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Perth Now
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
'It's just constant tension': Damien Leone doesn't find movies fun to make
Damien Leone doesn't think filmmaking is "fun". The 41-year-old filmmaker has enjoyed success with his slasher franchise 'Terrifier' and explained that the process of getting a movie onto the big screen is a lot less glamorous than people think. Speaking on the 'Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum' podcast, Damien said: "Movies aren't fun to make. People think you're having the time of your life. "It is hard work. It is constant pressure. You don't want anybody to feel bad, but it's just constant tension." Damien's movie 'Terrifier 3' caused a stir with its violence when it was released last year and the director explained that he frequently argued with producer Phil Falcone during the making of the flick – which had greater funding after the success of 'Terrifier 2' in 2022. The 'All Hallows' Eve' filmmaker said: "We were on the phone arguing all day long. It was not a fun experience making part three just because of so many other external factors. So much more pressure, so much more money." Damien explained that he is planning to bring the 'Terrifier' series to an end after the fourth movie and revealed that he has plenty of other projects in the pipeline that he could make in the meantime, although he will only board a film if he can have a hand in the writing process. He said: "I have so many original ideas. There's a bunch of potential projects. If one of these other projects is ready to happen and that'll take me away from 'Terrifier 4' I'll do it. "All of these potential movies would involve me at least co-writing, because it's really how you shape some of these things." Damien doesn't have a "strict formula" when it comes to writing scripts but does seek to put in key ideas that he has dreamed up. Asked if he skips to the horror element when it comes to penning scripts, he said: "Not necessarily. I also don't write in a linear way so if I feel like writing the ending, I'll write the ending. I have all the ideas on my phone that I know I have to weave into the story somehow if I'm in love with that set piece. "There's no strict rule or formula in terms of how I write the script. I bounce all over the place." Leone accepts that the 'Terrifier' franchise is likely to be the creation he has best remembered for. He said: "It's certainly lightning in a bottle. I'm not delusional, there's a great, great, great chance that when I die I'll be known as the creator of Art the Clown."
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cineverse Launches Dedicated Motion Pictures Group to Take Advantage of High-Growth Feature Film Business Opportunity
Yolanda Macias Named Chief Motion Pictures Officer as Key Executive Leadership Extends Employment Agreements to Guide Next Growth Phase of Company LOS ANGELES, May 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS), a next-generation entertainment studio, today announced that it has created Cineverse Motion Pictures Group to optimize new business opportunities for the Company's feature film business initiatives. To lead this group, effective immediately, Yolanda Macias has been named Chief Motion Pictures Officer, a new position that reflects the enormous importance and growth potential in this area. Based in Los Angeles, she reports to the Office of the CEO, which includes Chairman and CEO Chris McGurk and President and Chief Strategy Officer Erick Opeka. Additionally, it was announced today that McGurk, Opeka, Chief People Officer Mark Torres and Chief Legal Officer Gary Loffredo have renewed and extended their executive agreements. In addition to renewing his contract with the Company, Torres will continue to report to McGurk, while also adding oversight of Cineverse Services India to his role. Mark Lindsey, who was named CFO in 2023, continues to serve in that capacity. Lindsey and Loffredo will report to the office of the CEO. Remarked McGurk: "Coming off the unprecedented success of Terrifier 3, the top performing unrated theatrical release of all time, Cineverse is embarking upon our most ambitious theatrical release slate ever, including The Toxic Avenger, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Return to Silent Hill, Wolf Creek: Legacy, The Things You Kill and more high potential releases to be announced soon. Extremely well respected in the industry, Yolanda has been a major part of our success, and is the perfect leader for this new operating division. I also continue to believe our entire C-suite is one of the most talented and forward-looking in the business. Together with the rest of the innovative and creative Cineverse team in the U.S. and India, our people remain our strongest asset and represent a true competitive advantage for the Company as we drive the business to the next level." Cineverse Motion Picture Group super-serves passionate audiences by distributing content across