Brad Dourif has had an incredible acting career that stretches back more than fifty years – and back in the early days of that career, he even earned a “Best Actor in a Supporting Role” Oscar nomination for his performance in the 1975 classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Over a decade later, he started playing the role he is best known for, that of Charles Lee Ray, a.k.a. Chucky, a serial killer who uses voodoo to transfer his soul into the body of a doll. Dourif is now 74 years old, so when we hear that he has decided to retire from acting, it’s totally understandable… but while talking about his retirement, Dourif has also made sure to assure fans that his days of Chucky are not over. He will still continue to work on any Chucky projects that might come up.
News of Dourif’s retirement comes...
News of Dourif’s retirement comes...
- 4/17/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A new episode of the Revisited video series has just made its way online, and with this one we’re celebrating the birthday of the late, great director Tobe Hooper by looking at one of his more underrated horror films: the 2004 release Toolbox Murders (watch it Here)! You can hear all about it in the embed above.
Toolbox Murders is technically a remake of the 1978 film The Toolbox Murders, but it’s very different from the source material. Written by Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, this one has the following synopsis: Young couple Steve and Nell move into a once fashionable, but now decaying, apartment block in Los Angeles, and soon realise that a number of young female residents have met unusually violent deaths. Before long, Nell makes some disturbing discoveries about the building’s manager and her fellow tenants.
The film stars Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Marco Rodríguez, Rance Howard,...
Toolbox Murders is technically a remake of the 1978 film The Toolbox Murders, but it’s very different from the source material. Written by Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, this one has the following synopsis: Young couple Steve and Nell move into a once fashionable, but now decaying, apartment block in Los Angeles, and soon realise that a number of young female residents have met unusually violent deaths. Before long, Nell makes some disturbing discoveries about the building’s manager and her fellow tenants.
The film stars Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Marco Rodríguez, Rance Howard,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Sad news today as it’s been reported that Melinda Dillon, best known for her roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and A Christmas Story, has died at the age of 83.
Melinda Dillon played Jillian Guiler in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens. She was cast in the role just three days before filming began on the recommendation of Hal Ashby, who had directed her in Bound for Glory. Dillon’s performance would earn her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also played Ralphie’s mother in Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story, memorably telling him that he would shoot his eye out if he got a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. She received another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sydney Pollack’s Absence of Malice.
Melinda Dillon played Jillian Guiler in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens. She was cast in the role just three days before filming began on the recommendation of Hal Ashby, who had directed her in Bound for Glory. Dillon’s performance would earn her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also played Ralphie’s mother in Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story, memorably telling him that he would shoot his eye out if he got a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. She received another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sydney Pollack’s Absence of Malice.
- 2/3/2023
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
We’ve learned the sad news today that two-time Oscar nominee Melinda Dillon, known for playing “Mother Parker” in Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story, has passed away at the age of 83.
The actress passed away on Monday, January 9, the family announced today.
Melinda Dillon was nominated for Academy Awards in 1978 and in 1982, first for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, playing the role of Jillian Guiler, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens. Jillian ends up joining Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) on his adventure.
Later in 1982, Dillon was nominated in the same category – Best Actress in a Supporting Role – for her performance as Teresa in Sydney Pollack’s film Absence of Malice.
Melinda Dillon is also known for her decades-spanning roles in Bound for Glory, Slap Shot, Harry and the Hendersons, Captain America (1990), Magnolia, and Reign Over Me.
Dillon’s film credits also include The April Fools,...
The actress passed away on Monday, January 9, the family announced today.
Melinda Dillon was nominated for Academy Awards in 1978 and in 1982, first for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, playing the role of Jillian Guiler, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens. Jillian ends up joining Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) on his adventure.
Later in 1982, Dillon was nominated in the same category – Best Actress in a Supporting Role – for her performance as Teresa in Sydney Pollack’s film Absence of Malice.
Melinda Dillon is also known for her decades-spanning roles in Bound for Glory, Slap Shot, Harry and the Hendersons, Captain America (1990), Magnolia, and Reign Over Me.
Dillon’s film credits also include The April Fools,...
- 2/3/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Ric Parnell, who played the fictional band Spinal Tap’s drummer Mick Shrimpton in the classic 1984 heavy metal “mockumentary” “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died at the age of 70, according to a post from the group’s Harry Shearer and Yahoo News. No cause of death was initially reported.
Ric Parnell, our drummer in This is Spinal Tap, passed away today. No one ever rocked harder.
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) May 2, 2022
The group — fronted by actor-musicians Michael McKean (as David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (as Nigel Tufnel) and Shearer (as Derek Smalls) — crossed the line between fiction and reality from their inception: the band literally road-tested tested their concept shortly after making the film, opening shows for psychedelic sludge-rockers Iron Butterfly, and no one in the audience was for the wiser.
Spinal Tap’s drummers are a running punchline in the film — all of the group’s previous drummers had died,...
Ric Parnell, our drummer in This is Spinal Tap, passed away today. No one ever rocked harder.
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) May 2, 2022
The group — fronted by actor-musicians Michael McKean (as David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (as Nigel Tufnel) and Shearer (as Derek Smalls) — crossed the line between fiction and reality from their inception: the band literally road-tested tested their concept shortly after making the film, opening shows for psychedelic sludge-rockers Iron Butterfly, and no one in the audience was for the wiser.
