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Paramount Exploring Micro-Budget Filmmaking
2 hours ago
Given the enormous success of Paranormal Activity the studio who ushered the little movie that could into the spotlight is now seeking more young talent who have something truly special to offer.
According to Variety "Paramount's launching an initiative that will spend $1 million annually to develop and produce microbudget films.
Move, unveiled Thursday, is designed to place between 10 and 20 projects in development by the end of next year, with no individual budget topping $100,000.
Paramount Film Group prexy Adam Goodman, promoted to the slot in June, cooked up the plan in the successful wake of "Paranormal," made for $15,000 and grossing more than $100 million domestically.
Goodman indicated the funds, which will come out of the studio's overall production budget, will be targeted at both unknowns and established filmmakers, with the goal of increasing the studio's ability to find new voices and ideas. In addition, the initiative's aimed at giving Paramount a more
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Bryce Dallas Howard Headed Toward the Hereafter
3 hours ago
Yet another actor is headed toward the light of Clint Eastwood's upcoming foray into the supernatural. Bryce Dallas Howard is joining Matt Damon in the thriller Hereafter.
The casting news came courtesy of Variety, which also fleshed out a bit more about the film's plot:
"Hereafter, penned by Peter Morgan, tells the story of three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways. Hereafter is produced by Eastwood, Kathleen Kennedy and Robert Lorenz. Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Peter Morgan and Tim Moore are the exec producers."
Filming is taking place in Paris, London, Hawaii and San Francisco. The film is slated for a theatrical release in December of 2010. Look for more soon.
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New Dread Images Shows Off the Ladies
3 hours ago
One of the bright spots of next year's After Dark Horrorfest (or should we say dark spots?) will no doubt be Anthony Diblasi's big screen adaptation of Clive Barker's Dread (review here). Three new images from the flick surfaced tonight showing off some eye candy and of course we got the goods for ya.
The images come coutesy of the official Dread Facebook page, where you'll find the final one-sheet and several other photos and extras. New things will be added on a regular basis until the film's release through After Dark Films on January 29th, 2010.
Dread is a psychological thriller centering on three college students who study other people’s fears. As the study progresses, one of the students begins to seek salvation from his obsession by exploiting the terrors of his fellow participants.
Click on the image below to see the rest!
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Uncle Creepy's Blu Christmas Buyer's Guide 2009
3 hours ago
Note: This Will Be Posted At The Top Of Our Headlines Throughout The Weekend! Happy Shopping! With the holiday shopping season officially upon us, I figured it might be a good idea to start making some recommendations for the lucky horror-loving folks on your lists!
Blu-ray players once again are going to be pretty hot items this year, but what of the movies available for them? If you already own the DVD of your favorite flick, is there a need to replace it with a Blu-ray? I'm here to answer all of your questions in the second annual ...
Before we get into my picks, let's take a second to explain how I rated them. They're broken down into three categories:
Can't Miss -- Must Haves: These are the cream of the crop! The purchases that are guaranteed to bring a smile to someone's face. Items no one with the tech should be without.
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Natalie Portman & Lionsgate Bringing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to the Big Screen
5 hours ago
A few different ideas have been bouncing around as to how best to adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith's zombified version of Jane Austen's classic tale: a feature film or a multi-part TV series? Now that names like Natalie Portman, Richard Kelly, and Lionsgate are attached to the theatrical alternative, it seems to be the obvious choice.
Variety reports that Portman will star in and produce 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' through her HandsomeCharlie shingle with Annette Savitch, plus Darko Films’ Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick, and Ted Hamm. Lionsgate will finance and distribute.
Described as an expanded version of the Austen classic, the book tells the timeless story of a woman’s quest for love and independence amid the outbreak of a deadly virus that turns the undead into vicious killers. Portman will play feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet, who is distracted from her quest to eradicate
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- Uncle Creepy
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Drawing on Your Nightmares: Nihilism and Horror
11 hours ago
I’m sorry to have gone delinquent on my posts here, because this has been a crazy year for me and horror. My Solomon Kane series "The Castle of the Devil" was well received, and I pushed that adventure story about as far as I could, with the help of Mario Guevara’s macabre visuals. I made it to Crypticon in Seattle and met Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Atkins, toured the sites where the Green River Killer’s victims were found, and read and watched as much horror as I could get my hands on.
