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'Frankenweenie': Tim Burton talks about his upcoming pet project
12 May 2012 5:30 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
For Tim Burton, this year is 2005 all over again. In 2005, the director first released the big-budget, live-action Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the summer, followed by the stop-motion animated Corpse Bride in the fall. The latter earned Burton his first and only Oscar nomination (for animated feature film). Cut to 2012. Burton’s big-budget, live-action horror comedy Dark Shadows, his eighth collaboration with star Johnny Depp, hits theaters this weekend. But waiting in the wings is Frankenweenie, a 3-D stop-motion animated monster movie that’s very dear to Burton’s heart.
Frankenweenie is a remake of the 1984 black-and-white, live-action short of the same name, »
- John Young
Mill Creek 50 Movie Packs Discount Code And Giveaway
10 May 2012 7:32 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
If you’ve hunted around for movie bargains, you’ve probably seen some of Mill Creek Entertainment’s 50-Movie Packs on DVD. Apart from other great releases by Mill Creek, these packs are phenomenal boons to cinephiles looking to collect older titles.
There are three new packs available, and I want to not only let you in on a discount code, but I have one of the packs available for you to win.
I know a lot of people may be quick to overlook these packs, and not every movie included stands out as a major value, but there are some great titles in each of them, and fans of the genres will be pleasantly surprised by what they get out of the deal. I have to admit that there is something about seeing a 50-movie pack, especially when it doesn’t cost a couple of hundred dollars, or more, »
- Marc Eastman
New Dimensions to Sci Fi London
4 May 2012 8:34 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Among the highlights of this year's festival is a period drama with a time-travel twist. Think Merchant Ivory, only steampunk
The annual Sci Fi London festival, which is running until Monday at several venues in the capital, always throws up more than its fair share of offbeat genre treats. One of this year's highlights is a period brainteaser with an intriguing time-travel twist that has already picked up awards from the Boston science fiction film festival and the London independent film festival. Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads also benefits from a plucky backstory surrounding its husband-and-wife creative team. Director Sloane U'Ren and writer/composer Ant Neely sold their Twickenham home to help finance the tiny £180,000 budget, and most of the film is shot at the riverside Cambridgeshire home of Neely's brother.
Blending a Lewis Carroll fascination with the possibility of other worlds, timelines, realities and »
- Ben Child
Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel: A Tribute to Doug Jones
3 May 2012 11:00 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
I was lucky enough to sit down with the great Doug Jones last month to talk about John Dies at the End and a potential reunion with Guillermo Del Toro for a dream Frankenstein project. The great thing was, the interview went so well, I had a ton of extra material that wouldn't fit in the original piece. What to do, what to do?
Then the answer became obvious, take the rest of the interview and turn it into the first ever Doctor Gash Tip of the Scalpel, Interview Edition. So it's with that I offer a much deserved Tip of the Doctor Gash Scalpel to one of the most unique talents in Hollywood, the incomparable Doug Jones.
Of course much of the interview had to deal with Dougie's experiences in make-up, as he has such a gift of bringing an F/X artist's vision to life in ways unique just to him. »
- Doctor Gash
Sci-Fi London: Guardian readers set scientific themes for filmmakers
30 April 2012 5:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Readers rise to the challenge of putting the 'science' into 'science fiction' for film festival's 48-hour challenge
The lights will dim and flicker in Piccadilly Circus on Tuesday as Sci-Fi London – the "international festival of science fiction and fantastic film" – comes to life with a jolt at the Apollo cinema.
Highlights this year include Death, starring the inimitable Leslie Philips as an inventor who has found a way to communicate from beyond the grave, Osombie, about a zombie Osama bin Laden, and a Boris Karloff all-nighter. Of course there will be more cerebral films, too, such as Clone, which explores the possible psychological fallout from human cloning.
