Director Andy Muschietti and his producer / sister Barbara Muschietti, the filmmaking team behind Mama and the $1 billion grossing adaptations of Stephen King’s It, have now teamed up with Skydance to launch a label called Nocturna, which will be focused on making “high quality genre features for global audiences in both theatrical and streaming, with the goal of producing two films per year.” The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, and also revealed that the first feature being developed for the Nocturna label is called They Will Kill You.
Written by Kirill Sokolov and Alex Litvak, They Will Kill You is set to be directed by Sokolov, who previously wrote and directed the 2019 Russian-language action comedy Why Don’t You Just Die. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new film is said to be a “horror feature laced with the black humor that is Sokolov’s trademark.” The story centers on...
Written by Kirill Sokolov and Alex Litvak, They Will Kill You is set to be directed by Sokolov, who previously wrote and directed the 2019 Russian-language action comedy Why Don’t You Just Die. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new film is said to be a “horror feature laced with the black humor that is Sokolov’s trademark.” The story centers on...
- 3/15/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Every studio wants a piece of the profitable horror pie and it looks like Skydance is no exception. THR reports that Skydance is forming the brand new horror division Nocturna, and they’re partnering with Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti!
THR notes in their report, “the Muschiettis will co-own the label and will run its creative direction. The focus of Nocturna will be on high quality, genre features for global audiences in both theatrical and streaming, with the goal of producing two films per year.”
The first project from the Nocturna team will be a film titled They Will Kill You, which has Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) on board to co-write and direct.
The site details, “They Will Kill You is described as a horror feature laced with the black humor that is Sokolov’s trademark, telling the story of a woman who answers a help wanted ad...
THR notes in their report, “the Muschiettis will co-own the label and will run its creative direction. The focus of Nocturna will be on high quality, genre features for global audiences in both theatrical and streaming, with the goal of producing two films per year.”
The first project from the Nocturna team will be a film titled They Will Kill You, which has Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) on board to co-write and direct.
The site details, “They Will Kill You is described as a horror feature laced with the black humor that is Sokolov’s trademark, telling the story of a woman who answers a help wanted ad...
- 3/14/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Andy and Barbara Muschietti, the filmmaking team behind the $1 billion grossing It movies and last year’s The Flash, have teamed up with Skydance to launch a brand new horror division.
Named Nocturna, the Muschiettis will co-own the label and will run its creative direction. The focus of Nocturna will be on high quality, genre features for global audiences in both theatrical and streaming, with the goal of producing two films per year.
Nocturna is not launching with an empty casket. The first project out of the gate will be They Will Kill You, written by Kirill Sokolov and Alex Litvak, with Sokolov, who wrote and directed the 2019 black action comedy Why Don’t You Just Die!, attached to direct.
“Under this label, we are excited to deliver the full range of emotions that our movies pack: Heart, humor and horror,” said the Muschiettis in a statement.
The division will be...
Named Nocturna, the Muschiettis will co-own the label and will run its creative direction. The focus of Nocturna will be on high quality, genre features for global audiences in both theatrical and streaming, with the goal of producing two films per year.
Nocturna is not launching with an empty casket. The first project out of the gate will be They Will Kill You, written by Kirill Sokolov and Alex Litvak, with Sokolov, who wrote and directed the 2019 black action comedy Why Don’t You Just Die!, attached to direct.
“Under this label, we are excited to deliver the full range of emotions that our movies pack: Heart, humor and horror,” said the Muschiettis in a statement.
The division will be...
- 3/14/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Scott Stoops has been elevated to Partner at management and production co. Good Fear Content, Partners Chris Bender and Jake Weiner announced on Tuesday.
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A manager at Good Fear since its 2015 founding, Stoops’ roster includes numerous prominent writers and directors across film and TV, a number of which have reached EP or Co-ep level. Among his most notable clients is Megan McDonnell, who was the first writer in on Captain Marvel sequel The Marvels, after serving as a staff writer on the Emmy-winning WandaVision and its forthcoming spin-off Agatha: Coven of Chaos, as well as Apple’s Dark Matter. Others include Rayna McClendon,...
Related Story Buchwald Promotes Rob Kim to Co-Head of West Coast Related Story Banijay, Fremantle, All3Media & Zdf Debate Market Economics And Writers' Strike: "When One Door Closes, Another Opens" — Series Mania Related Story Danny DeVito Sets Fall Broadway Return With Daughter Lucy In Theresa Rebeck Play 'I Need That'
A manager at Good Fear since its 2015 founding, Stoops’ roster includes numerous prominent writers and directors across film and TV, a number of which have reached EP or Co-ep level. Among his most notable clients is Megan McDonnell, who was the first writer in on Captain Marvel sequel The Marvels, after serving as a staff writer on the Emmy-winning WandaVision and its forthcoming spin-off Agatha: Coven of Chaos, as well as Apple’s Dark Matter. Others include Rayna McClendon,...
- 3/21/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Kirill Sokolov set to direct TriStar Pictures’ thriller Ultra, with script penned by Colin Bannon. TriStar preemptively purchased the spec amid significant buzz in November 2021, just before it placed in the Top 10 on the Black List in December. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Sukee Chew of Sugar23 is producing. Caellum Allan is overseeing the project on behalf of TriStar.
Sokolov made his feature directorial debut with Why Don’t You Just Die, which screened in competition at Sitges. His follow-up film, No Looking Back, premiered at SXSW 2022. Sokolov is represented by CAA and Good Fear.
Bannon most recently sold his Black List script First Ascent to Netflix in a bidding war. The project is being produced by Chew and Scott Free. Bannon is repped by Verve and Sugar23.
Chew joined Sugar23 last June and was previously at Hopscotch Pictures which she founded. There, she was most recently...
Sukee Chew of Sugar23 is producing. Caellum Allan is overseeing the project on behalf of TriStar.
Sokolov made his feature directorial debut with Why Don’t You Just Die, which screened in competition at Sitges. His follow-up film, No Looking Back, premiered at SXSW 2022. Sokolov is represented by CAA and Good Fear.
Bannon most recently sold his Black List script First Ascent to Netflix in a bidding war. The project is being produced by Chew and Scott Free. Bannon is repped by Verve and Sugar23.
Chew joined Sugar23 last June and was previously at Hopscotch Pictures which she founded. There, she was most recently...
- 8/23/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Fantaspoa 2022 Announced: "After two years of successful online editions, the 18th edition of the beloved Brazilian genre festival Fantaspoa will return to the cinemas from April 15th through May 1st. This year, attendees will discover a very different Fantaspoa from its last on-site edition (a very distant 2019): instead of its usual two venues, the fest will take place simultaneously in five cinemas, with part of its program also being available online, geo-blocked for viewers within Brazil.
