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Rejoice! Shout Factory Preps Halloween 2, 3, Terror Train, They Live & More For Blu/DVD!
14 hours ago | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Man oh man, in the last couple of years Shout! Factory has really stepped up to become one of the best, genre-friendly DVD companies out there consistently putting out quality editions of all those great films we remember discovering on video store shelves. After their impeccable work they did on a slew of Roger Corman produced titles, they are now launching a label titled “Scream Factory” and prepping special edition DVD’s and Blu-Ray’s of some classic horror titles. Seriously, get a pen and pad ready and make a checklist! Read the details (and slate) for yourself down below!
Press Release: Further underscoring its position as a leading curator and home entertainment provider of many memorable cult movie classics, Shout! Factory is proud to announce the launch of Scream Factory™, a new home entertainment series created to celebrate some of the most enthralling horror and sci-fi films with massive cult followings in cinematic history. »
- Rob Galluzzo
Halloween II & III Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Release Details and Cover Art
1 June 2012 8:59 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Shout! Factory is going to make many horror fans happy with their latest announcement. They have launched a new home entertainment series, titled Scream Factory, with the first two offerings being a Halloween II and III Collector’s Edition Blu-ray.
They have also announced a slate of upcoming Blu-ray releases that includes The Funhouse, They Live, and Phantasm II on. We have the official press release, along with bonus features and cover art for the Halloween films:
“Further underscoring its position as a leading curator and home entertainment provider of many memorable cult movie classics, Shout! Factory is proud to announce the launch of Scream Factory™, a new home entertainment series created to celebrate some of the most enthralling horror and sci-fi films with massive cult followings in cinematic history.
Debuting this September, Scream Factory™ boasts a scary slate of fan-favorite thrillers from the 1980s, many of which have never been available on Blu-ray™ before. »
- Jonathan James
Best News of the Day - The Shout! Factory Gets Even Scarier!
31 May 2012 5:22 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Words alone cannot express the overwhelming feeling of joy we have inside at this moment. If you thought the Shout! Factory was a great friend to the horror genre before ... brother, you ain't seen nothing yet! The Scream Factory is Officially on its way!
From the Press Release
Further underscoring its position as a leading curator and home entertainment provider of many memorable cult movie classics, Shout! Factory is proud to announce the launch of Scream Factory™, a new home entertainment series created to celebrate some of the most enthralling horror and sci-fi films with massive cult followings in cinematic history.
Debuting this September, Scream Factory™ boasts a scary slate of fan-favorite thrillers from the 1980s, many of which have never been available on Blu-ray™ before. Titles include Halloween II and Terror Train, (both starring “Scream Queen” Jamie Lee Curtis); the 30th Anniversary release of Halloween III: Season Of The Witch »
- Uncle Creepy
Halloween II, Halloween III Special Edition Blu-rays & More on the Way!
31 May 2012 4:50 PM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Here is some news that's going to knock your socks off. Shout! Factory is launching a new division called Scream Factor - "a new home entertainment series created to celebrate some of the most enthralling horror and sci-fi films with massive cult followings in cinematic history." And, get this, they've got a new special edition of Halloween II in the works along with Halloween III: Season of the Witch! That's not all. Read on for the other titles they have on the way...
Debuting this September, Scream Factory boasts a scary slate of fan-favorite thrillers from the 1980s, many of which have never been available on Blu-ray before. Titles include Halloween II and Terror Train, (both starring “Scream Queen” Jamie Lee Curtis); the 30th Anniversary release of Halloween III: Season of the Witch; They Live from director John Carpenter (The Thing); Peter Benchley’s The Island starring Michael Caine, The Funhouse »
The Night Stalker Gets Writer D.V. DeVincentis
19 May 2012 1:42 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
D.V. DeVincentis, known for his screenplays Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity, has been hired to write The Night Stalker for director Edgar Wright and star Johnny Depp.
From Walt Disney Pictures, the movie is based on the cult ABC TV series of the same name that ran from 1974 to 1975. Johnny Depp will assume the role of Carl Kolchak, a character originally played by A Christmas Story's Old Man Darren McGavin. Kolchak works as a reporter for the Chicago-based independent News Service Stories, and deals mostly with supernatural subjects.
Johnny Depp will produce alongside Christi Dembrowski through their joint production banner. The film is slated to be Edgar Wright's next after The World's End, but there are rumors, perpetuated by the director himself, that his Marvel adventure Ant-Man might squeeze in front of The Night Stalker.
