Dark Star & Bloody Disgusting Now Acquire THE LAST MATINEE
Josh Millican
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Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to The Last Matinee. As part of its ongoing and exciting collaboration with Bloody Disgusting. (The two company’s recently collaborated on the release of Honeydew.) Dark Star and Bloody Disgusting plan a theatrical release for The Last Matinee early this summer. A VOD and DVD release will follow in August.
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Synopsis:
An audience is attending the last showing of a horror film in a small downtown cinema. Then they are terrorized by a murderer who begins to pick them off, one by one. The only person to notice something strange is the projectionist’s daughter.
Written and directed by Maxi Contenti (Muñeco viviente V, Neptunia). The film stars Luciana Grasso (El Secreto de Julia) and Ricardo Islas (El Que No Corre Vuela, Bailiwick). Julieta Spinelli co-stars with Franco Duran and Pedro Duarte.
“I’m very happy to be part of the Dark Star Pictures roster. And super excited to present my movie to the North American audiences,” said director/writer Maxi Contenti. “I hope they’ll enjoy the blood dripping screenings of The Last Matinee.”
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It made its world premiere at Sitges Film Festival last summer. The Last Matinee will then make its rounds at Panic Fest and Cleveland International Film Festival later this month. It will also make its Canadian debut at the Calgary Underground Film Festival.
Earlier this year, Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting partnered on its first acquisition. It was the acclaimed backwoods horror film, Honeydew with Sawyer Spielberg in his feature acting debut. Most recently, Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting announced the acquisition of the festival midnighter Dementia Part II. It will hit theaters later this spring with the VOD and DVD release to follow this summer.
We don’t have a trailer or poster at this time. But we’ll share them with you all as soon as we see them! Stay tuned and check back often!
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