“Stage Fright” Red Band Trailer — Off-beat Musical Horror Comedy starring Meat Loaf and Minnie Driver

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added: Wed, Mar 5th '14

Finally, a musical horror comedy that everyone can get behind, unless you're one of the few who believe it's "wrong to sing and dance when someone has just died." Grammy-winning performer Meat Loaf and Oscar-nominated thespian Minnie Driver star in this blood-spewing satire about a pretentious musical theatre camp for kids, the Phantom of the Opera-esque show they're trying to set-up, and the mysterious kabuki-masked killer who's preventing them to do so.

Slated to premiere next week at SXSW, "Stage Fright," which marks the feature debut of writer-director Jerome Sable, has been recently acquired by Magnet Releasing and will be available on iTunes/VOD on April 3th and in theaters on May 9th. Until then, check out the film's outrageous red band trailer, above.

synopsis:
Starry-eyed teenager Camilla Swanson wants to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a Broadway diva, but she's stuck working in the kitchen of a snobby performing arts camp. Determined to change her destiny, she sneaks in to audition for the summer showcase and lands a lead role in the play, but just as rehearsals begin, blood starts to spill, and Camilla soon finds herself terrified by the horror of musical theatre.

directed by   Jerome Sable

starring   Meat Loaf, Minnie Driver, Allie MacDonald, Douglas Smith

release date   April 3, 2014 (iTunes/VOD), May 9, 2014 (In Theaters)

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“Annie” Trailer — Upcoming Musical Remake starring Quvenzhane Wallis and Jamie Foxx

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added: Wed, Mar 5th '14

It's a hard knock life for ten-year-old wunderkind Quvenzhane Wallis. And no, we're not talking about her Oscar-nominated performance in 2012's "Beasts of the Southern Wild," but her latest starring role in the updated feature version of the classic Broadway musical "Annie." And you can now get a peek at Wallis as the titular orphan girl in the debut trailer for the heartfelt redo that also stars Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale.

Produced by Will Smith and directed by Will Gluck (Easy A, Friends with Benefits), the upcoming film sees Foxx as a variation of the Daddy Warbucks character, named Will Stacks. He's a wealthy New York mayoral candidate who opens up his luxurious home to Annie, after a chance encounter. And while his generosity is a calculated attempt to get in the good graces of the voters, slowly and surely his frigid heart starts to warm up -- perhaps to a point where he actually sees himself as her possible legal guardian. Well, that's until her real parents are found.

The sun will come out tomorrow. However, "Annie" won't come out until December 19th.

synopsis:
Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhane Wallis stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it’s been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) -- advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) -- makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.

directed by   Will Gluck

starring   Quvenzhane Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale

release date   December 19, 2014

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“Muppets Most Wanted” New Musical Trailer — starring Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey

Now that "Everything Is Awesome!" is finally fading from your memory banks, here comes The Muppets with a new musical trailer to remind moviegoers that they are "Doing a Sequel," and that its gonna once again be filled with super star cameos singing and dancing along with their favorite foamy characters.

"Muppets Most Wanted" co-stars Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, and Tina Fey along with cameos by Christoph Waltz, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Liotta, Salma Hayek, Stanley Tucci, Sean Combs, and Danny Trejo. "The Muppets" arrives in theaters on March 21st.

synopsis:
Disney's "Muppets Most Wanted" takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europe's most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine -- the World's Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit -- and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais. The film stars Tina Fey as Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Ty Burrell as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon.

directed by   James Bobin

starring   Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey, Christoph Waltz, Tom Hiddleston, Debby Ryan, Ray Liotta, Danny Trejo, Usher Raymond, Sean Combs

release date   March 21, 2014

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‘Stage Fright’ Trailer Immediately Moves This Musical Slasher to the Top of Our SXSW Must-See List

One of the best aspects of SXSW is its dedication to the finding exciting titles for its Midnighters section. These are the genre movies, usually horror, frequently violent, and almost always a refreshing change of pace from the usual festival film.

This year looks to be no different with a particularly stellar-looking lineup of ten films from around the world. They also offer up a fine mix of genre veterans, including Daniel Stamm, Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo, Eduardo Sanchez, and Adam Wingard, and newcomers hoping to make a splash with festival goers.

One of the newcomers is writer/director Jerome Sable who’s making his feature debut with the slasher/comedy/musical, Stage Fright. It’s a cross-genre mashup, but while horror comedies too frequently skimp on the red stuff Sable’s film gleefully promises otherwise.

Check out the gloriously bloody and tantalizingly funny trailer for Stage Fright below.

In case you’re wondering, in case you noticed a particular actor and thought to yourself, wait a minute, isn’t that… yes. Yes it is Minnie Driver. She and Meat Loaf co-star in this fun-looking mix of Friday the 13th, Scream, and Glee, and the result seems pretty damn promising. The official synopsis is below, and while concise it gets across everything it needs to get me in a seat on opening night.

“A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.”

Bam. Add in a morbidly dark sense of humor, and it looks like we have the makings of a blood-drenched winner. The trailer goes heavier on the gore than the singing or jokes, but it’s unclear if the film follows suit with that share of the screentime. Happily, what little we see of the laughs and musical numbers lands perfectly. “Isn’t it wrong to sing and dance when someone just died?” Love it.

Interestingly, while the title is fantastic it’s not the first slasher film to latch on to it. Alfred Hitchcock most famously used it for a 1950 thriller about suspense and murder amid a gaggle of actors, and international horror fans will recognize it from Michael Soavi’s 1987 debut featuring a killer wearing a giant owl head. Both films are worth seeing if you haven’t already, but if you’re jonesing for one more Stage Fright thriller and aren’t that concerned with quality, there’s an Australian slasher (also known as Nightmares) from 1980 floating around too.

Stage Fright will premiere at this year’s SXSW, and Magnet will open it in theaters on May 9, 2014.

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