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Blood-Soaked Comedy ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’ Acquired by Arrow
After a massive film festival run over the past several months, Arrow has acquired both U.S. and the U.K. rights to Kirill Sokolov’s feature debut Why Don’t You Just Die!, which recently won two awards at the Fantasia film festival, reports Variety.
The Russian movie, which world premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and also screened at the Cinepocalypse Film Festival in Chicago this past July, is an action-packed comedy thriller starring Aleksandr Kuznetsov as a young man who gets enlisted by his girlfriend to kill her abusive father, a corrupt detective, and shows up at their Moscow home armed with a hammer.
Sokolov said the film’s reflects on “the realities of life in Russia, modern relationships, and societal attitudes.”
He added that the film is intended as an “emotional rollercoaster, making the audience laugh, cry, and laugh again – but then immediately feel a sense of unease for having laughed.”
Watch for a trailer and release news as it comes in. Add this to your must-see list.
Abigail Cowen (“Stranger Things,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” The Ritual) will lead the cast of psychedelic horror movie The Guide, Deadline reports this week.
James Badge Dale (13 Hours) and Edouard Philipponnat (Napoleon) will also star. Inon Shampanier directs from a script co-written with Natalie Shampanier.
Deadline details, “Abigail Cowen will play a young woman who enters a psilocybin mushroom retreat in an effort to heal past traumas, surrendering herself to the care of a psychedelic therapy guide (James Badge Dale). As the guide’s motives come under suspicion, the past bleeds into the present and the session unravels into a psychedelic nightmare.”
“This psychedelic therapy thriller is designed to be a visceral inward journey, and I am thrilled to go on this journey with the incredibly talented James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen and Edouard Philipponnat,” Inon Shampanier said in a statement to Deadline.
Stay tuned for more on The Guide as we learn it.
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