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The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Here are five recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Evil Dead Trap

Mix up your January Giallo viewing with Evil Dead Trap. Although its title invokes Evil Dead – and there’s a bit of Sam Raimi-esque kineticism in the camerawork – the 1988 Japanese film shares more in common with the lurid Italian thrillers: a mysterious killer, elaborate murder set pieces, gruesome violence, stylish cinematography, a dreamlike atmosphere, and an infectious synth score.

Upon receiving a graphic snuff film, a late-night TV host (Miyuki Ono) rallies a small production crew to investigate its origins at an abandoned military base. The story plays out in a manner that could be considered a slasher, but...

Now streaming on Screambox is the festival hit The Wolf Hour, a psychological thriller that takes place during the summer of the Son of Sam murders.

The Ring‘s Naomi Watts stars in the film as June Leigh, “a cultural icon and activist during the 1960s, now fallen from grace and a shell of her former self. An unseen tormentor begins exploiting her weaknesses and she must face her demons at the height of one of the darkest points in New York history: the summer of the Son of Sam murders.”

From writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin, The Wolf Hour actually filmed in New York with the trailer oozing Hitchcock, especially Rear Window, and promises one helluva tense-filled thriller.

Meredith Borders gave the film a positive review out of the Sundance World Premiere, noting that the “Hitchcockian” thriller is “grimy, tense and menacing.”

Check it out on Screambox.

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Screambox, the horror streaming service known for its unique blend of cult favourites and exclusive horror gems, has announced a chilling line-up for November. With a mix of new releases, indie anthologies, and cult classics, Screambox promises a month of supernatural frights and gruesome thrills for horror fans, beginning with Cryptids on November 5.

One of the most anticipated additions this month is Cryptids, a horror anthology featuring legendary horror host Joe Bob Briggs as a paranormal radio show host. Debuting exclusively on Screambox, Cryptids explores mythical monsters through a series of eerie tales involving Bigfoot, Frogman, Chupacabra, and more. With each segment spotlighting a different creature, the anthology is bound to satisfy fans of cryptozoology and late-night scares.

On November 12, the Screambox Exclusive Devon dives into the realm of found footage horror. Directed by Jersey Shore’s Jenni “JWoww” Farley in her first foray behind the camera, Devon follows five...

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the horror streaming service in November. The Screambox November 2024 schedule includes Devon, Cryptids, Street Trash, and more.

Legendary horror host Joe Bob Briggs stars as a paranormal radio show host in Cryptids, which will stream exclusively on Screambox on November 5. The indie horror anthology features segments about Bigfoot, Frogman, Chupacabra, and more mythical monsters.

If you’ve never seen a man melt before, prepare yourself for Street Trash on November 19. The 1987 cult classic splatterfest presages the Screambox Original reboot streaming in December.

Plunge into the darkness with the Screambox Exclusive film Devon on November 26. Jersey Shore icon Jenni “JWoww” Farley makes her directorial debut with a found footage nightmare that follows a group of five adventures to an abandoned asylum in search of a missing girl.

Malin Akerman (Watchmen) and Tyler Labine (Tucker & Dale vs Evil) aren’t going to let...

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service in November 2024, including Devon, Cryptids, and Street Trash.

Legendary horror host Joe Bob Briggs stars as a paranormal radio show host in Cryptids exclusively on Screambox November 5. The indie horror anthology features segments about Bigfoot, Frogman, Chupacabra, and more mythical monsters.

Plunge into the darkness with the Screambox Exclusive film Devon on November 12. “Jersey Shore” icon Jenni “JWoww” Farley makes her directorial debut with a found footage nightmare that follows a group of five adventures to an abandoned asylum in search of a missing girl.

If you’ve never seen a man melt before, prepare yourself for Street Trash on Screambox November 19. The 1987 cult classic splatterfest presages the streaming release of the Screambox Original reboot in December.

Malin Akerman (Watchmen) and Tyler Labine (Tucker & Dale vs Evil) aren’t going to let a little blood...

Director Ruben Östlund announced in Cannes that he wanted one of the scenes in his upcoming airplane disaster movie The Entertainment System Is Down to prompt the biggest walkout in the history of cinema.

