The "Twelfth Doctor" Peter Capaldi will be in attendance at this year's Wizard World Minneapolis convention. Continue reading for more details on his appearance and the event itself. Also in today's Highlights: Night Visions Film Festival spring 2017 lineup, Jurassic Games production details, and trailers for Home Education and The Alienators.
Peter Capaldi to Appear at Wizard World Minneapolis: Press Release: "MINNEAPOLIS, March 30, 2017 – Peter Capaldi, who portrays the Twelfth and current iteration of "The Doctor" on the long-running science fiction series "Doctor Who," will make his Wizard World debut next month when he attends Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis, May 6-7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Capaldi will greet fans, pose for photo ops, sign autographs and conduct an interactive fan Q&A during the pop culture extravaganza.
Capaldi has appeared as the title character in the BBC program since being introduced in the 50th Anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" and the 2013 Christmas episode, "The Time of the Doctor," morphing into the role from Matt Smith (Eleventh Doctor) and David Tennant (Tenth), both hugely popular Wizard World guests. The Scottish-born Capaldi, who will complete his "Doctor Who" run at the end of 2017, won an Oscar for Best Short Film, Live Action for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993). He has more than 100 film and TV credits, including the lead in the 2009 political satire In the Loop, in which he reprised the role of "Malcolm Tucker" from his most well-known work to that point, the BBC sitcom "The Thick of It."
Capaldi joins a celebrity roster at Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis that includes Nichelle Nichols ("Star Trek,"), Lou Ferrigno ("The Incredible Hulk") and "The Monkees" duo of Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz. Additional celebrities will be announced closer to the start of the show.
Wizard World Comic Con events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop culture: movies, television, gaming, live entertainment, comics, sci-fi, graphic novels, toys, original art, collectibles, contests and more. The fifth event scheduled on the 2017 Wizard World calendar and fourth visit to the Twin Cities, Minneapolis show hours are Friday, May 5, 3-9 p.m.; Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, May 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis is also the place for cosplay, with fans of every genre showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor and participate in the famed Wizard World Costume Contest on Saturday."
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Night Visions Film Fest Spring 2017 Lineup Announced: Press Release: "Night Visions International Film Festival announced the Official Selection of its April 2017 edition today. The spring edition of Scandinavia's biggest genre film festival takes place in Helsinki, Finland from April 19th to April 23rd, 2017. The complete lineup includes a total of 31 feature films and a selection of carefully hand-picked shorts.
One of the headliner themes of the festival, Killer Female Directors section features a trio of international festival hits and two strong genre outings from Scandinavia. Alice Lowe's pitch black comedy Prevenge (UK 2016), Julia Ducournau's Raw (France/Belgium 2016) and the omnibus hit XX (USA/Canada 2017) will all have their Finnish premieres now in Helsinki. Jonna Nilsson's Drip Drop (Sweden 2017) is an original take on the monster in the house theme. Charlotte Brodthagen's Lau & Laudrup (Denmark 2017), one of NightVisions World Premieres, is a story of two Bosnian immigrant siblings in the midst of a zombie outbreak somewhere outside Copenhagen.
The Mentors: Kings of Sleze Rockumentary (USA 2017) also fits the bill of Killer Female Directors, though its director April Jones is not dealing with fiction. This Night Visions World Premiere provides an in-depth, feature-length look at the infamous "rape rock" group of nearly mythical proportions.
Other highlights of the festival's documentary selection include Marty Langford's Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four (USA 2016), Alexandre O. Philippe's Sundance hit 78/52 (USA 2017) and Dominik Graf & Johannes Sievert's Berlin Film Fest Panorama entry Open Wounds - A Journey Through German Genre Films (Germany 2017). All three now have their Scandinavian premieres on the big screen at the festival.
The vibrant genre cinema scene of Argentina is also presented through two Scandinavian premieres. Still Life director Gabriel Grieco's Hypersomnia (2016) is a modern, multi-layered take on the almost forgotten subgenre of women-in-prison movies. Sebastian Perillo's directorial debut Amateur (Argentina 2016) is a unique serial killer thriller with distinctly De Palmaesque flavours.
