News · Published January 16, 2021
Contest: We’re Giving Away 10 Passes to Dark Star Pictures Virtual Horror Film Festival January 22nd – 24th By Josh Millican
Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures and horror website Bloody Disgusting are set to host a groundbreaking weekend event from Friday, January 22nd to Sunday, January 24th, 2021, celebrating the distributor’s most recent acclaimed international genre offerings.
The lineup will feature selections from Sundance, Fantasia, Nightstream, and Cinepocalypse, including
PVT CHAT, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons, Dirty God, and
Climate of the Hunter [Featured Image].
The festival will lead up to an announcement and special “one-time-only” secret screening of the latest acquisition from Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting. The secret screening will be available on the screening portal on Sat
Dark Star Pictures Hosting Free Virtual Horror Film Festival (Including Secret Screening) January 22nd – 24th By Josh Millican
Los Angeles-based
Dark Star Pictures and horror leader Bloody Disgusting are set to host a groundbreaking weekend event from Friday, January 22nd to Sunday, January 24th, 2021, celebrating the distributor’s most recent acclaimed international genre offerings.
The lineup will feature selections from Sundance, Fantasia, Nightstream, and Cinepocalypse, including
PVT CHAT, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons, Dirty God, and
Climate of the Hunter.
The festival will lead up to an announcement and special “one-time-only” secret screening of the latest acquisition from Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting. The secret screening will be available on the screening portal on Saturday, January 23
With COVID-19 shuttering cinemas and disrupting genre film fests, Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting have come up with a novel way to unveil their latest horror pic acquisition: feature it as a surprise secret finale to a free virtual film festival to run from Jan. 22 to 24.
The Secret Garden and Noël Coward adaptation
Blithe Spirit to Sky Cinema for a UK release.
“There is definitely uncertainty,” says producer Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 Films, producers of
Their Finest and
Mothering Sunday. “No-one really knows exactly what the landscape is going to be like out there for theatrical distribution when we come out of it. You have the double whammy of Covid-19 with the [impact of] streamers.”
However, there is plenty of evidence the sector is well positioned to thrive in a post-pandemic, SVoD-driven market.
Altitude, Vertigo, Curzon and Modern Films have all successfully released UK films on multiple platforms and there is no sign they will be stopping now. With US studios retrenching and becoming less internationally minded and more focused on streaming services, there may be opportunities for local distributors in the theatrical marketplace.