Seven months on, the Swedish two-time Cannes Palme d’Or winner is getting closer to realizing this ambition having completed the screenplay for the film.

“It’s being translated into English. We’ll be going everywhere for the casting… The aim is to shoot in early 2025,” the director told Deadline at the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps earlier this week.

As previously revealed, the social satire will be set on a long-haul flight which descends into deadly chaos when the inflight entertainment system goes down.

“Modern human beings are used to being able to distract themselves with screens, we’re never bored. Soon after take-off on this long-haul flight – I was thinking something...

(From left) Nicholas Crovetti, Naomi Watts, and Cameron Crovetti star in Goodnight Mommy. Photo: Prime Video Remaking successful international productions, particularly European ones, is a tried and true Hollywood tradition. In most cases we end up with a rehash that loses whatever edge the original had; in the process of...

Patrick Lussier, whose credits include Drive Angry, My Bloody Valentine and Dracula 2000, directs.

Voltage Pictures will commence sales in Cannes on the morgue-set thriller Play Dead co-written by genre aces Adam Mason and Simon Boyes and starring Bailee Madison, the fast-rising talent whose credits include Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and The Strangers: Prey At Night.

Patrick Lussier, whose credits include Drive Angry, My Bloody Valentine and Dracula 2000, directs from the screenplay by Mason and Boye, the writers behind Blood River, Song Bird and Hangman.

Play Dead is currently in post-production and centres on criminology student Chloe (Madison), who...

British helmer Kibwe Tavares is finally gearing up for his feature film debut reteaming with actor (and here co-writer) Daniel Kaluuya on the London set dystopian drama The Kitchen. The Netflix backed project (they pegged this as a 2023 release) sees Kaluuya topline with Kane Robinson and newcomer Jedaiah Bannerman is set to play co-lead Benji. The project was part of the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab and is based on an idea from Kaluuya (who produces) — it was co-written along with Joe Murtagh and Daniel Emmerson (who also produces).…...

Naomi Watts is no half-measures actor, as attested by her resume of vividly drawn women struggling with forces natural (“The Impossible”), unnatural (“King Kong”), and soul-crushingly internal (“21 Grams”).

For Watts, it’s as if psychic pain is a renewable resource for her characterization skills, and of late, she seems to have specialized in the dark allure of imperiled solitude, having played a paranoid urban shut-in (“The Wolf Hour”) and an isolated mom (“The Desperate Hour”) with all the physicality and interiority they require, whether or not the movies around her are any good.

Watts brings that same full-body intensity to Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s “Infinite Storm,” a yikes-y title which is also not a bad way to categorize the totality of her often relentlessly stricken characters. And like with “The Impossible,” she’s bringing a true story to life, playing Pam Bales, a registered nurse and mountain guide...

This review of “The Desperate Hour” (formerly known as “Lakewood”) was first published on Sept. 12, 2021 after the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

A mom’s morning jog becomes a gimmick running in place in “The Desperate Hour,” a crisis scenario striving for issue-driven importance that should have paid more attention to its dull suspense mechanics, slapdash style, and implausibility.

The estimable Naomi Watts is always in fighting shape for the deep feelings of a peril picture, as her all-in turns in “Funny Games,” “The Impossible” and “The Wolf Hour” attest — hell, throw in “King Kong” too — but as Amy Carr, a widow in the woods and desperate to get to a son in danger, it’s the actress who’s stuck and unable to escape the confines of a cheap trap that only gets more tedious as it goes along.

Her captors are filmmakers who should know...

“Milk” director Gus Van Sant has boarded Academy Award contender “Censor Of Dreams” as an executive producer.

The live action short, which has been shortlisted for an Academy Award, is directed by Léo Berne (Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money”) and Raphaël Rodriguez and stars Damien Bonnard (“Les Misérables”) and Alexis Rodney (“Guardians of the Galaxy”).

The 17-minute film won the Oscars-qualifying Grand Prix at the Warsaw Film Festival.

Inspired by Yasutaka Tsutsui’s book “Yume no ken’estukan” (“The Censor of Dreams”), the film tells the story of a mysterious “Censor” who moulds memories into dreams.

