Friday, November 06, 2009 09:07 PM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 According to The Hollywood Reporter, British filmmaker Lawrence Gough, who currently has SALVAGE (pictured) doing the festival circuit, will next direct DROUGHT for The Works International and Mann Made Films. The movie is an ecological action/horror story in the vein of John Hillcoat’s upcoming Cormac McCarthy adaptation THE ROAD.
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Friday, November 06, 2009 10:35 AM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 Absurda and Industrial Entertainment have announced that their film MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE has set a debut theatrical-release date. The movie marks the first collaboration between cinematic mavericks Werner Herzog and David Lynch, who directed and executive-produced respectively.
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Friday, November 06, 2009 06:10 AM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 Variety reports that Hideo Nakata, who helmed the Japanese RINGU chillers among others as well as the American THE RING TWO, will direct VOICE FROM THE STONE for Zanuck Independent. The project is based on the Italian cult novel LA VOCE DELLA PIETRA by Silvio Raffo.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 07:50 PM
Tony Timpone
Film News
 The original PREDATOR inspired more American Film Market-screened knockoffs than just about any other movie, and the word on the street here at the sales event is that the upcoming Robert Rodriguez production PREDATORS will also jumpstart a whole new stream of human-vs.-aliens movies. And those who gotten a look at the PREDATORS screenplay have been raving.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 07:47 PM
Tony Timpone and Michael Gingold
Film News
 Roger Corman (a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at our recent Trinity of Terrors) is a mainstay of the American Film Market and always has been, and that’s where we caught up again with the veteran producer, who’s doing a couple of new killer-fish movies for the Syfy channel. “DINOCROC was a big hit for us,” he tells Fango, “and Syfy wanted another one, so now we have DINOSHARK, which we shot in Mexico, and that has turned out so well, the next one we’ll do for them is…
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 07:40 PM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 Variety reports that Ashley Greene (pictured), who plays Alice Cullen in TWILIGHT and the upcoming NEW MOON and ECLIPSE, is in talks to star in the Dark Castle production THE APPARITION. Todd Lincoln will direct the film from his own script, for producers Joel Silver, Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 05:41 PM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures has come to the unsurprising decision that a sequel to PARANORMAL ACTIVITY would be a good idea. The tiny-budget chiller, once destined to be released straight to DVD if at all, has now become the sleeper hit of the year, with $86 million amassed as of yesterday.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 09:39 AM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 Grindhouse Releasing has announced that it will return Sam Raimi’s 1983 fright classic THE EVIL DEAD to theaters. The company plans to send the unrated shocker into midnight bookings, similar to its revival of Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND a decade ago in partnership with Quentin Tarantino.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:04 AM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 Variety reports that Milla Jovovich, the RESIDENT EVIL series star soon to be seen in Universal’s paranormal thriller THE FOURTH KIND (pictured), will topline FACES IN THE CROWD for Forecast Pictures, Radar Films and Minds Eye Entertainment. The film marks the English-language directorial debut of French filmmaker Julien Magnat, who also scripted.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:02 AM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 Variety reports that Peter Briggs (pictured) will direct the supernatural actioner MORTIS REX for Frelaine Productions. One of the producers is Jim Jacks, whose credits include the MUMMY series and a few films for Sam Raimi (who named David Paymer’s DRAG ME TO HELL character after him).
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:07 PM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 Fango caught up with fave actor Bill Moseley at the recent Rock and Shock convention in Worcester, MA, where he talked up his role as Mayor Buckman (as seen in the exclusive pic below) in Tim Sullivan’s 2001 MANIACS: FIELD OF SCREAMS. Moseley took over for Robert Englund, who portrayed Buckman in the previous MANIACS, “and those are very big shoes to fill,” he tells us.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:02 PM
Michael Gingold
Film News
 At Worcester, MA’s Rock and Shock convention, Fango got to speak with actor/filmmaker Corbin Bernsen (pictured), who was screening his latest directorial effort, the zombie thriller DEAD AIR (hitting DVD today from Anthem Pictures). He gave us the scoop that he’s got another undead opus planned, this time with a unique sports-oriented twist.
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Since it first started airing trailers in front of DISTRICT 9, there's been some debate over whether or not Universal Studios' FOURTH KIND is a true story or not..png "=)")
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