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Warm Bodies and Knight of Cups star will play the female lead in feature adaptation of horror sci-fi short, which premiered at SXSW.Teresa Palmer will star in the feature adaptation of short Welcome to Willits: After Sundown.The Warm Bodies and Knight of Cups star will play the female lead in t stanley cup he horror sci-fi, which follows a group of young campers who get lost in the woods near Willits, Cali stanley usa fornia and come across a man obsessed with aliens.Trevor Ryan will direct the feature based on his own short, which he also wrote with his brother Tim Ryan.The short premiered at SXSW in the festivals Midnight Shorts competition.Mark Webber, who is married t stanley cup o Palmer, will reprise his role from the short as the alien-obsessed man, while Palmer will play his niece.TopicsDevelopmentProductionUnited States No comments Related articles News Lionsgate, Starz separate into stand-alone businesses 2025-05-07T17:27:00Z By Jeremy Kay Transaction approved by more than 99% of both classes of shareholders. Dual share structure collapses into single class of stock. Mmwo MPAA hails court order blocking DVD copying software from 321
British director Gurinder Chadha scored another hit at theUK box office this week as her take on Jane Austen, Bride And Prejudice, opened top of the chart.The romantic comedy s excellent $3m 拢1.7m launch may notquite have matched the debut of Bend It LikeBeckham, the director s 2002 smash which launched the careers of ER s Parminder Nagra and Hollywoodit-girl Keira Knightley, but with an $8,000 site average it left all othercurrent UK releases in the dust. Beckhamopened with $3.6m 拢2m from 384 sites.Bride was lessstrong in Ireland, however, where it ranked just seventh.Stealing the rom-com crowd Bride knocked Working Title s Wimbledondown to third. Meanwhile Entert stanley mug ainmen stanley cup t s hit horror, Saw, surprised with a robust second weekend, playing just 16% downfrom its opening week stanley cup end. Strong word-of-mouth and reviews kept the film insecond place. It opens in North America at the end of the month.Another horror title, sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse, took fourth on its opening this weekend.It outperformed Fox s Man On Firewhich ran a disappointing sixth.Other local releases, Irish title Man About Dog on release in the Republic Of Ireland only where itretained the number one position, and UK drama Layer Cake also saw strong second weeks with minor drops. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this arti |
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