The Fantasia International Film Festival said Wednesday that Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War – Guardians will be the closing-night film of the Montreal-based genre fest’s 25th edition, which runs August 5-25 as a hybrid online/in-person event.The news comes as organizers locked in their lineup and schedule of panels and events, which include a special screening of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad on the eve of the festival, ahead of the opening-night world premiere of the Quebec zombic pic Brain Freeze.Miike’s The Great Yokai War opened Fantasia in 2006.The festival’s slate (find it in full here) of virtual screenings will be geo-locked to Canada, while its events will be accessible globally.
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