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We're back with a new installment of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, we have details on the livestream of the official Fright Night stage play, the full Fantaspoa lineup, details on Alamo on Demand's Fulci collection and Ari Aster picks, and an exclusive Q&a with actor Eric Fellows:

The Rage of the Stage Players Present: A Dramatized Livestream Reading of the Official “Fright Night” Stage Play: "The Rage of the Stage Players, Pittsburgh's longest-running dark/fringe theatre company (now our 19th season), are thrilled to announce that, with the permission of horror icon Tom Holland, we will be presenting a visceral dramatized livestream performance, that will welcome audiences to Fright Night…For Real.

Come join us on Sunday, August 2, 2020, for a historic, not-to-be-missed, “Fan-niversary” event, to celebrate the original film’s release, 35 years to the day! It will include an introduction by the film’s creator, Tom Holland, and...

Johnny Knoxville is attached to star in Jeremy Garelick's comedy "Sick Day" for Universal Pictures.

Described as a modern-day "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Knoxville will play one of three friends who have an annual tradition of calling in sick one day per year, where they fulfill their wildest fantasies without getting caught.

Jordan Cahan ("My Best Friend's Girl") is rewriting the original script by Garelick. Brian Grazer, Edward Bates and Kim Roth will produce.

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Johnny Knoxville is attached to star in the new Universal Pictures comedy Sick Day, which Jeremy Garelick is directing.

The actor will play one of three friends who have an annual tradition of calling in sick one day per year, where they fulfill their wildest fantasies without getting caught. The story has been described as a modern-day version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend's Girl) is rewriting the original script by Jeremy Garelick, who is currently in post-production on his directorial debut, The Wedding Ringer, which stars Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco and is set for release on January 16, 2015.

Brian Grazer is producing for Imagine Entertainment, alongside Edward Bates and Kim Roth. No production schedule was given.

Johnny Knoxville most recently starred in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. He will also provide the voice of Leonardo in this summer's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Exclusive: Johnny Knoxville has come attached to star in Sick Day, the comedy that Jeremy Garelick will direct for Universal Pictures. Jordan Cahan will rewrite the script originated by Garelick, the latter of whom picked Cahan because he is busy in postproduction on The Wedding Ringer, his directorial debut for Screen Gems. Brian Grazer is producing the comedy for Imagine Entertainment alongside Kim Roth. Edward Bates will also produce under his Bates Entertainment banner. In what is a modern-day Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Knoxville will play one of three thirtysomething friends who uphold a tradition of calling in sick one day a year to fulfill fantasies while not getting caught. He is the first actor in the fold. I still can remember at Variety, being the first journalist to see and write about his absolutely shocking home movie shot by Jeff Tremaine and Spike Jonze that became the template for Jackass,...

Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln movie, Lincoln, has landed a release date. We previously reported that the film would open after the 2012 Presidential election so to as avoid any accusation that the movie was making a political statement (we'll let the trailers and other advertising allow pundits to bloviate and fill airtime draw their own conclusions). Disney has announced that the movie will open in limited engagement on November 9th before expanding nationwide on November 16th. It's worth noting that Lincoln will still be fighting vampires, except this time it will be at the box office. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 also opens on November 16th. Lincoln stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th President, and the all-star cast also features Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, John Hawkes, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Strathairn, Walton Goggins, David Oyelowo, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Jackie Earle Haley, Lee Pace,...

The first images from the production of Lincoln caused a stir because Daniel Day-Lewis looks amazing in character as Abraham Lincoln.  Among a new round of set photos, we have our first look at a mustachioed Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of our 16th president.  Not quite the same impact, but Gordon-Levitt looks sharp in period costue. The shoot is on location in Old Towne Petersburg in Virginia to take advantage of the period architecture.  Along with the Gordon-Levitt photo, there are a couple of pictures that pull back for a broader view of the set that give you a sense of the scope and detail of Steven Spielberg's production. Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, John Hawkes, and Jared Harris also star.  Lincoln is expected to hit theaters in late 2012.  Hit the jump for the photos. Production supervisor John West praised the virtues...

Jared Harris will play Ulysses S. Grant in Touchstone's Abraham Lincoln biopic "Lincoln" to be directed by Steven Spielberg.According to Variety, Daniel Day-Lewis has been cast as Abraham Lincoln with Sally Field playing Mary Todd Lincoln.The other actors include Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, David Warshofsky and Jackie Earle Haley.Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy. Tony Kushner wrote the adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book "Team of Rivals," which looks at Lincoln's presidency between 1861 and 1865 with a focus on the three Cabinet members, Edward Bates (attorney general), Salmon Chase (secretary...

Jackie Earle Haley has joined the cast of Touchstone's Abraham Lincoln biopic "Lincoln" to be directed by Steven Spielberg.According to Variety, Daniel Day-Lewis has been cast as Abraham Lincoln with Sally Field playing Mary Todd Lincoln.The other actors include Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong and David Warshofsky.Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy. Tony Kushner wrote the adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book "Team of Rivals," which looks at Lincoln's presidency between 1861 and 1865 with a focus on the three Cabinet members, Edward Bates (attorney general), Salmon Chase (secretary of the treasury)...

