “Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision” in the documentary feature category. She received short subject nominations for “To Live or Let Die,” “Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember,” “Never Give Up” and “Sing!” Mock’s television credits include the 2013 documentary “Anita” and Emmy winner “Lillian Gish: The Actor’s Life for Me.” Emmy nominated filmmaker Rachel Lears will be honored with the Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.

San Sebastian – Latido Films has taken world sales rights outside Spain on Juanma Bajo Ulloa’s “Baby,” a drama with a psychological thriller narrative thrust starring Rosie Day (“Down a Dark Hall”), Harriet Sansom Harris (“Phantom Thread”), Natalia Tena (“Game of Thrones”), Charo López (“All Night Long”) and young actress Mafalda Carbonell (“To Live Twice”).

Vitoria-based Frágil Zinema produces.

A San Sebastian Golden Shell winner for “Butterflies Wings” in 1991, “Baby” signals the director’s feature return following “Fragile” (2004) and “Gipsy King” (2014).

“We think ‘Baby’ is the movie in which Juanma is going to extract once again all the cinema he has inside. It’s an open genre film with a very powerful concept and he has managed to work with extraordinary artistic and technical teams,” Latido Films CEO Antonio Saura told Variety.

“Baby” is a movie about second opportunities. Set in the Basque country, it depicts a depressed and drug-addicted...

In today’s film news roundup, Fox Searchlight starts a shorts channel, Uma Thurman signs with ICM and Miramax signs animation exec Michael Lachance.

Searchlight Shorts

Fox Searchlight Pictures’ chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula have announced the launch of “Searchlight Shorts” as a collection of short films.

The shorts are available on Fox Searchlight’s YouTube channel and “Searchlight Shorts” Facebook page. The first film to be released on the Fox Searchlight social media channels is the recent best live action short Oscar winner “Skin,” in which a young boy has an innocent encounter with an African American man at a supermarket and his parents react to the exchange with racial violence.

Other short films to be featured include “Feathers” and “Birdie,” which were acquired in late 2018; “Lavender,” which made its premiere at Sundance earlier this year; and the recently acquired “Sew Torn.” Fox Searchlight plans to release a...

Pulp Fiction Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winning actress Uma Thurman has inked with ICM Partners. Thurman can next be seen this spring in Netflix’s Chambers, starring opposite Tony Goldwyn.

She will also return to the stage in Ghosts at the Williamstown Theater Festival this summer. Two years ago, Thurman completed her Broadway debut as the star of The Parisian Woman.

Thurman completed production on various upcoming film releases including Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, James Haslam’s The Con is On, and Rodrigo Cortés’ Down a Dark Hall. She will also star opposite Robert De Niro in Tim Hill’s The War with Grandpa.

Thurman is best known for her motion picture canon with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino including her turn as alluring mob wife Mia Wallace in the Oscar- and Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Pulp Fiction, for which she received a 1995 Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom,...

Uma Thurman has signed with ICM Partners, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The Oscar nominee will next be seen opposite Tony Goldwyn in Netflix's Ya drama series Chambers, which premieres April 26. She also is set to appear in Ghosts at this summer's Williamstown Theater Festival.

Last year, Thurman received the Actor's Fund Medal of Honor and appeared in Lars von Trier's The House That Jack Built, Summit's gothic Ya adaptation Down a Dark Hall and The Con Is On opposite Tim Roth. She next will be seen in comedy The War With Grandpa opposite Robert DeNiro. In ...

Uma Thurman has signed with ICM Partners, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The Oscar nominee will next be seen opposite Tony Goldwyn in Netflix's Ya drama series Chambers, which premieres April 26. She also is set to appear in Ghosts at this summer's Williamstown Theater Festival.

Last year, Thurman received the Actor's Fund Medal of Honor and appeared in Lars von Trier's The House That Jack Built, Summit's gothic Ya adaptation Down a Dark Hall and The Con Is On opposite Tim Roth. She next will be seen in comedy The War With Grandpa opposite Robert DeNiro. In ...

Exclusive: Temple Hill has entered a three-year first-look film deal with Paramount Pictures. It puts producer Marty Bowen back in business with Paramount Motion Picture Group president Wyck Godfrey, who co-founded the production shingle with Bowen.

