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Plans are in the works to launch a new documentary film festival in Washington, D.C. in June 2023, with a launch event to take place later this month.

Saw XI, the 11th entry in the gory horror franchise.Lionsgate, the studio behind the films, made the surprise announcement on Monday (December 11) via an Instagram post that read: “The game continues”.The post also featured a series of roman numerals, which spell out the film’s official release date of September 27, 2024. No further information about the film have been shared.The quick turnarounds were a regular feature of the franchise’s early instalments, with films commonly being released in consecutive years.The tenth instalment in the Saw franchise, Saw X, was only released in September.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Just in time for Halloween, the new “Saw” movie is available to stream online. The tenth installment in the “Saw” film franchise may have just been released in theaters, but the horror film is positioned to find a larger audience, now that it’s available to stream from home.

Saw and Carrie.In a thread started by Redditor Chocolate-lord69420 on the “horror” subreddit, fans were asked to name the movie with the most distressing ending sequence or shot.“For me it’s the ending of Saint Maud,” the original post read. “I don’t know why that did so much to me but… I’m pretty new to the genre.”The thread has since received over 1,400 comments, with other films listed including 2000’s Requiem For A Dream directed by Darren Aronofsky and James Wan’s Saw.“I am super obsessed with this franchise but nothing beats the first movie,” a commenter wrote regarding 2004’s Saw.

William Earl The gruesome “Saw” franchise has grossed more than $1 billion at the global box office — but the original 2004 horror film was destined to be a direct-to-video curio. That is, until a pair of rollicking test screenings saved it. “The first one we did in Camarillo [Calif.] and it scored so well that Lionsgate was convinced that we padded the audience,” franchise producer Oren Koules remembers.

Saw X is hitting theaters at the end of September, and fans are already curious about the fate of the long-running horror franchise.

Jigsaw is back!

Jigsaw is back in the terrifying new trailer for “Saw X”.

Saw franchise, is back for Saw X.Lionsgate Films has released the first trailer for the highly anticipated tenth entry in the Saw franchise, which is shaped around the return of Tobin Bell’s iconic portrayal of John Kramer between Saw and Saw 3 films.Watch the intense and unnerving trailer for Saw X above.Saw X will be set in between the events of Saw and Saw 2, and tells the story of Kramer’s quest for revenge against the doctors who pretended to cure of him cancer, leading to his eventual death in Saw 3.An official synopsis of the film reads: “a sick and desperate John travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer – only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. The infamous killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps”.Besides Tobin Bell’s John Kramer/Jigsaw, Saw X will also see the return of series veteran Shawnee Smith, who plays Amanda Young, Kramer’s protege.

McKinley Franklin editor Jigsaw lives! So do all of his deadly puzzle traps in the first official trailer for “Saw X.” Lionsgate pulled the curtain back on the new installment in the horror series at Midsummer Screen Festival on Saturday evening. While the plot for the 10th entry in the “Saw” franchise has been kept under wraps, the project has long teased the return of Tobin Bell as the series killer kidnapper Jigsaw.

McKinley Franklin editor Olivia Macklin and Dylan McTee are set to lead Paul Etheredge’s paranormal parenting thriller “Psychopomp” alongside Shawnee Smith, Avangeline Friedlander and Lily D. Moore. The horror will spotlight Macklin and McTee as a couple who foster a “mute orphan” (portrayed by Friedlander).

Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise), Shawnee Smith (Saw franchise), and Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) have signed on to horror film, The Skulleton.

EXCLUSIVE: Renata Vaca (Midnight Family), Paulette Hernandez (Crown of Tears), Joshua Okamoto (VGLY) and Octavio Hinojosa (How to Survive Being Single) are the newest additions to the cast of the tenth Saw film from Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures. 

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Saw cast member Shawnee Smith is circling the newest installment in the billion-dollar horror franchise from Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures, which is currently in production in Mexico City, Deadline hears. 

A Kansas woman accused of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend two decades ago has been released on bond after a judge reduced the amount to $350,000 from $1 million last month. Dana Chandler, 62, was charged with two counts of murder in the July 2002 Colorado shooting deaths of Mike Sisco, 47, and Karen Harkness, 53, at their home in Topeka.

