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Deadline reports that Douglas Smith, 29, is joining the cast of both Alan Taylor‘s “Terminator” reboot and Sandy Tung‘s indie “Evan’s Crime.” Paramount’s Terminator reboot, which is currently filming in New Orleans, features “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, “Divergent’s” Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, and Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his title role. Details for Smith’s character are undisclosed. “Evan’s Crime,” which Tung co-wrote with David Assael and Dale Rosenbloom, will see Smith playing a college student who lands a seven-year prison sentence after a minor drug bust, which leads him to seeking vengeance against the corrupt prosecutor [...]

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We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes casting details on The Chair, Camp of the Damned, and Love Sick, trailers for Chimeres and Phantasmagoria, production and distribution news on Australian film, The Pack, and much more:

Exclusive Casting News for The Chair: We’ve been told that Travis Love (Shumpert from The Walking Dead) has been added to the cast of the upcoming horror/thriller, The Chair. Love will play the Commanding Officer in a flashback scene that features Jimmy (Jacob Banser) and Sullivan (Brian Thompson).

Synopsis: “Based off of the Alterna Comics graphic novel of the same name, The Chair follows the story of Richard Sullivan, an innocent man struggling to escape execution on death row. Witnessing the torture and murder of his fellow inmates at the hands of the prison’s sadistic and psychotic Warden,...

Radio Free Albemuth is a film version of the Philip K. Dick novel, directed and adapted by John Alan Simon.  The sci-fi thriller, which was shot back in 2007, is finally getting a release via Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (Fdm), which acquired all DVD/VOD rights. Produced by Dale Rosenbloom, Stephen Nemeth and Elizabeth Karr along with Simon, the project will debut in limited theaters and on all digital platforms June 27. Photos: 10 Classic Sci-Fi Movies With Better Effects Than Modern Films Radio Free Albemuth stars several faces you may recognize from other recent projects: Shea

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Hyde Park-Image Nation and Troika Pictures have announced that actor-singer Nick Jonas will star as the male lead opposite Isabel Lucas in the edgy thriller Careful What You Wish For. The film is directed by Elizabeth Allen (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Aquamarine”) and written by Chris Frisina and Gregg Hurwitz. Careful What You Wish For will be the Grammy-nominated musician’s first lead acting role in a feature film.

In the story, Doug (Jonas) gets more than he bargained for when he starts having an affair with Lena (Lucas), the young wife of an investment banker renting the lake house next door for the summer. The husband’s suspicious death reveals a substantial life insurance policy.

The central roles of Sheriff “Big Jack,” and Insurance Investigator “Alvarez” are yet to be cast. Everyone is suspect in this edgy thriller reminiscent of “Basic Instinct” and “Body Heat.”

Robert L. Stein, Michael A. Helfant...

In the high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call, a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope: a compassionate, steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her.

Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that’s not for the faint of heart: navigating the public’s distress in order to save lives. But when a young woman’s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan is devastated. Reassessing her life, Jordan wonders if perhaps she’s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call. With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend, maybe it’s time to step back, enjoy life, and teach others the ins and outs of her high-pressure profession.

That lifeline to strangers isn’t over yet, though. When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin), is...

L.A.-based MarVista Entertainment has picked up international distribution rights to the feature doc "Fan-Demanium" and will begin licensing it to foreign stations at next week's MIPTV.

The show focuses on 10 soccer fans from 10 countries -- Italy, France, Germany, England, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Japan, the U.S. and Angola -- and explores how fans experience the world's biggest sporting event. The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was watched by 1 billion people worldwide.

A Rosenblatt Entertainment and Flashpoint Entertainment production, "Fan-Demanium" was exec produced by Andrew Tenenbaum and produced by Michelle Sy, Beth Elise Hawk, Dale Rosenbloom and Matthias Visser, who also made his directorial debut in the project.

" 'Fan-Demaniam' combines the excitement of this sporting event with real-life human drama and offers audiences an up close and personal view into the lives of those who so passionately follow the World Cup," said MarVista CEO Fernando Szew.

