The DARK Art of Restoration
Posted by Horror Movies News on December 13, 2017Public domain is a vast morass into which, over decades, films without copyright or ownership fall.
Public domain is a vast morass into which, over decades, films without copyright or ownership fall.
Charleston Music Hall loves Stanley Kubrick just as much as the next guy, which is why they're rolling out their Stanley Kubrick Film Series this winter. All tickets are $8, and a pass to all four film screenings is $20.
Come in out of the cold into the 190-year-old candlelit confines of St. John's Sanctuary in historic Greenwich Village, where the award-winning and "phantasmic!" Radiotheatre will present seven suspense-filled tales in repertory -- all of them 1940s radio adaptations of classic Alfred Hitchcock films. In the 40s, when Radio was King, several live LA shows spent big money on presenting expertly truncated versions of then-current Hollywood films, some cast with the original superstars such as Cary Grant , Joan Fontaine , Bette Davis , Joan Crawford , Humphrey Bogart , etc...complete with a live audience and live orchestral accompaniment.
Universal and Blumhouse are getting a jump on the new year with the release of Insidious: The Last Key 's new trailer. Written by the horror franchise's writer-director Leigh Whannell , it's the fourth installment in the series that features humans becoming possessed by otherworldly creatures, like the ghosts and demons that live in a realm called the Further.
Time magazine's 'Person of the Year 2017' is in fact several persons - the 'Silence Breakers', women who spoke publicly about sexual harassment. Time's cover shows Hollywood star Ashley Judd, the first actor to declare a reported assault by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
The film follows Feldman and Haim as they rise to fame in the '80s from the hit film "The Lost Boys." The duo would go on to appear in other popular films such as "License to Drive" and "Dream a Little Dream."
Many people's Christmases involve gathering around the TV and watching The King And I. But for Tom Shrapnel the occasion had a bit more significance to it as he was sharing the sofa with Deborah Kerr, the six-time Academy Award-nominated Scottish actress and star of the classic musical, and also his grandmother. Tom, now a successful filmmaker himself, whose latest release, Knackerman, won best East Anglian Short Film at the Norwich Film Festival last month, says: "Every other Christmas we would go to see my grandmother.
The son of George A. Romero has been working on a project for some time to add his own film to the Romero zombie universe. That film has taken a step forward with its first piece of casting news.
Scream's resident movie geek Randy Meeks may not have been a fan, but the 90s' most meta horror franchise proved that not all follow-ups necessarily adhere to the law of diminishing returns. Indeed, Scream 2 may have lacked the original's element of surprise, but you could argue that it was just as smart, satirical and scary, if not more than, the original.