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John Turturro is planning to adapt Philip Roth’s 1995 novel Sabbath’s Theater for film, having starred in a stage version he also co-wrote last year.

Speaking at Sarajevo Film Festival last week, Turturro said of his upcoming projects, “I have a couple of things I’m trying to do and get the right cast and funding for. We’ll see which one happens first.”

Turturro then spoke about Roth’s novel, about the exploits of a former puppeteer who takes pleasure in manipulating the people around him. Turturro adapted the book for stage with Ariel Levy, and played the...

New details have emerged about Alex Van Halen’s upcoming memoir, Brothers, which is set to hit shelves on October 22nd (pre-order here).

We recently reported on a listing for the memoir on publisher HarperCollins’ website. At the time, little was known about the book other than the release date and that it is 384 pages in length.

A listing on the official Van Halen Store website has now revealed further info about Brothers, which is described a “love letter” to Alex’s younger brother, the late guitar god Eddie Van Halen, and that it was written alongside New Yorker writer Ariel Levy. The cover artwork can also now be seen below.

The official description on the Van Halen store website reads:

“In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working-class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very...

For 24 years, The New Yorker has leaned on the talents of actors, writers, and others from the world of Hollywood to be a part of its annual New Yorker Festival, which will be held this year Oct. 6-8.

The ongoing Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes have thrown a wrench in many plans that have traditionally relied on Hollywood talent, but the festival will go on, New Yorker editor David Remnick tells The Hollywood Reporter. And there will still be plenty of star power.

The New Yorker, of course, is not owned by a struck company, but SAG has advised its members not to promote projects from studios that have not signed interim agreements, and the Condé Nast-owned publication has had to adapt accordingly: “We faced a challenge or two,” Remnick says.

“I think a lot of the navigation is on the side of the talent, and what they...

Welcome to this week’s review of Aew: Dynamite, which was broadcast live from the Fla Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida. We’ve got Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Taz on commentary so let’s get into the review!

Match #1: Aew International Championship Match – Orange Cassidy def.. Bandido The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:

Bandido and Cassidy chain wrestled in a great exchange in the early goings of the match. Cassidy connected with a hurracanrana (with his hands in his pockets) and followed up with a dropkick to Bandido. Bandido caught Cassidy, who was attempting for a tope. Bandido dropped Orange throat-first across the guardrail. Bandido drove his shoulder into Orange’s midsection. Bandido applied a stretch muffler to Orange Cassidy. Cassidy managed to crawl to the ropes to force the ref break. Bandido flew over the top rope with a tope con hiro. Back in the ring, Bandido chopped at Cassidy’s chest.

Another week, another episode of Aew: Dark which this week features seven matches. Let’s see what went down…

Match #1: Juice Robinson def. Pat Buck

My Thoughts: Pat Buck, back in the ring? Yes, the man who’s spent most of the recent years behind the scenes in both Aew and previously WWE, gets in front of the camera for a match against Bullet Club Gold’s Juice Robinson and big things were, honestly, expected. Yet whilst it was a solid match it didn’t set the world on fire. Great opener for Dark though!

My Score: 3 out of 5 Match #2: The Renegades def. Kiah Dream & Brittany J

My Thoughts: What a surprise, the Renegades face enhancement talent and get a quick, decisive, squash match win. But when they’re the enhancement talent? The same happens to them! I get a steady job is good in the wider “indie...

For most of her acting career, Pamela Adlon was best known for her voice, even though she rarely felt like she had one of her own.

Adlon, née Segall, entered the family business as a teenager — her father Don Segall was a sitcom writer — mostly shuffling around in small TV roles in the Eighties before finding a niche in the Nineties as a voice actor, most famously as middle schooler Bobby Hill on King of the Hill. She worked a lot but rarely felt secure in her career prospects or her level of artistry.

Welcome to this week’s review of Aew Dark: Elevation, which features eight matches in less than an hour… now that’s how you keep folks interested, a stacked card and a fast pace! Speaking of pace, let’s get right into the review.

