One of the most anticipated movies to spin out of Warner Bros.’ upcoming phalanx of 2021 movies heading straight to HBO Max is “Godzilla vs. Kong.” The sequel to “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” and “Kong: Skull Island,” the fourth entry in Legendary’s evolving MonsterVerse arrives day-and-date on the rookie streaming platform and in available theaters this coming March 26. Watch the new full trailer below.
Directed by genre filmmaker Adam Wingard and written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, “Godzilla vs. Kong” has been wrapped, at least production-wise, for nearly two years. It was originally slated to open in November last year but, like every other tentpole movie in the pipeline, was pushed into 2021 due to the pandemic. “Godzilla vs. Kong” combines the former character created by Japan’s Toho, and the latter character created by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper, in a monster movie mash-up that harks back...
Directed by genre filmmaker Adam Wingard and written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, “Godzilla vs. Kong” has been wrapped, at least production-wise, for nearly two years. It was originally slated to open in November last year but, like every other tentpole movie in the pipeline, was pushed into 2021 due to the pandemic. “Godzilla vs. Kong” combines the former character created by Japan’s Toho, and the latter character created by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper, in a monster movie mash-up that harks back...
- 1/24/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Amazon and Paramount Television are developing a series adaptation of the 1997 sci-fi horror film “Event Horizon,” Variety has learned.
Adam Wingard is set to executive produce and direct the potential series. Wingard recently directed the film “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which is due out in theaters in March 2020. He has previously directed films like the recent “Blair Witch” reboot, “The Guest,” “You’re Next,” and the live-action version of “Death Note.” He also wrote and directed films like “Autoerotic” and “What Fun We Were Having.”
Wingard willl executive produce along with Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin, and Jeremy Platt. Gordon and Levin both produced the film.
The film was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and written by Philip Eisner. The titled referred to a spaceship that disappeared after testing an experimental gravity drive capable of creating an artificial black hole that was meant to allow the ship to travel to distant points in the galaxy.
Adam Wingard is set to executive produce and direct the potential series. Wingard recently directed the film “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which is due out in theaters in March 2020. He has previously directed films like the recent “Blair Witch” reboot, “The Guest,” “You’re Next,” and the live-action version of “Death Note.” He also wrote and directed films like “Autoerotic” and “What Fun We Were Having.”
Wingard willl executive produce along with Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin, and Jeremy Platt. Gordon and Levin both produced the film.
The film was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and written by Philip Eisner. The titled referred to a spaceship that disappeared after testing an experimental gravity drive capable of creating an artificial black hole that was meant to allow the ship to travel to distant points in the galaxy.
- 8/5/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese production and talent company Er Dong Pictures shed some light on its latest film investment slate and growing web of relationships in Asia and Hollywood.
The company, which is in the process of establishing a joint venture with Hollywood talent firm The Gersh Agency, and has a 12-film co-funding deal with Starlight Culture Entertainment, announced its involvement in new projects with Roland Emmerich, Jon M. Chu and Sylvester Stallone.
Projects include “Those About to Die,” a film project with Harald Kloser set as producer. Emmerich and Gianni Nunnari (“The Departed”) are also involved, though their roles were not specified.
“Sylvester Stallone will be cooperating with Er Dong Pictures and Starlight on three projects,” Er Dong said. The company appears to be boarding projects being hatched by Stallone’s Balboa Pictures, including the previously announced English-language remake of recent Korean action film “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil,” which had...
The company, which is in the process of establishing a joint venture with Hollywood talent firm The Gersh Agency, and has a 12-film co-funding deal with Starlight Culture Entertainment, announced its involvement in new projects with Roland Emmerich, Jon M. Chu and Sylvester Stallone.
Projects include “Those About to Die,” a film project with Harald Kloser set as producer. Emmerich and Gianni Nunnari (“The Departed”) are also involved, though their roles were not specified.
“Sylvester Stallone will be cooperating with Er Dong Pictures and Starlight on three projects,” Er Dong said. The company appears to be boarding projects being hatched by Stallone’s Balboa Pictures, including the previously announced English-language remake of recent Korean action film “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil,” which had...
- 6/18/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Beijing’s Er Dong Pictures will establish a joint venture with Hollywood’s Gersh Agency this year as part of the fast-growing Chinese film investor’s ambitious plans to expand at home and abroad.
The partnership means the 70-year-old American talent agency, which has more than 100 agents representing artists such as Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Olsen and Tony Jaa, will share its talent resources with Er Dong, while leveraging the latter’s growing influence in the Chinese film industry.
Unveiling the collaboration at FilMart on Monday, Bill Gersh, grandson of the agency’s founder Phil Gersh, said: “As the Chinese film industry thrives, more and more Western talent is being showcased in Chinese films and television. Now is the time for Chinese stories to go global and we’ll have the opportunity to expand our artists’ careers into the Chinese and Asian markets.”
“Working with Er Dong presents an opportunity for expanding our reach globally.
The partnership means the 70-year-old American talent agency, which has more than 100 agents representing artists such as Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Olsen and Tony Jaa, will share its talent resources with Er Dong, while leveraging the latter’s growing influence in the Chinese film industry.
Unveiling the collaboration at FilMart on Monday, Bill Gersh, grandson of the agency’s founder Phil Gersh, said: “As the Chinese film industry thrives, more and more Western talent is being showcased in Chinese films and television. Now is the time for Chinese stories to go global and we’ll have the opportunity to expand our artists’ careers into the Chinese and Asian markets.”
“Working with Er Dong presents an opportunity for expanding our reach globally.
- 3/18/2019
- by Shirley Lau
- Variety Film + TV
“It” may be a box office smash, but it’s hardly the only horror movie worth talking about these days. Just 17 years in, and the 21st century has already played home to a remarkable number of truly chilling and inventive horror offerings, from a resurgence in J-horror remakes to a continued affection for the classic series of yesteryear, to the massive dominance of the “Conjuring” movie universe and even a “Saw” franchise so dominant that it’s already cycled back into resurrection territory, and that’s just the mainstream stuff.
Aided by a new crop of filmmakers beholden to both their own obsessions and formative years steeped in the classics, the past two decades are shaping up to be some of the very best for the genre, with still more terror being turned out at a frightening clip. From visionaries like Guillermo del Toro and Gore Verbinksi, who can happily...
Aided by a new crop of filmmakers beholden to both their own obsessions and formative years steeped in the classics, the past two decades are shaping up to be some of the very best for the genre, with still more terror being turned out at a frightening clip. From visionaries like Guillermo del Toro and Gore Verbinksi, who can happily...
- 10/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland, Jude Dry, Jamie Righetti, Eric Kohn, William Earl, David Ehrlich, Jenna Marotta and Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Writing the sequel to one of the most historic horror films from the past 20 years might sound like a screenwriter’s dream job, but for Simon Barrett, taking on “Blair Witch” was more scary than fun. Having to satisfy millions of fans of a cult film that earned nearly $250 million at the box office in 1999 is a task that would make any writer sweat. Though Barrett already had eight feature film writing credits prior to signing on for the Lionsgate project, he’d never been tasked with writing a studio movie, not to mention a sequel to a horror franchise.
Read More: ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Prequel That Never Happened: How the Original Team Missed Their Window
“It was not a fun experience,” the 37-year-old Barrett told IndieWire in a recent interview. “You want it to be as good as it possibly can, and it never is, because that’s the nature of the process.
Read More: ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Prequel That Never Happened: How the Original Team Missed Their Window
“It was not a fun experience,” the 37-year-old Barrett told IndieWire in a recent interview. “You want it to be as good as it possibly can, and it never is, because that’s the nature of the process.
- 9/21/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
When I reviewed the original The Blair Witch Project, it was March of 1999. I saw it in Austin, in the apartment of a couple of my friends, thanks to Harry Knowles, who had been sent a VHS copy of the film by the filmmakers during its Sundance run. I went to Austin in February, and Harry had been sitting on his copy, waiting for us to get to town. We were there for the third Quentin Tarantino film festival at the still-young Alamo Drafthouse, and on the last night of the festival, my friends and I were set to hit the road as soon as the movies ended. We were road-tripping, and between the four of us, we figured we’d be able to do the entire drive back to La straight through with no stops for sleep. Harry asked us not to leave town right after the film, though.
- 9/16/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Welcome to another horror/sci-fi round-up. This time around we focus on a key new addition to the cast of Gun Media’s Summer Camp survival horror video game, the announcement of director Adam Wingard’s upcoming horror movie for Lionsgate (with a script from consistent collaborator Simon Barrett), and a detailed Doctor Who infographic from NeoMam Studios and Horror Channel that looks at what it would actually cost to make a real Dalek.
Summer Camp: Via video, horror genre veteran Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood – Jason X, the Hatchet films) announced he is joining Gun Media’s Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp as the killer. A video game taking place one hot summer night in 1984, Summer Camp follows a group of camp counselors as they strive to survive a masked murderer in their midst. Though it does not yet have an official release date,...
Summer Camp: Via video, horror genre veteran Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood – Jason X, the Hatchet films) announced he is joining Gun Media’s Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp as the killer. A video game taking place one hot summer night in 1984, Summer Camp follows a group of camp counselors as they strive to survive a masked murderer in their midst. Though it does not yet have an official release date,...
- 2/5/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Most directors would be happy with just getting one film screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, but filmmaker Josephine Decker has two unspooling — “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely” and “Butter on the Latch.” And Christoph Terhecte, Lead Programmer of the Berlinale Forum Section where the films will play, has a simple reason why both movies are getting space: "I haven't seen such a powerful filmmaking in a long time." In “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely,” Decker turns the camera on star Joe Swanberg, after appearing in his films "Uncle Kent," "Autoerotic" and "Art History." Here, she tells a "East Of Eden"-inspired story set in the blue hills of Kentucky, centering on a father and daughter whose world is turned upside down upon the arrival of a young farmhand. Sophie Traub and Robert Longstreet co-star in the film. Meanwhile, in “Butter on the Latch” — already listed by Film Comment as...
- 2/3/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
You’ve probably seen his work before.
Director Joe Swanberg is best known for directing “Drinking Buddies” last year that starred Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson and Anna Kendrick. He was one of the collaborators in the cult favorite horror compilation “V/H/S” with the segment called “The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger.”
And maybe you’ve seen him on the big screen like the recent horror thriller “You’re Next,” in which he played as one the family victims.
Swanberg made his directorial debut with the 2005’s indie film “Kissing on the Mouth,” a film about recent college graduates on sex. And then he followed up with “Lol,” that starred with Greta Gerwig. With Gerwig, they further collaborated with 2007’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and 2008’s “Night and Weekends.”
