Watch the New Trailer for DEATH OF A UNICORN: “A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) by accident hit and kill a unicorn whereas en path to a weekend retreat, the place his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to use the creature’s miraculous healing properties.”
- Written & Directed by: Alex Scharfman
- Starring: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, and Richard E. Grant
In theaters March 28, 2025
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New Trailer: PAUSE from John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction: “What if time stopped for everybody however you? Would you keep within the nicest Manhattan penthouse, ignoring the frozen proprietor standing within the nook of the room? Would you eat on the most interesting eating places, their meals paused in time and nonetheless scorching on the plates? And in case you might unfreeze anybody with only a contact, would you? Or would you retain this newfound playground for your self? You could possibly stay anyplace. Take something. The world could be yours. Until, after all, you unpaused the incorrect individuals… “
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SXSW Hosts World Premiere of GOOD BOY: “In his characteristic directorial debut, filmmaker BEN LEONBERG directs his household pet by the efficiency of a lifetime, leading to a daunting, progressive paranormal thriller from a visionary new writer-director. Shot over a interval of three years and informed from the attitude of INDY—a loyal, on a regular basis canine thrust into extraordinary circumstances–and the one one who can see the forces that hang-out us, GOOD BOY has its world premiere on Saturday, March eighth, on the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin as a part of SXSW’s Midnighter part.
“Once we got down to make GOOD BOY, I needed to create a haunted home film from a completely new perspective,” mentioned Leonberg. “That meant inventing a brand new technique of filmmaking: one which allowed us to seize a singular canine efficiency with out the good thing about a hero who can converse. The whole story, bodily manufacturing, set items, and the entire sensible results are constructed round Indy’s on a regular basis behaviors, permitting us to create a film that’s concurrently entertaining, shifting, and terrifying; whereas nonetheless staying grounded in actuality. Regardless of the paranormal occasions and horrifying scares, GOOD BOY appears actual and feels relatable – what canine proprietor hasn’t questioned why their canine barks at ‘nothing’.”
Verve Ventures, Verve’s movie financing and gross sales division, has boarded GOOD BOY to characterize worldwide rights.
Amy Beecroft, Head of Verve Ventures: “GOOD BOY is a revolutionary supernatural thriller that redefines the haunted home style. Visceral and terrifying, this movie switches up the lens by which we view the acquainted supernatural thriller setting into an expertise in contrast to something audiences have seen earlier than. Ben completely blew us away along with his directorial debut!”
Leonberg is thought for guiding fantastical tales grounded in real-world settings, anchored by naturalistic performances and using sensible, usually hand-built results. He has a expertise for making the not possible sensible: for his quick movie Bears Uncover Hearth, based mostly on the Hugo-winning quick story by Terry Bisson, Ben helped assemble a one-of-a-kind photorealistic bear puppet. For GOOD BOY he spent over a 12 months filming essentially the most complicated ten minutes of the movie’s finale.
GOOD BOY was shot in a rustic dwelling outdoors of New York Metropolis, the place Leonberg and Kari Fischer, his spouse and the movie’s producer, moved with their canine, Indy. Based mostly on a screenplay by Leonberg and co-writer Alex Cannon, they tailored the pure setting of the house and the encircling terrain right into a creepy haunted home setting for Indy to discover.
Indy is a household canine (not an actor) and Leonberg needed to make use of that to his benefit. Drawing a practical “efficiency” from Indy required fixed invention, endurance, and planning: capitalizing on his pure curiosity, eliciting particular expressions with foolish noises, and constructing pictures round his every day schedule. All pictures with Indy have been captured on closed units with solely Leonberg and Fischer becoming a member of him in entrance of the digicam. This meant that the couple ended up standing in as most of the characters within the movie, however that Indy’s real affection for his individuals comes by in his “efficiency”.
“From casting our personal canine because the lead, to constructing rain machines within the yard and ready underneath beds for hours to get the proper shot; our limitations on set ended up turning into the movie’s best belongings,” mentioned Leonberg.
For his first characteristic, Leonberg additionally drew on his background working in immersive media to execute a number of the most complicated pictures—leveraging “compositing” strategies he perfected in VR to take away himself and Fischer from pictures the place they coached Indy whereas on digicam. Leonberg’s expertise as an Eagle Scout and rising up on his household’s landscaping enterprise straight contributed to a number of of the sensible results, constructing rain machines, and creating the spectral presence that haunts the movie.
When it got here time to recruit actors, Leonberg reached out to horror legends like Larry Fessenden (Blackout, Wicked, The Final Winter, Wendigo, and Behavior) and Stuart Rudin (Silence of the Lambs) to lend the movie some horror avenue cred, making it an ideal entry for this 12 months’s Midnighter part.
In GOOD BOY, our canine hero, Indy, finds himself on a brand new journey along with his human proprietor—and greatest pal—Todd, leaving metropolis life for a long-vacant household dwelling within the nation. From the beginning, two issues are abundantly clear: Indy is cautious of the creepy outdated home, and his affection for Todd is unwavering.
After shifting in, Indy is instantly vexed by empty corners, tracks an invisible presence solely he can see, perceives phantasmagoric warnings from a long-dead canine, and is haunted by visions of the earlier occupant’s grim demise. When Todd begins succumbing to the darkish forces swirling round the home, Indy should battle a malevolence intent on dragging his beloved Todd into the afterlife!
Following its world premiere on March eighth, at Alamo Lamar, SXSW attendees may also watch GOOD BOY at 11:45am on Monday, March 10, at Alamo Lamar, and at 11:45am on Friday, March 14, on the Hyatt Regency. “
