Posts Tagged ‘Supernatural’
Posted by jonathon in General, News on September 27th, 2008
Well, what do you know? Hammer Films is back in business. And to think, the last time they produced a film my parents weren’t yet divorced. Wait, my parents weren’t even married. In fact, they hadn’t even met. So, I guess, the last time Hammer Films produced a movie, I was not alive…and I’m almost 30!
The Wake Wood, directed by David Keating (The Last of the High Kings), written and produced by Brendan McCarthy and starring Aidan Gillen (The Wire), Eva Birthistle (Breakfast on Pluto), Ella Connolly and Timothy Spall (the guy who informs Tom Cruise that his nickname is “Citizen Dildo” in Vanilla Sky), tells the tale of a couple who moves to the town of Wake Wood to start anew after the loss of their daughter. Set in a cold, rainy, dreary Ireland, Wake Wood feels to be a common enough horror/supernatural story. But who cares if the film is good? I’m just happy that Hammer Films is back to putting “nails in the coffin.” (Yikes, that was a bad pun)
Now, let’s tangent: Writer/producer Brendan McCarthy obviously cast Birthistle as the female lead in his film. He also cast Eva in another movie he exec. produced called Breakfast on Pluto (which is an amazing movie starring Cillian Murphy). What I find interesting and really cool is that producers and/or directors use the same actors again and again. Cillian Murphy, as an example, is a Danny Boyle regular starring in both 28 Days Later and the fabulous Sunshine. D.J. Caruso’s new film Eagle Eye is the second film Shia LaBeouf has starred in. And let’s not forget the greatest director/actor relationship of all: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. I don’t know why I find these loyal affairs to be so gratifying. Maybe it’s because the film industry is such a savage and fickle business that it’s nice to see constants in all the chaos. I guess it brings hope into the equation. Something that is easily lost in the grind of everyday life. So, let’s have a couple of cheers for the faithful ones. And let’s have a cheer for McCarthy and Birthistle.
Posted by bob in News on July 28th, 2008
CW’s Supernatural returns September 18 and fans got a glimpse of the first five minutes of the opening episode. The biggest news was that Mitch Pileggi (X-Files) will join the cast as Sam and Dean’s grandfather.
The show was said to be finite, running at most five seasons, and if true, would therefore end its run in May 2010.
Pileggi will be first seen in a flashback episode which also provide a glimpse of the heroes’ parents.
Story wise, the series will delve deeper into its own mythology than in the first three seasons.
Posted by bob in News on June 23rd, 2008
Supernatural executive producer Eric Kripke has been signed a new two year deal at Warner Bros. He will generate new projects for the studio in addition to watching over the fourth season of the series. Whether or not he will be involved in the much rumored Old West prequel spinoff series is unknown.
At Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, director Ruggero Deodato discussed his sequel to Cannibals, Cannibal Holocaust. The script is now complete with production anticipated to start in September. He also mentioned he and the producer still need to hash out one final creative sticking point which may threaten the start of principal photography.
Spider-Man 4 currently without an approved script, director, or confirmed cast, has been pencilled in for a May 2011 release date according to the Los Angeles Times. This puts out in between April 30’s Captain America and July’s Avengers projects which Marvel previously announced. Is that too much too soon?
Posted by bob in News on May 23rd, 2008
Warner Home Video has announced a September 2 release for the third season of Supernatural, just weeks before the fourth season debuts on the CW.
The five-disc boxset will retail for $59.98 and comes complete with an anamorphic transfer and feature an English Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. In addition to the 22 episodes, the set will include:
• From Legends to Reality: Supernatural Effects
• Impala Featurette: A Look Inside the Classic 1967 Chevrolet Impala
• Scene Specifics: Short Segments Showcasing Creative Team Members
Discussing Favorite Aspects of Particular Episodes
• Ghostfacers! Confessionals Minifeaturette Gallery
• Gag Reel
Posted by bob in News on April 23rd, 2008
Our pals at Inkworks will be releasing their next card set, Supernatural Connections Ultra-Premium Trading Cards, in June. The reflective 72-card set will be printed on premium 18-pt. foil board and the set has the usual assortment of bonus cards. There will be six cards per pack ($3.29), 24 packs per box and 12 boxes per case.
