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Cast Takes Shape for Anchor Bay's I Spit on Your Grave Redux
17 hours ago | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Looks like the "Woman" is about to have her "Day" again thanks to CinTel Films and Anchor Bay Entertainment. Yep, another remake is on the way and according to IMDb the cast is taking shape quite nicely.
Steven R. Monroe's remake (which is also being filmed as Day of the Woman) is lensing right now in Louisiana or release next year via Anchor Bay. The cast so far includes:
Andrew Howard (Devil's Chair, Blood River, Lustig), Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Chad Lindberg (Push), Daniel Franzese (Killer Pad, War of the Worlds), Rodney Eastman (Joey in A A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4: The Dream Master), Saxon Sharbino, Amber Dawn Landrum, and Chad Lindberg (Push).
I guess if Last House on the Left could get the do-over treatment than this one was pretty much a no-brainer. Check out the trailer for the original below. »
- Uncle Creepy
War of the Welles: Seven Actors Who've Played Orson
26 November 2009 7:15 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" is about one man from many perspectives. As a reporter travels the country in search of the meaning of Charles Foster Kane's last words, he hears stories about the man from wives, co-workers, friends, and guardians, all of whom see Kane's life differently. In the trailer, Welles describes the many dimensions of his character in the narration: "Kane is a hero, and a scoundrel, a no account and a swell guy. A great lover, a great American citizen and a dirty dog."
Certainly, Welles believed that one man could encompass all of these dissimilar traits. And in recent years, enough actors have portrayed enough variations of Welles himself to suggest that the acting/directing wunderkind, like Kane, was just as complex an individual. Some films have portrayed him as a hero, others as a scoundrel. Some, like Richard Linklater's new film "Me and Orson Welles, »
- Matt Singer
Full Cast Revealed for Anchor Bay's 'I Spit on Your Grave' Remake
25 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
Chad Lindberg (Push), Daniel Franzese (Killer Pad, War of the Worlds), Rodney Eastman (Joey in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and 4), Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Saxon Sharbino, Amber Dawn Landrum have all joined Andrew Howard (Devil's Chair, Blood River, Lustig) in the remake of I Spit On Your Grave (also being filmed as Day Of The Woman), which is currently lensing in Lousiana for release next year via Anchor Bay. Being directed by Steven R. Monroe (Left in Darkness), a woman is abducted, brutally attacked and raped and then left for dead. She survives, hunts her attackers and dispatches them in graphic ways. »
'New Moon' villain Dakota Fanning talks about joining the 'Twilight' family
25 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Compared to most of her Twilight: New Moon co-stars, 15-year-old Dakota Fanning — who plays the powerful Volturi Jane — is already an old hand at movie-making. But behind the star of hits like War of the Worlds (2005) and I Am Sam (2001) is a surprisingly normal student at an L.A. high school. On the Monday after New Moon's record-breaking bow, Fanning made time for a quick pre-class chat with EW about the Twilight phenomenon and the joys of playing a villain. Entertainment Weekly: Where are you right now? Dakota Fanning: I'm at school. I'm hiding from any teacher that »
- Adam Markovitz
Movie Review: Me and Orson Welles (2009)
25 November 2009 12:56 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles
Photo: Freestyle Releasing Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is a hard one to put your finger on. It's got comedic elements, a baseline dramatic framework and then doesn't fully dedicate itself to being a coming-of-age story. However, despite my inability to nail it down in a nutshell, it's a great film with one of the better male performances of 2009.
