Directv is already considering an appeal of the decision, saying it sets a ‘dangerous precedent.’
Directv won’t be getting any legal satisfaction from Nexstar, at least not for the time being. A judge has dismissed the antitrust lawsuit filed by Directv against channel-owning group last March, saying that the satellite TV company did not demonstrate injuries direct enough to warrant the antitrust complaint.
Directv’s suit centered on retransmission consent fees it claims were unlawfully manipulated by Nexstar. Nexstar-owned stations went dark on Directv, Directv Stream, and AT&T U-Verse from July through September 2023 thanks to a retrans dispute between the two. Directv has also filed an informal complaint with the FCC regarding Nexstar practices. 5-Day Free Trial $79.99+ / month directv.com/stream
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Directv won’t be getting any legal satisfaction from Nexstar, at least not for the time being. A judge has dismissed the antitrust lawsuit filed by Directv against channel-owning group last March, saying that the satellite TV company did not demonstrate injuries direct enough to warrant the antitrust complaint.
Directv’s suit centered on retransmission consent fees it claims were unlawfully manipulated by Nexstar. Nexstar-owned stations went dark on Directv, Directv Stream, and AT&T U-Verse from July through September 2023 thanks to a retrans dispute between the two. Directv has also filed an informal complaint with the FCC regarding Nexstar practices. 5-Day Free Trial $79.99+ / month directv.com/stream
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The reason Directv first dragged Nexstar into court was because the satellite provider claimed that Nexstar conspired with two other local station station owners,...
- 3/21/2024
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
A DirecTV satellite dish. (Photo by James Artis via Flickr Creative Commons)
A federal judge has tossed an antitrust lawsuit brought by DirecTV against Nexstar Media Group that alleged collusion and price fixing concerning some of the satellite company’s local TV carriage agreements.
The lawsuit, filed last March, claimed Nexstar worked with two affiliated companies — Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting — to engage in an unlawful conspiracy to raise prices for certain local broadcast channels.
Those stations — around 60 in total — are operated by Nexstar through shared services agreements with Mission and White Knight, which holds the broadcast licenses to those outlets. Those agreements allow a large company like Nexstar to operate stations without exceeding a federal cap that limits direct ownership to stations that reach less than approximately 40 percent of the American television audience.
At the time the lawsuit was filed, Mission and White Knight stations were unavailable to DirecTV subscribers.
A federal judge has tossed an antitrust lawsuit brought by DirecTV against Nexstar Media Group that alleged collusion and price fixing concerning some of the satellite company’s local TV carriage agreements.
The lawsuit, filed last March, claimed Nexstar worked with two affiliated companies — Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting — to engage in an unlawful conspiracy to raise prices for certain local broadcast channels.
Those stations — around 60 in total — are operated by Nexstar through shared services agreements with Mission and White Knight, which holds the broadcast licenses to those outlets. Those agreements allow a large company like Nexstar to operate stations without exceeding a federal cap that limits direct ownership to stations that reach less than approximately 40 percent of the American television audience.
At the time the lawsuit was filed, Mission and White Knight stations were unavailable to DirecTV subscribers.
- 3/21/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
A federal judge has dismissed the antitrust lawsuit that DirecTV filed against Nexstar last year accusing the TV station giant of price-fixing in connection with its retransmission consent negotiations with the satellite TV platform.
DirecTV’s suit, filed in New York’s Southern District in March 2023, accused Nexstar of engaging in price-fixing activity around the retransmission consent fees from MVPDs that have become a key source of revenue for local station owners. In his ruling issued March 20, Judge P. Kevin Castel dismissed the filing, without prejudice, arguing that DirecTV didn’t suffer enough significant harm in its dispute with Nexstar and related TV station owners to warrant an antitrust claim.
“DirecTV’s injuries are too indirect and speculative to confer antitrust standing,” Castel wrote.
In a statement, DirecTV stated through a spokesman, “This ruling sets a dangerous precedent that a victim of price-fixing needs to pay the inflated price before...
