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'The Exorcist' to Levitate to TV
25 May 2012 10:47 AM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
When I was a kid, I watched The Exorcist on TV through the holes in the afghan my grandmother knitted, safely protected by the blanket draped over my head. Now, almost 40 years after William Peter Blatty's bestselling story of possession shocked audiences and became the first horror blockbuster, The Exorcist is being adapted into a miniseries for TV.
Related: What's Next For 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' Star Elizabeth Olsen?
Martha Marcy May Marlene writer-director Sean Durkin is adapting the occult classic into a ten-episode television series, according to Vulture. With more time to develop the story, the new Exorcist plans to chronicle the events leading up to a demonic possession and then focus on how a family copes in the aftermath.
No network for the miniseries has been announced yet, as the project hasn't been formally shopped to networks.
Related: 'Devil Inside' - Fact or Fiction?
While nothing could ever top the frightening, head-spinning »
"So You Think You Can Dance" Premiere: 5 Auditions That Mattered
25 May 2012 6:42 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
As far as I can remember, So You Think You Can Dance is the only reality competition series with an audition-thru-finals format where every episode is equally compelling. I can't say that about American Idol and its unbearable auditions or The Voice and its paltry battle rounds. The talent on display in Sytycd is so beautiful, primed, and undeniable that even the relatively nutty auditions come off wonderfully. And did I mention the thorough, fabulous critiques from the judges' panel? What about the ineffable charms of host Cat Deeley? And my favorite: the genius of the voting format. It's not a total populist freakshow like Idol -- America sends three contestants into a sudden death round and the judges decide who within that trio must go home. It's all so correct. So fun and energized and professional.
And with that, we dive right into last night's premiere, which featured a typical melange of kooky talents, »
- virtel
The Exorcist heading to the small screen
24 May 2012 11:37 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Over the past few years we've seen a host of classic television series getting the big screen treatment, but now it seems that TV executives are looking to reverse the trend by turning to movies for their source material. Earlier this year NBC commissioned a series based upon the cinematic serial killer Hannibal Lecter from writer-producer Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Heroes) and director David Slade (30 Days of Night; The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) and now Vulture is reporting that The Exorcist has been tapped for a ten-episode series, which is set to be shopped around to networks in the coming weeks.
According to the report, the series will be adapted by Sean Durkin, who made his feature film debut last year with the Elizabeth Olsen-headlined thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, and is set to be produced by Roy Lee (The Departed, The Ring). The small screen adaptation is said to »
- flickeringmyth
The Exorcist TV Miniseries Remake
24 May 2012 3:15 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Linda Blair in The Exorcist: demon possession The Exorcist, a 1973 Best Picture Oscar nominee and major worldwide blockbuster, will be remade as a television miniseries according to various online reports. Based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel, the William Friedkin-directed horror movie about a girl possessed by the devil starred Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, and Max von Sydow. Blatty himself penned the screenplay adaptation. According to Vulture, Martha Marcy May Marlene‘s writer-director Sean Durkin will both write and direct the ten-episode TV version of The Exorcist. If ten episodes seem more than a little too long, that’s because the new version will include a prequel to the events found in Friedkin’s film. Friedkin’s The Exorcist received 10 Academy Award nominations. In addition to Best Picture, also shortlisted were William Friedkin, William Peter Blatty, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, and Jason Miller. The film earned »
- Andre Soares
Martha Marcy May Marlene Director to Remake The Exorcist as a TV Series
24 May 2012 2:43 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
We've been hearing rumours about it for years, but somehow up until now The Exorcist has remained one of the few iconic horror movies that has yet to be remade. About five years ago, Linda Blair caused an uproar when she mentioned at a film festival screening that a remake was in the works. Nothing seemed to come of that, but then in 2009, William Peter Blatty revealed that he had written scripts for a TV mini-series adaptation of his own novel, and that William Friedkin had agreed to direct. Now this week it appears that same TV version of The Exorcist will be moving forward but without Friedkin in the director's chair; Martha Marcy May Marlene writer-director Sean Durkin will be taking over the reins instead. Clearly it could have potential, but is this something that fans of the original film would be willing to be embrace? According to Vulture, »
- Sean
'The Exorcist' (The Version You've Never Seen) - Paused
24 May 2012 1:30 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Movie: The Exorcist Release Year: 1973 Studio: Warner Bros. Director: William Friedkin Starring: Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, Max von Sydow as Father Merrin, Lee J. Cobb as Lt. William Kinderman, Jason Miller as Father Damian Karras, William O'Malley as Father Dyer and Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil Cinematographer: Owen Roizman (The French Connection, Network, Wyatt Earp) Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. Photo: Warner Bros. »
- Brad Brevet
Wamg Interview: The Devil Inside Actress/Contortionist Bonnie Morgan
13 May 2012 7:11 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Bonnie Morgan is an actress who specializes in what she calls .otherworldly movement.. Remember the creepy little girl in The Ring 2 who crawled out of the well like a spider? That was Bonnie. In Men In Black 2 she doubled over and a headlike appliance was placed on her behind, given the character the nickname .Jabba the Butt.. ‘Bendy Bonnie’ is a 31-year old contortionist. She discovered she was capable of dislocating her shoulders and hips at 9 years old and eventually took her talent on tour with her actor/stuntman father and sister. Bonnie has put her unique skills to work in such films as Minority Report, Hellboy 2, Piranha (she was the gal in the inner tube!), Fright Night, and TV.s The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Her most substantial role to date was in this year.s surprise hit The Devil Inside as Rosa, a young woman whose body »
- Tom Stockman
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "The Exorcist"
9 May 2012 7:19 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
The Hit Me With Your Best Shot series is deceptively simple. Choose a single shot from a pre-selected movie that you think is best, best being in the eye of the beholder. Tonight we're looking at The Exorcist (1973). And for me at least, it's the first time I've looked at it. That's not quite as shocking as your 12 year old daughter's head spinning 'round 180º, but maybe it's close.
