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As we enter into the spooky month of October, it’s only appropriate that Fantastic Fest and Fangoria host a watch party event for the forthcoming Welcome to the Blumhouse series of thrillers from Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television. Starting October 10, Fantastic Fest and Fangoria have set Prime Video watch…

Screen Media said Wednesday that is has acquired U.S. rights to Girl, the thriller written and directed by Chad Faust that stars Bella Thorne and Mickey Rourke. The deal comes ahead of the film’s U.S. premiere later this week at Fantastic Fest. A November day-and-date release is in the works. Thorne plays a woman (she…

EXCLUSIVE: Epic Pictures Group has taken U.S. rights on Butt Boy, Tyler Cornack's comedy-thriller which debuted at Austin genre event Fantastic Fest. The pic will be released in theaters April 3, with support from cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse for a theatrical rollout, and online April 14. The comedy follows newly…

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to VFW, an action horror move with a tough-guy cast that includes Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson and Martin Kove. The deal comes as the pic, directed by Joe Begos (Bliss, Almost Human, Mind's Eye), is prepping for its world premiere Saturday at…

EXCLUSIVE: Fantastic Fest is set to honor legendary filmmaker Takashi Miike with the Lifetime Achievement Award and a and a special screening of The Happiness of the Katakuris. In addition, the fest has revealed its final wave of programming which includes the U.S. premiere of Jeremy Clapin’s I Lost My Body which…

Amid the buzz about Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker and It: Chapter Two‘s menacing villain comes Wrinkles the Clown, an upcoming documentary from Magnet Releasing. Directed by Michael Beach Nichols, the pic is having its world premiere later this month at Austin’s Fantastic Fest. Magnet releases it in theaters and…

The second wave of programming for this year’s Fantastic Fest is rolling in and bringing a flood of impressive titles including the fest’s closing night film, Rian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out featuring the all-star cast of Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Toni…

Fantastic Fest, the touchstone of envelope-pushing genre films, has released its first wave of programming and revealed that Taikai Waititi’s anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit will be opening the 15th edition of the Austin-based film festival which kicks off September 19 and continues through September 26. Jojo Rabbit…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX; Richard Shepard’s Miramax horror-thriller-drama hybrid The Perfection has been acquired by Netflix for all global rights. Netflix plans to release the title worldwide next year. Deadline hears the acquisition deal was in the high…

The Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference has set its full lineup for the 25th anniversary edition that runs October 25-November 1. The full slate includes 23 world, North American and U.S. premieres, and features awards-season slots for Steve McQueen's Widows, Peter Farrelly's Green Book, Mike Leigh's…

Fantastic Fest has made two last-minute additions to its robust lineup of genre films. Richard Shepard’s horror-thriller The Perfection starring Girls alum Allison Williams and Dear White People star Logan Browning will make its World Premiere at the fest, and Fugue directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska is set to make its…

EXCLUSIVE: In Amanda Kramer’s Ladyworld, a group of girls celebrate a birthday, but when an earthquake hits, things start to take spiral out of control as they become trapped. Thus begins a surreal Lord of the Flies-esque study as their friendships, identities and their view on reality are challenged. In the exclusive…