Spinal Tap’s drummers are a running punchline in the film — all of the group’s previous drummers had died,...
- 5/2/2022
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
The GLAAD Media Awards winners were announced on Thursday, with “Booksmart” and “Pose” taking home the top honors.
The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony hosted by comedians Fortune Feimster and Gina Yashere. The event streamed on GLAAD’s Facebook and YouTube accounts, with a taped version set to air on Logo on Monday. Performers included Chloe x Halle, Shea Diamond and Ben Platt.
Among the winners highlighted on the stream were “Old Town Road” singer Lil Nas X, who took home the award for Outstanding Music Artist; the cast and producers of “Pose” and “Schitt’s Creek,” which won the top awards for drama and comedy series, respectively; “Booksmart,” which won Outstanding Film – Wide Release; and Rachel Maddow, who received the award for Outstanding TV Journalism Segment for her one-on-one interview with Pete Buttigieg.
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During the ceremony,...
The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony hosted by comedians Fortune Feimster and Gina Yashere. The event streamed on GLAAD’s Facebook and YouTube accounts, with a taped version set to air on Logo on Monday. Performers included Chloe x Halle, Shea Diamond and Ben Platt.
Among the winners highlighted on the stream were “Old Town Road” singer Lil Nas X, who took home the award for Outstanding Music Artist; the cast and producers of “Pose” and “Schitt’s Creek,” which won the top awards for drama and comedy series, respectively; “Booksmart,” which won Outstanding Film – Wide Release; and Rachel Maddow, who received the award for Outstanding TV Journalism Segment for her one-on-one interview with Pete Buttigieg.
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During the ceremony,...
- 7/31/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
“You could have dinner with us… my brother makes good head cheese! You like head cheese?”
The ‘Grave Tales’ Horror film series concludes at Webster University Thursday March 6th with a screening of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). The screening will be at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30 and a Facebook invite for the event can be found Here.
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may or may not be the scariest horror movie ever made (I think it is) but it’s certainly one of the most referenced, imitated, ripped off, and influential. It opened in October of 1974 when I was 13 and I read about it in a few monster mags, but could not initially talk my dad into taking me to see it (hew was usually pretty cool about that kind of thing – he’d already taken me to...
The ‘Grave Tales’ Horror film series concludes at Webster University Thursday March 6th with a screening of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). The screening will be at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30 and a Facebook invite for the event can be found Here.
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may or may not be the scariest horror movie ever made (I think it is) but it’s certainly one of the most referenced, imitated, ripped off, and influential. It opened in October of 1974 when I was 13 and I read about it in a few monster mags, but could not initially talk my dad into taking me to see it (hew was usually pretty cool about that kind of thing – he’d already taken me to...
- 3/3/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The man who gave us cinema’s greatest werewolf now brings us a pretty lady with deer legs.
I love John Landis. I know not everyone shares this opinion. He has been controversial ever since his involvement in the Twilight Zone: The Movie accident that claimed the lives of his leading man, Vic Morrow, and co-stars Myca Dinh Le and Shin-Yi Chen, both of whom were children. It’s an impossible discussion to have in any kind of satisfying way here; there was an entire book written about it (Outrageous Conduct by Stephen Farber and Marc Green) and a lengthy court case at the end of which Landis was absolved of legal responsibility. Clearly it was still a tragedy, and clearly Landis shares in the blame for an accident that could have been avoided. I only bring it up here to provide some context for Landis’ career and to let you,...
I love John Landis. I know not everyone shares this opinion. He has been controversial ever since his involvement in the Twilight Zone: The Movie accident that claimed the lives of his leading man, Vic Morrow, and co-stars Myca Dinh Le and Shin-Yi Chen, both of whom were children. It’s an impossible discussion to have in any kind of satisfying way here; there was an entire book written about it (Outrageous Conduct by Stephen Farber and Marc Green) and a lengthy court case at the end of which Landis was absolved of legal responsibility. Clearly it was still a tragedy, and clearly Landis shares in the blame for an accident that could have been avoided. I only bring it up here to provide some context for Landis’ career and to let you,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
As a mother and a wife, Faith Hill's protective instincts kicked into high gear on March 11 after her husband, Tim McGraw, collapsed during a show in Dublin. "He looked really bad. He fell down and the whole band rushed over to him," an eyewitness exclusively tells Closer Weekly of the terrifying incident. After he was rushed off-stage, Faith soon reemerged to alert the crowd that while Tim was Ok, he was "super dehydrated," she said. "And I made the decision he not come back onstage." Left to his own devices, the "Live Like You Were Dying" crooner, 50, probably would have pushed himself to finish the show that night, but he knew better than to go against his wife's decision. "She's the boss, that's for sure, and that's the way I like it. That way I don't have to think!" Tim quips. Adds a longtime friend of the Nashville power couple,...