“Dreams, like cinema, are inspired fictions that have something to tell us,” said Berne and Rodriguez. “‘Censor of Dreams’ was built on an image that touches us in particular, and that carries as much joy as sorrow, the dream visit of a loved one who has disappeared.”

Berne and Rodriguez have previously...

Exclusive: Following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, UK horror film A Banquet has sold to Signature for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

The deal was negotiated between Signature’s Elizabeth Williams and Hanway’s Nicole Mackey. Release is set for 2022.

A Banquet follows widowed mother Holly (played by Resident Evil actress Sienna Guillory) who is pushed to breaking point when her daughter Betsey develops an extreme eating disorder. She claims she has experienced a profound enlightenment where her body is in service to a higher power. Tormented by Betsey’s illness, her family are faced with an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, and Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own belief. Also starring are Ruby Stokes (Bridgerton) and Lindsay Duncan (About Time).

The movie will next play at the BFI London Film Festival in the Cult strand.

Exclusive: Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Tony nominee Maria Dizzia (Orange Is the New Black) and Jeremy Bobb (The Knick) are set for key recurring roles on Showtime’s upcoming anthology series The First Lady, starring Viola Davis — who also executive produces — Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Cathy Schulman serves as showrunner. Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce.

Created by Aaron Cooley and produced by Lionsgate TV and Showtime, The First Lady is a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House. Season 1 focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt (Anderson), Betty Ford (Pfeiffer) and Michelle Obama (Davis).

Haley, Dizzia and Bobb will appear in the Eleanor Roosevelt (Anderson) story.

Haley will play Louis McHenry Howe, a former reporter for the New York Herald who spent the majority of his life serving as political advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt...

“Bloodthirsty,” a werewolf thriller about a rising singer who finds herself in a compromising position, has sold U.S. distribution rights to Brainstorm Media. It will release in theaters and on demand on April 23.

The film, which premiered at the virtual Fantastic Fest Celebration, was directed by Amelia Moses. Wendy Hill-Tout wrote the script with her daughter, songwriter Lowell.

The story centers on Grey (portrayed by Lauren Beatty), a singer who relocates to a remote cabin to work on her second album with noted music producer Vaughn Daniels (Greg Bryk). But as her songwriting progresses, she starts to transform into a powerful, bloodthirsty beast.

Lowell says the film was inspired by her own experiences and the pressure she felt when trying to write a follow-up album to her first record, “We Loved Her Dearly.” Along with crafting the screenplay, she also wrote original music for “Bloodthirsty.”

“We can’t wait...

Exclusive: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK & Irish rights to action-thriller Honest Thief, starring Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos and Robert Patrick.

Directed by Mark Williams, co-creator and producer of Netflix series Ozark and producer of Warner Bros’ The Accountant, Neeson stars as a bank robber who tries to turn himself in after falling for a woman (Walsh) who works at the storage facility where he’s stashed his money. Complications ensue when his case is turned over to a corrupt FBI agent (Courtney) and he must go underground to save both himself and the woman he loves.

The deal was negotiated by Lisa Wilson, partner and co-founder of The Solution Entertainment Group and Signature’s CEO Marc Goldberg. Briarcliff has U.S. rights to the well-sold film.

Signature’s director of acquisitions and development Elizabeth Williams said, “We are delighted to have acquired Honest Thief with Liam Neeson,...

If a film played at a major festival like Sundance, SXSW or the Toronto International Film Festival, chances are, Kelvin Harrison Jr. was in it. The breakout actor has a resume filled with festival favorites such as Mudbound, Monsters and Men, All Rise, Jinn and Assassination Nation and The Wolf Hour. He appeared in Trey Edward Shults’ indie horror It Comes at Night and the Buddy Bolden pic Bolden. He’s even delved into TV with roles in Shots Fired and most recently, Godfather of Harlem. The talented actor has modestly and impressively racked up credits that have caught the deserving attention of Hollywood — and we want more.

2019 was a good year for Harrison. He appeared in two films that are a one-two punch of his incredible capabilities as an actor. Harrison earned an Independent Spirit Award for his role in Julius Onah’s Luce where he plays an adopted...

