Shaked Berenson’s company sets September 1 US release.
Shaked Berenson’s LA-based distribution and sales company Entertainment Squad has acquired worldwide rights to the dramatic thriller Root Letter from Japan’s Ammo Inc. and California-based Ammo Entertainment and will launch international sales in Toronto.
Emmy-nominated Sonja O’Hara directed from David Ebeltoft’s adapted screenplay based on the video game from Kadokawa Games.
Danny Ramirez from Top Gun: Maverick stars as Carlos, an impoverished teen, who sets off to help an old school pen pal, Sarah, who tells him she has killed someone.
Carlos uncovers a criminal plot involving Sarah’s...
Shaked Berenson’s LA-based distribution and sales company Entertainment Squad has acquired worldwide rights to the dramatic thriller Root Letter from Japan’s Ammo Inc. and California-based Ammo Entertainment and will launch international sales in Toronto.
Emmy-nominated Sonja O’Hara directed from David Ebeltoft’s adapted screenplay based on the video game from Kadokawa Games.
Danny Ramirez from Top Gun: Maverick stars as Carlos, an impoverished teen, who sets off to help an old school pen pal, Sarah, who tells him she has killed someone.
Carlos uncovers a criminal plot involving Sarah’s...
- 8/2/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
I often complain that contemporary schlock horror films throw too much at you — the if-this-formula-demon-or-scare-tactic-doesn’t-work-try-this-one approach to keeping an audience goosed. That said, I’m not sure if bare-bones, we’ve-only-got-one-formula-scare-tactic-in-our-bag minimalism is the answer. In “Room 203,” a couple of besties — Kim (Francesca Zuereb), a freshman college journalism student, and Izzy (Viktoria Vinyarska), an aspiring actress and dissolute party girl still traumatized by her mother’s death-by-od — find an apartment together in an eccentric old converted commerce building.
How do we know the place is meant to creep us out? Because they’re in room 203, which looks like a half-finished boutique hotel suite, and when you title a film “Room 203” you’re undoubtedly invoking “The Shining”. Because the landlord, in a newsboy cap and bowtie, is named Ronan (Scott Gremillion) and acts like the sole weird competitor in a best zoomer John Malkovich impersonation contest. And because the...
How do we know the place is meant to creep us out? Because they’re in room 203, which looks like a half-finished boutique hotel suite, and when you title a film “Room 203” you’re undoubtedly invoking “The Shining”. Because the landlord, in a newsboy cap and bowtie, is named Ronan (Scott Gremillion) and acts like the sole weird competitor in a best zoomer John Malkovich impersonation contest. And because the...
- 4/15/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Partnership offers filmmakers flexibility to maximise state tax incentives, access either city as post-production location.
Los Angeles-based Buffalo 8 Productions and New York post-production company Motion Picture Enterprises (Mpe) have struck a partnership to provide a suite of post services for independent content creators.
The partners say the relationship will offer filmmakers flexibility to maximise state tax incentives, and provide the option of using Los Angeles or New York as a post-production location.
The strategic alliance also grants Mpe’s clients direct access to Buffalo 8 sister company BondIt Media Capital’s financing expertise and capital support for finishing funds or structuring distribution deals.
Los Angeles-based Buffalo 8 Productions and New York post-production company Motion Picture Enterprises (Mpe) have struck a partnership to provide a suite of post services for independent content creators.
The partners say the relationship will offer filmmakers flexibility to maximise state tax incentives, and provide the option of using Los Angeles or New York as a post-production location.
The strategic alliance also grants Mpe’s clients direct access to Buffalo 8 sister company BondIt Media Capital’s financing expertise and capital support for finishing funds or structuring distribution deals.
- 6/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
UK director Ben Jagger directed and co-wrote feature based on Nanami Kamon’s Japanese novel.
Voltage Pictures has added another commercially appealing title to its Cannes market slate, boarding worldwide sales on English-language J-horror Room 203 from Japan’s Ammo Inc. and California-based Ammo Entertainment.
UK director Ben Jagger’s feature is adapted from Nanami Kamon’s Japanese novel and follows two female roommates tormented by vengeful spirits dwelling in their gothic-style apartment which contains an ornate centrepiece.
John Poliquin (Shudder’s Spiral), Jagger and Nick Richey (Low Low) co-wrote the screenplay. The cast features Francesca Xuereb, Viktoria Vinyarska and Eric Wiegand.
Voltage Pictures has added another commercially appealing title to its Cannes market slate, boarding worldwide sales on English-language J-horror Room 203 from Japan’s Ammo Inc. and California-based Ammo Entertainment.
UK director Ben Jagger’s feature is adapted from Nanami Kamon’s Japanese novel and follows two female roommates tormented by vengeful spirits dwelling in their gothic-style apartment which contains an ornate centrepiece.
John Poliquin (Shudder’s Spiral), Jagger and Nick Richey (Low Low) co-wrote the screenplay. The cast features Francesca Xuereb, Viktoria Vinyarska and Eric Wiegand.
- 6/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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