I’m not exactly sure what the status is on the latest Human Centipede, but that’s not stopping franchise director Tom Six from tickling us with details.
The infamous director has told his Twitter followers that he will answer quite a few unanswered questions in his forthcoming The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence): “Yes twitters. What happened to Lindsay [played by Ashley C. Williams] stuck in between two corpses in #THC and Martin’s [played by Laurence R. Harvey] strange #THC2 ending?: I will reveal all in #THC3.”
Of course, #THC #TCH2 and #THC3 are now trending on Twitter (I’m kidding, of course).
Dieter Laser was also supposed to reprise his role as Dr. Heiter until a legal battle supposedly ensued. Six promises that the American finale will be 100% politically incorrect.
Easily my favorite thing about the internet is that it gives artists a place to display their work for the entire world to see. Such the case with fan-made posters, which have been popular for the better part of the decade.
Boston artist Ibraheem Youssef has blown the lid off fan-made one-sheets having made gorgeous renditions for Kill Bill, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Curb Your Enthusiasm and now Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus. Check out three stunning pieces of art below.
In theaters June 8, “Scott creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.”
The John Gulager-directed sequel Piranha 3DD arrives on VOD and in limited theaters June 1 from Dimension Films. A few days back I caught up with stars Danielle Panabaker (Friday The 13th; “Maddy”) And David Koechner (Anchorman; “Chet”), whose characters in the film suffer an estranged stepfather/stepdaughter relationship when Chet turns Maddy’s favorite childhood waterpark into an orgy hotspot. The actors have good comedic chemistry offset as well, which you can glean from my interview with them.
“There’s something in the water… again. And this time no one is safe from the flesh eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of the best summer attraction, The Big Wet Water Park.” It promises twice the terror and double the D’s.
Reteaming Gulager with Feast writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the bloody sequel is jam-packed with stars including Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, Chris Zylka, David Koechner, Meagan Tandy, Paul James Jordan, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Hector Jimenez, Adrian Martinez, Clu Gulager, Gary Busey, Katrina Bowden, Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames, Paul Scheer and even David Hasselhoff.
Japanese advertising agency Dentsu and Hayakawa Publishing Corp. have entered into a live-action feature rights deal for Japanese sci-fi novels that have attracted the interest of Transformers producer Don Murphy and Shoot ‘Em Up helmer Michael Davis.
Variety reports that Angry Films principal Murphy plans to develop an adaptation of sci-fi author Issui Ogawa’s novel Tokisuna no Ou (The Lord of the Sands of Time), which Hayakawa published in 2007, reports Variety.
“Time-travel war novel takes place in the 26th century after human life on Earth has been annihilated by alien invaders. Story follows a messenger who is sent back to the past to battle the aliens.” It sounds like Terminator from the human perspective.
In addition, Davis has agreed to direct and produce Mardock Scramble, based on the popular novel by author Tow Ubukata. An animated adaptation was a box office hit in Japan, and the sequel will be released this fall. “Story follows a young prostitute who acquires the ability to interfere with electronics and teams with a shape-shifting mouse to exact revenge on the crime boss who nearly killed her.”
Dentsu aims to bring Japanese art forms such as manga, anime and other printed content to global auds through film and TV productions. READ MORE
Filmmaker Danny Boyle borrowed ideas from Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” when drawing up plans for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London this summer, reports the Huffington Post.
The Slumdog Millionaire and 28 Days Later director signed on to orchestrate the sporting spectacular’s kick-off event in July and he admits the task of creating a jaw-dropping show to be viewed by millions of people hasn’t been easy.
He tells Vogue: “It’s a challenge, of course, because it can easily be just a cold spectacle – awe-inspiring but not necessarily of the heart – and we want the ceremony to have a visceral effect on the people, for it to be a collective experience. Stirring emotion is hard in a stadium.”
But the Oscar winner reveals he found inspiration in an unlikely place – “Frankenstein,” which fuses elements of romanticism and the creation of life.
He adds, “(There is) quite a lot of “Frankenstein” in the show. I mean, we don’t reanimate dead creatures, but we did use Frankenstein as a dry run for a lot of ideas for this.” And if Boyle’s vision is realised, he says the the venue will look “more like a cauldron, with all the people hovering over and around you”.
The filmmaker has had a lot of experience with the theme – he directed a production of “Frankenstein” for the National Theatre in England last year.
