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Special Facebook Chat with the Filmmakers Behind ‘The Collector’!
Many of you guys turned out to see Freestyle Releasing’s The Collector this weekend, so I’m assuming a lot of you have your own questions you’d like to ask filmmakers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton. As the film continues to collect fans around the country, the studios will be holding a live Facebook Video chat with Dunstan and Melton on Wednesday 8/5 at 1:00pm PST. For full details on how to participate, read on — and don’t forget to write your own review of the slasher to tell all of B-D what YOU thought!
The slasher follows the story of handyman and ex-con Arkin, who aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer’s country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property – and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked “Collector” in a maze of lethal invention – the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg – while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob.
Here is how to participate:
1) On Wednesday, 8/5 at 1:00 PST, log into Facebook and click here: http://apps.facebook.com/vpypebroadcaster
2) Type in your questions to Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton on the chat box at the bottom of the screen
3) You will see everyone’s questions and what everyone is saying in real time
4) Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton will be answering your questions in the video player
Help us spread the word and we look forward to chatting with you on August 5th!!!
Feel Free to Tweet:
Got questions for #TheCollector Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton? Join us on FB for a live chat Wed 8/5, 1PM PST http://bit.ly/BPgBC
Check out the official site for more.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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