Thanks to Paramount's first-ever "Tweet to See it First" campaign, 20 select cities across the world will get a sneak peek at Paranormal Activity 3 starting tomorrow, days ahead of its October 21st wide release. The tweeting vote campaign proves that the Paranormal Activity franchise isn't just a U.S. phenomenon, but has devoted fans as far as Tel Aviv and Melbourne.
While some might believe Emilio Estevez has faded quietly into the background (aka directing TV and making wine), in actuality, he has quietly been working on The Way, an inspirational drama about a father making a spiritual journey after his only son is killed.
Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty isn't your kid-friendly Disney version of the classic fairytale. The controversial psycho-sexual drama that premiered at Cannes earlier this year stars Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) as a young high-end prostitute with an unusual specialty. Sleeping Beauty was picked up by IFC Films and will be hitting VOD on November 1st, preceding a December 2nd theatrical release.
DC Entertainment announced that it will be bringing the dark and compelling story The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to life in a "new, visually compelling way" via a new line of graphic novels based on the popular Swedish novels by Stieg Larsson. Though no artists or writers have been announced yet, the graphic novels will be released digitally and in print sometime in 2012.
The zombie apocalypse/geo-political thriller World War Z, currently filming in Hungary, met with some real-life trouble today after a Hungarian anti-terrorism squad confiscated 85 fully functional "prop" guns meant to be used on set during filming. According to THR, the Hungarian authorities raided a warehouse near the film's Budapest set and seized 85 fully functional automatic and military-style assault weapons.
If you've ever been so disgusted with a movie that you've demanded a refund, you might understand where this litigious Michigan woman is coming from. Feeling that the trailer for the Ryan Gosling-starrer Drive promised a Fast and the Furious-type racing movie, Sarah Deming was so outraged after actually seeing Drive that she is suing the film's distributor FilmDistrict for its misleading trailer.
Margaret is a pointless drama starring Anna Paquin that has been on the shelf for over five years. After sitting through this bleak two-and-half-hour melodrama surrounding a bright but antagonistic teen suffering growing pains, I am left wondering why filmmakers bothered to take it down.
The best thing I can say about the violent indie horror/thriller You’re Next is that it had a kick-ass heroine and some creepy animal masks. Sweeping the Fantastic Fest Awards last month, You’re Next wowed the crowds but left me wondering what all the excitement was about (and seriously questioning the crowd‘s taste in horror movies).
Real Steel envisions the only future where the sport of boxing is still relevant; one in which all the boxing is done by giant robots, and humans merely control them from outside of the ring. I admit I was skeptical at first, but Real Steel’s unique concept, superior special effects, and endearing family-oriented story won me over.
Tom Six, wearing his trademark white cowboy hat, sat down with me recently to discuss the disturbing sequel to his body horror The Human Centipede. Premiering at Austin's weird and wacky genre film fest Fantastic Fest, The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence not only out-grosses the original film, but stands out as one of the most deranged movies I've ever watched.
