Exclusive: Cabin In The Woods star joins supernatural thriller.
Cabin In The Woods and House Of Cards star Kristen Connolly is to topline supernatural thriller Slumber, which Goldcrest will be selling at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11).
Shooting is due to start at the end of January 2016 on the feature debut of well-known commercials director Jonathan Hopkins with additional casting currently underway.
Slumber tells the story of Alice (Connolly), a rationally-minded sleep doctor, who is forced to abandon scientific reason when confronted by a family that being terrorised by a parasitic demon.
Slumber is written by Hopkins and 2013 Blood List screenwriter Richard Hobley. It will be produced by Mark Lane and James Harris of The Tea Shop & Film Company, who are also producing claustrophobic thriller 47 Meters Down for eOne and Dimension.
Executive producers are Nick Quested and Pascal Degove for Goldcrest Films.
Goldcrest first introduced the project last year and has been showing distributors a teaser...
Cabin In The Woods and House Of Cards star Kristen Connolly is to topline supernatural thriller Slumber, which Goldcrest will be selling at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11).
Shooting is due to start at the end of January 2016 on the feature debut of well-known commercials director Jonathan Hopkins with additional casting currently underway.
Slumber tells the story of Alice (Connolly), a rationally-minded sleep doctor, who is forced to abandon scientific reason when confronted by a family that being terrorised by a parasitic demon.
Slumber is written by Hopkins and 2013 Blood List screenwriter Richard Hobley. It will be produced by Mark Lane and James Harris of The Tea Shop & Film Company, who are also producing claustrophobic thriller 47 Meters Down for eOne and Dimension.
Executive producers are Nick Quested and Pascal Degove for Goldcrest Films.
Goldcrest first introduced the project last year and has been showing distributors a teaser...
- 10/30/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
[1] Last year saw the debut of The Viewfinder List [2], which aims to do for aspiring filmmakers what The Black List does for screenwriters. Compiled from a poll of "studio executives, producers, and creatives," The Viewfinder List reflects the most-liked shorts, commercials, and/or music videos of the year. The inaugural list in 2010 included such up-and-comers as Patrick Jean, whose Pixels is due out in 2013, 47 Ronin director Carl Erik Rinsch, and, um, Alejandro González Iñárritu. This year's list has Dan Trachtenberg's Portal: No Escape on top, along with a few other videos you may recognize if you've been paying attention to /Film for the past year. Or even if you haven't -- that adorable Super Bowl Volkswagen ad with the little Darth Vader kid also made the cut, as did Chris Marrs Piliero's video for The Black Keys. Check out the full 2011 Viewfinder List -- with video! -- after the jump.
- 12/13/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Magnet Releasing continues its quest to purchase rights to fairly obscure movies, and they have just obtained the rights to the Christopher Smith film 'Black Death'. The film is part historical thriller and part horror (term used loosely). Read the details below and check out the trailer at the bottom of the page as well.
From the Press Release:
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired Us rights from HanWay Film to Christopher Smith’s Black Death. Starring Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings), Black Death is a creepy, pitch perfect medieval period film that expertly channels such UK classics as The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General. Christopher Smith’s cult hit Severence was distributed by Magnolia in 2007.
Black Death made its Us debut last week at La’s Screamfest, where it took home several major awards:...
From the Press Release:
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired Us rights from HanWay Film to Christopher Smith’s Black Death. Starring Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings), Black Death is a creepy, pitch perfect medieval period film that expertly channels such UK classics as The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General. Christopher Smith’s cult hit Severence was distributed by Magnolia in 2007.
Black Death made its Us debut last week at La’s Screamfest, where it took home several major awards:...
- 10/21/2010
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has picked up Us rights to Christopher Smith’s "Black Death." The film stars Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings), and is a creepy, pitch perfect medieval period film that which harks back to UK classics like The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General. "Black Death" debuted in the U.S. last week at La's Screamfest and took home Best Director (Chris Smith), Best Actor (Sean Bean), Best Cinematography (Sebastian Edschmid) and Best Musical Score (Christian Henson). Bean stars as Ulric, a grim emissary from the Church, who leads a young monk (Eddie Redmayne) and a band of violent vigilantes and war veterans through the English countryside. Armed with blood-chilling torture devices, their mission is to stamp out suspected paganism in a village that remains untouched by the black plague, even as the rest of Europe grimly succumbs to the pestilence.
- 10/21/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights from HanWay Film to Christopher Smith's Black Death . Starring Sean Bean ("The Lord of the Rings"), Black Death is a creepy medieval period film that channels such U.K. classics as The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General . Christopher Smith's cult hit Severence was distributed by Magnolia in 2007. Black Death made its U.S. debut last week at La's Screamfest, where it took home several major awards: Best Director (Chris Smith), Best Actor (Sean Bean), Best Cinematography (Sebastian Edschmid) and Best Musical Score (Christian Henson). Bean stars as Ulric, a grim emissary from the Church, who leads a young monk (Eddie Redmayne) and a band...
- 10/20/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Sean Bean plays a religious knight in a genre that might be described as Dark Ages pulp. By Peter Bradshaw
I was agnostic about horror director Chris Smith's first film, Creep, but this has an insistent, dour darkness and narrative energy that is very watchable indeed. In a genre I can only describe as Dark Ages Pulp, he has created some very effective entertainment with nods to Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a religious knight who, at the height of the Black Death, is leading a band of mercenaries across country in search of a remote village, that has been entirely spared the plague, reportedly because the inhabitants practise satanic rituals, and the Dark Lord wards off the sickness and brings corpses back to life. Bean's mission is to capture the villagers' leader in the name of the church,...
I was agnostic about horror director Chris Smith's first film, Creep, but this has an insistent, dour darkness and narrative energy that is very watchable indeed. In a genre I can only describe as Dark Ages Pulp, he has created some very effective entertainment with nods to Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a religious knight who, at the height of the Black Death, is leading a band of mercenaries across country in search of a remote village, that has been entirely spared the plague, reportedly because the inhabitants practise satanic rituals, and the Dark Lord wards off the sickness and brings corpses back to life. Bean's mission is to capture the villagers' leader in the name of the church,...
- 6/10/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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