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Con of Darkness Event in San Diego July 19


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ENTERTAINMENT PROPERTIES TEAM UP
FOR “CON OF DARKNESS”

Special Event company A-List Communications brings eOne, IFC Midnight, and MPI Dark Sky Films, Along with Dreadcentral.com The Haunted Hotel, Femmes Fatales and Shocktillyoudrop.com together to co-host its annual Genre Party Friday July 19 during Comic-Con International San Diego
Film, Show and Online Casts Join the Event!
#ConOfDarkness

SAN DIEGO, CA – July 8, 2013 – Seven-plus North American entertainment properties leading in horror, thriller and suspense content are joining forces to celebrate genre entertainment at this year’s Comic-Con by hosting “Con of Darkness,” an evening genre-party saluting Comic-Con fans and industry insiders alike. This invitation-only party takes place Friday, July 19, at San Diego’s gothic-inspired Voyeur nightclub from 8-11 PM PDT.  The event is produced by veteran production and communications agency, A-List Communications who successfully produced last year’s horror genre event.

Dark Sky Films, who is releasing “Frankenstein’s Army” on July 26th; IFC horror imprint IFC Midnight who is promoting “Maniac” (starring Elijah Wood), “Room 237”, “Antiviral” and “Errors of The Human Body” this Comic-Con; Entertainment One (eOne), horror-centric website, DreadCentral.com; The Haunted Hotel; Femmes Fatales; and Shocktillyoudrop.com all will co-sponsor the event along with other partnerships soon to be announced.  Event producer David Manning of A-List Communications says, “It’s rare in the genre universe to have this number of properties join forces to entertain and honor their fans and colleagues.   This unique partnership enables a really diverse array of visuals and entertainment for guests to enjoy.”

“Con of Darkness” guests will experience an interactive event replete with spectacular visuals from all event partners; a VIP suite decked out by Dark Sky Films; music spun by  a surprise special guest DJ; go-ghoul dancers; entertainment and customized refreshments.  Food will be appropriate to the occasion; party guests can expect to suck, er, snack on:

  • ·       Bloody Fingers: Mozzarella sticks with marinara
  • ·       Puking Pumpkin or Melon: Guacamole and chips
  • ·       Eyeball Skewers: Grapes and melon balls in a honey-lime dressing
  • ·       Oozing Meat Balls: Open-faced meatball sliders on a skewer with tomato ketchup
  • ·       Intestines on a bun: Bacon-wrapped hot dogs with spicy beet sauce
  • ·       Shattered Glass Cupcakes and raspberry blood 
Attendance is by invitation only with many celebrity guests expected to attend.  However, access to a number of lucky Comic-Con fans will be available through social media giveaways by each of the partners.

About Dark Sky Films
Dark Sky Films is dedicated to the discovery, preservation and production of new and classic horror, sci-fi and cult films from around the world. Based in Chicago, Dark Sky Films is a wholly owned subsidiary of The MPI Media Group – one of the largest independent entertainment companies producing and distributing a compelling slate of the world’s most respected cinema, documentaries, performances and television programs. The MPI/Dark Sky Films brand include Stake Land, Here Comes The Devil, Ti West’s House of The Devil and The Innkeepers, Adam Green's Hatchet 2 and Hatchet 3, and the highly anticipated Frankenstein’s Army, which hits theaters on July 26th. Other films in production from Dark Sky include Late Phases and Starry Eyes. For more info: http://www.darkskyfilms.com/ or http://mpimedia.com/. 
Follow Dark Sky Films on Twitter @darkskyfilms. 

About Entertainment One (eOne)
With offices in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and London, Entertainment One (eOne) is a leading international entertainment company specializing in the acquisition, production and distribution of film and television content. 
 eOne’s comprehensive network extends around the globe including Canada, the U.S., the UK, Ireland, Benelux, France, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Through established Entertainment and Distribution divisions, the company provides extensive expertise in film distribution, television and music production, kids programming and merchandising and licensing.

About  IFC Midnight
Established in 2010 and based in New York City, IFC Midnight is the genre label of IFC Films, one of the leading foreign and independent film distributors.   IFC Midnight offers the very best in international genre cinema, including horror, sci-fi, thrillers, erotic art-house, action and more. Its unique distribution model makes independent genre films available to a national audience by releasing them in theaters as well as on cable’s Video On Demand (VOD) platform, reaching nearly 50 million homes. At this year's Comic Con, IFC will be promoting Maniac (starring Elijah Wood), Room 237, Antiviral and Errors of The Human Body.  IFC Midnight is a sister label to Sundance Selects and IFC Films, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc.
Dread Central’s mission is “To crush our enemies, see them driven before us... and to hear the lamentation of their women!”  Dread Central is the premier website for breaking news, original content and active community in the world of horror, covering movies, DVDs, games, collectibles, live events and music. If it's got something to do with the dark and horrific, you'll find it on Dread Central.

ANTIVIRAL theatrically @ The IFC Center and on VOD April 12th 2013


IFC MIDNIGHT
PRESENTS
ANTIVIRAL
A FILM BY BRANDON CRONENBERG
OPENING THEATRICALLY @ THE IFC CENTER AND ON VOD APRIL 12TH, 2013 

**2012 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL - UN CERTAIN REGARD**

**2012 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL**

Synopsis:
Brandon Cronenberg's striking body-horror debut is a prescient and chilling vision of our cultural obsession with celebrity. In a dystopian future world, Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones) works at the Lucas Clinic, which has an unusual and highly profitable line of business: deliberately infecting paying customers with diseases harvested from top celebrities, thus providing a "biological communion" between stars and fans. 
Though his work environment is tightly monitored, Syd manages to sneak viruses out of the office and retool them on his personal console for his lucrative sideline supplying the black-market disease trade. When Syd is tasked by his employer to collect a virus from starlet Hannah Geist (breakout actress Sarah Gadon), he is unable to resist the temptation to get closer to one of his own personal celebrity obsessions. Injecting the virus into his own bloodstream, Syd is launched down a dangerous path — and the stakes are raised even higher when he learns that Hannah's illness is potentially fatal.
Coolly stylized and laced with dark comedy, Antiviral immerses us in the contrasting textures of its vividly realized future, from the blindingly white, clinical spaces of the laboratory and Syd's apartment, to the baroque decadence of Hannah's luxurious world, to the grimy and sinister underworld of the black market. Cronenberg lets his imagination run riot as he takes his sardonic vision to its logically extreme end. In this literally sick, fame-fixated world, everything from celebrity infections to celebrity steaks (prime cuts of human beef grown from the cells of stars) are on the market.

Cronenberg has found ideal specimens for this baleful experiment in his two leads: Jones, steadily deteriorating throughout the film as the disease eats its way through Syd's frail body, gives a vividly physical performance, while the porcelain-skinned Gadon is the quintessential Hitchcockian icy blond as Hannah, who takes the term "object of desire" to its commodified extreme. Gruesomely absurd and incisive, Antiviral is a visceral satire on our contemporary society of the spectacle.
IFC Midnight will release ANTIVIRAL theatrically @ The IFC Center and on VOD April 12th 2013.
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