- 3/28/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill celebrate their 21st wedding anniversary this month, so what better time to look back on their amazing romance? The pair has been country music's cutest couple since 1996, when the singers embarked on the Spontaneous Combustion Tour together. Soon, the focus shifted from music to romance, and the rest is history. They were engaged by March, married by October, and welcomed their first child the following May. Despite how fast it all came together, Tim and Faith have proved time and time again that they have built one of Hollywood's sweetest families. Take a look at some of their best moments together over the years! RelatedTim McGraw's Evolution Will Make You Feel All the Emotions of a Good Country Song...
- 10/6/2017
- by Nick Maslow
- Popsugar.com
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are one of country's most iconic couples, so it's pretty fitting that their love story started at a musical festival. The two first met at the New Faces Show in Nashville sometime in late 1994. Faith had just divorced Daniel Hill and Tim was dating Kristine Donahue. Even though their interaction backstage was brief, they got to know each other a little better when they went on a joint tour in the Spring of 1996, fittingly titled Spontaneous Combustion. While Tim was newly single after calling off his engagement to Kristine, Faith was engaged to record producer Scott Hendricks. After singing together every night on stage, however, they just couldn't deny the sparks between them. One night after a show, Tim invited her into his dressing room and they shared their first kiss. Shortly after, Faith called off her engagement and the two began dating. By the end of the year,...
- 10/6/2017
- by Kelsie Gibson
- Popsugar.com
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill obviously know the secret to a long-lasting marriage.
Et spoke with the country superstars backstage at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, California, during their Soul2Soul World Tour on Saturday, just days ahead of their 21st wedding anniversary. The two tied the knot on Oct. 6, 1996, after meeting earlier that year when Hill opened up for McGraw during his Spontaneous Combustion Tour.
According to Hill, no anniversary gift is needed from her handsome husband.
"He's good. He doesn't need to get me anything," Hill told Et's Keltie Knight. "Honestly, do you, baby? He's good at giving gifts and making surprises."
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Hill joked that as long as she doesn't have to exercise with her famously fit husband, it's all good.
"That's the best gift ever," Hill cracked. "That's amazing. I get to do that four-hour workout with you? No, thank...
Et spoke with the country superstars backstage at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, California, during their Soul2Soul World Tour on Saturday, just days ahead of their 21st wedding anniversary. The two tied the knot on Oct. 6, 1996, after meeting earlier that year when Hill opened up for McGraw during his Spontaneous Combustion Tour.
According to Hill, no anniversary gift is needed from her handsome husband.
"He's good. He doesn't need to get me anything," Hill told Et's Keltie Knight. "Honestly, do you, baby? He's good at giving gifts and making surprises."
Faith Hill Slays National Anthem at Stanley Cup Final, Tim McGraw Cheers Her On
Hill joked that as long as she doesn't have to exercise with her famously fit husband, it's all good.
"That's the best gift ever," Hill cracked. "That's amazing. I get to do that four-hour workout with you? No, thank...
- 10/3/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Tobe Hooper, who died over the weekend at 74, was a leader in the Vietnam-era boom in independent, ultra-violent horror films. His 1974 “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is considered the last in a trio of low-budget horror breakouts that included George Romero’s 1968 “Night of the Living Dead” and Wes Craven’s 1972 “Last House on the Left.”
Though grosses for these films were unreliably reported, “Texas” appears to have done the best. Its reported $30 million domestic take (adjusted, around $140 million today) was at least 100 times its budget (also a guess, though some reports have it as high as $300,000 in 1974 value). Producers recouped costs and little else from distributor Bryanston (best known for the Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s “Frankenstein” and “Dracula” movies, as well as taking over distribution of “Deep Throat”).
Like Romero and Craven, the hit boosted Hooper’s career. But unlike his peers, Hooper struggled to establish his brand after “Texas.
Though grosses for these films were unreliably reported, “Texas” appears to have done the best. Its reported $30 million domestic take (adjusted, around $140 million today) was at least 100 times its budget (also a guess, though some reports have it as high as $300,000 in 1974 value). Producers recouped costs and little else from distributor Bryanston (best known for the Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s “Frankenstein” and “Dracula” movies, as well as taking over distribution of “Deep Throat”).
Like Romero and Craven, the hit boosted Hooper’s career. But unlike his peers, Hooper struggled to establish his brand after “Texas.
- 8/29/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may or may not be the scariest horror movie ever made (I think it is) but it’s certainly one of the most referenced, imitated, ripped off, and influential. Hooper claims the film was his reaction to Vietnam and Watergate and he shot it in grainy 16mm which gives the film its gritty in-your-face realism. For a first-timer, Hooper directed with a solid sense of composition and attention to detail and forced some amazing performances from his cast. Audiences and critics at the time responded to it’s high level of gore, but they were wrong. It’s actually a masterpiece of restraint that Hooper made and much of its magic lies in the fact that the audience thinks they saw a no-holds-barred gorefest when they didn’t (the scene of the Hitchhiker (Ed Neal) slicing his own hand with a knife is...
- 8/27/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Fubar Horror Fest (aka The Fubar Chainsaw Massacre) is this Saturday, July 8th at Fubar Saint Louis (3108 Locust St, St. Louis 63103). This show consists of a screening of the original 1974 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a Q&A with John Dugan, who played ‘Grandpa’ in that film, live music, and vendors selling rare movies, t-shirts, books, poster prints, and original artwork.
The screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre starts at 9pm followed by a Q&A with the one and only John Dugan, then music by We Bite – The Misfits Tribute Band, and Candy Coated Evil The special guest M.C. for the evening will be the amazing Mr. Hamilton!
Doors open at 3pm, so get there early to check out all of the vendors. Bring plenty of cash!
Gary from Red Death Studios will be there. You know those cool horror movie workshirts I wear? I get those from Red Death!
The screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre starts at 9pm followed by a Q&A with the one and only John Dugan, then music by We Bite – The Misfits Tribute Band, and Candy Coated Evil The special guest M.C. for the evening will be the amazing Mr. Hamilton!
Doors open at 3pm, so get there early to check out all of the vendors. Bring plenty of cash!
Gary from Red Death Studios will be there. You know those cool horror movie workshirts I wear? I get those from Red Death!
- 7/4/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have been together for over 20 years, and while that kind of love is a reward in itself, it's also proven to have some other benefits, too. Both Tim and Faith saw quite a bit of success in the early '90s, and they ended up getting together at the peak of their careers in 1996. Faith joined the country crooner on his Spontaneous Combustion Tour, and they ended up falling hard and fast for one another. They married in October of that year and welcomed their first child, Gracie, into the world in May of 1997. Many stories like this would continue by saying "the rest was history," but the rest was only about to get better for these two. The next 20...
- 6/7/2017
- E! Online
One day, Tim McGraw tipped his hat at Faith Hill and that was it. Well, there's a little more to the story than that, but the end result has been the same—the country stars celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary last fall and, on the verge of releasing their first-ever duets album together, appear closer than ever. "It's an accomplishment," McGraw acknowledged their milestone anniversary to Us Weekly in October. "In our business, it's really probably like 80 years. You know, it's like I look at it as dog years!" Yet it hardly feels like a coincidence that they fell for each other while Hill was opening for McGraw's Spontaneous Combustion Tour....
- 6/6/2017
- E! Online
Sometimes in horror, a giant creature will do. It takes us back to a simpler time, I think. A time when an oversized spider, or a massive lizard sparked shuttered eyes at the Drive-In or local theatre. It feels almost like a cleansing; a reset of the scare-o-meter back to the innocent levels of the Saturday matinee. And if you were a kid in the ‘70s, Bert I. Gordon’s The Food of the Gods (1976) fit the bill nicely.
Released in June by Aip stateside, and then rolled out across the world in ’77, Food brought in $1 million at the gate (good revenue by Aip standards) and the reviews were, not surprisingly, as low grade as the budget. But hey, legendary schlockmeister Gordon did not survive the biz on good copy. And what kind of reviews would you expect from a movie that features giant chickens, gargantuan rats, and Marjoe Gortner?...
Released in June by Aip stateside, and then rolled out across the world in ’77, Food brought in $1 million at the gate (good revenue by Aip standards) and the reviews were, not surprisingly, as low grade as the budget. But hey, legendary schlockmeister Gordon did not survive the biz on good copy. And what kind of reviews would you expect from a movie that features giant chickens, gargantuan rats, and Marjoe Gortner?...
- 6/18/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary on Tuesday. The pair has been country music's cutest couple since 1996, when the singers embarked on the Spontaneous Combustion Tour together. Soon, the focus shifted from music to romance, and the rest is history. They were engaged by March, married by October, and welcomed their first child the following May. Despite how fast it all came together, Tim and Faith have proved time and time again that they have built one of Hollywood's most picture-perfect romances. In honor of their marriage milestone, take a look back at Tim and Faith's sweetest moments together, then hear all about the proposal.
- 10/7/2015
- by Nick Maslow
- Popsugar.com
Happy anniversary to the best person I will ever know Faith Hill Posted by Tim McGraw on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 If you thought Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's love story was sweet, just wait until you hear about the proposal. In honor of the couple's 19th wedding anniversary, Tim wished Faith a happy anniversary on Facebook, writing, "Happy anniversary to the best person I will ever know Faith Hill." Along with his message, Tim included a video of himself standing in the very spot where he proposed in Grand Junction, Co, on June 26, 1996, and reflected on the moment he asked Faith to be his wife. "We were in a dressing room, and it was trailer houses then, it was rainy and stuff and we'd been on tour for a while together. I'd joked around with her about getting married, and so . . . I looked at her, I grabbed her by the...
- 10/6/2015
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of May 26th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.
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Screen Archives Entertainment have some new and exclusive Code Red Blu-ray titles, available now. Guy Magar’s Retribution, Tobe Hooper’s Spontaneous Combustion and Shakma.
Twilight Time new releases for June will go live for pre-order Wednesday, May 27the st 4 Pm Eastern: Absolute Beginners (1986), State Of Grace (1990) , Mississippi Mermaid (1969), The Young Lions (1958) , The Night Of The Generals (1967) the approximate street date is June 9th.
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Episode Links & Notes
News
Masters Of Cinema & Eureka in August: Cruel Story Of Youth, Medium Cool, the Town That Dreaded Sundown
Screen Archives Entertainment have some new and exclusive Code Red Blu-ray titles, available now. Guy Magar’s Retribution, Tobe Hooper’s Spontaneous Combustion and Shakma.