As my previous posts show, I’m a little old-fashioned, though not completely retro. I’m writing this while watching The Ring (in this case I buy American) and dying to see the final episode of "Dexter" season four this weekend, and the last comic I read was the new issue of Hack/Slash from
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Bitch Slap Girls Gone Wild
11 hours ago
Lord knows, we'd like to bitch slap a lot of the folks we see on "Girls Gone Wild" but that's a different story! What we're taking about here is a brand new yet strikingly familiar promotional video for the new flick Bitch Slap.
"The Bitch Slap girls have gone wild! See these gorgeous girls battle tooth and nail for the ultimate quest for fortune and power. Just like your favorite late-night commercials watch as Trixie (Julia Voth), Hel (Erin Cummings), and Camero (America Olivo) apply suntan lotion and pillow fight half-naked."
Freestyle, Im Global, and Epic Slap will premiere Bitch Slap in theaters and VOD January 8, 2009.
Synopsis
Bitch Slap is a post-modern, thinking man’s throwback to the B-movie exploitation films of the 1950’s-70’s as well as a loving, sly parody of the same. Inspired by the likes of Dragstrip Girl; Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill; Kung Fu Nun; and the pantheon of Blaxploitation films,
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- Uncle Creepy
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Ridin' High with Second Official Clash of the Titans One-Sheet
13 hours ago
The second official one-sheet for Louis Leterrier's version of the creature-laden classic Clash of the Titans hit online, and it's sure to put a little air under your wings!
Synopsis
"Helpless to save his family from Hades (Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous journey deep into forbidden worlds. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he can accept his power as a god, defy his fate, and create his own destiny."
Look for this classic tale to hit theatres March 26, 2010.
Check out the one-sheet below courtesy of Yahoo! Movies!
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Solomon Kane Clip Takes Us to the Hall of Mirrors
13 hours ago
Michael J. Bassett's Solomon Kane still doesn't have a firm Us release date, but that's not stopping the film's producers from pulling out all the stops to get their product in front of as many eyes as possible. And today they've provided us with a nicely creepy clip entitled "Hall of Mirrors".
Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist), Pete Postlethwaite (The Omen remake), Rachel Hurd-Wood (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), and Alice Krige (Silent Hill) all star in the strange tale of a 16th Century Puritan tormented by his past evils.
Synopsis
The first part in a trilogy series, Solomon Kane is an epic adventure adapted from the classic pulp stories by Robert E. Howard, creator of "Conan the Barbarian." Solomon Kane (James Purefoy) is a 16th Century soldier who learns that his brutal and cruel actions have damned him. Determined to redeem himself, Kane swears to live a
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It's Like Twilight With Fallen Angels
13 hours ago
Fallen is designed to be the first in a four-part book series that is just like Twilight but with a troubled teenage girl torn between two studly rival fallen angels. Someone at Disney must have been given marching orders to find the studio its own Twilight franchise because, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the company just snatched up the movie rights to Fallen, a book only published two days ago.
You have to laugh when Hollywood tries reproducing the success of a megahit. How many failed fantasy films have already come and gone in the wake of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter? Often these Asylum-ish mockbusters get announced but never come to fruition. Like the story I once heard about from back in '99 when some highly creative filmmakers got the greenlight for their movie pitch Hindenburg that would have been just like Titanic in the sky except
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New Stills: YellowBrickRoad
14 hours ago
Everyone has that one road in their home towns or cities. You know the one you just don't go down and avoid at all costs? Three new stills have surfaced for YellowBrickRoad in anticipation of its debut at Slamdance '10, and we have them for you without the peril caused by all those nasty twists and turns!
Written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, YellowBrickRoad stars Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, and Alex Draper.
Check out the synopsis, the new stills, and trailer below.
Synopsis
One morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No one knows why.
A search party dispatched by the U.
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- Uncle Creepy
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Platinum Dunes' Friday the 13th Part II Up in the Air
15 hours ago
For some reason, the Internet community bought into the unsubstantiated rumor that Platinum Dunes is pushing ahead with its Friday the 13th sequel for a target release date of August 13, 2010, despite refutes from Pd frontman Brad Fuller. Today we’ve got more evidence that it’s not to be expected this summer, and that’s probably a good thing.
Box Office Mojo has stamped the upcoming sequel with a vague "Tbd" date, meaning we don’t have any idea when to expect it.
It’s a good sign, however. If the powers-that-be at Platinum Dunes really want to avoid another 80% drop in business, they're going to have to come up with something a little better than what they served us the last time. Rushing through production isn’t the way to do that. My hope is that they’ve taken the criticism to heart and their approach will fall in
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Saw VII in 3D Gets a Release Date
15 hours ago
Hot off the box office disappointment of Saw VI, Lionsgate is surely eager to cash in on the fast-sinking ship that is the Saw franchise. So eager, in fact, that they’ve announced a release date for their 3D sequel.
