Posts Tagged ‘Magnet Releasing’
Posted by Jesse in Latest News, Movies on January 25th, 2010
Fangoria reports that George A. Romero’s latest zombie opus Survival of the Dead will be coming via Video On Demand April 30. Following this, the film will be released theatrical by Magnet Releasing on May 28 for a limited window.
Survival of the Dead follows a group of people as they escape to Plum Island, off the coast of Delaware – a place they think is safe, where they hope to survive the war between the living and the dead, and try to find a cure to bring their undead relatives back into their natural state.
Posted by dominie in Movies on March 23rd, 2009
Before exposing you to the following news, let us all hope (hope really hard) that Magnolia will re-release a proper form of this film. FM has been following Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In (review) for quite some time now, and like those at Icons of Fright, Alfredson’s beautifully haunting tale has become one of our favorite films at FM.
My first disappointment with Let The Right One In has nothing to do with Alfredson’s film, but rather a remake, titled Let Me In, that Overture Films decided they had the right to do. And secondly, now Magnolia has released a US DVD and Blu-ray version of the film completely lost in translation. Click over to Icons of Fright for the skinny. Snapshots are even included, pouring salt on the wound. And yes, it is horrifying.
Posted by dominie in Movies on February 16th, 2009
Exclusive from Shock Till You Drop is the official US one sheet for Simon Hunter’s (Lighthouse, Wired) Mutant Chronicles. Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, acquired the picture in early January and plans to release the picture on VOD March 27, 2009, followed by a limited theatrical release on April 24, 2009.
John Malkovich, Ron Perlman, Sean Pertwee, Devon Aoki, and Shauna MacDonald star. The plot details have been provided below.
Plot Summary: Earth’s natural resources have been exhausted by mankind and battle rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations: the Capitol, Bauhaus, Mishima and Imperial.
Mitch Hunter and Nathan Rooker, battle hardened Capitol soldiers, fight a desperate battle against a Bauhaus advance. When an errant shell destroys an ancient stone seal, they find themselves facing a new enemy: hideous necrmutants, with boneblades that grow from their arms. Mithc barely manages to escape. Nathan does not.
The mutants multiply by millions and they destroy all before them. The Corporations’ leader, Constantine, is about to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents to their desperate fate, when he is approached by Brother Samuel, leader of the Brotherhood, and ancient monastic order
Samuel is keep of the Chronicles, a book that prophesies both the rise of the Mutants, and the ‘Deliverer’ that will destroy them. Samuel believes he is that Deliverer destined to journey deep into the earth and destroy the source of the mutant scourge.
He manages to recruit Mitch, along with a handful of like-minded soldiers: Steiner, honor bound Bauhaus officer; sword wielding Severian; street fighter El Jesus; fearless beauty Duval; and stoic warrior Juba.
“Mutant Chronicles” follows Mitch and Samuel’s mission to venture into the very heart of the darkness in an attempt to save the planet from marauding hordes of deathless mutants. 
Posted by dominie in Movies on February 2nd, 2009
Just over a week a go, we announced that Shuttle, the Edward Anderson directed thriller you may remember that ran through festivals last year, has found a home at Magnet Releasing. The distribution company, which handles Magnolia’s genre acquisitions, has slated Shuttle for limited theatrical release on March 6th. Today Magnolia announced a DVD release date of April 7th, only shortly after its theater release. The DVD art is provided to the left.
Starring Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, and Tony Curran (Midnight Meat Train), Shuttle will take you for a ride you never wished for. Attempting to return home from a girls-only weekend vacation, Jules and Mel find themselves stranded at the airport, late on a rain-drenched night. Hoping to just get home safe and sound, they board an airport shuttle with a helpful, and seemingly friendly driver behind the wheel, but the peaceful trip turns out to be their worst nightmare. 
Posted by dominie in Movies on January 31st, 2009
Bloody Disgusting has unveiled the new final one sheet for Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s Surveillance. Magnolia Pictures acquired US distribution rights to the film at the Cannes in May 2008 for release through their genre arm, Magnet Releasing. Magnolia has slated the film to premiere May 29, 2009 on VOD followed by a theatrical release on June 26, 2009.