Nearly every horror classic I've seen I've resisted in some ridiculous way: I saw Halloween at a sleepover movie marathon but it took my horror-loving friend five holidays to convince me; I first saw Silence of the Lambs because I had five nightmares about it beforehand and wanted them to end; I can't remember what prompted Rosemary's Baby but I'm willing to bet that I rented the video five times before actually watching it. And so on.
If I was ever going to watch The Exorcist, »
- NATHANIEL R
Clip joint: Arguments
9 May 2012 8:50 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Take a look back in anger at the finest instances of blazing rows and screaming showdowns on film
This week's Clip joint is by Ashley Clark, who also wrote Clip joints on Breaking the Fourth Wall and Mirrors. He runs the film blog Permanent Plastic Helmet. You can follow it on Twitter at @PPlasticHelmet, and/or him @_ash_clark.
Think you can do better than Ashley? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch – the magnificently named British writer – classified all fiction plots as a number of basic conflicts. One such conflict was "character v character", and down the years a raft of screenwriters and directors have drawn upon this maxim to provide audiences with the delightful experience of characters facing off against each other in a variety of ways. The most fun of these »
- Guardian readers
Scares That Care Offering Great Swag in Online Charity Raffle
11 April 2012 12:07 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
We know what a great feeling it is to win an online auction. We've all snatched that eBay item at the last second from an unsuspecting rival. Check out the Scares That Care auction, win some swag, and do it for a good cause!
Follow the link to the Scares That Care website and check out the great offer they have. Instead of having to shell out huge amounts of cash to get a piece of autographed memorabilia, all you need is five dollars and a dream. For every five dollars you spend you get an entry into the Friday the 13th raffle. The raffle is for a load of great prizes which are listed below. You can't go wrong with this and the funds got to children in need and support for breast cancer survivors.
Additionally, the person who donates the most money (either all at once or cumulatively »
- Doctor Gash
Film Review: Hell Night (1981)
6 April 2012 8:00 PM, PDT | Horror News | See recent Horror News news »
Synopsis:
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
Review:
I hate Linda Blair. There! I said it and I mean it too. Why do I hate Ms. Blair at all you ask? I certainly don’t know her so it doesn’t have anything to… More »
- The Black Saint
The Devil’s Demonic Handywork: Thn’s Top Five Possessions
16 March 2012 5:34 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Demonic possession has been the theme of many a horror film over the years. However it was really William Peter Blatty’s best-seling novel The Exorcist (inspired by the real-life exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim) that ensured the idea was ingrained into popular culture. A film was eventually adapted for the screen by a top-of-his-game William Friedkin, who was just coming off his Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse crime classic The French Connection. After The Exorcist went on to break box-office records with queues around the block and audience members reportedly fainting in aisles, the 1973 controversial shocker was ripped-off, parodied, and sequelized by imitators wanting to capitalise on this new form of terror.
So with the imminent release of the new found-footage horror hit The Devil Inside, Thn has decided to take at look at the best five films to feature the battle between good and evil for the souls of humanity`… as »
- Craig Hunter
Retro Active: Savage Streets (1984)
15 March 2012 4:16 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the Nicolas Cage-starring revenge thriller Seeking Justice.]
Born in an era of Charles Bronson death wishes and Chuck Norris invasions, Savage Streets remains a preeminent example of vigilante pulp, awash in gaudy 1980s fashion and attitude while also delivering female empowerment of a decidedly broad, silly, Slumber Party Massacre sort. A vehicle for Linda Blair to further distance herself from her iconic head-spinning, pea soup-vomiting Exorcist past, Danny Steinmann's film is pure, unadulterated exploitation, trading in violence and T&A with brazen gusto. That profane-and-loving-it posture does wonders to prop up what is, in effect, merely a cheap women-centric version of Death Wish, one in which men are—save for John Vernon's foul-mouthed high school principal—all scumbags (either actively or passively), and women are either bitches or badass angels. Brenda (Blair) fits into that last category, strutting about L.A.'s nighttime streets with her gang in tow, her low-cut top »
Scream Shepis, Scream!
