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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone sing and dance onto the big screen this weekend with Damien Chazelle's La La Land, the latest in a string of Academy Award contenders crowding the waning days of 2016. Lionsgate is opening the title, which should grab the lions share of the Specialty box office this weekend, in limited…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Slash, Clay Liford’s coming-of-age drama set in the world of erotic fan fiction. Michael Johnston (MTV’s Teen Wolf), Hannah Marks (BBC’s upcoming Dirk Gently), Michael Ian Black and Missi Pyle star. The plan is for a limited theatrical release in the…

Austin native writer-director Clay Liford’s coming-of-age comedy Slash has its premiere at SXSW today, and here’s an exclusive look at the film’s festival teaser trailer. Slash stars Michael Johnston (Teen Wolf) as Neil, an introverted, questioning high school freshman whose main social outlet is the steamy fan…

Guitar god and now film producer Slash has unveiled a crowdfunding campaign for his second horror film The Hell Within, which he is producing under his SlashFiction banner in partnership with Benito Mueller and Wolfgang Mueller of Barry Films. Directed by Dennison Ramalho (ABCs Of Death 2) and written by The Midnight M…

Michael Ian Black (The State, Wet Hot American Summer, They Came Together) and Missi Pyle (Gone Girl) have joined the indie comedy ‘Slash’, currently filming in Austin. The cast also includes Sarah Ramos (Parenthood), Peter Vack (Mozart In The Jungle), Jessie Ennis (Veep) and Matt Peters (Orange Is The New…

EXCLUSIVE: Anchor Bay Films has acquired Nothing To Fear, the first film produced by Slasher Films, the horror label hatched by former Guns n Roses guitarist Slash and the producing team of Rob Eric and Michael Williams. Nothing To Fear is based on an actual town in Kansas, which, according to legend, is one of the…

Another piece of this year’s Oscar movie puzzle was unveiled in a big way this weekend when Paramount rolled out Martin Scorsese’s 99.9%-finished version of Hugo, an ode to the early days of cinema and the eye-popping possibilities of movies. It’s the director’s first family film, 3D film and perhaps most…

EXCLUSIVE: Slasher Films, the genre shingle launched by Michael Williams, Rob Eric and former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, has scared up its first greenlit film. Anthony Leonardi is set to direct Nothing to Fear, and Thomas Haden Church is in talks to star. Jonathan W.C. Mills wrote the script. Leonardi is making…

EXCLUSIVE: While the outbreak of zombie and vampire films has been well chronicled, Hollywood has also become flush with Frankenstein films. The latest is an adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, which has just gotten Pulitzer-winning Proof playwright David Auburn signed to write…

Musicians spiced up the 2011 Sundance Film Festival last weekend, with films involving Lou Reed, James Taylor and the Grateful Dead. And then there was iconic ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, who spent the weekend meeting potential studio partners for three new horror films he has  set under his Slasher Films…

EXCLUSIVE: Unless you answer to Rob Zombie, what musician has a name better suited to horror film making than Slash? The iconic guitarist of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver has teamed with Scout Productions to start Slasher Films. They will produce edgy contemporary horror fare with a nod to the thrillers of the…