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One of the most underrated directors of the 90’s, Alex Proyas, seems to have been hanging on to the industry by a thread as of late. A veteran of music videos, Proyas exploded onto the feature film scene with late-Brandon Lee classic The Crow, and from there, went on to make one of the most [...]

Earlier this week, news broke out that Summit Entertainment (Twilight) was working on a new spin on Dracula with Vlad.  The project’s screenwriter, Charlie Hunnam, clarified in a recent interview that the film would focus on the rise of young Vlad Dracula, rather than on connecting him to the vampire legends.
Despite his acting work on [...]

While this year launched a literary sequel to Bram Stoker classic’s Dracula, Hollywood is aiming for a prequel.
Summit Entertainment, best known for the Twilight movies, has teamed up with Brad Pitt to produce Vlad, a film that covers the real-life Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Dracula the Impaler (pictured on the left).
It has been implied that [...]

Bram Stoker never lived to see the popularity of Dracula.  And when the novel was considered public domain, the rest of his family rarely received any money or were allowed creative input on film adaptations or literary sequels.  This year, the novel Dracula: The Un-Dead brings the character back to the Stokers, with Dacre Stoker, Bram’s [...]

This October, Count Dracula is set to return in not one, but two sequels.
A new novel, Dracula: The Undead, by Dacre Stoker, Bram’s great grandnephew, and Ian Holt, will be released on October 13th.  The sequel is set twenty-five years after the original, in which Quincey Harker, the son to Jonathan and Mina, must face the possible [...]