DirecTV’s suit, filed in New York’s Southern District in March 2023, accused Nexstar of engaging in price-fixing activity around the retransmission consent fees from MVPDs that have become a key source of revenue for local station owners. In his ruling issued March 20, Judge P. Kevin Castel dismissed the filing, without prejudice, arguing that DirecTV didn’t suffer enough significant harm in its dispute with Nexstar and related TV station owners to warrant an antitrust claim.
“DirecTV’s injuries are too indirect and speculative to confer antitrust standing,” Castel wrote.
In a statement, DirecTV stated through a spokesman, “This ruling sets a dangerous precedent that a victim of price-fixing needs to pay the inflated price before...
- 3/21/2024
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Colossal Biosciences, a company devoted to genetically resurrecting the woolly mammoth, is the subject of Oscar-winning director James Reed’s next documentary series for Teton Ridge Entertainment, a company backed by former Legendary CEO Thomas Tull.
Reed, who won an Academy Award in 2020 for co-directing “My Octopus Teacher,” is currently in production on the multi-year docuseries, which will follow the Dallas-based company as it uses gene-editing technology to bring back extinct species including the woolly mammoth, the thylacine (commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger) and the dodo bird. Reed will chronicle how Colossal, which deems itself the world’s first de-extinction company, strives to rewild the extinct animals and bring them back to their natural habitats.
Teton Ridge is financing the first phase of the docu’s production with the intention to find a distribution partner to bring the film to market.
“After these past few months with Colossal,...
Reed, who won an Academy Award in 2020 for co-directing “My Octopus Teacher,” is currently in production on the multi-year docuseries, which will follow the Dallas-based company as it uses gene-editing technology to bring back extinct species including the woolly mammoth, the thylacine (commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger) and the dodo bird. Reed will chronicle how Colossal, which deems itself the world’s first de-extinction company, strives to rewild the extinct animals and bring them back to their natural habitats.
Teton Ridge is financing the first phase of the docu’s production with the intention to find a distribution partner to bring the film to market.
“After these past few months with Colossal,...
- 2/21/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
When Colossal Biosciences launched in 2021 with a splashy New York Times article stating it aimed to to resurrect the Wooly Mammoth, the company’s goals drew comparisons to entertainment properties like Jurassic Park. Now Colossal, described as the world’s first de-extinction company, is making steps to enter the entertainment space with the hire of veteran executive Emily Castel as its chief marketing officer.
In the new role, Castel will lead the company’s brand, experiences, consumer products and emerging media, which would include entertainment content.
Castel has close ties with Thomas Tull, the Legendary Entertainment founder who is among the backers of Colossal. She served as chief marketing officer at Legendary from 2013-17, working with the studio’s distribution partners Warner Bros. and Universal on titles such as Pacific Rim, Godzilla, Jurassic World, Warcraft and Kong: Skull Island. She then founded her own company, Castel Creative, where she worked...
In the new role, Castel will lead the company’s brand, experiences, consumer products and emerging media, which would include entertainment content.
Castel has close ties with Thomas Tull, the Legendary Entertainment founder who is among the backers of Colossal. She served as chief marketing officer at Legendary from 2013-17, working with the studio’s distribution partners Warner Bros. and Universal on titles such as Pacific Rim, Godzilla, Jurassic World, Warcraft and Kong: Skull Island. She then founded her own company, Castel Creative, where she worked...
- 2/1/2024
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Maria Bakalova, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and has gone on to have roles in The Bubble and Bodies Bodies Bodies (and deliver vocal performances in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), has signed on to star in the horror film God’s Country, which is being produced by The Batman director Matt Reeves.
Bakalova takes over a role that had previously been assigned to Melissa Barrera of the recent Scream sequels. Barrera had to drop out of the project over scheduling issues.
The film will mark the English-language debut of director Egor Abramenko, who made his feature directorial debut with the Russian horror film Sputnik. God’s Country was written by Will Soodik (Westworld). According to Deadline, Bakalova will be playing a young woman who travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé, subsequently uncovering something sinister beyond comprehension,...
Bakalova takes over a role that had previously been assigned to Melissa Barrera of the recent Scream sequels. Barrera had to drop out of the project over scheduling issues.
