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Los Angeles-based Hirsch Giovanni Entertainment has set a mid-2024 production start in New Mexico for writer-director Andrew Hunt’s Deadmen, which will be introduced to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market (EFM).

Set in an America where the population has been decimated by a zombie apocalypse, the film centres on a former cattle herder now employed to capture the undead to harvest a cancer-curing fungus in their brains. Casting is currently underway.

Deadmen is Hunt’s follow-up to his 2022 Guy Pearce psychological thriller The Infernal Machine.

Hirsch Giovanni developed Deadmen with Hunt and is producing with UK-based Lionel Hicks,...

Stars: Nell Hudson, Wil Coban, Florrie Wilkinson, Alice Eve, Joel Fry, Lenny Rush, Sophia Dunn-Walker, Wesley Alfvin, Maddison Nixon | Written by Tom Vaughan | Directed by Gary Shore

Horrors on the high sea are a common enough theme, from Ghost Ship and Deathship to The Haunting of the Mary Celeste and Titanic 666 there are plenty of them. The most recent of these, The Haunting of the Queen Mary opens on Halloween Eve,1938 when the ship’s festivities are replaced with terror as an axe-wielding man hacks his way through its corridors.

The plot then circles back a few hours to show Gwen and David Ratch sneaking into an exclusive party in an attempt to get their daughter Jackie introduced to some Hollywood stars who they hope can help her become the next Shirley Temple.

In the present day, Anne and Patrick Calder along with their son Lukas visit the ship with...

Stars: Wayne Gordon, Sadie Newman, Eve Mauro, Jackson Rathbone, Alex Pettyfer, Niki Spiridakos | Written by Sean-Michael Argo, Leigh Scott | Directed by Philippe Martinez

Black Noise is the latest film to follow in the footsteps of Predator and takes a group of highly trained professional soldiers and sends them to a remote location on what should be a simple mission only for it to turn into a battle with something beyond their comprehension. Earlier this year Island Escape added a few twists to make it feel fresh, can Black Noise pull off the same feat?

A large man, uniformed and armed, flees through a Carribean rainforest. Whatever he’s running from must be dangerous, his uniform is torn and he’s battered, bloody, and panicked to the point of shooting at moving foliage. Reaching a house he sees a quad parked in the yard, just what he needs to escape. But...

Justin Timberlake, the pop sensation, has been in a handful of movies over the past twenty years. None of them have hit terribly hard. But one of them, In Time, was a particularly derivative film that made audiences groan. The movie looked cool, but, unfortunately, it didn't provide.

The question is, what is this film that nobody remembers, and why is it back on the Netflix charts? Is it the dreaded algorithm digging movies out of the grave? Or is it pop culture mining itself for content? Maybe it's something completely different.

Transfer Your Biological Clock

Let's start with the plot of In Time, which came out in 2011. The film follows a man named Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) who works in a factory in Dayton, Ohio. Will is not having a great life because, in 2169, the new currency is time. Everyone has a ticking clock on their arm, and when...

Stars: Nell Hudson, Wil Coban, Florrie Wilkinson, Alice Eve, Joel Fry, Lenny Rush, Sophia Dunn-Walker, Wesley Alfvin, Maddison Nixon | Written by Tom Vaughan | Directed by Gary Shore

Horrors on the high sea are a common enough theme, from Ghost Ship and Deathship to The Haunting of the Mary Celeste and Titanic 666 there are plenty of them. The most recent of these, The Queen Mary opens on Halloween Eve,1938 when the ship’s festivities are replaced with terror as an axe-wielding man hacks his way through its corridors.

The plot then circles back a few hours to show Gwen and David Ratch sneaking into an exclusive party in an attempt to get their daughter Jackie introduced to some Hollywood stars who they hope can help her become the next Shirley Temple.

In the present day, Anne and Patrick Calder along with their son Lukas visit the ship with the idea of...

Exclusive: Oscar nominated actress Isabelle Huppert is leading Marianne from Hyde Park International, Cine@ and James Ireland and Alex Pettyfer’s Dark Dreams Entertainment.

Writer and director Michael Rozek, who is a former journalist for such publications as Esquire and Rolling Stone, says, “Marianne is a true event. It’s not only Isabelle Huppert’s very first one-character project—a complete tour de force for one of the greatest actresses in the history of film—but also, in its breakthrough form, a zeitgeist movie, meant to exactly capture the moment we are all living in.”

The pic, though set in New England, was shot outside of Paris.