They had been partners since Bowen hung up his agenting spurs and left UTA to join Godfrey in the producer ranks. Movies produced under the Temple Hill banner include the five films in the Twilight series, The Fault in Our Stars, The Hate U Give, First Man and Love, Simon among others.

Temple Hill came to the end of a first-look deal at Fox. The company will move onto the Paramount lot.

“I’m excited to have Marty and Isaac and the rest of the Temple Hill team join Paramount, and I look forward to the creative insight and opportunities that they bring to the studio,” Godfrey told Deadline. “Obviously, I love their taste...

Armando Iannucci has recruited a star of one of his previous series, The Thick Of It‘s Rebecca Front, for a lead role opposite Hugh Laurie in Iannucci’s HBO space comedy pilot Avenue 5.

Created, written and executive produced by Iannucci, Avenue 5 is set in the future, mostly in space. Laurie plays the lead Ryan Clark, the charming and in-control American captain of Avenue 5.

Veteran British actress Front will play Karen Kelly, a middle-aged American housewife, who boarded Avenue 5 using her sister’s non-transferable ticket. Strong-willed, articulate, likeable. Karen finds herself becoming the voice of the passengers, enjoying her newfound power.

In addition to Laurie, Front joins previously cast Suzy Nakamura.

HBO greenlighted the pilot last year, along with ordering backup scripts.

For her role on Iannucci’s BBC satirical political comedy series The Thick Of it, Front won a BAFTA TV award and a British Comedy Award. She...

Experience the dark powers and supernatural thrills within Blackwood Boarding School when Down a Dark Hall arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital October 16 from Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment.

Experience the dark powers and supernatural thrills within Blackwood Boarding School when Down a Dark Hall arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital October 16 from Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment. This film is currently available On Demand. Based on the best-selling novel by Lois Duncan and produced by the author of The Twilight Saga, this terrifying young adult thriller features an all-star cast including AnnaSophia Robb, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Oscar® nominee Uma Thurman. The Down a Dark Hall Blu-ray and DVD include an all-new featurette and never-before-seen deleted scene and will be available for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.

Kit Gordy (AnnaSophia Robb), a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated...

Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny and The Carrie Diaries star AnnaSophia Robb are set to co-star opposite Patricia Arquette and Joey King in the first season of The Act, Hulu’s character-based anthology series from Nick Antosca, Michelle Dean and Universal Cable Productions.

Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, The Act is a seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories. The first season is based on Dean’s 2016 Buzzfeed article “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered.” It follows Gypsy Blanchard (King), a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother, Dee Dee (Arquette). Her quest for independence opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, one that ultimately leads to murder.

Sevigny will play Mel, a natural leader of all the women in her small neighborhood. She’s had a hard life,...

“Boarding School” is the kind of enterprise whose problems you might normally suspect as being the result of a mismatch between helmer and scenarist — except in this case both are Boaz Yakin, whose diverse prior films include “Fresh,” “A Price Above Rubies,” “Remember the Titans” and “Max.” His first directorial foray into anything approaching horror terrain is a contemporary Gothic melodrama in which (just like current release “Down a Dark Hall”) “problem” children are herded off to an isolated, creepy academy where members of the skeleton staff have a sinister agenda.

“Boarding School” includes an odd mix of narrative elements within a classically Grimm child-endangerment scenario that would work best played as a modern fairy tale. Yet Yakin chooses to pace the film more slowly as a serious drama, which keeps the suspense from building real momentum and exacerbates the script’s implausibilities. A more magical-realist treatment might have have...

Producer Stephenie Meyer (Twilight) and director Rodrigo Cortés’ (Buried) adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer author Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 16th. You can check out the cover art to the right and a full list of special features, along with the film’s trailer below. After that […]

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You can now learn how studioADI's practical effects in Harbinger Down (starring Lance Henriksen) were lovingly created in Christopher Cooksey's new book about the making of the 2015 horror film. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Blu-ray and DVD release details for Down a Dark Hall, co-starring Uma Thurman, and the impressive lineup of guests at this year's New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival.

