Category: New Releases
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Matzo Fast: Laemmle Online Has You Covered with Streits
by Screenmancer Staff from Laemmle Here’s Greg Laemmle, of Carl Laemmle (founder of Universal Pictures) family’s line, with his latest letter to all at home during the Coronavirus (COVID19) stay-home era. The next generation Laemmle mentions one film in his note to rent from Laemmle Virtual Cinema that is relevant to Passover, coming on the evening of…
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New-ish EU Platform SPAMFLIX Streams MIMICRY FREAKS Before Theatrical
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from SPAMFLIX EU (03/30/20): SPAMFLIX, a TVOD platform for arthouse and cult films, will stream MIMICRY FREAKS on April 2, ahead of theatrical release. It’s a Japanese mystery splatter horror film by director Shugo Fujii. (Fujii’s mutant-fueled J-horror will be streaming worldwide, excluding Asia.) The film follows Fuma, a man that wakes up…
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Writer/Director Tayarisha Poe’s SELAH & THE SPADES Checks In
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from SELAH & THE SPADES Amazon Originals offers something new on April 17, and here’s what they say about SELAH & THE SPADES. Written and Directed by Tayarisha Poe, SELAH is produced by Lauren McBride, Drew Houpt and Lucas Joaquin. The film headlines Lovie Simone, Celeste O’Connor, Jharrel Jerome with Jesse Williams and Gina…
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Brandon Cronenberg’s Sci-Fi Thriller POSSESSOR Finds a Host
by Screenmancer Staff NEW YORK, NY (3/27/20): NEON has acquired U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s POSSESSOR, the sci-fi biotech spy flick starring Andrea Riseborough (OBLIVION, and BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE), Christopher Abbott (JAMES WHITE), Tuppence Middleton (THE IMITATION GAME), with Sean Bean (THE LORD OF THE RINGS, GOT franchises) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (THE HATEFUL EIGHT).…
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Op-Ed: The Woody Allen Memoir… We Need the Dregs?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent OP-ED: Who writes a memoir in defense of marrying their step-daughter? You guessed it: Woody Allen. And with his new memoir – that was axed by Hachette and brought back to life elsewhere – we all get to wrestle with this Shakespearean dilemma… To buy, or not to buy?…
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NEON Goes Worldwide With Amy Seimetz’s SXSW Fave SHE DIES TOMORROW
Curated by Screenmancer Staff NEW YORK, NY(3/25/20): NEON announced today that they have acquired worldwide rights to Amy Seimetz’s apocalyptic existential thriller SHE DIES TOMORROW, an official selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. Inadvertently prescient and blazingly original, the film was one of the most buzzed-about titles coming out of this year’s festival-that-never-was. SHE…
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MAGIC PILLS vs Science Doc Streams & This Is COVID-19 Timely for Debate
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If you’ve been listening to the coverage of the “pandemic” AKA Coronavirus AKA COVID-19, the novel superbug sweeping the world, you’ve probably heard a lot of science and speculation or both. From heads of nations to heads of research teams, talking heads are in triage mode over this RNA…
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Kino Lorber Combats Coronavirus: “Kino Marquee” to Stream During Shutdowns
Curated by Screenmancer Staff New York, NY (03/19/2020): Kino Lorber announces today that it is launching a virtual theatrical exhibition initiative called Kino Marquee to enable movie theaters shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak to continue to serve their audiences and generate revenue in this difficult time. The initiative also lets movie audiences support their local…
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Can You Survive A QUIET PLACE PART II’s Survival Room in March?
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Hey, shh, A QUIET PLACE PART II’s pop-up Survival Room opens soon in New York and LA… Can you survive it? Don’t forget to take the baby, oh wait… That’s only lead Emily Blunt’s job. Read on for your official invite from Paramount Pictures. Watch this now, then go…
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It Missed Awards Season, But SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Lives On #MMIW
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent LOS ANGELES, CA: Some films are timely in a way that makes them eternal on your screens, as well as in your heart, and SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER is a movie that will break your heart but open your eyes at the same time. First consider the hashtag associated with this…
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Paramount Teases TOP GUN: MAVERICK New Faces, Miles Teller, Sneak Peek
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent The wait is over; today Paramount released the new faces to accompany original franchise frontier Tom Cruise. The notables in the air include: Miles Teller (WHIPLASH), and more with the following Top Gun handles. Teller is Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw; Glen Powell is “Hangman.” Lewis Pullman (“Bob”) joins Jay…
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BIRDS OF PREY Margot Robbie, Whipped Cream, Doja Cat Take Over Hollywood & Highland
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Los Angeles, CA (1/23/20): Margot Robbie from BOMBSHELL lands at Hollywood & Highland tonight with her BIRDS OF PREY crew along with musical performances by the film’s soundtrack artists Charlotte Lawrence, Doja Cat and a DJ set by Whipped Cream. Actually, Robbie and some of the cast of Birds of Prey will take over Hollywood’s most…
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Tom Van Avermaet’s Short HEARTS OF STONE Sets Noomi Rapace & Jessica Barden to Star
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from Bulletproof Cupid: ANTWERP, Belgium: “Millennium’s” Noomi Rapace and “The End of the F***ing World” actress Jessica Barden star in a new project directed by Tom Van Avermaet and co-written by Alison Kathleen Kelly. Van Avermaet, who received an Oscar nomination for his 2012 short “Death of a Shadow” with Matthias Schoenaerts, completed production of the new…
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World Book Day & College Cheating Scandal Had a Love Child, BOOKSMART
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Apologies for that misleading and crass headline, but it worked, right? BOOKSMART is actually Olivia Wilde’s directorial film debut from Annapurna that opens on Memorial Day, May 27. And it’s as wild as you would suppose it would be, in a good way. “From the beginning, my take on…
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