Every year, the festival organisers set aspiring filmmakers the challenge of creating a five-minute movie from scratch over a single weekend, with the title, a prop and a line of dialogue set for them at random. The best shorts are shown at the festival. »
- James Kingsland
This week's new film events
27 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sci-Fi-London
The budgets might be small but the ideas are big at this enduring festival of the fantastic – a place where "what if?" meets "Wtf?". Visit worlds where America is ruled by China (Ghosts With Shit Jobs), a woman gives birth to the clone of her lover (Clone, starring Eva Green and Matt Smith), and Osama bin Laden returns from the grave with zombie jihadists (Osombie). For old-school lovers, there are all-nighters of Paul Verhoeven and Boris Karloff and a tribute to the Zx Spectrum.
Various venues, Tue to 7 May
The Other Cinema Presents La Haine, London
It was made 17 years ago, but Mathieu Kassovitz's explosive drama just keeps getting more relevant. Its depiction of the Paris suburbs as a powder-keg of multiculturalism, social and economic deprivation, and aimless youth (including a young Vincent Cassel) looks like even more prescient in light of last year's England riots, not to »
- Steve Rose
The Raven—movie review
26 April 2012 9:48 PM, PDT | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
Poor Edgar Allan Poe can’t get a break from Hollywood—at least, not since Roger Corman made his famous adaptations in the 1960s with Vincent Price. Even the 1963 Corman movie called The Raven with Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and young Jack Nicholson had nothing to do with Poe’s immortal poem; neither did the 1935 picture starring Karloff and Bela Lugosi. They do have one thing in common, however: they’re a lot more entertaining than the new release that bears this title. John Cusack plays Poe at the end of his life, a pariah who can’t rustle up a drink in his hometown of Baltimore. He’s utterly obnoxious, and even abuses the newspaper editor...
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- Leonard Maltin
Jack Nicholson Movies: Rating The Actor's Best And Worst Films
21 April 2012 10:54 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
What's Jack Nicholson's secret? Maybe it's the eyebrows, hovering like ironic quotation marks over every line reading. Maybe it's the hooded eyes, which hold the threat of danger or the promise of joviality -- you're never sure which. Same with that sharklike grin. Or maybe it's the voice, which has evolved over the years from a thin sneer to a deep rumble, but is always precisely calibrated to provoke a reaction. Put them all together, and they say: "I am a man to be reckoned with. Ignore me at your peril." Nicholson, who turns 75 on April 22, is often criticized for relying on his bag of tricks, for just showing up and doing Jack Nicholson (though indeed, he often seems to have been hired precisely for that purpose). But he's also capable of burrowing deep into a character, finding his wounded heart, and revealing the ugly truth without fear or vanity. »
- Gary Susman
The Forgotten: It's a Barnum & Bailey World
18 April 2012 8:34 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Cinema Circus is clearly a product of the great, yet under-reported MGM peyote-poisoning of 1937—how else to explain its baffling, surreal, Technicolor, grotesque yet undeniable existence? It is a chilling documentary record of some things that were performed in front of a camera, once upon a time.
A man in a gruesome Joe E. Brown mask is helped from his leering false-face, revealing another leering false face, that of Lee Tracy, who attempts to justify what we are about to see as the realisation of a long-cherished dream, although the exorcism of a recurring nightmare would be at least as plausible.
Big top performers will trot out their tricks in brief visual bits, watched by earnestly faking-it movie "stars," few now recalled in the contemporary pantheon: Olsen & Johnson, the Ritz Brothers, Leo Carillo...
Meanwhile, more hideous outsized masks are sported, embodying movie stars too authentically famous to be roped into »
Hollywood legends: the TCM Classic Film Festival
11 April 2012 4:28 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
At this Los Angeles film festival, movie buffs wallow unashamedly in nostalgia and the golden era of Hollywood, and get to meet the odd star of the classic films being screened
Hollywood Boulevard was closed to traffic and the crowds were gathering outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre to spot the stars – Peter O'Toole, Tippi Hedren and Mickey Rooney among them – as they walked the red carpet and filed past hundreds of famous foot and handprints for the premiere of Gene Kelly's 1951 film, An American in Paris. Fans cheer and cameras flash.
