Disney prepping big screen 3D TRON Night next week

Walt Disney Studios and IMAX announced that tickets for TRON Night: An IMAX 3D Experience, featuring an exclusive 20-plus minute sneak-peek of their highly anticipated TRON: Legacy, sold out rapidly after going on sale October 12th for the October 28th screenings in 120 IMAX theaters across the U.S. and Canada. “TRON Night” is not unlike ….

Cult Cinema Icon William Castle gets fans in the Halloween spirit

William Castle has an update for fans about some current events celebrating his work, including William Castle’s Shockers, presented by the very undead folks from Cinefamily at Hollywood’s iconic Silent Movie Theatre, which has been running Saturday nights this month. And, a double feature on Halloween night, Sunday, October 31st. CLICK HERE for a very ….

Nosferatu, Brides of Dracula and Son of Frankenstein on the big screen this weekend

This weekend, on October 22nd and 23rd, the Loew’s Jersey Theatre will screen classic horror films, including Nosferatu, which will be screened with live organ accompaniment by Wayne Zimmerman of the Garden State Theatre Organ Society. Friday, October 22un – 8 PM Brides of Dracula (1960) Cast: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Monlaur, Marita Hunt, David Peel, ….

Lionsgate hatches viral marketing site and “Fan Appreciation” screenings for Saw 3D

Lionsgate is doing some viral marketing around the upcoming Saw 3D, with the website BobbyDagen.com. The name shouldn’t strike you as anything important yet, but Bobby Dagen is intricately tied into the events that unfold in Saw 3D. Bobby Dagen, (Sean Patrick Flannery), is a survivor of one of Jigsaw’s tests who is speaking out ….

Stars of V return to TV this November but come to NYCC 2010 first, with star from the original cult series

In the first season of V, the Visitors arrived. In the second, coming season, which hits ABC airwaves in November, three generations of V queens — played by Morena Baccarin (Firefly), Laura Vandervoort (Smallville) and guest star Jane Badler (Diana from the original V) — will engage in an epic power struggle over the future ….

The Thing remake to preview this weekend at New York Comic-Con 2010

Universal Pictures presents the cast and filmmakers from its upcoming prequel thriller The Thing. In the film that serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s cult sci-fi classic 1982 thriller of the same name, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. ….

Aliens invade New York Comic-Con 2010 to celebrate groundbreaking home video release

One of the most horrific films in the history of cinema is now even more in your face. Fans with the stomach to handle the experience will have the opportunity to board the Nostromo and enter the hibernation chamber of the doomed intergalactic crew in celebration of the upcoming Alien Anthology Blu-ray release. The fully ….

Win an authentic Saw film trap or one of ten limited edition Jason Mecier art prints signed by Jigsaw himself

Earlier this week, Lionsgate launched an innovative Facebook application which encourages Saw fans to share their anticipation for the final Saw film on Facebook and Twitter. Once Saw’s more than 3,000,000 Facebook and Twitter fans share their excitement for the series enough times, a new, special edition print created by famed celebrity artist Jason Mecier ….

Update: Savage County to invade MTV2, Twitter and New York Comic-Con

Somehow the marketing team behind Savage County received quick word that I wrote a little story about tonight’s premiere of the film on MTV2. So they’ve forwarded me some additional information surrounding facts about the project, along with a whole series of events happening in the next few days, that are actually much more fun ….