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Lionsgate is holding eBay charitable auctions for FIVE posters from THE EXPENDABLES signed at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con by actors Terry Crews, Steve Austin and Randy Couture,benefiting The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The winning bidders will receive studio certified posters signed by the cast along with a signed letter verifying their authenticity.Continue reading for the auction links. Read the rest of this entry »
On Sept. 28, Fangoriamagazine and Lightning Media are releasing eight feature-length horror/thrillers as the Fangoria FrightFest collection.
From now through July 19, fans are the voting jury in a mini film festival “Demand It” competition hosted by Fangoria, to select one of the eight films for limited theatrical release in late July by viewing and voting for their favorite trailer at www.FangoriaFrightfest.com.
The FrightFest line-up represents a diversified array of quality genre entertainment of a range of horror film styles embracing fans of every demographic—from supernatural chillers to psychological horror and slasher flicks. These eight new, terrifying flicks feature such stars as the Twilight saga’s Xavier Samuel, Calista Flockhart, Keri Russell, Michael Madsen, Eric Roberts and more.
We @ Upcomingdiscs.com have made a group (for fun) for anybody who wants to participate in this week’s College Basketball March Madness over @ ESPN.com. The group name is Teh Noms Pics of Up discs. Catchy, I know. If we get enough people (like 10 or more), maybe we’ll find a dvd to send to the winner. Only catch, we’ll need someway to contact you and you’ll need to get in by Thursday when the first game starts. Have fun.
There are many movies when you are young that you just never get around to see. Perhaps your parents aren’t into that kind of movie. If it tanked at the box office, then there are probably not any friends that are going to secretly show you the film while their parents are out of the house. But often there are films that we discover in college and wonder where the heck this movie has been all my life. Such brilliance, such deep of thought, this is fantastic. For me, that movie was John Carpenter’s The Thing. Read the rest of this entry »
This last Friday night Upcomingdiscs was invited to attend the 10th annual scare fest at Busch Gardens in Tampa. They call it Howl-O-Scream, and what a scream it is, literally. Read the rest of this entry »
Scary games are kinda like that bad boyfriend or girlfriend you had in high school. You are drawn to them in the beginning, date them a few times and usually have a good time until that one captivating scenario where you are absolutely shocked out of your gourd. Then you stop seeing them but something brings you back because deep inside you actually like it. Scary games follow the same path, you keep playing and playing the game until that big scare and then you stop playing but are drawn back by that very same reason. Read the rest of this entry »
On July 28th, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a conference call with Monk’s Tony Shalhoub. Below is the transcript of that interview. I’ll be posting the audio portion of my question shortly:
I had the chance to chat with Kane Hodder on the phone today.
He agreed to talk with me for Upcomingdiscs.
We all know Kane for his time behind the famous hockey mask of Jason Vorhees in some of the later Friday The 13th films. He was the first actor to repeat as the slasher icon. He was Ed Gein, The Butcher Of Plainfield, and most recently killer Dennis Rader in BTK. As a stunt coordinator and performer, he’s been involved with many huge projects, including: Se7en, Enemy Of The State, The Patriot, and Spawn.
We expect to be able to bring you a review of BTK shortly.
For now, check out this Upcomingdiscs exclusive interview of Kane Hodder.
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Random Fun by Gino Sassani on December 8th, 2008
That’s right, gentle reader, it’s fast approaching Christmas. Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843, and today it is the single most filmed Holiday story ever. There are over 12 film versions, of one sort or another. There have also been literally hundreds of adaptations for various television shows over the decades. My favorite was always the Sanford and Son episode where grumpy Fred meets with the Christmas Spirits, who bear a striking resemblance to a certain “Big Dummy”. Fred soon learns the true meaning of Christmas, a secret that most of us have, hopefully, known for years. For me, the best film version of the tale is the 1951 version with Alistair Sim as ol’ Scrooge. No other beats it for atmosphere.
Since that time a lot of Holiday films and specials have come and gone. Some have gone on to become classics, while others are best quickly forgotten lest we are tempted to lose our Christmas spirit. Here at the Sassani home there are two that have become as much a part of Christmas tradition as trees and eggnog. I simply adore A Christmas Story. I always loved Darrin McGavin, and he’s perfect here as the “Old Man”. He even offers us a Kolchak moment as he’s reading the paper and lets out one of his Kolchak sounding “It’s Neeeews”. The story is a simple one that each of us has experienced at some time or another. For Ralphy it was a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, but all of us have chased that elusive gift we coveted with all of our hearts. The narration is perfect and is presented by Jean Shepherd who wrote the original source material, “In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash”. Shepherd can also be seen as the man who tells the kids to go to the back of the line to see Santa. Coupled with the Boris Karloff rendition of The Grinch, we watch these Holiday classics each and every Christmas Eve. One of these years I’ll even get it in Blu-ray.
So what are your favorite Christmas films or specials? Let us know and share some of your holiday film memories and traditions in our comment section below. A movie can be the perfect excuse to spend quality time with your own loved ones.
From all of us here at Upcomingdiscs we wish you the best of the coming Holiday Season.
(And don’t shoot your eye out, okay?)
Follow this song link to a Christmas Song I composed a few years ago, called Passage.
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Random Fun by Jeremy Frost on December 25th, 2007
The staff of UpcomingDiscs would like to wish all of our readers Happy Holidays! Check back in the coming days for the conclusion of our 12 Days of Contests promotion.
