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News Bites: ‘Stake Land’ Trailer, ‘Super 8’ Viral, ‘Melancholia’ Image

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Update: You’ll find a few more random stories inside, including talk of a fifth ‘Terminator’ and some exciting news for ‘World War Z’.

It’s been awhile since we’ve pulled out the lazy and squished a bunch of stories into one news post, but frankly none of these are worth overflowing the front page.

First, if you click on over to IMDB (they don’t have embed) you’ll find the official trailer for Jim Mickle’s Stake Land, his quasi vampire movie arriving in theaters April 22 from Dark Sky Films. The hype is tremendous on this one, but I’d like to disagree… review next week.

Our friends at /Film received a package in the mail that was loaded with Super 8 viral goodies. If you click on over to the site, you can check out a few images alongside a viral video that appears to be one in a series of clips. We’re expecting nearly 50 (yes, 50!) clips that will all combine to produce one long piece of footage. Ambitious. J.J. Abrams’ flick arrives in theaters June 10.

Last week we brought you the first trailer for Lars Von Trier’s end of the world drama Melancholia, while the boys at Empire have posted an interview with the infamous director, while also sharing the following first ever image (of star Kirsten Dunst). “No more happy endings,” says Von Trier, giving a dark, yet romantic description of Magnolia’s major acquisition. “Melancholia, [which is the name of] the planet, is kind of ten times bigger than the Earth, and I liked the idea of being ‘swallowed’ by Melancholia. I thought that was quite nice. And then I read today that that’s actually one of the virtues of romanticism – willingly being purified by dying.” No release is set.

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In other news, Bleeding Cool is reporting that director Marc Forster is already assembling his team for his live-action adaptation of World War Z, which will star the illustrious Brad Pitt. According to the site, Paramount Pictures has tapped cinematographer Robert Richardson, who recently wrapped Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret, to DP the PG-13 zombie flick. Amongst Richardson’s other credits are Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, JFK, Natural Born Killers and Eight Men Out. WOW.

Back in February, it was reported that Universal was interested in resurrecting the Terminator franchise with Fast Five director Justin Lin at the helm. Collider caught up with Lin who had this to say:

I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options,” said a proud Lin. “ ‘Terminator’ was one of my favorite films growing up. And I feel I have a take that I would love to see, and I’ve talked with Arnold and we’ve talked and we’ll see. Again, I would love to do it, but it has to be the right circumstances. It has to be the right people. And there’s other projects too. But I’m in a position now that I can choose more than I could a year ago, two years ago. So that is something that is potentially in my future, but when I get home I will sit down and look at my options and choose what I want to do.

Personally, the ONLY way I would want to see a new Terminator is with Arnie on board. It would help if James Cameron stopped playing around on Pandora…

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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