The poster for this year’s festival was conceived by the festival’s art director Thalles Mourão, with the drawing from local artist Fernanda Moreira. The striking image is a mashup of two centenary anniversaries: The Modern Art Week, one of Brazil’s greatest art movements, and F. W. Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece of cinema, Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror.
Nosferatu will also have a very special screening on the opening night of the festival,...
The poster for this year’s festival was conceived by the festival’s art director Thalles Mourão, with the drawing from local artist Fernanda Moreira. The striking image is a mashup of two centenary anniversaries: The Modern Art Week, one of Brazil’s greatest art movements, and F. W. Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece of cinema, Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror.
Nosferatu will also have a very special screening on the opening night of the festival,...
- 3/23/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Centenary screening of Nosferatu, world premiere of stoner comedy The Smoke Master bookend event.
Brazil’s Fantaspoa genre festival, billed as the largest of its kind in Latin America, is returning to an in-person event for the first time since 2019 and has unveiled its first wave of titles.
This year’s International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre will take place in five cinemas around the southern city from April 15-May 1. It is bookended by a special opening night centenary screening of F. W. Murnau’s vampire classic Nosferatu accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Carlos Ferreira and Brazilian...
Brazil’s Fantaspoa genre festival, billed as the largest of its kind in Latin America, is returning to an in-person event for the first time since 2019 and has unveiled its first wave of titles.
This year’s International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre will take place in five cinemas around the southern city from April 15-May 1. It is bookended by a special opening night centenary screening of F. W. Murnau’s vampire classic Nosferatu accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Carlos Ferreira and Brazilian...
- 3/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Writer/Director Kirill Sokolov possesses a unique ability to transform family strife into pitch-black, hyper-violent physical comedy for our amusement. Sokolov’s debut, Why Don’t You Just Die!, let the bone-crunching action and bloodletting unfurl drama between a father and daughter. His latest, No Looking Back, pits generations of women against each other for a no holds barred grudge match. While […]
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- 3/13/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
”Those Russian voices that oppose the aggression committed by their country will always have a place at the San Sebastian Film Festival.”
The San Sebastián International Film festival has issued a statemnet saying it will consider films from Russian filmmakers who “oppose aggression committed by their country”. The festival is due to take place from September 16-24.
“Our selection processes evaluate films on an individual basis, never on the basis of their nationality, even when they come from countries with governments that violate fundamental rights, and we will continue to do so in these turbulent times,” said the festival.
“We...
The San Sebastián International Film festival has issued a statemnet saying it will consider films from Russian filmmakers who “oppose aggression committed by their country”. The festival is due to take place from September 16-24.
“Our selection processes evaluate films on an individual basis, never on the basis of their nationality, even when they come from countries with governments that violate fundamental rights, and we will continue to do so in these turbulent times,” said the festival.
“We...
- 3/11/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Netflix has paused all future projects and acquisitions from Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine, Variety has learned.
The streamer had four Russian originals in the pipeline, including a crime thriller series directed by Dasha Zhuk, which was shooting and has been put on hold. The 1990’s set series was Netflix’s second original series filming in Russia, following “Anna K” which wrapped last year.
A source close to Netflix said the company was assessing the impact of current events.
On Monday, The Walt Disney Company announced it will similarly be pausing all theatrical releases in Russia, including Pixar’s “Turning Red,” set to premiere in the country on March 10. A few hours after the announcement, Warner Bros. halted the release of “The Batman” in Russia.
Elsewhere in the film and TV industry, Russia has been barred from major festivals and award shows. The Cannes Film Festival announced on Tuesday...
The streamer had four Russian originals in the pipeline, including a crime thriller series directed by Dasha Zhuk, which was shooting and has been put on hold. The 1990’s set series was Netflix’s second original series filming in Russia, following “Anna K” which wrapped last year.
A source close to Netflix said the company was assessing the impact of current events.
On Monday, The Walt Disney Company announced it will similarly be pausing all theatrical releases in Russia, including Pixar’s “Turning Red,” set to premiere in the country on March 10. A few hours after the announcement, Warner Bros. halted the release of “The Batman” in Russia.
Elsewhere in the film and TV industry, Russia has been barred from major festivals and award shows. The Cannes Film Festival announced on Tuesday...
- 3/2/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy and Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Follows calls from the Ukrainian Film Academy to boycott Russian cinema
The Glasgow Film Festival has pulled two Russian titles from its upcoming edition following the invasion of Ukraine.
The festival, which runs March 2-13, has withdrawn Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking Back and Lado Kvataniya’s The Execution.
A statement from the festival said: “This decision is not a reflection on the views and opinions of the makers of these titles. We just believe that it would be inappropriate to proceed as normal with these screenings in the current circumstances.”
The move follows a plea from the Ukrainian Film Academy,...
The Glasgow Film Festival has pulled two Russian titles from its upcoming edition following the invasion of Ukraine.
The festival, which runs March 2-13, has withdrawn Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking Back and Lado Kvataniya’s The Execution.
A statement from the festival said: “This decision is not a reflection on the views and opinions of the makers of these titles. We just believe that it would be inappropriate to proceed as normal with these screenings in the current circumstances.”
The move follows a plea from the Ukrainian Film Academy,...
- 2/28/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Due to the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian pavilion at the upcoming Biennale arts exhibition in Venice has been scrapped, as the Venice Film Festival continues to mull its response to calls for a boycott of Russian movies at the event’s 77th edition.
Meanwhile, the Locarno Film Festival said on Monday that it will certainly be showing Russian films at its upcoming edition in August.
Kicking off in April, the Venice Biennale, which is the multidisciplinary arts organization behind the Venice Film Festival, expressed solidarity with Russian visual artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov and the exhibition’s curator Raimundas Malašauskas, who on Sunday announced they were pulling out of the art show on their own initiative because “this war is politically and humanly intolerable,” as Malašauskas put it in a statement.
“La Biennale expresses its complete solidarity for this noble act of courage and stands beside the motivations...
Meanwhile, the Locarno Film Festival said on Monday that it will certainly be showing Russian films at its upcoming edition in August.
Kicking off in April, the Venice Biennale, which is the multidisciplinary arts organization behind the Venice Film Festival, expressed solidarity with Russian visual artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov and the exhibition’s curator Raimundas Malašauskas, who on Sunday announced they were pulling out of the art show on their own initiative because “this war is politically and humanly intolerable,” as Malašauskas put it in a statement.
