WILLIAM SHATNER, CHRIS CARTER AND CAST OF SYFY'S 12 MONKEYS TO HEADLINE SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE'S "THE FUTURE IS HERE FESTIVAL"

                          WILLIAM SHATNER, CHRIS CARTER, SYFY’S 12 MONKEYS
          HEADLINE SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE’S THE FUTURE IS HERE FESTIVAL™

Fanboy Favorites From Star Trek, The X-Files & Syfy Hit Series Own the Friday Night Spotlight
During Fourth Annual Event Coming April 22-24 in Washington D.C.

Weekend Panels Feature “Deadpool” Director Tim Miller, “The Martian” Author Andy Weir
Fanboy favorites from Star Trek star William Shatner and The X-Files creator Chris Carter to Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys and Deadpool director Tim Miller are squarely in the spotlight for Smithsonian magazine’s fourth annual The Future Is Here Festival™, a three-day event highlighting the most advanced thinking in science, technology, space, art and engineering from a dazzling array of experts, visionaries and noted science-lovers.

The Festival kicks off on Friday, April 22nd at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman Hall with an exclusive ticketed evening event featuring Shatner, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek; a conversation with Carter, fresh off the triumphant return of The X-Files to television; and an exclusive glimpse into the thrilling second season of Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys (premieres April 18) with special advance footage presented by stars Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull and executive producer Terry Matalas.

USA TODAY entertainment writer Brian Truitt will conduct the conversation with Carter, and renowned astronomer/author Phil Plait will moderate the 12 Monkeys panel.

Tickets for this exclusive Friday night event can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/smithsonian-magazines-2016-the-future-is-here-festivaltm-registration-21495104436.

Programming for Saturday and Sunday includes appearances by Deadpool director Tim Miller, The Martian author Andy Weir, explorers Céline & Alexandra Cousteau, noted science fiction author Bruce Sterling, leading NASA scientists and a profound list of visionary speakers and presenters, offering the audience an eye-opening look into the future. Among the entertaining events on the weekend slate is an electrifying concert by Tesla Coils band Arc Attack, and a performance of mind-bending techno tricks by Marco Tempest, the world’s leading cyber illusionist.

The Future Is Here Festival™ convenes the world's leading experts in science and technology, including:

Vint Cerf – Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, one of the “fathers of the internet”
Alexandra Cousteau – Explorer, storyteller, environmental advocate
Céline S. Cousteau – Explorer, Founder & Executive Director, CauseCentric Productions
Frans de Waal – Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University & Author, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Anthony Fauci – America’s point man on epidemics, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health
Kirk Johnson – Director of the National Museum of Natural History
Nicholas Negroponte – Co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, Founder of One Laptop Per Child Project
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – Philosopher & Author, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Dava Newman –Deputy Administrator of NASA
Fiona Raby, Professor of Design and Emerging Technology at Parsons
Martine Rothblatt – Transhumanist and Founder of Sirius Radio, Geostar and United Therapeutics
Sara Seager – Planetary Scientist and Astrophysicist
Seth Shostak – Director of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Adam Steltzner – NASA Engineer/Mars Rover, Author, The Right Kind of Crazy
Bruce Sterling – Science Fiction Author
Marco Tempest — Cyber Illusionist
Andy Weir – Author of The Martian (via Skype)

Additional speakers/programming will be announced as confirmed.

The Future Is Here Festival™, an exciting and mind-expanding live event taking place April 22-24 in Washington, D.C., is accompanied by Smithsonian’s May “Future” issue, which hits newsstands April 26th, bringing the excitement of The Future Is Here Festival™ to 6.8 million readers and 5 million digital viewers across the country and around the world.

The Festival’s returning presenting sponsor is Lockheed Martin Corporation, and this year’s automotive sponsor is Toyota Prius. The Festival is presented with participation from NASA. The “Think Big” series is supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Media partners include Air & Space Smithsonian magazine, The Washington Post and the leading technology and science fiction websites Gizmodo and io9.