With Alistair Banks Griffin’s recommended second feature, The Wolf Hour, containing one of Naomi Watts’s best performances, in theaters, we’re running again our interview with Griffin following the film’s Sundance premiere. — Editor “I can’t get out but I look out the attic window and watch the world go by. I feel like an outsider. I am on a different wave length then everybody else….” — David Berkowitz In one of the Sundance Film Festival’s real discoveries, Alistair Banks Griffins’s 1977-set The Wolf Hour, Naomi Watts plays June, a novelist and cultural critic existing somewhere in the intellectual shadow of […]...

With Alistair Banks Griffin’s recommended second feature, The Wolf Hour, containing one of Naomi Watts’s best performances, in theaters, we’re running again our interview with Griffin following the film’s Sundance premiere. — Editor “I can’t get out but I look out the attic window and watch the world go by. I feel like an outsider. I am on a different wave length then everybody else….” — David Berkowitz In one of the Sundance Film Festival’s real discoveries, Alistair Banks Griffins’s 1977-set The Wolf Hour, Naomi Watts plays June, a novelist and cultural critic existing somewhere in the intellectual shadow of […]...

For his sophomore feature, Alistair Banks Griffin proposes a phobia friendly transgressive and forbidding drama that makes strange bedfellows out of the process of healing, self preservation, mental mutilation, isolation and guilt. In a fiery fueled backdrop, The Wolf Hour features a Naomi Watts who is into deep psychosis; we first met Alistair back in 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival where he premiered Two Gates of Sleep in the Directors’ Fortnight. We discussed the time in between films, and a lot of the technical aspects in this “buzz” worthy return.

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Watts the Matter with Naomi?: Griffin Mines Madness in All-Consuming Character Study

Director Alistair Banks Griffin revisits one helluva hot summer in the city with his highly anticipated sophomore feature The Wolf Hour, arriving nearly a decade after his lauded 2010 debut Two Gates of Sleep. A woman named June seems to be dying a slow death in a dirty hovel during July of 1977 in the South Bronx. A staggering heat wave aggravates a city already ill at ease, violent tendencies birthing the onslaught of serial killer David Berkowitz’s infamous Summer of Sam, and we’re introduced to an unrelentingly grim landscape which seems to be absorbing its protagonist, a troubled woman suffering from agoraphobia while a decade-old trauma continues to haunt her.…...

The apocalyptic anxiety of our present sociopolitical moment is the not-so-hidden undergirding of Alistair Banks Griffin’s psychodrama “The Wolf Hour,” in which Naomi Watts plays June Leigh, a fearful author who’s isolated herself from the outside world by holing up in her fifth-floor South Bronx walk-up.

But it’s not 2019, when even the most dedicated of hermits can feel connected to others through the Internet. Griffin’s analog setting is the summer of 1977, when New York’s then-notorious version of urban decay had segments of the city ready to ignite, while a steady stream of news about “The .44 Caliber Killer” — a female-targeting serial murderer soon to be known as “Son of Sam” — had single women on edge, especially those with long, dark hair, like June’s.

But despite a typically committed performance by Watts, once again showing her special affinity for hard-edged sufferers grinding out a way to survive,...

The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical release this Friday) are just some of the items that we found in last year’s Next section. This year’s crop includes we find the highly anticipated Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia by several American indie darling filmmakers (and what will likely be Robert Redford’s last role), Danny Madden‘s directorial debut Beast Beast, Lawrence Michael Levine‘s third feature film Black Bear and Heidi Ewing‘s first foray into narrative territory in I Carry You With Me (see pic below).…...

Contending with such powerful issues as existential crises and societal dread can often lead people to take themselves off the grid. The infrastructure of surrounding themselves with their family and friends is often the only thing that helps many people from completely falling. The rich character study that morphs social alienation into hope for the […]

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Blackouts, fires, looting, escalating violence, a stuffy apartment, and Naomi Watts is right in the middle of it all in New York, 1977. A rare film appearing to revel in the isolation and paranoia of its protagonist, June Leigh, Watts delivers “a striking raw nerve performance” reminiscent of an unhinged James Stewart in “Rear Window.” (read our review here)

Read More: ‘The Wolf Hour’: Naomi Watts Gives A Striking Raw Nerve Performance [Sundance Review]

“Everything a private moment, and who we are in private moments is very different from how we are in the world.

