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It took 118 days of marching and negotiating for the actors’ union to reach a tentative deal with the Hollywood Studios Wednesday evening. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) leadership and negotiating committee voted unanimously to approve the tentative agreement with the Association of Motion Picture and Televisionn Producers (AMPTP), suspending the strike and allowing actors to return to work and productions to ramp up in full force.

It was an emotional moment for members of the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee Wednesday. At a celebration at All...

This is Day 92 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

At the first actors to picket after Wednesday night’s breakdown of their talks with the studios and streamers, SAG-AFTRA members in New York City said that they were disappointed by the setback but “holding strong” to their demands.

Striking actors who gathered Thursday outside Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery offices also cheered the announcement of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate to protect them from artificial intelligence.

Writers joining them on the picket line after ratifying their own contract this week urged the actors to stay strong.

“It’s tactics,” The Wire creator David Simon told Deadline, speaking of the studios’ decision to suspend the talks and criticize SAG-AFTRA for demanding a share of studio profits. “They say you can’t have something and you’ll never get something, and ‘DGA settled for this and you don’t understand our industry.

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes first details on a new Tromafist web series, DEADicated: The Film, and CarousHELL, a trailer for the films Apocalypse and The Jersey Devil, release details and photos from Aftermath, and much more:

Tromafist Web Series Details: “Troma Entertainment and the NY sketch comedy collective Murderfist are proud to announce the production of a new webseries Tromafist.

Combining forces to create the most trom-azing, crazy, screwed up show the internet has ever seen.

Coming fall 2014.”

For more information on this series, or to see past sketches, go to: www.murderfist.com and www.troma.com

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Aftermath Photos Released: “William is a scientist who believes he’s found the cure to cancer. But when his research is corrupted in an effort to contaminate a large portion of the population, people begin turning into cannibalistic monsters.

For today's Indie Beat, we have the first trailer for the upcoming comedy film, The Jersey Devil. The new trailer divulges details on the plot of the film, which sees Lucifer replaced on the throne in Hell, and the new guy looking to relocate the depths of Hades to none other than New Jersey. Come inside to check out the new trailer and learn more!

Here at Cinelinx we like to talk about all aspects of filmmaking and movie news. To that end, we have Indie Beat where we highlight some of the latest news, trailers, and PR releases from the indie filmmaker scene. So if you're an independent filmmaker and want some coverage on our site, be sure to drop us a line at [email protected] .

Humanity Pride Productions, Green Light Films and Diamond Jesus Productions released the official trailer for the new comedy film, The Jersey Devil today.

The past few days hase seen my inbox fill up with all sorts of Indie Beat stories and that's a great thing! So today, I've rounded them all up into one convenient spot for you to enjoy. So come inside to check out some movie trailers, posters, release dates, and more from the world of independent film!

Here at Cinelinx we like to talk about all aspects of filmmaking and movie news. To that end, we have Indie Beat where we highlight some of the latest news, trailers, and PR releases from the indie filmmaker scene. So if you're an independent filmmaker and want some coverage on our site, be sure to drop us a line at [email protected] .

* The first official trailer for the Danish zombie apocalypse movie, Escaping the Dead, has been released.

The film has its starting point in a typical day for the lead character,...

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s massive feature includes a review for Nobody Can Cool, first details on The Night Crew, Heir, and a Doctor Who documentary called Who’s Changing: An Adventure In Time With Fans, a new clip from Muck, trailers for Blood Shed, NightBeasts, and Virginia Obscura, and much more:

[Editor's Note: We want to give a big thanks to our Indie Spotlight manager, Tamika Jones, for her constant work on this weekly feature and putting together our largest Indie Spotlight to date this weekend!]

Indie Spotlight Review: Nobody Can Cool

by Heather Wixson

Nobody Can Cool is the rather impressive directorial debut from up-and-coming filmmaking duo Dpyx, Marcy Boyle and Rachel Holzman, who crafted a blisteringly taut and thoughtful indie crime thriller with a palpable sense of tension from start to finish. A gritty and engaging tale of deceit, violence and desperation, Nobody Can Cool is anchored by a breakout performance by Nick Principe (best known from his work in the Laid to Rest series, Madison County and...

The hellish underworld gets a bold new look courtesy of The Jersey Devil, which begins shooting in New Jersey (where else?!) next month. Dig your claws into all the info, courtesy of Humanity Pride Productions, Green Light Films and Diamond Jesus Productions!