New Book About the Making of Harbinger Down: "Take a pictorial journey through the production of Harbinger Down, the film that set out to prove that audiences still prefer practical effects creatures over CGI. After finding their animatronic creations left on the cutting room floor one too many times in favor of digitally animated monsters and spurred on by the outcry of movie fans everywhere to keep it real, studioADI co-founders Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. decided to take matters into their own hands. The...

Now on VOD from Lionsgate Premiere, here’s the first clip from Down a Dark Hall in which a slumber party gets spooky. Buried‘s Rodrigo Cortés directs the film that features an impressive cast comprised of Uma Thurman (Kill Bill), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Anna Sophia Robb, Noah Silver (“Tyrant”) and Rosie Day (“Outlander”). In the film: “Kit (AnnaSophia Robb), a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding […]...

Written in 1974, prolific young-adult novelist Lois Duncan’s “Down a Dark Hall” intriguingly anticipated some of the tropes of latterday Ya fantasy-fiction blockbusters. Thus “Buried” director Rodrigo Cortés’ belated screen adaptation comes off — at least in narrative terms — as something a halfway point between “Harry Potter” and “Suspiria,” as “gifted” girls at a curious, sinister private school become increasingly susceptible to supernatural forces.

Lionsgate Premiere’s Stateside launch of this Spanish-u.S. coproduction (which has already opened in several other territories) doesn’t suggest great faith, as it’s only providing very limited theatrical exposure alongside a VOD release. Still, this is a decent modern Gothic thriller handled with sufficient style and a straight face by genre ace Cortés. His efforts, and strong performances by the young female leads, make for a movie that’s fairly strong meat by juvenile fantasy standards, if probably a tad wimpy for horror-fan tastes.

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, FandangoNOW, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Avengers: Infinity War (superhero action-adventure; Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Josh Brolin, Chadwick Boseman, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Tom Holland, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen; rated PG-13) Down a Dark Hall Breaking & Exiting (comedy; Milo Gibson, Jordan Hinson...

Set in the present day, Down a Dark Hall liberally borrows elements from gothic horror to style its gloomy atmosphere. Teenage Kit (AnnaSophia Robb) is sent to the Blackwood Boarding School as a last resort. She has no aptitude for learning, nor does she wish to apply herself; instead, she expresses herself by acting out her rebellion, to the continuing frustration of her mother. So Kit finds herself dumped at Blackwood, along with four other teenage girls who have engaged in illegal activities. It's a criminal gang in the making, but strangely they are the only students at the school. Headmistress Madame Duret (Uma Thurman) speaks quietly yet firmly, with an accent that I couldn't quite place. Is she from Germany? Hungary? Austria? Transylvania? No...

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Down A Dark Hall centers on Kit Gordy (AnnaSophia Robb), a troubled girl who is sent off to Blackwood Boarding School. Kit and four other girls find themselves under the supervision of eccentric headmistress Madame Duret (Uma Thurman), and eventually they discover that their environment may have its share of (excuse the cinematic pun) paranormal [...]

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After a six-year hiatus from feature length filmmaking, Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés is finally back with his latest fantasy horror picture Down a Dark Hall – also known by its alternate title Blackwood. Best known for his tense direction on the Ryan Reynolds-led Buried and the Sigourney Weaver-led Red Lights, Cortés is no stranger to the horror-thriller genre. In Dark Hall, Cortés throws a fantastical twist onto things as the film deals with the supernatural – spookily depicted in the first trailer for the film, which Lionsgate has now released.

Down a Dark Hall centers on a troublesome young adult named Kit Gordy who, after a brief altercation with the law, is sent to a mysterious disciplinary boarding school – “Welcome to Blackwood” the stern headmaster Madame Duret (played by Uma Thurman) announces in the trailer. From here, things only become darker. Accompanied by four other similarly aged girls, Kit and her...

Last week we shared the first trailer for the upcoming teen horror flick Down a Dark Hall co-starring Uma Thurman. And today we have word on the actresses’ new horror offering Chambers. Thurman has joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix original horror series from director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. […]

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Exclusive: Uma Thurman has been tapped for a starring role in Chambers, Netflix’s upcoming hourlong supernatural drama from Stephen Gaghan and Super Deluxe.

