Cult Cinema

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 ….

AMC Theatres unexpectedly pulls unrated slasher flick Hatchet II from all screens

Just a couple of days after the release of grindhouse slasher tribute Hatchet II, the AMC theater chain has pulled the unrated sequel from all locations that were running the movie, according to EW. “We woke up this morning and the movie was gone,” says director Adam Green. “I’m bewildered and confused.” AMC volunteered to ….

New Wonder Woman television show in the works at Warner Bros.

Wonder Woman may be headed to the small screen instead of the big screen, according to LiveFeed. The report indicates that Warner Bros. Television is developing a modern-day reboot of the classic DC comic book heroine and has nabbed David E. Kelley, the showrunner behind legal dramas such as Ally McBeal, Boston Legal and The ….

Win one of three copies of the new book from the king of gritty pulp

Fans of FX’s Justified know Elmore Leonard as the creator of the character “Raylan Givens,” a U.S. Marshall from Leonard’s novels Pronto and Riding the Rap. What you may not know is that Leonard’s career spans sixty years, forty-four novels, twenty-one feature film adaptations, and three honorary doctorates. Turning eighty-five this October, the “Dutch” Leonard ….

Cult series The Munsters getting television remake treatment

Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller is developing a modern-day reboot of the creepshow classic The Munsters, according to EW. The new show is expected to run on NBC, which has only ordered a pilot thus far. The potential series is being described as “Modern Family meets True Blood,” and rumor has it that Guillermo del ….