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Anchor Bay Picks Up ‘No One Lives’

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Posted by EvanDickson on October 31, 2012 @ 12:55pm
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WWE’s No One Lives from director Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train) has been acquired by Anchor Bay, per Variety.

In the film, “A ruthless criminal gang takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. When the captive girl is killed, the tables are unexpectedly turned. The gang finds itself outsmarted by an urbane and seasoned killer determined to ensure that no one lives.”

“‘No One Lives’ is a unique horror film that we know audiences are going to love,” said Kevin Kasha, executive VP of acquisitions and co-productions at Anchor Bay. “We’re pleased to be working with the team at WWE Studios again as well as their co-producers at Pathe.”

No word yet on a release date.

Excision

Posted by Ryan Daley on October 16, 2012 @ 12:00am
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A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.

[TIFF '12] Anchor Bay Acquires Rob Zombie’s ‘The Lords of Salem’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on September 16, 2012 @ 3:54pm
Category: Movies / News

After much speculation and a heated bidding war, Anchor Bay Films emerged as the new home for Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem. Under the agreement, Anchor Bay will handle all U.S. distribution rights on the film. Written and directed by Rob Zombie, The Lords of Salem stars Sheri Moon Zombie (Halloween) as well as Bruce Davison (X-Men), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Halloween 2), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Patricia Quinn (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Dee Wallace (E.T.) and Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love). The film premiered last week at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and received rave reviews from mainstream and genre critics alike.

“I have always been a fan of the care and respect Anchor Bay has put into their genre titles,” said Zombie. “”

The Los Angeles Times dubbed The Lords of Salem “his darkest most unnerving yet,” IndieWire declared it “Rob Zombie’s best film” and Dread Central said “fans couldn’t stop talking about the film” after its premiere in Toronto.

Rock star-turned-horror maven Rob Zombie conjures up a nerve-wracking chiller involving Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio station DJ, who receives a wooden box containing a vinyl record, “a gift from the Lords.” She assumes it’s from a band trying to promote themselves. Heidi and others listen but unbeknownst to them, the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?

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Win Tampa ROE Passes And A Post-Apocalyptic DVD Prize Pack, Courtesy of WWE Studios and Anchor Bay Films’ ‘The Day’

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Posted by David Harley on August 25, 2012 @ 12:38pm
Category: Movies / Contests

Since we’ve always got something going on for our Orlando readers, we’re going to show love for all you guys out in Tampa this time around. Anchor Bay Films and WWE Studios is opening The Day on Wednesday, August 29 at AMC Veterans 24. Not only do we have your chance to win run of engagement passes to see the film, but we also have a few Anchor Bay DVD prize packs up for grabs, which includes The Walking Dead, Alien Apocalypse, The Collapsed, and The Divide. Read past the break for details on how to win!

In the post-apocalyptic thriller, “A group of five survivors, armed with shotguns, axes and machetes, wander the back roads of a ravaged landscape looking for refuge in The Day, a terrifying look into a post-apocalyptic future. As war ravages humanity, destroying civilization and most of life on earth, the survivors realize they must do whatever it takes to stay alive. Lost, starving, and exhausted, they seek shelter in a seemingly safe abandoned farmhouse. However, while searching for food and resources, they unwittingly set off a trap signaling to their ruthless predators lying in wait to begin their deadly attack. With food and ammunition dwindling, the group must make a desperate final stand—over a 24 hour period—battling for their ultimate survival.”

The pic stars Shawn Ashmore (Frozen, Mother’s Day, X-Men), Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism), Michael Eklund (The Divide), Cory Hardrict (Gran Torino, Battle: Los Angeles), Dominic Monaghan (ABC’s Lost, Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and Shannyn Sossamon (One Missed Call, A Knight’s Tale). READ MORE

Roll Into The Gas Station In This Exclusive Clip From ‘The Collapsed’

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 17, 2012 @ 11:20am
Category: Movies / Videos

Anchor Bay’s Justin McConnell directed The Collapsed hits DVD on June 5th and we have an exclusive clip from the film to help kick things off! It’s a definitive reminder not to take too long at the gas station if the apocalypse has already happened.

In The film, “in wake of an unknown event that has catapulted civilization into a fatal downward spiral, the Weaver family — father Scott (John Fantasia), young adult son Aaron (Steve Vieira), mother Emily (Lise Moule) and teenage daughter Rebecca (Anna Ross) — desperately tries to survive. Fleeing the city, their only hope of sanctuary is a rural hometown from their past, Dover’s Bend. With the constant threat of violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest. However, they soon discover that the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries. Someone — or something — seems to have followed them into the wilderness…”

Head inside for the clip! READ MORE

Mother’s Day (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on May 08, 2012 @ 12:00am
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Limited Theaters on May 4: 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.