Created and written by Leah Rachel, who co-showruns with Akela Cooper, Chambers centers on a young heart attack survivor who becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding the heart that saved her life. However, the closer she gets to uncovering the truth about her donor’s sudden death, the more she starts taking on the characteristics of the deceased — some of which are troublingly sinister.

Thurman will play Nancy, the mother of the heart donor who forges a hesitant relationship with the young recipient only to find out her daughter may not be as dead as she thought.

Gaghan executive produces Chambers via Super Emotional alongside Rachel and Cooper as well as Wolfgang Hammer and Winnie Kemp via Super Deluxe. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon as an executive producer and...

You wan’t trailers? You’ve got trailers, baby. Here’s a movie trailer round-up featuring the latest coming attractions you may have missed. And if you didn’t miss them, just pretend you did and watch them anyway. Please, humor me. Below you’ll see trailers for the Uma Thurman film Down A Dark Hall, the documentary The King, the YouTube […]

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It was just the other day that we shared your first look at producer Stephenie Meyer (Twilight) and director Rodrigo Cortés’ (Buried) adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer author Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall The film stars AnnaSophia Robb (The Reaping), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Taylor Russell (Netflix’s Lost in Space) and Uma Thurman […]

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"We're all thrilled you're here..." Lionsgate has debuted the first official trailer for a spunky supernatural thriller titled Down A Dark Hall, adapted from a Ya novel of the same name written by "I Know What You Did Last Summer" author Lois Duncan. The film is about a young woman named Kit Gordy, as played by AnnaSophia Robb, a new student at the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School for girls, who confronts the institution's supernatural occurrences and dark powers of its headmistress. The cast includes Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles, Noah Silver, Taylor Russell, Rosie Day , and "a truly memorable turn by the iconic" Uma Thurman. As you might expect, this doesn't look that great - another derivative dark mansion, supernatural thriller with all the typical spooks & scares. Give us something new! Not more of this. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Rodrigo Cortés' Down A Dark Hall, direct from YouTube...

Welcome to Blackwood, where lost girls find their way…

From the producers of The Twilight Saga comes the very creepy new trailer and poster for Down A Dark Hall. Turn up the volume – I dare you.

Down A Dark Hall opens in Theaters, On Demand, and On iTunes August 17th.

Kit (AnnaSophia Robb), a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated temper becomes too much for her mother to handle. Once she arrives at Blackwood, Kit encounters eccentric headmistress Madame Duret (Uma Thurman) and meets the school’s only other students, four young women also headed down a troubled path. While exploring the labyrinthine corridors of the school, Kit and her classmates discover that Blackwood Manor hides an age-old secret rooted in the paranormal.

Based on the classic gothic Ya novel of the same name by Lois Duncan – author of “I Know What You Did Last Summer...

Lionsgate has released the first trailer for a new supernatural horror thriller called Down a Dark Hall. The film is based on the gothic Ya novel of the same name by Lois Duncan, and it actually looks like this might be a decent film.

First of all the movie was directed by Rodrigo Cortés who directed the Ryan Reynold's film Buried, which was a great movie! On top of that, the movie has a great cast that includes AnnaSophia Robb and Uma Thurman.

The story centers around Blackwood Boarding School, where lost girls find their way. Here's the synopsis:

Kit (AnnaSophia Robb), a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated temper becomes too much for her mother to handle. Once she arrives at Blackwood, Kit encounters eccentric headmistress Madame Duret (Uma Thurman) and meets the school’s only other students, four young women...

Lionsgate Premiere has announced Down a Dark Hall for release in theaters and VOD platforms on August 17, 2018. Buried‘s Rodrigo Cortés directs the film that features an impressive cast comprised of Uma Thurman (Kill Bill), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Anna Sophia Robb, Noah Silver (“Tyrant”) and Rosie Day (“Outlander”). In the film: “Kit (AnnaSophia Robb), a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School […]...

