Get a new MAC from Oliver Stone
The makers of the upcoming George W. Bush Biopic, filmmaker Oliver Stone and YouTube, have teamed up for a Film Mashup contest. It’s simple really. Just use the online tools over at Youtube to create a trailer mashup from W., with a maximum length of 10 minutes, and you could win The Ultimate Filmmaker Prize ….
Sci-fi thriller Ghouls coming to DVD
Ghouls is a sci-fi thriller, written by Brian D. Young and directed by Gary Jones, and follows a young American girl who discovers her supernatural heritage and connection to the evil spirits plaguing her ancestral town. The film follows Jennifer (Kristen Renton), a young college student who visits her grandparents’ Romanian village after the death ….
Pathology DVD and T-shirt contest
Producers of the horror film Pathology are providing me with three (3) copies to giveaway to readers. To add to that, I am going to send each winner a FREE Film Fetish Tee-shirt along with your copy of this gripping thriller. This is one of the better DVD giveaways we’ve had, so don’t miss out ….
Children of the Corn remake rounds out cast
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Sci Fi Channel is has added to the cast of its Children of the Corn remake, with David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey and Daniel Newman coming aboard the two-hour telefilm. Based on the Stephen King novel, the TV-film features Anders and McClure as a couple with marital problems, ….
Kerosene Cowboys adds three to cast
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cam Gigandet (upcoming Twilight), Shane West (Red Sands) and Rachael Leigh Cook (Broken Kingdom) are in talks to star in the upcoming Mario Van Peebles (Baadasssss) action thriller Kerosene Cowboys, for Svarog-Afterburner Films. Kerosene Cowboys is based on a novel by Randy Arrington, about the hard-living pilots of an elite ….
Watch full length features from Austin’s Fantastic Fest for free online
Place this one on your calendars. As I was posting my story about the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes screening at Fantastic Fest, I read one of their releases that stated festival sponsors are placing five feature films and six shorts from this year’s festival online for free streaming, starting on September 14, ….
The Day the Earth Stood Still to get IMAX digital format release
IMAX and Fox announced today that The Day The Earth Stood Still, directed by Scott Dickerson (who helmed The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, John Cleese and Jaden Smith, will be simultaneously released to both IMAX and conventional theatres on December 12, 2008. The film, which is a ….
I Am Legend Ultimate Collector’s Edition arrives on Blu-ray and DVD in December
I Am Legend gets the Ultimate Collector’s Edition treatment starting on December 9, 2008, from Warner Home Video and Village Roadshow. The films will be available on Blu-ray and DVD and packaged in elegant box for holiday gift giving. The package contains two versions of the film (one with a controversial ending), a Digital Copy ….
Big Screen Entertainment gets new vampire film
Big Screen Entertainment has acquired world rights to a new French vampire film called Sodium Babies, co-directed by brothers Benoit and Julien Decaillon. According to Big Screen CEO Kimberley Kates, the company screened Sodium Babies at this year’s Cannes Film Market. Kates says “It stood out among the numerous titles we previewed. The picture has ….
Tom Cruise nabs rights to ‘Monster’ serial killer book
Variety reports that Tom Cruise and United Artists have grabbed the rights to the serial killer thriller The Monster of Florence, with Cruise attached to produce and possibly to star. This according to Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller. The author, along with Italian journalist Mario Spezi, told an Italian periodical that they have contracted ….
Welle Die (The Wave) film trailer
German thriller The Wave screened at Sundance this year, along with the Edinburgh Film Fest in June. It revolves around a high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship, but it soon spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of ….
Finnish horror film Sauna movie trailer
From Finland comes the starkly shot Sauna, which revolves around two war veteran Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, and the other a gentle scientist. Watch the trailer for the Antti-Jussi Annila-directed horror film below.
Vinyan film trailer
See the trailer for the crime thriller Vinyan below.
Tale 52 (Istoria 52) trailer
The noir thriller Tale 52 follows Iasonas, a timid young man who meets his future girlfriend Penelope at a dinner party, only to find she’s gone missing when he wakes up one random morning. Unable to understand what has happened, he falls into a world of anguish, confusion and delusional behavior. The Greek fantasy, which ….
The Strangers coming back for another home invasion
Variety reports that Rogue Pictures is setting up a sequel to its summer hit The Strangers and that Bryan Bertino, wrote and directed the original, will return to write a script for the new project. It’s expected that Liv Tyler, along with the three original villains, will return for the new movie. In the original ….
