Gunpowder & Sky, the content studio, is expanding the reach of Dust, its science-fiction channel, with platform launches this month on Twitch, STIRR (the new Sinclair streaming service), NBC’s WatchBack and Vizio.
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The sci-fi channel Dust and the USC School of Cinematic Arts are partnering for a showcase of student short films, including the 1996 student short made by Rian Johnson, the future writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, Lords of Chaos details the bizarre and tragic tale of the Norwegian black-metal scene of the early ’90s, and you can get a taste of the movie’s harrowing nature in a just-released trailer.
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The film stars Bill Skarsgård (“Deadpool 2,” “It”) and Maika Monroe (“It Follows,” “The Fifth Wave”) as a pair of amateur criminals who break into a suburban home. There they stumble on a dark secret that the two sadistic homeowners — played by Jeffrey Donovan (“Sicario”) and Kyra Sedgwick (TNT’s “The Closer”) — will do anything to keep from getting out.
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Gunpowder & Sky has acquired worldwide rights to the Lil Peep music documentary “Everybody’s Everything.” The film, directed by Sebastian Jones and Ramez Silyan, premiered at South by Southwest in March. Gunpowder & Sky will release the film later this year.
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“It’s a great time to be an independent premium content provider,” co-founder Van Toffler says. Van Toffler and Floris Bauer’s Gunpowder & Sky is seeing rapid growth as an independent studio with a focus on genre-oriented content — and a broad approach to both platforms and running times.
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Stephen Spielberg's Amblin Partners picked up the ALTER exclusive short film THE BLUE DOOR. Van Toffler and Floris Bauer of Gunpowder & Sky will executive produce the feature film version of the BAFTA-nominated short film.
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Gunpowder & Sky co-founders Van Toffler and Floris Bauer knew that the entertainment landscape was shifting under their feet. Younger consumers were cutting the cable cord in favor of streaming services or YouTube shows, and they were going to fewer movies in the theaters.
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Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi brand DUST announced today that its sci-fi channel, DUSTx, will now be available to an even larger audience. The channel is launching on additional OTT platforms, including Comcast FLEX, Vizio TV and Sling TV, as well as on Samsung TV Plus in the UK, serving sci-fi fans in the UK for the first time.
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“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” herself Rachel Brosnahan is the latest to get in on the act, signing on to star in a horror anthology series at the short-form content platform titled “50 States of Fright.”
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