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Lily-Rose Depp is making rare comments about her younger brother Jack Depp, who is rarely seen in public.

The 25-year-old actress made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote her new movie Nosferatu on Monday night (December 16) in New York City.

Lily-Rose opened up about her connection to Dracula, years before starring in the new movie. If you didn’t know, she and Jack are the children of actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis.

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“I was always a fan of the Dracula tale,” she said. “My brother and I were obsessed with Abbott and Costello as kids, and, you know, they have a whole, like, Meet the Monsters series.”

“My brother was 3 or 4 at the time, and he started dressing up like Dracula and doing these kind of really serious line readings of the lines,” Lily-Rose said. “So in a way,...

Waxwork Records recently announced that they will release a vinyl soundtrack of Tobe Hooper's 1979 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, and we have a teaser image of the anticipated release. Today's Horror Highlights also features details about Adrienne Barbeau receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming New York City Horror Film Festival and Breaking Glass Pictures' slate of horror films on Amazon Prime.

Salem's Lot Vinyl Soundtrack Announced by Waxwork Records: From Waxwork Records: "The bat is out the bag. Waxwork Records is releasing, for the very first time on vinyl, the complete 1979 television score to Stephen King's Salem's Lot! Details coming next week. Here's a peek at what will be a jaw dropping, fang gnashing, double LP featuring 84 cues remastered from the 1979 masters, and with new art by Francesco Francavilla! Waxwork will officially terrorize your turntable this Halloween season!"

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Exclusive: Class Of 92 producers Fulwell 73 join Metrodome’s crime story.

Class of 92 and I Am Bolt director Gabe Turner is to direct The Hatton Garden Heist with Leo Pearlman of UK production outfit Fulwell 73 on board to produce alongside distributor-producer Metrodome.

Metrodome’s version of the $20m (£14m) London heist is due to enter pre-production in early June.

The raid, which took place over Easter Weekend 2015 on a safe deposit vault in central London, was one of the biggest heists in British criminal history, carried out by a semi-retired group of men ranging in age between 58-75.

Fulwell 73 produced hit docs Class of 92 – about Manchester United - and One Direction 3D: This is Us.

The collaboration marks the second partnership between Metrodome and Fulwell after The Guvnors.

Jezz Vernon, Metrodome managing director, said: “It’s an incredible story and we needed a fantastic director and production company to deliver it. We had no...

Thanks to DVD sales, cheap-and-cheerful crime movies have become a force to be reckoned with. How are they staying on top? The genre’s movers and shakers explain

Darren, sales manager at a plastics firm in Milton Keynes, is a force to be reckoned with in the British film industry. In part, he’s the reason why British crime cinema – low-budget, morally dubious and about as disreputable as it’s ever been – is the genre that refuses to die. At least, Darren would if he actually existed. Darren, it turns out, is a theoretical construct; an audience archetype identified by Jezz Vernon, managing director of distribution outfit Metrodome, the people who released recent examples of the form such as The Guvnors, St George’s Day and The Fall of the Essex Boys.

“We always talk about the buyer of a film,” says Vernon. “For someone like Darren, there’s a certain boredom about his existence,...

★★☆☆☆It's unlikely that The Guvnors (2014) is going to be admitted to the canon of gangland crime thrillers in the near future. A middling script, poor direction and a varying array of stereotypical performances all contribute to the gathering inertia of director Gabe Turner's sophomore feature (his first as scribe). The plot is so razor-thin, it can barely sustain the momentum of any action that the film puts forth. Purportedly, a generational battle of East London firms is in the offing, and at the head of each are two men who must confront their own choices head-on and decide whether they will rise or fall by fates of their own making.

★★☆☆☆Looking to marry the football hooligan punch 'em up with Daily Mail-baiting hoodie horror, Gabe Turner's The Guvnors (2014) does at least prove that there's still some vague spark of life in these two staples of low-budget British filmmaking. Whilst it often finds itself - knowingly or unknowingly - conforming to type, there are several commendable flourishes that raise Turner's barrel of cockney monkeys above the Rise of the Foot Soldiers and White Collar Hooligans of this world. If nothing else, it also provides the conclusive answer to that eternal question - who would win in a fight between old school crooner David Essex and Harley Sylvester, one half of Brighton hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks. 'Ave a bang on that.

Up until now, filmmaker Gabe Turner had only made two feature films – both of which were documentaries. His previous endeavour, which he directed alongside his brother Benjamin, was The Class of ’92, an engaging, entertaining and spirited effort, that offered a profound study of British society. His latest feature, The Guvnors, attempts much of the same thing, yet sadly falls short. Unfortunately the only connection this has to The Class of ’92, is that the aforementioned year is around the same time films of this ilk felt relevant and unique.

Doug Allen plays Mitch, a former football hooligan and ‘Guvnor’, now seeking a more peaceful existence with his wife and young son. However he soon finds himself dragged back into his former way of life, when the opportunist gangster Adam (Harley Sylvester) intends on defeating the old guard, and ensuring he’s the most feared criminal in the area. When he attacks...

Renowned, primarily, for being one half of the Rizzle Kicks – singer Harley Sylvester is now trying his hand at acting, taking on the lead role in Gabe Turner’s gangster drama, The Guvnors.

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Sylvester to discuss his move (or return, in some ways) to acting, and how much fun he had playing the leading antagonist of the piece. We also asked if there was anyone in particular he used to help craft this role, and his joy working alongside good friend and now collaborator, Turner.

The Guvnors is released on August 29th.

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Simeon Hailligan’s thriller [pictured], starring Pollyanna McIntosh and Lee Williams, on Metrodome International’s Cannes slate.

Metrodome International are handling sales on White Settlers in Cannes.

Simeon Halligan’s thriller stars Pollyanna McIntosh and Lee Williams and will screen to distributors for the first time. It is produced by Rachel Richardson-Jones for Not A Number Productions.

Caroline Couret-Delègue, Metrodome International head of sales & acquisitions, commented: “We are extremely pleased to be representing these titles going into our first Cannes with Metrodome International. We look forward to embarking on a fruitful relationship with Not A Number Productions.”

Metrodome International are also handling Dominic Brunt’s The Taking, staring Victoria Smurfit and Joanne Mitchell, and The Guvnors starring Harley Sylvester from hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks.

Exclusive: Shoot underway in London on thriller from Metrodome production slate; Salt handles sales.

Shoot is underway on Meet the Guvnors, the latest film on the Metrodome production slate, financed and co-produced by London outfit Fulwell 73.

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Meet the Guvnors

The thriller, set amongst the clans and gangs of South East London, marks the feature debut of Rizzle Kicks front-man Harley Alexander Sule, who stars alongside Doug Allen, David Essex, Barrington Patterson, aka One Eyed-Baz, and Vas Blackwood.

Written and directed by Gabe Turner, the film will be produced by Leo Pearlman, Danny Potts and Cass Pennant. The Salt Company are handling worldwide sales.

Jezz Vernon exec produces for Metrodome, which will release in the film in the UK in 2014.

Metrodome’s recent production, horror film The Borderlands, played at Film 4’s Fright Fest.

Sule makes up one half of UK hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, which has sold...