It was reported several months ago that Us horror specialist Blumhouse Productions was branching out into local language productions. The first of these partnerships to be announced is with Phantom Films in India, the director's production house founded by Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Vikramarditya Motwane (Lootera), Madhu Mantena, and Vikas Bahl. Three films will be made under this partnership between Blumhouse, Ivanhoe, and Phantom and the talent involved is definitely worthy of notice. As reported by Screen Daily, the three films will feature some of India's hottest up and coming talent. First up is a horror picture called Ghoul, set to star Radhika Apte (Madly, Parched), the film will be directed by Patrick Graham, and is described as a story about "a prisoner who...
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- 5/17/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Blumhouse, Ivanhoe and Phantom Films are teaming on a slate of three local-language films.
Blumhouse Productions, Ivanhoe Pictures and India’s Phantom Films have unveiled the first three films in their local-language genre partnership, including Anurag Kashyap’s next directorial project.
The first film, Ghoul, will be directed by Patrick Graham and star Radhika Apte. The story revolves around a prisoner who arrives at a remote military interrogation centre and turns the tables on his interrogators, exposing their most shameful secrets.
The second film, Giddy, marks Kashyap’s horror genre debut and his next directing project following Raman Raghav 2.0, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight yesterday [May 16].
The third film, Ludo, will be directed by Q (Gandu, Tasher Desh) and is a Hindi-language remake of his Bengali film of the same name.
Ivanhoe will finance the films, Phantom will produce and Blumhouse will help oversee the creative, bringing its expertise in creating horror franchises such as [link...
Blumhouse Productions, Ivanhoe Pictures and India’s Phantom Films have unveiled the first three films in their local-language genre partnership, including Anurag Kashyap’s next directorial project.
The first film, Ghoul, will be directed by Patrick Graham and star Radhika Apte. The story revolves around a prisoner who arrives at a remote military interrogation centre and turns the tables on his interrogators, exposing their most shameful secrets.
The second film, Giddy, marks Kashyap’s horror genre debut and his next directing project following Raman Raghav 2.0, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight yesterday [May 16].
The third film, Ludo, will be directed by Q (Gandu, Tasher Desh) and is a Hindi-language remake of his Bengali film of the same name.
Ivanhoe will finance the films, Phantom will produce and Blumhouse will help oversee the creative, bringing its expertise in creating horror franchises such as [link...
- 5/17/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Alliance Films will release the dramatic thriller Afghan Luke into theatres September, 2011. The film involves two journalists sent to the remote country of Afghanistan in search of a story on Canadian snipers gone bad. What they find is a story on hashish production instead. Then, they get too close to their subject and mayhem ensues, as suggested by the film's first poster. Nick Stahl (Mirrors 2), Colin Cunningham ("Falling Skies") and Torrance Coombs ("The Tudors") are some of the principal cast members starring and those who enjoy war torn thrillers can have a closer look at this title when it releases in a limited fashion through Alliance Films late in September.
The synopsis for Afghan Luke is here:
"Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers who are possibly mutilating corpses of enemy Afghan combatants is buried, Luke quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to...
The synopsis for Afghan Luke is here:
"Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers who are possibly mutilating corpses of enemy Afghan combatants is buried, Luke quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to...
- 7/21/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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