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This week, The Rite, The Roommate and Vanishing on 7th Street lead a pack of new home video releases.
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd.
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Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of the 1960s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp as the iconic Barnabas Collins, now has a release date: May 11, 2012. Dark Shadows marks the eighth collaboration between Burton and Depp, following such genre works as Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd and Corpse Bride.
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The futuristic vampire action movie Priest opened solidly this past weekend with an estimated gross of $14.5 million. That number was good enough for only fourth place, but it exceeded most expectations, which placed the film more in the $12 million range. Still, Priest will struggle to earn back its $60 million production budget domestically (read: it won’t). Final numbers are due on Tuesday.
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Two of the busiest casting projects continue to add names to their rosters:
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Two of the busiest casting projects continue to add names to their rosters:
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We have our first look at the teaser poster and trailer for Final Destination 5, which promises more of the same three-step formula that made the first four films in the series so popular:
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On the heels of details about three new (presumably minor-ish) characters for Season 6 of Dexter, TV Line is reporting that Colin Hanks has been hired to play a major part in the upcoming story arc. According to the site, Hanks will appear in all 12 episodes of Season 6 playing Travis, "a highly intelligent expert on ancient artifacts who gets linked to a series of grisly murders in Miami." While reports are that there won't be one single major "bad guy" facing off against Dexter this year, Travis sounds like he might have the stuff to be a formidable foil.
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A scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Lionsgate has announced that the third entry in the “rebooted” Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise (following 2003’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the 2006 prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning) is almost ready to roll. Production is slated to begin in June on Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, which, as the name implies will join the ever-growing list of films succumbing to the modern 3-D revolution.
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Cropsey is a documentary, but its tale of child disappearances on Staten Island in the ’80s is so creepy and unnerving, it often gets lumped in with the horror genre. Cropsey is something of an urban legend in parts of the US, the subject of varying campfire stories that typically end with him going mad and killing people. (You may remember a Cropsey character as the killer in the 1981 slasher The Burning.) Read about it in my review of Cropsey.
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