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Brian Brooks is Managing Editor of MovieLine. Marquee specialty newcomers were at a minimum this weekend, continuing a pattern that began with the New Year. Among the limited release debuts reporting Sunday, both Happy People: A Year In The Taiga from Werner Herzog and Israeli director Eytan Fox’s Yossi reported fair…

Brian Brooks is Managing Editor of MovieLine. A sprinkling of familiar actors appear in this weekend’s new specialty releases. A fan of director Don Coscarelli’s work, Paul Giamatti joined the filmmaker’s latest, John Dies At The End. Rob Lowe stars as a political strategist who must confront his career path in Knife F…

Here’s a trailer for the sci-fi/horror film John Dies At The End, which was directed, produced and written by cult legend Don Coscarelli. Paul Giamatti stars (and is exec producer) as a shadowy figure investigating a street drug known as Soy Sauce, which promises an out-of-body experience with each hit, causing users…

In a couple of distribution deals that were just announced, the Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm Magnet Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to John Dies At The End, described as a “phantasmagoric new sci-fi/horror film” directed, produced and written for the screen by auteur and cult legend Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-Tep…