And for some extra fun, the video above is writer/director/actor/produce Larry Fessenden‘s “Mashup of 25 Frankenstein Flicks” created for a live benefit February 18 2012 in support of RadioHole‘s forthcoming off-Broadway production “Inflatable Frankenstein”. Fessenden, who directed The Last Winter, is best known for producing The Innkeepers, Stake Land, The House of the Devil, and nearly a hundred more genre outings.
An update to EW’s report that Malcolm Lee (Roll Bounce, Undercover Brother) will direct Scary Movie 5, the latest entry in the horror spoof franchise that kicked off in 2000 under the direction of the Wayans brothers, and grossed nearly $300 million worldwide.
A new article over at Variety reveals a few of the franchise films that Scary Movie 5 will spoof. They include: Black Swan, Paranormal Activity, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and 127 Hours.
Casting is underway but David Zucker, who wrote and directed both Scary Movie 3 and 4, will also be returning to co-write and produce the fifth installment alongside Lee.
Before Lee was hired, Bloody Disgusting had confirmed that Anthony Anderson (Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, Scream 4), Regina Hall (Scary Movie 1-4) and Kevin Hart (Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, Superhero Movie) would all star. This could change with a new director, especially after the success of Hart’s Think Like A Man this past weekend.
It was announced a few weeks back that Worldview Entertainment would be teaming with Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hostel: Part II) to produce and finance the filmmaker’s top secret The Green Inferno.
Roth wrote the script with Guillermo Amoedo based on Roth’s original story, but the logline is being kept under tight wraps. Many speculated it would be a sequel to Ruggero Deodato shocking 1980 classic Cannibal Holocaust.
A Variety report officially confirms The Green Inferno will be a cannibal flick, and breaks the first story details: Apparently inspired by Italo mondo films like Ruggero Deodato’s notorious 1980 Cannibal Holocaust and Antonio Climati’s 1988 Natura contro (also known as The Green Inferno and Cannibal Holocaust II), The Green Inferno follows an idealistic student and a group of naive do-gooders who are captured by cannibalistic Indios after their plane crash lands in the Peruvian jungle.
Roth is set to begin shooting in the fall in Peru and Chili, where he recently starred in and produced the earthquake thriller Aftershock, which is currently in post production. He and Amoedo also wrote the script for that film.
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, audiences will be getting a dose of double Cronenberg. Not only is David Cronenberg’s surreal-looking Cosmopolis having its World Premiere but his son, Brandon will also be there showcasing his feature film debut, Antiviral. This sci-fi/horror tale is about a rogue medic played by Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class and The Last Exorcism) who sells sample viruses’ drawn from sick celebrities and sells it to their rabid fanbase. Brandon Cronenberg dabbles in the Body Horror subgenre; his dad’s bread and butter. Antiviral will be competing in the Un Certain Regard category which awards new talent.
I had the opportunity to chat with Brandon right before he made his way to France. I was also treated to several clips from the film. To say the least, I was extremely impressed by what I had witnessed. The footage had a wonderfully haunting quality that kept me glued to the screen. I’m particularly excited by what appears to be a starmaking turn from the utterly captivating Caleb Landry Jones. READ MORE
If you’re itching to check out “Hannibal” but were worried you might have to wait if you didn’t live in the US (or if you don’t speak English, which shouldn’t be a problem since you’re reading this), you’re in luck! It’s gonna air in a whole bunch of places in a whole lot of languages. Here’s hoping the show starts out strong. The pilot was directed by David Slade (30 Days Of Night) and the series stars Hugh Dancy as detective Will Graham.
Per Deadline, “Upcoming contemporary thriller series Hannibal will be broadcast on Sony Pictures Television’s AXN networks in 18 languages across 63 countries. Production is expected to start in late July on the [initial] 13-episodes.”
On the show, “One of the most fascinating literary characters comes to life on television for the first time: psychiatrist-turned-serial-killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. In this new drama from Bryan Fuller (“Pushing Daisies,” “Heroes”), based on the characters from Thomas Harris’ classic novels, we see where this incredible story began. Will Graham (Hugh Dancy, “The Big C”) is a gifted criminal profiler who is on the hunt for a serial killer with the FBI. Graham’s unique way of thinking gives him the astonishing ability to empathize with anyone – even psychopaths. He seems to know what makes them tick. But when the mind of the twisted killer he’s pursuing is too complicated for even Will to comprehend, he enlists the help of Dr. Lecter, one of the premier psychiatric minds in the country. Armed with the uncanny expertise of the brilliant doctor, Will and Hannibal (known as a serial killer only to the audience) form a brilliant partnership and it seems there’s no villain they can’t catch. If Will only knew…”
Broken Road Production’s Todd Garner has teamed up with Adam Herz and Joshua Shader of Terra Firma Films to produce an adaptation of Sullivan’s Sluggers, a horror baseball graphic novel by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe, reports THR. Tom and Tim Mullen have been tapped to write the script.