Update: Captions added along with six new stills.

In June of last year we posted a piece on John Alan Simon's adaptation of Philip K Dick's Radio Free Albemuth wondering where it was. Since then, I've had a phone conversation with the director who told me the reason that it's taking so long is that they want to do it right, low budget and all. I know they've redone the cgi for the satellite multiple times and all in all, he says he'd rather take his time then put out crap. Well it's getting close folks, he tells me they are a month or two away from a finished product and we're quite excited. The film stars Alanis Morissette as Sylvia (which he tells me is perfect for her role), Ashley Greene as Rhonda, Jonathan Scarfe as Nicholas Brady, Shea Whigham as Phil, Katheryn Winnick as Rachel Brady, Hanna Hall as Vivian Kaplan,...

Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's estate in 2007, have selected his 1974 novel "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as the first of his works they will adapt for the screen, says The Hollywood Reporter . Set in a futuristic, dystopian world, "Tears" is the tale of a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him. Isa Dick Hackett and Laura Leslie, co-founders of Electric Shepherd Prods., the production arm of the Dick estate, will develop the work alongside Kubicek and Anderson. Dale Rosenbloom and John Alan Simon also will produce.

Cannes -- Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's estate in 2007, have selected his 1974 novel "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as the first of his works they will adapt for the screen.

Set in a futuristic, dystopian world, "Tears" is the tale of a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him.

Isa Dick Hackett and Laura Leslie, co-founders of Electric Shepherd Prods., the production arm of the Dick estate, will develop the work alongside Kubicek and Anderson. Dale Rosenbloom and John Alan Simon also will produce.

Dick's works have served as the basis for such movies as "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "Minority Report" and "A Scanner Darkly," which together have grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.

Halcyon also holds various rights to the "Terminator" franchise,...

Philip K. Dick, the noted sci-fi author who gave us such classic fiction as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (aka Blade Runner), is about to have another of his works adapted to the silver screen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to Dick's estate in 2007, have selected his 1974 novel "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as the first of his works they will adapt into a feature film.

Isa Dick Hackett and Laura Leslie, co-founders of Electric Shepherd Prods., the production arm of the Dick estate, will develop the work alongside Kubicek and Anderson. Dale Rosenbloom and John Alan Simon also will produce.

Set in a futuristic, dystopian world, "Tears" is the tale of a celebrity who awakens in a parallel universe after an assassination attempt and finds no one has ever heard of him.

We have the trailer for the documentary "Fuel," directed by Joshua Tickell and produced by Daniel Assael, Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Rebecca Harrell and Darius Fisher. The documentary focuses on the fuel crisis and a young activisits dream to change the fuel dependent world in which we live. After Al Gore driven "An Inconvenient Truth," this was expected. The cast includes Barbara Boxer, Richard Branson, George W. Bush, Larry David, Deborah Dupre, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts.

We have the trailer for the documentary "Fuel," directed by Joshua Tickell and produced by Daniel Assael, Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Rebecca Harrell and Darius Fisher. The documentary focuses on the fuel crisis and a young activisits dream to change the fuel dependent world in which we live. After Al Gore driven "An Inconvenient Truth," this was expected. The cast includes Barbara Boxer, Richard Branson, George W. Bush, Larry David, Deborah Dupre, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts.

We have the trailer for the documentary "Fuel," directed by Joshua Tickell and produced by Daniel Assael, Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Rebecca Harrell and Darius Fisher. The documentary focuses on the fuel crisis and a young activisits dream to change the fuel dependent world in which we live. After Al Gore driven "An Inconvenient Truth," this was expected. The cast includes Barbara Boxer, Richard Branson, George W. Bush, Larry David, Deborah Dupre, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts.See the trailer! Most Americans know we’ve got a problem: an addiction to oil that taxes the environment, entangles us in costly foreign policies, and threatens the nation’s long-term stability. But few are informed or empowered enough to do much about it. Enter Josh Tickell, an expert young activist who, driven by his own emotionally charged motives, shuttles us on a revelatory, whirlwind journey to unravel this addiction...

