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Popular YouTuber Kane Parsons (The Backrooms: TV Series) makes his feature film debut with the highly-anticipated **BACKROOMS **starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Mark Duplass (The Morning Show: TV Series), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking: TV Series), Finn Bennett (Warfare) and Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap).
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TRIVIA:

• The Backrooms as a concept originated in a 4chan thread in 2019. The thread featured a single still image of empty yellow rooms and read: "If you're not careful and noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you."
• The production built around 30,000 square feet of Backrooms, which led to some crew members occasionally getting lost on set.
• The film maintains the aesthetic of the original viral short, which was created using Blender and After Effects.

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Action director Kenji Tanigaki (Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I & II) sets the screen ablaze with his brutal, kinetic style in the vein of “The Raid” series with the intense, no-holds-barred THE FURIOUS starring Miao Xie (The Monkey King), Joe Taslim (The Night Comes for Us), Yayan (Mad Dog) Ruhian (The Raid 1 & 2), JeeJa Yanin (Chocolate), Brian Le (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Joey Iwanaga (Alice in Boderland) and Sahajak Boonthanakit (Only God Forgives).
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TRIVIA:

• A major, centerpiece action scene in a police station took 18 days to film, according to director Kenji Tanigaki.
• Filmed in roughly 60 days, the movie was edited down from a four-hour cut to a tight 1 hour and 52 minutes.
• Known for its brutal, non-stop action, the film utilized a high percentage of stunts performed by the actors themselves rather than stunt doubles.

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PLOT: Following the kidnapping of his daughter and a lack of help from corrupt police, tradesman Wang Wei (Miao) teams up with a relentless journalist (Taslim) to tear through an international human trafficking ring in a visceral, action-packed rampage. - Instagram

Iconic writer/director/actor Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight) marks his feature film directorial debut with one of the greatest films ever created in CITIZEN KANE 4K restoration starring Orson Welles (Othello), Dorothy Comingore (Any Number Can Play), Joseph Cotten (Airport 77), Agnes Moorehead (Bewitched: TV Series), William Alland (The Lady from Shanghai) and Ray Collins (Touch of Evil).
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TRIVIA:

• Throughout production Orson Welles had problems with various film executives not respecting his contract's stipulation of non-interference and several spies arrived on set to report what they saw to the executives. When the executives would sometimes arrive on set unannounced the entire cast and crew would suddenly start playing softball until they left.
• The camera looks up at Charles Foster Kane and his best friend Jedediah Leland and down at weaker characters like Susan Alexander Kane. This was a technique that Orson Welles borrowed from John Ford who had used it two years previously on Stagecoach (1939). Welles privately watched the movie about forty times while making this film.
• Orson Welles usually worked 16 to 18 hours a day on the film. He often began work at 4 a.m. since the special effects make-up used to age him for certain scenes took up to four hours to apply. Welles used this time to discuss the day's shooting with renowned Cinematographer Gregg Toland and other crew members.

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PLOT: Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.' - IMDb

James Watkins (Eden Lake) creates a complex tale of revenge and body horror with CLAYFACE starring Tom Rhys Harries (The Gentlemen), Eddie Marsan (All the Devil Are Here), Max Minghella (Spiral), Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), Nancy Carroll (Father Brown: TV Series) and David Dencik (No Time to Die).
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TRIVIA:

• Mike Flanagan said the film takes inspiration from Batman: The Animated Series (1992) episodes Feat of Clay: Part I (1992) and Feat of Clay: Part II (1992) which also told the origin of Matt Hagen's Clayface.
• Producer James Gunn describe this movie as a comic book film version of The Substance (2024).
• The filmmakers were inspired by The Fly (1986) and the animation style of Will Vinton to make this movie.

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PLOT: Rising Hollywood star Matt Hagen descends into a horrifying revenge-filled monster when scientific ambition strips him of his identity and humanity. - IMDb