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Bloody Disgusting Selects: FREE Los Angeles ‘Cold Fish’ Screening w/ Sion Sono in Person!!!
Those of you living in the Los Angeles area are not going to want to miss this super rare event…
Bloody Disgusting Selects is holding a very special FREE screening of Cold Fish with Japanese director Sion Sono flying in to mix it up with his fans!! The UNRATED presentation begins at 8PM next Friday, June 10 at the Cinefamily Silent Movie Theatre (611 North Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036). Tickets are 100% FREE! To get on the list all you have to do is RSVP at this location. Make sure you get their early as seats are on a first come first serve basis.
Cold Fish is a must-see, guaranteed good time. I caught the film last September at TIFF and was blown away (read my review). We’ll have a theatrical announcement coming in the next week – stay tuned because we’ll be releasing it UNRATED! Check out the official poster inside.
“When Shamotoʼs teenage daughter was caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man helps to resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Shamotoʼs daughter work at their fish store. Shamoto soon discovers the horrific truth of the seemingly perfect couple…who force him to get his hands dirty in their brutal business. Inspired by a true events, COLD FISH is a bloodcurdling suspense drama that unveils the underlying insanity of an ordinary man.”
Fans of Sono can also enjoy three of his other flicks – Hair Extensions, Love Exposure and Niroto’s Dinner Table – all playing June 10-11 at the Cinefamily (Calendar).
Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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