The film will mark the English-language debut of director Egor Abramenko, who made his feature directorial debut with the Russian horror film Sputnik. God’s Country was written by Will Soodik (Westworld). According to Deadline, Bakalova will be playing a young woman who travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé, subsequently uncovering something sinister beyond comprehension,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Director Egor Abramenko gave a new twist to the creature feature in 2020’s Sputnik. He’s now set to take on biblical terror in God’s Country, marking his American directorial debut. Deadline reports that Bodies Bodies Bodies star Maria Bakalova will lead the Matt Reeves-produced genre pic.
God’s Country will follow “a young woman who travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé, subsequently uncovering something sinister beyond comprehension, as her American dream curdles into a nightmare of biblical proportions.”
Will Soodik (“Westworld”) wrote the script.
Bakalova takes over for Melissa Barrera, who reportedly exited the role due scheduling conflicts. God’s Country is set to go into production in Romania under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement in March. Barrera was announced to lead the project in February earlier this year, where her character was described as a Salvadoran woman.
What’s most fascinating about this is that Reeves told Deadline at the time,...
God’s Country will follow “a young woman who travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé, subsequently uncovering something sinister beyond comprehension, as her American dream curdles into a nightmare of biblical proportions.”
Will Soodik (“Westworld”) wrote the script.
Bakalova takes over for Melissa Barrera, who reportedly exited the role due scheduling conflicts. God’s Country is set to go into production in Romania under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement in March. Barrera was announced to lead the project in February earlier this year, where her character was described as a Salvadoran woman.
What’s most fascinating about this is that Reeves told Deadline at the time,...
- 10/31/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Oscar nom Maria Bakalova has signed on to star in the genre pic God’s Country, marking the American directorial debut of Egor Abramenko (Sputnik), which will go into production in Romania under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement in March.
The actress steps in for Melissa Barrera, who exited due to scheduling conflicts, according to a source close to the project. She plays the role of a young woman who travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé, subsequently uncovering something sinister beyond comprehension, as her American dream curdles into a nightmare of biblical proportions.
Will Soodik (Westworld) wrote the script. Also now aboard the project from Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho and Zq Entertainment are Maraboyina Capital and Castel Films, who have joined as financiers. Maraboyina’s Suraj Maraboyina and Castel’s Cristi Bostanescu will produce alongside the previously announced Reeves (The Batman) and Rafi Crohn (Tales from the Loop) for 6th & Idaho,...
The actress steps in for Melissa Barrera, who exited due to scheduling conflicts, according to a source close to the project. She plays the role of a young woman who travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé, subsequently uncovering something sinister beyond comprehension, as her American dream curdles into a nightmare of biblical proportions.
Will Soodik (Westworld) wrote the script. Also now aboard the project from Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho and Zq Entertainment are Maraboyina Capital and Castel Films, who have joined as financiers. Maraboyina’s Suraj Maraboyina and Castel’s Cristi Bostanescu will produce alongside the previously announced Reeves (The Batman) and Rafi Crohn (Tales from the Loop) for 6th & Idaho,...
- 10/31/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
‘My Animal’ Director Jacqueline Castel on Star Chemistry in Steamy Werewolf Genre-Bender [Interview]
My Animal, the feature debut of director Jacqueline Castel, gives a new spin on the werewolf mythos in a sexual coming-of-age genre-bender.
The feature debut centers on a secret tryst between small town hockey player Heather (Bobbi Salvör Menuez) and ice skater Jonny (Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Amandla Stenberg) that grows ever more dangerous thanks to a family werewolf curse.
My Animal premiered in select theaters on September 8 and will be released on Digital outlets on September 15.
Bloody Disgusting previously spoke with Castel about her debut out of Sundance, where the filmmaker broke down the werewolf metaphor and the symbolism behind her use of the color red. Ahead of its theatrical release, Castel shared the real-life chemistry between her leads for her twisted werewolf romance and how that translated to the screen.
Castel recalls how her casting fell into place, leading to a pair of leads who already had built-in chemistry.