Starring Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, and Pell James, Surveillance follows an FBI agent on a mission to track down a serial killer with the help of his would-be-victims, all of whom have very different stories of their experiences.
Posted by dominie in Movies on January 21st, 2009
Good news for fans looking for that extra kick in a film. Magnolia’s genre arm, Magnet Releasing, will release Edward Anderson’s Shuttle in limited theaters in March followed by a DVD release on April 7, 2009. Magnet acquired the film in November as part of the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
The film has received marks as “one of the most compelling denouements of any genre film” according to one reviewer for Bloody Disgusting. “It’s tragic and brutal and for eagle-eyed fans it is satisfying in that the film hints and pokes and prods the audience toward the conclusion… I don’t think genre fans can ask for more than that when they sit down in a darkened theater, board the Shuttle, and demand to be transported into a terrifying new world.”
Written and directed by Anderson, the film is a story about two friends, “Jules (Cameron Goodman) and Mel (Peyton List) [who] return late at night from a ladies-only vacation. They find themselves at the airport on a rainy night that seems darker than usual. Wanting to get home but with limited options, they board an airport shuttle with a driver (Tony Curran), hoping for a safe and short ride.”
You can head over to Lightning Entertainment to watch the trailer.
Posted by dominie in Movies on January 8th, 2009
Bloody Disgusting reports that Magnet Releasing has acquired US distribution rights to Mutant Chronicles, a sci-fi/action epic encompassing an ensemble cast including Thomas Jane (The Mist), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Devon Aoki (Sin City), and John Malkovich. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the film boasts incredible special effects and action-packed battle sequences.
Mutant Chronicles is set in the year 2707, on an unrecognizable Earth where a war is raging between four giant corporations who control the planet as they battle over the planet’s dwindling resources. This war is soon rendered irrelevant when an errant bomb shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific mutant army from its prison deep within the earth. As the mutant scourge threatens human extinction, a squad of ragged soldiers, led by Mitch Hunter (Thomas Jane), descends into the earth in a last ditch effort to destroy the mutants and save mankind.
“Mutant Chronicles is a blast,” said Magnolia Pictures President Eamonn Bowles. “It’s an action-packed thriller with a dynamite cast and very impressive production values. We’re thrilled to add it to Magnet’s slate of quality genre pictures.”
“Simon Hunter is an exciting cinematic talent who has created a provocative world for Mutant Chronicles,” said producer Edward R. Pressman. “I see in Simon the rare visionary quality that was evident to me when working with Sam Raimi, Alex Proyas, and Brian De Palma on their early films. Mutant Chronicles is just the beginning for him.”
As part of the Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Ultra VOD program, the film will premiere on VOD on Friday, March 27th, 2009, followed by a theatrical release in select cities on Friday, April 24th.
Posted by dominie in Movies, Reviews on December 3rd, 2008
We’ve got an early review for you. Timecrimes (official website), the feature directorial debut of Nacho Vigalondo, is the third film from Magnolia/Magnet Releasing’s Six Shooter Film Series. The movie arrives in limited theaters December 12th.
If you are expecting a high tech fast and furious time chase Jet Li fight a la The One or a more sophisticated H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper in Time After Time… this is different.
Don’t get me wrong; different in a good way. In his feature long directorial debut, Nacho Vigalondo doesn’t waste any time on the technology, on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’; the only thing that matters is the people. What an average man would be if he discovered he is part of a twisted time-travel plot that he himself created. What the different ‘instances’ of him are doing at any given time. And how can he fix it? With low budget but high creativity, Vigalondo was able to create not only a believable story but also a compassionate character.
Hector, played by the confused but relentless Karra Eleyade, tries everything in order to bring his life back to some glimce of normalcy, but in doing so he needs to force the events to happen and rely on hope that the result is a positive outcome. The movie soon resignates like a Matrioshka doll, with the same events nested one into each other, forcing the protagonist towards unthinkable decisions and… of course… crimes. The mechanism is twisted and halfway through the story, the plot is artifically forced in order to have all the pieces fit together.
