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Just over 20 years after the movie failed to wow fans of the book and the author himself, Damian Lewis is looking back on his experience with Dreamcatcher. The movie served as an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi horror novel of the same name, centering on a group of childhood friends who find themselves at the center of an alien invasion while on their annual trip to a cabin in the woods. Co-written and directed by Star Wars and Indiana Jones vet Lawrence Kasdan, Dreamcatcher was both a critical and commercial bomb, grossing just shy of $75 million against its $68 million production budget.

During a recent interview with Screen Rant for his new horror-comedy The Radleys, Lewis was asked about his experience working on Dreamcatcher. The Emmy and Golden Globe winner began by recalling the "wild ride" he had while working on the King adaptation, before going on to recall the...

Possession is a relatively common topic on this channel and show and that’s probably because it’s something that has been recorded and pushed as factual by the people claiming to be possessed or investigators for a long time. It generally falls under the scope of he said/she said with most of the presented evidence as fact being very up for interpretation. These are almost always then turned into movies as that open for interpretation aspect of it can lead to a bunch of elements being added for entertainment and dramatic purposes. Today we look at a movie that is based on a book that was inspired by a true story. It’s not exactly possession but it is a poltergeist of a movie that is something very different and was taken quite seriously in both real life and as a movie. The Entity (buy it Here) is...

Giancarlo Esposito praised Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive despite its critical failure. Esposito believes King could have had a successful directing career if he continued making horror movies. A potential Maximum Overdrive remake could redeem the concept with a more serious tone and global impact.

Giancarlo Esposito has offered a glowing review for horror author Stephen King's most infamous adaptation, Maximum Overdrive, while positively reflecting on his time working on the film. Maximum Overdrive was King's only director credit, a horror movie loosely based on his 1978 short story "Trucks" about a comet making all machines on Earth sentient. The film has been ridiculed as one of King's worst adaptations ever, with the horror author never directing another movie after its critical failure.

However, speaking with CinemaBlend, Esposito had nothing but good things to say about Maximum Overdrive, reflecting on both the movie itself and his role in the film. The...

The slasher mash-up Freddy vs. Jason just celebrated its 20th anniversary six months ago, and now we have some very sad news to share about one of its cast members: Chris Gauthier, who played the Jason victim Shack in the film, has passed away at the age of 48. Variety reports that Gauthier passed away suddenly and unexpectedly from “an unspecified short illness”.

In addition to Freddy vs. Jason, where his character was felled by a flaming machete thrown by Jason during the cornfield rave sequence, Gauthier’s acting credits included 40 Days and 40 Nights, Insomnia, Agent Cody Banks, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Dead Like Me, Riding the Bullet, Stargate: Atlantis, Masters of Horror (where he had a role in John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns), The Butterfly Effect 2, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Supernatural, Space Buddies, Watchmen, Harper’s Island, Sanctuary, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Iron Golem, Smallville, Continuum, Eureka, R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour,...

Chris Gauthier, a Canadian actor best known for his TV roles in Once Upon a Time, Eureka and Smallville, died on Feb. 23 at the age of 48.

In a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter, his manager Elena Kirschner shared that Gauthier died “suddenly and unexpectedly following a short illness.”

“He was a kind, witty, passionate and empathetic man and we will all miss him dearly,” Kirschner added. “Our hearts go out to his family that he spoke of with such love and pride and we ask that you respect their privacy during this difficult time.”

TriStar Appearances’ Chad Colvin also issued a statement on Facebook, according to various reports. “When I first entered the talent repping business almost nine years ago this month, it was at the behest of one certain actor. But I knew I needed more clients to start with if any event was going to take my entry into the business seriously,...

Best known to horror fans for playing the memorable character “Shack” in 2003’s horror movie mashup Freddy vs. Jason, actor Chris Gauthier has passed away at the age of 48.

The actor died on February 23 from an “unspecified short illness,” Variety reports.

Chris Gauthier has over 100 film and television acting credits on his resume dating back to 2000, with his film work also including 40 Days and 40 Nights, Insomnia, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Riding the Bullet, The Butterfly Effect 2, The Sandlot: Heading Home, Watchmen, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Monster Trucks, and The Christmas House.

