Waxwork Records unveils new Universal Horror collectible line!

Just in time for the Halloween season, popular vinyl soundtrack production house Waxwork Records is making their entrance into the world of toys and collectibles with a new Universal Horror line, beginning with a figure of the film studio’s iconic monster Frankenstein. The full figure can be viewed below!

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“It’s Alive!” Our official Universal Monsters FRANKENSTEIN Spinature is On Sale Now! This monster is ready to terrorize your turntable! https://t.co/4GIDcb9OnI pic.twitter.com/9g85wqSu8r

— Waxwork Records (@waxworkrecords) October 6, 2020

The Universal Horror line is part of a new set of figures the company has developed called Spinatures, which are highly-detailed turntable-spinner mini-busts that will feature iconic characters from pop culture, horror movies and beyond! Each figure is fitted with a hole in their base to easily attach to the spindle of a turntable and then spin along with your favorite records.

For those who don’t have a turntable, Waxwork has taken this into account for collectors with the ability to proudly display their Spinatures figures virtually anywhere. Any home or office setting is perfect for them, including computer desks, bookshelves, toy and collectible display cases, counter tops and even car dashboards.

The first Spinature figure comes in the form of Frankenstein from their Universal Horror Line, an official Universal Monster product designed and produced by Waxwork and features the iconic creature from the landmark 1931 horror film with the likeness of legendary actor Boris Karloff. Many more official Universal Monster Spinatures are set to be unveiled as fall progresses, as well as throughout the 2020 holiday season including The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Phantom of the Opera, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Wolfman and The Invisible Man!

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The 3.75-inch figure retails for $25 and can be purchased here!

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RLJE Films debuts first trailer for Joe Manganiello-starring Archenemy

Ahead of its debut at this week’s Beyond Fest, RLJE Films has debuted the first full trailer for the Joe Manganiello-starring sci-fi action thriller Archenemy centered on an interdimensional superhero struggling to find his way. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

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Written and directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer (Daniel Isn’t Real) from a story by Mortimer and Lucas Passmore (No Good Heroes), the film stars Joe Manganiello (True Blood), Skylan Brooks (Empire), Zolee Griggs (W-Tang: An American Saga), Paul Scheer (Black Monday), Amy Seimetz (Pet Semetary) and Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia).

“We’re excited to be back in business with SpectreVision after the incredibly successful releases of Mandy and Color Out of Space,” RLJE Films Chief Acquisitions Officer Mark Ward previously said in a statement. “With Joe Manganiello’s strong performance and Adam Egypt Mortimer’s innovative direction, we couldn’t have asked for a better dream team to showcase Archenemy at Beyond Fest and in theaters and various platforms in December.”

In Archenemy, Max Fist (Manganiello) claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager.

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Archenemy was produced by SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, and Elijah Wood along with Kim Sherman, Adam Egypt Mortimer, Joe Manganiello, and Nick Manganiello.

Archenemy will be released in theaters, On Demand, and Digital on December 11, 2020.

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Minor Premise gets new poster & PVOD release date

Following a rave debut at the Fantasia International Film Festival, Utopia has debuted a new poster for the forthcoming sci-fi horror pic Minor Premise for its upcoming debut at Sitges Film Festival and its premium video-on-demand release date. The poster can be viewed below!

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Attempting to surpass his father’s legacy and pressured by an old colleague (Dana Ashbrook of Twin Peaks), a reclusive neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own risky experiment. Ethan (Sathya Sridharan, All the Little Things We Kill) has now locked himself in his home with his ex-girlfriend Allie (Paton Ashbrook, Power Book II: Ghost) and the two navigate trauma, ambition, and missteps of the past. Diving headfirst into the uncharted equations of the brain, they realize that there is more at stake than just their relationship or Ethan’s reputation. With time quickly running out, he is forced to face off against the darker sides of himself while frantically attempting to solve an enigma that lies within his subconscious.

New York filmmaker Eric Schultz’s striking feature debut, after having co-produced such acclaimed works as James White, Katie Says Goodbye and The Strange Ones, this film is a science-fiction drama that resonates with particular poignancy in our quasi-quarantined times.

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Minor Premise is written by Justin Moretto, Thomas Torrey and Schultz, with Schultz also directing the pic. After its debut at this month’s Sitges Film Festival, Minor Premise will be coming to digital platforms and VOD on December 4!

