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Blair Witch creator’s latest thriller picked up for distribution

Content Film announced the acquisition of Eduardo Sanchez’s latest feature Lovely Molly which premiered in Toronto’s Midnight Madness section last month. Sanchez, who directed The Blair Witch Project, returns to his horror roots with Lovely Molly, which he also wrote. The film is described as a petrifying and deeply disturbing haunted house possession story with ….

New poster and screenshot from espionage thriller Haywire

Relativity Media has revealed the official poster for their upcoming action-thriller Haywire, directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) and starring Channing Tatum (GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra), Ewan McGregor (The Ghost Writer), Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class), Antonio Banderas (The Legend of Zoro), Bill Paxton (“Big Love”), Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never ….

Win a pair of tickets to the premiere of the sci-fi thriller In Time

FilmFetish readers have the chance to win tickets to tomorrow’s Los Angeles premiere of the sci-fi thriller In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. For your chance to win, log onto Twitter and tweet #intimepremiere to see a virtual map with the location of the ticket giveaways. There will be five people secretly located ….

Magnet to release indie horror Playback

Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing has announced they have acquired U.S. rights to Playback, a frightening horror film starring Christian Slater and directed by Michael Nickles. Magnet will release Playback through its Ultra VOD program in February 2012, launching the film on all digital VOD platforms prior to its theatrical release in March. While digging into ….

Book of Eli director heading to Broken City with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe

Variety reports that New Regency is set to co-produce the Allen Hughes-directed drama Broken City, with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe attached to star. Broken City, written by Brian Tucker, will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. The New York-set story centers on a cop-turned-private investigator, who, while attempting to turn his life around, finds ….

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo graphic novel coming from DC Vertigo

DC Entertainment has nabbed graphic novel adaptation rights to adapt the international phenomenon and best-selling Millennium Trilogy novels into the medium. DC Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint will partner with the estate of Stieg Larsson along with Hedlund Literary Agency to adapt the books. Each book by Larsson will be presented in two graphic novel volumes. The ….

Details and new photos from The Human Centipede (Final Sequence)

Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his nagging mother in a bleak London housing project, where loud neighbors and cramped living conditions threaten to plunge this victim of sexual and psychological abuse over the edge. He works the night shift as a security guard in an underground parking garage, where customers and ….

Prime Suspect’s Maria Bello gets Carjacked by Stephen Dorff

Maria Bello, who is currently kicking ass in NBC’s Prime Suspect, and Stephen Dorff, who’s about to go to war with the gods when Immortals hits theaters on November 11th, headline the Anchor Bay Films thriller Carjacked, premiering November 22nd on Blu-ray and DVD. Co-starring Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner, Six Feet Under), Catherine Dent (The ….

Margin Call poster now online

Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is a thriller entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ….

New image set from Real Steel

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing ….