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No Doug Bradley, for this which sheds a very dim light on the hole project:
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Every since the ninth film in the Hellraiser franchise, Hellraiser: Revelations, was announced, there's been one question on everyone's mind - Will Doug Bradley be returning to play Pinhead? Can you really even imagine a Hellraisier movie without him? We went straight to the man himself for an answer and got his official statement.
"I know that many of you will have caught up with the sudden burst of Internet chatter about a new Hellraiser film going into production, and will be keen to know whether I’ve been approached to play Pinhead again, so here’s the deal ..." says Bradley.
"I have been approached just in this last week (w/b 16 August) regarding a proposed new Hellraiser film. This is not the ‘remake’ which has been endlessly discussed for the last three years: with the working title Hellraiser: Revelations, it will be the ninth film in the series. I would stress that I have had no contact from, or negotiations with, anyone from Dimension Films: rather these contacts have been by way of private discussion with individuals involved with this project."
Bradley continues, "Following these discussions, and after reading the script and giving it due consideration, I have decided not to participate. The ink is barely dry on the script, and it is scheduled to be in front of the cameras in two weeks time and in the can by the middle of next month (September 2010). The miniscule shooting schedule is more than matched by the budget."
"Whether or not this means that somebody else will be stepping up to play Pinhead, I have no idea. I guess we can watch this space together ..."
"One way or another, this does not seem to me to represent a serious attempt to revive the Hellraiser franchise. However, I wish everyone who will be directly involved in the making of this film, good luck with it."
Hear that, Dimension? That's the sound of hearts breaking everywhere.
ELLRAISER REVELATIONS: Directed by Victor Garcia from a screenplay by special effects artists Gary Tunnicliffe, the plot will follow two friends who unleash Pinhead (who becomes their master of pain). Apparently, one of the friends has a change of heart. He backs out on his oath hoping to swap himself out with one of his friend's family members. We learned exclusively that one of the kid's mother will be played by none other than the declicious Peta Wilson, best known as the "Nikita" in the 96 episodes of LA FEMME NIKITA
Looks like the next two sequels are going to be solo outings, with [REC] Apocalypse being a big finale (but will it have a budget to back it up, given its increased scope).
[REC] and [REC] 2 were both very well received, the first probably claiming the crown of best first person POV movie of its kind (ie. Blair Witch being exposed as the mediocre dren it smells and looks like)
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[REC] sequels: According to Variety, Paco Plaza's [REC] GENESIS and Jaume Balaguero's [REC] APOCALYPSE have been acquired by Le Pacte and Wild Side Films for French theatrical and DVD distribution. Does this mean a U.S. distro deal could quickly be in line? Scheduled for delivery in fall 2011 and fall 2012, respectively, the sequels were greenlit by Filmax Entertainment, one of Spain's leading production outfits, in May.
[REC] directors Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero will split directing responsibilities for the two films. Plaza will direct the first film, [REC] GENESIS, which will return to the origin of the original infection that caused humans to turn into zombies. The film is expected to be delivered in the autumn of 2011.
[REC] APOCALYPSE will be directed by Balaguero and will end the [REC] saga with the pandemic spreading to unknown proportions. Plaza will assist on the project, which is expected to be delivered in the autumn of 2012. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
I like the poster, don't know why... composition... yes, composition.
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MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED: From the early ’70s well into the ’90s the Philippines was a back-lot for a bevy of B-movie mavericks and cinema visionaries alike. The country was utilized for its inexpensive labour, exotic locations and distinct lack of rules. A large body of genre work emerged that somehow managed to capture the raw, chaotic energy of contemporary Filipino culture. These productions (a cavalcade of monster movies, jungle prison movies, blaxploitation and kung fu hybrids) were miraculously made at a time when the country’s political situation was repressive at best. From Mark Hartley, director of the Ozploitation doc, NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, comes MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! The doc is set to premiere at next month's TIFF. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
Not sure why they are still persisting with this, but here's the latest
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AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON remake: Fernley Phillips (THE NUMBER 23) is in talks to pen the script for a contemporary-set remake of 1981 horror/comedy classic reports The L.A. Times. The Weinstein Company bought the remake rights to the film back in June last year and will release the film through its Dimension Films label. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
A-list celeb is now attached... could become the best zombie movie ever!
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WORLD WAR Z: MTV just landed the beefiest scoop of the week. While chatting up WORLD WAR Z author Max Brooks at the booth for comic publisher Avatar Press, the writer confirmed to MTV News that the adaption of his novel about the zombie apocalypse is not only moving forward, but Brad Pitt is now officially attached to star in the film. The book is a sober telling of the aftermath of a war fought against a legion of humans who were inflicted with a virus, died and were reanimated into flesh-eating zombies. Additionally, Brooks revealed that Paramount has optioned the movie rights to two more of his projects: THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE and THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE RECORDED ATTACKS graphic novel. (thanks to Bloody-Digusting.com)
True Blood creator Alan Ball has revealed that he is unsure about introducing the character of Bubba into the HBO drama.
