9 articles from 2009
2012 Annihilates Box Office Numbers
16 November 2009 6:41 AM, PST
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Oh boy. Any hope you may have of Roland Emmerich either disappearing off the face of the earth or directing a film that doesn’t obliterate society has probably been shattered. 2012 has made some serious bank: $225 million worldwide, which Variety calls the fifth best international opening of all time.
This is sort of surprising, considering the buzz for 2012 wasn’t huge or anything. The biggest star power in the film is John Cusack, who is talented as all get out, make no mistake, but apparently is still quite a box office draw. That, or the explosions. The film was budgeted at around $200 million, so they’re in good shape.
In other news, Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox has already gathered up $12.6 million in the UK where it has been released for a month. It’ll surely make its money back when it is released here on November 25.
Sadly,
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- John Cooper
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2009 Reaper Awards Winners!
14 October 2009 12:25 PM, PDT
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The boxed set of Hellraiser won the top honor at the first-ever Reaper Awards, earning Best of Show as well as Best Packaging and Best Re-mastering for Anchor Bay Entertainment.
The announcement came at a red carpet gala awards dinner and cocktail party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 13. The 2009 Reaper Awards were presented by Home Media Magazine and DreadCentral.com.
In addition to Best of Show, the ceremony revealed the winners in 14 categories as voted by consumers in an online vote. A blue-ribbon panel of judges comprised of top names in the horror industry selected finalists in each of the categories from titles released between Sept. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2009.
The Reaper Awards also honored industry veteran Michael Felsher with a lifetime achievement award, marking his work on special features and ability to make them truly unique.
The Best Slasher Award went to two recipients this year,
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Ultimate Ghost Story
8 October 2009 8:14 AM, PDT
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It’s featurette time, but it’s taking the form of “Ultimate Ghost Story” in Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. We get a better in depth look on each one of the ghosts that get at Scrooge (Jim Carrey) and why each one is designed the way they are along with brand new clips of the upcoming film mixed in. Also featuring the voices of Robin Wright-Penn, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Bob Hoskins, this 3D Walt Disney Pictures event will storm its way into theaters and IMAX on November 6th. Watch this exclusive piece below:
A New Christmas TrailerA Christmas Carol Trailer and MoreA Christmas PosterAn Early Date with Disney
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- Melissa Molina
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Ghostly A Christmas Carol Behind The Scenes Video
7 October 2009 6:40 PM, PDT
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I remain incredibly excited about the notion of seeing Jim Carrey as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Unfortunately that.s not the movie we.re getting. Instead Jim Carrey is the voice of a creepily, motion-capture animated Scrooge flying around in a CGI world populated by creepy ghosts.
Still the ghosts themselves do look pretty good. Disney has released a new behind the featurette focused entirely on the movie.s spectre spirit guides in which Carrey, Zemeckis, and others involved in the film talk about the role they.ll play in the story. Every time I see him, I.m particularly impressed by the Ghost of Christmas Present who, looks like what I imagine Tom Bombadil might look like if he were cool instead of incredibly lame.
Watch the new featurette, A Christmas Carol: Ultimate Ghost Story, below.
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Tim Sullivan's Driftwood Premiering on Chiller 9/11 @ 10Pm!
10 September 2009 6:58 PM, PDT
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Have you guys checked out Tim Sullivan's follow-up to 2001 Maniacs, Driftwood? If not, it's a great little film you should check out and it'll actually be premiering on Chiller TV this Friday September 11th at 10Pm. Below is the full press release about the airing! Check it:
Tim Sullivan’s teen ghost story Driftwood will be making its network premiere on NBC Universal’s Chiller network Friday, September 11th at 10 Pm.
The Story: Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 year old David Forrester (Ricky Ullman) becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths" run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy (Diamond Dallas Page) and his brutal young henchman, Yates (Talan Torriero). Once there, David becomes haunted by the spirit of Jonathan (Connor Ross), a former inmate who met a mysterious end
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Horror anthologies on the march
9 September 2009 3:55 PM, PDT
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With our favorite time of year just around the corner, Fango’s got news of a trio of literary terrors to keep you occupied throughout the fall. And if you’re partial to anthologies and short-story collections, get ready to rejoice.
First up, Running Press has just put out the third volume in its Dark Delicacies series, subtitled Haunted, and it looks to be their biggest yet. Edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, Dark Delicacies III features 20 new works by the likes of genre legend Clive Barker, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, Masters Of Horror creator Mick Garris, Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva, 100 Feet’s Eric Red, veteran horror scribe Richard Christian Matheson, Fango contributor Axelle Carolyn, First Blood author David Morrell and many more, with a foreword by The Shining actor Steven Weber.
Also arriving this month is Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories On The 50th Anniversary, a
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Mti Releasing Indie "Imprint" for "Best Ghost Story"
1 September 2009 2:31 PM, PDT
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Now celebrating their 25th Anniversary, leading independent home entertainment studio Mti Home Video is celebrating the Reaper Award Nomination for Best Ghost Story for their Supernatural Thriller "Imprint". Feature is currently available on DVD.
The Reaper Awards will be celebrated Oct. 13 at the hauntingly historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The event will include a red carpet for VIP guests, pre-show cocktail party and dinner, followed by an awards show featuring celebrity presenters. Registration is now open at www.ReaperAwards.com/event. Other nominees in the "Best Ghost Story" category include: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's "Mirrors", Lionsgate's "The Haunting In Connecticut", and Anchor Bay Entertainment's "The Alphabet Killer".
In the film "Imprint", Shayla
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Fan Vote Opens for Reaper Awards 2009
31 August 2009 11:42 AM, PDT
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The nominees for Reaper Awards 2009, the first awards campaign dedicated entirely to horror on home video, have been chosen by an esteemed panel of judges from within the horror community.
“This year’s nominees range from some of the most popular horror films ever made to new critically acclaimed indies,” says Kyra Kudick, executive producer of the Reaper Awards. “It is a diverse selection, and it is exciting to leave the choice of winners to those who would know best — the fans.”
Horror fans will now have the opportunity to choose the best horror DVDs and Blu-ray discs of the year in an online vote held Sept. 1 through Oct. 1 at ReaperAwards.com.
The following nominees were chosen based on the quality of the films and how they are presented on home video:
Best Dtv Release
Alien Raiders, Warner Home Video
Cold Prey, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Laid to Rest,
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Joe Schreiber Talks No Doors No Windows and Deathtroopers
4 August 2009 12:58 AM, PDT
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Family curses, haunted houses, winter, small towns – Pennsylvania-based horror writer Joe Schreiber seems to be on course to be a contender for Northern Gothic Author of the Year. I was first introduced to Schreiber’s Very creepy work when his first novel, Chasing the Dead, was published in 2007. I Highly recommend this book: A single mother gets a phone call that her daughter has been kidnapped and she must follow the instructions to the letter of the kidnapper if she wants to see her daughter again. The catch that Schreiber does so well is that the novel is set on the shortest day of the year, December 21st, in extremely wintry rural Massachusetts and the kidnapper may or may not be supernatural. A lean and mean scarefest.
His second novel, Eat the Dark, also has a hair-raising setting – a soon-to-be abandoned hospital where only a skeleton crew remains the last
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