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[AFM '12] First Art From ‘The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death’!!

BAFTA-nominated Tom Harper (The Scouting Book for Boys, Misfits) is gearing up to direct The Woman in Black: Angels Of Death, the sequel to horror smash The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, that was adapted from a Susan Hill story. The plot revolves around Eel Marsh House four decades after original.

Penned by Jon Croker, “Seized by the government and converted into a military mental hospital during World War II, the sudden arrival of disturbed soldiers to Eel Marsh Harsh has awoken its darkest inhabitant. Eve, a beautiful young nurse, is sent to the house to care for the patients but soon realizes she must save them from more than their own demons. Despite Eve’s efforts to stop her, one by one they fall victim to the Woman in Black.

It will shoot likely next spring. Head inside for the art! READ MORE

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[AFM '12] First Look At Blumhouse’s ‘Jessabelle’!!

Jessabelle, the new film from Saw VI and Saw 3D director Kevin Greutert and writer Robert Ben Garant (“Reno 911!”, A Night At The Museum) made an appearance at the American Film Market in Santa Monica today. Blumhouse (The Lords of Salem, Insidious, Paranormal Activity) is teaming up with Lionsgate for the project.

Sarah Snook, Joelle Carter (“Justified”), Mark Webber (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) Ana de la Reguera and Amber Stevens star in the film. Snook will play the terrified protag, while Webber will play her childhood friend who helps her uncover the truth about her family. The film is “about a girl who is forced to return to her father’s home in Louisiana when a car accident leaves her without the use of both her legs. What she finds there is a mystery surrounding her own birth and an angry ghost (named Jessabelle) that seems determined to destroy her.

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[AFM '12] First Imagery From Hammer’s ‘The Quiet Ones’!!

Hammer brought their new film, The Quiet Ones, to the American Film Market today in Santa Monica. It stars Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Erin Richards, Olivia Cooke and Rory Fleck-Byrne also star. The horror pic shot in Oxfordshire.

Directed by John Pogue and inspired by true events, “‘The Quiet Ones’ tells the story of an unorthodox professor who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist. Based on the theory that paranormal activity is caused by human negative energy, the rogue scientists perform a series of tests on a young patient, pushing her to the edge of sanity. As frightening occurrences begin to take place with shocking and gruesome consequences, the group quickly realizes they have triggered a force more terrifying than they ever could have imagined.

The Quiet Ones marks Hammer’s next production after the worldwide box office hit, The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which has taken over $130 million at the box-office worldwide to date.

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[AFM '12] Poster For The Long-Gestating ‘Prisoners’!

The long gestating Prisoners is finally cast up and shooting and the film made an appearance today at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.

Warners has locked in a September 20, 2013 release for the film. Aaron Guzikowski’s dark tale centers on a small-town man who, after his daughter and her friend are kidnapped and the cops fail to solve the crime, takes matters into his own hands, holding hostage the person he suspects committed the crime. He also comes into conflict with the big-city detective assigned to the case. Hugh Jackman, Melissa Leo, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano are all starring.

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[AFM '12] SOLD! ‘Cockneys vs. Zombies,’ ‘Tower Block’ and ‘The Condemned’

Home entertainment group Shout! Factory has picked up U.K. horror film Cockneys vs. Zombies (pictured) for the U.S. and Canada and the suspense thriller Tower Block for the U.S. from SC Films, says The Hollywood Reporter. Shout! plans to bow the two features via VOD, electronic-sell-through and on DVD in 2013. The company said it is also planning a platform theatrical release and has secured U.S. television rights for the films. In addition, Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Roberto Busó-García’s The Condemned (Los Condenados) and is in negotiations to license the U.S. TV rights to the film to HBO. Strand is planning a spring 2013 release for the thriller about a haunted mansion that was filmed in Puerto Rico.

The Condemned stars Cristina Rodlo as an heiress who plans to restore the mansion in her father’s memory only to discover that the mansion’s past is returning to haunt the surrounding town and its residents. The film also stars René Monclova, Daisy Granados, Marisé Álvarez and José Caro.

Directed by Matthias Hoene, Cockneys vs. Zombies stars Brit actors Harry Treadaway and Rasmus Hardiker as two clueless cockney brothers who plot to rob a bank in order to help save their grandfather’s old age home. But a strange virus is sweeping across East London, turning residents into zombies. The brothers band together to fight off the hordes of the undead and try and rescue the old folks.

