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‘Southbound’ and ‘V/H/S’ Alum Directs Bloody Cherry Glazer Music Video, ‘XX’ Segment!
We’ve known Roxanne Benjamin for a long, long time, from way back when she reviewed films for Bloody Disgusting out of various festivals. She then ended up producing both V/H/S and V/H/S/2 with us before making her directorial debut on our Southbound anthology. Next up for this up-and-comer is the below music video for Cherry Glazer. The vicious video is for the song “Nurse Ratched” off Apocalipstick, which is out on January 20, 2017 on Secretly Canadian. The video was shot by super DP Tarin Anderson and edited by, get this, Jason Eisener (Death Note, Hobo With a Shotgun, V/H/S/2)!
“I wanted to make the video for ‘Nurse Ratched’ feel like a throwback to ‘70s era exploitation films in both theme and style-something totally over-the-top violent-but with a surreal and dream-like quality,” Benjamin tells us. “For the look, we shot day-for-night and then added an archival 16mm Fujifilm process. It seems like in road horror movies, it’s split down the middle between whether the hitchhiker or the driver is the one to be afraid of, but almost always the predatory one is male. It was fun to play with the idea of who we should be scared for and who we should be scared of with Sasami and Clem’s dynamic.”
But that’s not all, looking over at IMBd for some info I discovered that Benjamin not only wrote and produced a segment of XX for musician St. Vincent (Annie Clark), but she also directed one of her own. While we don’t have information on that yet, she joins an elite squad of female filmmakers that include Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation), Sofia Carrillo, and Jovanka Vuckovic.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical officially kicked off on Broadway last month, and Deadline now reports that the show’s Broadway run has been extended into next year.
The show was originally set to run through November, but Deadline reports that The Lost Boys: A New Musical “has released a block of tickets through Sunday, March 7, 2027.”
The news comes in the wake of The Lost Boys: A New Musical becoming the most Tony-nominated musical of the season with twelve nominations including Best Musical.
Additionally, “The Lost Boys will launch a North American National Tour in Spring 2028, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Additional cities and tour dates will be announced later.”
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is of course an adaptation of the 1987 horror classic from director Joel Schumacher, with the cast including Ali Louis Bourzgui as lead vampire David (originally played by Kiefer Sutherland), Maria Wirries as Star (originally played by Jami Gertz), and LJ Benet as the soon-to-be-turned Michael (originally played by Jason Patric).
The horror musical’s cast also includes Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson, Benjamin Pajak as Sam Emerson, Paul Alexander Nolan as Max, Jennifer Duka as Alan Frog, Miguel Gil as Edgar Frog, Brian Flores as Marko, Sean Grandillo as Dwayne, and Dean Maupin as Paul.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is Directed by Michael Arden, featuring Music and Lyrics by The Rescues, Book by David Hornsby & Chris Hoch, Story by James Jeremias & Janice Fischer, and Produced by James Carpinello, Marcus Chait & Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring) by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.
When a mother and her two teenage sons move to Santa Carla in desperate need of a fresh start, they soon uncover the darker side of this sunny coastal community. While Lucy tries to piece her family’s life back together, Michael keeps pulling away in search of belonging.
As he finds connection with a local rock band and its charismatic leader, his younger brother Sam comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality: When night falls, Michael’s new friends are even more dangerous than they first appeared.
Joel Schumacher directed the original The Lost Boys vampire movie in 1987, wherein two brothers move to a new town and discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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