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Stars: Brianne Tju, Ali Gallo, Benjamin Wadsworth, Peter Giles, Lo Graham, Uriah Shelton, Drew Scheid, Joshua Mikel, C.J. LeBlanc | Written by Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton | Directed by Marcus Dunstan

Unhuman begins with title cards proclaiming it ”A Blumhouse Afterschool Special” and “Presented by the Student Teach Division (Std)”. That was the last thing I was expecting from a film by director Marcus Dunstan and his long-time co-writer Patrick Melton. While the three Feast films had their share of humour the duo are better known for more serious fare such as several of the later Saw films as well as The Collector and its sequel, both of which Dunstan also directed.

And it does begin like an Afterschool Special, Ever goes from dealing with her overprotective mother to being picked up by her best friend Tamra (Ali Gallo; Before I Go) who nearly hits Randall on their way to school. But...

In a powerful alliance, Paris-based premium kids content producer Cottonwood Media, German public broadcaster Zdf and its co-pro and distribution arm Zdf Enterprises, HBO Max and Brazil’s Globo are teaming to produce “Theodosia,” a big new live action kids adventure series targeting family audiences.

No budget is given for the 26-part half hour series. Its combination, however, of elements which make for high-end entertainment – period costume, action and foreseeable heavy Vxf – suggest this is another big play by two of Europe’s champions of ambitious live-action kids shows.

One is Cottonwood Media, the kids and family production company at Paris and L.A -based Federation Entertainment whose credits include Studiocanal’s Cannes 2019 pre-sales movie hit “Around the World in 80 Days,” to be screened at Berlin.

The other, Zdf and Zdfe, has a storied recent history in live action kids shows. “Theodosia” will “continue our successful Zdf live action productions such as ‘H2O,...

Prepare for a Freaky take on the body-swap movie which only Blumhouse, makers of Happy Death Day & The Purge franchise, could bring: a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer! From the deliciously debased mind of writer-director Christopher Landon and prolific horror producer Jason Blum, comes a horror-comedy about a stalker, a high school senior, and the brutal truth about surviving high school available on Digital on January 26 and on Blu-ray and DVD on February 9.

Freaky, one of 2020's greatest horror movies, is getting The Killer Switch Edition continues the fun and scares with exclusive bonus content including deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film and a feature commentary with Co-writer/Director Christopher Landon. With an 83% "fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes and critical praise for Vaughn and Newton, Vaughn won a Critics Choice Super Award for Best Actor in a Horror Movie.

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If you read our Favorites of 2020 lists, then you know we're diehard fans of Christopher Landon's Freaky (which he co-wrote with Michael Kennedy) here at Daily Dead, and if you haven't yet caught up with Landon's latest (or you want to watch it again and again like me), then you'll be pleased to know the film is coming to Digital on January 26th, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on February 9th.

Below, we have a look at the cover art and full home media release details for Freaky, which includes an audio commentary by Landon and a bunch of other behind-the-scenes bonus features! Also, in case you missed it, check out Heather Wixson's review and interviews with Landon and Kathryn Newton!

Press Release: Universal City, California, January 19, 2021 – Prepare for a Freaky take on the body-swap movie which only Blumhouse, makers of Happy Death Day & The Purge franchise,...

We've been excited for Daily Dead readers to see Christopher Landon’s new horror comedy Freaky ever since Heather Wixson gave it a 4.5 star review at Beyond Fest. The film was released in theaters on November 13th, but if you're avoiding public places during the latest Covid-19 surge, we're pleased that you'll soon be able to enjoy the new film from the comfort and safety of your own home, as Universal will release Blumhouse's Freaky on VOD beginning Friday, December 4th.

The VOD release date announcement was made on Twitter, including a link to the various VOD platforms the film will be released on.

You can check out the announcement below, and go here to catch up on our previous coverage of Freaky, including Heather Wixson's interviews with Christopher Landon and Kathryn Newton!

Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd.

Universal Pictures has debuted a new US trailer for Christopher Landon’s body-swap comedy horror ‘Freaky’ starring Vince Vaughn.

Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of The Butcher (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries.

When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever. The only problem is she now looks like a towering psychopath who’s the target of a city-wide manhunt while The Butcher looks like her and has brought his appetite for carnage to Homecoming.

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After giving us a slasher-themed take on the Groundhog Day time loop with Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U, director Christopher Landon will show us what a horror comedy version of Freaky Friday could look like with his new movie Freaky, starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton as a serial killer and high school student, respectively, who swap bodies just in time for Homecoming.

A Blumhouse film co-written by Landon and Michael Kennedy, Freaky will be released by Universal on Friday the 13th of November, and following the film's official trailer release back in September, a new trailer has now been revealed, offering another look at the movie's horror hijinks.

You can check out the new trailer below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's 4.5-star Beyond Fest review of the film, and keep an eye out for the Freaky panel at the virtual BlumFest on October 29th!

Universal Pictures has now released an extended look at the upcoming horror-comedy Freaky starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton. This exclusive look, aptly titled "Slaughterhouse" gives us a good idea of the kind of blood-soaked hilarity that will ensue when the movie hits theaters on Friday the 13th of November.

