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In today's Horror Highlights: the trailer for Letters to Satan Claus, a release date for Rot, details on The Mark of the Bell Witch, and a December release for Songbird!

Letters To Satan Claus: "Letters to Satan Claus revolves around Holly who, after returning to her hometown of Ornaments as a big-city news reporter, faces off with the demon of her past following a simple typo made in her letter to Santa. It's a harmless mistake that summons Satan to kill her parents. Yikes! We guess there is a worse gift than receiving a lump of coal on Christmas."

A horror comedy parody of the Hallmark Christmas movies, Letters to Satan Claus airs on Syfy on December 19th!

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Release Date Announced for Rot: "Genre distributor The Horror Collective is excited to announce that it will be distributing Andrew Merrill’s nightmarish horror/thriller Rot. The film will be released on November 19, 2020 exclusively through Amazon,...

Exclusive: The Horror Collective has landed rights to Rot, the horror thriller that reps the feature directing debut of one of Deadline’s own, video producer Andrew Merrill. The film will bow via Amazon Instant Video on Thursday.

The plot: When Madison’s ex goes missing, his friends expect her to lead the search to find him. But something vile has taken over his body, and what they find is worse than any of them could have imagined. Kris Alexandrea (Gothic Springs), Johnny Kostrey, McKale Jude Bingham (Betrayed), Adam Burch (Nazis at the Center of the Earth) and Eileen Dietz star.

Check out the trailer here:

Merrill, who also penned the script, rehearsed with actors, did his rewrites, scouted locations and otherwise prepped production during the week after work, and filmed on his days off Saturday and Sunday...

The film landscape in Scandinavia is far from homogenous. In Sweden, where no drastic coronavirus restrictions were enforced, shoots were not suspended so long as no more than 50 people were assembled, while elsewhere in the Nordics, a lockdown was imposed and film productions were stopped.

On April 14, film production resumed in Denmark — after a pause that lasted more than a month — under a new set of rules relating to the coronavirus crisis that also apply to Sweden, according to the Nordic Film Guide, which was put together by the Swedish banner Hobby Film and based on information released by government bodies. Besides leaner crew numbers, the guidelines also require at least 4 square-meters (43 square-feet) between each person on interior shoots and no buffets or coffee stations on set. Crowd scenes are out of the question right now. Shooting in public places in Sweden is permitted, while Denmark is allowing such lensing on a case-by-case basis.

Follows deal for disaster film The North Sea.

TrustNordisk has boarded international sales for Norwegian World War II-era drama Betrayed.

It marks the second deal this week TrustNordisk has struck with Norwegian producers Fantefilm after collaborating on forthcoming disaster film The North Sea.

Eirik Svensson will direct and Fantefilm’s Martin Sundland, Catrin Gundersen and Therese Bøhn will produce. Fantefilm has hit credits including The Quake and The Wave.

Betrayed is adapted by Harald Rosenløw Eeg (The King’s Choice) and Lars Gudmestad (Headhunters) from Marte Michelet’s book The Ultimate Crime. The story, inspired by true events, is about...

The director of The Square will shoot the shipwreck comedy in 2020.

Ruben Östlund’s next feature Triangle Of Sadness is being lined up for a 2020 shoot, and will be his first film fully in the English language.

Triangle of Sadness was one project on the slate of Film I Vast, Scandinavia’s leading film funD presented in Cannes yesterday.

The film will partially shoot in a studio in Trollhatten, Sweden as well as on location on an island and on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean.

The team describes it as a “a surrealist comedy, looking at what happens when...

Exclusive: Scout Taylor-Compton, who starred as Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie’s 2007 reboot of Halloween and its 2009 sequel, is to star in thriller Ash and Bone.

Taylor-Compton, who also starred in long-running series Nashville, will feature in the film, directed by Harley Wallen (Betrayed) and written by Bret Miller (Some Are Born), alongside Mel Novak (Game of Death).

The film, which is produced by Painted Creek Productions, Cama Productions and Auburn Moon, is an urban legend thriller. Cassie Vanderbilt, played by Angelina Danielle Cama (Abeyance) is a rebellious teen whose wild streak escalates as her caring father Lucas, played by Wallen, decides to take her and his new wife Sarah, played by Kaiti Wallen (Snapshot), out of the city for some bonding and quality time together. But after Cassie crosses the infamous McKinley family, played by Jimmy Doom and Erika Hoveland, it becomes clear that sometimes danger lies hidden in the weeds,...

Stars: Tara Reid, Harley Wallen, Calhoun Koenig, Aphrodite Nikolovski, Dennis Haskins, Victoria Mullen | Written by Nancy Oeswein | Directed by Harley Wallen

Starring and directed by Harley Wallen, and written by Nancy Oeswein, Bennett’s Song follows two very modern families and a young girl with big music dreams. Starring Tara Reid, Harley Wallen, Aphrodite Nikolovski, Dennis Haskins, Calhoun Koenig, and Victoria Mullen, the film is a very timely celebration of diversity, love and acceptance.

Bennett’s Song tells the story of a widower, Sam Bennett (Harley Wallen) and divorcee, Susan Song (Aphrodite Nikolovski) finding love against all odds. Their unconventional romance, which sees two very unique and diverse families with seven kids each collide with their not-so-pleasant next door neighbor (Tara Reid), who throws a wrench in the big music plans of the very independent Pearl (Calhoun Koenig), in this story of a a not-so-normal American family in the 21st century.

Bennett’s Song is a heart-warming new film about love, acceptance and inclusion. Directed by Harley Wallen and written by Nancy Oeswein, and starring Tara Reid, Harley Wallen, Aphrodite Nikolovski, Dennis Haskins, Calhoun Koenig, and Victoria Mullen; this sweet and sentimental film follows two very modern families and a young girl with big music dreams. It is a very timely celebration of diversity, love and acceptance that has been described as Modern Family meets High Fidelity.

What originally attracted you to Bennett’s Song?

My partner wrote the script and the it is absolutely fantastic. It’s a really current story about what it feels like to look and be different. To have a different family, different circumstances and still finds ways to be relatable. It is just about the difficulties to be a family now period. I was so scared, I have done thrillers, action and that style of film,...

This episode of Betrayed spotlights the rape and murder of Angela Samota, in a case that took over 25 years to solve. 20-year-old Angela Samota was a popular coed, who was known for being smart and pretty – but her ability to grab the attention of a room also attracted the man who murdered her. 1984 in Dallas, Texas, and Southern Methodist University student Samota was found dead in her apartment, she’d been raped and stabbed to death. The crime sparked an appeal for witnesses and police conducted a lengthy investigation, but the case soon went cold. It was 26 years […]

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It wouldn’t be the awards season without controversy and there’s plenty to go around. The chances for “The Disaster Artist” making an impression at the Oscars look finished due to the allegations that have emerged against James Franco. Meanwhile, Ridley Scott‘s “All The Money In The World” — which had skipped one potential liability by replacing Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer at the last minute — looks like it may be embroiled in the conversation about gender equity in Hollywood.

Continue reading Ridley Scott Reportedly Feels “Betrayed” By Mark Wahlberg, Talks Fate Of Kevin Spacey ‘All The Money’ Footage at The Playlist.