Weekly News Re-Cap: 7/30 – 8/06

Posted by Peter Hall - August 7th 2006 @ 12:12 pm

Trailers/Clips (Studio)
The Grudge 2 (lengthy teaser trailer)
The Covenant (Quicktime’d Renny Harlin!)
Skinwalkers (first clip)

Studio News/Attachments
Universal picked up Hellboy 2 for an ’08 release.
Universal also optioned up kid-ish, but awesome sounding book Nightmare Academy.
George Romero is back in the game with Solitary Isle.

Random News
Apparently The Wolfman script is as hard an R as they come.
The Descent made $8.8 mil opening in the US, which means about 1.1 million people hated themselves come Monday morning.
The Reaping got shelved to Feb ’07, clearly Warner Bros has a lot of faith in it.
High Res copies of those awesome Grindhouse posters from Comic-Con.

Trailers/Clips (Foreign/Indie)
Akai (Brazilian vampire short)
In a Dark Place
Silk (second Taiwanese trailer)

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Brian

August 7th, 2006 | 8:10 pm | #1

Wow, whatever that Skinwalkers crap is looks awful.
Peter

August 7th, 2006 | 9:04 pm | #2

Yeah, I’m not sure why everyone is so excited for that flick. It’s name has been popping up on the horror scene with great fanfare for a while now, but it looks bland as hell.

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Weekly News Re-Cap: 7/30 – 8/06

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