In 2010, Swanberg became extremely busy directing seven films with “Uncle Kent,” “Caitlin Plays Herself,” “The Zone,...
Director Joe Swanberg is best known for directing “Drinking Buddies” last year that starred Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson and Anna Kendrick. He was one of the collaborators in the cult favorite horror compilation “V/H/S” with the segment called “The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger.”
And maybe you’ve seen him on the big screen like the recent horror thriller “You’re Next,” in which he played as one the family victims.
Swanberg made his directorial debut with the 2005’s indie film “Kissing on the Mouth,” a film about recent college graduates on sex. And then he followed up with “Lol,” that starred with Greta Gerwig. With Gerwig, they further collaborated with 2007’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and 2008’s “Night and Weekends.”
In 2010, Swanberg became extremely busy directing seven films with “Uncle Kent,” “Caitlin Plays Herself,” “The Zone,...
- 1/23/2014
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Anyone who had only seen prolific director Joe Swanberg’s two films of last year — the Olivia Wilde-starring Drinking Buddies and the Jane Adams-topped All the Light in the Sky — might conclude he is a sensitive and PC-friendly chronicler of low-key social interactions. On the other hand, anyone who had only seen the filmmaker’s new movie 24 Exposures could come away with the impression that he is an auteur of a rather different, and kinkier, stripe.
The movie stars You’re Next director Adam Wingard as a libidinous fetish photographer who specializes in talking shots of women pretending...
The movie stars You’re Next director Adam Wingard as a libidinous fetish photographer who specializes in talking shots of women pretending...
- 1/21/2014
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
The full Fantasia 2013 lineup will be announced next Tuesday, July 9th, but in the meantime we have the second wave of titles to share, and per usual, it's a doozy!
From the Press Release:
Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil several additional highlights to warm you up for our July 9th Press Conference, where we’ll be unveiling of our full 120+ film lineup. The festival runs from July 18 to August 6.
Official Opening Night Film – Takashi Miike’s Shield Of Straw (North American Premiere)
Hot off its screening in official completion at the Cannes Film Festival, Takashi Miike’s riveting crime thriller Shield Of Straw will be kicking off Fantasia’s 2013 edition with its first screening on the North American continent. Shield Of Straw stars Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, and Tatsuya Fujiwara. Fantasia’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the...
From the Press Release:
Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil several additional highlights to warm you up for our July 9th Press Conference, where we’ll be unveiling of our full 120+ film lineup. The festival runs from July 18 to August 6.
Official Opening Night Film – Takashi Miike’s Shield Of Straw (North American Premiere)
Hot off its screening in official completion at the Cannes Film Festival, Takashi Miike’s riveting crime thriller Shield Of Straw will be kicking off Fantasia’s 2013 edition with its first screening on the North American continent. Shield Of Straw stars Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, and Tatsuya Fujiwara. Fantasia’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the...
- 7/3/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
From the press release:
Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil several additional highlights, before their July 9th Press Conference, where they’ll be unveiling the full 120+ film lineup!
Official Opening Night Film – Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw
(North American Premiere)
Hot off its screening in official completion at the Cannes Film Festival, Takashi Miike’s riveting crime thriller Shield of Straw will be kicking off Fantasia’s 2013 edition with its first screening on the North American continent. Shield of Straw stars Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, and Tatsuya Fujiwara. Fantasia’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the first time that a Miike film had ever been shown in North America, making it all the more joyous to open our 2013 festival with his latest work.
Extensive Artist Talks with Bryan Singer and Simon Boswell
Fantasia will once again offer audiences...
Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil several additional highlights, before their July 9th Press Conference, where they’ll be unveiling the full 120+ film lineup!
Official Opening Night Film – Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw
(North American Premiere)
Hot off its screening in official completion at the Cannes Film Festival, Takashi Miike’s riveting crime thriller Shield of Straw will be kicking off Fantasia’s 2013 edition with its first screening on the North American continent. Shield of Straw stars Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, and Tatsuya Fujiwara. Fantasia’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the first time that a Miike film had ever been shown in North America, making it all the more joyous to open our 2013 festival with his latest work.
Extensive Artist Talks with Bryan Singer and Simon Boswell
Fantasia will once again offer audiences...
- 7/3/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Happy April Fools Day from the internet! This year's pranks include the Criterion Collection's announcement of Lena Dunham as the new creative director. Her first move as chief? All of Mumblecore maestro Joe Swanberg's films will be added to the prestigious DVD and Blu-ray company's repertoire. In a faux inauguration statement, Dunham mentions that Criterion will be "offering up definitive versions of some of this generation’s most pertinent pieces of work. Films like 'Autoerotic,' 'Kissing On The Mouth' and 'Silver Bullets' prove Joe as one of today’s most important voices.” Check out this April Fools' Day "trailer" for "Pineapple Express 2," in which stoners Seth Rogen and James Franco are assigned by Danny McBride to assassinate Woody Harrelson. The teaser is actually a prank spot for writer-directors Rogen and Evan Goldberg's comedy "This Is the End " (June 14), in which Rogen, Franco, McBride, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson,...
