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December 21, 2006
House on Haunted Hill Helmer Gets Parasomnia Variety reports principal photography has begun on Parasomnia, a horror thriller from writer-director William Malone (House on Haunted Hill) financed by Rising Storm Prods.Cast includes Cherilyn Wilson, Dylan Purcell, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jeffrey Combs, Timothy Bottoms, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jeff Doucette and Dov Tiefenbach. Malone is directing from his own screenplay.
Wilson plays a woman who suffers from a medical condition called parasomnia, brought on by a childhood accident, which causes her to sleep her life away, waking briefly on rare occasions. Labels: horror movies, House on Haunted Hill, Parasomnia
December 18, 2006
Weinsteins Nab Rights to Nightmare Detective According to The Hollywood Reporter (via Fango), The Weinstein Company has picked up the North American rights to Nightmare Detective, the latest offering by Japanese maverick director Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo).
The Weinsteins will handle the movie for Britain, Australia and New Zealand as well; what their release plans are, or whether they plan to sit on the film and remake it in English as some have speculated, have yet to be announced.
Scheduled to open in Japan Jan. 13, Nightmare Detective stars Ryuhei Matsuda in the title role, attempting to get to the bottom of a pair of mysterious suicides with the help of a man who can enter the dreams of others.Labels: horror movies, Japanese Horror, Nightmare Detective
Third Resident Evil Installment The Last? Up til now, it has been generally thought that Constantin Film and Impact Pictures were at work on a fourth Resident Evil installment to begin shooting even before the third one entitled Extinction hits cinemas late next year.
Now according to Coming Soon (via Dark Horizons), a new official synopsis released apparently indicates Extinction will be the third and final installment.
Here's the synopsis:
"The third and final installment of the $100 million Resident Evil hits, Resident Evil: Extinction is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the last film left off.
Alice (Milla Jovovich), now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps), along with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead...and to seek justice.
Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive."
Del Toro to Helm New Take on Tarzan? Variety reports (via SciFi.com) Warner Brothers is in negotiations with director Guillermo del Toro to helm a new take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan character for the big screen.
Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) grew up reading Spanish-language translations of Burroghs' books and feels that the classic themes are still compelling, the trade paper reported. Del Toro also sees that there is new ground to cover in the Tarzan mythology by turning back to the original Burroughs prose. Pan's Labyrinth opens Dec. 29. Del Toro is in preproduction on Hellboy 2.
Tim Burton's Believe It or Not Back On Track Variety reports Paramount Pictures has resurrected shelved pic Ripley's Believe It or Not!, hiring Steve Oedekerk to overhaul the script. Remaining in place are Jim Carrey as Ripley and Tim Burton as director, both of whom approved Oedekerk.
Studio is eyeing a winter 2008 production start in China and a 2009 release date.
One of the most ambitious and pricey pictures hatched by the new Paramount regime, Ripley's was postponed months before its fall production start. Execs made that move because they faced the prospect of a China shoot with a budget north of $150 million, when Burton and especially Carrey were still coming up with ideas that necessitated a significant rewrite of the script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
December 06, 2006
Mary Poppins Does Horror Really Scary-ite Diane sent along one of the greatest movie trailer reworks we've ever seen. Check out Disney redone into horror with "Scary Mary" - click here.
Italian Serial-Killer Bestseller Gettting Film Variety reports helmer Jon Avnet is readying I Kill, a serial-killer thriller based on an Italian bestseller of the same name.
Avnet has almost finished penning the final draft of the script, reworking a first draft by Italo helmer-scribe Davide Ferrario. Pic will be produced by Aurelio De Laurentiis and son Luigi De Laurentiis Jr. under their Filmauro banner.
Monte Carlo-set tale, in which the killer always calls a radio deejay to request a song in theme with his next slaying, is due to start shooting next year on the Cote d'Azur.
"The book is Italy's biggest bestseller of the past few years," De Laurentiis Jr. said.
Spielberg & TNT Teaming for Stephen King's Talisman Variety reports Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV are reteaming with TNT to exec produce a six-hour adaptation of Stephen King-Peter Straub adventure novel The Talisman.
Tentpole event has been greenlit for a summer 2008 debut.
Story follows a man's perilous journey to find a mysterious talisman that holds the key to saving his mother's life. His travels take him into a parallel universe in which he is forced to battle demonic forces.
Move breathes new life into the long-gestating project, which Spielberg has been trying to produce for a number of years. Talisman had been set up as a DreamWorks feature with Ed Zwick last attached to direct, but that effort was scrapped over budget and creative concerns. Prior to that, the project had been developed as a four-hour miniseries for ABC.
Kathleen Kennedy and Ehren Kruger (The Ring) will exec produce with Spielberg. Kruger will also write the adaptation.
"There is no one better to do this than Steven. If you look at the canon of his films, from 'Empire of the Sun' to 'A.I.,' he's mastered the story of young boys on a quest," said TNT/TBS senior veep of programming Michael Wright.
"Talisman" marks TNT's third adaptation of a King work. Cabler most recently produced the summer anthology Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King and, before that, the TV movie Salem's Lot.
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