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Arrow Video has announced the August 2021 lineup of their new subscription-based ARROW platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland.

The August lineup leads with the ARROW release of Noel David Taylor’s bizarre filmmaking comedy Man Under Table. The feature debut from writer/director Noel David Taylor, who also stars as Guy, a beleaguered, hilariously obnoxious scriptwriter navigating his way through the chaotic indie film scene in a dystopian Los Angeles, Man Under Table world premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and screened at the Chattanooga Film Festival. The film will debut on ARROW August 2nd.

Man Under Table is an inventive and quirky comedy that skewers the hustle and grind of independent filmmaking, as seen in ARROW’s doc Clapboard Jungle.

Ahead of the release of his debut feature, Taylor shared: “For as long as I have been making videos, I have been making odd, absurdist, borderline camp videos. It is not an easy thing to find an audience for such films. Which is why when something fits as effortlessly into a catalog as Man Under Table does into Arrow’s, it’s not only a relief — but a homecoming of sorts. The first time one explores the arsenal of films Arrow has arranged, you find yourself hard-pressed to not be overwhelmed with not only a magnificently varied beaucoup of horror, camp, and just plain evocative films, but also an abundance of style, humour, and fun. I could not have found a better home for my film if I conjured it from the ether. To whom it may concern: go watch these films!”

ARROW Stories will be home to a number of exclusive extras for Man Under Table, including a making of featurette, deleted scenes, a commentary from Taylor, a Man Under Table music video, and a number of Taylor’s early short films, including The Hermit and Dos Hombres.

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August 2nd will see the arrival of Man Under Table, Hagazussa, Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, Blind Beast, Suture, Death Line, Stage Fright, The Toolbox Murders, and Amsterdamned.

August 2nd’s Seasonal arrivals dive deep into smut with ARROW Extreme and Ban this Sick Filth Presents: Moral Outrage. ARROW Extreme is a curation of films that pull no punches, push audiences to the brink, and dare them to look away. Featuring the vicious work of Lucio Fulci, Abel Ferrara, Takashi Miike and Shohei Imamura, and more, titles include: Audition, Island of Death, Toys Are Not for Children, Manhattan Baby, The Hills Have Eyes.

Ban this Sick Filth Presents: Moral Outrage features disgusting films that star scream queens and adult film stars and looks back at the attempts in the UK to ban heinous horror video cassettes during the Video Nasties era. Titles include Vice Academy, We Are Twisted F***ing Sister, Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape, Orgies of Edo, and Underwater Love.

August 6th sees the arrival of another installment of Hammer House of Horror: Charlie Boy.

August 6th’s Season shoots up with Your Own Supply, a selection of ARROW titles where smoke, dust, and needles reign supreme in the lives of antiheroes. Titles include The Hooked Generation, Reefer Madness, Whiskey Mountain, and Ivans xtc.

August 9th’s Season takes audiences to Hauntology 101 with the bow of What the Folk?, a lineup of pastoral darkness and pagan blood sacrifices. Titles include Season of the Witch, Hagazussa, Dark August, The Ballad of Narayama.

Check out ARROW’s August highlight reel below:

August 13th will debut with another installment of Hammer House of Horror: The Silent Scream, Vice Academy, Vice Academy Part 2, Vice Academy Part 3, The Visitants, Blood Theatre, Hobgoblins, and two short films from Rafael De Leon Jr: Momma, Don’t Go, and Goodbye Old Friend.

August 16th goes hardcore into history with the release of We Are Twisted F***ing Sister, a doc chronicling the heavy metal band’s early years, as well as two guides into the public hysteria of the Video Nasties era: Moral Panic, Censorship, and Video Tape, and Draconian Days.

On August 16th, ARROW celebrates the height of summer with a Season that goes deep in the lonely places the daylight doesn’t reach. Be it the sewers below New York or the London Underground, there are things down there that are waiting for you, and ARROW has found them. Titles include Trapped Alive, The Witch Who Came From the Sea, The Cold Light of Day, and In the Aftermath.

August 20th debuts an international smorgasbord of sex and violence: Andrea Bianchi’s sexploitation film Malabimba, Michel Levesque’s prison thriller classic Sweet Sugar, A.C. Stephen’s gore and sex-filled rampage Fugitive Girls, and Robert Vincent O’Neil’s sci-fi action thriller Wonder Women, featuring an all-girl army, The features are joined by another installment of Hammer House of Horror: Children of the Moon (US).

