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A Conversation with Captain Howdy: The Fangoria Interview with Eileen Dietz

28 November 2009 7:01 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

With vast experience on stage and screen (big and small), Eileen Dietz' career has woven a path in-and-out of the horror genre. While horror fans will no doubt associate the actress with her role as the face of evil in William Friedkin's Oscar-winning 1973 film The Exorcist, Dietz has many stories to tell. Fangoria's Australian correspondent Lee Gambin recently sat down for a one-on-one interview to discuss her career and craft.

Lee Gambin/Fangoria: What were some of your very first jobs in the entertainment industry, as I understand you started super young and how did the Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre School benefit you as a young actress?

Eileen Dietz: I worked at a Summer Stock company in Kalamazoo Michigan. It was a very bad place and the director of the theatre only brought me up there to rob me of my innocence if you know what I mean. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Lee Gambin)

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Steve McQueen, Lord Of The Apes!

27 November 2009 9:56 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

All similarities to the contrary, this is Not Steve McQueen...Love your website, although I have one question regarding your banner. Who is  the guy pointing the gun (the guy between Raquel Welch and Christopher Lee)? I used to think it was Dr. Cornelius from Planet of the Apes... Is it McQueen?  If it is McQueen it's a very unflattering picture... It's driving me crazy.

Other than that, your website is great.   RomuloRetro responds: First, thank you for your kind words and for being a loyal reader. In fact, the image of the guy pointing the gun in our masthead graphic is indeed Steve McQueen, as depicted on a European release poster for Bullitt. Now, Romulo, we will admit it might not be the most life-like portrait of the iconic star...and we can understand confusing the image with that of another actor--but frickin' Cornelius from Planet of the Apes? »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Revenge of the shlockmeister: Roger Corman gets his due

25 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Roger Corman's output through the years may not be immediately familiar, but he's been a wide conduit for emerging talent and raw creativity. That's why he's finally been given an Oscar

"Ok, so, November 14th 2009, Roger Corman receives an Oscar. People … what took you so long?" The words of Jonathan Demme in his speech before handing over the statuette to Corman on that fateful evening.

Don't worry, you've not missed the Oscar ceremony (something surprisingly easy to do since Sky swiped the TV rights). This was the inaugural Governors awards, part of the new-look Academy that will see the number of nominees greatly expanded come March, where the board issue honorary Oscars to deserving talents who they missed out or ignored over the years. It's a shame this was such a sidelined event as we were denied the opportunity to see Hollywood's brightest and best politely clapping at a »

- Phelim O'Neill

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Movieweb's 2009 Blu-ray Holiday Gift Guide!

24 November 2009 5:51 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Listen up hi-def humbugs and Blu-ray Scrooges! This is the year you'll not just want, but need, to buy a new hi-def plasma screen and a shiny black Blu-ray player for Christmas (and/or whatever other holiday you choose to celebrate with lavish gifts). Why? Because this technology has reached its performance plateau. And it is finally at a reasonable price most of us can afford. Not only that, it serves as the one prefect gift the entire family can enjoy together. With more Blu-ray titles being released right now than ever before, there simply couldn't be a better time to dive head first into this leading technological platform.

But wait! There's one thing you don't want to overlook after all that exciting new equipment has been unwrapped. Without a stack of Blu-ray discs strategically placed in each family member's stocking with care, your gorgeous new HD flat screen becomes a delectable serving tray, »

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Brad Pitt to Star in ‘Dark Void’ Video Game Adaptation

20 November 2009 4:36 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Brad Pitt’s Plan B Productions company is teaming with Reliance Big Entertainment to make a feature film based on the unreleased Capcom video game, Dark Void.

The story of the game is about a pilot named William Agustus Grey who ends up in another universe after crashing his cargo vessel in the Bermuda Triangle. In this other realm, he meets human survivors who are slaves to the “Watchers,” an alien race who were banished to this world and now act as Gods with humans doing their bidding.

Grey, who’s currently planned to be played by Brad Pitt, enlists the help of Nikola Tesla to modify Watcher technology and fight back Iron Man style with his jetback.

