Ahead of a November 8 theatrical release in Japan, the official website and accounts for Fuuto Pi today released a brand-new key visual and main trailer for the upcoming Kamen Rider Skull no Shozo ("Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull") anime film. Main cast members Yoshimasa Hosoya and Koki Uchiyama are now joined by Ayumu Murase as Young Shotaro, Satomi Sato as Saeko Sonozaki and Jun Fukuyama as original character Nagi Oshima, and will suit up to the tune of theme song "Niau Otoko ni Nare" by Koji Kikkawa (who played Sokichi Narumi in two live-action Kamen Rider W movies). Kamen Rider Skull no Shozo Key Visual Related: Fuuto Pi Anime Film Announced for November 2024 Release Based on Riku Sanjo and Masaki Sato's Kamen Rider W sequel manga, Yosuke Kabashima directed the Fuuto Pi anime series at Studio Kai, airing for twelve episodes from August to October 2022. Kabashima directs and Riku...
- 9/6/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Valorant features one of the most interesting maps. These maps are not only tactically brilliant, but each of them shares some unique details about the game. Right now, this Riot Games shooter features a total of 13 playable maps.
Among these maps, Abyss is the most recent to join the lot. Since its arrival, this map has given immense joy to its players, and on the other hand, it has sparked controversies as well. Now, in this controversial map, a fan has found out something pretty interesting.
Tactifriends in Valorant
Tactifriends are Easter Eggs in Valorant. | Credit: Riot Games.
Recently, a dedicated Valorant fan shared an interesting aspect of the latest map of the game on Reddit. This player stated he was practicing some line-ups in the map when he discovered some cute little friends on the map. When he ghosted above the map, he spotted a glowing tree, and as he approached it,...
Among these maps, Abyss is the most recent to join the lot. Since its arrival, this map has given immense joy to its players, and on the other hand, it has sparked controversies as well. Now, in this controversial map, a fan has found out something pretty interesting.
Tactifriends in Valorant
Tactifriends are Easter Eggs in Valorant. | Credit: Riot Games.
Recently, a dedicated Valorant fan shared an interesting aspect of the latest map of the game on Reddit. This player stated he was practicing some line-ups in the map when he discovered some cute little friends on the map. When he ghosted above the map, he spotted a glowing tree, and as he approached it,...
- 7/19/2024
- by Nilendu Brahma
- FandomWire
Exclusive: Andrew McCarthy (Brats), Drew Van Acker (Last Survivors) and Debby Ryan (Shortcomings) have wrapped production in New York on Orion, a new sci-fi thriller from director Jaco Bouwer (Gaia).
Written by first-timer Anne Vithayathil, the film centers around a heated interrogation between a U.S. Intelligence expert tasked to help an amnesiac astronaut recover his memory in order to determine “who” or “what” killed the rest of the crew before they crash landed back on Earth.
Producing the film alongside Van Acker, Elle Army (Life Like) and Scott Army, Sunil Perkash, describes the project as “a very unique world building sci fi thriller that relies on incredibly strong performances from all of the cast and the meticulously curated world building by our director, Jaco Bouwer. We could not be more excited to bring our clever twisting and turning film to audiences worldwide soon.”
Pic’s cast also...
Written by first-timer Anne Vithayathil, the film centers around a heated interrogation between a U.S. Intelligence expert tasked to help an amnesiac astronaut recover his memory in order to determine “who” or “what” killed the rest of the crew before they crash landed back on Earth.
Producing the film alongside Van Acker, Elle Army (Life Like) and Scott Army, Sunil Perkash, describes the project as “a very unique world building sci fi thriller that relies on incredibly strong performances from all of the cast and the meticulously curated world building by our director, Jaco Bouwer. We could not be more excited to bring our clever twisting and turning film to audiences worldwide soon.”
Pic’s cast also...
- 6/28/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
27 years after the original title wowed audiences on the Super Nintendo, the 1996 classic game Super Mario RPG is finally getting a full remake on the Nintendo Switch. More than branching out the Super Mario franchise effectively into the RPG gameplay genre, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (as it was fully titled) is one of the best turn-based RPGs on one of the best consoles for RPGs ever released. Debuting three months before the launch of the Nintendo 64, Super Mario RPG does feel like the perfect (if sometimes bittersweet) swan song to the entire Snes RPG era.
Here is how Super Mario RPG came to be and how the game closed out not just Nintendo’s Snes era, but the Snes’ place as the premier console experience for RPGs.
The Golden Age of Nintendo RPGs
Square really hit its stride as a game developer on the Snes before...
Here is how Super Mario RPG came to be and how the game closed out not just Nintendo’s Snes era, but the Snes’ place as the premier console experience for RPGs.
The Golden Age of Nintendo RPGs
Square really hit its stride as a game developer on the Snes before...
- 11/16/2023
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
The year is 1901, the place is South Africa during the Second Boer War. A wounded general is being tended to in the small rural home of Anna and her young daughter, Annie. That night, the general’s adjutant, Brand, comes to check in on him. Concerned for the life of the general Brand cannot help but be drawn to the unsullied beauty of Annie. Something is amiss, however, and Anne begins to feed on these emotions and turn Brand’s attention away from the general and to her befguiling daughter, who also needs saving. However, traditional medicine cannot heal Annie and the mother and daughter have something more sinister in mind. Jaco Bouwer, director of the 2021 breakout eco-horror hit, Gaia, has returned with their...
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- 10/25/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Summer festival season may be over but spooky festival season was always there, hiding behind the proverbial hedge, waiting to take it's place. Our friends at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival have announced their lineup for this year's edition, happening from October 12th through 19th. Alix Austin and Keir Siewert's Kill Your Lover will have its world premiere at Bhff when it opens the festival. Jenn Wexler's The Sacrifice Game is all set to close this year's event. There are three more world premieres this year. Jaco Bouwer’s Breathing In is their followup to the terrific Gaia. It will be joined by two debut feature films, Aimee Kuge’s Cannibal Mukbang and Tyler Chipman’s The Shade. There is going to be a cool sidebar program this year...