The movie was produced by Oscar Nominee Philippe Carcassonne, James Ireland and Alex Pettyfer (The Infernal Machine) and Ashok Amritraj.

EPs on the project are Magnus Rausing, Morten Lundin, Peter Dellgren...

Universal’s ‘Violent Night’ is the top performing new release.

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Dec 2-4) Total gross to date Week 1. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £2.5m £7.8m 2 2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) £1.5m £29.5 4 3. Violent Night (Universal) £822,352 £822,352 1 4. Strange World (Disney)

£442,409 £1.4m 2 5. The Menu (Disney)

£334,067 £2.6m 3

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23

Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical continues its run of box office joy in the UK and Ireland, topping the chart once again with £2.5m from the weekend.

The Matthew Warchus-directed musical drama, distributed in the territory by Sony, now boasts an overall total of £7.8m, after two weekends out in cinemas.

Further new releases include ‘Summering’, ‘White Noise’ and ‘The Infernal Machine’.

There are a modest number of openers over the next couple of weekends at the UK-Ireland box office in the build-up to Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water landing on screens on December 16 and as festive fare settles in. This weekend’s widest new release is Violent Night, playing at 588 sites for Universal.

Tommy Wirkola’s alternative Christmas story sees Stranger Things star David Harbour play Kris Kringle during a particular trying Christmas Eve, with John Leguizamo as the leader of a group of dangerous mercenaries who take...

Pearce impresses as a writer drawn out of tragedy-imposed hiding in an atmospheric thriller that ultimately blows hot air

This atmospheric thriller stars the always compelling Guy Pearce as recluse Bruce Cogburn, a gruff novelist living alone with only his north of England accent for company. Cogburn lives alone because back in the 1980s, he wrote a novel called The Infernal Machine, a fable-like story about a priest who meets God. Somehow, Cogburn’s book inspired a young man named Dwight Tufford (played by Alex Pettyfer), who he’d never met, to climb a clock tower and kill people with a rifle, like mass murderer Charles Whitman back in 1966.

Now, in the film’s present 25 years later (which would place the action some time in the early 00s), Cogburn starts receiving handwritten letters from someone called William DuKent. DuKent is also an author who seemingly wants to write a book about The Infernal Machine,...

Writer/Director Andrew Hunt comes out the gate with a Guy Pearce-starring banger of a movie with The Infernal Machine, which also stars Alice Eve and Alex Pettyfer.

A reclusive and controversial author is drawn out of hiding when he begins to receive endless letters from an obsessive fan. What ensues is a dangerous labyrinth as he searches for the person behind the cryptic messages.

Exclusive: Magic Mike and I Am Number Four actor Alex Pettyfer is joining the Alec Baldwin-Olga Kurylenko action spy thriller Chief of Station, which starts production in November.

Pettyfer will play John Branca, a CIA agent overseeing a European intelligence division who’s been a steady hand for more than ten years and trusted ally to Ben Malloy (played by Baldwin), a legendary CIA Chief of Station. When Ben’s wife is killed in what appears to be a terrible accident, Branca takes over Ben’s old position as head of all Eastern European clandestine operations. But where do his loyalties lie?

The pic is directed by Jesse V. Johnson off a script by George Mahaffey.

Chris Petrovski has also boarded the feature project, and will take on the role of Ben’s son, Nick. He starred in the Ray Donovan movie and was a series regular on Madame Secretary.

Exclusive: Andrew Hunt is set to direct Deadmen from a script he also wrote. In addition, the filmmaker has inked with Zero Gravity Management for representation.

Deadmen, acquired by Hirsch Giovanni Entertainment, is a sci-fi/adventure/horror story set in the not-too-distant future with themes of cowboys, factory farming, family values, reanimation, and corporate and biomedical malfeasance. Hirsch Giovanni is also producing.

Hunt’s first feature directorial, the psychological drama/thriller, The Infernal Machine, starring Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Jeremy Davies and Alex Pettyfer, was released theatrically last week by Paramount, and on VOD.

Hunt got his start in On the Lot, the reality show and online competition for filmmaking, produced by Steven Spielberg, Mark Burnett and David Goffin, where he finished in the top six out of 12,000 applicants. He has since written and directed multiple shorts including the successful Frost Bite, which was featured on Alter Horror platform and counted over 2 million views.

It’s unfortunate that video stores no longer exist, because The Infernal Machine would thrive as one of those rentals that a store carries only one or two copies of. The movie that moms would get on a rainy weekend—or watch, with growing fascination, in between sets as it silently plays on the TV in a hotel gym tuned…...

