MAD HEIDI Reigns With Vengeance For One Night Only In North American Theaters!
Alice Lucy & Casper Van Dien star in this one-night-only event that is dripping with blood…and cheese!
Alice Lucy & Casper Van Dien star in this one-night-only event that is dripping with blood…and cheese!
Andrew T. Hunt’s new hard-hitting action drama, The Fight Machine, is set to make its Canadian theatrical run via Raven Banner in select Landmark cinemas on Monday, February 13, with RLJE Films scoring a DVD release in the U.S. beginning February 21. The film stars Greg Hovanessian, Dempsey Byrk, Noah Dalton Danby, Greg Byrk, and Michael Ironside, and centers on two young men from opposite sides of society whose paths of hardship and inner turmoil find their way toward each other in the violent underground bare-knuckle fight circuit.
This trailer is something else… and pardon the Mad Max pun. My friend Joey uses it often.
Jeremy Kaster’s new siege horror thriller, The Dead Ones, is currently stirring about at AFM this week. Penned by Zach Chassler, the anarchy ensues when a masked, armed gang known as the Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse descend unto a high school, locking in four outcast teens punished into cleaning after a horrific incident, and hunting them down one by one.
Director Jimmy Henderson’s new actioner, The Prey, is now on par for the course as we enter a new year of festivals and market updates. As such, the production has paired up with Toronto-based Raven Banner for international sales ahead of EFM which launches on February 7 in Berlin.
Following its world premiere at Cinequest this Spring and several festival and market stops thereafter director Michael Peterson’s new movie, Knuckleball, now has a home in Canada. Word from ScreenAnarchy notes of the film’s acquisition at Raven Banner with a Fall release in tow ahead of the film’s upcoming Fantasia premiere on Saturday.
The last few years have seen the wheels turn quite a bit for director Jesse Haaja who made history in debuting Finland’s first comic book superhero movie, Rendel. Nowadays he’s developing other properties including Furrow, but that doesn’t necessarily count out prospects for a sequel while genre specialist Raven Banner has anything to say for it.
Such is what includes Jeremy Kay’s Screen International report this weekend with word that sales on a sequel to the Finnish superhero hit film have launched at the Cannes market. Producers at Black Lion Pictures and Frozen Flame Pictures are planning an early 2019 shoot on Rendel 2 which has Haaja returning to the helm to follow up the story of a family man previously resurrected from near-death with a brutal, masked alterego to seek revenge in the name of a city crying out for justice against a criminal organization and their pharmaceutical cohorts.
“I can’t even describe how excited I am for this,” Haaja said of the ongoing saga of the masked avenger who fights a criminal organisation. “It was my lifelong dream to get Rendel to the big screens.
“Can’t wait to get back to work with the guys at Raven Banner, Black Lion and Frozen Flame. Everything has been working so well with these guys since the beginning that I’m absolutely sure that we’ll bring a bigger, stronger, badder Rendel to the fans.”
“We are very excited to bring the Rendel filmmaking team back together again,” Raven Banner managing partner Michael Paszt said.
Miika J. Norvanto, Trevor Doyle and Timo Puustinen are producing the film, while I’m more than curious on how far Haaja will go with one of his more recent concepts, Furrow, for which he filmed a proof of concept in Finland’s sub-zero wilderness for two days just a few months ago. At any rate, Haaja’s got plans and all are welcome to follow along.
Arend Remmers’s script enlists performances by Erkan Acar, Reza Brojerdi, Xenia Assenza, David Masterson and Alexander Schubert. Watch the trailer now.
Meet Stegman. He’s dead. In this crime comedy, bizarre assassins must come together to unravel the puzzle of Stegman’s blackmail secret, and why he’s already dead on the set of his own porn film. Stegman’s secret is somewhere within the rooms of his expansive suburban seventies bungalow, and the cops are already circling. Gus and Evy, two of the central characters, must escape Stegman’s house only to discover the true nature of his secret at last, and with it, the awful realization that now… they have to break back in.
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