“La Biennale expresses its complete solidarity for this noble act of courage and stands beside the motivations...
- 2/28/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Glasgow Film Festival has withdrawn two Russian titles from its 2022 program in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The films are Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking Back and Lado Kvataniya’s The Execution.
In a statement, the fest said the move was “not a reflection on the views and opinions of the makers of these titles”.
“We just believe that it would be inappropriate to proceed as normal with these screenings in the current circumstances,” it added.
Glasgow runs March 2-13. Organizers said that replacement films would be confirmed in the next few days. Anyone who has purchased a ticket will be eligible for a refund.
Separately, Locarno Film Festival has told Deadline that it does not intend to boycott Russian films this year.
The Swiss festival, which is due to take place August 3-13, said it stood for “freedom of expression and for the cinematographic art...
The films are Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking Back and Lado Kvataniya’s The Execution.
In a statement, the fest said the move was “not a reflection on the views and opinions of the makers of these titles”.
“We just believe that it would be inappropriate to proceed as normal with these screenings in the current circumstances,” it added.
Glasgow runs March 2-13. Organizers said that replacement films would be confirmed in the next few days. Anyone who has purchased a ticket will be eligible for a refund.
Separately, Locarno Film Festival has told Deadline that it does not intend to boycott Russian films this year.
The Swiss festival, which is due to take place August 3-13, said it stood for “freedom of expression and for the cinematographic art...
- 2/28/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Russian director’s ‘No Looking Back’ is benig sold by M-Appeal in the EFM.
Russian director Kirill Sokolov is in advanced development on the comedy drama To Banya, set in the steamy world of Finnish saunas, which he aims to shoot in the summer. Artem Vasilyev’s Metrafilms is producing together with Sergey Selyanov’s Ctb and Yellow Film & TV in Finland.
The story takes place against the backcloth of the world sauna championships in Helsinki as a Russian man tries to earn some much needed money.
Sokolov’s latest feature No Looking Back (pictured) is being sold...
Russian director Kirill Sokolov is in advanced development on the comedy drama To Banya, set in the steamy world of Finnish saunas, which he aims to shoot in the summer. Artem Vasilyev’s Metrafilms is producing together with Sergey Selyanov’s Ctb and Yellow Film & TV in Finland.
The story takes place against the backcloth of the world sauna championships in Helsinki as a Russian man tries to earn some much needed money.
Sokolov’s latest feature No Looking Back (pictured) is being sold...
- 2/13/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
In-person festival to run in Austin, Texas, from March 11-20.
A starry SXSW 2022 film line-up announced on Wednesday (2) includes world premieres of new work from Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Richard Linklater and Nicolas Cage, among many others.
The Austin, Texas, festival ran online editions over the past two years and is planned to take place from March 11-20 as an in-person event against a backdrop of declining Omicron infection levels across the United States.
The roster includes Irish filmmaker and actor Campbell-Hughes’s It Is In Us All (pictured) in Narrative Feature Competition starring Cosmo Jarvis, Claes Bang and Campbell-Hughes about a...
A starry SXSW 2022 film line-up announced on Wednesday (2) includes world premieres of new work from Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Richard Linklater and Nicolas Cage, among many others.
The Austin, Texas, festival ran online editions over the past two years and is planned to take place from March 11-20 as an in-person event against a backdrop of declining Omicron infection levels across the United States.
The roster includes Irish filmmaker and actor Campbell-Hughes’s It Is In Us All (pictured) in Narrative Feature Competition starring Cosmo Jarvis, Claes Bang and Campbell-Hughes about a...
- 2/2/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Other winners included German drama ‘Other Cannibals’ and Lithuania’s ‘Runner’.
Andreas Kleinert’s German drama Dear Thomas has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 2021 Black Nights Film Festival, held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
The black-and-white historical biopic follows the struggles of East German author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, played by Albrecht Schuch who was also named best actor at Black Nights’ closing ceremony on Saturday evening (November 27).
Scroll down for full list of winners
It marks the latest feature of prolific Germany filmmaker Kleinert, known for titles such as Leb Whol, Joseph; Lost Landscape; and Head Under Water,...
Andreas Kleinert’s German drama Dear Thomas has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 2021 Black Nights Film Festival, held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
The black-and-white historical biopic follows the struggles of East German author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, played by Albrecht Schuch who was also named best actor at Black Nights’ closing ceremony on Saturday evening (November 27).
Scroll down for full list of winners
It marks the latest feature of prolific Germany filmmaker Kleinert, known for titles such as Leb Whol, Joseph; Lost Landscape; and Head Under Water,...
- 11/28/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The 25th edition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is about to kick off, and between 12-28 of November the audience will have the oportunity to watch a great number of films from Asia, strewn across festival’s various program sections, including all competition segments. We went through the complete program and counted no more or less than 69 films from the broader Asian region.
Quite surprising is the amount of competition titles in the main selection, with three world premieres, four international. Lu ZHang’s “Yanagawa” will have its European premiere at PÖFF.
Yerzhanov returns to Tallinn a year after he presented two films at the festival, the main competition title “Ulbolsyn” about a woman who comes to a Kazhak village to “steer trouble”, and the oddball comedy “Yellow Cat” screened in the Current Waves program. Kirill Sokolov is also back two years after the premiere of his critically acclaimed...
Quite surprising is the amount of competition titles in the main selection, with three world premieres, four international. Lu ZHang’s “Yanagawa” will have its European premiere at PÖFF.
Yerzhanov returns to Tallinn a year after he presented two films at the festival, the main competition title “Ulbolsyn” about a woman who comes to a Kazhak village to “steer trouble”, and the oddball comedy “Yellow Cat” screened in the Current Waves program. Kirill Sokolov is also back two years after the premiere of his critically acclaimed...
- 11/10/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Berlin-based sales outfit M-Appeal has acquired “No Looking Back,” a dark action film with a dysfunctional family at its core in which three generations of warring women face-off. The film world premiered at Kinotavr – Open Russian Film Festival in September and makes its international premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Intl. Film Festival in November in the main competition section.
The film is director Kirill Sokolov’s follow-up to black comedy “Why Don’t You Just Die!,” which competed at Sitges and closed multiple deals worldwide, marking out Sokolov as an up-and-coming auteur.
The film centers on Olga, a troubled woman who has just been released from prison and been reunited with her 10-year-old daughter, Masha. Masha has been in the care of Olga’s overbearing mother, Vera. The tempestuous relationship between Olga and Vera is instantaneously reignited, resulting in a violent altercation. This prompts Olga to take off with Masha in...
