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Underworld 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber
Underworld will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 19 as part of Kino Lorber’s Kino Cult line. It has been newly mastered in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative with Dolby Vision/Hdr.
Master of horror Clive Barker co-wrote the 1985 British horror film with James Caplin. George Pavlou (Rawhead Rex) directs. Denholm Elliott, Steven Berkoff, Miranda Richardson, Larry Lamb, Art Malik, and Ingrid Pitt star.
It has reversible artwork with its alternate title, Transmutations. Special features include a new commentary by Pavlou, an alternate cut, behind-the-scenes footage, and a gallery.
’80s Horror Print by Kevin Tiernan
Gallery 1988’s horror-inspired “Cover Your Eyes” exhibit is loaded with great artwork,...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Underworld 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber
Underworld will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 19 as part of Kino Lorber’s Kino Cult line. It has been newly mastered in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative with Dolby Vision/Hdr.
Master of horror Clive Barker co-wrote the 1985 British horror film with James Caplin. George Pavlou (Rawhead Rex) directs. Denholm Elliott, Steven Berkoff, Miranda Richardson, Larry Lamb, Art Malik, and Ingrid Pitt star.
It has reversible artwork with its alternate title, Transmutations. Special features include a new commentary by Pavlou, an alternate cut, behind-the-scenes footage, and a gallery.
’80s Horror Print by Kevin Tiernan
Gallery 1988’s horror-inspired “Cover Your Eyes” exhibit is loaded with great artwork,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
After a genre-defining golden age from 1978 to 1984, slashers continued to proliferate cinemas throughout the rest of the ’80s. By the time the ’90s rolled around, however, diminishing returns for franchises and newcomers alike made it seem as though the slasher well had run dry. But, like its bottomless repository of knife-wielding villains, the genre has proven that it can never be stopped. During the dry period before Scream revitalized slashers in 1996, savvy filmmakers began leaning into the campy elements as a response to dwindling audiences rooting for the villains rather than fearing them. Dr. Giggles was just what the doctor ordered.
The 1992 film was a collaboration between Largo Entertainment, who produced the film, and Dark Horse Comics, who developed a short-lived comic book series based on the character. It may not have had the draw of Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, or Freddy Krueger, but its comedic approach to the subgenre...
The 1992 film was a collaboration between Largo Entertainment, who produced the film, and Dark Horse Comics, who developed a short-lived comic book series based on the character. It may not have had the draw of Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, or Freddy Krueger, but its comedic approach to the subgenre...
- 3/27/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
“Our town has a doctor, and his name is Rendell.
Stay away from his house, he’s a doctor from hell.
Chopped up his patients, every last one.
And cut out their hearts, purely for fun.
So if you’re from Moorehigh, and you should should get sick,
Then fall on your knees, and pray you die quick.”
- Dr. Giggles
The nursery rhyme in Manny Coto’s 1992 slasher Dr. Giggles never caught on with horror fans like the “One, Two, Freddy’s Coming for You” song in the Nightmare on Elm Street films or “The Ballad of Harry Warden” in My Bloody Valentine. The film had better luck, but it still seems underrated, which is too bad, because Dr. Giggles is quite a bit of bloody fun that’s just waiting to be reappraised and celebrated.
Dr. Giggles—which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year—is one of the...
Stay away from his house, he’s a doctor from hell.
Chopped up his patients, every last one.
And cut out their hearts, purely for fun.
So if you’re from Moorehigh, and you should should get sick,
Then fall on your knees, and pray you die quick.”
- Dr. Giggles
The nursery rhyme in Manny Coto’s 1992 slasher Dr. Giggles never caught on with horror fans like the “One, Two, Freddy’s Coming for You” song in the Nightmare on Elm Street films or “The Ballad of Harry Warden” in My Bloody Valentine. The film had better luck, but it still seems underrated, which is too bad, because Dr. Giggles is quite a bit of bloody fun that’s just waiting to be reappraised and celebrated.
Dr. Giggles—which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year—is one of the...
- 10/19/2022
- by Alan Dorich
- DailyDead
Like many who live in Melbourne, Mitchell Hope is using the lockdown to broaden his skill set.