Tower Block is a high-concept thriller directed by James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson in which the residents of a London tower block, all silent witnesses to a murder, become the target of a sniper, who begins picking them off one by one. READ MORE

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[AFM '12] XLrator Media Goes ‘Under The Bed’!

It was announced today that Xlrator Media has picked up another BD related project, Under the Bed! Directed by Steven C. Miller (Silent Night, Automaton Transfusion and written by Eric Stolze, the film stars Jonny Weston (Chasing Mavericks), Gattlin Griffith, Peter Holden, Musetta Vander & Kelcie Stranahan.

From the press release, “On the eve of the American Film Market, XLrator Media has acquired all U.S. rights to ‘Under The Bed’… ‘Under The Bed’ was produced by Brad Miska (V/H/S, A Horrible Way to Die), Tom Owen (V/H/S) and William Clevinger (The Devil’s Carnival, Automaton Transfusion) and executive produced by Zak Zeman (The Aggression Scale, A Horrible Way to Die) and Miller.

In the film, “Every child knows about the monster under the bed—Neal Hausman’s mistake was trying to fight it. Neal has returned from a two-year exile following his tragic attempt to defeat the monster, only to find his father ticking ever closer to a breakdown, a new stepmother who fears him, and his little brother Paul, terrorized by the same monster. While Neal and Paul work together to try and fight the nocturnal menace, their parents are taking desperate measures to get the family back to normal. With no support from their parents, the brothers have nothing to rely on but each other, and courage beyond belief.

Xlrator will release the film in theaters next summer.

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[AFM '12] Promo Images And Synopsis For ‘Bait 2′!!

Arclight Films brought Bait 2, the soon-to-be sequel to the Australian shark-in-a-supermarket thriller Bait, to the American Film Market today in Santa Monica.

In the sequel, “It’s just another perfect day in the City of Angels. That is, until a three mile long, 100-foot tsunami completely obliterates Los Angeles, not only destroying it, but effectively wiping it from the map. However, for five students in a private school, on detention and missing out on a class trip, they turn out to be the lucky ones…or are they? Because before the day is through they will have to battle a tidal wave, the elements, each other, aftershocks, and worst of all, a 15-foot Great White Shark that has decided to make the school they are trapped in its new hunting ground. With the water constantly rising, fraying tempers, nowhere for them to go, and one of nature’s perfect sea creatures actively pursuing them, they are about to be taught a lesson in survival.

Still no word on the cast or a director, but we snagged some promo images for you inside! Higher-rez ones coming today! READ MORE

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[AFM '12] The Poster For ‘Summer Camp’, From The Makers Of ‘[REC]‘!!!

Yesterday we reported that the production house responsible for the [REC] franchise is developing the new horror project Summer Camp to shoot in 2013. They debuted the poster today at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.

While there are no details just yet, Sleep Tight screenwriter Alberto Marini will be making his directorial debut on the film and co-wrote the screenplay.

The plot is under wraps but Marini commented to Variety, “There’s a game common to the majority of kids around the world, both in and out of summer camps: “Tag, you are it”…. The fun of the game is that the roles are constantly changing: The pursuer becomes the pursued, the cat becomes the mouse.” He added, “We wanted to capture this idea in a horror-filled, adrenaline-pumped movie…. A film in which you’re never sure who your friends or who your enemies are, a game you’d never wish to be part of and where, sometimes, in order to escape the only option is to attack.” Jaume Balaguero (Sleep Tight, [REC], [REC]2) executive produces.

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[AFM '12] Poster For ‘Kill Your Friends’!!

Altitude Film Entertainment has set Prometheus star Rafe Spall for the lead in Britpop satire Kill Your Friends and added sci-fi Outpost 37 to its growing slate, reports Variety leading up to AFM. Spall takes the lead in Owen Harris’ film “About an A&R man who, desperately searching for the next big hit, takes the concept of killer tunes to a murderous new level.

The film made an appearance at the American Film Market in Santa Monica this morning. Head inside for a sneak at the poster. Higher-rez coming soon! READ MORE

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[AFM '12] Poster For Marcus Nispel’s ‘Backmask’!!!

Backmask – the Marcus Nispel-directed horror pic starring Gage Golightly, Michael Ormsby, Stephen Lang, Kelly Blatz, Brett Dier, Nick Nicotera, Nick Nordella and Brittany Curran – made an appearance to day at the American Film Market in Santa Monica. Nispel is best known for directing remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th for Platinum Dunes.