Match #1: Trios Match – Tay Conti, Anna Jay and Red Velvet def. Freya States, Angelica Risk, and Arie Alexander

My Thoughts: This was your typical Aew quasi-squash match only this time in a Trios format. Tay Conti looked strong on the outset until Freya States was tagged in… Speaking of whom, States looks formidable in the ring in terms of height against the other women in this match. She’d be a great addition to the women’s roster Imho, sitting somewhere between Aew’s smaller women and the powerhouses like Nyla Rose and Abadon. I’m hoping we see more from her going forward.

My...

Welcome to this double-sized edition of the Aew Dark review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have Brad Britch chomping at the bit to talk about wrestling. Brad: Wrestling!!!!! Wrestling!!!! Wressssssstlinnnnnnnnng!!!!!!!! I hate Quark! Ruined Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! A—hole! Million matches! Two weeks! Jean Smart is Levi Stupid! Wrestling! Noooooooooooow!!!!!!!!

December 29th 2020 Rey Fenix def. Vary Morales Penelope Ford def. Lindsay Snow John Silver & Alex Reynolds def. Shawn Dean & Tyson Maddux Anna Jay def. Jazmin Allure Team Taz def. Ryzin, Nick Comoroto & James Tapia Griff Garrison def. Fuego Del Sol Santana & Ortiz def. Terrence & Terrell Hughes Sammy Guevara def. Aaron Solow Chaos Project def. Ariel Levy & El Cuervo De Puerto Rico Leva Bates def. Madi Wrenkowski Matt Sydal def. Danny Limelight Tay Conti def. Vertvixen The Gunn Club def. Royal Money, Baron Black and Mike Verna Scu (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian) def. The...

From hosting a podcast about Jeffrey Epstein to ghostwriting for one of Hollywood’s most famous, the journalist reflects on life after her ‘trial by fire’

Ariel Levy wrote one of October’s top bestselling books in the Us, but you may not know it. After all, her name is not on the cover.

The American journalist has written some of the most compelling profiles in the last decade as a staff writer for the New Yorker, and she specialises in writing about interesting women. She has profiled Edith Windsor, the plaintiff who won a landmark case in the fight for gay marriage in the Us; Diana Nyad, who, at the age of 64, was the first person in the world to swim from Cuba to Florida; and Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Veep and Seinfeld fame.

Back in February, the American Library Association announced that it would be partnering with actress Sarah Jessica Parker to launch Book Club Central, a website with book picks and resources for readers. After months of waiting, we finally have Sjp’s first pick: Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One Is Coming to Save Us ($18, amazon.com).

Watts’ debut, which was released in April, is a modern day retelling of The Great Gatsby with an African American family in North Carolina. We meet Jj Ferguson, who stirs up drama when he moves back to his declining hometown to build his dream mansion...

If there is a target for the pitiless cynicism of this brutal exercise in cannibalistic gore, I can’t figure out what it is. Inhumane in multiple directions. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): not generally a fan of the horror genre

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

If there is a target for the pitiless cynicism of this cruelly brutal exercise in cannibalistic gore, I can’t figure out what it is. Is it Justine (Lorenza Izzo), naive and sanctimonious child of privilege from New York, where she is a student at Columbia University and daddy is a lawyer with the Un, who joins a protest in the remote Amazonian forest and gets much more than she bargained for? Is it uncontacted tribes threatened by bulldozers, deforestation, and capitalistic development, because fuck them anyway for being nasty cannibals who capture and...

With Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno finally hitting UK cinemas next week (on limited release) we thought we’d present our review a little differently, with not one but Two reviews of the cannibalistic horror film from two horror loving guest reviewers… Check out both reviews below; and if The Green Inferno isn’t showing near you next week, don’t worry – it’s released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 22nd.

Stars: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira | Written by Eli Roth, Guillermo Amoedo | Directed by Eli Roth

Green Inferno – Con

Review by Scott Clark

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I have a love/hate relationship with horror. I love its ingenuity and its ability to ponder the greater mysteries from behind a gory veil, but I’m realistic, I can enjoy entertainment horror when it comes pounding my way,...

Let’s start the New Year right with a few horror thrillers.

Latino-Review is giving away a bundle Blu-ray package that will include “The Visit,” “The Green Inferno” and “Sinister 2.”

