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
Fox Home Entertainment is promoting their upcoming direct to DVD release of ‘Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead’. You can check out the full feature when it arrives on DVD on October 20th.
Here’s the story: Three Finger and his disturbed family of inbred cannibals are alive and well-fed. The first course for the bloodthirsty family comes when a group of campers arrive, realizing only too late that ticks aren’t the only things that bite in these backwoods. But when some of the most vicious killers in the country escape into the woods from a bus transporting them to prison, Three Finger and his family may have met their match. Will justice be served on the convicted murderers or upon the mutant killers?”
Directed by
Declan O’Brien
Writers
Alan B. McElroy, Turi Meyer, Al Septien
Cast
Tom Frederic … Nate
Janet Montgomery … Alex
Tamer Hassan … Chavez
Gil Kolirin … Floyd Weathers
Tom McKay … Brandon
Christian Contreras … Willy
Jake Curran … Crawford
Chucky Venice … Walter
Make Up Department Yana Stoyanova … makeup and special effects makeup department head
Special Effects Department
Jovko Dogandjiski … special effects assistant
Nikolay Furtunkov … special effects technician
Visual Effects Department
Grits Carter … system engineer
Charles Collyer … digital compositor: Mechnology
Luke Guidici … visual effects editor
Erica Jean … visual effects editor
These days, vampires are almost as prevalent as the mirrors they never cast a reflection in. True Blood, Twilight, Lestat, Underworld, The Vampire Diaries, Cirque du Freak, Priest,
Malcolm McDowell
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter… They’re everywhere. However, while we might be inclined to knock any new film that tries to jump onto the pile, we can’t really fault any horror indies. Vamps have always thrived in that realm; it’s their home turf.
So you might remember that last year, I wrote about a little Canadian horror comedy called Suck and its interesting cast list — Jessica Pare, Malcolm McDowell, Dave Foley, Iggy Pop, Moby, Alice Cooper, Carol Pope, and Henry Rollins. The film has since wrapped, is heading to TIFF next month (hat tip to MTV), and you can check out a trailer for the bloodletting after the jump. The brainchild of Rob Stefaniuk (of Phil the Alien fame), Suck focuses on a struggling band who finally finds success when the leader’s (Stefaniuk) ex gf and bandmate Jennifer (Pare) becomes a vampire rife with “sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild.”
McDowell co-stars as Eddie Van Helsing — a one-eyed vamp hunter who’s afraid of the dark, while Foley plays their manager, Pop plays a music producer, Cooper plays a bartender, and Rollins plays “Rock’n Roger” — a radio dude with terrible hair. That alone has me sold. Heck,
Jessica Paré
McDowell with a flashlight to “keep the dark away” is gold just on its own. But just to sweeten the pot some more, the film’s full of songs like David Bowie’s “Here Come’s the Night” and The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.”
Make Up Department
Graham Chivers … dental technician
Cliona Furey… hair department head
Iantha Goldberg … assistant makeup artist
Colin Penman … assistant makeup department head
Jordan Samuel … makeup designer
Special Effects Department
Graham Chivers … special effects technician
Steve Newburn … special effects technician
Ron Stefaniuk … special effects coordinator
Visual Effects Department
Tony Cybulski … digital compositor: C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
Luke Groves … visual effects production manager: C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
Mark Thomas-Stubbs … lead digital effects artist
Chris Wallace … digital intermediate colourist
The latest fighting game to be turned into a movie is The King of Fighters which is set for release sometime in 2010.
Other upcoming game movies based on fighting games include Tekken and the Street Fighter-based movie Street
Maggie Q
Fighter: The legend of Chun-Li (starring Kristen Kruek aka Lana Lane from Smallville as Chun-Li) and the already released Dead or Alive film.
The King of Fighters flick will see the franchise getting a science fiction angle (something not found in the games, at least to my knowledge) as revealed in this quote from the MovieSet:
It also looks like the King of Fighters movie will introduce a new science fiction spin into the setting established in the games’ universe by following the surviving members of three legendary fighting clans who are continually whisked away to other dimensions by an evil power. As the fighters enter each new world they battle that universe’s native defenders, while the force that brought them seeks to find a way to invade and infect our world. Hmm, doesn’t seem very faithful to the games to me, eh.
