The first trailer for Breck Eisner’s remake of George Romero’s 70s plague classic, The Crazies, has finally landed online. In a terrifying tale of the American Dream gone wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown when an unknown toxin turns the citizens into homicidal maniacs. A small-town sheriff David Dutton (Tommy Olyphant) tries to maintain law and order while protecting his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton’s deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a struggle for survival as they try to get out of town alive.
The scheduled release date for the remake is February 26, 2010.
Make Up Department
Leo Corey Castellano … makeup department head
Mary Kate Gales … additional makeup artist
Chris Gallaher … key makeup effects: Almost Human Inc
Robert Hall … special makeup designer: Almost Human, Inc
Bill Johnson … additional prop bodies
Adruitha Lee … hair department head
Jonah Levy … special makeup effects artist: Almost Human Inc
Deborah Patino … makeup artist: Radha Mitchell
Erik Porn … special makeup effects supervisor: for Almost Human Inc.
Toby Sells … special makeup effects artist: Almost Human Inc.
Darnell Shepherd … hair/lab technician: Almost Human, Inc.
Diana Sikes … hairstylist: Mr. Olyphant
Betty Lou Skinner … key hair stylist
Justin Stafford … wig maker
Beka Wilson … key hair stylist
Leigh Ann Yandle … key makeup artist
Andrea Politte … additional hair stylist
Radha Mitchell
Special Effects Department
Vincent Ball … special effects technician
Kevin Carter … special effects contact lenses
William Catania … special effects technician
James Cheshire … special effects technician
Paul Damien … special effects technician
Peter Damien … special effects technician
David Fletcher … special effects coordinator
Ken Gorrell … special effects foreman
Skylar Gorrell … special effects technician
G. Heath Hood … special effects technician
Thomas Kittle … special effects foreman
Dalton Kutsch … studio technician: Almost Human, Inc
Brendan McHale … special effects technician
Randy Moore … special effects technician
Greg Oliver … special effects technician
James L. Roberts … special effects shop foreman
With only a teaser trailer and a poster released for Saw VI, not much has been revealed about the latest sequel in the horror franchise, other than screenwriter Patrick Melton saying the movie will feel “resolved.”
It’s probably safe to assume that death traps are involved, as the first image of Saw VI reveals.
Saw VI opens October 23 and stars Costas Mandylor as Detective Hoffman, who has become the successor to Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) and sets a new game in motion as the FBI closes in on him. Shawnee Smith and Tanedra Howard co-star.
Make Up Department
Patrick Baxter … makeup effects lab technician
Amber Chase … assistant makeup artist
Jason Detheridge … makeup effects technician
Colin Penman … makeup department head
Visual Effects Department
David Alexander … senior cgi artist: Switch VFX
Jon Campfens … visual effects supervisor
Feizal Cassamalli … CG artist: Switch VFX
Peter Denomme … visual effects producer
Amir Eftekhari … CG artist: Switch VFX
Gudrun Heinze … senior digital compositor: Switch VFX
Megumi Kanazawa … digital compositor: Switch VFX
Jason Kozsurek … digital compositor
Keren Kurtz … modeler and texture artist
Jef Lonn … digital compositor: Switch VFX
Kevin McBride … digital compositor: Switch VFX
Mark Neumann … digital compositor: Switch VFX
Beau Parsons … visual effects coordinator: Switch VFX
Joel Skeete … digital compositor: Switch VFX
Chris Wallace … digital intermediate colourist
Beryl Wu … CG artist: Switch VFX
Lost in all the news of the major networks’ summer decline and the struggles of the pay channels and the ongoing soap operas of the endless reality shows is the news that Burn Notice is very quietly becoming a major ratings player on cable.
What originally looked like a silly, self-referential genre show tucked in after wrestling on the USA Network, Burn Notice is one of the biggest hits on cable. It doesn’t get the critical love of Mad Men, but it has a lot of fans.
According to a USA press release, the show’s August airings are burning down nine million viewers at a pop — making it the period’s most watch scripted episodic on cable.
It’s now USA’s most-watched original series ever with 9.1 million viewers during August episodes — the first time a USA original series has broken the nine million viewers benchmark.
World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night RAW is still the network’s most-watched show, but that’s a two-hour live event — a very different animals. Burn Notice is a scripted hour drama, and it’s bringing in numbers that would rival the major networks hits and humble all of their flops.
