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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Seven
29 December 2009 7:16 AM, PST
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Mother and Child
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not
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Shout If You Want Roger Corman Creatures and Classic Gamera DVDs!
28 December 2009 12:43 PM, PST
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Shout! Factory continues to be the DVD company after the b-genre movie fans heart. As if a special edition DVD of Kingdom of the Spiders coming in January wasn't enough, Shout! now has a quartet of Roger Corman produced aquatic creature features and old school Gamera flicks in the pipeline. How's that for a reason to shout?
April 6th will see the launch of Shout! Factory's "Roger Corman Cult Classics" line of DVDs presenting Roger Corman produced cult favorites from his days at New World Pictures. The first title being offered is a two-disc special edition Joe Dante's 1978 cult classic Piranha, also available on Blu-ray. No doubt this special edition been timed to coincide with the release of Alex Aja's 3-D remake.
The following week, April 13th, Humanoids From the Deep, the notorious 1980 creature feature about salmon gill-men on a horny rampage, will get a re-release. The same day
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Roger Corman's 'Piranha' on Blu-ray
22 December 2009 12:03 PM, PST
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It was just yesterday that one of my co-workers alerted me to the fact that Shout Factory had plans to release a slew of Roger Corman classics on DVD and Blu-ray. Today we have word on the first title to get the hi def treatment courtesy of Hi Def Digest and it's Corman's 1978 killer fish flick (Directed by Joe Dante and written by John Sayles) Piranha.
Yes folks, Piranha will be given the Blu-ray treatment on April 6th 2010. No word on specs or supplements, but it's worth noting that HD Digest is indeed listing a Blu-ray sized Msrp of $27.99, so here's hoping for one heck of a new hi-def transfer and lots of goodies to go along with it. Looking forward to the other Corman titles to be announced, we'll keep
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First Trailer For ‘Piranha 3D’ Attached To ‘Avatar’ Prints
18 December 2009 1:15 PM, PST
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While most people will be rushing out to see Jim Cameron’s newest masterpiece, Avatar, for the spectacle, others may have a new reason to spend the extra money on seeing the film in 3-D. The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films have just announced that the very first trailer for next Spring’s Piranha 3D will debut exclusively before selected 3-D and 2-D showings of Avatar.
The film is the second trailer to the 1978 film Piranha, directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins 2: The New Batch), while the first two films were pretty cheap and a bit hokey, Dimension promises that the newest incarnation will be made to scare.
From acclaimed director Alexandre Aja (”The Hills Have Eyes”) comes the new action thriller Piranha 3D, in the latest eye-popping 3D technology. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band
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Piranha 3D Trailer to Play before Avatar
18 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST
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Rob G. was kind enough to pass along this press release, which tells us that the first trailer for Piranha 3D will play before showings of Avatar this weekend.
Attaching a trailer for a horror film to what seems a surefire blockbuster is a savvy move, and should bring lots of attention to Alexandre Aja's new project, a remake of Joe Dante's Piranha.
Read the full press release below.
--Phil Fasso
**Piranha 3D Sinks Its Teeth Into Avatar Audiences This
Weekend**
First Trailer for Dimension Films' Highly Anticipated Movie
Piranha 3D Debuts Exclusively In Theatres This Weekend with
Avatar
"What do they really eat?"
"You mean besides flesh and blood?"
New York, NY--December 17, 2009-- Dimension Films will
unveil the first trailer for the highly anticipated movie
Piranha 3D in state-of-the-art 3D Exclusively in theatres
this weekend in front of Avatar. The brand new Piranha 3D
trailer will
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Piranha 3D Trailer to Play with Avatar
16 December 2009 3:53 PM, PST
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When you go to see James Cameron's Avatar this weekend, you're not only buying a ticket to see this long awaited sci-fi masterpiece, you are also buying a ticket to see the very first Piranha 3D trailer. It is set to debut exclusively with the film this weekend. Here is the official press release: Dimension Films will unveil the first trailer for the highly anticipated movie Piranha 3D in state-of-the-art 3D Exclusively in theaters this weekend in front of Avatar. The brand new Piranha 3D trailer will be shown in 3D on selected prints of Avatar, and also in selected 2D locations. Starring Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell, Jessica Szohr, Adam Scott and more; and featuring a special appearance by the silver screen's most famous foe of underwater predators, Richard Dreyfuss, Piranha 3D will hit theatres on April 16, 2010. From acclaimed director Alexandre Aja comes the new action thriller Piranha 3D,
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Piranha 3D Trailer Swims into Theaters When?