In the original novels by Charlaine Harris, 'Bubba' is a vampiric Elvis Presley. During the True Blood panel at Comic-Con, Ball explained that he was uncertain if the character would work on television. He also admitted that he was hesitant to have an actor impersonate Elvis.
When fans in the audience shouted actor Bruce Campbell's name at Ball, he reportedly smiled and replied, "Bruce Campbell, huh?"
Campbell previously played an aged version of Elvis in the 2002 comedy horror Bubba Ho-Tep.
It was recently announced that the USA network had ordered a Burn Notice prequel film starring Campbell as his character Sam Axe.
When I logged on to check today it seems that someone had defaced the website with some turkish gibberish, assuming this isn't about that case of mistaken identity ( ), this was a silly act of defacing the site.
As far as I can see a very silly script I'd copied up to combat being banned from imageshack was exploited and the hacker uploaded a public / free script disguised as an image and then executed it.
I've checked some logs and am currently investigating any damaga. In the meantime, I've scrubbed the installs and checked out the site a fresh from svn.
I accidentally forgot to copy some templates across on the website portal, so that was the 500 error you were seeing... i was dragged into a meeting at work.
DEXTER: Peter Weller (ROBOCOP has joined the cast of the upcoming fifth season of Showtime’s DEXTER. Weller will be playing a troubled Miami Metro police officer caught up in an internal affairs investigation, and will appear in eight of the twelve episodes. He joins several other new cast members this season including Julia Stiles, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jonny Lee Miller and Shawn Hatosy. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
SUSPIRIA remake: Marco Morabito spoke to Italian press recently and addressed the remake of Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA, a project announced with director David Gordon Green. According to the producer, Argento himself has signed off on the rights to allow the picture to happen. And even though Green has been courted with many other film offers, it looks like shooting will begin in early 2011.
But for those following the progress of the redo, they know the start date is a fickle one as, in 2009, another producer, Luca Guadagnino, said shooting would take place this year. Green has YOUR HIGNESS hitting theaters later this year. And no, Marilyn Manson, says Morabito, is not going to appear in SUSPIRIA a if it ever happens. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
Truth be told I'm not a big fan of Scream, never have been and likely never will be. However, seems there's something of a exodus from Wes Craven's reboot as several key cast members have decided to back out of the movie.
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** SCRE4M: The cast is dropping like flies before their characters (possibly) get killed in the upcoming sequel. Actress Lauren Graham's is out of the Wes Craven sequel. Graham isn't the first to walk away. Lake Bell departed the project last week. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
On 26 August 2010 Eureka will issue Freddie Francis' Paranoiac (1963) on DVD and Blu-ray, marking the first Hammer movie to make the transition to Blu-ray and hopefully the first of a package of other Hammer titles heading this way from Eureka.
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A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios, available for the first time on home video in the UK, this sinister classic spins a gruesome web of unhappy families. It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon (Oliver Reed), a brutish alcoholic, and Eleanor (Janette Scott), a nervous wreck, are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister certified insane and locked away, Eleanor keeps seeing the lurking figure of their long-dead brother Tony around the estate. Who or what is this apparition, and does he threaten to reveal skeletons in the closet (and elsewhere)?
A massively entertaining horror treat in the best English Gothic tradition, Paranoiac features a superbly oily lead performance from a young Oliver Reed, stunning black & white Cinemascope photography, an ingenious script by Jimmy Sangster, and gripping direction by the great Freddie Francis.
Featuring legendary actor Oliver Reed (Gladiator, The Devils, Women in Love), Paranoiac is classic British gothic horror, of the same era as The Innocents, Repulsion, The Haunting, Dracula, These Are The Damned.
One of the very first video compilations of classic horror and exploitation trailers is finally making its way to DVD. MAD RON’S PREVUES FROM HELL, which originally hit VHS way back in 1987, is set to make its disc debut September 14.
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One of the very first video compilations of classic horror and exploitation trailers is finally making its way to DVD. MAD RON’S PREVUES FROM HELL, which originally hit VHS way back in 1987, is set to make its disc debut September 14.