At the TCM Classic Film Festival stars from yesteryear rub shoulders with paying guests who made their way past the pair of giant Chinese Ming Heavens dogs guarding the main entrance of the 85-year-old picture palace.
Home to the biggest film premieres in Hollywood since 1927, the theatre interior rises 90 feet to a bronze roof, two coral red columns sitting »
Exclusive: Doug Jones Talks John Dies at the End, Neighborhood Watch, Frankenstein and Miming
10 April 2012 4:35 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
There may not be a more beloved actor in the horror/sci-fi genre than Doug Jones. With an impressive resume that includes some of the most amazing F/X creations ever captured on film, Jones has the uncanny ability to breathe extraordinary life into the most beautiful of characters.
Recently Doug Jones sat down with Dread Central to discuss his current projects.
Jones was featured as the enigmatic Roger North in John Dies at the End, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. "This is the film adaptation of the very popular book John Dies at the End," Jones said. "Don Coscarelli adapted it for film, and he directed as well. He's a genre favorite, and we were all in good hands with him."
Jones joined an impressive cast for John Dies at the End. "I star alongside Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown. Newcomers Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes are the two lead kids, »
- Doctor Gash
A Reboot Of The Mummy Underway
10 April 2012 12:43 PM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Reboot alert! This reboot involves mummies! According to Variety and ComingSoon, Universal Pictures is planning on rebooting the “Mummy” franchise. The original, starring Brendan Fraser, was more of an action-adventure, “Indiana Jones” type film with humor and scares. Very PG-13 in every sense of the word. In short, it was an adventure film you could easily watch with your family. The original “Mummy” movies, which were a lot more macabre, were released during the heyday of Hollywood; the first film was released in 1932, with Boris Karloff as the mummy Imhotep. This reboot is going to be mighty different–”Prometheus” screenwriter Jon Spaihts has been signed on to write the film [ Read More ] »
- monique
The Rotten Truth: Hey, Universal, Give Other Monsters a Chance, or, An Argument Against the Mummy Reboot
7 April 2012 8:15 PM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
There’s a mug currently sitting in my garage. One of those kitschy collectibles that you couldn’t serve a cup of coffee in, it’s too big and clumsy, so its purpose is nothing other than to sit on a shelf and look gaudy. And I do mean gaudy. This mug features a sculpted image of Boris Karloff as The Mummy. The color scheme is weak. Situated inside the mug, at its base, is some blue “Egyptian artifact.” I can’t tell what is, to be honest. Universal released the mug in the late-‘90s and, out of the collection of mugs the studio released, it is certainly not the best one.
A friend recently commented on this mug – I was trying to sell the damn thing off during a garage sale – and we got to discussing The Mummy’s merit as a Universal classic monster. He liked The Mummy. »
Monsterpalooza Exclusive: Legendary Horror Makeup Artist Jack Pierce Action Figure
6 April 2012 6:06 PM, PDT | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
Straight from our friends at Figures.com comes this kick ass new action figure, read below for all the details: Those heading to Monsterpalooza next weekend will have the opportunity to purchase an action figure of legendary makeup artist Jack Pierce. This 1/9 scale Mego style action figure from Emce Toys celebrates the man responsible for transforming Boris Karloff into Frankenstein's monster, along with other classic monster creations. Packed… »
Prometheus scribe Jon Spaihts scripting a Mummy reboot for Universal
5 April 2012 11:20 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Well, another day, another reboot... although this time, it's actually one that could probably benefit from a fresh approach, given that its stock is rotting faster than the corpse of its 3000-year-old antagonist following two hugely disappointing sequels and an abysmal spin-off series. Yes, I am of course talking about Universal's Monster Movie franchise The Mummy, with Variety reporting that Prometheus co-writer Jon Spaihts has signed on to reincarnate the mildly horrific adventure series by penning a new screenplay for the studio and producer Sean Daniel. "I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with Prometheus," says Spaights, whose other credits include The Darkest Hour and the upcoming World War Robot and Passengers. "To go back to a franchise's roots in dark, scary source material and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven't seen before."
