Voltage Boards Italian Rom-Com Per Tutta La Vita From Perfect Strangers Team (EXCLUSIVE)
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Voltage Pictures is launching international sales at the EFM on Italian romantic comedy “Per Tutta La Vita” (“For All Life”), from the writer-director team behind global hit “Perfect Strangers.”
“Strangers,” a dramedy involving cellphones and personal secrets, grossed over $31 million domestically and spawned remakes in a dozen territories including France, Germany, Spain, Greece and South Korea. In total, those remakes have grossed an estimated total $270 million worldwide. An Arabic adaptation is currently shooting.
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“For All Life” turns on four couples who discover that their marriages are no longer valid because they were all performed by a fraudulent priest. “Are they going to say the big ‘yes’ once again, or will they use this excuse to run away from their marriage?,” reads the synopsis.
Safer at Home Review: Friends Don t Let Friends Take Molly on Zoom
A video-chat party during shutdown goes south in this dull, implausible thriller.
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Running time: Running time: 85 MIN.
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One of the sleeper hits of the shutdown last year was Rob Savage’s British horror “Host,” a very short (just under an hour) and sweetly scary tale of friends whose weekly Zoom call during COVID quarantine gets crashed by an unwelcome supernatural visitor. It was, however, bound to be the exception which proved a preexisting rule: that found-footage thrillers remain a tapped-out genre, no matter if one in every 20 or so manages to squeeze some new life from the form.
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Dealmakers face ongoing uncertainty about theatrical releases thanks to COVID-19.
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A year of the coronavirus lockdowns, virtual film markets, online festivals and quarantined sets has left its mark. While virtual Cannes was a blockbuster with monster global deals for $50 million-plus indie packages, including
The Blacksmith (Nick Jonas and Laurence Fishburne),
Ferrari (Hugh Jackman) and
Armageddon Time (Oscar Isaac, Robert De Niro and Cate Blanchett) challenges in financing and producing under COVID-19, a continued uncertainty over theatrical s future and a backlog of finished but unreleased movies has put a damper on presales. AFM in November was marked by caution. A stron
Guy Pearce Horror Film Seventh Day Sells to Vertical and Redbox Entertainment, Sets 2021 Release (EXCLUSIVE)
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The movie has been scheduled to release theatrically and on demand on March 26.
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“‘The Seventh Day’ is a remarkably horrific film that combines powerhouse veteran talent with a true genre visionary in filmmaker Justin P. Lange,” said Vertical Entertainment co-president Rich Goldberg. “We’re excited to partner with Redbox to bring this frightening film to U.S. audiences next month.”
“The Seventh Day,” also starring Vadhir Derbez and Stephen Lang, follows a renowned exorcist team who partners with a rookie priest for his first day of training. Yet as they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur and their own demons emerge. The film was written and directed by Justin P. Lange.
Body Brokers Review: Drug Abuse Is Big Business for More Than Just the Dealers Body Brokers Review: Drug Abuse Is Big Business for More Than Just the Dealers
Director John Swab survived drug addiction to share this shocking exposé of how opportunists are exploiting a loophole in recovery programs.
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Running time: Running time: 113 MIN.
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Of all the dramas made about substance abuse, “Body Brokers” is the first I can recall about the “treatment industry” itself, that multibillion-dollar sector dedicated to helping hard-drug users kick the habit, and its conclusion is startling: Addiction is a veritable money machine for doctors, therapists and pharmaceutical companies alike, a substantial number of whom thrive not on recovery but on repeat business. The shadier among them rely on low-level recruiters, or “body brokers,” to keep the system supplied with souls in need of saving or e