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Aw thanks, newb.
Its our forum and all of us are doing our bit to make it a respectable haunt for the horror fan again.:) So, I can still call you an old man, right?:D |
"Troll" being remade with a huge budget
Rumblings had surfaced recently that a remake to the '86 horror film "Troll" was in the works, with a substantial budget. After passing it off as a really bad joke, it was found out later that it wasnt a joke.....at all. Yesterday it was discovered that a remake to John Carl Buechler's film is in fact being shot. No details have been revealed about the film other than this synopsis: The film is about a young boy who enters a parallel world of wizards and magic where he befriends a good witch. Soon the boy learns that he must save the world from an evil Troll/Wizard that has the ability to hide his essence within the bodies of others. "Saw V & VI" director already signed up It has just been confirmed. Confirmation comes from multiple sources by our friends over at bloody-disgusting.com that David Hackl, the production designer on Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV and second unit director on Saw II and Saw IV has OFFICIALLY been attached to helm both Lionsgate's Saw V and Saw VI, assuming a hole doesn't form in the Earth and suck the franchise in with it. Will Jigsaw return? I'm sure he will. But this news comes so early don't expect much more until we see how well Saw IV does, which Hackl was once in the running to direct. Classic 50s Monster movie in 3D coming in May 2009 DreamWorks Animation's Monsters vs. Aliens has been slated for domestic release May 15, 2009, a week earlier than previously announced. Helmed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman, the film is in production and will be distributed domestically by Paramount Pictures. "Monsters vs. Aliens" -- now confirmed as the official title with the release date -- will be the first DWA film produced in stereoscopic 3-D. "Monsters" is described as a reinvention of the classic 1950s monster movie into an irreverent modern-day action comedy. Lisa Stewart will produce the film. (References - variety.com, hollywoodreporter.com, bloody-disgusting.com, aintitcool.com, myspace.com) |
I laughed my ass off when I read about the "Troll" remake on BD.
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Leguizamo slated to join Shyamalan's next
Funny man John Leguizamo (Land of the Dead) has been cast in 20th Century Fox thriller The Happening, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The pic stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who takes his family on the run when a natural disaster threatens to end the world. Leguizamo plays his best friend. Lensing starts next month in Philadelphia. Fox has scheduled a worldwide release date of Friday, June 13, 2008. New posters and stills for Zombie's "Halloween" Check them out at :- http://www.myspace.com/99704870 Zombie's controversial remake hits theaters on August 31. Coreys re-unite over "Lost Boys" remake What you'll see is a hilarious clip where Corey Feldman tells Corey Haim that a sequel is being made to The Lost Boys. Watch as Haim has a complete breakdown. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=2042166967 (References - bloody-disgusting.com, variety.com, aintitcool.com, myspace.com, hollywoodreporter.com, rottentomatoes.com) |
"Poltergeist" 2-Disc Special Edition DVD details
Earlier today some new details came in about the upcoming 2-Disc special edition of Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist, which features a commentary track and more. The popular "Poltergiest" fan site Poltergiestiii.com reveals that they've snagged some details on the upcoming 2-Disc special edition of the Tobe Hooper-directed original. A source tells the site, "They are having interviews with JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson and the hold out was Zelda Rubinstein due to prior commitments. Short of that we were very honored to be asked to have this film crew with us as we investigated the nicely haunted Pierpont Inn in Ventura and a couple of other places. We held our conference in May but were asked not to release any information until June/July while they completed the segments for inclusion on the DVD." A fan troupe called 'The Ghost Trackers' also had their investigations filmed by New Wave Entertainment (affiliated with Warner Bros. Pictures) at their 2007 California Ghost Hunters Conference and were also interviewed for the DVD. "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" DVD cover released Coming to DVD on October 9 from Fox Home Video is Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. Earlier today four new stills and the DVD cover art were released by Fox. Synopsis - Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy (Henry Rollins) hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner! You can view the DVD cover here. Click on the cover to see the stills. Aussie starlet signs to star in "Captive" Aussie spunkette Melissa George (Turistas, Amityville Horror, 30 Days of Night) has signed to star in Captive, a new Amanda Gusack written/directed thriller shooting in Canada this month. The plot concerns a happily married mother of a 6 year old boy, Jaime Taylor, who regains consciousness after a bad car accident and finds herself being held captive in a remote waterfront warehouse by the mysterious Vince, a masked killer whose shocking revelations are about to turn her formerly safe and orderly existence upside down. (References - moviehole.net, bloody-disgusting.com, aintitcool.com, variety.com, youtube.com, myspace.com) |
First Poster, First Trailer out for Argento's "The Mother of Tears"
Italy's Yahoo! Movies has a crisp, clear look at Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears, also known as the "Third Mother" film, after Suspiria and Inferno. In addition, you can check out the first international poster too! The Mother of Tears centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who "unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the 'Mother of Tears' before her evil conquers the world. You can view the trailer link and poster from here. Fox pays huge bucks for new Vampire story In a seven-figure deal that shows Hollywood continues to be a sucker for a good vampire tale, Fox 2000 and Scott Free beat out three other studios to acquire screen rights to a bloodsucker trilogy by Jordan Ainsley that begins with The Passage. The three-book series have been sold to Ballantine for $3.75 million, based on a 400-page partial manuscript and an outline. The film caught the fancy of Ridley Scott, though it was not immediately clear whether he will direct it. Ainsley is a pseudonym for Justin Cronin, the PEN Hemingway Award and Stephen Crane Prize-winning author of the literary novel "Mary and O'Neil." With "The Passage," he has created an apocalyptic tale that has elements of "28 Weeks Later" and the Stephen King novel "The Stand." The story is this...When terminally ill cancer patients get healthy after being bitten by bats in South America, the government conducts secret tests with human subjects to see if a virus can cure illness. Instead, it unleashes a swarm of bloodthirsty vampires out of the test subjects, which include death row inmates. The first installment will be published in summer 2009. Fox 2000's Rodney Ferrell got an early peek at the book as it made the rounds with publishers, and then finalised the deal. Newest trailer:- Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears aka The Third Mother. (Coming on October 31, 2007) (References - bloody-disgusting.com, variety.com, hollywoodreporter.com, it.movies.yahoo.com, myspace.com) |
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Cool thread.
