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EXCLUSIVE: Who Killed the KLF?, a feature documentary about the cult and mysterious band, has been picked up for world sales by Clay Epstein's Film Mode Entertainment ahead of its debut at Austin's Fantastic Fest this weekend. Directed by Chris Atkins (Starsuckers, Taking Liberties), the film looks into the band…

EXCLUSIVE: Sales company LevelK has boarded Latvian-Belgian dark comedy Samuel's Travels ahead of the film's world premiere at this year's Fantastic Fest. Pic comes from director Aik Karapetian (People Out There) and producer Gints Grūbe (Chronicles Of Melanie). The film follows a foreigner who gets lost in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Dark Star Pictures has taken North American rights to paranoia thriller Alone With You ahead of the film's world premiere at Fantastic Fest. Written and directed by Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks as their feature debut, the film also stars Bennett, alongside horror stalwart Barbara Crampton (You're Next)…

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…