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Back in December we reported that Halloween Returns had been put on hold. Now, the word is Malek Akkad, the producer of the Halloween franchise, may be looking to move in a different direction. Michael Myers may be coming to a TV near you for a “limited series event”, meaning it would be restricted to 3 to 5 seasons. According to Fangoria there are meetings being held with network representatives now. Halloween might make an interesting series, as long as they deal with the whole Michael only returns on Halloween issue in a good way. Until a studio and network pick up the show we have to take it with grain of salt, a lot of potential series and films never make it to completion. After all, Halloween Returns is in that situation right now. Would you like to see a Halloween television series? Let us know on Twitter.
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Last year we reported that Don Mancini, who created that little red-headed psycho killer doll, Chucky, was working on the seventh film of the franchise. A few days ago Mancini tweeted Jennifer Tilly , the actress who plays Tiffany, the love of Chucky’s life and his partner in crime, and posed a question “So @Jtillathekilla2 should we shoot Chucky 7 in Capetown?” Tilly responded with “Capetown is great. The crew is really professional and you can’t beat the weather!” It sounds as in Chucky 7 is preparing to enter production and that makes me excited. With Tilly involved, I would have to assume that the next film will be more like The Bride of Chucky than 2013’s Curse of Chucky, but you never know. Word is, Fiona Dourif, who went toe to toe with Chucky in The Curse of Chucky, will also be returning to fight the possessed Good Guy Doll again in Chucky 7. For those of you who
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WARNING SPOILERS! Last night on The Walking Dead’s episode 10 “The Next World”, we met a new character, Jesus, played by Tom Payne. What was meant to be an important introduction was over shadowed by something we’ve been waiting for for a while now, Rick and Michonne hooking up, and boy did they. In the final moments of the episode Rick was relaxing on the couch after a hard run spent chasing Jesus. Michonne came into the living room and sat down beside him. Rick gave Michonne a roll of mints he picked up on the run. Their hands met and intertwined. They gazed into each other’s eyes and leaned in for a kiss that quickly turned into to full blown passion. The scene skips to the both of them asleep in Rick’s bed naked after what could have only been an intense night passion. They hear a noise that woke them both up and they suddenly jump to their
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Victor Miller, the writer-creator of Friday the 13th, along with the film and series’ co-creator Kerry Fleming, is now shopping for a network for the companion television series to their upcoming Rock Paper Dead. Many details about the series are still being kept hush-hush, but we do know that Miller and Fleming have`a plan to bring in iconic horror film actors to appear in the series, in the form of cameos, guest spots or even recurring roles. “The concept for the crossover is similar to what Marvel has done with their superhero films. What we will be doing is a first in the horror genre. The show is designed to work hand in hand with the film. The same core characters, with expanding supporting roles. Besides writing the film screenplay, Victor and I, created a blueprint for the characters with story arcs that can be sustained for multiple movies and seasons of the series.” Kerry continued explaining to me, “We
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WARNING SPOILERS! Last night on episode 10 of The Walking Dead we met Jesus, who gave Rick and Daryl a run for their money. Not only did Jesus put up a damn good fight, he slipped out of his restraints, stole Rick and Daryl’s ride, flew off a truck and broke into Rick’s bedroom, where he got an eye full. As you probably know by now Jesus, who’s full name is Paul Rovia on the show, Paul Monroe in the graphic novels. The name change may be confusing to those who’ve read the graphic novels, but in the long run it makes sense. The Walking Dead did not want him to be confused with the Monroe family from Alexandria (Deanna ect.). In the novels Jesus is from the Hilltop community, whose existence was unknown to the group, but we’ll learn all about that in the next episode. Things are tense over at Hilltop and Jesus is in search of outside
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Rings, the direct sequel to the american The Ring franchise, was supposed to be released on April 1st, but we’re left wondering if that was just an April Fool’s day joke by Paramount. Now, Rings has been delayed once again and the new release date set as October 28th. It’s been a decade since The Ring 2 opened in theaters. This time it is director F. Javier Gutierezz that will bring Samara back to life along with the cursed tape that summons her seven days after it’s viewed. Rings stars Aimee Teegarden (Scream 4), Laura Wiggins (Shameless), Matilda Lutz (Mi chiamo Maya), Alex Rose (The 5th Wave), Johnny Galecki (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Zach Roerig (The Vampire Diaries), and Bonnie Morgan (The Devil Inside).