Twilight Time new releases for June will go live for pre-order Wednesday, May 27the st 4 Pm Eastern: Absolute Beginners (1986), State Of Grace (1990) , Mississippi Mermaid (1969), The Young Lions (1958) , The Night Of The Generals (1967) the approximate street date is June 9th.
New Releases
Ballet 422 Cannibal Ferox The Confession Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Double Indemnity Empire Of The Ants / Jaws Of Satan...
- 5/27/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is making some dramatic changes to the Emmy rulebook — and hourlong “comedies” such as Orange Is the New Black and Shameless stand to be the most affected.
Among the major tweaks announced Friday: a comedy series will now be defined as a program that clocks in at 30 minutes or less, and the drama and comedy categories will include seven nominees, up from six.
PhotosEmmys 2014: The 20 Best, Worst and Most Inappropriate Moments
Additionally, the Miniseries category has been renamed Limited Series, now defined as a “complete, non-recurring story” told in at least two episodes totaling at least 150 minutes.
Among the major tweaks announced Friday: a comedy series will now be defined as a program that clocks in at 30 minutes or less, and the drama and comedy categories will include seven nominees, up from six.
PhotosEmmys 2014: The 20 Best, Worst and Most Inappropriate Moments
Additionally, the Miniseries category has been renamed Limited Series, now defined as a “complete, non-recurring story” told in at least two episodes totaling at least 150 minutes.
- 2/20/2015
- TVLine.com
Piper’s fond-of-Vaseline seatmate will be back for the next season of Orange Is the New Black, TVLine has confirmed.
Lori Petty, whose inmate character Lolly sat next to Taylor Schilling’s Piper on a plane in the series’ Season 2 premiere, will appear in multiple episodes of the Netflix drama’s third season. (EW.com first reported the return.)
The actress recently mentioned that she’d been shooting at the show’s Litchfield set, Buzzfeed reports, making it plausible that Lolly will wind up at Piper’s home prison.
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Lori Petty, whose inmate character Lolly sat next to Taylor Schilling’s Piper on a plane in the series’ Season 2 premiere, will appear in multiple episodes of the Netflix drama’s third season. (EW.com first reported the return.)
The actress recently mentioned that she’d been shooting at the show’s Litchfield set, Buzzfeed reports, making it plausible that Lolly will wind up at Piper’s home prison.
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- 10/9/2014
- TVLine.com
The moon is setting on Netflix’s Hemlock Grove.
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Eli Roth’s supernatural drama has been renewed for a 10-episode third (and final) season, set to premiere in 2015.
“We are so grateful to the fans of Hemlock Grove who have championed the series so intensely over two seasons,” Roth said in a statement. “We are looking forward to taking the last and final season into some dark and unexpected places, and to giving viewers the killer finale you’d come to expect from Hemlock Grove.”
Are you ready to say goodbye to Hemlock Grove?...
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Eli Roth’s supernatural drama has been renewed for a 10-episode third (and final) season, set to premiere in 2015.
“We are so grateful to the fans of Hemlock Grove who have championed the series so intensely over two seasons,” Roth said in a statement. “We are looking forward to taking the last and final season into some dark and unexpected places, and to giving viewers the killer finale you’d come to expect from Hemlock Grove.”
Are you ready to say goodbye to Hemlock Grove?...
- 9/2/2014
- TVLine.com
Meet General Hospital‘s new Jason Morgan.
The Young and the Restless star/Emmy winner Billy Miller will take on the role of the presumed dead character, executive producer Frank Valentini confirmed on Twitter after weeks of speculation.
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“I am really excited to be working with such a talented and acclaimed actor as Billy,” Valentini said in a statement. “Our cast is thrilled that he will be joining our General Hospital family, and I know that he will be an amazing addition to our talented cast.”
Emmy winner Steve Burton...
The Young and the Restless star/Emmy winner Billy Miller will take on the role of the presumed dead character, executive producer Frank Valentini confirmed on Twitter after weeks of speculation.
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“I am really excited to be working with such a talented and acclaimed actor as Billy,” Valentini said in a statement. “Our cast is thrilled that he will be joining our General Hospital family, and I know that he will be an amazing addition to our talented cast.”
Emmy winner Steve Burton...
- 9/2/2014
- TVLine.com
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The Performer | Anna Paquin
The Show | True Blood
The Episode | “Thank You”
The Airdate | August 24, 2014
True Blood’s series finale may have been divisiive — the fan war continues to rage — but there’s no two ways to look at Paquin’s heartbreaking final performance.
Sunday’s episode found Sookie Stackhouse bouncing between both ends of the emotional spectrum, as she first struggled to accept Bill’s death wish, then helped him grant it, only to ultimately move on and find happiness with someone new.
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The Episode | “Thank You”
The Airdate | August 24, 2014
True Blood’s series finale may have been divisiive — the fan war continues to rage — but there’s no two ways to look at Paquin’s heartbreaking final performance.
Sunday’s episode found Sookie Stackhouse bouncing between both ends of the emotional spectrum, as she first struggled to accept Bill’s death wish, then helped him grant it, only to ultimately move on and find happiness with someone new.
