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December 30, 2005
Clips & PSP Stuff from The Cave We have an absolute boatload of clips from and behind-the-scenes of Sony's flick The Cave. You can also pick up some tie-ins for the PSP. Check 'em out below:
Click here to download clips and wallpapers for your PSP. And you can visit the site on your PSP at http://www.cave4psp.com.
Really Scary First Look: Zodiac Here's a couple of pics from Zodiac, the flick from David Fincher (Seven & Fight Club) based on the true story of the serial killer who terrified San Francisco and was never captured.
The movie from Paramount stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Edwards. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues provided by the taunting killer. It's set to hit theaters Fall 2006.
See No Evil Trailer On Hostel Theatrical Release PW Insider reports the trailer to pro wrestler Kane's horror movie See No Evil will be playing before Eli Roth's Hostel, which opens Jan. 6. See No Evil, the first WWE Films production to be released, will be released by Lion's Gate May 19.
O.C. Star Producing Vampire Series for NBC Adam Brody (The O.C.) is going behind the camera with plans to develop an NBC drama that centers on a rookie cop who joins a special unit of the LAPD that tracks the vampire population. Brody will serve as an executive producer of the untitled project, which has received a script commitment from the network.
December 28, 2005
House of Usher & Rocky Horror Preserved Genre flicks House of Usher and The Rocky Horror Picture Show are among the 25 movies picked this year for the National Film Registry, a compilation of significant films being preserved by the Library of Congress.
The 2005 selections bring to 425 the total number of films being preserved by the Library of Congress or other institutions involved in the project. (See entire list here.)
Half the movies made before 1950, and 80 percent to 90 percent of those produced before 1920, have disappeared. More are lost each year, partly because of the recently discovered "vinegar syndrome" that attacks the safety film used to preserve most of them.
December 26, 2005
Famed Character Actor Vincent Schiavelli Dies at 57 BBC reports actor Vincent Schiavelli, renowned for his eccentric roles in such films as One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Ghost, has died.
Italian officials said the New York-born Schiavelli, 57, died at his home in a village in Sicily after a battle with lung cancer. Genre work credits included Blade Runner, Lord of Illusions and Batman Returns.
Night of the Living Dead Remake in 3-D? Cinematical reports a new German film company is working on a remake of George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead. The difference this time around? It'll be in 3-D.
Lux Digital Pictures is currently shopping the film to international distributors, in which the budget is said to fall in the $2 million range. With a script written by Robert Valding, producer/direcor Jeff Broadstreet describes the film as a "homage" to George Romero's classic film.
King Kong Takes Narrow Lead in Holiday Box Office According to preliminary figures, King Kong climbed to the top of the Christmas weekend box office. Peter Jackson's re-remake of the 1933 fright flick classic is expected to gross 31.4 million dollars in the four-day period from Friday to Monday, boosting its domestic take in two weeks since its release to 118.7 million dollars.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe remained in second place, grossing about 30.1 million dollars.
December 18, 2005
Gellar Signs On for Grudge 2 Sarah Michelle Gellar has officially signed on for the follow-up to her 2004 horror flick The Grudge. According to trade reports, Gellar will reprise her role as an American exchange student who came in contact with the ghostly force while serving as a caretaker to a woman in a haunted house. But for the second go-round, Gellar won't get too much face time, which makes sense since her character seemed doomed at the end of the first flick.
Instead, her character is expected to turn up briefly in the beginning to pass the curse onto the next hapless innocent lead in the movie - a part that has yet to be cast.
Takashi Shimizu, who wrote and directed the original 2003 Japanese frightfest Ju-On and the shot-for-shot Gellar-fronted Hollywood remake, is returning to helm The Grudge 2. He will cowrite the script with Stephen Susco, his collaborator on the first Grudge.
The sequel will be distributed by Columbia Pictures and produced by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider-Man) and his partner at Ghost House Pictures, Rob Tapert, in association with Mandate Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment.
"The union of Sarah's innocent girl-next-door persona and Shimizu's twisted Eastern perspective should spawn another original and terrifying tale for the audience," Raimi tells the Hollywood Reporter.
