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-- Dread

Weekly News Re-Cap: 06/10 - 06/17

Weekly News Re-Cap: 06/10 - 06/17

June 18th 2007 @ 8:30 pm

Sorry this is a day late, I was nerding it up at a LAN this past weekend.  The BattleGrounds, whose makers rightfully boast as being the only Revolutionary War mod for Half Life 1 & 2, is pretty much the greatest gaming experience ever gifted upon the world.  Seriously.  Seconds that feel like minutes to reload your musket….bayonets at the ready….man versus man in a circle dance of time; dodging lethal blade thrusts while you stuff black powder down the barrel of a musket is in-fucking-tense.

Don’t even get me started on Pirates, Vikings and Knights II.  Who knew those three had such a riotous rivalry to keep hold of treasure chests and watch towers?!

Studio Trailers and Clips
Joshua - Clips
Yep.  That’s it.

Studio News and Attachments

Repo! The Genetic Opera already has a songless rip-off flick set up at Universal Pictures called The Repossession Mambo.
Eli Roth earns his MySpace merit badge like so many other misunderstood high schoolers before him: by blaming other people.  You used to be cool, Eli, what happened?
Platinum Dunes’ on the verge of filming Half to Death, described as "Groundhog’s Day meets Captivity".
Fox Atomic Comics brings you The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning.
20th Century Fox picks up film rights to the Goosebumps series.  Because that worked so well the first time around.
I don’t believe this Halloween is going to be PG-13 rumor for a second.  Rob Zombie isn’t stupid.
Paul W.S. Anderson off of Castlevania, Sylvian White steps in.
David Goyer to write/direct a new Invisible Man.

Random and Indie News
Normally I’d steer clear of a flick who uses MySpace as its primary means of communication to the world, but Dying God does have Lance Henrikson in it.  As a pimp.  Literally.
Godzilla - real Godzilla - goes 3-D!
MTV lines up two "thriller" TV shows for production, neither sound interesting.
Quentin Tarantino finishes hamming it up for Takashii Miike.
Borderland is getting a theatrical release on September 28th.

Indie/Foreign Trailers and Clips

Grizzly Park - I’m sold, even if the music steals from Pan’s Labyrinth blatantly.


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