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"Let us bear humble witness." Kinematics has debuted a trailer for a weird little indie film called Hippo, a kooky creation from filmmaker Mark H. Rapaport as his feature debut. It premiered at last year's Fantasia Film Festival and it also played at the Calgary Underground Film Festival earlier this year. Hippo, a peculiar adolescent, and his Hungarian step-sister Buttercup struggle to come of age in late 90s America, under the roof of a mother who has been institutionalized at least once. Reviews describe the film as "an avant-garde sex comedy that unleashes the quirks of Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch to their weirdest extents." Huh. Adding that it also "doesn't hold back in exploring taboo subjects... yet offering riotous laughter through the characters' absurdity." The indie film stars Kimball Farley, Lilla Kizlinger, Eliza Roberts, and Eric Roberts. This definitely won't be for everyone, but adventurous cinema nerds should check it out anyway.

Concerns about Eric Roberts’ health are circulating on social media following the actor’s debut on Dancing With the Stars Tuesday night.

Eric has been in the spotlight for over 40 years, but until recently, he had remained quiet about the details of his personal life.

But in his new memoir, Runaway Train, Eric opens up like never before about his personal demons and his long road to recovery.

Eric Roberts attends the Premiere Of Netflix’s “The Irishman” at Tcl Chinese Theatre on October 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Eric Roberts’ Painful Past

In the book, Eric goes into detail about his difficult childhood and his complex relationship with sister Julia Roberts.

It couldn’t have been easy to share so much about the darkest times in his life, and Eric is being widely praised for his candor.

According to excerpts published by People, Eric describes...

Kevin Duffy’s The Farmhouse Murders stars Larry Hankin, Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Eliza Roberts (Animal House), Marlon Taylor (Stephen King’s It), Ben Heller (Stephen King’s It), and Sandy Johnson (Halloween).

The Farmhouse Murders features music from Ted Poley, August Lee Geitner of Until I Wake, Kai Kaldro, Three Fourteen, Zac Chap, and Brian Quikk.

Synopsis: After two college students vanish, a detective uncovers a decades old mystery involving a strange farmhouse in a forgotten town.

The Farmhouse Murders Indiegogo:

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The Farmhouse Murders IMDb:

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Kevin Duffy’s The Farmhouse Murders stars Larry Hankin, Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Eliza Roberts (Animal House), Marlon Taylor (Stephen King’s It), Ben Heller (Stephen King’s It), and Sandy Johnson (Halloween). The Farmhouse Murders features music from Ted Poley, August Lee Geitner of Until I Wake, Kai Kaldro, Three Fourteen, …

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Writer Adam Rockoff reteams with director David DeCoteau on a new Lifetime thriller that bears a striking resemblance to this month’s earlier title, Million Dollar Lethal Listing.

In Fatal Fixer Upper, Vivian (Jasmine Aivaliotis) and Ryan (Philip McElroy) are a young married couple preparing to purchase their dream home. Just like in Million Dollar Lethal Listing, the deal is too good to be true: the house is wildly underpriced, the owner is looking for a quick sale, and they’re asked to make a hefty cash deposit.

Unlike the former title, though, there’s no mystery about who the villain is in Fatal Fixer Upper. The film opens with a classic Lifetime cold open that immediately establishes that there is a bad man keeping an eye on things. His identity is quickly revealed as Josh Thomas (Duke Van Patten), the home’s original owner and the person spying on...

Kimball Farley in Hippo

Mark Rapaport and I first met back in 2021 when he produced and starred in a breakthrough low budget horror comedy which he described as “the first Jeffrey Epstein film,” Berlinale Best First Feature award winner The Scary Of Sixty-First. At the time he was trying to break into directing, and he told me about a film called Hippo which he had shot during Covid lockdowns. Now, in 2023, Hippo is screening as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival. When we got a few minutes to catch up, I asked him about the film, a dysfunctional family comedy, and how it was shaped by being made it that restrictive context.

Lilla Kizlinger, Jesse Pimentel and Eliza Roberts in Hippo

“The writing process started during Covid, and it did come from the place of ‘What can we make right now?’” he says. “That's a combination of Covid and also just,...