all windows and platforms, from theatrical to digital to physical. Following the breakout box office success of Terrifier 3 – now the top-grossing unrated film of all time – Macias and her team at the indie studio are doubling down on their investment in theatrical motion picture releases. These include the franchise expansions of The Toxic Avenger (August 29), Silent Night, Deadly Night (December 12), Wolf Creek: Legacy (2026), Return to Silent Hill (TBA) as well as Lesbian Space Princess (2025), Escape from the 21st Century (2025), The Things You Kill (2025), and more announcements coming this year. About Cineverse Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS) is a next-generation entertainment studio that empowers creators and entertains fans with a wide breadth of content through the power of technology. It has developed a new blueprint for delivering entertainment experiences to passionate audiences and results for its partners with unprecedented efficiency, and distributes more than 71,000 premium films, series, and podcasts. Cineverse connects fans with bold, authentic, independent stories. Properties include the highest-grossing non-rated film in U.S. history; dozens of streaming fandom channels; a premier podcast network; top horror destination Bloody Disgusting; and more. Powering visionary storytelling with cutting-edge innovation, Cineverse's proprietary streaming tools and AI technology drive revenue and reach to redefine the next era of entertainment. For more information, visit CONTACTS For Media, The Lippin Group for Cineversecineverse@ For Investors, Julie Milsteadinvestorrelations@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Cineverse Corp. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Guardian
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Clown in a Cornfield review – perky yet run-of-the-mill slasher fare
One would be forgiven for assuming there was a lot more to early summer slasher Clown in a Cornfield other than, well, a clown in a cornfield. Because ever since an inevitable premiere at SXSW in March, an impressively maintained buzz has followed – special drive-in screenings, an ambitiously wide release, the bullish positioning of a New Horror Icon – giving us enough naive hope that in an overcrowded genre (there's estimated to be double the amount of wide release horrors this year compared to 2024), this one might be worthy of the hype. But the film, which was picked up by ever-growing horror streamer Shudder at the end of last year, would have been a wiser choice for a small screen premiere, a late-night weekend couch watch that feels a little too modest for the multiplex. The expansive rollout will likely have been triggered by the surprise success of last year's Art the Clown sequel Terrifier 3 which made a staggering $90m worldwide from a $2m budget (it was released the month before Clown in a Cornfield was purchased). As small and junky as those films might be, they're distinguished by a throughline of ghoulishly inventive ultra-gore, a throwback to the kind of video nasty violence that would worry and repulse parents, the act of seeing the films then carrying with it an air of juvenile rebellion. There's nothing here to warrant such concern, no real sense of danger to be conjured, Clown in a Cornfield content to be a perfectly watchable, if mostly mechanical, production line slasher. 'It's like we're in some awful 80s slasher horror movie!' one of the anonymous sub-Scream characters says at one point. Yes whatever your name is, it really is! It's based on Adam Cesare's YA novel from 2020, centered on a classic subgenre archetype – the smart dark-haired girl with a dead mum – as she moves to a new town with father (Hannibal's Aaron Abrams). Quinn (Katie Douglas, giving young Cristin Milioti energy) is, of course, loathed to relocate from the big city of Philadelphia to the small town of Kettle Springs, a rural dead zone haunted by the reminder of what it once was, when its corn syrup factory brought employment and business to the townsfolk. But she soon finds herself a tribe – a group of rule-breaking YouTubing high schoolers – and a slowly evolving love triangle between a gruff kid from the wrong side of the tracks and the well-to-do son of the mayor. There is, however, a clown in a cornfield, ready to ruin her fun. The clown is named Frendo, a bastardisation of the town's one-time mascot, this time far less friendly and far more carrying a chainsaw. It's a character the teens have been using in their prank videos, faking attacks that have made them a target of the fatigued sheriff. But now, Frendo is real and he's picking them off one by one, in and out of the cornfield. There are some appreciated tweaks to the formula here, attempts to update what could have easily just been an '80s slasher horror movie' but with smartphones. But they mostly come within a busy last act, a little too late, given how run-of-the-mill the majority of the film before that can be. The script, from Carter Blanchard and director