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‘Burning Bright’ Pits Man Against Beast
Sobini Films will launch production in mid-July on thriller Burning Bright, starring Briana Evigan (“Step Up 2 the Streets”). The pic, which will lense in Florida, has a SAG waiver, allowing guild actors to work even if SAG is on strike. Sundance alumnus Carlos Brooks (“Quid Pro Quo”) will direct the movie; producers are Sobini topper Mark Amin and David Higgins (“Hard Candy”), who created the story and will produce under his Launchpad Prods. banner. Sobini’s Cami Winikoff will also produce. The script, written by Christine Coyle Johnson and Julie Prendiville Roux, centers on a 20-year-old and her autistic little brother who are trapped in a house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane. Sobini Films has a first-look deal with Lionsgate.
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‘Monster Mash’ Trailer – Michael Madsen Assembles His Own Monster Squad in New Indie Horror Movie
Universal’s “Dark Universe” may have gone up in flames right out of the gate, but that’s not stopping other studios from (unofficially) making their own Universal Monsters mashups.
All the classic monsters unite to brawl in The Asylum’s Monster Mash, which is coming to select theaters as well as VOD outlets at home on the same day, Friday, March 29, 2024.
Who brings them all together, you ask? Michael Madsen, of course!
In Monster Mash, “A dying Dr. Frankenstein is determined to meld the world’s strongest monsters into a singular, unstoppable creation. Now the monsters—including Dracula, Werewolf, and the Invisible Man—must work together to stop him before it’s too late.”
The film will be opening theatrically in the following locations:
- Laemmle – Glendale, California
- Hickory Ridge Cinemas – Brunswick, Ohio
- Trylon Cinema – Minneapolis, Minnesota
- O Cinema – South Beach, Miami, Florida
- Aurora Cineplex – Roswell, Georgia
Ethan Daniel Corbett and Emma Reinagel also star in The Asylum’s Monster Mash.
The film is written and directed by Jose Prendes (The Exorcists).
You can watch the Monster Mash trailer below. Monster Squad this is not, to say the least, but the low budget monster mashup does look like it could at least deliver a good time. Michael Madsen chewing the scenery as Victor Frankenstein while Dracula, The Invisible Man and a computer-generated Wolfman wreak havoc? We’ve been promised worse times than that!
“The Invisible Man… I just need a piece of his skin,” Madsen says at one point in the trailer. And it was in that moment that our weekend plans were decided. Find the film on VOD Friday.
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