The young actor, known for his roles in Disney’s Descendents franchise and Let it Snow, has felt the full force of the city’s battle with the virus, having returned to his hometown in February of last year following seven years of dividing his time between Australia and the US.
However, instead of baking banana bread or cultivating a green thumb, he told If he had spent the time indoors furthering his knowledge of filmmaking.
“The pandemic has been terrible, but I’ve started doing something I’ve always wanted to do, which is to write my own work and produce my own films.”
Prior to Covid-19, Hope was in southern Sydney to shoot Eric C. Nash’s Love You Like That, which will become the first new local release since theatres...
The young actor, known for his roles in Disney’s Descendents franchise and Let it Snow, has felt the full force of the city’s battle with the virus, having returned to his hometown in February of last year following seven years of dividing his time between Australia and the US.
However, instead of baking banana bread or cultivating a green thumb, he told If he had spent the time indoors furthering his knowledge of filmmaking.
“The pandemic has been terrible, but I’ve started doing something I’ve always wanted to do, which is to write my own work and produce my own films.”
Prior to Covid-19, Hope was in southern Sydney to shoot Eric C. Nash’s Love You Like That, which will become the first new local release since theatres...
- 10/19/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The much-delayed latest flick in the Jackass franchise is finally set to come out in early 2022, a date Paramount Pictures wants to stick to — despite the best legal efforts of Bam Margera.
“Margera’s lawsuit is baseless,” said attorneys for the ViacomCBS-owned studio, MTV, fellow Jackasser Johnny Knoxville, director Jeff Tremaine, EP Spike Jonze and others against the wide ranging legal action ex-skateboard thrillseeker Margera filed back in August after being pink slipped from Jackass Forever.
“His claims seeking to enjoin Jackass Forever improperly targetDefendants’ protected speech and are precluded as a matter of law,” a memorandum accompanying the Jenner & Block Llp penned special motion adds. “This Court should strike them.”
“Separate and apart from its legal insufficiency, Margera’s complaint is riddled with outright lies: Margera alleges that Knoxville, Tremaine, and Jonze accosted him in a rehab facility and browbeat him into signing a draconian sobriety contract; that he was fraudulently induced and coerced into signing his talent agreement with Paramount; that Paramount hired a doctor who forced him to take a “cocktail of pills” that Paramount supposedly prescribed for him against his will; that he complied with the Wellness Program; and that he was terminated for taking Adderall, which he claims was prescribed
for him (it was not—he admitted that he bought it off the street—infra at II.D),” the paperwork filed on October 4 in Los Angeles Superior Court declares in some detail (read it here).
The Paramount and Jackass parties want a hearing in front on Judge Robert Draper the day after Halloween to argue their case in person and kick a portion of the Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis represented ex-franchise star Bam’s claims to the curb.
Fired from Jackass Forever in August 2020 because of a violation of the self-described Wellness Agreement that was mutually agreed upon to keep Margera on the straight and narrow, the Jackass Og hit back with a multi-million dollar and movie shuttering 14-claim complaint a couple of months ago.
If it wasn’t such a potential big money loss kick in the gut to Paramount, Margera’s efforts to stop the movie coming out would be almost laughable, all things considered.
Based off the cringe inducing and sometimes gut churning TV series that debuted in 2000, the MTV Entertainment Studios and Dickhouse Productions’ Jackass Forever was originally supposed to come out on March 5, 2021. The pic is the fourth full-length Jackass movie and the first one since 2010’s Jackass 3D. With the Covid-19 pandemic shutting down productions and cinemas, Paramount said in April 2020 that the picture would come out on July 2, 2021. A date that was pushed to September 3, 2021 in July 2020, and then to October 22, 2021 in the spring of this year.
Last month, with Margera’s lawsuit clearly in mind as well as the Delta variant, Paramount pushed again to early next year … a date that they obviously hope is clear of both Margera’s legal moves and personal crisises.
