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Theo James Stars for Osgood Perkins of Longlegs

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Neon is benefiting from its Longlegs momentum with a primary glimpse at director Osgood Perkins‘ subsequent undertaking.

Neon shared the primary teaser trailer for The Monkey Monday, forward of the horror film’s Feb. 21, 2025 debut in theaters. The spot options Theo James, who stars within the movie alongside Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wooden, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Rohan Campbell and Sarah Levy.

Within the transient video, a snare drum apparently performed by a toy monkey is abruptly splattered in blood, as is James. Carnival-style music accompanies the footage.

The movie facilities on twins Invoice and Hal, each performed by James, whose discovery of their dad’s monkey toy within the attic results in a string of grisly deaths.

THE MONKEY - In Theaters February 21, 2025

Perkins wrote and directed The Monkey, which is predicated on the Stephen King brief story of the identical identify that was initially revealed in 1980. Dave Caplan, Michael Clear, Chris Ferguson, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and James Wan function producers.

James’ latest credit embody the collection The Gents and The White Lotus, along with a voice function on X-Males ’97.

Perkins is driving the success of Longlegs, the style movie starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage that hit theaters final month and has surpassed Parasite as Neon’s highest-grossing title ever. Throughout a latest interview with The Hollywood Reporter to advertise Longlegs, Perkins mentioned that The Monkey shall be way more comedic than any of his earlier work.

“It’s feeling extra like an outdated John Landis film or a Joe Dante film or a Robert Zemeckis film,” the filmmaker mentioned on the time. “I noticed a chance to make a wry, absurdist comedy about dying. It’s in regards to the very fundamental proven fact that all of us die — and the way fucking humorous and peculiar and unimaginable and surreal is that shit? And to return at it from a tragicomedy sort of voice felt prefer it match.”

Perkins continued, “On the finish of the day, if you wish to scale back it, it’s the haunted toy or evil toy subgenre, and I couldn’t think about doing a severe a type of. To me, it rang totally false to strategy it that method, so I simply went within the different course.”

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Fantasia Film Fest Reaches Tentative Deal Union Workers

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Following a one-day strike on July 11, the Syndicat des employé-es de l’événementiel-CSN, representing round 60 Fantasia Movie Pageant employees, reached a tentative deal late Friday evening to avert further labor disruption.

The union revealed no particulars on the settlement in precept earlier than union employees vote on the deal early subsequent week. A proper ratification would clear the best way for the twenty fourth version of the Fantasia Movie Pageant to kick off as deliberate on July 18 in Montreal.

“We’re happy with the dedication and willpower of our members within the negotiation course of. The employer took act of our mobilization and confirmed open-mindedness concerning our final negotiation proposal. We’re enthusiastic in regards to the alternative to current the tentative settlement to members at our upcoming normal meeting,”  Théa Trudeau-Tremblay, a spokesperson for the Syndicat des employé-es de l’événementiel-CSN, mentioned in an announcement on Saturday.

A consultant for Fantasia confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter {that a} tentative deal had been reached at round 10 p.m. on Friday evening. Fantasia Fest organizers had no further touch upon the settlement in precept forward of the union workers voting on the brand new labor deal.

The Fantasia union, aligned with the Syndicat des employé-es de l’événementiel-CSN, signed their first collective settlement in September 2023, simply after the movie competition’s 2023 version. However latest efforts to ascertain a minimal wage for unionized Fantasia workers on the bargaining desk obtained hung up over the style movie competition desirous to proceed paying workers as freelancers, with a lump sum for working Fantasia’s 2024 version, nevertheless many hours they work.

The union maintained the Fantasia competition needed to introduce modifications to the workers’ short-term, seasonal contracts just for subsequent 12 months’s 2025 version. However after bargaining between the Fantasia union and its administration resumed Friday after the one-day strike a day earlier, sufficient progress was apparently made in crunch talks to reach at an settlement in precept.

North America’s largest style competition is now set to open on July 18 with a world premiere for Elijah Wooden’s Bookworm and later a world premiere for The Depend of Monte Cristo. The twenty fourth version is then set to run to Aug. 4 in Montreal.

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Elijah Wood Launches Podcast Network

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SpectreVision, the manufacturing firm led by Elijah Wooden, Daniel Noah and Lawrence Inglee, is launching a brand new podcast community known as SpectreVision Radio.

SpectreVision Radio is about to be a house for podcasts centered on movie, music and the humanities, along with esoteric topics together with the paranormal and shocking historical past. The community will characteristic an array of recent podcasts, along with forthcoming seasons of present initiatives.

The brand new titles set to launch on SpectreVision Radio embody the first-ever podcasts from filmmakers Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the Home of Usher) and David Lowery (The Inexperienced Knight). Additionally new is The Spiel from co-hosts Scott Wampler and Eric Vespe; the pair recorded 12 episodes previous to the sudden dying earlier this 12 months of Wampler, who additionally labored as a movie journalist.

Among the many returning podcasts getting a brand new season on the community is Visitations from SpectreVision co-founders Wooden and Noah. An animated video showcasing the names of the SpectreVision Radio hosts is under.

SpectreVision Radio. Now receiving signals.

Additionally making up the roster are esoteric podcasts from paranormal researchers Greg and Dana Newkirk, occultist Sapphire Sandalo, journalist Tom O’Neill and occult tutorial Mitch Horowitz. Moreover, SpectreVision will launch an “All the time On” RSS feed through Spotify to supply a mix of episodes and unique content material.

“The concept of a podcast community that’s constructed like a group radio station is a pure extension of who we’re,” Wooden stated in a press release. “We’ve at all times considered SpectreVision as a artistic hub made up of like-minded folks with shared pursuits. To have an area the place creators can congregate to swap tales, share concepts and freely collaborate is a dream.”

Serving because the community director is Jim Perry, who’s host and creator of documentary podcast Euphomet, which enters its sixth season. Talon Leisure Finance CEO Steven Demmler and entrepreneur Michael Risley be part of Wooden, Noah and Inglee from SpectreVision as co-founders of the community.

Stated Perry, “SpectreVision Radio brings collectively the worlds of the humanities and the unknown by way of a kaleidoscope of views and disciplines that, collectively, inform an enchanting, ever-evolving story.”

The brand for SpectreVision Radio.

Courtesy of SpectreVision