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True Blood Cast Gets Prettier and Prettier
2 hours ago
THR is reporting that True Blood is going to add two fresh faces to its fold for Season 3. Theo Alexander will play the boyfriend of Southern vampire king Russell Edgington, while Grant Bowler, of ABC's Ugly Betty, will portray Coot, the werewolf leader of a biker gang.
The series is yet to fill several roles for this season, which started production this week.
The popular show was just nominated for a PGA award, given by the producers' guild. Conceived by Alan Ball, the series is a popular HBO production.
Read the full article at THR here.
--Phil Fasso »
True Blood Cast Gets Prettier and Prettier
2 hours ago
THR is reporting that True Blood is going to add two fresh faces to its fold for Season 3. Theo Alexander will play the boyfriend of Southern vampire king Russell Edgington, while Grant Bowler, of ABC's Ugly Betty, will portray Coot, the werewolf leader of a biker gang.
The series is yet to fill several roles for this season, which started production this week.
The popular show was just nominated for a PGA award, given by the producers' guild. Conceived by Alan Ball, the series is a popular HBO production.
Read the full article at THR here.
--Phil Fasso »
Danielle Harris to Star in Hatchet 2
3 hours ago
Fearnet is reporting that Danielle Harris has joined the cast of Adam Green's Hatchet 2. According to their brief article, Harris has been hinting at a new horror role via her Twitter account, and just today dropped the news that she'll be the new Marybeth in Green's sequel to his tale of Victor Crowley.
Green responded via his own Twitter account, welcoming her to the cast.
As my Icons partner Mike Cucinotta often reminds me, I'm an old man. Maybe it's time I get a Twitter.
Read the full article at Fearnet here.
--Phil Fasso »
Sam Raimi To Help Turn $500 YouTube Short Into $30 Million Feature
2 December 2009 12:56 PM, PST
"Draw up the standard rich and famous contract!"
Hollywood! You're crazy and I love you. The YouTube video depicting a giant robot attack, "Ataque de Panico (Panic Attack!)" by a previously unknown filmmaker from Uruguay, Federico Alvarez attracted not just hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos but the attention of Mandate Pictures, with Sam Raimi attached to produce.
The company, which also backs Raimi's Ghost House imprint, has announced the short film, shot for scant $500 (yes), will become a $30 million feature length. Alvarez gets a cool $1 million directors fee as part of the deal. He's also signed with the La-based talent agency CAA.
Take a look at Panic Attack:
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4 Books, 5 Movies, 3 Stars, Megabucks
1 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST
Variety ran an interesting article yesterday about the Twilight series. It seems that the people at Summit, the studio behind the mega-franchise, are debating on whether to split Stephanie Meyers' last book in the series, Breaking Dawn, into two movies. Given the almost one half billion gross from New Moon's two-week worldwide release, stretching the series out to accomodate an extra entry seems a no-brainer. An embarrassment of riches never gave anyone reason to distress, right?
The problem is, those riches are likely to be spread out among a number of players. According to Variety, the series' three leads are likely to get paydays in the eight figures. They'll also have to pay out to Chris Weitz, director of entries #2 and 3, in order to secure his services and dissuade him from taking other projects. And Summit would also have to renegotiate with Meyers, which means even more coming out of the coffers. »
Paul Naschy Passes Away
1 December 2009 2:53 PM, PST
The word's gone out on several horror sites that Paul Naschy passed away today. Though many modern American horror fans may not know the name, fans of low budget Spanish horror will fondly remember writer/producer/director. Naschy, whose real name was Jacinto Monina, was most famous for his schlocky takes on old Universal horror characters such as Dracula, the werewolf and the Hunchback, as well as more modern beasts such as zombies and demons that needed exorcising. Revered by his European fans, Naschy has often been compared with Roger Corman, Fred Olen Ray and Lloyd Kaufman.
In his mid-70s, Naschy was still working on films of the same sort that drew his cult following.
I've only seen two of Naschy's films, and though they weren't my cup of tea, I can see why fans of schock films made with a Spanish flair would love him so. His cult »
King's Colorado Kid Finds Haven on SyFy
30 November 2009 10:10 PM, PST
Stephen King's been a busy man of late. What with the release of Under the Dome, his first tour to support a book in ages, a recent short story in the New Yorker and talk about a sequel to his early novel The Shining, as well as suggestions of a collaboration with Steven Spielberg, King has added one more project to his plate: Universal will produce a 13-episode limited series based on his novella The Colorado Kid for its SyFy channel, according to Variety.