Freaky centers on a twisted take on the body-swap movie when a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer. Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of The Butcher (Vince Vaughn), her town's infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries.

When The Butcher's mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other's bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch...

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions’ Freaky will be released on Friday, November 13, 2020, taking the place of the Untitled Universal Event Film.

This November, on Friday the 13th, prepare to get Freaky with a twisted take on the body-swap movie when a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer.

Check out the trailer.

Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of The Butcher (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries.

When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever.

After giving us a slasher-themed take on the Groundhog Day time loop with Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U, director Christopher Landon will show us what a horror comedy version of Freaky Friday could look like with his new movie Freaky, starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton as a serial killer and high school student, respectively, who swap bodies just in time for Homecoming.

A Blumhouse film co-written by Landon and Michael Kennedy, Freaky will be released by Universal on Friday the 13th of November, and you can get an idea of the comedic carnage to come in the official trailer below:

"This November, on Friday the 13th, prepare to get Freaky with a twisted take on the body-swap movie when a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer.

Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd.

Universal Pictures has debuted a new trailer for Christopher Landon’s body-swap comedy horror ‘Freaky’ starring Vince Vaughn.

Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of The Butcher (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries.

(from left) Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) and The Butcher (Vince Vaughn) in Freaky, co-written and directed by Christopher Landon.

When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever. The only problem is she now looks like a towering psychopath who’s the target of a...

Award-winning actors and marine scientists are onboard two Greenpeace ships; the Esperanza, and the Arctic Sunrise, to research and expose the impact of climate change, plastic pollution, and industrial fishing in the Antarctic region on penguin colonies, whales, and other marine life.

Stars swapping the red carpet for ice floes include award-winners Marion Cotillard, Gustaf Skarsgård and Ni Ni. As Greenpeace Ocean Ambassadors they will be raising awareness about threatened Antarctic wildlife and the urgent need for a global network of ocean sanctuaries.

Marion Cotillard, who won the Oscar for Best Actress for La Vie En Rose said: "The Antarctic is a frozen wilderness that should be far beyond the reach of human impact, but even the most remote parts of our planet are changing at an alarming rate. I’m here to bear witness to this fragile environment, inhabited by penguins, whales, and seals whose ocean home needs to be protected.

With numerous adaptations and plotlines over the years, the modern usage of video games on film has had some great life that sees another new entry come together in this new installment. A true multinational co-production between France, China and Cambodia, director Matthias Hoene’s ‘Enter the Warriors Gate’ emerges as a decent enough fantasy/action epic from the writing/producing duo of Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.

Living in modern American, teenager Jack loves video games and spends the majority of his time playing games or working for his boss Chang when not running from bullies. Suddenly, he finds himself entrusted with guarding Su Lin a princess from ancient China by Zhao, her companion. When she becomes captured by the barbarian Arun and whisked back to her time-period, he goes back to help save her and learns that his skills with video games enable him...

A teenage gamer must transform his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior when the family action-adventure film Enter The Warriors Gate arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital HD) and DVD June 6 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Reach the next level when the family action-adventure film Enter the Warriors Gate arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD) and DVD June 6 from Lionsgate. Follow the journey of a teenage gamer who is magically transported to an ancient kingdom and must transform his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior to battle the empire’s tyrannical ruler. The film’s all-star cast includes Mark Chao, Ni Ni, former WWE Superstar Dave Bautista, Sienna Guillory, and Uriah Shelton. Written by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element and the upcoming Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) and Robert Mark Kamen (The Karate Kid), the Enter the Warriors Gate Blu-ray and...

In Enter the Warrior's Gate, a teenager is magically transported to China where he learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior. The film is like The Last Starfighter re-imagined as an epic Chinese fantasy and that's exactly what drew director Mathias Hoene (Cockneys vs. Zombies) to high concept project in the first place. Enter the Warrior's Gate is a Chinese/French co-production between Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Fundamental Film. The two also partnered on Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets which is slatted to hit theatres this July. The film was written by Besson and long time collaborator Robert Mark Kamen (Taken, The Fifth Element) and stars Dave Bautista, Sienna Guillory, Uriah Shelton, Mark Chao and Ni...

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Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 Kicks Off the Summer With a Sci-Fi Action-Comedy

After three weeks of dominating the box office, Universal’s The Fate of the Furious is going to have to give way to a new movie, and that’s because the first weekend of May means that it’s officially...The Summer Movie Season!!!!

Just like the last couple years, the summer movie season is kicking off with a new movie from Marvel Studios, and their sequel Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2 (Marvel Studios/Disney), reunites Chris Pratt as Starlord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista’s Drax, Michael Rooker’s Yondu with the voices of Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper as Groot and Rocket Racoon, for the next...

Former WWE star Dave Bautista's one busy guy these days. He's about to return to the big screen with the sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but would you believe he has another movie coming out on the same day? In Enter the Warriors Gate, he plays a fierce, authoritarian ruler of an ancient kingdom who has imprisoned a beautiful princess. The person tasked with rescuing her is a video gamer from modern times, a kid given the gift of time travel by an old Asian man. Can the teenager...

