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Did Kendrick Lamar Make Reebok Wait For 2 Years? ( Photo Credit – Facebook )

In 2015, long before artist-brand collabs flooded your Instagram feed every week, Kendrick Lamar quietly dropped a Reebok sneaker tie-up that didn’t scream “look at me.” It’s been nearly a decade since that release, but the story behind how it all came together is still worth telling.

This wasn’t just about laces and logos; it was a rare case where a shoe carried a real message. And it took Reebok nearly two years of chasing before Kendrick finally picked up the phone. Today, when sneaker deals come and go in months, that kind of patience feels almost unbelievable.

But Reebok knew they weren’t just trying to land a celebrity. They wanted Kendrick only, and he wasn’t signing on unless it meant something. Damion Presson, who led Reebok’s entertainment marketing at the time, said in the interview with Complex,...

Netflix's psychological thriller The Sand Castleis much more than the average deserted-island survival story. Akin to past entries within the subgenre like Lost and Sweatheart, the film does include its typical plotlines, like having characters withstand harsh elements, attempt different methods of escape, and encounter eerie happenings. However, the streaming service's Lebanese drama differs in its focus — using these tropes as a backdrop to explore the mind at war.

Directed by Matty Brown, known for short films like The Distraction, The Sand Castle follows a fractured family of four trying to survive alone on a remote island somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. Luckily, they have a working lighthouse to take refuge in and attract rescue. However, as the days pass without any word from the outside world, their survival becomes uncertain, tensions rise, and the once idyllic sanctuary gradually reveals a shocking reality.

Additionally, throughout the film, the truth...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine revealed that Captain Benjamin Sisko's (Avery Brooks) mother isn't who he thought, and Sisko's real mother was a Prophet of Bajor. Since the series premiere of DS9, Sisko was pulled in two directions, between his duty as a Starfleet Officer and his growing responsibility as the Emissary, one of Bajor's religious leaders. Sisko's true nature and destiny was finally explained in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 7, central to which was the identity of Ben's true birth mother.

The expansive cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine grew to include members of Captain Benjamin Sisko's family. Besides his teenage son, Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton), Ben's father, Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters), was an important player in his life. Joseph was the patriarch of the Sisko family, which included Ben's unseen sister, Judith Sisko, and their two younger brothers. However, Joseph's unnamed wife passed away before DS9 began,...

The world of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex has been somewhat limited during its first fourteen chapters, but the latest development brings the welcome surprise, moving outside the confines of Konoha and its outer limits. Given the threat of the Divine Trees which threatens to engulf the ninja world once they consume their targets and attain self-actualization, it makes sense that they'd set their sights on other villages. With Sunagakure, the Village Hidden in the Sand's most important family under attack, namely Shinki and Gaara, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex takes the tension and terror abroad.

While Boruto: Two Blue Vortex largely focused on Konoha for its first chapters, there were still glimpses of the world first fleshed out by Masashi Kishimoto in Naruto. One abandoned hideout near the Land of Wind, confirming a fan theory about Orochimaru's potential involvement in the series, indicates a clear intent to incorporate the world outside Konoha.

Actor Hector David Rivera, known for his role as the Green Power Ranger in the popular franchise, has been accused of shoving an elderly man in a battery case in Nampa, Idaho.

According to the local authorities, the incident occurred on July 26, when surveillance footage showed a suspect approaching and pushing an individual in his 60s, causing both the man and his walker to fall to the ground. The suspect was then seen briefly speaking to the man on the ground before fleeing the scene in a truck with a Texas license plate.

After the footage was released to the community with a plea for help identifying the suspect, the Nampa police have confirmed that Rivera, who goes by the stage name Hector David Jr., is believed to be responsible for the altercation.

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Hector David Rivera, best known as the Green Ranger in the live-action Power Ranger series, is wanted in Nampa, Idaho, after allegedly assaulting a man.

Rivera has appeared in several series as the Green Power Ranger, most notably Power Rangers Samurai. He would reprise the role in Power Rangers: Megaforce and several video games. He has also appeared in films including Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Murder, Anyone?, and The Sand.

The alleged Idaho assault happened July 26.

“[At] about 11:45 in the morning there was a verbal incident that happened in a parking lot in Nampa… over a parking space,” police stated.