Related True Blood Finale Post Mortem: Ep Defends Big Death,...
- 8/30/2014
- TVLine.com
Marco Polo will make landfall in late 2014.
Netflix announced Thursday that its anticipated original series about the famed explorer will be released on Dec. 12. The drama — which stars Italian newcomer Lorenzo Richelmy in the title role — is set in 1200s China, “a world replete with astonishing martial arts, sexual intrigue, political skullduggery and spectacular battles.”
The international cast also includes Benedict Wong (Prometheus), Zhu Zhu (Cloud Atlas), Tom Wu (Skyfall), Remy Hii (Treading Water) and Rick Yune (Olympus Has Fallen).
Scroll down to view the first five images from the big-budget series.
Related storiesVideo: Oitnb's Laverne Cox on Emmy-...
Netflix announced Thursday that its anticipated original series about the famed explorer will be released on Dec. 12. The drama — which stars Italian newcomer Lorenzo Richelmy in the title role — is set in 1200s China, “a world replete with astonishing martial arts, sexual intrigue, political skullduggery and spectacular battles.”
The international cast also includes Benedict Wong (Prometheus), Zhu Zhu (Cloud Atlas), Tom Wu (Skyfall), Remy Hii (Treading Water) and Rick Yune (Olympus Has Fallen).
Scroll down to view the first five images from the big-budget series.
Related storiesVideo: Oitnb's Laverne Cox on Emmy-...
- 8/28/2014
- TVLine.com
“You could have dinner with us… my brother makes good head cheese! You like head cheese?”
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre screens this Friday and Saturday nights (August 1st and 2nd) at midnight at the Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) as part of Destroy the Brain’s Late Night Grindhouse series.
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may or may not be the scariest horror movie ever made (I think it is) but it’s certainly one of the most referenced, imitated, ripped off, and influential. It opened in October of 1974 when I was 13 and I read about it in a few monster mags, but could not initially talk my dad into taking me to see it (hew was usually pretty cool about that kind of thing – he’d already taken me to French Connection and A Clockwork Orange). About 6 months later, in April of 1975, the Italian horror film...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre screens this Friday and Saturday nights (August 1st and 2nd) at midnight at the Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) as part of Destroy the Brain’s Late Night Grindhouse series.
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may or may not be the scariest horror movie ever made (I think it is) but it’s certainly one of the most referenced, imitated, ripped off, and influential. It opened in October of 1974 when I was 13 and I read about it in a few monster mags, but could not initially talk my dad into taking me to see it (hew was usually pretty cool about that kind of thing – he’d already taken me to French Connection and A Clockwork Orange). About 6 months later, in April of 1975, the Italian horror film...
- 7/29/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After focussing on TV dramas, David Caesar plans to direct a conspiracy thriller, his first feature since Prime Mover in 2009.
Scripted by Terence Hammond and produced by Antony I. Ginnane, Spontaneous Combustion is set during a pandemic involving government and Big Pharma.
The plan is to start shooting in Melbourne in the first quarter of 2015, with post production and VFX in Queensland. The logline reads, "When a marine biologist who saw his father burst into flames for no reason is drawn into investigating an outbreak of spontaneous combustion deaths by an investigative journalist, they uncover a Big Pharma conspiracy and put their own lives on the line in a race to stop the development of a deadly global weapon."
.David is harking back to his Dirty Deeds milieu here, and he.s a big fan of The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor and The Conversation, which is the zone we are in here,...
Scripted by Terence Hammond and produced by Antony I. Ginnane, Spontaneous Combustion is set during a pandemic involving government and Big Pharma.
The plan is to start shooting in Melbourne in the first quarter of 2015, with post production and VFX in Queensland. The logline reads, "When a marine biologist who saw his father burst into flames for no reason is drawn into investigating an outbreak of spontaneous combustion deaths by an investigative journalist, they uncover a Big Pharma conspiracy and put their own lives on the line in a race to stop the development of a deadly global weapon."
.David is harking back to his Dirty Deeds milieu here, and he.s a big fan of The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor and The Conversation, which is the zone we are in here,...
- 7/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Tim McGraw just came out with a music video featuring his wife, Faith Hill, that lets us once again pretend (if only for a moment) that we're part of the couple's picture-perfect marriage. McGraw's new single, "Meanwhile Back at Mama's," is filled with all the country nostalgia you'd expect from a song about southern breezes and dirt roads, galloping horses and sunny porches - and, of course, copious shots of McGraw and Hill holding hands and harmonizing. Watching the couple on screen sent us down the rabbit hole on YouTube, and we dug up some pretty amazing duet videos -...
- 6/27/2014
- by Rosa Heyman
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: Producer is planning remakes of Thirst and The Survivor.
Antony I Ginnane, producer of the upcoming remake of Turkey Shoot, which was being promoted at Cannes, is planning to remake two more of his films: Thirst from 1979, and The Survivor from 1981.
Ginnane has credits as either producer or executive producer on 64 films and the first to be remade was director Mark Hartley’s recent Patrick – the original was made in 1978.
“Genre – particularly thrillers, sci-fi and action – never really dates,” said Ginnane, who is aiming to satisfy the 15-25 year old multiplex audience now and those who saw and loved the originals upon release or subsequently.