Jennifer Lynch On Why She Doesn’t Get the NC-17 Rating For ‘Chained’

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 03, 2012 @ 1:53pm
Category: Movies / Trailers

Just a day or so ago we reported that The Classification and Rating Appeals Board upheld the NC-17 rating given to the movie Chained. The Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) had assigned the movie the NC-17 rating for “some explicit violence.” This decision was made despite several appeals. The Appeals Board heard statements on behalf of Chained from Kevin Carney, Executive Director of Marketing at Anchor Bay, and Jennifer Lynch, the Director of the film. The scene in question is an image of a throat being cut.

But Jennifer Lynch still (politely) disagrees. Speaking to The LA Times she says, “The one thing they [the appeals board] kept citing was context, that violence in a lot of other films doesn’t feel as intense. I have a lot of compassion for what [the MPAA] does. And they were all very nice and warm in the room. But it doesn’t seem fair to me. I feel like we are being punished because the film was done the way it was set out to be done, which was authentically.”

She will cut the film, but hopes that the unrated version will be available in come capacity as well. But she doesn’t see the scene as being particularly shocking. “Horror fans will see it and be stunned at the NC-17. They’ve seen much worse.” Kevin Carney adds, “There were horrific scenes in ‘Hostel 3′ that I can’t get out of my head, but what the MPAA kept saying is that it was context, which seems arbitrary. Compare our movie to ‘Sweeney Todd,’ where 13 or 14 people get their throat slit. There’s an equal amount of graphic-ness. It’s just a different style.”

Head inside for the film’s sales trailer to see what all of the commotion is (or isn’t) about. READ MORE

The Wicker Tree (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on April 24, 2012 @ 12:00am
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Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, 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.

Get A Peek At ‘The Divide’ Blu-ray With This Exclusive Clip!

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 16, 2012 @ 7:04am
Category: Movies / Exclusives

Tomorrow, April 17th, Anchor Bay will release The Divide as a Blu-ray/DVD combo. The film is bleak as all get out, and I imagine many of you will be disturbed and engrossed by the depths many of its characters go to in order to eke out some kind of survival. Director Xavier Gens (Frontiers) does not shy away from dark places.

To that end, the clip we have actually takes place in the beginning of the film so it’s comparatively light-hearted (or as light-hearted as things get when you’re trapped in a basement after a nuclear blast). It also gives you a feel for what the interplay is like on the film’s commentary track as Xavier Gens, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia and Michael Ecklund riff off each other while discussing the film.

In this graphic and violent, post-apocalyptic thriller starring Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance and Lauren German, “nine strangers—all tenants of a New York high rise apartment—escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, the group begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment. As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, and they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness, each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows themselves to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape even with no promise of salvation on the outside.”

Head inside to check out the clip! The Divide hits home video tomorrow! READ MORE

Anchor Bay Acquires ‘Bait 3D,’ Will It Get 3D Release?

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Posted by MrDisgusting on April 11, 2012 @ 5:47pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

Anchor Bay Films has snapped up North American distribution rights to Australian horror-actioner Bait 3D, although release plans weren’t mentioned. I wonder if they’re following Piranha 3DD with a 3-D VOD release? Either way, the originally released footage was beyond terrible and looked less impressive than Universal Studios Orlando’s now defunct “Jaws: The Ride.”

Produced by Gary Hamilton, Todd Fellman and Peter Barber, pic stars Xavier Samuel (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), Sharni Vinson (You’re Next, Step Up 3D), Singaporean thesps Adrian Pang and Qi Yuwu, Phoebe Tonkin, Dan Wyllie and Julian McMahon (“Nip/Tuck”).

“Story’s set in a sleepy beach community where shoppers at an underground supermarket are terrorized by a crazed bandit when a tsunami swallows the town. Now trapped, with rushing water threatening to entomb them, the survivors discover the tsunami has brought unwanted visitors from the depths — hungry great white sharks.”