The film is director Kirill Sokolov’s follow-up to black comedy “Why Don’t You Just Die!,” which competed at Sitges and closed multiple deals worldwide, marking out Sokolov as an up-and-coming auteur.
The film centers on Olga, a troubled woman who has just been released from prison and been reunited with her 10-year-old daughter, Masha. Masha has been in the care of Olga’s overbearing mother, Vera. The tempestuous relationship between Olga and Vera is instantaneously reignited, resulting in a violent altercation. This prompts Olga to take off with Masha in...
- 10/21/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Happy Thursday, everyone! On tap today is a brand new list of streaming recommendations that I have put together as part of our ongoing Indie Horror Month celebration. This time, we’re showcasing five fantastic films that are available to stream on the Arrow player and are well worth your time. One note: Clapboard Jungle doesn’t arrive on Arrow until the 19th, but I thought it was a perfect title to include here, so you just have to hang on a few days until you can finally check it out for yourself.
Read on for my Arrow indie horror recommendations and happy streaming!
The Bloodhound (Directed by Patrick Picard)
I just recently watched The Bloodhound for a discussion happening on an upcoming episode of Corpse Club, and it has just stuck with me over the last 10 days or so now. It’s a movie that I wasn’t even...
Read on for my Arrow indie horror recommendations and happy streaming!
The Bloodhound (Directed by Patrick Picard)
I just recently watched The Bloodhound for a discussion happening on an upcoming episode of Corpse Club, and it has just stuck with me over the last 10 days or so now. It’s a movie that I wasn’t even...
- 4/15/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Production in Russia has continued apace throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic, and a broad slate of titles launching at the virtual edition of this year’s European Film Market — from high-concept period dramas to psychological thrillers to horror pics — will look to tap into international interest in the fast-growing industry. “For us, it’s business as usual — boosting that potential,” says Vadim Vereshchagin, CEO of Central Partnership.
During EFM, Vereshchagin’s production and distribution outfit will launch sales on a raft of titles including “The World Champion,” a drama based on the legendary 1978 chess match between Soviet world champion Anatoly Karpov and the dissident Viktor Korchnoi. The co-production with Nikita Mikhalkov’s Studio TriTe and pubcaster Russia-1 is directed by Alexey Sidorov, who helmed the WWII blockbuster “T-34.”
Set in the noir atmosphere of 1920s Russia, “December” follows the last days of Sergey Yesenin, a famous Russian poet and...
During EFM, Vereshchagin’s production and distribution outfit will launch sales on a raft of titles including “The World Champion,” a drama based on the legendary 1978 chess match between Soviet world champion Anatoly Karpov and the dissident Viktor Korchnoi. The co-production with Nikita Mikhalkov’s Studio TriTe and pubcaster Russia-1 is directed by Alexey Sidorov, who helmed the WWII blockbuster “T-34.”
Set in the noir atmosphere of 1920s Russia, “December” follows the last days of Sergey Yesenin, a famous Russian poet and...
- 3/4/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Rising Russian director Kirill Sokolov (“Why Don’t You Just Die!”) and “Vikings” star Danila Kozlovsky have boarded “Alone in the Ocean,” a big-budget survival drama based on the true story of a Soviet man who spent three days lost at sea.
Pic is produced by Artem Vasilyev of Metrafilms, Roman Borisevich of Plan 9 and Konstantin Buslov of Rb Production, and co-produced by André Logie of Belgium’s Panache Prods. It’s being prepped to go into production in 2022.
Set in the 1970s and based on the book of the same name, “Alone in the Ocean” tells the story of Slava Kurilov, an oceanographer aboard a Soviet vessel plying the Philippine Sea who decides to leap overboard, only to learn that after a grave miscalculation he’s more than a hundred miles offshore. Kurilov spends the next three days at sea fighting for survival, determined to live his passion for the ocean,...
Pic is produced by Artem Vasilyev of Metrafilms, Roman Borisevich of Plan 9 and Konstantin Buslov of Rb Production, and co-produced by André Logie of Belgium’s Panache Prods. It’s being prepped to go into production in 2022.
Set in the 1970s and based on the book of the same name, “Alone in the Ocean” tells the story of Slava Kurilov, an oceanographer aboard a Soviet vessel plying the Philippine Sea who decides to leap overboard, only to learn that after a grave miscalculation he’s more than a hundred miles offshore. Kurilov spends the next three days at sea fighting for survival, determined to live his passion for the ocean,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Let the best-of-the-year lists commence. While guilds and critics groups will soon be delivering their opinions, one of the few of genuine interest each year comes from a single person: the wonderfully eccentric director John Waters, whose eclectic tastes always includes a mix of the unexpected and underseen.
Topping his list this year is Tyler Cornack’s spring release Butt Boy, which features a strange tale of missing persons potentially disappearing up someone’s rectum, followed by the recommended psychological body horror film Swallow. Also among the list are the latest films from Pedro Almodóvar, Craig Zobel, Quentin Dupieux and, as a 10th place tie leading to 11 selections, new courtroom dramas by Steve McQueen and Aaron Sorkin.
Check out the list below via Baltimore Fishbowl, which will appear in the next issue of Artforum. We’ve also included links to our reviews.
1. Butt Boy (Tyler Cornack)
2. Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
3. The Hunt...
Topping his list this year is Tyler Cornack’s spring release Butt Boy, which features a strange tale of missing persons potentially disappearing up someone’s rectum, followed by the recommended psychological body horror film Swallow. Also among the list are the latest films from Pedro Almodóvar, Craig Zobel, Quentin Dupieux and, as a 10th place tie leading to 11 selections, new courtroom dramas by Steve McQueen and Aaron Sorkin.
Check out the list below via Baltimore Fishbowl, which will appear in the next issue of Artforum. We’ve also included links to our reviews.
1. Butt Boy (Tyler Cornack)
2. Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
3. The Hunt...
- 11/27/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In the weeks following the inaugural edition of the Key Buyers Event, a showcase for new Russian productions held in Moscow last fall, Roskino CEO Evgenia Markova reached out to scores of international guests who had made the trip to the Russian capital. After what was largely perceived as a successful event, in which dozens of Russian titles sold to foreign buyers, Markova wanted to understand what else the film promotion body could do to support the continued growth of the Russian industry.
One piece of advice stood out. “Not many Russian names are known abroad,” says Markova. The consensus among many of the buyers in attendance was that “this is definitely what [Roskino] should work on: you should promote your actors, your producers, your directors. You should show the world you exist.”
