Although he's best known by horror fans as the founder of New Line Cinema and the producer of A Nightmare on Elm Street movies (and executive producer of Freddy's Nightmares), Bob Shaye is also a director, and following 1990's Book of Love and 2007's The Last Mimzy, Shaye returns to the director's chair with the thriller Ambition, and Shout! Studios and Unique Features are teaming up to release the suspense thriller this fall.
Press Release: Shout! Studios, the multi-platform filmed entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory and Unique Features announced a strategic distribution collaboration to bring visionary filmmaker Bob Shaye’s new suspense thriller Ambition to a wide variety of entertainment platforms and in select U.S. cinemas. Unique Features and Seth Willenson will handle theatrical distribution duties. Directed by Shaye, Ambition stars Katherine Hughes, Giles Matthey, Sonoya Mizuno, and Bryan Batt with a special appearance by Lin Shaye.
Press Release: Shout! Studios, the multi-platform filmed entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory and Unique Features announced a strategic distribution collaboration to bring visionary filmmaker Bob Shaye’s new suspense thriller Ambition to a wide variety of entertainment platforms and in select U.S. cinemas. Unique Features and Seth Willenson will handle theatrical distribution duties. Directed by Shaye, Ambition stars Katherine Hughes, Giles Matthey, Sonoya Mizuno, and Bryan Batt with a special appearance by Lin Shaye.
- 6/6/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Shout! Studios and Unique Features have teamed on a deal for the multi-platform distribution of Ambition, the suspense thriller directed by New Line Cinema and Unique Features founder Bob Shaye that will now hit select U.S. theaters day-and-date in the fall.
As part of a multi-year team-up between Shout! and Unique Features, Shout! Studios has acquired North American distribution rights to the pic including digital, VOD, broadcast and home entertainment.
Ambition, a modernist version of Douglas Sirk’s 1950s melodrama thrillers, stars Katherine Hughes as Jude Hunter, and intensely driven musician preparing for the biggest audition of her life. As a series of deaths surround her, she recognizes the pattern that seems to connect her with the deaths and her ambition. One night, her suspicions are confirmed: She becomes the target of a murderer fueled by the jealousy of her success.
Giles Matthey, Sonoya Mizuno and Bryan Batt also star in the pic,...
As part of a multi-year team-up between Shout! and Unique Features, Shout! Studios has acquired North American distribution rights to the pic including digital, VOD, broadcast and home entertainment.
Ambition, a modernist version of Douglas Sirk’s 1950s melodrama thrillers, stars Katherine Hughes as Jude Hunter, and intensely driven musician preparing for the biggest audition of her life. As a series of deaths surround her, she recognizes the pattern that seems to connect her with the deaths and her ambition. One night, her suspicions are confirmed: She becomes the target of a murderer fueled by the jealousy of her success.
Giles Matthey, Sonoya Mizuno and Bryan Batt also star in the pic,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Illustrious Hollywood actor Ed Asner, known for classics like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and it’s spin-off Lou Grant, has been tapped for the title role in the upcoming family film The Santa Files. From writer-director Tom Denucci, the pic is about a group of outcast kids who go on a holiday adventure hunt to find Santa Claus. Production is slated to being this month in Providence, Ri. Phillip Goldfine and David Gere are producing while Benjamin Sacks and Jason Hewitt will…...
- 4/7/2017
- Deadline
Your first look at the undead mayhem that is on tap in Anchor Bay's The Demented has arrived, and you should run - not shamble - in here to check it out. Though we still do prefer zombies who shamble.
Produced by Zero Gravity Management and ChickFlicks, The Demented is another zombie-fest populated by young genre fixtures that include I Spit on Your Grave's Sarah Butler, Michael Welch (The Twilight Saga), Kayla Ewell ("The Vampire Diaries"), Brittney Alger (21 Jump Street), and Richard Kohnke (Mighty Fine).
The script was penned by writer/director Chris Roosevelt. Benjamin Sacks and Bryan Sexton serve as executive producers. Zero Gravity’s Christine Holder, Mark Holder, and Damiano Tucci are producing alongside ChickFlicks’ Sara Risher. Shirley Craig, Phil Goldfine, and Steven R. Monroe are also producing.
Synopsis
Six college friends meet up for a carefree weekend that turns deadly. A terrorist attack in a nearby...