An unusual family lives an unusual life in Mark H. Rapaport’s Hippo, one of the stranger films playing at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. Rapaport drops us into a suburban dystopic home where society’s rules don’t seem to apply, and no subject is too taboo to elicit nervous laughter. Hippo (Kimball Farley) and his Hungarian adopted sister Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger) share a troubling relationship with each other and their mother, Ethel (Eliza Roberts), as they approach adulthood wholly unprepared for the world outside their doors. A young man on the verge of adulthood, Hippo is an odd duck. He spends his days playing video games, bossing around his mother, and searching for automatic weapons on the internet. It’s the late ‘90s, two of these three...

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The 27th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 20th through August 9th at the Concordia Hall Cinema in Montreal, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. In May, they announced the first wave of titles that will be showing at this year’s festival. Last month, the second wave was announced. Now, the titles that make up the third and final wave have been unveiled – and along with that comes the announcement that Nicolas Cage will be receiving the Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award at this year’s show!

The Fantasia International Film Festival has chosen to honor Nicolas Cage this year because he “has brought a wide variety of unforgettable people to life in works that are as memorable as the characters he portrayed, with textured performances that have been among the most exciting and unique from...

The 27th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to commence from July 20 through August 9, 2023, taking place at the Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée.

After two packed waves of programming, the festival unveils its third wave of programming this morning, bringing exciting world premieres and the announcement of Nicolas Cage as this year’s Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award recipient.

From the press release:

We Are Zombies

The 27th edition of the festival will end on an especially riotous note with the World Premiere of We Are Zombies, the latest from internationally beloved Quebecois cult collective Rkss (Summer Of ’84) – François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell. Based on the comic Les Zombies Qui Ont MANGÉ Le Monde (The Zombies that Ate the World), the film is set in a society where zombies, referred to as “living-impaired,” roam among us...

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Eric Roberts doesn’t hold the Guinness World Record for the most screen credits for a living actor. That honor goes to the Indian star Brahmanandam, currently with more than 1,170 titles to his name. But Roberts is quickly catching up. According to his (endlessly updating) IMDb page, he’s appeared in some 700 films and TV shows, making him the actor with the most screen credits in Hollywood working today. Last year alone, he starred in 33 films and there are currently 66 in various stages of production. Not that Roberts is counting (or even has the time to).

Almost four and a half decades after he broke out in 1978 with his Golden Globe-nominated performance in King of the Gypsies, which was followed up with another Globes nod for Bob Fosse’s Star 80 in 1983 and an Oscar nomination for Runaway Train in 1984, the 66-year-old is now...

Utopia has acquired worldwide rights to a feature documentary about Hollywood’s voracious autograph hunters.

“Hollywood Signs, which will receive a Sept. 27 digital release in the U.S., explores the unique and often hilarious relationship between Hollywood celebrities and their fans through the lens of the autograph collecting subculture.

Some of the celebrities featured in “Hollywood Signs” include Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead franchise), Dan Fogler (“Fantastic Beasts”), Rachel True (“The Craft”), Eric Roberts (“The Dark Knight”), Eliza Roberts (“Animal House”), Tom Wopat (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) and Karan Ashley (“Power Rangers”), among others.

Prior to the digital release, the doc will have a one-night-only theatrical event at Lumiere Cinema in Los Angeles, allowing fans to experience the movie with some of the stars from the film.

The pic is a Fallout Entertainment production directed by Bill Fishman, the director of music videos for the likes of The Ramones, Counting Crows,...

Eddie Redmayne To Be Honored With Zurich’s Golden Eye

British actor Eddie Redmayne will be feted with the Zurich Film Festival’s Golden Eye Award for his career achievements at its upcoming edition running from September 22 to October 2. The actor will receive the honor ahead of the European premiere of Tobias Lindholm’s serial killer thriller The Good Nurse on September 25.

Citing Oscar-winning Redmayne’s diverse credits including Fantastic Beasts, Trial Of The Chicago 7 and Theory Of Everything, Zff artistic director Christian Jungen described the actor as one of “contemporary cinema’s most versatile actors” adding, “he furnishes his characters with a rare human depth and captivates us with his extraordinary powers of expression.”