Described by Smith as a “Major League meets Zombieland and then some,” “‘Sluggers’ follows a has-been baseball manager Casey Sullivan and his dysfunctional minor league Sluggers who get an invitation to play a small venue game. Soon enough, they find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of shape-shifting monsters on a feeding frenzy and the has-beens and wannabes must use long-forgotten skills of teamwork to get out alive.”
The creators are selling the 200-page graphic novel via a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com, raising six times their pledge goal in the first five days.
Garner, Herz, and Shader, who liked the graphic novel’s mix of terror and laughs and descibe it as an homage to the works of Sam Raimi and Goerge Romero, will be producing with Oric Scott De Las Casas and Sean Robins. READ MORE
Filming is officially underway in New Orleans on Hatchet III, the latest installment of the cult horror series from MPI/Dark Sky Films and ArieScrope Pictures.
Zach Galligan, who is best known for starring in 1980s classics Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, has joined the cast, as has Cody Blue Snider, the son of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, and Rileah Vanderbilt, who plays a SWAT team member.
As previously announced, also heading to the Louisiana swamps: Derek Mears (Friday the 13th), Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Diane Goldner (The Collector), Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) and The FP writer-director Jason Trost. Bear McCreary, the composer who worked on Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica and scored The Walking Dead, will be handling scoring duties for the movie.
Original Hatchet cameraman BJ McDonnell is making his directorial debut with Dark Sky Films and ArieScope Pictures’ horror sequel, which stars previously announced horror icons Danielle Harris and Kane Hodder as “Bayou Butcher” Victor Crowley. “The story finds Harris hunting down the true secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Crowley’s ghost terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.” Mears will play a brooding, pompous SWAT team leader who is sent in to contain the carnage strewn about the haunted swamp. Williams will play a fast-talking journalist who fancies herself an expert on the legend of supernatural stalker Crowley.
MTV has premiered a series of pretty lame character posters for Millenium Entertainment’s forthcoming Red Lights (Ryan Daley’s review), which hails from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes.
In theaters JUly 13, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy play paranormal investigators who specialize in uncovering frauds. When famous psychic Simon Silver (Robert De Niro) comes out of retirement, Murphy’s character becomes determined to reveal the show as a hoax. Elizabeth Olsen also stars.
The character posters, as displayed below, show Weaver, Olsen, De Niro and Murphy, each featuring the different character’s thought-process.
BD reader “Lucksaw” pointed us to the IMDB where a user dropped 42 poster comps for Screen Gems’ forthcoming Resident Evil: Retribution. It should be noted that none of these are “official”, and most will never be used, but it appears that what you’re about to look at are the designers’ various takes on the forthcoming sequel directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
In theaters September 14, “The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.”
Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Colin Salmon, Shawn Roberts, Boris Kodjoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Johann Urb, Oded Fehr, Kevin Durand and Li Bingbing all star. READ MORE
The series Variety called “creepy from the first frame” gets a release on Blu-ray and DVD that will make the dead rise! Anchor Bay Entertainment proudly releases the AMC original series “The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season” on August 28th, with an SRP of $69.99 for the Blu-ray, and $59.98 for the DVD. A truly unique and very limited edition zombie head case created and designed by McFarlane Toys will also be available as Blu-ray only for a SRP of $99.99. The 4-Disc sets will contain all 13 episodes of the second season and will be loaded with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, featurettes and audio commentaries.
“The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season” is the much anticipated next chapter to the acclaimed post zombie apocalypse series. When we last left the “The Walking Dead,” the characters were in the midst of a high-intensity struggle to survive, fleeing the CDC as it burst into flames. In Season 2, they are still fighting zombies, and each other, facing more threats and obstacles than ever before.