Produced by Zero Gravity Management and ChickFlicks, The Demented is another zombie-fest populated by young genre fixtures that include I Spit on Your Grave's Sarah Butler, Michael Welch (The Twilight Saga), Kayla Ewell ("The Vampire Diaries"), Brittney Alger (21 Jump Street), and Richard Kohnke (Mighty Fine).
The script was penned by writer/director Chris Roosevelt. Benjamin Sacks and Bryan Sexton serve as executive producers. Zero Gravity’s Christine Holder, Mark Holder, and Damiano Tucci are producing alongside ChickFlicks’ Sara Risher. Shirley Craig, Phil Goldfine, and Steven R. Monroe are also producing.
Synopsis
Six college friends meet up for a carefree weekend that turns deadly. A terrorist attack in a nearby...
- 5/2/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Ving Rhames joins Steven Seagal and Danny Trejo in crime drama Force Of Execution, described as an epic battle of underbosses and crime lords. The story about a crime lord torn between his legacy and his desire to get out of the life of crime that has built his empire, when a new player to the scene tries to use the town anti-hero’s network to climb to power. The only friend the crime lord has is his assassin protégé who has troubles of his own. Only one will come out alive. Directed and Executive Produced by Keoni Waxman (True Justice, Maximum Conviction) and Produced by Steven Seagal and Phillip B. Goldfine, Benjamin Sacks, Jim Burleson and Binh Dang. Filming is taking place...
- 2/28/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
For my money you can never have too many zombie movies. I love them with every ounce of my heart and soul, and it always warms me inside to know that another one is on the way. Read on for details about the latest rotting romp coming at us!
Deadline reports that Anchor Bay Films has acquired English speaking terrritorial rights to The Demented and has added the thriller to its 2013 slate. Produced by Zero Gravity Management and ChickFlicks, The Demented is another zombie-fest populated by young genre fixtures that include I Spit on Your Grave‘s Sarah Butler, Michael Welch (The Twilight Saga), Kayla Ewell ("The Vampire Diaries"), Brittney Alger (21 Jump Street), and Richard Kohnke (Mighty Fine). Filming just wrapped in Louisiana, and Anchor Bay President Bill Clark made the deal.
It’s described as “an original zombie movie that we know horror audiences will love,” said Anchor Bay...
Deadline reports that Anchor Bay Films has acquired English speaking terrritorial rights to The Demented and has added the thriller to its 2013 slate. Produced by Zero Gravity Management and ChickFlicks, The Demented is another zombie-fest populated by young genre fixtures that include I Spit on Your Grave‘s Sarah Butler, Michael Welch (The Twilight Saga), Kayla Ewell ("The Vampire Diaries"), Brittney Alger (21 Jump Street), and Richard Kohnke (Mighty Fine). Filming just wrapped in Louisiana, and Anchor Bay President Bill Clark made the deal.
It’s described as “an original zombie movie that we know horror audiences will love,” said Anchor Bay...
- 8/8/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
"Jeepers Creepers" director Victor Salva is making a new nightmare film and is recruiting Rose McGowan to become part of it. The "Charmed" actress has been tapped to star in "Rosewood Lane" which is promised to be as original as Salva's "Jeepers Creepers" franchise.
In the new movie, McGowan will play Doctor Sonny Blake, a radio talk show psychiatrist, who moves back to her childhood home after her alcoholic father dies. Once back in her old neighborhood she discovers the local paperboy is a frightening and cunning young sociopath that targeted her father and now targets her.
When the boy starts calling her show and recites eerie nursery rhymes, an unnerving game of cat-and-mouse begins. When the game escalates, she suddenly finds herself in a terrifying all out war, one that forces her to redefine her ideas of good and evil, and has her fighting to stay alive.
" 'Rosewood Lane'...
In the new movie, McGowan will play Doctor Sonny Blake, a radio talk show psychiatrist, who moves back to her childhood home after her alcoholic father dies. Once back in her old neighborhood she discovers the local paperboy is a frightening and cunning young sociopath that targeted her father and now targets her.
When the boy starts calling her show and recites eerie nursery rhymes, an unnerving game of cat-and-mouse begins. When the game escalates, she suddenly finds herself in a terrifying all out war, one that forces her to redefine her ideas of good and evil, and has her fighting to stay alive.
" 'Rosewood Lane'...
- 2/10/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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