During a sex, drugs, and rock-fueled party, six small-town teenagers find an old vinyl record and decide to play it backwards in order to listen for any subliminal/satanic messages. Lo and behold, a seemingly malevolent spirit quickly infiltrates the group, wreaking havoc as it moves from one body to another. Eventually, however, it’s revealed that the spirit in question is actually trying to convey a message… and that the real source of horror isn’t particularly paranormal, but rather something (or someone) much closer to home.

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[AFM '12] Paul W.S. Anderson Shoots Volcano Epic ‘Pompeii’ In April, What Does This Mean For ‘Resident Evil 6′?

Making an appearance at the American Film Market in Santa Monica this morning were some promotional materials for Pompeii, the new epic from Paul W.S.Anderson (Resident Evil 5, Event Horizon) that details the burying of that ancient village by a Volcano.

You may remember a few years back when it was speculated that Anderson might indeed skip Resident Evil 5, after all Pompeii was scheduled to come out in the spring of 2012 and RE5 for September of 2012. Obviously, only one of those films made their date. And while Retribution’s global take of $217,719,678M is a bit lower than Afterlife’s $296,221,663M – it’s by no means a flop. And Anderson has said that he is committed to finishing his “new trilogy” within the franchise.

What do you think? Can Anderson pull of both Pompeii and RE6? Do you want him to? Head inside for the synopsis! READ MORE

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[AFM '12] Elijah Wood To Topline ‘Saw’ Writer’s ‘Cooties’!

Synchronicity Entertainment, the new genre film production and international sales label launched by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group has unveiled its debut slate of three new feature films including: the horror film Cooties from the co-creator of the Saw franchise and Insidious writer Leigh Whannell and Paranormal Activity producer Steven Schneider; the thriller Due Process starring Golden Globe nominee John Cusack; and the completed psychological thriller Smiley.

Starring Elijah Wood (pictured in Maniac), Cooties is produced by top horror film producer Steven Schneider, who is behind the hugely successful Paranormal Activity franchise including the latest installment, Paranormal Activity 4.

Cooties is written by horror powerhouse Leigh Whannell, who penned and executive produced the Saw films and wrote Insidious. Whannell co-writes Cooties with Ian Brennan –writer and co-creator of Fox’s “Glee.” To be directed by Ace Norton, “The film begins when a mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the pre-adolescent children into a feral swarm of mindless savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives against the monstrous pupils.READ MORE

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[AFM '12] Propel Into The Mind Of Dark Sky’s ‘Frankenstein’s Army’!!

Dark Sky Films have released the first two official stills from Dutch director Richard Raaphorst’s eagerly-anticipated World War II horror/fantasy, Frankenstein’s Army.

The first still features “Propellerhead”, a hulking Nazi automaton that uses its spinning rotors to slice a bloody swath through the film’s terrified, lost Russian battalion. The second grisly official still features the power-hungry Doctor Frankenstein (Hellboy’s Karel Roden) himself, as he dissects an unwilling subject!

‘Frankenstein’s Army’ takes place toward the end of World War II, as Russian soldiers push into eastern Germany and stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Viktor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein’s work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades – a desperate Hitler’s last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.

It stars Karel Roden (Hellboy), Alexander Mercury (The Golden Compass), Joshua Sasse (The Big I Am), Luke Newberry (The Heart of Me), Andrei Zayats (X-Men: First Class), Mark Stevenson (The Last Horror Movie), Hon Ping Tang (The Fifth Element), Cristina Catalina (Eastern Promises), Robert Gwylim (Escape from Sobibor), and Jan De Lukovicz. READ MORE

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[AFM '12] Trailer For Indie Horror Comedy ‘Bloodmarsh Krackoon’

The official website for the comedy horror film Bloodmarsh Krackoon has gone live, and Amuck Productions has posted the first trailer.

Jerry Landi wrote and directed this sequel to the film festival circuitcult favorite Krackoon, which also serves as a reboot for horror fans who did not see the original. Marc J.Makowski (Slime City, Slime City Massacre) produced the film, for which he is currently providing CGI with his South Bronx EFX Works partner, Julio Garay.

Krackoon Bloodmarsh, which tells the story of mutant raccoons with a bad habit infesting the Bronx, is scheduled for completion at the end of this year and should premiere in January 2013. Sal Amore, who appeared in the original, co-stars with actress and former Playmate Cindy Guyer (Psycho Cop), Gina De Salvatore and returning Joe Ferri. READ MORE

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[AFM '12] Trailer and Sales Art For ‘Legend of the Red Reaper’

Boll Sales is behind Legend of the Red Reaper, written and directed by Kristen Barron Stewart.