It’ll be interesting to see what USA does with its franchise here. It should work well in syndication. But could it make a modest jump to the big screen? A long shot maybe, but so was bringing in nine million viewers.
Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne
Burn Notice Crew
Series Make Up Department
Susie Mendez Pfister … makeup artist (20 episodes, 2007-2009)
Gianna Sparacino … hair stylist (15 episodes, 2008-2009)
Malinda Bennett … key makeup artist / assistant makeup artist (11 episodes, 2007)
Cuqui Collaza … hair stylist (6 episodes, 2007)
Series Special Effects Department
Craig Barnett … special effects foreman / special effects technician (23 episodes, 2007-2009)
Kevin Harris … special effects coordinator (14 episodes, 2007-2009)
Series Visual Effects Department
Jason Wilson … visual effects artist (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Michael S. Pryor … visual effects producer: Laser Pacific (2 episodes, 2009)
Much of “Grace” plays as a family drama about a mother desperate to save her baby. It’s that low-key, realistic framing that takes the movie’s macabre events to a whole new level of freaky. The nightmarish film preys on the pain that strikes all parents to the core: How far can one go for a child’s life? Madeline (Jordan Ladd), who has struggled to have kids, gets pregnant — then survives an accident that apparently kills her fetus. She wills herself to give birth anyway, only to find that the newborn has an unusual appetite.
It’s a horror movie but not a simple genre widget. That it’s rooted in reality gives its strange images the power to disturb. Even its environment is unusual, informed by women’s studies and alternative medicine. Writer-director Paul Solet’s meta-humor allows Madeline to watch a nature show depicting animal violence and call it “a vegan horror movie.”
The filmmaker conveys information in interesting ways. A brief, wordless opening depicting a purely functional sex scene between Madeline and her husband tells us about their relationship and that she has been trying to get pregnant for some time.
There are no cheap genre tricks, no jumping out of cupboards. Solet trusts his actors, story and atmosphere to hold audiences. “Grace” doesn’t need a high body count to frighten, although its gore is stomach-turning. It’s a horrifying meditation on the unbreakable union of mother and child.
Effects Crew:
Make Up Department
Redge Deitrich … key hair stylist
Jessica Kurtz … assistant makeup artist
Nina McArthur … assistant hair stylist
Krista Stevenson … makeup artist
Special Effects Department
Wade Maurer … special effects coordinator
Neil Morrill… animatronics
Visual Effects Department
Colin Hubick … visual effects supervisor
Kevin Kutchaver … visual effects supervisor: HimAnI Productions, Inc.
Jon Terada … digital artist
Anchor Bay Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to the horror comedy “Stan Helsing,” written and directed by Bo Zenga.
The movie will receive a targeted theatrical release during the fourth quarter of 2009 through the Anchor Bay Films label and will then be released on DVD in late October.
The spoof centers around a video store clerk named Stan Helsing, played by Steve Howey, who learns that he is a descendant of the monster hunter Van Helsing on Halloween night while making a routine video delivery. He finds himself in a battle with parodies of such movie monsters as Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Pinhead, Michael Myers and Chucky.
Zenga, one of the exec producers of “Scary Movie,” produced “Helsing” with Kirk Shaw and Scott Steindorff.
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Diora Baird, Steve Howey, Kenan Thompson, Ben Cotton, Holly Eglington and Ildiko Ferenczi
Special Effects Department
Ben Krakowsky… special effects assistant
Brant McIlroy … special effects coordinator
Kelsey McIlroy… special effects
Martin Testa … special effects first assistant
Visual Effects Department
Emil Chang … visual effects artist
Make Up Department
Jennifer Beebe … assistant makeup artist
Charmaine Clark … hair department head
Cara Doell … hair stylist
Mike Fields … special makeup effects artist
Rachel Griffin … special makeup effects artist
Kathy Howatt … makeup department head
Brittany Isaacs … second assistant makeup artist
Kathryn Jarymy … assistant makeup artist
Sarah Pickersgill … special makeup effects technician
Nicholas Podbrey … special effects makeup coordinator
Kristi Strang… assistant makeup artist
Vince Yoshida … special makeup effects technician
Tagline: Don’t fear the end of the world. Fear what happens next.
Look for a September 18th realease for this Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Film.
Plot Summary:
Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly – and horrifically – realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.
