Tales Of Blood Island Kickstarter: "Body horror director and producer of the Re-Animator zombie franchise, Brian Yuzna; Sam Sherman of Independent-International Pictures Corp; and Dave Sehring of Drive-In-Sanity Films have teamed up for another Blood Island Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to resurrect the mutant zombie, the Beast of Blood (aka The Chlorophyll Man), with more monstrous merchandise to get fans excited about a planned re-boot of the Blood Island film series that is currently in pre-production."
Brian Yuzna’S Tales Of Blood Island is a series of jungle horror comic books, games, tiki barware and beachwear that re-boots and re-imagines the classic Blood Island creature features made in the Philippines for the U.S. drive-in market by Kane Lynn, Irwin Pizor, Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero in the 1960s & 1970s. Blood Island director Eddie Romero went on to serve as Associate Producer on Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War...
Brian Yuzna’S Tales Of Blood Island is a series of jungle horror comic books, games, tiki barware and beachwear that re-boots and re-imagines the classic Blood Island creature features made in the Philippines for the U.S. drive-in market by Kane Lynn, Irwin Pizor, Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero in the 1960s & 1970s. Blood Island director Eddie Romero went on to serve as Associate Producer on Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War...
- 10/19/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
It’s succession season at the UK’s National Theatre with Rufus Norris, the institution’s Artistic Director, announcing that he will step down in 2025 after a decade in the post.
“It’s good to keep leadership evolving,” Norris noted during a press conference at the National’s base on the south side of the River Thames, in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge.
The National’s board will determine Norris’s successor. They will cast a net far and wide and there’s an eagerness to end the white male hold on the Nt’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Norris has been getting on with the business of running the country’s flagship theatre company.
Nt Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
Succession star Harriet Walter returns to the Nt to lead a new adaptation by Alice Birch of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernardo Alba.
It...
“It’s good to keep leadership evolving,” Norris noted during a press conference at the National’s base on the south side of the River Thames, in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge.
The National’s board will determine Norris’s successor. They will cast a net far and wide and there’s an eagerness to end the white male hold on the Nt’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Norris has been getting on with the business of running the country’s flagship theatre company.
Nt Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
Succession star Harriet Walter returns to the Nt to lead a new adaptation by Alice Birch of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernardo Alba.
It...
- 6/15/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Bendita Film Sales has grown its slate acquiring Itsaso Arana’s directorial debut “The Girls Are Alright,” (“Las chicas están bien”).
The acquisition marks the latest pick up by the Tenerife based-outfit following recent announcements on Juan Sebastián Torales’ “Almamula,” and Lois Patiño’s “Samsara,” both featuring at the Berlinale. The film has already secured domestic distribution in Spain with Elástica Films.
“Itsaso gave us the chance to read one of the first versions of the script for ‘The Girls Are Alright.’ We immediately fell in love and realized that we were dealing with a singular talent, with a unique vision,” said Luis Renart, head of Bendita Film Sales. “It has been a pleasure to follow the evolution of this project and to finally discover this beautiful, festive and unique film, which we are thrilled to bring to audiences around the world,” he added.
Arana has built a strong reputation in film,...
The acquisition marks the latest pick up by the Tenerife based-outfit following recent announcements on Juan Sebastián Torales’ “Almamula,” and Lois Patiño’s “Samsara,” both featuring at the Berlinale. The film has already secured domestic distribution in Spain with Elástica Films.
“Itsaso gave us the chance to read one of the first versions of the script for ‘The Girls Are Alright.’ We immediately fell in love and realized that we were dealing with a singular talent, with a unique vision,” said Luis Renart, head of Bendita Film Sales. “It has been a pleasure to follow the evolution of this project and to finally discover this beautiful, festive and unique film, which we are thrilled to bring to audiences around the world,” he added.
Arana has built a strong reputation in film,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
Murky blue- brown images, bringing to mind a Lorca play developed for today’s premium TV audience, fill the screen in the trailer for “The Gypsy Bride,” from “Penny Dreadful” director Paco Cabezas, which world premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
The fiction is produced by ViacomCBS International Studios (Vis), with the participation of Atresmedia Televisión, and in collaboration with Diagonal TV.
As well as presenting the first season of the series at the Spanish-speaking world’s highest-profile festival, Cabezas, the show’s creator and director had something else to celebrate on Wednesday.
The show, which premieres on Sept. 25 on Atresplayer Premium, the ebullient Ott service of broadcast network Atresmedia, has renewed “The Gypsy Bride” (“La Novia Gitana”) for a second season.
The Seville-born director sat down with Variety to talk about creating he eight-part Season 1 of “The Gypsy Bride,”shot inside the Madrid gypsy community, Spain’s largest,...
The fiction is produced by ViacomCBS International Studios (Vis), with the participation of Atresmedia Televisión, and in collaboration with Diagonal TV.
As well as presenting the first season of the series at the Spanish-speaking world’s highest-profile festival, Cabezas, the show’s creator and director had something else to celebrate on Wednesday.
The show, which premieres on Sept. 25 on Atresplayer Premium, the ebullient Ott service of broadcast network Atresmedia, has renewed “The Gypsy Bride” (“La Novia Gitana”) for a second season.
The Seville-born director sat down with Variety to talk about creating he eight-part Season 1 of “The Gypsy Bride,”shot inside the Madrid gypsy community, Spain’s largest,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Ray Liotta’s career took off like a rocket shot with Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989) and Goodfellas (1990) accounting for three of his first five films. He spent the next 35 years making movies with some of Hollywood’s biggest directors and stars.
On May 26, 2022, died in his sleep while filming Dangerous Waters in the Dominican Republic.
While probably still best know for his portrayal of Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams and Henry Hill in Goodfellas, Liotta had many other memorable roles in films such as Unlawful Entry (1992), Cop Land with Sylvester Stallone in 1997, Hannibal (2001), Blow opposite Johnny Depp in 2001. John Q directed by John Cassavetes in 2002, Identity (2003), Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt in 2012, The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story in 2019, The Many Saints of Newark (2021) and Cocaine Bear (2023).
Liotta also had success on the small screen, He was posthumously nominated this year for...
On May 26, 2022, died in his sleep while filming Dangerous Waters in the Dominican Republic.
While probably still best know for his portrayal of Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams and Henry Hill in Goodfellas, Liotta had many other memorable roles in films such as Unlawful Entry (1992), Cop Land with Sylvester Stallone in 1997, Hannibal (2001), Blow opposite Johnny Depp in 2001. John Q directed by John Cassavetes in 2002, Identity (2003), Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt in 2012, The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story in 2019, The Many Saints of Newark (2021) and Cocaine Bear (2023).
Liotta also had success on the small screen, He was posthumously nominated this year for...
- 5/26/2022
- by David Morgan
- Deadline Film + TV
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