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October 30, 2004
Cover to Stephen King's Red Sox Book 
Here's a look at the planned cover of the upcoming book Faithful, by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan. The image was released by the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons. King and O'Nan, both Red Sox fans, are collaborating on a book that chronicles the 2004 season. The book was planned before spring season even started and the Red Sox went on to win their first World Series since 1918.
Kurosawa Still Influencing Video Games & Films Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa is posthumously influencing the video game industry for a second time. Game publisher Koei Co. Ltd. is developing a PlayStation 3 historical action game tentatively titled Oni that is based on a script by the noted Seven Samurai director who died in 1998.
It is also working with Kou Shibusawa Production and Kurosawa Production to create a new film in conjunction with the game. Akira's son, Hisao Kurosawa, will direct the film and Shibusawa will produce. The Yokohama, Japan-based companies have raised 3 billion yen ($28.5 million) to create the film and game. The game and movie will debut together in 2006.
Koei is developing other media, including cell phone content, character merchandise, music, portraits, and books, based on the "Oni" franchise.
Japanese videogame publisher Sammy Studios shipped an original PlayStation 2 game, Seven Samurai 20XX in March 2004 which was developed with support from Kurosawa Production. [Source: Hollywood Reporter]
The Blob Getting Remake...Again With several remakes under his belt, producer Scott Rudin is turning his attention to the 1958 B-movie The Blob for Paramount Pictures. The Paramount-based producer whose recent credits include The Manchurian Candidate and The Stepford Wives remakes will produce the feature along with Jack Harris, who produced the original film.
Starring Steve McQueen, the campy cult classic followed a mysterious creature from another planet that resembled a giant blob of jelly and went on a path of destruction as it grew bigger. The horror/sci-fi movie was remade in 1988 with Chuck Russell at the helm. [Source: Hollywood Reporter]
Chabon Writing Snow and the Seven Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon will write Snow and the Seven, an East-meets-West retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, for Walt Disney Pictures. Hong Kong director Yuen Wo Ping will make his English-language directorial debut on the film.
Snow and the Seven will be set in 1880s British colonial China and will have fantasy and martial arts elements, with the "seven" being Shaolin monks. The story also will hearken back to aspects of the original Grimm Brothers' fairy tale.
October 28, 2004
Trailer for The Dark Live Chans has passed along that Miramax/Dimension has released the US trailer for The Dark (aka Darkness). This movie stars Anna Paquin and Lena Olin. Check out iFilm's trailer page here. The Dark was featured at Screamfest LA 2004. [Thanks Chans!]
Arizona Politicos Land King's Desperation On Sunday, Desperation, ABC's three-hour movie based on Stephen King's horror novel, is slated to begin production in Bisbee, AZ. The Halloween start date is a perfect fit for the spirit of the project. Moreover, it took more than a few tricks and treats to allow the $12 million production to be shot in the United States in an era when many telefilm projects automatically head north to Canada or other foreign locales to allow producers to make the most of their budgets.
Efforts by Desperation's executive producer Mark Sennet and director Mick Garris, as well as help from politicians including Arizona Sen. John McCain and Gov. Janet Napolitano, ended up being necessary.
Oscar winner Cliff Robertson, Emmy winner Tom Skerritt, Annabeth Gish, Ron Perlman and Steven Weber lead the cast of Desperation, which chronicles the ordeals of a group of travelers thrown together in the nearly deserted spooky Nevada mining town of Desperation, complete with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theater. [Source: Hollywood Reporter]
Revolution Studios Remaking The Fog Revolution Studios is mounting a remake of the 1980 horror-thriller The Fog, with Debra Hill, David Foster and John Carpenter producing. But Carpenter, who co-wrote the original with Hill and also directed it, will not be returning to the director's chair.
"I have done it once, and I don't want to do it again," Carpenter said. "I did my Fog, and now it's someone else's time. It's very flattering. It's terrific that they want to make it. We have been thinking of doing The Fog over for some time, as maybe a sequel. But now is the season of the remake."
Cooper Layne, whose credits include The Core and The Emperor's Club, is penning the remake. [Source: Hollywood Reporter]
October 27, 2004
Wes Craven Leaving Horror? Wes Craven says his days of making audiences scream may be numbered.
