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David Crow Sep 23, 2016

The backdrop to American Horror Story season 6, our Us chums look at the lost colony of Roanoke, its myths and pop culture appearances...

In case you missed it, the American Horror Story season 6 theme has been revealed, and it is a bloody Roanoke Nightmare indeed. After promoting the new season without releasing a single frame of footage, the ever-cryptic Ryan Murphy has now unveiled his true crime satire-meets-American Gothic to a surprised public, leading many to wonder… what is Roanoke again?

Despite a misconception in some quarters that the name infamously tied to the words “Lost Colony” was made up for the series, and that this fictional ghost story was set in Virginia (Roanoke is in present day North Carolina), Roanoke is indeed a real place, and the ghost stories around it are every bit as strange—if not stranger—than anything American Horror Story has dreamed up.

Via: Deadline

Director and producer Ridley Scott has optioned the rights to a young adult fantasy book series called Fae, which he is looking to adapt into a feature film.

The book was written by sibling authors Colet and Jasmine Abedi, and so far they have released one of three books. The story follows a character named Caroline Ellis, who on her 16th birthday "triggers the battle fated for centuries between the Dark and Light Fae, forcing her to confront who she is and discover whether her tumultuous relationship with Devilyn Reilly, who’s battling the power of the Dark within him, will destroy them both along with humanity."

Scott is set to set to produce the film now, but there's a chance he could end up directing it as well. Apparently the book has become a Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest phenomenon. I haven't heard of it until now. The...

The worried denizens of Ridley Scott’s increasingly packed development list need not shudder in fear: the Counsellor director isn’t adding another potential shot-calling gig. At least, not this time… No, he’s simply picking up the option on a new project for his Scott Free company to produce, aiming to bring Colet and Jasmine Abedi’s Fae to the big screen.The Abedi sisters have cooked up a bestseller, albeit one that appears to carry a very well-used plot: Caroline Ellis' sixteenth birthday sets into motion a series of events that have been fated for centuries. A descendant of Virginia Dare, the first child born in the lost colony of Roanoke, and unaware of her birthright as the heir to the throne of the Light Fae, it isn’t until Caroline begins a tumultuous relationship with Devilyn Reilly that the truth of her heritage is revealed.Devilyn...

Sleepy Hollow Episode 105

“John Doe”

Written By: Melissa Blake

Directed By: Ernest Dickerson

Original Airdate: 14 October 2013

In This Episode...

A girl is picking flowers in the woods when a little boy appears, wearing old timey simple, cotton clothes. The girl invites the boy to chase her, and he does. She disappears, and he is left confused - until a warrior on horseback chases the boy through the woods. He ends up on a modern street and the horseman (not headless) poofs into dust when he tries to follow.

A mail carrier finds the boy passed out and calls the police. Abbie and Ichabod arrive at the scene. Besides the clothes, the boy has black, diseased veins, and says only one word: “ulthern.” Naturally, Ichabod recognizes the language as Middle English, and the term: “evil girl.” Since Ichabod is the only one fluent in Middle English, he questions the boy after...

Harrison, TX This trio of vintage Horton Foote one-acts — The Midnight Caller, The One-Armed Man, The Blind Date — ranges in tone from gothic melodrama to parlor comedy, but the spotlight belongs to Midnight (also notable as the play that brought an unknown named Robert Duvall to Foote’s attention). Do-no-wrong dialogue melodist Pam MacKinnon, one of the American theater’s most exciting directors, has assembled a near-perfect ensemble, including the charming, funny Andrea Lynn Green as Cutie, a young, would-be spinster, the unflappable Hallie Foote as the proprietor, and the great, great Jayne Houdyshell as their de facto matriarch, Miss Rowena.The backdrop is a quietly desperate all-women’s boarding house, serene in its stasis, destabilized by the coming of a divorced man (Jeremy Bobb) and a “fallen” woman (Jenny Dare Paulin). Censorious Alma Jean (Mary Bacon) protests, Cutie bursts spontaneously into tears, but it’s Miss Rowena, accompanying herself on rocking chair,...

