Comic-Con ’11: New ‘Father’s Day’ One-Sheet Feels Restrained

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Posted by David Harley on July 26, 2011 @ 3:38pm
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This past weekend at Comic-Con, a new poster for Troma’s Father’s Day made the rounds which, quite frankly, is nowhere near as good as the Dude Designs’ one-sheet. The Astron-6 helmed film doesn’t have an official release date, but is said to be coming soon. Take a gander at the new poster inside.

“A long, long time ago in a town north of Tromaville, there was a bad, bad man who raped and killed dads. Nobody could stop the fat monster until a mysterious stranger took a stand. Some say he was avenging his own father. Some say he was just crazy. The stranger could not have known the Hell that was to follow…”
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Comic-Con ’11: Kevin Smith Teases Hall H With ‘Red State’

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Posted by Maria Lewis on July 25, 2011 @ 2:58pm
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He may have already taken it on a national tour, but Kevin Smith proved there’s still plenty of audience interest in Red State (review). Thousands of fans packed out Hall H at Comic Con this afternoon for Smith’s annual Q&A where he talked about his first foray into the horror genre and showed five minutes of “spoileriffic footage.”

The writer/director said ‘Red State’ was his attempt at trying to make a movie like Quentin Tarantino and something “outside my comfort zone.”

“Until ‘Red State’ I didn’t have the balls to do it and try to make a movie like Quentin or the Coen Brothers,” he said.

“‘Red State’ was my way to homage those types of movies and what they do.

“It was so fucking artistically liberating man, because it’s the movie no one expects from you.

“It was like I was a talking dog, people would be like ‘stop the pop culture references, people are dying!’

“You’re not supposed to pump your own shit, but it’s fucking dope.”

Smith took the unconventional approach of self-distributing the film by playing it at select cinemas nationally with Q&A’s after each screening. The filmmaker said although ‘Red State’ has been released outside of the “studio system”, it has found an audience.

“I’ve been making movies for two decades man and I know one thing – people will see it eventually,” he said.

There are several dates still on the ‘Red State’ tour and a two week run at Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles. Smith said the film has already “cleared almost a million bucks” in merchandise alone. Inspired by religious fundamentalists, the film was made for $4 million and stars John Goodman, Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano and Melissa Leo.

Smith said the profit from ‘Red State’ will allow him to finance his final film – hockey comedy ‘Hit Somebody’ – which he estimates will cost between 15 – 20 million. It’s set to start filming at the beginning of 2012 in Detroit.
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Q&A Highlights From ‘Chillerama’ Debut At Comic-Con

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Posted by BC on July 25, 2011 @ 2:38pm
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While some filmmakers might panic or throw a tantrum if everything wasn’t going perfect on the night that their new film showed to the public for the first time, Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Adam Rifkin, and Tim Sullivan were in good spirits and even making jokes about a potential disaster in process – Chillerama wasn’t actually there at the time it was set to start! In an effort to have the most updated/near complete version of the film possible, producer Jason Miller (who has been also handling a lot of the FX shots) was driving the latest cut from Los Angeles down to San Diego, and was stuck in some traffic. So instead of a post-film Q&A, the four filmmakers talked and took a few questions BEFORE the film, a situation as unconventional as the film itself. Here are some of the highlights!
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Comic-Con ’11: Concept Art for ‘Seventh Son’ and ‘Paradise Lost’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 23, 2011 @ 4:19pm
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The boys over at Cinemablend decided to take photos of the concept art on display at the San Diego Comic-Con panel for upcoming Warner Bros. films (you know, the panel for three non-comic films that aren’t even shot yet).

One of the two projects is Alex Proyas’ Paradise Lost, the Bradley Cooper-starrer that will be shot using motion capture technology. The project tells the story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer, and will be crafted as an action vehicle that will include aerial warfare, possibly shot in 3D. Inside you’ll find the concept art featuring some of the rough terrains being conceptualized.