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- 9/12/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Nicole Fortuin, Jane de Wet, Carel Nel, Tristan de Beer, Lida Botha, Roberto Kyle, David Viviers, Shalima Mkongi, Sihle Mnqwazana, Emma Kotze | Written by Tertius Kapp | Directed by Jaco Bouwer
When a group of friends embark on their dream coastal break to attend the ultimate rave in an off-grid town, they get a fear-filled awakening as their night of raging becomes their worst nightmare… As their experiences become weirder and weirder, they release that they’ve been drugged and dragged into a dark, shocking, deadly ritual.
Following his 2021 eco-horror, Gaia, director Jaco Bouwer crafts his latest horror flick in a small coastal village. Holidaying there are a group of teenagers on their gap year, staying at a local house as they celebrate by partying to excess. As they disregard a warning to leave, the group are soon picked off one by one.
As they joyfully party to celebrate their freedom from school,...
When a group of friends embark on their dream coastal break to attend the ultimate rave in an off-grid town, they get a fear-filled awakening as their night of raging becomes their worst nightmare… As their experiences become weirder and weirder, they release that they’ve been drugged and dragged into a dark, shocking, deadly ritual.
Following his 2021 eco-horror, Gaia, director Jaco Bouwer crafts his latest horror flick in a small coastal village. Holidaying there are a group of teenagers on their gap year, staying at a local house as they celebrate by partying to excess. As they disregard a warning to leave, the group are soon picked off one by one.
As they joyfully party to celebrate their freedom from school,...
- 8/16/2023
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Studiocanal will stage at the London TV Screenings the international premiere of “Spinners,” an eight-part extreme sports action drama set on the mean streets of Cape Town’s Southside, that is not just a series but a sign of an industry zeitgeist.
As the competition for talent grows, there’s a building drive into emerging production hubs beyond the traditional powerhouse territories in Europe led by some of its most powerful players, here France’s Canal+, Studiocanal and Federation Studios, and some of its biggest TV events, such as Series Mania.
Produced by Joachim Landau and Raphaël Rocher at Federation Studios’ Empreinte Digitale, and co-created by Landau, “Spinners” is a co-production of South Africa’s Showmax, Africa’s biggest pan-continental SVOD service available in 65 countries, and Vivendi’s Canal+, rating as both a Showmax and Canal+ Original.
“Spinners” makes its market bow just months after French powerhouse Federation Studios and...
As the competition for talent grows, there’s a building drive into emerging production hubs beyond the traditional powerhouse territories in Europe led by some of its most powerful players, here France’s Canal+, Studiocanal and Federation Studios, and some of its biggest TV events, such as Series Mania.
Produced by Joachim Landau and Raphaël Rocher at Federation Studios’ Empreinte Digitale, and co-created by Landau, “Spinners” is a co-production of South Africa’s Showmax, Africa’s biggest pan-continental SVOD service available in 65 countries, and Vivendi’s Canal+, rating as both a Showmax and Canal+ Original.
“Spinners” makes its market bow just months after French powerhouse Federation Studios and...
- 3/1/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Laugh all you want but the success of filmmaker Brett Michael Innes’ first foray into mockumentary territory with “Daryn’s Gym” is part of a growing South African slate flexing its muscles within a comedy genre no longer considered “too refined” for local audiences’ taste.
The Nostalgia Productions mockumentary feature – a David and Goliath battle between the hapless owner of a family gym squaring off against the ruthless owner of a multinational fitness center plotting a takeover – is included in the film lineup currently on show at the 5th Joburg Film Festival with Innes, who served as writer and director, attending.
Made for eVOD, the nascent streamer of the commercial South African broadcaster e.tv, Innes tells Variety that on a financing level “Daryn’s Gym” was “one of the easiest things to do” since the gym-set tale was a full commission from eVOD.
“They told us to be bold and risqué,...
The Nostalgia Productions mockumentary feature – a David and Goliath battle between the hapless owner of a family gym squaring off against the ruthless owner of a multinational fitness center plotting a takeover – is included in the film lineup currently on show at the 5th Joburg Film Festival with Innes, who served as writer and director, attending.
Made for eVOD, the nascent streamer of the commercial South African broadcaster e.tv, Innes tells Variety that on a financing level “Daryn’s Gym” was “one of the easiest things to do” since the gym-set tale was a full commission from eVOD.
“They told us to be bold and risqué,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Thinus Ferreira
- Variety Film + TV
African streaming service Showmax has inked a two-series slate deal with Tshedza Pictures, the South African production company behind the International Emmy-nominated telenovela “The River,” the company announced Tuesday at the start of the Joburg Film Festival.
“Adulting,” Tshedza’s first Showmax Original, is an eight-part drama series set in the parallel universes of four varsity friends. Their strong bond has held them together even as their journeys in life have taken them in very different directions — a bond the show’s creators describe as “the bromance of the decade.”
Tshedza’s second Showmax Original, “Outlaws,” is a cross-cultural love story that plays out in the dangerous world of cattle-theft syndicates in the lawless land on the border between Lesotho and South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal region.
“Adulting” is set to premiere in the first half of 2023, while the 40-episode epic drama series “Outlaws” is expected to be delivered in the second half of the year.
“Adulting,” Tshedza’s first Showmax Original, is an eight-part drama series set in the parallel universes of four varsity friends. Their strong bond has held them together even as their journeys in life have taken them in very different directions — a bond the show’s creators describe as “the bromance of the decade.”
Tshedza’s second Showmax Original, “Outlaws,” is a cross-cultural love story that plays out in the dangerous world of cattle-theft syndicates in the lawless land on the border between Lesotho and South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal region.
“Adulting” is set to premiere in the first half of 2023, while the 40-episode epic drama series “Outlaws” is expected to be delivered in the second half of the year.
- 1/31/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Calling his seventh album Jude was an act of reclamation for Julian Lennon. In a recent interview, the 59-year-old explained that, while 1968 song “Hey, Jude” is “a great chanting song, a favourite Beatles song”, for him it had always been “a harsh reminder of what actually happened in my life, which was that my father [John Lennon] walked out on my mother [Cynthia] and me. That was a truly, truly difficult time.” Paul McCartney wrote the ballad to comfort his bandmate’s six-year-old son (originally calling it “Hey Jules”). John, rather typically, assumed that his bandmate had written it for him, as a blessing on his new relationship with Yoko Ono. No wonder Julian finally changed his birth name – John Charles Julian Lennon – to Julian Charles John in 2020.
