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Several Join The International Cast Of Zombie Movie ‘Chungking Mansions’

The international cast of the upcoming zombie movie Chungking Mansions continues to grow with Japan’s action star Rina Takeda, Korean actress Go Joon-hee, Hong Kong actress Wiyona Yeung, and Desmond Tan and Rebecca Lin of Singapore being recently announced by Deadline. The film follows a disparate group of people who must climb the iconic Chungking Mansions building in a bid to survive a zombie outbreak in Hong Kong. Go Joon-hee plays a high-profile model attending the launch of a new fashion campaign when the outbreak occurs. Wiyona Yeung plays a wellness guru. Desmond Tan co-stars as a hustler helping an American locate his family. Kevin Leslie will be a British backpacker seeking his girlfriend. Rebecca Lim is in talks to play a blade master and right-hand woman of the man behind the outbreak. Rina Takeda stars as a Special Agent from Japan investigating the outbreak. The movie is primarily in English, featuring an American lead character who fights to protect

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 6, 2021

Stephen King Series And Film Adaptations That Are Headed Your Way (Updated)

Stephen King is as popular as ever. Let’s be honest, the man IS the king of written horror. Fans will be happy to learn there are several new films and series adaptations headed their way and we’ve got a list. Salem’s Lot A new adaptation of King’sSalem’s Lotis is on its way from horror legend James Wan who is producing the film written, directed, and executive produced by Gary Dauberman (It, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night) will be starring as author Ben Mears who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot seeking inspiration for his next book only to find his hometown is being preyed upon by a vampire. Together with a ragtag group of residents, he sets out to fight the monster. Firestarter Keith Thomas, who brought us the fantastic horror film The Vigil earlier this year, directs from the script adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), based on Stephen King’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2021
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Netflix & Guillermo Del Toro Team Up For Anthology Series “Cabinet of Curiosities”

Netflix and brilliant Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro have teamed up for a new anthology series, “Cabinet of Curiosities” (originally titled “Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight”). Del Toro hand-picked the directors himself including Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), David Prior (The Empty Man), Vincenzo Natali (Splice), and Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), just to name a few, Deadline reports. Talk about impressive! The cast is just remarkable and includes Andrew Lincoln (“The Walking Dead”), Crispin Glover (Smiley Face Killers), Essie Davis (The Babadook), and Peter Weller (RoboCop). ● Essie Davis (The Babadook), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead) and Hannah Galway (Sex/Life) star in an episode written (based on an original story by Guillermo del Toro) and directed by Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) ● Amadeus Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Mythic Quest), Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and Luke Roberts (Ransom) will appear in an episode written by David S. Goyer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 3, 2021
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IFC Midnight Announces 2022 Release Of Home Invasion Thriller ‘See For Me’

IFC Midnight announced today that they now possess U.S. rights to Randall Okita’s See For Me, a home invasion chiller that pits a blind house-sitter against three experienced thieves. The film stars visually impaired actor Skyler Davenport as the blind house-sitter, Sophie. Kim Coates, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Pascal Langdale, Joe Pingue, George Tchortov, Laura Vandervoort, and Emily Piggford also star. In the film, “when blind former skier Sophie accepts a last-minute house-sitting job in a secluded mansion, she awakes in the middle of the night to find the house under invasion by a group of thieves seeking a hidden safe. Her only means of defense: a new app called “See For Me”, which matches her with a volunteer across the country who uses Sophie’s cell phone to see on her behalf. Stubbornly independent, Sophie is reluctant to accept help until she is connected to Kelly, an army veteran who spends her days playing first-person shooter games. As the game of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 31, 2021
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New ‘Pet Sematary’ Prequel Re-Writes Character To Suit Double Amputee Actor

The upcoming, still untitled, Pet Sematary prequel is still adding cast members to its roster. Variety is reporting that “actor, disability advocate and double hand amputee” John W. Lawson (“American Horror Story”) has now joined the cast and will star as “Stanny”. This marks the first time a double amputee has been cast in a leading role. The character was originally not an amputee and was rewritten just for the actor. I have myoelectric hands… or what people commonly call ‘cyborg,’” Lawson told the site. “But most of the time, it’s just my hooks.” . After Lawson auditioned and got a call back he learned that new scenes had been written just for him. “And when I got the new sides,” He said to Variety, “they had completely written the role for the character to be an amputee. Which was freakin’ awesome. Because it was not [an amputee role before] in any way. That, to me, was a real turning

