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AFM ’11: Get a Taste of Family ‘Greed’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 07, 2011 @ 3:44pm
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First announced last AFM was the French psychological thriller from director Eric Guirdo (The Grocer’s Son) entitled Greed. Said to be based on tragic events that made major headlines back in 2003, we got our hands on the official sales art and imagery for the flick starring Jérémie Renier (Brotherhood of the Wolf), Julie Depardieu , Alexandra Lamy, and Lucien Jean-Baptiste.

“Bruno and Maryline are dreaming of a better life. The couple move to a small town nestled in the breathtaking French Alps where they are greeted by their landlord Patrick and his beautiful wife Gladys.

Because their home is not yet ready, Patrick puts them up in another house – but what begins as temporary housing soon turns into a series of moves from one place to the next, until Bruno and his family end up in a hotel, still waiting for their home. As their bitterness and anger builds up, so does intense jealousy over their landlords’ wealth, happiness and success-culminating in a bloody outcome.” READ MORE

AFM ’11: New Look at ‘Groundhog Day’-esque ‘Repeaters’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 07, 2011 @ 3:44pm
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Alliance Films is taking the Groundhog Day route with a new horror thriller by the name of Repeaters, directed by Carl Bessai and starring Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, Richard de Klerk, and Benjamin Ratner. Check out the trailer above and some new still inside that come out of AFM.

The Canadian film is described as “a gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.” Dig on the trailer below. Release info when is comes available. READ MORE

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AFM ’11: New Imagery From Game of ‘Truth or Dare’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 04, 2011 @ 5:28pm
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AFM 11: New Imagery From Game of Truth or Dare

*Updated with sales art and new imagery.

First announced back in March was Corona Pictures’ teen horror thriller Truth Or Dare, which we just landed the AFM sales art for. My guess is our leading lady, who’s about to pop out of her dress, had a bad spin…

Robert Heath, who made the 2010 political drama Sus, directed the thriller “about five teenage friends who are taken hostage by a psychopath and forced to play a deadly spin-the-bottle party game.” The script has been written by Matthew McGuchan.

The cast includes a crop of upcoming young British actors including David Oakes (Pillars of the Earth), Jennie Jacques (Cherry Tree Lane), Liam Boyle (Awaydays), Jack Gordon (Fish Tank) and Alexander Vlahos (The Indian Doctor).

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Radha Mitchell Joins Cage and Cusack in ‘Frozen Ground’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 03, 2011 @ 6:04pm
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Silent Hill, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D and The Crazies star Radha Mitchell has been cast in the Lionsgate thriller The Frozen Ground, opposite Nicolas Cage, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Vanessa Hudgens and John Cusack, says THR.

Frozen Ground, a real-life based story from first-time filmmaker Scott Walker, is based on true events “surrounding Alaska’s most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen. Cusack is in talks to play a respected family man who for over 12 years abducted more than 24 women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness to be hunted. Cage is in talks to play a principled and dedicated Alaskan State Trooper who finds Hansen’s only surviving teen victim alive on the street. The trooper and the young girl finally bring Hansen to justice. Mitchell will play the wife of the detective (Cage).” READ MORE

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AFM ’11: ‘The Beast’ Has Violent Plans for Revenge

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 02, 2011 @ 8:30pm
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We’ve just now landed the first ever image from Hwang Yoo-Shik’s Korean thriller The Beast, which is for sale at the ongoing American Film Market.

“With only 24 hours given, special force Tae-hoon desperately searches for his kidnapped sister and his beast-like revenge begins.”

Jung Suk-won and Jeon Sae-hong both star. READ MORE

AFM ’11: Sara Paxton Reteams With ‘Shark Night’ Director to Solve ‘The Briar Lake Murders’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 01, 2011 @ 6:46pm
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AFM 11: Sara Paxton Reteams With Shark Night Director to Solve The Briar Lake Murders

Back in January we broke the news that David R. Ellis (Shark Night 3D, Cellular, Snakes on a Plane, The Final Destination, Final Destination 2) would be heading back to the water with The Briar Lake Murders, working with cinematographer Daniel Pearl, who is known for his DP work on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003, Friday the 13th and Warners forthcoming The Apparition.

With the American Film Market kicking off tomorrow, the film’s temp website has the first official casting. Ellis is to reteam with Shark Night 3D starlette Sara Paxton, who can also be seen in Ti West’s supernatural The Innkeepers and The Last House on the Left remake.