Primary Stages launched its 28th season with Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foote. Opening night was last night, August 14. Tony Award nominees HAllie Foote Dividing the Estate, The Orphans Home Cycle and Jayne Houdyshell Follies, Well will head up an ensemble featuring Devon Abner Dividing the Estate, The Orphans Home Cycle, Mary Bacon Motherhood Out Loud, Happy Now Jeremy Bobb Is He Dead, Shipwrecked..., Alexander Cendese Psycho Therapy, A View From the Bridge, Andrea Lynn Green Giant, Anne and Emmett, Evan Jonigkeit High, History Boys at Arden Theatre Company, and Jenny Dare Paulin Dividing the Estate, The Orphans Home Cycle. Helmed by Tony Award nominated director Pam MacKinnon Clybourne Park, A Lifetime Burning at Primary Stages, Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foote runs through September 15 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters.BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and will bring you full coverage from the festivities below...

Primary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director launches its 28th season with Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foote. Opening night is Tuesday, August 14. Tony Award nominees Hallie Foote Dividing the Estate, The Orphans Home Cycle and Jayne Houdyshell Follies, Well will head up an ensemble featuring Devon Abner Dividing the Estate, The Orphans Home Cycle, Mary Bacon Motherhood Out Loud, Happy Now Jeremy Bobb Is He Dead, Shipwrecked..., Alexander Cendese Psycho Therapy, A View From the Bridge, Andrea Lynn Green Giant, Anne and Emmett, Evan Jonigkeit High, History Boys at Arden Theatre Company, and Jenny Dare Paulin Dividing the Estate, The Orphans Home Cycle. Helmed by Tony Award nominated director Pam MacKinnon Clybourne Park, A Lifetime Burning at Primary Stages, Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foote runs through September 15 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters.

Primary Stages presents Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foote, the first production of their 28th Season. Tony Award nominees HAllie Foote Dividing the Estate and Jayne Houdyshell Follies, Well will head up an ensemble featuring Devon Abner Dividing the Estate, Mary Bacon Rock N Roll on Broadway, Motherhood Out Loud at Primary Stages, Jeremy Bobb Is He Dead on Broadway, Shipwrecked at Primary Stages, Alexander Cendense A View From the Bridge, Andrea Lynn Green Giant at Dallas Theatre Center, Evan Jonigkeit History Boys at Arden Theatre Company, and Jenny Dare Paulin Dividing the Estate. Helmed by Tony Award nominated director Pam MacKinnon Clybourne Park, A Lifetime Burning at Primary Stages, Harrison,TX runs July 24 September 15 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters.The cast met the press today, and BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities. Check out a preview of the cast below, and check back later for full coverage...

Primary Stages have announced casting for Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foote, the first production of their 28th Season. Tony Award nominees Hallie Foote Dividing the Estate and Jayne Houdyshell Follies, Well will head up an ensemble featuring Devon Abner Dividing the Estate, Mary Bacon Rock N Roll on Broadway, Motherhood Out Loud at Primary Stages, Jeremy Bobb Is He Dead on Broadway, Shipwrecked at Primary Stages, Alexander Cendense A View From the Bridge, Andrea Lynn Green Giant at Dallas Theatre Center, Evan Jonigkeit History Boys at Arden Theatre Company, and Jenny Dare Paulin Dividing the Estate. Helmed by Tony Award nominated director Pam MacKinnon Clybourne Park, A Lifetime Burning at Primary Stages, Harrison,TX runs July 24 September 15 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters.

We got the first word on director Albert Pyun's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's Cool Air at the end of last week, and to kick of this week, we have a look at the brand new key art for the film.

Cool Air will be debuting at the Estepona International Film Festival in September, and rest of us here in the States should be able to see it soon afterwards via Wrekin Hill, who bought North America rights to the film.

Writer Cynthia Curnan and Pyun have re-imagined the story with a contemporary but no less creepy setting. Cool Air stars Morgan Weisser, Wendy Phillips, Jenny Dare Paulin, Crystal Green, and Norbert Weisser; and the editing is by Glen Berry.

You can check out the opening credits sequence below, but first here's the 1926 short story's synopsis courtesy of Wikipedia:

The story is set up as the narrator's explanation for...

Another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation is headed our way, this time from the man for whom "rest" is a dirty word, director Albert Pyun, who is putting the finishing touches on Cool Air, which will be debuting at the Estepona International Film Festival in September.

