LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK // July 12, 2019 – Cinedigm has announced it will release Jason Mewes’ meta comedy MADNESS IN THE METHOD in select theaters and on demand beginning August 2, 2019, with a DVD and Blu-ray™ release planned for fall. Fans attending San Diego Comic Con can get a sneak peek at the film on July 18 at the TCL Chinese Theatre at Theatre Box, with Jason Mewes in attendance for a Q&A.

Produced by Autumnwood Media and written by Chris Anastasi and Dominic Burns, the film stars Mewes (Mallrats), Vinnie Jones (Snatch), Gina Carano (Haywire), Jaime Camil (Jane the Virgin), Kevin Smith (Clerks), Danny Trejo (Machete), Stan Lee (in his last onscreen role), Teri Hatcher (Tomorrow Never Dies), Brian O’Halloran (Mallrats), and Dean Cain (God’s Not Dead).
 
In the film, Mewes, tired of Hollywood’s perception of him, embarks on a quest to reinvent himself as a serious actor. Upon advice from best friend Kevin Smith, Mewes tracks down a highly secretive method-acting book – with disastrous consequences. Joining the star-studded ensemble are David Dastmalchian (Ant-Man), Mickey Gooch, Jr. (How to Be Single), Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), and Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club).

Best known as the vocal half of the on-screen comedic duo, Jay and Silent Bob, Mewes has reprised his role as the celebrated character, “Jay,” in a number of films. With cult-fans following his controversial antics, Mewes has captured audiences with rebellious banter against his unspoken other half and longtime friend, Kevin Smith (Silent Bob). Since the beginning of the duo’s offbeat work together, Mewes and Smith have continued to build on their beloved character driven roles from the Jay and Silent Bob series. Most recently, the duo wrapped Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, which is scheduled for release later this year.

SANTA MONICA, CA (June 4, 2019) — Reveal the power within when Fast Colorarrives on Digital June 18 and on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital), DVD, and On Demand July 16 from Lionsgate. Featuring an immensely talented cast including Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beauty and the Beast, A Wrinkle in Time, Miss Sloane), Lorraine Toussaint (Selma, Into the Badlands, Orange Is the New Black), Saniyya Sidney (Fences, Hidden Figures, The Passage), Christopher Denham (Billions, Argo, Shutter Island), and Academy Award^® nominee David Strathairn (2005, Best Actor, Good Night, and Good Luck) , this Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh™ film follows a young woman whose superhuman abilities keep her on the run until she finally decides to go home and search for help. Directed by co-writer Julia Hart (Miss Stevens) and produced by co-writer Jordan Horowitz (La La Land), Mickey Liddell (I Can Only Imagine), and Pete Shilamion (Jackie), Fast Color, according to Deadline’s Pete Hammond, is “a female-empowered superhero movie unlike any other you have ever seen – and that’s a very good thing.”
 
Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) with supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago. There, while being pursued by the local sheriff (David Strathairn), she begins to mend the broken relationships with her mother (Lorraine Toussaint) and daughter (Saniyya Sidney), and unearths the depths of the power within her.
 
Bring home Fast Color and get an in-depth look at what it took to make this inspiring sci-fi drama with a never-before-seen making-of featurette and audio commentary with writer-director Julia Hart and writer-producer Jordan Horowitz. The Fast ColorBlu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.
 
BLU-RAY / DVD / DIGITAL SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Julia Hart and Writer-Producer Jordan Horowitz
• “A Mother’s Power: Making Fast Color” Featurette

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Year of Production: 2017
Title Copyright: Fast Color © 2018 Make it Rain LLC. All Rights Reserved. Artwork & Supplementary Materials © 2019 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Type: Theatrical Release
Rating: PG-13 for a scene of violence and brief strong language.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Closed-Captioned: N/A
Subtitles: Spanish, English SDH
Feature Run Time: 100 Minutes
BD Format: 1080p High Definition 16×9 1.85:1 Presentation
DVD Format: 16×9 1.85:1 Presentation
BD Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio™ 
DVD Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio

We have loved actress Dee Wallace, who starred in the original Critters as Helen Brown and returns to the franchise for a second time in the mysterious role of Aunt Dee in Critters Attack!

Wallace’s career spans 45 years with highlights including featured roles in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 10, The Howling, Cujo and The Frighteners, in addition to consistent roles across popular primetime television series, including recent turns on Supernatural, NCIS and Grimm. Wallace was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance as Patricia Spencer in the legendary soap opera, General Hospital.

Produced by Blue Ribbon Content in association with SYFY, with production services provided by Blue Ice Pictures. Critters Attack! lands on earth on July 23, 2019, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-rayTMCombo Pack, DVD and Digital.

Critters Attack! and The Banana Splits Movie will be jointly featured on a panel at Comic-Con International on Thursday, July 18 from 4:30-5:30pm in Room 6DE. Wallace will be joined by co-stars and filmmakers on the panel.

This past week the second volume of The Relicant Chronicles, Trails of Bone, was released. Written by best-selling author Aaron Rosenberg, it continues the disparate adventures of a warrior, a monk, a thief, a killer, a soldier, and a ruler, each trying to make their way through a world once rich with magic but now severely diminished.

The first volume, Bones of Empire, was released in December by Falstaff Books in print and digital and Tantor Media in audio. It received sterling reviews. Rosenberg describes the series as “Anime-esque epic fantasy,” or a cross between Game of Thrones and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In this world, characters absorb knowledge and memories from the bones of the dead, which is a brilliantly twisted way to gain power.

Bones introduced readers to two young brothers who set out on a journey with little money and only a few of the relic bones called aishone, seeking to make their way in a world. Things become tumultuous and the brothers’ fates are changed forever when they are forced to make a dangerous deal that could lead to their success—or their deaths. Meanwhile the emperor has struggles of his own, as do a young graverobber and a remorseless killer, all of them striving to make sense of their world. Their journeys are not only exciting but loosely connected, and readers will find themselves on the edge of their seats waiting to read the outcome.

One reviewer said of it, “The rich, fun, (slightly dark) world that Aaron Rosenberg writes is a delight to travel to and visit.” Another called it “[a] fascinating story of a decaying empire, a looming war, and the people caught up in the middle.”

The second volume is also available in print and digital from Falstaff and audio from Tantor. The back cover copy reads: “Amid all this chaos an emperor learns about his subjects firsthand, a warrior battles both foes and ancient tradition, a young man tests recently acquired prowess while another learns to rely on himself, a young graverobber struggles to overcome new scruples even as a different young woman with no scruples begins to amass power, a strange pair wreak havoc, and a mysterious new threat approaches the capital.” The book delivers all this and more, giving readers a window into a world thrown into chaos and war, and into the lives of its people and into the magic at the heart of everything.

“In Bones I got to present all the main characters and set them on their respective paths,” Rosenberg explained. “In Trails we get to see each of them starting to come into their own, but also we’re seeing some of them start to intersect. Those connections are only going to increase as the series continues.” The Relicant Chronicles is a five-book series, with the next book releasing at the end of 2019.

Rosenberg is a prolific author across multiple genres and audiences. A founding member of Crazy 8 Press, he is perhaps best known for his game-design work, his tie-in novels, and his snarky character DuckBob, star of the four-book SF comedy series The Adventures of DuckBob Spinowitz.