EXCLUSIVE: Elijah Wood’s Company X/SpectreVision has acquired the Los Angeles-based experiential marketing agency Lucey Stepp. Under the Company X/SpectreVision banner, Lucey Stepp's team will specialize in creative solutions for brands and cultural properties. The newly formed Company X Marketing has been making…

Nicolas Cage has been set to star in Color Out of Space, a horror film based on terror-master H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 novella. The film will be directed by South African filmmaker Richard Stanley in his first feature in 20 years. For Cage, it’s a reteam with producer SpectreVision after last year’s hit revenge thriller M…

On screen, the revenge film Mandy is a ferocious fever-dream, but off screen it has been a game-changing success story for SpectreVision, the production company founded by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller. The film has won over critics and a growing fan following since its January premiere at the Sundance Fi…

“Have you ever dreamed of exploring someone else’s consciousness, exploring their deep dark thoughts?” Such were Elijah Wood’s pitch today at Ubisoft’s E3 presentation at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A., where he revealed an extended look at the VR game Transference he’s been in production on over the last few…

EXCLUSIVE: MarVista Entertainment and SpectreVision have set indie genre-blending drama Bitch, starring Hart Of Dixie‘s Jaime King and Jason Ritter (Parenthood), as the first film under their four-picture financing and co-production deal. Written, directed, and co-starring Marianna Palka (Good Dick), Bitch, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Lucas Amann has become attached to direct Popsicle, an elevated genre pic based on the original concept of his own 2008 short of the same name. Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh Waller are producing for their SpectreVision banner, alongside Lee Stobby, and with Kyle Hansen for Red Sea Media. Red Sea Media…

EXCLUSIVE: MarVista Entertainment is pacting with SpectreVision on four films over two years where MarVista will finance and co-produce genre films — horror and thrillers. MarVista is the privately-held firm behind the titles Most Likely to Die, Satanic, and A Deadly Adoption starring Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig…

Four winners of the second annual Horizon Award were announced today ahead of the kickoff of the Sundance Film Festival. The award seeks to identify and mentor talented, up-and-coming female directors early in their development. Cassian Elwes, Lynette Howell Taylor and Christine Vachon are co-founders, and the winners…

EXCLUSIVE: SpectreFest 2015, the third horror film festival from SpectreVision, will open with the horror comedy Cooties which stars SpectreVision’s Elijah Wood and close with Avishai Sivan’s Tikkun which won top honors this summer at the Jerusalem Film Festival. In fact, it won Best Actor, Best Israeli Feature, Best…

SpectreVision, the company started by Daniel Noah, Josh Waller and Elijah Wood (Lord Of The Rings trilogy), has hired a new Chief Operating Officer from NBCUniversal’s Chiller, where she served as Senior Director, Program Strategy. Lisa Wolk Whalen will step in as COO, effective immediately. She first met the guys…

EXCLUSIVE: Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision and Drafthouse Films are teaming up with Rook Films (Sightseers, The Duke of Burgundy) and Timpson Films (The ABCs of Death) to produce The Greasy Strangler, the feature directorial debut of British helmer Jim Hosking (The ABCs of Death 2). The Los Angeles-set tale follows…

Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller’s SpectreVision will host its second annual SpectreFest, expanding the neophyte L.A. horror festival’s run from two weeks in 2013 to two months starting this September. The first annual SpectreFest was inaugurated last year as an offshoot of the then-newly launched film and m…