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 30, 2021
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Lewis Pullman Cast As The Lead In New ‘Salem’s Lot’ Adaptation

Stephen King adaptations continue to reign supreme. Recently the Epix vampire series “Chapelwaite” (review), based on King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot, made its premiere. Now, a new adaptation of King’s Salem’s Lot is on its way from horror legend James Wan who is producing the film written, directed, and executive produced by Gary Dauberman (It, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Today, the first casting news has arrived. THR is reporting that Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night) will be starring as author Ben Mears who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot seeking inspiration for his next book only to find his hometown is being preyed upon by a vampire. Together with a ragtag group of residence, he sets out to fight the monster. The new adaptation has been in the works for a while. Back in 2019, Dauberman teased what’s to come in a conversation with Slash Film. “I did have a unique way into it but

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 28, 2021
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New Clip From ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Arrives Ahead Of FrightFest Debut

Writer-director Edoardo Vitaletti‘s feature debut, the occult horror-thriller The Last Thing Mary Saw, is heading to Shudder following its debut at FrightFest this week. To mark the occasion, Shudder has unveiled a new clip. The Last Thing Mary Saw begins in Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Stefanie Scott, Insidious: Chapter 3), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, is interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death. As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are seeing, speaking, and acting on God’s behalf, view the girls’ relationship as an abomination, to be dealt with as severely as possible. The couple attempts to carry on in secret, but someone is always watching, or listening, and the wages of perceived sin threaten to become death, with the tension only heightened by

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 25, 2021
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Shudder Acquires ‘Slapface’ And ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has now announced that it has acquired the horror films Slapface and The Advent Calendar ahead of their FrightFest premieres in London later this month. Craig Engler, general manager of Shudder, commented, “Shudder members will have exclusive access to some of the most exciting and compelling festival films in the months ahead. We are excited to debut Patrick Ridremont’s chilling French horror fantasy The Advent Calendar just in time for the holidays and Jeremiah Kipp’s mysterious and eerie Slapface next year. They will join American gothic horror Offseason and unique period feature The Last Thing Mary Saw along with many other exclusive series and films to haunt and delight our members.” Is there a relationship more special than that of a boy and his monster? After Lucas (August Maturo, The Nun) and Tom (Mike Manning, The Call) lose their mother in an accident, they think they only have

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 24, 2021
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Mena Suvari And Danielle Harris Starring In Murder Thriller ‘Anne, With Love’

Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”) and Danielle Harris (the Halloween franchise, the Hatchet series, “The Conners”) have joined the cast and production team of the psychological thriller feature Anne, With Love starring Blaine Morris (“Skins”). George Henry Horton (Dreadspace) will direct from the script he co-wrote with Blaine Morris. Horton and Morris are producing under JesterLads and Giant Nugget Productions along with Suvari, Harris, and Matt Simonelli. Jaime Gallagher (Nightshade), Luke Barnett (Faith Based), Rocky Perez (“Gotham”), Anwar Wolf (“High Maintenance”), Leonard Amoia, Lucy Werner, Hunter Brown, and Robert H. Lambert (Burying Yasmeen) are among the supporting cast. The story centers on Anne (Morris), a painter who struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously. Suvari will play the role of her closest confidant Maya, who has a dark secret of her own. Harris will play Anne’s neighbor, who has several striking similarities in both her appearance

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 22, 2021
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Filming For Season 2 Of “The Lord Of The Rings” Announced Ahead Of Season 1’s 2022 Premiere

Amazon Studios announced today that ahead of season one’s premiere, that the second season of their “The Lord of the Rings” series is set to film in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The highly anticipated “The Lord of the Rings” series recently wrapped principal photography on Season One in New Zealand and is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video in more than 240 countries around the world on Friday, September 2, 2022. We want to thank the people and the government of New Zealand for their hospitality and dedication and for providing The Lord of the Rings series with an incredible place to begin this epic journey,” said Vernon Sanders, VP and Co-Head of TV, Amazon Studios. “We are grateful to the New Zealand Film Commission, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Tourism New Zealand, Auckland Unlimited, and others for their tremendous collaboration that supported the New Zealand film sector and the local economy during the production of Season One.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 13, 2021

