“Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving, she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.“.

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“Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving, she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.”

It is now available on VOD platforms with a limited theater planned for November 2.

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“Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving, she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.”

It is now available on VOD platforms with a limited theater planned for November 2.

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“Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving, she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.”

It will open on VOD platforms September 28 with a limited theater planned for November 2.

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Directed by Bradley Rust Gray, “Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.”

Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour, Dane DeHaan, Michael Chernus and Kylie Minogue all star in the R-rated horror drama arriving On Demand September 28 and in theaters November 2. Thanks to Avery for the heads up!

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Directed by Bradley Rust Gray, “Tomboy Jack and bubbly Diane fall head over heels in love one hot summer in New York City. When Diane reveals she must leave the city for school in Europe, their budding love is tested. Weaving horror elements into a distinctive and fresh yet timeless and universal first-love story, TFF alum Bradley Rust Gray brings his unique vision to this idiosyncratic story of the joys and terrors of first love.”

Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour, Dane DeHaan, Michael Chernus and Kylie Minogue all star in the R-rated horror drama.

Magnolia will premiere this fall.

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With the synopsis of Jack and Diane screaming love story and hinting werewolves, you may have asked yourself the same two questions I have. With this sounding more like a love story, is this worth my horror-thirsty attention? Can we expect Jack and Diane to be to lycanthropes, as Let the Right One In was to vampires?

I got with the director Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) and proposed these questions. I got the answers plus a whole lot more. Read on, and you’ll see what a well spoken, intelligent film maker he is – how he chose the long hard road over the easy CGI fix – and why BD brethren should take an interest in this lycan-ized love story that has been flying under our radar. PUTREFIED STINGRAY ICE CREAM

“Yes, you’re right on the mark, Jack & Diane is primarily a love story. And as much as I love Let the Right One In and I would dig the idea of someone doing for the werewolf genre what that film did for a vampire story – this is not that film,” said Gray.

“Let’s say for example a love story is a bowl of ice cream and a horror film is a dish of stingray meat.

That was our goal.”

ORIGINS & STORYLINE – LOVE & HORROR – ONE & THE SAME

Gray: “My first film was set in Iceland and wove Icelandic folk-lore into the narrative. In the story, a girl turns into a seal which is an adaptation of a familiar Nordic legend. When I started work on Jack & Diane I was curious about the American equivalent for these types of stories, and then I began to think of genre horror films as American “folk-lore”. The genesis for the idea started with that approach, then I forgot about it until it slid it’s way back into the story.

Jack and Diane is about falling in love for the first time. What I wanted to do though was to try to show how one girl feels from the inside of her body and how perhaps all of the unspoken words and emotions become manifested into a different animal. I also wanted the audience to feel how she feels or how anyone feels when they fall in love. At first you’re excited and giddy and warm, but there’s also this terror of how vulnerable you’re becoming, these little pangs of fear of getting hurt, fear of not being understood or loved for who you think you are. These are the terrors of love I wanted to explore along with the sing-song side of love.”

SMART and WELL PLANNED CREATURE FX – EIGHT YEARS BRED

Gray: “I’d say the main reason for a “horror fan” to see the film though, is for the work of Gabe Bartalos (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, From Beyond) who’s work they’re probably already familiar with. There are no computer graphics in the film, it’s entirely created from robotics and other traditional techniques. As well, we mixed our sound at Skywalker Ranch and Kent Sparling created a very personalized set of singular creature sounds and effects. He even had voice box altered so we could modulate roars to fit the inside of “the creature’s” open mouth.

It took over eight years to raise the money to make Jack & Diane, partially because of these unusual obstacles. But I’m personally very happy with the results. I love the performances from the actresses and the creature. I hope the audience appreciates and enjoys our efforts as well.”

Playing at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month, the film stars Juno Temple and Riley Keough as Tomboy Jack and bubbly Diane who fall head over heels in love one hot summer in New York City. But neither Jack’s tough exterior nor Diane’s demure innocence prepare them for the intensity of their feelings. When Diane reveals she must leave the city for school in Europe at the end of the summer, Jack pushes her away. As Diane struggles to maintain their budding romance, she must also try to conceal from Jack the increasingly dark and violent visions that have begun to plague her.