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The premiere date for A&E’s new series Damien is drawing near. The series, follows Damien Thorn, the child from the 1976 horror classic The Omen, as an adult. Damien is about to learn who he really is, the anti-Christ. Bradley James, who played the role of Liv’s love interest in iZombie, will star as Damien. Omid Abtahi (Argo) co-stars along with Megalyn Echikunwoke (The Following), David Meunier (Aquarius) and Barbara Hershey, who played the role of Lorraine Lambert in Insidious: Chapter 2. Scott Wilson, who you may recognize as Hershel from the hit series The Walking Dead, also appears in Damien. Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead) serves as both writer and executive producer for the series. Ross Fineman, who developed the series with Mazzara, also serves as executive producer through his company Fineman Entertainment. Damien will premiere on A&E on March 7th. In the last trailer we witness the beginning of the “End of Days”.
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No, that’s not a screen-shot (above) of an Instagram post. That is the new poster for Amityville: The Awakening. If it comes across to you as both weird and clever, you’re not alone. It is a little hard to take it serious as a poster though. Joan (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a single Mother, and her three children, one who is very ill, 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 Cop’s Kurtwood Smith star in Amityville: The Awakening, written and directed by Franck Khalfoun (Maniac), which is finally coming to theaters on April 1st via
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The new adaptions of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower and The Stand have had many ups and downs over the past two years. Now, the remake of The Stand has been put on hold and the TV series has hit a dead end. The Gunslinger film is moving forward and a third King adaption, Revival, is in the works. “Right now it’s [The Stand] just in a holding pattern trying to figure out how to best make the movie because we’ve toyed with breaking it up into multiple movies, making it into one, making it into two. The latest draft, Josh Boone had written it and he was very anxious to make it but since then has written another script, Revival, which he’s gonna do beforehand, so were’ just waiting for that.” King’s Revival, starring Samuel L. Jackson, centers on a preacher who discovers the power to heal, but in true Stephen King fashion, the preacher unleashes a power he
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Back in December we reported that Halloween Returns had been put on hold. Now, the word is Malek Akkad, the producer of the Halloween franchise, may be looking to move in a different direction. Michael Myers may be coming to a TV near you for a “limited series event”, meaning it would be restricted to 3 to 5 seasons. According to Fangoria there are meetings being held with network representatives now. Halloween might make an interesting series, as long as they deal with the whole Michael only returns on Halloween issue in a good way. Until a studio and network pick up the show we have to take it with grain of salt, a lot of potential series and films never make it to completion. After all, Halloween Returns is in that situation right now. Would you like to see a Halloween television series? Let us know on Twitter.
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Last year we reported that Don Mancini, who created that little red-headed psycho killer doll, Chucky, was working on the seventh film of the franchise. A few days ago Mancini tweeted Jennifer Tilly , the actress who plays Tiffany, the love of Chucky’s life and his partner in crime, and posed a question “So @Jtillathekilla2 should we shoot Chucky 7 in Capetown?” Tilly responded with “Capetown is great. The crew is really professional and you can’t beat the weather!” It sounds as in Chucky 7 is preparing to enter production and that makes me excited. With Tilly involved, I would have to assume that the next film will be more like The Bride of Chucky than 2013’s Curse of Chucky, but you never know. Word is, Fiona Dourif, who went toe to toe with Chucky in The Curse of Chucky, will also be returning to fight the possessed Good Guy Doll again in Chucky 7. For those of you who
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WARNING SPOILERS! Last night on The Walking Dead’s episode 10 “The Next World”, we met a new character, Jesus, played by Tom Payne. What was meant to be an important introduction was over shadowed by something we’ve been waiting for for a while now, Rick and Michonne hooking up, and boy did they. In the final moments of the episode Rick was relaxing on the couch after a hard run spent chasing Jesus. Michonne came into the living room and sat down beside him. Rick gave Michonne a roll of mints he picked up on the run. Their hands met and intertwined. They gazed into each other’s eyes and leaned in for a kiss that quickly turned into to full blown passion. The scene skips to the both of them asleep in Rick’s bed naked after what could have only been an intense night passion. They hear a noise that woke them both up and they suddenly jump to their