The feature debut centers on a secret tryst between small town hockey player Heather (Bobbi Salvör Menuez) and ice skater Jonny (Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Amandla Stenberg) that grows ever more dangerous thanks to a family werewolf curse.
My Animal premiered in select theaters on September 8 and will be released on Digital outlets on September 15.
Bloody Disgusting previously spoke with Castel about her debut out of Sundance, where the filmmaker broke down the werewolf metaphor and the symbolism behind her use of the color red. Ahead of its theatrical release, Castel shared the real-life chemistry between her leads for her twisted werewolf romance and how that translated to the screen.
Castel recalls how her casting fell into place, leading to a pair of leads who already had built-in chemistry.
- 9/13/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The horror romance My Animal – which stars Amandla Stenberg of Bodies Bodies Bodies (read our review of that one Here) and Bobbi Salvör Menuez of Nocturnal Animals (which we reviewed at This Link) – has been getting positive reviews and strong word of mouth from its festival screenings, and a wider audience will soon have the chance to see it. The movie will be receiving a limited theatrical release on September 8th, with a digital release following on September 15th. And with those dates drawing near, a trailer for My Animal has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.
My Animal is coming our way from Paramount Global Content Distribution. The feature directorial debut of Jacqueline Castel, who was working from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Jae Matthews, the film is set in a small northern town and tells the story of Heather, an outcast teenage...
My Animal is coming our way from Paramount Global Content Distribution. The feature directorial debut of Jacqueline Castel, who was working from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Jae Matthews, the film is set in a small northern town and tells the story of Heather, an outcast teenage...
- 8/18/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
"I'll be back before midnight, so..." Paramount Global has revealed an official trailer for a supernatural love story titled My Animal, from filmmaker Jacqueline Castel. This first premiered in the Midnight section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and also played at the Fantasia & Overlook Film Festivals. Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Amandla Stenberg ignite in this genre-bending horror film. Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather (an outcast teenage goalie) is forced to live a secluded life on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny (a tormented figure skater), their connection threatens to unravel Heather's suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within (clearly it's a werewolf). "Beneath the surface of a harrowing family drama, a steamy teen romance, and a classic monster tale, Castel bolsters this genre gem with a tactile and emotional excavation of otherness." The cast includes Heidi von Palleske,...
- 8/17/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A sexual awakening unlocks a supernatural curse in first-time filmmaker Jacqueline Castel’s “My Animal,” starring “Bodies Bodies Bodies” breakout Amandla Stenberg and “Euphoria” alum Bobbi Salvör Menuez.
“My Animal” premiered at 2023 Sundance and follows an adolescent queer romance between a mysterious outsider and a burnt-out figure skater. The film was written by Jae Matthews.
Per the official synopsis, tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather (Menuez) is forced to live a secluded life on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny (Stenberg), their connection threatens to unravel Heather’s suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within.
Heidi von Palleske, Cory Lipman, Charlie and Harrison Halpenny, Joe Apollonio, Scott Thompson, Dean McDermott, and Stephen McHattie round out the cast. The horror-romance is produced by Andrew Bronfman and Michael Solomon, and is a Paramount Global Content Distribution release.
Director Castel called the film...
“My Animal” premiered at 2023 Sundance and follows an adolescent queer romance between a mysterious outsider and a burnt-out figure skater. The film was written by Jae Matthews.
Per the official synopsis, tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather (Menuez) is forced to live a secluded life on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny (Stenberg), their connection threatens to unravel Heather’s suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within.
Heidi von Palleske, Cory Lipman, Charlie and Harrison Halpenny, Joe Apollonio, Scott Thompson, Dean McDermott, and Stephen McHattie round out the cast. The horror-romance is produced by Andrew Bronfman and Michael Solomon, and is a Paramount Global Content Distribution release.
Director Castel called the film...
- 8/17/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The horror romance My Animal – which stars Amandla Stenberg of Bodies Bodies Bodies (read our review of that one Here) and Bobbi Salvör Menuez of Nocturnal Animals (which we reviewed at This Link) – will be receiving a limited theatrical release on September 8th, with a digital release following on September 15th. With those dates right around the corner, the ratings board at the Motion Picture Association has gone ahead given the film an R rating for “language throughout, sexual content, nudity, some drug use and violence“.