“Margera’s lawsuit is baseless,” said attorneys for the ViacomCBS-owned studio, MTV, fellow Jackasser Johnny Knoxville, director Jeff Tremaine, EP Spike Jonze and others against the wide ranging legal action ex-skateboard thrillseeker Margera filed back in August after being pink slipped from Jackass Forever.
“His claims seeking to enjoin Jackass Forever improperly targetDefendants’ protected speech and are precluded as a matter of law,” a memorandum accompanying the Jenner & Block Llp penned special motion adds. “This Court should strike them.”
“Separate and apart from its legal insufficiency, Margera’s complaint is riddled with outright lies: Margera alleges that Knoxville, Tremaine, and Jonze accosted him in a rehab facility and browbeat him into signing a draconian sobriety contract; that he was fraudulently induced and coerced into signing his talent agreement with Paramount; that Paramount hired a doctor who forced him to take a “cocktail of pills” that Paramount supposedly prescribed for him against his will; that he complied with the Wellness Program; and that he was terminated for taking Adderall, which he claims was prescribed
for him (it was not—he admitted that he bought it off the street—infra at II.D),” the paperwork filed on October 4 in Los Angeles Superior Court declares in some detail (read it here).
The Paramount and Jackass parties want a hearing in front on Judge Robert Draper the day after Halloween to argue their case in person and kick a portion of the Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis represented ex-franchise star Bam’s claims to the curb.
Fired from Jackass Forever in August 2020 because of a violation of the self-described Wellness Agreement that was mutually agreed upon to keep Margera on the straight and narrow, the Jackass Og hit back with a multi-million dollar and movie shuttering 14-claim complaint a couple of months ago.
If it wasn’t such a potential big money loss kick in the gut to Paramount, Margera’s efforts to stop the movie coming out would be almost laughable, all things considered.
Based off the cringe inducing and sometimes gut churning TV series that debuted in 2000, the MTV Entertainment Studios and Dickhouse Productions’ Jackass Forever was originally supposed to come out on March 5, 2021. The pic is the fourth full-length Jackass movie and the first one since 2010’s Jackass 3D. With the Covid-19 pandemic shutting down productions and cinemas, Paramount said in April 2020 that the picture would come out on July 2, 2021. A date that was pushed to September 3, 2021 in July 2020, and then to October 22, 2021 in the spring of this year.
Last month, with Margera’s lawsuit clearly in mind as well as the Delta variant, Paramount pushed again to early next year … a date that they obviously hope is clear of both Margera’s legal moves and personal crisises.
- 10/7/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Although it may be difficult to believe, this year marks the 30th anniversary of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, and Scream Factory is celebrating with a new Collector's Edition Blu-ray of the beloved horror anthology on August 25th. Ahead of its release, we've been provided with the full list of special features for the new Blu, including a massive making-of documentary:
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Four ghoulish fables in one modern nightmare. On August 25, 2020, Scream Factory proudly presents the anthology Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. (Collector’s Edition) in its ultimate Blu-ray debut. The horror fan-favorite comes home in a release packed with bonus features, including a new audio commentary with co-producer David R. Kappes and a new six-chapter feature-length documentary featuring a bevy of cast and crew. Fans who order from shoutfactory.com will also receive an exclusive poster, while supplies last.
From the clever and...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Four ghoulish fables in one modern nightmare. On August 25, 2020, Scream Factory proudly presents the anthology Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. (Collector’s Edition) in its ultimate Blu-ray debut. The horror fan-favorite comes home in a release packed with bonus features, including a new audio commentary with co-producer David R. Kappes and a new six-chapter feature-length documentary featuring a bevy of cast and crew. Fans who order from shoutfactory.com will also receive an exclusive poster, while supplies last.
From the clever and...
- 7/22/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who helped broker the meeting between then-fugitive drug lord El Chapo and Sean Penn, says the actor’s claims that she knew about his plans to write the infamous Rolling Stone interview were “total and complete bullshit.” Del Castillo reveals her side of the story during an in-depth feature by Robert Draper in the New Yorker, which details everything from her first contact with Joaquín Guzmán Loera (El Chapo) to their eventual meeting. She accuses Penn of misleading her and not revealing his plans to interview El Chapo for the magazine until they were already in.
