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CBS Films Acquiring Rights and Screenplay to ‘The Keep’
Four years ago, to this day, we reported that Ehren Kruger was adapting Jennifer Egan’s spooky 2006 best-seller The Keep. In fact, back in 2008 Rogue Pictures acquired the theatrical rights. With the recent addition of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev, CBS Films will now give the adaptation a go as they’ve closed a deal for rights to Egan’s book, and are in final negotiations to acquire the adapted screenplay written by The Ring and The Skeleton Key scribe Ehren Kruger. At least the time hasn’t been wasted. Described by one observer as The Ring meets Inception (yawn), Keep is a story within a story about two cousins with a shared secret who reunite to renovate a legendary haunted medieval castle that turns dreams and nightmares into reality. Good luck this time around…
You may end up rethinking karaoke nights with your friends after you watch the upcoming horror-comedy Bad Karaoke, set to World Premiere on Sunday, August 30 as part of Tubi FrightFest in London. You can preview the film with the official trailer below.
Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Chris Lightbody directed Bad Karaoke.
In the film, “When wedding band keyboardist Emily discovers an old karaoke machine in the back of a dive bar, she thinks it will lead to a fun-filled night of singing and bonding with her bandmates. Unfortunately, this karaoke machine seems to have a thirst for blood.”
“When the singing begins, so does the bloodshed.”
“When an excellent performance allows someone to be spared by the machine, the crew think they’ve figured out how to finally beat it. Proven almost immediately wrong, it takes more horrifying deaths and a visit from a mysterious stranger to realize they may have a chance at survival after all.”
Lexi Underwood (“Cruel Summer”), Case Walker (Monster High: The Movie), and Kat Cunning (Purple Hearts) star in the upcoming horror-comedy Bad Karaoke.
Chris Lightbody and Spencer Yaras wrote the screenplay.
“We were inspired to make this film after years of painful karaoke performances nearly put us in an early grave,” the directors said in a statement. “We found that many people have had near-death karaoke experiences and we wanted to play with that idea, as well as say something profound about the state of new music. But instead, we made Bad Karaoke.”
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