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News Bites: ‘World of the Dead’/’Mother’s Day’s UK Release, ‘Wicker Tree’ Goes Anchor Bay, New ‘Melancholia’ Poster
Thanks to Dimension Extreme the U.S. was the last place on the freakin’ planet to see Michael Bartlett’ss pretty-OK The Zombie Diaries, and it looks to be a continuing trend. While the rest of the planet sits back and waits, World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2 will be opening in the UK on June 24, 2011. The sequel, directed by both Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett, begins three months following the first film. Click the title above for more info.
In addition, Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’s Day, the quasi-remake of the classic ’80s Troma film, will open in UK cinemas on June 10 via Optimum Releasing. The pic follows “Three brothers on the run from the law head for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house in a foreclosure. Mother ingeniously orchestrates her sons’ escape, teaching the house’s new owners and their guests a few lessons along the way.”
More pre-Cannes news as Anchor Bay Entertainment has nabbed Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree for U.S. distribution. Wicker Tree, starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Graham McTavish, Paul Wesley, Susie Amy, Morgan James and Natalie Parnes, is a companion piece to The Wicker Man that follows “young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, whom leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.” Click the title for images, art and the trailer.
In addition to the previously released images, poster and trailer, inside you’ll find a second (and much better looking) one sheet for Lars Von Trier’s end-of-the-world drama Melancholia. “Justine (Dunst) and Michael (Skarsgård) who are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth…” The world ends on November 4, thanks to Magnolia Pictures.
Lastly, I don’t really understand why every single website makes a big stink over a film gaining a “sales agent” (some even misreport them as “acquired”). They must not understand that producers behind every completed film will hire a company to help sell their film across the globe. It does not mean the film actually HAS distribution. “Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly. Think!” Yes. Anyways, Lightning Entertainment will help sell both Kerry Prior’s breakout hit festival horror comedy The Revenant and One Way Trip 3D. Revenant, a pretty darn good vampire film, has been sitting on the shelf since 2009. Hopefully this will help get it out into the world (finally). Click either title for posters, images, trailers, etc.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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