For the Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, an online platform to showcase and promote Russian content that takes...
One piece of advice stood out. “Not many Russian names are known abroad,” says Markova. The consensus among many of the buyers in attendance was that “this is definitely what [Roskino] should work on: you should promote your actors, your producers, your directors. You should show the world you exist.”
For the Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, an online platform to showcase and promote Russian content that takes...
- 6/10/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Why Don’T You Just Die! is currently available on Blu-ray From Arrow Video
Shades of early Tarantino, Edgar Wright and Sam Raimi abound in this violent, stylish and riotously entertaining slice of family life, Moscow style, described as a splatterpunk action comedy drenched in gleefully dark Russian humor (The Hollywood Reporter) and an amazing first feature from a filmmaker to watch (Screen Anarchy).
Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend s parents apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honor. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey s attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don t quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable not to mention ruthless opponent than he anticipated and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov...
Shades of early Tarantino, Edgar Wright and Sam Raimi abound in this violent, stylish and riotously entertaining slice of family life, Moscow style, described as a splatterpunk action comedy drenched in gleefully dark Russian humor (The Hollywood Reporter) and an amazing first feature from a filmmaker to watch (Screen Anarchy).
Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend s parents apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honor. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey s attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don t quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable not to mention ruthless opponent than he anticipated and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov...
- 6/3/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As individual states and the film industry at large begin to think about when the right time to reopen theaters might be, digital and streaming services deliver the strongest weekly slate of new releases since the shutdown.
Many saw it as a sign of the times when HBO acquired critically acclaimed Hugh Jackman drama ”Bad Education” at the Toronto Film Festival last year, never imagining that it would be a blessing for the film that it was bypassing theaters to debut on the premium network. Meanwhile, on Netflix, two new tentpoles — including one from the team behind “Avengers: Infinity War” — give subscribers some studio-caliber entertainment to watch at home.
Here are all the new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them.
Independent films, directly on demand:
Bad Education (Cory Finley) Critic’S Pick
Distributor: HBO
Where to Find It: Premieres Sat., April 25 on HBO...
Many saw it as a sign of the times when HBO acquired critically acclaimed Hugh Jackman drama ”Bad Education” at the Toronto Film Festival last year, never imagining that it would be a blessing for the film that it was bypassing theaters to debut on the premium network. Meanwhile, on Netflix, two new tentpoles — including one from the team behind “Avengers: Infinity War” — give subscribers some studio-caliber entertainment to watch at home.
Here are all the new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them.
Independent films, directly on demand:
Bad Education (Cory Finley) Critic’S Pick
Distributor: HBO
Where to Find It: Premieres Sat., April 25 on HBO...
- 4/24/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Hello, dear readers! We have a brand new batch of Blu-ray and DVD releases coming our way this week, and there are some killer titles that you’re definitely going to want to pick up, including Scream Factory’s Blu-ray release of The Curse of the Werewolf.
We also have some excellent recent titles headed to various formats this week, including Why Don’t You Just Die! (which this writer absolutely loved), Sea Fever (another film I really enjoyed immensely), The Turning, and Party Hard, Die Young.
Other releases for April 21st include Prey, Colour of the Dark, and a brand new Blu-ray for Fatal Attraction.
The Curse of the Werewolf
His beast-blood demanded he Kill ... Kill ... Kill! Directed by legendary horror filmmaker Terence Fisher, this atmospheric tale of terror stars Oliver Reed as the orphan of a maniacal beggar and a mute girl. From his birth to young manhood, he discovers a horrible secret.
We also have some excellent recent titles headed to various formats this week, including Why Don’t You Just Die! (which this writer absolutely loved), Sea Fever (another film I really enjoyed immensely), The Turning, and Party Hard, Die Young.
Other releases for April 21st include Prey, Colour of the Dark, and a brand new Blu-ray for Fatal Attraction.
The Curse of the Werewolf
His beast-blood demanded he Kill ... Kill ... Kill! Directed by legendary horror filmmaker Terence Fisher, this atmospheric tale of terror stars Oliver Reed as the orphan of a maniacal beggar and a mute girl. From his birth to young manhood, he discovers a horrible secret.
- 4/20/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Writer/director Kirill Sokolov's feature debut Why Don't You Just Die! is a stylish and grisly dark comedy about greed and corruption in modern Russia. Set almost entirely within a small Moscow apartment over the course of one day, the story involves Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov), a young man charged by his girlfriend, Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde ) to murder her abusive father, Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) . Naturally, this proves more difficult than anticipated, and within the first five minutes the film has wasted no time in delivering some eye-popping and expertly choreographed violence.
Through flashbacks we learn more about our players. Andrey is a corrupt cop with more than a few skeletons in his closet; Olya's motivations are less about revenge than sheer avarice; and when Andrey's...
Through flashbacks we learn more about our players. Andrey is a corrupt cop with more than a few skeletons in his closet; Olya's motivations are less about revenge than sheer avarice; and when Andrey's...
- 4/20/2020
- QuietEarth.us
Manchester-based genre festival to offer horror features and shorts for the duration of quarantine.
UK genre film festival Grimmfest is to launch a streaming platform today (April 20) that will offer horror films and shorts for free during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Grimmfest TV will launch with several features and around 25 short films, most of which have screened and won awards at the Manchester-based festival. The collection will be made available to watch on the festival’s website and at least two titles are set to be added weekly for the duration of the ongoing quarantine.
With the future of its next edition uncertain,...
UK genre film festival Grimmfest is to launch a streaming platform today (April 20) that will offer horror films and shorts for free during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Grimmfest TV will launch with several features and around 25 short films, most of which have screened and won awards at the Manchester-based festival. The collection will be made available to watch on the festival’s website and at least two titles are set to be added weekly for the duration of the ongoing quarantine.
With the future of its next edition uncertain,...
- 4/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
For his feature film directorial debut, Russian filmmaker Kirill Sokolov delivers up a blisteringly funny and relentlessly brutal pitch-black comedy in Why Don’t You Just Die! The basic setup of the film follows a young guy named Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov), whose girlfriend shares a disturbing family secret with him, and he sets out to right the wrong by attempting to kill her father (Vitaliy Khaev). Things don’t necessarily go according to plan for the naïve Matvey, and from there, blood, chaos, and a string of surprising revelations come about.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Sokolov about the inspirations behind Why Don’t You Just Die!, and he discussed how he had to change up his approach early on for his first feature, the challenges of making his central locale continually interesting for viewers, and how his special effects team was able to achieve some mind-blowing practical gags in the film.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Sokolov about the inspirations behind Why Don’t You Just Die!, and he discussed how he had to change up his approach early on for his first feature, the challenges of making his central locale continually interesting for viewers, and how his special effects team was able to achieve some mind-blowing practical gags in the film.