Didn't like Shymalan's last two movies but "The Happening" sounds interesting. And wholy fuck can I not wait for Zombie's Halloween. |
Warner Home Video releasing "Twisted Terror Collection" in September
Warner Home Video has announced the Twisted Terror Collection, which includes :-
The six-disc package will be available to own from the 25th September, and should retail at around only $49.92. Titles will also be available separately for around $14.97 per. You can view the cover of the box-set, as well as all the individual covers, here. After Dark bumps "Skinwalkers" release to August After Dark Films made a smart move in bumping the release of Stan Winston's Skinwalkers, which was slated to open against Columbia Pictures I Know Who Killed Me and 20th Century Fox's The Simpson's Movie. Now the film will open on August 10, two weeks later than originally planned. Skinwalkers is about a 12-year-old boy who suddenly finds himself at the center of a battle between two warring groups of werewolves. One group of werewolves is sworn to protect him, the other group is trying to kill him -- and the young boy's mother has to find out why her son is at the center of the conflict before time runs out. "Pulse" sequels being shot back-to-back for straight to video release It was revealed back in February that Dimension Films was planning two sequels to their box office disaster Pulse, which was one of the worst horror films in the past two years. Both films were said to go straight to video without any of the stars of the remake returning. The sequels begin lensing in Shreveport, Louisiana this September. Joel Soisson with both write and direct both sequels to PULSE. He most recently directed Buried, The Prophecy: Forsaken and The Prophecy: Uprising for Dimension. He also produced Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Feast, Dracula 2000, Phantoms among countless others. The first sequel is titled PULSE: AFTERLIFE. The synopsis :- The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them. The second sequel is titled PULSE: INVASION. It's synopsis :- It is now seven years later and the survivors on Earth have settled into a primitive lifestyle completely void of electronics. The clusters of human survivors live together in refugee camps as the phantoms have taken over the cities. Justine is now a teenager and she escapes to the city to try and make a life for herself where she is not a drain on her adopted family (her parents both became phantoms in part one). She heads in to the city at the urging of Adam, a seeming survivor in the city that lures her with promises of understanding and friendship. Universal finalises "Mummy 3" casting Alex Pettyfer (Wild Child), John Hannah (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns), Anthony Wong (Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions) and Isabella Leong (The Eye 10) will round out the cast for Universal Pictures' The Mummy 3: Curse of the Dragon. They join Luke Ford, Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and Maria Bello in the film, which is now in production through November in Montreal and China. It is known that the action is set in China, with Li's story beginning in ancient times before moving to a post-World War II setting. It is also known that one sequence involves the famous terra-cotta warriors, the collection of 6,000 men and their horses that were originally constructed to protect the tomb of an emperor. National Lampoon bringing "Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell" National Lampoon has acquired theatrical and home video rights to International Danger Alliance's post-apocalyptic comedy Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell, which played at this month's HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis to an extremely happy crowd. The film, which premiered at last year's Los Angeles Film Festival, is set 20 years in the future after the fall of the U.S. It was written by and stars Kevin Wheatley, who also co-directed with Jonny Gillette. The film will be released under the title "National Lampoon Presents Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell" in the fall through National Lampoon Releasing and will be distributed to home video in the first quarter of 2008 through National Lampoon Home Entertainment. (References - dvdactive.com, variety.com, bloody-disgusting.com, myspace.com, youtube.com, amazon.com, hollywoodreporter.com, moviehole.net, aintitcool.com, reuters.com) |
The trailer for the 3rd Mother film by Argento looks awesome! I can't wait for it's release now!!