Penned by Walter Jakubowski, Neal Fischer and David Nevarez, the film follows a group of reckless and self-involved “twenty somethings” who quickly discover that disrespecting the locals can have disastrous circumstances… READ MORE

AFM ’11: ‘Truth or Dare’ Warns That “You’re Next”

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 01, 2011 @ 3:47pm
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AFM 11: Truth or Dare Warns That Youre Next

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AFM ’11: More Ugly ‘Liars All’ Sales Art

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Posted by MrDisgusting on October 28, 2011 @ 4:45pm
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Announced back in April, Matt Lanter (The Roommate, Vampires Suck, Sorority Row) , Gillian Zinser (Manson Girls), Torrance Coombs, Sara Paxton (The Innkeepers, Last House on the Left, Shark Night 3D), Alice Evans, Tiffany Mulheron and Randy Wayne all star in the psychological thriller Liars All, written and directed by Brian Brightly. With AFM just a weke away, inside you’ll find the latest piece of cruddy sales art.

“It’s New Year’s Eve in London and a group of friends are playing a provocative game that spins out of control and ends in murder. Despite an immediate police investigation, the true killer remains elusive amidst conflicting testimony and hidden motives. A night of shared secrets and newfound intimacies takes unexpected turns, resulting in an explosive outcome that will change their lives forever. LIARS ALL is a haunting, psychosexual thriller about desire…and how far some will go to win.” READ MORE

AFM ’11: Trailer for Swedish Thriller ‘Gone’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on October 28, 2011 @ 2:01am
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AFM 11: Trailer for Swedish Thriller Gone!

Premiering at the forthcoming AFM is Mattias Olsson and Henrik JP Åkesson’s Swedish thriller Gone (Försvunnen), which stars Sofia Ledarp (The Girl Who Played With Fire), Kjell Bergqvist and Björn Kjellman. Just in time for the market we got our hands on the first trailer that looks quite promising. Enjoy it inside.

“A young woman, Malin, has recently been through a family trauma. She decides to leave her home town of Karlskrona to start a new life in one of the northern towns of Sweden. During her long road-trip she encounters a mysterious man who starts following her. Before she knows it she has been kidnapped and brought to a basement somewhere deep in the forest. Nobody knows she is gone and nobody is coming to save her. She has nobody to count on but herself.” READ MORE

UK Trailer, One Sheet for Cillian Murphy Starrer ‘Retreat’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on September 06, 2011 @ 5:46pm
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Having premiered at the July Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Sony Pictures Worldwide has unleashed the official trailer and one sheet for the thriller Retreat (review), which stars Cillian Murphy, Thandie Newton and Jamie Bell. It opens in the UK October 14.

Carl Tibbetts makes his feature directorial debut on the film, which “finds Murphy and Newton heading to a remote island cottage to rebuild their frail marriage. When a wounded and armed stranger (Bell) shows up at their door with news about a deadly airborne virus, they must seal themselves inside the cottage, where the tension starts to escalate from psychological to physical.”

UK Trailer, One Sheet for Cillian Murphy Starrer Retreat

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 26, 2011 @ 5:53pm
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The first clip has been released for Sony Screen Germs’ Straw Dogs, Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 classic arriving in theaters September 16. The clip features Kate Bosworth as “Amy” calling her husband (played by James Marsden) a “coward”. He refuses to be bullied…

In the reboot, “David and Amy Sumner (Marsden and Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation.”
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[Review] ‘The Caller’ Had Great Potential

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 26, 2011 @ 3:29pm
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Now in limited theaters everywhere from Samuel Goldwyn Films is Mathew Parkhill’s The Caller, which stars Stephen Moyer and Rachelle Lefevre of “True Blood” and Twilight fame, respectively. Evan Dickson writes in with his thoughts on the chiller, and I couldn’t agree more: it’s a pretty outstanding concept that should have been much, much better…

“As it stands, it’s a good movie with great potential that I wanted to work just a little bit better than it did…. Ultimately, the worst thing I can say about ‘The Caller’ could also pass for a compliment. I liked it enough to want more out of it.”

You can read the entire review by clicking the title above. Check out our exclusive video interviews with Parkhill and Moyer, and our report from the red carpet event in Puerto Rico.
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[Video Interview] ‘The Caller’ Director Matthew Parkhill and Star Stephen Moyer

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 26, 2011 @ 3:08pm
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Earlier this week Bloody Disgusting stringer Evan Dickson flew out to Puerto Rico for the red carpet premiere of Samuel Goldwyn Films’ The Caller (review), which is now open in limited theaters across the country.

Yesterday we brought you Evan’s report from the event, while inside you’ll now find our exclusive video interviews with Director Matthew Parkhill and “True Blood” star Stephen Moyer.

“When troubled divorcee, Mary Kee, begins to receive mysterious phone calls from an unknown caller she quickly begins to feel haunted in her own home. When she discovers that the person is calling from the past, Mary realizes that she will have to kill her in order to survive but how do you kill someone living in the past and what will happen if she fails.”

