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EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness premiere of the genre film Pearl, writer-director Ti West has signed for management at LBI Entertainment. He continues to be repped by UTA and lawyered by Stephen Clark. West made some headlines during his Pearl TIFF premiere when…

Ti West's Pearl is full of twists and turns, so it was perhaps no surprise that its star, Mia Goth, chose her words carefully when explaining the film, in which she plays the title character. "Pearl is a young woman who’s quite naïve," she told Deadline's TIFF Studio. "She’s got a lot of ambitions, and as we follow…

What's the matter with Pearl? Plenty, as it turns out in Ti West's terrifically enjoyable postscript to his spring release X, which saw a 1970s film crew fall brutally afoul of an elderly farmer and his wife while shooting a porno in their barn. Unusually for a horror film, X had the same actress — Mia Goth — as both…

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its second big wave of programming for the 47th edition, a 54 feature title lineup across its Discovery, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths sections. Twenty-six countries are represented in the three programs with the Discovery opening night film being Elegance Bratton’s…

A24 has unveiled the trailer for its X prequel Pearl, which is slated for release in theaters on September 16. Released to critical acclaim back in March following its world premiere at South by Southwest, X is a slasher set in 1979 which watches as a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural…

A24's smart slasher/horror X grossed over $4.4M on 2,865 screens to take fourth place at the weekend box office, topping expectations for writer/director Ti West's return after a six-year absence from film. His first ever wide release, a cross between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Boogie Nights, is currently…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: After Saturday AM update In a weekend without major studio wide releases, Crunchyroll’s anime prequel Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is providing cash to exhibition. On Friday, including previews, the pic did $8.7M I’m informed, another $5.4M on Saturday for a solid $17.7M weekend in 2nd; which is 17% under the…

Director Ti West’s X is a new love letter to the slasher film genre. This movie within a movie aims to tackle the strict relationship between sex, violence, desire and the rage that manifests when one’s life lacks all of those things. West employs all the tropes involved with pornography and horror and tries to inject…

Ti West (The Innkeepers) and A24’s horror film X is a cross between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Boogie Nights. West wrote and directed the pic with Jacob Jaffke, Kevin Turen, Sam Levinson and Ashley Levinson producing through their Little Lamb Productions. Scott Mescudi also serves as an executive producer. X…

A24 and filmmaker Ti West have a prequel ready for X, the New Zealand-shot film that made its world premiere at South by Southwest last night. A24 will be releasing X nationwide on Friday. Prequel footage will be available in theaters. Shot in secret on location in New Zealand, the prequel is in post-production. X is…

The trailer for Ti West A24 horror film X has dropped and it looks like a cross between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Boogie Nights. The film follows  a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves…

EXCLUSIVE: Ti West has his next horror thriller lined up as The Innkeepers director has set X as his next film with Mia Goth and Scott Mescudi set to star and Jenna Ortega in final negotiations to join them. The film will be a co-production between A24 and BRON Studios, who will also co-finance. West will write and…