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On the way this Summer from 20th Century Studios is heist thriller Eenie Meanie starring Samara Weaving (Ready or Not, Scream 6), and the first images have been released.

Additionally, we’ve learned that Eenie Meanie will premiere August 22 on Hulu.

Karl Glusman (Watcher) will star alongside Samara Weaving in Eenie Meanie. Shawn Simmons (“Wayne”) directed the film, and Simmons also wrote the screenplay.

“The film follows a former teenage getaway driver who is dragged back into her unsavory past when a former employer offers her a chance to save the life of her chronically unreliable ex-boyfriend.”

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are producing.

A favorite in the horror world, Samara Weaving has a handful of projects headed our way soon, also including sequel Ready or Not: Here I Come and remake Over Your Dead Body.

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Hulu has picked up an untitled college comedy starring Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo and The Goldbergs alum Sean Giambrone.

Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher (known as the comedy duo BriTANicK) wrote and directed the feature that follows a group of college students, who order a pizza to their dorm but due to a bad drug trip, the simple journey down two flights of stairs to retrieve the pizza turns into, according to the logline, “a mind-bendingly transformative quest.”

The film is produced by Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps of American High, which was behind fellow Hulu features Plan B, Big Time Adolescence and The Binge. All Things Comedy’s Billy Rosenberg also produced, along with Jason Zaro, Max A. Butler and Molle DeBartolo. Matarazzo executive produced.

Saturday Night Live alums McElhaney and Kocher, repped by UTA and Brillstein, most recently wrote the upcoming film Over Your Dead Body directed...

Hulu has picked up an untitled feature from comedy duo BriTANIcK, Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, that will be led by “Stranger Things” star Gaten Matarazzo and “The Goldbergs” breakout Sean Giambrone.

The film, which is currently billed as “The Untitled BriTANicK Pizza Movie,” comes from American High and All Things Comedy. The story is said to follow a pair of loner college undergrads, Jack and Montgomery, who order a take-out pie, but accidentally take a homemade drug that turns a two-floor journey downstairs into a “mind-bendingly transformative quest.”

The pizza movie is produced by Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps for American High and Billy Rosenberg for All Things Comedy. Jazon Zaro, Max A. Butler and Molle DeBartolo are also producers. Matarazzo is an executive producer.

McElhaney and Kocher both featured on Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch list in 2013, representing their comedy banner BriTANicK. The two continue to perform live...

Throughout his career, Takashi Miike was always considered a director-for-hire, meaning he would undertake almost any project he was commissioned to do. The result is that the films in his vast filmography differ significantly, to the point that it is difficult to fathom that all those works are actually from the same director.

On the occasion of Mubi streaming a number of his films, we have compiled a list of 10 titles that prove the chameleon-like directorial abilities of Miike, in the most eloquent way, as they include a superhero movie, a comedy, a horror, a children’s movie, a splatter, a musical, an adaptation, a thriller, a western and a drama.

*by clicking on the titles, you can read the full reviews

1. Zebraman (2004)

“Zebraman” deftly balances its outwardly dominant comedic nature with just enough underlying seriousness and genuine action to simultaneously provide sufficient superhero entertainment and drama while acting as...

One of Japan’s most significant cultural phenomenon, the eccentricities of everyday life is explained by the presence of spirits in objects which have become known as Yokai. This concept has been a major figure in numerous stories and plays throughout the years, to novels, TV shows and feature films which is the subject of gonzo-exploitation director Yudai Yamaguchi and Keita Amemiya’s joint anthology-styled love letter to the creatures.

“Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch” is part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival

Hearing about her grandfather, young Izumi decides to return to her hometown in order to be with him as her mother continually warns her about the stories he’s telling. As a series of strange incidents occur to neighbors around the village, she begins to reconnect with her childhood friend Mika who has the feeling that something terrifying is going to happen to her.

We are three weeks away until Fantastic Fest. Kind of amazing to think about. This year, I am blessed to bring Mike Hassler with me. We will be seeing as many films as our eyeballs will see and writing as many reviews as our fingers will allow us. Take a look at the second wave announcement below and don’t forget to look at the first wave and my predictions of what might play at the fest (I didn’t fare well with the Second Wave). As before, I have included the trailers for all the films, if available, announced in this wave.

From the Press Release

Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.

Fantastic Fest 2014 kicks off September 18, and the second wave of films has been announced. Purgatory, Redeemer, Whispers Behind the Wall, Necrophobia 3D, Over Your Dead Body, and more are on the menu!

From the Press Release:

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests, and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas, at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.

Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate's latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre.

Be sure to check out MovieBS.com for reviews and commentary from the best film festival known to man. Here is the news release of the second wave of films and events.

Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.

Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate’s latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the “assassin genre.

The lineup for the second wave of films at 2014′s 10th Annual Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas has arrived, and with it a potential Oscar contender, Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler. The film, a pulpy crime film about an embedded journalist (Jake Gyllenhaal), will make its U.S. premiere at the festival with Director and Writer Gilroy in attendance.

Fantastic Fest has also released a lineup that includes John Wick, an action/thriller starring Keanu Reeves (Reeves will be in attendance), Takashi Miike’s latest Over Your Dead Body and the Studio Ghibli film The Tale of Princess Kaguya. This announcement comes on the heels of the first wave of films, including Sundance horror film The Babadook.

Fantastic Fest takes place September 18-25 in Austin. View the first lineup of films here. And view the full lineup of films and descriptions from this second wave below via a press release.

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Open Road’s Jake Gyllenhaal starrer Nightcrawler will close the 10th annual Fantastic Fest in its U.S. premiere and Keanu Reeves will drop by for a gala screening of Lionsgate’s John Wick, organizers announced today. The rising genre film fest held September 18-25 in Austin, TX will open with the previously announced Tusk from Kevin Smith.

Also unveiled today along with a second wave of programming is a centerpiece bout in the Fantastic Debates, in which filmmakers, critics, and celebs engage in discourse at a podium before taking it to the boxing ring to determine the ultimate winner. This year, BitTorrent’s Chief Content Officer Matt Mason will take on a challenger to duke it out over whether the file sharing platform is a valuable tool or an enabler of piracy.

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