For a thousand years, the Reapers guarded mankind from the demons that wait in the dark. Now, at the beginning of a new age, the Reapers are betrayed and slaughtered. Only one Reaper remains – Red, and she’s out to exact revenge.

Starring Tara Cardinal, David Mackey, Eliza Swenson, Christian Boeving, Shayne Leighton, Ray Eddy, Cal Simmons, Tim J Hays and Amber Crawford, check out the trailer and sales art inside. READ MORE

[AFM '12] Production House Behind ‘[REC]‘ Heads To ‘Summer Camp’!

The American Film Market kicks off tomorrow and Filmax International already leaked out a new genre project they have up their sleeves.

From the production house responsible for the [REC] franchise comes Summer Camp, a new horror project in development for shoot in 2013.

While there are no details just yet, Sleep Tight screenwriter Alberto Marini will be making his directorial debut on what I hope is a slasher. He co-wrote the screenplay.

Plot is under wraps but Marini commented to Variety: “There’s a game common to the majority of kids around the world, both in and out of summer camps: “Tag, you are it”…. The fun of the game is that the roles are constantly changing: The pursuer becomes the pursued, the cat becomes the mouse.

He added: “We wanted to capture this idea in a horror-filled, adrenaline-pumped movie…. A film in which you’re never sure who your friends or who your enemies are, a game you’d never wish to be part of and where, sometimes, in order to escape the only option is to attack.

Jaume Balaguero (Sleep Tight, [REC], [REC]2) executive produces.

Balaguero goes into production on REC: Apocalypse early next year. READ MORE

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[AFM '12] ‘Homecoming’ Horror, Hang In The ‘Treehouse’, And Have An ‘Afterparty’!

From Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage producer Álvaro Augustin and Film Factory Entertainment comes Afterparty, a Spanish horror from director Miguel Larraya. Starring Luis Fernández, Úrsula Corberó, Alicia Sanz, Ana Caldas and Andrea Dueso, “Carlos, a TV star and teen idol, is invited to a wild party packed with girls and excesses of all kinds. The morning after, he wakes up trapped in a sinister house with three girls that he had several encounters with the previous night. With communication cut off and escape impossible, they come to realize that they are not alone in this house and they may never be able to escape.

Inside you’ll find the sales trailer and art for Homecoming, being sold at this week’s AFM in Santa Monica. Todd Kniss directs the film, “Katie (Jeridan Frye), the prettiest girl in town, returns home after a 20-year absence when her grandmother dies. Staying in the house she grew up in, Katie is forced to face a past she’s tried hard to forget. When Katie was 13, she lost both parents in a car accident for which she feels responsible, a boy she liked was found murdered, and another boy vanished altogether. Ready to put the past behind her and reconnect with her childhood friends, she plans a reunion. Everyone is thrilled to have Katie back, and they settle down in Katie’s old house for a candlelit night of drinking and sharing memories. But one of Katie’s old friends doesn’t want the past unearthed, and will do anything to keep it buried—even if it means stacking up fresh bodies. Katie and her friends are trapped, terrified, and left wondering, who will die next?

Imagination Worldwide has tapped Michael Guy Ellis for Treehouse, to be penned by Alex Child and Miles Harrington. We’ve landed the AFM sales art and a massive synopsis. Both inside.

TREEHOUSE is a dark, coming-of-age thriller set in the heartland of rural America. The film follows the journeys of two teenagers, ELIZABETH and KILLIAN, whose lives intersect one cold night in an old treehouse, deep in the forest.

After the sudden disappearance of a local brother and sister, the town of Westlake is put under a curfew by local law enforcement. The annual fair is canceled, much to the annoyance of KILLIAN and CRAWFORD, two brothers attending Bayscout High. They decide to sneak into the woods that night to meet some local girls and shoot off some fireworks.

When their friends do not show up, the two brothers decide to paint the sky. When the fireworks illuminate a structure high up in the trees, they discover a treehouse. Inside it is ELIZABETH whom they recognize from local news reports as the missing sister.

ELIZABETH is badly injured and unable to recall what has happened. All she is able to articulate is that ‘things’ took her little brother. CRAWFORD runs for help, while KILLIAN waits with her. Crawford never returns.

What follows is a nightmare journey into Hell as the “things” within the woods lay siege to the treehouse. It is only a matter of time before the treehouse – their sanctuary – eventually becomes their tomb. ELIZABETH and KILLIAN are forced to find a way out in order to survive and learn the fates of their brothers. Their escape ultimately leads them to a shocking revelation, culminating in a brutal finale with their attackers.

