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Heart-Shaped Box

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on January 01, 2999 @ 12:00am
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The book, published in February, centers on a rock star obsessed with the occult who buys a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner’s ghost. He ultimately is forced to confront the ghost and the demons of his own past.

Aging rock star Judas Coyne is a collector of bizarre and macabre artifacts: a used hangman’s noose, a snuff film, and rare books on witchcraft. When he purchases a suit billed in an online auction as the haunted clothes of a recently deceased man, Coyne finds more than he bargained for. Everywhere he looks he sees the twisted spirit of an old and evil man following him and dangling a deadly razor on a chain. He learns that the suit belonged to Craddock McDermott, the stepfather of a former lover who committed suicide shortly after Coyne tossed her out of his life. McDermott, a professional hypnotist prior to his death, swore to destroy Coyne’s rock-star life of self-indulgence to avenge her death. The behind-the-scenes look at stardom alongside the frightening pyrotechnics of McDermott’s ghost will draw in teens who really enjoy a good scare. But like all good ghost stories, Hill also crafts a deftly plotted mystery as McDermott’s true motivations and powers unfold.

The Graveyard Book

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on January 01, 2999 @ 12:00am
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Hear this tragic tale: a sleeping family, a talented murderer, and an adventurous toddler—orphaned, but not assassinated. Small and alone, by accident and luck he escapes the scene of the crime and climbs a grassy hill to safety. At the top of the hill the boy finds a fence, and on the other side, a dark, quiet place.

Byzantium

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on June 28, 2013 @ 12:00am
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Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara (Gemma Arterton) meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.

A Pair Of Clips From IFC’s Vamp Tale ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 31, 2013 @ 10:55am
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Arriving on VOD and in limited theaters June 28 is Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Starring Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Caleb Landry Jones, Danny Mays, Bradley James, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller and Tom Hollander, the pic is about a pair of women who claim to be vampire siblings.

“On the run for murder, two young “sisters” arrive penniless at an English seaside town. Clara is a fiercely modern woman who has her eyes on the future and no time for the past. Teenager Eleanor is shy and innocent. Yet they both hide the same secrets: they are really mother and daughter, and they are both … vampires!” READ MORE

New Trailer For ‘Byzantium’, Could This Be The Best Vampire Movie Of The Year?

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 21, 2013 @ 2:47pm
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Arriving on VOD and in limited theaters June 28 is Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival. I have loved everything I’ve seen from this, it feels like we’re finally getting an original vampire story. It’s a total breath of fresh air and this new trailer is no exception. I can’t wait to see this.

Enter The Batcave With This ‘Byzantium’ Clip!

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 17, 2013 @ 1:10pm
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Arriving on VOD and in limited theaters June 28 is Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival. I loved the last trailer and this new clip takes a subdued look at the film, still digging the tone though.

New ‘Byzantium’ Quad Offers High Praise

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 18, 2013 @ 10:33am
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Arriving on VOD and in limited theaters June 28 is Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival. A new UK quad has hit with some rather glowing praise, with one blurb in particular claiming it’s the best vampire film since Let The Right One In (I’ve got an open mind, but we’ll see about that).

Thumb Through This Bloody Trailer For Neil Jordan’s ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 16, 2013 @ 3:23pm
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Arriving on VOD and in limited theaters June 28 is Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival. A new trailer has hit – and a really dig it! It doesn’t seem like a terribly new take on vampires, but it does seem like a take that we haven’t seen in a long time. Classic, regal, sexy, bloody and stately. It’s sort of like the international trailer we had a few months back, but I like this version more.

IFC Finally Dates Vamp Tale ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 12, 2013 @ 4:26pm
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“ Irresistible. Immoral. Immortal.”

Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival, will arrive on VOD and in limited theaters June 28.

International Trailer Premieres First Footage From Vamp Flick ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 01, 2013 @ 4:54pm
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An international trailer shares the first ever look at Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival for a yet-to-be-determined date.

Ron Howard To Tackle The Dilemma Of ‘The Graveyard Book’?

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 22, 2013 @ 4:38pm
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Back in April we reported that Disney had picked up the rights to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and that director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) had dropped off the project. Coraline director Henry Selick was attach to helm for a while before he abdicated the throne as well. Now there are reports that the project is no longer stop motion and that Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) might be stepping aboard.

Per THR, “In a new twist, Graveyard now has been reconfigured as a live-action movie, and sources say Ron Howard is in negotiations to direct.

In the book, “instead of a boy raised by wolves in the jungle, Gaiman tells the story of the last surviving child of a murdered family raised by ghosts in a graveyard.”

Howard will oversee the development of a new script.

[TIFF '12] IFC Bites Into ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 11, 2012 @ 3:51pm
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Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, a vampire film starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley and Saoirse Ronan premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week and IFC has made it their first official pick-up fo the fest, paying something close to $2M for the rights.

Per THR, “Sources say it was IFC’s $2 million offer that drew blood.Heading into Toronto, ‘Byzantium’ was on every buyer’s list, both small and large. However, bigger distributors passed on the film, which is receiving mixed reviews. Also, no one was sure how commerical Byzantium would be, considering Jordan’s arthouse pedigree.”

In the film, “Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.”

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2012. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] ‘Byzantium’ To Premiere, Bloody New Imagery!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 24, 2012 @ 12:14pm
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While we wait for the elusive Midnight Madness line-up, we’ve scored a list of the first titles playing at this September’s 37th Toronto International Film Festival. Films announced include titles in the Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The announced films include 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations, including 38 world premieres.