Rivera — stage name Hector David Jr. — pushed a man in his early 60s to the ground. The victim held a walker and fell to the ground while Rivera yelled and pointed fingers.

Police said the man was not injured and a witness helped the victim from the ground.

Daenerys' attack on King's Landing saw her transformation into the Mad Queen. She lost key allies and felt betrayed, leading to her destructive decision. Despite controversy, her descent into madness was hinted at throughout the series.

Daenerys Targaryen's attack on King's Landing in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones left fans wondering, "Why did Daenerys go mad?" In "The Bells," the Dragon Queen single won the Battle of King's Landing. Riding Drogon, they annihilated Euron Greyjoy's Iron Fleet, wiped out the Golden Company, and eliminated the city's anti-dragon defenses. However, after the bells rang signaling Cersei Lannister's surrender, Daenerys continued her attack and massacred the city with dragonfire. The decision saw the completion of Daenerys' transformation into the Mad Queen.

Channeling her father Aerys II Targaryen, also known as the Mad King, Daenerys forced the citizens of King's Landing to relive the nightmare of Aerys II's reign of terror,...

The upcoming anime series adaptation of Sand Land by famed Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has received a teaser trailer and an international release date ahead of its streaming premiere on Disney+.

The official Bandai Namco Entertainment YouTube account recently uploaded the trailer for the new Toriyama anime project. According to Crunchyroll, the Sand Land anime series will dedicate its first half to restructuring the 2023 theatrical movie for the small screen, while the second half will follow a new original story. Six anime episodes are dedicated to adapting the Sand Land anime movie, while seven more episodes are reserved for new material for 13 episodes in total. The series will premiere on Disney+ on March 20 with seven episodes on release day.

Related Dragon Ball's Akira Toriyama Designs New Logo for His Own City In honor of a major city in his home prefecture, Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama designs a...

When director Ridley Scott was promoting his latest—and we might argue funniest—historical epic back in November, the filmmaker spoke with pride about the film addressing Napoleon Bonaparte’s legendary campaign into Egypt. As Scott pointed out to Deadline, no previous film about the Frenchman who plunged Europe into decades of war had also addressed his misadventures in North Africa and the Near East too.

“I saw these wonderful two paintings,” Scott said at the time. “One was of a man sitting on a horse staring at the Sphinx, and it was Napoleon. So I thought I had to have that because no one has done the Egyptian campaign. And the truth [is] they took it over pretty easily.”

He is partially right. Napoleon did indeed conquer Egypt with relative ease in 1798. Keeping the land proved to be another story entirely, one which Scott’s Napoleon glosses over in its...

Stars: Frank Grillo, Mekhi Phifer, Amaury Nolasco, Dermot Mulroney, Jaime King, Paul Sloan, Donald Cerrone, Erica Peeples | Written by Chad Law, Garry Charles, Brandon Burrows | Directed by Christian Sesma

Michael ‘Duffy’ Duffield was a soldier, now he’s a drifter, dealing with Ptsd and living on the move. As Lights Out begins, he gets off a bus, and it’s not even five minutes before he finds himself in a card game and accused of cheating. The ease with which he dispatches the other players and takes his money catches the eye of Max Bomer.

Max is just out of jail and looking for a way to make some money, and he sees Duffy’s skill with his fists as the way to do it. He just has to convince him to take part in some illegal underground fight clubs like the one run by Fosco. And, since Duffy could use some cash himself,...

“This is a love story, or a vision of the world”, explains a soft spoken voice after a very long (black screen) introduction to Youngjin and Jaeyon – a couple who “with blurred vision or closed eyes, not knowing when or where it can be found, without a plan, search for the paradise.”

“The Waves, The Sand, and Two Lovers in The Middle Of…” is screening at Tallinn Black Nights

In her experimental sophomore feature film “The Waves, The Sand, and Two Lovers in The Middle Of…” that has just had its world premiere in the Rebels With A Cause competition section of Tallinn Black Nights, Korean helmer Jiyeong Hong tells a tale of lovers, non-beings who fail to meet the expectations of “normativity”. A director who is rooted in arts, partially leans on her dance film project titled “Queer E-motion” which focused on the phenomena of “peaceful sleep” in a...

Titles include Kah Wai Lim’s Japanese feature ‘Everything, Everywhere’.