- 3/11/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Conde Nast Entertainment Group, which launched under Dawn Ostroff to mine feature and TV properties from the archives of the publisher’s magazine stable, has unearthed two separate projects. Run by former Imagine and Fox Searchlight exec Jeremy Steckler, the feature division has set Fracture scribe Daniel Pyne to script The Camorra Never Sleeps, a drama about the notorious Naples-based criminal underworld that is based on the 2012 Vanity Fair article written by William Langewiesche. Conde Nast Entertainment Group has separately hired Reservation Road scribe John Burnham Schwartz to script a film based on The Horse Whisperer, a 2002 GQ article written by Robert Draper. The movie will certainly need a new title, but the article is based on the long-shot journey of Wesley Keith Ritchie, who went from a Kentucky prison inmate to being a horse rehabilitation specialist who found salvation through the broken down progeny of Triple Crown winner Affirmed.
- 2/21/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
With her swaggering Twitter and Facebook posts-today she called out the White House's "incompetent" response to WikiLeaks-Palin may have duped the old school press.
Sarah Palin has become the reality-show candidate for president, and she's doing it all wrong.
Related story on The Daily Beast: John Boehner's Tea Party Nightmare
That, at least, is the consensus of Washington wisemen and media mavens who say that rather than boning up on policy and grafting on some gravitas, Palin has chosen to cash in on her celebrity status and exacerbate her polarizing presence.
But I'm starting to believe the detractors are wrong and that Palin is executing a shrewd strategy that has catapulted her past potential rivals, co-opting the same media establishment she loves to denigrate. Even her recent hints about running for president-if indeed she's willing to subject herself to constant journalistic scrutiny-are designed to stoke interest in her now that midterm madness has faded.
Sarah Palin has become the reality-show candidate for president, and she's doing it all wrong.
Related story on The Daily Beast: John Boehner's Tea Party Nightmare
That, at least, is the consensus of Washington wisemen and media mavens who say that rather than boning up on policy and grafting on some gravitas, Palin has chosen to cash in on her celebrity status and exacerbate her polarizing presence.
But I'm starting to believe the detractors are wrong and that Palin is executing a shrewd strategy that has catapulted her past potential rivals, co-opting the same media establishment she loves to denigrate. Even her recent hints about running for president-if indeed she's willing to subject herself to constant journalistic scrutiny-are designed to stoke interest in her now that midterm madness has faded.
- 11/29/2010
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
What a week, eh Boxwishers? America has officially spoken and elected the first black man into the Oval Office with an election result that has re-written the history books. But while Senator Barack Obama prepares to move into the White House next January, its current occupant is being put under the microscope in a new film. Yes, George W. Bush gets the Hollywood treatment in this weekend’s big cinematic release, W. however if you fancy a break from the drama of American politics there’s a period romp and a cop thriller hitting your multiplex right about now.
If you see… Josh Brolin become America’s 43rd president in the political bio-pic, W.
Why Not Check out some of director Oliver Stone’s previous presidential dramas such as Nixon and the Kennedy assassination saga JFK. Read up on Bush’s two-term White House administration with Dead Certain: The Presidency...
If you see… Josh Brolin become America’s 43rd president in the political bio-pic, W.
Why Not Check out some of director Oliver Stone’s previous presidential dramas such as Nixon and the Kennedy assassination saga JFK. Read up on Bush’s two-term White House administration with Dead Certain: The Presidency...
- 11/7/2008
- Boxwish.com
Geroge Bush's biographers have mixed thoughts on Oliver Stone's biopic of the current Us president, The Hollywood Reporter says.
The controversial Stone plans to shoot W later this month with Josh Brolin in the lead role. Biographers who have read the film's script have questioned its accuracy and feel Stone may not be able to give a balanced view of the President.
"[The script] leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush.
The Bush Tragedy author Jacob Weisberg questioned Stone's claim that he will make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush. "His saying he is going to be fair to Bush . . .
The controversial Stone plans to shoot W later this month with Josh Brolin in the lead role. Biographers who have read the film's script have questioned its accuracy and feel Stone may not be able to give a balanced view of the President.
