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When you think of horror streaming platforms, the usual suspects come to mind: massive corporations curating predictable content. Nyx TV, however, is anything but typical. Founded in 2022 and spearheaded by Corinne Ferguson, Nyx Media Corporation has carved a unique niche in the entertainment landscape. First launched in the UK and later expanding to Canada, the platform offers expertly curated horror content that speaks to both die-hard fans and newcomers. But Nyx isn’t just about programming—it’s a labour of love, passion, and inclusivity.

Corinne, the only female CEO of a horror-focused channel, brings over 25 years of business expertise to the table. Her career spans everything from running marathons to producing indie horror films like Extremity. It was on that project that she met her co-founders, David Bond and Chris Wright, with whom she dreamed of creating a free, ad-supported streaming service for horror fans worldwide. Their goal? To...

David Bond, a retired grant writer from West Henrietta, New York, is making waves as a contestant on Jeopardy! Born on September 9, 1962, David is 62 years old and brings a lifetime of experience and wisdom to the iconic game show. His journey from a career in research administration to national television is both inspiring and a testament to his passion for learning and sharing knowledge.

David retired in 2020 to assist in caring for his elderly parent, demonstrating his commitment to family. Despite stepping back from full-time work, he remains deeply engaged in intellectually stimulating projects. With interests in market research for graphene, energy storage, climate technology, and clean energy, David embodies the spirit of lifelong learning and innovation.

A Distinguished Career in Research and Development

David’s professional background spans decades of leadership in research administration and grant writing. He previously served as the Director of Sponsored Research Services at the...

Exclusive: Ted and Seinfeld actor Patrick Warburton is to co-host the pilot for a movie props docuseries from Tom Biolchini and Juan Pablo Reinoso.

The actor has signed on after producer Keli Price of Price Productions negotiated a deal with Gersh, Warburton’s agents. Shooting is se to take place in the UK and other parts of the world.

The series, which is being independently funded and doesn’t yet have a network or streamer attached, is inspired by a feature doc of the same name from director Reinoso and Biolchini, who will co-host the show with Warburton. Reinoso is directing the pilot.

The series is centered around the multi-day auction at Propstore of London, an annual event in which thousands of TV and film props are put up for sale. Warburton and Biolchini will travel to meet collectors on their journeys to sell or buy particular on-screen memorabilia.

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Exclusive: Harvey Keitel (The Irishman), Rita Moreno (80 for Brady), Roselyn Sanchez (Fantasy Island) and Udo Kier (Hunters) have been set to star in Theirs, an indie horror thriller going into production in Tulsa, Oklahoma this summer.

Written by Juan Pablo Reinoso and to be directed by Sonja O’Hara (Mid-Century), the film centers on a mother who, after a lifetime of grappling with abusive men and a bitter divorce, finds hope for herself and her teenage daughter in a new home, only to quickly find their newfound freedom tested by malicious secrets within its walls.

Keli Price (Bandit) will produce for his Price Productions, alongside Reinoso (Mad Props) for LookBook, and David Bond (Huesera) for Dark Elegy Films. Tom Biolchini will serve as the film’s executive producer.

An Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, Keitel has recently appeared in films like Lansky, The Irishman, The Painted Bird and Isle of Dogs,...

Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is launching a new industry event focusing on Africa. The Southern Africa-Locarno Industry Academy, hosted in collaboration with the Realness Institute of Africa, will take place online from 26 September to 2 October 2021 and will welcome 10-12 participants from all over the African continent. The project offers a tailored program featuring masterclasses and meetings with internationally established professionals. The aim is to enhance participants’ understanding of the challenges facing the film industry, while allowing them to expand their personal network of contacts and develop their professional skill set. “The Southern Africa-Locarno Industry Academy will allow us to introduce our program for young professionals in this region. Participants will be able to connect with Industry Academy alumni in Latin America, the Middle East, the USA and Europe, joining an international network of future industry players,” said Markus Duffner, the new head of Locarno Pro.

