Founded in 2012, Paris-based WTFilms, run by Gregory Chambet and Dimitri Stephanides, has built a strong reputation as a sales agent for break-out genre pics and has recently diversified into production, to access hit projects. As competition ramps up for more ambitious projects with strong theatrical potential, Chambet decided to move to Los Angeles in mid-2023, while Stephanides remains based in Paris.
“At WTFilms, we aim to continue to work on both sides of the Atlantic,” explains Chambet. “In the current market it’s important to invest in projects by talented directors, with innovative concepts, budgeted above $5 million. It makes sense for me to be based here because we work a lot with partners here and L.A. is a key talent hub. We’re on the lookout for talent from all around the world. There are really exciting genre directors popping up everywhere – in North America and also in Latin America and Asia.
“At WTFilms, we aim to continue to work on both sides of the Atlantic,” explains Chambet. “In the current market it’s important to invest in projects by talented directors, with innovative concepts, budgeted above $5 million. It makes sense for me to be based here because we work a lot with partners here and L.A. is a key talent hub. We’re on the lookout for talent from all around the world. There are really exciting genre directors popping up everywhere – in North America and also in Latin America and Asia.
- 1/15/2024
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
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The best active streaming deal for Shudder is the $1.99/month offer from Prime Video. Right now, until Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, Amazon is offering Prime members the Shudder channel for just $1.99/month for two months. (After two months, your subscription will automatically renew at its regular price of $6.99/month.) This isn’t technically free, but it is...
- 12/24/2023
- by Claire Franken
- TVLine.com
Jonah Hauer-King can currently be seen swimming up a storm alongside Halle Bailey in Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid” but for his next project he’s part of a different world – “World on Fire.”
The PBS and BBC drama series has released first look images from its upcoming second season, showing Hauer-King as a grimy soldier called Harry in the Royal Air Force (Raf) during World War II.
Jonah Hauer-King in ‘World on Fire’ (courtesy of BBC)
In the show, which was created by Peter Bowker, he is joined by “The Crown’s” Lesley Manville, Parker Sawyers (“A Discovery of Witches”) and Eugénie Derouand (“The Advent Calendar”).
In new images from Season 2 Manville, who plays Robina, looks elegant in a 1940s hair-do and outfit while Sawyers, who plays Albert, is pictured looking concerned, a Nazi flag visible behind him. Meanwhile Derouand is clad in a nurse’s outfit as Henriette.
The PBS and BBC drama series has released first look images from its upcoming second season, showing Hauer-King as a grimy soldier called Harry in the Royal Air Force (Raf) during World War II.
Jonah Hauer-King in ‘World on Fire’ (courtesy of BBC)
In the show, which was created by Peter Bowker, he is joined by “The Crown’s” Lesley Manville, Parker Sawyers (“A Discovery of Witches”) and Eugénie Derouand (“The Advent Calendar”).
In new images from Season 2 Manville, who plays Robina, looks elegant in a 1940s hair-do and outfit while Sawyers, who plays Albert, is pictured looking concerned, a Nazi flag visible behind him. Meanwhile Derouand is clad in a nurse’s outfit as Henriette.
- 5/31/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Todd Lubitsch, Janice Angela Burt, Joshua Rose, Ruby Setnik, Greg Sestero, Caleb Lush, Louise Harding, Jason Kuykendall, Vernon Wells, Lori Richardson, Ian Hopps, Devin Valdez, Dave Sheridan | Written and Directed by Robert Livings, Randy Nundlall Jr
Surprisingly not titled A V/H/S Christmas, or as close to that as the lawyers would allow, The Christmas Tapes is an anthology film that reunites actor/producer Greg Sestero with Infrared’s writing/directing team Robert Livings and Randy Nundlall Jr.
The Christmas Tapes consists of four found footage segments and a wraparound in which a family, Bill, his wife Lisa and their kids Eli (Joshua Rose; Closure) and Rachel (Ruby Setnik; Sundays) have their Christmas Eve interpreted by a stranger (Greg Sestero). He holds them at gunpoint. Since Rachel is an aspiring filmmaker he has the perfect gift, four VHS tapes that should inspire her.
The first of these, “Travel...
Surprisingly not titled A V/H/S Christmas, or as close to that as the lawyers would allow, The Christmas Tapes is an anthology film that reunites actor/producer Greg Sestero with Infrared’s writing/directing team Robert Livings and Randy Nundlall Jr.
The Christmas Tapes consists of four found footage segments and a wraparound in which a family, Bill, his wife Lisa and their kids Eli (Joshua Rose; Closure) and Rachel (Ruby Setnik; Sundays) have their Christmas Eve interpreted by a stranger (Greg Sestero). He holds them at gunpoint. Since Rachel is an aspiring filmmaker he has the perfect gift, four VHS tapes that should inspire her.
The first of these, “Travel...
- 12/14/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Talk about a bleak Christmas if there ever was one, since this movie takes the idea of the advent calendar to an extreme that is difficult to think about since in real life it would make a person one of the most despised individuals in all of existence for daring to do some of the things that are depicted. Having spent three years of her life as a paraplegic after an accident that put her in a wheelchair, Eva has adjusted and is living a moderately fulfilling life. When her friend gives her an intricate, wooden advent calendar for her
Let’s Talk About ‘The Advent Calendar’...