Eli Craig, might have its roots in YA but the characters are as weakly etched and indistinguishable as they would be in any other old sleepover slasher. It's only really in that final act when the we can see the source material, in a neat and genuinely surprising queer twist far more interesting and subversive than anything related to the cut-and-paste lead. The big reveal, while illogically daft, does have a certain on-paper thematic novelty to it but it's cursedly both over-explained and hard-to-really-understand, a 'why are you doing this?' response that rambles into nonsense. Perhaps the majority of Friday night teens aren't going to Clown in a Cornfield for plot specifics but even as a more base slasher, it just doesn't have enough to make it remarkable. Frendo is just some clown, never given all that much to separate him from the many other horror clowns we know better, and while the deaths are certainly grisly, they're interchangeable. There's definitely a clown in that cornfield but there's precious little else. Clown in a Cornfield is out in US and UK cinemas on 9 May
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Anna Nicole Smith Biopic ‘Hurricanna' Heading To Cannes Market With Millennium Media & UTA
EXCLUSIVE: Francesca Gregorini's long-gestating Anna Nicole Smith biopic Hurricanna will be on sale at the upcoming Cannes Market with Millennium Media and UTA. Millennium Media has boarded the project to handle international while UTA represents North American rights. More from Deadline Produced by producer Cassian Elwes (The Butler), Hurricanna is executive produced by Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital (Terrifier 3). The film stars Holly Hunter, Mark Duplass, and Sylvia Hoeks. The plot follows the chaotic final 24 hours in the life of Anna Nicole Smith. Told from the fragmented and colliding perspectives of Smith, her psychiatrist, and her former lover, the film explores themes of fame, codependency, and self-destruction in a fractured American psyche. Gregorini (Killing Eve) directs from a script by Rachel and Matt Sarnoff. The film was previously on sale in international territories with Sierra/Affinity. 'Francesca brings an intense and intimate lens to one of pop culture's most sensationalized figures,' Elwes said in a statement. 'Hurricanna is not a biopic—it's a pressure cooker character drama that interrogates fame, identity, and collapse with fearless precision.' Cannes Market runs from May 13 to 21. Best of Deadline Sign up for Deadline's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The director of 'Terrifier' built his horror movie franchise as a side gig while working as a delivery driver. Now the films have made over $100 million.
The "Terrifier" franchise has given audiences a new horror icon with the serial killer Art the Clown. Damien Leone spent 10 years delivering flowers while writing "Terrifier" and "Terrifier 2." Now, after "Terrifier 3," the franchise has made almost $100 million worldwide. The director Damien Leone said he spent 10 years working as a flower delivery driver while writing the "Terrifier" movies. Now, the ultra-gory franchise has made over $100 million worldwide. The supernatural slasher movies revolve around Art (David Howard Thornton), a silent and brutal serial killer. To some horror fans, Art the Clown is now as iconic as the likes of Ghostface, Michael Myers, and Freddy Krueger. The 2018 movie "Terrifier" made $420,000, and 2022's "Terrifier 2" earned $15 million as the hype around the character grew. Then, in 2024, "Terrifier 3" upped the gore — and the returns. The third installment grossed $90 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo. Collectively, Leone's twisted creation has now made $106 million. Leone told Tuesday's episode of "Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum" that many aspiring filmmakers ask him about his path to success in the industry. "My favorite thing to tell them is, 'Dude, I was writing the script to 'Terrifier 2' in a flower van," he said. "That was my primary job for 10 years, because I knew I didn't want to dive into a career that would lock me up or keep me away from filmmaking," he added. The director said that the role was flexible enough that he could focus on freelancing within the film industry, while writing "Terrifier 2." He added: "I knew I needed a nine-to-five job that I could break away from any time I would get a freelance gig doing makeup effects on a movie or if I was going to go make my own movie, but I would always go back to the flower van. "I literally wrote the entire movie of 'Terrifier 2' when I was delivering flowers. Almost all the ideas came to me while I was driving that van." Leone is working on finishing the series with "Terrifier 4," which will dive further into the mythology surrounding the franchise's heroine Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera) and Art the Clown. He said: "I'm going to wrap it all up in the next installment." Read the original article on Business Insider
