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We’ve waited. . .and waited. . .and waited. Finally, after being given hope in the form of a trailer, it has officially been announced that Joss Whedon’s (and Drew Goddard’s) CABIN IN THE WOODS will be released at the SXSW (that’s South by Southwest for those who aren’t up on your acronyms) Festival in Austin,… [Continue Reading]
Do you feel that shiver slithering up your spine? That’s because the trailer has just hit for THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, the long-anticipated ‘slasher to end all slashers’ directed by CLOVERFIELD screenwriter Drew Goddard and produced by BUFFY creator Joss Whedon. The film was shot in 2009 with a cast including Chris Hemsworth, Jesse… [Continue Reading]
Most movie posters are fairly generic. An off-setting color scheme featuring a couple of floating heads amongst an explosion or a silhouetted romantic embrace, with the hero posing in some suitably heroic pose. That’s what makes this new teaser poster for THE CABIN IN THE WOODS that much more gratifying. CABIN was directed by Drew… [Continue Reading]
For those interested in knowing how a movie as supremely, magnificently BIG as THE AVENGERS gets off the ground, what with all its larger-than-life characters and countless moving parts, Matt McDaniel of Yahoo Movies has posted a wonderful interview with Joss Whedon. In it, Whedon discusses the challenges faced when bringing a multitude of different heroes… [Continue Reading]
Following yesterday’s news that Alan Silvestri would be scoring the THE AVENGERS, today we get to feast our eyes on brand new banners depicting the big screen superhero mash-up of the century. The banners, from Yahoo and Moviefone, show the heroes (and one villain) looking suitably imposing. The only picture that seems a little odd… [Continue Reading]
At first I thought this was just a story about somebody finding a rare copy of a comic book, but then someone told me Alan Silvestri is a composer, and I asked why that was relevant, because the profession of the person who obtained the comic book shouldn’t matter to the story, and then the… [Continue Reading]
In a recent interview AVENGERS director Joss Whedon described the concept for his unsuccessful attempt at bringing Wonder Woman to the big screen. “She was a little bit like Angelina Jolie [laughs],” quoth Whedon. “She sort of traveled the world. She was very powerful and very naïve about people.” Back in the 2000s, Whedon was… [Continue Reading]
…on this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly! We’re stoked that we get a new glimpse of THE AVENGERS together in one place, and I for one am mesmerized by the Zoolander Blue Steel gaze directed toward me from Mark Ruffalo’s Dr. Bruce Banner. THE AVENGERS comes out on May 4, 2012, but if you don’t… [Continue Reading]
Details surrounding the new Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard horror flick, The Cabin in the Woods, have been notoriously hard to come by. The most that the filmmakers have been willing to divulge is that the film represents an unusual twist on the familiar horror format. Unfortunately, the wait to finally gain some insight into the film… [Continue Reading]
We here at Famous Monsters really dig www.io9.com, and we think you should, too. If you’re wondering where all the good writers and journalists went, io9.com is a good place to start. Lauren Davis’ recent essay. “Why Great Horror Is Heartbreaking“, approaches Lovecraft’s “Supernatural Horror in Literature” and Chandler’s “The Simple Art Of Murder” as… [Continue Reading]
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