We have the trailer for the documentary "Fuel," directed by Joshua Tickell and produced by Daniel Assael, Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Rebecca Harrell and Darius Fisher. The documentary focuses on the fuel crisis and a young activisits dream to change the fuel dependent world in which we live. After Al Gore driven "An Inconvenient Truth," this was expected. The cast includes Barbara Boxer, Richard Branson, George W. Bush, Larry David, Deborah Dupre, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts.

National Lampoon is moving forward with its next in-house production, "National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus," a spoof of sword-and-sandal flicks such as "Gladiator," "300" and "Troy."

"Mad TV's" Will Sasso will lead a cast that includes Kristanna Loken ("Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines"), Ian Ziering ("Beverly Hills, 90210"), Sophie Monk ("Date Movie"), Tony Cox ("Bad Santa") and Rip Torn ("Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story"). The script was written by Jason Burinescu, and "Revenge of the Nerds" helmer Jeff Kanew will direct.

Dan Farah and Burinescu are also producing. Sasso and Dale Rosenbloom are executive producers; Lampoon executive Justin Kanew is overseeing production.

"We're excited to embark on another National Lampoon original production, especially with a cast of this caliber," stated National Lampoon Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Laikin. "'National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus' is a hilarious spoof of some of the classic films of our generation, and...

Alanis Morissette has joined the cast of novelist Philip K. Dick's semiautobiograhical feature adaptation Radio Free Albemuth.

In writer-director John Alan Simon's film, Morissette plays Sylvia, a woman who shows up in the vision of a record label executive named Nick (Jonathan Scarfe) as a glamorous singer.

In reality, she's an ordinary woman in unexpected remission from lymphoma who, after appearing in Nick's visions, gets a job as his secretary. She becomes his soul mate thanks to the pair's shared spirituality and visions.

"I am a big fan of Philip K. Dick's poetic and expansively imaginative books," Morissette said. "I feel blessed to portray Sylvia, and to be part of this story being told in film."

Shea Whigham (Wristcutters: A Love Story), Katheryn Winnick (Failure to Launch) and Hanna Hall (2007's Halloween) also star. Simon and his Discovery Prods. are producing with Dale Rosenbloom and his Open Pictures (The Girl in The Park) and Rhino Films' Stephen Nemeth (Dogtown and Z-Boys).

Dick's 1976 novel, published posthumously in 1985, is loosely based on his own experience with visions in the mid-'70s.

Opening today for a week's run at Laemmle's Monica 4 Plex, "Reckless Indifference" is a flawed but stimulating documentary that hits close to home. Like filmmaker William Gazecki's Oscar-nominated "Waco: The Rules of Engagement", "Reckless" follows a controversial news event and its murky legal aftermath. But the temptation to juice up the proceedings with re-

creations and an oppressively atmospheric score works against the film because the subject matter is so vital.

In 1995, four teenage boys from Agoura Hills (50 miles north of Los Angeles) were arrested for the murder of one youth and the wounding of another in a backyard brawl that got out of control. In what many consider a miscarriage of justice, three of the four accused boys were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

During and after the trial, many concerned parties -- not the least being the parents of those convicted -- tried to restore a sense of "proportionality," but it was to no avail.

Gazecki interviews district attorneys, defense lawyers, parents, journalists and neighbors. He includes footage and transcripts of interviews that took place in prison, when such heavyweights as state Sen. Tom Hayden, D-Los Angeles, got involved.

The viewer can't help but make up his or her mind about the facts as presented, though Gazecki tries to give all sides their due. The multiple tragedies resulting from the crime and punishment say a great deal about our society.

Indeed, "Reckless" originally started as a fictional film account of the events, but it's now a much more valuable experience because it throws a harsh light on the manipulative processes of the law. In short, the "felony/murder" law says that if one kills another person in the process of committing a felony, the charge is much harsher than manslaughter. In the case portrayed in the film, prosecutors had a tough time satisfactorily proving the intent of the four defendants and providing evidence to show that each one was guilty as charged.

