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Head In the Clouds: Laugier’s English Speaking Horror Feature Poorly Manufactured After his infamously violent 2008 horror flick Martyrs landed him on the top of...

An adolescent's sixteenth birthday marks a turning point in life when maturation occurs at a much more rapid pace and the teenager begins to...

If I hadn't of missed out on the slate unveiling during the festival, I would have been extremely curious about what the Weinstein Co. had to show for for Jim Field Smith's Butter. With the distribution rights pick-up of The Iron Lady and The Artist, the Weinsteins are now more focused then ever in sticking to what they know best. The distribution and Prod co. had several items that have already been released and are selling, but in the titles that are getting ready for the fall, we look forward the most to Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn starring Emma Watson (see above) and Michelle Williams (aka Harvey's new Paltrow) as Monroe.

Short of having the filmmakers attend every screening and explain it to them, audiences would have no idea, save for perhaps the title, that this piece of transgressive cinema has a deeper meaning than the atrocities they're witnessing up on the screen.

A mix of genre specific fair and a couple of indie titles that automatically caught my attention, The Weinstein Company aren't flashing any cards in the festival comp portion, but they have a cool slate of market offerings in post production with noteworthy titles such as All Good Things from Andrew Jarecki, Youth in Revolt from Miguel Arteta and a 3D Piranha movie from horror helmer Alaxandre Aja.