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The Dead Will Walk once again Oct. 14th on AMC
The third season of The Walking Dead is gearing up to be a great one. When we left the group at the end of season two they were picking up the pieces from the undead assault on the farm. With their home destroyed they made their way out and decided to regroup. The ending scene showed the infamous prison. If you have read the comics then you know what could possibly be in store for the group. I say “possibly” because it seems like they are trying to keep some aspects of the comics but also make things completely different. Which is great! It gives us all an element of surprise. With Rick declaring that they are no longer a democracy it looks like the gloves are off and he’s becoming someone different.
The regular cast seems to consist of more or less the same people but there are a few newbies in there as well. Danai Gurira joins the cast as Michonne and David Morrissey as The Governer. These two are major characters in the comics and will no doubt make the third season rather interesting.
Season 3 of The Walking Dead premieres Sunday October 14th at 9/8c on AMC
SIDE NOTE: DISH NETWORK DOES NOT CARRY AMC!!!!
HBO ACQUIRES U.S. TELEVISION RIGHTS TO DOCUMENTARY FEATURE “LOVE, MARILYN”
NEW YORK NY, Sept. 14, 2012 – HBO Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. television rights to Oscar®-nominated director Liz Garbus’ feature documentary film LOVE, MARILYN, it was announced today. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and a Gala Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday evening.
Coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, LOVE, MARILYN features remarkable footage and audiotapes along with Marilyn’s own handwritten letters, diaries, notes, poems, journals and notebooks, which document her private life against the backdrop of her very public life and loves. The film also includes readings and appearances by F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Banks, Adrien Brody, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Hope Davis, Viola Davis, JenniferEhle, Ben Foster, Paul Giamatti, Jack Huston, Stephen Lang, Lindsey Lohan, Janet McTeer, Jeremy Piven, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor, Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Interviews and archival footage features Arthur Miller, Joe DiMaggio, Amy Greene, Molly Haskell, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer and Elia Kazan among many others.
“This film was an incredible journey and I’m so happy to be continuing it with my HBO family who have embraced the film in an extraordinary way,” said Garbus.
Added producer Stanley Buchthal, “My journey began in 1980 when I first met Lee Strasberg, and continued to 2009when I co-edited Marilyn Monroe’s diaries and poems. The tremendous odyssey continued when Liz Garbus and I joined to offer the world a unique new insight into a remarkable 20th-century icon, Marilyn Monroe. I am personally delighted to be in business again with the HBO family.”
The deal was negotiated by David Koh & Josh Braun & Dan Braun of Submarine Entertainment along with Stanley Buchthal of Diamond Girl Production, LLC and Harold Van Lier of Studio Canal on behalf of the producers and director with HBO.
LOVE, MARILYN is written, directed & produced by Liz Garbus; produced by Stanley Buchthal and Amy Hobby; executive produced by Anne Carey, Olivier Courson, Harold Van Lier, Enrique Steiger; edited by Azin Samari; cinematography by Maryse Alberti; music by Philip Sheppard; music supervisor, Bonnie Greenberg.
The Good Guy is Back! Principal Photography starts on Curse of Chucky
Official Press Release from Universal Studios Home Entertainment:
THE WORLD’S DEADLIEST DOLL IS BACK FOR REVENGE IN THE LATEST
AND MOST TERRIFYING CHAPTER OF THE CHILD’S PLAY SAGA
CURSE OF CHUCKY
PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY BEGINS ON THE ALL-NEW UNIVERSAL
DVD ORIGINAL® ON SEPTEMBER 5 IN WINNIPEG
Universal City, California, September 5, 2012 – The sixth installment of the frightening Child’s Play thriller franchise, Curse of Chucky, begins principal photography in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on September 5, 2012. The franchise comes full circle as Toyland’s most gruesome serial killer returns in a horrifying all-new movie from Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production entity of Universal Studios Home Entertainment. .
“Since his introduction to audiences in Child’s Play almost a quarter-century ago, Chucky has haunted the nightmares of a generation of moviegoers,” said Glenn Ross, General Manager and Executive Vice President, Universal 1440 Entertainment. “Returning to his roots in one of the most provocative horror franchises, this new sequel will shock longtime fans of the series and newcomers alike.”
Curse of Chucky stars Fiona Dourif (The Master, “True Blood,” “Deadwood”), A Martinez (“Longmire,” “General Hospital”), Danielle Bisutti (Get Smart, “CSI: Miami”) and Brennan Elliott (Flight 93, Double Jeopardy). Brad Dourif (The Lord of the Rings, Dune) once again returns to provide the voice of Chucky, the pint-sized doll possessed by the spirit of notorious serial killer Charles Lee Ray, who returns to settle some unfinished business.
The film is directed by Don Mancini, the Child’s Play franchise creator who has written or co-written each of the previous movies and was the director of Seed of Chucky. Also an integral part of the Child’s Play franchise from inception, David Kirschner (An American Tail, Hocus Pocus, Bride of Chucky) produces from a screenplay by Mancini. The film’s top-flight production team includes special-effects wizard Tony Gardner (Zombieland, Seed of Chucky), production designer Craig Sandells (Mother’s Day) and costume designer Patricia J. Henderson (ATM).
