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Russell Crowe To Star In Josh Boone’s Film Adaption Of Revival

This past February Josh Boone (X-Men: The New Mutants) put his remake of Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ on hold to move forward with another story by King, ‘Revival’. New Line’s Michael De Luca (Fright Night 2011) will produce. ‘Revival’, published in 2014, “ follows a preacher who loses his faith when his wife and child are killed in an accident. He soon becomes obsessed in his experimentation into the healing power of electrical current, positioning him to act as God-like faith healer. Intertwined with the preacher is a young man with demons of his own, who has benefited from the preacher’s talents and becomes a reluctant accomplice to his deadly obsession.” Boone recently told Creative Screenwriting that actor Russell Crowe will play the lead in ‘Revival’. Crowe’s most recent role was that of Dr. Henry Jekyll in Universal’s reboot of ‘The Mummy‘, starring opposite Tom Cruise. “I have a good relationship with Stephen King, so when I wanted to adapt

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 15, 2016

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Amityville: The Awakening Delayed AGAIN

Frank Khalfoun’s ‘Amityville: The Awakening’ has been delayed several times. We reported back in March that a new release date had been set for January 6th, 2017. But news comes today, via Bloody-Disgusting, that the release for the film has once again been delayed. According to the site, we are in for a long wait, it could be up to 3 years before we actually see it. The film follows Joan (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a single Mother, and her three children, one who is very ill. They have relocated to a new town and a new home. Unaware of its history and reputation, the family moves into the Amityville house, where Butch DeFeo butchered his family all those years ago. Things quickly go from bad to worse when the family begins to experience intense paranormal phenomena. Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Bella Thorne (Blended), Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time), Cameron Monaghan (Shameless), Thomas Mann (Project X) and Robo

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 13, 2016

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Fede Alvarez Confirms He Will Make Don’t Breathe 2

Fede Alvarez’s hit home-invasion film ‘Don’t Breathe‘ has been a huge success, raking in $152 million at the box office alone, which is pretty impressive for a film that cost $10 million to make. I expect the Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD numbers will be impressive as well. Taking the numbers in consideration, it’s no surprise that a sequel is in the works. Alvarez revealed to Coming Soon that after he wraps production on his next film, ‘The Girl in the Spider Web’, the sequel to ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, he will begin working on ‘Don’t Breathe 2’. In ‘Don’t Breathe’, Jane Levy, who also starred in Alvarez’s Evil Dead, plays the role of Rocky, a young woman desperate for money who goes along with her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovato) and their friend Alex (Dylan Minnette) on what they think is easy score. The trio target a blind man (Stephen Lang), but after breaking into his home they

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 12, 2016

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The First Image From Insidious: Chapter 4 Takes Us Into The Further

The ‘Insidious’ franchise, which began in 2010, will soon add another film to its collection, ‘Insidious: Chapter 4’. Writer Leigh Whannell is once again behind the screenplay. He will also be returning to his role as “Specs”. Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan) is in the director’s chair for this trip into the “Further”. Horror heavy-weights James Wan and Jason Blum will be producing. The first still (unveiled by EW) features Lin Shaye as “Elise Rainer”, the parapsychologist featured in each of the franchise’s films. She is joined in the image by the new character Aubrey (Tessa Ferrer). [The film] goes back to Elise’s beginnings,” Shaye recently revealed in the interview. “And you also meet Elise at a very different point in her life. It takes place right after the end of Chapter 3, when she walks off with Specs and Tucker and they’re starting their company, Spectral Sightings, and they are now living at her home. They’re like

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 11, 2016

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The Female-Driven Horror Anthology XX Gets Release Date

Magnet Releasing will unveil the female-driven horror anthology ‘XX’ on February 17, 2017. The film features four tales from four female writer-directors including Karyn Kusama (The Invitation), Jennifer Lynch (Surveillance), Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), and Jovanka Vuckovic (The Captured Bird), former editor of Rue Morgue Magazine. ‘XX’ stars Natalie Brown, Mike Doyle, Christina Kirk, Kyle Allen, Peyton Kennedy, Peter DaCunha, Ron Lea, Jonathan Watton, Lisa Renee Pitts, and Morgan Peter Brown. Synopsis: “XX is a female-driven horror anthology with each director given full creative license to tell any story they choose revolving around a female protagonist. While the directors have been given free creative rein within budget and time constraints, all of the segments themselves will involve the horror genre.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 9, 2016

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James Franco Boards Alien Covenant

