After 20 years directing big-budget tentpoles like Star Trek Beyond and several Fast & Furious sequels—from Tokyo Drift (2006) to F9: The Fast Saga (2021)—Justin Lin is drifting back to his indie roots. Last Days, in theaters October 24, dramatizes the life and death of Christian missionary John Allen Chau on North Sentinel Island. While Last Days sees Lin shift into a different gear from […]
Myriad Pictures has acquired international sales rights to a select portion of Buffalo 8’s titles. The deal doesn’t include the U.S. High profile titles included in the deal include Atrabilious starring Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Wright, and Whoopi Goldberg; Bundy Manor directed by Alexander Watson (Unsolved 1980), A Hundred Lies with Rob Raco (Riverdale), and Rift, […]
Myriad has begun talks in Toronto International Film festival (TIFF) on the dramatic adventure Last Days from Fast & Furious franchise and Star Trek director Justin Lin after coming on to represent international rights. The story follows 26-year-old John Allen Chau as he embarks on a dangerous journey across the world to share his faith […]
Myriad Pictures CEO Kirk D’Amico hailed “Jeff Renfroe and Thomas Michael and the outstanding cast and crew who have done a terrific job shooting this smart and emotional horror thriller in Northern Ontario”. Screen has obtained the first-look image of Isabelle Fuhrman and Douglas Smith in horror thriller The Pond, which has wrapped production in Northern Ontario. Myriad […]
Shaman, directed by Antonio Negret and written by his brother Daniel — with some additional Negrets working behind the scenes — is a familiar but interesting tale of modern-day demonic possession. Filmed on location in Ecuador, it’s scare fare with a little something extra. Perhaps not enough to entirely succeed overall, but certainly enough to […]
After offering sneak peeks at this summer’s hottest titles, Collider returns with an Exclusive Preview Event focused on fall releases you won’t want to miss. Covering over 50 unreleased titles, the preview event took place throughout this week, updating fans and cinephiles alike. A social media moderator becomes a key participant in solving a shocking murder case […]
Any seasoned horror fan has seen their share of possession films. From The Exorcist (1973) to The Conjuring (2013), the genre has produced countless iterations of a tried and true format. The subject, usually young or otherwise vulnerable, encounters a demonic entity through direct contact with a cursed artifact, entrance into a forbidden locale, or […]
In Shaman, director Antonio Negret and screenwriter Daniel Negret venture into the terrain of folk horror, possession, and postcolonial views, weaving together a tale that is equal parts exorcism and indictment of spiritual assimilation. The picture, set in rural Ecuador, appears to follow familiar possession genre patterns at first, but it gradually evolves into something […]
Last year, we heard that Barry Levinson, director of Best Picture winner Rain Man (for which Levinson also won the Best Director Oscar), was producing a mystery thriller called American Sweatshop with Oz showrunner Tom Fontana, and Riverdale, Look Both Ways, and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart had been cast in the lead role. Now, it has been announced that American Sweatshop is set to receive a […]
Hopefully you like movies that keep you on the edge of your seat because, in 2025, there will be many of them. A handful of exciting thriller movies are on the way, from whodunits that will keep you guessing until the end to espionage dramas to book-to-movie adaptations of popular mystery-thriller books. So chances are, […]