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 ….
Repo! The Genetic Opera film trailer
Below is the trailer for the Darren Lynn Bousman film Repo! The Genetic Opera, which stars Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Anthony Head, Alexa Vega, Dean Armstrong, Nina Bergman and Sarah Brightman.
Night of the Demons remake synopsis and more Autopsy trailers
Director Adam Gierasch has been putting the finishing touches on his film Autopsy, and working on pre-production of the Night of the Demons remake. Bloody Disgusting got an early synopsis of the film, which revolves around a group of kids who go to a Halloween party, and end up taking on a group of demons, ….
The Assassination of Richard Nixon film review
Year: 2004 A down-on-his-luck salesman formulates a plan to kill Richard Nixon by hijacking a plane and flying it into the White House. Sean Penn stars in this character drama inspired by a true-life incident. We all know that Nixon was not assassinated, but resigned in disgrace over Watergate. What many do not remember or ….
Beowulf and Grendel
Year: 2005 A 9th Century Anglo-Saxon poem brought to the big screen in 2006. In today’s MTV-dosed world, the subject matter might seem irrelevant. Which is really sad since friendship, loyalty and revenge are struggles we all face everyday. Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel is probably more relevant today than ever, and proves itself organically, ….
The Bourne Identity film review
Last year, Christopher Nolan took memory loss to a new level with his masterful thriller Memento, in which the hero tattoos notes on his body to help him cope with his condition. This year, the amnesiac champion of The Bourne Identity uses brains and brawn as a means of sorting out his memory loss. Doug ….
