“Party of Five” starlet Lacey Chabert is heading down to Dallas next week to shoot Ghost of Goodnight Lane, a supernatural story based on writer/director Alin Bijan’s own bump-in-the-night encounters at his haunted production house Media World Studios.
Bijan explains:
We’ve known for a long time we had a ghost here, in the studio. Over the years, we kept a running log, kind of a diary, to document incidents as they occurred.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, you got Chabert and her gorgeous breasts in the movie. You don’t have to try this hard.
Ghost of Goodnight Lane centers on a group of actors tormented by a malevolent female specter while shooting a project inside a renovated movie studio. The film costars scream-queen Danielle Harris (Halloween), Matt Dallas (“Kyle XY”), Richard Tyson (Black Waters of Echo Pond), and Billy Zane (The Roommate).
Beloved genre king Bruce Campbell announced today that he will play a role in producer/director Sam Raimi’s eagerly anticipated Wizard of Oz prequel Oz, the Great and Powerful. What that role will be remains a mystery—even to Campbell.
He tweets:
I. Am. In. Oz. Sam Raimi refuses to tell me what character I will portray. Just know that the role is PIVOTAL.
Oz, the Great and Powerful tells the tale of how a lost snake oil salesman and illusionist (James Franco) defeats evil witches Theodora (Mila Kunis) and Evanora (Rachel Weisz) with the help of their sister Gilda (Michelle Williams) to rule the land of Oz.
Campbell will also make a cameo in Ghost House Pictures upcoming remake of The Evil Dead, the 1981 cult-classic film that launched Campbell and director Raimi’s careers. The duo are producing the redo with partner Rob Tapert. Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Alverez will direct from a script by Diablo Cody.
The picture you see posted above is not a bird. It’s not a plane. It’s Superman. Actually, it’s former “Tudors” star Henry Cavill sporting the son of Jor-el’s new, scalier costume in the very first image from Warner Bros. upcoming reboot Man of Steel.
Man of Steel is directed by Zach Snyder (Sucker Punch) and costars Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Russell Crowe as Jor-el, Julia Ormond as Lara Lor-Van, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Antje Traue as Faora, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Martha and Jonathan Kent.
By Eddie Muertos on August 4th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
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“Master of the Macabre” William Castle, pronounced dead and buried in 1977, is back! And he wants your children … to read. The legendary producer of Rosemary’s Baby and the director of such demented frighteners as The House on Haunted Hill (1959) and 13 Ghosts (1960) has written a young adult novel entitled “From the Grave: The Prayer.”
The 75,000-word book follows four angst-riddled teens from distinctive backgrounds as their lives intersect in Southern France while stumbling upon a haunted house that holds clues to finding an age-old manuscript that could bring forth an evil known as the Ancient Ones. The group band together to find the mysterious document and to keep it away from a secret society hellbent on acquiring its powers.
“From the Grave: The Prayer” is slated for a Halloween release and will be made available in print and eBook versions ($15.99 and $9.99 respectively) via Amazon, Kindle, NOOK, and iBooks. It is the first in planned series of “From the Grave” books.
Says daughter and William Castle Productions head Terry Castle:
My dad was notorious for both his spine-tingling movies as well as the legendary gimmicks he devised to drive people to the theater again and again. And now, for his latest and perhaps greatest marketing gimmick yet, Dad has written “From the Grave.” He’s really outdone himself this time!
Along with creating numerous genre gems, Castle was known for his outrageous and fun P.T. Barnum-like approach to movie marketing campaigns (i.e. providing audience members with vouchers worth a $1000 in life insurance from Lloydes of London should they die from fear during showings of his 1958 breakthrough Macabre).
Castle first returned from the beyond last May during the 33rd anniversary of his death. Not one to rest-in-peace on his laurels, he immediately launched a blog and created Twitter and Facebook accounts to stay in touch with fans and keep them informed on all his upcoming projects.
Summit Entertainment has released a trailer for director Chris Gorak’s alien invasion frightener The Darkest Hour. Set in Moscow, the film follows five young people as their holiday trip is ruined by invisible extraterrestrial beings of light that disintegrate human flesh upon contact—and you thought cloudy weather was a vacation killer.
