The romantic comedy "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend," starring Alyssa Milano and Christopher Gorham, will get its U.S. premiere on WB Digital's pay-per-view and VOD platforms and has been sold around the world by Opus Distribution.
Those deals and global sales on three other movies were announced by Ken DuBow, who founded Opus a year ago with private investment after working at MGM/UA, Modern Entertainment and elsewhere during the past 30 years.
Two other films will premiere on Lifetime channels: the horror thriller "Next Stop Murder," starring Brigid Brannagh and Rosa Blasi, on the Lifetime Movie Network, and the thriller "Locked Away," starring Jean Louisa Kelly and Kirsten Prout on Lifetime Network,
"Murder" and "Locked" were produced by Seven Palms, a company formed by former Nrg and Otx researcher Kevin Goetz, who also runs research firm Screen Engine, with partners Johnson Chan of Hong Kong and Vincent Reppert. They research movie...
Those deals and global sales on three other movies were announced by Ken DuBow, who founded Opus a year ago with private investment after working at MGM/UA, Modern Entertainment and elsewhere during the past 30 years.
Two other films will premiere on Lifetime channels: the horror thriller "Next Stop Murder," starring Brigid Brannagh and Rosa Blasi, on the Lifetime Movie Network, and the thriller "Locked Away," starring Jean Louisa Kelly and Kirsten Prout on Lifetime Network,
"Murder" and "Locked" were produced by Seven Palms, a company formed by former Nrg and Otx researcher Kevin Goetz, who also runs research firm Screen Engine, with partners Johnson Chan of Hong Kong and Vincent Reppert. They research movie...
- 9/6/2010
- by By Alex Ben Block
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago – While adult comedies continue to rake in the big bucks at the box office, adult dramas continue to plunge in popularity, particularly dramas centering on the war in Iraq. When a brilliant edge-of-your-seat thriller like Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” or a galvanizing documentary like “Taxi to the Dark Side” can’t even manage to find an audience, a tiny horror picture like “The Objective” doesn’t stand a chance.
DVD Rating: 2.5/5.0
“The Objective” opened in a few theaters earlier this year, performed badly, and has now been unceremoniously dumped into stores. Not an impressive feat for “The Blair Witch Project” co-director Daniel Myrick. At least the new film by his “Witch” partner, Eduardo Sanchez, was chosen for the latest “Ghost House Underground” collection.
The Objective was released on DVD on October 13th, 2009.
Photo credit: IFC Films
But while Sanchez’s “Seventh Moon” was a boring misfire, Myrick...
DVD Rating: 2.5/5.0
“The Objective” opened in a few theaters earlier this year, performed badly, and has now been unceremoniously dumped into stores. Not an impressive feat for “The Blair Witch Project” co-director Daniel Myrick. At least the new film by his “Witch” partner, Eduardo Sanchez, was chosen for the latest “Ghost House Underground” collection.
The Objective was released on DVD on October 13th, 2009.
Photo credit: IFC Films
But while Sanchez’s “Seventh Moon” was a boring misfire, Myrick...
- 10/21/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Poor Daniel Myrick. After all but setting the world on fire a decade ago with The Blair Witch Project (co-directed with Eduardo Sanchez), a film that managed to grab headlines in the summer of The Matrix, Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and The Sixth Sense, he returns now with The Objective, a film that is split by two opposing instincts: recapturing the glory of his initial success and expanding his vision to a scope that would suggest he’s ready to move on to a studio feature. Neither instinct is satisfied by either the film’s plotline or its execution, leaving us to wonder what movie he really wanted to make.
In the weeks following 9/11, the United States government picks up a strong heat signal emanating from the remote mountains of Afghanistan. The first suggestion, of course, is that the Taliban has gotten hold of a nuclear weapon,...
In the weeks following 9/11, the United States government picks up a strong heat signal emanating from the remote mountains of Afghanistan. The first suggestion, of course, is that the Taliban has gotten hold of a nuclear weapon,...
- 10/17/2009
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 13, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. It's another Big week, with Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell hitting the market, along with some long-awaited classics including The Stepfather, Hardware, and more.
Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com
Angels Vs. Demons: Fact Or Fiction?
The Vatican has condemned it. Readers around the world love it. And now we separate the fact from the fiction in Dan Brown’s controversial bestseller Angels & Demons. We examine the cutting-edge science of anti-matter and question the historical accuracy of theology, conspiracies, symbolism and cults as described by the The Da Vinci Code author. Includes bonus feature:...