The Night Stalker comes to theaters in 2014 and stars Johnny Depp. The »
- MovieWeb
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
18 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
You can usually tell when someone who fights for a living is put into a movie, as the names in the credits are beefed up with prefixes like "Stone Cold". For mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano's latest big-screen appearance there are no such signifiers, but then this isn't a typical example of the sub-genre. For one thing, it's actually a decent movie.
Steven Soderbergh continues on his career-long quest to be the director with the most varied CV (his other 2011 offering was the serious and downbeat Contagion). In crafting a film around the considerable talents of non-actor Carano, Soderbergh has delivered a stark, sleek and stripped-down action movie.
Carano play a private firm black ops agent who's hung out to dry by her contractors, and forced to fight her way to the truth in order to clear her name. It's a role that purposely doesn't put many »
- Phelim O'Neill
News Shorts: May 17th 2012
17 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
New posters for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, A Royal Affair, GI Joe Retaliation, The Good Doctor, The Babymakers, Prometheus, The Amazing Spider-Man and Mission: Blacklist.
New photos from Stolen, Passion, The Longest Week, Maladies, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, and Scarlett Johansson on the set of Hitchcock.
"Terrence Malick's romance drama starring Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams has scored both an R-rating and a title - 'To the Wonder'…" (full details)
"The disc release of Kenneth Lonergan’s long-delayed "Margaret" on July 10th will sport a three-hour extended cut with 36 minutes of added footage…" (full details)
"Wes Anderson says that he plans to follow up 'Moonrise Kingdom' with a new script he's halfway through in which the story takes place in Europe…" (full details)
"Matthew Modine has gotten into a Twitter pissing match with Marvel fans, saying ''Tdkr' is the best of the series, predicts it'll »
- Garth Franklin
Warner Bros Toaster Will Burn Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees Images onto Your Bread
15 May 2012 5:03 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
In September, Warner Bros will release a series of toasters that will burn designs into slices of bread. The designs won't be images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary, but of characters from some of our favorite films. The press release states: "These collector toasters will imprint iconic images from your favorite Warner Bros films and television series onto slices of bread to make a fun impression on your breakfast, lunch or midnight snack! The extra-wide slots allow you to not only toast bread, but also bagels and more. The toaster design is a beautiful glossy black finish featuring the logo from the film or television series, and is a compliment to any counter top." Some of the films and TV shows that can be imprinted onto your bread are "Friday the 13th," "Gremlins," "Little Shop of Horrors," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Watchmen," "The Goonies," "A Christmas Story," "The Wizard of Oz, »
Adam Yauch Tributes As ‘McA’ of the Beastie Boys Passes Away
5 May 2012 1:15 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Adam Yauch, better known as McA from the Beastie Boys, has succumbed to the cancer he’s been fighting since 2009. He died yesterday, aged 47.
Earlier yesterday the Beastie Boys released this official statement:
“It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam ‘McA’ Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer.”
Yauch had salivary gland cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, “Salivary gland cancer is a rare disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the salivary glands.” Sadly, as his voice was his greatest instrument, it kept Yauch from performing in his final days.
Yauch is best known for his ground-breaking music, but he was also a talented filmmaker. »
- Aeryk Pierson
Vince Vaughn New Show In Development As Well
18 April 2012 2:31 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Vince Vaughn Looks Poised For A Comeback
Word around the campfire is Vince Vaughn is currently developing an original series for television, alongside Lawrence Konner, whose writing credits include such shows as The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. This news is hot on the heels that Vaughn is to star in a film version of the old James Garner P.I. show, The Rockford Files. It’s looking like Vaughn is poised for a comeback that no one had been clamoring for, but after which everyone will be grateful for.