These movies are not to be missed for one lucky winner. All movies are already on the market today for purchase.

Here are the details on the movie:

“The Visit”

A family visit takes a terrifying turn when two siblings learn who Grandma and Grandpa really are in The Visit, a found documentary-style suspense thriller coming to Digital HD on December 15, 2015, and Blu-ray™ and DVD as well as On Demand on January 5, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The first collaboration from Academy Award®-nominated writer-director M. Night Shyamalan and Academy Award-nominated producer Jason Blum, The Visit Blu-ray and DVD are packed with exclusive bonus features including deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurette, and a suspenseful alternate ending.

When Becca and Tyler...

Student activists are placed on the menu of the very people they are trying to save in Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, available on Digital HD December 22nd & Blu-ray and DVD January 5th from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, and we've been provided with one Blu-ray copy to give away.

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Prize Details: (1) Winner will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The Green Inferno.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Green Inferno Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on January 6th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

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Press Release: Universal City, California, November 9, 2015 – An international goodwill mission goes terrifyingly wrong in The Green Inferno,...

Exclusive: The Mexican genre film festival’s general director has come on board Patricio Valladares’ Downhill, which screened and won an award in the Ventana Sur genre sidebar this week.

Pablo Guisa Koestinger of Morbido Film Festival will serve as an associate producer on the Chilean genre ace’s survival thriller, fresh from Thursday’s Bunker Sonido post-production prize at the Blood Window Awards.

Koestinger joined the film after a screening at the Bloody Works In Progress session this week.

Chile’s Too Much Films produced Downhill and France’s WTFilms handles international sales. Barry Keating co-wrote the screenplay with Valladares.

Natalie Burn, Bruce Draper, Ariel Levy, Ignacia Allamand, Luke Massy and Matias Lopez star and George Von Knorring of Too Much Films is a producer.

Exclusive: The Mexican genre film festival’s general director has come on board Patricio Valladares’ survival thriller, which screened and won an award in the Ventana Sur genre sidebar this week.

Pablo Guisa Koestinger of Morbido Film Festival will serve as an associate producer on the Chilean genre ace’s Downhill, fresh from Thursday’s Bunker Sonido post-production prize at the Blood Window Awards.

Koestinger joined the film after a screening at the Bloody Works In Progress session this week.

Chile’s Too Much Films produced Downhill and France’s WTFilms handles international sales. Barry Keating co-wrote the screenplay with Valladares.

Natalie Burn, Bruce Draper, Ariel Levy, Ignacia Allamand, Luke Massy and Matias Lopez star and George Von Knorring of Too Much Films is a producer.

Stars: Nicolás Durán, Cristobal Tapia Montt, Ariel Levy, Luis Ginecco, Lorenza Izzo, Alessandra Guerzoni | Written and Directed by Guillermo Amoedo

“Blood will tear us apart.”

Eli Roth means many things to many people. Some see him as one of the saviours of modern horror. Some see him as a detriment to the genre. For me personally, I think he’s a fantastic director. Cabin Fever knew exactly what it was and had horrible things happening to purposefully unlikable characters. Hostel played a part in bringing shock and gore to the unprepared mainstream audience and Hostel 2 was in a lot of ways a love letter to Italian exploitation of the 70′s and 80′s. That being said, 2015 hasn’t been a good year for him in terms of directorial output. I was so excited for both The Green Inferno and Knock Knock, but found both films to be Roth at his worst.

If you missed Eli Roth's The Green Inferno in theaters, you'll soon be able to watch its cannabilistic carnage from your couch, as Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has set the horror film for a January 5th, 2016 Blu-ray / DVD debut.

Blu-ray.com reports the news of The Green Inferno Blu-ray / DVD release. According to the site, the Blu-ray's special features will include the following:

"Audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director/Producer Eli Roth, Producer Nicolas Lopez, and stars Lorenza Izzo, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton, and Daryl Sabara"

Directed by Eli Roth, The Green Inferno stars Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira, Daryl Sabara, and Aaron Burns. Below, we have a look at the Blu-ray's tentative cover art.

"In The Green Inferno, a group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.

