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Director Miles Doleac's next film Hallowed Ground hits theaters on June 7th and VOD and DVD, just a few days later, on June 11th. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Don't Look release details and the world premiere of Friday Night Death Slots.

Don't Look VOD and DVD Release Details: "This May, take a wrong turn to hell.

Luciana Faulhaber’s unique, female-directed twist on horror films “Don’t Look” releases on VOD and DVD May 14 from Wild Eye Releasing.

Scripted by Jessica Boucher and Danielle Killay, “Don’t Look” centers on five New York City Millennials who escape the big city for a rustic Thanksgiving weekend in the country. But as will happen in horror, something threatens to shatter their peaceful getaway and they are targeted for murder.

The film, Faulhaber’s debut, recreates “the pure fun of 80's classics like Friday the 13th, The Burning or April Fool's Day...

• only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists

• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)

• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well

• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists

• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions

The Where Are the Women? project was designed to drill deep down into the films of 2015 in order to determine how well — or how poorly — they represented women. The project has now come to its end, and you can examine the final ranking here. The ranking includes 270 films released in the Us, Canada, and the UK, in both limited and wide release (including every wide-release North American film and most of the UK wide-release films). The...

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 5. [Synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.] Wide Beyond the Mask Director: Chad Burns Cast: Andrew Cheney, John Rhys-Davies, Kara Killmer, Adetokumboh M'Cormack, Steve Blackwood, Thomas D. Mahard, Marc Bowers, Carl Harry Carlson, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rebekah Cook, Connie Craig, Jennifer Dixon, Dennis Doyle Jr. Synopsis: "A former assassin tries to redeem himself by becoming a masked highwayman in Colonial America." Entourage Director: Doug Ellin Cast: Jeremy Piven, Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Billy Bob Thornton, Haley Joel Osment, Perrey Reeves, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rhys Coiro, Constance Zimmer, Nora Dunn Synopsis: "Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, are back - and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold on a risky project that will serve as Vince's directorial...

After a successful, four-walling campaign in theaters across the U.S. for their faith-based feature Beyond The Mask through a distribution entity Gathr, producers have just pacted with Freestyle Releasing to distribute the film in more mainstream theaters on June 5 for traditional, weeklong runs. The film stars John Rhys-Davies (Killing Jesus, The Lord Of The Rings). The same writer of the faith-based phenoms Fireproof and Courageous, Stephen Kendrick, also co-wrote this…...