Chiller has original and reimagined onscreen scares lined up for this year and the next, as they've just announced that their first original series, Slasher (directed by Todd & The Book of Pure Evil’s Craig David Wallace), will premiere late this year, along with a reimagining of Tobe Hooper's 1985 space vampire flick, Lifeforce. Also in development at Chiller (and slated for a 2016 debut) is Siren, a full-length film adaptation of David Bruckner's highly regarded V/H/S segment, Amateur Night, which gave viewers a chilling new perspective on the line, "I like you."
Press Release (via The Futon Critic) -- "New York - May 5, 2015 - On the heels of its most-watched original movie to date (Animal) and the SXSW 2015 premiere of its original movie The Boy, Chiller announces new original content for 2015 and 2016, including its first-ever original series, Slasher, and two new original movies, Lifeforce and Siren.
"Chiller...
Press Release (via The Futon Critic) -- "New York - May 5, 2015 - On the heels of its most-watched original movie to date (Animal) and the SXSW 2015 premiere of its original movie The Boy, Chiller announces new original content for 2015 and 2016, including its first-ever original series, Slasher, and two new original movies, Lifeforce and Siren.
"Chiller...
- 5/5/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Mindfire Entertainment has announced its plans to turn the popular Eidos video game Fear Effect into a feature film, with director Stanley Tong in talks to helm the action picture. Mindfire CEO Mark A. Altman (House of the Dead 2, DOA: Dead or Alive) is set to produce with Mindfire chairman Mark Gottwald and senior vp business affairs Chuck Speed, based on a screenplay by Steve Kriozere. The film is being repped internationally by Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures in Cannes. Altman described the movie as Mission: Impossible meets Silent Hill, adding that the film will faithfully follow the story line of the original PlayStation game. It will be set 10 years in the future, however, rather than in the alternate world of the source material.
- 5/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mindfire Entertainment, which owns Cinefantastique magazine -- now rebranded as CFQ Magazine -- has launched a related film division. CFQ Films will focus on feature films budgeted at less than $10 million, and its first movie, All Souls Day: Dia De Los Muertos, will wrap production this month. The movie will be released in the first half of next year and distributed in all media worldwide by IDT Entertainment Sales. Souls, starring Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive), Danny Trejo (Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and David Keith (Daredevil), is set against the backdrop of the Mexican Day of the Dead and has the dead rising to menace the living. Mindfire president Mark Altman described the film as The Ring meets Night of the Living Dead. The film is produced by Altman and Mark Gottwald and directed by Jeremy Kasten (The Attic Expeditions).
- 10/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Impact Pictures and Constantin Films will bring Tecmo's Dead or Alive fighting video game franchise to the big screen in association with Mindfire Entertainment. Impact concurrently has video game-to-movie titles Driver and Resident Evil 2 in the works. Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt, founding partners of Impact Pictures, will produce DOA as part of their existing deal with Constantin Films. Robert Kulzer, head of production at Constantin, and Dan Kletzky, through his company Entertainment Licensing Associates, will be executive producers. Kletzky is concurrently executive vp business development at video game publisher TDK Mediactive. Mindfire president and chief operating officer Mark Altman also is producing, while Mindfire chairman Mark Gottwald is co-producing. The DOA script is being written by J.F. Lawton (Pretty Woman, Under Siege). Bolt said the film, described as Charlie's Angels meets Enter the Dragon, will go into preproduction this year and is targeted for a fall 2004 release, which is expected to coincide with the video game release of the latest title in the game franchise, Dead or Alive 4. No director has been named. Anderson, who directed the original Resident Evil, is not available because of his previous commitment for the other two Impact titles.
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