- 4/1/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Lionsgate has debuted the first trailer for Adam Wingard’s horror thriller film You’re Next, which stars Sharni Vinson, Barbara Crampton, Rob Moran, Ti West, Wendy Glenn, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, A.J. Bowen and Nicholas Tucci. The story follows a trio of animal-masked ax murderers who descend upon a family reunion. The victims seem trapped, until a guest steps forward proving to be the most talented killer of them all. The film is written by Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, What Fun We Were Having, Autoerotic). You’re Next first premiered at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival, and is finally hitting theaters on August 23rd, 2013. Here’s the...
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- 3/29/2013
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
When it debuted as a Midnight Madness selection at Toronto way back in 2011, "You're Next" won a slew of heavily dedicated fans and some significant praise, that only escalated when it was subsequently shelved for a year. While the film may not be anything overly groundbreaking (you can read our positive review from Toronto here, and it currently holds a B+ on Criticwire), the first trailer definitely looks effectively chilling, while still maintaining a certain level of fun that some genre efforts (say, the revamp of "Evil Dead") were perhaps lacking. Starring Sharni Vinson and a whole host of indie auteurs, from horror director Ti West to Joe Swanberg and Amy Seimetz, the film is part of the recent trendy convergence of so-called "mumblecore" and horror filmmakers best demonstrated in "V/H/S," a film of which pretty much everyone involved in "You're Next" is an alum. Directed by horror...
- 3/28/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
Are you the type of person who's so obsessive about the movies you love that you simply must own everything? If so, then this one is for you! The anthology horror film V/H/S is Now Available on VHS format here in the Us.
V/H/S was written and directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence. For more info visit the official Magnolia Pictures website.
Synopsis
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers. In V/H/S, a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in the countryside and acquire a rare tape.
V/H/S was written and directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence. For more info visit the official Magnolia Pictures website.
Synopsis
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers. In V/H/S, a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in the countryside and acquire a rare tape.
- 2/5/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
By Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com
The surprise horror release that Rolling Stone called "The scariest, rawest horror movie of the year." V/H/S (review) is to release on VHS format in the Us. That alone makes me want to pull the old VHS player out of storage!
Written and Directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence.
Synopsis
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers.
In V/H/S, a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in the countryside and acquire a rare tape.
Upon searching the house, the guys are confronted with a dead body,...
The surprise horror release that Rolling Stone called "The scariest, rawest horror movie of the year." V/H/S (review) is to release on VHS format in the Us. That alone makes me want to pull the old VHS player out of storage!
Written and Directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence.
Synopsis
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers.
In V/H/S, a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in the countryside and acquire a rare tape.
Upon searching the house, the guys are confronted with a dead body,...
- 1/17/2013
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Totally meta! Magnolia just announced that V/H/S will be available on VHS format in the U.S. I am excited! My Vcr has been feeling lonely lately and is totally sick of playing the Young Ones anthology. No word on when, where, or how many, but fingers crossed it will be soon.
V/H/S was released in the U.K. back in December, see pics below. Odds are it will look quite a bit like this. The Brits really do get everything cool first.
In case you missed it, V/H/S is a found –footage horror anthology written and directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence. There’s already...
V/H/S was released in the U.K. back in December, see pics below. Odds are it will look quite a bit like this. The Brits really do get everything cool first.
In case you missed it, V/H/S is a found –footage horror anthology written and directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence. There’s already...
- 1/17/2013
- by Sara Castillo
- FEARnet
You knew it had to happen. Last year's hit anthology horror film V/H/S will soon be available…wait for it… on VHS format here in the Us. And with the sequel S-v/H/S, premiering at Sundance this weekend, the announcement couldn't have happened at a better time.
More details regarding retailers and availability are forthcoming, but we've got to admit it sounds like a great idea, and a cool item to own. V/H/S was written and directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence. For more info visit the official Magnolia Pictures website.
Synopsis
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers.
More details regarding retailers and availability are forthcoming, but we've got to admit it sounds like a great idea, and a cool item to own. V/H/S was written and directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence. For more info visit the official Magnolia Pictures website.
Synopsis
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers.
- 1/17/2013
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Yes it is and it will be available online and through retailers, call before you go to make sure they are in stock! Written and Directed by Adam Wingard (The ABCs of Death, Youre Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence Plot Synopsis: V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film fr…...
- 1/17/2013
- Horrorbid
A Planet Fury-approved selection of notable genre releases for December.
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) 20th Century Fox Blu-ray and DVD Available Now
Six-year-old Hushpuppy (fearless newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis) lives in the “Bathtub,” a southern Louisiana bayou community far removed from the civilized world. Her father Wink (Dwight Henry), a poor fisherman, keeps her at arm’s length but ensures her well-being within the cultural confines of their rough-and-tumble society. Seen through the eyes of the feisty Hushpuppy, the lines between myth and reality are blurred. An impending storm coincides with the melting of the arctic ice caps (and the thawing of some mythical creatures), which changes the world of the Bathtub forever. This heartbreaking little fable came out of nowhere last summer after building some positive buzz on the festival circuit. Shot on 16mm film for under $2 million, Beasts is a true independent film: a fiercely original and moving...
