Unlike the television host of the original, the new Peter Vincent is a Criss Angel type Vegas magician who will assist Anton Yelchin’s protagonist is proving that his neighbor, played by Colin Farrell, is a vampire.  Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Marti Nixon wrote the screenplay.

For a look, check out SlashFilm.com for their photos of the banner: http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/09/01/first-look-david-tennant-as-peter-vincent-in-fright-night/

Peta Wilson will star in the film, which will be the ninth movie in the series.  Victor Garcia will direct the film from a screenplay by Gary Tunnicliffe.  But one name that is noticeably absent is Doug Bradley, who played Pinhead in all of the Hellraiser films.  It looks like the iconic horror figure will be replaced by a new actor.

Here is the rundown on the storyline: “two friends who unleash Pinhead…one of the friends has a change of heart. He backs out on his oath hoping to swap himself out with one of his friend’s family members. [And] there will be a male and female cenobite escorting Pinhead around town, with a new ‘Pseudo-Pinhead’ being introduced.”

No news on whether Dimension will still go through with plans to remake the original Hellraiser.

Source: http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/31/hellraiser-remake-still-stalled-new-direct-to-dvd-film-keeps-franchise-alive/

The review is relatively positive, calling it an “entertaining creature feature,” but cautions Lovecraft fans that it turns the original “more complex (and scary!) novel into a rollercoaster monster romp.”

James Cameron recently commented on the film, which he will produce, to Wired Magazine: “It’s going to be an epically scaled horror film, and we haven’t seen anything like that in a really long time — I guess since Aliens.”  (Yes, Cameron is referring to his own film there).

Source: http://blastr.com/2010/08/james-cameron-new-lovecra.php

So what do you think?  Could Cusack pull off the tortured writer?

Source: http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=16347

Machete

“I’ve been working on the script with my co-writer, Jeff Rendell, who plays the pilgrim in the trailer. And it’s me imitating Jeff’s voice [for the narration]. But Jeff has been working. I said that his deal is he has to work on the script while I’m promoting The Last Exorcism, and as soon as I’m done in mid-September he’s going to fly to California, we’re going to sit down, and bang out the script.”

If you haven’t seen Grindhouse, you can check out the Thanksgiving trailer here (Contains nudity and graphic violence): “Thanksgiving” Trailer

“This holiday season, prepared to have the stuffing scared out of you.”

Roth produced The Last Exorcism, which comes out tomorrow!

Source: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Eli-Roth-Confirms-He-s-Working-On-A-Thanksgiving-Movie-20320.html

While many believed Kurtzman and Orci would turn the comic into a film, it looks like it will become an ongoing television series, possibly for Fox Broadcasting Company and produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Dreamworks Television.

Locke & Key follows three kids who are entrusted as guardians of  a mansion, only to find that the house is a gateway to different dimensions.

Source: http://blastr.com/2010/08/sci-fi-dream-team-being-a.php

The show, based on the Image comic created by Robert Kirkman and executive produced by Frank Darabont, stars Andrew Lincoln as Sheriff Rick Grimes, who wakes up from a coma to find that the world has been taken over by zombies and his family has gone missing.  In the 90 minute pilot, set to premiere on Halloween, Grimes begins to fight through legions of the undead in a quest to find his wife and son.

View the trailer here: The Walking Dead Trailer

One thing’s for sure, you’ll never hear The Walker Brothers’s “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore” the same way again.

Despite the vampire popularity in The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood, Koenig seeks to produce a different take on the vampire world.  ”As pretentious as it sounds, I don’t want to mimic what has gone before.  My purpose isn’t to capitalize on a theme, but inject it with some fresh ideas. That’s what makes writing fun for me. It’s always been what makes writing fun for me.”

So while this is another vampire story, expect existential angst over teen romance: “they are a bridge from what has gone before, which is this self-destruction of the human race, and what will come after.  They are in pursuit of their own meaning. Why are they there? Why have they been created?”

Things to Come is set for release in spring 2011.  For more information, check out MTV: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/08/20/star-trek-walter-koenig-things-to-come-raver-comics/

Kerry Gammill and Kez Wilson are publishers of the series and provide the art for most of the stories.  Issue #1 reported has a cover by Basil Gogos and an alternate cover by John Cassady.  Gammill and Wilson will be writing stories for the book, along with Sam F. Park.

You can pre-order the book by August 27th and the book will be in stores around October.

For a trailer that gives you a peek at the art of the book, check out Monsterverse.com.

The film has been around for some time, but Paramount Vantage is finally releasing it in theaters on October 1.

You can watch the trailer here: http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/hot-trailer-case-39/