August 21st will see the release of Joe Angio’s acclaimed Melvin Van Peebles documentary How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It).

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ARROW is available in the US, Canada, and the UK on all Android devices, all Amazon Fire devices, all Roku devices, and on all web browsers, with the platform offering fans a free 30-day trial and subscriptions as low as $4.99 monthly or $49.99 annually.

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Netflix has announced the release date for their upcoming biographical drama feature titled Worth, starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan. The post 9-11 drama has been slated to make its debut on Friday, September 3. The date announcement also came with the release of the first key art poster which you can check out below, providing us our first look at the leading trio’s characters.

An attorney learns a lesson in empathy when he is faced with the near-impossible task of determining how to compensate families who suffered incalculable losses as a result of the September 11th attacks in 2001. Based on true events, WORTH comes to Netflix September 3. pic.twitter.com/QHqicVMm0m

— NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) August 2, 2021

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Based on true events, Worth is a moving reminder of the power of empathy and the value of human connection. In the film, following the horrific 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Congress appoints attorney and renowned mediator Kenneth Feinberg to lead the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Assigned with allocating financial resources to the victims of the tragedy, Feinberg and his firm’s head of operations, Camille Biros, face the impossible task of determining the worth of a life to help the families who suffered incalculable losses. When Feinberg locks horns with Charles Wolf, a community organizer mourning the death of his wife, his initial cynicism turns to compassion as he begins to learn the true human costs of the tragedy.

The film will be led by Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan. It will also feature Tate Donovan, Shunori Ramanathan, Talia Balsam, Laura Benanti, Marc Maron, Ato Blankson-Wood, Chris Tardio, Carolyn Mignini, and Victor Slezak.

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Worth is directed by Sara Colangelo from a screenplay written by Max Borenstein. It is produced by Keaton, Borenstein, Marc Butan, Anthony Katagas, Michael Sugar, Bard Dorros, and Sean Sorensen.

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Tom Holland & Zendaya seemingly confirm a long-standing rumor of a romantic link between the Marvel co-stars.

I’m sure you’re all familiar with the iconic scene from Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in which Elliot and E.T. are flying through the night sky with the giant moon as a backdrop. Well, that amazing scene has been transformed into a statue by the fine folks at Iron Studios.

The official description of the statue reads:

A boy carries in his bicycle basket, wrapped in a white sheet, an unusual friend, a small alien lost on Earth that is being pursued by government forces. In their flight to find their fellow men and return to his world, the two friends run towards a California forest, where the spacecraft that will rescue him must land. To escape a police blockade, the little alien uses its telekinetic abilities to levitate the bike, lifting them into the air and flying over the trees towards their destination. This anthological scene, which has the moon as a backdrop, was also used in the promotion of the film, becoming one of the best known and most striking images in cinema, even becoming the logo of Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg’s film producer, and now also proudly replicated with the statue ” ET & Elliot – Art Scale 1/10 Deluxe – ET – Iron Studios”

Created by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison, 1982’s ET the Extra-Terrestrial is among the highest-grossing films of all time, winning four Oscars, and added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, being designated as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

In the film, a group of botanical aliens secretly visit Earth at night to collect plant specimens. With the arrival of US government vehicles, the group leaves Earth in its spaceship, leaving one of its small members behind, who had separated from the group. The creature ends up meeting a local boy named Elliott, who then goes on to hide and protect the little lost being on Earth, creating a tender bond of friendship with a deep empathic connection between them.

This statue marks the debut of another license acquired by Iron Studios, scheduled for 2022, and this year will also be the 40th anniversary celebration of ET’s premiere in theaters. The statue is already available for Pre-Order. Check out the variant version in ” E.T. & Elliot – Art Scale 1/10 – E.T. – Iron Studios”.

The E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial statue from Iron Studios will cost $229.99 for the standard edition, which doesn’t include the moon backdrop. If you want to add the moon backdrop, you’ll have to pay $349.99. You can purchase it here if you’re interested.

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Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the highly sought-after book series Wayward Children. With six books already published and a seventh installment coming in early 2022, the studio plans to build a franchise around this universe of characters and stories. Insiders say the studio views the series as a possible franchise given the huge fanbase that is behind it, and add it has already drawn interest from top talent to be a part of it. The series adaptations will be produced by Pouya Shahbazian.

