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‘Dracula Meets Stoker’ Blood Line
Spain’s Cin TV is prepping Dracula Meets Stoker, a 3D docu feature about writer Bram Stoker, his family and the vampire myth, reports Variety.
The film takes in the true story of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia — now part of Romania — a 15th century ruler better-known by his Romanian surname, Dracula.
Best-selling author Dacre Stoker (“The Un-Dead”), Stoker’s great-grand-nephew, is to helm, working from his new novel, “Dracula Meets Stoker.” The docu will be a kind of “making of” the novel, said a production company source.
The English-language docu is budgeted at $2.7 million — higher-bracket for Spain. Shooting is skedded for the fall.
It will open theatrically in 2012, to commemorate the centenary of the Irish gothic author’s death. Pic’s release will be accompanied by the publication of Dacre Stoker’s novel by Spain’s Iniciativa Mercurio, which partners on the project.
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Julia Garner Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.