Emotional echoes of this complicated public history reverberate through Jude’s solid collection of mature mid-tempo rockers and ballads. Lennon’s lyrics repeatedly circle themes of trust betrayed,...
Emotional echoes of this complicated public history reverberate through Jude’s solid collection of mature mid-tempo rockers and ballads. Lennon’s lyrics repeatedly circle themes of trust betrayed,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
Festivals
American narrative feature projects in rough or final cut seeking finishing funds are now invited to submit to the 2022 edition of U.S. in Progress, which takes place Nov. 9-11 during the 13th American Film Festival (Nov.8-13) in Wroclaw, Poland. The strand pairs American projects in final production stages with European buyers and top Polish image and sound post-production companies and provides awards worth totally $100,000. The head of the Polish Film Institute, Radosław Śmigulski, will award one project with a $50,000 cash award to be spent on post-production, image, sound and/or VFX in Poland and Polish post-production companies Fixafilm, Orka Studio, Black Photon, Xanf and Soundflower Studio are each offering a $10,000 in-kind award.
There is no entry fee, and films can be submitted through the U.S. in Progress website. The final deadline is September 11.
The program’s objective is to inspire U.S. producers to work with Poland,...
American narrative feature projects in rough or final cut seeking finishing funds are now invited to submit to the 2022 edition of U.S. in Progress, which takes place Nov. 9-11 during the 13th American Film Festival (Nov.8-13) in Wroclaw, Poland. The strand pairs American projects in final production stages with European buyers and top Polish image and sound post-production companies and provides awards worth totally $100,000. The head of the Polish Film Institute, Radosław Śmigulski, will award one project with a $50,000 cash award to be spent on post-production, image, sound and/or VFX in Poland and Polish post-production companies Fixafilm, Orka Studio, Black Photon, Xanf and Soundflower Studio are each offering a $10,000 in-kind award.
There is no entry fee, and films can be submitted through the U.S. in Progress website. The final deadline is September 11.
The program’s objective is to inspire U.S. producers to work with Poland,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Canal+ is teaming with African streamer Showmax for its latest drama from Africa, an action drama about the dangerous South African motor sport spinning. Production on Spinners began in Cape Town on the eight-part series this week, with Gaia director Jaco Bouwer attached.
Shot in English, Kaaps and Afrikaans, it is produced by Joachim Landau and Raphaël Rocher for French indie Empreinte Digitale and co-produced by Locarno, Amiens and Fespaco winner Ramadan Suleman and his full service film and TV production outfit Natives at Large. Canal+-owned Studiocanal has international distribution rights.
Landau co-created the show with Benjamin Hoffman. Director is Bouwer, whose horror Gaia won the Zeiss Cinematography Award last year at SXSW, and Matthew Jankes, Sean Steinberg, Gillian Breslin, Daniel Zimbler, Byron Abrahams and Zoë Laband comprising the writing team.
The motor sport on which the series is based sees cars driven at high speed with drivers performing...
Shot in English, Kaaps and Afrikaans, it is produced by Joachim Landau and Raphaël Rocher for French indie Empreinte Digitale and co-produced by Locarno, Amiens and Fespaco winner Ramadan Suleman and his full service film and TV production outfit Natives at Large. Canal+-owned Studiocanal has international distribution rights.
Landau co-created the show with Benjamin Hoffman. Director is Bouwer, whose horror Gaia won the Zeiss Cinematography Award last year at SXSW, and Matthew Jankes, Sean Steinberg, Gillian Breslin, Daniel Zimbler, Byron Abrahams and Zoë Laband comprising the writing team.
The motor sport on which the series is based sees cars driven at high speed with drivers performing...
- 8/10/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Last week, Hulu welcomed its latest film into its annual Huluween catalog—the eco-thriller Gaia, which was directed by Jaco Bouwer and stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Alex van Dyk, and Anthony Oseyemi. The film is streaming exclusively as part of the Huluween slate—a month-long experience that features original and acquired programming in one curated Halloween-themed hub. Daily Dead recently caught up with Bouwer to talk about Gaia, and he discussed everything from collaborating with the film’s screenwriter Tertius Kapp on the concepts behind the story, the challenges of shooting in the South African forests, and more.
So, how did Gaia first come about?
Jaco Bouwer: The writer, and my longtime collaborator, Tertius Kapp, and myself set some parameters that defined the foundation of the project: we wanted to explore the horror genre, nature being the main location and character; essentially a chamber piece of three characters. When we started working on Gaia,...
So, how did Gaia first come about?
Jaco Bouwer: The writer, and my longtime collaborator, Tertius Kapp, and myself set some parameters that defined the foundation of the project: we wanted to explore the horror genre, nature being the main location and character; essentially a chamber piece of three characters. When we started working on Gaia,...
- 10/26/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Hulu’s October, 2021 schedule has a wealth of originals, catalog titles and season premieres.
Among the originals is the series premiere of Dopesick starring Michael Keaton on October 13. In terms of season premieres, Hulu will offer the new season’s episodes of ‘SNL’ every Saturday, starting October 3. And speaking of catalog titles, the service has 10 popular Star Trek films dropping October 1.
See below for the full list of programming available on Hulu in October.
October 1
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Air Force One
Ali
The Bachelorette (S13)
Big Sky (season premiere)
Blippi’s Spooky Spells Halloween
Boxcar Bertha
Cake (season premiere)
Cedar Rapids
Chasing Papi
Class
Clifford
Clockstoppers
Code 46
Crimson Tide
Date Night
Dead of Winter
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Dr. No
Edge of the World
Escape from Alcatraz
Exorcist: The Beginning
The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave
Flatliners
From Russia with Love...
Among the originals is the series premiere of Dopesick starring Michael Keaton on October 13. In terms of season premieres, Hulu will offer the new season’s episodes of ‘SNL’ every Saturday, starting October 3. And speaking of catalog titles, the service has 10 popular Star Trek films dropping October 1.
See below for the full list of programming available on Hulu in October.
