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Director Carl Rinsch to Swim with The Creature From The Black Lagoon
10 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
He may have lost his chance to direct the fifth Alien movie, but director Carl Rinsch is doing pretty well for himself. Last month, we told you that Rinsch would be behind the camera on 47 Ronin, the film adaptation of the Japanese Chūshingura legend. Now it looks like Rinsch has lined up an even higher profile film with Hero Complex reporting that Rinsch is in talks to direct the remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The 1954 original involved a scientific expedition encountering a dangerous amphibious humanoid who may or may not be from a darkly colored body of water.
Multiple directors over the past three decades have tried to revive Creature, from John Landis to Peter Jackson to the most recent director to depart, Brick Eisner. Eisner, who recently remade George Romero’s 1973 horror film The Crazies, has now moved on to remake David Cronenberg’s 1979 horror film, »
- Matt Goldberg
Ari Lehman's Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei Journal
20 hours ago | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Much as we'd like to, we can't always get to Every festival that happens. That's why we have friends like Ari Lehman, who travels extensively and who can bring us a blow-by-blow of the events as they happened. Here, then, is Ari's exclusive journal from his recent trip to Spain, where his band, First Jason, played the Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei, which is a really long name for one hell of a festival dedicated to horror movies and music. So without further ado...
Firstjason Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei Journal
Day 1 -
As we looked out of the airplane window, Barcelona lay sprawled out before us like an overflowing Pirate's chest that had been tipped into the shiny blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. I looked up to the north where I saw a dark, craggy mountaintop looming in the distance. »
- Sifu Scott
Slamdance 2010 Line-up Announced
10 December 2009 12:19 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Slamdance, which runs concurrently with Park City’s Sundance Film Festival, has announced its 2010 line-up, and there are several choices that look to make genre fans sit up and take notice.
Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:
Narrative Competition:
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life, »
- Uncle Creepy
Slamdance 2010 lineup includes Irish Pa awesomeness One Hundred Mornings
10 December 2009 9:48 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
What's that? You can't wait to hear about the Irish post apocalyptic film One Hundred Mornings? Well you don't have to because we already have a review of it right here! Our own Alan Maxwell called it an "uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society." Yeah, it's good.
So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.
Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?
Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?
Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.
Partial lineup after the break!
Narrative Competition
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Slamdance Announces Competition Films - 18 Films Selected From 5,000 Submissions
10 December 2009 7:24 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Slamdance, Sundance’s indie little brother, has announced the 18 films that will be playing in competition next month. While the economy might be slowing down, there was no shortage of submissions, as Slamdance reports they had 5,000 films vying for a spot in the Festival. Of the 18 films in competition, ten are narrative, eight are documentaries, and eleven are world premieres.
“The quality of indie filmmaking is getting higher while productions costs are getting lower,” said Slamdance prexy and co-founder Peter Baxter. “Far apart from the apparent industry downturn, there appears a great sense of what is possible rather than impossible with our submissions.”
Of course this year will be very interesting at Slamdance after the success Paranormal Activity. If you didn’t know, Activity screened at the 2008 Festival and has since made over $100 million at the domestic box office. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a few more buyers looking for a repeat performance. »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
2010 Slamdance Film Festival Lineup Revealed!
10 December 2009 1:00 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
The competitive lineup for the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival (of which Fangoria is a media sponsor) has been revealed via an announcement on Variety. "As in years past, competing films are by first-time feature directors working with limited budgets and without domestic theatrical distribution in place. Among the 18 titles, 11 are world premieres." the trade reports.
Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.
Narrative Competition
“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
TIFF Picks Canada's 2009 Top Ten
8 December 2009 5:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Back in 2001, The Toronto International Film Festival created Canada's Top Ten, an annual event created to celebrate Canadian cinema. We've talked about it in the past, as it's featured big names like Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg, and Don McKellar. And now, as 2009 comes so quickly to a close, this year's best have been picked.
I've usually seen at least a few of the feature choices, but this year I'm woefully behind on some pretty cool-sounding flicks. The 2009 films include Defendor -- the Woody Harrelson superhero indie by Peter Stebbings, Cairo Time -- the Ruba Nadda romance starring Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig, and The Trotsky -- a film starring Jay Baruchel as a teen who believes he's the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky. On the shorts side of things, I've already alerted you to three in the Tiff Shorts Roundup: Bruce Alcock's Vive la Rose, Chris Landreth's The Spine, »
- Monika Bartyzel
'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' Will be Made, and It Sounds Crazy!