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Official Trailer for Bloodthirsty: "Grey, an indie singer, whose first album was a smash hit, gets an invitation to work with notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels at his remote studio in the woods. Together with her girlfriend/lover Charlie, they arrive at his mansion, and the work begins. But Grey is having visions that she is a wolf, and as her work with the emotionally demanding Vaughn deepens, the vegan singer begins to hunger for meat and the hunt. As Grey starts to transform into a werewolf, she begins to find out who she really is, and begins to discover the family she never knew. What will it take to become a great artist and at what cost to her humanity?"

Director: Amelia Moses

Co-Writers: Wendy Hill-Tout and Lowell

Featuring Original Music By: Lowell

Producers: Wendy Hill-Tout, Michael Peterson

Executive Producers: David Bond, Alan Bachus

Cast: Lauren Beatty, Greg Bryk,...

Extremity is an upcoming horror film. From the disturbed minds of writers David Bond (Boogeyman: Reincarnation) and Scott Swan, the film was directed by Anthony Diblasi. In the film, a young woman goes on a psychological journey, in order to relieve herself of an earlier drama. Extremity will be released by Dread Central Presents, in early October. A trailer for Extremity was released this past month (found below). Now, the film's special features and other release details are available. Extremity features a well renowned cast. Sports Illustrated model Ashley Smith stars as Nell, one of the many masked villains. Long-time horror veteran J. Larose (Insidious) also stars, along with Ami Tomite (Meatball Machine) and Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police). This cast bring great performances to an uber-violent feature as seen in the film's official trailer. The release date for Extremity is scheduled for October 2nd. On this date, this indie horror feature will show.

Groucho Marx in 'Duck Soup.' Groucho Marx movies: 'Duck Soup,' 'The Story of Mankind' and romancing Margaret Dumont on TCM Grouch Marx, the bespectacled, (painted) mustached, cigar-chomping Marx brother, is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Aug. 14, '15. Marx Brothers fans will be delighted, as TCM is presenting no less than 11 of their comedies, in addition to a brotherly reunion in the 1957 all-star fantasy The Story of Mankind. Non-Marx Brothers fans should be delighted as well – as long as they're fans of Kay Francis, Thelma Todd, Ann Miller, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Allan Jones, affectionate, long-tongued giraffes, and/or that great, scene-stealing dowager, Margaret Dumont. Right now, TCM is showing Robert Florey and Joseph Santley's The Cocoanuts (1929), an early talkie notable as the first movie featuring the four Marx Brothers – Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo. Based on their hit Broadway...

This Spurlock-esque attempt to tear kids away from their iPads and get them to embrace nature is entertaining and wholly admirable

David Bond's engaging and thoroughly admirable film is a record of his attempt to reconnect his own children – and indeed all of Britain's children – with nature. Today's young people stay indoors, unlike their parents and grandparents, who as children loved to roam free. A new generation is addicted to iPads and consoles, getting obese and insidiously depressed in the process, and parents are letting it happen.And more than that, we increasingly assume the outdoors to be dangerous, pointless and irrelevant. "We think we've outgrown nature," says Bond, and wonders if the way is to promote nature as a brand, so the kids can "get" it and"choose" it; with boyish enthusiasm, he devises wacky ad strategies through billboards and social media to spread the good word, and...

Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now will close the festival, which has assembled it largest programme to date.

The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Sept 19-29) has unveiled its 2013 line-up, comprising 150 titles from 40 countries.

As previously announced, Professor Stephen Hawking will attend the opening night gala of documentary Hawking, which will be broadcast live to more than 60 screens across the UK.

The festival will close with Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, an Orwellian vision of a post-apocalyptic future starring Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay.

Alongside Hawking, other special guests to the festival will include directors Lucy Walker (The Crash Reel), Roland Klick (Deadlock), Mark Levinson (Particle Fever), Julien Temple (Oil City Confidential), Ramon Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat), Małgośka Szumowska (In The Name Of), Marzin Malaszczak (Sieniawka), Matt Hulse (Dummy Jim) and Andrew Mudge (The Forgotten Kingdom), Bob Stanley, John Pearse and actress Stephanie Stremler (Dust On Our Heart).

Strands include Young Americans, aimed at showcasing...