 

For more on the game and the trailer for Dark Void, which shows off the cinematic qualities employed in the game, head over to Game Rant.

The trailer definitely could make for »

- Rob Keyes

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'Bones' cast takes us behind the scenes (and the belt buckle)

12 November 2009 11:18 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Yes, it's November Sweeps, but we're already looking ahead to December episodes of Fox's Bones. The cast took photos for EW as they filmed the Dec. 3 hour, inspired by the gamer documentary The King of Kong, and Dec. 10's Christmas story, which David Boreanaz accurately describes as "a little sick." (A man dressed as Santa is blown up after a botched bank robbery. Note: This is also the episode that Emily Deschanel's sister Zooey guest stars as a distant relative of Brennan's invited to spend the holidays with Bones and her father. Welcome back, Ryan O'Neal.) Among the things »

- Mandi Bierly

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2012

10 November 2009 11:08 PM, PST | Arizona Reporter | See recent Arizona Reporter news »

Columbia Pictures

Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten

Grade: C

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Written By: Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich

Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover

Screened at: AMC Empire NYC, 11/9/09

Opens: November 13, 2009

Is .2012. apocalypse new? No, sorry, it.s apocalypse same .ol. Unless you.re one of the a new generation of moviegoers that have never seen .Independence Day. or .The Day After Tomorrow. (both directed by .2012,. helmsman Roland Emmerich), you.ve taken this roller-coaster ride before. To paraphrase Spiro Agnew, if you.re seen one building topple, one wave immerse thousands, one statue crushed, several people falling through the cracks to their death, one giraffe and one elephant hauled onto a would-be Noah.s ark.well, you.ve seen .em all.

So what.s left in .2012. to delight us? Why the story, of course. Sad to say, »

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Official Stills from Aja's Piranha 3D

4 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

The Weinstein Company's Piranha 3D is swimming into theaters on April 16, 2010, but we have an early look at the film via the photos found in their American Film Market guide below. What you see is a glimpse of the big "massacre sequence" and Richard Dreyfuss in his cameo role. Directed by Alex Aja, Elisabeth Shue, Steven McQueen, Adam Scott and Ving Rhames star. Read our set visit interviews here and here ! »

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Exclusive: The shocking story behind last night's killer 'Vampire Diaries'

29 October 2009 8:40 PM, PDT | EW - Ausiello Files | See recent EW.com - The Ausiello Files news »

Spoiler Alert: You know the drill. If last night's Vampire Diaries is still taking up space in your FauxVo, stop reading now. Everyone else, onward and downward... This sucks. My favorite Vampire Diaries character, nascent fang-bearer Vicki, bit the dust thanks to a stake-weilding Stefan in last night's bloody good Halloween-themed episode. Or did she... In this exclusive interview, Vicki's portrayer, Kayla Ewell, reveals shocking details surrounding her on-screen death, including the identity of the original killer (it wasn't supposed to be Stefan!) and how a clue in last night's eppy may foreshadow her return. Is Vicki really dead this time? »

- Michael Ausiello

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Yves St. Laurent Tops Dead Celebrity Money List

28 October 2009 2:54 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

The late fashion designer Yves St. Laurent has jumped to the top of Forbes magazine's "Top-Earning Dead Celebrities" list thanks to a one-time estate sale last February that netted $443 million. With a total of around $90 million, Michael Jackson came in at No. 3 on the list, mostly as a result of the $60 million advance that Sony Films paid to his estate and concert promoter Aeg for the rights to his concert rehearsal footage for the This Is It! movie. Still the figure paled in comparison with the $225 million that the legendary Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein earned last year. Coming in fourth was Elvis Presley, with $55 million. Lord of the Rings writer J.R.R. Tolkien rounded out the top five with $50 million. Forbes noted that several "mainstays" on its dead celebrities list fell off this year, including Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Steve McQueen. "These icons couldn't keep up with their peers," it noted. »