My Animal is coming our way from Paramount Global Content Distribution. The feature directorial debut of Jacqueline Castel, who was working from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Jae Matthews, the film is set in a small northern town and tells the story of Heather, an outcast teenage hockey goalie (Menuez), who falls for the town’s newcomer (Stenberg), an alluring but tormented figure skater.
My Animal is coming our way from Paramount Global Content Distribution. The feature directorial debut of Jacqueline Castel, who was working from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Jae Matthews, the film is set in a small northern town and tells the story of Heather, an outcast teenage hockey goalie (Menuez), who falls for the town’s newcomer (Stenberg), an alluring but tormented figure skater.
- 8/7/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
San Francisco, June 23 (Ians) A US judge has sanctioned the lawyer who submitted a legal brief written by the AI chatbot ChatGPT, which included citations of non-existent court opinions and fake quotes.
Lawyer Steven A Schwartz, who sued Colombian airline Avianca after believing that citations given by ChatGPT are real while they were, in fact, bogus, has been fined $5,000 by US District Judge in Manhattan, P. Kevin Castel, reports CNBC.
Along with Schwartz, the court also sanctioned and fined lawyer Peter LoDuca in the same incident.
Castel said that the attorneys, LoDuca and Schwartz, “abandoned their responsibilities” when they submitted the AI-written brief in their client’s lawsuit against the Avianca airline in March, and “then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question”, the report stated.
He also ordered them to notify each judge falsely identified as the author of the bogus case rulings about the sanction.
Lawyer Steven A Schwartz, who sued Colombian airline Avianca after believing that citations given by ChatGPT are real while they were, in fact, bogus, has been fined $5,000 by US District Judge in Manhattan, P. Kevin Castel, reports CNBC.
Along with Schwartz, the court also sanctioned and fined lawyer Peter LoDuca in the same incident.
Castel said that the attorneys, LoDuca and Schwartz, “abandoned their responsibilities” when they submitted the AI-written brief in their client’s lawsuit against the Avianca airline in March, and “then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question”, the report stated.
He also ordered them to notify each judge falsely identified as the author of the bogus case rulings about the sanction.
- 6/23/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Scripps Network will not have to face a class action lawsuit accusing it of sharing subscribers’ personal viewing history with Facebook as part of its advertising business.
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the suit, finding that consumers who subscribed to HGTV.com’s newsletter aren’t covered by a video privacy law that bars companies from disclosing information about their viewing habits. The ruling could undermine over 100 other identical suits against companies ranging from HBO to the NFL challenging opaque data practices in the absence of a federal data privacy law.
The cases all involve allegations that companies utilizing Meta’s Pixel tool, which allows advertisers to track visitor activity on websites to measure the effectiveness of ads and create custom audiences for ad targeting, violates the Video Privacy Protection Act. The law carries statutory damages of up to $2,500 per class member and creates a private right of action...
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the suit, finding that consumers who subscribed to HGTV.com’s newsletter aren’t covered by a video privacy law that bars companies from disclosing information about their viewing habits. The ruling could undermine over 100 other identical suits against companies ranging from HBO to the NFL challenging opaque data practices in the absence of a federal data privacy law.
The cases all involve allegations that companies utilizing Meta’s Pixel tool, which allows advertisers to track visitor activity on websites to measure the effectiveness of ads and create custom audiences for ad targeting, violates the Video Privacy Protection Act. The law carries statutory damages of up to $2,500 per class member and creates a private right of action...
- 4/26/2023
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At the outset of “My Animal,”, an entranced Heather (a tremendous Bobbi Salvör Menuez) sits on her knees in her white nightgown as a television’s gray glow, emanating from the visage of a full moon, envelopes her. The bluish rings under their eyes deepen, blood oozes from her nose, her body contorts, her bones crack, and her tendons twist. Growling, she drags herself across the carpet of her dimmed living room, before springing free, out of her house and through the woods for an immersive reimaging of a werewolf transformation.