October 1
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Air Force One
Ali
The Bachelorette (S13)
Big Sky (season premiere)
Blippi’s Spooky Spells Halloween
Boxcar Bertha
Cake (season premiere)
Cedar Rapids
Chasing Papi
Class
Clifford
Clockstoppers
Code 46
Crimson Tide
Date Night
Dead of Winter
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Dr. No
Edge of the World
Escape from Alcatraz
Exorcist: The Beginning
The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave
Flatliners
From Russia with Love...
- 9/22/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Hello, dear readers! This week’s home entertainment offerings include plenty of recent horror titles for you to enjoy, plus a few cult classics as well. Rlje Films is releasing a handful of genre films from this year, including Boys from County Hell, Violation, and The Power, and if you’re looking for something to enjoy during the Halloween season, you’ll definitely want to pick up the Haunt Blu-ray as well. Francis Ford Coppola’s first film, Dementia 13, is joining the Vestron Video Collector’s Series this week, and Severin Films has put together The Dungeon of Andy Milligan Collection for fans to enjoy as well.
Other releases for September 21st include The Vigil, Night Drive, Gaia, House Monster, and Tooth Fairy: The Last Extraction.
Boys from County Hell
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when...
Other releases for September 21st include The Vigil, Night Drive, Gaia, House Monster, and Tooth Fairy: The Last Extraction.
Boys from County Hell
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when...
- 9/20/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
“Forget My Name,” “Life” and “Stolen Kids” proved some of the big winners at the 2021 Conecta Fiction awards ceremony in Pamplona, northern Spain on Wednesday night as the Europe-Latin America co-production forum reached its climax.
A female spy drama-thriller charged emotionally by an effective mother-daughter relationship, “Forget My Name” won one of the most enticing awards on offer: A development contract with Spanish public broadcaster Rtve. Set up at Avi Films, the series represents the latest screenplay from Argentine but Spain-based Jesica Arán and partner Juan Lombardi at Spain’s Avi Films.
“‘ER’ meets ’24,’” says co-creator Alberto Macías at Mediacrest Entertainment, “Life” sees medics racing against the clock after a massive car crash to get organs to transplant patients in hospitals in Barcelona, Paris and Madrid. Its Spanish Film Commission prize repped the first of two statues on Wednesday night for go-ahead indie production-distribution house Mediacrest, its teen gender violence...
A female spy drama-thriller charged emotionally by an effective mother-daughter relationship, “Forget My Name” won one of the most enticing awards on offer: A development contract with Spanish public broadcaster Rtve. Set up at Avi Films, the series represents the latest screenplay from Argentine but Spain-based Jesica Arán and partner Juan Lombardi at Spain’s Avi Films.
“‘ER’ meets ’24,’” says co-creator Alberto Macías at Mediacrest Entertainment, “Life” sees medics racing against the clock after a massive car crash to get organs to transplant patients in hospitals in Barcelona, Paris and Madrid. Its Spanish Film Commission prize repped the first of two statues on Wednesday night for go-ahead indie production-distribution house Mediacrest, its teen gender violence...
- 9/15/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Seven projects will be introduced to an industry audience at the first Euroregion Naen pitch competition, held on Tuesday Sept. 14 at Pamplona’s Conecta Fiction. “Being a first edition, the projects are pretty diverse and in divergent phases of development. But behind them are innovative visions and interesting propositions,” says Ana Herrera Isasi, head of Navarre’s Strategic Digital and Audiovisual Projects Department. A drill down on the titles:
“Between Walls,” (“Entre muros,” Itziar Minguez, Pedro Fuentes, Bizagu Entertainment)
Set in Franco’s 195os Spain, and billed as an epic love story between two women who meet in a criminal psychiatric ward, Concepción consigned there for killing her husband and Amelia for “deviant” sexual behavior. A banner high-end series from San Sebastian’s Bixagu Entertainment, set up in 2020 by Iñaki Gómez, a former producer at top Basque film company Irusoin, and Pablo Echart.
“Gaia,” (Carol Butron, Carlos Limón and Julia Fernández,...
“Between Walls,” (“Entre muros,” Itziar Minguez, Pedro Fuentes, Bizagu Entertainment)
Set in Franco’s 195os Spain, and billed as an epic love story between two women who meet in a criminal psychiatric ward, Concepción consigned there for killing her husband and Amelia for “deviant” sexual behavior. A banner high-end series from San Sebastian’s Bixagu Entertainment, set up in 2020 by Iñaki Gómez, a former producer at top Basque film company Irusoin, and Pablo Echart.
“Gaia,” (Carol Butron, Carlos Limón and Julia Fernández,...
- 9/14/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Monique Rockman, Alex Van Dyk, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi | Written by Tertius Kapp | Directed by Jaco Bouwer
Perhaps the best horror films come from tried and tested formulas but with an added twist. In Gaia we find a woman injured and lost in a forest. In horror , that’s nothing unusual but this movie adds plenty of new ideas and manages to feel like something completely different.
This woman, Gabi (Monique Rockman), is on a surveillance mission in a forest. She loses her partner and becomes badly injured only to be ‘saved’ by a father and son, a couple of survivalists living in the forest and very connected to nature. She is scared but soon realises they might not be the only problem when the cabin they are living in is attacked by strange human-like creatures.
With the movie almost entirely set in the forest, it’s a good...
Perhaps the best horror films come from tried and tested formulas but with an added twist. In Gaia we find a woman injured and lost in a forest. In horror , that’s nothing unusual but this movie adds plenty of new ideas and manages to feel like something completely different.
This woman, Gabi (Monique Rockman), is on a surveillance mission in a forest. She loses her partner and becomes badly injured only to be ‘saved’ by a father and son, a couple of survivalists living in the forest and very connected to nature. She is scared but soon realises they might not be the only problem when the cabin they are living in is attacked by strange human-like creatures.
With the movie almost entirely set in the forest, it’s a good...
- 9/6/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Where has the time gone? It felt like it wasn't too long ago that we were sharing news that The Green Knight was going to open MotelX, the annual genre festival in Lisbon, Portugal. And now, we're back once more, with only a few days before the festival begins, to let you know that David Bruckner's The Night House has been chosen to close out this year's festival. The balance of the lineup this year is not to shabby either. The horror comedy Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It and eco-horror Gaia are on the program. Ben Wheatley's In the Earth joins the Best European Film competition. And the folk horror doc, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, from Canadian filmmaker...
