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An American Werewolf In London Blu-Ray Announced

14 July 2009 1:52 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

Beware The Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf In London filmmaker Paul Davis updated his official website yesterday with the official press release for Universal's long-awaited Blu-Ray release of John Landis' 1981 classic. Check out the full press release below.

Available for the First Time on Blu-ray(Tm) Hi-Def An American Werewolf in London – Full Moon Edition

September 15, 2009 Own It On Blu-ray(Tm) Hi-def And 2-disc DVD From Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Overview: One of the most gripping horror films of all-time is now available in perfect picture and purest digital sound on Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD – An American Werewolf in London – Full Moon Edition! When two American students touring London are attacked by a vicious wolf during a full moon, their lives are suddenly transformed forever. Featuring ground-breaking Academy Award(R)-winning make-up by Rick Baker (Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” How The Grinch Stole Christmas), this cult favorite is directed

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Huge American Werewolf in London Blu-ray / DVD News

13 July 2009 11:40 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Usually when we get press releases in our inbox, we extrapolate information from them as a means to write our story for you guys to add that personal Dread Central touch to it. In this case? There's so much good to talk about we're leaving it As Is!

From the Press Release

Available for the First Time on Blu-ray(Tm) Hi-Def An American Werewolf in London – Full Moon Edition

September 15, 2009 Own It On Blu-ray(Tm) Hi-def And 2-disc DVD From Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Universal City, Calif., July 13 /PRNewswire/ –

Overview:

One of the most gripping horror films of all-time is now available in perfect picture and purest digital sound on Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD – An American Werewolf in London – Full Moon Edition! When two American students touring London are attacked by a vicious wolf during a full moon, their lives are suddenly transformed forever. Featuring ground-breaking

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John Landis on Michael Jackson & An American Werewolf...

29 June 2009 12:43 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

After the passing of Michael Jackson last week, Tom DeFeo aka "The Godfather of Fangoria" (our owner & president) asked me to post a copy of our Screamography episode featuring John Landis. With last night's news that Dimension might be remaking An American Werewolf In London, the episode certainly seems hauntingly timely.

Presented below is the full, 54-minute episode of Fangoria's Screamography: John Landis, along with a text transcript featuring Landis on Jackson.The segment on An American Werewolf begins around the 23 minute mark, with the segment on Thriller beginning around 37.

Fangoria Screamography - John Landis

Transcript: The Making Of Michael Jackson's Thriller (at 37:00 in the video):

Narrator: Landis' next project was for the small screen and starred The King of Pop...

John Landis: Thriller cost about $600,000 which at the time was huge because the average rock video cost between $50K and $100K, and we made one for $600K.

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Michael Jackson Will Live On In Movie History

26 June 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

A sad day indeed. Michael Jackson wore many hats over the course of his long career. He was an international superstar, and he leveraged that status to dip his toes into anything that interested him. In the world of film, Jackson enjoyed unparalleled access. He worked with luminaries, artists and auteurs who shaped the course of the medium as strongly as the pop star himself did in the music world.

Jackson was a pop cultural icon and his touch will forever be felt in all facets of entertainment. Here are just a few of the stars he hitched to in film during his long and storied career.

Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is a director’s director. He gave us classics like “12 Angry Men,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Network,” “Serpico” and the modern-day masterpiece “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” He also gave us “The Wiz,” a playful recasting of

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Michael Jackson's Screen Legacy, From 'The Wiz' To 'The Simpsons'

26 June 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news

The superstar worked with legendary directors Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and John Landis.

By Adam Rosenberg

Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Diana Ross and Ted Ross in "The Wiz"

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images

Michael Jackson's talent as an entertainer was arguably beyond comparison, yet his music was only the starting point for a career that spanned multiple mediums: film, television (including a Jackson 5 cartoon), video games, theme-park attractions and more. While his appearances in films were relatively few and far between, his magnetism translated easily to the big screen.

Jackson's first major film came in 1978, with director Sidney Lumet's "The Wiz." In the musical fantasy, adapted from L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz," Jackson starred as the Scarecrow alongside Diana Ross' Dorothy, Nipsey Russell's Tinman and Ted Ross' Lion. "The Wiz" is an urban fairy tale set in

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Michael Jackson's Star Flames Out at 50

25 June 2009 9:30 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news

Musical icon Michael Jackson died this past Thursday at the age of 50. The singer, whose albums sold millions of copies worldwide, had a profound influence on pop culture, and worked with some of Hollywood’s top directors in often-groundbreaking music videos.

Jackson, who rose to prominence during the 70’s as part of the popular Motown scene, first appeared on-screen in 1978’s The Wiz, an African-American version of The Wizard of Oz. The film’s director was Sidney Lumet, the director of Dog Day Afternoon and Network.

During the 80’s, his multi-platinum-selling albums "Thriller" and "Bad" were supported by music videos that pushed the genre into feature film territory. John Landis, who made the comedic hits Animal House and The Blues Brothers, and whose An American Werewolf in London is considered a seminal horror classic, directed the spine-tingling "Thriller". The 14-minute music video, which featured dancing zombies, was more like a

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What's Old Is New Again in Theaters

11 May 2009 5:45 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news

It's not just that this is the year for film reboots and sequels. Empire Online is reporting that that Universal Studios will re-release five classic movies in theaters. On deck for the digital big-screen treatment are Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas (June 9), The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi (July 28), Brian De Palma's Scarface with Al Pacino (August 25), Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's The Thing (September 15), and John Landis's Animal House (November 2).

