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News Bites: ‘World of the Dead’/’Mother’s Day’s UK Release, ‘Wicker Tree’ Goes Anchor Bay, New ‘Melancholia’ Poster
Thanks to Dimension Extreme the U.S. was the last place on the freakin’ planet to see Michael Bartlett’ss pretty-OK The Zombie Diaries, and it looks to be a continuing trend. While the rest of the planet sits back and waits, World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2 will be opening in the UK on June 24, 2011. The sequel, directed by both Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett, begins three months following the first film. Click the title above for more info.
In addition, Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’s Day, the quasi-remake of the classic ’80s Troma film, will open in UK cinemas on June 10 via Optimum Releasing. The pic follows “Three brothers on the run from the law head for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house in a foreclosure. Mother ingeniously orchestrates her sons’ escape, teaching the house’s new owners and their guests a few lessons along the way.”
More pre-Cannes news as Anchor Bay Entertainment has nabbed Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree for U.S. distribution. Wicker Tree, starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Graham McTavish, Paul Wesley, Susie Amy, Morgan James and Natalie Parnes, is a companion piece to The Wicker Man that follows “young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, whom leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.” Click the title for images, art and the trailer.
In addition to the previously released images, poster and trailer, inside you’ll find a second (and much better looking) one sheet for Lars Von Trier’s end-of-the-world drama Melancholia. “Justine (Dunst) and Michael (Skarsgård) who are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth…” The world ends on November 4, thanks to Magnolia Pictures.
Lastly, I don’t really understand why every single website makes a big stink over a film gaining a “sales agent” (some even misreport them as “acquired”). They must not understand that producers behind every completed film will hire a company to help sell their film across the globe. It does not mean the film actually HAS distribution. “Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly. Think!” Yes. Anyways, Lightning Entertainment will help sell both Kerry Prior’s breakout hit festival horror comedy The Revenant and One Way Trip 3D. Revenant, a pretty darn good vampire film, has been sitting on the shelf since 2009. Hopefully this will help get it out into the world (finally). Click either title for posters, images, trailers, etc.
In case you haven’t noticed, the public domain status of beloved icons like Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella and Mickey Mouse has been wreaking havoc on the horror genre in the past couple years, with filmmakers itching to get their hands on the characters and put them into twisted situations. In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh slashers, well, Pooh is about to battle Mickey.
It’s not from the same team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films, to be clear, but Deadline reports that Glen Douglas Packard (Pitchfork) will direct the horror movie Mickey vs. Winnie for Untouchables Entertainment and the website iHorror.
Deadline details, “The film follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart.
“A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip.
“In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.”
Glen Douglas Packard wrote the screenplay that he’ll be directing.
“Horror fans call for the thrill of witnessing icons like the new Aliens and Avengers sharing the screen. While licensing nightmares make such crossovers rare, Mickey vs. Winnie serves as our tribute to that thrilling fantasy,” Packard said in a statement this week.
Producer Anthony Pernicka from iHorror previews, “We’re thrilled to unveil this unique take to horror fans. The Mickey Mouse featured in our film is unlike any iteration audiences have encountered before. Our portrayal doesn’t involve characters donning basic masks. Instead, we present deeply transformed, live-action horror renditions of these iconic figures, weaving together elements of innocence and malevolence. After experiencing the intense scenes we’ve crafted, you’ll never look at Mickey the same way again.”
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