On the small screen, Gauthier appeared in countless television shows including “Dead Like Me,” “Bionic Woman,” “Supernatural,” “Harper’s Island,” “Sanctuary,” “Smallville,” “Eureka,” “R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour,” “Psych,” “iZombie,” and “Once Upon a Time.”

Chris Gauthier also appeared on Showtime’s horror anthology series “Masters of Horror,” notably playing a character in John Carpenter’s Season 1 episode,...

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing Mick Garris’ lesser-known Stephen King adaptation, Riding the Bullet. As of 2022, I think it’s safe to say that Stephen King is still the undisputed monarch of horror adaptations. However, while everyone has heard of Carrie and Misery, most of his massive cinematic catalog is comprised […]

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“Fun is fun. Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on…” Would you rather be Riding the Bullet or biting the bullet? The Losers’ Club hit the road and take a pass through Mick Garris’ 2004 Stephen King adaptation. Starring Jonathan Jackson, Barbara Hershey, Cliff Robertson, and David Arquette, Mick Garris rock ‘n’ roll adaptation […]

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Exclusive: Madison Pettis (He’s All That), Vanessa Morgan (Riverdale) and Richard Harmon (The 100) are set to star in horror-thriller Margaux for Brad Krevoy’s (Dumb And Dumber) Motion Picture Corporation of America (Mpca).

Production is due to begin this summer in Vancouver, Canada, on the feature about a group of college friends who rent a smart house for a weekend of partying. However, they slowly start to realize that Margaux, the house’s super advanced AI system, has sinister designs for them.

Pic will be directed by Steven C. Miller who is returning to the horror genre after helming the 2012 reboot Silent Night. Since then, Miller has made action movies including Escape Plan 2, First Kill and Line Of Duty. Nick Waters and Chris Beyrooty wrote the script and are also executive producers.

Mpca’s Brad Krevoy is producing, with Eric Jarboe, Amanda Phillips, Amy Krell, Lorenzo Nardini and...

Just in time for Halloween, Post Mortem with Mick Garris kicks off its fifth season with special guest Joe Hill!

"Burbank, California – October 22, 2020 – For more than three decades, Mick Garris, the award-winning filmmaker, podcaster and writer has been behind countless memorable projects for both the big and small screens including Hocus Pocus, The Stand, Sleepwalkers, The Fly II, *batteries not included, Riding the Bullet, Psycho IV, Critters 2, Nightmare Cinema, Tales from the Crypt, Amazing Stories, Freddy’s Nightmares, Masters of Horror and so many more.

Having just won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grimmfest Film Festival, and also the Master of Horror Award from the Overlook Film Festival, Garris knows a thing or two about making scary movies. So, it comes as no surprise that the master of horror’s hit podcast, Post Mortem with Mick Garris, is returning for a fifth season with a whopping 30 episodes, plus several Ask Me Anything editions.

Two of my favorite people will once again be teaming up, Stephen King will be making a rare appearance on writer/director Mick Garris’s podcast Post Mortem. It seems like everybody has a podcast nowadays. Even I have a podcast called Coffee and Conspiracy. Podcasting can be a positive thing for many reasons. One of those reasons being that if you are a fan of something, you can get an insight into the creative mind of the creator.

I first saw the name Mick Garris in a book of short stories called Splatter Punks. Garris’s short story “ A Life in the Cinema”, was one of my favorites. Garris went onto creating, the Maters of Horror, an anthology series bringing all your favorite horror writers and directors together to deliver one- hour stories to terrify your soul. I wrote a story and a script for the show. Just because...

When it comes to great genre movies, there are just names you will always trust. Names like Romero, Craven, Cronenberg, Carpenter, Hitchcock, Dante, and many, many more, of course. So, with that in mind, I decided to round up 31 different films helmed by some of our Masters of Horror that are currently streaming across an array of digital platforms, including a few not-as-obvious choices that have thrilled audiences in a variety of mediums (such as William Peter Blatty and Jennifer Lynch).

Also, if you think I may have missed something that is currently streaming, do not fret—that film has most likely popped up in one of my other From Streams to Screams column, or it will later on this month. I do hope you enjoy this list, and be sure to head back in a few days when we celebrate the greatest decade in horror: the 1980s!