1 December 2009 1:58 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
In the Making Of interview to the right, Twilight franchise producer Wyck Godfrey briefly discusses the plans to turn the fourth novel in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" franchise into a feature film. He says: We are about to embark on that. Getting New Moon and Eclipse finished in the amount of time we did, given that Twilight came out just last year has kind of taken all of our efforts. There's every intention of making Breaking Dawn and that'll begin November 21, figuring out the stage and what the time schedule is for it. Considering The Twilight Saga: New Moon was just released and is already breaking records having amassed $230 million domestically and nearly $474 million worldwide in just ten days you may be thinking this is an absolute no-brainer. So why is this a story that has hit every website today and why hasn't Summit already announced The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn? »
- Brad Brevet
Exclusive: Comics Legend Steve Bissette on His New Monsters
28 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Steve Bissette is one of the few horror comics artists who can truly be called a living legend. As the principal artist on the classic Saga of the Swamp Thing, Bissette (working with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben) was responsible for the first truly modern horror comic, infusing the medium in the mid-80s with the same dimensions of dread and strangeness that David Cronenberg and John Carpenter brought to film. Bissette went on to write the Bram Stoker Award-winning Aliens: Tribes and edit and publish Taboo, the groundbreaking horror anthology in which From Hell first saw print, alongside work by Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman and other leading lights of the genre. These days... »
Shining: the sequel?
26 November 2009 | Cineman.ch/en | See recent Cineman.ch/en news »
In Toronto for a reading moderated by David Cronenberg, Stephen King has told fans he has been thinking about writing a sequel to "The Shining", which Stanley Kubrick turned into a movie in 1980. Even if the novel has yet to be written, it would hardly be a surprise if was not immediately adapted to the big screen, given Hollywood's endless penchant for sequels. Nevertheless, at a reading to promote his latest book, "Under the Dome", the master of horror told fans the sequel would concentrate on Danny Torrance, now about 40 and working in a New York hospice for terminal patients, using his powers to communicate with ghosts to help ease dying patients. The work-in-progress title is "Doctor Sleep". King added a caveat, stressing it's only talk at the moment: "Maybe if I keep talking about it I won't have to write it." It should also be noted that King considered »
- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
DC Comics Explores the Blackest Night
25 November 2009 11:58 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Marvel Zombies was a heavily promoted event in our comic universe. While the moments within the pages were skillfully worked into the canon of Marvel continuity, it's primarily seen as light, spoofy fun. Now, DC take a turn. Get ready for the Blackest Night!
This event has been going on for some time now, so this article isn’t for those already knee-deep in new comics every week. This is for the rest of you who wouldn’t normally know that dead people across the DC universe are rising from the graves and ripping the hearts out of the ones they loved! Got your attention? We’ll take a look at the comics leading up to complete chaos for the Justice League and nearly everyone they know and identify which books are worth hunting down to complete the big picture and which can be left behind. Ultimately, you can always »
- Nomad
Stephen King Not Writing ‘Shining’ Sequel
25 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
At a reading of Stephen King’s new novel “Under the Dome” last week, the famous author answered questions from the audience and director David Cronenberg about his work. The filmmaker asked if King enjoyed looking back over his novels and the horror writer responded that he sometimes wondered what his old characters were up to.
This lead to a lengthy scenario, reported by the Torontoist, that would center on Danny Torrance, the Big Wheel riding kid from The Shining. “What happened after he survived the incident at the Overlook Hotel?” King asked himself last summer. In the author’s imagination, Danny would be 40 years old and living in upstate New York where he tends to patients in a hospice. His mysterious powers help those pass on to the other side in a novel King wanted to title “Doctor Sleep.” No return to the Overlook? No thank you.
The original »
- Jeff Leins
Stephen King Has Been Working on a Sequel to The Shining?
24 November 2009 11:41 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
This isn't exactly news, but it's quite an earth shattering thought that could end up shaking cinema to the core. Recently The Torontoist attended an event where author Stephen King treated fans to a 15-minute reading from the author’s new novel, Under the Dome, as well as a candid interview chock full of stories passed in an on-stage interview with Eastern Promises director David Cronenberg. In this interview, King shocked fans when he began casually describing an idea for a new novel only to slowly reveal that it was his concept for a sequel to The Shining, the original novel that spawned Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film. Apparently the follow-up, referred to as Doctor Sleep, is something King has been working on since last summer where (spoilers for those who have neither read the book, nor seen the film) he's continued the story following Danny Torrance (the creepy »
- Ethan Anderton
Stephen King Hints at Shining Sequel
24 November 2009 5:52 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Big news from Lilja's Library, the unofficial chronicler of Stephen King's works. According to blogger Torontoist, while King was doing the rounds for his new mega-novel Under the Dome, he stopped in Toronto for an interview conducted by none other than The Dead Zone director and Canada's most famous horror director, David Cronenberg; during the discussion, King mentioned that a sequel to The Shining might be in the works. The novel would explore a grownup Danny Torrance's connection with hospice patients. King's prospective title? Doctor Sleep.