15 December 2009
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Alex Aja's first foray into 3-D horror fare, Piranha 3D , doesn't hit theaters until April 16, but it's about to get a huge push.
Shock Till You Drop has learned the trailer is being positioned ahead of prints of James Cameron's Avatar , another 3-D offering, which opens in theaters this week.
We're unsure if the trailer itself will be in 3-D.
A remake of the Joe Dante-directed creature feature, the film stars Elisabeth Shue, Steven McQueen, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss and Christopher Lloyd. One of our own caught an advance screening of the film, you can read his thoughts here .
For our full set report, click here and here .
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Remake of The Howling sharpens claws for Halloween 2010
24 November 2009 5:16 AM, PST
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With New Moon's lupine shapeshifters bounding on the big screen and a remake of The Wolfman due next February, lycanthropy is proving popular in Hollywood.
So much so that werewolf franchise The Howling is to sprout fur and fangs once again.
The original 1981 horror flick, directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, Piranha) and based on Gary Brandner's novel of the same name, spawned six sequels, the most recent in 1995.
Now, producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh are relaunching the franchise with the forthcoming The Howling: Reborn, says Variety.
Former studio marketing executive Joe Nimziki will write and make his directing debut on the project, which is slated for a Halloween release next year. Production is scheduled to begin in February.
The original's executive producers Steve Lane and Bob Pringle will return for the remake.
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Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king
13 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST
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He gave life to teenage cavemen and candy-stripe nurses. Crab monsters and humanoids from the deep. T-bird gangs and towns that dreaded sundown. His name is Roger Corman. And on Nov. 14, he will receive an honor that no one would have predicted: an honorary Academy Award. The 83-year-old B-movie titan has made nearly 400 films as a director and producer. From the start, Corman was a magnet for hungry young actors, writers, and directors who would work for slave wages for the chance to make their first film. They called it the "University of Corman," and the alumni include Francis Ford Coppola,
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- Chris Nashawaty
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New Ultra-Gory Pics from Piranha 3D
10 November 2009 10:26 AM, PST
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When I first heard that Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Haute Tension) was writing and directing a remake of the classic 70’s Joe Dante film Piranha, I thought “Hmmm. This could be a good thing.” Then I read that he was doing it in 3D and I thought “Dang! I thought this could be a good thing; guess I was wrong.”
The remake, cleverly titled Piranha 3D, is set in the fictional location of Lake Victoria during spring break (think Lake Havasu), and after a underwater earthquake releases a prehistoric flesh-eating fish, “an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents.” Sherriff Julie Forester must risk all that she loves and knows to destroy the piranha “save the lake and her family from totally being devoured.”
Piranha 3D stars Elizabeth Shue as Sherriff Julie Forester, along with Steve R.
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Exclusive: Riley Steele on 'Piranha 3-D'
28 October 2009 5:50 PM, PDT
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Riley Steele is best know for her work in adult films like Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge, but the gorgeous twenty-two-year-old may soon win a bunch of new fans, and some mainstream success, with her supporting role in Alexandre Aja's upcoming 3-D remake of Joe Dante's cult classic Piranha. I met Steele on the Lake Havasu, Arizona set of Piranha this summer, on a day when she was filming her climactic scene – and swallowing a lot of water in the process. Needless to say she wasn't feeling very good that day. Being a trooper, however, she offered to chat with me later on the phone. Read on for the conversation that followed, in which Steele discusses making the transition from adult film star to
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Halloween Beasts of Horror: The Animals That Scare Us
22 October 2009 6:11 PM, PDT
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As the spookiest day of the year (Halloween) approaches, people start talking about what actually scares them the most. We’ve run several articles this month discussing horror films from multiple genres (Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller) and then we covered a list of “fun for everyone” Halloween films.
