Plague Town Market Premiere Marche dU Film 2008
Posted 5/8/08
MPI Media is proud to present a Dark Sky Films original production, PLAGUE TOWN, which will be screening at this month’s Marche du Film. Please find the screening times and location below:
PLAGUE TOWN (2008)
21st May - 1:30 PM Palais J
21st May - 3:30 PM Palais J
The film tells the tale of a dysfunctional family vacation to the Irish countryside that encounters a village of diseased, deformed and decidedly homicidal residents. [...]
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“THEM”
Since it’s release on March 25th, David Moreau and Xavier Palud’s THEM has garnered solid critical acclaim. Check out some of the review quotes:
“Stylish Euro-horror” - The New York Times
“...plays games with its victims and its viewers.” - Chicago Sun-Times
“...one of the most suspenseful, disturbing flicks to come along in decades.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Horror film fans: THEM is right up your alley.” - San Francisco Examiner
“...unbearable levels of suspense.” - Washington Post-Express
“Top 13 French Frights” - Fangoria [...]
PLAGUE TOWN TEASER ART REVEALED
Posted 5/8/08
David Gregory’s gruesome feature film debut, Plague Town, will be making its market premiere at Marche du Film in Cannes on May 21st. More information on US premieres for Plague Town coming soon
Check out the teaser artwork
DARK SKY FILMS + XBOX 360 = HIGH DEFINITION THRILLS
Posted 1/3/08
MPI Subsidiary DARK SKY FILMS has become an official content partner to Microsoft’s Xbox Live service. This agreement extends the Dark Sky Films brand to a digital audience. Xbox live users can now access The Texas Chainsaw; Spider Baby and more great Dark Sky content through the ever popular Xbox 360 system. The blood has never flowed a deeper red, the screams have experience has never been so fulfilling as watching horror favorites in true High Definition. [...]
Dark Sky Films gets the "shivers"!
Dark Sky Films has acquired all North American rights to Isidro Ortiz’s SHIVER (Eskalofrio), sold by Paris-based Coach 14.
Posted 2/25/08
SHIVER focuses on a lonely adolescent who moves with his mother to an isolated village. There, a series of odd events shock the community. Stay tuned for more information on SHIVER throughout 2008. Read more to see stills.
What's up in the filthy world of John Waters?
John Waters makes appearances to promote new release.
Posted 1/3/08
The “Pope Of Trash” himself, John Waters, traveled from coast to coast across the U.S. this month to promote the DVD release of THIS FILTHY WORLD and preached his filthy gospel to audiences everywhere. [...]
WPA - Major Supplier of Footage for the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Posted 3/27/08
Opening on April 11th, 2008, The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — will offer visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. The WPA Film Library is proud to have provided a large amount of historical and stock footage for this museum of news. [...]
DARK SKY FILMS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK SUN
Posted 1/10/08
By GARY GIDDINS
January 8, 2008
Fewer American movies are inspired by the life of George Washington than by that of Ed Gein. The father of our country eludes its imagination, while the only famous son of Plainfield, Wis. has fathered a cinematic genre in which murder and cannibalism coexist with transvestitism and freaky arts and crafts. Within three years of his 1957 arrest, the graying, glassy-eyed little Ed was stretched into the tall, lanky, crush-worthy Norman Bates. In 1960, the year Italy produced “La Dolce Vita” and “L’Avventura,” America delivered [...]