Pick My Adventure Show, the first show dedicated to the world’s most traveled people, today announces the launch of its weekly podcast and YouTube show, featuring interviews with the most interesting and unique travelers in the world. The show debuts with two interviews: Graham Hughes, a two-time Guinness World Record holder for visiting every country without using a plane and for most countries visited in one year (133), and Stefan Krasowski, a traveler who visited every country before the age of 40 using credit card points. The subsequent guest is Tony Giles, who has visited 131 countries while blind and 80% deaf.
“Only about 300 people – total – have visited every country in the world, which makes this one of the most exclusive unofficial clubs in the world,” said Kevin Leu, Founder and Host of Pick My Adventure Show. “To put it in context, about 600 people have been to space! I’m eager to learn from these travelers,...
“Only about 300 people – total – have visited every country in the world, which makes this one of the most exclusive unofficial clubs in the world,” said Kevin Leu, Founder and Host of Pick My Adventure Show. “To put it in context, about 600 people have been to space! I’m eager to learn from these travelers,...
- 9/5/2023
- Podnews.net
Welcome to Give Me the Fear, a new Frightfest 2023 preview series hosted by screenwriter Stuart Wright.
These brief, spoiler-free interviews will – across the entire series – help you to discover the kind of knowledge and experience about how to make indie horror films that they don’t teach at film school.
After looking back at the blood, sweat and tears that went into their creative successes, I ask them one last question: If you could hand pick one person to be in the audience for your Frightfest screening, who would it be and why? I think you going to love the answers this question elicits.
This episode features Hostile Dimensions (Graham Hughes), Kim’s Video (Ashley Sabin & David Redmon) and Enter the Clones of Bruce Lee (David Gregory)
For more details about Frightfest see https://www.frightfest.co.uk/2023FrightFestLondon/index.html
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These brief, spoiler-free interviews will – across the entire series – help you to discover the kind of knowledge and experience about how to make indie horror films that they don’t teach at film school.
After looking back at the blood, sweat and tears that went into their creative successes, I ask them one last question: If you could hand pick one person to be in the audience for your Frightfest screening, who would it be and why? I think you going to love the answers this question elicits.
This episode features Hostile Dimensions (Graham Hughes), Kim’s Video (Ashley Sabin & David Redmon) and Enter the Clones of Bruce Lee (David Gregory)
For more details about Frightfest see https://www.frightfest.co.uk/2023FrightFestLondon/index.html
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- 8/18/2023
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
"You've got this in your flat right now?" Now what do we have here? There's a new indie horror sci-fi film from the UK premiering at FrightFest in London later this month called Hostile Dimensions and it seems like it's worth a watch. This is yet another mix of horror and multiverse storytelling, similar to the other indie sci-fi horror Doors film from last year. In Hostile Dimensions: two documentary filmmakers traverse alternate dimensions, confronting nightmares to uncover the truth behind a graffiti artist's disappearance who seems to have vanished right into thin air. These dimensions mix the ordinary with the bizarre - whales floating across the skies throw a hilly idyll off kilter. Graham Hughes describes his forth feature as a "tribute to highly imaginative low-budget films combining found footage with epic sci-fi to create something unique and thrilling." Starring Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Annabel Logan, and Andy Stewart.
- 8/1/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Blue Finch Film Releasing presents the world premiere of Hostile Dimensions at FrightFest on August 26 & August 28, and Bloody Disgusting scored an exclusive first look today.
Hostile Dimensions is a twist-filled multiverse horror from Graham Hughes, whose previous film Death of a Vlogger was a FrightFest hit in 2019 and garnered critical acclaim.
“Hughes’ inventive and terrifying new film tells the story of two documentary filmmakers who decide to investigate the disappearance of a graffiti artist who seemingly ‘vanished’. As they delve deeper into their research, they encounter an ominous freestanding door which leads them on a dark journey through the dimensions behind it.
“Determined to uncover the truth the pair soon realise they have stumbled across something far more terrifying than they could have ever imagined.”
While you wait for the film’s FrightFest premiere, you can check out an exclusive first look at Hostile Dimensions below, which features a quick...