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Random Fun by David Annandale on October 30th, 2007
Okay, title got your attention? Good. Now the disclaimer. I was thinking of calling this piece “Ten Horrors From the Path Less Travelled,” but that would have been a bit precious. I’m not going to pretend that the serious horror fans out there are unfamiliar with these titles. Nor is this list meant really and truly as a “Top Ten” (see, two lies already in my title). But consider this a reminder that there’s something other than the umpteenth rental of The Exorcist or latest iteration of Saw out there for your Halloween pleasure. So here, chronological order, are ten fine films for the season. Read the rest of this entry »
“A study done in 2005 showed that G-rated movies are 11 times more profitable than R-rated movies, yet the industry cranks out 12-times more R-rated movies.” [from Scott Adams]
What’s up with that? Scott suggests its the pursuit of Oscars motivating producers and directors. Anyone know the ratio of G to R rated Academy winners or nominees?
In other news…
“For the past 18 months, my syndication company, United Media, and I had been negotiating with a major movie studio to do a Dilbert movie. They wanted to do it. We wanted to do it. A top director wanted to do it. We even agreed on price. But that wasn’t enough to get it done, for reasons that have already appeared in a Dilbert comic. (I can’t tell you which one.) So the movie rights for Dilbert are available.” [from Scott Adams]
Huh. Read the plot line idea that Adam’s puts forward and you may have an idea why this isn’t being filmed yet. IMHO, The Simpsons is one of the few series (in any medium) without a coherent, cross-series plot arc to make the jump to the big screen successfully.
“Although us narrow-minded Westerners may have issues about our kids watching racoons bludgeon construction workers with their massive genitals, this kind of thing is pretty much par for the course in Japan. “Tankui” as the anatomically-improbable monsters are known, are traditional Japanese folklore creatures. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the Japanese version of Davy Crockett wears a coonskin cap made entirely of scrotum.
This type of film would never be distributed by a major film company in the United States. Oh, wait. It was distributed in the United States by the Walt Disney Pictures. [from Cracked]
Today’s Installment: A famous lawyer (Gerry Spence), and his cottage in Wyoming’s Teton’s (that’s a mountain range). Features a home theater that looks like an enormous cave, with tiered, pillowed seating (in an unfortunate 80’s navajo theme). This theater and another 10,000 sq/ft of cottage-y living space can be yours for an estimated $35 million!
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Random Fun by Rod on September 14th, 2007
Here’s an edit of the movie Fargo (read the review here!), cut to include only dialog with the word “yeah.” A funny take on a fantastic film, found via digg.
Kevin Goldsmith – the builder, pictured above also knows *a lot* about Judge Dredd, including the original desire to cast Clint Eastwood in the roll later filled by Stallone:
“Judge Dredd was created by 2000 AD Editor Pat Mills and John Wagner – the latter partly basing the concept on a futuristic. Dirty Harry ‘type’ character, portrayed in the 70′ s films by Clint Eastwood. A few years later, with Dredd’s continuing popularity, and with Superman holding his ground well against the groundbreaking technical achievements of Star Wars, proving that superhero films were still profitable, and with the possibility of either a Judge Dredd film or T.V. show being talked about, an opinion poll was conducted ~ 2000 AD to find the most popular actor that the readership felt should fill the role – Clint Eastwood came out as the most popular choice. No doubt this was mainly due to his previous experience of playing characters who mainly worked alone and who, whilst not over stepping the mark-well not too much anyway, handed out their own form of justice, and were also, in the main, incorruptible and unbribable.” [from 2000AD]
That reminds me of another picture I have kicking around… Eastwood got:
Citing a number of insane trucker movies (Joyride, Thelma & Louise, and Duel among others), Levison turn the stereotype into a quasi-screed white-working-guy manifesto:
There is a theme here, and it doesn’t look good for white, working class males. In fact, I can’t think of a single movie that features a positive white working class male character. They’re either slimy, like the painters in 2002’s The Good Girl, downright hateful to women (North Country, Dwight Yoakam in Sling Blade) or full blown psychopaths, as in most of the films listed above. [from Iain Levison]
Huh. I’m not so sure about that. For every psycho trucker, there’s 10 heroic white cops (as working a man as they come) pursuing gangsters of varying ethnicities. Read the rest of this entry »
Nip/Tuck S4 is coming out shortly – which provides an excuse for promotional website fun! In the case of N/T, the site in question is NipTuckYourself.com, which lets you upload a photo and digitally give yourself different facial features in a nifty click & drag interface. Following your transformation, you can email the modded you, or post it to MySpace. Finally, there’s a contest to win $2k worth of unspecified home theatre swag – but you have to Nip/Tuck yourself to get to the entry form.
Anyway, I decided to give Johnny Mnemonic a makeover to look like that stoner-chick from the original Apple “switch” commercials (embedded below).
The Sci-Fi-London Film Festival (here) has created a website to let everyone watch submissions and assorted sci-fi content – from shorts, documentaries, and “classics,” to full length movies (there’s only two at the moment). The site is at Sci-Fi-London.tv, and features a somewhat awkward, somewhat low-res way of displaying video, which must be YouTube-style streamed in your browser (no downloads). If you’re an aspiring filmmaker, there’s a submission page too.
Anyway, its a fun and easy way to check out some neat content.
Terminator 2 tells us that Skynet nuked the planet on August 29, 1997 – making today the 10th anniversary of Judgment Day. Thanks, Wikipedia! T2 still goes down as one of the most influential movies in my collection: action, ground-breaking sfx, and an engaging plot all combined in the perfect storm of movie awesomeness. Below is the T2 trailer for your retro enjoyment…
I love the Transformers. I love Star Wars. Yet – I always thought the crossover toy line verged on bizarre – until today’s kick-ass release. Unicron vs. the Death Star – bring it on! Read all about it on Gizmodo & Uberreview.
In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give “Jack” more of an everyman quality. Do not be deceived. “Jack” is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s true. Norton portrays the grown-up version of Calvin, while Brad Pitt plays his imaginary pal, Hobbes, reincarnated as Tyler Durden. [from Metaphilm]
