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New book examines The Strange Case of Phantasm: Ravager

Posted 9 years ago

Back in 2014, author Dustin McNeill released the book Phantasm Exhumed: The Unauthorized Companion, a 268 page examination of the entire PHANTASM franchise – which at that time only consisted of four feature films, with a fifth on the way. Two...

Happy Death Day sequel idea compared to Back to the Future

Posted 9 years ago

A sequel to last year's time loop slasher HAPPY DEATH DAY hasn't officially received a greenlight just yet, but with the movie having made $115 million worldwide on a production budget of just $4.8 million, it seems like a sequel...

Rampage trailer: You will believe a wolf can fly

Posted 9 years ago

Thirty-two years after the classic kaiju video game RAMPAGE first arrived in arcades, we're now less than three months from the release of a live-action cinematic adaptation. To help us prepare, a new, minute-long trailer has arrived online to show...

Trailers preview Heathers TV series and mermaid show Siren

Posted 9 years ago

Several months ago, the Paramount Network (a newly re-branded Spike) released a teaser for their flagship series Heathers, a show inspired by the 1988 cult classic film of the same title. With the show's March debut swifly approaching, the network...

New films from Baskin, Transfiguration directors part of Finance Forum

Posted 9 years ago

Last year, the Frontières International Co-Production Market teamed with the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes to create the Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum, a genre-focused, invitational event that allows filmmakers with projects...

Nicolas Pesce’s Ryu Murakami adaptation Piercing gets a poster

Posted 9 years ago

The latest edition of the Sundance Film Festival is currently underway, and one of the films making its world premiere at the festival this weekend is PIERCING, the second feature from THE EYES OF MY MOTHER writer/director Nicolas Pesce. Based...

The Shining meets Alien in Brendan Deneen’s The Chrysalis

Posted 9 years ago

Author Brendan Deneen's horror novel THE CHRYSALIS won't be published until September, but Wes Ball's Oddball Productions and the Gotham Group are already working together on a cinematic adaptation of the story. Described as "THE SHINING meets ALIEN", the book...

Exclusive: Poster unveiled for House of Demons, starring Amber Benson

Posted 9 years ago

Early next month, Sony Home Entertainment will be releasing writer/director Patrick Meaney's debut feature HOUSE OF DEMONS, a supernatural thriller that traps Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson in a time-bending haunted house. With the movie's home video release just...

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost producing TV series Truth Seekers

Posted 9 years ago

Last year, SHAUN OF THE DEAD stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost formed their own production company, called Stolen Picture. The first Stolen Picture feature is director Crispian Mills' horror comedy SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ (which is about fracking unleashing a demon...

Albert Pyun is producing a sequel to his Nemesis franchise

Posted 9 years ago

Over the course of 35 years, legendary B-movie maker Albert Pyun racked up almost 50 director credits for himself, and although his output has slowed down in recent years while he battles multiple sclerosis, he still has several projects in...

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