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  • Shirley MacLaine to receive AFI honour

    Shirley MacLaine to receive AFI honour

    MUMBAI: The American Film Institute (AFI) has selected Shirley MacLaine to receive its highest honour, the AFI Life Achievement Award that will be presented to her at a gala tribute on 7 June, next year, in Los Angeles.


    Said AFI’s board of trustees chairman Howard Stringer, “Shirley MacLaine is a powerhouse of personality that has illuminated screens large and small across six decades.


    From ingénue to screen legend, Shirley has entertained a global audience through song, dance, laughter and tears, and her career as writer, director and producer is even further evidence of her passion for the art form and her seemingly boundless talents.”


    An Oscar winner in 1984 as best actress for her performance in Terms of Endearment, MacLaine made her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry in 1955. During the course of her career, she has earned six Academy Award nominations, six Emmy noms and seven Golden Globe Awards.
    Synapse Films recently released brand-new remastered Blu-ray releases of James Glickenhaus’ The Exterminator, William Lustig’s Manic Cop, and Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker with Tarantino-producer Lawrence Bender’s Intruder releasing this December.


    Her latest film, Bernie had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June.

  • Synapse Films laps up rights of 3 Horror films

    Synapse Films laps up rights of 3 Horror films

     MUMBAI; Synapse Films has picked up the rights of three terrifying feature films by celebrated Fantastic Fest and SXSW filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano, the Argentine director of festival favorite Cold Sweat and the upcoming Penumbra taken by IFC Midnight.


    In Rooms For Tourists a busload of girls fall prey to a town of terror… what connects the victims? The young filmmaker of Watch’em Die takes a job that leads to horror. Four young girls stop to help a woman in the street and it leads to rape horror and death in the breath-stopping I Will Not Die Alone.


    “I am a huge fan of Adrian’s films and have seen every single one. I feel that he may be the most talented new filmmaker I have come across,” says Synapse head Jerry Chandler.


    “He is a master of making the most of miniscule budgets and his attention to detail is unmatched. I was hooked when I first saw Rooms For Tourists —-the atmospheric dread is palpable early on. I Will Not Die Alone is somewhat similar to I Spit On Your Grave, only it’s a great movie! And Watch’em Die is much more fun to watch than Hostel or its myriad imitations.”


    Synapse Films recently released brand-new remastered Blu-ray releases of James Glickenhaus’ The Exterminator, William Lustig’s Manic Cop, and Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker with Tarantino-producer Lawrence Bender’s Intruder releasing this December.