Starring as the titular "me" is Zac Efron playing Richard, a wannabe actor who coincidentally runs into a 22-year-old Orson Welles (Christian McKay) coming out of the newly-opened Mercury Theatre where he will produce, direct and star in his adaptation of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Words are said and Richard finds himself with a part in the play and rubbing elbows with Welles on a day-to-day basis as something of a friend-at-arms-length over the course of the next week, culminating in the opening night production. »
- Brad Brevet
Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview Me And Orson Welles
24 November 2009 7:48 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
If you’ve been reading Collider over the past few days, you may have noticed I’ve already posted a Zac Efron interview for Me and Orson Welles. The reason you’re getting an extra interview with Mr. Efron is at last week’s press day, I participated in both roundtable and TV interviews with the entire cast and director Richard Linklater. While I usually only post one or the other, with someone as popular as Zak Efron, I figured his fans might like to have access to both of them.
As I said in the previous interview, Me and Orson Welles is based in real theatrical history, the film is a coming-of-age story about a teenage actor (Zac Efron) who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles (Christian McKay) at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Exclusive Interview: Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga: New Moon)
19 November 2009 10:55 PM, PST | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »
Dakota Fanning makes quite an impression in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009). Actually, Fanning makes a strong impression in every movie she does. At just 15 years old, she's already one of the best and most accomplished actresses out there, with credits spanning from I Am Sam (2001), The Cat in the Hat (2003), and War of the Worlds (2005) to Dreamer (2005), Hounddog (2007) and the upcoming film The Runaways (2010), which reteams her with New Moon co-star Kristen Stewart. New Moon casts Fanning as Jane, the super-nasty Volturi who can inflict serious pain merly by using her mind. It's a small role, really, just a few minutes of screen time, but Fanning maximizes every second of it, relying on pure performance, an assistant from creepy red contacts and face-whitening makeup, and precious little dialogue. Popstar recently spoke to Fanning while she was doing her bit to promote New Moon -- which opens nationwide on November »
- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon – A Twihard’s Review
19 November 2009 11:32 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Golden Compass director, Chris Weitz, takes to the directors chair for the second film in the hugely popular Twilight franchise – The Twilight Saga: New Moon. When Weitz took up the mantle as the latest Twilight director, he vowed that he would stay true to the novel and deliver a film for the fans – and he has certainly done us hardcore twilighters proud.
It’s fair to say that I am a self confessed twihard, I’ve read (and loved) all the books and I loved the Twilight film – but this trumps them all by far!
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s novel which sold over 5.3 million copies, stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner and without a doubt it has to have been The most anticipated movie of 2009…believe me it’s was well worth the wait!
The movie begins true to the story we »
- Jamie Sharp
2012 (Film Review)
16 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
The world ends not with a bang or a whimper but a resounding 'Meh' in Roland Emmerich's 2012, the last and least of his end of the world film series. Emmerich, who first made a splash with Independence Day, a hipster update of George Pal's War Of The Worlds, returns to Pal's work with 2012.
An uncredited updating of Pal's When Worlds Collide, 2012 has the world coming to an end as Earth's core heats up creating floods that will soon kill all life on Earth. We follow a lowly scientist (an interesting Chiwetel Ejiofor), the Us President (Danny Glover, who seems to blandly repeat Morgan Freeman's dialogue from the superior Deep Impact), then jump to a down on his luck sci-fi writer/limo driver (a puffy John Cusack), his perky, estranged wife (Amanda Peet--a great actress given nothing to do), two movie-cute kids (One of whom is named 'Noah', »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
The nervous, noncommittal noughties can't end soon enough | John Harris
16 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In a decade defined by fatalism and impotence, film-makers and writers have been quick to tap into our sense of impending doom
Just to make sure filmgoers leave the present decade on a high, this month brings two suitably upbeat blockbusters. The first is 2012, which topped box office takings in the Us and Britain at the weekend, and is directed by Roland Emmerich – who also brought us the aliens-blitz-Earth delight Independence Day and the eco-disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow. This time humanity's demise seems to be traceable to the horrors foretold in an ancient Mayan prophecy, though the standard plotline quickly materialises: John Cusack and on-screen family attempting to escape tsunamis, landslides and those obligatory aesthetic disasters whereby iconic global landmarks are ground into dust.
