As you may have heard, the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con International was not the usual Sdcc experience.
On July 14, the American actors’ union SAG-AFTRA joined their writing counterparts in the WGA by going on strike and picketing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for its refusal to grant them a fair deal. Since the details of the strike preclude actors and writers from promoting their union-backed films and TV shows, many of the planned panels, promotions, and guests at Comic-Con had to bow out.
The end result was a Con that very much resembled the event’s earlier days before it became a action item on the calendar for big studios like Marvel, DC, and others to showcase their upcoming blockbusters. And you know what? It was all still pretty cool!
Like we’ve done for almost our entire existence, Den of Geek was on the ground at...
On July 14, the American actors’ union SAG-AFTRA joined their writing counterparts in the WGA by going on strike and picketing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for its refusal to grant them a fair deal. Since the details of the strike preclude actors and writers from promoting their union-backed films and TV shows, many of the planned panels, promotions, and guests at Comic-Con had to bow out.
The end result was a Con that very much resembled the event’s earlier days before it became a action item on the calendar for big studios like Marvel, DC, and others to showcase their upcoming blockbusters. And you know what? It was all still pretty cool!
Like we’ve done for almost our entire existence, Den of Geek was on the ground at...
- 7/31/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
"Did you just come into my room to fart?" What a line. Lionsgate has released an official trailer for a kooky comedy titled Lady of the Manor, written and directed by brothers Christian Long & Justin Long, making their feature directorial debut together. The film follows a stoner who, after getting a gig as a tour guide in a historic manor, befriends the ghost of the former lady of the residence. "We really love buddy comedies from the '80s and '90s... We realized it was such a good opportunity for that type of buddy comedy, but with two women, and we just felt like we hadn't seen that in that way." Melanie Lynskey and Judy Greer star in this offbeat buddy comedy creation, with a full cast including Justin Long, Luis Guzmán, Patrick Duffy, Nick Morgulis, and Ryan Phillippe. This doesn't look like the most interesting or humorous take on this concept,...
- 8/25/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Younger star Molly Bernard and Nike Kadri (One Dollar) have been added to the cast of Master, the Amazon Studios thriller starring Regina Hall. Zoe Renee and Amber Gray recently joined the film, which is written and directed by Mariama Diallo. Production is currently underway. The plot follows three black women who strive to find their place at the celebrated Ancaster College, an elite university in New England. It examines how each of these women will — or won’t — survive in this space of privilege. Andrea Roa, Brad Becker-Parton and Joshua Astrachan will produce for Animal Kingdom with Hall and Terence Nance serving as executive producers. Bernard is repped by Innovative Artists and D2 Management. Kadri is repped by D2 and Hckr.
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- 3/11/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Nick Morgulis Apr 18, 2019
We speak with the filmmakers and actors who considered it their sacred duty to do honor by La Llorona... the very real ghost.
The story of La Llorna, the weeping woman, is well-known in Mexico. Details, such as the color of her dress or the exact date of her death, might change depending on geography and teller, but the basic folklore remains the same: There once was a woman who drowned her children in a fit of grief and jealousy. Afterward she committed suicide but was damned to wander the world looking for other children. Yours, perhaps, if they were disobedient. If so, they too would breathe water. Such is The Curse of La Llorona, and such is the context of the new horror movie that is set in the ever expanding The Conjuring universe.
Last month at SXSW we were able to sit down with director...
We speak with the filmmakers and actors who considered it their sacred duty to do honor by La Llorona... the very real ghost.
The story of La Llorna, the weeping woman, is well-known in Mexico. Details, such as the color of her dress or the exact date of her death, might change depending on geography and teller, but the basic folklore remains the same: There once was a woman who drowned her children in a fit of grief and jealousy. Afterward she committed suicide but was damned to wander the world looking for other children. Yours, perhaps, if they were disobedient. If so, they too would breathe water. Such is The Curse of La Llorona, and such is the context of the new horror movie that is set in the ever expanding The Conjuring universe.
Last month at SXSW we were able to sit down with director...
- 4/18/2019
- Den of Geek
Nick Morgulis Apr 5, 2019
Producer Mark Vahradian drills down into the making of Pet Sematary
This article contains spoilers for Pet Sematary.
Mark Vahradian has been a producer or executive producer on the Transformers franchise, as well as movies like Deepwater Horizon, Salt, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and more. He’s also produced horror films such as 1408 and The Devil Inside, but now he wades into Stephen King territory as a producer on the new adaptation of the author’s classic 1983 novel Pet Sematary.
Like producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and screenwriter Jeff Buhler, Vahradian felt the gravity of adapting one of King’s darkest and best-known novels, especially since there was already a film version in 1989 that has been generally held in solid regard.
But this grim tale of an innocent family torn asunder by unexpected death, grief and a hidden, ancient burial ground suffused with a malevolent power was...
Producer Mark Vahradian drills down into the making of Pet Sematary
This article contains spoilers for Pet Sematary.
Mark Vahradian has been a producer or executive producer on the Transformers franchise, as well as movies like Deepwater Horizon, Salt, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and more. He’s also produced horror films such as 1408 and The Devil Inside, but now he wades into Stephen King territory as a producer on the new adaptation of the author’s classic 1983 novel Pet Sematary.
Like producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and screenwriter Jeff Buhler, Vahradian felt the gravity of adapting one of King’s darkest and best-known novels, especially since there was already a film version in 1989 that has been generally held in solid regard.
But this grim tale of an innocent family torn asunder by unexpected death, grief and a hidden, ancient burial ground suffused with a malevolent power was...
