Longtime character actor Michael Parks has passed away at the age of 77, his agent has confirmed. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

Parks appeared in a great number of things—over 145 credits to his name over the course of his 57-year career—but one needn’t look any further than Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill to know what kind of talent he was. In Tarantino’s two-part revenge epic, Parks played two very different characters: a Texas Ranger named Earl McGraw, and a Mexican pimp named Esteban Vihaio.

It is only natural that a father would come to the defense of his daughter, and it’s only appropriate to see to the lengths which that father will go to defend his daughter be a bit exaggerated in film format. You know, to keep you entertained and such. So after Liam Neeson did it for three films in the Taken franchise, why not explore that narrative once more. But this time with a bit of a new story and new actors.

That’s what you are going to get with Blood Father starring Mel Gibson. In the film, he plays a father who must now protect his estranged daughter from a dangerous drug cartel and his thugs. Check out the trailer below.

The first trailer for Clerks, Mallrats, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back director Kevin Smith‘s latest movie, Yoga Hosers, has been released online and it sure is a wacky looking one.

The movie stars Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp as a pair of teenage yoga loving convenience store workers who seek the help of a legendary manhunter named Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp) when a terrible ancient evil, an invasion of tiny anthropomorphic Nazi bratwurst (played by Smith), threatens the big party they’ve been invited to. See, wacky! It is the second part in Smith’s True North trilogy following Tusk.

You can check out the trailer for Yoga Hosers below.

The second installment of Clerks and Mallrats director Kevin Smith‘s True North trilogy, Yoga Hosers follows two teen girls on a mission to save a party they’ve been invited to. The first movie in the trilogy was the horror Tusk.

The movie made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend, and for everyone who was unable to see the movie the first clip has also bee released online by Smith. You can check it out below.

A promotional image has been released for Yoga Hosers, the next movie from writer and director Kevin Smith, and can be seen below.

The image shows stars Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp, the daughters of director Smith and Johnny Depp, who also is starring in the movie.

The actresses play teenage yoga nuts who work at a Canadian convenience store called Eh-2-Zed, when they are forced to seek out the assistance of a legendary manhunter (Depp) to help them fight an ancient evil that threatens a 12th grade party the girls have been invited to.

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Digital Wire. Hope you all had a wonderful and scare-tastic Halloween because by the sound of the Christmas songs starting their yearly infection of the radio airwaves, an even more frightening time of year is upon us.

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As a director Kevin Smith has distanced himself from the comedy movies he’s best known for, and has instead embraced much smaller budget independent projects as of late.

After his first indie effort, the very un-Smith-like horror flick Red State, he took some time off from features to focus on various other things he has going on. But lately he’s been quite busy. Smith just finished a second indie horror titled Tusk, which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he’s already moving into his next movie, titled Yoga Hosers.

Now comes word that Johnny Depp will be appearing in the movie, which stars his daughter Lily-Rose Depp and Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith.

The first official trailer for the upcoming horror flick from writer and director Kevin Smith, titled Tusk, is here for all to see.

The movie follows a man (Justin Long) who goes missing in the backwoods of Canada while interviewing a mysterious gentleman (Michael Park) with promises of tales of the sea, leading his best friend and podcast co-host (Haley Joel Osment) to team up with his girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) to try to find him.

You can watch the first trailer for Tusk below.

The Kevin Smith-directed horror movie Tusk is set to release later this year, and the experience making that movie went so well that he’s decided to hang on to his cast for his next project, titled Anti-Claus.

According to reports out of the Cannes Film Festival, Tusk stars Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, and Michael Parks will all continue hanging out with Smith for Anti-Claus, a Christmas horror movie following the mythical Krampus.