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The trailer for Come to Daddy is out. Saban Films will release Timpson’s Come To Daddy in select US theaters + on VOD starting February 7th, 2020 View it below.
Finally got these for the Los Angeles Comic Con that was in October.
Toronto After Dark is showing Come to Daddy and it runs October 17-25th It is now completely sold out.
Here’s a new picture from it.
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Elijah Wood’s genre-driven SpectreVision has signed an exclusive first-look deal with Legendary Television Studios. Under the multi-year pact, the team will develop scripted series content with a focus on distinctive genre concepts from dynamic storytellers. As part of the deal, Claire Bargout joins SpectreVision as Director of Development for scripted series.
The company’s partners, Wood, Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller and Lisa Whalen are behind such arthouse hits as Mandy, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Cooties. Their recent film, Daniel Isn’t Real, premiered at South by Southwest to rave reviews and will be released in late 2019. Their follow-up, Richard Stanley’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, Color Out of Space, is currently in post-production.
“SpectreVision has proven itself an exemplary leader in the indie genre space, creating unique entertainment that truly captivates audiences,” said Nick Pepper, President of Legendary Television Studios. “We are thrilled to be partnering with them and look forward to developing future projects together.”
“For a boutique company like ours to expand into television meant finding exactly the right partners, and we couldn’t be happier to have found those partners in Legendary,” said Whalen, CEO of SpectreVision, as well as its parent company, Company X.
“We’ve found kindred spirits in the visionary folks at Legendary, and we’re excited to create vital and ambitious television in the genre space,” said Wood, Creative Director.
Legendary TV Studios’ roster includes Dune: The Sisterhood based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel; the reboot of the classic family adventure series Lost in Spacefor Netflix; the upcoming fantasy noir drama Carnival Row for Amazon; two seasons of Pacific Rim, an original anime series expanding the story of the first two live action movies, for Netflix; and the recently announced Paper Girls, based on Brian K. Vaughan’s best-selling graphic novel, for Amazon.
Critics have called his new film “gleefully nasty,” “gross and goofy,” a “frenzied thriller” and a “gore-filled bloodbath”.
His own wife elbowed him in the stomach during a screening and said: “Did you have to go that far?”
But local film-maker Ant Timpson says Come to Daddy, his directorial debut, isn’t messed up at all.
“It’s not completely over the top,” says Timpson ahead of Come to Daddy’s big screen debut at the New Zealand International Film Festival later this month, the event’s biggest local movie.
“It’s far more accessible than some of the other films I’ve been involved in. It’s more of a slow burn that starts picking up speed then goes a bit bonkers.”
Timpson is a familiar face in the local film industry, a key figure who has curated the Incredibly Strange section of the International Film Festival since 1994 (Come to Daddy was selected independently for the festival’s main section) and spearheaded the 48 Hour Film Festival in 2004.
The 53-year-old’s produced many twisted horror films over the past few years, including Deathgasm, The Greasy Strangler and The ABCs of Death.
But Come to Daddy is being hailed as his most accessible film yet. Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive: Indiewire called it as “an absurd gross-out romp that turns into a tearjerker” and rated it a B+, while Film Threat said it was “smart, uncompromising, inventive and just downright hilarious” in a 10/10 review.
It features local actress Madeleine Sami alongside Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, who plays Norval, a DJ who is invited to return to his home in Oregon to reunite with his estranged father, played by Stephen McHattie.
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