Eight features will have world premieres in the Rebels With A Cause strand of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff), including new films from Kah Wai Lim and Matias Rojas Valencia.

The competitive section includes 11 features, with two further films playing out of competition.

Scroll down for the full Rebels With A Cause selection

Japanese director Lim presents Everything, Everywhere, a semi-improvised road movie set in the Balkans where Lim typically films, in which Japanese star Shogen plays a fictionalized version of the director.

Lim’s previous films include 2022 comedy-drama...

When it comes to the killers in horror movies, they usually take on a form that is typical of the villains of the genre. Whether a masked murderer like Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees or a scary spirit similar to The Lipstick Face Demon from the Insidious franchise, the antagonists are sentient entities that are mostly alive and thriving in these frightening flicks. However, not all movie monsters are created equal, with some of them coming in the form of inanimate objects that one would generally think of as innocuous but are instead proven to be quite deadly.

From tasty tomatoes in the classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes to a pair of stylish pants in the more recent release Slaxx, horror movies have managed to make something as simple as a lamp or a lone car tire into something deadly. At a glance, all of these evil inanimate...

Stars: Brooke Butler, Ashley Doris, Andy Cohen, Sydney Carvill, Lisa Roumain, Skip Howland, Robbie Allen | Written and Directed by Justin Lareau

“Urban Legends are everywhere” the text at the beginning of Lantern’s Lane tells us, before adding “But some are real”. And writer/director Justin Lareau (A Demon Within) based his script on a legend from his hometown of Watseka Illinois, but somehow in the retelling, it went from a ghost story to a slasher.

Layla left home to attend college, and like many young people never went back. Now, at the invitation of her old friend Missy she’s coming back for a visit.

She meets up with Missy and another old friend, plus a new addition to the group Shana (Sydney Carvill) at a bar. Drinks and reminiscing lead to the group heading out to the town’s haunted street, Lantern’s Lane. But there’s something a...

The world of American Horror Story expands this summer.

The highly anticipated spinoff is set to launch on Hulu as a weekly anthology in July.

No word on what date in July the series will arrive, but this series is a Hulu exclusive, so it won't air on FX at all.

Deadline reported the news, revealing that FX boss, John Landgraf said the series will air through September.

After that concludes, American Horror Story: Double Feature, the tenth season of the anthology drama, will launch when that show concludes its freshman season.

Casting details for American Horror Stories are being kept under wraps, but we do have a wealth of information on Double Feature.

Double Feature will comprise of two mini-seasons.

"The Title of American Horror Story 10 is... Double Feature," a teaser video Ryan Murphy shared earlier this year revealed.

"Two Terrifying Stories ... One Season One By the Sea...

Wonderfilm Media has acquired Marshall Terrill’s 2010 biography Steve McQueen: The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon, which it is adapting as a feature film.

Terrill spent 10 years doing research for the book, which follows the actor’s life from humble beginnings in the Midwest to the pinnacle of Hollywood and ultimately to his untimely death at the age of 50 in Mexico.

McQueen was known as cinema’s "King of Cool" and was a box office champ of the 1960s and '70s, starring in such classics as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Sand ...

Wonderfilm Media has acquired Marshall Terrill’s 2010 biography Steve McQueen: The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon, which it is adapting as a feature film.

Terrill spent 10 years doing research for the book, which follows the actor’s life from humble beginnings in the Midwest to the pinnacle of Hollywood and ultimately to his untimely death at the age of 50 in Mexico.

McQueen was known as cinema’s "King of Cool" and was a box office champ of the 1960s and '70s, starring in such classics as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Sand ...

In 2015 it was announced that Frightfest were set to bring us, under a “Frightfest Presents” banner, some of the horrific delights of their Glasgow and London festivals on DVD and VOD thanks to a partnership with Icon Film Distribution. And whilst that partnership did garner a number of releases – including the likes of Some Kind of Hate, Emelie, Night of the Living Deb and The Sand – the label went dark soon after, with not only the two-year deal coming to an end, but also likely due to the fact that Frightfest partner Icon had some financial woes in 2017, eventually been sold to Kaleidoscope in March of this year.

Skip forward to today and news reaches us that the Frightfest Presents label is reborn, this time in co-operation with Signature Entertainment – a label who we have supported since the early days of their direct to DVD B-movie start-up, with titles such as SnowBeast,...