SYNOPSIS
Nica (Fiona Dourif) is grieving over the gruesome suicide of her mother when her domineering older sister Barb (Danielle Bisutti) arrives with her young family in tow to help settle their mother’s affairs. As the sisters butt heads over Nica’s plans for the future, Barb’s young daughter comforts herself with a grinning, red-haired talking doll named Chucky (voiced again by Brad Dourif) that recently arrived mysteriously in the mail. But as a string of brutal murders begins to terrorize the household, Nica suspects the doll may hold the key to the bloodshed. What she doesn’t know is that Chucky has a personal score to settle. He’s determined to finish a job he started more than 20 years earlier, and this time he’s going to see it through to the bloody and shocking end.
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE – A Film From The Rolling Stones
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE: (L-R) Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger & Ronnie Wood (Vintage shot from 1970’s)CROSSFIRE HURRICANE: (L-R) Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts & Ronnie Wood
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE: (L-R) Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts & Ronnie Wood
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE,
A NEW FILM FROM THE ROLLING STONES, TO DEBUT NOV. 15 ON HBO
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2012 – The Rolling Stones, the rock ‘n’ roll icons who have defined creativity, daring and durability, are to be chronicled in a kaleidoscopic new film that will debut Nov. 15 on HBO, it was announced today by MichaelLombardo, HBO’s president of Programming. The film documents the key periods in their career and their incredible adventures.
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, directed by Brett Morgen, provides a remarkable new perspective on the Stones’ unparalleled journey from blues-obsessed teenagers in the early ‘60s to rock royalty. It’s all here in panoramic candour, from the Marquee Club to Hyde Park, from Altamont to “Exile,” from club gigs to stadium extravaganzas.
In addition to the U.S. premiere on HBO, in the UK the film will receive a theatrical release and can be seen by Stones fans in selected cinemas across the country in the fall. It will also broadcast on BBC 2 later in the year.
With never-before-seen footage and fresh insights from the band themselves, the film will delight, shock and amaze longtime devotees, as well as another generation of fans, with its uniquely immersive style and tone. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE places the viewer right on the frontline of the band’s most legendary escapades.
Taking its title from a lyric in “Jumping Jack Flash,” CROSSFIRE HURRICANE gives the audience an intimate insight, for the first time, into exactly what it’s like to be part of the Rolling Stones, as they overcame denunciation, drugs, dissensions and death to become the definitive survivors. It’s the backstage pass to outdo them all.
The odyssey includes film from the Stones’ initial road trips and first controversies as they became the anti-Beatles, the group despised by authority because they connected and communicated with their own generation as no one else ever had. “When we got together,” says Wyman, “something magical happened, and no one could ever copy that.”
From the outset of the film, viewers know they’re in for a white-knuckle ride. No sooner had the early Stones line-up first played live under that name in the summer of 1962 than they were bigger than the venues that tried to hold them. Wyman remembers how the crowds were soon inspiring manic behaviour, especially among screaming girls, whose uncontrollable excitement was obvious as stardom beckoned for the band already earmarked as the bad guys with press headlines like ‘Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?’
Riots and the chaos of early tours are graphically depicted, as is the birth of the Jagger-Richards songwriting partnership. The many dramas they encountered are also fully addressed, including the Redlands drug bust, the descent of Brian Jones into what Richards calls “bye-bye land,” and the terror and disillusionment of 1969’s Altamont Festival.
The band’s rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle is also discussed with extraordinary forthrightness, including the time of their seminal 1972 album “Exile on Main St.,” which topped the British charts both then and 38 years later in its deluxe reissue. Their very survival repeatedly under threat, we see how theStones survived with a backs-to-the-wall spirit. “We may be going down,” says Keith, “but we’re not going down your way.”
The film illustrates the Stones’ evolution from being, as Mick vividly describes it, “the band everybody hated to the band everybody loves,” through the hedonistic 1970s and Keith’s turning-point bust in Canada to the spectacular touring phenomenon we know today. Richards also reveals the song that he believes defines the “essence” of his writing relationship with Jagger more than any other.
Asked in a formative interview in the film what it is that sets them apart from other groups, Jagger says with quiet understatement, “A chemical reaction seems to have happened.” Keith Richards added, “You can’t really stop the Rolling Stones, you know when that sort of avalanche is facing you, you just get out of the way”. It’s been happening ever since, and the life and times of the Rolling Stones have never been as electrifyingly portrayed as they are in CROSSFIRE HURRICANE.
Director Brett Morgen added, “CROSSFIRE HURRICANE invites the audience to experience firsthand the Stones’ nearly mythical journey from outsiders to rock and roll royalty. This is not an academic history lesson. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE allows the viewer to experience the Stones’ journey from a unique vantage point. It’s an aural and visual roller coaster ride.”
Worldwide distributors of CROSSFIRE HURRICANE are Eagle Rock Entertainment in London, with Tremelo Productions and Milkwood Films as the production companies.
Eagle Rock Entertainment Chairman and CEO, Terry Shand said, “We are very pleased to continue our association with the Rolling Stones visual rights agenda and their collaboration with such great filmmakers.”
As befits the first rock band to reach the 50-year milestone with their globalstature now greater than ever, the film combines extensive historical footage, much of it widely unseen, with contemporary commentaries by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Period interviews, extensive live performance material and news archive give the production a truly kinetic aura and no-holds-barred approach. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE has taken over a year to make and produce with the full cooperation of The Rolling Stones and will be released in November.
