• This Week In Trailers: Adam Green's Aladdin, Presenting Princess Shaw, The Idol, The Corpse Of Anna Fritz, Wide Open Sky

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…

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  • TV Bits: 'The Office' (U.S.), 'The Office' (U.K.), 'Enlightened', 'American Horror Story', 'Game Of Thrones', 'Hannibal', O.J. Simpson, Eli Roth, Sam Raimi, And More

    Let's just dive right in. After the jump: Enlightened gets canned, CSI gets renewed A Once Upon a Time spinoff is in the works Fox is developing an O.J. Simpson series Is Jimmy Fallon replacing Jay Leno? Adam Green's Holliston sets a return date American Horror Story gets a subtitle Sam Raimi will direct the…

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  • Sequel Bits: 'Expendables 3', 'Sin City 2', 'Transformers 4' , 'Wet Hot American Summer 2', 'Mad Max: Fury Road', 'Hangover 3', 'Star Trek Into Darkness', And More

    Wondering what sequelized delights await us in 2013 and beyond? After the jump: Jackie Chan joins Expendables 3, wants to do Rush Hour 4 Dennis Haysbert talks about replacing Michael Clarke Duncan in Sin City 2 Mark Wahlberg calls Transformers 4 the most important role of his career Michael Bay says that the "leaked" Transformers…

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  • MGM Orders Adam Green-Scripted 'Killer Pizza'

    Adam Green (Frozen) has scripted an adaptation of Greg Taylor's young adult novel Killer Pizza, about a 14-year old who gets a summer job at a pizza place that is a front for a monster hunting outfit. Now MGM has picked up the script -- the latest buy from the revamped studio that has bought…

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  • Adam Green Not Directing 'Hatchet 3,' His Cameraman Is

    Now that I've left the geeky confines of Fantastic Fest, I can get this off my chest. I've never seen a Hatchet movie. The topic of best new horror franchises came up quite a bit during the festival in relation to You're Next and Paranormal Activity 3 so, inevitably, people would mention the Adam Green-directed…

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  • VOTD: Adam Green's Halloween Short Film: 'Just Take One'

    Celebrate the wonders of Sesame Street, Troll 2, America, child molestation, and trick or treating in your thirties with director Adam Green's short film made specially for Halloween called Just Take One. The director behind Hatchet, Frozen and the now infamous Hatchet 2 has been making Halloween short films for his fans for 12 years…

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  • 'Hatchet II' Pulled From U.S. And Canadian Theaters

    If you follow a lot of film fans on Twitter, you might have seen a photo in your stream urging you to "Support Unrated Horror." It was made to promote Adam Green's horror sequel Hatchet II starring Kane Hodder, which was released unrated on October 1 after the MPAA refused to give it an R…

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  • Movie Trailer: The Splat Pack

    WYRD Studios is releasing a documentary titled The Splat Pack, directed by Mark Henry and Frank H. Woodward. The movie takes "a look back at the first decade of 21st Century horror films and the filmmakers that re-energized the genre." The documentary features new interviews with Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Darren Lynn Bousman (the Saw…

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  • Adam Green To Direct Chris Columbus-Produced Adaptation Of Killer Pizza

    Hatchet/Frozen helmer Adam Green will direct a big screen adaptation of Greg Taylor's young adult novel Killer Pizza for Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures. The action comedy tells the story of a 14-year-old who gets a summer job at Killer Pizza, which turns out to be a front for a monster-hunting organization. What excites me most…

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  • Frozen Movie Trailer

    Hatchet writer/director Adam Green's Frozen is a single-room thriller set on a ski-resort chairlift. The story follows three college students (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, and are "forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death." Last week we posted…

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  • Sundance Photo Preview: Adam Green's Frozen

    Hatchet writer/director Adam Green's Frozen is a single-room thriller set on a ski-resort chairlift. The story follows three college students (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, and are "forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death." [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"]…

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  • VOTD: Grace Director Paul Solet Carves A Jack O'Lantern

    Director Paul Solet made a lot of fans with his effective dead baby shocker Grace, which premiered at Sundance this year. Now he's taking part in a short film project by Hatchet director Adam Green. The result is Jack Chop, an infomercial selling a useful and dangerous bit of Halloween gadgetry. Watch it after the…

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  • Frightfest Report Day One: Triangle, The Hills Run Red, Infestation

    The 10th anniversary Frightfest is underway in London, and for once I’m not in the cheap seats. Ladies and gentlemen – I think I have finally arrived. The atmosphere in the virtually packed out Empire Leicester Square has been electric - buzzing like a chainsaw, even. Weekend pass holders abound, a genuine spirit of camaraderie…

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  • VOTD: Lingerie Lightsaber Fight

    This mock commercial written and directed by Adam Green, who also directed the 2006 horror film Hatchet, was just an excuse to get two beautiful women (Rileah Vanderbilt and Clare Grant) fighting with lightsabers in their underwear. I'm surprised that no one had come up with this idea sooner (especially with the abundance of Star…

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  • Audience Members Faint At The Premiere Of Horror Film Grace

    I know I've already said in previous posts that I'd be leaving all of the Sundance updates to Peter seeing as he's actually there and I'm here, half a world away in Oxford, England, and only dreaming of Skiing, Mormons and four-films-a-day exhaustion, but this one is of particular interest to me so I wanted…

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  • Hatchet Movie Trailer

    I remember when going to a comic-con meant you were going to see something new and special. Something not available online for anyone to see. That day is gone. The teaser trailer for Hatchet was supossed to make it's grand premiere at the New York City Comic Con this weekend, but has already turned up…

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