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Joining the ever growing cast of Rob Zombie's The Lords Of Salem is Billy Drago. Per the announcement, "BIlly takes on the role of Judge Samuel Mather a key player int he history of the Lords. Billy is best known for his roles in such films as Pale Rider, Freeway, The HIlls Have Eyes (2006) and The Untouchables. In addition to film he has also appeared in numerous TV show including : HIll Street Blues, T.J. Hooker The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr. and Walker, Texas ranger." Drago joins recently added cast member Dee Wallace as well as Bruce Dern, Meg Foster, Jeff Phillips and Sherri Moon Zombie. "The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town...."...

Below director-writer Jeff Phillips shares a scene from his social networking teen thriller "@urFRENZ." The film is currently available On Demand. Go here to find out how to watch it. What It's About “@urFRENZ” is about a solitary teenage girl (Lily Holleman) who meets a secretive boy online (James Maslow), and begins to come out of her shell. But is he a suitor or a stalker, a friend or foe? ...

Below director-writer Jeff Phillips shares a scene from his social networking teen thriller "@urFRENZ." The film is currently available On Demand. Go here to find out how to watch it. What It's About “@urFRENZ” is about a solitary teenage girl (Lily Holleman) who meets a secretive boy online (James Maslow), and begins to come out of her shell. But is he a suitor or a stalker, a friend or foe? ...

Rob Zombie announced today via his official Facebook that Torsten Voges - best known for his turns in Joel Schumacher's 8Mm and the cult classic Coen Brother's film The Big Lebowski - has joined the cast of The Lords Of Salem, which begins lensing this fall from the producing team behind Insidious and Paranormal Activity. Voges will play "Count Gorgann", the lead singer of the Norwegian death metal band Leviathan the Fleeing Serpent. Jeff Phillips was recently cast as Herman "Whitey" Salvador, one third of "The Big H Team" at Wiqz - Salem's Rock Radio. Meg Foster was also cast as "Margaret Morgan", the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem. Ernest Thomas will play Chip "Freakshow" McDonald, the station manager at Salem's #1 rock station.

England ended up 127 for two after a damp and cagey first day of play, with Jonathan Trott unbeaten on 58

Morning everyone. How are you feeling this morning? Palms a little moist? Brow a touch fevered? Thoughts about the respective merits of Tim Bresnan and Stuart Broad inexplicably dominating your inner monologue? It's time, at last. The 2000th Test, the 100th between England and India, and the most eagerly anticipated match in

this country outside of an Ashes series since the West Indies were in their pomp a whippersnapper's lifetime ago.

This being the proper start of the summer it's probably worth checking the weather. A quick look outside the window from the top floor of Guardian Towers eastwards across the cityscape shows a solid gray morass of cloud, stretching from here to eternity St John's Wood. We might not start on time but the weathermen say that we'll get plenty of play,...

On this date in...

1997: The first Dynasty Season 1 DVD released in Gernmany.

2008: Gay Pride in Oadake as Cyndi Lauperviperformed and sang to the Oakdale U crows including Luke and Noah.

2010: We Love Soaps posted a Creativve Arts Emmy with the alwaws outspoken Carolyn Hennesy.

Celebrating a birthday today are:

Hunter Tylo (Taylor, The Bold And The Beautiful; ex-Marina, Days Of Our Lives; ex-Robin, All My Children) - 49

Amy Van Horne (ex-Carla, Loving) - 44

Jeff Phillips (ex-Matthew, Another World; ex-Hart, Guiding Light; ex-Kevin, As The World Turns) - 42

Thomas Gibson (ex-Sam, Another World; ex-Derek, As The World Turns; ex-Peter, Guiding Light) - 38

Ryan McPartlin (ex-Hank, Passions) - 36

Elizabeth Hendrickson (Chloe, The Young And The Restlesss; Lizzie, Imaginary Bitches; ex-Maggie/Frankie, All My Children) - 32

Justin Torkildsen (ex-Rick, The Bold And The Beautiful) - 30

Amy Weber (ex-=Lark, Port Charles) - 42

Yancy Butler (ex-Ava, As The World Turns) - 42

Lindsay Lohan (ex-Alli,...

Slamdance, which runs concurrently with Park City’s Sundance Film Festival, has announced its 2010 line-up, and there are several choices that look to make genre fans sit up and take notice.

Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:

Narrative Competition:

Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.

Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...

What's that? You can't wait to hear about the Irish post apocalyptic film One Hundred Mornings? Well you don't have to because we already have a review of it right here! Our own Alan Maxwell called it an "uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society." Yeah, it's good.

So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.

Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?

Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?

Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.

Partial lineup after the break!

Narrative Competition

Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.

Drones (Amber Benson...

Slamdance, Sundance’s indie little brother, has announced the 18 films that will be playing in competition next month. While the economy might be slowing down, there was no shortage of submissions, as Slamdance reports they had 5,000 films vying for a spot in the Festival. Of the 18 films in competition, ten are narrative, eight are documentaries, and eleven are world premieres.

“The quality of indie filmmaking is getting higher while productions costs are getting lower,” said Slamdance prexy and co-founder Peter Baxter. “Far apart from the apparent industry downturn, there appears a great sense of what is possible rather than impossible with our submissions.”

Of course this year will be very interesting at Slamdance after the success Paranormal Activity. If you didn’t know, Activity screened at the 2008 Festival and has since made over $100 million at the domestic box office. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a few more buyers looking for a repeat performance.

The competitive lineup for the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival (of which Fangoria is a media sponsor) has been revealed via an announcement on Variety. "As in years past, competing films are by first-time feature directors working with limited budgets and without domestic theatrical distribution in place. Among the 18 titles, 11 are world premieres." the trade reports.

Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.

Narrative Competition

“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...

Hot off the success of National Treasure, Charles Segars has sold his heist pitch Fort Knox to Warner Bros. Pictures for low- against mid-six figures. Studio-based Thunder Road Pictures is set to produce the feature, with the company's Basil Iwanyk producing alongside Segars. Thunder Road vp development Mary Viola brought the project into the studio through Kristi Felton, who will serve as an associate producer. Felton is based at Segars' shingle, Sparkler Prods. Felton developed the pitch with Segars and Segars' producing partner, Jeff Phillips, who will serve as the executive producer on Knox. Further details on the story line were being kept tightly under wraps Monday, but the Fort Knox-set project is said to involve many twists and turns and an unusual plot line. Lynn Harris will oversee for the studio.