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Welcome to the Blumhouse: Fantastic Fest & Fangoria Set Watch Parties For Amazon Prime Films

Fantastic Fest in partnership with Fangoria will officially be hosting a watch party event for Amazon Prime Video’s Welcome to the Blumhouse which is an upcoming collection of new original horror films, hailing from Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television. The watch party event is scheduled to begin this Saturday, October 10 which will also include an after Q&A session with each of the films’ directors.

“We couldn’t have better partners than our friends at Fangoria and Fantastic Fest to help us shine an additional spotlight on the filmmakers and casts of our upcoming films Black Box, Evil Eye, The Lie and Nocturne,” Blumhouse CEO & Founder Jason Blum said in a statement. “There’s no better time to welcome everyone to the Blumhouse than now, and we can’t wait to give audiences a reason to assemble, if even virtually.”

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The event’s official schedule is listed below:

Saturday, October 10, 2020- 5:30pm PST/ 8:30pm EST

THE LIE (On Amazon Prime Video as of October 6) – Written and directed by Veena Sud, When their teenaged daughter confesses to impulsively killing her best friend, two desperate parents attempt to cover up the horrific crime, leading them into a complicated web of lies and deception.

• Featuring a Q&A following the screening with Writer and Director Veena Sud, moderated by filmmaker Karyn Kusama (The Invitation)

Sunday, October 11, 2020 – 5:30pm PST / 8:30pm EST

BLACK BOX (On Amazon Prime Video as of October 6) – Directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an agonizing experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

• Featuring a Q&A following the screening with Writer and Director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour

Saturday, October 17, 2020 – 5:30pm PST / 8:30pm EST 

NOCTURNE (On Amazon Prime Video as of October 13) – Written and directed by Zu Quirke, Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.

• Featuring a Q&A following the screening with Writer and Director Zu Quirke moderated by filmmaker April Wolfe (Black Christmas)

Sunday, October 18, 2020 – 5:30pm PST/ 8:30pm EST

EVIL EYE  (On Amazon Prime Video as of October 13) – Directed by Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani from a script written by Madhuri Shekar, A seemingly perfect romance turns into a nightmare when a mother becomes convinced her daughter’s new boyfriend has a dark connection to her own past.

• Featuring a Q&A following the screening with Directors Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani moderated by filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty (Run, Searching)

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The films showcase exciting up-and-coming talent, alongside established actors in exceptional and shocking new roles. Welcome to the Blumhouse will launch in October, timed for the Halloween season, on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Amazon Prime Video will launch the initial slate of four films as double features starting with The Lie directed by acclaimed writer/director Veena Sud (The Killing, 7 Seconds) and Black Box directed by up-and-coming writer/director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. (Born with It), both premiering on October 6. Launching the following week on October 13 is Evil Eye, from talented young directors Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani (A Day’s Work, Jinn) and executive produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico, White Tiger), and Nocturne written and directed by filmmaker Zu Quirke (Zugzwang, Ghosting) making her feature film debut. The latter four films will launch in 2021.

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9/10

Cast:

Morfydd Clark as Maud

Jennifer Ehle as Amanda

Lily Knight as Joy

Lily Frazer as Carol

Turlough Convery as Christian

Rosie Sansom as Ester

Marcus Hutton as Richard

Written and Directed by Rose Glass

Saint Maud Review:

Boy, oh boy, does A24 understand greatness in the horror genre. Their latest acquisition, the quiet and tiny little psychological thriller Saint Maud, finds the indie powerhouse studio partnering with another debuting writer-director to help bring Rose Glass’ story to audiences and with the current state of the world forcing us all to wait with bated breath for its release, the haunting film proves to be well-worth the wait.

Written and directed by Glass in her feature debut, Saint Maud is a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world. Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul — but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.

Aside from more general stories of demonic possession, the religious horror genre has been largely absent from the film world for quite some time and Glass not only offers a fresh new take on the subgenre but also does so in roaring and truly chilling fashion. The tone of the film feels truly hypnotic and borderline fever dreamlike, with its opening shot drawing questions never answered but only hinted at and the narrative occasionally jumping around in time or away from its seemingly primary plot that keeps the affair feeling progressively compelling. This also goes such a long way in keeping the audience guessing, with the sense of dread proving to be incredibly palpable as to whether Maud is connecting with God or something more sinister or if she’s truly just losing her mind.

