In musical theater, sequels are few and far between, and when they do exist they usually aren’t very good. For example, you’ve probably heard of Phantom of the Opera, the massively successful show from Andrew Lloyd Webber, but you probably don’t know anything about its sequel, Love Never Dies. There’s a reason for…
The popular online free-to-play game Roblox has been banned in Turkey due to concerns the country’s government has over possible child exploitation.
The popular online free-to-play game Roblox has been banned in Turkey due to concerns the country’s government has over possible child exploitation.
A couple years ago, Spider One – the frontman of Powerman 5000 and the brother of fellow musician/filmmaker Rob Zombie – made his feature directorial debut with the horror anthology Allegoria. Last year, his second feature – a horror film called Bury the Bride – was released through the Tubi streaming service. Now Deadline has broken the news that his third film, which is called Little Bites, has secured a worldwide distribution deal through RLJE Films and the Shudder streaming service! RLJE Films will be giving the film a theatrical release on October 4th, with its streaming debut on Shudder to follow at a later date.
Written and directed by Spider One, Little Bites centers on Mindy, a young widow and mother who tries to protect her daughter Alice from a flesh eating monster named Agyar. Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her grandmother’s house.
Krsy Fox of Allegoria and Bury the Bride plays Mindy and is joined in the cast by Elizabeth Phoenix Caro (The Christmas Chronicles) as Alice and Jon Sklaroff (Gifted) as Agyar. Also in the cast are Chaz Bono (American Horror Story), Lyndsi LaRose (Frank), Mark Kelly (The Hot Zone), Christopher Alvarenga (Last Girl Standing), and genre icons Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street), and Bonnie Aarons (The Nun).
Bono, who also worked on Bury the Bride, serves as an executive producer on Little Bites alongside his mother, Cher, as well as Ian Hoge, Tyler Connolly, and Wendy and Mark Berry. Spider One and Fox’s company OneFox Productions produced.
Spider One told Deadline, “Little Bites began with an unflinching look at my own experience as a parent. An experience that has been and continues to be a complex mess of love, pain, success and failure. Where the best of intentions are constantly countered by the dark forces of self doubt and the external judgment of others. In the film, Mindy’s relationship with her monster, Agyar, is clearly my allegory for parenthood. His bites are her pain. His words are her insecurities. His intentions are to prove Mindy’s failure as a parent. Krsy Fox and Jon Sklaroff delivered beyond my wildest expectations with their portrayals of Mindy and Agyar and I can’t wait to once again team up with Shudder/RLJE and let horror fans to sink their teeth into Little Bites.“
RLJE Films’ Chief Acquisitions Officer, Mark Ward, added: “We are thrilled to reteam with Spider One on this terrifying film. He continues to be a strong visionary talent and we can’t wait for audiences to see Little Bites in theaters this Fall.“
We recently heard that Spider One was working on his fourth film, Big Baby.
Are you a fan of Spider One, and are you glad to hear that Little Bites is coming to theatres in October, with a Shudder release to follow? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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The Looney Tunes fandom won’t be dropping any anvils on Ketchup Entertainment anytime soon! We’re in the studio’s debt after it swooped in and acquired the North American rights to Warner Bros. Animation’s The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie for a theatrical release. The upcoming animated feature stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (both voiced by Eric Bauza), with Petunia Pig (Candi Milo) rounding out the trio. The film finds Daffy and Porky learning that aliens are plotting to overtake the planet, which leads the pair to put their differences aside and help save the world.
Pete Browngardt directs The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie from a script he co-wrote with Alex Kirwan and Peter Browngardt. The Day the Earth Blew Up will got a world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. At the time, The Hollywood Reporter noted that this was “the first fully animated Looney Tunes feature to debut with a theatrical run.” The previous Looney Tunes features to receive theatrical releases were all combinations of live-action and animation: Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and Space Jam: A New Legacy. The Day the Earth Blew Up is lucky to make it out into the world at all in this current era of Warner Bros., which has seen multiple projects – including Batgirl, some Scooby Doo projects, and even the Looney Tunes movie Coyote vs. Acme – get scrapped as tax write-offs.
“The Day the Earth Blew Up is a historical moment for the Looney Tunes franchise, and we are proud to be partnering with Warner Bros. Animation to bring this film to audiences theatrically. We cannot wait for audiences of all ages to experience one of the smartest animated films in recent years,” shared Gareth West, CEO of Ketchup Entertainment.
