Every year Tex hits up the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas to find the latest little horror gem for you guys. This past March both Tex and David Harley came back screaming bloody murder about Gregg Bishop's Dance of the Dead (reviews) - and thanks to Ghost House Underground, Lionsgate and Grindstone you'll be seeing it this fall! Read on for the skinny.
GHOST HOUSE UNDERGROUND ACQUIRES HORROR COMEDY "DANCE OF THE DEAD" FROM BLEIBERG ENTERTAINMENT’S COMPOUND B
Ghost House Underground has acquired “Dance of the Dead,” directed by Gregg Bishop, which made its international debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin earlier this year. Written by Joe Ballarini and produced by Bishop and Ehud Bleiberg through Bleiberg Entertainment’s Compound B label, the film is to be distributed by Lionsgate in North America this fall as part of Ghost House Underground’s inaugural October Horror slate.
“Dance of the Dead” is the hilarious, blood-drenched adventure of several high school students from different social cliques banding together to save their town from the living dead. Reviews have compared the film to the works of both John Carpenter and John Hughes.
"Between Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert at Ghost House, the experience of Barry & Stan at Grindstone, and Lionsgate, who is the king of genre marketing and distribution... 'Dance of the Dead' has found the perfect home,” Bishop said. “I am thrilled to be working with them both and I know they will do a fantastic job bringing the movie to audiences everywhere."
The deal was brokered by Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb of Ghost House Underground and Roman Kopelevich and Shannon Banal for Bleiberg Entertainment’s Compound B. Ghost House Underground also holds rights in the UK, Australia and New Zealand while Bleiberg Entertainment retains the remaining worldwide rights. The film will have its market premiere screening in Cannes.
Ghost House Underground is the new partnership between Ghost House Pictures and Grindstone Entertainment Group dedicated to acquiring quality horror pictures from up-and-coming filmmakers with original voices from around the world. The new film acquisitions company teams Grindstone, the largest distributor of direct-to-video films, with the successful horror genre company led by filmmaker Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, the Spider-Man franchise), Rob Tapert (30 Days of Night, The Grudge films), and Mandate Pictures' president Nathan Kahane. rindstone to releas
When October 14th comes, I'll be at home watching this! Woo Hoo! Not long now!
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Ghost House Underground has acquired “Dance of the Dead,” directed by Gregg Bishop, which made its international debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin earlier this year. Written by Joe Ballarini and produced by Bishop and Ehud Bleiberg through Bleiberg Entertainment’s Compound B label, the film is to be distributed by Lionsgate in North America this fall as part of Ghost House Underground’s inaugural October Horror slate. 
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