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I wanna say V is the man for doing what he does for this forum and I wanna say congrats to Rod who makes me want to come out to LA more and more.
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Hey thanks, Gore. I m just doing my part.:)
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Details of "Troll" remake from director
Writer-director John Carl Buechler dropped a few quick notes on his upcoming remake of TROLL, starting with his goals on improving upon the first film, "Finally I'm getting the opportunity to do it right this time. The term 'family friendly' should not be missunderstood. Please understand that this vision of the movie will be DARK, and edgy with a sweeping scope reminescent of Lord of the Rings. NOT CAMPY." One of the main things was the FX, which he explains "will be over-the-top and outrageous." And in response to many of the blogs he's read he writes, "Many are concerned that the effects will be the thin CGI/video game style. This will not be the case," he explains, "While we will employ the latest in CGI, we will also utilize a great many live-action effects." You want a taste of what you'll see in TROLL? Then all you have to do is check out Adam Green's HATCHET this September, which Buechler created the FX for. "I am devoted to the best in live action physical effects," he tells. He also explains that the characters are deeper and more fleshed out, which is an important step in making a good film. The film is about a young boy enters a parallel world of wizards and magic where he befriends a good witch. Soon the boy learns that he must save the world from an evil Troll/Wizard that has the ability to hide his essence within the bodies of others. TROLL begins lensing this September. Disney re-making its classic "Witch Mountain" Andy Fickman is coming on board to direct "Witch Mountain," Walt Disney Pictures' modern re-imagining of its classic 1975 adventure movie "Escape to Witch Mountain." Disney-based Andrew Gunn is producing via his Gunn Films banner. The 1975 film was based on a science fiction novel by Alexander Key and followed a pair of siblings, endowed with paranormal powers, who go on the run from a diabolical group of men who wish to exploit their abilities. The brother and sister turn out to be extraterrestrials. The movie hatched a sequel, "Return to Witch Mountain," best remembered for having Bette Davis and Christopher Lee in the cast, as well as a made-for-TV movie "Beyond to Witch Mountain" that was to have been a pilot for a TV series. Gunn Films' Ann Marie Sanderlin is exec producing. Brigham Taylor and Casey Wolfe are overseeing for Disney. "Mountain" is a high priority at the company and Fickman's involvement kicks it into gear. Fickman is quickly making Disney his new home. He directed the studio's upcoming family comedy "The Game Plan," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and recently set up the family comedy "Pool Rats," which is a semiautobiographical story inspired by Fickman's youth. "Spawn" remake explained by McFarlane McFarlane explains with some really interesting comments, "Right, I'd call this more of a suspense thriller. I'm going to use a big example which may seem sort of loopy, but to me it's closer to "Jaws" in that — and this is one of the problems that some of the studios had — Spawn won't talk. He's just a being in this movie — which again, some people may find odd — but, you know, Jaws didn't talk a hell of a lot in his movie either. But you knew that when he came out, something was going to happen. You know what I mean? You've made the presence known enough that nothing good was going to come of his presence being there. So it's sort of the same concept. I'm not going for Freddy Krueger horror and I'm not going for Spider-Man action superhero. I'm not even going for a guy who's going to sit there and talk. You're never actually ever going to see him in his cape or costume in any kind of direct light. It's just going to be this thing that's just going to come, and if it's there then buddy, you're going to have a bad day." You can read the entire interview here. Warner Bros bringing DC's Horror-Western Jonah Hex Warner Bros. Pictures is saddling up to bring DC Comics' Western anti-hero comic book "Jonah Hex" to the big screen, with filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on board to adapt. Andrew Lazar is producing via his Mad Chance Prods., as is Akiva Goldsman. Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood. "Hex" first appeared in the early 1970s in the issues of "All-Star Western" before graduating to his own series in 1977 that ran for about 10 years. A new series was launched in 2005. The character also had a run in the 1990s that combined the Western genre with supernatural elements. The filmmakers are not making a straight-ahead Western but plan to develop the character with some of the supernatural overtones in the hopes of creating a franchise. Greg Silverman and Elisha Holmes are overseeing for Warners. Gregory Noveck is overseeing for DC. (References - bloody-disgusting.com, hollywoodreporter.com, variety.com, moviehole.net, mtv.com) |
Babysitter Twins talk about possibilities of "Grindhouse 2"
Even with the box office flop of Dimension Films' Grindhouse, star Danny Trejo has been talking very highly about the possibilities of a sequel starring his character featured in one of the faux trailers, "Machete", which would be directed by Robert Rodriguez. Since then there hasn't been a peep, until now. On the sets of The Black Waters of Echo's Pond, the Babysitter twins (Electra & Elise Avellan) were on hand and had something quite interesting to say. When asked about Machete, Elise and Electra talked over each other, "Robert [Rodriguez] said he’d do it [Machete] and asked for us to be in it," they explain, "Robert wants to do GRINDHOUSE 2 with [the two films being] "Machete" and "The Babysitter Twins." The news sounds exciting, but now Rodriguez is busy with BARBARELLA and such, the twins don't know how soon something official is released. Although nothing is confirmed as to what will happen with GRINDHOUSE 2, the girls still know what their story would be about, assuming it's one of the next two films, "Robert mentioned something about the end of the world and Hollywood action films, where we’d be trained in Mexico to come back here and fight," Electra states. Elise then elaborates, "Hollywood starts fucking with us so we start killing… we [would] kill Harvey Weinstein in the movie, although that’s just talk now right," she clarifies. Official poster for "Saw IV" Check it out here. Saw IV hits theaters everywhere on October 26. Lionsgate will be bringing "De2cent" Over on IMDBPro it lists the sequel to Neil Marshall's astounding horror pic, The Descent, will be titled The De2cent, because that makes a whole lot of sense. No word on if this Se7en-esque title will stick, but Christian Colson is said to be returning as producer. The Descent was Neil Marshall's hotly anticipated follow up to his 2002 hit Dog Soldiers and told the story of an all female caving expedition, set in a cave system deep in the Appalachian Mountains, that goes terrifyingly wrong. (References - hollywoodreporter.com, bloody-disgusting.com, variety.com, aintitcool.com) |
Not only do I hope De2cent doesn't happen, I hope that the whole project gets canned altogether.