"I feel like I'm coming down to the end of it a bit. My (more recent) films have more comedy in them. They aren't so grim," Craven told the U-Press Telegram. His next two films will be a werewolf thriller, Cursed, written by Kevin Williamson, and a hostage thriller, Red-Eye.
The experience makes the 65-year-old director feel like he's got fresh blood running through his veins.
"It makes me feel great that I might be doing some films that are completely out of (the horror genre)."
In the meantime though Craven is this year's artist-in-residence at Widescreen Film Festival 2004, which unspools Wednesday through Sunday at Cal State Long Beach's Carpenter Performing Arts Center and University Theater. Craven chose 10 movies that he says were "instrumental in seducing me away from the security of teaching college and into the turbulent, unpredictable and utterly wonderful world of filmmaking."
Craven talks about five of the films he selected.
BLOW UP
"It was so different from every other movie I'd seen. It's pretty well-known that I was raised as a Baptist and didn't see films till I was out of college. But I had seen enough by that time to realize I was looking at something on a whole new magnitude. It was clearly one person's vision. The vision encompassed everything from the actors and the camera angles to the actual city where they were shooting. Director Michelangelo Antonioni would paint buildings on a whole block just to get the right color.
"Then, there was David Hemmings, a very avant-garde guy coming in dressed as a hobo, takes off his clothes and burns them. He's really a chic, young fashion photographer. That's the veneer. The director showed here's life and the hidden homicide. It's right there, but you can't see it because you're not looking for it. That fascinated me. The fact that he could take a film and so subtly play with your mind that you had to go see it again. Visually, things were there, but you didn't know it until the end of the film when he does his blowup. I realized how powerful a film could be and much any given film could break the rules and yet be great art. It made me feel like that's something I'd like to be a part of.
"It wasn't long after seeing this film that I quit my job teaching English literature at Clarkson College in Potsdam, New York, and headed off to New York to seek my fortune in the film business. Absolutely naive as to what it would take, but utterly determined.''
FRANKENSTEIN
"A bipolar film, the scientist and the monster he release. It's artistically beautiful. It's beautifully photographed. Karloff is magnificent. He managed to give so much humanity into that character. It's astonishing for someone who just grunts. No 'Frankenstein' after that ever came close to this, not at all. The current culture has a hard time conceiving of simplicity as something that's to be desired. They think about how can we do it bigger and better and more CGI? In some ways, that turns people off.''
NOSFERATU
It's the creepiest vampire film. This film broke from the traditional view of the seductive vampire and gave us instead a terrifying vision of monstrosity so human it is appalled by itself, hypnotically beautiful in its very ugliness. Thin, malformed, huge-eyed, it is like some grotesquely elongated and aged fetus from the womb of hell, helpless in its need to devour.
"The idea of a vampire as this twisted, wasted looking individual is so much more frightening than Count Dracula."
THE VIRGIN SPRING
"It was an interesting analysis of the proper middle class having the capability to be as murderous as anyone else. I was terribly intrigued by that. If you" re living in America, you have a mythology of the good decent American. We give to everyone. We're decent. We're honest. I'm not saying there aren't a huge number of people like that, but America has also done some pretty terrible things in the 20th century and the 21st. That's why some people hate us all around the world. That sort of bifurcation between the reality that's hidden and the apparent reality that everything's hunky-dory really fascinated me. A lot of my films have to do with that split, the decent white-bread people, as someone once called them, and the wild family.
"My first film, Last House on the Left," is a blatant reworking of The Virgin Spring."
WAR OF THE WORLDS
"I think it was the first scary movie I saw. I think I was around 14 years old. My older brother, Paul, snuck me into see it, and I didn" t tell my mother I was going to see it. It scared me. I still remember those goose-necked-lamp eye-stalks from the spaceships poking through windows, looking for human prey, or the haunting, chilling sound they made. I can still hear that sound.
"That's another example of you think the world is one way and suddenly this other kind of persona comes out of space. The real fear it's playing off of isn't that monsters will come from outer space, but we have things in our inner space that might emerge and can devastate our world. Of course, at the time I didn't think that. I thought the Martians were coming to get me."