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) 20th Century Fox Blu-ray and DVD Available Now
Six-year-old Hushpuppy (fearless newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis) lives in the “Bathtub,” a southern Louisiana bayou community far removed from the civilized world. Her father Wink (Dwight Henry), a poor fisherman, keeps her at arm’s length but ensures her well-being within the cultural confines of their rough-and-tumble society. Seen through the eyes of the feisty Hushpuppy, the lines between myth and reality are blurred. An impending storm coincides with the melting of the arctic ice caps (and the thawing of some mythical creatures), which changes the world of the Bathtub forever. This heartbreaking little fable came out of nowhere last summer after building some positive buzz on the festival circuit. Shot on 16mm film for under $2 million, Beasts is a true independent film: a fiercely original and moving...
- 12/14/2012
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
If you have seen Autoerotic, then it will probably come as no surprise when writer-director Joe Swanberg opens All the Light in the Sky with Jane Adams' character climbing into a wet suit. Adams plays Marie, a single 45-year old actress who lives alone in an ocean front home. While Marie is getting beaten out for Hollywood roles by actors like Kristen Wiig, there is an ultra-low-budget-indie-film that she is interested in because -- in Marie's words -- "it has a good script." This is the first real hint that we are watching something that is probably pretty close to Adams' current reality; because, unfortunately, Adams has never really gotten another role as great as Joy Jordan in Todd Solondz's Happiness (1998)...at least not until Swanberg started casting her in his ultra-low-budget-indie-films.
- 11/3/2012
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
More scary goods arrive with the recent announcement by Magnolia Home Entertainment.
V/H/S – Available on DVD and Blu-Ray December 4, 2012
Written and Directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America’s top genre filmmakers.… More...
V/H/S – Available on DVD and Blu-Ray December 4, 2012
Written and Directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC’s of Death, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America’s top genre filmmakers.… More...
- 10/30/2012
- by HorrorNews.net
- Horror News
Like its hero dashing around the world in an attempt to both clear his name and stop a terrorist bent on destroying Western civilization, the adaptation of John Stock’s Dead Spy Running has bounced around various directors and writers since being optioned in 2008. Now Warners is handing it to horror duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett to take a crack.The directing / writing team (seen above with actress Sharni Vinson) has been known for their scares to date, including micro budget effort A Horrible Way To Die, then Autoerotic and You’re Next, which was picked up after a triumphant debut at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. They were also part of the team behind anthology terror piece V/H/S, the trailer for which can be seen below.Now Warners is hoping they can inject some new momentum in Dead Spy Running, which finds DJ-turned-agent Danny Marchant...
- 9/16/2012
- EmpireOnline
A Horrible Way to Die writer-director combo Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard are set to adapt Jon Stock‘s novel, Dead Spy Running for Warner Bros.
Based on the first book of Stock’s Daniel Marchant trilogy (the initial deal called for a film franchise), Dead Spy Running follows Danny Marchant, a young DJ on the rise in the international world of electronic dance music, forced to go on the run with a beautiful secret agent assigned to watch him after he is framed for his MI6 agent father’s murder. As Danny tries to clear his name and avenge his father’s death, he gets caught in the web of international espionage.
Danny must ultimately rise up and defeat a terrorist intent on destroying western civilization in an adventure that takes him through the world to London, Paris, Corsica, New York, and Mumbai.
Stephen Gaghan and Jamie Moss have...
Based on the first book of Stock’s Daniel Marchant trilogy (the initial deal called for a film franchise), Dead Spy Running follows Danny Marchant, a young DJ on the rise in the international world of electronic dance music, forced to go on the run with a beautiful secret agent assigned to watch him after he is framed for his MI6 agent father’s murder. As Danny tries to clear his name and avenge his father’s death, he gets caught in the web of international espionage.
Danny must ultimately rise up and defeat a terrorist intent on destroying western civilization in an adventure that takes him through the world to London, Paris, Corsica, New York, and Mumbai.
Stephen Gaghan and Jamie Moss have...
- 9/15/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Exclusive: Warner Bros has set Adam Wingard to direct and his partner Simon Barrett to rewrite Dead Spy Running, a fast-tracked project that is being produced by Kevin McCormick at Langley Park and McG’s Wonderland Sound And Vision. Based on the series of novels by Jon Stock, Dead Spy Running follows Danny Marchant, a young DJ on the rise in the international world of electronic dance music. Danny is forced to go on the run with a beautiful secret agent assigned to watch him after he is framed for his MI6 agent father’s murder. As Danny tries to clear his name and avenge his father’s death, he gets deeper into the world of espionage while never forgetting his background and skills as a DJ. Danny must ultimately rise up and defeat a terrorist intent on destroying western civilization in an adventure that takes him through the world to London,...
- 9/14/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Have you watched V/H/S yet!? It's on VOD, so there's no reason why you shouldn't have... unless you're waiting to see it on the big screen, or you simply can't afford it. This is the perfect Halloween movie, and happens to be my favorite horror movie of the year so far.
Thanks to our friends at /Film we can show you this alternate poster for the film that follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil).
The movie hits theaters on October 5th!
Thanks to our friends at /Film we can show you this alternate poster for the film that follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil).
The movie hits theaters on October 5th!
- 9/14/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
V/H/S is the best horror film that I've seen this year. I saw it earlier this year at Sundance, and I'm excited about seeing it again once it's released. This is one of those horror movies that is now on my Halloween movie list. This was such a creepy cool found footage horror anthology that I think many of you will enjoy. You can read my review of it here. Today we bring you a great new piece of poster art for the movie, along with its first creepy TV spot, and a behind the scenes featurette.