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- 9/2/2021
- Screen Anarchy
When cinema wants to explore something truly exotic, it has always gone exploring in the jungle. A mixture of naturally lush visuals and primal, dangerous conditions makes this the perfect backdrop for probing human psyche, and though the colonially inspired narratives o the past may now have fallen out of favour, they have been replaced by a new set of themes tangled up with the Anthropocene extinction event, a desire for redemption through contact with nature and the deep seated fear that some deific expression of nature may desire revenge. All these themes and more are present in Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia, which sees two forest rangers come into contact with fugitives and the organism they worship.
Winston (Anthony Oseyemi) is laughing at Gabi (Monique Rockman) as they make their way along a river deep in the heart of South Africa’s Tsitsikamma forest. She has lost contact with one of their drones.
Winston (Anthony Oseyemi) is laughing at Gabi (Monique Rockman) as they make their way along a river deep in the heart of South Africa’s Tsitsikamma forest. She has lost contact with one of their drones.
- 8/28/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If You Go Down To The Woods Today… Acclaimed Eco-horror Gaia Set For UK Release On 24 September Altitude announce that the intense and extraordinary horror Gaia is being released in cinemas from September 24th and on altitude.film and other digital platforms from September 27th. A timely and terrifying eco-horror that will appeal to fans of horror mindbenders …
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- 8/16/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
There is seemingly no end to the genre goodness that the folks at Arrow Video FrightFest want to bestow upon their audience. After the in-person event the festival is presenting a five-day online edition that will run on three platforms during the first week of September. Some of our current favorites include Gaia, Sweetie You Won't Believe It, Ultrasound, Nocturna Side A and the folk horror doc Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched. They're all very different films but just show how diverse this digital programming is. Yes, there *really* is something for everyone. Take a look through the press release below. Ticket information is in there, somewhere. Arrow Video FrightFest announces Digital ‘Best of The Fest’ line-up Following hot on the...
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- 8/13/2021
- Screen Anarchy
South Africa’s Local Motion Pictures, whose dystopian sci-fi feature “Glasshouse” will world premiere at the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival this month, has signed a three-picture deal with leading SVOD service Showmax.
Under the agreement, which Local Motion signed in association with Crave Pictures, the company will produce a slate of films to be directed by “Glasshouse” helmer Kelsey Egan.
Associate producer Emma Lungiswa de Wet, who co-wrote “Glasshouse” with Egan, says the trio of films will shine a new and unsettling light on South Africa, which continues to reckon with the legacy of Apartheid nearly three decades since its transition to democracy.
“A dystopian slate allows us to look at the underbelly of the dream – what’s at the end of the Rainbow Nation?” said Lungiswa de Wet. “We have a long brutal history that we’re only beginning to come to terms with. We’re a newish democracy,...
Under the agreement, which Local Motion signed in association with Crave Pictures, the company will produce a slate of films to be directed by “Glasshouse” helmer Kelsey Egan.
Associate producer Emma Lungiswa de Wet, who co-wrote “Glasshouse” with Egan, says the trio of films will shine a new and unsettling light on South Africa, which continues to reckon with the legacy of Apartheid nearly three decades since its transition to democracy.
“A dystopian slate allows us to look at the underbelly of the dream – what’s at the end of the Rainbow Nation?” said Lungiswa de Wet. “We have a long brutal history that we’re only beginning to come to terms with. We’re a newish democracy,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thursday August 26th – Monday 30th August 2021 for five days of the very best of global genre cinema.
The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions caused by the pandemic, this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be presented in the main screens are revealed. They include four world premieres and eight International / European premieres.
Global events over the past eighteen months have not only altered most people’s lives but have had a profoundly influential effect on a lot of genre filmmakers and both the opening and closing films this year reflect that.
From the press release:
The festival opens with the European premiere of Demonic, the latest, highly anticipated and petrifying new vision from artist Neill Blomkamp,...
The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions caused by the pandemic, this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be presented in the main screens are revealed. They include four world premieres and eight International / European premieres.
Global events over the past eighteen months have not only altered most people’s lives but have had a profoundly influential effect on a lot of genre filmmakers and both the opening and closing films this year reflect that.
From the press release:
The festival opens with the European premiere of Demonic, the latest, highly anticipated and petrifying new vision from artist Neill Blomkamp,...
- 7/12/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Apart from the reality that England is heading into the Euro final this Sunday and could win it all, the other exciting news this week coming from the island nation was the first twenty-five titles for this year's Arrow Video FrightFest were announced. To start the festival will open with Blomkamp's horror thriller Demonic. Lucky. The festival will close with the Taiwanese plague horror flick The Sadness. Even luckier. Films that have already made their mark on the festival circuit are coming to London as well. Ticket holders will see Prisoners of the Ghostland, Sound of Violence, Ultrasound, No Man of God, and Gaia to note a few of the standouts so far this year. Everything is below in the festival's announcement! Things...
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- 7/9/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Photo: ‘Gaia’/Decal South African director Jaco Bouwer’s first-feature film ‘Gaia’ (2021) is a project lodged within a series of contradictory creative crossroads. It painstakingly belabors itself as a primeval ode to the power of nature while at the same time filming on digital cameras that cast a distractingly unnatural glossy haze upon the film and the forest it is set in. The film also struggles to distinguish itself within the low-budget terror-is-within thrills of films like Trey Edward Shults’ ‘It Comes At Night’ (2017) and Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick’s ‘The Blair Witch Project’ (1999) or the grotesquely over-the-top body horror of the likes of George A. Romero and David Cronenberg. Layered on top of all these confusing tonal discrepancies is a seemingly diminutive budget that crumbles under the weight of lofty mythology that is likely to leave audiences desperately clawing for more in the worst way possible. Related article:...
- 6/27/2021
- by Andrew Valianti
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
At first glance, it’s near impossible to look at the creature designs of this South African horror-fantasy and avoid making comparisons to the highly popular game The Last of Us. The spore-infected humans in Gaia bear more than a passing resemblance to the Clickers, right down to the blindness and sound. In many ways, Gaia could exist within that same […]...