Next Showing:

Link | Posted 5/11/2009 by Rich Z

Al Pacino | Brian De Palma | Dan Aykroyd | John Belushi | John Landis | Kurt Russell | Stanley Kubrick | John Carpenter | Kirk Douglas | National Lampoon's Animal House | The Blues Brothers | The Thing | Spartacus | Scarface

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Hollywood Wax Museum & Hollywood Props Auction

13 April 2009 9:37 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

If you’ve ever been to the Hollywood Wax Museum, you know it’s a rather interesting static display of things cool, memorable, and waxy.

For the first time ever, The Hollywood Wax Museum is offering up over 200 different items for auction. The items aren’t just hand-sculpted wax figures, but they’re also auctioning off some original costumes. These wax figures are the same ones that have been seen by millions of visitors to the Hollywood, CA and Branson, Mo museum locations, since the 1970s to present day.

The Last Supper

The auction will be conducted by the venerable auction house, Profiles in History, who is the world’s leading Hollywood memorabilia dealer.

Cher

Profiles in History have had some cool auctions in the past, but you do need some serious play cash stashed for some of the incredible goodies they auction off.

Freddy Costume

Some of the costumes

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Bruce Simmons

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R.I.P. Lou Perryman

3 April 2009 12:16 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

We're terribly, terribly saddened to learn of the passing of Lou Perryman. Most genre fans know Perryman as the lovable L.G. in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, but Perryman also worked with Tobe Hooper several times early in the director's career, first as an assistant director on Eggshells, also on the original Chainsaw and later as an actor in Poltergeist. He also had bit parts in The Blues Brothers, Boys Don't Cry & Last Night At The Alamo.

Most shocking about this story is that Perryman was murdered, but the police currently have a suspect in custody. Perryman's daughter Jennifer wrote the following message via the actor's Facebook page: "He was a wonderful man and was so happy to have you all in his life. He was blessed."

Shock Till You Drop posted This news story, forwarded over by Perryman's daughter.

And Dread Central posted the following video segment regarding

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Exclusive Portrait: Blues Brother, ‘Ghostbuster’ Dan Aykroyd in Chicago

30 March 2009 1:28 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – Blues Brother and “Ghostbusters” star Dan Aykroyd recently took time to pose for the the HollywoodChicago.com lens on March 28, 2009 before meeting fans and fine wine connoisseurs alike. Aykroyd was in Chicago to promote his new Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay wines at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago’s South Loop.

Dan Aykroyd has starred in “The Blues Brothers,” “Trading Places,” “The Coneheads,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Ghostbusters,” “Caddyshack II,” “Ghostbusters II,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “My Girl,” “My Girl 2,” “Dragnet,” “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “Blues Brothers 2000,” “Pearl Harbor,” “50 First Dates,” “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” and many more films. Our exclusive portrait of Dan Aykroyd in Chicago can be found below.

Dan Aykroyd in Chicago on March 28, 2009 to promote his new Cabernet Sauvignon

and Chardonnay wines at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago’s South Loop.

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.

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I'm Officially Sick of Bromance!

22 March 2009 7:08 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news

We’ve long known that some straight men are in love with themselves. Now they’re making movies about straight men falling in love with each other – platonically, of course.

In fact, that’s almost all they’re making movies about. At least that’s what most film comedies seem to be about these days.

I Love You, Man, the new movie about a buddy-less man in search of a best male friend, is just the latest in a long string of comedies about heterosexual male bonding: Superbad, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, Hitch, Grilled, Wild Hogs, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Tropic Thunder, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Blades of Glory, Wedding Crashers, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Then there are the movie comedies that sort of pretend to be about a guy falling in love with a woman, but are really about

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Scenes We Love: The Blues Brothers

4 March 2009 11:45 AM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

This might sound strange to some of our readers, but they made movies all the way back in 1980. For example, one of them was called Popeye. Another was called Oh, God! Book II. But, more importantly, a third one was called The Blues Brothers. The very first (very best) "Saturday Night Live spinoff movie," The Blues Brothers was born unto the world on June 16th, 1980, in the city it virtually destroyed: Chicago, Illinois.

Now, I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I had a big handful of "Oh Yes, I'm definitely begging to stay up late to see That one again!" movies. King Kong and The Wizard of Oz, obviously, but also weird stuff like 9 to 5, Silver Streak, The Fog, 1941, and (um) Popeye. But The Blues Brothers was probably #1 on the list, because it was dryly funny, it had a ton of great musical numbers, and

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A Legal Thriller: Michael Jackson Sued by John Landis

27 January 2009 2:10 PM, PST | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

Remember that Thriller musical we told you about yesterday? Seems Michael Jackson already has a sequel in the works. This one will be playing out not on Broadway, however, but in a Los Angeles courtroom. John Landis, the filmmaker whose credits include Animal House, The Blues Brothers and Trading Places, is suing over another of his best known hits—Jackson's "Thriller" video. Landis says Jackson owes him big bucks in royalties for the classic 14-minute clip. Per the complaint, filed in L.A. Superior Court last week and obtained by E! News, the 58-year-old filmmaker accuses the 50-year-old Moonwalker of "fraudulent, malicious and oppressive conduct" for failing to fork over a...

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