For better and worse, there's more than meets the eye in "The Infernal Machine."

The ever-reliable Guy Pearce shines as the haunted Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive writer hiding out in Southern California over twenty years after first hitting the bestseller lists for his breakthrough novel, "The Infernal Machine." The traumatic reasons why he's shunned the world and never written a single follow-up to such an influential novel remain at the forefront of the story, thanks to the chilling cold open narration of a (seemingly unrelated) decades-old crime, and especially the disturbing deluge of letters sent to Cogburn from an obsessive fan. Pushed far enough to actually call up the mysterious William DuKent and leave a polite-but-firm message asking to be left alone, the script steadily turns the screws until the hidden danger of Cogburn's fixated and unseen admirer practically fills each frame.

Written and directed by Andrew Hunt and based...

Plot: Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive and controversial author of the famed book The Infernal Machine, is drawn out of hiding when he begins to receive endless letters from an obsessive fan. What ensues is a dangerous labyrinth as Bruce searches for the person behind the cryptic messages… forcing him to confront his past and ultimately revealing the truth behind The Infernal Machine.

Review: The nature of writers and their creations has been the subject of countless movies over the years, be they horror, comedy, or drama. As a writer myself, dissecting how authors dream up their stories is something I personally have found fascinating. Separating the creator from their product has had real-world consequences as it did in the recent attack on controversial novelist Salman Rushdie. The Infernal Machine takes a complicated look at the psychological power books can hold in a twisty thriller with lofty ambitions that falls just...

Paramount Pictures shared with Collider today an exclusive clip from their upcoming psychological thriller The Infernal Machine. The movie centers around a best-selling novel author who becomes the target of an obsessive fan who, little by little, reveals they might know a lot more than they should about the author’s inspiration. Paramount Pictures also revealed that the story is pretty close to premiering: The release date of the movie is slated for the next Friday, September 23.

Paramount has recently debuted the trailer for the psychological thriller, The Infernal Machine. The new film comes from writer and director Andrew Hunt. The movie stars Guy Pearce as an author named Bruce Cogburn, who had written a famous controversial book called The Infernal Machine. Cogburn is a recluse, but he has recently been receiving cryptic letters from an obsessed fan of his work.

Cogburn starts to see connections between the cryptic letters and a past incident where a mass shooter cited his book as an inspiration for his massacre. He starts to feel the walls closing in as he investigates why the shooter had been motivated by his words, and he suspects the writer of the letters might also be behind it. Cogburn is aided by a police officer responding to his complaints of being stalked.

The Infernal Machine is based on “The Hilly Earth Society” written by Louis...

“The Infernal Machine” is a new action thriller, directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Jeremy Davies and Alex Pettyfer opening in select theaters and on Digital Septemberg 23, 2022:

“…’Bruce Cogburn’ a reclusive and controversial author of the famed book ‘The Infernal Machine’ is drawn out of hiding when he begins to receive endless letters from an obsessive fan.

“What ensues is a dangerous labyrinth as Bruce searches for the person behind the cryptic messages forcing him to confront his past and ultimately revealing the truth…

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Watch Trailer For Thriller The Infernal Machine In Select Theaters and On Digital September 23, 2022 Guy Pearce stars in this psychological thriller of obsession and deceit. Bruce Cogburn (Pearce), a reclusive and controversial author of the famed book The Infernal Machine, is drawn out of hiding when he begins to receive endless letters from an …

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The Infernal Machine Trailer — Andrew Hunt‘s The Infernal Machine (2022) movie trailer has been released by MovieBox. The Infernal Machine trailer stars Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Jeremy Davies, and Alex Pettyfer. Crew Andrew Hunt wrote the screenplay for The Infernal Machine. “Produced by Julian & Lionel Hicks, and Spencer McLaren.” Plot Synopsis The Infernal Machine‘s plot [...]

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Paramount has released the trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller "The Infernal Machine," written and directed by Andrew Hunt. Guy Pearce stars as Bruce Cogburn, the writer of a controversial book that was cited as the cause of a teenager murdering 13 people, seemingly from a message contained in the book. Cogburn stopped writing because of it, and has been living a reclusive life ... until the non-stop letters start coming in from a single fan. 

If you're not familiar with the phrase "infernal machine," it's a device that is deliberately designed to destroy. Think of a bomb or a cryptic message that is a call to action for a criminal cell. The trailer does keep much of the plot under wraps, but it seems that Cogburn's mysterious letter-writing fan has uncovered the same hidden message that supposedly caused the mass shooting.