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That is a great poster for Saw IV. It is going to be really good!
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does anyone know the official release date for the third mother in the UK?
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I m guessing October 31st, same as it's Italian release date.
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Rumors at aintitcool.com are abuzz that the Cloverfield aka 1-18-08 project is titled Colossus.
It isnt confirmed yet officially, so keep an eye out for that. Of course I ll post it as soon as its confirmed. |
Official Poster for 1-18-08/Colossus/Cloverfield released
You can view it here :- The Official Cloverfield / Colossus Poster. Remake of "Terror Train" coming soon Thora Birch (American Beauty, Dark Corners) will play the lead role in Terror Train, in which a team of US catch wrestlers find themselves caught up in a nightmarish train ride in Eastern Europe. It is a remake of a 1970s horror movie. Many Bulgarian actors will be playing in the film, directed by Gideon Raff. Terror Train wraps production August 11 in Bulgaria. Birch plays the same character as Jamie Lee Curtis in the original, which helped kick start the slasher genre. SK's "The Long Walk" coming to the big screen During an interview to promote Dimension Films' upcoming Stephen King adaptation, The Mist, director Frank Darabont revealed that he is in fact going to helm Stephen King's The Long Walk once he has completed Fahrenheit 451. The film is about a walk where the winner gets the ultimate prize - anything they want for life, and the losers get punished with death! The rules are simple - If you walk too slow, you get a warning, 4 warnings and you are shot. There is only one winner, and the story concentrates on a loosely held group of individuals that become friends and enemies during this inhumane walk. One by one Ray Garraty sees the people around him die, and he faces the truths of his own entry into the Long Walk, and those of his new "friends". He is aware that only one will survive all the way, but it is not until the end that he realised the finality of his situation, and he slowly looses his sanity piece by piece. Domestic teaser poster for "Saw IV" also released You can view it here. |
Remake of "April Fool's Day" in the works
It was learnt recently that Scout Taylor-Compton will be playing the lead role in the Butcher Brothers remake of April Fool's Day, which she calls "Mean Girls crossed with horror." Scout also says that the plan is to make the film rated R. She can be seen in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween on August 31 from Dimension Films. In the original a group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead. Yet, are they really dead? Or is it just part of some very real and cruel April Fool's jokes? The hostess, Muffy, is the only one who apparently knows what's going on. But then again, is it really her doing the killing? Clive Barker reveals info about Midnight Meat Train and Hellraiser remake In an exclusive one-on-one interview with bloody-disgusting.com, horror legend Clive Barker revealed some brand new info on his remake of Hellraiser, along with a few notes on his upcoming Midnight Meat Train from Lionsgate Films. Clive Barker talked a bit about why he did MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN next, “I have been developing a lot and never know what’s going to come first.“ Then replying to a joke about how no Asian director has proven themselves yet in the horror genre, so why take chance with Ryuhei Kitamura? Clive joked back, “He’s very very good, did you see that trailer?!” But what is the status of his HELLRAISER remake? Clive fills in, "I recently turned in a 45-page treatment. They [Dimension] wanted a remake and I couldn’t do that," he continues, "I wrote the narrative so that it has eloquence, I wanted to take what we learned from first movie about Pinhead and pour it into this mold… there’s a great story in there." He also talked a bit about how different this will be from the original, "It’s a horror and a drama, but its bloodier - but most horror movies are bloodier than they were back then." Zack Snyder bringing "Army Of The Dead" Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead, 300) took a couple seconds out of his busy night to chat about Army of the Dead, his next zombie feature, with bloody-disgusting.com. He tells that what will separate this film from any other zombie film is it's scope... "it will be massive!" He really drove home the point that we have never seen anything of this scale in our