- 6/25/2021
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Sparks Brothers, a documentary about a cult band by a brand-name director in Edgar Wright hits big screens this weekend, a felicitous one as New York and LA drop most capacity restrictions in theaters. The film about musician brothers Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks premiered at Sundance this year, notching a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes — all of which could hopefully give the arthouse market some long-term traction through the summer
Roadside Attractions debuts another pedigreed documentary, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It.
The Sparks Brothers, from MRC Non-Fiction, was produced by Wright, Nira Park, George Hencken, and Laura Richardson. It’s a musical odyssey through decades with the brothers and bandmates featuring passionate tributes from Beck, Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Jack Antonoff and Patton Oswalt. It opens on 543 screens in 200 markets.
“People asked to play it. They wanted to play it.
Roadside Attractions debuts another pedigreed documentary, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It.
The Sparks Brothers, from MRC Non-Fiction, was produced by Wright, Nira Park, George Hencken, and Laura Richardson. It’s a musical odyssey through decades with the brothers and bandmates featuring passionate tributes from Beck, Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Jack Antonoff and Patton Oswalt. It opens on 543 screens in 200 markets.
“People asked to play it. They wanted to play it.
- 6/18/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
If by chance Ben Wheatley’s “In the Earth,” a contagion eco-horror film that’s trippy to the point of incomprehensibility, left you dissatisfied and slighted, consider revisiting the niche with Jaco Bouwer’s “Gaia.” Bouwer indulges in uncertainty, too, but unlike Wheatley, he never confuses obscurity with profundity or meaning, which is a fancypants way of saying that “Gaia” allows itself to have fun and make a statement without talking over its audience’s head.
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- 6/17/2021
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
Mankind doesn’t follow God because He’s compassionate. Anyone who’s looked through history at the death and destruction wrought in His name should know this all too well. Man follows Him out of fear—a fear so deeply rooted in our DNA that we cling to a fantasy instead of admitting its crippling hold. Because what’s God really saving us from during the rapture? Evil? Science? Ourselves? If we’re to believe God created everything, the only logical answer as to the orchestrator of our demise is Him. Abraham passed God’s test after proving he’d kill his son Isaac. He was granted leniency because he accepted that God’s grace only existed as the carrot opposite His wrath’s stick. Believers are thus nothing more than pawns. Lambs to their savior’s slaughter.
Who wants to confront that truth? Nobody. You either embrace the notion...
Who wants to confront that truth? Nobody. You either embrace the notion...
- 6/17/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Ben Wheatley’s ‘In The Earth’ is playing in the main competition of the Swiss festival.
UK director Ben Wheatley’s in The Earth is among the competition contenders in this year’s 20th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival which will take place as a hybrid edition from July 2-10 in Switzerland.
It is taking place under the interim directorship of Loïc Valceschini before a new head, Pierre-Yves Walder, takes up the reins in July.
The event includes 55 films, eight short films, eight immersive installations and two TV productions. Among the special guests will be legendary VFX artist Volker Engel,...
UK director Ben Wheatley’s in The Earth is among the competition contenders in this year’s 20th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival which will take place as a hybrid edition from July 2-10 in Switzerland.
It is taking place under the interim directorship of Loïc Valceschini before a new head, Pierre-Yves Walder, takes up the reins in July.
The event includes 55 films, eight short films, eight immersive installations and two TV productions. Among the special guests will be legendary VFX artist Volker Engel,...
- 6/17/2021
- ScreenDaily
Mother Nature might be predator, prey or another supernatural being altogether in “Gaia,” infiltrating her targets with unfurling shoots and roots and sudden fungal outcrops, until she’s eventually growing from within them. Or so it seems in first-time feature director Jaco Bouwer’s cool, taciturn ecological horror, which isn’t in any kind of hurry to show us exactly what dark forces are at play in the woods that encircle a tensely matched trio of human characters. We do, however, see their effects, manifested as the film’s own. In an elegant fusion of digital and prosthetic artistry, patches of moss burst through skin like a nasty rash; human flesh is aggressively and involuntarily camouflaged by flora. “Gaia’s” resourceful visuals, however, aren’t matched by equivalent nimbleness in the writing; after a time, the storytelling feels more anemic than enigmatic.
Still, it’s not hard to see what...
Still, it’s not hard to see what...
- 6/16/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Heatseeking indie distributor Decal has landed U.S. distribution rights to “Recovery,” a well-received comedy which played this year’s SXSW Film Festival.
From directors Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek, the road trip adventure follows two lost-soul sisters traveling across country to rescue their grandmother, whose nursing home suffers a Covid-19 outbreak. The project is described as “Booksmart” meets the Tom Hardy indie gem “Locke.” Everton co-stars and co-wrote the screenplay with Whitney Call.
Decal is plotting a hybrid theatrical and VOD release this fall. The film was produced by Sorø Films Production in partnership with BuzzFeed Studios. Scott Christopherson, Babetta Kelly and Abi Nielson Hunsaker served as producers.
“Recovery is our love letter to the world after the year we’ve all had, and we couldn’t imagine joining with a better team than BuzzFeed Studios, and now Decal. Their vision for indie film and the expertise they’re...
From directors Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek, the road trip adventure follows two lost-soul sisters traveling across country to rescue their grandmother, whose nursing home suffers a Covid-19 outbreak. The project is described as “Booksmart” meets the Tom Hardy indie gem “Locke.” Everton co-stars and co-wrote the screenplay with Whitney Call.
Decal is plotting a hybrid theatrical and VOD release this fall. The film was produced by Sorø Films Production in partnership with BuzzFeed Studios. Scott Christopherson, Babetta Kelly and Abi Nielson Hunsaker served as producers.
“Recovery is our love letter to the world after the year we’ve all had, and we couldn’t imagine joining with a better team than BuzzFeed Studios, and now Decal. Their vision for indie film and the expertise they’re...
- 6/14/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Gaia: Following its world premiere at the virtual 2021 SXSW film festival, Jaco Bouwer's Gaia is coming to theaters on June 18th and On Demand on June 25th from Decal Releasing, and we have a look at the film's official trailer.