The Darkest Hour is produced by Timur Bekmambetov and stars Olivia Thirlby (Dredd), Rachael Taylor (Transformers), Joel Kinnaman (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Max Minghella (The Social Network) and Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer). It arrives in theaters on Dec. 23.
Cameras are set to roll in New Orleans this week on Significant Pictures’ Vipaka, a voodoo psych-thriller starring Sanaa Lathan (Contagion), Anthony Mackie (Real Steel) and Forest Whitaker (Repo Men). Philippe Caland (Ripple Effect) is directing from a script by Shin Shimosawa (“The Ringer”).
The film centers on an emotionally unstable contractor (Whitaker) who abducts his newly hired life coach (Mackie) and torments him and his wife (Lathan) and family while twisting the spiritual lessons he learned in therapy to do harm. Mike Epps (Resident Evil: Extinction) costars as Mackie’s brother.
Horror fans may recognize Lathan (pictured above) as vampire slayer Blade’s hot mom in New Line’s 1998 big screen adaptation of the Marvel comic. She also toplined the 2004 monster mash-up Alien vs. Predator. Next up for the 39-year-old looker is a role in Steven Soderbergh’s viral outbreak thriller Contagion.
“30 Rock” star Katrina Bowden is set to show off her bedside manner in the upcoming Lionsgate frightener Nurse 3-D. Marketed as a psycho-sexual thriller, the film is directed by Douglas Aarniokoski (The Day) and stars “Boardwalk Empire’s” Paz de la Huerta as its homicidal head nurse Abby Russell.
Bowden, who recently wrapped Piranha 3-DD and can be seen in the hill-billy horror-comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, will play a nurse who discovers that Abby is murdering male patients she believes are cheaters and liars.
Nina Dobrev, the pretty female lead on The CW’s runaway hit series “The Vampire Diaries,” used her hiatus from the show to shoot the Sam Jackson sci-fi actioner Arena. The film marks the directorial debut of FX guy Jonah Loop (A Perfect Getaway, Transporter 2).
Jackson plays the evil mastermind behind a website that pits abduction victims against each other in a virtual gladiator arena. The fate of each loser is decided by an online audience which, most often than not, chooses death as a penalty.
Peep it:
My mom says Arena is just a $10 million rehash of 2009’s Gamer and other countless fight-to-the-death thrillers. She says the visuals look shitty and that Tony Giglio, the guy who wrote the similarly plotted Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives, doesn’t inspire much hope.
But, what does she know? Parents just don’t understand. Arena doesn’t just star Dobrev; it costars Orbitz gum babe Vanessa Branch and sexy senorita Mayra Leal, the curvy naked chick from Robert Rodriguez’s Machete!!!
Hell, even the film’s vagina-less costars are an impressive lot: Daniel Dae Kim (“LOST”), James Remar (“Dexter”), Derek Mears (Friday the 13th) and Kellan Lutz (Twilight Saga). I don’t know. Maybe, I’ll just wait for the third season of “The Vampire Diaries” to begin on Sept. 15.
Bill Bennett, the director who once tried to make a romantic leading man out of Dennis Leary in 1996’s Two If by Sea, has got an island-getaway thriller prepped to hit UK DVD on Aug. 15. Uninhabited stars skinny-cute Aussie Geraldine Hakewill and Henry James as lovers terrorized by a ghost while on holiday.
Vacation-based thrillers such as Uninhibited, Turistas, Perfect Getaway, and National Lampoon’s European Vacation are why the little lady and I have picked the less popular—but much safer—city of Darwin, Minnesota for our yearly romantic retreat (the world’s biggest ball of twine is breathtaking in the moonlight).
Tanit Phoenix, host of Cinemax’s new anthology series “Femme Fatales” and star of Uni’s Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives, posed in her undies last week for the lucky bastards over at IGN. I don’t know what kind of voodoo those guys are working, but all Clatto has ever gotten from approaching hot starlets are restraining orders … and herpes (that time we passed ourselves off as Bloody-Disgusting).
Phoenix, who was recently up for the lead in writer/producer David E. Kelly’s failed NBC pilot “Wonder Woman,” can also be seen in the Wesley Snipes zombie-frightener Gallowwalker and the Corey Feldman meal-ticket Lost Boys: The Thirst. She’ll next appear in the upcoming Denzel Washington/Ryan Reynolds action-thriller Safe House.
