Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION – After Dark rolls out a new trailer for their Horrorfest titles.
• HIDDEN – One of the ADF Horrorfest titles I’ve seen.  Not bad, kinda slow.
• THE REEDS – Chalk up another ADF title.
• THE FINAL – One more ADF Horrorfest trailer.
• BURIED – I believe I read earlier today that Lionsgate just bought the Ryan Reynolds trapped-in-a-coffin flick.

Studio News and Attachments

• PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 – Kevin Greutert, who made the surprisingly solid SAW 6, is directing PA2.
• SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL – Sam Jackson and Josh Duhamel may be stuck battling heaven and hell in Boaz Yankin’s Louisiana-set supernatural thriller.
• Spielberg’s new Alien TV show – No title yet, but Spielberg will be throwing down for another Taken-esque miniseries; this time for TNT.
• DREAM HOUSE – Naomi Watts joins Jim Sheridan’s “city folk shouldn’t move to creepy houses in the country” flick alongside Daniel Craig.
• BURKE AND HARE – Casting for John Landis’ graverobbing comedy gets more awesome.  Joining Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis are Tom Wilkinson and Isla Fisher.
• THE FURTHER – James Wan’s next film to be produced by Oren Peli.
• THE WALKING DEAD – Frank Darabont’s TV-series adaptation of Kirkman’s comic got the greenlight at AMC.
• DRACULA: YEAR ZERO – Alex Proyas is budgeting and scheduling his take on the origin of Dracula.

Remakes

• THE WOLFMAN – Danny Elfman’s score has been re-instated for Joe Johnston’s WOLFMAN.
• PLANET OF THE APES – Despite recent news to the contrary, Fox does indeed still plan on rebooting PLANET OF THE APES.  Again.
• CONAN – Marcus Nispel’s CONAN THE BARBARIAN remake gets its hunk.  It’s that guy from that STARGATE show you never watched.
• FRANKENSTEIN – Not so much a remake as another adaptation, but Danny Boyle will be directing a stage play of the classic tale in London.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• BLACK SUNSET – The Butcher Brothers, AKA the guys who made THE HAMILTONS and THE VIOLENT KIND, have pegged their next project about a “betrayal-filled nightmare” that plays out during a surfing trip to Mexico.
• BLACK DEATH – Christopher Smith’s movie about the bubonic plague slips a little on its UK release.
• MY NAME IS BRUCE 2 – Bruce will be fighting Frankenstein.  I’d be interested if MY NAME IS BRUCE was anything less than a clunking piece of shit.
• ENTER THE VOID – IFC picks up Gasper Noe’s latest film for US distribution.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• EATERS – Italian zombie flick produced by Uwe Boll.

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• TIMECRIMES – Clip, list of theaters

Studio News and Attachments

• Remember BLACK DEATH mentioned on here 6 or so months ago?  No?  You will now.  Staring Lena Headey and Sean Bean it’s about a medieval quest for a necromancer and will be directed by none other than Christopher Smith.
• Anchor Bay is giving THE ALPHABET KILLER a limited theatrical run, though fails to clarify just how limited.
• That I AM LEGEND prequel is, if the word is true, actually a sequel.  Gooooo Logic!
• I don’t believe it, but an Australian newspaper is spreading the fire that TWILIGHT’s monstrous opening has paved the way for a new BUFFY movie.

Remakes

• Nacho Vigalondo supports the remake of his hit TIMECRIMES, but refuses to read the script, instead wanting to see the movie like the rest of us.
• A script and J.T. Petty are good to go, now all that stands in the way of FACES OF DEATH is a legal dispute regarding the title.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Frank Spotnitz won’t give up hope on another X-FILES movie.  The box office thinks he should.
• Sweet concept art for Steve Niles’ forthcoming modern Frankenstein comic/movie WAKE THE DEAD.
• Uwe Boll’s next will be THE STORM, a film that would sound like a Sundance family drama were it not for his involved name.
• F. Paul Wilson’s REPAIRMAN JACK inches a little closer to film world thanks to Beacon Pictures.
• Buy an Alien Cookie Jar!

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• LUSTER – From Adam Mason
• X-CROSS – Trailer
• FAIRY TALE POLICE – X-Box Love short from Adam Green
• THE GREEN MONSTER – Trailer