This is the first official poster for Warner Bros. upcoming remake of the 1981 fantasy-adventure Clash of the Titans. I don’t about you, but the sight of Medusa on this one sheet makes me hard. Well played Warner Bros. Well played.
Clash of the Titans is directed by Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) and stars Sam Worthington (Avatar, Terminator: Salvation) as Perseus, Liam Neeson (After.Life, Batman Begins) as Zeus, and Ralph Fiennes (Harry Potter, Red Dragon) as Hades, lord of the underworld. The film arrives in theaters on March 26, 2010.
It’s time to grab your studs and dust off the old denim vest. Lionsgate Home Entertainment has set a March 2 release date for the special edition DVD reissue of the 1986 hard rock road-rager The Wraith, starring Charlie Sheen, Randy Quaid, Clint Howard, and a very sexy pre-“Twin Peaks” Sherilyn Fenn.
The press release reads:
The Wraith, the cult classic starring Golden Globe® winner Charlie Sheen (TV’s “Spin City”), Academy Award® nominee Randy Quaid (The Last Detail, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, 1973) and Clint Howard (Frost/Nixon), comes to Special Edition DVD from Lionsgate this March.
The action-packed film tells the story of a mysterious figure seeking vengeance on a gang that’s been terrorizing a small town and includes music from some of Rock-n-Roll’s greatest legends including Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Robert Palmer and Billy Idol.
The Wraith: Special Edition DVD features fresh packaging and all new special features including audio commentary, interviews with writer/director Mike Marvin (Sunstorm) and Clint Howard along with a featurette on the Dodge M4S that was used in the film.
An interview with Clint Howard? You had me at Robert Palmer!
Twin Peaks
Lionsgate has priced The Wraith: Special Edition at $19.99, but I’m sure you’ll find it cheaper at Amazon or the local Best Buy.
The media was aflutter yesterday with reports that Megan Fox’s (Jennifer’s Body, Transformers) laptop had been hacked and that many of her nude personal photos had been leaked online. Turns out that pictures were fake; just photoshopped images of Fox done up by some crappy porn site. Thankfully, I only bought one case of Kleenex and half a gallon of Lubriderm at the Costco last night. Looks like being thrifty really paid off.
The photo is fake. Your boner is real.
So there you have it. The photos are fake. You can move on to the next story. Yup. Nothing to see here, folks. You can find some real Megan Fox semi-topless photos here. And, don’t forget to check her out in these half-naked shots.
Canadian auteur Vincenzo Natali, the writer/director of the 1997 indie-horror mind-fuck Cube, is back with a provocative new sci-fi/horror morality tale set in the cold world of genetics research. Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as ambitious, albeit ethically-compromised, geneticists who find themselves in over their heads when they successfully splice human and animal DNA to create a hybrid female named Dren.
(To see more of Delphine Chanéac (she plays Dren), go here and here.)
The film makes its long-awaited U.S. debut on Jan. 22 at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah as part of the Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight Movie screenings.
In an exclusive Sundance Diary for Twitch, Natali describes his movie as:
… a meditation on the relationship between creature and creators. The story revolves around two brilliant geneticists who create hybrid organisms spliced from the genes of various animals. Their research has medical applications, and being young and adventurous, they target the top of the food chain: human DNA. Needless-to-say, mayhem ensues. But what makes SPLICE unique is that the true nature of the horror is emotional. And the ties that bind the scientists to their manufactured offspring is familial.
It is fusion of these two strands of cinematic DNA: creature feature and relationship story, that excited me about SPLICE. It’s also what made it a very hard film to finance.
Natali has been trying to get Splice made for nearly a decade. Budgeting issues and concern over the movie’s controversial themes had kept the project grounded. Natali writes:
Studios (and believe me, I met with every one them) were uncomfortable with the bizarre love triangle that formed the core of the story. And yet given the cost of creating Dren, a creature who we watch grow from a single cell to a fully mature adult, SPLICE was never going to be a low budget affair. Most of my ten years seeking this personal grail was spent on my knees. Begging for money.
It was only when Gaumont (France’s oldest film studio) showed interest that I dared to believe SPLICE would really become more than a script gathering dust in my office. It probably helps that the French are not squeamish about sex, and when confronted with human-hybrid relations… pourquoi pas? Add to that the involvement of the ubiquitous and magnificent Guillermo Del Toro, who championed the film in the States, and my extraordinary producer Steve Hoban along with Telefilm Canada, and I had an unholy trifecta of passion from across the globe, without which the impossible would never have been possible.
Guillermo del Toro, who serves as executive producer on the film, sums things up this way:
Vincenzo is taking Splice to really edgy places. He understands that true horror needs to be morally dangerous.
This is Natalie Portman on the set of director Darren Aronofsky upcoming supernatural thriller Black Swan. Portman plays a ballet dancer named Nina caught up in a bitter rivalry with another dancer, played by Mila Kunis, who may not be all she seems.
The movie has generated a lot of buzz due to a reportedly graphic sex scene between Portman and Kunis. The film co-stars Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, and Vincent Cassel.
