Brad Dourif will not be lending his voice to the Child's Play remake. Instead, he'll be sticking with the original creators for the Child's Play TV series, and future film sequels.
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Attention, citizens: do not panic. It's time for a trailer round-up. We've cast a wide net into the sea of trailers, and hauled back some keepers for you. Thank us later. Below you'll see new trailers for the Syfy series Nighflyers, the horror movie Wildling, the TBS series The Last OG, the drama An Ordinary Man, the uplifting sports…
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Bel Powley (Diary of a Teenage Girl) stars in the movie about a blossoming teenager who uncovers the dark secret behind her traumatic childhood.
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What cool tidbits did you miss from New York Comic-Con? Want to learn more about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game? Which woman from Agent Coulson's past could show up in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? How did James Gunn pay tribute to the end of production on Guardians of the Galaxy? Is there a way for you…
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The original Child's Play in 1988 sent a whole generation of kids running away screaming from their My Buddy dolls. But the series has taken a turn for the comedic in more recent years, with 1998's Bride of Chucky and 2004's Seed of Chucky. Now the franchise is returning to its scary roots with the…
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Karl Urban is pinning his hope on the fans to make Dredd 2 happen. Also after the jump: Sharknado 2 will terrorize New York City The Chinese government welcomes The Smurfs 2 The Expendables 3 adds Ronda Rousey and Victor Ortiz Charlie Day says Horrible Bosses 2 might film this fall Mac and Farva say Super Troopers 2 will…
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Brad Dourif is a great character actor, as seen in decades of film work. Most people recognize him as Wormtongue from The Lord of the Rings or Doc Cochran from Deadwood, but if you haven't seen his early turn in John Huston's Wise Blood, get that Criterion release in your hands now. It's great stuff,…
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If ever a horror character deserved to be resurrected, it's Chucky. The Good Guys Doll, who's not good at all, made his debut in 1988 and was last seen in 2004's Seed of Chucky. Since then a remake has been languishing in development hell, and a video game was rumored to be in the works. But…
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Today's Sequel Bits is bursting with plot details -- for Kick-Ass 2, Cloudy 2, and Curse of Chucky. There's even a tidbit of info about what we might or might not see in Beetlejuice 2. After the jump: Kick-Ass 2's plot involves mean girls and identity crises Set videos reveal A Good Day to Die…
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With reboots happening left and right -- for the biggest properties (Spider-Man, Star Trek) to more hardcore fan titles (RoboCop) to things that probably shouldn't be touched (The Three Stooges) -- its no surprise that the most low-rent, easily redone properties are getting the remake treatment. And so here we are with news on Leprechaun:…
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You might remember some casting notes about a film called Catch .44. They hit in the summer of 2010, and the names involved in the film are notable, at the very least: Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Malin Akerman, Deborah Ann Woll, Brad Dourif and Shea Wigham. We've finally got a look at the film and…
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We've seen reboots of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th so it only makes sense that next up is Child's Play. The horror franchise featuring the iconic killer doll named Chucky began in 1988 and spawned four sequels that took the character into increasingly wacky and off-beat…
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UPDATE: According to a publicist who represents the producers and emailed me regarding the rumor.: "No - we have a slow 35 city roll out." So, it appears many people beyond NY/LA will have a chance to dance in the moonlight with a cracked out Nicolas Cage. It's hard both to deny and describe the crazy…
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Between the fact that he founded effects house The Orphanage, the work that outfit subsequently produced and what I've seen of his directorial debut Legion, I'm ready to see more work from Scott Stewart. If it is forward-thinking stuff, great. If it's good, solid genre filmmaking, great. We always want every new guy behind the…
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As I was typing up some notes on Rob Zombie's Halloween II, this CNN headline flitted through my newsreader: 'Victims of repeated abuse suffer complex trauma.' It's a truth that might jokingly apply to fans of the Halloween series, as the years since John Carpenter's standard-setting original film have seen so many pointless, insipid sequels.…
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Last month, /Film visited the set of H2 (Halloween 2). After flying into Atlanta, Georgia, a colleague and I followed a publicity firm's map and drove far out into the country, down winding roads encased by high trees that exhaled into healthy farmland. The sun was setting, the temperature was cooling, and our cell phones…
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