Redmayne was previously at Zurich in 2007 in the that’s opening film Savage Grace, in which he co-starred opposite Julianne Moore. He will also participate in a Zurich Masters session during this trip to the Swiss festival.

Exclusive: Oscar nominee Eric Roberts (The Righteous Gemstones) is reteaming with his Runaway Train co-star Danny Trejo as part of the cast of Alone Today, an upcoming crime drama from director Wendy Wilkins, which will also star Shannon Elizabeth and Frank Whaley.

The film tells the story of a woman (Elizabeth) in an abusive relationship with a dirty detective (Roberts) who is helping move sex trafficked girls coming over the Mexican Border. When attempting to save just one truckload before “disappearing forever,” everything goes horribly wrong and she decides to take a different path.

The project hails from Different Duck Films founder Rob Margolies (Bobcat Moretti), who will produce alongside Errol Sack and Julia Verdin. Production is underway in Los Angeles. Roberts is repped by Sovereign Talent Group, Imperial Artists Agency and Miles Anthony Associates in London, manager Eliza Roberts, Empire Agency in Germany and Scott Carlson Entertainment in Canada.

Fighting 4 One America — A prominent group of African American actors and entertainers have accepted President Donald J. Trump’s invitation to visit the White House in December to work together on important issues facing the Black Community.

In a late-night night phone call with the President Saturday night, rappers Eric B. and Money-b, actor Isaiah Washington, who are among the stars in Trump vs. Hollywood, and film director Daphne Barak, all agreed to continue their discussion of economic opportunity, criminal justice reform and the President’s groundbreaking “Platinum Plan” to deliver greater opportunity, security, prosperity and fairness to their communities.

“Thirty years ago I had a conversation with Donald Trump and he told me never to be afraid to hire the best people in business, even if they have more experience than me,” said rap pioneer Eric B., a lifelong Democrat. “And that conversation has shaped my business decisions ever since.

Eric Roberts and Dr. Rico Simonini will topline My Dinner With Eric Roberts (Julia’s brother), a platonic rom-com bromance that will be shooting this month in Los Angeles. Described as along the lines of Louie Malle’s My Dinner With Andre, the film follows Roberts having dinner with his cardiologist and friend, Dr. Rico and evolves into their deep passionate friendship and how their lives are intertwined. The pic was written by Roberts, Simonini, Eliza Roberts and Darryl Marshak. Eliza Roberts and Marshak are directing and producing the project with Sarbori Bhattacharya, Joe Levy, and Sambhu Choifhury serving as executive producers.

Wendy Makkena (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) and Walter Belenky have been added to the cast of Spiked, and indie drama based on Arizona newspaper publisher Joseph Soldwedel. The film hails from Juan Martinez Vera, who wrote the screenplay and is directing.

The 7th Annual Ed Asner & Friends Poker Tournament Celebrity Night brings together celebrities, friends and members of the entertainment industry for a night of fun, fame and philanthropy benefitting the new The Ed Asner Family Center, dedicated to helping differently “abled” individuals with special needs nurture and cultivate self-confidence and to embrace and support their families.

More than 400 guests are expected to attend at this year’s star-studded event which is held at the CBS Radford Studio soundstages where The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Lou Grant Show, both which starred Ed Asner, were taped.

Hosted by legendary Emmy-winning actor, comedian and autism advocate Ed Asner, who has a son and grandson on the autistic spectrum. Asner leads a long list of celebrities, sponsors, and top movie studio execs who are All-in this year including Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Lou Diamond Phillips, Alex Trebek, Ed Begley Jr, Don Cheadle,...

“This is Kent Dorfman. He’s a legacy from Harrisburg…”

Like we all must, Stephen Furst, the actor who brought Kent Dorfman, a.k.a. the sweet, portly Delta Tau Chi pledge known as Flounder, to life, has passed away. It’d be hard to argue that Furst’s life wasn’t far too short—after all, he was only 63 years old. But though other actors and well-known figures who have passed recently may have made a more lasting or profound mark on the lives of the audience they left behind, Furst’s death hurts a little bit more for me than those other losses, for a couple of reasons.

In 1977, when I was a freshman at the University of Oregon, I landed a spot as an extra on the set of National Lampoon’S Animal House—specifically, I was cast as a “Delta pledge,” and I also ended up...