"[The script] leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush.
The Bush Tragedy author Jacob Weisberg questioned Stone's claim that he will make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush. "His saying he is going to be fair to Bush . . .
- 4/8/2008
- by Simon_Reynolds_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Simon Reynolds)
- Digital Spy
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RISKY BUSINESS: Discuss "W"
Thandie Newton, Ioan Gruffud join "W" cast
Elizabeth Banks cast as Laura Bush
President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that's how he's portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone's upcoming feature "W."
But how accurate is that depiction?
As the film preps for its April 21 start date, The Hollywood Reporter sent a copy of the screenplay to four Bush biographers for their comments. The draft is dated Oct. 15, 2007, and has recently been circulated to talent, though a person close to the film said the script has since gone through at least two drafts.
Naturally, what a director does with a script is how a movie is ultimately judged, but because this screenplay depicts a sitting president and the run-up to the war in Iraq, its authenticity is becoming a hotly debated subject -- not to mention the fact that any historical material Stone has touched has become controversial.
Reactions to the script from the biographers were mixed. They said specific scenes are largely based in fact but noted that the screenplay contains inaccurate and over-the-top caricatures of Bush and his inner circle.
"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush." "Everybody calling everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game really misses the mark of how many White Houses, including this one, are run."
Jacob Weisberg ("The Bush Tragedy") was skeptical about Stone's claim that he wants to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush. "His saying he is going to be fair to Bush is like Donald Trump saying he is going to be modest," Weisberg quipped.
"W," which is set to begin filming in Shreveport, La., with Bill Block's QED financing a budget of about $30 million, stars Josh Brolin and James Cromwell as Bush 43 and 41, respectively. The film is being closely watched in entertainment and political circles, in part because Stone has said his goal is to release it while Bush is still in office and possibly in time for the November election.
In the script -- then titled "Bush" -- the president's policy judgments are often manipulated by his White House staff, a depiction several of the biographers said did not ring true.
"The problem here is it goes to this notion of Bush as being the passive receiver of policy and the White House being run by (Dick Cheney,) (Donald Rumsfeld,) (Karl) Rove and others," Draper said.
RISKY BUSINESS: Discuss "W"
Thandie Newton, Ioan Gruffud join "W" cast
Elizabeth Banks cast as Laura Bush
President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that's how he's portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone's upcoming feature "W."
But how accurate is that depiction?
As the film preps for its April 21 start date, The Hollywood Reporter sent a copy of the screenplay to four Bush biographers for their comments. The draft is dated Oct. 15, 2007, and has recently been circulated to talent, though a person close to the film said the script has since gone through at least two drafts.
Naturally, what a director does with a script is how a movie is ultimately judged, but because this screenplay depicts a sitting president and the run-up to the war in Iraq, its authenticity is becoming a hotly debated subject -- not to mention the fact that any historical material Stone has touched has become controversial.
Reactions to the script from the biographers were mixed. They said specific scenes are largely based in fact but noted that the screenplay contains inaccurate and over-the-top caricatures of Bush and his inner circle.
"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush." "Everybody calling everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game really misses the mark of how many White Houses, including this one, are run."
Jacob Weisberg ("The Bush Tragedy") was skeptical about Stone's claim that he wants to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush. "His saying he is going to be fair to Bush is like Donald Trump saying he is going to be modest," Weisberg quipped.
"W," which is set to begin filming in Shreveport, La., with Bill Block's QED financing a budget of about $30 million, stars Josh Brolin and James Cromwell as Bush 43 and 41, respectively. The film is being closely watched in entertainment and political circles, in part because Stone has said his goal is to release it while Bush is still in office and possibly in time for the November election.
In the script -- then titled "Bush" -- the president's policy judgments are often manipulated by his White House staff, a depiction several of the biographers said did not ring true.
"The problem here is it goes to this notion of Bush as being the passive receiver of policy and the White House being run by (Dick Cheney,) (Donald Rumsfeld,) (Karl) Rove and others," Draper said.
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