- 4/17/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Russian director Kirill Sokolov wears his influences on his sleeve in Why Don’t You Just Die!, a revenge tale in which a boyfriend will try to fulfill his girlfriend’s (Evgeniya Kregzhde as Olya) wish: kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev), a rough police detective who apparently raped her when she was just a teenager. A highly stylish movie that riffs on westerns, torture porn, crime and action cinema, and that’s mostly set in the apartment of Olya’s parents (Elena Shevchenko is the mother), Why Don’t You Just Die! constantly mixes tones as well, ranging from gory and exaggerated violence and a dose of horror to a lot of comedy. Not to mention the fact that it uses non-linear narrative to...
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- 4/17/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Why Don't You Just Die! will be be available nationwide on Digital HD starting April 20th, but we have the opening scene that you can watch right now, courtesy of Arrow Video:
London, UK - In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ground daily life to a halt around the globe, Arrow Video is proud to announce the Us release of Why Don't You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright. Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. Why Don't You Just Die! will be available nationwide on Digital HD April 20th.
Why Don't You Just Die! has received critical acclaim from festivals around the globe, taking home the New Flesh Award for Best First Feature and Silver Audience Award at Fantasia,...
London, UK - In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ground daily life to a halt around the globe, Arrow Video is proud to announce the Us release of Why Don't You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright. Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. Why Don't You Just Die! will be available nationwide on Digital HD April 20th.
Why Don't You Just Die! has received critical acclaim from festivals around the globe, taking home the New Flesh Award for Best First Feature and Silver Audience Award at Fantasia,...
- 4/16/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Stars: Vitaliy Khaev, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Mikhail Gorevoy, Elena Shevchenko, Igor Grabuzov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Ilya Gavrilenkov, Vasiliy Kopeikin | Written and Directed by Kirill Sokolov
Do you remember The Raid? If you’ve seen it you probably won’t ever forget it. Now imagine taking the brutality and physical violence of that film and transpose it to one apartment and only a handful of people. That’s Why Don’t You Just Die! in a nutshell.
The film tells the story of Matvei, who ends up at the door of corrupt detective Andrei after his resentful daughter asks Matvei to kill him for her. The reason? She claims that her father has repeatedly raped her since she was a child. Now Matvei does what every longing boyfriend would, he says yes. Only Matvei doesn’t bank on things going south quite so fast. He also didn’t bank on Andrei fighting back,...
Do you remember The Raid? If you’ve seen it you probably won’t ever forget it. Now imagine taking the brutality and physical violence of that film and transpose it to one apartment and only a handful of people. That’s Why Don’t You Just Die! in a nutshell.
The film tells the story of Matvei, who ends up at the door of corrupt detective Andrei after his resentful daughter asks Matvei to kill him for her. The reason? She claims that her father has repeatedly raped her since she was a child. Now Matvei does what every longing boyfriend would, he says yes. Only Matvei doesn’t bank on things going south quite so fast. He also didn’t bank on Andrei fighting back,...
- 4/16/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Tagline: "Meeting the Parents Doesn't Go Smoothly..." Why Don't You Just Die is a film from Russia. Shot in the Russian language, this title is from director Kirill Sokolov ("Fire"), who also wrote the screenplay. Sokolov's first feature, Why Don't You Just Die is a film about Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) and his girlfriend's honour. Matvey goes to attack Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev), but is not expecting so much resistance. Now, it is Matvey whose life is in danger. This title is set for an April release date, in the United States and thriller fans can find a movie clip below. Sokolov has spoken about this violent feature. Sokolov says of the violence and its realism: "the film’s inherent violence is the result of reflection on the realities of life in Russia, modern relationships, and societal attitudes." This director has taken a modern story and put it to screen. And, Sokolov's...
- 4/15/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
This smart, stylish and gory debut by Russia’s Kirill Sokolov follows the twists and violence that ensue when a hammer-wielding man turns up at the door
A macabre and ultraviolent Venus flytrap of a film from Russia that snaps shut with a steely clang. Its original title conveys a bit more succinctly what it’s about: “Papa, sdokhni”, or “Daddy, die”. With its slick and ingenious brutality, it exists on a continuum somewhere between Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino, maybe triangulated with a bit of Sergio Leone: there’s some Morricone-ish keening on the soundtrack.
Andrei is a middle-aged cop, played by Vitaliy Khaev: a bulky, shaven-headed guy clearly accustomed to a career in violence. His wife is Tasha (Elena Shevchenko), who has retreated into an ethereal depression. We join the story as he is sitting down to supper in his modest apartment, with Tasha busying herself morosely in the kitchen,...
A macabre and ultraviolent Venus flytrap of a film from Russia that snaps shut with a steely clang. Its original title conveys a bit more succinctly what it’s about: “Papa, sdokhni”, or “Daddy, die”. With its slick and ingenious brutality, it exists on a continuum somewhere between Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino, maybe triangulated with a bit of Sergio Leone: there’s some Morricone-ish keening on the soundtrack.
Andrei is a middle-aged cop, played by Vitaliy Khaev: a bulky, shaven-headed guy clearly accustomed to a career in violence. His wife is Tasha (Elena Shevchenko), who has retreated into an ethereal depression. We join the story as he is sitting down to supper in his modest apartment, with Tasha busying herself morosely in the kitchen,...
- 4/15/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Kirill Sokolov's Why Don't You Just Die! had a very successful festival run, pulling in awards from all over. Arrow Video has released the opening scene from this excellent dark comedic thriller. It gives you a small glimpse of Sokolov's framing and look, how stylish it will be. There is none of the violence, which we can promise you there is plenty of, but you can see for yourself how purdy it is. Check the trailer we have also attached for a glimpse into the violence. Wheee! Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially...
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- 4/14/2020
- Screen Anarchy
The coronavirus has made everyone a bit sensitive, with good reason, inspiring memes around such now-sensitive movie titles as delayed 007 entry “No Time to Die” and Emily Ting’s culture-shock indie “Go Back to China.” To this list of inappropriately named movies we might add “Why Don’t You Just Die!” — except that Russian director Kirill Sokolov’s pitch-black horror debut, which nixed its April 10 theatrical plans in favor of a straight-to-streaming option two weeks later, is the kind of deranged Grand Guignol bloodbath that’s wrong in all the right ways. So, in a sense, it fits.
