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As the Frontières Global Domination Tour of 2016 carries on, having already conquered Brussels once again, market director Lindsay Peters and her team are preparing to invade Cannes in a couple weeks. Frontières recently announced a new partnership with the famed film festival to present genre films to potential buyers, sales agents, and so on. The hope is that new partnerships will further along a selection of genre films that have already lensed and are now in post. Today, they have announced the four projects selected to participate. After announcing a new partnership with the Marché du Film of the Cannes Film Festival last month, Frontières is pleased to announce the 4 films selected to participate in the Goes to Cannes Work-in-Progress screening series. This...

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Fans of killer puppets have reason to cheer this morning. This past weekend at Texas Frightmare a new Puppet Master film was announced. Di Bonaventura Pictures (1408, Transformers) and Caliber Media (Dark Was The Night, Some Kind Of Hate) partnered up to option the rights to develop a brand new take on Charles Band’s cult classic horror film franchise Puppet Master. With the intention to produce multiple storylines within this new universe, the producers have set S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) to write the first script entitled Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich and expand the mythology, and the director’s search is quietly underway.  So what can fans, old and new, expect of the restart of this franchise? First a little history lesson and then some news on the story that Zahler is drumming up. The original...

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It's now almost two weeks ago that I saw the Japanese zombie film I Am A Hero, a movie which surprised me by being unexpectedly awesome. In my review, I said that most zombie films feature a "hero zombie", one which is harder to kill or is just a tad different from the rest. And as well-known examples I mentioned Bub in Day of the Dead and "Tar Man" in Return of the Living Dead. But with decades of zombie films behind us, and a very successful multi-season television series even, there sure are plenty of other hero zombies. Which brings me to our question of the week: what is your most favorite zombie? It can be from a good film or an excruciatingly bad...

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After directing Late Phases, his English-language debut film, Adrián García Bogliano returned to Mexico to work again with Here Comes the Devil’s Francisco Barreiro. The result was Scherzo Diabolico, in which Barreiro portraits a middle aged man who -- while waiting for better circumstances at his work and also to put together his marriage -- will become the worst nightmare for a young girl (Daniela Soto), turning himself into an iconic masked psychopath. Scherzo Diabolico is out today on VOD & DVD, so here’s part of a conversation I had with Bogliano back in early 2015 about his latest film. What was the genesis of this return to Latin-American cinema after your English-language debut? Adrián García Bogliano: While doing Late Phases, I used to read line...

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3 hours ago

After turning the Korean thriller on its head with The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong-jin has reinvented himself again, aggressively pushing against the boundaries of genre cinema with The Wailing. A deafening descent into hell, it may also be the best Korean film since Lee Chang-dong's Poetry. Gokseong, the Korean title of the film, is a small Korean town deep in the countryside that becomes plagued with strange and violent deaths. Jong-goo, a local officer, is helpless in front of the terror and illness that is slowly gripping the town and fears the worst when his own daughter becomes sick. A mysterious Japanese man draws suspicion from the townsfolk and while Jong-goo attempts to investigate the reason for his appearance in the...

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5 hours ago

One morning, several years ago, I finished an interview with a documentary filmmaker at a little café within the cavernous underground of the Tokyo train station. The political nature of the film, combined with the fact the station was on high alert because Us President Barack Obama had been in town, heightened the claustrophobic feeling within those tunnels and I was happy to emerge onto the street. Exiting that vast maze from a small side exit, I entered into the bright sunshine of a crisp Tokyo morning to find a pleasant little book fair. Happily, I did what comes naturally to a book hoarder and film-nut; I scoured the shelves for anything movie related. What I found were two full-color volumes of Kurosawa Akira’s paintings...

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15 hours ago

It's that time again. Tamil cinema legend "Superstar" Rajinikanth is starring in an upcoming film titled Kabali and the first trailer dropped on Sunday morning to an incredible response. Within one hour, the 67-second trailer had registered a million views on YouTube, and now about 36 hours later it's sitting a hair under seven million views. That's pretty incredible by any standard. Kabali marks a departure for Rajinikanth in that it is the first time in a long while that he will be playing a character around his own age. For the last decade, at least, Rajini has been playing characters in their '20s and '30s, but with Kabali he ditches the jet black wigs for a much more distinguished salt and pepper look. There's...

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19 hours ago

With Star Trek Beyond heading for theatrical release on July 22, director Justin Lin is looking ahead, and he's decided that a sequel to Space Jam lies in his future (possibly). It's not a done deal yet, but Lin is cowriting Space Jam 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with an eye toward directing. LeBron James is already set to star. The 1996 original starred Michael Jordan as himself. He agrees to help various Looney Tunes characters to take on alien slavers in a basketball game to gain their freedom. Joe Pytka directed the live-action/animated movie. Lin is writing a new screenplay with Andrew Dodge, whose credits include Bad Words, directed by Jason Bateman, and the upcoming O' Lucky Day, a comedy for Paramount, and...

