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Hatchet 2 is a Go! Adam Green Returns!
24 November 2009 11:53 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The news plenty of horror fans have been looking forward to finally broke this morning ... Adam Green will be returning to the ground that put him on the map to write and direct Hatchet 2. Of course, we dug a little deeper and got you guys some more info beyond the surface stuff.
"It was never a matter of money, just timing," Green tells us. "We wanted to make sure that everyone involved with the first film could come back before any of us committed. By the time the first one came out, we were all just exhausted. It took two years. Being that the film was successful, everybody wanted us to do a sequel immediately, but again -- we were all Hatcheted out! We didn't want to make a Hatchet movie just to make a Hatchet movie. Now that all parties concerned have had a chance to rest, and »
- Uncle Creepy
Paul W.S. Anderson Eyes Castlevania (Again)
21 November 2009 7:32 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Castlevania is a movie I do not hold high expectations for. Besides the fact that it is a video game adaptation, it seems to be going through development issues with a continuous set of director changes.
In January, Screen Rant reported that James Wan (Saw franchise) would be co-writing and directing and adaptation of the popular video game franchise, taking over from Paul W.S. Anderson (Death Race) as the writer/director and then Sylvain White (The Losers) who took the helm after Anderson.
After the studio decision to go with Wan, we’ve now come full circle and Paul W.S. Anderson is again set to direct. We don’t know yet how long this may last as in the summer, they were still promoting Wan and the plans for the film at San Diego Comic-Con.
To find out more about the Castlevania game, its story and our thoughts on the »
- Rob Keyes
Icons Friend Tim Sullivan to Replace Gunn on Scream Queens 2
19 November 2009 2:39 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Great news for Icons of Fright friend Tim Sullivan! According to VH1, the director of 2001 Maniacs and Icons contributor with his Shock And Roll series, is set to replace James Gunn in the channel's Scream Queens 2 reality show. Gunn directed scenes on-camera for the show, which acts as a contest for potential screamers, with the ultimate prize being a role in the next Saw film. Season One's winner Tanedra Howard appeared in Saw VI (perhaps she would've been happier with a role in Paranormal Activity).
Read VH1's official press release below:
Scream Queens 2 will take a new cadre of 10 aspiring actresses and give them the chance to win a breakthrough role in Saw 3D, the next film in Lionsgate’s Saw horror franchise. The reality competition series is produced by Lionsgate and Joke Productions, Inc. and is slated to premiere in 2010.
Season one winner Tanedra Howard was »
Scream Queens 2: Jaime King and Tim Sullivan Join In / Winner Receives Role in Saw 3D
19 November 2009 12:29 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
With James Gunn moving on to other things, the question beckoned: Who would be at the helm of this season's "Scream Queens" for VH1? It didn't take long for the answer to come.
From the Press Release
“Scream Queens 2” will take a new cadre of 10 aspiring actresses and give them the chance to win a breakthrough role in “Saw 3D,” the next film in Lionsgate’s “Saw” horror franchise. The reality competition series is produced by Lionsgate and Joke Productions, Inc., and is slated to premiere in 2010.
Season One winner Tanedra Howard was featured in the coveted and iconic “opening trap” scene in “Saw VI,” playing the character “Simone.” Due to her breakout performance and significant storyline, she is also expected to appear in future Lionsgate productions, a major coup for the previously undiscovered actress.
This season’s cast will once again be put through a horror film boot camp with intense physical challenges, »
- Uncle Creepy
Birthday Suits: Cougar Town
16 November 2009 5:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Celebrating the birthdays cinematic: actors, actresses, and other filmtypes. If it's your big day, a happy one to you as well.
The Penguin and The Secretary
Today's B-Days 11/16
1908 Burgess Meredith two time Oscar nominee. But no, not for the Penguin in Batman: The Movie. Those honors came back to back in his late 60s for Rocky and The Day of the Locust.
