Glenn Close and Michael Douglas
in Fatal Attraction.
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With The Roommate opening this week and Valentine’s Day around the corner, what better time to look at the myriad of love-gone-awry “fatal attraction” movies out there? They just might convert you to celibacy.
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Following last year’s announcement that Stephen King’s Dark Tower series would be made into multiple movies and a TV show (or at least a miniseries), another ambitions adaptation of his work is in the works. The Stand, his thousand-plus-page apocalyptic epic is being developed for theatrical release.
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After auditioning actors like Adrien Brody and Josh Lucas, the producers of the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter have chosen the relatively little-known Ben Walker as their Honest Abe. The star, most recognizable from his dramatic roles in Flags of Our Fathers and Kinsey, will headline the film from director Timur Bekmambetov…
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Can’t find the After Dark Originals in your area? Don’t worry; one of them — the killer scarecrow flick Husk — is airing this week on TV. Catch Husk on SyFy on Saturday, February 5, at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
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Just as it was about to hit screens as part of the After Dark Originals, the zombie flick Re-Kill has been yanked from the lineup — not because it isn’t ready, but rather because After Dark Films deemed it so good that it deserves a wider release on its own. No date was announced for Re-Kill, nor how wide the release will be (presumably more than the 10 theaters where the After Dark Originals will open), but this certainly piques my interest to find out just how good this movie really is. If this turns out to be just a marketing ploy, then bravo, you got me.
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Just as it was about to hit screens as part of the After Dark Originals, the zombie flick Re-Kill has been yanked from the lineup — not because it isn’t ready, but rather because After Dark Films deemed it so good that it deserves a wider release on its own. No date was announced for Re-Kill, nor how wide the release will be (presumably more than the 10 theaters where the After Dark Originals will open), but this certainly piques my interest to find out just how good this movie really is. If this turns out to be just a marketing ploy, then bravo, you got me.
Michael Fassbender in ‘Jonah Hex’.
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20th Century Fox this week cast a real vote of confidence in Prometheus, the mysterious sci fi movie from director Ridley Scott that began as a prequel to Alien, by pushing its release date from March 2012 to summer blockbuster season: June 8, 2012.
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Less than a month before it was scheduled for a limited run on February 18, the Malevolence prequel Bereavement was pushed back to a March 4 release. …
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At the Sundance Film Festival this week, director Kevin Smith put his horror film Red State up for auction…then proceeded to buy it himself. For 20 bucks. The display epitomized Smith’s unusual approach to the movie’s distribution, which he will handle himself under the SModcast Pictures banner. But before Red State‘s official release date of October 19 (the 17th anniversary of his debut, Clerks), he will showcase it in a nationwide tour running from March 5 to April 4 in select cities. If all goes well, the tour might be expanded beyond April; you can even request it hit a venue near you.