Randomly inserted bonus cards include:
Autographs from the stars of Supernatural allocated one per box of 24 packs. There will be thirteen pieceworks cards similarly sprinkled one pr box. The pieces include:
• T-shirt worn by Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester (Season One)
• T-shirt worn by Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester (Season One)
• Shirt worn by Jeffrey Dean Morgan as John Winchester (Season One)
• Skirt worn by Amy Acker as Andrea Barr (Season One)
• Top worn by Nicki Aycox as Meg (Season One)
• T-shirt worn by Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester (Season Two)
• T-shirt worn by Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester (Season Two)
• Jeans worn by Jeffrey Dean Morgan as John Winchester (Season Two)
• Top worn by Alona Tal as Jo Harvelle (Season Two)
• Shirt worn by Fredric Lehne as Yellow-Eyed Demon (Season Two)
• Jacket worn by Emmanuelle Vaugier as Madison (Season Two)
• Top worn by Amber Benson as Lenore (Season Two)
• T-shirt worn by Samantha Smith as Mary Winchester (Season Two)
Fear No Evil is the title of the nine card puzzle with one puzzle piece per nine packs. Similarly, Road to Ruin will be seen in six special foil cards with one per every 17 packs. Becoming is featured in three cards, one per box. And the case loader car is called Devil in Me.
Retailers who order multi-case pre-orders will receive two unique, Puzzle Pieceworks cards that feature the jackets worn by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles from the Season Two episode “Everybody Loves a Clown.”
Inkworks is offering a $19.95 album to hold all the cards you collect plus a nine-car uncut mini-press sheet is available for $69.95, limited to 199 sheets.
Also coming in June will be a card set based on the film Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D and of course that means the cards are in 3-D. Each box will contain two pair of 3-D specs.
The 50-card base set ($2.99 per pack) is augmented with randomly inserted bonus cards including autograph cards from cast and crew, eleven pieceworks cards with one per box that will include:
• Shirt worn by Brendan Fraser as Trevor.
• T-shirt worn by Josh Hutcherson as Sean.
• T-shirt worn by Anita Briem as Hannah.
• Top worn by Anita Briem.
• T-shirt worn by Brendan Fraser.
• Headband worn by Anita Briem.
• Top worn by Anita Briem.
• Cut off pants worn by Anita Briem.
• T-shirt worn by Josh Hutcherson.
• Cut off t-shirt worn by Brendan Fraser.
• Backpack worn by Josh Hutcherson.
Forgotten World is the name of the nine-card puzzle with one card per every eleven packs; Challenging the Unknown are six 3-D cards with one every 17 packs; and Prehistoric Perils, three 3-D cards, one per box.
The special case loader incentive is the Underworld Adventure card.
Inkworks is also offering a $19.95 album to hold all the cards you collect plus a nine-car uncut mini-press sheet is available for $69.95, limited to 99 sheet.
Posted by bob in News on April 9th, 2008
The paranormal is a popular topic in fiction these days so its little wonder one network after another is exploring the subject. AMC, which has increased its original programming, has picked up Darren Aronofsky’s (The Fountain) Riverview Towers, a series that follows a family that moves into a new apartment. The pilot script is being handled by John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan) with Aronofsky executive producing with partners Eric Watson and Jed Weintrob. Should AMC buy the script, Pat Jenkins (Monster) is set to direct. The project started as a pitch to HBO two years back but didn’t catch on.
Posted by bob in News on April 7th, 2008
The remake of My Bloody Valentine 3-D will now be toplined by Supernatural’s . He’ll star opposite Jamie King (Sin City) in the film, shooting shortly and due out January 23, 2009.
Rashad Strik (The Hills Have Eyes 2) will star in Hong Kong director Fruit Chan’s Don’t Look Up.
Richard T. Jones (Sarah Connor Chronicles) joins the now-shooting Final Destination 4, under director David Ellis (Final Destination 2).
Posted by admin in News on April 1st, 2008
The CW announced on Monday that Supernatural will be back in the Fall for a fourth season. The series has built a strong fan base and with other series on the network showing their age, they need shows that can deliver consistent audiences.
