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Antebellum is clearly a horror film — of sorts — that tries hard but largely fails to be the socially relevant take on systemic racism that it sets out to be. Jordan Peele set a very high mark for this subgenre with his Oscar-winning Get Out and follow-up Us. Those movies (which came from some of the same producers as…

Lionsgate film chief Joe Drake said the decision to skip theaters and make horror movie Antebellum a premium video-on-demand release does not mean exhibitors are fading from the scene. “I would love to see every one of our movies released theatrically,” the motion picture group chairman said during Lionsgate’s…

If movie theaters are planning to reopen in select locations around the country in the next month, will there be any new movies out there left to program? In another case of another movie biting the dust, Lionsgate has decided that the best course of distribution financially for their movie Antebellum is to have the…

Lionsgate has taken the Janelle Monáe horror movie Antebellum off its theatrical release schedule for the time being as big exhibition reorganizes itself during COVID-19. Previously, the Gerard Bush-Christopher Renz directed and written movie was dated for Aug. 21, but with Warner Bros. Tenet hoping to reopen theaters…

“Wherever you were before, that’s over.” Here is the first full trailer for Antebellum, the mystery thriller from Lionsgate starring Janelle Monáe. Plot details are scarce, but the trailer jumps from the present to the 19th century South. Here is the official logline: Successful author Veronica Henley (Monáe) finds…

Antebellum writing and directing team Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz have set up their next project at Lionsgate, Rapture. At the same time, the studio as re-dated Antebellum, originally scheduled for the spring pre-COVID-19, to Aug. 21 of this year. The deal was made for Rapture after a highly competitive bidding…

No surprise here, but Lionsgate has just undated horror pic Antebellum, the Sarah Paulson thriller Run and the Chris Rock-Samuel L. Jackson Saw chapter Spiral.  The pics will remain undated for the time being as Lionsgate evaluates the next steps, dates and strategies for bringing the titles back once the nation’s…

After months of project secrecy, Lionsgate has just released a teaser trailer for Janelle Monáe’s upcoming screen project: Antebellum, an eerie thriller rooted in the Deep South and chained to the region’s plantation past. Details are scant but the single-sentence synopsis describes Monáe character as “successful…