“The series takes place in Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, a boarding school for people who have returned home from magical fantasy worlds and have trouble readjusting to their old lives. For as long as time, children have always found doorways into different worlds, whether down rabbit holes and wishing wells or through wardrobes and magic mirrors, but this series explores what happens to the ones who come back — and want nothing more than to return to those other worlds.”

This is a big get for the studio, and it will be fun to see what they do with the popular series. Are you a fan of Wayward Children?

via: Deadline

ComingSoon.net is excited to debut the exclusive trailer for Skyler Lawson’s independent thriller Whelm in his directorial debut.  The film is executive produced by Lawson under his Endrow Pictures banner and produced by Lawson, Ed Herrera, and Noelle Hubbell.

The movie will open on Digital platforms on August 3 by Gravitas Ventures. Endrow Pictures will screen the film in 35mm format at select theaters as a roadshow. The Whelm 35mm Roadshow will open at the Fine Arts Theatre Beverly Hills from August 13-21, 2021.

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Written and directed by Lawson, Whelm is a mind-bending odyssey of two estranged brothers who get tangled in a rivalry between a legendary bank robber and an eccentric at the height of the Great Depression before finding they are a part of a larger historic scheme. The feature was shot on 16mm film on location in Indiana and stars Delil Baran, Ronan Colfer, Dylan Grunn, Francesca Anderson, and Grant Schumacher.

Check out the exclusive trailer below:

The compelling Independent American Epic was screened at the Heartland Film Festival in Indiana in 2019 where the film was shot and produced. It won Best Feature Film Drama at Burbank Int’l Film Festival 2020 and was selected to screen at the 2020 Beverly Hills Film Festival.

The original score for Whelm is the debut for Chris Dudley, who is one of the founding members of the twice-certified Gold and three-time Grammy Nominated rock band Underoath. This is Dudley’s original score debut in collaboration with Lawson who acts as co-composer.

Whelm was produced with the support of ARRI Rental for camera and lenses, Kodak Motion Picture Film for the 16mm celluloid, Metropolis Post NY for the 4k scanning, and Tony Villaflor and Jeff King of Skywalker Sound for the immersive post sound production and mixing.

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The Whelm 35mm Roadshow Tour is the beginning of the film’s theatrical run, with a focus on an exclusive 35mm exhibition. The showings will include a unique historic pre-show projected on 35mm, celebrating the golden age of Hollywood.

The Whelm 35mm Roadshow will begin its tour at The Fine Arts Theatre Beverly Hills on August 13 – 21, 2021 with 7:30 p.m. nightly showings. Lawson will be in attendance at each showing of the first week with Cinematographer Ed Herrera and Lead actor Delil Baran. Click here for tickets and additional information.

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Coming off from scoring his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, Strand Releasing has released the official trailer for the upcoming U.S. release of Riz Ahmed’s latest drama film titled Mogul Mowgli. It interestingly bears some little similarities to Ahmed’s acclaimed movie Sound of Metal as they both feature the 38-year-old actor as a musician who gets suddenly stricken by an illness.

The Mogul Mowgli trailer features Ahmed as a rising rapper who must face his past while dealing with a sudden illness that threatens his promising career. The film is slated to open in New York and Los Angeles theaters on September 3.

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Mogul Mowgli is described as a bold, vital and electrifying exploration of heritage and identity. The film centers around British Pakistani rapper Zed, who is a rising star on the cusp of his first world tour. But, struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break, he’s forced to confront his past, his family, and the uncertainty of his legacy.

The film stars Emmy winner Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Alyy Khan, Sudha Bhuchar, Nabhaan Rizwan, Anjana Vasan, Hussain Manawer, Kiran Sonia Sawar, and Jeff Mirza.

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Mogul Mowgli is directed by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq (These Birds Walk.  It has also been recently reported that Tariq was in the final negotiations to helm Marvel Studios’ Mahershala Ali-led Blade movie.

The film is co-written by Tariq and Ahmed, who are also producing with Thomas Benksi, Bennett McGhee, and Michael Peay. It had its world premiere at last year’s 70th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Get all the details for season 10 of Ryan Murphy’s new installment of American Horror Story. It’s out of this world!