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Victor Miller, the writer-creator of Friday the 13th, along with the film and series’ co-creator Kerry Fleming, is now shopping for a network for the companion television series to their upcoming Rock Paper Dead. Many details about the series are still being kept hush-hush, but we do know that Miller and Fleming have`a plan to bring in iconic horror film actors to appear in the series, in the form of cameos, guest spots or even recurring roles. “The concept for the crossover is similar to what Marvel has done with their superhero films. What we will be doing is a first in the horror genre. The show is designed to work hand in hand with the film. The same core characters, with expanding supporting roles. Besides writing the film screenplay, Victor and I, created a blueprint for the characters with story arcs that can be sustained for multiple movies and seasons of the series.” Kerry continued explaining to me, “We
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WARNING SPOILERS! Last night on episode 10 of The Walking Dead we met Jesus, who gave Rick and Daryl a run for their money. Not only did Jesus put up a damn good fight, he slipped out of his restraints, stole Rick and Daryl’s ride, flew off a truck and broke into Rick’s bedroom, where he got an eye full. As you probably know by now Jesus, who’s full name is Paul Rovia on the show, Paul Monroe in the graphic novels. The name change may be confusing to those who’ve read the graphic novels, but in the long run it makes sense. The Walking Dead did not want him to be confused with the Monroe family from Alexandria (Deanna ect.). In the novels Jesus is from the Hilltop community, whose existence was unknown to the group, but we’ll learn all about that in the next episode. Things are tense over at Hilltop and Jesus is in search of outside
Continue reading →
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Rings, the direct sequel to the american The Ring franchise, was supposed to be released on April 1st, but we’re left wondering if that was just an April Fool’s day joke by Paramount. Now, Rings has been delayed once again and the new release date set as October 28th. It’s been a decade since The Ring 2 opened in theaters. This time it is director F. Javier Gutierezz that will bring Samara back to life along with the cursed tape that summons her seven days after it’s viewed. Rings stars Aimee Teegarden (Scream 4), Laura Wiggins (Shameless), Matilda Lutz (Mi chiamo Maya), Alex Rose (The 5th Wave), Johnny Galecki (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Zach Roerig (The Vampire Diaries), and Bonnie Morgan (The Devil Inside).
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The premiere date for A&E’s new series Damien is drawing near. The series, follows Damien Thorn, the child from the 1976 horror classic The Omen, as an adult. Damien is about to learn who he really is, the anti-Christ. Bradley James, who played the role of Liv’s love interest in iZombie, will star as Damien. Omid Abtahi (Argo) co-stars along with Megalyn Echikunwoke (The Following), David Meunier (Aquarius) and Barbara Hershey, who played the role of Lorraine Lambert in Insidious: Chapter 2. Scott Wilson, who you may recognize as Hershel from the hit series The Walking Dead, also appears in Damien. Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead) serves as both writer and executive producer for the series. Ross Fineman, who developed the series with Mazzara, also serves as executive producer through his company Fineman Entertainment. Damien will premiere on A&E on March 7th. In the last trailer we witness the beginning of the “End of Days”.
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No, that’s not a screen-shot (above) of an Instagram post. That is the new poster for Amityville: The Awakening. If it comes across to you as both weird and clever, you’re not alone. It is a little hard to take it serious as a poster though. Joan (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a single Mother, and her three children, one who is very ill, 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 Cop’s Kurtwood Smith star in Amityville: The Awakening, written and directed by Franck Khalfoun (Maniac), which is finally coming to theaters on April 1st via
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The new adaptions of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower and The Stand have had many ups and downs over the past two years. Now, the remake of The Stand has been put on hold and the TV series has hit a dead end. The Gunslinger film is moving forward and a third King adaption, Revival, is in the works. “Right now it’s [The Stand] just in a holding pattern trying to figure out how to best make the movie because we’ve toyed with breaking it up into multiple movies, making it into one, making it into two. The latest draft, Josh Boone had written it and he was very anxious to make it but since then has written another script, Revival, which he’s gonna do beforehand, so were’ just waiting for that.” King’s Revival, starring Samuel L. Jackson, centers on a preacher who discovers the power to heal, but in true Stephen King fashion, the preacher unleashes a power he
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