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Vegas will have a Silent Night, Zombie Night
2 December 2009 8:43 AM, PST
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Sin City is suddenly becoming a genre town. The Blacklist Film Festival brought their indie flavor to Las Vegas; Live Evil hit the Sci-Fi Center; and the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors took over The Palms.
Now William Powell’s comic shop and grindhouse theater hosts the Las Vegas premiere of Sean Cain’s Silent Night, Zombie Night (which we last covered here). The event, celebrating independent cinema, Christmas and zombies all in one night, takes place December 5 at 8 p.m. and costs $5.
Cain, who Fangoria calls a “Indie Horror Specialist,” will be on hand for a Q&A and autograph signing session after the film, as will producer Wes Laurie, and co-stars Chris Gabriel (”One Long Day,” “Devotion,” “S4″), Chad Clinton Freeman ("Killer Biker Chicks"), Luke Y. Thompson (”Wicked Lake,” “Mad Cowgirl”) and Sean Decker ("Alluvial"). Dread Central's Heather Wixson, aka The Horror Chick, will be hosting the event.
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Charlize Theron is 'Mad'
30 October 2009 11:46 AM, PDT
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Charlize Theron will star in "Mad Max: Fury Road." Producer-Director George Miller will start filming next August in Australia.British actor Tom Hardy has also been cast. So far, they are the only major castings announced in the fourth version of the futuristic "Mad Max" franchise. According to Variety, the plot is being kept under wraps. Doug Mitchell is producing with Miller, and Warner Bros. will distribute.Miller didn't give any indication as to whether Mel Gibson might return or who would play the male lead. Miller and the 21-year-old Gibson launched their careers with "Mad Max" in 1979, shot in Victoria and portraying a broken-down future society. The duo teamed on two sequels; "The Road Warrior" (1981) and "Mad Max: Beyond
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Charlize Theron Joins Cast of 4th Mad Max
30 October 2009 7:30 AM, PDT
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Charlize Theron is developing a taste for post-apocalytic movie roles.
The Oscar-winning actress, 34, has signed on to star in Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment of the futuristic Mad Max series, Variety reports. Shooting will begin next August in Australia.
This follows Theron's starring role in The Road, an adventure film opening next month based on the Cormac McCarthy novel set in a similar dusty dystopia. Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress for 2003's Monster. Related: Charlize Theron Named U.N. Messenger of PeaceMel Gibson played the title character Max Rockatansky in the three previous Mad Max films,
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Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy Will Star in Mad Max 4
30 October 2009 4:05 AM, PDT
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Variety writes that Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy have been confirmed for Mad Max 4 (also titled Fury Road). Writer/director George Miller helmed the first three installments between 1979 and 1985 and has already finished a script for the fourth, which will begin filming next August in Australia.
The first Mad Max helped launch the career of Mel Gibson, who went on to star in the two sequels (and of course a slew of other blockbusters). Its story involves a cop living in post-apocalyptic Australia who takes the law into his own hands after his family and friends are killed. The sequels, however, have little to do with the first movie, and the series' continuity is more or less non-existent.
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Hopkins in 'Thor,' 'Men in Black 3' Moves Forward and Theron and Hardy in 'Mad Max 4'
29 October 2009 5:59 PM, PDT
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There were plenty of rumors and conversation regarding the casting of Mad Max 4, which is now confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter to be titled Fury Road, and they have all proven true as the trade announces Bronson star Tom Hardy will step into the role of Max Rockatansky, a hardened ex-cop in a future beset by gas shortages and marauding gangs.. The role made iconic by Mel Gibson in the 1979 original, followed by The Road Warrior in 1981 and 1985's Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
This new film is said to the take place a short while after the story detailed in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in which Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children. Charlize Theron has signed on to play the female lead.
A shoot next summer in Australia is being eyed. The movie
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- Brad Brevet
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Mad Max 4 To Start Production Soon
27 October 2009 12:04 AM, PDT
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According to a recent report from Latino Review, the Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph is reporting that “Mad Max 4″ is going to begin filming immediately, even though there hasn’t been an official casting news yet.
