SXSW ’11 REVIEW: ‘The Divide’ is “Terrifying and Bleak”

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 18, 2011 @ 3:36pm
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Earlier this week Anchor Bay pulled out the check book and spent over a million bucks on Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens’ The Divide, a tense post-apocalyptic thriller that takes to a NYC bunker where a group of apartment tenants fight to stay alive.

“ ‘The Divide’ is a terrifying and bleak vision of the future whose performances and images will stick with you for days after you watch it. Gens’ direction and Laurent Barès cinematography create a moody, claustrophobic atmosphere that never feels stale despite its closed-quarters setting. The tone is vile and the characters devolve into sickening states of being, but the reality-based approach to Gens’ end of days makes for one of the best apocalyptic tales in quite a while.”

You’ll find the full review by clicking here, while you can keep up with all of our SXSW coverage here.

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SXSW ’11: Anchor Bay Pays Big for ‘The Divide’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 16, 2011 @ 3:12pm
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After an intense world premiere, the hyper relevant The Divide (watch 3 clips) has gone to Anchor Bay in a low seven figure deal.

Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Eklund and Courtney B. Vance star in the story of what happens after eight people take refuge in the underground bunker a 9/11 survivor has built beneath their apartment building after a cataclysmic bomb wrecks New York.

Xavier Gens (Frontiers) directed the screenplay by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean.

Watch for our exclusive interview with Gens and a review in the coming week. I implore you to keep your eyes peeled for a release date as the movie is pretty effin’ awesome.
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SXSW ’11: Two New Clips From ‘Frontier(s)’ Director’s ‘The Divide’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 14, 2011 @ 5:35pm
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There’s not much known about Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens’ The Divide,his end of the world thriller starring Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance, and Lauren German. While we have a synopsis, it’s still unclear what kind of movie we’ll be seeing. Suffice to say, word out of the SXSW world premiere is that the movie is absolutely incredible (review forthcoming).

To garner even more excitement, inside you’ll find an exclusive look at 2 more clips, alongside the previous released opening sequence.

“When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter designed by their paranoid superintendent Mickey. With just three connecting rooms it’s barely big enough, but with stockpiles of food and water, the group are at least safe from the horrors outside, and they settle in and attempt to fathom the catastrophe that has ended the lives of so many of their loved ones.”
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SXSW ’11: Internal Conflict Realized in Opening Scene From ‘The Divide’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 10, 2011 @ 5:27pm
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“To survive the end of the world…you must first survive each other…”

Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens’ end of the world thriller The Divide is set to have its world premiere this coming weekend as the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. While a trailer was released late last year, this morning our friends at Twitch scored the opening scene from the post-apocalyptic thriller starring Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance, and LaurenGerman.

“When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter designed by their paranoid superintendent Mickey. With just three connecting rooms it’s barely big enough, but with stockpiles of food and water, the group are at least safe from the horrors outside, and they settle in and attempt to fathom the catastrophe that has ended the lives of so many of their loved ones.”

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Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Being Added To The National Film Registry

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Posted by Kristy Jett on January 02, 2010 @ 3:38pm
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It was recently announced that for the first time in history, a music video is being named to the U.S. National Film Registry. In all fairness, it may as well be considered a film. Michael Jackson’s Thriller was not only played on tv, but was released theatrically on 35mm film. The video debuted on December 2nd, 1983 while “Thriller” wasn’t released to radio as a single until January 23rd, 1984. The album itself has sold over 100 million worldwide in the 26 years since its release. The video was helmed by An American Werewolf In London director John Landis, who also co-wrote the script for the video with Jackson. The effects in the video were created by Academy Award winning make up effects artist Rick Baker (who won for An American Werewolf In London). It also features a cameo by horror legend, Vincent Price.

thriller460 Michael Jacksons Thriller Being Added To The National Film Registry

“Thriller” was given this distinguished honor (being stored in a vault so when a Zombie apocalypse strikes, at least the next wave of inhabitants will know we had taste), for the fact that since its release it has been a pop cultural mainstay. The Library of Congress described the video as a lavish production that “revolutionized the music industry”. It also gave horror more mainstream appeal. There are other horror films entered in the registry; Frankenstein, Psycho and Freaks to name a few. The last time a horror film was chosen was John Carpenter’s Halloween in 2006. READ MORE