horror lives. He also proclaimed his love for the genre and said he'll be sticking around for quite some time. Set in a quarantined Las Vegas in the not-too-distant future, "Army" revolves around a father who tries to save his daughter from imminent death in a zombie-infested world. Jessica Alba goes into detail about "The Eye" remake Over at Comic Con, Jessica Alba chatted briefly about her upcoming role in THE EYE, which hits theaters February 1, 2008. She talked a little bit about the French directors (David Moreau and Xavier Palud) and how this film differs from their first feature film, THEM, which is slated for theatrical release this August. "The French directors are amazing, it's really going to take the horror genre to another level" she tells, "THE EYE has lots of blood, lots of gore, insanity, ghosts and its painful because you're going through the entire experience with this girl... you feel her anxiety from beginning to end." She elaborates, "The film is put in first person perspective to really feel the anxiety and what the characters feel. Ours (The Eye) is a lot more subtle and psychological." Is the infamous elevator scene of the original, in THE EYE remake? Alba answers with a sly smile “You’ll have to see it." In THE EYE Alba plays Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death itself capturing the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney must discover whose eyes she has inherited, and what secret visions they have held. (References - bloody-disgusting.com, hollywoodreporter.com, moviehole.net, movies.yahoo.com, movies.ign.com, aintitcool.com, variety.com) |
Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen line up in "Deathrace 3000"
Director Paul W.S. Anderson revealed that the 28-year-old Transformers and 2 Fast 2 Furious star Tyrese Gibson is set to take to the road once more — this time behind the wheel — as a contestant in his Death Race 3000, an update of the 1975 classic starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone. Tyrese joins previously confirmed cast member Jason Statham — two tough dudes about to get their clock cleaned by the most unlikely of opponents, Anderson announced…Joan Allen. “She kicks the most ass out of everybody,” Anderson smiled, revealing for the first time that the three-time Oscar nominee will join the cast as well. The film, a “faithful remake,” said Anderson, follows a group of contestants on a cross-country race who score points for running down pedestrians. It is set for release in 2008. Paris singing in Darren Lynn Bousman's "Repo!" After spending most of the year living a soap opera, Paris Hilton(YUCK!:rolleyes:) (House of Wax) will be part of a real opera this fall. Hilton has joined Alexa Vega and Paul Sorvino in the cast of Repo! The Genetic Opera, a full-blown musical thriller co-financed by "Saw" makers Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate. Darren Lynn Bousman, director of three "Saw" films, including the fourth entry, which opens Oct. 26, has spent several years working on the movie version of an opera hatched with screenwriter-composers Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich. Dan Heffner and Twisted's Carl Mazzocone, Mark Burg and Oren Koules are producing. Hilton will sing in a futuristic thriller framed around musical numbers that range from opera to rock. The setting is 2056, when a plague nearly destroys the human race and survival is dependent upon being able to finance a pricey organ transplant. Hilton plays a daughter of the organ transplant magnate (Sorvino) who is the villain of the piece. "This movie has become my life," said Bousman. "I have auditioned at least 30 actresses for this role -- Paris came in and owned it. She is this role." "We saw many actresses for the role, and Paris sang it better than all of them," added Mazzocone. Singing gig won't be Hilton's first, as she released the self-titled album "Paris" last year. Aside from her long run in reality show "The Simple Life," Hilton has acted in films such as "House of Wax" and "Raising Helen." "Repo!" is her first film job since her brief jail stint, and since she's agentless, her deal was negotiated by Paris Hilton Entertainment's Jason Moore, who manages her. (References - bloody-disgusting.com, mtv.com, variety.com, aintitcool.com, movies.ign.com, hollywoodreporter.com) |
I'd like to detail into Jessica Alba's Eye.
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that halloween spot looks kick ass, can't wait to see this movie.
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Holy christ, I haven't been as excited as I am for Halloween in who knows how long.