Gellar has a number of big-screen projects in the pipeline, including the thriller The Return, due out next year. The Grudge 2 starts shooting in Tokyo next month and will hit theaters just before Halloween in October 2006.
Toronto Hosting 2007 World Horror Convention For the first time in its seventeen-year history, The World Horror Convention is being held outside the United States. With a theme exploring "The Diversity of Horror," World Horror Convention 2007 will take place from March 29-April 1 in Toronto, Canada.
"I am absolutely delighted that the 2007 convention has been awarded to Toronto," says Chairperson Amanda Foubister. "Toronto is a major international city - like London, Paris and New York - and holding it here will have all the benefits of those locations. Our programme will be multinational, but we will also bring a uniquely Canadian flavour to the World Horror Convention."
The first Guest of Honor to be announced is British writer Michael Marshall Smith, author of Spares and The Straw Men trilogy (under the byline "Michael Marshall"). More guests from both sides of the Atlantic will be revealed in the coming months
Clips from Hostel Screening in LA We got a few clips from the Hostel screening in LA last week. The first clip is Quentin Tarantino talking about the film and Eli Roth, and the second clip is a cast Q&A. Check 'em out below!
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December 09, 2005
Peter Jackson Asks del Toro to Direct Halo Empire magazine reports Peter Jackson has approached Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro to helm the movie adaptation of the best-selling videogame, Halo. However, del Toro is torn between committing to the Universal movie, or reuniting with his favourite comic character for Hellboy 2.
About the Hellboy sequel script, del Toro says, "It's going really good. It's about the fairy world and the mythical creatures all rebelling against humanity and saying it's the end of mankind and it's the season for the sons of the Earth. And basically Hellboy has to try to repress or suppress that rebellion."
Sounds good. Perlman and the rest of the original cast - including Selma Blair, Doug Jones, David Hyde-Pierce and Rupert Evans - are all coming back, while Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is also on board. "He should be reading the screenplay right now," laughed Guillermo.
But Hellboy 2 is still awaiting the big greenlight, before filming can take place. "We're budgeting," said del Toro. "I'm very much looking forward to it. I wanna do it. It's still on the front burner, but it's all about budget."
On the back burner, but very much in Guillermo's thinking, is Halo, a game that, with its fully realized alien worlds and bizarre creatures, is after del Toro's own heart.
"Well, Halo is very much an interesting project because it's so full of monsters," he said. "It's a big temptation. I'm in talks with them [Universal and Bungie Films] and Peter, but it's not true that it's on and Hellboy's off. Hellboy's on. If everything goes as planned, Hellboy will go."
If Hellboy 2 happens, or takes some time to go, it's possible Halo could go somewhere else. "The ideal for me would be to do Hellboy 2 and if Halo doesn't go away, then yeah, I'd love to do both. But it may go to somebody else. We'll see."
Currently del Toro is in Madrid working on post-production for his new Spanish-language fantasy film, Pan's Labyrinth.
December 06, 2005
Night Watch Given New U.S. Release Date Fangoria reports the Russian horror/fantasy Night Watch has been given a new U.S. release date of Feb. 17, 2006. Originally slated to open last summer, Night Watch is the first of a trilogy of features based on novels by Sergei Lukyanenko about the Night Watch and Day Watch, opposing forces who do supernatural battle on the streets of Moscow. It was directed by Timur Bekmambetov, who encores on the sequel Day Watch, which opens soon in Russia.
Saw Horror Movie Producer Dies at 42 LA Times reports Gregg Hoffman, producer Saw and Saw II, died early Sunday at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been admitted overnight after complaining of neck pain, his business partners said. He was 42.
Hoffman died of natural causes, according to a news release issued Monday from Lions Gate Entertainment, which distributed Hoffman's recent films. An autopsy is pending.
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--Eun-ju, A Tale of Two Sisters
'Well, we need to nip this thing in the
bud. I mean, otherwise, things are going to get Really Scary.'
--Cordelia Chase, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
'From here on, it gets Really Scary.'
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