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It’s fitting that Masters of Horror wouldn’t exist without Mick Garris. As the series creator and producer, it was Garris who dreamed up the idea to have his friends and colleagues in the genre direct episodes of a new anthology series with total creative freedom. But going all the way back to his days as a publicist in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Garris was shining a light on horror and horror directors with his Z Channel interview show. It’s from this show that the legendary panel interview with John Landis, John Carpenter, and Mick Garris comes. Though he would go on to become a hugely successful filmmaker and author in his own right, Garris has always been the one to keep the home fires of horror burning, all the way up to his current Post Mortem podcast, a regular conversation with the biggest and most influential names in the genre.

With the popularity of Stephen King exploding right now, Looper has released a video that breaks down what they feel are the 10 worst and 10 best films that have been adapted from his work.

I personally don't agree with the lists that they've put together. For example, they put Dreamcatcher and Needful Things on the list of worst movies, which is ridiculous because those are two of my favorites! On top of that, they don't even include Pet Cemetary on the Best list, but they have Dolores Claiborne. This list was made before Geralds Game was released, but I'd definitely but that on the best list as well.

I understand that these lists are a personal opinion, so watch the video breakdown below and let us know what you would change on the list!

Stephen King's books have been adapted to film or television over 100 times, making him the all-time...

July 26th has an eclectic assortment of horror and sci-fi offerings for fans, including a pair of cult classics—The Boy Who Cried Werewolf and Hellhole—from the fine folks at Scream Factory. Severin Films resurrects Doctor Butcher M.D. and Zombie Holocaust in HD this week, and Karyn Kusama’s superb psychological thriller The Invitation comes home on Tuesday courtesy of Drafthouse Films.

Other notable Blu-ray and DVD releases coming our way on July 26th include Five Miles to Midnight, the Killer Thrillers Collection, Consumption, and Exorcist House of Evil.

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

Richie Bridgestone’s parents are getting a divorce, but that’s the least of his problems at the moment. Richie is hoping his parents will reconsider and on a visit to his father’s secluded cabin, he witnesses his dad being attacked by a werewolf. Much like the tale of the boy who cried wolf,...

Is Cell -- which hits limited theaters this weekend after debuting on VOD formats June 10 and suffering numerous release-date delays -- the worst Stephen King adaptation of all time? It’s impossible to definitively answer to that question! Still, based on the film’s bleak 0% Rotten Tomatoes score, it’s very possibly one of the worst, and given the competition, that's something. A couple of caveats: 1. Cell was presumably not screened for many (if any) critics, given the low number of reviews listed on Rotten Tomatoes (20 as of this writing). Films tend to benefit from a greater number of reviews given that they offer a broader spectrum of opinions, some of which are bound to be less discerning. 2. A Rotten Tomatoes score of 0% doesn’t mean a film was universally given ”F”/"zero star" reviews; it means that every review tabulated was “net negative.” A more accurate representation of the...

*Updated with new film and TV show listings.* Happy October, everyone! Our favorite month is finally upon us, which means everyone is getting into the Halloween spirit, especially when it comes to upcoming TV programming over the next 31 days. Trying to keep track of everything that’s playing throughout October can be a hellish affair, so once again Daily Dead is here to help make sure you know about everything Halloween-related hitting cable and network airwaves over the coming weeks.

* All Updated & Additional Listings Are In Bold (all times listed are Et/Pt)*

Thursday, October 1st

9:00am – Halloween Crazier (Travel Channel)

10:00am – Halloween Craziest (Travel Channel)

4:00pm – Firestarter (AMC)

6:00pm – The Last Exorcism (Syfy)

6:30pm – Pet Sematary (AMC)

8:00pm – My Babysitter’s a Vampire (Disney)

8:30pm – Stephen King’s Thinner (AMC)

10:00pm – Dominion Season 3 Finale (Syfy)

10:30 pm – Cujo (AMC)

Friday,...