Click here to read our french "The Green Inferno" movie review, directed by Eli Roth with Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns.A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone - and that no good deed goes unpunished....

Click here to read our french "The Green Inferno" movie review, directed by Eli Roth with Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns.A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone - and that no good deed goes unpunished....

“No good deed goes unpunished.” Unless of course your good deed was waiting patiently for The Green Inferno to find distribution. I cannot tell you how excited I was to attend a screening last week and I was more than ready for possibly more gore than my stomach could handle.

In the film, Lorenza Izzo plays wide-eyed college freshman Justine, the daughter of a U.N. Ambassador and a young woman trying to find her place among international issues, protests, and hunger strikes. While roommate Kaycee (Sky Ferreira) is hip to the Bs surrounding the campus’ humanitarian group, Justine feels drawn to it. After being “shamed” at a group meeting for making a joke—shame being a common tool used among slacktivists—Justine can’t help but demand to participate in the group’s trip to the Peruvian jungle to protest the de-forestation and possible extermination of a local tribe.

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, September 25. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise. Wide Before I Wake Director: Mike Flanagan Cast: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Annabeth Gish, Lance E. Nichols Synopsis: "A haunting, emotionally absorbing supernatural thriller about an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps." The Green Inferno Director: Eli Roth Cast: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira, Magda Apanowicz, Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand, Richard Burgi Synopsis: "A group of college students take their humanitarian protest from New York to the Amazon jungle, only to be taken prisoner by the indigenous tribe they came to save." Criticwire Grade Average: C (6 reviews) Hotel Transylvania 2 Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, Selena Gomez, Keegan Michael Key, Andy...

This weekend, the long wait is finally over for fans as Eli Roth’s grizzly tale of cannibal horror, The Green Inferno, is set to arrive in theaters courtesy of Bh Tilt. Starring Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton and Sky Ferreira, the film follows a group of activists into the jungles of the Amazon where, after a horrific plane crash, the group is attacked and taken hostage by a clan of cannibals who have no intention of letting the intruders get away alive.

During a recent press day, Daily Dead caught up with both Roth and Izzo and heard from the pair on their experiences working on The Green Inferno, collaborating with real-life tribespeople who had no knowledge of the outside world, the tough road of getting the film distributed after some controversy, and how the fans are really the ones who made The Green Inferno...

The Green Inferno is a slacktivist’s nightmare filled with cannibal gore, smoked meats, and red-tinted natives, but more importantly, it marks Eli Roth’s return to directing since Hostel: Part II (2007). It’s been too long since we’ve been been treated to the torturous delights that Roth continually cooks up for his always-doomed characters, and while there’s certainly no shortage of bodily dismemberment in The Green Inferno, Roth first asks his audience a question – what issues keep you awake at night? This is, after all, a movie about the best of intentions going Horribly awry, yet Roth first tries to drum up our inner humanitarian by asking what we care about the most. Is it saving an endangered species? Whales, perhaps? Or banning fatty cafeteria lunches? Whatever the case, there’s a momentary sincerity where Roth actually wants to challenge our minds before answering that question himself.

The student activists in Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno came to the rainforest with hopes of saving it, but upon their rocky arrival, they must instead save themselves from torturous pain, as shown in a new, extremely Nsfw red band clip from the film.

"Bh Tilt, Blumhouse Productions’ label dedicated to creating tailored distribution strategies for genre films, will release Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno on September 25, 2015 in collaboration with Universal Pictures and High Top Releasing, a label dedicated to servicing high quality movies using Focus Features’ distribution capabilities. The companies will debut The Green Inferno on approximately 1,000 screens and promote the film by employing a targeted digital campaign focused on creating awareness and engagement among genre fans.

In The Green Inferno, a group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.

We're less than one month away from the theatrical release of Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, and Crypt TV is setting the mood with a new episode of Drug Deals that gives a whole new meaning to the munchies, as well as a game of "would you rather" that forces Brittany Furlan to choose between a number of painful scenarios.

Directed by Eli Roth from a screenplay he co-wrote with Guillermo Amoedo, The Green Inferno comes out in theaters on September 25th from Bh Tilt. The Green Inferno stars Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira, Daryl Sabara, and Aaron Burns.