Raimi's Ghost House Picks Up Dibbuk Box Variety reports Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, which has a hit with this week's The Grudge, will develop Dibbuk Box, another supernatural horror thriller film. Ghost House, the joint venture of Raimi, Rob Tapert and Senator International, is also developing the vampire comic-book adaptation 30 Days of Night.
Grudge writer Stephen Susco will draft Dibbuk Box, a fictional retelling of Los Angeles Times reporter Leslie Gornstein's story "Jinx in a Box," about an antique wooden box purchased on eBay that contained an evil spirit and was brought to America by a Holocaust survivor after World War II. [Source: Sci Fi Wire]
October 24, 2004
The Grudge Shocks Box Office Expectations Reuters reports The Grudge delivered a shock on Sunday by selling $40 million worth of tickets in its first three days at the North American box office, doubling the expectations of its distributor.
The Columbia Pictures project, a remake of a Japanese haunted-house thriller that was released in the United States earlier this year, took over the No. 1 slot from the cartoon Shark Tale, which had been the top movie for the past three weeks.
"If we would have done twenty (million dollars), we would have been ecstatic," said Rory Bruer, president of domestic distribution at the Sony Corp-owned studio.
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays an American in Tokyo who must outwit a ghoulish presence. The PG-13-rated film was directed by Takashi Shimizu, who also made the original, Ju-On. Bruer said the remake cost less than $10 million to produce, and a sequel is in the cards.
King's Desperation to Film in Arizona A Tuscon news station reports part of a movie based on Stephen King's novel Desperation will be filmed in Bisbee, AZ, in November. More than 100 applicants tried out for parts yesterday.
The scene they were auditioning for is a flashback to 1849, outside of a mineshaft. The actors will portray laborers and miners on their way to work. The movie is being filmed for a television miniseries.
October 23, 2004
New Horror E-Serials to Support Cancer Society The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a new idea in e-serialization. Four authors (Michael McBride [Species; The Legacy], William Meikle [Island Life, Watchers Trilogy], Steve Zinger [The Sab; Ray McMickle and the Kentucky Vampire Clan], and Karen Koehler [Slayer series; Scarabus]) will bring you a chapter a week of a new novel, spread out over fourteen consecutive weeks. The fiction is free (that's four whole novels!), but we will be sponsored by the American Cancer Society as a fund-raising project to further cancer awareness and research funding, so donations are appreciate.
The novels are as follows:
BLOODSPAWN by Michael McBride
WATCHERS: THE COMING OF THE KING by William Meikle
THE SAB by Steve Zinger
SHREDDER: IRON ANGEL by Karen Koehler
Click here to sign up for the serialization.
Really Scaryites Are Go We're earnin' a reputation here and it's because Really Scary readers are geniuses. Anyhooville, we've gotten another e-mail asking you all to identify a movie. This time around Sadie writes and asks:
"I saw your recent answer to someone trying to remember an old TV movie and thought maybe you could help me... I've got the vaguest memory of a scary (I think, but then I was 5 years old) TV movie from somtime before 1978. The only thing I remember is a young, pretty woman looking into a mirror and watching herself quickly turn old -- wrinkled, cracked skin... thin, grey, scraggly hair... etc. I also remember something about a spider and/or web... and that's about it. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them! Thanks!! Your site rules!!!"
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October 21, 2004
Mezco Highlights at Fall Toy Fair Figures.com has been covering the Fall Toy Fair and has an avalanche of pics from all the toy companies. A few of our favorites are the new Mezco Mez-Itz figures -- we just love these cute little maniacal murderers. Here's an awesome Jason Mez-Itz (complete with bag over head). And here's a photo that shows him with his adorable little buddies Leatherface and Freddy.
And Scarface action figures? Oh hell yeah! Here's a gallery of photos. May want to lay off the "say hello to my little friend" quotes while you're holding one of these -- people will look at you oddly.
Mezco also showed off the latest Living Dead Doll line-up. Looks like the bag on Jason's head may have inspired one of these babies. Check 'em out here.
New Photos of Devil's Rejects Action Figures The official Rob Zombie web site has posted eight photos of their new line of action figures based on the upcoming House of 1,000 Corpses sequel, The Devil's Rejects. Manufacturer NECA is the maker behind these figures. Click here to get a look.
Riding the Bullet Preview Fangoria has got a behind-the-scenes video showing some of the filming of Stephen King's Riding the Bullet. You can check it out here.