Let’s Talk About ‘The Advent Calendar’...
- 12/9/2021
- by Tom Foster
- TVovermind.com
Stars: Eugénie Derouand, Honorine Magnier, Clément Olivieri, Janis Abrikh, Cyril Garnier, Vladimir Perrin, Fabien Jegoudez, Jérôme Paquatte, Laura Presgurvic, Isabelle Tanakil | Written and Directed by Patrick Ridremont
Continuing with my Christmas movie reviews for Nerdly, my latest piece comes from Shudder and the festively-titled Christmas horror The Advent Calendar.
Eva, an ex-dancer but now unable to walk and in a wheelchair, gets given an Advent Calendar from a friend. But each window that is opened triggers a real-life repercussion and she must follow a particular set of rules until she eventually has to make a choice that will change her life forever.
It is quite a strange movie. I was expecting a sort of odd anthology of 24 shorts linked with this one woman in a Saw-like way but that’s not what happens. There’s a much better thought out story to The Advent Calendar.
The best moments in The Advent Calendar...
Continuing with my Christmas movie reviews for Nerdly, my latest piece comes from Shudder and the festively-titled Christmas horror The Advent Calendar.
Eva, an ex-dancer but now unable to walk and in a wheelchair, gets given an Advent Calendar from a friend. But each window that is opened triggers a real-life repercussion and she must follow a particular set of rules until she eventually has to make a choice that will change her life forever.
It is quite a strange movie. I was expecting a sort of odd anthology of 24 shorts linked with this one woman in a Saw-like way but that’s not what happens. There’s a much better thought out story to The Advent Calendar.
The best moments in The Advent Calendar...
- 12/6/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Happy (almost) December, everyone! While the holidays may be underway, that doesn’t mean horror is taking a break, as we have a lot of great genre movies headed to VOD, Digital, and On Demand over the next few weeks. Things kick off tomorrow with The Last Matinee on Arrow (this writer enjoyed it immensely) and throughout December, films like Dune (2021), Antlers, and Halloween Kills (with extra footage) will be headed to the small screen along with a ton of indie horror, including Silent Night, The Advent Calendar, Agnes, Benedetta from Paul Verhoeven, and Red Snow. Also, Joe Bob and Darcy return to Shudder on December 17th for an all-new holiday special.
Happy Streaming and Happy Holidays!
The Last Matinee (Arrow) - Exclusively on Arrow December 1st
A cold, wet day. A declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there,...
Happy Streaming and Happy Holidays!
The Last Matinee (Arrow) - Exclusively on Arrow December 1st
A cold, wet day. A declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Filmmakers are slowly beginning to realize the importance of disability representation in film. Disability has long been portrayed as a source of fear and movies like A Quiet Place (2018), which cast a deaf actor as a deaf character, are finally starting to accurately depict disability and show that disabled folks are not monsters. This is too often the situation in horror movies centering around disabled characters. Unfortunately, sometimes the physical demands of a particular role make it impossible to cast a disabled actor. This is the case with The Advent Calendar, which had its World Premiere earlier this year at Frightfest and is coming to AMC Networks’ premium streaming service Shudder just in time for the holidays.
Written and directed by Belgian actor and filmmaker Patrick Ridremont (Dead Man Talking), The Advent Calendar follows Eva, played by Eugénie Derouand, a former dancer who is forced to use a wheelchair after a tragic accident.
Written and directed by Belgian actor and filmmaker Patrick Ridremont (Dead Man Talking), The Advent Calendar follows Eva, played by Eugénie Derouand, a former dancer who is forced to use a wheelchair after a tragic accident.
- 11/29/2021
- by Michelle Swope
- DailyDead
The Advent Calendar Trailer: "Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers and the supernatural will premiere writer/director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror fantasy The Advent Calendar exclusively on Thursday, December 9th. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror.
Eva, an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.
The Advent Calendar world premiered earlier this year at London’s Frightfest...
Eva, an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.
The Advent Calendar world premiered earlier this year at London’s Frightfest...
- 11/4/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Paris-based company Alba Films has acquired French distribution rights to Sabrina Van Tassel’s timely social justice documentary “The State of Texas vs. Melissa.”
The documentary premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and recently made its U.K. debut at the Raindance Film Festival where it won the best documentary award. FilmRise holds theatrical and digital rights to the film for North America, the U.K. and Ireland.
Set in the heart of the Latino community of South Texas, the film explores the life and trials of Melissa Lucio, the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death row in Texas, the state responsible for the most executions in America since 1976. Lucio, who was blamed for the abuse and subsequent death of her two-year-old daughter, has been on death row for 12 years.
Her conviction was recently overturned, but the State immediately appealed that ruling. Lucio is now awaiting the State’s appeal.
The documentary premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and recently made its U.K. debut at the Raindance Film Festival where it won the best documentary award. FilmRise holds theatrical and digital rights to the film for North America, the U.K. and Ireland.
Set in the heart of the Latino community of South Texas, the film explores the life and trials of Melissa Lucio, the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death row in Texas, the state responsible for the most executions in America since 1976. Lucio, who was blamed for the abuse and subsequent death of her two-year-old daughter, has been on death row for 12 years.
Her conviction was recently overturned, but the State immediately appealed that ruling. Lucio is now awaiting the State’s appeal.
- 11/27/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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