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Jason Lee to Sing the Delta Blues

17 November 2009 7:17 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Jason Lee, who starred for four seasons in the critically acclaimed comedy My Name Is Earl, has been cast in the lead role of the TNT pilot Delta Blues. He will play Dwight Hendricks, a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator.

The pilot for Delta Blues, which comes to TNT from George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and Warner Horizon Television, will be directed by Emmy nominee Clark Johnson (The Shield) from a script by Liz M. Garcia (Cold Case) and actor Joshua Harto (The Dark Knight). Clooney, Heslov and Garcia serve as executive producers. Henry Bronchtein (The Sopranos) and Smokehouse's Abby Wolf-Weiss are co-executive producers, and Harto is a producer. Johnson will also receive an executive-producer credit for the pilot.

"Jason Lee is the ideal choice to bring the compelling, off-kilter Dwight Hendricks to life," said Michael Wright, executive vice president, »

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Filmmaker Frederic Lumiere To Premiere WWII Documentary On History Channel

11 November 2009 4:23 AM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

Award-winning filmmaker Frederic Lumiere is bringing his World War II documentary to the History Channel. The WWII documentary will be presented in full, immersive HD color, and will feature hours of rare color footage gathered from a two-year worldwide search.

"WWII in HD" will tell the story of the war through the eyes of 12 Americans. Narrated by Gary Sinise, the show will showcase the voices of Justin Bartha, Rob Corddry, Tim DeKay, Mark Hefti, James Kyson Lee, Ron Livingston, LL Cool J, Rob Lowe, Josh Lucas, Jason Ritter, Amy Smart, and Steve Zahn.

Also included in "WWII in HD" are interviews with war veterans, which will be treated like scenes in a film to keep viewers captivated.

Lumiere, producer and director of the series, said, "Everything is in-the-moment. The battles are as real as they can be, creating a visceral experience. This is presented as a billion-dollar Hollywood epic but better, »

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Party Favors: Those Red Running Hills

21 October 2009 1:09 AM, PDT | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »

Kill Devil Hills - The scary season has arrived.

In the spirit of movies that make you fear going to the movies comes The Hills Run Red on DVD. Tyler (Tad Hilgenbrinck) is a film geek obsessed with an ’80s film called The Hills Run Red. The movie was quickly yanked from theaters and no prints or videotapes of the film exist. He finds a clue to the movie by locating one of its stars played by Sophie Monk. After a lapdance, she agrees to take Tad and his two friends to the shooting location. Tad doesn’t realize there might be a sequel in production.

Star Tad Hilgenbrinck and director Dave Parker called up the Party Favors hotline to chat about their grisly horror film about a gruesome horror film recently released on DVD by Warner Premiere.

Tad has been in Epic Movie, Disaster Movie and Lost Boys: The Tribe, »

- UncaScroogeMcD

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Seventh Moon - Blu-ray Review

13 October 2009 9:20 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Another entry in the Ghost House Underground label, .Seventh Moon. employs a clever premise based on an ancient Chinese myth with star Amy Smart headlining and Eduardo Sanchez directing (of .The Blair Witch Project fame). A fun flick but the grainy hand-held vid source makes this a questionable Blu-ray recommendation. This second group of Ghost House Underground pics presented by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert that also includes .The Thaw., .The Children. and .Offspring. got trimmed down to four selections after last Fall.s eight and seem to average better than the similar horror group offerings from the After Dark Horrorfest pics. Only Eduardo.s second film after his breakout success with .The Blair Witch Project., this pic uses the »

- Frankie Dees

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Seventh Moon - DVD Review

13 October 2009 7:44 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Seventh Moon is the latest picture from one of the names behind the Blair Witch Project. It uses the same .shaky-cam. footage that the other film was known for, but offer also offers some chilling scenes of its own. Melissa (Amy Smart) and Yul (Tim Chiou) are newlyweds that are touring Yul.s homeland of China before going off to meet his relatives. They.re being driven around by tour guide Ping (Dennis Chan). The happy couple has just attended a religious festival and is driven into the night by Ping. They.ve had a little too much to drink so both doze off in the back of the car. The car stops and Melissa awakens to see Ping going towards »

- Jeff Swindoll

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Seventh Moon (DVD Review)

13 October 2009 12:48 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Seventh Moon is one of the new Ghost House Underground films and is a mix of zombie horror and Chinese mythology that has its moments but is ultimately unsatisfying.  Melissa (Amy Smart) and Yul (Tim Chiou) are a newlywed couple spending their honeymoon in China .  After experiencing the local flavor of the Festival of the Seventh Moon, they make a long trek to stay at Yul’s grandmother’s home, deep in the countryside.  When their driver Ping (Dennis Chan) gets lost, he stops to ask for directions at a small village…and never returns. 