Filming Underway On An American Haunting Cinescape reports Dungeons & Dragons helmer Courtney Solomon is in Romania about to start filming his second feature and it involves one of America's most famous ghosts. Scheduled to start filming this week, An American Haunting stars Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy and Rachel Hurd-Wood and is based on the Bell Witch, the ghostly figure that is also the only spectral figure to be blamed for a person's death. Set in 19th century Tennessee, the film's story sees a teenage girl from a wealthy family haunted by a supernatural entity.
Solomon also wrote the screenplay for the picture which is based on Brent Monahan's book The Bell Witch: An American Haunting. The director/writer will also produce the film together with Christopher Milburn and Andre Rouleau.
October 16, 2004
Calling on the Really Scary Flick Fiends UPDATE: As always, you rule. The unanimous decision by all of you that e-mailed in about Sue's movie was that the flick is Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Kim Darby played the character who gets tugged down the stairs via her tied up feet by several mini-demons. Big thanks to all who dropped us a line!
Looking for you Really Scary movie geniuses -- Sue's dropped us a line and asks about a movie that goes a little bit like this:
I'm looking for a movie from the 70's (I think) about little people who drag people down the steps tied by their ankles with clothes line and say 'we'll get them in the morning.'
Drop us a line and let us know what this flick is and we'll pass it along to Sue.
Unrated Dawn of the Dead DVD Cover & Details Here's the DVD cover art and details for both the unrated and theatrical version of the upcoming Dawn of the Dead DVD releases. First up is the theatrical version featuring: 
- The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed - a dvd exclusive short film takes you deeper into the movie
- Special Bulletin: We Interrupt This Program! - see how broadcast newschannels handle the zombie invasion and the collapse of the world
- Undead Scenes with Commentary by Director Zack Snyder
- Surviving Dawn of the Dead
- Feature Commentary with Director Zack Snyder and Producer Eric Newman
- Over 12 minutes of deleted scenes
Next is Dawn of the Dead: Unrated Director's Cut:
- The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed
- Special Bulletin: We Interrupt This Program!
- Undead Scenes with Commentary by Director Zack Snyder
- Feature Commentary with Director Zack Snyder and Producer Eric Newman
- Raising the Dead - an in depth look at turning actors into undead killers
- Attack of the Living Dead - dissecting the films most memorable zombie kills
- Splitting Headaches: Anatomy of Exploding Heads
Classic Japanese Horror Film Series The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre presents "Black Cats and Haunted Castles - Classics of Japanese Horror and the Supernatural," October 29 - 31, 2004.
With the recent, astounding proliferation of Japanese horror and ghost films and attendant obsession for remakes by American studios, what better time than Halloween weekend to take a look at some of the earlier spine-tingling classics of Japanese cinema?
The series includes seven films from the 1960s through 1970. These kaidans ("stories of strange things") made in the golden age of the 1950s-1960s, were often set in-period and utilized age-old legends, folk tales or erotic/grotesque kabuki plays as their source material - yarns of disfigured, black-haired female ghosts wronged by their samurai lovers, tales of cat-ghost vampires, disembodied phantasms, female snow spirits and specters of murdered masseurs.
All screenings are at the newly renovated Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the historic Egyptian (6712 Hollywood Boulevard between Highland and Las Palmas) in Hollywood. For a complete listing of the films to be shown and full details, click here.
New Exclusive Clips for The Grudge We just got a note from the fine folks at iFilm, who've posted new exclusive clips for both The Grudge and Van Helsing. Click here for The Grudge clips and here for Van Helsing.
Rare Arkham House Collection on Exhibit An exhibit of rare Arkham House "horror fiction" books from the
Edward R. Leahy Collection will be on display in the University of
Scrnaton's Weinberg Memorial Library, Oct. 16, 2004, to Feb. 27, 2005.
The exhibit marks the first time that Mr. Leahy's private collection
of Arkham Books will be on public display. "For Love of the Craft:
Sixty-five Years of Arkham House" will include about 80 titles,
including H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsiders and Others, August Derleth's
The Memoirs of Solar Pons, Robert E. Howard's Skull-Face and Others,
and Bruce Sterling's Crystal Express.