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director...
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director...
- 8/30/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The fetish so far: Vcr’s and VHS cassette tapes. Priced to owned, home entertainment featuring gorgeous cover art containing many of the movies on which we cut our teeth and were educated in the school of horror. You have to pick your favorite distribution company. You have to pay reasonable prices for 99% of what’s out there in fair quality and quite a bit more for the remaining 1% (this is not a political movement, this is a way of life). Once you arrive home from the swap meet or receive that package from eBay sell VHSSlut 1354 or cannibalize what’s left of the mom and pop shops out there you get to watch it on your Hi Def, flat screen television connected to a pretty descent 5.1 surround sound all complimented by that dusty, gray boxy thing of a Vcr you’ve lovingly swiped from your parents attic. Do you...
- 8/23/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
We've seen an international trailer and a red-band trailer for this new horror anthology V/H/S. Today we bring you a green band theatrical trailer for all ages! This movie turned out to be one of my favorite horror films in recent memory, and if you like the horror genre, you'll love this movie.
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director including Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil).
You can read more details on each of the short films in my review right here.
Here's the...
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director including Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil).
You can read more details on each of the short films in my review right here.
Here's the...
- 7/10/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Chicago – Wildly prolific indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg (“Hannah Takes the Stairs,” “Uncle Kent”) will return to his hometown of Chicago on Thursday, July 5th, for a double feature of two new films, “Caitlin Plays Herself” and “Marriage Material.” The event kicks off at 8pm at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., and will include a live Q&A with Swanberg himself.
Both pictures center on seemingly content relationships that have reached a potential crossroads. “Caitlin Plays Herself” was one of six films that Swanberg made in 2011 (the others are “Uncle Kent,” “The Zone,” “Silver Bullets,” “Autoerotic” and “Art History”). It stars Caitlin Stainken (of Neo-Futurist fame) as an actress whose provocative performance art pieces cause her boyfriend (Swanberg) to feel uncomfortable. It’s her nude performance inspired by the Bp oil spill that pushes him over the edge. 2012’s “Marriage Material,” which made its viral debut in January, explores the repercussions...
Both pictures center on seemingly content relationships that have reached a potential crossroads. “Caitlin Plays Herself” was one of six films that Swanberg made in 2011 (the others are “Uncle Kent,” “The Zone,” “Silver Bullets,” “Autoerotic” and “Art History”). It stars Caitlin Stainken (of Neo-Futurist fame) as an actress whose provocative performance art pieces cause her boyfriend (Swanberg) to feel uncomfortable. It’s her nude performance inspired by the Bp oil spill that pushes him over the edge. 2012’s “Marriage Material,” which made its viral debut in January, explores the repercussions...
- 6/29/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Earlier this week, we showed you a red band trailer for the new horror anthology film V/H/S. Today, we've got a great new International trailer to show you, which I think is better than the first trailer released. It shows some new and better footage from the movie. This was such an entertaining horror film, and I'm excited for you to see it. If you're into horror movies I think you're going to love V/H/S.
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and...
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and...
- 6/22/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Judging by its reception at the last SXSW film festival, the found-footage anthology film V/H/S promises to be a fun time, harkening back to the glory days of '80s horror fandom. It features segments from Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil); and it will be available through Magnolia On-Demand starting August 31st and in theaters starting October 5th. Now its red band trailer has arrived online. Check it out after the break. Here's the official synopsis for V/H/S: "When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of...
- 6/19/2012
- FEARnet
Finally a trailer has been released for the awesome horror anthology movie V/H/S , and lucky for us it's a creepy-ass Red-Band trailer! I got to see this movie up at Sundance earlier this year, and as a fan of horror movies I thought it was great! This is one of those films I'll make a tradition of watching every Halloween.
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil).
You can read more details on each of the short...
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil).
You can read more details on each of the short...
- 6/19/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
V/H/S has been highly praised and lots of talk of the film being a hit but something was missing until today, a trailer. Check out the trailer for V/H/S below and let us know what you think. V/H/S screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to positive reception, and given the talent affixed to this project, that really comes as no surprise. Directorial credits are lengthy, and boast the likes of Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil). Calvin Reeder (The Oregonian), Lane Hughes (A Horrible Way to Die), Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman (The Vampire Diaries), Mike Donlan, Joe Sykes and Jas Sams star.
- 6/19/2012
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
A new poster for the upcoming found-footage anthology V/H/S premiered today at movies.com. The film, with segments from Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil) harkens back to the dark ages of the 1980s and 1990s, when there were no DVDs and many of the best (and worst) horror films were only available as bootlegs, passed between compatriots at conventions or smuggled between friends in study hall. The new poster honors this tradition of stacks and stacks of grubby video tapes. Check out the full image after the jump. Official Synopsis: "When a group of petty criminals is hired by a...
- 6/15/2012
- FEARnet
V/H/S is one of those movies I can't wait for you to see, especially if you're a horror fan. I watched the film up at Sundance this year, and I thought it was great! Above you'll find the first poster for the film, which is completely fitting.
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil). You can read more details on each of the short films in my review, which you can read here.
Magnet will...
The movie follows "a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see." There are five VHS tapes that we are shown throughout the course of the film. Each movie comes from a different director that includes Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil). You can read more details on each of the short films in my review, which you can read here.
Magnet will...