According to the studio, Saw VII will open on October 22, 2010, an unsurprising move considering the release history of this series. As you know, Saw V director Dave Hackl will be taking back the reigns for Jigsaw’s 3D adventure which, I have to admit, has me fairly curious.
The last entry was a promising one, and the ending – for the first time – has me interested to see where Marcus and Patrick will swing the series next.
Plus, Mandylor rules.
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New Splice Stills Show Off More Monster
15 hours ago
More stills for Vincenzo Natali's monster opus Splice have surfaced today in celebration of the film's upcoming Sundance run, and we have them for you all stuffed into a tight set of genes.
The flick, starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, David Hewlett, and Brandon McGibbon, tells the tale of Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists who defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named Dren, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
Check out the stills below, and look for more on Splice soon!
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Sons of Anarchy Star Talks About His Vlad Script
15 hours ago
You may recognize Charlie Hunnam as Jax in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy, but who knew the guy was also a budding screenwriter? His first script, Vlad, is currently lined up to be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Summit Entertainment, and we have some information pertaining to the approach the writer/actor is taking with the material.
The Hollywood Insider sat down with Hunnam to talk about Vlad, which will begin with him as a young man assuming the role of prince. ”We actually go all the way through his life. Basically what happened was, the Ottoman Empire was expanding at an exponentially fast rate with a father-son duo of sultans, who increased the size of their territory tenfold within 50 years.”
Eventually the film will focus on the rivalry between brothers, Vlad and Radu, using the backdrop of their conflicting religious upbringings (Christian and Muslim) as a background.
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New Stills: Ryan Reynolds is Buried Alive
16 hours ago
Director Rodrigo Cortes has had the dubious honor of doing what many fans of the Blade film series wanted to do after seeing Blade: Trinity -- bury Ryan Reynolds alive! That's just what he did in his latest film, Buried, which is set to make its debut at Sundance, and we've got some new and very claustrophobic stills for you!
Buried stars Ryan Reynolds as a U.S. contractor working in Iraq who awakens to find that he has been buried alive inside of a coffin. Armed with only a lighter and a cell phone, it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap before he runs out of air.
Check out the new stills below, and look for more on Buried really soon!
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Dear Mr. Gacy Teaser, Clip, and Q&A with William Forsythe
16 hours ago
We haven't heard much lately about Dear Mr. Gacy, the film adaptation of The Last Victim, the memoirs of Jason Moss, who corresponded with serial killer John Wayne Gacy; but today brought forth a bonanza of information, including a teaser, a clip, and the chance for members of the Dread Central community to ask star William Forsythe any questions they might have regarding the new film and/or his portrayal of Gacy.
Currently Dear Mr. Gacy producer Clark Peterson is focusing on the social promotion aspect for the film, which is due out next year. An official site was recently launched, and in addition Forsythe will be doing a video shoot in the Chicago area next Monday and Tuesday, December 14 and 15, 2009. The actor will be talking to several of Gacy's old acquaintances and his defense attorney, as well as detectives that were on the famous case, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next year.
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First Stills from Adam Green's Frozen
16 hours ago
The wait is nearly over for the release of Adam Green's latest film, Frozen, which turns the term "Survival Horror" on its ear! We're just a few short weeks away from the film's debut at Sundance in January (after which Anchor Bay will release the film in select theatres February 5th), and to gear up for this bona fide chiller, we have some stills for you!
Frozen stars Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, and Kevin Zeger and tells the tale of three skiers who are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Keep it here for more as it comes. In the interim check out the new stills below as well as our exclusive behind-the-scenes video below.
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Slamdance 2010 Line-up Announced
17 hours ago
Slamdance, which runs concurrently with Park City’s Sundance Film Festival, has announced its 2010 line-up, and there are several choices that look to make genre fans sit up and take notice.
Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:
Narrative Competition:
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,
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Motion Picture Purgatory: The Room
17 hours ago
When Trembles sent over this week's Mpp feature, we were a little taken aback. Tommy Wiseau's The Room from 2003? Admittedly, none of us had heard of it, so we hit up IMDb for a synopsis.
The Room is an American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal, and lies. It has five major characters. Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. Lisa has always gotten her way and will manipulate to get what she wants. She is a taker, with a double personality, and her deadly schemes lead to her own downfall. Mark is a young, successful, and independent best friend of Johnny. He has a good heart but gets caught up in Lisa's dangerous web and gives into temptation. Claudette is Lisa's classy, sophisticated mother who has had disappointing relationships in her life. She
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