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January 27, 2008
Gilliam Looking at Johnny Depp to Replace Heath Ledger? Sci Fi Wire found a rumor printed in the British tabloid The Sun saying director Terry Gilliam is looking to Johnny Depp to take over the role played by late actor Heath Ledger in the currently shooting fantasy film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Ledger was six weeks away from finishing his work on the film when he was found dead in a New York apartment on Jan. 22.
"There is a point in the film when Heath falls through a magic mirror," a studio source told the paper. "He could change into another character after that, and that is where Johnny would come in. It's a weird, fantasy, time-travel movie, so Heath's character could easily change appearance. It would be a poignant moment. Johnny’s not working at the moment, so everyone is praying he will do it."
January 26, 2008
Romero's Diary of the Dead Debut Cities The George Romero Diary of the Dead MySpace page has listed the theaters that will film will debut in. Click here to check out the list. Set to open Feb. 15, the flick's been getting great buzz from Cannes and looks to be the "don't miss horror film" this year.
Dimension Delays Hellraiser Remake Over Screenplay Concerns Dimension has delayed the release of their Hellraiser remake until 2009 and according to Bloody Disgusting, the reason for the delay is they weren't completely happy with Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's screenplay and have decided to take the film to other writers. The French duo is still attached to helm the pic.
Paul Thomas Anderson Considering Horror for Next Film Bloody Disgusting reports Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) is considering making his next project a horror film. It's always welcome news when one of the truly brilliant directors out there considers our beloved genre. We'll keep an ear out for more.
January 16, 2008
Brad Renfro Dead at 25 The New York Times reports rad Renfro, the former child star who played a witness to a mob lawyer's suicide in the 1994 legal thriller The Client and a suburban youth tutored in evil by an elderly Nazi war criminal in the 1998 film Apt Pupil, was found dead Tuesday morning in his Los Angeles home. He was 25.
Mr. Renfro's girlfriend discovered his body, and the Los Angeles Police Department did not suspect foul play, The Los Angeles Times reported.
In recent years, Renfro was known as much for his legal troubles as for his acting career. He was charged with marijuana and cocaine possession in 1998, avoiding jail because of a plea bargain, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Renfro was an admitted heroin and methadone user who was photographed being arrested by Los Angeles police officers during a Christmas 2005 sweep of that city's Skid Row. He was sentenced to three years' probation for attempted possession of heroin and entered a drug rehabilitation program.
Pet Sematary Director Talks About The Attic IF Magazine interviews Mary Lambert, director of Pet Sematary, on her latest foray back into helming horror with The Attic. She discusses working on a low budget (less than a million) flick, shooting a feature-length flick in hi-def and her buddy DeeDee Ramone, who wrote the Pet Sematary song for her. Check it out here.
TCM Airing Val Lewton Documentary Tonight The documentary on film producer Val Lewton narrated by Martin Scorsese premiers tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 8 p.m. It is called "Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows" and it was directed by Kent Jones.
The documentary depicts the producer as one of the few producers on Hollywood with a vision of an artist.
His works includes horror movies like: “The Curse of the Cat People,” “The Leopard Man,” “I Walked With a Zombie” and “Isle of the Dead” which were seen as B-movies for their low budget. Due to the human dramas of the characters the movies endured the test of time.
At the time they were made the movies weren’t seen as horror movies because of their lack of monsters or blood spilling. Click here for more on Lewton from eFlux Media.
Classic 50s TV Host Vampira Dies KCRA reports Maila Nurmi, whose alter-ego Vampira was a spooky and sexy television personality of the 1950s, has died. Nurmi was 85. She created her Vampira character to host horror movies on television in Los Angeles in 1954.
Nurmi wore a revealing black dress and fishnet stockings, and pasted on blood-red lipstick and dark mascara as she introduced films like "Revenge of the Zombies" and "Devil Bat's Daughter."
"The Vampira Show" was canceled after about a year, but Nurmi remained a cult figure among B-movie buffs and is thought to have inspired Morticia Addams on "The Addams Family," which premiered about 10 years later. Nurmi also had starring roles in a few films, most notably as Vampire Girl in director Ed Wood's grade-Z horror film cult classic "Plan 9 from Outer Space," which starred film icon Bela Lugosi and pro wrestler Tor Johnson. Actress Lisa Marie played Vampira in the 1994 Tim Burton-directed biopic "Ed Wood," which chronicled Wood's films, including "Plan 9."
In 1989, Nurmi lost a $10 million lawsuit that said Cassandra Peterson's character, Elvira, was pirated from Vampira.
"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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