"How far would you go for a cause you believe in? In Eli Roth’s terrifying new film, The Green Inferno, a group of college students take their humanitarian protest from New York to the Amazon jungle only to be taken prisoner by the indigenous tribe they came to save.

The challenges and rewards of filming deep in the Amazon are discussed in two recent behind-the-scenes featurettes from Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, hitting theaters September 25th from Bh Tilt.

"Bh Tilt, Blumhouse Productions’ label dedicated to creating tailored distribution strategies for genre films, will release Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno on September 25, 2015 in collaboration with Universal Pictures and High Top Releasing, a label dedicated to servicing high quality movies using Focus Features’ distribution capabilities. The companies will debut The Green Inferno on approximately 1,000 screens and promote the film by employing a targeted digital campaign focused on creating awareness and engagement among genre fans.

In The Green Inferno, a group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished."

The Green Inferno was directed by Eli Roth and stars Lorenza Izzo,...

Activists looking to save the rainforest crash land in a real life nightmare in Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, hitting theaters September 25th from Bh Tilt. Eli Roth and the cast have been at Comic-Con and they shared a brand new clip from the movie.

"Bh Tilt, Blumhouse Productions’ label dedicated to creating tailored distribution strategies for genre films, will release Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno on September 25, 2015 in collaboration with Universal Pictures and High Top Releasing, a label dedicated to servicing high quality movies using Focus Features’ distribution capabilities. The companies will debut The Green Inferno on approximately 1,000 screens and promote the film by employing a targeted digital campaign focused on creating awareness and engagement among genre fans.

In The Green Inferno, a group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.

The Green Inferno Movie Images Have Been Released. Eli Roth‘s The Green Inferno (2013) is closer than ever to actually being screened for audiences, as the official release of September 25th, 2015, is just around the corner. I’m extremely excited for this film, possibly overly joyous, but everything released so far has just maintained or raised my expectations. This will be so satisfying, I can taste it in my spit.

Bh Tilt, the production company behind this, has released a pair of new movie stills from the film, and as I mentioned earlier – my interest is still high, and nothing has changed.

The story revolves around idealistic young college graduates traveling to the amazon in order to ‘do good’, ‘protect the environment’, and ‘save the rainforest’. Of course, they’re welcomed a bit differently than they anticipated, and things go horribly, terrifyingly, deliciously wrong. It’s an homage to Cannibal Holocaust (1980) by Eli Roth,...

Universal Pictures & Blumhouse Productions presents the highly anticipated horror-adventure film directed, co-written, and produced by Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel franchise) that's been making the rounds at film festivals since 2013. In The Green Inferno, a group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished. Nerdist.com has also debuted one of the limited edition posters that will be available for fans to pick up at this year's San Diego Comic Con. Eli Roth will be in attendance at The Green Infernal panel Thursday, July 9th, at 12 pm and will be signing posters afterwards: Starring Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira, Daryl Sabara, and...

The Green Inferno Trailer 3 Has Been Released. Eli Roth‘s The Green Inferno (2015) movie trailer 3 stars Lorenza Izzo and Richard Burgi. The Green Inferno‘s plot synopsis: “A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.”

There’s a new trailer for Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno, which I thought of as a clip, at first. This is now the third trailer for Roth’s latest, much anticipated exploitation movie. The film has been shelved for quite a long time now, even IMDb lists this as 2013. What we do know, officially, is that this was supposed to be released last year, but studio interference/scheduling conflicts delayed this until now. This September, we’re getting Roth’s homage to Cannibal Holocaust, with some of his critique of westernized/American superiority sprinkled in.

This Father’s Day please take some time to remember those who were eaten before you. That’s right, fiends; it’s time to honor dad with some exclusive goodness from Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno. Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, and Sky Ferreira… Continue Reading →

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The Stranger comes to us as the latest vampire film to never admit it’s Actually a vampire film, because labeling yourself as a “vampire movie” just isn’t cool anymore. I’m sorry – if your character hates the sun, drinks blood and is immortal, he or she is a vampire. Deal with it.

