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Artsploitation Films Goes Camping With ‘Cub’!
Artsploitation Films is going to camp with Jonas Govaerts’ Cub (Welp), acquiring the film for U.S. release.
“The story follows an introverted 12-year-old boy as he and his Cub Scout troupe embark on a weekend camping trip in the woods. But an evil psychopath, aided by his feral young protégé, wreck bloody havoc on the boys and their troupe leaders.”
Cub was described by our very own Jay Hawkinson as “kinetic and brutal, gory and graphic with comedic beats in-between.”
The film, which world premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, has gone on to play the London Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and Sitges, where Govaerts received its award for best director and the won the festival’s Youth Jury’s award for best film.
Artsploitation plans a theatrical release in the summer of 2015 with DVD and VOD release later in the fall.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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