The description Torontoist gives doesn't actually mention the Overlook Hotel, or their snowy environs. It appears that King wants to follow the character, and not just merely return to the original's setting. This is the same ploy he used with Father Callahan in the Dark Tower series, instead of bringing the priest back to 'Salem's Lot (which would've thrilled me, as I've »
Stephen King Talks 'Shining' Sequel
24 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
The luckiest audience in the world last night could be found at the Canon Theatre in Toronto, where a crowd of fortunate souls got to watch, for a full hour, two titans of terror in conversation -- Stephen King and hometown hero David Cronenberg (who, of course, brought King's The Dead Zone to the big screen in a first-rate adaptation back in 1983). Apparently so relaxed to be in the company of another horror god, King casually dropped the bombshell that he's considering a sequel to what is arguably his finest novel, The Shining. According to Books.Torontoist.com, King is interested enough in what happened to Jack Torrance's son Danny after Torrance unleashed Holy Hell on the kid... »
Stephen King: A Shining Sequel on the Way?
24 November 2009 4:54 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Now This is pretty damned interesting ... a sequel to one of Stephen King's most beloved terror tales written by the man himself? Consider our attention officially gotten!
Following a 15-minute reading of King's latest book, Under the Dome, legendary director David Cronenberg hosted a special Q&A with the author who revealed to the audience that he plans on writing a sequel to The Shining entitled Doctor Sleep.
From The Toronto 1St
"King dropped a fan bombshell on the crowd by casually describing a novel idea he began working on last summer. Seems King was wondering whatever happened to Danny Torrance of The Shining, who when readers last saw him was recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who dies in the Kubrick film version). King remarked that though he ended his 1977 novel on a positive note, »
- Uncle Creepy
Wtf: Stephen King Is Planning a Sequel to The Shining?!
24 November 2009 3:52 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Stephen King has been letting a lot of juicy news tidbits slip while making book tour appearances. His latest admission is almost unbelievable. While appearing at Toronto's Canon Theatre, King dropped the bombshell during his on stage interview with director David Cronenberg that he began working on a sequel to The Shining last summer. That's right... a Sequel to The Shining. According to the report from Torontoist, King wanted to revisit Danny Torrance, who was last seen on the page (spoilers coming up for the book and moie The Shining) recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who had a much different fate in the Kubrick film adaptation), who has become the head chef. King breifly laid out his tenative plan for the novel, which would see the emotionally scarred kid, now a 40-year-old orderly »
- Peter Sciretta
A Sequel to 'The Shining' is Brewing Within Stephen King
24 November 2009 2:45 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Gotta love the book tour Stephen King is currently on to promote Under the Dome. First he tells a crowd in Maryland that he has written a draft of the television screenplay for Cell, that HBO wants to do an Under the Dome miniseries, and that he is working on new Talisman and The Dark Tower novels. And now an even bigger bombshell comes: he's got a book plan for a sequel to The Shining brewing in the back of his always-working mind.
But before getting to the news, I'd like to address the means by which it leaked out, which is equally interesting. While in Toronto, King followed up a 15-minute reading from Under the Dome with an hour long Q&A in a packed theater. The interviewer? David Cronenberg. Thinking about that taking place makes my heart hurt. My favorite director interviewing my favorite writer? What kind of »
- Peter Hall
Sequel to The Shining on King's To-Do List?
24 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
"Doctor Sleep." That's the title to Stephen King's sequel to "The Shining," if he ever gets around to writing it. The author, now on a book tour for "Under the Dome," told Q&A moderator David Cronenberg (!) in Toronto during a 15-minute reading of the novel that he's got some ideas percolating for a "Shining" follow-up. Here's what the Torontoist, who was on the scene, says it's about: Danny is now 40 years old and living in upstate New York, where he works as the equivalent of an orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill. Danny's real job is to visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers. Danny also has a sideline in betting on the... »
Remake Of The Brood Is Becoming A Reality
22 November 2009 8:54 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It's strange to think that David Cronenberg has been freaking us out for thirty years. Be it the head explosion in Scanners, the creation of Brundlefly in The Fly, or even Ed Harris' end in A History of Violence, his films have always existed on the far edge of extreme, even by today's standards. When you consider the impact his films have had, it's kind of strange that Hollywood has yet to make any crappy, updated remakes of them yet. There was a rumor a few years ago of a Scanners remake that never was, and Cronenberg himself signed on to remake The Fly back in September, but up until now the man's work has been untouched. Now to drop the other shoe... According to Shock Till You Drop, Cory Goodman, the writer of next year's Paul Bettany film Priest, is refinishing his script for The Brood, a remake »
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