Directed by Christian Alvart
Cast includes:
Ben Foster … Bower
Dennis Quaid … Payton
Cam Gigandet … Gallo
Antje Traue
Make Up Department
Tamar Aviv … prosthetic makeup artist
Allan B. Holt … mold maker
Birger Laube … special makeup effects artist
Björn Rehbein … hair department head
Björn Rehbein … makeup department head
Katrin Schneider … makeup artist
Jörn Seifert … prosthetic makeup artist
Arjen Tuiten … special makeup effects artist: Stan Winston Studio
Special Effects Department
Herbert Blank … special effects senior technician
Steffen Blechschmidt … life casting assistant: Chris Creatures Filmeffects
Katharina Boehm … creature costume trainee
Johannes Brömel … life casting assistant: Chris Creatures Filmeffects
Tom Christ … special effects technician
Laura Elliott … special effects technician
Norman Ernst … special effects senior technician
Gerd Feuchter … special effects supervisor
Damian Fisher … key mold maker
Thomas Friedrich … special effects buyer
Andreas Herberg … special effects technician
Mark Keetch … lab technician
Chris Kunzmann … lead casting technician: Chris Creatures Filmeffects
Sebastian Lochmann … lifecast maker: Chris Creatures Filmeffects
Michael Luppino … special effects foreman
Klaus Mielich … special effects technical & crew coordinator
Peter Muehlenkamp … lifecast maker: Chris Creatures Filmeffects
Monty Ploch … special effects technician
Bernd Rautenberg … special effects foreman
Michael Rudnik … special effects foreman
Tobias Schroeter … creature costume supervisor
Tobias Schroeter … modelmaker/sculptor
Jürgen Thiel … special effects senior technician
Chris Zega … lab technician: Legacy effects
Visual Effects Department
Patrik Bergman … digital compositor
Jan Brukner … senior digital artist: UPP
Mario Dubec … visual effects artist
Martin Dusek … software research and development
Miro Gal … senior flame artist
Tyler Gooden … digital compositor
Petr Hastík … senior compositor
Jan Heusler … digital compositor
Milos Hudec … data operator
Dalibor Janda … digital compositor
Jan Jinda … senior cgi artist: UPP
Tomas Kalhous … senior compositor
Ales Killian … compositor
Tomas Kral … senior cgi artist: UPP
Jason Lopes … senior systems engineer stan winston studio
Jana Macenauerova … digital compositor
Petr Masek … digital compositor
Viktor Muller … visual effects supervisor
Tomas Munzar … digital compositor: UPP
Robert Pik … vfx compositor
Viktor Plch … senior effects artist
Vit Sedlacek … flame / inferno artist
Vit Sedlacek … matchmove artist
Jakub Szilvasi … digital compositor
Vladimir Valovic … digital compositor
Lucie Zemanova … digital compositor
The star of the upcoming flick Jonah Hex said his sex scene with brunette stunner Megan Fox was quite awkard.
In the movie, Brolin plays gun-slinging Jonah Hex, who has to wear a prosthetic face. Each morning, he spent three hours every day having his mouth pulled back and stuck with gaffer tape for the prosthetics and a mouthpiece to be fitted.
Megan, on the other hand, plays a hot hooker named Leila who falls in love with the masked man. However, Brolin says, “It was tough to figure out how to kiss with that thing on.”
And their love scenes were even more difficult. “To be honest, it was uncomfortable; those scenes are uncomfortable,” he said. “It was especially uncomfortable because I had this thing on my face.”
Make Up Department
Kimberly Amacker … makeup artist
Brent Baker … mold technician: Tinsley Transfers Inc.
Nikki I Brown … makeup artist
Samantha M. Capps … makeup artist
Stacey Herbert… makeup artist
Rolf John Keppler … special makeup effects artist
Krystal Kershaw … makeup artist
Eryn Krueger Mekash … special makeup effects artist
Jack Lazzaro … makeup artist
Rose Librizzi … makeup artist
Darryl Lucas … additional makeup artist
Kerry Mendenhall … key hair stylist
Gerald Quist … makeup artist: Megan Fox
Melizah Schmidt … hair stylist
Christien Tinsley … designer and creator: special makeup effects
Christien Tinsley … makeup artist: Josh Brolin
Christien Tinsley … makeup department head
Special Effects Department
Roland Blancaflor … special effects technician
James Bomalick… special effects technician
Bret Borgeson … special effects assistant
Darin Bouyssou … mold department: Tinsley Transfers
Chris Cline … special effects technician
Val Crawford … hair/fabrication: Tinsley Transfer
Josh Hakian … special effects supervisor
Edward Joubert… special effects technician
Cass McClure… special effects technician
David Waine … special effects coordinator
Colin Firth’s new film, Dorian Gray, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The classic story is about A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
The British film, which also stars Ben Barnes and Emilia Fox, will debut at the Canadian festival along with Harry Brown, starring Michael Caine, and Perrier’s Bounty, featuring Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent.