Director David Bond does a disappearing act to see how easy it is to get lost in our surveillance-obsessed society

In this chillingly admonitory movie, director David Bond becomes the centre of his own documentary thriller by disappearing from his North London home for a month and seeing how easy it is for a pair of investigators to track his movements around Britain and Europe. His journey is interspersed by interviews with security experts, Stasi victims, civil rights lawyers and others concerned with the fact that Britain is (after China and Russia) the third most surveillance-ridden state in the world. The witnesses include Timothy Garton Ash, David Blunkett, Henry Porter and Helena Kennedy, and there's an edgy score by Michael Nyman.

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David Bond's documentary about internet-age data trails is a nice idea, but fails to deliver anything substantial, says Andrew Pulver

A documentary that takes an enterprising approach to one of the big issues of our time – data privacy – but doesn't really nail it to the wall. Director David Bond does a Nick Broomfield, and positions himself squarely in the frame: distressed at the amount of personal information "out there", Bond aims to disappear for a month, evading a couple of private detectives he has set on his trail. While there's a certain amount of suspenseful will-they-get-him entertainment to be had, the level of analysis is relentlessly sophomoric; we learn nothing more than we already know about big-state information gathering and identity theft shenanigans. It doesn't help that Bond pads out his film with far too much hammy paranoid gibbering to camera, and tries to compensate for the eventless first...

The Italian Film Festival, Scotland

No gimmicks here – just the chance to see some world-class Italian films from directors old and new. From veteran Enzo Castellari, director of the original Inglourious Basterds, comes Eagles Over London, the film that invented the "macaroni combat" genre by dazzlingly recreating the Battle Of Britain. There's also a four-film tribute to legendary actor Vittorio Gassman – Il Mattatore, as he's affectionately known – with screenings of the little-seen swashbuckler For Love And Gold and the original Scent Of A Woman, which won Gassman the Best Actor award in Cannes. More recent titles include director Federico Bondi's Mar Nero, a touching tale of the relationship between an elderly lady and her youthful carer, and Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore's dark, modern thriller The Unknown Woman. And, for the more traditional, there's a screening of everyone's favourite Italian classic, La Dolce Vita.

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Less than a week worth of recovering from the Sundance Film Festival, and we are already looking forward to our next, big film fest coverage. That would be the South by Southwest Film Festival held annually in Austin, Texas. Last year, Scott and I brought you all kinds of coverage from the Lone Star State, and this year doesn’t look to be much different.

With that, the announcement came last night of the feature films that will be playing at the SXSW Film Festival. Previous announcement were already made about films like Cold Weather, Electra Luxx, Hubble 3D, Lemmy, Saturday Night, and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights making their debut. Kick-ass was recently announced as the opening night film, as well.

Among the other films being presented this year are some Sundance darlings, a few, highly anticipated premieres, and MacGruber.

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Late yesterday the SXSW Fim Festival, which runs from March 12-20 in Austin, TX, announced the full lineup of films that will be screening at this year’s event. And baby, it’s quite a list. Mixing big name films with intimate indie gems, the sheer number of films and the vast array of talented filmmakers is sure to be a hit with attendees and critics alike.

This lineup includes premieres of studio films such as Universal’s MacGruber, Lionsgate’s teen superhero actioneer Kick-Ass and smaller films like Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs, Michel Gondry’s The Thorn in the Heart and Steven Soderbergh’s And Everything Is Going Fine. With so many films to watch, it will be very difficult to find time to seem them all during the events nine days. But hell, we’re going to try.

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The 2010 SXSW Film Festival and Conference has announced its initial slate of titles. The list is rife with hot world premieres (Kick-Ass), films fresh from Sundance (The Runaways, Cyrus), hot titles from the 2009 editions of Tiff and Cannes that haven't had much U.S. play (Enter the Void, Dogtooth, Trash Humpers), interesting documentaries (Lemmy, The People v. George Lucas) and much, much more. Simon Rumley's Red, White & Blue, which has received much praise on Twitch based on its Iffr screenings, will have its North American premiere.

Midnight programming courtesy of Fantastic Fest is also back with titles like Higanjima, Monsters, Serbian Film, Outcast, and a yet to be announced special film. Keep eye out for SXSW coverage at Twitch, but for now, pursue the massive list below (descriptions courtesy of SXSW).

Headliners

Big names, big talent:  Headliners bring star power to SXSW, featuring red carpet premieres and gala film...