Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) has been cast in Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ production of Clash of the Titans. According to Bloody Disgusting via Hollywood Reporter Variety, Huston is set to play Poseidon opposite Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. Shooting began Monday just outside of London with Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) at the helm.

Huston will be joining Izabella Miko, Sam Worthington, Mads Mikkelsen, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng and Alexa Davalos.
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In more casting updates, Dread Central has learned that Lee Perkins is the latest to join Gregory Lamberson’s forthcoming Slime City Massacre, the sequel to his 1988 cult classic Slime City. In the sequel, Perkins will play one of four squatters trying to survive in New York City after a terrorist attack brings down the financial system. They discover a supply of strange wine in the ruins of a soup kitchen which turns them into hideous slime creatures driven to murderous acts.

Debbie Rochon, horror author Kealan Patrick Burke, and newcomer Jennifer Bihl comprise the remaining members of the squatters. Robert Sabin and Mary Bogle of the original film will be returning and Brooke Lewis will be featured in several flashbacks in the film. The greedy developer will be played by Roy Frumkes (Street Trash). Filming begins this July in Buaffalo.

Medallion Press has unveiled the cover art for Personal Demons, the first novel written by Fear Zone editor Gregory Lamberson. Personal Demons was originally published as a Limited Edition hardcover in 2004, and then as a trade paperback in 2005, by Broken Umbrella Press after winning a publishing contest, the Anubis Award for Horror, judged by famed author T.M. Wright. Although the novel received excellent reviews, it was only available on-line, like most small press books.

Following the success of their TPB of Johnny Gruesome, now in bookstores, Medallion scooped up the rights to Personal Demons, which they’ll publish in October of 2009. The new cover was created by tatoo artist Dan Plamely, who created the Johnny Gruesome cover, and Adam Mock, Medallion’s Vice President.

“I wanted a cover similar to the painted HELLBLAZER comic book covers,” says author Lamberson, “and Dan and Adam have definitely succeeded in achieving that. Personal Demons is horror-noir, and I wanted something that would suggest these different genres.”

The new edition of Personal Demons is subtitled “The Jake Helman Files,” suggesting that the novel’s protagonist will be back for future chillers. “I want this to be an ongoing series, and I’m writing the first sequel now. That subtitle is somewhat reminiscent of The Kolchak Papers, which was Jeff Rice’s original title for THE NIGHT STALKER, so I like that.”

Lamberson’s filmmaking book CHEAP SCARES! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets, is now available from McFarland & Company, and Johnny Gruesome has been nominated for a Black Quill Award. His werewolf novel, The Frenzy Way, will be published in 2010.

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There are only three weeks left of pre-production before production partakes on Slime City Massacre, the sequel to the 1998 cult film, Slime City from Gregory Lamberson.

The film is produced by Marc Makowski, co-producer of the original, and executive produced by John Maclay, a horror writer and publisher. The film will star Debbie Rochon, Lee Perkins, Brooke Lewis, Robert Sabin, horror author Kealen Patrick Burke and Jennifer Bihl.

SCM is the survival story of two fugitives from a totalitarian government, Cory (Burke) and Alexa (Bihl), who hide out in remnants of midtown Manhattan known as Slime City, in the aftermath of a dirty bomb. When the lovers team up with two other survivors, Alice (Rochon) and Mason (Perkins), they come across more than what they’ve bargained for. 

Take a look at this make-up test of Jennifer Bihl as “Alexa.”

If that didn’t snag your attention, check out what Lamberson had to say. 

“This film takes the drug addiction metaphor of the original and goes much farther with it,” Lamberson explains.  “We’ve multiplied the sex, violence and action of Slime City tenfold.  We have radioactive skies, camps of homeless people, mercenaries and a society of cannibals.  Anytime I’ve been tempted to scale things back to make shooting easier I’ve gone in the opposite direction – ‘How can we make this even bigger?’ This film is both a period piece and a futuristic, post apocalyptic film, with four creature characters instead of one.” 

Lamberson plans to have the film finished by the end of the year in order to take it on the film festival circuit in 2010 when his next novels, The Frenzy Way and Desperate Souls, are published. His first three features will be released on DVD July 28.