Make Up Department
Sidony Etherton … daily makeup trainee
Duncan Jarman… prosthetic sculptor
Paul Mooney … hair stylist
Paula Price … make-up/hair artist
Lesley Smith … makeup artist and hair stylist
Jeremy Woodhead… hair and makeup designer
Special Effects Department
James Davis III … special effects senior technician
Hugh Goodbody … special effects senior technician
Mark Holt … special effects supervisor
A nice American family. They didn’t want to kill. But they didn’t want to die
You know the Story:
A family going to California accidentally goes through an Air Testing range closed to the public. They crash and are stranded in a desert. They are being stalked by a group of people, which have not emerged into modern times
Trivia:
- There is a ripped poster of Jaws visible.
- Producer Peter Locke has a memorable cameo as Mercury, the imbecile-sounding gang member with the feathered head-dress who is only spotted twice throughout the film, firstly at Fred’s garage and secondly communicating with Mars and Pluto using a USAF radio.
- The dead dog used as a stand-in for the family’s slaughtered Alsatian ‘Beauty’, widely believed to be a dummy dog, was in fact a real (already dead) dog that director Wes Craven and producer Peter Locke had bought from the county sheriff’s department.
Directed by the Legendary Wes Craven, who also wrote and edited the flick.
Notable Crew Members:
Michael Berryman was unforgettable as Pluto
Make Up Department Dave Ayres … special makeup RaMona Fleetwood … hair stylist Karen Grant … makeup artist: second unit Ken Horn … special makeup Donald Mulderick … makeup artist
Special Effects Department Greg Auer … special effects John Frazier … special effects
Bringing the horror tone to the Hollywood premiere of ‘Orphan’, Warner Bros. Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment roll out black carpet in front of Mann’s Village Theater.
A week shy of the U.S. theatrical release of “Orphan”, a Los Angeles premiere for the horror thriller has been held by Warner Bros. Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment on Tuesday, July 21. Using Mann’s Village Theater as the place to present the film’s special screening, the event was kicked off with arrival of the celebrities on the black carpet. The actors who portray the Coleman family, Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Jimmy Bennett and Aryana Engineer, were all present at the premiere, and so did Isabelle Fuhrman, the young actress who plays the seemingly angelic but wicked Esther. Another cast member joining them was Sister Abigail’s depicter CCH Pounder.
In addition to the cast ensemble, the filmmakers were also spotted coming in. They included director Jaume Collet-Serra, writer David Leslie Johnson, and producers Joel Silver and Susan Downey. For the special occasion, Susan came accompanied by her “Iron Man” star husband Robert Downey Jr..
Other celebrities attending the premiere included “Dragonball Evolution” beauty Emmy Rossum, “Spider-Man” series director Sam Raimi, TV personality Kim Kardashian, R ‘n’ B singer Ciara and “The Proud Family” voice talent Tommy Davidson.
“Orphan” follows Kate and John who upon tragic loss of their unborn child decided to adopt another child. Drawn to a young girl named Esther at the local orphanage, they decide to welcome her into their home. However, almost as soon as she joins the family strange things begin to take place, leading Kate to believe the 9-year-old is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be. Warner Bros Pictures will distribute this film in theaters across the U.S. this Friday, July 24.
Crew for ‘Orphan’
Special Effects Department
Aaron Dinsmore … special effects assistant
Tony Kenny … special effects coordinator
Sophie Vertigan … special effects key
Make Up Department
Annick Chartier … makeup artist
Allan Cooke … special makeup effects artist
Corald Giroux … key hair stylist
C.J. Goldman … special makeup effects artist
Gaétan Landry … hair stylist
Ronald J. Rolfe … hair stylist
George Tucci … special makeup effects artist
Fanny Vachon … makeup artist
The classic story is about A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
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