‘Pandorum’ Poster Out!

Tagline: Don’t fear the end of the world. Fear what happens next.

Look for a September 18^th 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 Breakfast Club Director John Hughes Dies at 59

Brian Orloff – People.com

John Hughes died of a heart attack on Thursday, his spokeswoman confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. The director was 59.

Hughes, who directed the beloved ’80s films The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, was visiting family in Manhattan when he had a heart attack during a morning walk, the Associated Press reports.

The writer-director, who lived in the Chicago area and set many of his films there, is credited with making Molly Ringwald, who appeared in his 1984 movie Sixteen Candles, a star.

The last film he directed was 1991’s Curly Sue. In recent years, the somewhat reclusive Hughes contributed as a writer to movies including 2002’s Maid in Manhattan

Deborah Ann Woll celebrates ‘Mother’s Day’

Deborah Ann Woll

Borys Kit – HollywoodReporter.com

Deborah Ann Woll has flowers ready for “Mother’s Day,” the remake of Charles Kaufman’s 1980 Troma cult classic being directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.

The original “Mother’s Day” revolved around three female friends who, while camping, run afoul of two brothers who engage in murder and rape to impress their deranged mother.

The remake sees the villainous family, slightly expanded to include a daughter (Woll), return to the house where they grew up and terrorize the new owners and their guests.

Twisted Pictures, the Genre Co., Rat Entertainment and LightTower Entertainment are behind the remake.

The makers are eyeing a spring release timed for Mother’s Day with a shoot to begin in the fall in Manitoba.

Woll, repped by Stone Manners and Marshak/Zachary Co., is best known for playing teen vampire Jessica Hamby on HBO’s “True Blood.” She next shoots the indie drama “Highland Park.”

Oscar Winning Writer Budd Schulberg Dead at 95

Budd Schulberg

From TheWrap.com

Won 1954 Oscar for “On the Waterfront,” wrote Oscar-winning “A Face in the Crowd.”

Writer Budd Schulberg, who won an Academy Award for “On the Waterfront,” died on Wednesday (August 5, 2009) at 95.

The son of B.P. Schulberg, head of Paramount Pictures, and Adeline Jafee-Schulberg, sister to agent/film producer Sam Jaffe, Schulberg was hardly a Hollywood insider. Aside from his 1954 Oscar, he’s best known for his iconic anti-Hollywood novel, “What Makes Sammy Run.”

The book made him almost as unpopular in the industry town as his appearance in 1951 as a friendly witness in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming names of other alleged Hollywood communists.

Famously, after penning “Sammy,” Louis B. Mayer told B.P. Schulberg that his son should be deported. B.P. replied that since Budd was a U.S. citizen raised in Hollywood, “Where the hell are you gonna deport him? Catalina Island?”

Among his other works of fiction are “The Disenchanted,” a 1950 bestseller about a young screenwriter who becomes disillusioned with a thinly disguised F. Scott Fitzgerald”;  “The Harder They Fall,” later made into the Movie “A Face in the Crowd,” for which Schulberg did the screenplay”; “Sanctuary V”;  and “Everything That Moves.” 

He also was a prolific boxing writer and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as a writer in 2003, when he was 89 years old.

In the wake of the Los Angeles riots in the mid-60s, Schulberg helped found the Watts Writers Workshop.  He also co-founded, in 1971, the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York City.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said of his autobiography, “Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince”: “As a book on the early days of the movies in Hollywood — their triumphs and fiascos, their scoundrels and heroes — his candid memoir is hard to beat. A fascinating and significant contribution to American social history.”

He spent his last years in Long Island; he is survived by his wife Betsy and five children.

Epix lands Samuel Goldwyn pics

Georg Szalai – HollywoodReporter.com

NEW YORK — Premium TV service Epix, the joint venture among Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM, has struck an exclusive output deal with Samuel Goldwyn Films.
It’s Epix’s first output arrangement beyond deals with its venture partners. Under the terms of the deal, up to 20 Goldwyn films slated for theatrical release in 2010 and 2011 will be available across all Epix platforms, including its linear channel, subscription-on-demand and epixhd.com, starting next year.
Part of Samuel Goldwyn’s 2010 slate is “The Yellow Handkerchief,” with other films to be announced shortly.
“Epix is developing a brand and an approach that is transforming the way films are viewed by consumers,” said Meyer Gottlieb, president and COO of Samuel Goldwyn Films. “We chose Epix because we want to be part of this new approach to deliver our films to consumers in the way they want to see them.”

Seth Rogen Afraid of Getting ‘Pineapple’ All Over His ‘Green Hornet’

Seth Rogen unveils Green Hornets 'Black beauty' at ComicCon

Larry Carroll – MTV News

These days, Seth Rogen and best bud Evan Goldberg are hard at work getting ready to shoot their high-profile flick “The Green Hornet.” But according to the “Funny People” star, the hardest part about adapting “Hornet” for the big-screen hasn’t been concerns over how to pay homage to the source material, or even how to make Rogen into an action star – it’s been making sure they don’t repeat their old material.

“It’s hard not to steal your own jokes,” laughed Rogen when we caught up with him recently, remembering the process of writing “Hornet” with Godlberg, his longtime collaborator who also co-wrote/produced the hit comedies “Pineapple Express” and “Superbad.” “It’s hard; like, you really forget which ideas you’ve used and which ones you haven’t.”

Recently, the duo were on hand to unveil Green Hornet’s Black Beauty at Comic-Con – and eager to talk about the script they’ll begin shooting soon.