15 March 2012 9:07 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
When I was asked to write this column, I was beyond thrilled. I called my husband and screamed, “Fango wants me to write a column!” Fangoria, the Fangoria, that Sean and I have been reading since we were horny pre-teens. The Fangoria, whose first issue came out in the year of my birth. The Fangoria that still to this day, almost 100 movies later, I get tickled to know I’m going to appear in it. The Fangoria that has featured horror greats like, Linda Blair, Debbie Rochon, Lance Henriksen, Jewel Shepard, Brinke Stevens, Felissa Rose and Brad Dourif! The Fangoria that I bought 250 copies of to share with family and friends when the 2006 article, “A Wolf in Shepis Clothing” was featured. Fan-f**King-goria!!! I am on cloud 9, beyond excited, totally speechless. The same Fangoria that’s given me so much joy is the same Fangoria, The Fangoria that I now have absolutely, »
- justin@fangoria.com (Tiffany Shepis)
Scream Shepis, Scream!
15 March 2012 9:07 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
When I was asked to write this column, I was beyond thrilled. I called my husband and screamed, “Fango wants me to write a column!” Fangoria, the Fangoria, that Sean and I have been reading since we were horny pre-teens. The Fangoria, whose first issue came out in the year of my birth. The Fangoria that still to this day, almost 100 movies later, I get tickled to know I’m going to appear in it. The Fangoria that has featured horror greats like, Linda Blair, Debbie Rochon, Lance Henriksen, Jewel Shepard, Brinke Stevens, Felissa Rose and Brad Dourif! The Fangoria that I bought 250 copies of to share with family and friends when the 2006 article, “A Wolf in Shepis Clothing” was featured. Fan-f**King-goria!!! I am on cloud 9, beyond excited, totally speechless. The same Fangoria that’s given me so much joy is the same Fangoria, The Fangoria that I now have absolutely, »
- justin@fangoria.com (Tiffany Shepis)
Martin Scorsese, Max von Sydow
20 February 2012 11:41 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Martin Scorsese Max von Sydow Martin Scorsese and Max von Sydow at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 6, 2012. Scorsese is in the running for Best Director for the period fantasy Hugo, starring Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Von Sydow is a Best Supporting Actor nominee for Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which also features Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. (Photo: Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S.) Scorsese's competition for the Best Director Academy Award consists of Alexander Payne for The Descendants, starring George Clooney and Shailene Woodley; Terrence Malick for The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, and Sean Penn; Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Marion Cotillard; and Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. Von »
- D. Zhea
Nicki Minaj Gives Hell to Critics of Grammy Exorcism Performance
16 February 2012 8:36 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Nicki Minaj's controversial exorcism performance at the 2012 Grammys confused and offended some people, and now a new report from NY Daily News says the rapper responded to her critics, asking, "I don't know -- what is the big issue?"
The 29-year-old claimed the five-minute presentation of songs "Roman's Revenge" and "Roman Holiday," which included priests, an exorcism and levitation, was part of an unnamed movie she's currently writing.
Minaj attended an event for cosmetics »
Scene but not Heard: See The Exorcist with Linda Blair’s Undubbed Voice
16 February 2012 6:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
We’re in the middle of an uneven renaissance of the Exorcist film with The Rite, The Devil Inside and The Last Exorcism (with a sequel coming soon… I know…) being recent examples of the reanimation of the genre.
Despite these new pretenders to the throne William Friedkin’s The Exorcist remains the most powerful and the most shocking iteration and this is down to Friedkin’s expert handling of the William Peter Blatty story and to the performance of Linda Blair. It’s an uncomfortble watch due to the maturity of the acting on display as the transformation begins and the rot sets in.
One of the most terrifying performances in the film comes from someone who is never on-screen, and initially went uncredited until Friedkin agreed to add the name of Hollywood actress Mercedes McCambridge to the credits against the name of Demon (voice). The work McCambridge did, »
- Jon Lyus
Catholic League: "Is Nicki Minaj possessed?"
13 February 2012 12:30 PM, PST | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
During last night's Grammy telecast (at which, I believe, Adele won every single award, including Best Rap Album), Nicki Minaj debuted "Roman Holiday," a new tune off her upcoming album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Following in the footsteps of Madonna twenty years ago, and, more recently, Lady Gaga, her performance was heavy on the religious symbolism, and featured Minaj doing her best Linda Blair impression: undergoing a mock-exorcism, levitating, and speaking in tongues as a hooded choir sang "Come All Ye Faithful." Earlier in the evening, Minaj had arrived on the red carpet with a man dressed as the Pope, who, according to Minaj, represented her alter ego, "Roman Zolanski." (Like Sasha Fierce, or Chris Gaines? What, you don't have an alter ego?) All of this didn't sit well with the Catholic League. The organization sent out a reproving press [...] »
The Cine-Masochist Reviews: Linda Blair Stars in Savage Streets (Video Review)
13 February 2012 7:20 AM, PST | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
Technically not a "typical" genre horror film, but it does star Linda Blair, and it's directed by Daniel Steinman who also directed Friday the 13th: Part 5! So you know it's super sleazy. So what and who is the Cine-Masochist? Well me obviously, but it's a show that's main focus is celebrating bad movies instead of bashing them. If you love 80's action/slashers and exploitation films then this should be right up your alley! The link to my you… »
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