1964 Harry Lennix best known for his TV work in shows like Dollhouse and Commander in Chief but he's cut an imposing figure in the movies too (Titus, the Matrix trilogy). But yes Dollhouse was cancelled last week. sigh.
1967 Lisa Bonet mostly retired actress, Huxtable, one of Marisa Tomei's besties
1970 Martha Plimpton. My friends have this thing where they cast the book they've just read for their book club each month. It's their tradition that they have to give 80s teen film star turned ubiquitous Broadway thespian a role in every film. »
- NATHANIEL R
The Other Paul Anderson Now Directing 'Castlevania'?
15 November 2009 1:06 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
It's a real shame that Castlevania has become such a troubled production. It's a cool enough video game to make the transition to the big screen, but it could be on its third director in about 18 months.
At first, Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) was attached to direct...and then the project kind of went away. Then earlier this year, original Saw director James Wan threw himself at the project with Paul W.S. Anderson producing. We wrote a little bit about that in July, with Wan saying, "I'll be working on the script with a writer to give it a new spin, different to the previous versions. This will have my stamp on it, which Konami is very excited about."
Or not. Shock Till You Drop quotes producer Jeremy Bolt as indicating that Anderson will be directing and he's waiting for yet another script. I wonder how much all this indecision has cost the producers. »
- Colin Boyd
Will Paul Ws Anderson Helm 'Castlevania'?
13 November 2009 9:10 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
The Castlevania film, based upon the Konami game, seems to be going through a difficult birthing process. After an announced start date passed and original director Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) moved on to other things, James Wan (Saw) signed on to co-write and direct the project, with Paul Ws Anderson producing. "I'm very fresh on this project, so its early stages and I'm still trying to work things out, but the producers love my vision for it," Wan told the media.
Then news about the project all but dried up. Until today. On the Toronto set of Resident Evil: Afterlife, producer Jeremy Bolt told Styd that Anderson is once again circling Castlevania and is currently waiting for the script.
No word, however, as to what role Anderson will play in the film: producer, director...or perhaps both.
Bolt added that Anderson is also looking to adapt Konami's 'Metal Gear Solid' for the big screen. »
Lionsgate To Continue Saw Franchise
13 November 2009 5:46 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Drug addicts, doctors, renegade police offices and anyone else that may need “to help themselves” should stay on edge as it looks like the Jigsaw Killer will be on the lamb for the foreseeable future as Lionsgate recently stated that they will continue making the Rube Goldberg horror series Saw “as long as we make money.”
Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns spoke those exact words at the Median and Money conference in New York on Thursday. To further prove his point, the confident Burns states that Dirty Dancing, 20 years after its debut, still sells an average of 2,000 DVDs per day.
While the most recent Saw VI didn’t perform as well as its predecessors, most people are attributing its dramatic drop off to the phenomenon of Paranormal Activity. I know most people say that the Saw stories aren’t good and it’s the same thing over and over, but »
- Anthony Ocasio
Paul W.S. Anderson Returning to 'Castlevania'?
