It's a good day to be Ben Wheatley. Earlier we reported that his latest film, Sightseers, was scooped up for distro by IFC, and now he's got another project cooking... a monster flick called Freakshift. This pleases us to no end.

Film4 is in discussions with potential co-financiers for the Kill List and Sightseers director’s planned cops-and-monsters film Freakshift. Yeah, that's not a lot to go on, but we'll take it! Expect to hear more on the flick soon. If all goes well, the project is likely to shoot in spring 2013.

Stay tuned!

Tomorrow is going to be a great day for horror heads looking forward to the latest fright fest from the mind of Oren Peli, Chernobyl Diaries, as the man himself will be with you guys, right here LIVE, for a chat! Read on for details.

That's right, kids! Tomorrow at 5:00 PM PT (8:00 PM ET) Peli will be chatting with you cats right here about the movie, the exclusive clip we will be premiering tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM PT (11:30 AM ET), and who knows what else. Make sure you're here to get in on the fun and ask him your questions!

Chernobyl Diaries hits theaters on May 25. For more visit the official Chernobyl Diaries website, "like" Chernobyl Diaries on Facebook and follow Chernobyl Diaries on Twitter (@seechernobyl).

Synopsis
Chernobyl Diaries is an original story from Oren Peli, who first terrified audiences with his groundbreaking thriller, Paranormal Activity. It's written by Peli, Carey Van Dyke, and Shane Van Dyke and directed by Brad Parker. The film follows a group of six young tourists who, looking to go off the beaten path, hire an "extreme tour" guide. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years ago. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, however, the group soon finds themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

A bit (or should we say bite?) of casting news is here for Jim Mickle's upcoming remake of the bizarre tale of cannibalism We Are What We Are (review here), and we have to say if all cannibals looked like this, there's be lots of people vying for a spot on the menu!

Ambyr Childers (pictured; Gangster Squad, Playback) is set to star in the rural psychological thriller We Are What We Are alongside Riley Keough, Julia Garner, Bill Sage, and Wyatt Russell.

We Are What We Are, picked up by eOne Entertainment this year in Berlin, is being directed by Stake Land's Jim Mickle and is based on the 2010 Mexican film and Cannes Film Festival entry Somo Lo Que Hay. Andrew D. Corkin and Nicholas Shumaker will produce.

Mickle will transpose Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s picture about a family of cannibals from its original setting of Mexico City to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.

IFC Midnight is ready to bring some more spooky into our lives as they're unleashing the Nicholas McCarthy creep-fest The Pact (review here), which debuted at Sundance earlier this year, to VOD on May 25th. Check out the latest clip for some quick shivers.

The Pact centers on a woman who returns home to attend her mother's funeral only to feel something strange and unsettling in the house she grew up in. Caity Lotz and Casper Van Dien star.

The project is based on a short film McCarthy screened at the 2011 Sundance fest.

Synopsis
After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams – visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother’s past that is finally revealing itself.

If you have ever played the Sony video game Shadow of the Colossus, then you already know one thing: It's all about the monsters. Giant-sized mountainous behemoths the likes of which few could imagine. One of the few... Chronicle director Josh Trank.

Deadline reports that Trank has signed with Sony Pictures to develop and direct Shadow of the Colossus, a big scale live action adaptation of the bestselling Sony videogame. The film is being produced by Kevin Misher. The studio is interviewing writers to work with Trank, who after directing the $13 million sleeper hit Chronicle has become the go-to guy for big popcorn pictures. Trank takes on the Fumito Ueda-created game that has a strong narrative arc along with the obligatory creature quotient to get the visual effects crowd excited.

The protagonist is a young man who thinks his lover has died. Desperate to bring her back, he heads into a forbidden land and summons a demon who can wake the dead. The price for bringing back his girl: slay 16 colossi that dominate this mystical place. These are skyscraper-sized giants that rise from the ground, fly through the air, and come from the water. As the young man works through his quest on horseback, he begins to wonder if he is on a noble pursuit to bring back his lover or perhaps has made a deal with the devil and is being used.

Trank has been a fan of the game since it launched in 2005 and sought out the job.

More soon!

Oh, Guillermo del Toro. How we adore you! One glance at the official synopsis for Legendary Pictures'Pacific Rim has us salivating. Giant monsters plus giant robots equals giant-sized fanboy erection of the priapism variety.

Look for the flick in theatres July 12th of 2013. In 3D? Maybe so if the rumors are correct. Expect a first reveal of the film at San Diego Comic-Con.

Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Rob Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Diego Klattenhoff star.

Travis Beacham's script is set in 2025, the 12th year of a war against alien creatures who reside in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The story finds a group of humans banding together to create and pilot massive robots to fight the giant creatures threatening to destroy Earth.

Synopsis
From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ epic sci-fi action adventure Pacific Rim.

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)--who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Oscar® nominee Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) is directing Pacific Rim from a script by Travis Beacham (Clash of the Titans). Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Mary Parent are producing, with Callum Greene serving as executive producer.