Timecrimes provides for an enjoyable rollercoster ride, however, something that cannot escape the expert eye of a Star Trek fan with an unsurpassed knowledge in temporal anomalies is this movie sheds no new light on the matter of time travel.
–Written by Simone Bartesaghi
Posted by dominie in Latest News, Movies on November 25th, 2008
Magnolia Pictures released the official US poster for British director Olly Blackburn’s Donkey Punch which Fangoria has unveiled. The film opens in limited theaters January 23, 2009 as part of Magnolia/Magnet Releasing’s Six Shooter Film Series.
Starring Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor and Jaime Winstone, the story features a group of young people on a boat, doing what comes naturally: sex, drugs and rock & roll. On the other hand, things go awry when manslaughter, cover-ups and murder enter the picture.
Posted by dominie in Latest News, Movies on October 30th, 2008
The trailer for Magnolia/Magnet Releasing’s Timecrimes debuted this week on IGN. It is the third film of Magent’s Six-Shooter Film Series, a series of six films highlighting the vanguard of genre cinema from around the globe. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo, the film follows “a man who accidentally travels back into the past and meets himself. A naked girl in the middle of the forest. A mysterious stranger with his face wrapped in a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable crime.”
Starring Karra Elejade, Barbara Goenaga, Candela Fernandez, and Nacho Vigalondo himself, Timecrimes hits the big screen in limited theaters on December 5th.
Posted by dominie in Movies on October 2nd, 2008
I can’t stop raving about how great this little Swedish vampire film is. Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In (review) debuts in New York and Los Angeles Friday, October 24. The US trailer is now available in high definition on IGN and you can visit the official website for all everything you want to know about the upcoming release.
Let the Right One In is the inaugural film in Magnet Releasing’s Six Shooter Film Series that will feature theatrical releases of six films from the vanguard of quality worldwide genre cinema. Alfredson’s Let the Right One In has been named winner of such film festival honors as Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, Best Film and Best Cinematography at Göteborg, and Best Film, Best Director, Best Photography, Best European, North or South American Film at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal.
Official Plot Synopsis:
A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him.
But Eli’s arrival coincides with a series of gruesome deaths and attacks. Though Oskar realizes that she’s a vampire, his friendship with her is stronger than his fear…
Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a disturbing, darkly atmospheric, yet unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence. The feature is based on the best-selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which the UK press qualified as “reminiscent of Stephen King at his best.”
Screening Dates and Locations:
10/24/2008
West Hollywood, CA: Sunset 5
New York, NY: Angelika Film Center
11/7/2008
San Diego, CA: Hillcrest Cinemas (more…)
Posted by dominie in Latest News, Movies, Reviews on September 30th, 2008
Last week Hammer and Overture films announced an English-language remake of Swedish director Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In, the original coming of age vampire film that hits theaters October 24. According to Bloody-Disgusting, Cloverfield helmer Matt Reeves will direct the remake, and Alfredson’s thoughts don’t come with open arms.
“Remakes should be made of movies that aren’t very good, that gives you the chance to fix whatever has gone wrong,” Alfredson tells Moviezine. “I’m very proud of my movie and think it’s great, but the Americans might be of an other opinion. The saddest thing for me would be to see that beautiful story made into something mainstream. I don’t like to whine, but of course – if you’d spent years on painting a picture, you’d hate to hear buzz about a copy even before your vernissage!”
If you’ve been following our coverage of Let the Right One In (review), you will understand how furious this news makes me. I’ll agree that an English-language remake may expose the film to millions more fans, but potentially sacrificing everything we have loved about the movie seems too great of a risk (seems likely the way Hollywood is nabbing remake rights). Can we not read subtitles anymore? If the film gets proper exposure (something Magnet Releasing may want to reconsider), the film could be a potential masterpiece even in the states. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ring a bell? Alfredson’s stunning success in the film comes from being subtle and leaving more to the viewers’ imagination for the scare, something we used to see in the good ol’ Hollywood days.