Set almost entirely in a corrupt cop’s Moscow apartment, “Why Don’t You Just Die!” is a neatly conceived dark-comedy chamber piece — à la the Wachowski siblings’ clockwork-perfect queer-noir “Bound” or Sidney Lumet’s airtight but otherwise diabolical “Deathtrap” — in which a simple setup spirals into unimaginably twisted mayhem. A tough, agitated young...
Set almost entirely in a corrupt cop’s Moscow apartment, “Why Don’t You Just Die!” is a neatly conceived dark-comedy chamber piece — à la the Wachowski siblings’ clockwork-perfect queer-noir “Bound” or Sidney Lumet’s airtight but otherwise diabolical “Deathtrap” — in which a simple setup spirals into unimaginably twisted mayhem. A tough, agitated young...
- 4/8/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The Kalashnikov Sonata: Sokolov Serves Pulp in Enjoyably Nasty Debut
Hell hath no fury like a struggling actress, at least as it’s played in the vibrant and violent directorial debut of Russia’s Kirill Sokolov with his enigmatically titled Why Don’t You Just Die! It’s also a genre hybrid which channels the usual tropes of how money is the root of all evil and how blood is not really thicker than water in its send-up of 90s American stalwarts such as Quentin Tarantino (whose Kill Bill gets a direct reference) and Roger Avary. An action-packed, gory chamber piece interspersed with several flashbacks for necessary exposition, Sokolov makes an immediate name for himself with a revenge comedy as memorable as it is familiar.…...
Hell hath no fury like a struggling actress, at least as it’s played in the vibrant and violent directorial debut of Russia’s Kirill Sokolov with his enigmatically titled Why Don’t You Just Die! It’s also a genre hybrid which channels the usual tropes of how money is the root of all evil and how blood is not really thicker than water in its send-up of 90s American stalwarts such as Quentin Tarantino (whose Kill Bill gets a direct reference) and Roger Avary. An action-packed, gory chamber piece interspersed with several flashbacks for necessary exposition, Sokolov makes an immediate name for himself with a revenge comedy as memorable as it is familiar.…...
- 4/8/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) just wants to take his girlfriend Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde) on a date. At least that’s what he tells her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) when he opens the door. We know it isn’t quite true, though, considering his pulse is racing and his grip on the hammer hidden behind his back is tightening. Because a neighbor is walking to her apartment across the hall to provide way too compelling a witness, he can’t just take a swing and leave. So Matvey enters upon invitation, locks the door behind him, and readies himself once more to do what he came to do … when Olya’s mother Tasha (Elena Shevchenko) appears to offer coffee and tea. What can he do now but sit and wait to hopefully leave?
While the awkward silence and surprised scoffs upon learning Matvey’s would-be victim is a police detective make for a humorously discomforting scenario,...
While the awkward silence and surprised scoffs upon learning Matvey’s would-be victim is a police detective make for a humorously discomforting scenario,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Initially slated to come out in select theaters on April 10th, festival darling Why Don't You Just Die! has joined the ranks of movies affected by the coronavirus and will not be released in Us cinemas this spring. However, Arrow Video is giving viewers good reason not to despair with the announcement of an April 20th Digital HD release for Why Don't You Just Die!, one day before its Blu-ray release:
Press Release: London, UK - In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ground daily life to a halt around the globe, Arrow Video is proud to announce the Us release of Why Don't You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright. Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour.
Press Release: London, UK - In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ground daily life to a halt around the globe, Arrow Video is proud to announce the Us release of Why Don't You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright. Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour.
- 3/26/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Arrow Video isn't joking around when it comes to their April Blu-ray releases, with an eclectic physical home media lineup that includes the beloved, the obscure, and one of the more buzzed-about indie films from last year's festival circuit.
In April, Arrow Video will release Beyond the Door, Why Don't You Just Die!, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and The Wind on Blu-ray via Mvd Entertainment Group.
You can read the full release details below (including the new announcement of an illustrated collector’s booklet for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), and to learn more, visit the links for the following Blu-rays:
Beyond the Door Why Don't You Just Die! Elvira: Mistress of the Dark The Wind
"Spring into April with Five Exciting New Releases from Arrow!
While the world faces difficult, uncertain times the small comforts like movies can mean so much more. Arrow knows this and has you...
In April, Arrow Video will release Beyond the Door, Why Don't You Just Die!, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and The Wind on Blu-ray via Mvd Entertainment Group.
You can read the full release details below (including the new announcement of an illustrated collector’s booklet for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), and to learn more, visit the links for the following Blu-rays:
Beyond the Door Why Don't You Just Die! Elvira: Mistress of the Dark The Wind
"Spring into April with Five Exciting New Releases from Arrow!
While the world faces difficult, uncertain times the small comforts like movies can mean so much more. Arrow knows this and has you...
- 3/26/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Arrow Video is bringing Why Don't You Just Die! to select theaters across the Us, giving you a chance to see this festival darling on the big screen:
London, UK - Arrow Video is proud to announce the Us theatrical release of Why Don't You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright. Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. Why Don't You Just Die! will open in select theaters nationwide on April 10th, 2020.
Why Don't You Just Die! has received critical acclaim from festivals around the globe, taking home the New Flesh Award for Best First Feature and Silver Audience Award at Fantasia, Best European Feature Film at MOTELx, Best Director at Fantaspoa, Best Feature, Best Director and Best VFX Awards at Grimmfest.
London, UK - Arrow Video is proud to announce the Us theatrical release of Why Don't You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright. Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. Why Don't You Just Die! will open in select theaters nationwide on April 10th, 2020.
Why Don't You Just Die! has received critical acclaim from festivals around the globe, taking home the New Flesh Award for Best First Feature and Silver Audience Award at Fantasia, Best European Feature Film at MOTELx, Best Director at Fantaspoa, Best Feature, Best Director and Best VFX Awards at Grimmfest.
- 2/27/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Meeting the parents is always terrifying, but even moreso when their reputation precedes them. In debutant director Kirill Sokolov's genre fest hit, Why Don't You Just Die!, the meeting just might mean murder. Young Matvey's preconceived notions of his girlfriend's father are turned on their head as twist after twist turns this story into a rollicking, convoluted joyride through some of the seediest, most bone-crunching action you've ever seen. Winner of multiple awards at Fantasia, MOTELx, Fantaspoa, and more, Why Don't You Just Die! is a hilariously over the top thriller packed with non-stop, hilarious violence. Arrow Video picked up the film for distribution in the Us/Can/UK, and is planning a limited theatrical release on April 10th to support it, to be followed shortly after...
