Terror Tidbits

Posted by bob in Films, News on June 5th, 2008

Freestyle Releasing has announced they have the distribution rights to The Haunting of Molly Hartley with a Halloween release planned. The film stars Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Haley Bennett (Music and Lyrics), AnnaLynne McCord (Day of the Dead), Jake Weber (Dawn of the Dead), Jessica Lowndes (Autopsy) and Josh Stewart (Midnight Man). The film is the first from Mickey Liddell and the film is about a family that has moved to a new town after the mother recovered from a psychological meltdown. Molly (Bennett) struggles to gain friends while being haunted by visions or repressed memories and must figure out the truth.

Brian K. Vaughan, who successfully leapt from comics (Y the Last Man) to television (Lost), is now making the next step into feature films.  He wrote a supernatural comedy on spec and found himself in a bidding war. DreamWorks paid $650,000 to win the rights to Roundtable.  Vaughn stands to make a cool million should the film actually make it into production. The story, according to Variety, features Merlin putting together a new modern day Camelot to fight a resurrected evil. Unlike the noble and brave knights of yore, Merlin winds up with former athletes, a cowardly scientist or two, and Oscar-winning actors.