For those who want something that bit more cerebral, there is also the film version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, out in the Us later this month. »
- John Harris
Dominating Performance Lifts 'Orson Welles'
16 November 2009 11:50 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
Over the years, Orson Welles has been portrayed on film and on TV by Vincent D’Onfrio, Live Schreiber, Danny Huston, Carsten Hayes and more than a dozen more actors, all of whom tried to embody the enormous, larger-than-life actor, filmmaker and mercurial genius responsible for “Citizen Kane,” the “War of the Worlds” radio panic, the groundbreaking Mercury Theater, and those regrettable Paul Masson wine commercials, among his other accomplishments.
Some of the actors have fallen short, some have been terrific, and some have played it for laughs.
B... »
- Steve Pond
Is "Charlie's Angels" going to wing it back to television?
16 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Hello, Angels. Hello, Television. Yep, Charlie’s Angels might be coming back to a TV screen near you. Now, I know there was talk earlier this year about a fourth film in the franchise, but this is a full-on series reboot. Um, Ok, but will you please promise to make their hair as bouncy as the originals?
According to Variety, ABC is close to ordering a pilot for an update of the popular '70s series. Helming the new Angels would be a man who already knows a thing or two about remakes: Josh Friedman. The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles creator is set to write and executive produce the new Angels.
Now, that series was hit and miss. It featured an excellent cast (Lena Headey! Summer Glau!) and interesting storyline, but failed to attract a broad audience and was cancelled after two seasons. Also, Friedman’s background (writing The Black Dahlia, »
- dorothy snarker
Charlie's Angels set for TV revival in new series
13 November 2009 1:13 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Glamorous detective trio Charlie's Angels are on their way to the small screen once again, with Us network ABC about to commission a pilot from Sony Pictures TV.
Josh Friedman will write and executive-produce the new series, reports Variety.
He previously developed and wrote Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and was screenwriter on movies The Black Dahlia and War of the Worlds.
Also involved are original Charlie's Angels producer Leonard Goldberg, who launched the series with Aaron Spelling in 1976, as well as Drew Barrymore, who starred in and produced the 2000 film version and its sequel.
Spelling has twice before attempted bringing the show back to the small screen, with Angels 88 - which never got off the ground - and a second bid in 2004.
The original Charlie's Angels ran from 1976 to 1981, with cast members including Farrah Fawcett who died earlier this year.
There have been two films: Charlie's Angels in 2000 and »
- David Bentley
"Blessed" helmer Ana Kokkinos discusses directing an ensemble film with lead Miranda Otto
13 November 2009 6:29 AM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
Director Ana Kokkinos and actor Miranda Otto, who's appeared onscreen in blockbusters like “War of the Worlds” and the "Lord of the Rings” trilogy, sat down with MakingOf to discuss their film “Blessed.” The story revolves around seven lost youths who wander the Melbroune streets while their mothers await their return.
Kokkinos shares her abiity to get actors out of their heads in order to embody their characters completely. She also opens up about the design of the film, her approach to filming this ensemble piece and how she and Otto worked together to ensure they hit the right tone with their takes.