The rest of us here in the States should be able to see Cool Air soon afterwards via Wrekin Hill, who bought North America rights to the film.

Writer Cynthia Curnan and Pyun have re-imagined the story with a contemporary but no less creepy setting. Cool Air stars Morgan Weisser, Wendy Phillips, Jenny Dare Paulin, Crystal Green, and Norbert Weisser; and the editing is by Glen Berry.

You can check out the opening credits sequence below, but first here's the 1926 short story's synopsis courtesy of Wikipedia:

The story is set up as the narrator's explanation for why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him.

Chicago – Instead of trying to fill giant shoes in the shadows of his legendary filmmaker father Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”), Jason Reitman has been successfully blazing his own path of films without message that are designed to incite your thoughts and question your actions.

Following the Golden Globe-nominated “Thank You For Smoking,” Oscar-winning “Juno” (with writer Diablo Cody) and Oscar-nominated “Up in the Air,” Reitman’s second collab with Cody switches to the journey of a “Young Adult” who seemingly learns to change her wicked ways but fails to.

Jason Reitman defiantly poses for the HollywoodChicago.com lens on on Dec. 7, 2011 for “Young Adult”.

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

That, Jason Reitman says, is reality more often than not. He says people typically don’t make drastic improvements with themselves unless, for example, it’s part of a 12-step program. “Young Adult” stars Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson,...

Chicago – Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) isn’t a girl you’d Facebook like. She’s got one too many dark passengers, she’s a repugnant drunk, she likes too much pink, her white dog is too puffy and most would consider it less than Usher cool that she’s throwing herself at a married man she couldn’t bag back in high school. Or is she? And is Mavis so different than you?

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Those are director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody’s key questions in their new collab “Young Adult” about one woman’s late-blooming arrested development. And questions they remain long after the credits roll. Reitman – the son of the legendary “Ghostbusters” filmmaker Ivan Reitman – is a non-message man. He doesn’t believe in them. Instead, he’s an open-ended, open-minded mystery man who wants you to think for yourself – or at least think at all. We...

Chicago – In our latest dramedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Young Adult” from the director of “Up in the Air” (Jason Reitman) and the writer of “Juno” (Diablo Cody) starring Charlize Theron and Patrick Wilson! Bonus! Tweet us your senior picture!

“Young Adult” also stars Patton Oswalt, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Jill Eikenberry, Richard Bekins, Mary Beth Hurt, Kate Nowlin, Jenny Dare Paulin, Rebecca Hart, Louisa Krause, Elizabeth Ward Land, Brian McElhaney and Hettienne Park. The film opens on Dec. 9, 2011.

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Young Adult Trailer. Jason Reitman‘s Young Adult (2011) movie trailer stars Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, J.K. Simmons, and Elizabeth Reaser. Young Adult‘s plot synopsis: written by Diablo Cody, “Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of Ya teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms a bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.”

The movie trailer had me smiling multiple times with one real laugh toward the end. Writer Diablo Cody seems to be going back to basics by writing another comedy.

Young Adult also stars Emily Meade, Collette Wolfe, Brady Smith, Louisa Krause, Ella Rae Peck, Hettienne Park, Brian McElhaney, and Jenny Dare Paulin.

Watch Young Adult movie trailer...

One of the earliest (and best) cinéma-vérité films to cross our desks was Albert Pyun's 2005 one-take wonder Infection, which was renamed Invasion (review here) for its DVD release, so you can bet our ears perked up today when we learned a sequel is on its way!

Here's what director Pyun told us, "We begin shooting Infection (aka Invasion) 2 in Nevada on March 28. The original cast is back (Jenny Dare Paulin, Norbert Weisser, Scott Paulin, Morgan Weisser, Alan Abelew) to continue the struggle against the spread of infection."

Pyun adds that additional casting is being done by Norbert Weisser and includes a much bigger cast and much more action and creatures than the original film.

He continues, "Again, it will be a single unedited shot that will follow the infection into a small town. It will be set in the time period between 1:40 Am (when the first film ended) and 3:00 Am.

We've been telling you about Bulletface, Albert Pyun's latest neo-noir thriller, for a while now, and finally he's provided us with a trailer so you can check it out for yourselves.