13 November 2009 8:55 AM, PST | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
Odd news from the set of Resident Evil: Afterlife as Bloody Disgusting's Mike Pereira sent in a small news bite that has me scratching my head. Resident Evil producer Jeremy Bolt tells press that writer/director/producer Paul W.S. Anderson is once again circling Castlevania, along with the feature film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid. Why so odd? This past July Saw co-creator James Wan was attached to the project that would bring Simon Belmont to the big screen to battle Dracula and other ghouls. We'll see if we can't get word from Wan. Personally, I'll cry if Anderson goes back to this project. »
Lionsgate Blames Paranormal Activity For Saw VI Flop
13 November 2009 7:41 AM, PST | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »
The vice chairman of Lionsgate, Michael Burns, told The Hollywood Reporter that Paranormal Activity is to blame for Saw VI's disappointing box office numbers. So what does that mean for the Saw franchise? Burns said, "As long as we make money on it we'll keep doing this." Yesterday we announced that a release date for the 3D Saw 7 has already been set, and Twisted Pictures' Mark Burg told Shock Till You Drop that the franchise will most likely reach an 8th sequel. "The storyline that we started in five and carries through six ends in Saw VIII," says Burg. "Where it goes beyond that I couldn't tell you. In my mind and Oren [Koules]' mind, we have the story threaded through part eight. I can't tell you the franchise will continue after that." »
- wil
Lionsgate Comments on Saw VI Performance
13 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Though it's really no secret, Saw VII is happening. Yet the Hollywood trades don't need to listen to genre sites like this one to learn the truth; instead they go to fellas like Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns for confirmation. In a report this week, Burns told The Hollywood Reporter that Paranormal Activity is to blame for Saw VI 's lackluster performance. "As long as we make money on it we'll keep doing this," Burns said. The Saw franchise is expected to go through to an eighth entry, as revealed by Twisted Pictures Mark Burg here . »
‘Buffy’ & ‘Mad Men’ Writer To Pen ‘Fright Night’ Remake
12 November 2009 10:49 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Back in March Screen Rant reported on yet another horror remake to be put into the works with Dreamworks’ Fright Night. At the time the producers had been put in place but no writer. Jump forward 8 months and a writer has been found in the form of Marti Noxon, who’s a regular writer on AMC’s classy Mad Men, as well as having worked on the hit vampire series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The original Fright Night was written and directed by Tom Holland (Child’s Play, The Langoliers) back in 1985, and was about a teenager (William Ragsdale) who discovers his new next door neighbor (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. However, he’s the only one who knows it, as no one will believe him.
I remember the original Fright Night pretty well, although I can’t seem to recall the comedy element from the “horror-comedy” label that’s »
- Ross Miller
Release Date for 'Saw VII' Announced
11 November 2009 7:48 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
After releasing the latest installment of "Saw VI" in October this year, Lionsgate Films has moved forward with another sequel of the thriller film by announcing the release date for "Saw VII". According to Shock Till You Drop, the studio has claimed October 22, 2010 will be the day when the seventh "Saw" movie hits U.S. theaters.
As of late, "Saw VI" producer Mark Burg and co-writer Marcus Dunstan have said that "Saw VII" will be filmed in 3-D. "Saw, just by the way it's shot, lends itself to being a 3-D movie," Berg explained. "We saw a test that somebody did, a minute of Saw transferred from 2-D to 3-D and it looked great. We're not going to transfer VII, but we'll actually shoot it in 3-D. We want to be able to build the sets in a way that takes advantage of depth."
"We're going to design traps to come out at you, »
- AceShowbiz.com
Saw VII 3D Takes a Release Date
11 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
In spite of less than thrilling box office numbers (its current worldwide gross is still less than the last entry's opening weekend with only $26 million), Twisted Pictures forges ahead with Saw VII ( Saw 7 ) in 3-D. And today, Lionsgate has claimed an October 22, 2010 release date. The next entry is written by returning screenwriters Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton. David Hackl is back in the director's chair. He helmed Saw V . Costas Mandylor will be back as Hoffman and you can probably presume Tobin Bell shall return for more Jigsaw flashbacks. Start your theories as to where the story will turn now! »
Twisted Pictures Options Sorrow
9 November 2009 11:57 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Shock Till You Drop is reporting that “Sorrow”, the horror comic from creators Rick Remender, Seth Peck, and Francesco Francavilla, has been optioned for a live-action, big-screen adaptation by Twisted Pictures. Screenwriter Michael Hidalgo is writing the script about a young woman and her friends, who end up stranded in a ghost town where the spirits of the dead are intent on possessing the bodies of the living. Twisted Pictures is best known for producing the long-running horror “Saw” franchise. “Sorrow” was initially a four-issue miniseries released by Image Comics, the home of titles like “Spawn” and “The Walking Dead,” in 2007. “Saw” producers Oren Koules and Mark [...] »
- Costa Koutsoutis
'Sorrow' optioned by Twisted Pictures
9 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Saw studio Twisted Pictures has acquired the cinematic rights to Image Comics' Sorrow. Originally released as a four-issue miniseries in 2007, the horror comic was the result of a collaboration between Rick Remender, Seth Peck and Francesco Francavilla. According to Shock Til You Drop, screenwriter Michael Hidalgo is on board to adapt the script and Saw duo Mark Burg and Oren Koules will act as producers. Sorrow is a modern ghost story focusing on a young girl and her friends as they find themselves trapped in a haunted town, where the spirits of the dead seek to claim the bodies of the living. "I've been fascinated with (more) »
- By Mark Langshaw
Tobin Bell Talks 3-D in Saw VII
9 November 2009 12:15 PM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Pre-production on Saw VII has already begun ... so despite the poor box office for Saw VI, the Saw series is far from over. Saw VII will look to revitalize the franchise, at least financially, with the series stepping into 3-D territory for the first time. Tobin Bell spoke to Fearnet about what it will be like to bring Jigsaw to the third dimension.