Arkham House was originally founded
in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve and publish
the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
"For Love of the Craft: Sixty-five Years of Arkham House" will be on
display in the Heritage Room of the Weinberg Library. For more information, click here.
Fearless Tales Genre Fest Accepting Films San Francisco's Fearless Tales Genre Fest is now accepting submissions for the 2005 film festival. Submission is free before Oct. 31, 2004 and $25 before the deadline of Jan. 3, 2005. For more information, visit www.fearlesstales.com.
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October 15, 2004
New Line Working on Jonathan Strange Deal Variety reports New Line has made a pre-emptive deal for screen rights to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke's best-selling fantasy novel. Strange is set in 19th-century England and deals with a master practitioner of real magic and his apprentice, who share an uneasy alliance when they channel their powers in the war effort against Napoleon. It is the first novel by Clarke, a former cookbook editor at Simon & Schuster.
Clarke will be a producer on the film, along with Nick Marston. Strange will be produced through Cuba Pictures, a company formed as an offshoot of the British literary agency Curtis Brown, the trade paper reported. [Source: Sci Fi]
Sci Fi Channel Producing Darwin's Children The Sci Fi Channel is producing a miniseries about genetically altered births called Darwin's Children, Variety reports. The story deals with the advent of speeded-up evolution, which creates a new generation of superchildren called virus babies. The clash of generations leads to worldwide unrest and lots of new friends for Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment.
October 14, 2004
Ring 2 Trailer Online The first trailer for Ring 2 is live now at the official site. Check it out here. Make sure to click on the small circle down in the bottom lefthand side of the page.
X-Files Vet Bringing Kolchak Back Variety reports that veteran X-Files writer/producer Frank Spotnitz is spearheading a new version of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. The original ABC series starred Darren McGavin as a Chicago reporter who investigates monstrous phenomena, and despite running only one season from 1974-75 became a cult classic.
Spotnitz is preparing a weekly show for ABC and Touchstone Television. Spotnitz (who co-scripted the fifth-season "Travelers" episode of X-Files featuring McGavin, and is a former reporter himself), tells the trade, "The first [Night Stalker] TV movie is burned into my memory. It was a huge event at the time, and it was one of my favorite TV characters of all time. The chance to return to this character and find another great storytelling vehicle for smart, scary television was very appealing." On the other hand, he intends to improve on the subsequent original series, which wound up going in directions even McGavin disapproved of. "As much as I loved the TV movie, the series was not successful," Spotnitz notes. "I wouldn't expect a religiously faithful adaptation. I don't intend to repeat the same mistakes." [Source: Fangoria]
William Gibson Blogging Again William Gibson (Neuromancer) is blogging again. Here's his first blog addressing why:
"Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.
And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, "At times, to be silent is to lie."
October 13, 2004
Rob Tapert Talks 30 Days of Night Movie Sci Fi Wire reports Rob Tapert, who is producing the film adaptation of Steve Niles' supernatural graphic novel 30 Days of Night, said that the author has read the script and was pleased with its faithfulness to the original story. "Steve has read [screenwriter Stuart Beattie's] draft that we just turned in to the studio and thought it was the absolute best representation of the graphic novel," Tapert said. "So he was incredibly pleased. And right now we're just waiting for the studio to get back to us as to how they want to proceed there."
30 Days of Night is a vampire story set in the arctic circle, where it remains dark for a month each winter. Tapert is shepherding the project under the banner of Ghost House Pictures, the production company he formed with friend and partner Sam Raimi (Spider-Man). Though the company was formed with the idea of making quality low-budget horror films, Tapert said the exotic setting of 30 Days of Night will likely drive up the cost of production. "Because it was such an expensive process, such an expensive movie to make, all set in the snow, we-Ghost House and our partners at Senator Entertainment-partnered right away with Sony on it, because it was going to be a $50 or $60 or $70 million movie," Tapert said. "We know that they're very excited with having read it. I think we're going to meet in the coming week or so."
The Horror of Writing Workshop Raw Dog Screaming Press and Barnes & Noble are proud to present The Horror of Writing: The Thrill of Success and Failure - A Workshop on Horror Fiction and the Writing Life. This free event takes place Oct. 14 at the Annapolis Barnes & Noble.
