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Arc Entertainment have acquired the North American rights for Mamoru Oshii's action sci-fi thriller Garm Wars: The Last Druid. They plan to release the film in cinemas and on VOD on October 2nd. The planet Annwn, inhabited by the Garm, is engaged in perpetual warfare among three tribes.  One Columba fighter pilot, Khara (St-Pierre), embarks on a quest with an unlikely trio: Kumtak tribal elder Wydd (Henriksen), a sacred dog Gula, and one of the last remaining mystical Druids from a long forgotten time. A Briga soldier, Skellig (Durand), accompanies the small band after forging an uneasy truce with Khara. As they struggle across the land in the search for answers to their existence, they encounter raging storms, fierce giants, and mechanical mayhem. They survive these...

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Garm Wars: The Last Druid Recent Acquisition Per Arc Ent

Arc Entertainment has acquired Us rights to the action-sci-fi thriller Garm Wars: The Last Druid. Directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and co-written by Geoffrey Gunn (Siren), the film stars newcomer Melanie St-Pierre (Barney’s Version), Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens). Arc Entertainment will be releasing the film in-theaters and on VOD on October 2, 2015. The deal was announced today by Arc Entertainment’s ...

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Two new clips have been revealed for a favorite of SXSW, Turbo Kid. Also in this morning's round-up: U.S. distribution for Garm Wars: The Last Druid, release details for Unnatural, and the Rebound premiere at The Downtown Independent.

Turbo Kid: Released by Epic Pictures Group, Turbo Kid will have its official theatrical and VOD release next Friday on August 28th.

"In a post-apocalyptic future a young solitary scavenger obsessed with comic books must face his fears and become a reluctant hero when he meets a mysterious girl. From horror masterminds Ant Timpson (The ABCs Of Death 1 & 2, Housebound) and Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun)."

Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, Turbo Kid stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Aaron Jeffery, and Michael Ironside.

To read Heather's review of Turbo Kid and her interview with directors François Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell, and Anouk Whissell, visit the following:

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Arc Entertainment has acquired Us rights to the visually striking sci-fi thriller Garm Wars: The Last Druid, a film 15 years in the making from directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and co-written by Geoffrey Gunn (Siren). The film stars newcomer Melanie St-Pierre (Barney’s Version), Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens).

Arc Entertainment will release the film in theaters and on VOD on October 2, 2015.

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Mamoru Oshii’s Garm Wars: The Last Druid is coming to the United States courtesy of Arc Entertainment, and we have all your details right here. Read on for the skinny! From the Press Release Arc Entertainment has acquired Us rights… Continue Reading →

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The distributor has picked up Us rights to Mamoru Oshii’s sci-fi and plans an October 2 day-and-date theatrical and VOD launch.

Oshii, the director behind 1995’s Ghost In The Shell, directed the live-action-cgi hybrid from a screenplay he co-wrote with Geoffrey Gunn.

Garm Wars: The Last Druid centres on a trio of adventurers from a world on the brink of collapse who set out to find the truth about their existence.

Newcomer Melanie St-Pierre stars alongside Kevin Durand and Lance Henriksen

Makoto Asanuma, Tetsu Fujimura, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Lyse Lafontaine produced.

This Friday, a brand new creature feature called Stung arrives in theaters and on VOD. The film co-stars the iconic Lance Henriksen as Mayor Caruthers, one of the unfortunate party-goers at a shindig that gets attacked by mutated killer wasps who leave shredded corpses in their wake. Daily Dead recently chatted with Henriksen about the new horror comedy from director Benni Diaz as well as his involvement in several other upcoming projects, including Harbinger Down, and whether or not he’d be up for more Millennium if all goes well with the upcoming revival of Chris Carter’s other popular series, The X-Files.

This movie is a ton of fun—I grew up on a lot of creature features, mostly due to Elvira and her show, and I thought Stung was a great blend of old-school creature campiness with this sort of new-school twist to it.

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Mamoru Oshii has built a loyal following over the years with his penchant for thought-provoking animated features, 1995's Ghost in the Shell being his masterpiece, but the turgid fantasy stylings of Garm Wars: The Last Druid will test the most ardent fans patience.Opening on the computer-generated world of Annwn, Lance Henriksen begins the first of what will be many interminably long and undecipherable voiceovers attempting to explain this world's mythology. In the beginning there were eight tribes, each with a name more ridiculous than the last that old Lance will read out more than once during the film's runtime. Only three of these tribes now remain, the most powerful being the Briga, who control the land and are aided by the technologically advanced Kumtak in...