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Today on indieWIRE, we told you what not to miss in theaters this month, we present the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's cheap-looking horror bore 'Twixt,' and much more.

Most Diy distributors would love to be in Edward Bates' position: He's a first-time distributor who's handling a film with an enormous, passionate and plugged-in fan base. He has theaters selling out before the film even opens. There's one problem: Audiences are so eager to see Kevin Kerslake's 'Electric Daisy Carnival Experience,' a documentary about the culture of electronic dance music, that theaters are scared to screen it. More here.

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Today on indieWIRE we told you what not to miss in theaters this month, the director behind "The Whistleblower" shared an exclusive scene from her conspiracy thriller and much more. Fans Want It and Theaters are Scared to Screen It, but “Electric Daisy” Refuses to Die Most Diy distributors would love to be in Edward Bates’ position: He’s a first-time distributor who’s handling a film with an enormous, passionate and ...

Most Diy distributors would love to be in Edward Bates' position: He's a first-time distributor who's handling a film with an enormous, passionate and plugged-in fanbase. He has theaters selling out before the film even opens. There's one problem: Audiences are so eager to see Kevin Kerslake's "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience," a documentary about the culture of electronic dance music, that theaters are scared to screen it. "I thought I'd ...

More casting news is coming for the cast of “Lincoln.” Deadline is reporting actor Walton Goggins joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” The thespian will play a “progressive Democrat who goes against his party and votes in favor of the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery.” The cast already included Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln; Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln; and David Strathairn as Secretary of State William Seward. The film is based on the best-selling book “Team of Rivals” written by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The book focuses on the biographical portrait of Lincoln and the conflicting personalities of his cabinet who included Seward, Attorney General Edward Bates and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon chase. The adapted screenplay will be written by Tony Kushner (“Munich,” “Angels in America”). Goggins has appeared in several films and television shows including “The Shield,” “Justified,” “Predators” and “The Bourne Identity.” He...

David Strathairn has joined the cast of Touchstone's Abraham Lincoln biopic "Lincoln" to be directed by Steven Spielberg.According to Variety, Daniel Day-Lewis has been cast as Abraham Lincoln with Sally Field playing Mary Todd Lincoln.Strathairn will play William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State.The other actors include Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong and David Warshofsky.Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy. Tony Kushner wrote the adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book "Team of Rivals," which looks at Lincoln's presidency between 1861 and 1865 with a focus on the three Cabinet members, Edward Bates (attorney general),...

Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn has just been cast as Secretary of State, William Seward in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which will star Daniel Day-Lewis at the legendary 16th President of the United States. The film is aimed at a late 2012 release. Read more after the jump. Spielberg, who plans to shoot the film "this fall in Virginia with an anticipated fourth quarter release in 2012" had the following to say about Strathairn: Throughout his career, David Strathairn has consistently delivered performances of strength and character. That's why I am so pleased that he will portray the Secretary of State, who became such a dominant figure in Lincoln's ‘team of rivals’ cabinet. Seward was a Governor of New York, United States Senator and Secretary of State under both Lincoln and Andrew Jackson. He's best known as "an outspoken abolitionist and one of the most loyal members of Lincoln’s wartime cabinet.

Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph Gordon-Levitt head up a large group of actors who have boarded the cast of Touchstone's Abraham Lincoln biopic "Lincoln" to be directed by Steven Spielberg.According to Variety, Daniel Day-Lewis has been cast as Abraham Lincoln with Sally Field playing Mary Todd Lincoln.The other actors rounding out the cast include Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong and David Warshofsky.Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy. Tony Kushner wrote the adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book "Team of Rivals," which looks at Lincoln's presidency between 1861 and 1865 with a focus on the three Cabinet members, Edward Bates...

Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic, Lincoln, has been languishing on the director's "To Do" list for years.  The project finally picked up steam last November when it was announced that Daniel Day-Lewis would play Lincoln and that shooting would begin this fall.  A few weeks ago we learned that Sally Field would be playing Mary Todd Lincoln, and today we've learned that Spielberg plans to shoot the film in Virginia.  The AP reports that the film, which is based off Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, will shoot in Richmond and Petersburg.  I expect that over the summer we'll hear casting for the other major roles: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of State William H. Seward, and attorney general Edward Bates. Hit the jump for a synopsis of Goodwin's excellent book.  Lincoln is set for a 4th-quarter 2012 release date. Here's...

"Fix: The Ministry Movie", which has been years in the making, gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the band Ministry and features commentary from the likes of Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, Tool and Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister.

The documentary, which also details Al Jourgensen's wild drug past, premiered at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival last month, but the Ministry star is angry at its screening - because he did not give director Doug Freel and producer Edward Bates permission to release the film.

