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Merry Saltzman, the firstborn child of Harry Saltzman, who co-produced the first nine James Bond films, has died. She was 77.

Saltzman died Oct. 30 at her home in San Jose, California, after a brief battle with cancer, family members told The Hollywood Reporter.

Saltzman served as an associate producer on the 2019 feature Mermaid Down, and four years earlier, she announced that she had secured the rights to a stage project she was calling James Bond: The Musical. The show, a parody, was designed to open in Las Vegas or Broadway but never made it.

Saltzman was born in Manhattan on Dec. 21, 1946, to Herschel Saltzman, a Canadian, and the first of his three wives, Tanya. Before the movies, her father served as a wartime spy, and she “helped in an amazing way to enlighten his work and contribution to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and in the U.S. secret service Oss,...

“They Exist.” At the axis of fantasy and horror is associate producer Mem Ferda’s Mermaid Down, the tale of a tortured siren forced ashore to navigate her new environment as a literal fish out of water. After being captured and mutilated by two dubious fishermen, the mermaid is sent to a psychiatric hospital where she […]

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Mermaid Down Trailer — Jeffrey Grellman‘s Mermaid Down (2019) movie trailer has been released. Associate produced by Mem Ferda, Mermaid Down stars Alexandra Bokova, Cara Bamford, Phillip Andre Botello, Eryn Rea, Amber Gaston, Meggan Kaiser, Megan Therese Rippey, Ashley Cordelia, Jessica Honor Carleton, E. Shepherd Stevenson, Melissa Lugo, Shani Drake, and Caroline Dunaway. Crew Grellman [...]

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While 2019’s home media releases ended on a quiet note, taking off the week of Christmas and New Year’s, this first Tuesday of 2020 is more than making up for it with an array of titles that should delight horror and sci-fi fans of all tastes. In terms of recent films, both Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, Travis Stevens’ Girl on the Third Floor are making their way to Blu-ray and DVD this week, Michael Beach Nichols' documentary Wrinkles the Clown is coming to DVD from Magnet Releasing, and Scream Factory is releasing Larry Fessenden’s take on Frankenstein—Depraved—as well.

Kino is showing some love to the sci-fi classic Doctor Cyclops, and Rlje Films is keeping busy with both The Shed and The Nightshifter this Tuesday. Other notable releases for January 7th include Trespassers, Cosmos, Dark Encounter, Mermaid Down, Savage Creatures, and Dark Light.

Depraved

The legend of Frankenstein...

Archstone Distribution has partnered with Alliance Entertainment (The Criterion Collection) to release the horror-fantasy film Mermaid Down in Redbox starting October 29th and on BluRay/DVD at WalMart in January 2020. A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is hacked off with an axe, and she's thrown into a mental institution where no one believes she's a mermaid. This is only the beginning of this mermaid's plight as she bonds with a group of other women in peril and fights for her life in this brutal, dark fairy-tale coming out just in time for Halloween. Written and Directed by Jeffrey Grellman, Mermaid Down is based on an award-winning script. The film was made for a mere $85K, yet...

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