Early leaked sales trailer, images are as follows. If you had to choose, would you rather see this guy or the Halle Berry starrer Dark Tide? READ MORE

[Double Dip This!] ‘Battle Royale’: Arrow Films vs. Anchor Bay

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Posted by David Harley on April 02, 2012 @ 12:40am
Category: Movies / Home Video

After a little over a decade, Battle Royale was finally picked up by Anchor Bay for stateside distribution. We were thankfully not subjected to a 3D release, but the film did begin a brief theatrical run late last year, eleven years after it was originally unleashed on the world. Now, after being almost impossible to distribute due to post-Columbine backlash and MPAA concerns – try imagining this thing cut down to an R and tell me there would even be a movie left. READ MORE

Camel Spiders (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on March 27, 2012 @ 12:00am
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Based on actual creatures that for years have tormented our armed forces in the Middle East, these creatures have now invaded the southwestern deserts of the United States. The Camel Spiders now freely hunt for prey, unafraid of any predator – including man. No place is safe no one is beyond their paralyzing sting. In the end, a small band of hearty fighters are forced to make one last stand against the creatures.

‘Girls Against Boys’ Sails Out To Anchor Bay

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 13, 2012 @ 12:26am
Category: Movies / News

GVBLand31112 Girls Against Boys Sails Out To Anchor Bay

Austin Chick’s Girls Against Boys premiered at Austin’s SXSW Film Festival on Friday, and since then there’s hasn’t been a lot of clarity in regard to which distributor might take on the controversial film.

It was announced earlier that K5 would be handling international sales, but there was no domestic deal in place. That may have changed.

Per Deadline, “I’m hearing that Anchor Bay is negotiating a distribution deal on the SXSW Midnight title Girls Against Boys. The controversial thriller stars Nicole LaLiberte and Danielle Panabaker as two bartenders who get revenge against men who abused them.”

The film, starring Nicole LaLiberte (Kaboom, Dinner For Schmucks) and Danielle Panabaker (Friday The 13th (2009), Piranha 3DD), is “a psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree. With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone, it is also a coming-of-age story about a girl learning how the world really works.” READ MORE

The Dead (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on February 14, 2012 @ 12:00am
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When Lt Brian Murphy finds himself in extreme conditions he must team up with local Daniel Dembele in order for both men to try and find their way back to what is left of their lives whilst battling a terrifying threat from which there seems to be no escape. A gripping and enticing film from Howard and Jon Ford.

[Sundance '12] Anchor Bay Acquires Coming-Of-Age Horror ‘Excision’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 07, 2012 @ 8:05pm
Category: Movies / News

[Sundance 12] Anchor Bay Acquires Coming Of Age Horror Excision

Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to director/writer Richard Bates, Jr.’s debut feature film, Excision (review), which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month. Produced by Dylan Hale Lewis, the horror film features an all-star cast including: AnnaLynne McCord (“90210”), Traci Lords (Cry Baby), Ariel Winter (“Modern Family”), Roger Bart (“Desperate Housewives”), Jeremy Sumpter (Soul Surfer), Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Gray Gubler (“Criminal Minds”), Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God), Ray Wise (Good Night, and Good Luck) and John Waters.

“ ‘Excision’ is the story of Pauline (McCord), a delusional teenage outcast. Pauline picks scabs. Pauline dissects road kill. Pauline fantasizes about performing surgery on strangers. Her fascinations disturb her schoolmates and her parents, Phyllis (Lords) and Bob (Bart). No one understands Pauline except for Grace (Winter), her younger sister who suffers from cystic fibrosis. An outcast at school and at home, Pauline is convinced that the best way to repair her estranged relationship with her family is to perform a risky operation to save her sister’s life.”

Ryan Daley had this to say in his review of the film: “It’s like a Shakespearean tragedy without the Shakespeare. In the end, all of the subconscious craziness in ‘Excision’ is just an unnecessary afterthought tacked onto an insightful coming-of-age story.”

Keep up with all of our Sundance coverage here. READ MORE

The Divide (limited)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on January 13, 2012 @ 12:00am
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In this graphic and violent, post-apocalyptic thriller, nine strangers—all tenants of a New York high rise apartment—escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, the group begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment. As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, and they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness, each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows themselves to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape even with no promise of salvation on the outside.

The Divide (2012) Exclusive Interview With Star Michael Biehn

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on January 10, 2012 @ 4:21pm
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Anchor Bay Films Acquires Michael Biehn’s ‘The Victim’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 06, 2012 @ 7:14pm
Category: Movies / News

Anchor Bay Films Acquires Michael Biehns The Victim

Bloody Disgusting has learned that Anchor Bay Films has acquired The Victim (set report), a new indie directed by both Brock Morse and Michael Biehn (who took over later in the shoot).

“In the film good time girls Annie (Jennifer Blanc) and Mary (Danielle Harris) find themselves in a life and death situation. Annie’s life is put in jeopardy when she is witness to a violent act at the hands of two Sheriff’s Deputies. Fleeing from Attackers (Ryan Honey, Denny Kirkwood) she stumbles across Kyle (Michael Biehn), a recluse living in the middle of the woods. The ruggedly handsome loner stays far from civilization – that is – until a single knock on his door throws his solitary life into chaos. Two worlds collide in this psychological thriller that will make you question your trust in mankind. WHO IS THE VICTIM?”

