In this Sept. 13, 2016 file photo, actor Liam Neeson appears at the premiere of the film "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" in London.
In this Sept. 13, 2016 file photo, actor Liam Neeson appears at the premiere of the film "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" in London.
Though the two "Annabelle" films are somewhat similar in tone to the main "The Conjuring" film series that spawned them, writer Gary Dauberman says the upcoming "The Nun" will take a slightly different approach. Dauberman, who also worked on the script for this week's box-office champ "IT," tells Collider that fans of the films should expect a quite different movie with this new spin-off: "Y'know, James [Wan] has been really particular and he wants each movie in the universe to have its own sort of flavor and its own sense of style and not feel like it's just kind of a rehash of what's come before and I think The Nun takes a really cool approach that, you know, we haven't seen before in some of the other movies."
Saban Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights to three films from Millennium Media, most notably the latest remake of George Romero's 1985 third feature in his zombie series "Day of the Dead". Sophie Skelton, Johnathon Schaech, and Marcos Vanco star in the new 'Day' about a group of military personnel, scientists and survivalists who dwell in an underground bunker as they seek to find a cure in a world overrun by zombies.
From larger-than-life portrayals of underworld honchos delighting in stylised menace to grittily depicted ideologies of hard-nailed mobsters, this sub-genre has attracted every school of filmmaking from Feroz Khan to Anurag Kashyap. In Ashim Ahluwala's Daddy , Arjun Rampal sheds his city slicker image to embrace the shrewd, striking magnetism of Dagdi Chawl's don-turned-politician Arun Gawli, currently serving a life sentence.
Steve Coogan has denied claims that he and Top Gear's Richard Hammond nearly came to blows this week at the GQ Men of the Year awards. According to The Mirror , Richard said he wanted to 'punch' rival Steve Coogan at the event - the result of a long-standing beef between the two.
Connecticut Horrorfest returns to the Danbury Arena on Saturday, Sept. 16. Adrienne Barbeau, who played a key role in the 1980 thriller, "The Fog," is among the celebrities who will appear at the festival.
Stephen King's name is synonymous with the horror genre. Ahead of the American author turning 70 on September 21, what better way to celebrate than a big screen adaptation of It, perhaps his scariest story? The trailer for the upcoming adaptation of King's epic novel about the evil clown Pennywise, played by Bill Skarsgard, received a world record-setting 190 million views in its first 24 hours online, according to the author's official website - suggesting that the appetite for his brand of terror is as high as ever.
Some of it is too broad, and I wish it dug a little deeper at times, but this is one of those rare inspirational films "The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens In 2017, Asians and Asian Americans and, indeed, all minorities, need to be more than local color or types who can be easily replaced.