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EXCLUSIVE: Vadhir Derbez, the Mexican actor whose credits include Netflix series Sense8 and the box office hit How To Be A Latin Lover, will co-star with Guy Pearce in Justin P. Lange's exorcism horror movie The Seventh Day. The project is being produced by Fangoria, the horror brand owned by Dallas-based producer Cine…

EXCLUSIVE: Fangoria, the genre brand owned by Dallas-based entertainment outfit Cinestate, has picked up world distribution rights to Porno, the horror-comedy that premiered at SXSW last year. The company will distribute the film theatrically in the U.S. in April and has partnered with Cranked Up Films for home…

EXCLUSIVE: Shock Waves, the popular Blumhouse horror podcast that has interviewed guests including Jordan Peele, Robert Eggers, Elijah Wood and Udo Kier, is being absorbed into horror brand Fangoria's network of podcasts. First launched back in 2016, Shock Waves is hosted by filmmaker Rebekah McKendry, Fangoria's Rob…

EXCLUSIVE: Dallas Sonnier's Cinestate, the production outfit that also owns horror brand Fangoria, is ramping up its distribution activities and has hired Brandon Hill as VP of acquisitions and distribution. Based in LA, Hill will acquire films for Cinestate, including its horror label Fangoria, for distribution…

Guy Pearce is leading horror movie The Seventh Day for director Justin P. Lange and producers Cinestate and Fangoria. Pitched as “Training Day meets The Exorcist“, pic follows a renowned exorcist who teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines…

EXCLUSIVE: Fangoria said Monday that it has named Rob Galluzzo as the Director of Acquisitions and Distribution. In his new position, he will handle film acquisitions and aid in the development of Fangoria’s and parent company Cinestate’s ever-expanding slate of original and acquired properties. Since 2018, Fangoria…

RLJE Films has acquired Satanic Panic, the latest pickup for the indie distributor of a pic from the recently relaunched Fangoria horror label. Hayley Griffith, Ruby Modine, Michael Polish, Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn star in the pic, which had its world premiere earlier this year at the Overlook Film Festival…

Robert Klein (The Backup Plan), Andrea Navedo (Jane the Virgin), Willie Garson (Sex and the City), Craig Bierko (Unreal), Chris Perfetti (The Night Of), and SHAED lead singer Chelsea Lee have joined previously announced Annabella Sciorra in God The Worm from Mainstay Entertainment. Written and directed by Eric…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Lang, who played Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron’s epic sci-fi Avatar, is set to star in V.F.W., an action-horror film with Brawl in Cell Block 99 producer Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk producing for Fangoria. Joe Begos is at the helm, directing from a screenplay by Max Brallier and…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Moss and Brendan J. O'Brien have been commissioned to write the screenplay for the film adaptation to Our Lady Of The Inferno, the 1980s Times Square set horror book by journalist Preston Fassel. The book was released earlier this year as the first novel under Fangoria’s Fangoria Presents imprint…

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Romijn (Star Trek: Discovery, the X-Men franchise) is set to star in Fangoria’s Chelsea Stardust-directed film, Satanic Panic, described as an after-hours-esque horror comedy with a healthy dash of imaginative gore. Newcomer Hayley Griffith will co-star opposite Romijn with Ruby Modine (Happy Death D…

Fangoria has acquired Laura Moss and Brendan O’Brien’s original screenplay After Birth which Moss will make her feature directing debut  on with this all-female adaptation of the Frankenstein myth. The film follows a morgue technician who successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing…