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Producers targeting release in second half of 2022.

Principal photography on Patricio Valladares’s low-budget survival thriller film Hidden In The Woods Part 2 has wrapped in southern Chile.

The sequel takes place 10 years after events in the 2012 original and sees Anny trying to lead a new life in a new town as a cleaner after she and her sister were terrorised by their abusive father and crime boss uncle.

Anny’s peaceful existence is shattered when gangsters turn up at her employer’s lake house to collect a debt. Production took place in Las Aguadas, Yumbel.

Priscilla Olguín, Giordano Rossi, Christian Cuentrejo,...

Producers targeting release in second half of 2022.

Principal photography on Patricio Valladares’s low-budget survival thriller film Hidden In The Woods Part 2 has wrapped in southern Chile.

The sequel to the 2014 horror takes place 10 years after the original and sees Anny trying to lead a new life in a new town as a cleaner after she and her sister were subject to the whims of their abusive, drug-dealing father.

Her peaceful existence is shattered when gangsters turn up at her employer’s lake house to collect a debt. Production took place in Las Aguadas, Yumbel.

Priscilla Olguín, Giordano Rossi, Christian Cuentrejo,...

Germany’s 8-Film has picked the U.S. and German rights to the sequel of Chilean Patricio Valladares’ genre film “Hidden in the Woods.” The company has also boarded the low-budget survival thriller as a co-producer and distributor.

Valladares, who premiered his short “Snowdevil” at the Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic) in August this year and bowed his film “Downhill” at 2016 Sanfic, will direct the sequel based on his own screenplay.

The news comes just as Sanfic Industria, taking place from Oct.27 to Nov. 5, has signaled its further commitment to supporting genre projects through its joint initiative with Mexican horror conglomerate Grupo Morbido that will include screenings and mentoring sessions at this year’s Sanfic-Morbido Lab with Morbido founder and CEO, Pablo Guisa.

The sequel will serve as a direct follow-up to the original Chilean version, and is set 10 years after the horrific events depicted in Valladares’ warped fable.

Moonlight claimed the top prize at Sunday’s 89th Academy Awards in a dramatic finale.Full list of winnersBEST Motion Picture Of The YEARArrivalFencesHacksaw RidgeHell Or High WaterHidden FiguresLionLa La LandManchester By The SeaMoonlightPERFORMANCE By An Actress In A Leading ROLEIsabelle Huppert, ElleRuth Negga, LovingNatalie Portman, JackieEmma Stone, La La LandMeryl Streep, Florence Foster JenkinsPERFORMANCE By An Actor In A Leading ROLECasey Affleck, Manchester By The SeaDenzel Washington, FencesRyan Gosling, La La LandAndrew Garfield, Hacksaw RidgeViggo Mortensen, Captain FantasticBEST DIRECTORDamien Chazelle, La La LandBarry Jenkins, MoonlightKenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The SeaDenis Villeneuve, ArrivalMel Gibson, Hacksaw RidgeADAPTED SCREENPLAYArrival, Eric HeissererFences, August WilsonHidden Figures, Allison Schroeder and Theodore MelfiLion, Luke DaviesMoonlight, Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraneyORIGINAL SCREENPLAYHell Or High Water, Taylor SheridanLa La Land, Damien ChazelleThe Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis FilippouManchester By The Sea, Kenneth Lonergan20th Century Women, Mike MillsACHIEVEMENT In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Song)‘Audition (The Fools Who Dream)’ from...

Sunday’s 89th Academy Awards are underway at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre in a popular adapted screenplay win for Moonlight as the drama earned its second win of the night.

Moments earlier Kenneth Lonergan accepted the original screenplay award for Manchester By The Sea in the film’s first prize. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon – winners of this award for Good Will Hunting 19 years ago – presented the honour to Lonergan. Damon was a producer on the film.

Meryl Streep used her Oscar show platform to pay subtle homage to the unifying power of film when she joined Javier Bardem on stage at the Dolby Theatre to present the cinematography award.

“Truth is hard to reveal,” Streep said, “but when it happens on the movie screen filmgoers no matter where they are from, feel their hearts soar.”

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La La Land scores a record-equalling 14 nominations.

The nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards have been revealed.

The 2017 Academy Awards will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, February 26.

Read: Oscars 2017: ‘La La Land’ equals record with 14 nominations

Best Motion Picture of the yearArrivalFencesHacksaw RidgeHell Or High WaterHidden FiguresLionLa La LandManchester By The SeaMoonlightBest DirectorDamien Chazelle, La La LandBarry Jenkins, MoonlightKenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The SeaDenis Villeneuve, ArrivalMel Gibson, Hacksaw RidgePerformance by an actress in a leading roleIsabelle Huppert, ElleRuth Negga, LovingNatalie Portman, JackieEmma Stone, La La LandMeryl Streep, Florence Foster JenkinsPerformance by an actor in a leading roleCasey Affleck, Manchester By The SeaDenzel Washington, FencesRyan Gosling, La La LandAndrew Garfield, Hacksaw RidgeViggo Mortensen, Captain FantasticPerformance by an actress in a supporting roleViola Davis, FencesMichelle Williams, Manchester By the SeaNaomie Harris, MoonlightNicole Kidman, LionOctavia Spencer, Hidden FiguresPerformance by an actor in a supporting roleMahershala Ali, MoonlightJeff Bridges, Hell Or High WaterDev Patel, LionLucas Hedges...

Gory German shocker releasing on DVD and Blu-ray. A few weeks ago we announced the bloody birth of Cult Epics founder Nico B’s and 8 Films’ Steve Aquilina’s Reel Gore Releasing, a new imprint dedicated to extreme, violent cinema distributed thru Cav (home of Cult Epics, Synapse, Grindhouse) in North America. The first Reel Gore…

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Reel Gore Releasing reveals details about first release Violent Shit. Last week we broke the news about the birth of Reel Gore Releasing, the new extreme horror home video imprint co-founded by Cult Epics honcho Nico B and film producer Steve Aquilina from 8 Films. Today, Reel Gore gave us the exclusive first look at…

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Cult Epics founder Nico B and film producer Steve Aquilina will be launching a new horror label Reel Gore Releasing as of August 2016, distributed thru Cav (home of Cult Epics, Synapse, Grindhouse) in North America. With the recent success of the horror films of Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik) and Angst, Nico B teamed up with …

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Andreas Schnaas' Violent Shit, and its killer Karl Berg ("Karl the Butcher), is back in an all-new film overseen by the original film's producer Steve Aquilina and directed by Luigi Pastore.

Fangoria broke the news today and featured a trailer along with some stills. You can watch the promo here.

Violent Shit was a 1989 German gore flick that spawned two sequels - one in '92 and one in '99. The new film - Violent Shit: The Movie - is merging the bloody excess of those films with a giallo sensibility.

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