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September 21, 2006
Nightmare of Elm Street Contest In celebration of the 9/26 infinifilm DVD release of the A Nightmare On Elm Street, New Line invites you to share your nightmare with the world! Using the clips provided, splice together your most terrifying trailer (up to 2 min). One grand prize winner will receive $500, a collection of horror DVDs, and their trailer featured on the official site. See official rules for details, and enter by going here.
Saw III Trailer Here are links to the new Saw III trailer. Saw III hits theaters Oct. 27:
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Horror Genre Loses Legendary Writer/Editor Legendary horror writer and editor Charles L. Grant died of a heart attack Sept. 15 at the age of 64. Grant is survived by his wife of 24 years, Kathryn Ptacek of Newton; his brother, John C. Grant of Washington, New Jersey; a son, Ian M. Grant and his wife Caroline of Juneau, Alaska; a daughter, Emily Stalnaker and her husband Aaron of Akron, Ohio; two grandchildren, Payton M. Grant and Aaron Robert Stalnaker; and many cousins.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Charles L. Grant Memorial Fund, which will be established to help further the careers of young writers and editors of fantasy and horror fiction.
Click here for an indepth obituary from Hellnotes.
Nightmare Academy Writer Inks Monster Deal Variety reports Arrested Development co-exec producer Dean Lorey has made a seven-figure, three-book deal with HarperCollins Children's Books for a fantasy series that starts with Nightmare Academy.
Deal comes a month after Lorey's novel sold to Universal for a live-action film that The Mummy director Steve Sommers will produce with his Sommers Co. partner Bob Ducsay. Lorey is writing the script. Deal was for high six figures.
The novel introduces a boy who learns his bad dreams are opening portals that allow dangerous creatures into the world.
Jolie Signs On for Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Ok, we admit that this isn't horror news but it does have to do with an amazing book and we already know that the Really Scary crowd is a cerebral one so we wanted to pass this along...oh yea, and it involves a severe hottie. Variety reports Angelina Jolie is set to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's iconic tome Atlas Shrugged for Lionsgate.
Jolie, a longtime fan of Rand's, was eager to play the role of Dagney Taggart, the most powerful female character in any of Rand's books.
A movie version of the Russian-born author's novel, which runs more than 1,100 pages, has been long in the making. For years, producer Al Ruddy tried to bring Atlas Shrugged to the bigscreen, attracting the interest of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway along the way.
September 19, 2006
Superman Scribe Directing Trick 'r Treat Reuters reports Hollywood scribe Mike Dougherty, one-half of the writing duo behind Superman Returns and X2: X-Men United, will make his feature directorial on the horror movie Trick 'r Treat.
The Warner Bros. release will have four interwoven stories that take place on Halloween with such characters as a staid high school principal who is a Halloween serial killer, a college-age virgin seeking that special guy, a woman who hates dressing up for Halloween and whose husband is obsessed with the holiday, and a group of teens who pull a cruel prank.
While filmmaker deals are still being finalized and no cast is in place, the movie has a tentative release date of October 5, 2007. A fall shoot in Vancouver is being eyed.
Lionsgate Joins Sony/Comcast in Fearnet Variety reports Lionsgate has come aboard Fearnet, the horror-themed video-on-demand co-venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Comcast that's set to launch Oct. 31.
Partnership, said to be in the final stages of negotiation, marries the two biggest producers of horror films to the first network dedicated to the genre. Fearnet is the first VOD offering to emerge from Comcast and Sony, created to draw on the thousands of movies and series brought together from the libraries of Columbia Pictures and MGM in the wake of the Sony/MGM merger.
Through the new deal, channel gets a lock on Lionsgate's immense library of scare pics. Lionsgate has been looking for a focused TV partner to help exploit its library of over 1,000 horror titles -- which include recent hits Saw and Hostel -- since last year.
The movies and series will be free to Comcast's digital subscribers. Company will make money from advertising and from license fees ponied up by other cable ops.
September 03, 2006
Sarah Michelle Gellar in Addicted KillerMovies reports Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed to star in the Hitchcockian thriller Addicted. The feature, helmed by Swedish filmmakers Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist, follows a woman whose husband and brother-in-law both end up in a coma after an accident. When the brother awakes, claiming to be her husband, she must try to understand the reality, suspecting something more sinister is at work. The project is slated for an October production start.
Angela Bettis Signing On for Scar Variety reports (via KillerMovies) Angela Bettis is set to star in Scar. Directed by Jed Weintrob, Scar follows a young woman who returns to her small hometown for her niece's high-school graduation. In town she is still remembered as the sole survivor of a serial killer's spree and as the person who managed to kill the murderer. Upon her arrival, the killings resume. The project is slated to begin shooting Oct. 3rd in Calgary.
"Do you know what's Really Scary? You want to forget something. Totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can't go away, you see. And... and it follows you around like a ghost."
--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.'
--Geoffrey Rush, House on Haunted Hill
'Wanna see something Really Scary?'
--Dan Aykroyd, Twilight Zone The Movie
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