Naturally the game is based on the long-running “The King of Fighters” franchise of fighting games by SNK Playmore. A series which is on it’s 12th core entry with The King of Fighters XII and has spawned a whopping 13 spin-off games. To put that into perspective, the Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter franchises are still in single digits (Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe is the 8th MK game while Street Fighter is on it’s fourth CORE entry with Street Fighter IV, even though there’s been tons of spin-offs and re-releases).
The King of Fighters movie began filming in Vancouver, Canada on November 27th. It’s being directed by Gordon
Bernice Liu
Chan, a dynamic Hong-Kong-born director who is known for films like Fist of legend, Beast Cop and Jackie Chan’s 2003 flick The Medallion. The screenplay is by newcomer Rita Augustine.
As far as actors are concerned, The King of Fighters will star Maggie Q (Live Free and Die Hard), Sean Faris (Never Back Down), Will Yun Lee (Elektra), Francoise Yip (Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem), Monique Ganderton (Supernatural) and Ray Park, best known for his portrayal as Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Producing the movie will be Joseph Chou (Appleseed: Ex Machina), Tim Kwok (Wicked City) and Bobby Sheng. The picture is being jointly financed by Japanese production and rights management group Micott & Basara and Australian-U.S. sales agent Arclight/Easternlight.
Cast
Sean Faris … Kyo Kusanagi
Will Yun Lee … Iori Yagami
David Leitch … Terry Bogard
Maggie Q … Mai Shiranui
Ray Park … Rugal Bernstein
Bernice Liu … Vice
Monique Ganderton … Mature
Françoise Yip
Sam Hargrave … Ryo Sakazaki
Françoise Yip … Chizuru
When actress Jenni Baird was cast in “Alien Trespass,” the campy science-fiction film released on DVD Tuesday, she was given homework.
Director R.W. Goodwin told her to go home and watch the original versions of “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” ”War of the Worlds” and “It Came from Outer Space.” He wanted Baird to get familiar with the movies that were the inspiration for his salute to the 1950s creature features.
Goodwin’s film looks likeit was shot in the ’50s, when movie monsters were often made of scraps of material and had exposed zippers. The task of the beautiful woman — fellow scientist, secretary, spouse — was to scream bloody murder.
Baird’s character is different. She plays a waitress who won’t back down to any little green men in flying saucers.
“I was told that my character does not exist in the original form,” said Baird during a break from meeting with WonderCon conventioneers earlier this year. She’s joined fellow actors Eric McCormack and Dan Lauria, plus Goodwin, to drum up interest in the movie at the comic book/movie/television event.
Goodwin, who grew up in Los Angeles, has seen countless old monster movies. He would take a bus to Inglewood, where a theater played double bills of ’50s science-fiction movies.
“It was important that we make an original movie and not do a remake. The story idea is an amalgam of a bunch of the real classic ’50s movies. Combine that with going back and looking at the films and realizing how funny they are today, I figured if we stuck to our guns and made an authentic ’50s movie, it could be charming and scary and fun,” Goodwin says.
McCormack’s biggest adjustment was how he delivered dialogue. These days, it’s not unusual for actors to pause, stutter or misspeak. Back in the ’50s, everyone delivered flawless lines of dialogue.
“It is hard to get in that frame of mind that it is not a good take until you have said everything just perfectly and not sound human at all,” McCormack says. “I think there are times in this movie where the alien sounds more human than the actual humans.”
McCormack worked on “Alien Trespass” just after working on the updated version of “The Andromeda Strain.” Before the films he spent eight years starring in the situation comedy “Will&Grace.”
As for his range of roles, McCormack says, “I have artistic A.D.D.”
Effects Crew for Alien Trespass:
Make Up Department
Jill Bailey … makeup assistant
Ian C. Ballard … key hair stylist
Julia Bors … extras makeup artist
Susan Boyd … hair stylist
Rachel Griffin … special makeup effects artist
Michael Nickiforek … creature fabricator
Michael Nickiforek … creature sculptor
Connie Parker … key makeup artist
Jessica Rain … hair stylist
Special Effects Department
Agnieszka Echallier … creature effects
Joel Echallier … creature effects
John W. Fisher … special effects assistant
Chris Flemington … special effects assistant
Rachel Griffin … creature creator
Tony Lazarowich … special effects coordinator
Robert Yeager … special effects best boy
Visual Effects Department
Eric Chauvin … visual effects supervisor
Andrea Chlebak … digital intermediate colorist
Lars Simkins … digital compositor
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
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