- 4/5/2019
- Den of Geek
Nick Morgulis Apr 4, 2019
We dig deep with Pet Sematary screenwriter Jeff Buhler about adapting King, changing the story and more.
This article contains spoilers for Pet Sematary.
Adapting the work of a revered author like Stephen King is always a challenge, but it’s twice as daunting when the material in question is one of the novelist’s most famous and acclaimed books. In this case, it’s Pet Sematary, King’s haunting tale of death, grief, and guilt in which a doctor and family man named Louis Creed, tormented by the death of one of his young children, buries the child in an ancient burial ground behind his house that brings whatever is buried there back to life…only not quite the same.
Working off a story by Matt Greenberg, writer Jeff Buhler was handed the assignment of adapting Pet Sematary for directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmeyer (Starry Eyes...
We dig deep with Pet Sematary screenwriter Jeff Buhler about adapting King, changing the story and more.
This article contains spoilers for Pet Sematary.
Adapting the work of a revered author like Stephen King is always a challenge, but it’s twice as daunting when the material in question is one of the novelist’s most famous and acclaimed books. In this case, it’s Pet Sematary, King’s haunting tale of death, grief, and guilt in which a doctor and family man named Louis Creed, tormented by the death of one of his young children, buries the child in an ancient burial ground behind his house that brings whatever is buried there back to life…only not quite the same.
Working off a story by Matt Greenberg, writer Jeff Buhler was handed the assignment of adapting Pet Sematary for directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmeyer (Starry Eyes...
- 4/4/2019
- Den of Geek
Nick Morgulis Apr 3, 2019
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura explains the new twist at the heart of Pet Sematary.
This Pet Sematary article contains spoilers.
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has some experience with the canon of horror icon Stephen King: in 2007 he produced the sleeper hit 1408, a genuinely unnerving tale about a haunted hotel room that was based on a King short story. But 1408 was a relatively obscure yarn. Taking on Pet Sematary, the near-legendary 1983 novel that the author once said he was too horrified to publish, is a whole other coffin full of worms.
For one thing, there’s the book itself, which King fans revere as one of his greatest, and which -- with its imagery of the eerie, misspelled titular setting -- has found its way into the imagination of the public at large. And then there’s the first movie made from the material, a 1989 film directed by Mary Lambert,...
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura explains the new twist at the heart of Pet Sematary.
This Pet Sematary article contains spoilers.
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has some experience with the canon of horror icon Stephen King: in 2007 he produced the sleeper hit 1408, a genuinely unnerving tale about a haunted hotel room that was based on a King short story. But 1408 was a relatively obscure yarn. Taking on Pet Sematary, the near-legendary 1983 novel that the author once said he was too horrified to publish, is a whole other coffin full of worms.
For one thing, there’s the book itself, which King fans revere as one of his greatest, and which -- with its imagery of the eerie, misspelled titular setting -- has found its way into the imagination of the public at large. And then there’s the first movie made from the material, a 1989 film directed by Mary Lambert,...
- 4/3/2019
- Den of Geek
Ringling College of Art and Design just announced a partnership between the school and filmmaker extraordinaire Kevin Smith (Clerks, Red State, Tusk) for Kevin's latest project called Killroy Was Here. And according to Smith, the anthology will be a monster movie with grisly moments.
Press Release: "Sarasota, Fl, June 15, 2017 (Globe Newswire) -- Ringling College of Art and Design today announced that Kevin Smith -- iconic filmmaker, author, actor and director of Clerks, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and recent horror films Red State and Tusk; has returned to Sarasota to shoot the first installment of his latest horror anthology film Killroy Was Here. This project is being done in partnership with Ringling College of Art and Design and Semkhor Productions, the executive producer.
Like many recent Kevin Smith projects, Killroy stems from a conversation taken from one of his popular weekly podcasts.
“This is a monster movie in...
Press Release: "Sarasota, Fl, June 15, 2017 (Globe Newswire) -- Ringling College of Art and Design today announced that Kevin Smith -- iconic filmmaker, author, actor and director of Clerks, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and recent horror films Red State and Tusk; has returned to Sarasota to shoot the first installment of his latest horror anthology film Killroy Was Here. This project is being done in partnership with Ringling College of Art and Design and Semkhor Productions, the executive producer.
Like many recent Kevin Smith projects, Killroy stems from a conversation taken from one of his popular weekly podcasts.
“This is a monster movie in...
- 6/19/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Author: Zehra Phelan
Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob helmer Kevin Smith has started filming with the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida on his new horror project, Killroy Was Here.
The horror, which came to fruition from one of Smith’s weekly podcasts, is said to be the first offering in an anthology which has moral issues as its base. Smith went on to elaborate in the basis of the storyline.
“This is a monster movie in the sense of a classic morality tale,” Smith said. “No one wants to see you spill the blood of innocents, but when someone crosses the line and goes bad, you get to make them pay in horrible ways, and the audience cheers. We wanted to make an anthology film in the vein of ‘Creepshow.’ Killroy is like the Golem, the Boogeyman and the Grim Reaper combined.”
With a lack...
Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob helmer Kevin Smith has started filming with the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida on his new horror project, Killroy Was Here.
The horror, which came to fruition from one of Smith’s weekly podcasts, is said to be the first offering in an anthology which has moral issues as its base. Smith went on to elaborate in the basis of the storyline.
“This is a monster movie in the sense of a classic morality tale,” Smith said. “No one wants to see you spill the blood of innocents, but when someone crosses the line and goes bad, you get to make them pay in horrible ways, and the audience cheers. We wanted to make an anthology film in the vein of ‘Creepshow.’ Killroy is like the Golem, the Boogeyman and the Grim Reaper combined.”
With a lack...
- 6/16/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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