Hostile Dimensions is a twist-filled multiverse horror from Graham Hughes, whose previous film Death of a Vlogger was a FrightFest hit in 2019 and garnered critical acclaim.
“Hughes’ inventive and terrifying new film tells the story of two documentary filmmakers who decide to investigate the disappearance of a graffiti artist who seemingly ‘vanished’. As they delve deeper into their research, they encounter an ominous freestanding door which leads them on a dark journey through the dimensions behind it.
“Determined to uncover the truth the pair soon realise they have stumbled across something far more terrifying than they could have ever imagined.”
While you wait for the film’s FrightFest premiere, you can check out an exclusive first look at Hostile Dimensions below, which features a quick...
- 8/1/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The horror festival runs August 24-28 in London
Joe Stephenson’s Doctor Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard will have its world premiere at the UK’s horror and fantasy film festival FrightFest (August 24-28) as the full line-up is unveiled.
Izzard will play Nina Jekyll, the infamous scientist with a dark alter-ego, in a modern adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s book by placing a woman in the titular role.
Doctor Jekyll is one of 25 world premieres screening at the festival, which takes place at Cineworld Leicester Square in London.
Opening FrightFest will be the European premiere of Joe Lynch’s...
Joe Stephenson’s Doctor Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard will have its world premiere at the UK’s horror and fantasy film festival FrightFest (August 24-28) as the full line-up is unveiled.
Izzard will play Nina Jekyll, the infamous scientist with a dark alter-ego, in a modern adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s book by placing a woman in the titular role.
Doctor Jekyll is one of 25 world premieres screening at the festival, which takes place at Cineworld Leicester Square in London.
Opening FrightFest will be the European premiere of Joe Lynch’s...
- 7/13/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
FrightFest, the UK’s biggest, best and most beloved community-driven horror & fantasy film festival, returns in a blaze of gory glory to the Cineworld Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition, a press release announced this morning.
“Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is a joyful big screen celebration of genre cinema, offering a carnival of carnage, a smorgasbord of shock and a tableau of terror. This year, over five days, audiences can explore the magic of menace, mayhem and mischief with seventy films programmed across four screens. There are twenty-five world, twenty-three International / European and twelve UK premieres, with fourteen countries represented, spanning five continents.
The festival opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest shocker from FrightFest favourite Joe Lynch, who has created an outlandish love letter to the late, great Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon; a new body horror take on H.P Lovecraft...
“Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is a joyful big screen celebration of genre cinema, offering a carnival of carnage, a smorgasbord of shock and a tableau of terror. This year, over five days, audiences can explore the magic of menace, mayhem and mischief with seventy films programmed across four screens. There are twenty-five world, twenty-three International / European and twelve UK premieres, with fourteen countries represented, spanning five continents.
The festival opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest shocker from FrightFest favourite Joe Lynch, who has created an outlandish love letter to the late, great Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon; a new body horror take on H.P Lovecraft...
- 7/13/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Swiss auteur Simon Jaquemet’s “Electric Child” joins Ukrainian sci-fi comedy “U Are the Universe,” and “We Are Zombies,” from heavily rated Canadian trio Rkss, as three potential highlights at this year’s Cannes Marché du Film’s Frontières Platform, organized with the Fantasia Film Festival.
Focusing on genre, the Frontières showcase is emerging as one of the Marché du Film’s biggest market plays, supercharged by this year’s milestone Oscar triumph of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” smart genre’s popularity among an emerging generation of filmmakers and its rising tide as one of the most resilient of independent movie market propositions.
For Rkss, it’s a return, having had great success with their previous “Turbo Kid,” which went on to Sundance, and won a bunch including at SXSW and Fright Fest.
“U Are the Universe,” deserves a special mention, given the sheer challenge of completing a project...
Focusing on genre, the Frontières showcase is emerging as one of the Marché du Film’s biggest market plays, supercharged by this year’s milestone Oscar triumph of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” smart genre’s popularity among an emerging generation of filmmakers and its rising tide as one of the most resilient of independent movie market propositions.
