Win one of five copies of the 2-Disc Collector’s DVD Edition of Takashi Miike’s cult thriller Audition

If you know anything about the Shout! Factory classic DVD re-issues, you know they are thorough, handled with care, and come filled with everything a cinema fan could ever want in a Special Edition release. Now they’re taking on Takashi Miike and his spine-tingling classic suspense thriller Audition. The Shout! Factory will be releasing a ….

Magnolia picks up The Host director’s latest thriller

Magnolia Pictures announced that it has nabbed North American distribution rights to The Host (Gwoemul) director Bong Joon-Ho’s latest film Mother (Madeo), which debuted at Cannes earlier this year to rave reviews. Gearing up for a Bong Joon-ho retrospective, the studio also acquired Barking Dogs Never Bite, Bong’s 2000 debut which was previously unreleased in ….

Preview the Avatar Sideshow Collectibles licensed figures right here

Sideshow Collectibles has posted images from their upcoming line of Avatar collectibles. Launching the Sideshow Collectibles line from James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar is the AMP Suit Maquette featuring actor Stephen Lang’s baddie Col. Quaritch, created in conjunction with the film’s special effects studio Legacy Effects. The piece was created directly from 3D scans of ….

Todd McFarlane writing screenplay for a new Spawn movie

This is seriously exciting. I wonder what inspired McFarlane start hammering out this new script. Whatever it was, it’s about time. Spawn is one of my favorite cult comic characters. I look forward to seeing how this develops. McFarlane recently declared via Twitter that he is finally writing a script for a Spawn follow-up movie, ….

MTV producing Psycho teen TV film

MTV has commissioned a teen slasher film for the cable net called My Super Psycho Sweet 16, which will revolve around a privileged teen’s birthday bash at a roller rink getting interrupted by a serial killer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They decided to go all the way 80’s with this one, even setting the ….

Here’s that 3-D movie poster from The Final Destination

Warner Brothers aimed to bring viewers to complete visual meltdown with the release of the movie The Final Destination, so they partnered with Virtual Images to promote it. The creative team at Virtual Images, consisting of 3-D artists and 3-D designers, worked with the studio to create visually stunning art that depicts a human skull ….

Star Trek’s “Bones” McCoy to become a vampire and piss off a Priest

Karl Urban, who most recently played “Bones” McCoy in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, is attached to play the villain in Screen Gems’ post-apocalyptic horror thriller Priest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Cory Goodman and based on a TokyoPop comic, Priest, which is being directed by Scott Stewart, is set in a world ….

Robert Redford to direct historical crime drama The Conspirator

Robert Redford is developing and will direct a film titled The Conspirator, a historical crime drama about Mary Suratt, according to THR. Suratt was one of the conspirators convicted of plotting President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. James Solomon (The Bronx is Burning) wrote the script. According to official history, widow and boarding house owner Mary Suratt ….