Caller is a chilling supernatural thriller in the tradition of The Grudge and The Ring.

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[Special Report] ‘The Caller’ Premiere in Puerto Rico: Lights! Camera! Hurricane!

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Posted by EvanDickson on August 25, 2011 @ 9:08pm
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Samuel Goldwyn Films’ suspense thriller The Caller is headed to select cities this Friday, August 26th. Directed by Matthew Parkhill from a script by Sergio Casci and starring Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight, New Moon), Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”, Quills), Ed Quinn (“True Blood”, “Eureka”) Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights) and Lorna Raver (Drag Me To Hell), the film centers around a recent divorcee who starts receiving some seriously needy and deranged phone calls on the old-timey landline in her new apartment.

Originally set to film in New York, the movie instead set up shop in Puerto Rico to take advantage of the territory’s tax incentives and the assistance of the local film commission. The subsequent plan was to shoot San Juan and pass it off as New York, but the filmmakers wisely decided to take full advantage of the exotic local flavor (and avoid the insurmountable task of finding more than two square feet of the Caribbean island that could pass for the Big Apple) and adapted the story to take place in the Puerto Rican capital instead.

Earlier this week I flew out to the island – which was literally enveloped by Hurricane Irene at the time – to attend the premiere, get a feel for the vibes of San Juan (the city is something of a character in the movie) and with speak with some of the film’s cast and crew about their soon to be notoriously difficult 23 day shoot. A shoot most of the people I spoke to felt was appropriately mirrored by the many, many difficulties that beset the premiere and, well… everything that went down over the past few days.

Check it out after the jump.

[Special Report] The Caller Premiere in Puerto Rico: Lights! Camera! Hurricane!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 24, 2011 @ 9:54pm
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Christian Bale has made clear he won’t decide his next move until after The Dark Knight Rises wraps later this fall. When that time comes, he’ll have some weighty options — several high-profile projects and a handful of studios are actively courting the soon-to-be former Caped Crusader, reports Variety.

One such film: Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake. According to the site, Bale would play the villain, which means he won’t have to worry about having sex with his own daughter. It would be nice to see Bale brush off his Patrick Bateman character from American Psycho and work bits of him into this redo.

“The original South Korean masterpiece revolves around a man who’s kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years. When he’s finally released and begins looking into the reason for his captivity, he soon finds out that his kidnapper has even more torturous plans for him.”

The original film, released in 2003 and directed by Chan-wook Park, won the Grand Prize Jury Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

WB Courting Christian Bale for Villain Role in Oldboy Remake

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 18, 2011 @ 7:51pm
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Opening in limited theaters on August 26 from Samuel Goldwyn Films, inside you’ll find the theater listing and official one sheet for Mathew Parkhill’s J-horror inspired The Caller, which stars Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer and Luis Guzman. The poster features Lefevre of Twilight fame with an oddly placed hand in the background.

“When troubled divorcee, Mary Kee, sets up home in her new apartment, she stumbles across an old telephone which she quickly falls in love with. Struck by its antique charm, she gives it pride of place in her home. Before long, Mary begins to receive strange phone calls from a mysterious, unknown caller. Over time, she discovers that the caller is a woman called Rose and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. However, when Rose claims to be calling from the past, Mary begins to question her new friend’s motives.

As Rose’s phone calls become ever more disturbing, Mary’s sense of terror escalates. Feeling haunted in her own home, she cuts all contact with Rose. Enraged by Mary’s betrayal, Rose threatens to exact her terrible revenge. Not on Mary in the present but on Mary as a child in the past. Mary finally realizes that she will have to kill Rose in order to save herself. But how can she kill someone living in the past and what will happen if she fails?”
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See Baddie Skarsgard, Wuss Marsden in 40 Hi-Res ‘Straw Dogs’ Stills

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 16, 2011 @ 5:04pm
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For those of your disappointed that Alexander Skarsgard has become a super pussy on HBO’s “True Blood,” on September 16 he returns to his evil roots in Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs, which also stars James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, James Woods, Dominic Purcell and Willa Holland.

This morning Sony Screen Gems has supplied Bloody with nearly 40 hi-res images from the thriller that looks tonally similar to I Spit On Your Grave and Last House on the Left. The casting is truly interesting as it’ll be It’s be quite a sight to see Marsden play a total wuss.

“David and Amy Sumner (Marsden and Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation.”

Click any still for the entire gallery.

3strawdogs081611 See Baddie Skarsgard, Wuss Marsden in 40 Hi Res Straw Dogs Stills

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 15, 2011 @ 4:49pm
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Even though I occasionally take a fork in the road and cover films like Battle: Los Angeles and Cowboys & Aliens, I’m completely stepping out of bounds by covering Oscilloscope Laboratories’ dramatic thriller We Need To Talk About Kevin.

