Cape Fear is coming to Montreal.
Fantasia, North America’s biggest genre film festival, on Thursday will announce a world premiere for the final episode of the new Apple TV series created by Nick Antosca and starring Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson and Javier Bardem. The psychological thriller executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg will debut on the streamer on June 5 and run through to July 31.
Antosca and a special guest will attend a first look screening at Fantasia for the epic conclusion to the reimagining of Gregory Peck’s 1962 film from Universal, originally based on the novel The Executioners, and the 1991 remake from Martin Scorsese that starred Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis.
As Fantasia unveiled its second wave of movie titles for its 30th edition in Montreal to run July 16 through August 2, the festival also booked a world premiere in the Cheval Noir competition for Corrin Evans’ feature directorial debut Corpus. The film was co-written by and stars Lily Cowles and Euphoria’s Jeff Wahlberg, the nephew of Mark Wahlberg.
Fantasia also has first looks for the Thai action-fantasy flick God Skin, from director Paween Purijitpanya, where the muay thai martial arts moves into a dark, dystopian techno-thriller territory; Craig Mitchell’s Los Vampires, a fictionalized dueling draculas account of of George Melford making by night in 1931 the Spanish-language version of Dracula on the same soundstage during the day where the Universal horror classic with Bela Lugosi was shot; Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Someone’s Daughter, starring Pascale Bussières and François Arnaud; and the anime feature Cherry and Virgin, director Masanao Kawajiri’s romantic dramedy.
Fantasia also booked world premieres for The Glorious Dead, which stars Zelda Adams and Lulu Adams and comes from joint writers and directors John Adams and Toby Poser, who also stars as a small town sheriff; Big Break, a cringecore comedy starring the New York City-based sketch comedy troupe Simple Town that includes director Ian Faria; and Nicky Murphy’s mockumentary-style vampire tale I Love Paris.
Cherry and Virgin
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Los Vampires
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There’s also international premieres for Penny Lane is Dead, the feature debut from writer and director Mia’Kate Russell that bowed in Adelaide; director Eiji Uchida’s flick Tokyo Burst: Crime City; Kentaro Hagiwara’s Wind Breaker, which adapts Satoru Nii’s epic manga tale; Minos Papas’ Motherwitch, starring Margarita Zachariou; Writer/director Julien Birban Levy’s feature debut Niko, set in a dystopian Seoul, Korea; and Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s The Origin of Ultraman from Tsuburaya Productions.
Fantasia also has North American premieres for the Vietnamese war film Tunnels: Sun in the Dark, from writer/director Bui Thac Chuyen; the Berlin title Nightborn from director Hanna Bergholm; Kyrgyz director Amanbek Azhymat’s debut feature Backstage Madness; and Hideo Jojo’s Nameless, with Sato in the lead role.