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 13, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. It's another Big week, with Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell hitting the market, along with some long-awaited classics including The Stepfather, Hardware, and more.
Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com
Angels Vs. Demons: Fact Or Fiction?
The Vatican has condemned it. Readers around the world love it. And now we separate the fact from the fiction in Dan Brown’s controversial bestseller Angels & Demons. We examine the cutting-edge science of anti-matter and question the historical accuracy of theology, conspiracies, symbolism and cults as described by the The Da Vinci Code author. Includes bonus feature:...
- 10/11/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
- Fangoria
Current events inform these two genre films: Daniel Myrick’s The Objective takes place against the backdrop of the war in the Middle East, while Jeff Fisher’s Killer Movie puts a horrific spin on the endless reality-television trend. For The Blair Witch Project’s Myrick, The Objective marks a return to the scenario of a group of people venturing into forbidding territory where mysterious forces threaten them, while Fisher has intimate knowledge of his film’s specific milieu, having served time on the likes of The Real World/Road Rules and The Simple Life. But while the former effectively makes an already harrowing situation worse with the introduction of the supernatural, the latter doesn’t come up with anything that’s as scary as, say, the prospect of sitting through a whole season of Paris Hilton hijinx. Myrick, who scripted The Objective with Mark A. Patton and Wesley Clark Jr.,...
- 4/21/2009
- Fangoria
When The Blair Witch Project opened in '99, it deftly preyed upon audiences' fear of the dark. A decade later, co-creator Daniel Myrick is flipping the coin in The Objective . Instead of relying on conventional nocturnal scare tactics, Myrick takes on the unenviable task of crafting a daytime horror film in the most barren of locations. Opening in Los Angeles on March 13th, the film stars Jonas Ball as a CIA agent sent into Afghanistan to investigate a mysterious radiation signature. With a Special Ops team, he ventures into a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triangle" of sorts and faces an inhuman threat. ShockTillYouDrop.com spoke with Myrick about the film shortly after its debut in New York earlier this month. ShockTillYouDrop.com: The last time we spoke, you were...
- 2/17/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Spoiler alert : The following discusses the end of the film! Beginning today, IFC Entertainment begins an exclusive two-day run of Daniel Myrick's The Objective in New York City. And in the film actor Jonas Ball plays a CIA agent who leads a U.S. Special Ops force on a mission to find an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triangle" of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could ever have imagined. For anyone who has already seen the film, they know it concludes on an ambiguous note that leaves the fate of Ball's character up for interpretation. Myrick says he would love to explore this further in a follow-up to The Objective . "Absolutely, we talked at length about a...
- 2/6/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Release Date: Feb. 6 (limited)
Director: Daniel Myrick
Writers: Daniel Myrick, Mark A. Patton and Wesley Clark Jr.
Cinematographer: Stephanie Martin
Starring: Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, Jon Huertas, Sam Hunter, Jeff Prewett
Studio/Run Time: IFC Films, 104 mins.
Whatever else he may do, director Daniel Myrick will always have the words "Blair Witch Project" attached to his name. Judging from his work on The Objective, that may be the way he likes it, since the film in large part reprises what Blair Witch did earlier but without all the faux-cinema-verite trappings. Jonas Ball plays a CIA agent searching for a massive radiation silhouette spotted by spy satellites in Afghanistan. With him is a small group of special ops soldiers, assigned to protect him from what may lie in wait for them in the post-9/11 country. The group soon finds itself lost in the desert and under attack by some unknown supernatural force.
Director: Daniel Myrick
Writers: Daniel Myrick, Mark A. Patton and Wesley Clark Jr.
Cinematographer: Stephanie Martin
Starring: Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, Jon Huertas, Sam Hunter, Jeff Prewett
Studio/Run Time: IFC Films, 104 mins.
Whatever else he may do, director Daniel Myrick will always have the words "Blair Witch Project" attached to his name. Judging from his work on The Objective, that may be the way he likes it, since the film in large part reprises what Blair Witch did earlier but without all the faux-cinema-verite trappings. Jonas Ball plays a CIA agent searching for a massive radiation silhouette spotted by spy satellites in Afghanistan. With him is a small group of special ops soldiers, assigned to protect him from what may lie in wait for them in the post-9/11 country. The group soon finds itself lost in the desert and under attack by some unknown supernatural force.