Participants in this event (including Douglas Winter, Brian Keene, Matthew Warner and John Edward Lawson) will shed light on all aspects of the writing life. From how books are written to how they are published, from fans to family life, from inspiration to failure. The B&N number is 410-573-1115.
October 08, 2004
Kevin Williamson Producing Voodoo Pic Variety reports Dimension Films has cast Agnes Bruckner, Method Man, Bijou Phillips, D.J. Cotrona and Jonathan Jackson have joined Backwater, a voodoo horror tale in which teens run for their lives through the swamps of Louisiana. Shooting has already commenced in Louisiana. Kevin Williamson is producing.
Frankenstein Gets Positive Review Variety reviewed the upcoming USA Network Frankenstein retelling.
"Frankly, the idea of an updated Frankenstein -- offering a 'contemporary vision' and set in New Orleans -- sounded perfectly deadly. Yet this prototype for a possible series, combining The Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Marcus Nispel and The X-Files alum John Shiban, sparks to surprising life -- a moody, visually arresting piece reminiscent of the 1980s CBS series Beauty and the Beast. With USA still riding high off its summer performance with the less compelling The 4400, this latest sci-fi creation seems a suitable fit, assuming purists can get past liberties taken with the source material."
Click here for the entire review.
Delpy In Talks for Legend of Lucy Keyes Reuters reports Julie Delpy is in final negotiations for a starring role in Moody Street Pictures' psychological thriller The Legend of Lucy Keyes.
Massachusetts-based writer-director John Stimpson will direct the flick, which is inspired by a legend in central Massachusetts. The picture chronicles the chilling experiences of the Cooley family, who flee the city for a quieter life in rural New England. They move into a home where, 250 years earlier, the Keyes family's daughter disappeared in the nearby woods.
Production begins next month in Stimpson's hometown of Princeton, the site of the legendary tale.
"A lot of people from this region know about the legend," Stimpson said. "There have been unusual experiences involving what people claim to be the ghost of a young girl and her mother. The most amazing and truly chilling aspect of the legend is that local historical records revealing the truth of what happened to little Lucy Keyes were eventually discovered. The unnerving fate of Lucy Keyes and the thought of history repeating itself result in a very suspenseful and gripping story."
Ubisoft Publishing Darkworks' Cold Fear Ubisoft announced that it will publish Cold Fear, an action-horror title from Darkworks, developers of Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, the Game Spot Web site reported. Slated for release in March 2005 on the Xbox, PlayStation2 and PC game systems, the title will be the first Darkworks release in nearly four years.
The game follows the adventures of Tom Hansen, a U.S. Coast Guard officer who must explore and investigate a series of dark and stormy locations, including a seemingly abandoned Russian whaling ship and a mysterious oil rig. Ubisoft and Darkworks revealed few specific details about the game, but said that there will be both human and non-human enemies. [Source: Sci Fi Wire]
October 05, 2004
Bucket o' Trailers: Blade, MirrorMask, Riding the Bullet The long trailer for Blade Trinity is online at the Apple Trailers site now. They've also popped up the long version of the Lemony Snicket trailer.
Yahoo Movies have posted a couple of clips to Stephen King's Riding the Bullet and a quasi-trailer has been posted for MirrorMask from Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. We use quasi since it's really images from the film in a slideshow look and not really a moving trailer. The images look amazing though.
Korean Film Ryeong (The Ghost) Getting US Remake Variety reports Dimension Films has acquired the remake rights to the Korean horror film Ryeong (The Ghost) from Showbox. "The Ghost" revolves around a teenage girl suffering from amnesia who discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost.
The horror film genre is a huge homegrown industry in Korea, and Ryeong, directed by Tae-kyeong Kim, was the best-performing horror movie of the summer.
Vertigo Entertainment has become a specialist in remakes of Asian films, especially horror fare. The company executive produced DreamWorks' The Ring, which grossed $250 million worldwide, and is working on The Ring 2. The Grudge, its remake of the Japanese film Ju-on: The Grudge, stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and opens Oct. 22 via Sony Pictures. The company's Dark Water, starring Jennifer Connelly and directed by Walter Salles, just wrapped.