Read More: Watch: 'The Returned' Season 2 Trailer and Poster Prove a French Zombie's First Death Is Not Its Last To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Stephen King’s "The Shining," which was later adapted by Stanley Kubrick for his iconic horror film, SundanceTV will host "Stephen King Thriller Week," featuring King’s fan-favorite films. Culminating with an airing of "The Shining," the films will then lead into the highly anticipated Season Two premiere of SundanceTV’s International Emmy and Peabody Award-winning French drama, “The Returned." Additional Stephen King-inspired films being aired are "The Mist," "Thinner," "Cujo," "Silver Bullet," "Firestarter," "Riding the Bullet" and "Pet Sematary." In honor of Halloween, the celebration will begin Sunday, October 25 at 8pm. "The Returned" will air on Saturday, October 31 at 10pm.Read More: Toronto Review:...

If you are a fan of horror films, Stephen King and AMC's annual October FearFest, then tomorrow is the time to tune in! Beginning Friday, October 17th, television's biggest Halloween event kicks off with a day long marathon dedicated to the film adaptations of some of the creepiest novels and short stories by acclaimed horror writer Stephen King. Starting at 8 Am central time, AMC will deliver many fan favorites such as - Graveyard Shift, Cujo, Firestarter, Silver Bullet, Dreamcatcher, Thinner, Riding the Bullet, and of course our personal favorite - Children of the Corn. As the "Horrorthon" continues through Friday, October 31st, there should be a little something for everybody. But for those wanting to visit our favorite town of Gatlin, here are the upcoming FearFest showtimes -

Stephen King's Children of the Corn

Friday, October 17th - 9:30 Pm central time

Saturday, October 18th - 7:00 Am central time

Wednesday,...

The world of Stephen King publishing, which is always a weird and exciting place, has recently gotten even stranger. Starting next month, Stephen King’s popular 2009 novel, Under the Dome, will finally be released in mass-market paperback. Actually, make that paperbacks, plural – the book is divided in half; part one comes on February 25th, and part 2 arrives March 25th. Questions arise: why now? Why did it take so long? And is this just a cynical cash grab to capitalize on the overwhelming success of the miniseries? All fair questions, but the answers might be a little more surprising and complex than you’d think.

Publishing as a whole is different than it was even ten years ago. While the business of print publishing hasn’t fallen into fiery ruins as some predicted when King’s “Riding the Bullet” was the first eBook bestseller, digital titles have absolutely impacted sales of traditional books.

It's the final week of Kings of Horror!

Kings of Horror is a month-long series in which ShockTillYouDrop.com's Ryan Turek (@_RyanTurek) and CraveOnline's William Bibbiani (@williambibbiani) reflect on the big screen theatrical offerings of Stephen King's works.

31 days, 31 films, 31 reviews!  The series began with Carrie and will end with the Carrie redo.

Today, episode 28 goes to the Mick Garris-directed Riding the Bullet.  To catch up on every episode to date, click here!

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It's the final week of Kings of Horror!

Kings of Horror is a month-long series in which ShockTillYouDrop.com's Ryan Turek (@_RyanTurek) and CraveOnline's William Bibbiani (@williambibbiani) reflect on the big screen theatrical offerings of Stephen King's works.

31 days, 31 films, 31 reviews!  The series began with Carrie and will end with the Carrie redo.

Today, episode 28 goes to the Mick Garris-directed Riding the Bullet.  To catch up on every episode to date, click here!

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Stephen King Meets Norman Bates! week continues at Trailers from Hell, with Mick Garris introducing his own 2004 horror thriller "Riding the Bullet," which he adapted from King's novella of the same title.By the time he directed this dark thriller Mick Garris had become a Stephen King specialist. King’s pioneering work was the world’s first mass-market electronic book, sold for downloading at $2.50. 400,000 copies were downloaded during the first 24 hours. Even so, this film version received only a token theatrical release.

The news that eBook pioneer Stephen King is opting out of releasing his upcoming Joyland in eBook form, instead throwing his support behind brick-and-mortar booksellers, is surprising. A change of heart from the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to introduce the Kindle 2?

"I have no plans for a digital version," King told the Wall Street Journal. "In the meantime let people stir their sticks and go to an actual bookstore rather than a digital one."