“It’s funny, yesterday me and Evan were writing,” Rogen remembered of one action scene. “And he was like ‘Oh, let’s do a scene where the badguy grabs his henchman, and then the other badguy shoots the henchman!’”

“And I was like ‘We already did that in ‘Pineapple Express.’ Like, we did that exact same joke,” laughed Rogen. “Evan had to think back for a few minutes before he realized that.”

Although, if Rogen and Goldberg aren’t perfect in avoiding every gag they’ve used before, they could always refer to such a scene as an homage and come out looking like geniuses. “Exactly,” laughed Rogen. “It’s just lazy, but we could say we were paying homage to ourselves, something we did two years ago.”

If they ever do finish the script, “Green Hornet” is scheduled to start playing out under the watchful eye of Michel Gondry in the Fall, eyeballing a prime July 9, 2010 blockbuster release date.

“The Raven” meets Se7en

“The Raven” meets Se7en.
That’s how director James McTeigue is describing his next film The Raven, a fictional tale that places author Edgar Allan Poe at the head of a serial killer investigation. The V for Vendetta and Ninja Assassin Helmer tells /Film that the title of the project is, in fact, called The Raven and is an “account of the final five “mysterious” days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life. Apparently the famous writer joins the hunt for a serial killer whose murders are inspired by his stories.”

The script is by Hannah Shakespeare (Bionic Woman, Ghost Whisperer) and Ben Livingston.

Source(s) SlashFilm.com, Shocktilyoudrop.com

Weta Workshop unveils new line of ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie collectibles

Weta Workshop

Erik Even – J.R.R. Tolkien Examiner

Weta Workshop, the special effects company based in Miramar, New Zealand, has acquired a new license from Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create a new line of fine art collectibles and memorabilia based on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

It has been four years since Weta last released new collectibles from The Lord of the Rings.

The new high-end collectibles will designed and created by the same Academy Award-winning artists who worked on the movie trilogy.

Four of the new items were announced at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con:

A limited-edition run of authentic swords from movie trilogy. Each sword is individually hand-crafted by Peter Lyon, the Master Swordsmith from Weta Workshop, who created the original swords used in the movies. The first sword to be released is Anduril, in a limited-edition of only 10 worldwide.

A full scale replica of Gollum, cast in bronze or in faux bronze fiberglass, and sculpted by the original artists.

A new range of cast metal miniature shields, built by Weta’s senior model maker, Dave Tremont, who built Grond (the orcs’ giant battering ram at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields) and many of the miniatures used in filming the trilogy.

An exact replica of the Gandalf the Grey’s original cloak worn by Ian McKellen in the movie trilogy, using the same woollen material, produced from the same farm in New Zealand, and woven on the same 19th century looms.

The new items will be available from WetaNZ.com.

Weta Workshop was founded in 1987 by Richard Taylor and others, to produce creatures and makeup effects for the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, and effects for films such as Peter Jackson’s Meet The Feebles and Heavenly Creatures. A digital division, Weta Digital, was formed in 1993.

 Read More about Gino Acevedo, Award winning Senior Visual Effects Prosthetics Supervisor and Visual Creature Effects Art Director, Gino Acevedo, at WETA Workshop in New Zealand, click HERE

George Romero’s zombies to invade Medium this Halloween

Opening Scene Zombie from Night of the Living Dead

Mike Moody – TVSquad.com

   Zombies are everywhere these days. The walking dead have invaded

Patricia Arquette, star of 'Medium'

Marvel Comics, Jane Austen books, and they’ll soon be chomping on brains in a galaxy far, far away.
  

This Halloween, Patricia Arquette will face off against a classic undead army in an upcoming episode of Medium. 
  

Show creator Glenn Gordon Caron said an upcoming Halloween-themed episode will insert Arquette’s character into scenes from George Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead film. It’s part a dream sequence that would not have happened if the show had stayed on NBC.
  

 Medium jumped to CBS after being cancelled by NBC last season. The move to CBS means the show can now do time-specific episodes, like a George Romero zombie-filled Halloween special, Caron said.
  

 “The good news is we’re on CBS now, and for the first time in three years … we’re going into the beginning of the season knowing when we’re premiering — in the fall — and doing 22 episodes,” Caron told reporters at the TV Critics Association summer press tour. “As a storyteller, that’s a huge thing, because it means I can say to you that on Halloween, we will be doing thus and so. That’s a luxury we’ve not had for three years.”
   The zombie episode will air the night before Halloween.

Bruce Campbell Goes Samurai In AMBUSH AT BLOOD TRAIL GATE!

Todd Brown – TwitchFilm.net

Okay, so it features just the voice of Bruce as opposed to all of him but Bruce is still Bruce whether in voice or body.  And though I tend to be generally opposed to English language dubbing of foreign films, I think I can make an exception in this case.  Because, frankly, if you can’t enjoy Mr. Campbell hamming it up on the voice track of a cult Japanese samurai splatter film then, well, you’re just not human.  The film is Ambush At Blood Trail Gate, a 1987 underground title by Naohiro Takita recently rediscovered by new startup outfit Shinobi Splat with picture intact but vocal track destroyed.  They gave the visuals a polish up and enlisted a new English voice cast to restore the audio end with Campbell front and center. 

Young rebellious samurai Muramoto (voiced by Bruce Campbell) spends his days drinking sake and womanizing in a small Edo-era village.  However, when he crosses the line with the Clan Leader’s daughter, the consequences are dire.  The action builds to a thrilling climax at the legendary Blood Trail Gate.