While filmmaker Guillermo Amoedo proves to have a keen cinematic eye, this nightmarish infection thriller ends up being a big ol’ bowl of Meh. Presented by horror maestro Eli Roth, this Chilean thriller does have the atmospheric chills of a good mysterious-drifter-fueled caper, but some transitional techniques struggle to make Amoedo’s work flow seamlessly for international audiences. It’s a shame when audio dubbing reflects negatively on a cinematic watch, and while it’s something we try to ignore, one can’t help but be taken out of the fantasy on screen by voices that clearly don’t belong.

Eli Roth is having a busy 2015. He hit the Sundance Film Festival in January with the Keanu Reeves-starring "Knock Knock," later this year "The Green Inferno" will open in cinemas, and now he's taking some time to support the upcoming horror "The Stranger." Today we have an exclusive promo for the film. Read More: Watch The Trailer For Eli Roth's Cannibal Horror 'The Green Inferno' The film comes from director Guillermo Amoedo and places the action in a small town where things soon get very, very bloody. Here's the official synopsis:  In this supernatural thriller, a mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, but his unwelcome presence and what he finds instead soon plunges the community into a bloodbath. Starring Cristobal Tapia Montt, Nicolas Duran, Lorenza Izzo ("The Green Inferno," "Knock Knock"), Ariel Levy, and Aaron Burns ("The Green Inferno," "Knock Knock"), "The.

Chilean director Patricio Valladares (Hidden in the Woods) passed along this still from his survival horror Downhill before he heads over to Turkey to shoot his next film. More on that in a moment. Filming of Downhill wrapped up last week in southern Chile and heads into post production. In a recent article at ScreenDaily the film was described as follows, The story centers on a paralegal trapped on an mountain with a killer on a mission to kill a sick man. "Think Cliffhanger meets Paranormal Activity by way of David Cronenberg's old movies," said Valladares.From the look of the still, Valladares' lead actor Bryce Draper is not having a good go at things. Downhill also stars Natalie Burn (Awaken and The Expendables 3), Ariel Levy and Matias Lopez from...

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Producer Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions have become something of a phenomenon as of late, not only have they managed to redefine the current state of horror with low budget films such as Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious and Sinister grossing over $1.4 billion worldwide, but Oscar winner Whiplash and Emmy and Golden Globe winner The Normal Heart were also released under the Blumhouse label. Now Blum is dipping his toes in distribution with a new genre label Bh Tilt set up at Universal Studios where the production company has a first look deal and the first release will be Eli Roth's cannibal horror feature The Green Inferno. Previously set up at Open Road, The Green Inferno was originally going to hit theaters this past September when financier Worldview Entertainment didn't live up to their P&A commitment. That September release date was going to be almost a year...

"What did you do with the body?" Horror filmmaker Eli Roth is presenting this IFC Midnight release of The Stranger, an indie film from Uruguayan filmmaker Guillermo Amoedo. The horror-thriller story follows a mysterious man who ends up in a small town to find his wife but discovers that it seems to be overtaken by the supernatural, or something like that. The cast includes Cristobal Tapia Montt, Ariel Levy, Nicolas Duran, Lorenza Izzo and Aaron Burns. This wasn't one of the films with lots of buzz at Fantastic Fest where it first premiered last year, but if horror (or thriller) is your jam, you might want to check it out. Beware the blood. Here's the official Us trailer for Guillermo Amoedo's The Stranger, in high def from Apple: In this supernatural thriller, a mysterious man (Cristobal Tapia Montt) arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, but his...

Exclusive: The Chilean genre specialist has announced the actors on board the low-budget survival thriller ahead of the May 15 start in the southern part of the country..

Valladares has brought on Natalie Burn (The Expendables 3, Nymph), Bruce Draper, Ariel Levy (The Green Inferno), Ignacia Allamand (Knock Knock), Luke Massy (Green Street Hooligans) and Matias Lopez (The Green Inferno).

Paris-based WTFilms company represents international sales on the project, as it did on the director’s English-language remake of his horror film Hidden In The Woods.

George Von Knorring of Chile’s Too Much Films produces Downhill, about a paralegal trapped on a mountain with a killer on a mission to murder a sick man.

