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Box office preview: Will 'The Final Destination' and 'Halloween II' massacre each other?
27 August 2009 7:31 PM, PDT
| EW - Hollywood Insider.com
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Your regular box office prognosticator Nicole Sperling is out for the next few weeks, box office fans, so you're stuck with me for this week's horror movie showdown. That's right, we've got the unusual spectacle of two slice-and-dice flicks opening this weekend, The Final Destination (actually the fourth film in the series), and Halloween II (the second in director Rob Zombie's reboot of the durable horror franchise, but technically the ninth Halloween movie total). With the R-rated Inglourious Basterds and District 9 also vying for similar audiences, it looks like it's gonna be -- yep, you knew this was coming -- quite a bloody weekend at the box office. Here's how I see the body count stacking up:
1. The Final Destination -- $19 million
The three previous films in this making-efficient-mincemeat-of-anonymous-hot-actors franchise have all built on the previous film's opening weekend, with the last one banking $19.1 million when it opened in Feb.
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Last Horror director prepping 3-D zombies and more
25 March 2009 6:26 AM, PDT
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Julian Richards, Wales’ prime movie export, has been stomping in the horror genre with bloody gusto for the last several years. Since completing The Last Horror Movie, a violent vérité serial-killer flick starring Kevin Howarth released Stateside as a Fango Video title, Richards has been busy dividing his time between his production company Prolific Films and sales outfit Jinga Films.
Summer Scars, a coming-of-age tale with a sinister, dark edge (also starring Howarth, pictured), won two Welsh BAFTA awards, received U.S. release last year and has a UK theatrical run scheduled for this coming June/July. Through Jinga, Richards has sold the Scottish lycanthropicture Wild Country to Lionsgate, the torture shocker Gnaw to Mpi (see item here) and the seriously creepy, well-crafted and very groovy supernatural slow-burner The Disappeared (see review here) to IFC. Richards has also directed Charles Dickens’S England, a feature-length documentary starring Sir Derek Jacobi,
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