French horror Martyrs film trailer

Martyrs certainly seems to be in the tradition of Hostel, and has that stylish and twisted sense of relationships, as in Alexandre Aja’s French horror High Tension. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, in May, and has had screenings at various European fests, and has just been released in France. Martyrs revolves around ….

Spanish horror Sexykiller trailer

From Spain, comes the Miguel Martí (Slam, Fin de curso)-directed horror/comedy Sexykiller, which follows Bárbara (Macarena Gómez), as she slices and dices her way through the student body of a medical school. The sexy, fashion-obsessed student has an insatiable hunger for blood, and killing becomes her hobby after classes. Sexykiller (which was formerly titled Barbykiller) ….

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 Pool official website

The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a “room boy” working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the ….

Guillermo del Toro takes on Charles Dickens and gets genre directing gigs for years to come

According to Variety, Guillermo del Toro is booked with New Line and Universal Studios film projects through 2017, and possibly longer. Del Toro’s first priority, which has been talked about for months, is the New Line and MGM epic project The Hobbit, which he has committed the next five years to developing, with Peter Jackson, ….

Paramount buys ‘Scene It’ interactive game creator

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures has purchased Screenlife, creator of the Scene It? interactive DVD game franchise. The studio bought the Seattle-based company with the intent to delve deeper into digital content initiatives. The acquisition of Screenlife advances Paramount Digital Entertainment’s multiplatform strategy and will enable us to create new digital content that ….

Reprise DVD review

Reprise, a darkly humorous coming of age story, comes to DVD from Miramax Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment today. Executive produced by Academy Award winner Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men), Reprise turns cinematic storytelling on its head, and explores the divide between the dreams of exuberant youth and the harsh realities of ….

Season One of Eli Stone on DVD today

One of this season’s most intriguing and original new series is coming to DVD for the first time from Walt Disney Studios. Eli Stone: The Complete First Season debuts on DVD September 2, 2008 in a four-disc DVD featuring extended episodes, deleted scenes and behind the scenes revelations about the critically-acclaimed freshman series. The jury’s ….

Poltergeist remake close to landing director

The Hollywood Reporter followed up on a Bloody-Disgusting.com story about Vadim Perelman being in negotiations to develop MGM’s Poltergeist remake as a potential directing vehicle. If it happens, Perelman would join writers Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, who came on board last week to revamp the 1982 classic horror film. The original Poltergeist was directed ….

The Lucky Ones film details

When three very different U.S. soldiers find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America, they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of them has to real family. A humorous and timely drama about coming home, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Wedding Crashers), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, ….

Fringe and Terminator shows will stream to college campuses on premiere days

Fox is planning to stream the premiere of J.J. Abrams’ new thriller Fringe, along with the season premiere of action series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, online at the same time they screen on TV, according to a report by Variety. This is said to be the first time a major network has decided to ….

Eagle Eye, Mission: Impossible and other films to get Manga treatment

Variety reported yesterday that Paramount Pictures is prepping a string of mobile comics based on a number of it’s movie properties. The studio’s Digital Entertainment unit has contracted Singapore-based animation outfit Omnitoons, to deliver a series of Manga-styled comics, the first to be based on the Gurinder Chadha-directed U.K. hit movie Angus, Thongs and Perfect ….