Horror has grabbed the country by the throat, with the low-budget likes of Paranormal Activity and The Purge regularly breaking into the box-office Top 10, while cable's highest-rated drama, The Walking Dead, leads a crowded TV lineup of witches, vampires, and other ghoulish fare.
McCormack has a list of film credits including top names like Private Parts with Howard Stern and Deep Impact.
Eli Roth produced The Last Exorcism.
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Earlier this year, the History Channel scored big ratings with its miniseries The Bible and is reportedly considering pushing even further into biblical territory with a potentially horror-skewed speculative piece about Jesus' "unknown years" between ages 12 and 30. The series, entitled The Lost Years, explores the 18-year gap in Jesus' life about which little is known, reportedly taking a horror slant by showcasing his encounters exorcising people possessed by demons.
...Before the Lifetime Network and other cable channels began producing original features, the big three had their "Movies of the Week" events.
Variety reports that Tony Award winner Jeremy Irons has signed on to co-star in THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY , the biopic of renown Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Actor Paul Walker's death Saturday in a fiery car crash under a clear-blue California sky continues to feel so incredibly sad and so surreal.
Anurag Kashyap speaks at the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles in West Hollywood, California, on April 11, 2013 One of Bollywood's top directors is embroiled in a row with India's strict film censors over anti-smoking messages that must be shown every time an actor lights up on screen.
Slipknot / Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor is expanding his artistic horizons. In addition to being a musician and author, he's adding acting to his repertoire.
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Dracula isn't exactly setting ratings records for NBC, but that isn't stopping the network from developing another show based on a legendary Universal monster movie -- this time, it's The Wolf Man. Technically, the show will be based on the 2010 remake starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, so I guess we should expect something along that storyline and aesthetic. If it makes it past the pilot stage, the plan is to team The WolfMan (apparently, that's the spelling they're going with) with Dracula and Grimm for a horror-themed Friday night lineup. Fans of Dracula might take that as a good sign that the vampire series will get renewed, especially considering The WolfMan is coming from David Knauf, head writer and executive producer of Dracula. Interestingly, this won't be Knauf's first foray into TV werewolf territory; he previously wrote/produced the short-lived CBS show Wolf Lake.
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