Virgil Films—whose president, Joe Amodei, was one of the executive producers and can be seen in a small role—will release the DVD. In addition to showcasing coming attractions for such classics as NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD and 44 others, PREVUES FROM HELL surrounds them with an actual storyline involving “Mad Ron” and an audience of zombies, introduced by ventriloquist Nick Pawlow and his undead pal “Happy.” Directed by Jim Monaco, these sequences feature makeup FX by Jordu Schell (who went on to such major genre features as THE MIST, ALIENS VS. PREDATOR—REQUIEM, CLOVERFIELD and AVATAR) and Jay Kushwara.
“Horror fans fall into a different sector than most film enthusiasts; there is much more intensity and infatuation than any other genre,” says Amodei. “This compilation does not skimp on blood, gore and thrills; it emphasizes everything that is great about horror films. It’s campy and it’s fun, and it makes a perfect party DVD for the not-too-squeamish.” You can see MAD RON’S Facebook page here.
Since Ghost of Mars (all the way back in 2001), there have been a lot of announcements about John Carpenter directing this or that film, many of which still haven't materialized. But hopefully that won't be the case for Fangland, which Carpenter will direct based on a Mark Wheaton script, adapted from the novel by John Marks. It's a shame Carpenter doesn't write his own stuff anymore, but 1998's Vampires was also based on a book, and while it's not exactly one of his best films, it IS one of his most successful (apart from the mega-budget dud Escape From LA, it was his highest grossing film since 1984's Starman), so hopefully he'll find the same success here. And with The Ward in the final stages of post production, this could mean back to back Carpenter films for the first time since the mid 90s! Read on for a few story details, courtesy of Variety.
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John Carpenter has signed on to direct "Fangland," an updated version of Bram Stoker's Dracula set up with DAS Films and Blumhouse Prods.
Sriram Das and Jason Blum are producing. Tracy Underwood's also involved in a producing capacity.
"Fangland" is based on the 2007 novel by former "60 Minutes" producer John Marks. It's centered on a New York-based producer who travels to Romania for an interview with a notorious European arms dealer, who turns out to be a modern-day Dracula.
Sounds pretty cool. Now they just need to get Dean Cundey to shoot the film, and Kurt Russell to play the vampire! I WANT MY OLD-SCHOOL CARPENTER BACK.
THE LOST BOYS 3 THE THIRST: Probably the only good thing coming out of this sequel will be the casting of the gorgeous South African model turned actress Tanit Phoenix. Here's what she had to say in a recent interview: "What I found very interesting about the Lost Boys script was that it showcases vampires how they really are, blood-sucking and evil, which somewhat dances around the fact that TWILIGHT made their vampires seem beautiful, but they really are not."
As for working with Corey Feldman, who is reprising his role as vampire hunter Edgar Frog in the film, Phoenix opined, "Corey is very sweet. He takes his work seriously. But he is just a big kid!" When asked if maybe her character, Gwen Lieber, a wealthy vampire-romance novelist, ends up a little bruised and battered in her dealings with Frog, she laughed and said, "I wanted to play a bad girl, and I finally got my chance, [but] the most physical I got was getting into skimpy outfits." She is also starring in DEATH RACE FRANKENSTEIN LIVES. (thanks to MovieHole.net)
The hell-raising drink and drug addict, who dabbled in a horror film or two has kicked the bucket after a long battle with cancer.
A drink and a line of coke in honour of a fallen great....
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Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 following a battle with prostate cancer.
Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied the image of the Hollywood icon.
Hopper died on Saturday morning surrounded by friends and family at his home in Venice, California.
He was last seen in public in March when he was honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
"Dennis Hopper died this morning at 8:15 am from complications of metastasised prostate cancer. He died at home in Venice surrounded by family and friends," manager Sam Maydew said in a statement.
Hopper directed the 1969 counter-culture road movie Easy Rider, which he co-wrote with and starred alongside Peter Fonda. The pair were nominated for a best screenplay Academy Award.
"Dennis introduced me to the world of Pop Art and 'lost' films. We rode the highways of America and changed the way movies were made in Hollywood. I was blessed by his passion and friendship," Fonda told the TMZ website following Hopper's death.
Following a promising start to his career, with a role in James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause, Hopper developed a reputation as a hell-raiser with a penchant for drink and drugs.
Following his success with Easy Rider, and the disastrous The Last Movie, his on-set clashes with directors and fellow actors saw him effectively blacklisted by Hollywood.
It took nearly 10 years for Hopper to win back starring roles, with his critically acclaimed role in David Lynch's Blue Velvet marking a turning point in his career, although his personal life remained turbulent.
Wed five times, his final marriage, to Victoria Duffy, turned into an acrimonious split in 2010 when she accused his family of trying to cut her out of his life.
In April a judge ruled that Duffy, who shared a young daughter with Hopper, could remain at the marital home.
It was during the court hearings that it was revealed Hopper was terminally ill with prostate cancer, following his diagnosis last year.
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