When the couple goes to search for Ping , they find the village completely shuttered and seemingly devoid of human life until an eerie chanting fills the night air.  They flee only to encounter a group of pale-skinned and naked creatures, human but animalistic.  They find themselves cast as the sacrifices of the Seventh Moon, which »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tim Janson)

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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Ghost House Underground Four Film Collection’ Offers Few Chills

12 October 2009 8:07 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – It’s always nice to see world-famous filmmakers raising awareness about work from their lesser known peers. Where would Eli Roth be without Quentin Tarantino, or Neill Blomkamp be without Peter Jackson, or Danny McBride and Jody Hill be without the better half of Hollywood’s comedy titans? That’s why it’s nice to see “Evil Dead” creators Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert “hand pick” the indie horror films they admire, and then assist in their distribution.

Overall Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0

Raimi and Tapert’s “Ghost House Underground” series began last year with a collection of eight features that included the exuberant zombie satire “Dance of the Dead.” This year’s collection has shrunk to four features, none of which are as fun or memorable as last year’s “Dance.” Only one film manages to satisfy, while the other three vary in their degrees of mediocrity and failure. Let »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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[DVD Review] Seventh Moon

7 October 2009 5:01 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

As with most bad horror films, the problems begin early with Seventh Moon; it starts within the first few shots. We see an annoying tourist couple snap pictures and giggle during a Moon Festival celebration in China. Like watching blissfully unaware kids at a carousel when you know the title of the movie is Death Ride, these scenes in horror movies affirm what we usually feel when we see such happy scenes in real life: that there needs to be a cost. “Dumb tourists, commodifying Chinese culture, and ignoring the obvious reality behind their ghosts and monster legends,” we think. But instead of making them monster food for the sheer horror of it all, we must endure the reality of Seventh Moon: the sheer horror is that this first scene is the real story.

Even though the movie worked its best to put us against them, Melissa (Amy Smart »

- Michael Narkunski

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Exclusive Interview: 'Seventh Moon' Director Eduardo Sanchez

7 October 2009 11:23 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »

Yesterday we brought you our exclusive interview with Tom Shankland, writer/director of the kids-gone-bad creepfest The Children, just one of four new Ghost House Underground titles to hit store shelves this week. Today we have an exclusive chat with Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project) writer/director of Ghost House Underground's Seventh Moon (starring Tim Chiou and Amy Smart). Check out our full interview with Eduardo below. FEARnet: Where did the inspiration for Seventh Moon come from, is it a real Chinese myth? Sanchez: Me wanting to make a chase film, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Originally it was gonna take place here, where I live in Maryland. I live in a rural area in Maryland. I just... »

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DVD Review: Ghost House Underground 4-Pack

7 October 2009 1:55 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I wasn't sure what to make of the stack of Ghost House Underground DVD releases. While I tend to be a fan of B-horror movies, there's a fine line between a bad-good one (something like say Wrong Turn 2) and just a flat-out bad-bad one (like another sequel, the unwatchable Lake Placid 2). The balance between absurdity, nonsense and gore has to be just right, and if it is even just a tiny bit off any chance of enjoyment is thrown out the window as quickly as a bloody severed head.

As for an outright good one? I tend not to hold my breath on that front. Just look at those continuing After Dark Horrorfest releases. I can think of maybe one or two of those (2008's The Broken, 2006's Wicked Little Things) that I can admit to having enjoyed, and as far as Ghost House Underground has been concerned »

- Sara Michelle Fetters

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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: October 6, 2009

6 October 2009 2:16 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Platinum Edition) I just posted my review of this one (read it here) and I tried to keep it as short as possible all while managing to gush all over it. Seriously, this baby is packed with goodies and the film simply looks spectacular as Walt Disney's first feature length animated film comes to life in high definition. Snow White is 72-years-old and boy does it age well.

I reviewed the two-disc edition (or three-disc if you count the included DVD version of the film), but there are a ton of additional versions to buy including the collector's pack featured in the image to the left and then one that comes with a bunch of stuffed toys. Oh, and if you buy it at Amazon you can enter the promotional code Snowhite and »

- Brad Brevet

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Exclusive Interview: Seventh Moon 's Eduardo Sanchez

5 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Filmmaker Eduardo Sánchez knows a thing or two about the horror genre. Having been the co-creator/director on The Blair Witch Project , which just celebrated its 10th anniversary and is arguably considered the first true internet sensation, he later followed it up with his alien sci-fi/horror thriller Altered . Now he's back with his third full length feature film Seventh Moon , starring Amy Smart and Tim Chiou. The pair plays a newlywed couple celebrating their honeymoon in China during the unfortunate time of the hungry ghost festival, where on the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the ghost and spirits of deceased ancestors roam the countryside once more in search of a sacrifice. We spoke to Sanchez about the origins of the project, designing the look of the ghosts,... »

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It's Ghost House Underground mega review time!

4 October 2009 3:40 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

You know it's getting close to Halloween when Sam Raimi's Ghost House Underground label unleashes a whole new wave of indie acquisitions on the horror community. Not sure why, after last year's run of eight titles, the label decided to release only four this year, but when the offerings are this fun who really cares, right?

As usual with these types of multi-film releases, we've just not got the time to give each of he flicks full reviews before they street, so this four piece mega-review will have to do.

Tuck into the horrors of The Thaw, The Children, Offspring and Seventh Moon after the break!