The Mummy franchise launched back in 1999 under director Stephen Sommers »
- flickeringmyth
‘Prometheus’ Writer To Reboot ‘The Mummy’
5 April 2012 5:17 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus, is shaping up to be one on the must see movies of the year, judging on the footage and images seen so far. Now co-writer Jon Spaihts has been given the task of resurrecting another well-known franchise, The Mummy. Originally a masterful horror film from Universal’s monster-movie icon era, starring the legendary Boris Karloff, The Mummy was brought back to life as a trio of lifeless Indiana Jones-esque adventures headlined by the equally lifeless (and annoying) Brendan Fraser.
Spaihts went on to give fans a hint at what we can expect from the project, which is expected to go back to its terrifying origins:-
I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with ‘Prometheus’: to go back to a franchise’s roots in dark, scary source material, and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven’t seen before. »
- Craig Hunter
Universal Digging Up ‘The Mummy’
5 April 2012 4:18 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Universal’s loose remake of 1932′s Boris Karloff classic ‘The Mummy’ was a huge hit back in 1999, grossing a respectable $416 million worldwide. It soon paved the way for two equally successful sequels, a spin-off and even a popular theme park ride. The most recent entry in the series – 2008′s ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’ – continued to pull in large numbers of audiences around the world, despite receiving a fierce critical mauling.
It’s hardly surprising that Universal have today announced plans to reboot the series, with the help of ‘Prometheus’ co-writer Jon Spaihts and returning series producer Sean Daniel. Spaihts has already excitedly talked up his plans for the reboot with Variety, which will take the series in a new direction after the recent slew of straight-to-video Scorpion King sequels.
“I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with ‘Prometheus’: to go back to a franchise’s roots in dark, »
- Stephen Leigh
Next On The Reboot List: 'The Mummy'
5 April 2012 4:09 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
When I say The Mummy, most of you are probably thinking the 1999 Brendan Frasier Indiana Jones style action flick. If you didn't make the connection with the 1932 Boris Karloff horror film, I don't blame you, as all the two really have in common is the same title. Audiences loved the very different remake, and the result was a franchise that was bringing in over $400 million per film. Now, Universal has decided to reboot the franchise, presumably taking it back to its horror roots. »
- David Hoffman
The Mummy Reboots?
4 April 2012 6:53 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Looks like someone at Universal took a gander at Sony re-booting the Spider-Man franchise after the last outing in 2007 and thought both, ‘Hhm… maybe we should tap that reboot reservoir...’ and, ‘Pah! 2007? Lightweights. We’ll up the ante and relaunch something that last saw cinemas in 2008!’ Hence today’s announcement that the studio has decided to reboot The Mummy. The producers – including franchise veteran Sean Daniel – have decided that Prometheus co-writer Jon Spaihts is the man to dust off Imhotep and give him a new coat of sand and evil. "I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with Prometheus: to go back to a franchise's roots in dark, scary source material and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven't seen before," Spaihts tells Variety.Stephen Sommers brought Universal's veteran Egyptian troublemaker back to life in 1999, after a classic Boris Karloff effort back in »
Josh Charles, Kathryn Hahn Join Ben Stiller
4 April 2012 6:21 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Two more names have been added to the cast of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Kathryn Hahn and Josh Charles (photo) will be joining actor-director Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Patton Oswalt, and Shirley MacLaine in the 20th Century Fox production. Hahn is to play Stiller's sister in the movie. Charles will play Wiig's ex-husband. Among Kathryn Hahn's movies are two box-office bombs starring Paul Rudd, Wanderlust and My Idiot Brother. Hahn also had roles in the Kate Winslet-Leonardo DiCaprio drama Revolutionary Road, the Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and in Robert Shaye's family drama The Last Mimzy. Among Josh Charles' movie credits are Peter Weir's Oscar-nominated Dead Poets Society, Pie in the Sky, S.W.A.T., and Weakness. On television, Charles is a The Good Wife regular. Based on a story by James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty »
- Anna Robinson
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