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Several Join The International Cast Of Zombie Movie ‘Chungking Mansions’

The international cast of the upcoming zombie movie Chungking Mansions continues to grow with Japan’s action star Rina Takeda, Korean actress Go Joon-hee, Hong Kong actress Wiyona Yeung, and Desmond Tan and Rebecca Lin of Singapore being recently announced by Deadline. The film follows a disparate group of people who must climb the iconic Chungking Mansions building in a bid to survive a zombie outbreak in Hong Kong. Go Joon-hee plays a high-profile model attending the launch of a new fashion campaign when the outbreak occurs. Wiyona Yeung plays a wellness guru. Desmond Tan co-stars as a hustler helping an American locate his family. Kevin Leslie will be a British backpacker seeking his girlfriend. Rebecca Lim is in talks to play a blade master and right-hand woman of the man behind the outbreak. Rina Takeda stars as a Special Agent from Japan investigating the outbreak. The movie is primarily in English, featuring an American lead character who fights to protect

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 6, 2021

Stephen King Series And Film Adaptations That Are Headed Your Way (Updated)

Stephen King is as popular as ever. Let’s be honest, the man IS the king of written horror. Fans will be happy to learn there are several new films and series adaptations headed their way and we’ve got a list. Salem’s Lot A new adaptation of King’sSalem’s Lotis is on its way from horror legend James Wan who is producing the film written, directed, and executive produced by Gary Dauberman (It, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night) will be starring as author Ben Mears who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot seeking inspiration for his next book only to find his hometown is being preyed upon by a vampire. Together with a ragtag group of residents, he sets out to fight the monster. Firestarter Keith Thomas, who brought us the fantastic horror film The Vigil earlier this year, directs from the script adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), based on Stephen King’s

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2021
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Netflix & Guillermo Del Toro Team Up For Anthology Series “Cabinet of Curiosities”

Netflix and brilliant Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro have teamed up for a new anthology series, “Cabinet of Curiosities” (originally titled “Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight”). Del Toro hand-picked the directors himself including Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), David Prior (The Empty Man), Vincenzo Natali (Splice), and Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), just to name a few, Deadline reports. Talk about impressive! The cast is just remarkable and includes Andrew Lincoln (“The Walking Dead”), Crispin Glover (Smiley Face Killers), Essie Davis (The Babadook), and Peter Weller (RoboCop). ● Essie Davis (The Babadook), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead) and Hannah Galway (Sex/Life) star in an episode written (based on an original story by Guillermo del Toro) and directed by Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) ● Amadeus Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Mythic Quest), Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and Luke Roberts (Ransom) will appear in an episode written by David S. Goyer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 3, 2021
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IFC Midnight Announces 2022 Release Of Home Invasion Thriller ‘See For Me’

IFC Midnight announced today that they now possess U.S. rights to Randall Okita’s See For Me, a home invasion chiller that pits a blind house-sitter against three experienced thieves. The film stars visually impaired actor Skyler Davenport as the blind house-sitter, Sophie. Kim Coates, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Pascal Langdale, Joe Pingue, George Tchortov, Laura Vandervoort, and Emily Piggford also star. In the film, “when blind former skier Sophie accepts a last-minute house-sitting job in a secluded mansion, she awakes in the middle of the night to find the house under invasion by a group of thieves seeking a hidden safe. Her only means of defense: a new app called “See For Me”, which matches her with a volunteer across the country who uses Sophie’s cell phone to see on her behalf. Stubbornly independent, Sophie is reluctant to accept help until she is connected to Kelly, an army veteran who spends her days playing first-person shooter games. As the game of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 31, 2021
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New ‘Pet Sematary’ Prequel Re-Writes Character To Suit Double Amputee Actor

The upcoming, still untitled, Pet Sematary prequel is still adding cast members to its roster. Variety is reporting that “actor, disability advocate and double hand amputee” John W. Lawson (“American Horror Story”) has now joined the cast and will star as “Stanny”. This marks the first time a double amputee has been cast in a leading role. The character was originally not an amputee and was rewritten just for the actor. I have myoelectric hands… or what people commonly call ‘cyborg,’” Lawson told the site. “But most of the time, it’s just my hooks.” . After Lawson auditioned and got a call back he learned that new scenes had been written just for him. “And when I got the new sides,” He said to Variety, “they had completely written the role for the character to be an amputee. Which was freakin’ awesome. Because it was not [an amputee role before] in any way. That, to me, was a real turning