While this will be the sole editorial on Lynne Ramsay’s little film until we get a chance to see it, an absolutely gut-punching and chilling trailer has premiered that really pushes the boundaries of a thriller. It definitely looks like something many of you would enjoy.

“The mother (Tilda Swinton) of a teenage boy (Ezra Miller) who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief — and feelings of responsibility for her child’s actions — by writing to her estranged husband (John C. Reilly).”

Oscilloscope will release the film on December 2nd.
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Confirmed: Spike Lee Directs Dark Thriller ‘Oldboy’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 11, 2011 @ 6:49pm
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After a three-year hiatus, Spike Lee has found his next feature directing project, committing to helm Mandate Pictures’ remake of the South Korean thriller Oldboy, as previously rumored late last week.

“The original story revolves around a man who’s kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years. When he’s finally released and begins looking into the reason for his captivity, he soon finds out that his kidnapper has even more torturous plans for him.”

The original film, released in 2003 and directed by Chan-wook Park, won the Grand Prize Jury Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Mark Protosevich has adapted the script with Roy Lee and Doug Davison producing through Vertigo Entertainment and 40 Acres & A Mule Productions. Mandate prexy Nathan Kahane will exec produce.

Oldboy has been a high priority at Mandate for some time, with Steven Spielberg at one point eyeing to direct and Will Smith circling to star. When Spielberg and Smith moved on, the project went under the radar as Mandate began searching for new candidates.
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‘The Rite’/’1408′ Director Feels No Fear for Hammer’s ‘Wake’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2011 @ 12:30am
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I might have hated The Rite, but I did dig 1408 and do think that Mikael Hafstrom is quite the talented director.

Heat Vision reports that Hafstrom is attached to direct the thriller Wake for Exclusive Media Group’s Hammer Films banner. Christopher Borelli and Matt Sand wrote the screenplay, “about a sociopath who is incapable of feeling fear.”

Hammer – the legendary company that’s propelled itself back into the genre limelight with both Let Me In and Wake Wood – will produce and finance the project.

Hammer also recently produced The Resident and will next have The Woman In Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, in theaters January 20, 2012.
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The ‘Oldboy’ Remake Lives, Spike Lee to Direct?

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 06, 2011 @ 4:27am
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Our friends at Twitch have learned exclusively that Spike Lee (Inside Man, Do the Right Thing) is apparently in taks to direct the kong-gestured Oldboy, Universal Pictures’ remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 Korean masterpiece.

Word of a US remake of the Park Chan-Wook revenge classic first surfaced in 2008 with rumors that both Steven Spielberg (in some capacity) and Will Smith were eyeing the project.

The film is set up at Mandate with Doug Davison and Roy Lee producing and Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend) writing the script.

“An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, Oh Dae-Su soon finds out that his kidnapper has a greater plan for him and is set onto a path of pain and suffering in an attempt to uncover the motive of his mysterious tormentor.”

If you haven’t seen Oldboy yet, you have no idea what you’re missing out on.
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Hilary Swank Talks Becoming ‘The Resident’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 28, 2011 @ 5:35pm
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On DVD and Blu-ray March 29 from Image Entertainment is Hammer Films’ next, The Resident, which stars Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee, and Lee Pace.

“After separating from her husband beautiful young Doctor Juliet (Swank) begins a new life in Brooklyn. Her stunning, spacious loft apartment seems too good to be true and when mysterious occurrences lead her to believe she’s not alone Juliet discovers the unthinkable…her landlord is a stalker.”

Directed by Antti Jokinen, and now available on DirecTV, inside you’ll find the first three clips from the thriller, along with exclusive interview footage with Hilary Swank. Click the image below for the newly updated gallery:

residentnewstill032111 Hilary Swank Talks Becoming The Resident

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 22, 2011 @ 4:58pm
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On DVD and Blu-ray March 29 from Image Entertainment is Hammer Films’ next, The Resident, which stars Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee, and Lee Pace.

Directed by Antti Jokinen, and now available on DirecTV, inside you’ll find the first three clips from the thriller. Click the image below for the newly updated gallery:

residentnewstill032111 Meet The Resident in First 3 Clips, Violent New Stills

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SXSW ’11 INTERVIEW: ‘The Divide’ Director Xavier Gens!

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Posted by David Harley on March 22, 2011 @ 2:51pm
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Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens’ The Divide (review) was acquired for a whopping seven figures (by Anchor Bay) after its SXSW world premiere late last week, and just before the big sale David Harley caught up with the French phenom to talk about the end of the world.

Starring Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance, and Lauren German, the film begins when a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York forcing eight strangers to take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter designed by their paranoid superintendent Mickey.
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