Continue reading ‘The Wolf Hour’ Trailer: Naomi Watts Is Trapped Inside During A Hellish Summer Of Cultural Collapse at The Playlist.

"It's like a war zone..." "Something much more sinister than that." Brainstorm Media has unveiled a trailer for the indie thriller The Wolf Hour, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. This is the second film made by filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin and it premiered to quite a bit of buzz during Sundance. With Hitchcockian tautness, the film "flawlessly captures the style and texture of the 1970s and the interior unraveling of a woman who, like her city, is teetering on a knife-edge." Naomi Watts stars as a woman seeking refuge inside her grandmother's apartment in the Bronx in the late 1970s, with a heat wave hitting the city and paranoia kicking in as guests arrive one by one. "In this eerily resonant allegory for our times, she is, like all of us, weighing her actions in a world on the brink of collapse." Also starring Jennifer Ehle,...

Exclusive: Kelvin Harrison Jr. has been added to the cast of The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin’s long-in-the-making drama that recently was picked up by Paramount Pictures for domestic distribution. The starry cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

The film is based on the infamous 1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Marc Platt is producing with Cross Creek president Tyler Thompson, Stuart Besser and Matt Jackson. Shivani Rawat will be executive producer via her ShivHans Pictures shingle.

Harrison has been seen in a number of films that hit the festival circuit, with the most recent being The Wolf Hour (Sundance) with Naomi Watts; Luce (Sundance), which was released theatrically this month; Gully (Tribeca); and Waves (Telluride) with Sterling K. Brown.

Exclusive: Justin Chon is continuing to champion Asian narratives with his lastest project Blue Bayou, which is being co-financed by Charles D. King ‘s MacRo and Entertainment One. Chon will also star in the film alongside Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, and Emory Cohen.

The pic marks the third Asian familial-centric drama from the Twilight Saga actor, who found success with his last two films, Gook and Ms. Purple, with the latter performing solidly at the box office when it opened in Los Angeles earlier this year. Blue Bayou was written by Chon, who will also direct the piece as production will commence this month.

Inspired by true events, the plot tells the story of Antonio, a Korean adoptee raised in the Us who is...

I’ve got a trailer here for an interesting paranoia thriller called The Wolf Hour. The movie is set in 1977 and stars Naomi Watts as a woman named June who refuses to leave her apartment as New York City finds itself in complete chaos.

New York City is “awash with escalating violence. A citywide blackout is triggering fires, looting, and countless arrests, and the Son of Sam murders are riddling the city with panic. June, once a celebrated counterculture figure, attempts to retreat from the chaos by shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of her grandmother’s South Bronx apartment. But her doorbell is ringing incessantly, the heat is unbearable, and creeping paranoia and fear are taking hold. Visitors, some invited, some unsolicited, arrive one by one, and June must determine whom she can trust and whether she can find a path back to her former self.”

This movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival,...

The Wolf Hour played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and even though I was at the fest, I didn’t hear a single thing about it. Indeed, this movie wasn’t on my radar at all – until now. The first trailer for the movie just dropped, and it looks fantastic. Set in New York City […]

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Most years are kind to Naomi Watts, and 2019 is no real exception. The actress has been in the hit Sundance film “Luce,” and she was cast as the lead in one of HBO’s “Game Of Thrones” spin-offs, although you won’t see that one until 2020 at the earliest. But she’s also been in one more 2019 Sundance film that has gone a little bit more under the radar.

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One of two films to premiere at Sundance Film Festival this year that starred both Naomi Watts and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (along with Luce), The Wolf Hour finds the stars in a different kind of psychological thriller mode. Directed and written by Alistair Banks Griffin (Two Gates of Sleep), the film is set during the 1977 blackout in NYC as we’re trapped in the apartment of Watts’ character, who must face her own demons while also fearing the outside world. Ahead of a release later this year, the first trailer and poster have now arrived for the film also starring Jennifer Ehle and Emory Cohen.