Directed by Bouwer from a screenplay by Tertius Kapp, Gaia stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi, and Alex Van Dyk.
Synopsis: "An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When their cabin is attacked by a strange being it’s clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness."
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Directed by Bouwer from a screenplay by Tertius Kapp, Gaia stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi, and Alex Van Dyk.
Synopsis: "An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When their cabin is attacked by a strange being it’s clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness."
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- 6/4/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
You better not miss the forest for the trees, because in Gaia, the trees will kill you. Jaco Bouwer directs the South African eco-horror film meets creature feature which made a splash at this year’s South by Southwest Festival. Watch the Gaia trailer below. Gaia Trailer It’s no secret that humanity has been steadily killing the Earth […]
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- 6/3/2021
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
"Mother we ask your forgiveness." Decay Releasing has unveiled a chilling full-length official US trailer for an eerie, mysterious eco horror fantasy film titled Gaia from South African filmmaker Jaco Bouwer. We posted a teaser trailer for this a few months ago, as it originally premiered in the Midnighters category at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this year. In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a strange man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world. The horror film stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi, and Alex Van Dyk. Reviews from SXSW describe it as "a stunning assault on the senses" and "lovers of the defiantly feminine and vengeful natural world will find plenty to chew on in Gaia." This reminds me of Annihilation,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
We can say, with absolute confidence, that you do not want to miss Jaco Bouwer's eco-horror Gaia. With Gaia coming to cinemas on June 18th followed by On Demand one week later it is time to watch the official trailer. An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When their cabin is attacked by a strange being it’s clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness. Our own Josh saw it first, before the rest of us, when it bowed at SXSW in March. Find his full review here, but here...
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- 6/2/2021
- Screen Anarchy
One of the most intriguing developments in the world of indie film the past few months has been the formation of Decal, a distribution company that marks a joint venture between Neon and Bleecker Street. With a focus on home entertainment and new models of distribution, their first acquisition was Jaco Bouwer’s SXSW hit, the horror thriller Gaia. Now set for a theatrical release in a few weeks on June 18, followed by a June 25 digital release, the first trailer and poster have been unveiled.
The film follows an injured forest ranger on a routine mission who is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When their cabin is attacked by a strange being it’s clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness.
Starring Monique Rockman,...
The film follows an injured forest ranger on a routine mission who is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When their cabin is attacked by a strange being it’s clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness.
Starring Monique Rockman,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Gaia Decal will release Gaia in theaters June 18th, 2021 and on demand June 25th, 2021 Directed by Jaco Bouwer Written by Tertius Kapp Starring Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi, Alex van Dyk An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows …
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- 5/31/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Decal, a new independent distributor that launched earlier this year, has acquired the worldwide rights to “Ride the Eagle,” a comedy starring and co-written by Jake Johnson.
The “New Girl” star wrote “Ride the Eagle” along with director Trent O’Donnell, and the film stars Susan Sarandon, J.K. Simmons and D’Arcy Carden. Decal plans to release the film in theaters, on demand and on digital on July 30, 2021.
Johnson in “Ride the Eagle” plays Leif, whose estranged mother Honey (Sarandon) dies and leaves him a “conditional inheritance.” Before he can move into her picturesque Yosemite cabin, he has to complete her elaborate, and sometimes dubious, to-do list. Leif and and his dog Nora must step into Honey’s wild world as she tries to make amends from beyond the grave in this hilarious and heartfelt comedy.
O’Donnell, Johnson and Carden also produced “Ride the Eagle” along with Joe Hardesty and Huey Park.
The “New Girl” star wrote “Ride the Eagle” along with director Trent O’Donnell, and the film stars Susan Sarandon, J.K. Simmons and D’Arcy Carden. Decal plans to release the film in theaters, on demand and on digital on July 30, 2021.
Johnson in “Ride the Eagle” plays Leif, whose estranged mother Honey (Sarandon) dies and leaves him a “conditional inheritance.” Before he can move into her picturesque Yosemite cabin, he has to complete her elaborate, and sometimes dubious, to-do list. Leif and and his dog Nora must step into Honey’s wild world as she tries to make amends from beyond the grave in this hilarious and heartfelt comedy.
O’Donnell, Johnson and Carden also produced “Ride the Eagle” along with Joe Hardesty and Huey Park.
- 5/18/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“Community” and “Love” star Gillian Jacobs and “Aladdin” break-out Marwan Kenzari are set to lead Berlin-set romantic comedy “Any Other Night.”
Written by Patrick Whistler and directed by Michiel Ten Horn, the comedy follows two strangers thrown together as their lives are falling apart. Freshly dumped Maggie (Jacobs) and flailing cab driver Max (Kenzari) meet the night of a crippling transit strike, with the latter loading all of Maggie’s worldly possessions into the back of his decrepit van-cab. What should have been a simple fare becomes a wild, late-night odyssey.
“Any Other Night” is produced by Mike MacMillan of Lithium Studios, the outfit behind Cannes Director’s Fortnight selection “Mobile Homes,” alongside Sol Bondy of One Two Films (“The Tale”). Todd Brown of XYZ Films executive produces the film with XYZ handling sales.
The film marks the first English-language effort from acclaimed Dutch helmer Michiel Ten Horn (one of...
Written by Patrick Whistler and directed by Michiel Ten Horn, the comedy follows two strangers thrown together as their lives are falling apart. Freshly dumped Maggie (Jacobs) and flailing cab driver Max (Kenzari) meet the night of a crippling transit strike, with the latter loading all of Maggie’s worldly possessions into the back of his decrepit van-cab. What should have been a simple fare becomes a wild, late-night odyssey.
“Any Other Night” is produced by Mike MacMillan of Lithium Studios, the outfit behind Cannes Director’s Fortnight selection “Mobile Homes,” alongside Sol Bondy of One Two Films (“The Tale”). Todd Brown of XYZ Films executive produces the film with XYZ handling sales.
The film marks the first English-language effort from acclaimed Dutch helmer Michiel Ten Horn (one of...
