Upstart indie distributor A24 said today it has secured a $50 million line of credit from Comerica and Union Bank of California. It said it will use the facility to “build out its core film distribution business and finance initiatives in complimentary industry verticals.” The company is coming off a busy Toronto…

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…

Kevin Smith and his horror-comedy Tusk will open the 10th edition of genre-centric Fantastic Fest in Austin, the festival announced today. The tale of a podcaster (Justin Long) who goes missing while interviewing a mysterious seafarer in Manitoba will be released by A24 on September 19 after making its debut in…

UPDATED: The Toronto Film Festival announced several additions to the 2014 lineup this morning including the documentary pics and the lineups for The Masters, Vanguard and Midnight Madness. The docu lineup features pioneers of BASE jumping in Sunshine Superman; Los Angeles sex workers in Tales Of The Grim Sleeper…

"All that separates man from animal…are the stories he tells". Those words appear at the beginning of the first official trailer for Kevin Smith's wacky horror thriller Tusk which dropped last night at Comic-Con. Smith is clearly in his element in this genre. Set in the Canadian wilderness, pic stars Justin Long as a…

XYZ Films has boarded Kevin Smith‘s new horror pic Tusk for international sales and will introduce the project at Berlin’s EFM next month. Demarest Films (A Most Wanted Man, Machete Kills) financed and is producing Tusk in partnership with A24 (Spring Breakers, The Bling Ring). Smith wrote the film, which was borne…

A24 and Demarest Films have teamed up on Kevin Smith's latest film Tusk. The film, which stars Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez, and Haley Joel Osment, was born out of one of Smith's immensely popular SModcasts. The modern-day monster movie, which Smith also wrote, is currently in production. Sam…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off an acting break to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Haley Joel Osment has landed a pair of indie comedies: the Kevin Smith-helmed Tusk and Max Landis’ Me Him Her. In Tusk, Osment will play Teddy, whose best friend and podcast co-host (Justin Long) goes missing in the backwoods of Canada. He…