Also shared with the Comic-Con audience was art for Sergei Bodrov’s The Seventh Son, starring Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Ben Barnes and Alicia Vikander. Barnes will star as “Tom Ward”, a young boy training to be an exorcist in the 1700′s and must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches, and bind boggarts. Trouble begins when he’s tricked into releasing the most evil witch in the world. Jeff Bridges has signed on to star as an exorcist. The Seventh Son was formerly known as The Spook’s Apprentice and is part of Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s young adult series “The Last Apprentice.” It is based on the first book in the trilogy “The Wardstone Chronicles.”

Comic-Con ’11: Original ‘Dark Shadows’ Cast to Cameo in Feature!

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Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on July 23, 2011 @ 3:51pm
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Sometimes bringing back an original cast can be disengaging (see all of Rob Zombie’s movies), but other times it actually sounds like a brilliant idea. Hermes Press hosted a Dark Shadows panel at the San Diego Comic-Con with Lara Parker (Angelique), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans and Josette du Pres), Jim Pierson (consulting producer for the new Dark Shadows film), and the son of series creator Dan Curtis. The big reveal was that four of the original cast members will be making cameos in Tim Burton’s new film!

Daniel Herman (publisher, Hermes Press) moderated, and Parker and Scott were just about bursting at the seams to share the news that they, along with both David Selby (Quentin Collins) and, yes, the much beloved Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) spent three days at Pinewood Studios during the filming of Burton’s upcoming Dark Shadows movie. They will all be making cameos, but the real highlight for the quartet was being able to thank Johnny Depp (who plays Barnabas in the new version) for all the kind words and tributes he has given the 45-year-old show, especially as it relates to Frid and his performance. The icing on the cake was Depp telling Frid in person, “None of this would be here if it wasn’t for you.” – as reported by The Woman In Black.

Warners has slotted the film for release on May 11, 2012.

Comic-Con ’11: Vamps Are Coming, Arm Yourself With a ‘Sword of Wood’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 23, 2011 @ 5:33am
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Framelight Prods. and producer Howard Rosenman (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) are developing Sword of Wood — a tale of vampires during the Crusades — from comic book scribe Chuck Dixon. The team, which made the announcement Friday during Comic-Con, is seeking writers to pen the screenplay and is planning to a comic book and video game.

“Sword of Wood,” is a previously unpublished work that “tells the story of a landed baron and knight who battles in the Holy Lands at the time of the First Crusade, then returns home to learn that his manor and holdings have been raided by an army of vampires and his wife and children carried off. This begins his new crusade, going alone against an army of the damned.” The title implies an original take on the vampire genre using wooden swords to kill the creatures of the night!

Dixon has extensive comic book credits on “Batman,” “Punisher” and “Conan.”
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Comic-Con ’11: ‘Mutant Chronicles’ Director’s ‘Last Blood’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 23, 2011 @ 2:40am
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First announced way back in 2008, Simon Hunter has been set to direct Last Blood, a live action adaptation of the Keenspot graphic novel that takes place after a zombie apocalypse, when vampires must battle to protect the last surviving humans to keep alive the necessary blood supply.

Hunter helmed the terrible Mutant Chronicles, the actioner that stars Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Ron Perlman and Devon Aoki, as well as the James Purefoy-starrer Lighthouse. The pic will be formally announced at Comic-Con this weekend.

Last Blood will be produced by Ironclad exec producer Christian Arnold-Beutel as well as Red Giant Media’s Aimee Schoof, Isen Robbins and Benny R. Powell, and Keenspot’s Chris and Bobby Crosby. The Crosby siblings created the graphic novel with illustrator Owen Gieni, and Bobby Crosby wrote the script with Nick V. Sterling. “Last Blood” was published as an online comic in 2006, drawing almost 20 million readers around the world. Two prequel novels are in the works and they will be published this Halloween on multiple platforms.
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