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Oh wow! So it looks as if former WWE superstar Dave Bautista has two high-fantasy films releasing on May 5th of this year! Obviously, Bautista will re-join Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot for more Marvel-based sci-fi fun in James Gunn's Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, though he'll also appear in a lesser-known fantasy martial arts film called Enter The Warrior's Gate. Here's the... Read More...

We’re about to see Dave Bautista get back in action as the hilariously literal Drax the Destroyer in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but the former WWE superstar actually has another movie coming out on the exact same day. It’s called Enter the Warriors Gate, a fantasy martial arts film written by Luc […]

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"I need you to guard the most precious treasure of the Empire." Don't miss out on this one, movie lovers. EuropaCorp has unveiled a trailer for a crazy new action film titled Warrior's Gate, which is the latest feature co-written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen (of the Taken and Transporter series). Warrior's Gate is about a teenager gamer living in California who is transported to China and learns to fight as a kung fu warrior, in order to save the princess (of course). It's basically a twist on The Last Starfighter. This is a a co-production between France and China, which is an odd pairing, but it works. The cast includes Uriah Shelton as Jack, Mark Chao, Dave Bautista, Ni Ni, Francis Ng, and Sienna Guillory. This actually looks kind of cool, but also looks like it's straight out of the back of a video rental store in the 90s.

Warrior's Gate is essentially The Last Starfighter re-imagined as an epic Chinese fantasy. In it, a teenager is magically transported to China where he learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior. While that's kind of a weird premise, it's even weirder that nobody is talking about the film despite the fact that two trailers have dropped and they look pretty darn great.  Warrior's Gate is a Chinese/French co-production between EuropaCorp and Fundamental Film. The two also partnered on Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets which recently made a splash at Comic Con and is getting a significantly bigger push.  The film was written by Besson and long time collaborator Robert Mark Kamen (Taken, The Fifth Element) and...

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Sequels to Lucy and Colombiana are in the works at EuropaCorp, as well as Warrior's Gate, starring Dave Bautista...

Add two more sequels to the list of those currently queuing up to get to the big screen. This time, this is a pair of films from Luc Besson's EuropaCorp production house, which has already proven its happiness to make sequels where previously they'd been ruled out (that'd be you, Taken 3).

In this case, EuropaCorp has announced a slate of projects that includes both Lucy 2 and Colombiana 2, both of which are surprises. Lucy, and this really doesn't give much away (given quite how insane its last 20 minutes is), doesn't leave too many doors open to a sequel, and Besson himself seemed to have ruled one out last summer, saying "it's not made for that". It's unclear at this stage if Scarlet Johansson will return for the new film. Given...

Luc Besson's EuropaCorp company is participating in CineEurope this week where they announced their list of upcoming movies.

The big surprise is that sequels to last year's Scarlett Johansson sci-fi thriller "Lucy," and the Zoe Saldana action thriller "Colombiana" are both in development.

A year ago Besson himself was asked "Lucy" sequel prospects to which he replied "I don't see how we can do [a sequel]. It''s not made for that." Looks like someone found a way.

Also on the way are "Shut In" with Naomi Watts, "Nine Lives" with Kevin Spacey, "The Lake" with Sullivan Stapleton, and "Escobar" with Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz which are all due next year. The Dave Bautista-led "Warrior's Gate" and Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne-starring "Valerian" are also due in 2017.

"I don't see how we can do [a sequel]. It's not made for that,” Luc Besson said last summer about the prospect of a sequel to the surprise smash hit "Lucy." “If I find something good enough, maybe I will, but for now I don't even think about it.” Well, it looks like he's thought about it and something is brewing. At CineEurope 2015, production house EuropaCorp (which Besson heads up) announced their slate of upcoming films, which quietly mentioned that "Lucy 2" was "in development." Here's the roster: “Shut In” with Naomi Watts (International Release Date February 19, 2016) “Nine Lives” with Kevin Spacey (International Release Date April 29, 2016) “The Lake” with Sullivan Stapleton (International Release date July 15, 2016) “Warrior's Gate” with Dave Bautista (date undetermined output) “The Transporter Legacy” with Ed Skrein (Release date September 9, 2015) “Escobar” with Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz (Released in 2016) ...

Fundamental Films has cast Chinese actor Francis Ng (The Mission) in the action-adventure pic Warrior's Gate. The award-winning character actor Ng joins Dave Bautista, Mark Zhao, NiNi, Uriah Shelton, and Sienna Guillory in the film directed by Matthias Hoene from a script by Luc Besson and Robert Kamen. Fundamental and EuropaCorp are co-producing Warrior's Gate with Fundamental backing and Europa on international sales. The partners have previously worked together on…...

Fundamental Films has cast Chinese actor Francis Ng (The Mission) in the action-adventure pic Warrior's Gate. The award-winning character actor Ng joins Dave Bautista, Mark Zhao, NiNi, Uriah Shelton, and Sienna Guillory in the film directed by Matthias Hoene from a script by Luc Besson and Robert Kamen. Fundamental and EuropaCorp are co-producing Warrior's Gate with Fundamental backing and Europa on international sales. The partners have previously worked together on…...