The Fantasia Film Festival is officially over and we here at Sound On Sight will always remember it as the year of brilliant first time features with the likes of Bellflower, Absentia, Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark, You Are Here, Beyond The Black Rainbow, Attack The Block and Retreat, to name a few. The final audience numbers are yet to be confirmed, but Fantasia estimates it has welcomed more than 100,000 audience members in the past three and a half weeks. 150 international directors, actors and producers came to present their films and we had a great time meeting new faces and drinking the nights away with some of the filmmakers. I can’t stress how fun the festival is and highly I recommend our international readers who love genre cinema to one day travel here to Montreal, and check it out.
This year’s fest opened big with the...
This year’s fest opened big with the...
- 8/8/2011
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
The 2011 Fantasia International Film Festival has come to an end and as usual was a rousing success with more than 100,000 audience members. In addition 150 international directors, actors, and producers presented their films at the fest. Read on for the wrap-up and winners from this year's various competitions.
From the Press Release: sThe festival opened with a bang with the Canadian premiere of Red State by director Kevin Smith. This was only the first in a long line of sensational special events that took place over the course of the festival. Among those was the incredible homage to the great John Landis (Burke And Hare), marked by the presentation of Fantasia’s new trophy “Le Cheval Noir.” Mirroring our strong launch, the festival closed with the Canadian premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Don’T Be Afraid Of The Dark. Other memorable events included: the homage to André Link and John Dunning...
From the Press Release: sThe festival opened with a bang with the Canadian premiere of Red State by director Kevin Smith. This was only the first in a long line of sensational special events that took place over the course of the festival. Among those was the incredible homage to the great John Landis (Burke And Hare), marked by the presentation of Fantasia’s new trophy “Le Cheval Noir.” Mirroring our strong launch, the festival closed with the Canadian premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Don’T Be Afraid Of The Dark. Other memorable events included: the homage to André Link and John Dunning...
- 8/7/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
You don't have to be a world-renowned detective to deduce that a big theatrical hit with a well-known fictional character can prompt robust sales of back-catalog DVDs related to the same subject.
But for independent disc suppliers, drawing off of such big-screen hits can have outsized benefits. To wit: Sales of Mpi Media's collection of "Sherlock Holmes" DVDs jumped by nearly one-third in the first week after Warner Bros.' Dec. 25 release of the famed sleuth's latest theatrical adventure.
Suburban Chicago-based Mpi holds the exclusive licenses for 10 television programs based on the famed character first created by 19th century novelist Arthur Conan Doyle.
Directed by Guy Ritchie, "Holmes" has rung up $84 million domestically since unspooling on Christmas. But even a less successful rendering of a well-known tale can prompt dusty DVDs to start flying off of store shelves.
"Remakes have proven that consumers are driven to the original versions, regardless...
But for independent disc suppliers, drawing off of such big-screen hits can have outsized benefits. To wit: Sales of Mpi Media's collection of "Sherlock Holmes" DVDs jumped by nearly one-third in the first week after Warner Bros.' Dec. 25 release of the famed sleuth's latest theatrical adventure.
Suburban Chicago-based Mpi holds the exclusive licenses for 10 television programs based on the famed character first created by 19th century novelist Arthur Conan Doyle.
Directed by Guy Ritchie, "Holmes" has rung up $84 million domestically since unspooling on Christmas. But even a less successful rendering of a well-known tale can prompt dusty DVDs to start flying off of store shelves.
"Remakes have proven that consumers are driven to the original versions, regardless...
- 12/30/2009
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One film we've been excited about forever here at Dread Central is Ti West's The House of the Devil, and with good reason -- it looks friggin' killer! Even better, Magnet announced today that they acquired the distribution rights so we can finally see the damned thing!
From the Press Release:
"Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to Ti West’s critically acclaimed horror film The House Of The Devil. A terrifically crafted homage to 80s horror masterpieces, the film premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and is sure to be an instant classic among genre fans, expertly building a mood of mounting dread to a shockingly terrifying climax. Director West, who was recently tapped by Hollywood to direct a high profile sequel, The Haunting In Georgia, has been regarded as something of a horror wunderkind since 2005’s The Roost,...
From the Press Release:
"Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to Ti West’s critically acclaimed horror film The House Of The Devil. A terrifically crafted homage to 80s horror masterpieces, the film premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and is sure to be an instant classic among genre fans, expertly building a mood of mounting dread to a shockingly terrifying climax. Director West, who was recently tapped by Hollywood to direct a high profile sequel, The Haunting In Georgia, has been regarded as something of a horror wunderkind since 2005’s The Roost,...
- 6/25/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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