Click here to view the full interview. »
David Koepp Will Write/Direct That ‘Quicksilver’ Remake You’ve Been Wanting
12 November 2009 7:31 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
That may not be technically accurate... Per Variety, David Koepp will write and direct a new film called Premium Rush about a bike messenger with a valuable package who gets chased throughout New York City by a dirty cop. The film "is being conceived as a big-budget actioner, much like the films Koepp is known for penning, and will feature the kind of elaborate chases associated with a William Friedkin pic." Koepp is "known for penning" quite a few films, but his big actioner ones include Angels & Demons, Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds, Spider-Man, and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. That's an incredibly mixed bag quality-wise, so there's no telling if the new film will be any good. Koepp has directed before, but all of those films (including the under-rated Ghost Town) have been much lower-budgeted affairs. It's obviously way too early in the process to seriously question Koepp's intention »
- Rob Hunter
David Koepp to Direct Bike Messenger Action Film Premium Rush
11 November 2009 9:06 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
David Koepp is best known as one of Hollywood's highest paid screenwriters (and one of Spielberg's scribes). His screenwriting credits include everything from Toy Soldiers, Jurassic Park, and Carlito's Way, to Panic Room, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For the last decade he's been trying to make the transition into feature film directing. He made his debut with the promising Stir of Echoes, but has since followed up with some lackluster efforts, the 2004 Stephen King adaptation Secret Window and the 2008 Ricky Gervais supernatural romantic comedy Ghost Town. Honestly, I think Koepp is a much better screenwriter than he is a filmmaker, and that's not saying much considering the abundance of lackluster screenplays he's been involved with in the last 10-12 years. With that kind of intro, you must be really interested in his next directorial effort (yes, that was ... »
- Peter Sciretta
Start Press: The Spirit of Radio
11 November 2009 1:47 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
The story is already legend. On October 30th, 1938, listeners who tuned in to hear CBS Radio’s regular broadcast of Mercury Theatre on the Air were whipped into a frenzy by a series of increasingly calamitous news bulletins chronicling a Martian invasion of Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. At that moment in history when Orson Welles staged his now-infamous radio drama War of the Worlds, the run-up to World War II was already in motion. The American public might as well have been collectively listening to the cadence of a wooden roller coaster clack-clacking inexorably toward the first of many stomach-turning... »
The Fourth Kind (Review)
9 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Fourth Kind Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi Seventy-one years after Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast convinced the American public of a real-time alien-invasion, writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi tries a similar gimmick by presenting a cinematic re-creation of supposedly true occurrences in and around the small town of Nome, Alaska, that suggest an alien presence. The Fourth Kind tells us it's based on the research of a psychologist, Dr. Abigail Tyler, who discovered bizarre consistencies in the testimonies of several sleep-deprived patients. Under a series of hypnosis treatments, those patients recovered memories of stalking demonic owls driving them to suicide, occasionally levitation and sometimes leaving them paralyzed. According to the world of science fiction, there are four different encounters between humans and aliens. The first simply refers to a sighting; the second is when a human spots evidence of an alien presence while the third (a la Spielberg »
- Ricky
Review: 9 – ragtag and pretty rubbish
2 November 2009 1:49 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
It’s difficult to tell what exactly 9 wants to be. It has ‘cute’, miniature characters made from cloth sacking and mannequin parts. It has a post-apocalyptic setting. It has some loosely adult themes and some over the top action sequences. It mixes science, magic, religion and politics, and examines the human condition by distilling it into its distinct parts. And yet it manages to be entirely unoriginal, underwritten, frustrating, clichéd, patronising and Lazy. With a capital L. In a world ravaged by a war between Man and Machine, the scientist who made the first mechanical brain behind the conflict separates his soul into nine parts. He gives each part to a little figurine which he has made. He is also the Last Human Alive, but dies when his soul is split. The 9th figurine (called 9, and voiced by Elijah Wood) awakens in his master’s crumbling house, finds him dead, »
- Joe West
A Very Cunning Plan, Indeed
1 November 2009 11:08 AM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
Warning: There be many spoilers and strong opinions ahead.
As I wrote in yesterday's mini-blog, we watched two films last night. I watched Scream Blacula Scream on my own as Jon was napping. Each film was a treat for vastly different reasons. The first was The Naked Monster, a loving send up of B monster films from the 50s and 60s. It makes very clever use of existing footage and casting of actors from those films (The Thing from Another World, War of the Worlds, and This Island Earth for example). In many cases, these were the last roles for those iconic actors. They all seemed to be having a great time, so we had a great time watching them. There were even a couple of bits with the wonderful Forrest J. Ackerman whom I had the pleasure of meeting more than once. We've toured his amazing home and had »
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