Given the brand value of King's work, oddly enough Universal will rename the series Haven. I understand that The Colorado Kid sounds like something more like The Country Western Channel than a channel for science fiction fans, but why bother to buy the rights to a work from the most popular author of our time, and then slap a new title on it?
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True Blood Bites onto PGA Nomination
30 November 2009 5:59 PM, PST
Note: Despite the Tiger Woods incident over the weekend, this article has nothing to do with pro golf.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, True Blood has snagged a nomination for producer of the year in the drama category at the Producers Guild Awards of 2010.
Generally ignored by the Emmys, the Showtime vampire show will face Lost, Madmen, Breaking Bad and the network's own Dexter. Given the runaway popularity of all these series, True Blood is up against some stiff competition.
Read THR's full article here.
--Phil Fasso »
Beautiful Creatures... Following a Beautiful Trend?
30 November 2009 5:09 PM, PST
I remember when the TV show Friends was at its apex, and all of a sudden every channel, including the show's own NBC, had at least one Friends clone. Ever since, I've referred to this as the "Friends phenomenon."
Flash foward a decade or so, and I might as well call this the "Twilight phenomenon." The CW network has already cashed in with The Vampire Diaries, with that show focusing on teen vamps and longing stares. Now the literary world has hopped in, with Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's young adult novel Beautiful Creatures. According to the book's official website, the novel is the tale of normal mortal Ethan Wate and the supernatural Lena Duchannes, whose secret is sure to turn the Southern town of Gatlin upside down. So this is basically Twilight for the plantation crowd.
According to EW, Warner Bros. has already optioned the rights, for a »
New Moon Meets Expectations in Winning Weekend
30 November 2009 3:54 PM, PST
In its second weekend of release, Twilight Saga: New Moon won out again, according to Box Office Mojo. New Moon pulled in a respectable $42.9 million, probably as a result of its teenage female fanbase having a four-day weekend off from school.
The real surprise is the movie that fell to #2 for the second straight week of head-to-head with New Moon. The Blind Side, the Sandra Bullock vehicle based on the life of NFL player Michael Oher, actually beat out the vampire flick on Thanksgiving Day (a little research, and you'll find that there are certain websites dedicated to scrutinizing the box office on a day-to-day basis). As New Moon has cooled down significantly since it's open ing weekend, it beat Blind Side by a margin of just slightly than less than $3 million (last weekend, the differential was more than $100 million).
Given that both movies aim squarely at the fairer gender, »
Antal Defends Non-Yolked-Out Brody in Predators
29 November 2009 8:05 PM, PST
In a recent conversation with Coming Soon, Predators director Nimrod Antal defended his choice of Adrien Brody for the role of the leader of a tough group of mercenaries.
Antal states, "Again, it was a challenge in finding a balance. I think when we cast Adrian, there were a lot of people going, 'What?' but at the same time, if we cast a Vin Diesel in that role or if we cast anyone who is Arnold-esque, we would have been attacked for doing that. So we decided early on to go in a very different direction as far as the casting process, but it turned out fantastic. He plays a mercenary in the film and if you look at the guys in Iraq and Afghanistan today, they're not 'yolked-out' Schwarzenegger-looking guys. They're all very wiry and thin guys, and I think it's going to play well."
Antal states that »
America's Bad Kids Returns! Torrani Is Back, Interviewing Frank Henenlotter
29 November 2009 7:41 PM, PST
Icons friend John Torrani, the original America's Bad Kid, is back and kicking ass. In his new America's Bad Kids clip, he interviews Frankenhooker and Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter. Torrani gets some great material out of Henenlotter, focusing on his new film Bad Biology. Usually I'd give some tidbits, but I suggest you watch the clip below.
We at Icons of Fright are huge supporters of Torrani and his Abk. Check out other Abk interviews on Torrani's site here, or you can actually find past episodes on Icons of Fright by doing a site search of America's Bad Kids(I suggest you check them out on our site. But hey, I'm biased).
Check out this conversation between two mad geniuses!
--Phil Fasso »
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