• 'Saw' Scribes Adapting 'Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark' For CBS Films

    If you grew up in the '80s or '90s, you probably spent at least a little bit of your childhood being scared silly by Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Now a whole new generation of kids will get the opportunity to be spooked by those stories, thanks to CBS Films. The studio…

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  • 'Saw' Scribes To Pen Disney Movie 'Stuff Of Legend'

    The twisted minds behind Saws IV, V, VI, and 3D are ready to bring some fun to the whole family. And no, that isn't a sick way of describing the next Saw plotline. Writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have signed on for Disney's The Stuff of Legend, a fantasy-action film about heroic toys involved…

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  • 'The Collection' Trailer: When 'Saw' Met 'Aliens'

    The so-called "torture porn" genre is mostly dead, but has given way to a sort of action-adventure horror that fuses elements of that particular vision of horror with other ideas. That seems to be the slot in which to place The Collection, which comes from Saw IV-VI writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. The latter also…

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  • 'Pacific Rim' And 'Saw' Writers To Pen Video Game Adaptation 'God Of War'

    Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have long since been the runaway success story of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's highly underrated HBO show Project Greenlight. The pair were on the third season and wrote Feast, which lead them to write Saw IV through VII, a couple other movies and most recently, a draft of Guillermo…

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  • Page 2: Captain America, Wes Anderson, Green Lantern, Inception, The Social Network, Samuel L Jackson, Lost, Scream 4, Spider-Man, X-Men

    What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…

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  • 'Feast' Helmer And 'Saw' Writers Hired For 'Piranha 3D' Sequel

    Piranha 3D made a big enough splash at the box office to ensure the film will recoup the film's estimated $24 million budget. The film ended it's run with over $65 million worldwide, and will likely make a bunch more on DVD/Blu-ray/tv deals. After the opening weekend, Dimension Films issued a press release announcing that…

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  • Saw/Feast Screenwriters To Adapt The Outer Limits

    MGM isn't down and out just yet, or at least that is how they would have you believe it. The studio has announced yet another project, a big screen adaptation of the 1960's black and white sci-fi television series The Outer Limits. The anthology series, like the Twilight Zone, was known to have a plot…

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  • Will Saw VII Be The Final Installment Of The Saw Franchise?

    Could Saw VII be the final installment of the popular horror movie franchise? Screenwriter Patrick Melton, who co-wrote the last three Saw films and the upcoming seventh movie, claims the the series will probably end with the seventh installment, and they have even planned to wrap up the lingering questions. The following quote comes from…

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  • Clive Barker Teams With Saw Writers For New Television Horror Series

    On television, the horror anthology will never die. Now, according to the RiskyBiz Blog, Clive Barker is teaming up with Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the writers of the latter half of the Saw franchise and the recent horror pic The Collector, which Dunstan also directed, to create a new show called Clive Barker's Hotel.…

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  • SAW V And VI Details Revealed

    Lionsgate has revealed new details about the future of the SAW franchise. The fifth installment, follows Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), who has been carrying Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) legacy, goes on a man hunt after the secret is threatened. "People escape one trap, just to get caught in another; it's closer in feel to the original SAW…

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  • SAW V And SAW VI Being Shot Back-To-Back?

    It's pretty much a given: "If it's Halloween, It's SAW." We've previously told you that SAW 5 is ready to go. Production designer-turned-director David Hackl is working closely with Saw IV scribes Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton on the next chapter, with a first draft due by the end of the month. Talk about fast…

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  • Darren Lynn Bousman Returns For SAW 4

    Darren Lynn Bousman has signed on to return for SAW 4. Bousman directed the two previous popular SAW sequels. Late last year Lionsgate announced that a fourth film would be released on October 26th 2007. Bousman's return seems like a last ditch move. Especially considering the fact that Bousman publicly announced his departure from the…

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  • Feast Trilogy?

    The rental/dvd sales of Dimension Films' Feast are so good that talks have begun to create not one but two sequels. Feast screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunston are the ones doing all the talking, claiming that TWC wants to turn the film into a trilogy. The logic of studio executives baffles me. They actually…

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