Netflix nabs streaming rights to Iranian horror film “Under the Shadow” January 22, 2016 - 13:02 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Netflix has picked up the streaming rights to Iranian horror film “Under the Shadow”, which will premiere Friday, January 22 night at the Sundance Film Festival, Variety reports. The film written and directed by Babak Anvari is set in Iran in 1988 during the Iran-Iraq War, and follows Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her daughter Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) as they start to believe their home is haunted by “djinn,” an evil spirit. Lucan Toh, Oliver Roskill and Emily Leo of Wigwam Films produced the foreign film with dialogue spoken entirely in Farsi. “Under the Shadow” is set to debut on Netflix later this year after a theatrical run, but no other details of the release were available at this time. Netflix has already picked up the rights to Ellen Page‘s “Tallulah,” and Paul Rudd‘s “Fundamentals of Caring.” The streaming service’s other upcoming projects include “War Machine” with Brad Pitt and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” “Under the Shadow” will premiere on Friday as part of the “Midnight” section at the Egyptian Theatre. XYZ Films brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
