Digitalspy reports that Charlie Higson's reboot of the classic horror thriller JEKYLL AND HYDE has been axed by ITV after a single season, following complaints that the first episode was too violent for its time slot. After moving the series to a later time, the season was temporarily delayed following the violent November attacks in Paris.
All December long, Love Magazine rolled out some truly unusual content for their annual advent calendar, so it only makes sense that they had some fun behind-the-scenes clips, as well. In case you forgot, Rita Ora channeled "Mean Girls," Kris Jenner took a dive to "Trap Queen" and Kendall Jenner made you some feel some sorta way about hammerhead sharks.
In the heyday of slasher films, the fastest way for characters to get themselves killed was by having sex. For a few bloodthirsty years following the release of John Carpenter's "Halloween" in 1978, audiences delighted in watching homicidal maniacs dispatch casts of copulating teens, before finally being vanquished by the one girl - and it was always a girl - whose virginal purity remained intact.
The tale as old as time, Beauty and the Beast will be played out on stage at Playhouse Whitley Bay with The Chase's Anne Hegerty also joining the cast If you haven't had enough of panto and/or you can't wait until next Christmas for your next fix of sparkly and slap-stick-filled on-stage doings, the Playhouse Whitley Bay will surely be your go-to theatre this Easter . Not content with thrilling audiences this festive season with a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, starring Steps star Faye Tozer and veteran panto favourite, Steve Walls, bosses at the North Tyneside venue have booked a pantomime for the Easter holidays.
AICN HORROR looks at CHERRY TREE! BONE TOMAHAWK! DEMON KNIGHT! TENTACLES! SIREN! AXE! VIDEO VIOLENCE! MURDER IN THE DARK! ELIMINATORS! & YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY! Greetings, all. Ambush Bug here with another AICN HORROR: ZOMBIES & SHARKS column.
Dakota Johnson is putting Hollywood on notice for the lack of roles for older women like her famous matriarchs, mom Melanie Griffith and grandmother Tippi Hedren. "This industry is f---ing brutal," Johnson, 26, says in the February issue of British Vogue .
"There's not a single piece of real footage," says visual effects supervisor Kevin Baillie, who built a digital version of lower Manhattan, circa 1974, for the Robert Zemeckis film about Philippe Petit's famous high-wire act. To re-create Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire performance at New York's World Trade Center for Robert Zemeckis' The Walk , which is on the Oscar VFX shortlist, the filmmakers had to start from scratch since the twin towers no longer exist.
They could have called it Hitchcock/Truffaut/Scorsese/Fincher. Less an adaptation of one of the great books about film than a feature-length recommendation, Kent Jones' documentary take on Franois Truffaut's exhaustive career-survey 1966 interview with Alfred Hitchcock - Hitchcock/Truffaut - is an arresting prcis, sharply edited and generous with ... (more)
The Film Lovers in Carroll County are starting off the new year with something they've never tried before, a documentary series. On Fridays, Jan. 8, 15 and 22, at the Carroll Arts Center, FLICC will host screenings of three recent documentaries: "I Am Divine," "The Wrecking Crew" and "SOMM."