Produced by Ukraine’s Animagrad Animation Studio and Film.UA group, the story follows a young and naïve forest spirit who develops feelings for a human musician and must then choose between her love and her duty as a guardian of the forest. Miracle/Dazzler is opening Ukrainian animation Mavka: The Forest Song in 258 cinemas. Talk To Me’s major festival premiere and global distribution deals already mark the Philippou brothers out as an exception, alongside Dan Trachtenberg, who moved from a YouTube channel reviewing video games and films, to directing 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane (opened: £1.6m closed: £5.5m). However, the Philippou brothers’ primary screen success has been through their YouTube channel RackaRacka, which has 6.74m subscribers at time of writing, and posts a range of predominantly comic content.Īlthough many have tried, few YouTubers have successfully made the jump to feature films. The duo had film set experience prior to making Talk To Me, including as electrician and production runner on Jennifer Kent’s 2014 Australian horror hit The Babadook.
The film, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January, is the debut feature of Australian brothers Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou. Released in 431 cinemas by Altitude, Talk To Me is a possession horror film about a group of friends who discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand.
Australian horror film Talk To Me is the major new title at UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, following on from a record-breaking Barbenheimer week.
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