Our good friends over at Moviehole.net have learned that South African stunner Tanit Phoenix (Lord of War, Gallowalker) has joined the cast of direct-to-disc sequel Lost Boys: The Thirst, now lensing in Cape Town, SA. Phoenix will play the part of Gwen, a wealthy romance novelist who enlists the help of vampire-hunter/surfboard shaper Edgar Frog (Corey Feldman) to track down a family member whose gone missing, says the site. Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander both return as the Frog brothers, alongside Sean Cameron Michael, and Seb Catang for the Dario Piana-directed sequel, out next year via Warner Premiere. ...Read More
Lionsgate is really going all out horror to end this year as they've not only started pushing Daybreakers, but also Dominic Sena's hotly anticipated Season of the Witch, which stars Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Foy, Robbie Sheehan and Stephen Graham. To go along with the teaser, if you head on over to Fandango you can watch the first trailer for the the flick arriving in theaters March 19, 2010. The story revolves around a group of knights in 14th century France who must transport a woman accused of witchcraft to a mountain abbey, where the monks will seek to understand and destroy her powers, believed to be the source of the Black Plague.
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Earlier this morning Bloody Disgusting's Johnne Marrone took a trip to the set of Jim Mickle's (Mulberry Street) now filming Stake Land, a new vampire pic that looks quite extraordinary. During the visit, Marrone had a chance to chat with star Danielle Harris who revealed to BD that both Mos Def and Bill Moseley have joined the voice cast of Zeb de Soto's Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D. Moseley will be playing Johnny, the same role he took on in Tom Savini's 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Joseph Pilato, Mike Diskint and Helen Cooper also star. On the story front, De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters’ backstories and make what he called “an American-style anime.” ...Read More
TV Spots have begun to air in the UK for Pathe's The Descent: Part 2, the highly anticipated sequel to Neill Marshall's chiller that was helmed by Jon Harris. While it arrives in the UK on December 4th, there are still no plans by Lionsgate to get it in theaters here in the States. The sequel will continue the story of Sarah, who as the only survivor of an all-female caving expedition gone horrifically wrong, suffers severe psychological trauma. Unable to speak, she accompanies a rescue team back to the cave, but events once again take a sinister turn.
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If you head on over to Cineplex (or read below) you can check out a two-and-a-half minute behind-the-scenes featurette for Universal Pictures' The Wolfman. "The cast, producer and director give us the inside scoop on what we can expect from Universal's highly anticipated return to horror. Caution: Scary images!" In theaters February 12, like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., new pic will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence. ...Read More
Bloody Disgusting's E.L. Katz recently was lucky enough to visit the set of 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, the highly anticipated sequel now filming in Vancouver, Canada. While a full set report is forthcoming, along with a handful of interviews, we've still got something juicy to share with you. Katz caught up with creator/co-writer Steve Niles who talks to BD about another sequel, along with why Melissa George didn't return as Stella. ...Read More
It's a potent combination: Steven + Stephen. Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King's just-released supernatural thriller "Under the Dome." DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. You can read all of the plans below. ...Read More
"The Shield" writer John Hlavin has been hired to pen the fourth installment in Screen Gems/Lakeshore's Underworld franchise, writes the Heat Vision Blog. Len Wiseman, who directed the first two films in the vampire-vs.-werewolf saga, is producing with Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg and Richard Wright of Lakeshore. Kate Beckinsale, who starred in the first two movies, has not cut a deal to return to the series (which we've confirmed is absolutely untrue); the third pic, a prequel, starred Rhona Mitra, who also has no deal. The fourth film does not have a director attached. Hlavin said the plot is under wraps, "but I can tell you it's not a prequel." He added, "It will satisfy old fans and excite new audiences, meaning that we don't want to redo the first three movies, so steps are being taken to honor what fans have loved but at the same time introduce fresh elements." The horror-action series has been successful for Screen Gems and Lakeshore, scaring up nearly $300 million worldwide. The sequel is set to hit theaters January 21, 2011 in 3-D.
As many of you know I thought Twilight was passable, not good, not bad, but passable. Somewhere along the way to releasing The Twilight Saga: New Moon, they lost even me. Missing multiple screening opportunities, I sent BD's own Chris Eggertsen, who appears to have the same feelings I had for the franchise. "...the producers went with Weitz, the safe choice, and now they have a major dud on their hands. I can only hope that young fans of the series will stay home this time. But I’m not naïve. It’ll be a blockbuster, damn it." Click the title above to read his in depth review and check back here at midnight to post your own review and tell all of BD what YOU thought.
Lionsgate has really started to push Peter and Michael Spierig's futuristic vamp film Daybreakers, which features Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman and Vince Colosimo. We caught the bloody pic at the TIFF this past September (read the review) and are happy to report that it's quite a good time. You'll be able to catch it on January 8th. Until then, beyond the break you can dig on two brand spanking new stills that feature vamp Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. ...Read More
Aurora Prods. and Platinum Studios are teaming on a feature version of Platinum's graphic novel Nightfall, reports Variety. The project, which sounds like a smaller version of Daybreakers, centers on a man who finds out just how bad life can get when he discovers that the prison he just entered is controlled by vampires. The original property, penned by Scott O. Brown and illustrated by Ferran Xalabarder, was published in 2007 by Platinum. Platinum is developing Cowboys & Aliens, Unique, The Witchblade and Atlantis Rising. Stuart just wrapped The Wild Girl, and is in development on The Travel Writer, Infinity, and even Journal of the Dead. ...Read More
“Scream Queens 2” will take a new cadre of 10 aspiring actresses and give them the chance to win a breakthrough role in the tentatively titled Saw 3D (the seventh film), the next film in Lionsgate’s “Saw” horror franchise. The reality competition series is produced by Lionsgate and Joke Productions, Inc. and is slated to premiere in 2010. Actress Jamie King (Mother's Day, My Bloody Valentine 3D, The Tripper) will host and also judge alongside director Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs) and acting coach John Homa.
