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ENOUGH of These Underground Games. Hideo Nakata, It’s a Little Late.
I saw it at Sundance 2009 with Jonathan Liebesman’s The Killing Room, the UK just saw the release of The Exam, and both were inspired by numerous films over the years (ranging from Cube to Battle Royale) — Japanese director Hideo Nakata (Ringu, The Ring Two) hopes to do a better job when he pays his subjects $1,200 a day to play a new twisted game entitled The Incite Mill. Read on for the skinny.
Hideo Nakata, the J Horror maestro of “Ring” and “Ring 2” fame, has inked a deal with talent shop Horipro to helm psychological suspenser “The Incite Mill.”
The pic, which is a based on an eponymous bestseller by Honobu Yonezawa, tells a “Big Brother”-ish tale of 10 people who hire on for a “job” paying $1,200 per hour, only to find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.
Of the 10 main cast members, eight are repped by Horipro, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. These include hot young thesps Tatsuya Fujiwara (“Death Note”), Haruka Ayase (“Happy Flight”) and Satomi Ishihara (“No Longer Human”). The two other cast members will be picked soon, one from the Horipro ranks and one through a nationwide audition.
Nakata will starting shooting this March with release skedded for the fall.
In the wake of this week’s brand new trailer, Ishana Night Shyamalan’s upcoming horror movie The Watchers once again has a new release date. And as the headline of this article suggests, New Line Cinema has moved it back to its original release date. Say what?!
The Watchers had originally been set for theatrical release on June 7 before being recently bumped to June 14. But we’ve learned tonight that it’s been moved back into the June 7 slot.
That’s Hollywood for ya. In any event, watch this week’s new trailer below.
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The film follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
The Watchers stars Dakota Fanning (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Oliver Finnegan (“Creeped Out”) and Olwen Fouere (The Northman).
The upcoming mystery-horror film is produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Ashwin Rajan and Nimitt Mankad. The executive producers are Jo Homewood and Stephen Dembitzer.
Joining writer/director Shyamalan behind-the-camera are director of photography Eli Arenson (“Lamb,” “Hospitality”), production designer Ferdia Murphy (“Lola,” “Finding You”), editor Job ter Burg (“Benedetta,” “Elle”) and costume design by Frank Gallacher (“Sebastian,” “Aftersun”). The music is by Abel Korzeniowski (“Till,” “The Nun”).
The Watchers is based on the novel by A.M. Shine.
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