The author made the opposite decision in 2000, when his 16,000-word story "Riding the Bullet" was released exclusively as an eBook, and he has since released three more stories as Kindle Singles, as well as a nonfiction essay "Guns" in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. It's currently ranked fourth in the Thin Reads list of Kindle Single sales.

As you'd expect, the announcement has been warmly received by bookstores,...

Horror Channel celebrates the pen behind the poison with From Page to Scream – a season of films with literary origins from some of the most talented authors in the genre: Clive Barker, Stephen King, Jack Ketchum and Tony Burgess. Running throughout the month of February, the season looks set to highlight some of the best literary adaptations in horror…

Sat Feb 2 @ 22:55

First in the series is The Lost (2006) – a dark horror thriller directed by Chris Sivertson. Originally a novel written by Jack Ketchum, it follows the 19 year-old womanising sociopath Ray Pye (played by Marc Senter). Pye is a charismatic murderer on the edge of sanity who meets his match when Katherine Wallace (played by Robin Sydney) strolls into town.

Sat Feb 9 @ 22.55

A season of book based horror would not be complete without an entry from master of the macabre Stephen King. His novella Riding The Bullet (2004) became a huge...

What fun it must have been to be a Stephen King fan in the 1980s! Stephen King was releasing new material at an exponential rate (twenty-two books between 1980 and 1989, most of which were bestsellers), King films were coming out left and right, the man appeared on the cover of Time in 1986, and an explosion of criticism centered around this relatively new author erupted. In 1982, the first iteration of Douglas Winter’s The Art of Darkness proved a watershed moment in King study, catalyzing the entire King criticism movement. George Beahm released what proved to be the most accessible book for a King dilettante, The Stephen King Companion. Starmont House, a small publisher known for their innovative works of serious Sf/Fantasy/Horror criticism, released no fewer than thirteen books on King.

Then things seemed to dry up. I say seemed to; King criticism has never really gone away. Many of...

The fact that most of the good Stephen King stories have already been taken has never proved an obstacle to optioning one for film adaptation. (See: Riding The Bullet… someone should! Please, tip your waitresses.) That's true even of 1982's well-thumbed Different Seasons, which—after already spawning Stand By Me, Apt Pupil, and The Shawshank Redemption—only has a single novella left untouched in "The Breathing Method." And this leaves Sinister director Scott Derrickson no other choice but to develop it for the screen, despite "Breathing Method" being a comparatively thin love story about a 1930s-era doctor and ...

Welcome horror fans to the UK debut of the October edition of Horror Bites, the Horror Channel’s monthly guide to some of the highlights coming your way in October… Yes, you did read that right folks, our good friends at the Horror Channel have let us have the exclusive UK debut of their monthly show Horror Bites.

Hosted by Emily Booth, you’ll see Horror Bites right here on Blogomatic3000 before anywhere else!

This month Horror channel will be filling your TV screens with gallons of gore as teens scream the night away in their Stalk and Slash season, featuring 4 movie premieres in double bills every Friday night in October. So get ready to be reminded of the horror rules if you want to survive the wrath of the psycho. All that plus a glut of gut wrenching premieres not to be missed over the coming weeks, including one of my personal favourites,...

We’re back with our largest Indie Spotlight to date. Today’s feature contains over a dozen indie horror items, including details on The Other Side and your chance to win a copy of City Under the Moon:

The Other Side: We’re sent dozens of short films to check out each month, but The Other Side really stands out from the pack. This short horror film is directed by The Santoro Brothers and it is apparent that they are skilled directors who are also true fans of the genre. The Other Side will be hitting the festival/convention circuit shortly, and we expect it to play really well with slasher and home invasion horror fans.

Synopsis: “When a fresh faced nanny arrives at her new job on a creaky farm in the English countryside, she is instantly caught up in the turbulent relationship of her employers. James is struggling...

Rob Lieberman’s (Fire in the Sky, Dexter) forthcoming tale, The Tortured, which tells the story of a kidnapped and murdered child and the subsequent crumbling of a family unit, will arrive on VOD May 11th. The picture, which up to this point has maintained status as a certified genre sleeper, stars a slew of promising young talent, including Erika Christensen (Swimfan, Riding the Bullet), Jesse Metcalfe (Insanitarium, John Tucker Must Die), Bill Lippincott (The Graves) and genre favorite Bill Moseley (Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II). Marek Posival tackles the script.