Not only has production begun, Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien Covenant’ is picking up speed. Today, huge casting news was announced via AvP Galaxy. ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ star James Franco has signed on to make an appearance in ‘Covenant’. He will be playing Daniels’ (Katherine Waterson) husband Branson. Image: Tracking-Board “Franco’s appearance in Alien: Covenant will only be brief, though. He appears in the first ten minutes or so of the film with later small appearances.” AvP Galaxy added, “Franco will also be reprising the role as Branson in some of the viral footage that has been shot for Alien: Covenant.” Franco has a long list of fantastic roles on resume including the time traveling miniseries ‘11.22.63’, ‘The Night Before’, ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’, ‘This is the End’, ‘127 Hours’, and ‘Pineapple Express’. His most recent project, the comedy ‘Why Him?’, will hit theaters on December 23rd. He will join Danny McBride, his long time friend and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 9, 2016

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Little Shop Horrors Reboot Pushing Forward With Arrow Director At The Helm

After years of being stuck in development limbo, Warner Bros’ re-imagining of the 1986 musical hit ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is pushing forward with Greg Berlanti (Arrow) in the director’s chair and Matthew Robinson (Monster Trucks) writing the script, and Marc Platt (Drive) producing, Deadline reports. The 1986 film was a remake of Roger Corman’s 1960 sci-fi film that centers on Seymour, a clumsy young man who discovers a strange new plant. The plant only wants blood at first, but as it grows he must kill to feed it or risk loosing his newly acquired fame and possibly Audrey, the girl of his dreams. Rick Moranis, Steve Marting, Ellen Green, Vincent Gardenia, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, and Tisha Campbell-Martin co-starred , with cameos from Jim Belushi, John Candy, Bill Murray, and Christopher Guest. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, The Interview) was in talks to play the lead role of Seymour at one time. There has been

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 9, 2016

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Cloverfield Sequel Lands New Release Date

Earlier this year, J. J. Abrams surprised fans with a sequel to 2008’s found-footage alien film ‘Cloverfield’, titled ’10 Cloverfield Lane’. The film was a huge success, renewing interest in the franchise for fans. We reported in late October that J.J. Abrams’ third ‘Cloverfield’ film, titled ‘God Particle’, had quietly entered production. Recently, The Wrap caught up with actor David Oyelowo in an attempt to lean more about ‘God Particle’. They did not learn much, but he did reveal the following: “Every single day we were on that set, we were agog with the inventiveness and innovation, between the technology, the story, and the audacity of what we were trying to accomplish. It’s an incredibly exciting and innovative process of storytelling. It’s incredibly surprising.” In the ‘God Particle’ a team of astronauts make a shocking discovery and end up fighting for survival in what is being described as an “altered reality”. David Oyelowo, stars alongside John Krasinski, Daniel Brühl, Gug

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 8, 2016

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Hannibal Star Wants To Sink His Teeth Into The Zombie Genre

Mads Mikkelsen tackled the role of cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the television series ‘Hannibal’. Now, it seems the incredibly talented actor has formed a taste for horror, he wants to sink his teeth into a new subgenre, zombies. During an interview with Birth Movies Death Mikkelson revealed that he really wants fight zombies. I love zombies. I do love watching Walking Dead. I do. There’s something so fascinating, where (Mads is getting very excited) when the zombies are moving sufficiently slowly, you actually want to live in that world, you know? Because you can just fucking chop the shit out of them!” He continued, “But you should always be aware! Don’t get too close up! Because that’s when that’s when they come. They are quite fascinating, the fast ones. Like World War Z. But it’s also too scary, man (laughs). That’s too fast for me. I wouldn’t stand a chance.” I could see Mikkelson on ‘The Walking Dead’ or

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 7, 2016

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‘IT’ Will Begin Holding Advance Screenings Later This Month

The 1990 mini series adaption of Stephen King’s ‘IT’ is a true genre classic. Now, after years of rumors about the desire to make a reboot, ‘IT’ is finally approaching its release. The new version, under the direction of Andrès Muschietti (Mama), has officially entered post-production and is gearing up to begin advanced screenings, 9 months before its theatrical release date of September 8, 2017. The company 1 iota is advertising free tickets to the advance screening of ‘IT’ in Burbank, California on December 15th, Movie Web has reported. 1 iota is looking for audience members between the ages of 18 and 49 to give feedback on the film which is said to be scarier than the original. “Based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel. A group of young kids face their biggest fears when they seek answers to the disappearance of children in their hometown of Derry, Maine. They square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 7, 2016

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