It looks like blasts from the pasts aren’t always a good thing.

Former Hannah Montana star, Mitchel Musso, who played one of the Montana’s best friends, shared a few photos of his costume while he was on the Disney Channel show — and he wasn’t reflecting on the good times.

“f—- Diamond plaid, double collar, pants like wtf lookin mother—– and the shoes?” he wrote. “What in the actual f—. Why they do me so dirty.”

His followers on Twitter also chimed in, with a few agreeing that he should have made better fashion choices in his youth.

After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over twenty-somethings awake to a beating sun, and a seemingly carnivorous beach that devours anything with a heartbeat that touches… The Sand.

With The Sand available now on all major platforms including iTunes, Virgin Movies, Blinkbox, Google Play, Amazon, Xbox Video, Wuaki, Talk Talk and Volta as part of Frightfest Presensts, Nerdly writer and host of the Britflicks podcast Stuart Wright, talks to the films director, Isaac Gabaeff, about making The Sand.

Isaac Gabaeff

Do you know the name Isaac Gabaeff? You ought to. He’s worked on an array of great films from Be Kind Rewind to A Most Violent Year and The Place Beyond The Pines, but he’s always been one of those guys in the background whose work is at its best when you notice it only subconsciously. Now he’s stepped up to take the help with tentacle-tastic creature feature The Sand, one of the first six films released on the new Frightfest Presents label. We asked him how it all began.

“Well, you know, I got my degree in animation and then I worked on a movie called James And The Giant Peach,” he explains. “At the end of college I made a documentary called Peoplewatching on the street corner where I lived in San Francisco. It was more voyeurism than a standard documentary format. Then through the twists.

It’s a good month for fans of subterranean monster movies. Not only is Tremors 5 hitting home video in the coming days, director Isaac Gabaeff’s like-minded horror flick The Sand is creeping up on genre fanatics as well. Here’s the… Continue Reading →

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Read More: Screen Media Films Picks Up Fantastic Fest Hit 'Darling' Monarch Home Entertainment has picked up the creature horror film "The Sand" for domestic release on October 13, just in time for Halloween. An homage to classic 80's B-horror films like "Tremors," "The Sand" follows a group of hungover young adults who awake to a beating sun and a seemingly carnivorous beach that devours anything with a heartbeat that touches the sand. Mitchel Musso, Jamie Kennedy and Brooke Butler star. "This movie was an intentional effort to take a beloved and niche genre, and elevate the story above contemporary expectations," says producer Gato Scatena. "We're proud of this one. It's in the classic creature-feature wrapping paper, but contains above-average character arcs formulated by the writers [Alex Greenfield & Ben Powell], and tailored execution by our director and Dp [Issac Gabaeff and Matt Wise respectively]." The...

Alex Greenfield and Ben Powell, the writing duo behind Frightfest flick The Sand – which is due for VOD release in the UK from the Frightfest/Icon Film shingle Frightfest Presents on October 19th – have scored second place in the prestigious 2015 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest behind Scott Hamilton & Pj Hamilton’s script, a werewolf tale entitled Bad Moon Rising.

Beating out over 1,000 other submissions, Greenfield and Powell’s script for Plague Ship tells the story of a newly married couple whose honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a deadly plague breaks out on their luxury cruise ship. The pair must do anything and everything to keep each other safe, both from infection and from the ship’s crew, who have decided that slaughtering passengers is the only way to keep the plague from spreading.

I’ve had a sneak peek at the screenplay and it’s safe to say I was hooked from page one.

Exclusive: The Sand and Aaaaaaaah! among first FrightFest Presents acquisitions.

UK distributor Icon Film Distribution and UK horror festival FrightFest have set the first films to be released under their FrightFest Presents banner.

An initial seven genre films have been selected by the distributor and festival for the new online label, with others to be added soon.

The films will premiere at FrightFest, which gets underway in London on Thursday (Aug 27), before unspooling online between October and February 2016.

Digital partners will include iTunes, Virgin Movies, Sky, Google Amazon, Xbox , Blinkbox, Google, Wuaki, TalkTalk and Volta.

First titles

Among the first batch of titles is Sightseers actor-writer Steve Oram’s surreal ‘monkey comedy’ Aaaaaaaah!, which Icon will release online this October.