For Rkss, it’s a return, having had great success with their previous “Turbo Kid,” which went on to Sundance, and won a bunch including at SXSW and Fright Fest.
“U Are the Universe,” deserves a special mention, given the sheer challenge of completing a project...
- 4/5/2023
- by Callum McLennan and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Jonathan Kasdan, the showrunner of the streaming series ‘Willow’, has revealed how the team zeroed in on Dempsey Bryk for the casting of Prince Airk in the series. Fate had it for Dempsey, who is Canadian and was cast for the part despite the makers actively looking for a polished British actor to play it. He was selected after Jon and team stumbled upon his audition tapes.
Talking about the same, Jon said: “We knew we needed a contemporary version of a charming fairytale prince. We met a lot of very proper British actors, you know, very manicured men, and then Dempsey, this fun Canadian kid, showed up in one of the tapes and was so original and fresh; we all knew we could not pass him up.”
Written and executive produced by Jonathan Kasdan with Ron Howard and Roopesh Parekh as executive producers, the series walks a tonal line between epic fantasy,...
Talking about the same, Jon said: “We knew we needed a contemporary version of a charming fairytale prince. We met a lot of very proper British actors, you know, very manicured men, and then Dempsey, this fun Canadian kid, showed up in one of the tapes and was so original and fresh; we all knew we could not pass him up.”
Written and executive produced by Jonathan Kasdan with Ron Howard and Roopesh Parekh as executive producers, the series walks a tonal line between epic fantasy,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) and Graham Hughes in Lucasfilm’s ‘Willow’ (Photo © 2022 Lucasfilm Ltd)
Willow – the 1988 fantasy-adventure film directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and written by Star Wars creator/auteur George Lucas – is the latest franchise to get a reboot.
Warwick Davis (who worked with Lucas in 1983’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi) and reprises his role as the titular character from the original film, Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn farmer/sorcerer, never imagined he would be playing Willow again.
“For years it’s been talked about, not by anyone official but by the fans,” explained Davis. “They’ve constantly pestered me, saying, ‘When are we going to see a sequel to that movie?’ And it’s a question I could never answer.”
Until he met Jonathan Kasdan, on the set of 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story (which Howard directed and Davis cameoed). The younger...
Willow – the 1988 fantasy-adventure film directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and written by Star Wars creator/auteur George Lucas – is the latest franchise to get a reboot.
Warwick Davis (who worked with Lucas in 1983’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi) and reprises his role as the titular character from the original film, Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn farmer/sorcerer, never imagined he would be playing Willow again.
“For years it’s been talked about, not by anyone official but by the fans,” explained Davis. “They’ve constantly pestered me, saying, ‘When are we going to see a sequel to that movie?’ And it’s a question I could never answer.”
Until he met Jonathan Kasdan, on the set of 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story (which Howard directed and Davis cameoed). The younger...
- 12/5/2022
- by Kurt Anthony Krug
- Showbiz Junkies
Discovery has ordered the documentary series “Mad Dog Made,” which will highlight the work of renowned weapons maker Kevin “Mad Dog” McClung, Variety has learned exclusively.
The series, which will debut Aug. 3 at 10 p.m., will see McClung create state-of-the-art hand-held weapons and tools like a tactical fire axe to a super-long-range rifle used to defend against weapons of mass destruction.
McClung’s team throughout the builds includes his quick-witted daughter Morgan and Jacob Sanchez, who brings over 15 years of professional experience in blacksmithing, carpentry and aerospace mechanics.
During the season, the team also builds devices including a Mars multi-tool that must be compatible with an astronaut’s pressurized space suit and function on a space station, in the vacuum of the deep space, or on the surface of Mars itself. They also create a protection apparatus for bush pilots to use against predators in the event of a crash landing in the wilderness.
The series, which will debut Aug. 3 at 10 p.m., will see McClung create state-of-the-art hand-held weapons and tools like a tactical fire axe to a super-long-range rifle used to defend against weapons of mass destruction.
McClung’s team throughout the builds includes his quick-witted daughter Morgan and Jacob Sanchez, who brings over 15 years of professional experience in blacksmithing, carpentry and aerospace mechanics.
During the season, the team also builds devices including a Mars multi-tool that must be compatible with an astronaut’s pressurized space suit and function on a space station, in the vacuum of the deep space, or on the surface of Mars itself. They also create a protection apparatus for bush pilots to use against predators in the event of a crash landing in the wilderness.
- 7/13/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Everyone from the Big-Three networks to the basic-cable movers and shakers get their tentpoles and marquee projects up and running in September – by October, however, they're bringing back some under-the-radar favorites (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and trying out some ambitious one-off experiments. (Ready yourself for whatever a Fox-approved Rocky Horror Picture Show might look like!) Meanwhile, Epix, TBS, and HBO launch promising new series pretty much covering the breadth of genres, and oh yeah, some horror show called The Walking Dead lurches back onto television to let fans in on who, exactly,...
- 9/29/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Scream Factory celebrates over three decades of Dan O'Bannon's graveyard bash at this year's Comic-Con with a special Return of the Living Dead autograph signing, and their annual "Inside Look" panel will feature the eagerly anticipated announcements of future releases
Taking place at Shout! Factory's booth (#4118) on Friday, July 22nd, The Return of the Living Dead autograph signing will feature cast members Thom Mathews (Freddy) and John Philbin (Chuck), as well as Sean Clark, who hosted a new episode of Horror's Hallowed Grounds for the Collector's Edition Blu-ray of the beloved horror comedy.
"An Inside Look at Shout! Factory and Scream Factory" panel, meanwhile, will be held in Room 29Ab at 8:00pm. Below, we have the official press release with full details:
Press Release: Now a mainstay at San Diego Comic-Con International, pop-culture purveyor Shout! Factory returns to the convention in 2016 with a dynamic lineup, featuring captivating panel events,...
Taking place at Shout! Factory's booth (#4118) on Friday, July 22nd, The Return of the Living Dead autograph signing will feature cast members Thom Mathews (Freddy) and John Philbin (Chuck), as well as Sean Clark, who hosted a new episode of Horror's Hallowed Grounds for the Collector's Edition Blu-ray of the beloved horror comedy.
"An Inside Look at Shout! Factory and Scream Factory" panel, meanwhile, will be held in Room 29Ab at 8:00pm. Below, we have the official press release with full details:
Press Release: Now a mainstay at San Diego Comic-Con International, pop-culture purveyor Shout! Factory returns to the convention in 2016 with a dynamic lineup, featuring captivating panel events,...
- 6/30/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
ITV has teased its reboot of 1960s show Thunderbirds, which follows the new adventures of the Tracy family and International Rescue.
Led by father Jeff, the five Tracy brothers (Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon, and Alan) operate the secretive group and carry out rescue missions in Thunderbird vehicles one through five.
2015 is the 50th anniversary of the original show, which was created by Gerry Anderson.
Anderson originally used marionette puppets, also popularised in his other shows Stingray and Captain Scarlet.
The new ITV series Thunderbirds Are Go! will also employ CGI and live action sets.
A second series of the show, which will air on Citv, has already been ordered by the broadcaster before the first has been aired.
Actors voicing the Tracy brothers and their friends include Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) as Lady Penelope, Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Maze Runner) as Tracy brothers Gordon and John, Rasmus Hardiker (Your Highness) as Scott and Alan,...
Led by father Jeff, the five Tracy brothers (Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon, and Alan) operate the secretive group and carry out rescue missions in Thunderbird vehicles one through five.
2015 is the 50th anniversary of the original show, which was created by Gerry Anderson.
Anderson originally used marionette puppets, also popularised in his other shows Stingray and Captain Scarlet.
The new ITV series Thunderbirds Are Go! will also employ CGI and live action sets.
A second series of the show, which will air on Citv, has already been ordered by the broadcaster before the first has been aired.
Actors voicing the Tracy brothers and their friends include Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) as Lady Penelope, Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Maze Runner) as Tracy brothers Gordon and John, Rasmus Hardiker (Your Highness) as Scott and Alan,...
- 12/27/2014
- Digital Spy
News Louisa Mellor 1 Oct 2013 - 07:40
Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds is returning to television in 2015, and here's who's voicing the characters...
Earlier this year came news that Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds is returning to ITV with Thunderbirds Are Go!, which prompted us to scribble a wish-list of what we'd like to see in the new series. A role for Grandma Tracy (tick!) and the return of the original series' Parker (sort of tick! Close enough anyway) were two such items.
Here are the actors announced as voicing Anderson's well-loved characters in this modern update...
David Graham as Parker
Bringing continuity from the original series to the new is David Graham, the voice of Brains, Gordon Tracy and more in the sixties Thunderbirds. Graham is to bring Lady Penelope's chauffeur Parker to life in this iteration of the series.
Rosamund Pike as Lady Penelope
There's no prerequisite for voice actors to...
Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds is returning to television in 2015, and here's who's voicing the characters...
Earlier this year came news that Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds is returning to ITV with Thunderbirds Are Go!, which prompted us to scribble a wish-list of what we'd like to see in the new series. A role for Grandma Tracy (tick!) and the return of the original series' Parker (sort of tick! Close enough anyway) were two such items.
Here are the actors announced as voicing Anderson's well-loved characters in this modern update...
David Graham as Parker
Bringing continuity from the original series to the new is David Graham, the voice of Brains, Gordon Tracy and more in the sixties Thunderbirds. Graham is to bring Lady Penelope's chauffeur Parker to life in this iteration of the series.
Rosamund Pike as Lady Penelope
There's no prerequisite for voice actors to...
- 10/1/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Feature Ryan Lambie 8 May 2013 - 07:00
With their sitcom House Of Fools recently announced, we celebrate the enduring comedy brilliance of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer...
Readers of a certain age may remember the first time they saw Vic and Bob on television. For some, it may have been the 25th of May 1990, the fateful night "Britain's top light entertainer and singer" Vic Reeves burst onto screens with an absurdly fast, lounge-act rendition of The Monkees' I'm A Believer. In the background, his cohort Bob Mortimer looked on admiringly, dressed in the stovepipe hat and vast sideburns of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
For many viewers, this was a first glimpse inside the strange world of a comedy duo who'd already garnered a cult following in London pubs and clubs in the mid-1980s. Having impressed the likes of Jonathan Ross and Alan Yentob with their surreal, apparently semi-improvised comedy, Vic and...
With their sitcom House Of Fools recently announced, we celebrate the enduring comedy brilliance of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer...
Readers of a certain age may remember the first time they saw Vic and Bob on television. For some, it may have been the 25th of May 1990, the fateful night "Britain's top light entertainer and singer" Vic Reeves burst onto screens with an absurdly fast, lounge-act rendition of The Monkees' I'm A Believer. In the background, his cohort Bob Mortimer looked on admiringly, dressed in the stovepipe hat and vast sideburns of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
For many viewers, this was a first glimpse inside the strange world of a comedy duo who'd already garnered a cult following in London pubs and clubs in the mid-1980s. Having impressed the likes of Jonathan Ross and Alan Yentob with their surreal, apparently semi-improvised comedy, Vic and...
- 5/7/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
The United Kingdom recently took a big wallow in pomp and pageantry for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, but there's something mischievous in the British national character that loves nothing more than puncturing targets that have gotten a little full of themselves.
That probably explains "Twenty Twelve," the gleeful new BBC America sitcom premiering Thursday, June 28, that casts Hugh Bonneville ("Downton Abbey") as Ian Fletcher, the hapless manager entrusted with coordinating the run-up to the Olympic Summer Games. Left to his own devices, Ian probably would be a charismatic, competent boss, but this current gig forces him to deal constantly with idiots such as "director of branding" Siobhan Sharp (Jessica Hynes, "Spaced"), who babbles endlessly in PR-speak, and Graham Hitchens (Karl Theobald), who is in charge of coordinating logistics yet incapable of understanding why Ian has qualms about his plan to route all Olympic flights through the airspace above U.