Nick Allen said in his review for RogerEbert.com, “Naomi Watts further proves that she’s one of the best with “The Wolf Hour,” a largely one-woman show directed by Alistair Banks Griffin that takes place in a sweaty, anxious New York City during the Summer of Sam.

Andrew Lincoln in ‘The Walking Dead.’

The Walking Dead‘s Andrew Lincoln will star opposite Naomi Watts in Penguin Bloom, the adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s novel to be directed by Glendyn Ivin.

Lincoln will portray Cameron Bloom, the husband of Watt’s Sam Bloom in the drama based on the true story of a young Sydney family who struggle to come to terms with a near-fatal accident that left their mother paralyzed.

An unlikely ally enters their lives in the form of an injured Magpie chick, which the family dubbed ‘Penguin’ due to her black and white plumage.

Scripted by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps and produced by Watts, Emma Cooper and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky, the production will start shooting in early August.

The producers said: “We were all captivated by this heart-warming story of resilience, the power of family and hope.

“The Walking Dead” star Andrew Lincoln is set to star opposite Naomi Watts in “Penguin Bloom,” the upcoming adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s bestseller.

The film will be directed by Glendyn Ivin (“Safe Harbor”) and written by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps and is set to begin production in Australia at the beginning of August.

Watts will also produce alongside Emma Cooper and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky.

Also Read: 'Walking Dead' Movie With Andrew Lincoln to Be Released In Theaters (Video)

Lincoln will star as Cameron Bloom, the husband of Sam Bloom (Watts), in a true story about a little bird that saves a family. A family struggles to come to terms with a near-fatal accident that left their mother paralyzed and they have to adjust to their situation until an injured Magpie chick comes along.

Cameron Bloom, Sam Bloom...

Story based on true family tragedy… and a magpie chick.

British star Andrew Lincoln of The Walking Dead has joined Naomi Watts on the family drama Penguin Bloom, which is set to begin production in Sydney, Australia, in August.

Glendyn Ivin (The Cry) will direct the adaptation of the novel by Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom from a screenplay by Shaun Grant (Snowtown) and Harry Cripps (The Dry).

Roadshow will distribute in Australia and New Zealand, and Endeavor Content handles worldwide rights on the story about a family that gets through a tragedy with the help of an injured magpie chick they name Pengiun.

The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln has joined Naomi Watts in Penguin Bloom, the Glendyn Ivin-directed adaptation of the bestseller written by Bradley Trevor Greive. Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps wrote the script and production begins in Sydney, Australia in August.

Watts is producing alongside Emma Cooper and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky.

Set on Sydney’s northern beaches, Penguin Bloom is the true story of a unique little bird that saves a family. Cameron and Sam Bloom and their three boys were an everyday family until a shocking, near-fatal accident left Sam paralyzed. She fell from a balcony while on holiday in Thailand, and was left paralyzed from the chest down. As the family struggled to adjust to her new situation, an unlikely ally entered their lives in the form of an injured Magpie chick which the Bloom clan called Penguin. The wild...

“The Wolf Hour,” a psychological thriller starring Naomi Watts and Jennifer Ehle, has been picked up for North America by Brainstorm Media. HanWay Films has also closed sales for a host of European and Asian territories.

Directed by Alistair Banks Griffin, “The Wolf Hour” features Oscar-nominated Watts as June, a former countercultural celebrity who lives as a recluse in New York’s South Bronx in the late 1970s. Outside, the city is on edge, with the Son of Sam killer on the loose and the July 13, 1977, riot over an electricity blackout about to erupt. June’s world starts to unravel when an invisible tormentor begins to crack her defenses.

Other cast members are Ehle (“Pride and Prejudice”), Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, and Jeremy Bobb.

Banks Griffin’s debut feature film, “Two Gates of Sleep,” played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2010. “The Wolf Hour” is produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones...

Brainstorm Media has acquired North American rights to Alistair Banks Griffin’s thriller The Wolf Hour, which has also sold around the world for HanWay Films.