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Versus-director Kitamura talks Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train
After blasting Japan with handful of fantastic films (Versus, Alive, Godzilla 2000) Ryuhei Kitamura talks a bit about why he chose to come make an American film now. " I was looking for the right project for the past couple years," he continues, "I read 50-60 scripts and I knew I'd have to be very picky about it, something I could put my stamp on it and make it my movie. I was looking but couldn't find it and was actually desperate last year." Kitamura says that the reason he picked this Clive Barker project is because he picked up the original Japanese book back in 1987 and has been a fan for over 20 years. “I read it and was surprised, it was good,” he remembers. With Hideo Nakata (The Ring Two) and Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge, The Grudge 2) making slow, atmospheric films, what made [b]Kitamura want to do a gore film? "What's the point in doing something similar to someone else? I am not interested in that idea." Another thing Kitamura talked a bit about was planning for the future and more sequels, especially since they have an iconic new horror character, "[The] first conversation I had with Clive [Barker] was about this... [we had to] keep in mind this endless world of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Pinhead, Ash, Leatherface - that’s it," he continues, "after them I don’t need any new super cool horror icons, Jeepers Creepers a little, but I don’t keep on buying." So what he's trying to say is that there aren't many horror icons and they needed to find something special for him, which is creating a special look and weapon, "For 20 years we don’t have this new horror icon. We talk a lot about what costume he'll be wearing, what weapon he (Mahogany) has. Clive and I designed a custom hammer for him." When creating a new horror icon, you have to be thinking sequel, "if it came up (a sequel) and was good," he tells, "but I don’t like doing the same thing again and again. If I do a sequel I'd need something new to the storyline." Watch out for MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in 2008. "Friday the 13th" remake coming in 2009? Platinum Dunes is aiming to get their remake of Friday the 13th in theaters by 2009. This film's life may depend on how well Rob Zombie's Halloween does at the end of the month, so fingers crossed. No word on whether Jonathan Liebesman is still attached to the project, but its heard that they're not using Mark Wheaton's story. Watch for the return of Jason Voorhees and his mother in 2009! Raimi, Hartnett talk about "30 Days of Night" Ghost House producer Sam Raimi talked a bit about his interest in acquiring 30 DAYS OF NIGHTS for the big screen, "I think it started with Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s incredible graphic novel. I love the original take on the vampires they illustrated. These guys have created a unique and very rich mythology for them. I really liked learning about them and I wanted to know more." Star Josh Hartnett chimed in with his thoughts on the graphic novel, "I read the graphic novel and spoke to director David Slade on the phone… really the biggest sell for me were the people involved," he continues, "I am going to get shot for saying this but I have never really read a lot of comic books, but I flipped through this one and I saw that the visuals were astounding, and with the help of David, and the visuals, [I knew] this would be a spectacular film." In addition to the comic book blowing his mind, he really dug the screenplay, "The script was great… what it would be like in a situation where you have no escape and you are being hunted…you are in conflict the entire time, and there is no logical way of getting out of it. I have always liked horror films and vampire films, yet I haven’t found a thing for me that had the right element, until this one." Writer/Creator Steve Niles talked a bit about adapting his own story, "For me they gave me a first shot on the screenplay…it’s been great, everyone has kept me in the loop pretty much through the entire process. I felt really attached to it, pretty much since I first met David I knew it would be in good hands." Niles also chatted a bit about making vampires scary again, "Something that Ben [Templesmith] and I went through when we were making the comic is that vampires aren’t scary anymore," he replies, "They hang out with you; teenage girls date them on TV. We had to strip away all that and use the idea that a creature that looks very much like us, yet look at us like cattle…like food. That is something we really wanted to do… make actual frightening vampires again." Director David Slade adds to this, "I can make these vampires anything I want them to be," he explains, "my ambition was to make a truly terrifying film, fusing the fantasy and beautifully drawn things and the gritty terrifying thing." Star Ben Foster loves vampires, in fact you might say he has a fetish, "I have a great vampire fetish. When I was going to the comic book store about two years ago and I found this book, I bought it and I ended up buying several copies of it for friends. It was something that really turns me on. David calls and says I think I have some thing for you called 30 Days of Night.. So I go GREAT!!" Although he jokes, "he wouldn’t let me be a vampire!" Sam Raimi concluded with a bold statement, "I have never seen a better vampire film. It’s rare that you come across a great graphic novel, in the field of horror, at least I never had. It was wonderful refreshing and thrilling to come across Steve Niles and this property!" 