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BATES MOTEL Trailer Threatens To Unleash A Teenage Serial Killer

BATES MOTEL Trailer Threatens To Unleash A Teenage Serial Killer

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 03:00 AM PST

Something about this trailer makes me feel queasy. It's not that the images are shocking, or the idea that U.S. basic cable channel A&E is making the prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic the basis of a weekly television show. (We've known about it since last summer.) Part of it is the decision to set the series in what looks like the present day. That makes sense from a business perspective -- setting it in the late 1940s or 1950s would incur substantially greater costs -- and a demographic standpoint; clearly the series wants to entice modern teen viewers who are accustomed to watching teen vampires, teen vampire hunters, teen criminals, and so forth. The decision, however, means that we're dealing with a 17-year-old...

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Jason Clarke Snared As (Possibly Human) Lead In Next APES Movie

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 02:00 AM PST

The seventh installment of the Planet of the Apes franchise has snared an Australian in its casting net. Jason Clarke, born and raised in Australia, will star in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which takes place 15 years after the ape revolt depicted in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. As anyone who saw Rise knows, the closing moments of the film set up the premise for a post-revolt world. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dawn will follow ape leader Caesar, again played by Andy Serkis, as he struggles to remain king of the beasts, while human scientists struggle to survive in San Francisco. At this point, it's not clear if Clarke will play an ape challenging Caesar or a human scientist....

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Korean Auteur Park Chul-soo Dies Aged 64

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 08:10 PM PST

Acclaimed Korean auteur Park Chul-soo died yesterday after being hit by a drunken driver as he crossed the street. The 64-year-old director was returning home after a day on the set of his latest film.I won't pretend to be an expert on Park's body of work but there's no doubt that his eclectic and vibrant films will be sorely missed in Korea's independent filmmaking community. After starting out as a crew member, Park made his first film, Captain of the Alley, in 1978. Throughout the 80s he made a great number of melodramas before turning a new leaf with 301, 302 in 1995, one of the landmark Korean films of that decade.Before female filmmakers had a chance to do it, Park was one of the...

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Bruce Lee's Origin Story To Be Fictionalized In BIRTH OF THE DRAGON

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:30 PM PST

Because the true story of Bruce Lee is not sufficiently action-packed to satisfy audiences in the 21st Century, his real life will be revised for an upcoming movie about his origin as an international legend. That's not exactly what the story in The Hollywood Reporter says, but I'm not sure how else to read it. To be titled Birth of the Dragon, the film purports to be inspired by a real-life duel between Bruce Lee and martial arts teacher Wong Jack Man that took place in Oakland, California in 1964. (I'm not an expert, but a quick search indicates that the details of the fight itself, held in private, are in dispute, with each man telling a different story.) Rather improbably, the new film will...

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This Man Will Turn Into An Elephant

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:00 PM PST

A selection of festivals as diverse as Sitges - Europe's largest genre event - and Clermont Ferrand - the world's most prestigious short film festival - Pablo Larcuen's film school graduation project Elefante is an odd one, a film that riffs on the central concept of Kafka's The Metamorphosis but does so with a gleeful grin on its face. The trailer for this one is short but sweet, take a look at it below....

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Coen Brothers' INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Gets U.S. Distribution

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:15 AM PST

CBS Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Inside Lleweyn Davis, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. While it's been fully expected that the film would get picked up -- it's the frickin' Coen Brothers! -- CBS Films is an unexpected distributor; they've swerved between genre fare like The Woman in Black, Seven Psychopaths, and the upcoming The Last Exorcism Part II to tamer pictures such as The Words and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen On the face of it, Inside Llewyn Davis doesn't sound like blockbuster entertainment. Set in the early 1960s, it follows an itinerant musician as he navigates the burgeoning New York City folk scene, and was previously said to be inspired by Dave Van Ronk's memoir The Mayor of...

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John Woo Finally Ready To LOVE AND LET LOVE

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST

In a recent interview, Chinese actress Zhang Zi Yi, currently back in the limelight with the release of her new martial arts epic, The Grandmaster, has confirmed that cameras are finally ready to start rolling on John Woo's much-delayed period romance Love And Let Love. The film, a romantic epic set against the backdrop of the Sino-Japanese War, has been hit by a series of almost farcical obstacles, and cancelled on more than one occasion. A dispute over rights to the script, originally titled 1949, saw the project put on hold indefinitely way back in 2009. The film then came back on track in late 2011, with Korean acress Song Hye-kyo (pictured above) as the lead, and Zhang and Taiwanese actor Chang Chen named in supporting roles....

