UPDATE! 5 fresh pics added! 5 new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince pics have shown up online. Take a look! In a recent issue of Empire Magazine they featured some new images from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Also, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince director David Yates had some thoughts on this newest film. “It’s all storytelling.” He states. “In all honestly, I do the same thing [on this] as I’ve always done....
Crime thrillers as a genre offer the thrill of horror layered with the sensibilities of drama. Over the years, due to OTT’s non-stop expansion, a plethora of crime thrillers have made it to the surface of our screens that would never see the light of day. Gone are the days when good crime thrillers were few and far between; now, with the boom of OTT and the democratization of the entire filmmaking process, the only apparent scarcity is that of time....
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you! As one of the most frightening horror film slashers of all time, Freddy Krueger established his legacy in eight feature films, a television show and an innumerable body count. Now, the film that started it all, A Nightmare on Elm Street, is available in an all-new, special edition infinifilm™ DVD, available on September 26, 2006, from New Line Home Entertainment. Go back to the beginning, where the horror began for the children of Elm Street as they fight to never sleep again in fear of being murdered in their dreams....
Andy Fickman is teaming with Roseblood Movie Company and Twisted Pictures to develop four remakes from RKO’s horror heyday, including three that were produced by Val Lewton. Fickman will direct at least one of the films, according to Variety. Roseblood is the horror/thriller division of RKO Pictures, and Twisted is the horror division of Evolution Entertainment, financiers and producers of the Saw series. The companies will co-finance the films. The remake properties are the Jacques Tourneur-directed I Walked With a Zombie (1943); the Robert Wise-directed Bela Lugosi-Boris Karloff starrer The Body Snatcher (1945); the Mark Robson-directed Karloff starrer Bedlam (1946); and the John Farrow-directed Lucille Ball-John Carradine starrer Five Came Back (1939)....
More and more prolific actors nowadays are shifting their production ambitions and workloads to their own startup production companies, where they get to dictate and fund their own projects and safeguard and boost projects of other, often younger and newer writers/directors. It’s an ever-expanding initiative by some of Hollywood’s most successful actors to help diversify options for creators, and now one more can officially add himself to that list. Per a report from Deadline, famous character actor David Dastmalchian, who has been making the rounds lately in numerous movies, has now founded his own production company named Good Fiend Films, which will focus on genre projects....
Writer-director Barry Levinson is heading to Baltimore with Sixty-Six, a story about a group of characters coming of age in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of significant historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Levinson will write and direct from his own novel. The protagonist in Sixty-Six is a staffer at a local television station, whom some have noted is a stand-in for Levinson and his professional and personal life....
All throughout 2022, Netflix debuted a wide array of sensational new shows that took audiences across the world by storm. From thrilling mysteries to spellbinding fantasy dramas, and even raunchy animated sitcoms, the streaming giant was in no short supply of imaginative and compelling programs. Fans couldn’t get enough of Jenna Ortega’s star-making role as the morbid Wednesday Addams in Tim Burton’s gothic hit Wednesday, while viewers were treated to the pulse-pounding apocalyptic horror series All of Us Are Dead, chronicling a group of students’ fight to survive against zombies....
Though she’s no longer with us, fans can still celebrate the 100th birthday of comedy legend Betty White. On New Year’s Eve, it was announced that White passed away at her home just two weeks ahead of her milestone birthday. She had been looking forward to celebrating the occasion with a theatrical screening of the Fathom Events-hosted documentary Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration. “Our hearts mourn today with the passing of Betty White," writes producers Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein, per Variety....
Starz announced today that its Emmy-winning Original series Black Sails, executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Purge, and created by executive producers Jonathan E. Steinberg (Jericho, Human Target) and Robert Levine (Touch), will debut Saturday, January 24th, 2015 at 9pm ET/PT. The ten-episode second season of the authentic high sails drama series follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men, and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island....
There are movies and shows for adults, for kids, and movies and shows for everyone. Some of them adhere strictly to their set guidelines, never straying far from their lanes. And sometimes the shows that are for everyone miss their mark because they’re trying so hard to please everyone. And every once in a while, a show for one audience finds another by happenstance, and it takes over the cultural landscape — in this case, a masterpiece called Bluey....
