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‘Mighty Mighty Monsters’ Becoming Animated Horror For Kids
British Columbia-based film production and finance group Bron Studios is launching Bron Animation to develop and produce original kids animated fare for television and films, reports Deadline.
The aim is an “emphasis on absurd comedy with an edgy tone that parents will also enjoy”.
The first project in production is a pair of TV specials based on Mighty Mighty Monsters, the Sean Patrick O’Reilly book series.
“The books revolve around a group of classic movie monster kids — Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolfman — who are expelled from monster school and sent to a human immersion program at a “normal” human middle school.” Two hour-long specials are planned.
The wellness industry gets turned upside down in a blood-soaked cultural reckoning in the teaser for Namaslay.
The genre-bending horror satire that “reclaims the spirit of masala cinema while skewering the commercialization and appropriation of yoga in the West” releases in NYC/LA theaters on August 6 before expanding nationwide on August 13.
In Namaslay, “After arriving in Los Angeles, Gayatri accepts an invitation from her friend Judy to try an upscale yoga studio she’s been dying to attend. When the owner, Reyna, offers Gayatri a chance to join her instructor training program, Gayatri decides to look past the obvious eccentricities and accept the job. As she reconnects with the practice of Yoga she first learned from her grandmother, Gayatri is eventually asked to attend the prestigious instructor’s retreat, where she discovers the ulterior nature of her invitation.”
Starring in the film are Kirunthuja Srikanth-Talim, Angela Sant’Albano, Alicia Mitchell-Mangual, with Usha Krishnan and Christina Moore.
Namaslay is written by Rish and Kanish (Rish Arhant-Sudhir and Kanish Arhant-Sudhir).
The film marks the first feature project from Junghal Studios, an independent production company founded by the directing duo in 2019. With the new label, Rish and Kanish are building a slate of ambitious masala event films inspired by artistic traditions from around the world.
For the uninitiated, Masala films rose to prominence in the ’70s and blend a variety of unlikely genres; they’re also often musicals.
The first chapter in Junghal Studios’ mission, Namaslay, blends horror, satire, and the maximalist energy of masala cinema in its first teaser and poster below.
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