Month: August 2023

IFC Films is beefing up its depleted leadership ranks, naming Nicole Weis VP of Distribution. Judy Woloshen also joins as VP of Public Relations, managing national publicity efforts across IFC’s three film brands (IFC, RJLE Films, Shudder). Weis, who will manage theatrical rollout for the film group’s slate, was previously VP of sales and distribution
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Before this ecstatic little girl holding her shoe turned into a singer and songwriter, she was growing up in London, England hittin’ the stage at open mic nights (and her father’s pub) and dropping song covers on YouTube. Her YT videos caught the eyes of DJ Fresh who featured her on his song “Hot Right
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Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s final series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and it’s going to be unlike anything Flanagan has ever done before. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and Netflix has announced this morning that “Usher” will
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Giant theater chain AMC Entertainment has promoted Ellen Copaken to SVP Marketing, effective immediately. She was also appointed to sit on the company’s management executive committee. Copaken joined AMC in February of as VP, Growth Strategy, and led the exhibitor’s AMC Perfectly Popcorn launch in more than 2,600 Walmart stores (and Walmart.com) ), delivering “sales
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Gore Verbinski’s The Ring led the first wave of early 2000s horror remakes that partially defined the era’s landscape alongside Saw torture-porners and other reactionary post-9/11 subgenres. Granted, remakes have always been a foundational pillar that keeps horror reinventing itself decade after decade — but the 2000s were different. Production companies like Platinum Dunes and
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Turbo Overkill reviewNow it’s left early access, Turbo Overkill is a retro-styled FPS where copious mutants make excellent grind rails for your chainsaw leg, but its momentum gets bruised by its longer run-time. Developer: Trigger Happy Interactive Publisher: Apogee Entertainment Release: August 11th 2023 On: Windows From: Steam, GOG Price: £20/€25/$25 Reviewed on: Intel Core
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The soothing sounds of binaural beats are thought to sharpen focus when cramming information into our chock-a-block heads. But a new study has found that binaural beats might actually hinder learning, not help it. Michał Klichowski, a cognitive neuroscientist at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, and colleagues wanted to see whether listening to binaural beats
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The Will Rogers Picture Pioneers Foundation is holding a screening of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back on Aug. 30, 7PM at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to raise funds for its charity. The non-profit provides support to a multitude of national health and social service programs, as well as financial assistance to members of
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News Weyes Blood Shares New Video For “Hearts Aglow” The latest clip from And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow  By Matthew Ismael Ruiz August 10, 2023 Facebook Twitter Weyes Blood performs at Pitchfork Music Festival Day 2 in Chicago, Illinois, July 22, 2023. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Weyes Blood has shared a
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Kill List, Free Fire, and High-Rise director Ben Wheatley announced plans for the Brexit zombie drama “Generation Z” for UK’s Channel 4 back in 2019. Our friends at Fangoria report that Wheatley teased upcoming plans for “Generation Z” at a recent screening of his latest feature, Meg 2: The Trench. “Generation Z” was initially set to go into production in 2020, but we all know how
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Deadline has confirmed that Warner Bros’ billion-dollar grossing Barbie won’t be getting a release in Kuwait, and it’s skating on thin ice in Lebanon. While local censorship authorities in Kuwait have deemed the Margot Robbie-Ryan Gosling pic as going against the grain of their values; Lebanon, which is typically liberal when it comes to LGBTQ+
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