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- 2/27/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Arrow Video is proud to announce the Us theatrical release of Why Don’t You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright. Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale […]
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- 2/26/2020
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
"It might be because of the work I do, but I pay close attention to my daughter's friends." Arrow Films has unleashed an official trailer for a super-violent, dark comedy from Russia called (for the UK/Us release) Why Don't You Just Die!. The original title in Russian translates directly to Dad, Die - a bit too short. It's the feature directorial debut of a filmmaker named Kirill Sokolov. "Shades of early Tarantino, Edgar Wright and Sam Raimi abound in this violent, stylish and riotously entertaining slice of family life, Moscow style, described as 'a splatterpunk action comedy drenched in gleefully dark Russian humor.'" Sounds good? Andrei, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one has a reason to want revenge. The film stars Aleksandr Kuznetsov,...
- 2/23/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Evil cannot touch me... This is the mantra of our poor, clueless hero, Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) as he prepares to enter the home of his girlfriend's family in director Kirill Sokolov's violent, kinetic action explosion, Why Don't You Just Die! (the exclamation point is part of the title), but we soon learn that he couldn't be more wrong as a simple visit turns extremely bloody over the course of ninety-five tightly plotted minutes. Matvey has sought out the parents of his girlfriend Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde) to avenge her innocence after hearing that her childhood wasn't as safe and secure as he would've liked to assume. Unfortunately for him, everyone in the family has a secret they are trying to protect, and he's an unwitting pawn...
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- 11/29/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Grimmfest wrapped up its festivities the previous weekend. After much lost sleep was caught up on, the hangovers long subsided, it was time to announce this year's award winners. This year proved if you could bring the horror and the laughs you were in good standing with the Grimmfest audience. Kirill Sokolov`s dark comedy horror Why Don`t You Just Die! was the big winner, taking home both the Best Feature and Best Director awards. Sokolov`s film also took home the Best SFX award. So it is a big win for Sokolov and the other big winner, the Audience Award, went to the terrific horror comedy Extra Ordinary. It`s star Maeve Higgins took home the Best Actress award for her role in the film. ...
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- 10/15/2019
- Screen Anarchy
This October, Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, celebrated its eleventh anniversary with its biggest line-up of film premieres ever, along with audiences to match. Now the Festival Jury’s votes are all in, and the audience ballots all tallied up, Grimmfest have revealed this year’s award-winners:
Horror Channel Achievement in Horror Award
Jen And Sylvia Soska
Best Feature (Sponsored by M2 MediaPost) Why Don’T You Just Die!
With Special Mention for Extra Ordinary Best Director (Sponsored by M2 MediaPost) Kirill Sokolov, Why Don’T You Just Die!
With Special Mention for Rob Grant (Harpoon) Best Screenplay (Sponsored by Final Draft and InkTip) Harpoon
With Special Mention for A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life Best Cinematography (Sponsored by One Bright Dot) 4×4
With Special Mention for Why Don’T You Just Die! Best Score (Sponsored by Grimmfest Films) Artik
With Special Mention for Tone-deaf Best Actor Peter Lanzani,...
Horror Channel Achievement in Horror Award
Jen And Sylvia Soska
Best Feature (Sponsored by M2 MediaPost) Why Don’T You Just Die!
With Special Mention for Extra Ordinary Best Director (Sponsored by M2 MediaPost) Kirill Sokolov, Why Don’T You Just Die!
With Special Mention for Rob Grant (Harpoon) Best Screenplay (Sponsored by Final Draft and InkTip) Harpoon
With Special Mention for A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life Best Cinematography (Sponsored by One Bright Dot) 4×4
With Special Mention for Why Don’T You Just Die! Best Score (Sponsored by Grimmfest Films) Artik
With Special Mention for Tone-deaf Best Actor Peter Lanzani,...
- 10/14/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
‘Karli’ won the horror festival’s first work-in-progress award.
Kirill Sokolov’s Why Don’t You Just Die! has won a hat-trick of awards at Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, including best feature.
As well as the top prize, the dark comedy won best director for Sokolov and best SFX. It also received a special mention for cinematography and in the audience award category.
The team behind the Russian feature has been awarded £80,000 worth of post-production services from M2 MediaPost, which can be used as finance against a future film production.
The film, which marks Sokolov’s debut feature, is set...
Kirill Sokolov’s Why Don’t You Just Die! has won a hat-trick of awards at Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, including best feature.
As well as the top prize, the dark comedy won best director for Sokolov and best SFX. It also received a special mention for cinematography and in the audience award category.
The team behind the Russian feature has been awarded £80,000 worth of post-production services from M2 MediaPost, which can be used as finance against a future film production.
The film, which marks Sokolov’s debut feature, is set...
- 10/14/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
As far as high-concept features go, the idea of setting a story in one location may be the most intriguing of all. Do you choose an open loft to breakaway from traditional confines? Do you set it in a sprawling house, so that each room can potentially hold its own brand of horrors? Or do you cheat ever so slightly, by jumping, via flashback, to one or two other locations without ever exploring the world as a whole? While it does step into that last arena ever so slightly, Why Don't You Just Die! is an immensely thrilling tale of two men trying to kill each other.
When Matvei (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) arrives at a nondescript Russian apartment, he does so with one goal in mind: to kill Andrei (Vitaliy Khayev ). The task was handed to him by his girlfriend, Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde), after she unloads upon him the tragedy of her childhood.
When Matvei (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) arrives at a nondescript Russian apartment, he does so with one goal in mind: to kill Andrei (Vitaliy Khayev ). The task was handed to him by his girlfriend, Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde), after she unloads upon him the tragedy of her childhood.
- 9/25/2019
- by Adrian Torres
- DailyDead
Motelx, the Lisbon based genre festival in Portugal, wrapped up yesterday after a successful week. They announced the winners of their Méliès d’Argent awards, two films which will go to Sitges to compete for the Méliès d’Or. Guilherme Daniel's Portuguese short film Bad Seed won for Best Portuguese Horror Short / Méliès d’Argent. This is the second win in a row for Daniel. Bad Seed tells the story of a couple who ploughs a seemingly barren land and one day uncover a dark seed in the ground that becomes a strange influence in their behavior. Kirill Sokolov's debut feature film, the Russian horror comedy Why Don't You Just Die! won Best European Horror Feature / Méliès d’Argent. (His film is about)...
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- 9/16/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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