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Highest Earning Dead Celebs

28 October 2009 10:19 AM, PDT | newser.com | See recent newser news »

The stars on Forbes ' annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities number, appropriately, 13. To make the list, a "deleb" must have brought in at least $6 million in the past year. This year's list is notably missing former mainstays Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Steve McQueen, and puts a fashion designer in the top spot: Yves Saint Laurent: $350 million Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein: $235 million combined Michael Jackson: $90 million Elvis Presley: $55 million Jrr Tolkien: $50 million Charles Schulz: $35 million John Lennon: $15 million Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel): $15 million Albert Einstein:... »

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Seth Rogen's B.O.B. Returns in Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

26 October 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

A brand new Halloween special based on Monsters vs. Aliens airs this Wednesday on NBC

Halloween is just around the corner and so is DreamWorks animated special Monsters Vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, which will air on NBC Wednesday, October 28 (8-8:30 p.m. Et). Based on the smash hit Monsters Vs. Aliens and once again starring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Kiefer Sutherland, Will Arnet and Rainn Wilson, Susan Murphy, a.k.a. Ginormica (Reese Witherspoon) and the Monsters are now working with the U.S. government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan's hometown of Modesto, California, right before Halloween, the team is dispatched to investigate.

Everything appears normal, right down to the jack-o-lanterns peering out from every doorstep and windowsill. But when Halloween arrives, those innocent-looking carved pumpkins reveal themselves for what they really are: Mutant aliens! »

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First there is a Mad Men, then there is no Mad Men, then there is

19 October 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

So the opening scene establishes that the Drapers are religiously unobservant, attending church only on Christmas (not even Easter, since Betty dresses like an Easter egg all year round), which is perhaps for the best, since daughter Sally seems to have all the fixings of a fanatic vessel of wrath. If she believed she was an instrument of God’s will, neighboring towns might go up in flames while she stood by, blankly fulfilled, yet plotting further harm. Don is looking awfully tired tonight, the two-timing dog. “I don’t know if you’re hungry, but I made date-nut bread,” says Sally’s teacher (greeting Don for one of his drop-in dick-ins), one of those lines of dialogue that just clunks off the curb, like Ali McGraw’s explanation for why she was late picking up Steve McQueen after his prison release in The Getaway--”I was at the »

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Opening Night: Star Power at the Chicago International Film Festival

9 October 2009 7:22 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – The big hitters were out on the red carpet, kicking off the 45th Chicago International Film Festival. Opening with Uma Thurman’s “Motherhood,” prominent artists, politicians and Uma herself graced the proceedings.

HollywoodChicago was there, both with the master lensing of photographer Joe Arce and a number of exclusive interviews with the red carpet attendees.

Uma Thurman, star of “Motherhood”

Ms. Thurman, a prominent film star ever since her unforgettable debut in “Dangerous Liasons” in 1988, and in 2003-4 stunned audiences with her audacious role as Beatrix Kiddo in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” series.

Uma Thurman at the Chicago International Film Festival, Opening Night, October 8, 2009.

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

HollywoodChicago.com: What did you recognize in yourself as a working mother when you were making the film ‘Motherhood?’

Uma Thurman: I fell in love with the script because I identified with the script so much. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Brody, Grace to Join 'Predators'

7 October 2009 12:30 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Robert Rodriguez’s Predators has added two new cast members. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog, Adrien Brody and Topher Grace have signed on to star in Fox’s reboot of the sci-fi/action franchise.

Brody will play a man who ends up leading a group of elite warriors from Earth, all of whom have been kidnapped by the Predators, a race of alien hunters armed with high-tech weaponry. In an early draft of the screenplay written by Rodriguez, Alex Litvak and Michael Finch, the character is named Royce, and is described as "a Steve McQueen type." After being ejected from the Predators' spaceship, he finds himself in a jungle environment playing the universe’s most dangerous game.

