Whistler Film Festival announces its first wave of Canadian films including Sci-Fi feature VOLITION by director Tony Dean Smith and scored by CORE composer Matthew Rogers!
VOLITION has been winning a fleet of awards at past festivals including WINNER Best Feature at Philip K Dick festival and OFFICIAL SELECTION at FRIGHT FEST, London UK.
Check out the schedule and buy your advance festival tix now.
A24's The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ acclaimed grim-n-funny horror tale starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe earned a robust $419,764 in just 8 theaters on its opening weekend. That is a dynamite $52,471 per-theater average, coming in just below Parasite, The Farewell, and Jojo Rabbit among this year’s top per-theater averages. It will expand into 500 theaters this Friday.
Scored by Core composer Mark Korven (The Witch, In the Tall Grass, The Terror: Infamy), The Lighthouse premiered as a Critics' Choice at this year's Cannes Director's Fortnight.
Check out INDIEWIRE'S exclusive article on Core composer Mark Korven's score. Included is a sneak-peek track from the soundtrack album. The soundtrack is set for release on October 18 on Milan Records/Sony Music Masterworks, A24 will be releasing the film in theatres the same day.
- "Eggers has re-teamed with his “Witch” composer Mark Korven for “The Lighthouse,” resulting in a bombastic and bold musical accompaniment that amps up the film’s chills and drama to full effect."
Jouri Smit’s revenge thriller HEAVY, will premiere at The Deauville American Festival in the luxury French resort town
of Deauville, Sept 6-15.
The film, scored by Core composer JAMES MARK STEWART stars UK actress Sophie Turner (GAME OF THRONES). Ms Turner will also receive the Hollywood Rising Star award at the festival.
IN THE TALL GRASS is set to have its world premiere at FANTASTIC FEST in Austin Texas this Sept 9-16th, and will open the 52nd SITGES International Film Festival October 3-13.
Directed by Vincenzo Natali, and based on the STEPHEN KING and JOE HILL novella, the Netflix original film stars Patrick Wilson and was scored by CORE composer MARK KORVEN (The Witch, The Lighhouse, Ridley Scott's The Terror: Infamy).
Read about it on the FANTASTIC FEST site.
Read about it on the SITGES site.