Entertainment lawyer Kenneth Kleinberg held the annual University Kidney Research Organization benefit dinner Friday evening at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angles. The fundraiser honored Barry Hoeven, Lynda Oschin and Elizabeth Garrett for their contributions towards kidney research. Kleinberg, who serves as Ukro president, founded the organization along with Dr. Vito M. Campese after suffering from renal failure. Kleinberg received a kidney transplant and wanted the public, including the nearly 25 million Americans living with chronic kidney disease, to be more aware of its importance. “I was confident in the care I received from Dr. Campese, but I was shocked

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Sherlock and Casualty actress Louise Brealey joins Ripper Street series 3 in the role of a Victorian doctor...

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Some actors can't escape the thin blue line, repeatedly turning up on screen as sergeant this and detective that. For Sherlock and Casualty's Loo Brealey, it's the long white coat (on television at least - in real life Brealey's also a fab playwright and journalist). After playing staff nurse Roxanne Bird in Casualty, the actress went on to play pathologist Molly Hooper in Sherlock, the role for which she's currently best known.

Next for Brealey is the role of a trailblazing Victorian doctor in Ripper Street series three. Brealey told the Radio Times, "I’m playing one of the first women doctors. I’m really excited because I did history at university and I love a bit of research. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson blazed the trail in the 1870s and in the...

Louise Brealey has joined the cast of Ripper Street.

The actress - best known for playing Molly Hooper in Sherlock - will play a female physician in the Amazon Prime drama.

"I'm playing one of the first women doctors," the actress told Radio Times. "I'm really excited because I did history at university and I love a bit of research.

"Elizabeth Garrett Anderson blazed the trail in the 1870s and in the intervening decade or so a few extremely intrepid and unusual women started learning to be doctors themselves."

Brealey's character Dr Amelia Frayn will run the Obsidian Clinic in Whitechapel.

She revealed: "I'm dressed very soberly and the other girls are all so ravishing. I'm like a little Jenny Wren. Literally, where are my pretty feathers?!"

The Victorian detective drama was axed by the BBC after two series, but was picked up by on-demand service Amazon Prime Instant Video.

Eric Roberts and his spouse Eliza Roberts were guests on Monday’s episode of Entertainment Weirdly on EW’s Sirius Xm channel to discuss their episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, which airs Tuesday. But we couldn’t let the Dark Knight star and onetime Oscar nominee leave without asking him about his upcoming film Human Centipede 3, the third entry of the notorious horror franchise in which people are attached together to form the grotesque titular creature.

Well, we could have let him leave without asking about it. We just didn’t.

“It was far out,” said Roberts. “We have a...

Los Angeles, Jan 10: Actress Emma Roberts' family was surprised when they heard the news of her engagement to actor Evan Peters.

Peters, 26, popped the question to Roberts, 22, with a pink gold and diamond ring over the holidays in New York and the couple then welcomed the New Year in London.

While the 22-year-old's stepmother Eliza Roberts and grandmother Lila Garrett are "happy" for her, they admitted they were surprised by the news.

According to tmz.com, when Eliza was asked for her reaction, she said in a video: "I think I know what he's talking about. I don't know if these guys know."

She then proceeded.

News of Emma Roberts engagement clearly blindsided some of the people closest to her  ...  kin without a clue.Emma's stepmom, Eliza Roberts and grandma, Lila Garrett were at Il Buco in Beverly Hills Tuesday night when we offered our congratulations.You gotta see their reactions ... because clearly Eliza had kept the engagement from her own mom.As you know ... before getting engaged Emma was arrested after allegedly beating up her now fiance, her "American Horror Story" co-star Evan Peters.

Go behind the scenes on the set of The Woodhaven Production Company's new horror project 'Self Storage'. A couple of new pics featuring one its stars Michael Berryman ('The Hills Have Eyes') have popped up from the shoot currently lensing on Rhode Island. Producer Chad A. Verdi has revealed the stills along the news that actress Eliza Roberts ('Killer Weekend') has joined the cast. Mrs Roberts will be joining her already cast husband, Eric Roberts ('The Dark Knight'), who is set to play former black operative Walter. Joining Berryman and the Roberts are 'Weekend at Bernies' Jonathan Silverman, Tom DeNucci, Billy 'V' Vigeant, Gillian Williams and Tom Paolino. Check out the full plot and new stills from the Tom DeNucci helmed horror below....