- 2/4/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
We have images in from IFC Films' horror "The Objective," starring Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, John Huertas, Michael C. Williams and Jeff Prewett. The film is the winner of the New York City Horror Film Festival Audience Award. Winner of the Milagro Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival. Daniel Myrick (one of the directors of "The Blair Witch Project") directs and writes alongside Mark A. Patton and Wesley Clark. See all the images now! What's it about? When reconnaissance satellites pick up a radioactive heat signature in a remote tribal region of Afghanistan, CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes is sent in to investigate the phenomenon. Amidst the bedlam of the war-torn region, the Agency fears that Al-Qaida has finally gotten their hands on a nuclear weapon. However, it seems that this threat may be coming from something much more powerful, and definitely not human. A thrilling new ride from Daniel Myrick,...
- 2/4/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have images in from IFC Films' horror "The Objective," starring Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, John Huertas, Michael C. Williams and Jeff Pruett. The film is the winner of the New York City Horror Film Festival Audience Award. Winner of the Milagro Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival. Daniel Myrick (one of the directors of "The Blair Witch Project") directs and writes alongside Mark A. Patton and Wesley Clark.
- 2/4/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have images in from IFC Films' horror "The Objective," starring Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, John Huertas, Michael C. Williams and Jeff Pruett. The film is the winner of the New York City Horror Film Festival Audience Award. Winner of the Milagro Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival. Daniel Myrick (one of the directors of "The Blair Witch Project") directs and writes alongside Mark A. Patton and Wesley Clark.
- 2/4/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IFC Films is opening The Objective, the latest genre feature from Blair Witch Project co-creator Daniel Myrick, in New York City midnight shows this weekend, and we’ve got your chance to see it for free! In conjunction with the New York City Horror Film Festival, we’re offering five pairs of tickets to the lucky winners.
The movie is showing this Friday and Saturday, February 6-7 at midnight at Manhattan’s IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue). To win tickets for either night, just send an e-mail to NYCHorrorfest@aol.com with “Objective Tickets” in the subject line. You must include your full name, daytime phone number and e-mail address, as well as which night you want to attend. And let us know if you want to be added to the Fangoria newsletter list, so we can tell you about future Fango events. Winners will be selected at random and contacted on Friday,...
The movie is showing this Friday and Saturday, February 6-7 at midnight at Manhattan’s IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue). To win tickets for either night, just send an e-mail to NYCHorrorfest@aol.com with “Objective Tickets” in the subject line. You must include your full name, daytime phone number and e-mail address, as well as which night you want to attend. And let us know if you want to be added to the Fangoria newsletter list, so we can tell you about future Fango events. Winners will be selected at random and contacted on Friday,...
- 2/3/2009
- Fangoria
By Neil Pedley
On offer this week are films both long in the making and short on running time. Dakota Fanning does a double bill, Steve Martin further damages his credibility and "Blair Witch" director Daniel Myrick returns to have people running for their sanity.
"2008 Academy Award Nominated Short Films"
For one week only, Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures have teamed up again to bring you the world's finest in the way of live action and animated shorts from a multitude of international filmmakers, as determined by the Academy's selection committee. This year's live action lineup includes the Swiss/German drama "Auf der Strecke (On the Line)," the French life reimagination drama "Manon on the Asphalt", the Roddy Doyle-adaptation "New Boy" [pictured right], the Danish comedy "The Pig" and the German Holocaust-themed drama "Spielzeugland (Toyland)." The animated slate consists of the Japanese hand-drawn "La Maison en Petits Cubes", the Russian slice...
On offer this week are films both long in the making and short on running time. Dakota Fanning does a double bill, Steve Martin further damages his credibility and "Blair Witch" director Daniel Myrick returns to have people running for their sanity.
"2008 Academy Award Nominated Short Films"
For one week only, Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures have teamed up again to bring you the world's finest in the way of live action and animated shorts from a multitude of international filmmakers, as determined by the Academy's selection committee. This year's live action lineup includes the Swiss/German drama "Auf der Strecke (On the Line)," the French life reimagination drama "Manon on the Asphalt", the Roddy Doyle-adaptation "New Boy" [pictured right], the Danish comedy "The Pig" and the German Holocaust-themed drama "Spielzeugland (Toyland)." The animated slate consists of the Japanese hand-drawn "La Maison en Petits Cubes", the Russian slice...
- 2/2/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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