According to Deadline, the show is to be focused on “global private security operatives,” which I’m taking to either mean either balls-to-the-wall soldiers of fortune, or a buncha over-caffeinated guys in vans listening to a lot of hidden microphones. Vaughn’s statement doesn’t do much to clear this ambiguity up: “This compelling yet secretive world we are exploring is »
- Jimmy Callaway
Yahoo! Lists the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die
10 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
It's not easy to put together a top 100 of just about anything, but the folks over at Yahoo! Movies have really thrown down the gauntlet this time with a list of the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die. In describing the list, they maintain that their goal was to choose the "funniest" movies out there, not necessarily the "best" comedies. With that in mind, you might think they'd stay away from critically acclaimed classics and lean more toward low brow, quick and easy laughfests. But you'd be wrong. There are a lot of classics on this list, everything from The Apartment to Dr. Strangelove to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and Buster Keaton's The General. There are also movies on here that aren't really "comedies" per se, such as Pulp Fiction and Martin Scorsese's After Hours. More than anything, this serves as a reminder that what is »
- Sean
Netflix Eyes 'The River'; Logo Preps 24 Hour 'Showgirls' Marathon & Hugh Dancy Joins 'Hannibal'
23 March 2012 7:44 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
As we head into the weekend, a few puzzling television tidbits have popped up on our radar.
First, while director David Fincher argues over the budget of the Netflix-primed “House of Cards,” the subscription based service is becoming a retirement home for shows that could never quite cut it on network television. We don’t mean “retirement home” in a negative sense, after all we’re anticipating the return of “Arrested Development” in 2013, but now some odd news is coming out in regards to a floundering new series. The “Lost”-riffing Oren Peli and Steven Spielberg-produced “The River” may find a new life on Netflix, this coming in the wake of the news that they’ve also recently been eyeing the axed Fox series “Terra Nova,” so it looks as if Netflix is banking on some strong streaming numbers by acquiring these flimsy genre titles. For those who don’t know, »
- Benjamin Wright
Opinion: Mike Daisey, 'This American Life', and the invention of 'counterfeit truth'
21 March 2012 10:40 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
The phrase “based on a true story” has become weak currency in the world of storytelling, and unfortunately it keeps getting worse.
The latest downgrading occurs at the hands of performer Mike Daisey and his falsehood-perforated theater monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, about the exploitation of Chinese workers who manufacture Apple products.
Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life presented an entire episode this past weekend to retract and correct its very popular January show that featured Daisey’s now-discredited reporting. The entire program can be found here, and it’s compelling listening – even if you »
- Anthony Breznican
Vancouver Film Production Update - March 2012
28 February 2012 6:26 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for March 2012 :
"Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters"
Feature
Apr 16/12 - Jul 06/12
"Pride No More"
Feature
Nov 14/12 - Dec 04/12
"Seventh Son"
Feature
Mar 19/12 - Jun 22/12
Digital Feature
Mar 05/12 - Apr 04/12
Digital Feature
Feb 09/12 - Feb 28/12
"Arrow"
TV Pilot
Mar 09/12 - Apr 02/12
"Murder She Solved: True Crime" Season 3
TV Series
Apr 10/12 - Nov 20/12
"Alcatraz"
TV Series
Aug 26/11 - Mar 07/12
Email: alcatrazvan@gmail.com
"Continuum" (aka "Out Of Time")
TV Series
Jan 10/12 - May 03/12
"Fairly Legal" Season 2
TV Series
Oct 28/11 - Mar 26/12
"Falling Skies" Season 2
TV Series
Oct 19/11 - Feb 28/12
"Fringe" Season 4
TV Series
Jul 14/11 - Apr 10/12
"Once Upon A Time"
TV Series
Jul 19/11 - Mar 30/12
"Primeval - New World"
TV Series
Feb 29/12 - Jul 09/12
"Supernatural" Season 7
Jul 06/11 - Apr 18/12
"The Haunting Hour" Season 3
TV Series
Feb 23/12 - May 17/12
"The Killing" Season 2
TV Series »
- Michael Stevens
Image of the Day: The Best Shot of Angelina Jolie's Leg from Last Night's Oscar Ceremony
27 February 2012 3:36 PM, PST | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
In case you weren't aware of how big a deal the internet is making out of Angelina Jolie showing off a little leg during last night's Oscar ceremony, look no further than the leg's own Twitter account. All day we've seen various Angelina Jolie memes floating around, including a really fun photoshopped image of what it would look like if both of Jolie's legs were bare, not to mention a fake movie poster for a film starring Jolie's leg called The Leg. But this one below is our favorite, if only because we're wicked fans of A Christmas Story, as well as images that make a mockery out of our ridiculous obsession with the little tricks celebs pull to get us all worked up in a tizzy. Bet you'd like to put that in your front window ... [via Alison...