Oram stars alongside Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh), Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Lucy Honnigman (The Ex-pm), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Lucy), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) and Toyah Willcox (Quadrophenia) in the story of a tribe of warring ‘monkeys’.

Creature...

Stars: Mitchel Musso, Dean Geyer, Nikki Leigh, Brooke Butler, Meagan Holder, Jamie Kennedy, Hector David Jr., Cynthia Murell, Cleo Berry, Etalvia Cashin, Adam Powell | Written by Alex Greenfield, Ben Powell | Directed by Isaac Gabaeff

After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles.

Can you say Blood Beach?

Ok so maybe that’s not fair. After all Jeffrey Bloom’s 1980 fear-flick, despite having a similar premise – something eating people on the beach, dragging them under the sand – is world’s apart from the gory body-horror of Isaac Gabaeff’s film. Whereas that film often played for oddball humour both intentionally and unintentionally, The Sand plays things very straight.

Tagline: "This beach is killer." The b-movie madness continues with The Sand. This killer beach movie, involves a strange marine organism and it has a thirst for human flesh. The body count piles high in the film's first trailer. And, The Sand stars: Jamie Kennedy (Scream), Brooke Butler (All Cheerleaders Die), Cleo Berry (Zombie Apocalypse) and Nikki Leigh. As well, The Sand debuts, on DVD, in late October. In the film's trailer, a beach party turns into a bloodbath. Keg stands and bikinis are swapped for screams and amputations. You see, a new organism is inhabiting a sunny beach and no one gets to put on sunscreen, without the threat of a skin-removing rash. As well, the film will be shown at London's Film4Frightfest. The film festival begins in late August and dozens and dozens of horror films will be shown here. More on the release of The Sand is hosted below.

After the announcement of the Fightfest’s opening and closing films a week ago, the UK’s premiere horror festival has announced its complete line-up… And they’re not making it easy for us to bring you reviews of the majority of the films screening this year!

Yes, not only is Frightfest taking over the Vue cinema on Leicester Square again this year but they’re also taking over an extra screen, Screen 1, at the old home of Frightfest, The Prince Charles Cinema – which will be the location of Another “Discovery” screen strand.

From the press release:

Bigger, bolder, bloodier…Film4 FrightFest 2015 marks its 16th year with its largest line-up ever. From Thurs 27 August to Mon 31 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will return to the Vue West End, Leicester Square to present seventy-six films across five screens, plus a host of special events. There are eighteen...

Shadow people, sharp-fanged co-workers, and insistent sinister spirits will just be a few of the monsters haunting the theaters at this year's Film4 FrightFest. The full lineup for the upcoming event is packed with 76 films aimed to unforgettably frighten audiences.

Press Release: "Film news (UK): Film4 FrightFest serves up a fearsome feast with a record 76 films, embracing 20 world and 42 UK & European premieres

Bigger, bolder, bloodier…Film4 FrightFest 2015 marks its 16th year with its largest line-up ever. From Thurs 27 August to Mon 31 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will return to the Vue West End, Leicester Square to present seventy-six films across five screens, plus a host of special events. There are eighteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking sixteen European premieres and twenty-six UK premieres. In addition, there is a further ‘Discovery’ strand at The Prince Charles Cinema, signalling a welcome return to FrightFest’s spiritual home.

A new creature feature is coming your way. The film is titled The Sand, from director Isaac Gabaeff. And, this title has been developed by Allegra Pictures and Scatena & Rosner Films. In the picture, several friends fall to long tentacles and a hungry maw; no one leaves this beach alive! As well, The Sand stars Jamie Kennedy (Buddy Hutchins), Brooke Butler (All Cheerleaders Die) Nikki Leigh, and Mitchel Musso. Early artwork for the feature is hosted here. The graphic features actress Brooke Butler as Kaylee. And, the tagline: "this beach is killer" promises bloodshed. Tentacles emerge from the ground and few characters will survive this feature, into the credits. Currently, The Sand is in post-production (editing). The film will be released shortly, once distribution is secured. All of the available details on The Sand are hosted below. Release Date: 2015. Directors: Isaac Gabaeff. Writers: Alex Greenfield, Ben Powell. Producers: Jordan Rosner,...