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The Monkey Teaser Trailer

on August 13, 2024 by marcie Comments Off

Macon Blair’s ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Deemed “Unreleasable”

on July 18, 2024 by marcie Comments Off

Blair’s film, rated R for strong violence, screened at a handful off genre film festivals — the reviews have been decent. However, the film still has no distributor.

I reached out to a producer, and they tell me the film “unreleasable” and that its commercial prospects are “too out there” for theatrical release. They believe that if the film does get picked up it would most likely go straight to VOD or streaming.

If it had great reviews then maybe the forecast would be a little rosier, but there isn’t much potential. It’s too niche. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see it on Tubi a few years from now.

“The Toxic Avenger” had its first public screening last September at Fantastic Fest, it went on to be seen at Beyond Fest and the Sitges Film Festival. That’s about it. I’m surprised it hasn’t even shown up in the just-announced Fantasia Film Festival lineup.

Source: World of Reel

Movies Elijah news The Monkey

The Monkey Release Date

on June 22, 2024June 22, 2024 by marcie Comments Off

Finally a release date for The Monkey.

Stephen King, James Wan, and Osgood Perkins.
THE MONKEY.
February 21, 2025 pic.twitter.com/NQvqPq57P5

— NEON (@neonrated) June 21, 2024

Here’s the official synopsis:

When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.

Movies Elijah news Bookworm

Vertical Acquires U.S. Rights To Adventure Comedy ‘Bookworm’

on June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 by marcie Comments Off

Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to the adventure comedy Bookworm, starring Elijah Wood (Yellowjackets) and Nell Fisher (Evil Dead Rise). Directed by Wood’s frequent collaborator Ant Timpson (Come to Daddy), who penned the script with Toby Harvard, the film is slated for release later this year.

Bookworm follows 11-year-old Mildred (Fisher), whose life takes a wild turn when her estranged father, Strawn Wise (Wood), a washed-up Las Vegas illusionist, suddenly reappears. Years ago, after a magical encounter with the once-charming Strawn, Mildred’s mom moved back to New Zealand. Now, a comical mishap leaves Strawn caring for Mildred while her mom is hospitalized. Their first adventure? Camping to hunt for the mythological Canterbury Panther. As this mismatched duo navigates the wilderness, magic tricks, and an extraordinary quest, hilarity ensues, and they might just find a way to piece their family back together.

Source: Deadline

SpectreVision Elijah news High Strangeness

Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision and Oni Press team up to investigate High Strangeness with a new paranormal comics imprint

on June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 by marcie Comments Off

SpectreVision, the film production company co-founded by actor Elijah Wood, is entering the comics space with a newly-announced collaboration with Oni Press.

The company, which is responsible for cult horror classics like Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy (the best Nicholas Cage film? Quite possibly…) and Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is teaming up with Oni to launch a new “pop-up” imprint, High Strangeness, dedicated to comics about paranormal experiences and esoteric subjects.

“Accounts from experiencers of the paranormal suggest a vast, interconnected narrative unfolding at the farthest reaches of human experience – from UFOs, to cryptid sightings, to patterns of synchronicities that point to an invisible architecture underlying our reality,” said SpectreVision co-founder Daniel Noah in a statement today. “As an experiencer myself, I know firsthand that the world of high strangeness can have profound implications. We’re galvanized to explore this remarkable space with our partners at Oni.”

“Comics feel uniquely suited to explore this wide-ranging spectrum of paranormal phenomena, utilizing the limitless possibilities of the medium to give shape to the often gaussian accounts of what cannot be explained through traditional means,” added Wood.

Podcaster Jim Perry, whose show Euphomet is a big favorite of Team Newsarama, is also involved with the project, putting his years of experience with the paranormal to good use by coming on board as a creative consultant.

“Over the past decade, so many members of the Oni team and greater comics community have been inspired and influenced by SpectreVision’s extraordinary body of work,” said Oni Press’s president and publisher, Hunter Gorinson. “Together, we share a mutual fascination with the extremities of human understanding – where aliens, poltergeists, demons, fairies, and other entities all seem to extend like fingers from a hidden hand. Through the uniquely powerful lens of comic storytelling, we intend to tell an array of stories exploring these multiple manifestations, but rooted in the same common understanding: Reality is thin around the edges…and if we press hard enough in exactly the right places, it just might shatter.”

More details of High Strangeness will be announced at this weekend’s LA Comic Con, with an exclusive presentation on December 3 at Noon PT. For more details, head to ComicConLA.com.

Source: MSN