He tells the Los Angeles Times, "The bottom line is this: it boils down to breach of contract in a lot of different ways... In any contract signed throughout the history of the filming of this, it was understood and in writing and approved and signed by everyone that I would have final cut approval of this film being shown anywhere, let alone being released.

Sally Field will play Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Touchstone's "Lincoln" to be directed by Steven Spielberg.According to Variety, Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy. Tony Kushner wrote the adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book "Team of Rivals," which looks at Lincoln's presidency between 1861 and 1865 with a focus on the three Cabinet members, Edward Bates (attorney general), Salmon Chase (secretary of the treasury) and William H. Seward (secretary of state), who ran against Lincoln in the 1860 election. The film will also focus on Lincoln's ability to deal effectively with his political and personal conflicts during the Civil War.Shooting will begin this fall with a fall 2012 release date in mind.Field is...

Daniel Day-Lewis will play Abraham Lincoln in DreamWorks' long-in-the-making "Lincoln" film to be directed by Steven Spielberg.According to Variety, Liam Neeson had been attached to play Lincoln but dropped out of the role over the summer. Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy. Tony Kushner wrote the adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book "Team of Rivals," which looks at Lincoln's presidency between 1861 and 1865 with a focus on the three Cabinet members, Edward Bates (attorney general), Salmon Chase (secretary of the treasury) and William H. Seward (secretary of state), who ran against Lincoln in the 1860 election. The film will also focus on Lincoln's ability to deal effectively with his political and personal conflicts during the Civil War.Filming is...

With the news yesterday that Steven Spielberg’s long-in-the-works biopic Lincoln finally has its start date (Fall 2011) and lead star (Daniel Day-Lewis), we couldn’t help but notice the serious accolades adorning every corner of the film already: The director has won three Oscars (and an Irving G. Thalberg Award), and has been nominated seven more times; the star has won two Oscars, and two more nods; the book the film is based on, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin; and the screenplay was penned by Pulitzer Prize,...

He may be canonized as the inspiration for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and as one of Ken Kesey's real-life Merry Pranksters in the 1960s, but the young Neal Cassady is an unlikable, unlovable and unadmirable rogue in freshman writer-director Stephen Kay's "The Last Time I Committed Suicide."

Opening on a few screens for a no doubt cursory theatrical run, the low-budget independent has co-star Keanu Reeves and its proto-Beat Generation milieu to lure in curious hipsters.

Weak, self-absorbed young screw-ups have made for memorable movie characters many times, but even with Thomas Jane ("The Crow: City of Angels") working hard to make him a three-dimensional character, Cassady is often less interesting than the women he loves and loses. Even Reeves as a pathetic vision of what awaits 20-year-old Cassady should he stay in dreary Denver is more of a scene-stealer.

Part of the problem is the chatty, uninvolving narration that dominates the film and continually smooths over the potentially moving dramatic events. It's readily apparent that Kay has struggled to flesh out the scenario, based on Cassady's so-called "Great Sex Letter" he wrote to Kerouac.

Set in the late 1940s, "The Last Time" is so intent on capturing the spirit of youthful revolt, and the powerful allure of sex, that it almost becomes a primer for how to make the most of one's conquests and then run away guiltless from responsibility. It's no secret that the Beat writers were users and abusers of each other and the women in their lives.

The chief victim is Joan (Claire Forlani), a delicate creature who tries to take her life one night, causing Cassady a great deal of anguish. He's so upset he stops hanging around the hospital to see if she recovers and goes about his merry way. Working the graveyard shift at a tire factory and hanging with drinking and womanizing partner Harry Reeves), Cassady marks time until he's lured away one eve by a fetching dame named Lizzy (Marg Helgenberger).

But in the film's biggest digression and most pleasant sequences, Cassady recalls a wild affair with underage spitfire Cherry Mary (Gretchen Mol). Here the Great Sex is indeed inspiring and dangerous, but it's an awkward entracte before we find out that Lizzy's mission is to reintroduce recovered Joan. Almost trapped by his own desires for a normal life with Joan but well on his way to becoming a full-blown rake, Cassady tries and fails to do the right thing.

Using jerky camera work in black-and-white letter-writing sequences, slow motion to capture those cool-guy, cigarette-flicking moments and other diversionary tactics, Kay overloads the film with technique but fails to hide the thinness of the material. A film about the price of liberation from conformity, it's finally far too contrived to make any lasting impression.

THE LAST TIME I COMMITTED SUICIDE

Alpine Films

Kushner-Locke Co.

Tapestry Films

Writer-director Stephen Kay

Producers Edward Bates, Lousie Rosner

Executive producers Peter Abrams,

Robert L. Levy, J.P. Guerin, Peter Locke,

Donald Kushner, Lawrence Mortorff

Director of photography Bobby Bukowski

Production designer Amy B. Ancona

Editor Dorian Harris

Music Tyler Bates

Color/stereo

Cast:

Neal Thomas Jane

Harry Keanu Reeves

Joan Claire Forlani

Lizzy Marg Helgenberger

Cherry Mary Gretchen Mol

Running time -- 93 minutes

MPAA rating: R...