- 6/15/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Every couple years a great horror anthology comes along and horror fans seek it out like they're spotting some kind of rare, endangered species. There's just not enough of them being made these days, and that's a shame since the multi-story format and horror are perfect together. As such, the horror community has been drooling for V/H/S ever since it premiered back at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and for good reason. With segments directed by Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil), V/H/S is about a gang of friends who are hired to break into a creepy old house and find a specific VHS tape. It seems easy enough...
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- 6/14/2012
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
Like it or not, filmmaking is undeniably a director's medium. It wasn't always like that, of course: it was only the coming of the auteur theory in the 1950s and 1960s that popularized the idea of the director as the person responsible for all that was great and terrible about a picture. And while anyone who's worked in film knows that it's a collaborative medium, there's still no better way of seeing where the form might be going in the next few years than by looking at the directors who've been making splashes of late.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below.
- 5/15/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Fresh off of making one audience member pass out and another one puke into a bucket at Sundance, V/H/S has found a home with Magnolia, and it’s a matched made in hellacious heaven. The horror flick is both an anthology, which seems to be a rising trend, and a found footage movie that has many critics claiming that it refreshes the genre considerably. It’s made up of vignettes from writer/director David Bruckner (The Signal), writer/director Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), writing/directing team Radio Silence, actor/director Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone), writer/director Ti West (House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), director Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die, You’re Next), writer Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, You’re Next), and writer Nicholas Tecosky. The story focuses on a team hired by a mystery person (or persons) to break into a broken down house to steal...
- 1/26/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Chicago – Some films never get a fair shot with audiences. They open in a handful of art house theaters scattered throughout the country before inconspicuously landing on DVD. Passionate movie lovers are left with the task of championing these unjustly obscure titles and helping them to acquire the audience they deserve.
Before I reveal my picks for the top ten Best Overlooked Films of 2011, here are the ten runners-up:
“Autoerotic”
Autoerotic
While Steve McQueen’s magnificent art film, “Shame,” plunges into the dark depths of sexual addiction, Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard’s “Autoerotic” takes a decidedly more playful approach to similar material. Though Swanberg has made a series of uncommonly intimate films about the sex lives of twentysomething Chicagoans, he’s never attempted a film as overtly comic as this one, and Wingard proves to be an ideal collaborator. “Autoerotic” is easily Swanberg’s most accessible film to date,...
Before I reveal my picks for the top ten Best Overlooked Films of 2011, here are the ten runners-up:
“Autoerotic”
Autoerotic
While Steve McQueen’s magnificent art film, “Shame,” plunges into the dark depths of sexual addiction, Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard’s “Autoerotic” takes a decidedly more playful approach to similar material. Though Swanberg has made a series of uncommonly intimate films about the sex lives of twentysomething Chicagoans, he’s never attempted a film as overtly comic as this one, and Wingard proves to be an ideal collaborator. “Autoerotic” is easily Swanberg’s most accessible film to date,...
- 12/28/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The clip comes via Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay: "Continuing an extraordinarily prolific phase that has also encompassed his year-long subscription service, Joe Swanberg premieres his latest film, Caitlin Plays Herself, tonight at Brooklyn's reRun theater. His new star is Caitlin Stainken, a member of the Neo-Futurists Theater Ensemble." As always with Joe Swanberg's films, reviews fall on either side of a pretty wide split.
"Co-written by Swanberg and Caitlin Stainken, the movie is a sad, simple, and effective glance at a relationship that, more substantially, explores the blurred distinctions between life and art," writes Henry Stewart in the L. "A lot of the movie's 70 minutes are filled what the title implies: Jeanne Dielman-lite snippets of eating a banana, reading a magazine, rotating compost, writing, rehearsing conceptual theater pieces…. Swanberg, who shares cinematography credit with sometimes-collaborator Adam Wingard, shoots in long takes, never editing within scenes, a realism-enhancing technique that...
"Co-written by Swanberg and Caitlin Stainken, the movie is a sad, simple, and effective glance at a relationship that, more substantially, explores the blurred distinctions between life and art," writes Henry Stewart in the L. "A lot of the movie's 70 minutes are filled what the title implies: Jeanne Dielman-lite snippets of eating a banana, reading a magazine, rotating compost, writing, rehearsing conceptual theater pieces…. Swanberg, who shares cinematography credit with sometimes-collaborator Adam Wingard, shoots in long takes, never editing within scenes, a realism-enhancing technique that...
- 12/2/2011
- MUBI
"Even Joe Swanberg has to stop to count the number of Joe Swanberg movies out there right now," writes Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times. Uncle Kent premiered at Sundance, Silver Bullets and Art History in Berlin. He's collaborating with Factory 25 on Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011, a box set of four films on DVD plus an unusual array of bonus material — records, photo books, posters. Autoerotic, made with Adam Wingard, is available on demand from IFC. And the AFI Fest, opening on Thursday, will be screening Silver Bullets and Art History and hosting the premiere of The Zone, which, as Olsen tells us, "traces the interrelationships of a trio of roommates once an outsider enters their dynamic, before revealing additional layers of psycho-emotional complexity…. If one were to make a diagram of contemporary American independent filmmaking, Swanberg would be somewhere near the center, if for no other reason...