EXCLUSIVE: Key programming continues for the 20th annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF) taking place August 5th – 13th.

Style Archive: a series in which we celebrate the stars of the past that made menswear what it is today. This week: Brad Pitt's leather fixation. January 4th 1988.

This was one of the grossest crimes we’ve ever reported on. And we’re glad to say it ended in a guilty verdict.

The Princess Bride and the Saw franchise, shared a picture on Instagram (April 25) thanking staff at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after sustaining the injury over the weekend.In the post, showing his injured finger and referring to The Princess Bride, Elwes wrote: “Bit not by a ROUS but a rattlesnake.“Grateful to the staff of Malibu Urgent Care, LA County Fire Dept. and the staff and medical professionals at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for their great care.

Brad Pitt is filing a lawsuit against Angelina Jolie over a business transaction she conducted involving Chateau Miraval, the Correns, France winery they had purchased as a couple, of which she subsequently sold her share to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler. The 58-year-old actor, in legal docs reviewed by TMZ, is asking the court to reverse a pact Jolie, 46, made that delivered her share to Stoli Group subsidiary Tenute del Mondo, which is ran by Shefler, and award him damages in connection with the transaction. The Shawnee, Oklahoma-born actor said in court docs that he and Jolie initially purchased the winery in 2008 for $28.

Over the past several months, school districts and libraries around the country have been grappling with increased pressure from parents over what knowledge students have access. Many of these battles have sparked around books that center on sexuality, gender identity, and race. One that’s gotten attention over its honest and real telling is “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson.

Lisa Kennedy The tried and true way to break viewers’ hearts is to make them care deeply. “Aftershock” wastes no time in doing just that. Filmmaking duo Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee begin their emotionally resonant, statistically chilling documentary about the dramatically increased numbers of maternal death and morbidity among Black women in the U.S.

It was 2017 when filmmaker Paula Eiselt started seeing articles about rising maternal mortality rates in the United States. She’d had traumatic experiences giving birth to her four children, but didn’t realize that the problems were widespread and disproportionately affecting Black women.Tonya Lewis Lee, in her travels and conversations promoting infant mortality awareness, had also begun hearing stories about people's sisters, friends and cousins who had died after childbirth.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterExpanding Los Angeles-based distributor Safier Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to the comedic holiday feature “Christmas Vs. the Walters” out of the Cannes Film Market.The ensemble film is led by Oscar nominee Bruce Dern, “30 Rock” regular and “Oz” actor Dean Winters, “Saw” franchise star Shawnee Smith and Emmy-winning “Schitt’s Creek” star Chris Elliott.Promised a wide theatrical release on Nov.

Slate, compared the university’s policy on preferred pronouns to compelling a Jewish professor to call a student ‘my Fuhrer’ — adopted the view that the professor’s right to express his personal feelings about gender supersede the university’s attempt to prevent discrimination or the right of a transgender student to not be outed, misgendered, or demeaned in class because of her gender identity. “Traditionally, American universities have been beacons of intellectual diversity and academic

Shawnee Smith (the Saw franchise), Dean Winters (30 Rock), Emmy winning actor Chris Elliott, and Oscar nominee Bruce Dern are set to star in Christmas vs The Walters, an indie holiday comedy from JARS Media Group, Sparkd Films, and Novakovic Brothers Films. Caroline Aaron (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Betsy Beutler (Last Call and Scrubs), Paris Bravo (Bad Therapy), Nate Torrence (She’s Out Of My League), Jack McGee (Moneyball), and Emmy winner Richard Thomas will also lead the ensemble cast.

Philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether is continuing his legal fight against Shawnee State University, arguing that the school's insistence that he refer to a student by their preferred pronouns violates his First Amendment rights.  The case was heard Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit after it was dismissed by a judge earlier this year.  According to the lawsuit, on the first day of Meriwether's political philosophy class, in January 2018, he answered a student's

Clark Memorial Library on Shawnee State University’s campus – Photo: spongefan, via Wikimedia.