Archive for the ‘Horror News’ Category
Pan’s Labyrinth Now On DVD!
Posted by About Horror Books and Movies on May 16, 2007 DVD review coming soon... In the meantime, check out our exclusive content! Postwar Spain, 1944: Pan (Doug Jones) is a jagged, steeply angular fairyland faun who encounters a soft, luminous...John C. McGinley Lends Voice Talent to D3Publisher of America and…
Posted by Horror News on May 16, 2007"The combination of Mr. McGinley's superb voice acting and Vicious Cycle's compelling storyline and gameplay will make Dead Head Fred a must-have title for the PSP system."
D3Publisher of America, Inc. , and Vicious Cycle Software, Inc., today announced that John C. McGinley, a Hollywood veteran of more than 60 feature films who is currently appearing on the Emmy-nominated ... via Customer Interaction Solutions
Is Wayans’ star power enough to keep project alive?
Posted by Horror News on May 16, 2007"The project is very feasible, and very exciting, and if given the opportunity, it will get done"
Leaving nothing to chance, Keenen Ivory Wayans made a personal pitch to the City Council Tuesday to keep alive his dream of creating a world-class movie studio, educational children's zone and arts and ... via Mercury-Register
1991 Movie: Ernest Scared Stupid
Posted by Horror News on May 15, 2007Ernest P. Worrell accidentally frees a troll from the grave on Halloween. Jim Varney stars as Ernest. via The Tennessean
New Generation of Hammer Horror On the Way?
Posted by support@reallyscary.com (ReallyScary.com) on May 15, 2007 According to a UPI report, the next generation of Hammer horror films should go into production soon now that the firm behind the British movies was sold to a private equity consortium.Hammer Film Productions, known for it gothic horror fare of the 1950s and '60s, was sold Thursday for an undisclosed sum to a group led by Holland-based Cyrte Investments, the investment vehicle for Dutch media mogul John de Mol, the Western Mail said Friday.
De Mol and his group said they had about $50 million available to re-start production. The team said it would target "a new generation of horror lovers" through Web and mobile technologies.
Simon Oakes, a member of the new management team, said the deal has been in the works for about a year. "Hammer is a great British brand and we intend to take Hammer back into production and develop its global potential," Oakes said.
Virginia Madsen Signs On for Haunting
Posted by support@reallyscary.com (ReallyScary.com) on May 15, 2007Virginia Madsen (Candyman, 23) will star in the supernatural thriller A Haunting in Connecticut.
The film tells the true story of a family forced to relocate near a clinic where their teenage son is being treated for cancer. There, they discover that the home they have rented is a former mortuary with a dark history that might account for the extraordinary manifestations of the boy's illness and the supernatural events that threaten the family.
Peter Cornwell is directing the Gold Circle Films project. A late summer start is being eyed.
Sony Acquires Winged Creatures
Posted by support@reallyscary.com (ReallyScary.com) on May 15, 2007 Variety reports Sony Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Winged Creatures, the Rowan Woods-directed ensemble drama that stars Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley and Guy Pearce.The Roy Freirich-scripted drama revolves around a group of survivors of multiple murders in a diner, who come together to try and overcome their trauma. The film just completed filming in L.A., with Robert Salerno producing. Pic also stars Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Embeth Davidtz and Jeanne Tripplehorn.
‘Spring Awakening’ leads Tony nominees
Posted by Horror News on May 15, 2007"Grey Gardens"; Audra McDonald, "110 in the Shade"; Debra Monk, "Curtains"
A spring 2006 photo supplied by Jeffrey Richards Associates shows Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, right, authors of "Spring Awakening, '' in Sheik's New York loft. via RGJ.com
