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Todd Gilchrist The scores for Italian horror films, from giallos to zombie movies, have in recent years become a cornerstone of the vinyl reissue market. Not a month goes by when collectors can’t acquire a new copy of the soundtrack to “Suspiria,” “Zombi 2,” “Nightmare City” or dozens of other terrifying titles.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic There are two completely different kinds of brutality afoot in movies like “Screamboat,” the latest in the low-budget horror movie craze to pervert beloved intellectual property the instant their 95-year copyright protection lapses into the public domain. First, there’s whatever sadistic fates the filmmakers have in mind for the characters, from being impaled by a forklift to having their faces plunged into the propeller of the Staten Island Ferry.

EXCLUSIVE: On April 15, comedian Tim Dillon is set to return to Netflix with I’m Your Mother, a new stand-up special that will premiere globally on the service.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Eli Roth‘s The Horror Section has acquired “Jimmy and Stiggs,” marking the horror company’s first major deal since launching earlier this month, Variety can exclusively report. Directed and written by Joe Begos, “Jimmy and Stiggs” follows a down-on-his-luck filmmaker (Begos) who claims he was abducted by aliens, vowing to bring them down alongside his friend (Matt Mercer).

A.D. Amorosi In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. For Eli Roth in spring, however, his fancies tend to turn darker, more menacingly humorous, and toward the more bloodily outrageous.

Following the death of David Lynch, his four children — Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch — paid tribute to their filmmaker father and invited people everywhere to join in a “worldwide group meditation” to honor him on what would have been his 79th birthday.

EXCLUSIVE: Ghost Adventures paranormal investigator and EP Zak Bagans is opening the doors to his new production company, Scarehouse Films.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Lionsgate’s genre-spanning 2024 slate of heist comedies, weepy coming-of-age tales, cheeky video game adaptations and horror stories was aiming to fill a void. Most of these were the kinds of movies that major Hollywood studios have either stopped making entirely or largely relegated to streaming services.

A restored 4k version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre hits theaters today from MPI Media Group/Dark Sky Films on the 50th anniversary of the iconic indie scarefest by the late Tobe Hooper. It’s booked in 900 theaters with Regal, Cinemark, Cineplex, Marcus, Harkins and all Alamo Drafthouse locations.

Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja has revealed that Quentin Tarantino was pitching him ideas for the movie before he started filming.The cult horror comedy was released in 2010 and is set on the waterside resort Lake Victoria, where an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric piranhas into the lake, causing carnage.The film was helmed by French director Alexandre Aja, and in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aja has said that he met with the Pulp Fiction director a number of times ahead of the making of the movie.“I’ve met with Quentin a few times, and one of the times, we had dinner together in Paris right before I was going to make Piranha 3D,” Aja said. “So I was pitching him all the scenes, and he was pitching me other things that he was thinking about, so I knew how much he loved these types of movies.”Tarantino would go on to be an outspoken fan of another of Aja’s creature features, 2019’s Crawl, a film that sees killer alligators preying upon a family in Florida during a hurricane.“My friend Eli Roth called me to say, ‘Hey, Quentin watched [Crawl] and really loved it’,” Aja continued.

Addison Rae is one of the biggest stars born out of TikTok, but her talents are bringing her onto the Hollywood scene as a singer, dancer and actress.

EXCLUSIVE: Gina Gershon (Borderlands), Katherine Waddell (Dinner in America), Ethan Slater (Wicked) and Jesse James Keitel (Queer as Folk) have signed on to star in The Designer, a new body horror feature from writer-director Em Johnson.

Borderlands had a rough time with critics and did not set the box office alight, and now it is heading to streaming just three weeks after its release.The long-awaited feature film adaptation of the video game series hit cinemas on August 9, and follows the outlaw Lilith as she returns to the place she grew up to form an alliance with a team of misfits in order to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.It currently sits on a lowly 10% score on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and has so far accrued only $18.6million (£14.3million) at the global box office, against a budget of over $120million.It will now be released onto digital platforms on August 30, just three weeks after its theatrical release, an extremely fast turnaround, signifying an attempt to minimise damages.The movie was first announced as far back as 2015, and was later confirmed to star Cate Blanchett as Lilith and Russian boxer-turned-actor Florian Munteanu as Krieg. The cast also includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart and Jack Black.Filming eventually began in 2021, with Eli Roth (Hostel, Grindhouse) directing a script written by Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin.

Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart lead the cast of the Borderlands movie adaptation.Directed by Eli Roth (Hostel), the sci-fi action comedy is based on the video game series by Gearbox Software. It follows infamous outlaw Lillith (Blanchett) who forms an alliance of misfits to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.Other cast members include Edgar Ramirez as Atlas, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as Krieg, Gina Gershon as Mad Moxxi, Jamie Lee Curtis as Dr.

“Deadpool & Wolverine” remained the top movie in North American theaters for the third straight week with $54.2 million in ticket sales according to studio estimates Sunday. Worldwide, it’s now surpassed $1 billion.“Deadpool & Wolverine,” though, was closely followed by “It Ends With Us,” the romance drama starring Lively, which surpassed expectations with a stellar $50 million debut.Together, the films created a kind of family edition of “Barbenheimer,” in which a pair of very different movies thrived in part due to counterprogramming.Only this time, the opposite movies were fronted by one of Hollywood’s most famous couples.The films’ one-two punch wasn’t entirely unprecedented.

Katcy Stephan Spoiler alert: This column contains mild spoilers for the “Borderlands” film and game series. On paper, the wildly popular “Borderlands” game series is the perfect fodder for the big screen: Ragtag bunch of space outlaws? Check. Potty humor to punctuate intense action? Check.

Going in, I had my doubts about Borderlands, the latest overblown video game adaptation created to entice PG13 moviegoers.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Different as they may be in all other respects, Hollywood studios and die-hard “Borderlands” fans have one thing in common: They’re both in it for the loot. You see, “Borderlands” is what’s called a “looter shooter,” meaning that players blast their way through exotic worlds (in this case, the heavily guarded and treasure-rich planet of Pandora) hoping to pick up goodies that will make their characters more powerful.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events It sure sounds like Addison Rae will be joining Eli Roth at the “Thanksgiving” table again. Shortly after the first turkey day-themed horror movie “Thanksgiving” was released in November, it was announced that a sequel was being developed. Roth, the director and co-writer of the first and second films, tells me that he and co-writer Jeff Rendell are about to hand in the follow-up script to the studio.

Borderlands film are out, with audiences describing it as “baffling”, “a huge misfire” and “borderline unwatchable”.The long-awaited feature film adaptation of the video game series hits cinemas this weekend (August 9), and follows the outlaw Lilith as she returns to the place she grew up to form an alliance with a team of misfits and find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.The movie was first announced as far back as 2015, and was later confirmed to star Cate Blanchett as Lilith and Russian boxer-turned-actor Florian Munteanu as Krieg. The cast also includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart and Jack Black.Filming eventually began in 2021, with Eli Roth (Hostel, Grindhouse) directing a script written by Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin.

My guest this week on 20 Questions on Deadline is Jamie Lee Curtis.