Synopsis:

The story is set along the Mexico/California Border, principally in Imperial Beach, CA. It concerns a female DEA agent, Dara Maren, who, in protecting her petty criminal younger brother, gets herself arrested and imprisoned in a nightmarish penal colony outside Tijuana. You can guess how bad it gets in there -- prison officials even harvest organs from the inmates. While she's in prison, Dara's brother is murdered by a drug lord who's creating a new DNA-altering drug made from human spinal fluid tapped from the living.

Hundreds of dead bodies are turning up along the Border, and the drug addicts become something not quite human. The drug is so addicting that even law enforcement and government officials are on the stuff.

There are two winners for The Double Born contest. The winners are M. Ashwell and D. Ibave of the United States. Congratulations and your DVDs of The Double Born will be sent out shortly. Check out the positive review for The Double Born right here (The Double Born Review). For those unfamiliar with the contest, or the story of the film a trailer is below.

A synopsis for The Double Born here:

"A woman is tortured by the sudden disappearance of her only child years before. Obsessed with having another baby, she is devastated and driven to emotional crisis when discovering her new husband is infertile. Gripped by despair, the woman begins to resign herself to the bitter likelihood of never having another child. Striking up a friendship with two discarded young laborers hired to re-paint her son's now silent room, the three lost souls form a disturbing bond as...

Director/writer: Tony Randel.

The Double Born has played at several film festivals throughout 2008 to 2009 and now the film is available on DVD, as of January 26th. The Double Born is 90% drama and 10% horror, with excellent performances from the cast all around. Described by the indie film review site Badlit as creating a "sexy, simmering slow burn," The Double Born gets the pacing right (Badlit). The feature also puts film director and writer Tony Randel (Amityville 1992) back in the director's chair after a ten year hiatus. This pause from film creating has allowed Randel to hone his skill, as the writing from The Double Born acts like a hook, that will not let go until this complex web is unraveled.

The tone for The Double Born starts as tense, pauses here and there, but stays dramatic through many of the plot twists in the film. Included in the twisting and...

Director Albert Pyun dropped us a line today with a first look at the DVD artwork for his upcoming horror and revenge thriller Bulletface, which has a release date of January 26, 2010.

The story is set along the Mexico/California Border, principally in Imperial Beach, CA. It concerns a female DEA agent, Dara Maren, who, in protecting her petty criminal younger brother, gets herself arrested and imprisoned in a nightmarish penal colony outside Tijuana. You can guess how bad it gets in there -- prison officials even harvest organs from the inmates. While she's in prison, Dara's brother is murdered by a drug lord who's creating a new DNA-altering drug made from human spinal fluid tapped from the living.

Hundreds of dead bodies are turning up along the Border, and the drug addicts become something not quite human. The drug is so addicting that even law enforcement and government officials are on the stuff.

Over the holidays we heard from director Albert Pyun, who informed us that instead of his next release being Tales of an Ancient Empire, his long gestating follow-up to The Sword and the Sorcerer, it will be the gory and disturbing Bulletface written by Randall Fontana.

Pyun and Fontana first worked together on Hong Kong 97 back in 1994. Here's how Albert describes Bulletface, which he also promises is more sexually explicit than his other films and not for the faint of heart: [It] is a departure for me because of how gritty and hardboiled it is. The story is set along the Mexico/California Border, principally in Imperial Beach, CA. It concerns a female DEA agent, Dara Maren, who, in protecting her petty criminal younger brother, gets herself arrested and imprisoned in a nightmarish penal colony outside Tijuana. You can guess how bad it gets in there -- prison officials even harvest organs from the inmates.

We've just learned that Tales of an Ancient Empire will not be the next film released from director Albert Pyun. Rather Bulletface, Pyun's revenge fueled, scifi pot-boiler is expected to hit in late January while Tales heads into a final round of post.

Pyun is also telling us to expect something very different from the project: "Bulletface is a departure for me because of how gritty and hardboiled it is. Its a very taut horror/sci-fi film with a plot that twists and turns and it's more sexually explicit than my other films and is not for the feint of heart."

Victoria Maurette, who was in Pyun's Left for Dead plays Dara, a female DEA agent who, in protecting her petty criminal younger brother, gets arrested and imprisoned in a nightmarish penal colony outside Tijuana that's so brutal, prison officials even harvest organs from the inmates. While in prison, Dara's...