EXCLUSIVE FROM DEADLINE: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has closed a worldwide rights deal for the untitled film that Kelly Reichardt just wrapped in Montana. Starring Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Rosanna Arquette, James LeGros, Jared Harris and Lily Gladstone, the film is a series of vignettes that revolve around the lives of people in small-town Montana. Reichardt wrote the script based on short stories by Maile Meloy.

Reichardt previously directed Night Moves, Meek’s Cutoff and Wendy And Lucy. Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino and Anish Savjani of filmscience are producing. Todd Haynes and Larry Fessenden are the exec producers.

Screen Daily recaps Frontiers Market with quotes from producer Peter Phok (The Roost, Beneath, Sacrement, In a Valley of Violence, etc) From the article:

Having worked with Ti West, Glass Eye Pix’s Peter Phok brought up the DIY approach to film-making and just going out there and shooting without finance necessarily in place, adding that it’s increasingly become about “taking advantage of what you have” with the lack of film funds available in the US.

“A lot of films are put together mainly through equity and now all the states have a tax credit incentive, so we’ll get a script and as much as it’s about shooting where makes sense, you have to look at those incentives and start to build your budget around those,” explained Phok.

“It’s not a privilege to be a film-maker; it’s something that if you want to do, you do it. Even when I did make money at the start of my career, it wasn’t very much. You invest in yourself and you work with what you have.”

Read more here: Experts debate genre film finance models

Glass Eye Pix’s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL made it onto a Filmspotting Podcast Top 5 list last week! Coupled with their review of IT FOLLOWS, host Adam Kempenaar and guest Michael Phillips (movie critic for the Chicago Tribune) ranked their Top 5 21st Century Horror Movies.

THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL made it to Adam Kempenaar’s list on #3. To quote, “What scares me the most when I watch HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, it’s not knowing when you should truly be afraid.”

Listen to the entire episode here, including their awesome top 5 lists. 

APRIL 8, 2015
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: THE FILMS OF LARRY FESSENDEN
As a film director, Larry Fessenden has crafted several of the most indelible and idiosyncratic horror movies of the last 25 years, from the urban vampire tale Habit to the visionary and environmental apocalypse of The Last Winter. But he’s also had a major impact on the independent filmmaking landscape as a producer of genre films, including the work of Ti West, as well as via his collaboration with the acclaimed writer-director Kelly Reichardt, who cast Fessenden as the uneasy-riding star of her breakthrough road movie River of Grass. As Fessenden’s Glass eye Pix production company celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015, the time seems right to survey the career of a brilliantly expressive filmmaker whose clever, palpably handcrafted films honor the noble B-movie tradition of tackling social issues without sacrificing scares. This lecture, specially created for The Black Museum, will weave together critical commentary with clips from Fessenden’s films, including his recent killer-catfish film Beneath.

April 8, 2015 at 9:15pm
The Royal Cinema, 608 College St, Toronto
Cost: $12 advance / $15 at the door

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LECTURER: ADAM NAYMAN
Adam Nayman is a film critic in Toronto and a contributing editor to Cinema Scope. His writing has appeared in The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Reverse Shot and the Village Voice, and he teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. His first book, It Doesn’ Suck: Showgirls, was published in 2014 by ECW Press

Entertainment Weekly has the scoop on another awesome addition to the Stanley Film Festival.

” It was announced today that the Stanley Film Festival—which takes place at the hotel from April 30 to May 3—will be paying tribute to Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon as its 2015 “Master of Horror” and will screen his 1985 cult classic. Gordon is to be presented the award by filmmaker Mick Garris, director of several King adaptations, including a 1997 mini-series version of the novelist’s famed haunted hotel book.”

And remember, “Fessenden is also one of the guests appearing at the festival and will be overseeing a special “Stanley Edition” of his Tales From Beyond The Pale audio serial in cahoots with regular collaborator Glenn McQuaid.”

Add to all that screenings of We Are Still Here, the Elijah Wood-produced The Boy, and Deathgasm, and it all makes for a pretty awesome time at the Stanley!

Our pals over at ShockTillYouDrop have the scoop on the full lineup at the Stanley Film Festival: the only Film Festival that takes place at the Stanley Hotel, the inspiration for The Shining. And while the Fest is holding all sorts of awesome events, we’d like to draw your attention to the GEP produced TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE: The Stanley Edition!

As described by the fest:

Glass Eye Pix Presents TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE: The Stanley Edition is an ongoing series of audio dramas penned by luminaries from the world of contemporary horror from JT Petty (HELLBENDERS) to Simon Barrett (YOU’RE NEXT), and Kim Newman (ANO DRACULA), featuring players from Ron Perlman (HELLBOY), to Angus Scrimm (PHANTASM), and Mark Margolis (AMERICAN HORROR STORY). The Stanley edition will feature performers culled from the film lineup as well as local band, Munly & the Lupercalians. Join horror impresarios Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden as they invite you to close your eyes and… listen. Learn more at talesfrombeyondthepale.com. This event is open to SFF Redrum & Horror Marathon badge holders, individual tickets can be purchased beginning April 2 for $13 DFS member and locals / $15 non-members

Also scheduled for the Fest: Horror Trivia (presented by Shock), the 40th Anniversary screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a haunted house, and much more! Will we see you there?

3.27.15 Fessenden and McQuaid pose after a session with Lauren Ashley Carter (JUG FACE, DARLING, THE MIND’S EYE) at Dig IT Audio in NYC.

3.26.15 Tales Alumn Graham Reznick (“The Grandfather”) wraps his Tale at DPS STudio in Hollywood with thespians Sophia Takel (V/H/S, WILD CANARIES), Lawrence Levine (V/H/S/2, WILD CANARIES), and Kersten Haile (5 STATES OF FEAR)

Tom Savini joins legendary FAMOUS MONSTERS cover artist Basil Gogos; Larry Fessenden (director of THE LAST WINTER, HABIT, WENDIGO); Debbie Rochon (actress, Rondo-nominated Fango columnist and former host of Sirius’ much-missed FANGORIA RADIO); and screenwriter and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (CARRIE and THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK and upcoming AMERICAN PSYCHO on Broadway) and  staffers Timpone, Thomas DeFeo, Michael Gingold, W.R. Mohalley and Ken Hanley to celebrate the release of FANGORIA: COVER TO COVER. Event takes place at NYC’s own Forbidden Planet on 2 April 2015 at 6PM.