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EXCLUSIVE: Lightbulb Film Distribution has acquired four features ahead of their U.K. premieres at FrightFest, running in London from August 25 to 29.

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has acquired North American distribution rights to thriller Dash, a “one-take feature” about an adulterous rideshare driver navigating the streets of Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: Rafael Casal (Blindspotting) is set for a major role in the upcoming second season of Disney+’s Marvel series Loki, sources tell Deadline.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid’s Tale) has signed on to star alongside Peyton Kennedy, Anjali Bhimani, Jeremy Radin, Akilah Hughes and Ben Gleib in the indie Pruning.

Jeremy Slater has written, developed, and executive produced “The Umbrella Academy” and “The Exorcist.” And he’s written a slew of big-budget screenplays, but he’s never tackled anything as challenging as the three-year journey he spent as the head writer of the Disney+ limited series “Moon Knight.” READ MORE: “Moon Knight” directors Mohamed Diab, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead talk about bringing a darker world to the MCU [Bingeworthy Podcast] At times the most original Marvel Studios television project to date, “Moon Knight,” follows Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac), a seemingly mild-mannered British museum employee who not only discovers he is the powerful avatar of an Egyptian god but that he’s one of two (or more) personalities inhabiting his body. Continue reading ‘Moon Knight’: Jeremy Slater On Reality Vs.

Ben Croll After two years of hybrid and online-only editions, the Neuchatel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival will fête its 21st year with a return to a fully on-site event, hosting four world premieres, and more than twice as many international premieres. Running July 1-9, the Swiss event will world premiere the absurdist “Jaws”-in-France riff “The Year of the Shark,” the Thai creature feature “Leio,” and the Japanese Yakuza thriller “Bad City.” Titles like the Toho-produced Kaiju flick “Shin Ultraman,” “Something in the Dirt” from U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: UK film outfit Lightbulb Film Distribution has picked up well-received Sundance sci-fi comedy Something In The Dirt, marking the company’s biggest acquisition to date.

Loki season two is set to begin filming next month.The Marvel/Disney+ series will soon start work on new episodes, first confirmed in the post-credits scene of season one, as revealed in a production listing.The shoot will reportedly begin on June 6 in London. No release date has been confirmed yet, but considering the scale of Marvel projects, fans are not expecting new episodes until 2023.Season two of Loki is expected to see the return of Tom Hiddleston’s titular Asgardian lord, and while it has not been confirmed, it is expected that Sophia Di Martino will reprise her role as Sylvie.Kate Herron, who directed the six episodes of the first season, will produce season two, with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead taking over as co-directors.Tom Hiddleston recently spoke about the “meaningful” reveal that Loki is bisexual.

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has boarded worldwide sales rights to Hounds Of War starring Frank Grillo, Robert Patrick, and Rhona Mitra, and directed by Isaac Florentine.

Marvel‘s Moon Knight have opened up about the show’s spectacular ending to episode four.The series focuses on Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac), an unassuming gift shop employee who hasn’t yet realised why his life is so chaotic, based on a series of Marvel comics dating back to 1975.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson described the cliffhanger as “a gift of the script” that came from “wanting to do the least expected thing and completely disorient the audience, while also being completely true to the character that we’ve built over four episodes.”In the interview, Isaac described the episode’s climax as “a total mind melt that happens when you realise the possibility that everything you’ve been watching is not what you thought it was.”Responding to a sequence of events that NME described as offering “a lot of answers, a lot more questions and an ending so weird it throws the rest of the series into complete chaos,” Moorhead said: “We’ve talked about this scene feeling like it’s underwater, not just because he’s been sedated, but because the entire audience has just been subjected to an entire worldview shift of what this show is.“Why is there a weird Indiana Jones knockoff movie right in the middle of Moon Knight?”Addressing one of the ending’s more surreal moments, Benson said: “It’s funny. We only had one or maybe two shots with this [hippo] character.

EXCLUSIVE: Following a first season that saw strong reviews and record viewing numbers, Marvel is now getting the wheels in motion for the second season of Loki as Deadline is hearing Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have come on to co-direct a majority of the episodes for the upcoming season two with Tom Hiddleston returning in the role of Loki. Hiddleston and Michael Waldron, who wrote and served as show runner of season 1, will exec produce with Eric Martin penning all six episodes.

Wilson Chapman editorGet ready to meet the many, many sides of Marc Spector.During the Super Bowl, Marvel Studios unveiled the second trailer for “Moon Knight,” the Oscar Isaac-starring limited series premiering March 30 on Disney Plus.The Marvel Cinematic Universe series stars Isaac as Moon Knight, a character first created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin in 1975 for the comic series “Werewolf by Knight.” In most depictions of the character, Moon Knight is the secret identity of Marc Spector, a former CIA operative turned mercenary who dies during a job in Sudan but is revived and turned into the conduit of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu, becoming a Batman-esque vigilante. One of the character’s most notable traits is his dissociative identity disorder, which manifests in several distinct personas with defined personalities.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhere others might see a crystal ashtray, DIY filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead envision some kind of haunted relic, a portal to another dimension or maybe just the ideal prop on which to base their next screwy sci-fi imagination-tickler. Audiences who’ve experienced a Moorhead&Benson film — eerie vacation-sex nightmare “Spring,” perhaps, or else UFO death-cult puzzler “The Endless” — already know how the pair can spin elaborate mind games out of duct tape, twine and popsicle sticks.

The film had its premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition lineup at the Sundance Film Festival.

Hank (Jeremy Gardner) and Abby (Brea Grant) have been dating for a decade and have fallen into something of a rut; one day Hank wakes up to discover that Abby has vanished. Plagued by memories of better times, Hank tries to assess where their relationship started to go wrong, but before he can, he finds himself stalked by a mysterious entity that attacks his house in the middle of each and every night. As his friends become concerned about Hank’s grasp on reality, he does everything in his power to prove that he is perfectly sane, with disastrous results.

If you’re a fan of modern genre films then it’s more than likely that you’ll be familiar with the face of actor Jeremy Gardener. In the last few years he has made appearances in films such as Bliss, Fingers, and Sadistic Intentions to name just a few. What you might not be aware of however, is his background in writing and directing. His first film The Battery, released in 2012, was met with a positive response and now comes After Midnight.