That probably explains "Twenty Twelve," the gleeful new BBC America sitcom premiering Thursday, June 28, that casts Hugh Bonneville ("Downton Abbey") as Ian Fletcher, the hapless manager entrusted with coordinating the run-up to the Olympic Summer Games. Left to his own devices, Ian probably would be a charismatic, competent boss, but this current gig forces him to deal constantly with idiots such as "director of branding" Siobhan Sharp (Jessica Hynes, "Spaced"), who babbles endlessly in PR-speak, and Graham Hitchens (Karl Theobald), who is in charge of coordinating logistics yet incapable of understanding why Ian has qualms about his plan to route all Olympic flights through the airspace above U.
- 6/28/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Producers Bryan Fuller (Pushing Dasies) and Martha DeLaurentis continued to work on the new NBC series based on author Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, about serial killer Hannibal Lecter and his growing relationship with FBI agent Will Graham. After casting British actor Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Graham, EW reported that Fuller and DeLaurentis landed their main character, Dr. Hannibal Lecter himself. Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, known to art-house audiences for the specialty dramas Flame and Citron, Valhalla Rising and After the Wedding and mainstream audiences for Casino Royale and Clash of the Titans, signed on to play the iconic villain.
- 6/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Producers Bryan Fuller (Pushing Dasies) and Martha DeLaurentis continued to work on the new NBC series based on author Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, about serial killer Hannibal Lecter and his growing relationship with FBI agent Will Graham. After casting British actor Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Graham, EW reported that Fuller and DeLaurentis landed their main character, Dr. Hannibal Lecter himself. Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, known to art-house audiences for the specialty dramas Flame and Citron, Valhalla Rising and After the Wedding and mainstream audiences for Casino Royale and Clash of the Titans, signed on to play the iconic villain.
- 6/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
NBC has cast Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royal, Clash of the Titans) in the sinister and twisted role of Hannibal Lector in their upcoming TV series Hannibal. Mikkelsen will star along side Hugh Dancy, who is playing FBI profiler Will Graham. Mikkelsen is fantastic casting for the role--not only does he look nuts, he's also a great actor!
Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, the upcoming Mockingbird Lane) is writing and producing the serial killer series. It is being based on Thomas Harris’ best-selling novel Red Dragon, and the series takes us back to the beginning of the two main characters' relationship. The story will follow Graham as he tries to solve a series of murders and enlists the help of brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Lecter... unaware the good doctor is secretly a cannibalistic killer.
NBC has ordered 13 episodes for the first season, and with Mikkelsen taking on Lector this show is sure to...
Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, the upcoming Mockingbird Lane) is writing and producing the serial killer series. It is being based on Thomas Harris’ best-selling novel Red Dragon, and the series takes us back to the beginning of the two main characters' relationship. The story will follow Graham as he tries to solve a series of murders and enlists the help of brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Lecter... unaware the good doctor is secretly a cannibalistic killer.
NBC has ordered 13 episodes for the first season, and with Mikkelsen taking on Lector this show is sure to...
- 6/5/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Grabbing the rights to the classic comic strip, Warner Bros hopes to conjure up a 21st century movie makeover for Mandrake the Magician.
Created in 1934 by Lee Falk - who's also parent to The Phantom franchise - Mandrake the Magician follows the exploits of a hypnotist and his strongman sidekick Lothar (an African prince in leopardskin) as they fight villains including the magician's own evil twin brother.
Columbia made a 12-part serial in 1939 and a TV movie aired in 1979 before more recent attempts at an adaptation.
With the property being shopped for years around Hollywood, Mandrake was closest to production when Baldwin Entertainment and Hyde Park assembled versions first in 2007 with Chuck Russell directing and Jonathan Rhys Meyers starring, and then in 2009 with director Mimi Leder and actors Hayden Christensen and Djimon Hounsou, but nothing ever came to fruition.
Atlas Entertainment - producing the latest incarnation alongside Warner - became...
Created in 1934 by Lee Falk - who's also parent to The Phantom franchise - Mandrake the Magician follows the exploits of a hypnotist and his strongman sidekick Lothar (an African prince in leopardskin) as they fight villains including the magician's own evil twin brother.
Columbia made a 12-part serial in 1939 and a TV movie aired in 1979 before more recent attempts at an adaptation.