I know this might sound strange, but one of the movies I’m most looking forward to is the upcoming adaptation of Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall. It sounds like a teen-friendly version of Dario Argento’s Suspiria and I have a special place in my horror heart for the works of Lois Duncan (I Know […]

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AnnaSophia Robb is set to co-star opposite Charlie Plummer (All the Money in the World) and Taylor Russell (Lost in Space) in the Thor Freudenthal-directed film adaptation of Words On Bathroom Walls, based on Julia Walton’s debut novel. Plummer plays Adam, a high schooler living with paranoid schizophrenia and battling wild hallucinations. Luckily, an experimental drug trial promises to help hide his illness from his peers and most importantly from Maya, the girl of his dreams. Robb will play Rebecca, one of the main characters in Adam’s hallucinations who acts as a conduit for the feelings that he cannot express. Nick Naveda wrote the screenplay which Ld Entertainment financing and Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon are producing. Robb, whose upcoming projects include the supernatural drama, Down A Dark Hall for Lionsgate, Freakshow, produced by Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films, and the PBS Civil War mini-series Mercy Street,...

Pulp Fiction actress signs up for Cannes section.

Pulp Fiction actress Uma Thurman has been named president of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard jury.

Seen as the festival’s second most high-profile category behind the international competition, this year’s Un Certain Regard programme features titles from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Michel Franco and Mathieu Amalric.

Last year, Finnish black and white boxing film The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki won the strand’s top prize.

Thurman was a member of the Cannes international competition jury in 2011 when Robert De Niro was president. They awarded the Palme d’Or to Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life.

Most noted for her roles in Quentin Tarantino’s films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2, Thurman was more recently seen alongside Bradley Cooper in chef drama Burnt.

She will feature in Lars von Trier’s upcoming film The House That Jack Built as well...

Studio top brass said on Wednesday they have broadened the pipeline with Studiocanal to include Summit films and licensed a trio of top Afm titles to Tele München Gruppe.

The expanded deal with Studiocanal, which already distributes Lionsgate films in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, kicks off with Otto Bathurst’s adventure Robin Hood: Origins. The action-adventure from Appian Way, Safehouse Pictures and Thunder Road Pictures is scheduled to open in the Us on March 23, 2018, and stars Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Jamie Dornan, Eve Hewson and Paul Anderson.

Studiocanal Germany has distributed the Hunger Games and Saw franchises, among others, and its slate includes Oscar hopeful La La Land on January 12, as well as awards contender A Monster Calls and American Assassin.

Lionsgate has signed a deal with Tele München Gruppe to distribute three of its recent hot Afm titles, led by Chris Hemsworth war drama Horse Soldiers.

The Tele München pact includes sci-fi thriller Kin from the Baker...

Exclusive: Noah Silver and Rosie Day have joined the cast of Lionsgate’s upcoming film Down A Dark Hall, opposite Anna Sophia Robb and Isabelle Fuhrman. Rodrigo Cortés is directing the pic with a script from Michael Goldbach and Chris Sparling. Based on Lois Duncan’s 1974 Ya novel of the same name, the supernatural mystery centers on a troubled teen with a haunted past who is committed to Blackwood, a mysterious school for gifted and disturbed girls. Silver plays Jules…...

Isabelle Fuhrman is set to star in the supernatural thriller Down A Dark Hall. The film adaptation of 1974 Ya novel by Lois Duncan is about a troubled teen with a haunted past who is committed to Blackwood, a mysterious school for gifted and disturbed girls. Rodrigo Cortes is directing the picture from a script by Michael Goldbach and Chris Sparling. Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment label will distribute the film., which is currently shooting in Barcelona. Wick Godfrey…...

Lionsgate has acquired the suspense thriller Down a Dark Hall and set Rodrigo Cortes (Buried) to direct. The young adult novel by Lois Duncan centers on Kit, a new student at Blackwood Boarding School: "It is the opportunity of a lifetime, but Kit quickly realizes something strange is happening behind its walls as she confronts the darkly seductive powers of Blackwood’s headmistress and comes face to face with the supernatural powers that could make her great or destroy her." Michael Goldbach (Daydream Nation) adapted the first draft---Chris Sparling (Buried) has joined the team for additional writing. Stephenie Meyer, Meghan Hibbett, Wyck Godfrey, and Marty Bowen will produce Down a Dark Hall. Check out the press release for more details after the break. Lionsgate Acquires Young Adult Suspense Thriller Down A Dark Hall From Fickle Fish And Temple Hill Entertainment Rodrigo CORTÉS Attached To Direct Film Based On...