The paper also reports that the entire project will take about two and a half years to complete, with most of the filming and production taking place in Broken Hill, a former mining town in New South Wales, Australia that was featured in the original film “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior”.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “Mad Max 4″ movie news, including casting news.
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More 'Mad Max 4' Talk from George Miller
25 October 2009 9:35 PM, PDT
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Mad Max is an internationally-recognized movie property, but for the next installment, George Miller isn’t going to Hollywood. He’s staying right home in Australia.
In an interview for ABC News, Miller confirmed that the long-awaited sequel will begin filming in August 2010 in New South Wales (though Australia's Daily Telegraph has reported that work on the film will start immediately). With regards to casting, as we reported earlier, it's been rumored that Charlize Theron could have a part in Mad Max: Fury Road, and that other contenders for the title role are said to include Sam Worthington or Tom Hardy. Meanwhile, Miller injected Mel Gibson back into the possible contender mix. "It could be Mel, it could be anyone," he said at a press conference. "In fact, I'm looking around at these faces to see if anyone's quite interesting here."
Whoever ends up in the titular role, Fury Road
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Mad Max 4: Fury Road to Start Production in 2010
25 October 2009 2:06 AM, PDT
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Australia scores a big movie production just days after Green Lantern packed up its gear and headed to New Orleans.
The Daily Telegraph reports that production will begin in Sydney and New South Wales on Mad Max: Fury Road, with director George Miller at the helm. Miller directed three previous installments — Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
The production is a huge boost for Australia's movie industry with Premier Nathan Rees proclaiming that Mad Max 4 shooting in Australia "is a clear vote of confidence in Australian expertise" and "proves that Sydney is an international contender for major film production." All three of the Mad Max movies have been produced in Australia.
No actor has been named for the iconic role of Max, made famous by Mel Gibson, who will not return. Rumors persist that Sam Worthington will play the role, though E!Online UK
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- Ryan Gowland
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Update: 'Mad Max 4' Ready to Roll ... Now with Sam Worthington?
24 October 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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It remains to be seen what Mad Max fans will think, but the businesses of Australia are excited that work on Mad Max 4: Fury Road will begin immediately, according to a story today in the Daily Telegraph. There is no confirmation as to who will be starring in the film, but it will most likely not be Mel Gibson. The likeliest candidate as of now is Sam Worthington (Terminator: Salvation) (not Tom Hardy), with Charlize Theron as the leading lady. Original Mad Max director George Miller -- who most recently gave us Happy Feet -- will once again helm.
Either way, the locals are thrilled. Some of the locations used on the previous three films, Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2 (a.k.a. The Road Warrior) (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), have become local attractions. The owner of one such attraction, the Silverton Hotel, said, (insert Australian accent
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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23 October 2009 5:34 PM, PDT
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Hang on a minute... Sam Worthington is being linked to Mad Max 4 now? Steady on, ABC News. At least they're sticking to the Charlize Theron part of the story. But what's that about the project taking two and a half years? Blimey. 30 weeks of that will be at Broken Hill, the location for Mad Max 2, so far the series' zenith.
Another 15 little newslets that haven't made it to the front page for some mysterious reason or another coming right up after this break.
Lance Henriksen has been talking with "some independent producers that really want to put the money up" for a feature film of Chris Carter's Millennium. Henriksen's up for it, he tells Aint it Cool, but is telling the producers to not move ahead without Carter.
Courtesy of Twitch, here's the trailer for Boogie El Aceitoso, a rather aggressive toon from Argentina that has hit their
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- Brendon Connelly
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Is Charlize Theron the New Mad Max?
22 October 2009 6:24 AM, PDT
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Here’s the deal: The Road Warrior is an utterly fantastic film, and as a character, Mad Max Rockatansky is inseparable from Mel Gibson. No matter how crazy he might have become in the past few years, no matter how his image has been tarnished, the image of Mad Max lives on and will certainly be the character I remember him by.
