Archive for March, 2015
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March 31, 2015
Actor Robert Z'Dar, the massive man with the gigantic chin best known for the cult film series Maniac Cop , died Monday night in Pensacola after being hospitalized when he came to town to appear at Pensacon, according to his long-time manager and friend Jim Decker. He was 64. Born Robert J. Zdarsky in Chicago, the 6-foot-2 actor was featured in more than 121 films, including cult classics like the first three Maniac Cop films, Soultaker , The Final Sanction and Samurai Cop .
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March 31, 2015
As was confirmed earlier this month by director F. Javier Gutierrez , the upcoming horror film Rings is a sequel that is set 13 years after the events that occurred in both The Ring and The Ring Two . Most sequels might use this long stretch of time to have the story detach from the original and move forward with an entirely new plot and group of characters, but that's evidently not what Rings will be doing.
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March 31, 2015
Carl Gottlieb met Steven Spielberg through their mutual agent, Mike Medavoy, when the Oscar-winning director was still "the new kid in town" back in 1968. Gottlieb had established himself as a performer -- he was a member of the popular San Francisco improv group the Committee -- and was on the writing staff, along with Steve Martin, of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" on CBS when he became a friend of the 21-year-old Spielberg.
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March 31, 2015
The 110-acre Land Of Illusion Haunted Scream Park is bustling with visitors around Halloween, but now the owners are hoping to grow their business by creating the Land of Illusion Studios & Backlot on the property. FilmDayton and Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Film Commission are promoting the new venue along with other areas in the Tristate.
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March 31, 2015
While nothing is set in stone and no official announcements have been made by anyone associated with the film, Stu Tinker, owner and operator of SK Tours, the official Stephen King tour of Bangor, took a production designer from the upcoming Hollywood two-part remake of King's "It" on a tour of the city on Monday. Tinker, who owned King-centric bookstore Bett's Books and has for 18 years run SK Tours, took production designer Mara LaPere-Schloop on a tour of the city, scoping out locations including the Thomas Hill Standpipe, the land running alongside the Kenduskeag Stream that in "It" is called The Barrens, and the Waterworks on the Penobscot River.
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March 31, 2015
Yorkshire County residents Lily James and Dan Stevens have landed roles in Disney films, Jessica Brown Findlay will star in "Victor Frankenstein" and others are... They're not as famous as the Beatles, but the stars of the hit TV series "Downton Abbey" have launched their own British invasion. And it is likely to intensify with last week's news that next season will be the show's last.
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March 31, 2015
Rob Zombie took to his Facebook page to offer fans the first ever look at the main badguy in his upcoming film, 31 ! Get ready for your first look at Richard Brake as "Doom-Head!" Jeff Daniel Phillips stars as Roscoe; Jane Carr as "Sister Serpent"; Richard Brake as "Doom-Head"; Ginger Lynn as Cherry Bomb, a very special friend of the main man Doom-Head; Malcolm McDowell, who will play Father Murder, the owner of Murder World; Judy Geeson as "Sister Dragon"; David Ury as "Schizo-Head"; Daniel Roebuck as Pastor Victor; Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as "Panda Thomas," the manager of a traveling roadshow known as "The Venus Lux Happy Time Fun Show"; Pancho Moler as "Sick-Head; Tracy Walter as "Lucky Leo"; E.G. Daily as the character "Sex-Head"; Torsten Voges as "Death-Head," as well as Sheri Moon Zombie, Lew Temple, Bari Suzuki, and Devin Sidell.
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March 31, 2015
Such is Ray Winstone's reputation for partying, that news he'd apparently given up the late nights made headlines. "Rubbish.
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March 30, 2015
It's the haunting line Laura Palmer tells Agent Cooper in the penultimate episode of Twin Peaks , in one of the most memorable dream sequences ever aired on our TV screens. Its style borrowed elements from the camp imagery and dramatic structures of soap operas, as well as from experimental filmmaking .