And yet, it’s not solely a devoutness to the genre — the thrumming electronic ’80s score, the liquidy gray-scaled images of trees, or the aggressive shaky handheld tracking through the snow-covered forest, that awakens Castel’s film. It’s the “Beauty and the Beast” episode of the Shelly Duvall hosted series “Faerie Tale Theatre,” that Heather was watching on her television,...
And yet, it’s not solely a devoutness to the genre — the thrumming electronic ’80s score, the liquidy gray-scaled images of trees, or the aggressive shaky handheld tracking through the snow-covered forest, that awakens Castel’s film. It’s the “Beauty and the Beast” episode of the Shelly Duvall hosted series “Faerie Tale Theatre,” that Heather was watching on her television,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Robert Daniels
- Indiewire
“Queer Canadian female teen werewolf movie” may sound mighty specific as a subgenre, yet 23 years after John Fawcett’s delicious cult item “Ginger Snaps,” along comes “My Animal” to ensure it’s no longer in a category of one. A sleek, sensuous debut feature from accomplished short film and music video director Jacqueline Castel, this chilly tale of a suburban outcast whose headlong crush on an alluring figure skater threatens to expose her shape-shifting secret skitters lithely between genres — touching on young adult romance, creature horror and dysfunctional family drama — while keeping its own identity as fluid and elusive as that of its wounded, haunted protagonist.
As played by striking nonbinary performer Bobbi Salvör Menuez, protagonist Heather is among the more intriguing werewolves in horror history: a girl whose introverted demeanor and androgynous appearance have already placed her on the social fringes of her sleepy, snow-blanketed northern Canadian town, and...
As played by striking nonbinary performer Bobbi Salvör Menuez, protagonist Heather is among the more intriguing werewolves in horror history: a girl whose introverted demeanor and androgynous appearance have already placed her on the social fringes of her sleepy, snow-blanketed northern Canadian town, and...
- 1/23/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The horror romance My Animal – which stars Amandla Stenberg of Bodies Bodies Bodies (read our review of that one Here) and Bobbi Salvör Menuez of Nocturnal Animals (which we reviewed at This Link) – will be making its debut at the Sundance Film Festival next month, but before the audience there has had a chance to see it Paramount Worldwide Acquisition Group has already swooped in and acquired the global distribution rights to the film. (Excluding Canada.)
The feature directorial debut of Jacqueline Castel, who was working from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Jae Matthews, My Animal is set in a small northern town and tells the story of Heather, an outcast teenage hockey goalie (Menuez), who falls for the town’s newcomer (Stenberg), an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
The feature directorial debut of Jacqueline Castel, who was working from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Jae Matthews, My Animal is set in a small northern town and tells the story of Heather, an outcast teenage hockey goalie (Menuez), who falls for the town’s newcomer (Stenberg), an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
- 12/12/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Amandla Stenberg (Bodies Bodies Bodies) stars in the upcoming Sundance horror movie My Animal, and THR reports this afternoon that the film has been acquired by Paramount.
The Hollywood Reporter notes, “The studio has landed global distribution rights, excluding Canada, with distribution plans still to be determined.”
“Set in a small northern town, the story follows Heather, an outcast teenage hockey goalie (Bobbi Salvör Menuez), who falls for the town’s newcomer (Amandla Stenberg), an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.”
My Animal is the feature debut of director Jacqueline Castel.
Jae Matthews wrote the screenplay.
Castel said in a statement to THR, “Bobbi and Amandla were my first choices when we began casting My Animal – the synchronicity of their dual commitment is the kind of magically aligned rarity that a director always dreams of.
The Hollywood Reporter notes, “The studio has landed global distribution rights, excluding Canada, with distribution plans still to be determined.”
“Set in a small northern town, the story follows Heather, an outcast teenage hockey goalie (Bobbi Salvör Menuez), who falls for the town’s newcomer (Amandla Stenberg), an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.”
My Animal is the feature debut of director Jacqueline Castel.
Jae Matthews wrote the screenplay.
Castel said in a statement to THR, “Bobbi and Amandla were my first choices when we began casting My Animal – the synchronicity of their dual commitment is the kind of magically aligned rarity that a director always dreams of.
- 12/12/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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