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Last week in Japan, legendary director Oshii Mamoru's new live-action film Garm Wars: The Last Druid was shown to the public, and rest assured we will chime in soon about it. Reviews have been wildly divided, to say the least, so that should get interesting. Also interesting is that the film is in the English-language, and stars Lance Henriksen in one of the lead roles. Wait, what?! Lance Henriksen has been in awesome movies, good movies, bad movies, awful movies, but he himself is always dependably playing his character, whatever it is, and he'll make it look believable. He is always recognizable but never hammy, even when chewing the scenery, and how difficult is that? He is one of the most consistently great supporting actors...

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The Tokyo International Film Festival is on through October 31 and the special focus this year is on anime. Among the highlights are a tribute to Hideaki Anno, creator of the Evangelion series; Garm Wars: The Last Druid by Mamoru Oshii, the creator of the Ghost in the Shell franchise who's currently filming new Patlabor feature; Tetsuro Araki's Attack on Titan: The First Part; Shinji Aramaki's prequel Appleseed Alpha; new shorts by Shigeru Miyamoto featuring Pikmin, "cute creatures that are a hybrid of plant and animal," as Mark Schilling puts it in the Japan Times. We've also got a first round of reviews of Disney's Big Hero 6. » - David Hudson...

The Tokyo International Film Festival is on through October 31 and the special focus this year is on anime. Among the highlights are a tribute to Hideaki Anno, creator of the Evangelion series; Garm Wars: The Last Druid by Mamoru Oshii, the creator of the Ghost in the Shell franchise who's currently filming new Patlabor feature; Tetsuro Araki's Attack on Titan: The First Part; Shinji Aramaki's prequel Appleseed Alpha; new shorts by Shigeru Miyamoto featuring Pikmin, "cute creatures that are a hybrid of plant and animal," as Mark Schilling puts it in the Japan Times. We've also got a first round of reviews of Disney's Big Hero 6. » - David Hudson...

Ghost In The Shell director Oshii Mamoru continues to bring his visions to life in (mostly) live action with the upcoming Garm Wars: The Last Druid - an English language hybrid of live action and animation techniques starring Lance Henriksen, Andrew Gillies and Melanie St Pierre.Taking place in a world of war known as Annwn, Garm Wars sets the scene with clone soldiers from 3 military tribes, in a bloody and perpetual battle of air, land and technology. One clone, Khara, finds herself separated from battle and on the run with unlikely companions. In seeking to know more about their joint existence, the fugitives instead find an unrelenting truth and the greatest battle of their lives. With the film due to premiere soon at the...

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Exclusive: Company’s increased acquisition drive includes post Cannes purchase of boxing drama Bleed For This.

Rome-based distributor Notorious Pictures made its debut today on the Italian Aim market, the country’s alternative capital market for small and medium-sized companies.

Founded in 2012, the company has seen rapid growth over the last 18 months, climbing to number four in Italy’s distributor rankings for the first three months of 2014, from number 10 in 2013.

Notorious Pictures CEO and founder Guglielmo Marchetti told ScreenDaily in an exclusive interview that the €7.5m ($10m) raised through the move would be used to increase acquisitions and enter production.

The €7.5m ($10m) represents roughly 10.3% of the company’s total capital, said Marchetti, who controls the remaining 89.7%.

“Becoming a public quoted company is an important step for Notorious,” said Marchetti. “It gives us access to new sources of finance which will enable us to further expand.

“There are two poles of growth we want to pursue. Firstly...

Even if you’re a complete novice when it comes to anime, chances are that you’ll have at least heard of the likes of “Ghost in the Shell” and “The Sky Crawlers,” and those films both came from the acclaimed Japanese director Mamoru Oshii. He also directed the 2001 live-action movie “Avalon,” and Oshii is now set to make his first live-action English-language film with “The Last Druid: Garm Wars.” The story is described as taking place in a world of war known as Annwyn, where clone soldiers from three military tribes are locked in a perpetual battle of air, land and technology. One clone, Khara, is separated from the battle and finds herself on the run with a group of unlikely companions, and together they seek to know more about their existence. It sounds to us like a project that could work perfectly in anime form, but Oshii looks...