30 DAYS OF NIGHT hits theaters on October 19, 2007. "Painkiller" video-game being adapted for the big-screen Guy Walks Into a Bar (Starship Dave) has decided to go to purgatory, acquiring feature rights to the videogame Painkiller from DreamCatcher Interactive. Game centers on a character stranded between heaven and hell who's forced to become a pawn in the battle between good and evil. "Painkiller" first bowed for play on PCs as a first-person-shooter game in 2004, and was followed up by "Painkiller: Hell Wars" for the Xbox in 2006. DreamCatcher's planning to release a sequel to the original soon. Guillermo Del Toro set to produce "The Changeling" remake Director extraordinairre Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) will produce Rogue Pictures' The Changeling, the long-delayed remake of the classic George C. Scott film from 1979. The film, which inspired The Ring, follows a man who is haunted in his mansion by the ghost of a girl. The screenplay for the remake was written by Paul Haggis and Dave Kajganich, although no word yet on if their draft will be used. Award winning "The Other Side" set for US theatrical and DVD release The US distribution rights to the crowd-pleasing action/thriller The Other Side were snapped up this past week for an undisclosed amount by Allumination Filmworks, who will be handling the domestic theatrical and DVD distribution of the movie. Bleiberg Entertainment has acquired the film rights for the movie’s foreign distribution. Allumination Filmworks will release the film in select theatres this year. Written/Directed by Gregg Bishop and Produced by Chad Eikhoff, The Other Side is a low-budget, Atlanta-made feature about a man who escapes from Hell to find the person who killed him, but is hunted by a team of Reapers - invincible, gun toting madmen - who are sent from the Netherworld to bring him back. The film stars Nathan Mobley from Yesterday Was a Lie and Jaimie Alexander, who stars as Jessi XX on ABC’s hit show Kyle XY. A film festival favorite, The Other Side premiered in competition to sold-out crowds and rave reviews at the Slamdance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film at ShriekFest. The film also swept the awards at IFFYNTX (Independent Film Festival of North Texas) winning Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Nathan Mobley). Variety called The Other Side “a lean, propulsively paced supernatural thriller, packed with pulse pounding excitement.” Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com calls it “fast paced, creative and entertaining. A solid handful of unexpected surprises.” SciFi Dimensions raves “an impressive feature length debut. Gregg Bishop may be the next big thing in horror movies.” John Koenig of Dark Romance says that “this movie blew my mind! It’s like a blazing gunfight on a demonic roller coaster ride!” Steve Biodrowski of Hollywoood Gothique says that The Other Side “may be the El Mariachi of horror movies” and hailed it as “one of the best films of the year.” “The response this movie has received has exceeded our expectations in every way,” says Bishop. “We are thrilled that the film will be released theatrically and that the movie will be available to audiences everywhere”. Eikhoff adds, “we made The Other Side as a non-stop thrill ride and are looking forward to audiences having the chance to experience it theatrically and on DVD.” (References - bloody-disgusting.com, movies.yahoo.com, variety.com, hollywoodreporter.com, aintitcool.com, iesb.net, blackfilm.com, latimes.com, impawards.com) |
"Return to Castle Wolfenstein" finally coming to the big screen
It was revealed a long while back that one of the Wolfenstein video games, specifically Return to Castle Wolfenstein, was going to be the next game adapted to the big screen. After the release of Universal's piece 'o crap Doom, things sort of hit a stand-still, that is until now. Roger Avary is back again as he will write the adaptation, which is great news if you're a fan of Silent Hill! Producer Samuel Hadida has secured the rights, with Roger Avary attached to write and direct the adaptation of the ID Software property. This project reteams Avary with Hadida after he penned company’s horror pic “Silent Hill.” The WWII-set “Return to Castle Wolfenstein” revolves around U.S. Army Ranger B.J. Blazkowicz, who leads a team of agents into Castle Wolfenstein in order to investigate the Nazis’ SS Paranormal Division. Project had previously been set up with Mark Gordon at Sony before the rights to the game reverted back to ID Software. Hadida’s becoming a prolific producer of vidgame adaptations, with “Resident Evil: Extinction,” the third installment in the franchise, bowing Sept. 21. Last year, he produced the horror pic “Silent Hill,” based on the game. A sequel’s planned. He also has “Onimusha” in the works with Christophe Gans attached to direct. Avary most recently adapted Robert Zemeckis’ take on “Beowulf,” which Paramount opens Nov. 16. He previously penned “Pulp Fiction,” “The Rules of Attraction” and “Killing Zoe.” “I’ve been playing the character of B.J. Blazkowicz since the epic ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ first bruised my brain and have ever since wanted to bring his adventures to life on the bigscreen,” Avary said. “It’s time to bust some dams, storm some bunkers and blow up some bridges.” ID Software’s other titles include the first-person shooters “Doom” and “Quake.” Another “Wolfenstein” game is in development. Vinnie Jones still in "Midnight Meat Train" Today Lionsgate released the second image from their adaptation of Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train, which features star Vinnie Jones doing more sitting. The story features a commuter's run-in with a New York subway serial killer and a horde of subterranean cannibals. The movie is set for a 2008 release. The stills and the official poster can be viewed here. (References - bloody-disgusting.com, variety.com, myspace.com, aintitcool.com) |
Anybody see the 30 Days of Night trailer yet? Looks really cool.
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Midnight Meat Train sounds promising, and in the lines of Creep. Looks like Kitamura and Barker have a real winner on their hands.