From the Press Release

The Jersey Devil stars veteran actors Chris Mulkey (“Captain Phillips”, “Boardwalk Empire”,”Cloverfield”), David Chokachi (“Baywatch”), Jack Mulcahy (“The Brothers McMullen”,”Porky’s”) as well as Award Winning Actor Keith Collins (“The Meat Puppet”,”Gravedigger”), Award Winning Actress Penelope Lagos (“Stuck in the Middle”) and Joe Sernio (“All My Children”).

When his term limit comes up, Lucifer, the original Devil, must turn the reigns of Hell over to James Burnett. But Burnett has new plans for Hell that includes changing its’ image and relocation. He enlists his Advocate, Richard Cooper and his beautiful sidekick Tori to find a new home for the damned. After an extensive search,...

It seems lately that actor/director Edward Burns just can’t shake the familiar feeling of his home, but for good reason. With his Catholic-family-from-Long-Island holiday film already underway, Burns is currently planning a sequel to his 1995 hit The Brothers McMullen.

Burns, who’s seen success in front of the camera in Saving Private Ryan and his latest film, Newlyweds, told IAmRogue (via Movies.com) that he’s “started to outline the sequel to McMullen.” He said that the “twentieth anniversary will be in 2015, so my goal is to shoot it at the end of next year to have it ready in time.” He also stated that he was “inspired by what Kevin Smith did with Clerks.” (Clerks II, presumably.)

For those unfamiliar with the original — it told the story of three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island, who struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity. Burns, Michael McGlone...

They might have called it "Revenge of the Nerd".

Out to right humiliating wrongs committed against him by his classmates, a jerky salesman turns his 18-year high school reunion into a hostage-taking situation in "The Reunion".

Billed as an erotic psychodrama but failing on both counts, the indie effort is a clunky bore of an ordeal that plays like an awkward adaptation of a bad play.

Fortunately, it's a reunion that will prove extremely short-lived.

Timothy Devlin plays Louis Witkowsky, the vengeance-taker in question, a highly insecure district sales manager determined to show up all those guys who threw him naked out of the locker room all those years ago.

Despite constant pleading from his wife (Leila Sbatini) to not make a complete fool of himself, his obnoxious attempts to one-up school jocks Hal (Jack Mulcahy) and Joel Patrick Ferraro) fail miserably. That leaves him no choice but to hold them and their trophy wives hostage (in the locker room, of course), along with his wife, his vertically challenged high school buddy Standard (Kristopher Medina) and an all-knowing janitor (Edouard De Soto) and engage in a twisted game of reverse humiliation.

Naturally there are deeply rooted psychological side effects at work here, in which facades are systematically stripped away, leaving a roomful of miserable poseurs who eventually are allowed to leave (sans clothing), but only after our hero has raped their wives. He then takes his own life.

One wishes he had simply cut to the chase. Despite attempts by the cast to make the torment bearable, it's just not humanly possible to overcome the tawdry, pretentious, nonsensical script penned by producer Paul Corvino.

Among the film's various logistics problems, while it is established that the police have arrived minutes after the hostage-taking transpires (as indicated by the constantly flashing red light reflected on one of the locker room walls), the police do not attempt to make contact with Louis until much later in the film. Perhaps they made an extended pit stop at the punch bowl.

The cause isn't helped by Larry Eudene's directing, which appears to be modeled after those "Twilight Zone" episodes featuring a group of people confined in one place, but lacking in crucial dramatic tension and a plausible denouement.

THE REUNION

Good Medicine Films

Asylum Pictures and Esquire Films

in association with Paul Corvino

present a Larry Eudene film

Producers:Tischa Gomez, Paul Corvino

Director:Larry Eudene

Screenwriter:Paul Corvino

Director of photography:Pat Capone

Editor:Robert Fitzgerald

Production designer:Zeljka Pavlinovic

Costumes:Deirdra Govan

Music:Kirsten Vogelsang

Color/stereo

Cast:

Louis:Timothy Devlin

Ashley:Leila Sbatini

Joel:Patrick Ferraro

Standard:Kristopher Medina

Caroline:Mimi Langeland

Felica:Elizabeth P. McKay

Hal:Jack Mulcahy

Santiago:Edouard De Soto

Running time -- 85 minutes

No MPAA rating...