The official website was launched last year that rocked a very NSFW trailer. READ MORE

The Howling Reborn (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on October 18, 2011 @ 12:00am
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When the lights go down … The Moon will rise … And a Legend will be REBORN

On the eve of his high school graduation, Will Kidman (Liboiron) finally looks up from his books to catch the eye of the girl he’s longed for the last four years –the mysterious Eliana Wynter (Shaw). He’s always been the shy kid, flying under the radar, but when he discovers a dark secret from his past— that he is heir to a powerful line of werewolves — he finds he has a choice to make between succumbing to his primal nature, or turning against his own, and maintaining his humanity. In order to fight the destiny of his legacy, and save Eliana – as well as himself – he must battle not only his growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing him, Eliana…and then, us all.

Bereavement (Malevolence prequel) (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on August 30, 2011 @ 12:00am
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In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim’s screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin’s whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario) comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan (Michael Biehn). While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren’t quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet’s nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed.

Super Hybrid (Hybrid) (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on August 23, 2011 @ 12:00am
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Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The garage’s female mechanic, Tilda, and her young, hip fellow mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own: it morphs into different cars to confuse them and instead of needing an engine to run, it breathes. It’s a killing machine that is capable of outrunning and outwitting humans. In a high-octane fight to the death, it’s our group of determined humans versus the car in this supernatural action-adventure in the vein of Stephen King’s Christine and Transformers.

The Official Trailer for Anchor Bay’s ‘Texas Killing Fields’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 18, 2011 @ 3:38pm
Category: Movies / News

Starring Let Me In and Kick-Ass‘ Chloe Grace Moretz, alongside Terminator: Salvation and Clash of the Titans star Sam Worthington, it’s hard to ignore Anchor Bay Films’ forthcoming Texas Killing Fields, the Ami Canaan Mann-directed thriller arriving in limited theaters on October 7. No word on VOD or DVD/Blu-ray dates at the moment.

Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, daughter of acclaimed Director Michael Mann, the thriller is inspired by true events and “follows a local homicide detective (Sam Worthington) in a small Texan town and his partner, a transplanted cop from New York City (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call ‘The Killing Fields.’

The killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When a familiar local girl, Anne (Chloe Grace Moretz) goes missing the detectives find themselves in a race against time to find the killer and save her life.”

The Official Trailer for Anchor Bays Texas Killing Fields

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 12, 2011 @ 11:10pm
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In 1973, the face of modern horror cinema changed forever with the release of The Wicker Man, starring screen legend Christopher Lee and veteran character actor Edward Woodward. Now, nearly 40 years later, the time has come for a new offering…

Anchor Bay Films has officially announced the acquisition of the much-anticipated follow-up The Wicker Tree (mini-review). The film reunites producer Peter Snell with the original helmer, Robin Hardy. Directed by Hardy, based on his acclaimed novel “Cowboys for Christ,” and produced by venerable UK company British Lion (who also produced the original), The Wicker Tree will be released theatrically in early 2012. Anchor Bay Films has acquired all rights in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. to The Wicker Tree.

“ ‘The Wicker Tree’ tells the story of singer Beth (newcomer Brittania Nicol) and her cowboy friend Steve (Henry Garrett, “The Bill,” “Skins”), two virginal Texans who come to Scotland to spread the gospel. These two innocents don’t know what they’re getting into as they find themselves trying to spread their chastity message at the estate owned by Sir Lachlan Morrison (Graham McTavish, Rambo, the upcoming The Hobbit films), who has revived ancient local religious practices when an accident at the nuclear power plant he runs rendered the area men infertile.”

Anchor Bay Announces 2012 Theatrical Run for The Wicker Tree

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 11, 2011 @ 10:46pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

In tradition of such “car from Hell” films as Christine, The Car, and Maximum Overdrive, Super Hybrid – from the producer of Punisher: War Zones and the director of One Missed Call – comes the next generation in killer car movies, a high-speed thriller pitting man against the ultimate driving massacre machine! Anchor Bay Entertainment releases the parking brake with the August 23rd Blu-ray and DVD release.

We’ve now been provided with a third car attack clip, along with the opening sequence that can all be enjoyed inside.

“Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it’s a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning — and outwitting — humans.”

Directed by Eric Valette (One Missed Call), the film stars Oded Fehr (The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, Resident Evil Franchise), Shannon Becker and Ryan Kennedy.
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