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Casting finalised for Shyamalan's "The Happening"
Betty Buckley (Carrie), Robert Bailey Jr., Spencer Breslin (Zoom, The Kid), Jeremy Strong, Frank Collison (The Village, Suspect Zero) and Victoria Clark (Cradle Will Rock) will round out the cast of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, which goes behind the lens in Philadelphia next week. They join the previously announced Mark Wahlberg, Zoey Deschanel, John Leguizamo and Ashlyn Sanchez. The pic, which will mark Shyamalan's first R-rated effort, is a paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Check it out on June 13, 2008. Poster released for MGM's "Pathology" ComicCon was the venue for the debut of the teaser poster for MGM's Pathology, which stars Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith, Johnny Whitworth, Keir O'Donnell, Michael Weston and Mei Melancon. Written by Neveldine and Taylor, the story centers on a young intern (Ventimiglia) who is studying pathology at Philadelphia's University Hospital and encounters an attractive but murderous group of colleagues who have devised a deadly game to see who among them can commit the perfect murder, while the others compete to determine the cause of death. Take a peek at it here. Paul Schneider completes "The Wall" production Production has wrapped on thriller-horror pic "The Wall," produced by Michael Grais, Gavin Wilding and Paul Pope. Lindy Booth ("Dawn of the Dead") stars along with Lawrence Dane, Suzie Pollard and James Thomas. Story concerns a woman who returns to her small town in Maine after she learns that local realtors want to develop the land that includes the lighthouse in which she grew up and where her mother was murdered; her father was convicted of the crime. The pic, penned by Michael Bafaro and Anna Singer, is directed by Paul Schneider ("Cries in the Dark"). Grais' writing and producing credits include both "Poltergeist" films. Wicker Man companion gets ready to roll in Scotland and Texas The long-awaited Wicker Man re-imagining/companion piece is finally about to get underway. Tentatively titled Cowboys for Christ, from writer/director Robin Hardy (the original “Wicker Man”), the movie has set itself a September 10 start date and has booked locales in Scotland and Texas to shoot. Starring Christopher Lee and Faye Dunaway, the film tells of a Christian singing star and her chaste fiance, a Texas cowboy, who travel to Scotland for a music festival that is merely the curtain-raiser for a horrific pagan ritual of sacrifice and murder, and it's uncertain if the power of the Americans' Christian faith will be strong enough to survive the assault of the pagans. New Regency bringing vampires and zombies from Afghanistan New Regency is taking the current wave of films set amid the war and terrorism in the Middle East and adding a twist: vampires and zombies. It's optioned the Virgin Comics title Virulents and set John Moore ("The Omen") to direct the adaptation. The movie will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. The story, to be adapted by John Cox ("Sergeant Rock"), revolves around a ragtag group of soldiers who search for a lost patrol in Afghanistan. The soldiers, some from an American military unit, some from an Indian military unit, stumble into a nest of vampire zombies. It will be produced by Gotham Chopra and Sharad Devarajan of Virgin Comics, along with Seth Jaret and Moore. "Ronin" producers aiming it big with "Ocean" Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari and Nick Wechsler have teamed to option screen rights to Ocean, a graphic novel by Warren Ellis that is a template for a big-scale alien thriller. Nunnari and Wechsler will produce, and Craig J. Flores is exec-producing. The story concerns the thousands of coffins containing angel-like bodies, and a giant weapon of mass destruction, discovered by a scientist on Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa. A U.N. weapons inspector sent to investigate uncovers a chilling secret about the history of humanity. Nunnari produced "300," based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, and he recently teamed with Wechsler to produce the Miller title "Ronin" at Warner Bros., with Sylvain White ("Stomp the Yard") directing. Wechsler called the graphic novel "an alien thriller with a fresh take on the origin of man." Skinny Puppy lead singer to sing opera in Bousman's "Repo!" Nivek Ogre (aka Kevin Graham Ogilvie) - the lead singer of the band "Skinny Puppy" - is in final talks to star in Darren Lynn Bousman's hotly anticipated horror-musical, Repo! The Genetic Opera, which begins production September 10 in Toronto, Canada. He joins Alexa Vega, Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino and the luscious Paris Hilton. "Repo!" focuses on a cruel entrepreneur who creates genetically perfect organs that everybody needs in 2056, and who is content to send in a repo man if the recipient can't make payments. Lionsgate will release this unique blend of genres in theaters on April 25, 2008. "Hellraiser" remake - happening or not happening One remake that might never get off the ground is the one-time full-speed ahead Hellraiser redo. Creator Clive Barker says that nobody seems to know whether Pinhead will return to the silver screen or not. “I have waited for a long time to see somebody give me a clue. You know, “Are we doing this or are we not doing this?” “Is it happening or is it not happening?” Nobody seems to know and I’m not going to hold my breath while I wait, because it’s frustrating”, says Barker. “I’m very lucky, I’ve got control over a lot of my artistic life. I’ve got control over my movies. I’ve got control over my books. I’m sorry, I don’t have control over my movies, but I do have control of my paintings and of my books.” The original "Hellraiser," which spawned umpteen sequels, was released in 1987. It still holds up quite well. So no, it doesn't need to be remade. (References - variety.com, bloody-disgusting.com, davisdvd.com, hollywoodreporter.com, moviehole.net, movies.yahoo.com, movies.aol.com, aintitcool.com) |
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First batch of exclusive Diary of the Dead photos can be seen here :-
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Am I the only one who finds "Hellraiser" to be vastly over-rated?
Also, any other links to the TV-MA trailer of "30 Days Of Night"? I entered my info and it still wouldn't let me watch. So gay. |
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