"The Infernal Machine" also stars Alice Eve ("Star Trek Into Darkness...

"He wanted to know if I saw the same things in the book as he did?" Paramount + MovieBox have revealed an official trailer for an indie thriller titled The Infernal Machine, arriving on VOD later in September. Guy Pearce stars as a reclusive & controversial author who is drawn out of hiding when he receives endless letters from an obsessive fan. This has appeared out of nowhere, without playing at any fests. Pearce stars in the psychological thriller as Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive and controversial author of the famed book The Infernal Machine (perhaps inspired by Cocteau's play The Infernal Machine?). He's drawn out of hiding when he begins to get letters from an obsessive fan. What ensues is a dangerous labyrinth as Bruce searches for the person behind the cryptic messages… forcing him to confront his past and ultimately revealing the truth behind The Infernal Machine. The cast also includes Alice Eve,...

Alice Eve is set to headline the “Early Edition” reboot pilot at CBS, Variety has confirmed.

In the rebooted version, ambitious but uncompromising journalist Beth (Eve) starts receiving tomorrow’s newspaper today. She then finds herself in the complicated business of changing the news instead of reporting it.

Beth is further described as the executive producer of Ksea, a local Seattle TV news station. A journalist/investigative reporter since she was a kid, Beth is very focused on getting the story no matter what, which sometimes puts her at odds with her beloved mentor, Tommy, who believes that the most important thing about a story is the people and its human toll.

Eve most recently appeared in the Epix series “Belgravia” and the feature “Warning.” Next up, she will be seen in the films “The Infernal Machine,” “Freelancers,” “The Queen Mary,” and the series “The Power” for Amazon. Her past...

Queensland has become the third state to widen its post, digital and visual effects (Pdv) rebate to cover game development, with a 15 per cent incentive to apply from next year.

In making the announcement this morning, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk also revealed that the Queensland Government has moved to lower the accessibility threshold from $500,000 to $250,000.

The move comes a month after Nsw broadened its 10 Pdv rebate to include game development from October 1, while earlier this year, the Federal Government announced a 30 per cent Digital Games Tax Offset as part of May’s Budget.

The government previously terminated the Australian Interactive Games Fund as part of its funding cuts to Screen Australia in the 2014 Budget.

In 2020, South Australia became the first state government to extend its Pdv rebate for games.

Like Film Victoria, Screen Queensland has offered games-specific production funding for several years. The agency supported Brisbane-based studio Witch Beam in the creation of Unpacking,...

Aitch Alberto to make feature directorial debut, adapted screenplay from YA novel.

Eugenio Derbez and Eva Longoria are among cast to join Limelight’s Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe.

Aitch Alberto will make her feature directorial debut and adapted the screenplay from the YA novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. The story centres on the friendship between Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana, two Mexican American boys on the cusp of manhood who form a life-changing bond after a chance meeting at an El Paso pool in the summer of 1987.

Cast includes Max Pelayo,...

Paramount said Monday that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to The Infernal Machine, a psychological drama/ thriller written and directed by Andrew Hunt and starring Guy Pearce. The pic just wrapped filming at Moviebox Studios’ facilities in the Algarve region of Portugal, which doubled for the U.S. Southwest border, and is now in postproduction.

Pearce plays Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive and controversial author who is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan. What ensues is a labyrinthine and treacherous game, creating a web of lies and manipulation that ultimately reveals the true meaning of The Infernal Machine. Alice Eve, Alex Pettyfer and Jeremy Davies also star.

Brothers Lionel Hicks and Julian Hicks and Spencer McLaren produced the UK-Portugal co-production from Moviebox in association with Spy Manor, Monte Productions and Filmology Finance. Richard S. Guardian, Michael Favelle, Jack Christian, DJ McPherson, Vanda Everke, Steve Jaggi and Alan Latham are executive producers.

Psychological thriller shot entirely in Algarve region of Portugal doubling for US Southwest U.S. border.

Paramount Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the Guy Pearce psychological thriller The Infernal Machine.

The film is in post and scheduled for delivery in early 2022. Andrew Hunt wrote and directs the story about Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive and controversial author who is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan into a labyrinthine and treacherous game.

The cast includes Alice Eve, Alex Pettyfer, and Jeremy Davies. Brothers Lionel Hicks and Julian Hicks are producing with Spencer McLaren. Executive producers are Richard S. Guardian,...