“Sales agents and international buyers like something that has been previously tested, has cult resonance and is made for a price. In some cases we are selling to the children of the guys who bought the originals.”
Ginnane’s production company, Fg Films, gets a rights fee and a producer fee and...
Antony I Ginnane, producer of the upcoming remake of Turkey Shoot, which was being promoted at Cannes, is planning to remake two more of his films: Thirst from 1979, and The Survivor from 1981.
Ginnane has credits as either producer or executive producer on 64 films and the first to be remade was director Mark Hartley’s recent Patrick – the original was made in 1978.
“Genre – particularly thrillers, sci-fi and action – never really dates,” said Ginnane, who is aiming to satisfy the 15-25 year old multiplex audience now and those who saw and loved the originals upon release or subsequently.
“Sales agents and international buyers like something that has been previously tested, has cult resonance and is made for a price. In some cases we are selling to the children of the guys who bought the originals.”
Ginnane’s production company, Fg Films, gets a rights fee and a producer fee and...
- 5/29/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Los Angeles – Sunday, November 6th, 2011 – 6:22am: 34 year old Dennis Gabriel was found dead in his driveway, burnt to a crisp. The charred body was discovered by 17 year old Fievel Toponi during his early morning jog. Upon further investigation, local law enforcement officials were stumped. Dennis’ gruesome remains were found mere steps away from his home, he had clearly been in a hurry – his car was in the driveway, door open and key in the ignition – and there was no sign of an assailant or struggle of any kind. However, several neighbors did report seeing a bright flash outside their windows around 6am, but they had dismissed the flash as part of an early morning lightning storm. Only there wasn’t a cloud in the sky…
A power surge from a nearby transformer? Spontaneous combustion? What exactly happened to poor Dennis Gabriel? The Detective in charge had the body taken to the lab and,...
A power surge from a nearby transformer? Spontaneous combustion? What exactly happened to poor Dennis Gabriel? The Detective in charge had the body taken to the lab and,...
- 11/8/2011
- by elvis
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Halloween is almost upon us and that means that things are going to get a bit spooky. Here is a video mashup of the best horror flicks ever made to the tune of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising.
Watch the video below:
Here are the movies inn the order of their appearance:
Halloween
Freddy Vs. Jason
Resident Evil
The Amityville Horror
Night of the Demons
Christine
Shocker
From Dusk Till Dawn
Planet Terror
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
The Thing
Alice Sweet Alice
Don't Look Now
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Madman
The Shining
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Child's Play
28 Days Later
Psycho
Cemetery Man
Salem's Lot
Hellraiser II: Hellbound
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
Slither
Trick R Treat
Re-Animator
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Creepshow
American Psycho
Leprechaun
The Dark Half
The Hitcher
The Final Destination
Zombi 2
Audition
The Changeling
The Omen...
Watch the video below:
Here are the movies inn the order of their appearance:
Halloween
Freddy Vs. Jason
Resident Evil
The Amityville Horror
Night of the Demons
Christine
Shocker
From Dusk Till Dawn
Planet Terror
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
The Thing
Alice Sweet Alice
Don't Look Now
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Madman
The Shining
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Child's Play
28 Days Later
Psycho
Cemetery Man
Salem's Lot
Hellraiser II: Hellbound
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
Slither
Trick R Treat
Re-Animator
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Creepshow
American Psycho
Leprechaun
The Dark Half
The Hitcher
The Final Destination
Zombi 2
Audition
The Changeling
The Omen...
- 10/10/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Tobe Hooper, who hasn’t directed a feature film since Mortuary several years back, is returning to horror with a new tale that deals with a Djinn. You can check out the lowdown below, and here are my retrospectives on Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Spontaneous Combustion to keep you company until his new flick is released.
“Tobe Hooper is tasked with directorial duties on Arabian horror movie Djinn, penned by U.S. writer David Tully and backed by Imagenation Abu Dhabi.
Hooper, whose resume scares up mentions for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist, will take up the reins on the haunted house thriller, with shooting scheduled to begin in the United Arab Emirates in March.
It tells the story of a young Emirati couple who return home from the U.S. and discover that their new apartment in a luxury high-rise built...
“Tobe Hooper is tasked with directorial duties on Arabian horror movie Djinn, penned by U.S. writer David Tully and backed by Imagenation Abu Dhabi.
Hooper, whose resume scares up mentions for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist, will take up the reins on the haunted house thriller, with shooting scheduled to begin in the United Arab Emirates in March.
It tells the story of a young Emirati couple who return home from the U.S. and discover that their new apartment in a luxury high-rise built...
- 2/28/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
The enigma of spontaneous human combustion (Shc) is considered the most bizarre and frightening of all the phenomena in the world of the unexplained and the unknown. Some believe that stories of Shc are only urban legends, eerie tales of people bursting into flames that never really happened to real people. But this is not the case. Urban legends happen to a friend of a friend, but are really untraceable back to any true original narrator of the event. In the case of spontaneous human combustion, one is left with the charred remains and ashes of individuals who were once fully living, breathing, feeling human beings. [Unexplainedstuff.com]
After his three-picture deal with Cannon Films, Tobe Hooper burned for a comeback as he saddled up for a low budget return to his roots after being lambasted from both fans and critics with his big-budget flops Lifeforce and Invaders From Mars. I have always been a Hooper backer,...