The Sundance debut stars Naomi Watts together with Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, and Jeremy Bobb. Watts also executive produced.

Set against the ‘Summer of Sam’, the film charts the story of a once well-known, now reclusive writer caught up in the tension of late 1970s New York. The deal was negotiated between Brainstorm and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers together with HanWay. Brainstorm will release theatrically in fall 2019.

HanWay has also closed deals with Odeon (Greece), Nos Lusomundo (Portugal), Fabula (Turkey), Discovery (Former Yugoslavia), DDDream (China), Klockworx (Japan), Shaw (Singapore), Cinesky (airlines / ships) and Uphe Content Group.

The film is produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Bailey Conway Anglewicz from Automatik along with Bradley Pilz under Bradley Pilz productions. Felipe Dieppa and Taryn Nagle are exec producers for The Big Picture Company with Linda Moran of Belladonna Productions and Fred Berger of Automatik.

“Naomi Watts gives a riveting performance in this tense thriller. We are very excited to bring this movie to U.S. theaters nationwide,” said Michelle Shwarzstein, VP of Marketing and Acquisitions for Brainstorm Media.

Banks Griffin’s first feature Two Gates Of Sleep screened in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2010 and competed for the Camera d’Or.

The Naomi Watts thriller The Wolf Hour has been acquired by Brainstorm Media, which nabbed the North American rights.

A fall 2019 theatrical release is planned for Alistair Banks Griffin's psychological thriller, which also stars Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Jeremy Bobb and Brennan Brown.

Set in July 1977 in New York during a citywide blackout that is triggering fires, looting and countless arrests, and the Son of Sam murders that are riddling the city with panic. June (Watts), once a celebrated counterculture figure, attempts to retreat from the chaos by shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of ...

The Naomi Watts thriller The Wolf Hour has been acquired by Brainstorm Media, which nabbed the North American rights.

A fall 2019 theatrical release is planned for Alistair Banks Griffin's psychological thriller, which also stars Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Jeremy Bobb and Brennan Brown.

Set in July 1977 in New York during a citywide blackout that is triggering fires, looting and countless arrests, and the Son of Sam murders that are riddling the city with panic. June (Watts), once a celebrated counterculture figure, attempts to retreat from the chaos by shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of ...

Run a finger along any of the surfaces in Alistair Banks Griffin’s sophomore feature “The Wolf Hour,” and it will come up slicked with sweat, grime and the residual soot of the city. It is the summer of 1977, and it’s hotter than hell. June Leigh (Naomi Watts) perches on the window sill of the squalid Bronx apartment she dares not leave, facing right into a lethargic fan that scarcely even stirs the wavy brown hair off her sticky shoulders. Outside, little blisters of violence and intimidation erupt on the tinder-box streets, and somewhere nearby, Son of Sam is murdering women with wavy brown hair. “Hello from the gutters of New York City,” the serial killer writes in letters to the papers, and though Griffin’s heavy-on-atmosphere, light-on-plot film takes place almost exclusively five floors up from ground level, those gutters feel palpably, oppressively close.

“The Wolf Hour” is a peculiar film,...

Sundance Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award winning filmmaker Chad Hartigan flirted with some various projects post Morris from America (2016), and now he is setting up shop on what will be his fourth feature with 2018 Blacklist listed screenplay. Based on the short story by novelist Aja Gabel, written by Mattson Tomlin, production on Little Fish begins next month in Vancouver. Chris Ferguson, Jesse Savath, Jj Dubois and Automatik Film’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (most recent items from Sundance include Honey Boy and The Wolf Hour) are set to produce. Expect imminent casting announcements for the two principle players of Emma and Jude.…...

Once again placing his player(s) through the ringer, Alistair Banks Griffin moves from outdoorsy existentialism and moral quicksand in (2011’s Two Gates of Sleep) to a writer’s block so severe (agoraphobia and quasi pathological transgressions) that only a burning building catharsis will save the soul sophomore film in The Wolf Hour. We were at the world premiere at Sundance, where Dylan managed to speak to Griffin and supporting player Kelvin Harrison Jr. (who was brought onboard because he had worked with Naomi Watts on Luce).

