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‘Black Circle’ Spins to a Stop as Filming Wraps
Back in May we told you about a new “spin” on the devil music subgenre that’s once again socially relevant.
Adrian Garcia Bogliano, who is behind the werewolf movie Late Phases, has wrapped production [EW] on Black Circle(Svart Cirkel), a Swedish-language supernatural thriller that “turns on two sisters whose lives change dramatically after going through hypnosis using a mysterious vinyl album recorded in the 1970s.”
Swedish icon Christina Lindberg, Quentin Tarantino’s inspiration for Kill Bill, through her role in 1973 Swedish cult classic thriller They Call Her One-Eye (pictured above), stars, Variety had reported. Black Circle‘s cast also features award-winning Swedish actors such as Mathilda Paradeiser (She Monkeys), Hanna and Erica Midfjäll (I Miss You), Madeleine Trollvik (Johan Falk) and singer Johan Palm.
”It was a blast to shoot this film with an amazing cast of performers from the most different backgrounds and coming with exciting approaches to the material,” said Bogliano in a statement to EW. “It was exciting to have the chance to do something that takes place in a country with such a unique culture and an overwhelming film history.”
Above, also via EW, you can see a photograph of Bogliano (third from left) with cast members (left-to-right) Hanna Asp, Hanna Midfjäll, Christina Lindberg, Felice Jankell, Hans Sandquist, and Johan Palm.
The film is backed by Joshua Sobel’s L.A.-based F as well as Sweden’s Klubb Super 8 and Solid Ent., Mexico’s Salto de Fe Films, Tenebrae Enterprises from Finland and the U.K.’s Mondo Macabro.
Marking their first genre outing, Rickard Gramfors and his partner Bo Gramfors are producing Black Circle for Sweden’s Klubb Super 8, in association with Andrea Quiroz Hernandez, producer of Bogliano’s latest, Scherzo Diabolico, working out of her Mexican company Salto de Fe Films.
In the latest deal, struck at Cannes, Mikko Aromaa’s Finnish production company Tenebrae Enterprises has boarded the project as a co-producer.
A Field in England‘s executive producer Pete Tombs and The Greasy Strangler‘s producer Andy Starke will co-produce at U.K.’s Mondo Macabro. The Swedish genre pic producer Solid Entertainment (Wake Wood, Stitches) is also joining the production.
That multilateral co-pro backing is a reflection of the cache of the Spanish-born but formerly Argentina-based Garcia Bogliano, now working out of Mexico, who was a 2012 Austin Fantastic Fest five-prize winner with the Spanish-language Here Comes the Devil.
The Wayans are out to cancel the Cancel Culture with Scary Movie, and the cast assures it will do just that.
“They sort of have an across-the-board style,” Anna Faris tells EW. “It’s always been a part of the Wayans Brothers, their electricity. ‘Can we offend you? Will you still love us? Come on, you still love us, don’t you?'”
Regina Hall concurs, promising the “boundary-pushing” sixth installment in the horror parody franchise will “offend everyone.”
EW has shared a batch of behind-the-scenes images from Scary Movie, which hits theaters June 5 via Paramount.
Faris and Hall are joined by fellow franchise favorites Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, and Jon Abrahams in the legacy sequel.
The ensemble includes Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, Kenan Thompson, and Felissa Rose.
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directs from a script by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez (A Haunted House).
The film will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final.
Scary Movie launched in 2000, followed by Scary Movie 2 in 2001. The Wayans’ involvement ended there, but the series continued with 2003’s Scary Movie 3, 2006’s Scary Movie 4, and 2013’s Scary Movie 5.
Regina Hall & Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans & Regina Hall on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Tiddes & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Regina Hall & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
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