The Cannes Film Festival has invited "Mad Max" director George Miller to preside over this year's jury and award the Palme d'Or for France's equivalent of the Oscars. The festival said Tuesday that choosing Miller, an Australian director, screenwriter and producer, was a celebration of genre cinema.
Friday the 13th writer Victor Miller is a busy guy in the world of horror these days. Not only is attached to director Michael Coulombe's Eden Falls , he's also co-writing another genre flick called Rock Paper Dead .
On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.
A bunch of major 2017 releases are gearing up to begin production and today My Entertainment World has offered a breakdown of when these major tentpoles are going to shoot. First up, Rupert Sanders' live-action film adaptation of the celebrated anime "Ghost in the Shell" will reportedly begin production this month and will shoot in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macau and Shanghai.
Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford has been cast as Columbia, the castle's feisty live-in groupie, in the two-hour television event The Rocky Horror Picture Show , airing this fall on FOX . Ashford joins previously announced cast members Laverne Cox , Victoria Justice , Ryan McCartan , Adam Lambert , Reeve Carney , Staz Nair and Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, who returns as the show's Criminologist Narrator.
In Feburary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford shows a trilogy of films that give a contemporary spin on the classic "Arabian Nights." All three were made in Portugal by Miguel Gomes.
Happy 7th Women in Horror Month ! As usual, I'll be writing all month long about female horror icons - real and fictional. Today, we highlight Ve Neill , Academy-Award winning makeup artist.
February isn't great. The weather hasn't broken yet and everyone acts super neurotic because of Valentine's Day.
I know it is only February, but one of the most howling good times in Dallas is coming up. Texas Frightmare Weekend has garnered so much attention it now has a fence around it like a graveyard because everyone is dying to get in.