Variety Gives Positive Nod to Horror Flick "4" Variety gave a good review to the the Russian horror movie 4, saying "Opening sonic assault of '4' will unsettle even the most blase heavy metal or horror movie fan: Four claw hammers simultaneously smash the ground at earsplitting volume, barely missing a quartet of dozing dogs. Thereafter, this seriously weird pic has a few flat stretches, but its bawdy comedy, bravura sound design and uncanny atmosphere will turn on auds with a taste for deeply oddball fare and baffle others. Co-written by cult novelist Vladimir Sorokin, this debut feature by young Russian helmer Ilya Khrzhanovsky could gain acclaim through further exposure at adventurous fests." Click here for the full review.
Janet Leigh Dead at 77 Janet Leigh, best remembered for Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, died Sunday in Beverly Hills at age 77. Leigh, whose film career began in 1947 when she became a contract actress at MGM for $50 a week, also had notable starring roles in Touch of Evil with Orson Welles and in The Manchurian Candidate with Frank Sinatra. Her daughters by Tony Curtis, actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis, along with her current husband, Robert Brandt, were at her bedside when she died of complications from a vascular disease, according to a publicist.
October 01, 2004
Atari Launches Godzilla.com Sci Fi Wire reports Atari has launched Godzilla.com, the official Web site for Godzilla: Save The Earth, the upcoming online-enabled monster-on-monster fighting game for Xbox and PlayStation2. The Web site contains game-related information, screenshots and movies from the upcoming title, and also serves as the hub for the worldwide Godzilla fan base.
Godzilla.com will also feature original footage, a new 90-second official trailer and an online store where fans can preorder the game. The site will serve as a central hub of information for all worldwide Godzilla merchandise and products from a variety of licensees including Toho Co., Bandai and Columbia Tri-Star. Godzilla: Save The Earth ships to retail stores Nov. 2.
Takashi Miike Latest Releases & More Here's the latest on tap for the US from ArtsMagic. Check back with us here for reviews of some of these titles.
September 28th
Kichiku Dai Enkai
DIRECTOR: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
A.Li.Ce
DIRECTOR: Kenichi Maejima
October 26th
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Direcor: Takashi Miike
Young Thugs: Nostalgia
Director: Takashi Miike
November
Bird People In China
Director: Takashi Miike
Blue Remains
Directors - Toshifumi Taizawa & Hisaya Takabayashi
Januray
Nine Souls
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Bullet Ballet
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
February
Angel Guts The Complete Nikatsu Series.
March
The Fire Within
Director: Rokuro Mochizuki
April
Embalming
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Wild Life
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Dellamorte, Trauma & More DVDs from Anchor Bay Dread Central hosted a chat with DVD gurus Anchor Bay and reported on some upcoming stuff including that Anchor Bay is prepping a Special Edition of Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore (a.k.a. Cemetery Man). Dread reported that a 20th Century Fox representative, in a chat at another site in 2003, claimed that they would have a U.S. disc in stores sometime this fall. Now it appears that Anchor Bay has worked out an agreement to release it themselves, or perhaps it's part of the Bay's recent deal with Fox.
A few other DVDs to be on the watch for are Dario Argento's Trauma (the company is working to get the best and longest version of the film possible; they've also spoken to Tom Savini, who says he has hours of behind-the-scenes footage that may make it into this Special Edition); Dario Argento's new flick Card Player; Mick Garris' Quicksilver Highway; Class of 1984; Bad Dreams; Visiting Hours; the post-apocalyptic thriller Damnation Alley; a new edition of George Romero's Season of the Witch; and The Entity (soon to be remade by Ringu's Hideo Nakata). Click here for more from Dread.
Details on Hellraiser Collection Graphic Novel Checker Book Publishing is adding to its beautifully produced Clive Barker graphic novels with Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best III. Released in September, this one includes work from Larry Wachowski (writer), Bernie Wrightson (illustrator) and of course Barker.
With more than 340 Full Color Pages, the third anthology also features John Bolton, Colleen Doran, John Van Fleet and Dan Spiegle. It features a massive 340 pages (15 stories), including the complete fully illustrated Hellraiser gallery art from the original Epic publications.
The stories included are: In these Blue Depths Lie Hell, The Sweet Science, Later, Firetrap, Birth Rite, Angels to some Demons to others, Under the Knife, I in the Pyramid, Glitter and Go, Closets, The Tontine, To Prepare a Face, Diver's Hands, The Warm Red. Click here for more details and look at the cover.
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