Among its World Premiere shorts, Night Visions also presents the Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom auteur CHRZU's latest Carlotta Moore adventure The Consequence (Finland 2017), Ramin Sohrab's highly anticipated action extravaganza Viulu (Finland 2017) and the H.P. Lovecraft inspired Sound from the Deep (Finland 2017), directed by Joonas Allonen and Antti Laakso.
On the retro side, one of the definite highlights of the lineup includes a retrospective of the legendary U.S. genre filmmaker Gary Sherman. Sherman's Death Line (a.k.a. Raw Meat, UK 1972), Dead & Buried (USA 1981) and Vice Squad (USA/UK 1982) are all now seen for the first time ever in their uncut form on the silver screen in Finland.
Full festival lineup via this link: http://www.nightvisions.info/wp/en/elokuvat/
The ticket sales of all screenings of the Night Visions International Film Festival will start on Friday, March 31st, 2017 at www.nightvisions.info"
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Jurassic Games Production Details: Press Release: "Los Angeles, California: Galen Christy’s High Octane Pictures, in association with the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO), have kicked off production on Ryan Bellgardt’s Jurassic Games.
Starring Ryan Merriman (Final Destination 3) and Perry Reeves (Entoutrage), the film imagines a world set in the near future wherein ten Death Row convicts are chosen to compete in The Jurassic Games, the ultimate virtual reality game show that pits its players against dinosaurs and each other. However, there is a catch… If you die in the virtual, you also die in reality; and for Anthony Tucker (Adam Hampton), survival is his one chance to be reunited with his children after having been wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the devious The Host continues adding improbable challenges, the characters will find the odds stacked against them as only one victor can emerge as a winner and reclaim their freedom.
The Jurassic Games is the third film from Emmy Award-winning director Bellgardt, whose highly anticipated creature feature Gremlin will be released this Summer.
Says “High Octane Pictures is very excited to be back in business with Ryan Bellgardt – unarguably one of the most talented new filmmakers in the business. The Jurassic Games is a very exciting concept – it’s part Hunger Games, part Jurassic Park… and just a hell of a lot of fun. With Bellgardt behind the camera and the fantastic cast we’ve lined up for the film, it’s definitely a movie for film fans to anticipate. It’s gonna be dino-mite.”
High Octane Pictures upcoming credits include buzzed-about horror title Clowntergeist, out mid-year, and high concept science-fictioner The Answer."
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Watch the Trailer for Short Film Home Education: From director Andrea Niada: "'Home Education' is my graduation film from The London Film School.
It is the result of a year of uninterrupted work. Starting with a feature script, which we are currently developing and planning on shooting next year. We worked on narrowing the story down to something which would function as a short film, as well as giving the sense of a much larger world inhabited by the characters. The crew worked tirelessly at this, creating most of what you see from scratch, from the clothes worn by the characters to the decor, which helps give the film a very unique and distinctive quality.
For more information check out:
homeeducationfilm.com - Official Website
facebook.com/homeeducationfilm - Facebook Page
twitter.com/Home_ed_06 - Twitter"
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The Alienators Trailer and Poster: The Alienators is now available on VOD and streaming services. To learn more, visit the film's official website.
Synopsis: "Two amateur Ufologists investigate a woman’s claim that aliens are watching her. Two weeks later, she disappears under mysterious circumstances. During a missing persons investigation, confiscated footage leaks onto the internet, receiving over 2 million hits in just 3 hours before the authorities take it down. But many who saw the footage say it contained the most compelling and terrifying evidence of alien existence ever captured. This is that footage, compiled and released by The Civilian Department of Ufology, a privately owned UFO research and investigation organization."
Written and directed by Christopher Farley, The Alienators stars Aaron Leddick, Dereck Reckley, Alycia Tracy, and Don Moss.
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