The Woodhaven Production Company is proud to update us on its newest film, Self Storage. The cast currently consists of Michael Berryman, Eric Roberts and Jonathan Silverman; and now a new star has been added. We also have a behind-the-scenes look at the flick.

Filmmaker Chad A. Verdi is pleased to announce Eliza Roberts from such films as Animal House, Kicking and Screaming and the made-for-tv film Doctor Who, has been added to the cast. In addition, Verdi has provided us with some behind-the-scenes stills of Michael Berryman with the cast and crew. Dig it!

For more on the film, check out Self Storage on Facebook.

From the Press Release

The Woodhaven Production Company is pleased to announce the addition of Eliza Roberts (Animal House, Kicking and Screaming) to its star-studded cast that includes Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, The Expendables) and horror legend Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes,...

Essential ViewingThe Week in RewindWhat a week!Our favorite celebs spent the week partying, dancing, performing, and traveling, and they looked good doing it. President and First Lady Obama spent the week in Europe visiting with Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William, and Catherine Middleton. Stateside, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and Beyonce brought the house down onstage at the Billboard Music Awards. Take a look at our top moments of the week inside...Oprah WinfreyFarewell Oprah! Oprah waves to the audience during the very last taping of her show. We still can't believe the Oprah Winfrey show is gone after 25 strong years.RihannaRihanna rocks her tradmemark fire-red hair during her performance on NBC's "Today."Presdient and First Lady Obama, Prince William and Catherine MiddletonAlthough they did not attend the Royal Wedding, the President and First Lady meet with Britain's newly wedded Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace this past week.

So what exactly led Eric Roberts—aka Julia's older brother and Emma's dad—to shack up with such famous folks as Jeremy London, Janice Dickinson and Leif Garrett as part of the latest installment of VH1's Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew? "Eric quit drugs and alcohol in 1995," the actor's wife, Eliza Roberts (an actress and casting director), tells E! News. "He has no interest in anything, other than marijuana." Eliza explains that her husband had previously tried prescription medications to treat anxiety, but they simply didn't agree with him, and so he turned to cannabis for a cure. "He uses marijuana as a medication. He has a...

With family films taking a bite out of the boxoffice, Bryan Michael Stoller hopes Little Bear, a 28-pound Queensland heeler, can follow in the paw prints of Marley, Marmaduke and the Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

Most movies starring a dog, like "Beethoven," use 10 or more look-alike animals. In Stoller's "First Dog," about a foster kid who returns the president's lost dog to the White House, Little Bear is the solo star. He did his own stunts and even barked for postproduction looping.

"I have a credit in the movie as his acting coach, not as a trainer," said Stoller, who directed, produced, wrote and edited the movie, which was made for less than $3 million and screens Tuesday night for the first time for distributors and backers.

As a movie, TV and commercials director and author of "Filmmaking for Dummies," Stoller first sniffed...

(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)

Rediscovering Roberts

Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.

By Terry Keefe

(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)

“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For...

The Bad Wolf convention takes place Saturday 11th July and Sunday 12th July 2009 at the Hilton Metropole Hotel (at Birmingham NEC) - and heading the massive list of guests from the Doctor Who universe is the one and only Elisabeth Sladen! Also on the bill are: Sylvester McCoy, The Seventh Doctor Janet Fielding who played companion Tegan from 1981 to 1984 Recent series Dalek operator David Hankinson Eliza Roberts, wife of Eric who also portrayed the ill-fated...

Clay Aiken's friends are sending him support and good wishes after hearing news that he's going to be a father with music producer Jaymes Foster. "Congratulations, Clay!" says American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson. "I think he will be a good parent." Actor Eric Roberts and wife Eliza says their close friend Foster – the sister of music producer David Foster – pulled them aside at her 50th birthday party in Los Angeles in March to tell of her pregnancy with a friend, whom they later learned was the 29-year-old Aiken. "This is a story of two people, who perhaps not typical...