I recently had the chance to speak with Franklin & Bash star Breckin Meyer about the upcoming season, debuting Tuesday, June 5 at 10 PM ET on TNT. As many of you know, the actor is also a primary creative force behind the Adult Swim series Robot Chicken, which is prepping a new special revolving around the DC Comics universe. Here’s what he had to say about this upcoming program....
Kristen Wiig, my favorite performer on Saturday Night Live, finally gets a film vehicle to showcase her tremendous talent. Bridesmaids is the story of two best friends whose lives are going in opposite directions. Wiig stars as Annie, a failed bakery owner languishing in poverty and love. Maya Rudolph, another unheralded SNL alumni, co-stars as Lillian, her childhood best friend who is about to marry the man of her dreams. Annie’s failures are compounded by the introduction of Helen (Rose Byrne), a beautiful and wealthy newcomer who is desperate for friendship....
It has been almost eight years since the beloved CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother wrapped its ninth and final season in 2014. The show was loved by so many and once word was released about a spinoff, the fans went crazy searching for details of the new show. And now everyone is getting the spinoff they have been asking for, How I Met Your Father. The show gender flips the plot of the original series as a woman named Sophie (played by Hilary Duff in the 2022 timeline and Kim Cattrall in the future) tells her son about how she met his dad....
Directors worldwide go as far as they can to complete their movies and not compromise their view of cinema. Sometimes, this insatiable will to achieve the best and most uncompromising movie that can be made requires operating outside the law. It can be for budget reasons, it can be for the rigid screenplay, or it can be just a matter of enhanced realism. No matter what, these directors show how sometimes breaking the law is accepted to keep the vision intact....
On September 24th, Zack Snyder’s latest film Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole will be released in both traditional theaters, in 3D, and in IMAX. Based on the books by Kathryn Lasky, the story revolves around owl siblings hoping to earn their father’s respect and guidance. Warner Bros. has just released three new TV spots in support of the film, which you can check out by clicking on the video below:...
Laurie David, a producer of An Inconvenient Truth, announced today that 50,000 DVD’s of the acclaimed documentary will be donated on a first come, first serve basis to teachers across the country interested in using the film as a teaching tool in classrooms via www.participate.net. The DVD’s will be given away starting Monday, December 18, 2006 thru Thursday, January 18, 2007. Teachers are encouraged to log on to www.participate.net to request the DVD, which will be delivered within 6-8 weeks....
Sometimes actors don’t get the credit they deserve for their work. Reasons for a lackluster performance can range from problems on set, bad writing, worse directing, or just the role being the wrong fit. It demonstrates that having the skills and a positive attitude at work doesn’t guarantee success. As fans of movies and television, we should want to honor the actors and actresses who do great in their roles, even if the mainstream awards ceremonies don’t....
I just got off the phone with producer Tarquin Pack, who was promoting the brand new Kick-Ass DVD and Blu-ray that just hit the shelves yesterday, August 3. Pack, who was a producer on Kick-Ass, is also serving as a producer for director Matthew Vaughn on his new film, X-Men: First Class, which is about to begin filming. I was able to get in a few questions about this highly-anticipated film, including the rumors that Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson was a part of the cast, the tone of the new film and more on the story from a few days ago about Vaughn removing parts of the script due to similarities with Inception....
Al Pacino is attached to play former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming biopic, based on Joe Posnanski’s biography, Paterno. The book will delve into the coach’s life before becoming PSU’s head football coach back in 1966, the influence he had over the school, and his eventual downfall after last year’s scandal that rocked Happy Valley and the entire college football community. Jerry Sandusky, Penn State’s defensive coordinator, was revealed as a pedophile who sexually assaulted young boys for decades....
The Alien franchise has been one of the most iconic and influential series in film, and probably the only franchise with some of the best directors in Hollywood attached to it: Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet made the first four films. Alien also crafted one of cinema’s most iconic movie monsters, the Xenomorph, more commonly known as simply: the alien. The franchise began in 1979, and in the 43 years since, the film has spawned three sequels, two prequels, two crossover films, multiple video games, and comics, with two high-profile Alien projects are on the way in the near future....