It is a relief to see The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie receive better treatment than Coyote vs. Acme. I mean that in how The Day The Earth Blew Up will see the light of day instead of being shelved by WB despite positive early words about the project. It’s been ages since we’ve seen the Looney Tunes in a more traditional 2D animated adventure on the silver screen, and I’ll be there on day one to check it out. I’ve been obsessed with the Looney Tunes since childhood, with Daffy Duck securing a spot in my Top 3 animated characters.
Are you excited about The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie getting a theatrical release in North America? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Video game adaptations are enjoying a bit of a renaissance right now. A video game getting made into a movie used to have fans bracing for embarrassment, expecting some cheap, unwatchable slop to be dragged out and projected onto a big screen bearing the name of their favorite games. While there are some modern game…
Video game adaptations are enjoying a bit of a renaissance right now. A video game getting made into a movie used to have fans bracing for embarrassment, expecting some cheap, unwatchable slop to be dragged out and projected onto a big screen bearing the name of their favorite games. While there are some modern game…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 brings back the classic round-based Zombies mode, something players have wanted for some time now. And it’s also adding a suite of new features, including the ability to take a break during a solo zombie game and pick it back up later.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 brings back the classic round-based Zombies mode, something players have wanted for some time now. And it’s also adding a suite of new features, including the ability to take a break during a solo zombie game and pick it back up later.
PLOT: Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents’ relationship.
REVIEW: It’s always a tough job adapting any book into a feature-length film. Most book narratives aren’t structured in the same way a movie is, so the pacing can sometimes suffer. Scenes that may break the flow of the film, may be considered vital to book fans. I have no prior experience with Colleen Hoover’s novel, but I understand its popularity. It Ends With Us is as much about romance as it is about stewing in trauma. And because of this desire to be a rom-com at points, the deeper message is lost in the process.
It Ends With Us follows Lily Bloom as she moves to Boston to open up her flower shop. She meets a handsome young doctor (Baldoni) but doesn’t want to get into a relationship. What follows is a mix of narratives that ultimately just want to make one point, and it doesn’t seem to matter its path to get there. There are moments from Lily’s past interspersed, where they give context to her father’s abuse as well as her first real relationship. They feel like they belong in two entirely different films and completely clash in tone.
And yes, I’m sure book fans will claim the unevenness completely necessary but, as a cinematic narrative, it falls flat. I could see this story working in the more drawn-out book form. But as is, I felt like it took away from the events and was constantly making it obvious how it would play out. Blake Lively is affable enough as Lily Bloom and has her trademark charisma. I also really enjoyed Isabela Ferrer as the younger Lily as she looked and sounded exactly like Lively. But the character of Lily is really bland. She feels like a walking contradiction, whether she’s teasing a man for sex or bumbling around rather than just using her words to communicate.
The biggest issue that I had with It Ends With Us is that the abuse feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy. None of it comes across naturally, and mostly just feels like the writer wants to end on a certain note. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the end scene inspired the entire book. The journey of getting there doesn’t really work for me. They try to make the husband out to be this awful human and then the weirdo stalker is the actual hero. It’s the kind of thing that always happens in these love stories that makes me cringe.
Whether it’s the beautiful flower shop or the absurdly attractive cast, the film is always making the most of its visuals. Since I wasn’t at all invested in the story, it was nice to have nice things to look at. The city of Boston is practically another character here. Good chemistry exists between all of the love interests, and the meet-cutes are entertaining. And while all the performances are decent, they’re attached to such caricatures of human beings that only exist to prove a stereotypical point in the story. I don’t know how much of the blame can be put on the book but I disliked nearly every person involved.
I found It Ends With Us to be a very frustrating experience. Lily is a very one-dimensional character whose sole purpose is to be a victim. Whether it’s her consistently leaving out vital information that could make the situation less volatile, to her apathy towards anything that’s not her high school ex, I had a hard time sympathizing. The narrative consistently feels like something out of a bad romance novel. The performances and chemistry will assuredly earn it a decent box office, but as a quality film: look elsewhere.
IT ENDS WITH US IS PLAYING IN THEATERS ON AUGUST 9TH, 2024.
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