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[AFM '12] Michael Biehn Fights An ‘Eternal’ Vamp, Magnet Opens ‘Storage 24′, ‘The Dead 2′ Teaser Rises

On the dawn of AFM Raven Banner has acquired Justin McConnell‘s The Eternal (pictured). The Toronto-based company landed worldwide rights on the vampire tale to star Michael Biehn (The Divide, The Terminator, Aliens). Raven Banner to produce with Unstable Ground Inc. “Biehn will star in the story of a 500-year vampire who wants to die and sets out to find a worthy adversary in combat.” The cast includes Adam Kenneth Wilson, who co-wrote the screenplay with McConnell and the late Kevin Hutchinson. Production is set for 2013.

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American distrib rights to U.K. horror Storage 24, says Variety. Storage 24 will be released through the distrib’s Ultra VOD program, debuting on all video-on-demand platforms December 6 to be followed by a theatrical release in early January. The film, scripted and produced by thesp Noel Clarke, was helmed by Johannes Roberts. “London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock) are at Storage 24 dividing up their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?

The Ford Brothers, the team behind zombie thriller The Dead, have revealed that the sequel, The Dead 2, will be shot in India. Howard J. Ford unveiled a teaser trailer shot on a recent location recce and announced that the film, for which the screenplay is now completed, is anticipated to start production in February/March 2013. Said Jon Ford: “We want part 2 to do something few sequels can rarely achieve by surpassing the first film in every way!,” which shouldn’t be hard. “We want to give the fans unique and stunning locations, more intense story and action, while maintaining the emotional heart that runs through the whole film. It’s still a journey movie which will have a controversial edge and a lot more scares!” Check out the trailer and first still inside. READ MORE

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[AFM '12] ‘Cannibal’ Snacks On Twin Sisters

France’s Luminor, Russia’s CTB and Romania’s Libra Film are set to co-produce Cannibal, a suspense thriller from Manuel Martin Cuenca (The Weakness of the Bolshevik, Half of Oscar) set up at Spain’s Mod Producciones (Agora, Biutiful, Fin) and Martin Cuenca’s label, La Loma Blanca, reports Variety.

Also written by Martin Cuenca and long-time co-scribe Alejandro Hernandez, Cannibal turns on Carlos (played by Antonio de la Torre), Granada’s most prestigious tailor, a respected man who dedicates his life to his work and eating, especially women. One day, he meets Nina, the twin-sister of a woman he’s eaten, an immigrant from Eastern Europe.

Luminor is the production subsidiary of Films Distribution. Film Factory has acquired international rights to Cannibal and will introduce the title at next week’s American Film Market.

Principal photography is skedded for January in Granada.

[AFM '12] ‘Monsters: The Dark Continent’ And Sci-Fi ‘Kill Command’ On The Block Along With Ben Wheatley’s ‘A Field In England’

Director Tom Green’s (no, not that Tom Green) Monsters: The Dark Continent, the followup to Gareth Edwards’ Monsters is currently in prep and will have presale materials at AFM. Producers are James Richardson and Allan Niblo for Vertigo and Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken for Between the Eyes. Monsters director Gareth Edwards and actor Scoot McNairy will executive produce.

In the film “Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

Also at the market from Protagonist is Kill Command, to be written and directed by Steve Gomez. Per Screen Daily, “The near-future set film will follow an elite army unit involved in a fight to the death after it is helicoptered to a remote island training facility where the US Defence Department creates robot weapons.” The film will shoot in the spring of next year.

Protagonist is also doing pre-sales for Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England. In the film, “In the war-torn English countryside in 1648, a small group of deserters flee the raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured and forced to help one of their captors in his search to find hidden treasure he believes is buried in the field. The group descends into a chaos of arguments, fighting, and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they gradually become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

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[AFM '12] ‘The Pact’ Director Finds A ‘Home,’ ‘Stung,’ And ‘Ginger Snaps’ Director’s ‘Orphan Black’

Celluloid Dreams will kick off sales at the AFM next week on a pair of genre titles from Los Angeles-based XYZ Films, says Screen Daily. Home is Nicholas McCarthy’s follow-up to Sundance 2012 hit The Pact (pictured). “It centres on a young woman who investigates an incident that took place in a house where a previous occupant unwittingly summoned the Devil.” The pic, which is NOT a sequel but a new film, is in pre-production. Sonny Mallhi, who served as executive producer on The Strangers, will produce.