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Berlinale 2013 Wrap-Up: Hits, Misses and In-Betweens

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 09:00 AM PST

I think that it's time for the Berlin Film Festival to cut its festival program down. Not to say I didn't see some great films -- I did, including a few that would have remained off the radar otherwise -- But only a few of these were world premieres, and overall, it felt as if the festival had settled on many movies simply to fill out its massive lineup (over a hundred films).  There were, I'm sure, enough great films to fill a week of non-stop viewing, but sorting them out was no easy task. More to point, if I choose three random movies on a any given day at a major international festival, one of them should be decent. On certain days at Berlinale...

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US Teaser And Poster Debut For Dain Said's BUNOHAN: RETURN TO MURDER

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST

Oscilliscope Laboratories brings Dain Said's acclaimed arthouse action film Bunohan: Return To Murder to VOD and digital platforms today and after tracking the film's development and Asian releases over the past while we're proud to present the film's US poster and first US teaser.Set in a border town in northeastern Malaysia of the same name, BUNOHAN tells the powerful story of three estranged brothers - Adil, Bakar and Ilham - and their ailing father, whose fates become tragically intertwined in a web of deceit and corruption. After fleeing a deathmatch in Thailand, Adil the kickboxer is on the run from Ilham the hitman. The chase brings them to Bunohan, where they crash into the shady schemes of the ambitious businessman, Bakar. The trio's unlikely homecoming...

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The Stack: February Episode One Includes TAI-CHI ZERO, CITADEL, CABARET, and More!

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 07:10 AM PST

Welcome back to The Stack! This installment has me checking out and ruminating on the horror film Citadel, the touching and thoughtful doc about artist Wayne White Beauty is Embarrassing, Miike Takashi's newest Samurai foray Hara-Kiri, the surprisingly bland animated spooker Hotel Transylvania, Disney's new Blu-ray release of Peter Pan, the surprisingly effective Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, the whimsical martial arts film Tai-Chi Zero and digibooks of Cabaret and A Star is Born. I don't dance in this one....

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Now On Blu-ray: Scream Factory Knocks 'Em Dead With DEADLY BLESSING, PRISON, THE NEST, TERRORVISION/THE VIDEO DEAD

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST

It's only been about six months, but Scream Factory have made a serious impression on genre film fans with their impressive line up of high quality Blu-ray releases. Starting with  Halloween II & III, the company has grabbed numerous films from the "must own" lists of serious horror fans everywhere and given them a hero's welcome into the future with high definition upgrades.This dispatch covers their releases for the first two months of 2013, and they show no signs of slowing down.Deadly Blessing:First up is the undisputed king of Hittite-sploitation horror, Wes Craven's overlooked Ernest Borgnine vehicle, Deadly Blessing. This film has the honor of featuring one of Sharon Stone's earliest performances on screen and one of the spookiest dropping-a-spider-in-an-actress's-mouth scenes ever committed to celluloid....

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Matthew Goode Joins Kyle Chandler In Ridley Scott's THE VATICAN

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 05:00 AM PST

Hollywood is nothing if not a town that loves "coincidental" timing, so it should be no surprise that U.S. premium cable channel Showtimes has announced the casting for its prospective new series The Vatican in the wake of Pope Benedict's recent decision to step aside from his papal responsibilities. What is surprising is that Ridley Scott will be directing the pilot episode. As far as I can tell from his resume at IMDb, it will be his first work in series television since the late 1960s. He's one of the producers of the series, created by Paul Attanasio, who wrote Donnie Brasco and The Good German, and was a key creative force in the creation of the groundbreaking 90s show Homicide: Life on the Street,...

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Spanish Goya Awards Honor BLANCANIEVES, THE IMPOSSIBLE And Even JUAN OF THE DEAD

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 04:00 AM PST

The Impossible may have broken every box office record imaginable in Spain, but the stylized, silent film retelling of Snow White, Blancanieves, wiped the floor with the competition at the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars. Pablo Berger's film walked away with ten awards, which seem well-deserved considering all the love the film has won from audiences and critics this past year. Those critics include our own Shelagh M. Rowan Legg, who called it, "a story dripping in sensuous, gorgeous wonder." As you'll see below, most of the major categories went to either Berger's film or The Impossible, but the Spanish also showed some love for Juan of the Dead, giving it the prize for Best Ibero-American film. Film Blancanieves Director Juan Antonio Bayona for The...

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