The film stars Charlie Hunnam (TV’s “Sons of Anarchy”), Idris Elba (Thor), Rinko Kikuchi (The Brothers Bloom), Charlie Day (Horrible Bosses), and Ron Perlman (the Hellboy films). The ensemble cast also includes Max Martini, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Diego Klattenhoff, and Brad William Henke.

Online talk show Playing Dead has released a new video featuring lead designers Sean Vanaman and Jake Rodkin chatting with host A.J. LoCascio about the making of The Walking Dead – Episode 1: A New Day along with some info about Episode 2: Starving for Help.

Just to catch you up, the full five-episode season of The Walking Dead for PC and Mac is available for purchase via the Telltale Games Store and other digital distribution outlets as a season pass for $24.99. On XBLA, each episode will cost just 400 MS Points, and on PSN, each episode will cost just $4.99, or $19.99 as a season pass. Episode 2 is coming soon!

To learn more you can visit the official Telltale Games website.

We're not entirely sure what Esquire has in mind for its new ebook series "Fiction for Men", but as part of the launch they will be publishing a new story collaboration by father and son team Stephen King and Joe Hill entitled "In the Tall Grass". Hopefully women will be allowed to read it, too!

Per King's official site the story will be published in two parts, the first appearing in the magazine's June/July issue with the conclusion coming in the August issue. Joining King and Hill in the June/July issue will be thriller writer Lee Child (the Jack Reacher series) and Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin). The works will be available only in the print and iPad editions of the magazine.

Nothing else is known about the King/Hill story, but let's get back to this "Fiction for Men" thing for a moment. According to The New York Times, David Granger, the editor-in-chief of Esquire, said he has lamented the loss of space that magazines devote to publishing fiction. "It’s a struggle because, especially during the recession, we lost so many pages," Granger elaborated. "Fiction begins to feel a little bit of a luxury." His definition of men’s fiction? Work that is "plot-driven and exciting, where one thing happens after another, and, also at the same time, dealing with passages in a man’s life that seem common."

The first volume of the series includes new short stories by Aaron Gwyn, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Jess Walter; and the stories will be sold only in ebook format in collaboration with Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher, beginning June 12. (Another volume will follow every few months.)

All jokes about the name of Esquire's project aside, anything that gets King writing and people reading is A-ok with us!

NBC's reboot of the classic TV show known as "The Munsters" is still very much on its way, and word has just broken that a young lad has been found to play the famed Eddie Munster on "Mockingbird Lane". Read on for the latest!

Deadline reports that Mason Cook (Spy Kids in 4D) is set to co-star opposite Eddie Izzard and Charity Wakefield in NBC’s "Munsters" redux.

The pilot, written by Bryan Fuller and to be directed by Bryan Singer, is described as a reinvention of the 1960s sitcom about The Munsters, a family of “monsters” — vampires, werewolves and Frankenstein, and their “plain” cousin (Wakefield) — that will feature striking visuals in the vein of Fuller’s ABC dramedy "Pushing Daisies". Cook will play Eddie Munster, Lily and Herman’s only child, an earnest boy scout and budding werewolf. Horrified to learn the truth about himself, he refuses to eat meat and faces off against Grandpa (Izzard) at dinner.

More soon!

An email landed in our inbox today from indie whiz kid James Cullen Bressack about a new super-secret horror project he's going to be working on next year, and while details are scarce, we thought we'd help him break the news.

Benetone Films and Hillin Entertainment have tapped Bressack (Theatre of the Deranged, My Pure Joy) to write and direct a fully financed horror film to be shot in Thailand in January of 2013. The project will be produced by Rachvin Narula, Kulthep Narula, and Daemon Hillin. Benetone and Hillin are coming off of A Stranger In Paradise, which was also shot in Thailand and stars Colin Egglesfield, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Byron Mann, and Stuart Townsend.

The new project's storyline is being kept under wraps for now, but Bressack promises it will provide horror fans "a frightful good time." Look for more soon!

Another actor has joined the ranks of the upcoming remake of the 1987 Paul Verhoeven classic RoboCop, and this guy really knows how to put things together. Such as half-human, half-cyborg law enforcement officials.

THR reports that Gary Oldman has inked a deal to star opposite Joel Kinnaman in MGM’s remake. Jose Padilha is directing the film, which is being produced by Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman.

Kinnaman ("The Killing") is the title character, a cop named Alex Murphy who is brought back from the brink of death and turned into a cyborg police officer. Oldman will play Norton, the scientist who creates Robocop and finds himself torn between the ideals of the machine trying to rediscover its humanity and the callous needs of a corporation.

While no start date has been set, the production is eyeing a shoot in Toronto and has a tentative release date of August 9th, 2013.

Bringing Nazis back from the dead is all the rage these days, and the next project to tackle that theme is Captain Battle: Legacy War, starring Cuyle Carvin as the titular character. Check out the film's synopsis, artwork, and trailer.

Captain Battle: Legacy War, based on the Golden Age comic, is directed by David Palmieri and co-stars Jenny Allford, Andrew McGuiness, Marlene Mc'Cohen, Todd James Jackson, Pete Punito, Sean Fletcher, Christopher Senger, Mindy Robinson, Abby Wathen, Scott Wright, and Julian Starks.

