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A Spanish Toon Version of ‘Dance of the Vampires’
In article on Variety highlighting ten up and-and-coming Spanish filmmakers, they reveal a new project by Fernando Cortizo that sounds pretty damn interesting. Made with latex figures, Cortizo’s doll toon feature The Apostle, which bows in July, is an offbeat mystery horror story about a fugitive on the run. “It will be a toon version of ‘Dance of the Vampires’: a lot of color,” Cortizo says. Philip Glass is onboard for the soundtrack, according to production house Artefacto. Watch the teaser and making-of featurette beyond the break now!
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Amblin Movie ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Sounds Like ‘Knives Out’ Meets ‘Cocoon’
Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning.
It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s Knives Out… only this particular murder-mystery is set in a retirement community!
Variety details, “The book, released in 2020, tells the story of four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.”
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are “being eyed” to lead the cast!
Richard Osman’s 2020 novel was such a hit that it launched a franchise. Follow-up The Man Who Died Twice followed in 2021, with The Bullet That Missed coming along in 2022. And then there was The Last Devil to Die in 2023, with a fifth book in the series expected in 2025.
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