No word yet on the charming Reaper but in defiance of all logic Smallville will be back for an eighth season. Michael Rosenbaum, who plays Lex Luthor, previously announced his intentions to leave the series after the current strike-shortened season. What will happen to the Clark/Lex duality has yet to be announced.
Supernatural meantime has spawned some wonderful novels and comic books from DC Comics and should be around for a while.
News Bits & Pieces
We recently reported that Ellen Page pulled out of Sam Raimi’s return to horror. Now we see that the underrated Alison Lohman will replace her. We’re still chuffed about this project.
Legendary one-sheet painter Drew Struzan bas been tapped by Guillermo del Toro to craft the poster for Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Jim Marquand will direct episodes of George Lucas’ still-in-development Star Wars television series. He is the son of Return of the Jedi director Richard Marquand.
Speaking of Lucas, no surprise here that a new box set of the Indiana Jones trilogy will be released May 13, just before the fourth installment hits the big screen.
Speaking of Harrison Ford, his Crossing Over film has been scheduled by the Weinstein Company for August 22.
The live action Dragonball has been bumped from August until April 3, 2009.
The unnecessary remake of Escape to Witch Mountain, Race to Witch Mountain has added Ciaran Hinds (Stop Loss) and Alexander Ludwig (The Seeker: The Dark is Rising) to the cast which already features Dwayne Johnson (The Scorpion King) and AnnaSophia Robb (Jumper). The Andy Dickman film begins production this month.
New parents Move into House
Monica Potter (Along Came a Spider) and Tony Goldwyn (Ghost) will be playing the parents in the remake of Wes Craven’s classic Last House on the Left. Craven is producing the film with Dennis Iliadas directing.
The original, one of the first graphic horror films of the current generation, was released in 1972 with a No Name cast (Martin Kove of Karate Kid fame is about the only familiar name from the cast list) and became a template fro many imitators. By putting recognizable names in key roles already makes this an interesting project to follow.
NBC’s Fear Itself Details Released
Fear Itself will be a thirteen episode summer replacement series, hoping to imitate the success of a similar series, Masters of Horror, that played on Showtime last year. Recently, NBC released the names of several directors as well as some of the cast although the match-ups of star to helmer remain under wraps. The series is being produced on the cheap in Canada with production already underway, carefully supervised by Adam Goldworm, the series producer, repeating his Masters experience.
We can look forward to new thrills from John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Darren Bousman ( Saw II-IV), Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason), Brad Anderson (The Wire), Breck Eisner (Sahara), Mary Harron (American Psycho), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and Ernest Dickerson (Heroes).
Horror scribes Richard Chizmar & Jonathon Schaech (Road House 2); Mick Garris (Riding the Bullet); Drew McWeeny & Scott Swan (Masters of Horror); Max Landis (Masters of Horror); and Matt Venne (White Noise 2: The Light), return for new stories for the series.
New writers include Joe Gangemi (Wind Chill), Dan Knauf (Carnivale), Steve Niles (Thirty Days of Night), Lem Dobbs (Dark City), Victor Salva (Jeepers Creepers) and Kelly Kennemer (Music Within).
Casting includes Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Shiri Appleby (Charlie Wilson’s War), Cynthia Watros (Lost), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), John Billingsley (Enterprise), Russell Hornsby (Haunted), Pablo Schreiber (The Wire), Stephen Lee (Nash Bridges), Stephen R. Hart (Silent Hill), Jack Noseworthy (Judging Amy) and Larry Gilliard Jr. (The Wire).
Posted by admin in News on March 31st, 2008
Jared Padalecki will play someone who comes investigating Camp Crystal Lake in the forthcoming remake of Friday the 13th. Padalecki is no stranger to horror given his starring role on the CW’s Supernatural. Not only that, Padalecki has been in the remakes of House of Wax and Flight of the Phoenix.
Filming begins shortly in Austin, Texas with a release date set for February 13, 2009 (when else?). Marcus Nispel (Pathfinder) will direct from Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (Freddy vs. Jason)’s screenplay.
Odette Yustman (Cloverfield) is the only previously cast actor and Michael Baily Smith (The Hills Have Eyes) said he’s been talking with the team about playing Jason.