Weaving horror elements into a distinctive and fresh yet timeless and universal first-love story, TFF alum Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) applies his inimitable vision to this idiosyncratic story of the joys and terrors of first love. Riley Keough and Juno Temple bring a sweetness to their roles, which is offset by punctuations of macabre imagery to infuse their traditional summer love narrative with an ominous energy that is all the more evocative of their passionate love. It’s natural and beautiful, but also monstrous and frighteningóand ultimately, like the film itself, wholly and wonderfully unique.

Jack and Diane makes its world premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival on April 20th and runs through April 28th in New York City.

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There’s a rash of some serious hit-whoring around the Web, so instead we’ll compact a bunch of news briefs into this nice and tight edition of News Bites.

Magnet Releasing’s sexy werewolf flick Jack & Diane (pictured above), premiering at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival, and starring Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour and Kylie Minogue, has been rated “R” for “strong sexual content including nudity and an assault, bloody violence, language and drinking – all involving teens.” That’s a spicy plot for a pic about two hot females who think they’re Lycans. Magnet is expecting to release this fall.

Clicking on over to io9 you’ll find a series of unused storyboards from Warner Bros. Pictures now-defunct Akira. These images, though, are a snapshot of it could’ve looked like when the project was attached to Blinky director Ruairi Robinson a few years back. These sketches are by concept artist Sylvain Despretz (Gladiator, Alien Resurrection). Jaume Collet-Serra was most recently attached with Garrett Hedlund set to star.

Fans of Guillermo del Toro will have to wait a bit longer for his giant monster flick Pacific Rim as Warners pushed the film deep into summer locking in a new July 12, 2013 date. Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Rob Kazinsky and Ron Perlman all star in the pic set in a future in which malevolent creatures threaten the earth, and the planet must band together and use highly advanced technology to eradicate the growing menace.

Deadline is reporting that WWE Studios and Anchor Bay Films have made a deal to co-distribute The Day (review), a provocative post-apocalyptic thriller that premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. WWE Studios bought U.S. distribution rights shortly after the film’s first screening. The film stars Shawn Ashmore (X-Men), Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings, “Lost”), Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight’s Tale) and Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism) in a post-apocalyptic vision where “An open war against humanity rages. Five survivors wander along rural back-roads, lost, starving and on the run. With dwindling food stocks and ammunition, an attempt at seeking shelter turns into a battleground where they must fight or die.” Watch the trailer inside.

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Magnolia Pictures has acquired Bradley Rust Gray’s Jack & Diane, which will have its world premiere in the “narrative” section of the forthcoming Tribeca Film Festival in NY.

“Tomboy Jack and bubbly Diane fall head over heels in love one hot summer in New York City. When Diane reveals she must leave the city for school in Europe, their budding love is tested. Weaving horror elements into a distinctive and fresh yet timeless and universal first-love story, TFF alum Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) brings his unique vision to this idiosyncratic story of the joys and terrors of first love.”

Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour, Dane DeHaan, Michael Chernus and Kylie Minogue all star.

Magnolia will premiere this fall.

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One of the worst films I’ve seen in 2011 is 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s (unintentionally) faux supernatural horror film Intruders (review), which premiered at the TIFF this past September. Starring Clive Owen, Daniel Brühl, Carice Van Houten, Pilar López de Ayala, Ella Purnell, Izan Corchero, and Kerry Fox, Millennium Entertainment has landed on March 30, 2012 as their U.S. release. “‘Intruders’ centers on an 11-year-old girl who is forced to confront childhood demons.”

In other release news, the Bradley Rust Gray-directed werewolf flick Jack & Diane, which stars Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour, Dane DeHaan, Michael Chernus and Kylie Minogue, will open in theaters June 1 via Magnolia. “The film follows Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, who meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.”

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