It will be an interesting experience. I'll be doing the same thing. Possibly doing it differently, like saying, "Reach out this way!" But I am going to be doing exactly what I always do. I am more concerned with the quality of the drama than I am in the special effects, I'll leave that to someone else. That's not my job. I'll be watching with interest and listening for good counsel from the 3-D techs, who I'm sure will be lingering around me. And I'll be saying, »
- Ryan Gowland
Rick Remender's 'Sorrow' Horror Comic Optioned By 'Saw' Producers
9 November 2009 6:01 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Rick Remender, Seth Peck and Francesco Francavilla's horror comic “Sorrow” has been optioned as a potential feature film by Twisted Pictures, the production company behind the “Saw” franchise.
Screenwriter Michael Hidalgo (“The Butcherhouse Chronicles”) is set to adapt the script, according to Shock Till You Drop. First published as a four issue miniseries in 2007 by Image Comics, “Sorrow” follows a young woman and her friends who are stranded in a literal ghost town where the spirits of the dead threaten to claim the bodies of the living.
“Saw” producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules are also onboard the project. Burg and Koules are also executive producers of the long running sitcom, “Two and a Half Men.”
Remender is quickly becoming one of the busiest comic creators in Hollywood. Earlier this year, Remender was tapped to write the screenplay adaptation of his upcoming miniseries “The Last Days of American Crime” from Radical Publishing. »
- Blair Marnell
Twisted Pictures Wants You to Feel Sorrow
7 November 2009 12:32 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Another comic-to-film adaptation is in the pipeline, this one from Twisted Pictures, the company most known for its Saw films. It's called Sorrow and is the brainchild of Rick Remender, Seth Peck, and Francesco Francavilla published by Image Comics.
You may recall that Twisted Pictures was in the news recently due to its efforts to acquire the rights to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and then prepare another remake ... in 3D. Nothing firm has been announced on that front yet, but Twisted is hardly sitting around twiddling its thumbs. According to Shock Till You Drop Twisted's Mark Burg and Oren Koules will produce Sorrow along with Erick Salomon, Chris Ridenhour, and Andrew Wilson. Michael Hidalgo is writing the script and had this to say about the project: ""Rick, Seth, and Francesco have created a throwback to '70s and '80s horror/thriller films with the perfect mix of terror and memorable characters. »
- Uncle Creepy
Exclusive: Tobin Bell Talks 'Saw VII'
5 November 2009 6:45 PM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
One of the secrets to the Saw franchise's success has been its ability to plan ahead. And so before Saw VI's release, well before, plans were already underway to shoot Saw VII. But next year's sequel already promises something to distinguish it from the prior installments in the Saw series – 3-D. At the recent La red carpet for Saw VI, we asked star Tobin Bell what he thinks about the decision to continue Jigsaw's story in a different medium. Find out what he told us after the jump. "It will be an interesting experience," said Bell. "I'll be doing the same thing. Possibly doing it differently, like saying, 'Reach out this way!' But I am... »
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