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First Annual Reaper Awards Winners Announced
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Anchor Bay Entertainment each claimed four Grimmys at the Reaper Awards October 13, but Anchor Bay’s (incredible) Hellraiser boxed set walked away with the top prize, reports Home Media Magazine, who hosted the event alongside Dread Central. The first ever Reaper Awards honored the best horror-themed DVDs and Blu-ray Discs released between Sept. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2009. A panel of judges selected nominees from a pool of studio submissions, with winners determined by an online vote held in September. Winning titles were honored with a Grimmy, a hand-painted statuette resembling the Grim Reaper. Check out a list of winners below.
The Hellraiser boxed set earned two Grimmys, for Best in Show and Best Packaging. The set came in a gold box fashioned after the Lament Configuration box from the films, and included the 20th anniversary DVDs of the first two films and the Blu-ray of the first film. The Blu-ray version of the first film also won for Best Remastering.
Sony Pictures won for Best Blu-ray for its Ghostbusters 25th anniversary re-release (an award it hardly deserves and I think Sony should do the right thing and return the Grimmy after its embarrassing transfer); Best Vampire/Werewolf film award for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans; Best Zombie film award for Quarantine; and Best Indie/Foreign for [REC], the Spanish film upon which Quarantine is based.
Best Theatrical went to Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s The Last House on the Left, a remake of a 1972 Wes Craven film.
The original Last House,/i> earned 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and MGM a Grimmy for Best Slasher. A tie in that category also yielded a Grimmy to Anchor Bay’s direct-to-video film Laid to Rest, which introduced a new horror villain to the genre: ChromeSkull.
Michael Felsher, owner of Red Shirt Pictures, a company that produces DVD special features, earned a lifetime achievement Grimmy.
2009 Reaper Award Winners:
* Best in Show: Hellraiser Box Set, Anchor Bay Entertainment
* Best Theatrical: The Last House on the Left (2009), Universal Studios Home Entertainment
* Best DTV Release: Alien Raiders, Warner Home Video
* Best Re-release: Friday the 13th: Deluxe Editions (Parts 1-6), Paramount Home Entertainment
* Best Boxed Set or TV Series: Dexter: The Complete Third Season, Paramount Home Entertainment/CBS/Showtime
* Best Indie/Foreign: [REC], Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Best Slasher (tie): Laid to Rest, Anchor Bay Entertainment; The Last House on the Left (1972), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/MGM
* Best Vampire/Werewolf: Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Best Zombie: Quarantine, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Best Ghost Story: The Haunting in Connecticut, Lionsgate
* Best Packaging: Hellraiser Box Set, Anchor Bay Entertainment
* Best Re-mastering: Hellraiser, Anchor Bay Entertainment
* Best Blu-ray Disc: Ghostbusters, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Lifetime Achievement: Michael Felsher, Red Shirt Pictures
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Keanu Reeves Describes Untitled Time Loop Thriller from Director Tim Miller as ‘Groundhog Day’ With Sharks
At one point known as Shiver, Tim Miller‘s (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) next movie doesn’t yet have a title, but star Keanu Reeves offers a very intriguing tease this week.
Chatting with Collider, Reeves explains what drew him to the mysterious upcoming project from director Tim Miller. He tells the outlet, “Sharks. Time machine. Groundhog Day.”
That lines up with early plot details that surfaced earlier this year, with the film said to center on a “smuggler in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea.”
That synopsis continued, “Surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries, and bloodthirsty sharks, the man finds himself in a time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.”
Callie Cooke (“The Stranger”), Stefan Kapičić (Deadpool), Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow), Nicholas Duvernay (“The White Lotus”), Abraham Popoola (Cruella), Anastasia Safonov, and Bobby Holland Hanton (Thor: Love and Thunder) also star.
Ian Shorr (Splinter, Infinite) penned the screenplay for the sci-fi thriller, which had previously been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow and The Shallows.
Stay tuned for more on the untitled Warner Bros. project.
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