Mick Garris is back in Stephen King territory once again, adapting Bag of Bones for A&E. The director, of course, is no stranger to King, having directed Sleepwalkers, The Stand, The Shining and Riding the Bullet (just to name a few titles).

This time, he directs Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George and Annabeth Gish in a ghostly tale that airs on December 11 and 12. To learn more, Garris invited Shock up to his house to discuss the adaptation and more. We hope you enjoy this episode which kicks off our second season of Choice Cuts! Stay tuned for part two of this interview.

Follow this link for previous episodes of Choice Cuts! Or download the series at...

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Mick Garris is back in Stephen King territory once again, adapting Bag of Bones for A&E. The director, of course, is no stranger to King, having directed Sleepwalkers , The Stand , The Shining and Riding the Bullet (just to name a few titles). This time, he directs Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George and Annabeth Gish in a ghostly tale that airs on December 11 and 12. To learn more, Garris invited Shock up to his house to discuss the adaptation and more. We hope you enjoy this episode which kicks off our second season of Choice Cuts ! Stay tuned for part two of this interview. Follow this link for previous episodes of Choice Cuts! Or download the series at...

On December 11th and 12th, A&E will air a four-hour miniseries based on Stephen King's 1998 novel, Bag of Bones. The movie is directed by Mick Garris, who is no stranger to adapting King's work. He previously directed Sleepwalkers (1992), The Stand (1994), The Shining (1997), "Chattery Teeth" in Quicksilver Highway (1997), Riding the Bullet (2004), and Desperation (2006). Bag of Bones stars Pierce Brosnan in his first television appearance in over 15 years. Annabeth Gish and Melissa George co-star. I talked to Mick Garris about the project a few weeks ago while he was working on post-production. Due to its length, we will publish the interview in three weekly installments. On the fourth week, a few days...

Nicholas Pike is the composer of the upcoming miniseries Bag of Bones. The project based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel is directed by Mick Garris who previously helmed the TV adaptations of The Stand and The Shining. The four-hour miniseries stars Pierce Brosnan as a man who is unable to stop grieving for his deceased wife. After returning to the lakeside retreat they shared, he inadvertently gets involved in a local custody battle – while having nightmares about his dead wife. Melissa George, Annabeth Gish, Anika Noni Rose, William Schallert, Jason Priestley and Caitlin Carmichael are co-starring. Pike (Return to Me, Feardotcom) has previously worked with the director on The Shining, as well as the 2004 horror thriller Riding the Bullet and the TV shows Masters of Horror and Fear Itself. Bag of Bones is set to air on two consecutive nights on A&E this December. Check out the trailer...

Mick Garris is at work on his latest Stephen King adaptation Bag of Bones . Jason Priestly has joined the cast, reports EW. He'll being playing a literary agent to Pierce Brosnan's character. Anabeth Gish and Melissa George also star in the mini-series. Garris has directed a number of King projects including The Stand , The Shining , Riding the Bullet and Sleepwalkers . Airing on A&E, "Bag of Bones" is the story of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire and a new love haunted by past secrets. Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, played by Pierce Brosnan, is unable to stop grieving after the sudden death of his wife Jo. A dream inspires him to return to the couple's lakeside retreat in western Maine where he...

When we last spoke to Mick Garris, director of the upcoming Bag of Bones adaptation, he told us he unfortunately had to remain mum on casting. The website Sea and Be Scene, however, reports that their sources connected to the production say Pierce Brosnan ( Goldeneye ) has been cast as Mike Noonan in the film. This is the same site that accurately said principal photography was beginning on the film this summer, so they could be dead-on. Garris - who helmed The Stand and Riding the Bullet - is once again adapting Stephen King. Shooting will take place in Nova Scotia. Synopsis: Several years after his wife's death, novelist Mike Noonan still suffers writer's block. A dream inspires him to return to the couple's summer retreat in western Maine, a lakeside house called...

Just in time for Halloween, the folks at Cemetery Dance Publications are launching some new horror books from some of the top names in the genre. Read their release below and follow the links in the story for more product details.