Benni Diez will direct Stung from a screenplay by Adam Aresty about “A garden party that turns sour when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven-foot tall predators.” They are eyeing a March 2013 start in Europe.

Lastly, THR reports that “The Tudors”‘ Maria Doyle Kennedy has joined the cast of “Orphan Black,” the BBC America and Space sci-fi series from Canadian producer Temple Street Productions. Dylan Bruce and Jordan Gavaris have also been added to the first season shoot of 10 one-hour episodes to debut in 2013. “Orphan Black,” which will star Tatiana Maslany, is shooting on location in Toronto through February 2013. The series, co-created by Graeme Manson and Ginger Snaps director John Fawcett, portrays Sarah (Maslany), an outsider and orphan whose life changes on assuming the identity of a dead stranger who looks just like her. Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando, Elizabeth Saunders and Ron Lea round out the main cast for “Orphan Black.” Watch the promo trailer inside. READ MORE

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[AFM '12] ‘Final Girl’ Will Get Revenge On Wes Bentley

Photographer Tyler Shields is now in pre-production on Final Girl, whcih begins lensing later this year in Canada. With AFM a few weeks away Studio City Pictures revealed the full cast for the flick that follows four teenage boys who ritualistically hunt and kill teenage girls in the woods choose the wrong victim for their sick game.

Abigail Breslin, Alexander Ludwig, Wes Bentley, Logan Huffman, Michael Trevino, Connor Paolo, Francesca Eastwood and Michael Trevino all star, Bloody Disgusting can report.

Loner Veronica is new to school, shy and vulnerable the perfect target for a group of teenage boys who lure girls into the woods to hunt and kill them for sport. It’s only after they get her alone that she turns the tables on them, escaping and revealing she’s armed and knows how to defend herself. Little do they know, Veronica is an assassin-in-training, and she’s chosen killing these boys as her final test. When the dust clears, Veronica will find out if she can be the final girl these boys ever have a chance to hurt.

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[AFM '12] Foreign Horror: ‘The Body,’ ‘Dendam Dari Kuburan’ and

With AFM quickly approaching, we’re going to receive a rash of promo trailers and posters, along with breaking news regarding a slew of independent and foreign horror. This year, the plan is to bunch them together as there’s no reason for 400 news posts about some films that may never even see a release (it’s a sad truth).

Thanks to Twitch, we’ve received a trio of new trailers for some foreign fare, including Oriol Paulo’s The Body (El Cuerpo), which stars begins when a woman’s body vanishes from the morgue in mysterious circumstances. In the course of a single night, Inspector Jaime Peña investigates the disappearance with the help of her widower.

Then there’s the trailer for the Indonesian horror film Dendam Dari Kurburan (Revenge From The Grave) as well as one for 3AM, a Thai anthology about ghostly encounters that all take place at 3AM. It’s also in 3-D. Yay?

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[AFM '12] ‘Outpost 37,’ ‘Kill Your Friends,’ ‘Entity’ and ‘I Spit On Your Grave Too’

Altitude Film Entertainment has set Prometheus star Rafe Spall for the lead in Britpop satire Kill Your Friends and added sci-fi Outpost 37 to its growing slate, reports Variety leading up to AFM. Spall takes the lead in Owen Harris’ film “About an A&R man who, desperately searching for the next big hit, takes the concept of killer tunes to a murderous new level.

Outpost 37 is the feature helming debut of L.A.-based VFX supervisor Jabbar Raisani. Raisani, whose VFX work includes several projects with Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios including Predators and Machete, co-wrote the sci-fi thriller with Blake Clifton. “The film follows a docu crew accompanying an elite unit of marines tasked with protecting mankind in the aftermath of an alien invasion.

CinTel Films has released the “official” synopsis for I Spit on Your Grave Too, which we exclusively broke the news that Steven R. Monroe will direct from a screenplay by Thomas Fenton. “Naturally beautiful, Jessica has just settled into New York where she, like many other young women, is trying to make it as a model. But what starts out as an innocent and simple photo shoot soon turns into something disturbingly unthinkable! Raped, tortured and kidnapped to a foreign country, Jessica is buried alive and left to die. Against all odds, she manages to escape. Severely injured, she will have to tap into the darkest places of the human psyche to not only survive, but to exact her revenge…

Lastly, inside we’ve added the official market trailer for Entity, which stars Dervla Kirwan, Charlotte Riley, Branko Tomovic, Rupert Hill, Oliver Jackson and Michael David Worden. READ MORE