With the property being shopped for years around Hollywood, Mandrake was closest to production when Baldwin Entertainment and Hyde Park assembled versions first in 2007 with Chuck Russell directing and Jonathan Rhys Meyers starring, and then in 2009 with director Mimi Leder and actors Hayden Christensen and Djimon Hounsou, but nothing ever came to fruition.
Atlas Entertainment - producing the latest incarnation alongside Warner - became...
- 3/15/2012
- by Michael Pellegrini
- The Geek Files
Director Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men: First Class) has picked up the rights to Mark Millar‘s comic book Superior, which follows the tale of a young boy living with multiple sclerosis who is granted a magic wish to be transformed into his a superhero. Instead of fighting crime, he uses his abilities to end the war in the Middle East, feed the starving, rescue people from natural disasters and anything else the public wants.
Check out the press release below for more details.
Press Release:
Award-winning comic-book writer Mark Millar is empowering people with Ms with his envelope pushing latest character Superior, the first superhero ever to be diagnosed with Ms. And he is sharing him with the National Ms Society (www.nationalMSsociety.org) to help raise awareness for Ms and the work of the Society.
The hugely popular comic Superior, which is part of the Millarworld line, follows...
Check out the press release below for more details.
Press Release:
Award-winning comic-book writer Mark Millar is empowering people with Ms with his envelope pushing latest character Superior, the first superhero ever to be diagnosed with Ms. And he is sharing him with the National Ms Society (www.nationalMSsociety.org) to help raise awareness for Ms and the work of the Society.
The hugely popular comic Superior, which is part of the Millarworld line, follows...
- 10/11/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Director Matthew Vaughn has acquired the movie rights to Mark Millar’s Superior comic book. Matthew Vaughn previously adapted Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass comic book, bringing it to the big screen (reviewed here: Kick-Ass (2010) Movie Review). The Superior comic book is about “a young boy living with multiple sclerosis who is given the opportunity to transform into his idol, a superhero from the big screen.”
Initially, this is what Mark Miller had to say about Superior‘s film right’s acquisition:
Basically, my kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has bought the movie rights to Superior from me and Leinil Yu and Leinil and I am also teaming up with the Ms Society, who want to use the character as it’s the first superhero with multiple sclerosis. 2 big stories in one. Vaughn and I have hinted at this for about 18 months, but this is the first we’ve ever confirmed he’s bought the rights.
Initially, this is what Mark Miller had to say about Superior‘s film right’s acquisition:
Basically, my kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has bought the movie rights to Superior from me and Leinil Yu and Leinil and I am also teaming up with the Ms Society, who want to use the character as it’s the first superhero with multiple sclerosis. 2 big stories in one. Vaughn and I have hinted at this for about 18 months, but this is the first we’ve ever confirmed he’s bought the rights.
- 10/6/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
This is something that ended up in today's Superhero Bits [1], but it is really big enough to warrant its own headline. So for those who didn't see Shb today, Matthew Vaughn, the director of the film based on Mark Millar's comic Kick-Ass and other films such as X-Men: First Class, has picked up the rights to create a film based on Millar's comic Superior. The comic is about a young boy living with multiple sclerosis who is given the opportunity to transform into his idol, a superhero from the big screen. Millar told Cbm [2], Basically, my kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has bought the movie rights to Superior from me and Leinil Yu and Leinil and I am also teaming up with the Ms Society, who want to use the character as it's the first superhero with multiple sclerosis. 2 big stories in one. Vaughn and I have hinted at this for about 18 months,...
- 10/6/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
San Diego is calling all geeks! Comic-Con 2011 is so close yet so far away, But the amount of fun we are planning on having is going to be epic. Comic-Con International has unleashed the full schedule for Saturday July 23rd, and of course it's going to be another great day at the con, and since it's Saturday it will also be the most crowded. Here's a an example of what you will be going down... Immortals, Snow White and the Hunstman, Alcatraz, Terra Nova, Family Guy, Marvel TV, Community, Knights of Badassdom, Grimm, Kevin Smith and more!
I've gone through the list and put stars next to all of the events and panels that we want to cover. Let us know what panels and events you would like to know about and we will try and get them covered for you! If you are actually going to be at the con,...