Interviewee Alan Dershowitz says a "fiction" was created to railroad the accused. The prosecution portrayed the boys as members of a gang named the Gumbys, who earlier in the day stole a wallet from a vehicle and confronted the car's owner and her two young children. The homicide apparently centered on drugs, and the surviving victim had a backyard clubhouse where he allegedly sold dope. The dead boy was the son of an LAPD officer, which some believe upped the stakes in the wake of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial.

In the dimly lit clubhouse where the scuffle broke out, a swift stab to a boy's heart by one youth armed with a pocket knife turned into an tragic "accident" that would have warranted much less severe sentencing if the events took place in the inner city, one participant said. The tension surrounding the case caused the jury to request special safety procedures out of the fear of reprisals and led to arguably "reckless indifference" on the part of prosecutors. With appeals in the process, this film may or may not make a difference for those involved, but it raises issues everyone should be aware of.

RECKLESS INDIFFERENCE

Utopia Films/Open Edge Media

Director: William Gazecki

Producers: Dale Rosenbloom, William Gazecki

Executive producers: Henry Bloomstein,

Gene Schwam

Director of photography: Eric Reiner

Editor: William Gazecki

Music: Ashley Witt

Color/stereo

Running time - 93 minutes

No MPAA rating...

A handsomely crafted boy-and-his-dog picture in the tradition of "Old Yeller" and "Lassie Come Home", "Shiloh" hits all the requisite emotional chords while adroitly veering clear of mushy sentimentality.

Serving as a solid directorial debut for Dale Rosenbloom, the low-key, family-oriented picture might drum up a little theatrical business, but "Shiloh" will ultimately have its day on video.

Adapted by Rosenbloom from the award-winning novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, the story is set in the microscopic town of Friendly, W.Va. While most folks live up to the municipal moniker, an exception to the rule is Judd Travers (Scott Wilson), a lonely hunter whose method of training his dogs is known to involve kicking, caging and general all-around abusiveness.

When his new beagle decides he has been smacked in the head with a rifle butt for the last time, he runs into the forest, where he meets up with young Marty Preston (Blake Heron), and the two strike up a fast friendship.

While Marty wants to keep the dog, who he has named Shiloh because he found him near the Shiloh Bridge, his stern, by-the-book dad (Michael Moriarty) insists he return the pooch to its owner. The wheels of moral dilemma are thus set in motion.

There's some terrific casting at work here. As the core family, Heron, Moriarty and Ann Dowd as Marty's mom make for a fully believable unit, warts and all. Wilson, meanwhile, as the abusive Travers, is far from the usual, cardboard-cutout big-screen villain. He invests his solitary character with a quiet pathos, and he lives his life by his own, personally justifiable moral code.

Rounding out the main cast, Rod Steiger puts in a warm, heartfelt performance as the country doctor, while Bonnie Bartlett plays his supportive wife.

In adapting the material, Rosenbloom has been careful to keep the characters fully dimensional. While a few carefully injected doses of levity would have helped prevent the story from hovering on the somber side, overall it's a job well done.

That extends to the technical side, highlighted by cinematographer Frank Byers' ("Twin Peaks") bright outdoor compositions and a satisfying background score composed by Joel (Jerry's son) Goldsmith.

SHILOH

Legacy Releasing

A Utopia Pictures, Carl Borack production

in association with Zeta Entertainment

Director-screenwriter Dale Rosenbloom

Producers Zane W. Levitt, Dale Rosenbloom

Executive producers Carl Borack, Mark Yellen

Based on the novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Director of photography Frank Byers

Production designer Amy Ancona

Editor Mark Westmore

Costume designer Charmain Schreiner

Music Joel Goldsmith

Casting Laura Schiff

Color/stereo

Cast:

Ray Preston Michael Moriarty

Doc Wallace Rod Steiger

Marty Preston Blake Heron

Judd Travers Scott Wilson

Mrs. Wallace Bonnie Bartlett

Louise Preston Ann Dowd

Running time -- 93 minutes

MPAA rating: PG...