Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• ANTICHRIST – New trailer, now you can preview tree-of-human-limb sex in HD!
• SOLOMON KANE – Trailer for the sweet-ass looking upcoming fantasy film.  Weinberg just saw it at TIFF and dug it.
• PANDORUM – Clip

Studio News and Attachments

• FRANKENWEENIE – Tim Burton’s feature length adaptation of his re-animated dog short will be his feature film followup to ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
• TROLLHUNTERS – Guillermo del Toro will be teaming up with Disney for more mature/thrilling animated fare under the banner Double Dare You.  The first of these films will be TROLLHUNTERS, produced by del Toro and based on his own story.
• MOURNING AFTER – Remember when one of the key players in creating Lionsgate’s genre friendly identity created his own company, A BIGGER BOAT.  Well their next co-production will be about a “woman with a timeless, deadly secret.”  Real daring material there, guys.
• JEEPERS CREEPERS 3 – Victor Salva still wants to make it, but it seems people are only just now feeling confident enough to consider investing money…so, don’t expect JEEPERS CREEPERS 3: CATHEDRAL any time soon.
• HALLOWEEN 3D – According to Variety, Dimension has settled on MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D director Patrick Lussier to direct the Rob Zombie-less sequel to Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN franchise.  According to the big horror sites, he’s only ‘in talks’.

Remakes

• RESIDENT EVIL – According to Bloody-Disgusting, the producers plan on the 5th entry in the RE series to be a reboot back to the premise of the first film.  Because that’s what people want.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• HOME DELIVERY – An adaptation of Stephen King’s short story from NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES is going to be directed by MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN director Ryuhei Kitamura.
• Roger Corman Wins an Oscar! – Roger Corman will receive an honorary Oscar for his 60+ year career in schlocky films.
• 10 Stephen King Stories That Should Be Filmed – Good list from a new drinking pal/enabler at Film School Rejects.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• BITTER FEAST – Teaser trailer for the upcoming chef-kills-critic film starring real chef Mario Batali!
• PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE – A teaser trailer for the remake of Ed Wood’s most famous disaster.
• SLICE – A non-supernatural Thai horror movie?
• LAKE MUNGO – Trailer for that which After Dark Films just picked up for 2010’s Horrorfest.
• THE SHRINE – Teaser from the makers of JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER.

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan 2003
Written by Lawrence Kasdan, William Goldman based on Stephen King’s novel

There are people who love this movie.  Fans  of it band together like outcasts.  There are also battalions more who despise it, who wish it cancer.  Of this hate I am not unsympathetic.  Not that I actively like the movie, that I will join the minority who defend its harebrained, crank induced narrative war crimes.  No.  DREAMCATCHER is not a guilty pleasure of mine.  DREAMCATCHER is a stupid choice I make from time to time.

There is just something to it that lures me in.  The cast is great.  Tom Jane shows his enthusiasm once again.  Jason Lee is great.  Timothy Olyphant for once does not act solely with his eyebrows.  Always good to see Damian Lewis, if only because it makes me want to kick off a “BAND OF BROTHERS” marathon.  And then of course there is Donnie Wahlberg playing a mentally handicapped, irradiated logic loophole bipedal (or not) something or other.  Who the fuck really knows.  I don’t.  I haven’t read the book and enough time always passes between my viewings of it that by the time it comes round again I’ve convinced myself I can conquer it, that I’ll be the one to lasso its glossy bits and pieces together.

I am not.  I never am.  No one ever will be.