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The Wolf Hour

The highest ranked Sundance Film Festival selected item on our list belongs to Alistair Banks Griffin and his long awaited second feature film. Filming took place in November of 2017 with Naomi Watts in the driver’s seat. A 2016 January Screenwriters Lab project, Griffin would reteam with composers Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans – they first worked together on Griffin’s 2011 debut film, Two Gates of Sleep.

Gist: June (Watts) was once a celebrated counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her fifth floor South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world.…...

For his moody thriller set during the famous New York City blackouts in the summer of 1977, “The Wolf Hour” director Alistair Banks Griffin had one goal at the top of his list: “We had to capture the humidity, that was my first note.” The director and his two illustrious lead actresses, Naomi Watts and Jennifer Ehle, paid a visit to the IndieWire Sundance Studio, presented by Dropbox, during the 2019 festival. Watts, who plays an agoraphobic writer named June in the film, shared the secret to nailing the sweaty blackout look: “We were covered in Vaseline. Every day.”

“Color palette was the second part of that equation. Really just feeling this heavy, layers of paint and dented plaster,” said Griffin. “Every inch of the set was worked over to make it feel like that moment. I go back and look at a lot of great ’70s cinema, too, and kind of putting it in that canon.

In Alistair Banks Griffin’s psychodrama “The Wolf Hour,” Naomi Watts plays June Leigh, a fearful author who’s isolated herself from the outside world by holing up in her fifth-floor South Bronx walk-up during the 1977 New York blackout riots. Watts and Griffin dropped by TheWrap Studios at Sundance to talk about the film with TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman, and Watts made the case for her character being locked up in the movie.

“She has made a great case for staying locked up inside, things don’t work for her out there in the world anymore, she hurts people, she hurts herself,” said Watts. “She’s orchestrated her life to work in a comfort zone, or somewhat, and just rely on people when she absolutely has to.”

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In the film, June (Watts) was once a celebrated counter-culture figure,...

Abe Fried Tanzer reporting from Sundance

People walk through this world with different levels of privilege. It’s a concept that’s become more widely understood of late, and certainly featured prominently in numerous films in recent years. In fact, 24 year-old actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. has starred in a handful that have played at Sundance, including both Monster and Monsters and Men just last year. This year, he stars opposite Naomi Watts in two films. One is The Wolf Hour, a dreary tale of agoraphobia in 1970s New York City that mildly touches on race and class. The other, which tackles the notion of privilege and prejudice, is Luce.

Harrison Jr. stars as the title character, who was adopted from Eritrea at age 7 by Amy (Watts) and Peter (Tim Roth), and, with the help of considerable therapy to overcome his violent childhood, has excelled incredibly and become the class valedictorian.

“The Wolf Hour” begins with a big, tight close-up of Naomi Watts’ face, and proceeds with the same sense of scrutiny. She’s in every scene of this character study— in nearly every shot, in fact—and delivers a performance of such raw nerve, you understand how writer/director Alistair Banks Griffin figured he could hang the entire picture on it. That’s a big risk, and he almost pulls it off.

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A deglammed Naomi Watts puts herself through the wringer as a paranoid agoraphobic, holed up in the South Bronx apartment of her late grandmother on a diet of cigarettes and booze while New York shudders, sweats and burns in The Wolf Hour. It's 1977, the Summer of Sam, and the escalating murder count is spreading panic through the city. But the condition of Watts' character June Leigh, a counterculture novelist whose first book was a sensation, is of her own making. Or is it? Those are the basics of writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin's claustrophobic psychological thriller, a showy acting ...

A deglammed Naomi Watts puts herself through the wringer as a paranoid agoraphobic, holed up in the South Bronx apartment of her late grandmother on a diet of cigarettes and booze while New York shudders, sweats and burns in The Wolf Hour. It's 1977, the Summer of Sam, and the escalating murder count is spreading panic through the city. But the condition of Watts' character June Leigh, a counterculture novelist whose first book was a sensation, is of her own making. Or is it? Those are the basics of writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin's claustrophobic psychological thriller, a showy acting ...