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Relativity to Release ‘The Dark Fields’ Via Overture
Interesting news this afternoon as Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media will be using Overture Films’ distribution and marketing operation to release The Dark Fields, instead of the previously announced Universal Pictures. “Dark Fields,” directed by Neil Burger, stars Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Banks and Bradley Cooper and will now open March 18, 2011. The story follows a down-and-out writer (Cooper) who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes one smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including “trip-switching,” a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality. Before long, mysterious antagonists are pursuing him. The thriller is said to be in the vein of Fight Club and The Game.
It was back in the Summer of 2025 that the Jason Universe partnered up with Angry Orchard Hard Cider to launch the the 13-minute short film Sweet Revenge, the first official Jason Voorhees film project since the Friday the 13th remake way back in 2009. But it wasn’t long after the promotion ended that Sweet Revenge was pulled from YouTube entirely.
If you missed it or you’ve been hungry to watch it again, you’ll be happy to know that Sweet Revenge is now once again streaming in its entirety on the Jason Universe YouTube channel!
What is Sweet Revenge, you ask? It was described as a “vignette” by the team but it’s really a full-on short film that served to introduce the new Jason Universe branding as well as the fresh new redesign for the Jason Voorhees character. It was also part of a larger partnership between Jason Universe and Angry Orchard Hard Cider, with special Jason Universe-branded Angry Orchard beverages and 12-packs being released in stores last Halloween season.
Actor and stuntman Schuyler White wears the iconic hockey mask in Sweet Revenge, which comes courtesy of director Mike P. Nelson’s (Silent Night, Deadly Night).
We wrote in our review of Sweet Revenge last summer, “Sweet Revenge is a promising step in the right direction that should restore any lost faith in the franchise. Beyond tiding viewers over until Peacock’s Crystal Lake prequel series, the vignette begs for expansion.”
Our review continued, “Presented as something of an urban legend, with the area’s troubled past alluded to without any specifics, Jason is played with urgency by stunt coordinator Schuyler White. This version of Jason harkens back to his early appearances as a lean killing machine rather than a hulking, undead monster.”
Watch Sweet Revenge below and expect more from “Crystal Lake” real soon.
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