Although horror is slim pickings (for now), the one premiere that stands out is Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley and Saoirse Ronan

We’ve also landed a handful of new stills from the hotly anticipated vampire thriller.

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2012.

Disney Digs ‘The Graveyard Book’

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 27, 2012 @ 2:26pm
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If you’re a fan of Coraline (or any of Neil Gaiman’s other works) you might want to extend your health insurance policy until around 2014 because that’s when you might finally see The Graveyard Book hit the silver screen. Disney has picked up the rights to Gaiman’s gothic children’s version of The Jungle Book.

Per Deadline,”Disney has just made a high six figure deal for The Graveyard Book, the bestselling children’s title by Neil Gaiman. The book, which won the Newberry Medal among other awards, is a riff on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Gaiman’s works include Coraline, The Sandman and American Gods. The book attracted attention at every studio upon release, and it was optioned for a large fee by UK Effects House Framestore. They had Neil Jordan attached to direct, but never got it off the ground, even though they kept renewing the option.”

So it looks like Jordan is off this thing and they’re on the hunt for a new director. In the book, “instead of a boy raised by wolves in the jungle, Gaiman tells the story of the last surviving child of a murdered family raised by ghosts in a graveyard.”

Who would you like to see direct this thing?

Hot ‘Byzantium’ Vamps Head To The Carnival

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 27, 2012 @ 3:58pm
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Hot Byzantium Vamps Head To The Carnival

Above we’ve landed yet another look at Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, about a pair of women (Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, displayed above) who claim to be vampire siblings.

Having just wrapped principal photography, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Caleb Landry Jones, Danny Mays, Bradley James, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller and Tom Hollander all star.

Eleanor is exhausted by 200 years on the run and desperate to settle down. But little does she know that her mother has been protecting her all of the years from their own kind, “The Brotherhood”. To escape them, they must either blend in or continue running away. But just as they think they may have escaped, their past rapidly catches up with them.” READ MORE

[EFM '12] First Look At Vampire Thriller ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 13, 2012 @ 11:25pm
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[EFM 12] First Look At Vampire Thriller Byzantium

Below you’ll find the first ever image from Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, about a pair of women who claim to be vampire siblings.

Having just wrapped principal photography, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Caleb Landry Jones, Danny Mays, Bradley James, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller and Tom Hollander all star. It is for sale at EFM in Berlin.

Jonny Lee MIller Joins Vampire Flick ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 13, 2012 @ 8:47pm
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The Daily Mail is reporting some addition casting for Neil Jordan’s now-filming sci-fi thriller Byzantium.

Both Jonny Lee Miller (“Dexter”, Hackers, Dark Shadows) and Tom Hollander (Pirates of the Caribbean) will join Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Caleb Landry Jones, Danny Mays, Bradley James, and Sam Riley in the vampire flick where Arterton stars as Clara, a vampire who has to protect herself and her daughter (played by Saoirse Ronan) from those seeking to plunge a stake through their hearts.

Here’s the official plot crunch: “Two young women arrive in a nameless British small town. Their names are not their own. They don’t declare their ages. Their relationship with each other is not clear. Are they sisters, as their assumed identities declare? Or are they mother and daughter? The eldest, Claire, takes a job in a pub. The youngest, Eleanor, goes to school.

During a truth exercise in her drama class, Eleanor confesses that she has been alive for over two hundred years and has survived by drinking human blood. Her classmates think she is utterly crazy and Mint, her teacher, puts her in touch with the school counsellor. She makes one friend, Frank, a boy who has been home educated and is as much of an oddity as Eleanor. He tries to get to the bottom of her vampire delusion, thinking it an epic and compelling psychosis. Why would anyone want to be undead?” READ MORE

AFM ’11: Art, New Cast and Plot for Vamp Flick ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 02, 2011 @ 8:38pm
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Some news out of the AFM as we’ve learned that Danny Mays (The Adventures of Tin Tin), Bradley James and Sam Riley (Control, Brighten Rock) will join Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan and Caleb Landry Jones in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, the thriller from the filmmakers behind Interview with the Vampire that’s about a pair of women who claim to be vampire siblings.

In addition, we’ve landed some AFM art and the first official plot details: “On the run for murder, two young “sisters” arrive penniless at an English seaside town. Clara is a fiercely modern woman who has her eyes on the future and no time for the past. Teenager Eleanor is shy and innocent. Yet they both hide the same secrets: they are really mother and daughter, and they are both … vampires!

‘First Class’ Casting for Neil Jordan’s ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 22, 2011 @ 9:11pm
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Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class) has landed the male lead in Byzantium directed by Neil Jordan, reports Variety.

The pic currently stars Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton and is based on the Moira Buffini play.

“The story revolves around a mother and daughter who are vampires and arrive in a small British town revealing their secret to the town.” Jones plays a teenager dying of leukemia which in turns forces him to struggle with his mortality, causing Saorsie Ronan’s character to struggle with her own immortality.

Buffini also penned the script with Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley producing.
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‘Hanna’ and ‘Gretel’ Sisters in ‘Byzantium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 14, 2011 @ 9:12pm
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Gemma Arterton (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters , Clash of the Titans) and Saoirse Ronan (the lead in the widely popular and successful auctioneer Hanna and The Lovely Bones) have joined the cast of helmer Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, writes Variety.

The project, produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s London-based Number 9 Films, is based on Tamara Drewe scribe Moira Buffini’s play “A Vampire Story,” about two mysterious women (siblings), one of which claims to be a vampire.

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Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on November 11, 1994 @ 12:00am
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It hadn’t even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis’ mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.