Universal and Rogue Pictures’ THE STRANGERS was a surprise 2008 hit, pulling in more than $50 million at the domestic box office and around $82 million worldwide. Sounds like perfect sequel material, so where’s the follow-up? Well, the original’s writer-director Bryan Bertino has completed a script, but it seems the project is now in limbo.
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With all the animal-rights discussion generated by Eli Roth’s recent comments re: Sea World (see item 
Director, actor, producer and general genre film gadfly Eli Roth has gone from carving up innocents on- screen with his HOSTEL films and bashing Nazi’s in Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, to being an angry advocate for persecuted marine life. Fango just received a press release from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in which Roth voices his outrage at the recent violent death of a Sea World trainer at the hands (fins?) of a captive orca named Tilikum.
First Look Studios, whose past genre releases include TRIANGLE, ISOLATION and INFESTATION, has acquired director/co-writer Tim Sullivan’s sequel 2001 MANIACS: FIELD OF SCREAMS, the latest installment of the gory horror-comedy cult franchise derived from H.G. Lewis’ original 1964 splatter classic TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! Lensed in Iowa, FIELD OF SCREAMS will premiere at the Texas Frightmare Weekend convention this April.
Most Fango fans know Jonathan Tiersten as Ricky in the classic SLEEPAWAY CAMP, but since then he’s gone on to become an acclaimed singer-songwriter sharing the stage with a good deal of notable musicians including Mark Slaughter and Taylor Dane. This Saturday, March 20, he’ll be headlining On The Rox (9009 W Sunset Blvd) in Los Angeles, CA. Read on for the flyer and more info.