- 10/31/2011
- MUBI
"…and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!. Just how many episodes of "Scooby Doo" ended with that line? And did anyone ever wonder why the criminals were able to bamboozle the entire town and police squad with their schemes only to be foiled by a dog and four stoner kids who rolled into town two days earlier in a van that had to smell like malted hops, bong resin and dog farts? We’ve got some info on a new movie where the meddling kids don't necessarily fare so well.
Directed by Spencer Parsons and starring Ashley Spillers, Josephine Decker and Jonny Mars, Saturday Morning Massacrefollows some meddling paranormal investigators trying to make a buck. From the information we've managed to glean thus far, there is no talking dog in this film.
The film is currently in post-production and the official website titsandaxe.
Directed by Spencer Parsons and starring Ashley Spillers, Josephine Decker and Jonny Mars, Saturday Morning Massacrefollows some meddling paranormal investigators trying to make a buck. From the information we've managed to glean thus far, there is no talking dog in this film.
The film is currently in post-production and the official website titsandaxe.
- 9/21/2011
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard are either reviled or celebrated for innovating the mumblecore film movement, depending on where you stand on this indie niche’s preciously unenunciated dialogue, Godard-esque non-acting, and borderline plotless screenplays. It’s a hit-or-miss style from conception, although in pictures like 2007’s Hannah Takes The Stairs, starring the charming (and now bankable) actress Greta Gerwig, it worked remarkably well. Swanberg and Wingard’s latest film, Autoerotic, also employs the mumblecore aesthetic efficiently to tell four different tales of Chicago couples in their late twenties or early thirties exploring sexuality and all it’s fraught with....
- 7/27/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Directors: Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard Writers: Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett Starring: Josephine Decker, Lane Hughes, Megan Mercier, Frank V. Ross, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, Chris Hilleke, Josephine Decker, Rosemary Plain, Adam Wingard, Ti West, Brendan Kelly Havelock Ellis, a British sexologist, defined autoeroticism as "the phenomena of spontaneous sexual emotion generated in the absence of an external stimulus proceeding, directly or indirectly, from another person." Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard's film Autoerotic focuses on four heterosexual couples as they contend with relationship-crippling sexual arousal issues; however, Autoerotic is not always about self-arousal. Structured in four mostly autonomous vignettes (all with unnamed thespians): the first and fourth chapters reveal perverse men who are grasping at straws to achieve sexual satisfaction, whether it be the desire for a significantly larger penis or a usable mold of an ex-girlfriend's vagina; the second and third...
- 7/27/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Title: Autoerotic Directors: Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard Starring: Kate Lyn Sheil, Amy Seimetz, Lane Hughes, Kris Swanberg, Ti West, Frank Ross, Megan Mercier A darkly comedic anthology look at the sexual confusion, appetite, insecurity and frustration of a group of modern-day Chicago couples, Autoerotic is an at once breezy and deadpan little indie film that doesn’t overstay its welcome but instead delivers a few pin-prick precision assaults on both masculine and feminine foibles and preoccupations, and then skitters away, pleased and laughing quietly to itself. It’s a subversive, mumblecore-type exploration of the boundaries of self-pleasure, and a nice little cinematic aperitif that could slot nicely with any number of tonier Hollywood explorations of lust...
- 7/24/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard’s Autoerotic reaches new heights in depravity, especially in its closing moments. A skillful director with comedic chops such as Will Gluck might have pulled it off. Unfortunately, this film is just a few awkward scenes tonally out of place, making up what is a narrative tsunami.
Swanberg (the film’s co-writer and co-star) has made a name for himself based on sheer volume. He’s been the most active of the “Mumblecore” filmmakers, a movement that sprung up organically throughout the country from Boston to Austin and beyond to Portland, Or. As the legend goes, all met up at South by Southwest where the term was coined likely after a few beers and some great indie rock on 6th Street. Nevertheless, the name “Mumblecore” stuck. The filmmaker’s career spans at least 7 films now with two more on the way, not forgetting 3 films that...
Swanberg (the film’s co-writer and co-star) has made a name for himself based on sheer volume. He’s been the most active of the “Mumblecore” filmmakers, a movement that sprung up organically throughout the country from Boston to Austin and beyond to Portland, Or. As the legend goes, all met up at South by Southwest where the term was coined likely after a few beers and some great indie rock on 6th Street. Nevertheless, the name “Mumblecore” stuck. The filmmaker’s career spans at least 7 films now with two more on the way, not forgetting 3 films that...
- 7/21/2011
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
In recent months, Joe Swanberg has been making movies. A lot of movies. I don’t know how many, but I think his unreleased films could outnumber other filmmakers’ back catalogs. And, I think he’s thinking of interesting new ways to get them out. Hopefully there will be more news on that front soon, but in the meantime, here, via Indiewire, is the trailer (Nsfw, by the way) for Autoerotic, his latest film premiering via IFC Midnight. The ensemble cast features the talented Kate Lyn Sheil (Green), and the film is co-directed by Adam Wingard. According to IFC Midnight:
Autoerotic follows four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration. Through a unique blend of outrageous comedy and in-your-face sex, “Autoerotic” insightfully illuminates the private sexual lives of America’s urbanites.
I’m happy to see Wingard as part of this project. His underrated...
Autoerotic follows four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration. Through a unique blend of outrageous comedy and in-your-face sex, “Autoerotic” insightfully illuminates the private sexual lives of America’s urbanites.
I’m happy to see Wingard as part of this project. His underrated...
- 7/12/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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