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 30, 2021
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Lewis Pullman Cast As The Lead In New ‘Salem’s Lot’ Adaptation

Stephen King adaptations continue to reign supreme. Recently the Epix vampire series “Chapelwaite” (review), based on King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot, made its premiere. Now, a new adaptation of King’s Salem’s Lot is on its way from horror legend James Wan who is producing the film written, directed, and executive produced by Gary Dauberman (It, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Today, the first casting news has arrived. THR is reporting that Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night) will be starring as author Ben Mears who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot seeking inspiration for his next book only to find his hometown is being preyed upon by a vampire. Together with a ragtag group of residence, he sets out to fight the monster. The new adaptation has been in the works for a while. Back in 2019, Dauberman teased what’s to come in a conversation with Slash Film. “I did have a unique way into it but

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 28, 2021
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New Clip From ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Arrives Ahead Of FrightFest Debut

Writer-director Edoardo Vitaletti‘s feature debut, the occult horror-thriller The Last Thing Mary Saw, is heading to Shudder following its debut at FrightFest this week. To mark the occasion, Shudder has unveiled a new clip. The Last Thing Mary Saw begins in Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Stefanie Scott, Insidious: Chapter 3), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, is interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death. As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are seeing, speaking, and acting on God’s behalf, view the girls’ relationship as an abomination, to be dealt with as severely as possible. The couple attempts to carry on in secret, but someone is always watching, or listening, and the wages of perceived sin threaten to become death, with the tension only heightened by

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 25, 2021
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Shudder Acquires ‘Slapface’ And ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has now announced that it has acquired the horror films Slapface and The Advent Calendar ahead of their FrightFest premieres in London later this month. Craig Engler, general manager of Shudder, commented, “Shudder members will have exclusive access to some of the most exciting and compelling festival films in the months ahead. We are excited to debut Patrick Ridremont’s chilling French horror fantasy The Advent Calendar just in time for the holidays and Jeremiah Kipp’s mysterious and eerie Slapface next year. They will join American gothic horror Offseason and unique period feature The Last Thing Mary Saw along with many other exclusive series and films to haunt and delight our members.” Is there a relationship more special than that of a boy and his monster? After Lucas (August Maturo, The Nun) and Tom (Mike Manning, The Call) lose their mother in an accident, they think they only have

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 24, 2021
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Mena Suvari And Danielle Harris Starring In Murder Thriller ‘Anne, With Love’

Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”) and Danielle Harris (the Halloween franchise, the Hatchet series, “The Conners”) have joined the cast and production team of the psychological thriller feature Anne, With Love starring Blaine Morris (“Skins”). George Henry Horton (Dreadspace) will direct from the script he co-wrote with Blaine Morris. Horton and Morris are producing under JesterLads and Giant Nugget Productions along with Suvari, Harris, and Matt Simonelli. Jaime Gallagher (Nightshade), Luke Barnett (Faith Based), Rocky Perez (“Gotham”), Anwar Wolf (“High Maintenance”), Leonard Amoia, Lucy Werner, Hunter Brown, and Robert H. Lambert (Burying Yasmeen) are among the supporting cast. The story centers on Anne (Morris), a painter who struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously. Suvari will play the role of her closest confidant Maya, who has a dark secret of her own. Harris will play Anne’s neighbor, who has several striking similarities in both her appearance

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 22, 2021
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Filming For Season 2 Of “The Lord Of The Rings” Announced Ahead Of Season 1’s 2022 Premiere

Amazon Studios announced today that ahead of season one’s premiere, that the second season of their “The Lord of the Rings” series is set to film in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The highly anticipated “The Lord of the Rings” series recently wrapped principal photography on Season One in New Zealand and is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video in more than 240 countries around the world on Friday, September 2, 2022. We want to thank the people and the government of New Zealand for their hospitality and dedication and for providing The Lord of the Rings series with an incredible place to begin this epic journey,” said Vernon Sanders, VP and Co-Head of TV, Amazon Studios. “We are grateful to the New Zealand Film Commission, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Tourism New Zealand, Auckland Unlimited, and others for their tremendous collaboration that supported the New Zealand film sector and the local economy during the production of Season One.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 13, 2021
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