The writing for the film also provides a beautiful evolution to its titular subject, a broken and flawed soul doing their best to find a redemptive path after a dark past event while struggling with some subtle behavioral problems. Glass does a brilliant job of establishing Maud as a character the viewer wants to invest an emotional stake in, one in which we can cringe at some of her awkwardness while sympathize with her isolation from people and poor attempts at connecting with others while also still keeping one toe out the door out of fear of what terrible things lie ahead for her and those around her.

The fascination of Maud is further elevated thanks to the stellar lead performance from Morfydd Clark, who embraces the genuine and misguided protagonist in breathtaking fashion. So much of Clark’s performance as Maud is relegated to facial cues more than dialogue and she expertly expresses every little emotional transition with ease, from fear to awe to anger to a warm embrace of what she believes is God.

Alongside the intelligent writing, Glass demonstrates an incredibly artful directorial eye that really taps into some of the story’s deeper thematics and chilling atmosphere. Keeping areas appropriately dark to leave even the most eagle-eyed of audiences wondering just what is lurking nearby while also subtly utilizing aquatic and fiery imagery throughout, the debut director has established herself as a phenomenal talent to watch moving forward. Through some disturbing visual effects and literal jaw-dropping camerawork, Glass also skillfully captures some of the film’s most haunting and shocking moments in what feels rather unique for both the religious and body horror genres.

The film’s only real flaws lie in some of its ambiguity regarding Maud’s past, as we’re still left with a few questions as to just what happened in the events prior to the story that are never properly answered. While some ambiguity is plenty enjoyable and even more interesting than overblown or poorly-written exposition dumps, and there are plenty of dialogue and imagery teases throughout that could allow some to draw the proper conclusions, but something a little more concrete could’ve helped viewers take that extra step to dive further into the mind of the central subject.

Some unanswered questions aside, Rose Glass’ Saint Maud is a truly tense, chilling and occasionally shocking feature debut that includes some awe-inspiring and gorgeous direction from Glass as well as a stellar turn from sure-to-be-breakout-star Morfydd Clark to add up to one of the most disturbing films of the year and of A24’s library of magnificent works.

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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Release Date Delayed to 2021

Collider is reporting that the release date for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has been pushed back to October 1, 2021. The Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures feature was originally scheduled to release on December 18, 2020. Dune will now release against Warner Bros.’ The Batman.

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A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, the Dune movie tells the story of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence — a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential — only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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The star-studded cast includes Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible — Fallout), Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), Stellan Skarsgård (Thor: The Dark World), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences), Zendaya (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Chang Chen (Love And Destiny), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Sex Education), with Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter), Jason Momoa (Aquaman) and Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men).

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Villeneuve is best known for directing Blade Runner 2049 as well as Sicario. Though Dune will likely resemble the former film more than the latter, both display the sort of experience directing arid, desolate locales that a fan would want in their Dune director, considering a sizable chunk of the story takes place on a desert planet.

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Exclusive My Summer as a Goth Trailer From Tara Johnson-Medinger’s Drama

ComingSoon.net is debuting an exclusive new trailer for filmmaker Tara Johnson-Medinger’s drama My Summer as a Goth. You can check out the trailer now in the player below along with the official poster!

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From director Tara Johnson-Medinger, and starring award-winning actor Natalie Shershow (Leverage, American Vandal), My Summer as a Goth is a coming-of-age story about the sometimes painful—often entertaining—search for identity and love in adolescence.

After the sudden death of her father, 16-year-old, Joey Javitts is sent to stay with her eccentric grandparents while her author mother promotes her latest novel. Joey promptly falls for the beguiling Goth boy next door, Victor, and is transformed by him and his merry band of misfits in black.

Set in present-day Portland, My Summer as a Goth navigates Joey’s relationships with her new friends, her family, and herself, and will resonate with anyone who survived the social alienation of adolescence—and that first summer heartbreak.

Jack Levis, Fayra Teeters, Jonas Israel, Jenny White, Carter Allen, Eduardo Reyes, Rachelle Henry, Lorraine Bahr, Michael Biesanz, Sophie Giberson, and Sarah Overman also star.

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My Summer as a Goth is written by Brandon Lee Roberts and Johnson-Medinger. Johnson-Medinger, Roberts, Gary Nolton, Megan Johnson, & Kymberley Franklin produce.

123 Go Films will release My Summer as a Goth on DirecTV and other On Demand platforms on November 11, 2020.

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The 355 Posters: Jessica Chastain Leads an All-Star Spy Team

Universal Pictures has released the official posters for Simon Kinberg’s upcoming international spy adventure film The 355, spotlighting the star-studded cast led by Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong’o. The film is still scheduled to make its debut on January 25, 2021. Check out the full posters in the gallery below!