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- Erik Davis
Edgar Wright & Johnny Depp are Going Night Stalking. Throwing Records at Things Optional
23 February 2012 7:09 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
With the stink of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World still following him (yes, I found nothing of value with that movie…sorry hipsters) Edgar Wright looks to make huge amends with this next project. He’s attached to direct Johnny Depp in the big screen adaptation of The Night Stalker. The Night Stalker was a TV movie back in 1972 and later became a TV series that starred Darren McGavin (the dad from A Christmas Story). The idea has potential: »
- Craig Dietz
Edgar Wright and Johnny Depp Teaming for 'The Night Stalker'
22 February 2012 11:06 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
As much as I would like to see Johnny Depp get away from the quirky characters, this teaming with Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) sound too good to pass up. Deadline.com reports the duo will begin piecing together an adaptation of the 1972 ABC telepic "The Night Stalker", which subsequently became a series titled "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" featuring the title star Carl Kolchak, a tabloid reporter who investigates mysterious crimes with supernatural, sci-fi and mythological causes such as zombies, vampires, werewolves and aliens. The pic is being set up at Walt Disney Pictures with Depp currently attached to star as Kolchak, a role originally occupied by Darren McGavin, whom most may know as The Old Man from A Christmas Story or even as Adam Sandler's father in Billy Madison. Obviously that's him pictured in the image above. Expectation is for the film »
- Brad Brevet
Audition for Off-Broadway World Premiere of New '60s Musical
14 February 2012 3:02 AM, PST | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Telsey + Company is holding auditions on Wednesday, February 15 for the world premiere of "Dogfight," a new musical that will debut Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in June.The show will be directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello ("Other Desert Cities," "9 to 5," "Wicked"), with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ("A Christmas Story," "James and the Giant Peach") and a book by Peter Duchan. "Dogfight" was the winner of the 2011 Richards Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre. Set in the fall of 1963, "Dogfight" follows three young Marines on the eve of their deployment to Vietnam. The boys set out for one last night of debauchery. When Corporal Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, an awkward and idealistic waitress, he enlists her to win a cruel bet with his fellow recruits, and she rewrites the rules of the game and teaches him the power of »
- help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
Vancouver Film Production Update - February 2012
9 February 2012 6:59 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
FromVancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for February 2012 :
"Random Acts Of Romance"
Feature
Jan 30/12 - Feb 21/12
"Seventh Son"
Feature
Mar 12/12 - May 19/12
Digital Feature
Mar 05/12 - Apr 04/12
Digital feature
Feb 09/12 - Feb 28/12
TV Pilot
Mar 12/12 - Mar 30/12
"Mockingbird Lane"
TV Pilot
Feb 27/12 - Mar 19/12
"Alcatraz"
TV Series
Aug 26/11 - Mar 07/12
"Continuum"
TV Series
Jan 10/12 - May 03/12
"Fairly Legal" ~ Season 2
TV Series
Oct 28/11 - Mar 26/12
"Falling Skies" Season 2
TV Series
Oct 19/11 - Feb 28/12
"Fringe" Season 4
TV Series
Jul 14/11 - Apr 10/12
"Once Upon A Time"
TV Series
Jul 19/11 - Mar 30/12
"Primeval - New World"
TV Series
Feb 29/12 - Jul 09/12
"Supernatural" Season 7
TV Series
Jul 06/11 - Apr 18/12
"The Killing" Season 2
TV Series
Nov 28/11 - Apr 20/12
TV Series
Jul 19/11 - Apr 12/12
"Christmas Miracle"
Mow
Feb 12/12 - Feb 28/12
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- Michael Stevens
An Obsessive Chat About Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Between Mike Ryan and IFC's Matt Singer
8 February 2012 8:38 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace returns to theaters on Friday in 3D -- 13 years after its original release. In 1999, anticipation was high for what was the first new Star Wars installment in 16 years -- a film that would introduce us to young Anakin Skywalker, who was prophesized to bring balance to The Force. Today, The Phantom Menace serves as a reminder not of the balance of The Force but of the balance between expectations and reality. Such a reminder that (back by popular demand) IFC's Matt Singer and myself decided that an obsessive chat was necessary. Mike: So, Matt, where do you stand on The Phantom Menace?
Matt: I guess I'm of two minds about it: On the one hand, I think it's a terrible movie, and on the other hand I kind of love that it exists specifically because it's a terrible movie.
Mike: That sounds »
- Mike Ryan
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