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23 hours ago

(In short: it's like a sad Captain America versus a sad Joker, and it's great!) This year's winner of the audience award at the Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam came from an unexpected direction: Italy. While that country has a rich and lurid genre-film history, pickings have been slim for the last two or two-and-a-half decades. But that might be about to change, and Gabriele Mainetti's Lo Chiamavano Jeeg Robot aka. They Call Me Jeeg Robot is playing a big part in that process. Mainetti may have had to beg, borrow and fight for six years to get the funding completed for his little "superhero movie that could", but the end result became a runaway hit in its home country, with literally millions of tickets sold....

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2 May 2016 8:00 AM, PDT

Malaysian genre auteur Dain Said (Bunohan) returns with his latest effort - the supernaturally tinged crime noir Interchange - and with Cannes just around the corner we've got the first stills from the film to share. And these are some seriously compelling images. We last wrote about the film back in March and here's the synopsis we were provided with then: Forensics photographer Adam is weary of his daily routine of viewing mutilated bodies through his camera. Fearing that he may be a hazard to others due to a recent hallucinatory condition, Adam locks himself in his apartment, finding solace in photographing his neighbours. A series of macabre ritual murders occur in the city and Adam is dragged into just one more investigation by his...

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2 May 2016 7:00 AM, PDT

A suffocating drama, Pablo Larraín's The Club (El Club) feels like an painful attack by a swarm of mosquitoes. It's not, by the way, to be mistaken for Pablo Trapero's film titled El Clan,/b>, which also came out last year. * (Trapero is in Argentina, Larraín is in Chile, and I was the one who kept mixing them up). Our own Jaime Grijalba Gomez, who lives in Chile, considers The Club one of the five best Chilean films of 2015. Here are his comments: "Pablo Larraín, who also directed the Oscar nominated No and Post Mortem, among others, this time sets his eye towards the idea of a community formed through secrecy and crime. "A group of priests from all over the country live in...

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2 May 2016 5:00 AM, PDT

A few choice distributors have made a name for themselves by making their releases veritable own-able museums about the films they contain. Criterion can rightfully call themselves the inventor of the term "Special Edition", back in their Laserdisc days, experimenting with commentary tracks and such things, and thankfully those things were successful enough to be copied by many. While America had Criterion, in Europe we got a counterpart in UK distributor Eureka, when they decided to launch their own museum-style imprint, calling it the Masters of Cinema series. Movie buffs do well to keep their eyes on the line-ups of both. Case in point: Eureka MoC's new release of Man with a Movie Camera, the 1929 documentary feature by Dziga Vertov, which is still considered...

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1 May 2016 8:00 PM, PDT

Peter Billingsly's Term Life opened in U.S. cinemas this past Friday. Vince Vaughan plays Nick Barrow, a guy wanted around town by various hit men who hopes to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to kick in and pay out for his estranged daughter. The estranged daughter in question is played by Hailee Stanfield, the plucky young actress who broke out in the Coen brothers’ film True Grit.   We thought it would be fun to look back on some of the early films of some of the cast of the film. In some cases we are going back very, very far, before Stanfield was born. Even further in fact. Some of these films you may know, either by reputation or you...

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1 May 2016 7:00 PM, PDT

Film franchises aren’t just for the multiplexes anymore, or for movies featuring the likes of Batman, Superman, and the Fast and the Furious road racing crew. The arthouse has them too, and one of the highest-profile ones is the “Cities of Love” series of omnibus films, the brainchild of French producer Emmanuel Benbihy.   The series started, naturally, in Benbihy’s home base, with Paris, je t’aime (2006), a very strong collection, and continued with New York, I Love You (2008), which was decidedly less strong. Now, after a considerable gap, comes the third in the series, Rio, I Love You, completed in 2014 but only now being released, presumably to coincide with this year’s Rio summer Olympics.   As with the other two films, Rio...

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1 May 2016 6:00 PM, PDT

Much like they already have in the States, Netflix has been ramping up its local productions in Japan following their launch their last September. Though not their first original Japanese series, Spark (or Hibana), which is based on a popular novel by stand up comedian and poet Matayoshi Naoki, is poised to be their most high-profile splash yet. Three of the series' ten episodes premiered in the opening slot of the recent Okianawa International Movie Festival, before the whole show rolls out simultaneously in all of Netflix's markets in June 3rd. Set within the world of Manzai comedy, a popular two-man form of rapidfire standup, Spark focuses on Tokunaga, a young comedian struggling to make it with his Manzai duo Sparks. He meets Kamiya, an...

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