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‘Falling Stars’ – Festival Poster for Folk-Horror Witch Drama Watches the Skies

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A new festival poster has been released for Falling Stars, Richard Karpala and Gabriel Bienczycki’s feature directorial debut, ahead of its North American premiere at Austin’s Fantastic Fest later this month. The American folk-horror witch drama is directed and produced by Karpala and Bienczycki. Find the poster below, along with a teaser trailer.

Karpala wrote and edited and Bienczycki lensed the feature, which was described by Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro as “Monte Hellman doing The Blair Witch Project.”

Offering a uniquely bold mix of tones and genres — and “a touch of Shirley Jackson” (Sight and Sound) — the film is set in the American West on the night of the first harvest as three brothers (Rene Leech, Shaun Duke Jr., Andrew Gabriel) set out to see a dead witch buried by their friend. When they accidentally desecrate the body, they learn the only way to stop a curse on their family is to burn it before sunrise.

“This story deals in many ways with the costs of coming-of-age,” said the Polish-American directors in a co-statement to Locarno Film Festival. “To leave the shelter of home and venture off into the unknown under the burden of youthful free will without a grasp of the consequences.”

Prior to premiering, Falling Stars was chosen to be part of the 2022 US in Progress showcase at the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland and presented in the 2022 Frontières Platform in Cannes as part of the Buyer’s Showcase. XYZ Films and Raven Banner share sales rights on the title, handling North American and International, respectively.

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“Daywalkers Make It Look Easy” – Wesley Snipes Comments on Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Troubles

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It has now been 26 years since Wesley Snipes first played Marvel’s vampire slayer Blade on the big screen, and 20 years since the last time he played the character in Blade: Trinity. The role is next being taken over by Mahershala Ali in Marvel’s upcoming reboot movie, but at this point we’re starting to wonder if we’re ever going to meet Ali’s Blade on the big screen.

It’s no secret that the brand new Blade movie has been bumped all over the release calendar the last couple years, currently set for theatrical release on November 7, 2025. But the movie is without a director at the moment, with Yann Demange (“Lovecraft Country”) departing the project in the wake of Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) exiting the film back in 2022.

Taking to Twitter over the weekend, Wesley Snipes offered his own thoughts on the behind the scenes struggles to bring his most iconic big screen character back to the big screen.

Snipes tweets, “Blade, lordylordylordy 👀 folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough. Daywalkers make it look easy, don’t they?”

Marvel’s Blade reboot starring Mahershala Ali was originally announced at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2019. Since then, creative differences have repeatedly delayed the project.

At this time, Mia Goth (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is also on board to star.

Stay tuned for more as we learn it.

The vampire-slaying character was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan, introduced in July 1973’s The Tomb of Dracula #10. Wesley Snipes played Blade across three films from 1998 through 2004, and he was played by Sticky Fingaz in a short-lived TV series.

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