Posts Tagged ‘Werewolf’
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 12th, 2008
Lobo is a new film from Brazilian writers Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colluci to be produced by Stone Village Pictures. Variety reports that Ezna Sands (Craven Marsh) will direct and Scott Steindorff will produce the feature about a man inheriting clues about a lost town deep in the Amazon rain forest. He learns his legacy dates back to the village and the werewolves who live there.
“The stylized nature of the film is what drew me, because it’s far less a monster movie than a Western in the mold of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America [sic],” Sands told the paper. “I have the opportunity to bring back to audiences the kind of hero they had in the ’70s, someone as dark and conflicted as the new James Bond or the Dark Knight. Our intention is to tell a single story over three films, and this first chapter is a guy who makes a massive revelation.”
The $15 million production will begin outside Rio de Janeiro in October and the pre-release strategy is for the writers to also produce a graphic-novel adaptation as well.
Posted by bob in News on August 5th, 2008
In case you missed the hubbub, Stephenie Meyer’s final chapter in her Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn, mustered the same sort of buzz as did the final Harry Potter book. Hachette Book Group USA reported an all time high for one-day sales with release of Breaking Dawn. The book was released at 12:01 a.m. with great fanfare and events at bookstores across the country. By the end of Saturday it had sold some 1.3 million copies of the tome. While the first day sales for Breaking Dawn were significant, last year’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows still had the biggest 24-hour sales with 8.3 million books sailing off shelves.
Posted by bob in Films on August 4th, 2008
Director Patrick Tatopolous spoke with ShockTilYouDrop and riffed on what might be found in a fourth chapter in the Underworld franchise. While Underworld: Rise of the Lycans goes back to explore how the Lycans were enslaved by the vampires, the next installment might expand further on the background or go back to the present and continue Selene’s story.
Tatopolous admitted co-creator Len Wiseman “has a concept of what the next film will be. At this stage, where we’re at now, I would personally love to go back to the future. You can explore a lot of things, however, with our film; we’ve opened the door to other interesting projects. It could be [another] period film.”
Expect Underworld: Rise of the Lycans on January 23, 2009.
Posted by bob in Comics, News on July 29th, 2008
We found remember exploitation films such as Ilsa, She Wolf of the S.S., so when Rob Zombie honored that with his mock trailer for Werewolf Women of the S.S. during Grindhouse, we smiled.
Now, Zombie has produced a comic book based the trailer with art by Dave Hartman and the cover just went live. As for when it will be release and from which publisher, those details remain hidden for now.
“Werewolf Women of the SS is back!” Zombie wrote on his MySpace blog. “This time it’s back as a comic book series! The wacky exploits of Commandant Hess, Lt. Boorman, Von Strasser Eva and Gretchen Krupp, Fu Manchu and even Hitler will be coming you way. Everything you ever wanted to know about Project Pure Wolf but were afraid to ask!”
Posted by bob in Films, News on July 26th, 2008
At Comic-Con International, director Patrick Tatopoulos introduced audiences to his Underworld: Rise of the Lycans cast: Rhona Mitra (Spartacus), Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean), and Kevin Grevious.
The event began with a rough cut of the trailer for the January 2009 release. Where there was rough animation, Tatopolous explained CGI effects would be inserted when completed.
After working on the first two films in the series, he had ideas of what should be done next which earned him a shot at directing the third film, making his debut. The prequel, he said was “bolder…Goes back to origin of slavery and the quest for freedom. The story between the two protagonists, Sonya and Lucian, it’s a great love story and that’s how it’s done.” (more…)
Posted by bob in Comics, News on July 15th, 2008
Image Comics has announced Savage, a new title from horror stylist Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), with cowriters Dan Wickline and Jeff Frank. The comic book, coming October 29, will feature Bigfoot and werewolves. Better yet: Bigfoot fighting werewolves.
The artist, Mike Mayhew (Lady Rawhide), said in a release, “As a kid, I was always more drawn to horror comics, but I’ve never had the opportunity return to that as an adult,” said Mayhew. “Savage is my chance to take everything I loved so much about the genre and run with it. The story Steve conceived with Dan hits every note I was hungry to hit and despite this being Jeff Frank’s debut, he knocks the script out of park with Dan’s help. Everyone involved knows and loves horror like nobody’s business.”
Posted by bob in Films, News on July 1st, 2008
Dread Central is reporting that Asylum alum Leigh Scott is at work on several new projects for Bullet Films, the new production entity Scott and other former Asylum staffers founded.
Among them is the werewolf movie , starring Jeremy London (Basilisk: The Serpent King), Marc Dacascos (Brotherhood of the Wolf), Yancy Butler (Witchblade), Christy Carlson Romano (voice Kim Possible), and Rhett Giles (Dracula’s Curse). London is the heroic werewolf saving the world from a vampire, Dacascos. The film is being directed by Griff Furst (100 Million BC) with Leigh Scott and Ken Badish (Mansquito) producing.
The newfound studio has already wrapped two other projects, one for the Sci-Fi Channel starring Gigi Edgely (Farscape) and The Darkest Evil starring Jeffrey Combs.
Scott, of course, cut his teeth working for Roger Corman’s Concorde Pictures before moving on to The Asylum where he pounded out fifteen films in twenty-four months. He left to form Blackthorne Industries, LLC to continue film production.
Posted by bob in Reviews on June 30th, 2008
Cinematical is reporting that it appears Ellen Page and her Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby will not be locking lips in the lesbian werewolf film Jack and Diane.Like good Kremlinologists, they have been scouring the IMDB web pages and note the film is no longer showing up on Page’s page. The website could also find no additional information about the film at IMDB, with Thirlby still attached or elsewhere. The film was to be written and directed by Bradley Rust Gray (Hitch) which at one point had a June 2008 release date. Werewolf-movies.com confirms IMDB’s note that the film has shifted to 2010 with no details. (more…)
Posted by bob in Films, News on June 21st, 2008
MGM is planning a 20th anniversary DVD edition for Child’s Play due out September 9th. Features have not been announced.
John Landis told Bloody-Disgusting that Universal Home Entertainment will release a Blu-Ray edition of his wonderful An American Werewolf in London before the year is out. The disc will include a new documentary Beware the Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf in London, directed by Paul Davis.
Posted by bob in Films, News on May 20th, 2008
Lionsgate has the direct-to-DVD horror film, Alive or Dead, coming June 17. The movie was written and directed by Stephen Goetsch (Scar) and will be a single disc release, priced at $26.98. While traveling down a desolate road, Maria (model Ann Henson) comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “Help Me” in one of the windows, and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. Maria soon finds herself hidden and trapped with the girl as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their journey leads to a bizarre medieval castle nestled in the desert, a location where they’ll quickly learn their enemy is not who they think. The girls must figure out whom to trust if they hope to make it home, Alive or Dead.
A website for Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight film has launched at http://twilightthemovie.com/. The teaser trailer, photo gallery and other features are already available. The movie is due out in December.
Ron Chaney, the great-grandson of the Lon Chaney Sr., will play a werewolf in The Misfits, coming from Blood Worx Films. He will be part of their Monsterpiece Theatre anthology. He plays the next door neighbor to two 12-year olds. Daeg Farech (Hancock), Ashley Banks (Monster Squad), Lisa Wilcox (Nightmare on Elm Street 4 and 5), and Kevin Roeck (Black Friday) costar. Production is set to begin on May 31st in Arizona.