ALL SECRETS WILL BE REVEALED IN HAVEN: THE FINAL SEASON

THIS APRIL, THE TOWN OF HAVEN HURTLES TOWARDS A CATACLYSMIC SHOWDOWN IN THE STARTLING FINAL EPISODES OF SYFY'S POPULAR SERIES HAVEN: THE FINAL SEASON Street Date: April 19, 2016 Blu-ray/DVD SRP: $49.98/$39.98 The Loaded 4-Disc Set Features the Final 13 Broadcast Episodes, and Hours of Bonus Features Including a Mythology Refresher, 13"Inside Haven" Featurettes, Livestream Segments with the Cast & Crew,13 Commentary Tracks,  Interviews with Eric Balfour, Lucas Bryant,  William Shatner, Adam Copeland and More!          HAVEN: THE FINAL SEASON Mythology Refresher PROGRAM DESCRIPTION For five eye-opening seasons, fans tuned in to the hit Syfy series "Haven", based on Stephen King's novella "The Colorado Kid".  Following former FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) and her supernatural exploits in the small town of Haven, Maine, the series was hailed as "a must see show!" by Entertainment Weekly.  HAVEN: THE FINAL SEASON presents hometown heroes Audrey, Nathan (Lucas Bryant), Duke (Eric Balfour) and Dwight (Adam Copeland), with challenges unlike any they've experienced before.  Across 13 action-packed final episodes, the town of Haven has been cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious fog bank and is on its own.  Through journeys into the past, the future, and the very fabric between worlds, events in Haven hurtle towards a cataclysmic showdown.  Will the heroes be able to rid Haven of "the Troubles" forever, or will the town and its inhabitants continue to suffer the curse?  Watch and see as tensions rise, allegiances shift and in a harrowing closing chapter, the mystery of "Croatoan" is finally revealed.   From leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), Haven is co-commissioned by Shaw Media in Canada and globally via Universal Networks International (UNI). The creative team behind HAVEN includes executive producers John Morayniss (Rookie Blue, Rogue) from eOne Television and David MacLeod (Legends of the Fall, The Ray Bradbury Theater) of Big Motion Pictures, who are joined by Lloyd Segan, Shawn Piller, Scott Shepherd (Stephen King's The Dead Zone, Greek) of Piller/Segan/Shepherd and Matt McGuinness (Minority Report) and Gabrielle Stanton (The Flash).   The series was developed by Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn (Stephen King's The Dead Zone).  HAVEN is produced by eOne and Big Motion Pictures in association with Piller/Segan/Shepherd and airs on Syfy in the US, Showcase in Canada and internationally on UNI's multiple Syfy channels. eOne controls the worldwide distribution rights to the one-hour series. BONUS FEATURES  13 "Inside Haven" Featurettes 13 Audio Commentary Tracks Interviews with Eric Balfour, Lucas Bryant, William Shatner, Adam Copeland & Producer Shawn Piller Mythology Refresher Haven Revisited: Livestream Segments with the Cast & Crew Haven Archives: Entries from the Crocker Diaries Haven Origins: Lovers Conquered All Haven Origins: Trust Kills Fear  CAST  Emily Rose ("ER", "Brothers and Sisters", "Jericho") Lucas Bryant (The Vow, "M.V.P.") Eric Balfour (Skyline, "24", "Six Feet Under") Aaron Copeland (WWE Superstar Edge) William Shatner ("Boston Legal", "Star Trek") Kris Lemche ("Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", In Time) Steve Lund ("Bitten") Jay Reso (WWE Superstar Christian)  PROGRAM INFORMATION Type:  BD/DVD (4 Discs) Catalog #:  (BD) EOE-BD-8115/(DVD) EOE-DV 8114 Running Time: 559 mins. + extras Rating:  TV-14 Genre:  TV/Sci-Fi Aspect Ratio:  (BD) 1080p High Definition (1.78:1)/(DVD) 16x9 (1.78:1) Audio:  (BD) DTS-HD Master Audio/(DVD) 5.1 Surround Sound Language:  English with SDH subtitles

FIRST LOOK: A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY OFFICIAL TRAILER

TITLE:   A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY

THEATRICAL, VOD AND iTUNES RELEASE DATE:  October 2, 2015

DIRECTOR:  Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan

WRITERS: James Kee, Sarah Larsen, Doug Taylor, Pascal Trottier

CAST:  William Shatner, George Buza, Rob Archer

SYNOPSIS:  Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much less festive.  When Krampus - the anti-Santa who punishes the naughty children - is summoned by a young boy, everyone’s fight for survival begins.

GENRE:  Horror

DISTRIBUTOR:  RLJ Entertainment
 

          

IMAGE WANTS TO TELL YOU A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY!!!

                                                 

                                                 RLJ ENTERTAINMENT SNATCHES

“A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY”

Starring William Shatner and George Buza

LOS ANGELES, July 17, 2015 - RLJ Entertainment, (NASDAQ: RLJE), under its Image Entertainment brand, has acquired all U.S. rights to the highly anticipated horror film, A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY.  Directed by Steven Hoban (Darknet), Grant Harvey (She Made Me Do It) and Brett Sullivan (Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed), the film stars William Shatner (Star Trek) and George Buza (X-Men).  The film will premiere on July 20, 2015 at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. Mark Ward, RLJ Entertainment’s Chief Acquisitions Officer, made the announcement today.  

“A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY brings a scary twist to the traditional Christmas tale,” said Ward. “With the legendary William Shatner and horribly fantastic creatures, genre fans will never see this happy holiday the same way again.”

“We are so happy that Mark Ward and his helper elves at RLJ Entertainment, are releasing this film in the US," said Hoban.  "We couldn't have hoped for better accomplices in our efforts to bring terrifying fun to the holidays."

CHRISTMAS: a time of Joy, Peace and Goodwill, unless you happen to live in the town of Bailey Downs.  Here, on Christmas Eve, joy is corrupted when a malevolent spirit traps three teens in a school basement intent on recreating a twisted version of the Nativity story.  Peace is shattered when a family returns from a snowy forest with the perfect Christmas tree only to find something is terrifyingly wrong with their seven-year-old son.  And goodwill is perverted when a not-so-nice family is hunted down by Krampus, the demonic anti-Santa Claus of Nordic mythology. Even Santa Claus himself is drawn into the horror when he has to fight off a horde of howling Zombie Elves before making his rounds.  This Christmas, the creatures are stirring and they’re coming for you whether you’re naughty or nice.

A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY was produced by Copperheart Entertainment’s Steve Hoban (Splice) and Mark Smith (388 Arletta Avenue) and executive produced by David Hayter (“World War III”).  Mark Ward of RLJ Entertainment negotiated the deal with Paradigm Talent Agency on behalf of the filmmakers.

Recent RLJ Entertainment releases include The Rewrite with Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei and written & directed by Marc Lawrence and The Cobbler with Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi, Dascha Polanco and written & directed by Tom McCarthy.