Release Details For ‘Big Ass Spider!’

Epic Pictures Releasing has locked an October 18, 2013 domestic release for Big Ass Spider!, the movie that features a giant arachnid terrorizing Los Angeles, Deadline first reported.

Mike Mendez’s creature comedy will go out simultaneously in theaters and on VOD.

Greg Grunberg, Claire Kramer, Lombardo Boyar and Ray Wise star.

“When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the city is destroyed.”

Epic Pictures and Wittgenstein Entertainment produced the pic that premiered at SXSW in March. Epic Pictures Releasing is the U.S. distribution arm of Epic Pictures Group which is also now acquiring third-party elevated genre for limited theatricalHy-Vee Classic to end after 2018, as Iowa announces it's pulling out

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Show Caption Hide Caption Fran McCaffery on Hawkeyes' in-state sweep, defense The Iowa men's basketball coach breaks down the Hawkeyes' win over Northern Iowa in the Hy-Vee Classic.

The Hy-Vee Classic will be no more.

The mid-December college basketball event, which featured Iowa’s four Division I schools, will end after this season, Iowa announced Thursday. The event first started in 2012.

The Hawkeyes cited an increase of Big Ten games among the reasons it was pulling out after the upcoming season. The final Hy-Vee Classic is scheduled for Dec. 15 at Wells Fargo Arena. Iowa will face UNI, while Iowa State will battle Drake.

“In our last agreement, we added language that provided each institution