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The 355 follows a group of top female agents from government agencies around the globe as they try to stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos. It will be led by Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, and Bingbing Fan as well as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong’o and Penélope Cruz.

Chastain came up with the story idea and crafted it for the film, earning her a “Story by” credit. In an interview with Deadline, Chastain said she was inspired to come up with the story for the project in her time working on The Help, in which she loved working with the “female ensemble” and wanted to bring that environment back to life in the spy genre since Charlie’s Angels.

Chastain was also the driving force behind the cast in the film, having called all of them herself and offered the parts and receiving confirmations from all of them right away. The title, 355, comes from one of the very first spies in the United States during the American Revolution, who was also a woman, so Agent 355 has become slang for those in the CIA for a female spy, which Chastain learned while doing her research for 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty.

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The 355 is directed by Simon Kinberg from a script written by Theresa Kinberg. The film is produced by Chastain and Kelly Carmichael for Chastain’s Freckle Films and by Kinberg for his Genre Films. The film is executive produced by Richard Hewitt (Bohemian Rhapsody).

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Cineworld & Regal temporarily closing US and UK theaters

As people try to return to normalcy with the global pandemic still affecting major regions, movie theater giant Cineworld has elected to temporarily close all of its United Kingdom theaters and its Regal Cinemas locations in the United States, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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The company previously confirmed they were ruminating on the possible decision to do so as some areas in both the UK and the US continue to see fluctuating spikes in new cases and now they’ve confirmed that they will be moving forward with the shutdown, affecting 536 Regal locations and 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse cinemas beginning October 8.

“As major US. markets, mainly New York, remained closed and without guidance on reopening timing, studios have been reluctant to release their pipeline of new films,” the chain said in a statement. “In turn, without these new releases, Cineworld cannot provide customers in both the US and the UK – the company’s primary markets – with the breadth of strong commercial films necessary for them to consider coming back to theatres against the backdrop of COVID-19.”

Cineworld’s stock recently saw a major 47 percent drop in the London market earlier this morning before eventually settling at around a 40 percent drop, with the company stating that the closures will affect an estimated 45,000 employees.

“This is not a decision we made lightly, and we did everything in our power to support safe and sustainable reopenings in all of our markets – including meeting, and often exceeding, local health and safety guidelines in our theatres and working constructively with regulators and industry bodies to restore public confidence in our industry,” CEO Mooky Greidinger, said in a statement.

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“We are especially grateful for and proud of the hard work our employees put in to adapt our theatres to the new protocols and cannot underscore enough how difficult this decision was, Cineworld will continue to monitor the situation closely and will communicate any future plans to resume operations in these markets at the appropriate time, when key markets have more concrete guidance on their reopening status and, in turn, studios are able to bring their pipeline of major releases back to the big screen,” Greidinger continued.

The decision also comes as analysts believe that the continued delay of major cinematic releases due to the pandemic will have major negative consequences for the film industry, with major directors including James Cameron (Avatar), Christopher Nolan (Tenet), Zack Snyder (Justice League) and Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), among others, pleading to Congress to help save theaters.

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James McAvoy & Claire Foy to lead STX’s My Son remake

STXfilms has acquired the rights to adapt the French thriller My Son into an English-language pic and has tapped James McAvoy (It: Chapter Two, Dark Phoenix) and Claire Foy (The Crown, The Girl in the Spider’s Web) to lead the remake.

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The film, which is set to be directed by original helmer Christian Carion, centers on a man (McAvoy) whose only son goes missing and his journey to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script or dialogue — as was the case in the French film — the actor will only be aware of basic aspects of his story, and will have to improvise and react to each moment as it unfolds, while rest of the cast and crew will be aware of the scenes. Carion directed his original film the same way with his lead star improvising the role.

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“We’re thrilled to be working with Christian to create My Son for worldwide audiences,” Adam Fogelson, STXfilms Motion Picture Group Chairman, said in a statement. “James will be doing the detective work of the film in real time, on camera, to create real tension for this thriller. We like to support bold and innovative storytelling like My Son, and Claire could not be a more spectacular or exciting choice for this film which is certain to thrill audiences.”

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My Son is eyeing a production start date in early November in Scotland, with Carion producing alongside original co-writer Laure Irrman for Une Hirondelle, Vincent Maraval and Brahim Cioua for Wild Bunch International, Rebecca O’Brien for Sixteen Films and Marc Butan for Mad River Pictures.

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