From the Press Release:

Cemetery Dance Publications is launching the Halloween season with brand new books by horror legends Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Justin Cronin, plus the world's first hardcover edition of the Internet eBook sensation The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman.

First up, Cemetery Dance has a little bit of everything for Stephen King fans this fall:

Just announced is the Cemetery Dance deluxe special edition of King's new book, Full Dark, No Stars, which will also be published as a trade hardcover by Scribner on November 9, 2010. The tales in Full Dark, No Stars are bleak, featuring some of the darkest moments of any King work in recent memory,...

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For most fans of the horror genre, Mick Garris (shown here at last month’s FM Con in Indianapolis) is perhaps best known as being Stephen King’s preferred darling director. Since 1992’s Sleepwalkers, Garris has adapted The Stand, The Shining, and Desperation for television, as well as a theatrical production of the novella Riding the Bullet. In addition, Garris is slated to direct the film adaptation of King’s superb supernatural mystery Bag of Bones.

What some might not be aware of, however, is that Garris has recurrently dipped his toes into the volatile world of dark fiction. His collected works of short stories, Life in the Cinema, as well as his full-length novel, Development Hell, are the result of a life inspired by the fantastic. “I was a serious reader from my earliest years,” he explains. “I always loved books and movies about the darker side.

The first casting news has just come in for James Wan's Insidious, which is currently lensing under the title The Astral in Los Angeles, and things are looking good!

Our bros at Bloody Disgusting just got word that Rose Byrne (Knowing, 28 Weeks Later, The Dead Girl, Sunshine), Patrick Wilson (pictured right; Hard Candy, Watchmen, The Ledge), and Barbara Hershey (Black Swan, Riding the Bullet) have all been cast in Wan's latest fright flick.

Wan reunites with Saw co-writer Leigh Whannell on the film, which follows a young family that makes the terrifying discovery that the body of their comatose boy has become a magnet for malevolent entities while his consciousness lies trapped in the dark and insidious realm known as The Further.

"Leigh wrote a fantastic script that took a haunted house movie with all the usual conventions and twisted it on its head," said Wan in a previous interview.

Bloody Disgusting learned that Rose Byrne (Knowing, 28 Weeks Later, The Dead Girl, Sunshine), Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy, Watchmen, The Ledge) and Barbara Hershey (Black Swan, Riding the Bullet) have all been cast in James Wan's latest horror entry, Insidious, which is currently lensing under the title "The Astral" here in Los Angeles. Re-teaming Wan with Saw co-writer Leigh Whannell, the pic follows a young family makes the terrifying discovery that the body of their comatose boy has become a magnet for malevolent entities, while his consciousness lies trapped in the dark and insidious realm known as The Further. Wan also directed Dead Silence and Death Sentence.

This week, a new series made its debut on FearNET called Post Mortem . The series pulls creator and host Mick Garris back to his roots when - before he went on to direct films like Sleepwalkers , Riding the Bullet and The Stand - he used to host the Fantasy Film Festival program, a talk show that would put him face to face with horror industry pros. Those writers, directors and producers would later go on to be colleagues and friends. For Post Mortem , Garris is reunited with some of these masters of horror for candid and insightful interviews akin to what you might find on Charlie Rose or Inside the Actor's Studio . Garris has completed eight out of 10 episodes so far. We caught up to him shortly before the debut of the first installment featuring make-up FX vet...

The 2009 American Film Market today announced its schedule of seminars and conferences to be held between Nov. 4 and 11. Celebrating its 30th year, the Afm will showcase panels on film financing opportunities, local and international distribution trends, marketing strategies and digital technologies. The sessions will include film executives, producers, writers, directors, distributors, financiers and attorneys. This year’s seminars and conferences will include the annual “Afm Finance Conference” on Friday, Nov. 6; “Pitch Me!” on Saturday, Nov. 7; “No Direction Home – Changing Indie Distribution Strategies” on Sunday, Nov. 8; “Writing for the Genre World” on Monday, Nov. 9; “Case Study: How to Package and Finance Your Independent Project Overseas” on Monday, Nov. 9; and “The New Hollywood Movie Studio, New Media and Social Networking” on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Programming the seminars and conferences will be the American Society of Cinematographers, British Academy of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles, Directors Guild of America, Film Independent, Hong Kong Trade Development Council,...

