If you’re a screamer, FX’s ‘Grotesquerie’ wants to hear it
Ahead of the release of its creepy new serial killer series Grotesquerie, FX is conducting a symphony — of screams — and it wants you to participate.
The network had already popped up booths in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles, which let horror fans have their screams recorded, and now it’s opening up the creepy collection process to social media.
The network’s “call-to-scream” campaign can be found on Instagram and TikTok with #SymphonyOfScreams and #GrotesquerieFX, where you can get the chance to join in.
The harvested howls will be compiled into “a horrific work of art” composed by producer Blake Slatkin.
Starring Niecy Nash-Betts and Courtney B. Vance, Ryan Murphy‘s 10-episode Grotesquerie premieres Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. ET on FX and streams next day on Hulu.
Just ahead of the Oscar-nominated movie’s 25th anniversary, M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Sixth Sense is finally getting a 4K HD Digital release.
The Sixth Sense, which starred Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette, and Night’s acclaimed 2002 thriller Signs with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, will hit digital platforms for rent or purchase on Tuesday.
Both films are coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray disc on Oct. 22.
Both Sixth Sense and Signs‘ original negatives were scanned at 4K resolution and restored in High Dynamic Range, promising a quality of image not yet seen for either thriller.
Nominated for six Academy Awards, The Sixth Sense had Willis playing a therapist treating a young boy who purports to see dead people.
Signs had Gibson playing a widowed former preacher whose Pennsylvania farm becomes the focus of a creepy alien invasion.
An exclusive bundle, including both films and the filmmaker’s hit Unbreakable, which starred Willis along with Samuel L. Jackson, will also be available on Aug. 27 at digital retailers.
Following the first chapter of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon: An American Saga fizzling at the box office in June, its sequel will debut at the upcoming Venice Film Festival.
The organizers of the event will in fact screen both the first and second chapters on the final day of the fest, Sept. 7. The 81st annual event kicks off Aug. 28.
The second installmentwas originally envisioned as a four-film Western epic was initially supposed to hit theaters on Aug. 16, but the poor box office reception of the first, which debuted to just $11 million on June 28, caused Warner Bros. Discovery-owned New Line and Costner’s own Territory Pictures to pull the sequel from its release date.
The strategy was coupled with releasing the original film to video on demand and Max to give audiences a chance to see it and build potential interest in the second.
Costner gambled tens of millions of dollars of his own money to get the Horizon franchise started, but despite a high-profile premiere at Cannes in June, the first film earned mixed reviews.
Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Costner’s former Yellowstone co-star Danny Huston appear with the director and producer in the Horizon sequel, which has yet to secure a new release date.
Costner commented on the announcement, “My dream was always to show Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter Two at the Venice Film Festival. The fact that now they have decided to show Chapter One earlier in the day and then the World Premiere of Chapter Two that evening shows not only their belief in how the two films work together but their support of a director’s vision.”
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