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First reported here on Bloody Disgusting last year was Joe Dante Presents: Trail of Blood, which was directed by Justin Guerrieri and Joseph Guerrieri. Since then the film has been shot and it's now currently in post-production. Below you'll find the trailer and a link to the newly launched official website. Jim Lerner, a young Marine enlistee, is enjoying a camping trip deep in a California forest with a group of friends, when they realize they are lost. They encounter an war veteran, named Dallas, and his girlfriend, Chastity, who are on a sadistic killing spree. Dallas is determined to re-enact the horrors of war on his young victims. A maverick FBI agent is on the trail of the killers, but he may not make it in time. Jim decides he must protect his friends, and stand up to Dallas, but he may lose his soul in the process.. ...Read More
Simius Films is proud to introduce you our first production, Paranormal Effect, the supernatural feature film about one of the most famous Japanese curse! Visiting her native Japan with her American boyfriend Darren, Reiko is disappointed to see him spend most of his time filming local stereotypes. Already upset, Reiko draws the line when Darren walks into a forbidden cave, which, according to local beliefs, enshrines shinto gods since the dawn of time. From then, Reiko and Darren start witnessing strange things happening around them, some of which they manage to catch on camera. Will they have time to understand what is upon them before it is too late? Found and edited by the 2 japanese producers Ryuichi Asano and Teruo Ito, the video footage will be brought to the world on VOD and Video distribution on January 2010! ...Read More
Sad news from the set of Dark Sky Films' Stake Land where producer-turned-actor/director Larry Fessenden was on hand to promote the film. Back in August it was revealed that Fessenden would be helming a remake of The Orphanage for New Line Cinema and Guillermo del Toro. It appears the dream is dead. "THE ORPHANAGE was two years of waiting," Fessenden tells AITH. "Working on the script with Guillermo was a very exciting experience, but then I got into a casting miasma and that's where the thing is; I think they're gonna do it another way, actually. So I think I'm out of it. Hopefully they'll still use my script, but I'm not sure I'm directing it anymore. That's Hollywood for ya." Click the link for more. ...Read More
Yup, we're still on top of our game. First (and only) announced here on Bloody Disgusting was The Caller, a new film from the company behind Wolf Creek. While we brought you the director (Mathew Parkhill), writer (Sergio Casci) and synopsis (read below), the Hollywood Reporter has learned that Brittany Murphy (Across the Hall, Deadline, The Dead Girl), Stephen Moyer ("True Blood", Priest) and Luis Guzma have all joined the J-horror flick that begins shooting in Puerto Rico on Friday. ...Read More
Horror actors Douglas Tait (Freddy vs. Jason) and Tony Todd (Candyman), along with Sally Kirkland, have lined up for One by One, a teen horror movie that serves as the first feature entry from Kilo Entertainment. One, written by and to be directed and exec produced by Kilo founder Kimberly Seilhamer, follows a villain named Railroad Jack the Reaper and his carnival of destruction called Death’s Door. When a bus carrying a group of teens crashes on a deserted highway, Railroad Jack picks them off one by one. Sounds pretty cool, no? Also in the movie, which will begin production Sunday in the Mojave Desert before moving to California City, are Alexandra Holder, Amber Zion, Hope James, Grace Jiyoung Park, Jay Gillespie, Richardson Chery, Andrew Olson, Tyler Wolfe, Jemal David and Christopher Raff. ...Read More
To go along with the first ever TV Spot, beyond the break you'll find the official UK quad poster for Peter and Michael Spierig's widely exciting Daybreakers (review), which Lionsgate will release her in the States on January 8, 2010. In the pic Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) is a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman and Vince Colosimo also star. ...Read More
Embodiment of Evil, the incredible third film in José Mojica Marins' Coffin Joe trilogy, has been acquired by Synapse Films for distribution here in the States (finally!). There's talk of a limited theatrical run, although nothing has been confirmed just yet. "You heard it here first... Synapse Films is proud to announce EMBODIMENT OF EVIL for Blu-Ray and DVD in 2010. More details to come...," Synapse writes on their official Twitter page. In the bloody and disgusting film the gravedigger Zé do Caixão continues his search for the perfect woman to bear his son. Bwahahahahaha! ...Read More
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired domestic rights to Abel Ferrara's Jekyll and Hyde, which stars both Forest Whitaker and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson. The film will be a re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which will be contemporized and titled "Jekyll and Hyde." Whitaker plays Dr Jekyll, a rich doctor of great generosity who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Mr Hyde (50 Cent) is a sadistic murderer with a reputation that strikes fear in to the hearts of people throughout New York. Peter Utterson, Dr Jekyll's lawyer and friend, investigates the mystery of who Mr Hyde is and why he is the sole beneficiary of Jekyll's will. The devastating answer is that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are the same person and the urgent problem is how to kill the beast without destroying the man. ...Read More
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