- 5/6/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
First look at Nico van den Brink’s horror-thriller Moloch: "Production is underway in the Netherlands on director Nico van den Brink’s horror-thriller Moloch. With a screenplay by van den Brink and Daan Bakker, from a story by Nico van den Brink with additional support from Jaap Peter Enderle, Moloch is produced by Sabine Brian and Ronald Versteeg for Nl Film (Amsterdam). Todd Brown and Maxime Cottray are executive producing for XYZ Films. Moloch will be released theatrically throughout the Benelux by Splendid Film with XYZ Films representing worldwide sales outside of Benelux.
In the film, 38-year-old Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
In the film, 38-year-old Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
- 3/31/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Production is underway in the Netherlands on director Nico van den Brink’s debut feature Moloch, which has been boarded for world sales by XYZ Films. Splendid Film has taken distribution rights in Benelux.
In the horror-thriller, 38-year-old Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient. Today, we can reveal a first look image from the movie.
The Dutch-language pic is being produced by Sabine Brian and Ronald Versteeg for Nl Film in Amsterdam. Todd Brown and Maxime Cottray are executive-producing for XYZ. Cast is being kept under wraps.
Van den Brink has previously garnered attention for his shorts. One of those, The Burden, also produced by Nl Film,...
In the horror-thriller, 38-year-old Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient. Today, we can reveal a first look image from the movie.
The Dutch-language pic is being produced by Sabine Brian and Ronald Versteeg for Nl Film in Amsterdam. Todd Brown and Maxime Cottray are executive-producing for XYZ. Cast is being kept under wraps.
Van den Brink has previously garnered attention for his shorts. One of those, The Burden, also produced by Nl Film,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
William Burroughs’ explained the title of his 1959 masterpiece Naked Lunch as “a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.” Director Lee Haven Jones appears to share the Beat novelist’s intention in his feature film debut (after a decade of UK television), The Feast. The Welsh-language shocker serves up a stomach-churning bounty of visceral delights and/or dread in its deliberate 90 minutes, as it builds to a jaw-dropping third act – steadily foreshadowed throughout the preceding course of events. Yet another entry in the resurgence of the folk horror genre, the film […]
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- 3/26/2021
- by Steve Dollar
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
William Burroughs’ explained the title of his 1959 masterpiece Naked Lunch as “a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.” Director Lee Haven Jones appears to share the Beat novelist’s intention in his feature film debut (after a decade of UK television), The Feast. The Welsh-language shocker serves up a stomach-churning bounty of visceral delights and/or dread in its deliberate 90 minutes, as it builds to a jaw-dropping third act – steadily foreshadowed throughout the preceding course of events. Yet another entry in the resurgence of the folk horror genre, the film […]
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- 3/26/2021
- by Steve Dollar
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Lilly Stuecklen joins as distribution manager.
Decal, the home entertainment distributor backed by Neon and Bleecker Street, has hired Ayo Kepher-Maat as SVP of acquisitions to lead daily operations alongside SVP of marketing and distribution Sara Castillo.
Kepher-Maat previously served as director of acquisitions at Neon where, among other buys, she oversaw the acquisition of 2021 Sundance documentaries Ailey and All Light Everywhere.
She has held roles at Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, The Film Arcade, and Creative Artists Agency.
Lilly Stuecklen has joined as distribution manager and most recently worked as the post-production/delivery and exhibition marketing coordinator at Bleecker Street,...
Decal, the home entertainment distributor backed by Neon and Bleecker Street, has hired Ayo Kepher-Maat as SVP of acquisitions to lead daily operations alongside SVP of marketing and distribution Sara Castillo.
Kepher-Maat previously served as director of acquisitions at Neon where, among other buys, she oversaw the acquisition of 2021 Sundance documentaries Ailey and All Light Everywhere.
She has held roles at Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, The Film Arcade, and Creative Artists Agency.
Lilly Stuecklen has joined as distribution manager and most recently worked as the post-production/delivery and exhibition marketing coordinator at Bleecker Street,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Lilly Stuecklen joins as distribution manager.
Decal, the home entertainment distributor backed by Neon and Bleecker Street, has hired Ayo Kepher-Maat as SVP of acquisitions to lead daily operations alongside SVP of marketing and distribution Sara Castillo.
Kepher-Maat previously served as director of acquisitions at Neon where, among other buys, she oversaw the acquisition of 2021 Sundance documentaries Ailey and All Light Everywhere.
She has held roles at Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, The Film Arcade, and Creative Artists Agency.
Lilly Stuecklen has joined as distribution manager and most recently worked as the post-production/delivery and exhibition marketing coordinator at Bleecker Street,...
Decal, the home entertainment distributor backed by Neon and Bleecker Street, has hired Ayo Kepher-Maat as SVP of acquisitions to lead daily operations alongside SVP of marketing and distribution Sara Castillo.
Kepher-Maat previously served as director of acquisitions at Neon where, among other buys, she oversaw the acquisition of 2021 Sundance documentaries Ailey and All Light Everywhere.
She has held roles at Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, The Film Arcade, and Creative Artists Agency.
Lilly Stuecklen has joined as distribution manager and most recently worked as the post-production/delivery and exhibition marketing coordinator at Bleecker Street,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Why do international filmmakers seem to more frequently turn horror lenses on environmental subjects while domestic creators care more about boogeymen and slashers? If Jaco Bouwer‘s Gaia wasn’t proof enough, what about its SXSW Midnighter counterpart, Lee Haven Jones’ The Feast? The Welsh thriller penned by Roger Williams merges woodland folklore and bloodthirsty revenge with […]
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- 3/22/2021
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
A forest ranger plunges deep into the jungle on a routine observation mission and finds herself face to face with a pair of unkempt survivalists teetering on what seems to be the edge of paranoid madness in South African director Jaco Bouwer's Gaia, one of the most compelling films in SXSW 2021's Midnighters lineup. Blending ancient paganistic mythologies with modern technophobia and eco-horror, Gaia extends a long tradition of the so-called primitive as sage genre narrative while incorporating old ideas in new ways to create something familiar and fresh. Gabi and her supervisor, Winston (Anthony Oseyemi) abandon their normal river route when a camera drone mysteriously goes down in the forest. Bull-headed Gabi insists they go after the wreckage against Winston's...
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- 3/17/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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