The pictures aren’t too exciting, but I know you guys like masturbating looking at Natalie Portman so here you go:
Platinum Dunes remake of the 1984 Wes Craven classic A Nightmare on Elm Street wrapped production earlier this year and is set for theatrical release on April 30, 2010. However, after screening the film for test audiences in Los Angeles, producers have decided to shoot an entirely new scene for the flick.
A casting call has been issued by the studio to find actors to play minor roles in a diner scene. Parts include a 40-something waitress, a 50-plus diner owner with a weathered face, and two teenage patrons. Most movie fans will take this news to mean that there was something wrong with the movie, but I am more prone to believe that there was something wrong with the test audience.
You see, people who attend test screenings (in LA anyway) are hardly ever the brightest peanuts in the turd. Usually, they’re the ADD-riddled, ghetto-fabulous kids and twenty-something high school dropouts who only go to the movies to text and talk on their iPhones. Let’s hope these idiots are playing a role in what you and I end up seeing at the theater.
Casting begins this week for producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Auditions will be held in Los Angeles and London and are open to all actors. With the exception of Ian McKellen’s Gandalf, all parts are up for grabs, including story hero Bilbo Baggins.
What we’ve done over the years is discover a lot of interesting actors, like Orlando Bloom (in ‘Rings’), Kate Winslet (in ‘Heavenly Creatures’), Saoirse Ronan (in ‘The Lovely Bones’). So if you start looking and auditioning seriously, it’s amazing what incredible talent you’ll find out there.
Jackson stresses that he is under no obligation to hire established actors and will not consider doing so until a complete “casting sweep” has been done.
He says:
(These movies) have never been a star-driven vehicle. The star is (author J.R.R.) Tolkien and the world he created. We are not under any pressure. We want to find the right people. Casting someone to portray a hobbit is not as easy as you might imagine. They have to have a particular type of physical appearance and a sensibility. And the same with an elf or a dwarf. These are fantastical characters, but you’ve got to find the right people to play them, the right humans to translate these characters.
The Hobbit will be released as two separate films and will be shot back-to-back. Jackson, along with del Toro, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh, have already completed the script to the first part and are at work on the second, which they aim to turn in to film backers Warner Bros. and MGM later this month. So, when will production start?
Jackson says:
We were always planning to shoot around April or May next year, and as far as I’m aware, we’re pretty much on target for that. It depends on how quickly the studio greenlights the film. It’s not in our hands. But as long as we‘re shooting next year, we’re fine.
In space, no one can hear you scream. In your living room, it will be an entirely different story when Electronic Arts finally releases Visceral Games’ sequel to their chart-topping horror-survival game Dead Space. E.A. has issued a press release announcing that production on Dead Space 2 has officially begun and will feature new weapons, Necromorph monsters, and plot twists.
Dead Space 2 executive producer Steve Papoutsis says:
We’re thrilled to jump back into the series, making the next chapterin Isaac’s journey. The infection continues to spread throughout space and our hero Isaac Clarke is the only person able to contain it. There are still loads of Necromorphs that need killing. In Dead Space 2, not everything is exactly as it seems. Expect plot twists that will surprise you and a huge cast of twisted, disgusting monsters that are sure to scare the daylights out of you.
Nick Earl, senior VP and group general manager for E.A., adds:
Like so many gamers worldwide, we love the Dead Space franchise and are very excited to announce a new game in the series. Visceral Games is quickly becoming known for delivering high-quality, action-packed games. Dead Space 2 is on target to deliver a jaw-dropping experience gamers won’t soon forget.
Dead Space 2 will be available for the PS3, XBox 360, and PC. More information to come.
As part of its ongoing 20th anniversary celebration, Empire magazine has lined up an impressive group of Hollywood A-listers to photograph in homage to the iconic movie characters they have made famous. Not surprisingly, many of those memorable roles come from the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres.
"I have to return some videotapes."
Notable photos include Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster as Hannibal Lecter & Clarice Starling, Christian Bale as America’s favorite psycho Patrick Bateman, Laurence Fishburne as the Matrix guru Morpheus, Harry Potter alums Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, Sam Neil as paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800.
Empire launched in July of 1989 and is currently the bestselling film publication in Britain. The magazine is best known for its ongoing series of “Ten Best …” lists. To see all the photos, you can visit the mag’s website here.
If you’re feeling kind of tired and don’t feel like clicking over to Empire, then just relax where you sit and check out this sample gallery:
Slapstick star Leslie Nielsen was in Madrid last week to attend the world premiere of director Javier Ruiz Caldera’s Spanish cinema spoof Spanish Movie. The 83-year-old, who admits that the word “gracais” is the extent of his Spanish vocab, plays a bumbling doctor in the film.
"You can tell me. I'm a doctor."
Expected to be a major hit in Spain, Spanish Movie parodies many of the country’s biggest blockbusters, including Guillermo Del Toro’s El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth), Juan Antonio Bayuna’s El Orfanato (The Orphanage), Alejandro Amenabar’s The Others, and Juame Balaguero and Luis Berdejo’s Rec. The Coen Brothers Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men, starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem, is also spoofed.