In too many instances people focus on the alien, zombie, ghost and slasher films to represent the horror genre - and while those are all truly frightening topics for films, I think that ultimately one of the scariest horror sub-genres often gets overlooked: Animals gone crazy!
Whether it’s by land, sea or air, creatures of every imaginable size and shape have terrorized us for decades. Some are exotic animals, others are extinct beasts brought back to life by the magic of Hollywood, while still others hit closer to home and make us question if we should even own a pet. Come join
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- Paul Young
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A Career-Spanning Conversation with Joe Dante
11 October 2009 4:32 PM, PDT
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We recently published Glenn Kay's interview with Joe Dante discussing the full details on his upcoming film The Hole (read it here). Now, Jason Anders caught up with the director to go back even further. All the way back to 1978, and the recently remade Piranha...
Jason Anders/Fangoria: Let's start with one of your earliest films, 1978's Piranha; what originally inspired you to become involved in filmmaking, and what roads led to you directing one of your first motion pictures, which garnered the respect of major Hollywood names like Steven Spielberg? Also, tell me about the challenges you faced on the production of this film, which was shot in just 30 days.
Joe Dante: I had originally planned to become a cartoonist; it was only during art school that I came to realize I was more inclined toward filmmaking. This was the mid-'60s when the idea of "film school
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‘The Hole 3D’ - Videos from Joe Dante’s New Thriller Film
21 September 2009 6:00 AM, PDT
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MovieSet was on the set of acclaimed director Joe Dante’s new film ‘The Hole 3D’ while shooting last fall. With the great buzz from Comic-Con and impending release of the film at festivals in Toronto and Venice, we are rolling out some more unique - and exclusive to MovieSet - clips.
Fans of 3D film making, thrills and chills and Joe Dante’s other films (i.e. Gremlins) will find this clip especially interesting as the director discusses the plot and process of The Hole.
Plenty more of ‘The Hole’ Videos on MovieSet.com.
The Hole News
Bruce Dern on the set of The Hole 3D
On a recent trip to the set of The Hole 3D, directed by master of horror Joe Dante, I had the pleasure of meeting with American cinema icon Bruce Dern. As well as speaking at length about his character in the film, things
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Tiff '09 Review: 'The Hole'
16 September 2009 3:34 PM, PDT
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Back when most of my friends were geeking out over their Mike Schmidt baseball cards or Spider-Man comic books, I was cataloging my own list of favorites. Sure, me and all my neighborhood friends loved baseball, comic books, and video games, but I'm pretty sure I was the only one who knew that Cujo and Cat's Eye were directed by the same guy; that the guy who directed Red Dawn also did Conan the Barbarian; and that Joe Dante was the man to thank for Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers, and Innerspace. Obviously none of my pals really cared about this stuff, which is why they're all bankers and doctors whereas I'm a film critic and, um, the manager of a movie blog.
It was with no small dose of enthusiasm
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Tiff '09: Dante Reveals 'Piranha' 3D Work Done in Post!
16 September 2009 12:05 AM, PDT
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Some shocking news came out of the Tiff screening of The Hole 3D when a fan asked Joe Dante why he didn't direct Dimension's Piranha 3D remake. Dancing off of the idiotic question, Dante somehow flipped the conversation onto the way Alex Aja filmed it, revealing that it's not actually shot in 3D. The iconic director, whose film The Hole was shot on set in 3D, explained that Aja filmed the remake with one camera and will be digitally making it 3D in post, while adding CGI piranha that will be "Pixar-like 3D." How does that make you feel? Kinda hurts, doesn't it? I guess we'll see how good 2D-turned-3D looks come April 16, 2010.
Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss, Dina Meyer, Brooklynn Proulx, Quinn Lord, Riley Steele, Jessica Szohr, Jerry O'Connell, Paul Scheer, Cody Longo, Riley Steele, Eli Roth, Ricardo Chavira all star.
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Roger Corman and the Night of the Oscar
11 September 2009 8:20 AM, PDT
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This is some pleasant news coming from the New York Times. Independent filmmaker Roger Corman will receive a honoree Oscar award at the Governor Award's dinner, scheduled for November 14th. The honorees were chosen for the Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science and were selected this past Thursday.
Corman is an all time low-budget film maker and producer. Through his 50 plus year career, he has generated most of what us from HorrorYearbook believe to be classics of the genre we so very love. He directed Jack Nicholson in his first horror role of The Little Shop of Horrors, adapted Edgar Allan Poe's short story the Pit and The Pendulum with Vincent Price and brought us his version of the unspeakable automaton in Frankenstein Unbound! He has produced many cult classics that me and my fellow HorrorYearbookians own such as Piranha, The Big Doll House, Humanoids of the Deep,
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Greatest Scream Queens
1 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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Debbie Rochon, often described as a scream queen herself, wrote in an article originally published in Gc Magazine that "a true Scream Queen isn't The Perfect Woman. She's sexy, seductive, but most importantly 'attainable' to the average guy. Or so it would seem."
Nastassja Kinski
Films:
To the Devil a Daughter (1976) [1]
Cat People (1982) [2]
The Day the World Ended (2001) [3]
Inland Empire (2006) [4]
Kinski will always be remembered for the iconic photograph shot by Richard Avedon (with a snake coiled around her body) and her role in Paul Schrader's (not so good) remake of Cat People. Needless to say, it was a hit at the box office and Kinski deservingly received a Saturn Award for Best Actress.
Caroline Munro
Films:
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) [5]
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) [6]
Dracula A.D. 1972 [7]
Maniac (1980) [8]
Faceless (1987) [9]
Demons 6 (1989) [10]
Caroline Munro seduced audiences in her Hammer roles in films like Dracula A.D. 1972, but for gore hounds,
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Retro Cafe: Was 'Aliens' the Best Science Fiction Sequel Ever?
19 August 2009 12:05 AM, PDT
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"There Are Some Places In The Universe You Don't Go Alone."
So said the tag line advertising the main feature at London's Odeon Leicester Square in August 1986. The film on show was Aliens, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 1979 sci-fi horror movie Alien. Fans of the first film had waited a long time to see what new horrors would be inflicted on Alien's heroine, Ellen Ripley, and her beloved cat. Some feared the cat might be the unfortunate host of writer and director James Cameron's new generation of stomach-bursting beasts. The young Canadian director was keeping the truth close to his chest, though.
Despite the secrecy, moviegoers and critics were optimistic that they would get something good from the man who had thrilled them with The Terminator. As one of them, I went to the Odeon Leicester Square to see Aliens one week after it went on general
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Check This Out: Teaser Poster for Joe Dante's The Hole in 3D
6 August 2009 5:20 PM, PDT
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No, The Hole isn't a new porno, it's a creepy new thriller from director Joe Dante, the man who brought us Gremlins and Piranha and other great movies. ShockTillYouDrop has unveiled our first high res look at the poster from the movie featuring the "hole" in the basement in which all the "bad guys" come from. Much like Small Soldiers, one of Dante's other past movies, The Hole is actually made for the younger teenage demographic, but it's still creepy. I got to see an early trailer at Comic-Con and it looks okay, not anything amazing, but just because it's Joe Dante, I'm mildly excited for it. Anyway, check the poster out below!
The Hole, filmed in 3-D, centers on Susan (Teri Polo), a mother who moves with her teen sons to a rural house where the three are forced to face their fears after discovering a bottomless hole in
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- Alex Billington
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