Check out the cover art and home video traile inside. READ MORE
Howard J. Ford, whose $150,000 budget zombie film The Dead grossed $10 million worldwide, will follow with Indelible, a supernatural thriller that has been acquired by newly formed Armory Films, Deadline reports. Ford wrote the script and while he’s keeping the plot under wraps, he has high hopes it will make an indelible impression on the supernatural genre. (Clever.)
“‘Indelible’ will not be just any supernatural thriller in the way some think a film like this will play out,” Ford said. “When they get to the end of this movie, audiences will not only have felt tension and fear, but I want it to drive thoughts in a way that will hit hard in the heard and stay there long after the credits roll.”
The film will begin shooting in September as a coproduction between Armory and Mugshot Films. Armory was formed by Christopher Lemole, Billy Asher Rosenfeld and Tim Zajaros. They will produce with Mugshot’s Mark Andrews.
Vampires Everywhere! are preparing for a busy summer. First off, they have a new album coming out on June 19th entitled Hellbound And Heartless, which will come out via Hollywood Waste Records (pre-order here). Secondly, the band will also be performing on the entirety of the Vans Warped Tour. So to stir up the hype and whet the appetite of the fans, Bloody-Disgusting is excited to bring you the exclusive stream of their first single, “Drug Of Choice”! You can hear the song as well as check out a quote from singer Michael Vampire below. READ MORE
Another featurette for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus actually goes pretty light on spoilers and instead talks about the design of the film’s titular space craft. It’s pretty standard, but interesting behind the scenes stuff – especially if you’re a geek for design and/or space travel.
“With ‘Prometheus,’ Scott creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.”
In theaters June 8, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Guy Pearce, Kate Dickie, Rafe Spall, Logan Marshall-Green, Benedict Wong, Emun Elliott, Ben Foster, Patrick Wilson all star.
Following up on the heels of their award-winning 2011 films Monster Brawl and Exit Humanity, independent Canadian film studio Foresight Features have teamed up with celebrated author Tony Burgess in a deal that includes three exciting genre projects produced in 2012, and set to premiere and release worldwide in 2013.
The first film in this all-Canuck collaboration is the gripping sci-fi chiller Ejecta, directed by Foresight filmmaker Matt Wiele from a script by Burgess, which wrapped production in mid-May 2012.
The company is also teaming up with Burgess for a gothic horror-throwback directed by John Geddes (Exit Humanity) set for production in July, and a survival horror nightmare directed by Jesse Thomas Cook (Monster Brawl) that goes to camera in September.
Foresight owners Cook, Geddes and Wiele will executive produce the three film slate with fellow-filmmakers Cody Calahan and Chad Archibald (Neverlost) on board as producers.
More details and forst images from Ejecta inside. READ MORE
While it’s not much to look at, director Fede Alvarez posted the above behind-the-scenes photo from Evil Dead, FilmDistrict and Ghost House Pictures’ remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-hit horror classic now filming in Auckland, New Zealand for release on April 12, 2013. The photo displays “darker” demon blood, insinuating we’ll be seeing some serious red flowing, not to mention a wide array of blood colors.
The original effectively launched the careers of Sam Raimi (Spider-Man); Rob Tapert (30 Days of Night) and Bruce Campbell who played the popular Ash character (in the original trilogy) and was Co-Producer of the original, now brings them back to produce an Evil Dead for today’s audience that’s high on the horror, gore, plot twists and more from a screenplay written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues.
In the reboot, “Five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin where they discover a Book Of The Dead and unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.”
A core cast of young, fresh talent includes Jane Levy (Suburgatory) as Mia; Shiloh Fernandez (Deadgirl, Red Riding Hood) as David; Lou Taylor Pucci (Carriers) as Eric; Jessica Lucas (Cloverfield) as Olivia and Elizabeth Blackmore (Legend of the Seeker) as Natalie.
Empire recently caught up with Shaun of the Dead director and star, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, respectively, who opened up about the end of their genre comedy trilogy, The World’s End, which will reunite the two once again.
“20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.”
Zeroing in on the story, Pegg tells mag that the movie involves “a crawl through twelve pubs, culminating in the final one, which is The World’s End.” With Wright adding, “This is as much about where you grew up as the people you grew up with…it’s also very silly. I would say it’s darker, more personal and more silly.”
The film itself is said to be a “social sci-fi comedy,” says Pegg. “Social science-fiction,” agrees Wright. “Look it up on Wikipedia and then bone up on John Christopher (‘The Tripods’) and John Wyndham (‘The Day Of The Triffids’).”