I've gone through the list and put stars next to all of the events and panels that we want to cover. Let us know what panels and events you would like to know about and we will try and get them covered for you! If you are actually going to be at the con,...
- 7/9/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The film version of The Last Days of American Crime has found a director in F. Gary Gray, who is best known for directing Friday back in 1995. Since then, however, he has helmed a number of crime and caper-based flicks, including The Negotiator, The Italian Job and Law Abiding Citizen, making him a fitting choice to direct the project. The film, like most action movies these days, is set to star Sam Worthington as soon as he finishes up with the Clash of the Titans sequel, Wrath of the Titans.
The Last Days of American Crime is based on the comic book series of the same name, which featured art by Greg Tocchini and was written by Rick Remender, who is now best-known for his ongoing run on Marvel's hit series Uncanny X-Force. He is also the man behind the foulmouthed indie science fiction comic Fear Agent which is unlikely...
The Last Days of American Crime is based on the comic book series of the same name, which featured art by Greg Tocchini and was written by Rick Remender, who is now best-known for his ongoing run on Marvel's hit series Uncanny X-Force. He is also the man behind the foulmouthed indie science fiction comic Fear Agent which is unlikely...
- 5/9/2011
- UGO Movies
The Last Days of American Crime are about to be told by F. Gary Gray. According to Deadline, Gray (The Italian Job) has been tapped to direct an adaptation of Rick Remender’s book using a script penned by Karl Gajdusek. Sam Worthington is attached to star in the film.
Gajdusek is currently rewriting the script for William Monahan’s Oblivion, Joseph Kosinki’s post Tron: Legacy project, which will be distributed by Universal Pictures. It is expected that this will be Worthington’s next project when the sequel to Clash of the Titans wraps up.
The Last Days of American Crime is a futuristic tale, where America responds to a second major terrorism attack by developing technology that eliminates the impulse to commit crimes of any kind. Worthington leads a heist team that plans to pull off a final job five days before the signal rubs out the criminal instinct.
Gajdusek is currently rewriting the script for William Monahan’s Oblivion, Joseph Kosinki’s post Tron: Legacy project, which will be distributed by Universal Pictures. It is expected that this will be Worthington’s next project when the sequel to Clash of the Titans wraps up.
The Last Days of American Crime is a futuristic tale, where America responds to a second major terrorism attack by developing technology that eliminates the impulse to commit crimes of any kind. Worthington leads a heist team that plans to pull off a final job five days before the signal rubs out the criminal instinct.
- 5/9/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Over a year ago we heard Avatar star Sam Worthington would star in an adaptation of Rick Remender's comic series The Last Days of American Crime. The comic has been adapted by Karl Gajdusek from a script by The Departed screenwriter William Monahan. Not only does it look like this will be Worthington's next project after completing production on the Clash of the Titans sequel, but now Deadline has reported F. Gary Gray who has helmed such thrillers as The Italian Job, The Negotiator, A Man Apart and most recently Law Abiding Citizen, will be at the helm of this new thriller that's set in the not-too-distant future. So what's the story? In the not-too-distant future as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. But Graham Bricke (Worthington...
- 5/9/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
It's no secret that I don't particularly care for children. Oh, yes, sure, I'm certain your little angels are wonderful and charming and all that crap, but I don't like 'em and don't trust 'em. You know what's even more disturbing than your run-of-the-mill ankle-biter? One raised by a serial killer. Thanks, Bereavement. A whole new thing to be terrified of. Swell.
There are roughly five children on this planet that I don't mind (yes, Dustin's little one is on that list -- kid's friggin' adorable, can't be helped), but the rest I am severely distrustful of. And I'm betting that the kiddo in this trailer ain't gonna make that list either. Here's a little rundown for you:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors.
There are roughly five children on this planet that I don't mind (yes, Dustin's little one is on that list -- kid's friggin' adorable, can't be helped), but the rest I am severely distrustful of. And I'm betting that the kiddo in this trailer ain't gonna make that list either. Here's a little rundown for you:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors.
- 2/24/2011
- by TK
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