And while it’s great that director George Miller is stepping away from Happy Feet and back toward the series that made him famous, I can’t help but cringe every time there’s talk of him replacing Gibson in Mad Max 4 (or Mad Max 4: Fury Road). Whether he intends to make a sequel or a reboot, I say slap another title on it and move forward. Please.
The latest scoop is that Oscar-winner Charlize Theron might be Miller’s choice to put on the
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- John Cooper
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Mad Max fan moves family to Australian outback
10 September 2009 6:04 AM, PDT
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We’ve seen fans influenced by films in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways, from movie themed weddings to creating their own fan art. But one fan has taken it a step further and moved his whole family to the shooting location of his favourite film. Adrian Bennett, of Bradford, Yorkshire, is obsessed with the Australian biker film Mad Max so much so he’s moved his entire family to a tiny town in the Australian outback. He first saw Mad Max and its sequel The Road Warrior as a double bill as a teenager in 1982. He says “everything – the costumes, the characters, the location and the vehicles” inspired him to begin collecting Mad Max memorabilia.
Seventeen years later, and now 45, Bennett has moved his wife and two sons to Silverton near Broken Hill on the border of New South Wales and South Australia. The town is over 800 miles
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MadMan, MadMax Or Prophet? Brit Bugs Out To Live The Life Of Gibson
2 September 2009 10:52 AM, PDT
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The question is, will Nix follow? A British man by the name of Adrian Bennett has defied his name and gone to live in the Australian Outback and I don’t mean the local steakhouse. No, he has decided to live out a 27 year old obsession to live the life of Max and open a Mad Max museum in the town of Silverton, way the hell and gone into the Aussie wilderness.
A quote from Adrian in The Times via Scifiwire:
“From the opening credits of the first film to the closing credits of Mad Max 2 my jaw was on the floor, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and I was totally hooked,” Bennett told The Times of the moment his obsession began over two decades ago.
He says it was “everything—the costumes, the characters, the location and the vehicles” which attracted him to the film
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'Mad Max' fan moves family to Outback
1 September 2009 6:50 PM, PDT
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Adrian Bennett's reported obsession with the Mad Max movies has made him move his family from Yorkshire to the Australian Outback. The 45-year-old began collecting memorabilia from the film series after viewing the first two instalments on a double bill in 1982. He told The Times: "From the opening credits of the first film to the closing credits of Mad Max 2 my jaw was on the floor, I couldn't believe what I was seeing and I was totally hooked." Bennett spent over £15,000 to refurbish his own version of the Inteceptor vehicle, which Mel Gibson's character drove through (more)
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10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT
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Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander
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10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT
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Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander
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10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT
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Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander
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10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT
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Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander
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Horror Signing Event at Frank & Son in CA Tomorrow!
21 August 2009 9:00 PM, PDT
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It's short notice, but Fango just got word that there's a 5-hour horror signing event taking place Tomorrow (August 22) from 11am-4pm at the Frank & Son Collectible Show in City of Industry, California.
The lineup in impressive with guests including Kane Hodder (Friday The 13th), Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2), Geoffrey Lewis (The Devil's Rejects), Lisa Wilcox & Brooke Theiss (A Nightmare On Elm Street series), TV's Robocop Richard Eden (The Intervention), and many more.
Full details below!
For more visit http://www.frankandsonshow.net/
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Warners digs up some cheesy gold on DVD
11 August 2009 2:05 PM, PDT
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Back in March, Warner Bros announced the creation of Warner Archives, a mail-order service that offered some of the more obscure titles from the studio's vaults on DVD for armchair cinephiles. Each month, the studio promised to dust off more films and add them to the list. We'll be honest, the first batch was loaded with a lot of mothball-scented curios that were never released on DVD for a reason. They were lesser films from big stars like Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Greta Garbo. Sure, the Robert Osborne crowd would eat them up, but what about the rest of us with -- how should we put this -- less discerning tastes? Well, this month's arsenal of Warner Archives titles is for you!
Here are some of the highlights.
*Razorback: Highlander's Russell Mulcahy helms this 1984 killer pig movie is a wonderfully gory slice of Ozploitation. This is Grade
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