After his three-picture deal with Cannon Films, Tobe Hooper burned for a comeback as he saddled up for a low budget return to his roots after being lambasted from both fans and critics with his big-budget flops Lifeforce and Invaders From Mars. I have always been a Hooper backer,...
- 2/18/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
With his Roman-on-the-run epic, Centurion, nearing completion, Neil Marshall has already lined up his next movie – and it’s a (gloriously demented) return to horror.Marshall will direct Burst, a 3D fright-flick produced by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures, about a group of blizzard-stranded travellers who find themselves picked off, one by one, by a mysterious force that kills them via spontaneous combustion.Sounds barmy as a basket of badgers – we love it. Spontaneous combustion is an utterly terrifying phenomenon (think about it; you could burst into flames while reading this) and has been generally under-used in movies as a means of dispatching victims. And it promises to be, even without the 3D angle, a heck of a lot more cinematic than a masked nutjob stalking around dark corridors with a big kitchen knife.Interestingly, Burst will mark the first time that Marshall won’t direct from his own script,...
- 10/12/2009
- EmpireOnline
A lot of times, a filmmaker’s first feature film is a passion project, something they’ve been working on for years. Many times, it is this time spent and devotion to this one project that will make this first film the best film of a director’s career. Today, in honor of Neill Blomkamp’s first feature film, District 9, we present our top 10 films by first-time directors.
10. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, 1989)
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,” and so it was to be when, after it appeared that no one could ever improve on Sir Lawrence Olivier’s 1944 Shakespearean spectacle, Henry V, along came an unknown Irishman, actor, Kenneth Branagh in 1989 with his dark take on the English King. Branagh, like Olivier, both in their directorial debuts, starred as Henry the Fifth, the young king who leads his army to wage war on France and claim his rightful place.
10. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, 1989)
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,” and so it was to be when, after it appeared that no one could ever improve on Sir Lawrence Olivier’s 1944 Shakespearean spectacle, Henry V, along came an unknown Irishman, actor, Kenneth Branagh in 1989 with his dark take on the English King. Branagh, like Olivier, both in their directorial debuts, starred as Henry the Fifth, the young king who leads his army to wage war on France and claim his rightful place.
- 8/11/2009
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the final part of my 2009 American Film Market report and review roundup, I tackle another 11 movies that I caught during my annual Santa Monica moviegoing orgy. For an overview of the trip, see here; the first batch of reviews can be found here. And for more information on the Afm, held each November in Los Angeles, go here.
Not Quite Hollywood: Fans of “Ozploitation” will jump over the barbie for Mark Hartley’s winning documentary on exploitation films produced in Australia since the ’70s, tackling everything from Patrick to Wolf Creek. Just about anyone ever associated with an Australian genre film is interviewed here, including actors (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacy Keach on Road Games; Dennis Hopper on Mad Dog Morgan), directors (George Miller, Brian Trenchard-Smith, the late Richard Franklin), screenwriters (Everett De Roche, who wrote almost every Aussie fright flick) and producers (Antony Ginnane, who wrangled financing for...
Not Quite Hollywood: Fans of “Ozploitation” will jump over the barbie for Mark Hartley’s winning documentary on exploitation films produced in Australia since the ’70s, tackling everything from Patrick to Wolf Creek. Just about anyone ever associated with an Australian genre film is interviewed here, including actors (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacy Keach on Road Games; Dennis Hopper on Mad Dog Morgan), directors (George Miller, Brian Trenchard-Smith, the late Richard Franklin), screenwriters (Everett De Roche, who wrote almost every Aussie fright flick) and producers (Antony Ginnane, who wrangled financing for...
- 12/17/2008
- Fangoria
What does it feel like to resemble the Phantom of the Opera? You learn to live with it. I've never concerned myself overmuch about how I looked. I got a lot of practice at indifference during my years as the Michelin Man.
Yes, years before I acquired my present problems, I was not merely fat, but was universally known as "the fat one," to distinguish me from "the thin one," who was Gene Siskel, who was not all that thin, but try telling that to Gene:
"Spoken like the gifted Haystacks Calhoun tribute artist that you are."
"Haystacks was loved by his fans as a charming country boy," I observed.
"Six hundred and forty pounds of rompin' stompin' charm," Gene said. "Oh, Rog? Are those two-tone suedes, or did you step in some chicken shit?"
The real Phantom: Lon Chaney in 1925
"You can borrow them whenever you wear your white...
Yes, years before I acquired my present problems, I was not merely fat, but was universally known as "the fat one," to distinguish me from "the thin one," who was Gene Siskel, who was not all that thin, but try telling that to Gene:
"Spoken like the gifted Haystacks Calhoun tribute artist that you are."
"Haystacks was loved by his fans as a charming country boy," I observed.
"Six hundred and forty pounds of rompin' stompin' charm," Gene said. "Oh, Rog? Are those two-tone suedes, or did you step in some chicken shit?"
The real Phantom: Lon Chaney in 1925
"You can borrow them whenever you wear your white...
- 12/6/2008
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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