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New film explores what if The Doors’ Jim Morrison lived

Tim Sullivan (Driftwood, Chillerama, Vh1’s Scream Queens) has optioned the rights to Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek’s bestselling novel The Poet in Exile. Plans call for a feature film to be written and directed by Sullivan and produced by Manzarek. Sullivan will co-write the script with Chillerama producer and editor Gavin Heffernan (Expiration) and New Mexico ….

Magnet to release indie horror Playback

Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing has announced they have acquired U.S. rights to Playback, a frightening horror film starring Christian Slater and directed by Michael Nickles. Magnet will release Playback through its Ultra VOD program in February 2012, launching the film on all digital VOD platforms prior to its theatrical release in March. While digging into ….

Book of Eli director heading to Broken City with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe

Variety reports that New Regency is set to co-produce the Allen Hughes-directed drama Broken City, with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe attached to star. Broken City, written by Brian Tucker, will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. The New York-set story centers on a cop-turned-private investigator, who, while attempting to turn his life around, finds ….

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo graphic novel coming from DC Vertigo

DC Entertainment has nabbed graphic novel adaptation rights to adapt the international phenomenon and best-selling Millennium Trilogy novels into the medium. DC Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint will partner with the estate of Stieg Larsson along with Hedlund Literary Agency to adapt the books. Each book by Larsson will be presented in two graphic novel volumes. The ….

Cult Cinema Icon Roger Corman to preview documentary biopic during NYCC 2011

Legendary cult film producer Roger Corman will be making a rare convention appearance during New York Comic-Con 2011 to preview Anchor Bay Films’ Corman’s World documentary, along with current and upcoming theatrical and home entertainment releases from Anchor Bay. Oscar-winning producer Corman will appear at the 2011 New York Comic-Con on Saturday, October 15th to ….

Details and new photos from The Human Centipede (Final Sequence)

Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his nagging mother in a bleak London housing project, where loud neighbors and cramped living conditions threaten to plunge this victim of sexual and psychological abuse over the edge. He works the night shift as a security guard in an underground parking garage, where customers and ….

Prime Suspect’s Maria Bello gets Carjacked by Stephen Dorff

Maria Bello, who is currently kicking ass in NBC’s Prime Suspect, and Stephen Dorff, who’s about to go to war with the gods when Immortals hits theaters on November 11th, headline the Anchor Bay Films thriller Carjacked, premiering November 22nd on Blu-ray and DVD. Co-starring Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner, Six Feet Under), Catherine Dent (The ….

Margin Call poster now online

Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is a thriller entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ….