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Exclusive: Australian producer-distributor Arcadia, whose recent credits include Netflix pic 2067 with Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten, has made two hires and revealed its upcoming distribution and development slates.

Bec Janek is joining as Head of Production and Anna Dadic will take the role of Head of Development.

Janek comes into the role after a close collaboration with Arcadia, more recently as a co-producer on sci fi feature 2067 and line producer on Sissy, starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type). Prior to those films, Janek produced Cannes 2018 shhort Dots and was a former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm.

Janek will be responsible for shepherding projects into production and will take the lead on select projects.

Dadic, a former theatrical agent at Hla Management, will manage Arcadia’s feature development slate and expand Arcadia’s slate of scripted TV.

Already underway in development under Dadic are the sci-fi series The Immaculate Void,...

‘Bump.’

Stan today unveiled five Stan Original productions – two drama series, a true crime docuseries, a film and a comedy special – as part of an ambitious plan to ramp up local commissions.

The Nine-owned streamer said it plans to invest in more than 30 productions per year within five years, drawing on Nine’s production facilities and via co-productions with international partners including Hollywood studios and international networks.

It will continue to build on relationships with state and national screen agencies including initiatives such as the Stan and Film Victoria Development Fund and the Screen Queensland and Stan Premium Drama Development Fund.

The slate announced today includes Every Cloud Productions and Balloon Entertainment’s eight-part murder mystery Eden; Claudia Karvan, Kelsey Munro and Roadshow Rough Diamond’s 10-part half-hour drama Bump; and After the Night, a four-part true crime docuseries from Eq Media Group and Salon Pictures, created and directed by Thomas Meadmore.

We are playing a bit of catch up here. Multi-hyphanite Richard Elfman was kind enough to remind me that the teaser for his new film Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks came out last week.    It is every bit as weird, wonderful, crazy, and bonkers as you expect it to be. It is such a wonderful and gonzo reflection of the man himself. On a bit of a sad note Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks contains one of the final roles of Verne Troyer, who passed away in 2018.    Out-of-work actor stumbles upon key to the universe, is drawn into intergalactic war between clowns and aliens.   Elfman also revealed this past weekend that Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks will have its world premiere...

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Pennywise floated back into theaters last night in It: Chapter Two, but if you’re looking for an epic clownpocalypse of insanity, take a gander at the teaser for Richard Elfman’s Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks embedded at the top of the article! Look for Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks in late November. Related Article: Exclusive: […]

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Tony Sokol Aug 29, 2019

Forbidden Zone director Richard Elfman pulls a movie with the key to the universe out of his butt in Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks.

In the pantheon of cult movies, Forbidden Zone stands at high midnight. Richard Elfman's 1980 Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo vehicle was a one-of-a-kind film careening down on a one-way street to an oddly predestined end. On the clock of Midnight Movies, his upcoming Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks runs sometime after 3 a.m., striking after the popcorn has been swept under the seats by the night crew. Independent to its core and featuring Austin Powers' Verne Troyer in his last role, the movie cannot be brushed aside by the barrage of blockbusters. Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks is the antidote to mainstream and a breakneck cure for the run-of-the-mill.

Shot in a fast-paced, classic screen-comedy style, the film is intra-dimensional, extraterrestrial and sonically grounded.

We’re in for a literal flood of creepy clown-themed horror movies. In addition to It: Chapter Two and the lesser-known titles we featured in a recent video, we’re also looking forward to Clownado, Clown of the Dead, and Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks coming down the pike. Add to this ever-expanding list: Wrinkles the Clown! […]

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Actor Verne Troyer, best known for his role as “Mini-me” in the Austin Powers film comedies, has died. He was 49 and no cause of death was revealed.

He reportedly had been hospitalized on life support after being remanded by police earlier this month upon friends reporting that he was inebriated and suicidal, according to TMZ. He was eventually treated for alcohol poisoning.

Troyer was born with achondroplasia dwarfism, a genetic disorder, and was considered one of the smallest people in the world. The 2 foot, 8-inch actor nevertheless carved out an acting career, but struggled with alcoholism, making numerous trips to rehab in his battle with the disease.

A Facebook posting on his official account confirmed his death:

It is with great sadness and incredibly heavy hearts to write that Verne passed away today.

Verne was an extremely caring individual. He wanted to make everyone smile, be happy, and laugh. Anybody in need,...

Despite what you might expect, Hipsters is not a snide mumblecore comedy set in Brooklyn featuring a cast of skinny jeans-wearing ironically bespectacled twenty-somethings with feigned aloofness and a chic political awareness. No, Hipsters is in fact something far more joyful and unexpected. Set in 1955 Moscow, this vibrant musical-romance centers on a group of young people who willfully reject the (communist) party line in favor of dazzling glad rags and American jazz music. But in the midst of Cold War era Russia, favoring American pop culture isn’t just subversive; it’s treason. And in a grim world painted by poverty and cloaked in gray, these decadent deviants proudly stand out in plaid suits, poodle skirts and pompadours so bright they are practically radioactive! They laugh loudly and flaunt their differences, drawing fascination and ire from the Communist Union of Youth, who regularly raid their underground parties, tackling hipsters to...

The first-ever Festival de Cinéma européen des Arcs (aka the European cinema festival in Les Arcs, France) has come to an end and, after a successful inaugural run, it wound up on Friday night with a prestigious prize-giving ceremony.

The jury, which was led by its president Istvan Szabo, gave five awards out on the night and the winners are as follows...

The main award, better know as La Flèche de cristal (or The Crystal Arrow) went to London Nights and its director Alexis Dos Santos.

The Jury prize went to Honeymoons, the first Albanian-Serbian co-production from the director Goran Paskaljevic.

The Special Jury prize went to Piggies, a Polish movie from director Robert Glinski.

The Audience prize was awarded to Celda 211 and director Daniel Monzón.

Best Actress went to Nina Ivanisin in Slovenka and Best Actor was awarded to Anton Shagin in Stilyagi.

The winners were chosen from...

Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.

Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"

The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...