Meanwhile, Grace appears to be in line to play Edwin, an accountant-type whose unassuming manner hides one of the FBI’s most wanted serial killers. The rest of »

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The Zombie and The Blob

6 October 2009 9:31 AM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

 

So a zombie and a blob walk into a bar...  Ok, I'm kidding.  As Rob Zombie prepares to remake the Steve McQueen classic The Blob, the people at Bloody-Disgusting recently caught up with him on the red carpet at the Chiller Eyegore Awards, where he had this to say:

 “I’m about halfway [done]."  Zombie also indicated that he's not sure what the Blob should look like:  “I’m still working on it, so I cant really say… I was thinking, you know, it wasn’t going to be a big red globby thing. I don’t know what it Is going to be, it’s more like I know what I Don’T want it to be.”  Apparently, it would be too easy to make the Blob look like... well, a blob.  For the 98% of the people who couldn't tell what was going on in H2 because the cinematography was so dark, »

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Predators Character Breakdown and Casting News

3 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »

Danny Trejo recently announced that after "Machete" he will be re-teaming with Robert Rodriguez for "Predators," in which he will play the character Cuchillo, a Mexican enforcer from a drug cartel who has twin uzi strapped to his back. There are a total of eight main characters in the film who will be fighting to survive the Predators' planet while being hunted by the creatures. At one point, they will run into an American man who has was kidnapped by the Predators years ago and has since been hiding to stay alive. Some assume that Rodriguez is leaving this role open for Arnold Schwarzenegger. In addition to Trejo and possibly Schwarzenegger, who previously mentioned that he would consider appearing in the film, the cast also includes Walton Goggins (pictured), the star of the FX series "The Shield." At this point, it is not clear which role he has been cast for, »

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Details Leak from Script to Robert Rodriguez’s Predators. Film to Feature Predator Dogs and Birds?

29 September 2009 12:17 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

News arrived over the weekend that Machete himself, Danny Trejo, had joined the cast of Predators, the sci-fi revamp that Robert Rodriguez has been given creative carte blanche to make in hopes of a blockbuster. Well, our pals at Latino Review have read the script by Michael Finch, Alex Litvak, and Rr and they declare it, "a 90-page kick-ass sci-fi movie worthy of the original. The script isn't some lame PG-13 follow-up. It's a bloody, violent hard-r script." The script features a multi-culti, motley crew of criminals, "Predator hunting dogs," and "Predator falcons," the latter two of which remind me of the Avatar trailer. Spoilerish details to follow... The main character in the film is a man named Royce, whom Lr compare to Steve McQueen in terms of his steely demeanor and tough guy heroics. Royce is abducted by the Predators---they apparently admire a human kill he committed---and is »

- Hunter Stephenson

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Research Shows Vampires Never Die

28 September 2009 6:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

You've seen it pointed out by every writer from here to the New York Times: We're in the middle of a vampire craze! Why? Why now? What does it mean? When will it end? Mix in the cries of love and hate for the Edward Cullens, Eric Northmans, and Bill Comptons and you have a deafening discussion centered on the creatures of the night.

But Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson over at Slate have done some historical digging, and come to a surprising discovery: We've never not been in the middle of a vampire craze. Christopher Lee created one, and when the popularity of the vampire began to wane, Anne Rice stepped in. When readers tired of Lestat, in walked Joss Whedon with Buffy, and so on. There's only been a few gaps that Slate terms "The Garlic Years" when vampires were "back in the coffin," perhaps most notably between »

- Elisabeth Rappe

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First Look At ‘Predators’ Script

28 September 2009 5:12 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Our friends over at Latino Review were able to read through a draft of the Predators script. In short, they say it’s “awesome!”

I’m so pumped over this news that I can’t think of anything quirky, snarky or anything ending with a “y” to say. So, let’s just get on to the script.

minor spoilers below

We meet our main protagonist, Royce, who’s described as “a Steve McQueen type” chasing a man onto a rooftop. An altercation ensues and Royce ends up killing the individual. All the while, Royce is being observed by a nearby Predator who, after watching Royce kill his opposition, captures him and returns to the Predator home world.

 

As Royce lands in the jungle that is the Predators’ home world, he soon meets seven other humans, from around the world, who have all been similarly captured.

Here’s a rundown of »

- Anthony Ocasio

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