This week, Detention — one of the best horror/suspense releases of the first half of 2012 — hits home video, along with ATM, the zombie flick Dead Season, the twisty thriller Scalene, a host of Asian re-releases and (sigh) Sand Sharks.
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Call it "the Hunger Games Effect." An American remake of the 2000 Japanese cult film Battle Royale -- itself based on a 1999 novel by Koushun Takami about high school students forced to fight to the death on a deserted island -- died on the vine following the tragic 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. The original movie wasn't even officially released on home video in the US until earlier this year.
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NBC's Hannibal has just received a big-name bump with the casting of Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and boss of agent Will Graham. Crawford was most notably portrayed by Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs, with Dennis Farina and Harvey Keitel also playing him in Manhunter and Red Dragon, respectively.
... NBC’s Hannibal has just received a big-name bump with the casting of Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and boss of agent Will Graham. Crawford was most notably portrayed by Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs, with Dennis Farina and Harvey Keitel also playing him in Manhunter and Red Dragon, respectively.
NBC’s Hannibal has just received a big-name bump with the casting of Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and boss of agent Will Graham. Crawford was most notably portrayed by Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs, with Dennis Farina and Harvey Keitel also playing him in Manhunter and Red Dragon, respectively.
Perhaps due to the desperation that comes from being a perpetual third-place network, NBC is turning into the de facto horror/suspense channel. In addition to Grimm, in the coming year, NBC will be airing updated versions of The Munsters (Mockingbird Lane), Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal) and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Do No Harm), and now comes word the peacock network has officially ordered 10 episodes of a Dracula adaptation that has been in the works since early this year.
If at first you don’t succeed…
Despite ABC canceling the “found footage” series The River after only one season, producer Jason Blum hasn’t taken the rejection to heart — after all, he’s had success in the genre with a little something called Paranormal Activity. Jumping back on the found footage horse, Blum is developing a PA-styled hour-long show for MTV entitled The Experiment. There’s no word on what exactly it’s about (I’ll go out on a limb and say an experiment of some sort.), but it was created by Brian Horiuchi, writer of the 2009 online horror series Circle of Eight, and Miguel Sapochnik, who’s directed episodes of Fringe, Falling Skies and Awake as well as the futuristic Jude Law-Forest Whitaker actioner Repo Men — so it would be well within their comfort zone to go the sci fi-horror route.