An American Werewolf In London, that second best of all lycanthropic thrillers, is just emerging on Blu-ray and a new DVD edition today. The best, (super)naturally, remains 1941’s The Wolf Man (with a remake due next February), but 28 years after its 1981 release, American Werewolf is still looking mighty fine.

And I have anecdotes.

Jim Steranko’s Mediascene Prevue, the magazine I worked for at the time, had Already interviewed American Werewolf writer-director John Landis. Steranko had made a trip to La in early 1981 and quizzed him then for issue #46 (the Bo Derek Tarzan cover). We thought we were done with American Werewolf, but then unexpectedly Universal Pictures invited Prevue to a weekend press junket in NYC in August (I think). Steranko decided I should attend. After all, we had already published Prevue’s story, so this might be nothing more than interview experience for me (my first hotel press junket!

Writer/director/producer William Malone’s Parasomnia is a most unusual, visually enthralling horror film, so it’s fitting that the movie was the centerpiece of an unusual, visually enthralling event benefitting the American Cinematheque, which hosted the event at the Egyptian Theatre, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Los Angeles. The evening was a tribute to the work of the late Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski (pronounced Boo-shin-ski), whose paintings inspired much of Malone’s Parasomnia imagery; the film credits Beksinski with “conceptual art.”

Before Parasomnia (pictured) was screened, Richard Elfman (director of Forbidden Zone, Shrunken Heads and Modern Vampires) moderated a Q&A panel with Malone and fellow horrormakers Wes Craven, Mick Garris, Stuart Gordon and Tobe Hooper in a discussion of the influence of art on their filmmaking, followed by a slide show and discussion of Beksinski’s work. Fango caught up with the filmmakers afterward for some one-on-one insights.

If director Mick Garris (pictured below) and producer Richard Sennet have their way, Maine will be the backdrop for the much-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Bangor resident Stephen King’s best-selling 1998 novel Bag Of Bones. Shooting is tentatively scheduled to begin this summer, but use of the Maine location depends on an adjustment of the state’s film incentive program.

“We’re basically here to see if officials want to do this. If not, there are plenty of places we could go,” Sennet told the Portland Press Herald. Other possible sites include Massachusetts, Louisiana, Michigan and Georgia.

Currently, Maine reimburses production companies for 12 percent of wages paid to Maine residents and 10 percent of wages for non-Maine residents. The program also offers an income tax rebate for investors, no state sales tax on production items and reimbursement of lodging taxes for long-term stays. (That’s modest when compared to programs in Massachusetts and Connecticut,...

The 3-D cameras have started rolling on the new Joe Dante feature, and Fango was invited to visit the Vancouver set for the first day of production. There’s plenty of excitement as the genre great returns to direct the kind of material he’s known best for, and even the simplest of scenes are a blast to watch on the 3-D monitors.

Dante even posed for the photo above with this writer and his dimensional camera rig. Those glasses, though—a big improvement, but keep working, designers.

The Hole is the story of two young brothers, played by Chris (Cirque Du Freak) Massoglia and Nathan (The Mist) Gamble, who discover a seemingly bottomless hole in the basement of their new home. Along with the girl next door, played by Haley (The Haunting Of Molly Hartley) Bennett, they explore the pit, only to discover it holds their deepest fears…you know,...

Three veteran independent distributors have merged their efforts to form Freestyle Releasing Llc., an independent marketing and domestic distribution company. Susan Jackson will merge the theatrical distribution arm of her company Turtles Crossing with Mark Brode's theatrical distribution and consulting company Innovation Film Group and the theatrical distribution arm of Mike Doban's Arcangelo Entertainment. The company's first release will be Motion Picture Corp. of America's Stephen King's Riding the Bullet from director Mick Garris and starring Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Barbara Hershey and Cliff Robertson. The film is scheduled to bow Oct. 8 on 200 screens. On Oct. 15, the Los Angeles-based company will release Spin, James Redford's directorial debut, starring Stanley Tucci and Dana Delany.