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Hugh Jackman to host free Tropfest New York Film Fest at Bryant Park

Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival, recently announced that actor Hugh Jackman will host the main event when Tropfest takes over New York City from June 21st to 23rd. Tropfest began twenty years ago when Director John Polson (Hide & Seek, Tenderness) showed a six-minute film he made for under $100 at his local ….

Las Vegas fan boy hang out to host screenings of IFC first-run horrors and thrillers

Las Vegas Weekly reports that The Sci-Fi Center – a place I have sworn to myself I must visit the next time I’m in Vegas – has struck a deal with IFC Films to screen their first run series of mostly horrors and thrillers. The Center’s screening room is said to be a great place ….

Tony Todd, Tom Sizemore and Danielle Harris star in Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D

Newly-formed international sales company Meyers Media Group have announced that they’ve nabbed rights to director Zebediah De Soto’s Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Productions. Expendables 2 director Simon West will produce Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D alongside Jib Polhemus (The Mechanic), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda. Written by ….

Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and Michael B. Jordan circling lead roles in Forest Whitaker-produced film about controversial police shooting

THR reports that Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer and Chronicle co-star Michael B. Jordan are in talks to top line the drama Fruitvale, a timely indie drama being produced by Forest Whitaker and his Significant Productions partner Nina Yang. Filmmaker Ryan Coogler will make his feature film debut by writing and directing Fruitvale, which tells the ….

New shots from The Cabin in the Woods film premiere

The Cabin in the Woods opens in theaters everywhere today, and Lionsgate has released images from the LA premiere earlier this week. Included are shots of filmmakers Drew Goddard, Joss Whedon, along with stars Amy Acker, Bradley Whitford, Brian White, Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams and Kristen Connolly. In The Cabin in the Woods, five friends ….

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller officially start work on Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For

Its been a seriously long wait (can you believe 7 years?) but finally Dimension Films has announced that Sin City 2, which will be titled Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, has officially gone into production. After countless rumors, a press release the Weinstein Company has sent out tells fans it’s a go. Officially ….

Alamo Drafthouse formally announces plans for New York City theater location

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has formally unveiled plans for its first location in New York City. The five-screen Manhattan theater will be owned and operated by Alamo Drafthouse and located on the Upper West Side, occupying the former Metro Theater at 2626 Broadway. “My often-stated top priority for the Alamo Drafthouse has been to open a ….

Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo create custom poster for The Cabin in the Woods

EW revealed a very M.C. Escher-like poster for The Cabin in the Woods, designed by Mondo, the internationally recognized collectible boutique arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Mondo collaborated with Phantom City Creative to create a stunning poster for the new horror film, The Cabin in the Woods. To celebrate the new poster, yesterday Mondo ….

Zoe Saldana, Casey Affleck, Christian Bale and Sam Shepard top line gritty drama Out of the Furnace

Relativity Media has closed deals with Oscar-winner Christian Bale (The Fighter), Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford), Zoe Saldana (Avatar) and Oscar-nominated Sam Shepard (Safe House) to star as the lead roles in the upcoming gripping and gritty drama currently titled Out of the Furnace, to be written ….

Let Fury Have the Hour to screen at Tribeca starring Chuck D, Shepard Fairey, John Sayles and Def Poetry’s Suheir Hammad

In his feature directorial debut, author, visual artist and filmmaker Antonino D’Ambrosio has fashioned a lively social history that chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists used their creativity and their work, as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define American culture in the 1980s. An exuberant, mixed media collage ….