Valladares (pictured) describes it as “Cliffhanger meets Paranormal Activity by way of David Cronenberg’s old movies.”...

Our latest round-up features release details for the Eli Roth-produced horror film, The Stranger, as well as new posters for Hannibal Season 3 and The Last Witch Hunter.

The Stranger: Written and directed by Guillermo Amoedo, and produced by Eli Roth, The Stranger stars Ariel Levy, Nicolas Duran, Lorenza Izzo (The Green Inferno, Knock Knock) and Aaron Burns (The Green Inferno, Knock Knock). On June 12th, the fright film comes out in New York and Los Angeles theaters, as well as On Demand.

Synopsis: "In this supernatural thriller, a mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, but his unwelcome presence and what he finds instead soon plunges the community into a bloodbath."

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Hannibal Season 3 Poster: Via Twitter, Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller revealed a new poster for the upcoming third season.

Fuller previously revealed that the Hannibal Season 3 premiere "takes place over four different periods...

Genre specialist Raven Banner has secured Canadian rights to Eli Roth Presents The Stranger, winner of the 2014 Fantastic Fest and Sitges Best Iberoamerican Film Award.

Guillermo Amoedo wrote and directed the film about a mysterious man who travels to a small Canadian town looking for his wife and walks into a bloodbath.

Lorenza Izzo, Aaron Burns, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Durán, Cristobal Tapia-Mont and Louis Gniecho star.

Miguel Asensio, Nicolás López and Roth produced The Stranger while Cassian Elwes served as executive producer.

Guillermo Amoedo wrote and directed the film, which premiered at fantastic Fest 2014

IFC Midnight announced the acquisition of the U.S. rights to “Eli Roth Presents ‘The Stranger,'” which premiered at the 2014 Fantastic Fest.

Guillermo Amoedo wrote and directed the violent genre film, which centers around a mysterious man who travels to a small Canadian town looking for his wife and instead finds a bloodbath.

Lorenza Izzo, Aaron Burns, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Durán, Cristobal Tapia-Mont and Louis Gniecho star in “The Stranger,” which was produced by Miguel Asensio, Nicolás López and Eli Roth and executive produced by Cassian Elwes.

The Us rights deal for Guillermo Amoedo’s ‘Chilewood’ genre film Eli Roth Presents The Stranger follows the recent world premiere at Fantastic Fest.

Chilean film-maker Amoedo wrote and directed. He previously collaborated as co-writer on the Chilewood titles Knock Knock, Green Inferno and Aftershock.

Lorenza Izzo, Aaron Burns, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Durán, Cristobal Tapia-Mont and Louis Gniecho star and Miguel Asensio, Nicolás López and Roth produced.

The story, funded by the Chilean government and shot in 2013, follows a mysterious man who arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife.

IFC brokered the deal with Cassian Elwes, who served as executive producer on The Stranger.

Get ready for our first pilot season of 2015, launching January 15th, when seven new primetime and six new kids pilots will debut on Amazon Instant Video. As with previous pilot seasons, viewers in the Us, UK and Germany will be invited to watch, rate and review them all over the course of four weeks, ultimately helping to decide which of them get picked up to full series.

The new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and a legion of talented actors, directors and producers signed on to bring the pilots to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:

Primetime Pilots

The Man in the High Castle – Based on Philip K. Dick’s award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.

As Netflix continues to assert itself as a major television company with such acclaimed series as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Amazon Studios is racing to catch up by ordering series it hopes will be equally well-received. So far, Amazon has scored one big hit in the form of Jeffrey Tambor-led dramedy Transparent, and it hopes to find some more in the new lineup of pilots, which will be made available for viewing as part of the company’s first pilot season of 2015.

Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...

A close-up look at a family torn apart by the start of the Civil War. An adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s alternate history of the United States post-World War II. A satire of new age yoga culture in west Los Angeles. And a docu-series based on America’s most award-winning magazine.

Get ready for our first pilot season of 2015, when seven new series will debut their first episodes in January on Amazon Instant Video in the U.S. and U.K.. As with previous pilot seasons, you’ll be invited to watch each of them and provide feedback on the ones you’d like to see become full series.

The seven new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and an impressive roster of talented actors have signed on to bring each pilot to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:

Cocked — A big city corporate lapdog...

Lena Dunham is returning to films. Starting out on the usual path as an indie filmmaker with such SXSW breakouts as "Tiny Furniture," Dunham took the HBO series route with "Girls," executive produced by Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner. Her memoir "Not that Kind of Girl" is flying off shelves. At the New Yorker Festival this weekend, she announced that she will adapt for the big screen Karen Cushman’s 1994 coming-of-age novel “Catherine, Called Birdy," which she's been obsessed with since she was a kid, she told The New Yorker's Ariel Levy. The period story is about a 12-year-old who gets her period and is immediately deemed marriage material. “I’m going to adapt it and hopefully direct it,” Dunham said. “I just need to find someone who wants to fund a PG-13 Medieval movie.” Dunham's A Casual Romance production company partner Konner is developing the film with her, along...

As part of the New Yorker Festival on Friday night, Lena Dunham chatted with New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy about her new book, Not That Kind of Girl, and her general career trajectory. Dunham also touched on Amanda Bynes's most recent Twitter meltdown, saying that she thinks the troubled former child star is "actually kind of a great writer." She also addressed her desire to adapt the children's novel Catherine, Called Birdy into a feature-length film.But first, her thoughts on Bynes: I don’t know if I'm the only one who’s been closely following Amanda Bynes’s tweets today. She’s clearly off her medication, the whole situation is really bad … But she did say something kind of similar [to Hannah] which was, ‘I’m not crazy, I’m actually the one who knows everything that’s happening.’ I texted [Jenny Konner] and said, ‘Maybe I’m nuts, but I...

Eli Roth's The Stranger will have its World Premiere in Austin, Texas, at Fantastic Fest. The fun kicks off September 19th, 2014. Directed by Guillermo Amoedo, the scriptwriter of Aftershock (2012), The Stranger is a surreal tale of one man searching for his father. This mysterious tale stars Luis Gnecco ("Narcos"), Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, and Aaron Burns. The film's first blood-soaked trailer is here. The story begins with Peter. Peter (Nicolás Durán) was raised without a father. But, Peter seeks him out anyways. Now, Peter must deal with a man, who is part monster and part something else. And, this creature is hell-bent on destroying Peter's hometown and his ambitions of a reunion. The trailer for The Stranger is all over the place. The clip shows snippets of bloodied characters and others undergoing hospital treatment. But, what is going on? Story details are few in this disturbing trailer, which horror fans can find below.

A rumor has been swirling around the Internet this weekend that Troma would be releasing Eli Roth's The Green Inferno (review) after the studio posted about it on its social media pages. Knowing this was highly unlikely, we reached out to Roth and can now confirm this is Not happening.

Earlier this month financier Worldview Entertainment balked at ex-ceo Christopher Woodrow’s commitment to provide the P&A (promotion and advertising) for the film. Open Road confirmed that the release date was scratched but had no further comment.

Apparently Worldview has been going through a restructure since Woodrow's abrupt and largely unexplained exit, and the company, now run by Molly Conners, put a freeze on all of his commitments and is scrutinizing every deal that was made. Green Inferno has been caught in that snare.

Director Roth previously tweeted the news as well, explaining, "Everyone is working to solve this Asap.

Eli Roth's The Green Inferno (review) is a film we've been waiting to see for quite some time now, and unfortunately it looks like we'll be waiting a bit longer as its anticipated September 5th release date via Open Road Films has now been postponed.

Per Deadline, financier Worldview Entertainment is balking at ex-ceo Christopher Woodrow’s commitment to provide the P&A (promotion and advertising) for the film. Open Road confirmed to the site that the release date is scratched but had no further comment.

Apparently Worldview has been going through a restructure since Woodrow's abrupt and largely unexplained exit, and the company, now run by Molly Conners, put a freeze on all of his commitments and is scrutinizing every deal that was made. Green Inferno has been caught in that snare.

Director Roth tweeted the news as well, explaining, "Everyone is working to solve this Asap. Thank u for understanding!