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Title: The Thaw

Year: 2009

Director: Mark A. Lewis

Writer: Mark A. Lewis

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Amazon: Purchase

Review by: agentorange

Rating: 6.5 out of 10

The Thaw is an effective little eco creature-feature from Canada. It's about a badass prehistoric parasite that gets re-introduced »

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Blu-ray Capsule Review: Varsity Blues

28 September 2009 11:40 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Varsity Blues Quick Thoughts: I was 22-years-old when Varsity Blues came out and while it's about high school students, the fact the majority of the actors are older or only slightly younger than myself it pretty much fit right into my early-twenties wheelhouse. Partying, playing sports and hot blondes in whipped cream bikinis (wait... what?). I mean, what isn't there for a 22-year-old not to love? Of course, the film is downright cheesy -- "I don't want... your life" -- and if you are going to attempt to take it seriously you have seriously taken a misstep. However, that isn't to say this film is an entire farce. High school football in Texas is a big deal and while I have no idea if they take it as far as Jon Voight's Coach Bud Kilmer takes it, I would be surprised if the majority of goings on in this »

- Brad Brevet

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DVD Playhouse--September 2009

26 September 2009 1:01 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—September 2009

By

Allen Gardner

The Human Condition (Criterion) Masaki Kobayashi’s epic (574 minutes) adaptation of Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel was originally made and released as three separate films (1959-61), and is rightfully regarded as a landmark of Japanese cinema. Candide-like story of naïve, good-hearted Kaiji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor, to Imperial Army solider, to Soviet Pow, and Kaiji’s struggle to maintain his humanity throughout. Unfolds with the mastery of a great novel, beautifully-shot, and a stunning example of cinematic mastery on the part of its makers. Four-disc set bonuses include: Interview with Kobayashi; Interview with Nakadai; Featurette; Trailer; Essay by critic Philip Kemp. Widescreen. Dolby 3.0 surround.

State Of Play (Universal) Russell Crowe stars as a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter investigating the murder of an aide to a rising congressional star (Ben Affleck), who also happens to be an old friend. »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Nick Stahl Moves Out Into A Cornfield

22 September 2009 6:49 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Y'know, when you think of movies filmed in Iowa, there's pretty much only one that ever comes to mind: Field of Dreams, duh. It's really about time that something else be added to the Iowa filmography. Now Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart are helping the cause, joining the cast of the supernatural love story Dylan's Wake. According to THR the film will be funded with a combination of private equity and Iowa tax credits. Stahl will play a man working at a funeral parlor and trying to unravel a 10-year-old mystery, while McGowan and Smart will presumably play some of the hot chicks in his life. All three stars somehow feel like leftovers from the 90s, but it might be interesting to see what they can do out in those cornfields. »

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Nick Stahl and Company to Attend Dylan's Wake

22 September 2009 2:07 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

You know what the world needs? More supernatural love stories. No, we're not talking about the lusty adventures of Sam and Dean; we're talking horror with a heart, man. I mean, who doesn't love a little sappiness thrown in with their terror? Well, 90% of us, that's who, but flicks like these are still coming anyway.

THR reports that Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, and Amy Smart have been cast in the supernatural love story "Dylan's Wake," directed by Omar Naim, which has begun filming in Des Moines, Iowa. Stahl plays a young man working in a funeral parlor who is trying to unravel a 10-year-old mystery. The film is being produced by Lucas Jarach, Jason Price, and Anthony Gudas and financed by private equity and Iowa tax incentives.

We know ... you can't wait, right?

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- Uncle Creepy

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Stahl, McGowan & Smart Join Wake

21 September 2009 11:10 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart will be attending Dylan's Wake, a new supernatural romance / indie movie that's shooting in Des Moines Iowa. It's directed by Omar Naim, the Jordanian director of 2004 Robin Williams sci-fi The Final Cut.The story sees Stahl play a young man working in a funeral party who decides to fake his own death to see who would turn up to his funeral (morbid much?). Two people attend: a junkie who believes that the man was an angel who would save the junkie's life, and the man's high-school sweetheart from ten years before. This apparently sets him off to solve a "ten-year old mystery".Shooting's already underway on location. A local casting call in Iowa describing it as "Good Will Hunting meets Jacob's Ladder", while McGowan reckons on her Twitter feed that it's a really well-written indie. Fingers crossed that it lives up to that hype. »

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Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart Mourn at Dylan's Wake

21 September 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

A new genre love story has just made some new casting additions. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart have all joined the cast of Dylan's Wake.

Stahl stars as a man who works in a funeral parlor and is trying to uncover a decade-long mystery. It wasn't clear at this time what roles McGowan and Smart would portray.

The film recently started principal photography in Des Moines, Iowa. A release date hasn't been set as of yet.

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Turistas’ Olivia Wilde Bikini Pics

16 September 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

Just like Amy Smart we can no longer exploit Olivia Wilde because she hasn't been in a horror film since 2006! So here is one more Wilde gallery until she graces us with her presence in another horror flick. The hot bikini picture come courtesy of GQ magzine. At least it's not another Megan Fox pictorial. Upcoming Wilde movies include the thriller In NorthWood and Tron 2 aka Tron Legacy releasing sometime in December 2010. »

- Kevin Touch

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