Synopsis:
Sam Battle (Carvin) is injured during his tour of duty in the Gulf War. He loses an eye and is near death, but his good friend Brandon Storm, who is a scientist, injects him with a secret serum that he has been developing that will save his life. The side effects are unknown.

Sam returns home. His father has recently passed away, and it is a struggle to adjust after being in the war. Sam soon learns that the town is being overrun with Neo-Nazis. He teams up with Brandon’s sister, Jane, who is a news reporter, after which Sam discovers the side effects to Brandon’s serum: He has gained super-human strength and agility.

Brandon is kidnapped by the Neo-Nazi’s leader, The Necromancer (Allford), an Aryan sorceress, and is forced to help raise the cloned body of Heinrich Himmler (Jackson) from the dead. Now Sam must don the persona of CAPTAIN BATTLE, a crime fighting hero alter-ego that started with Sam’s grandfather, Jonathan Battle, in World War II.

Sam finds his father’s crime fighting suit. Together with Jane he must face the army of Neo-Nazi henchmen and, even worse, an army of living dead soldiers from the Third Reich. They must stop The Necromancer before she succeeds at her ultimate goal of raising the cloned corpse of Adolph Hitler!

For more info "like" Captain Battle: Legacy War on Facebook.

More distribution news is coming out of Cannes as Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired domestic and select international rights to Michael and Peter Spierig's sci-fi action-thriller Predestination, which will reunite the siblings with their Daybreakers star Ethan Hawke.

The Spierig brothers wrote the original screenplay, which chronicles the life of a temporal government agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to stop future killers.

The directing duo will produce with Brisbane-based Patrick McDonald of Wolfhound Pictures and Tim McGahan of Blacklab Entertainment. The flick is slated to start production early next year in Australia.

"Predestination is based on the classic Robert A. Heinlein short story 'All You Zombies.' No, it's not a zombie flick, but it's one of our favorite short stories and is unlike anything you've ever read before," said the Spierig brothers. "The short is on many sci-fi lists as one of the greatest short stories of all time and the mother of all time paradox tales. Heinlein is considered one of the great science fiction masters alongside Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke."

More as it comes.

Earlier tonight the Paley Center for Media celebrated MTV’s hit show “Teen Wolf” with a preview screening, followed by a panel discussion with the cast and creative team. We'll have a report from the event shortly, but in the meantime here are a pair of clips from the Season 2 premiere, which airs Sunday, June 3rd, at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Part Two of the premiere debuts the following night, on Monday, June 4th, in the series' regularly scheduled 10:00 p.m. ET/PT timeslot.

Season Two begins when a new member of the Argent family arrives in Beacon Hills, and Scott and Allison are forced to continue their blossoming romance in secret. Derek Hale, obsessed with gaining strength as a new Alpha, begins recruiting for his pack, including newly bitten Jackson. While Derek's final goal includes bringing Scott into his fold, the Argents have begun molding Allison into a skilled werewolf hunter.

“Teen Wolf” stars Tyler Posey (Scott McCall), Crystal Reed (Allison Argent), Tyler Hoechlin (Derek Hale), Dylan O’Brien (Stiles), Holland Roden (Lydia Martin), and Colton Haynes (Jackson Whittemore).

For more visit the official "Teen Wolf" website, "like" "Teen Wolf" on Facebook, and follow "Teen Wolf" on Twitter.

With Steven C. Miller’s slasher Santa flick Silent Night having wrapped last month in Winnipeg, we chatted with the director regarding the feature, as we also did with makeup guru Vincent Guastini, both of whom gave us the lowdown on the FX-heavy flick, its slated release date, and more.

“We shot it in seventeen days,” Miller, whose feature The Aggression Scale released earlier this week to video via Anchor Bay, told us of Silent Night, which stars veteran actor Malcolm McDowell, Jaime King (Sin City), Jamie Kennedy (Scream), Brendan Fehr (Final Destination), Lisa Marie (Sleepy Hollow), Donal Logue (Shark Night 3D) and Ellen Wong and serves as a loose remake of Charles E. Sellier, Jr.’s controversial 1984 slasher film Silent Night, Deadly Night. The originator revolved around an unhinged teenager who embarks on an axe murder spree while dressed as Saint Nick.

“We didn’t get to shoot full twelve-hour days for most of it; they were nine-hour days,” continued Miller of the production, the narrative of which revolves around King’s character of Deputy Sheriff Aubrey Bradimore, who battles a killer Santa who terrorizes her small Midwestern town. “So it was a heavy shoot given the time frame and the amount of practical effects that we did.”

Of the last night of shooting, “It was great!” said Miller the following day. “We had a lot of blood and a lot of fun and an axe through a face. The actual last shot of the movie was to split that head open.”

Concerning the execution of that gag, FX artist Guastini (whose shop V.G.P. Effects handled the gore) offered, “We had one take, and it was the last shot of the night and the producer of Se7en (Richard Saperstein) was watching me. I'm the one that axed the head. We had a huge array of tubing in the head and all hands on deck to pump the blood. There were up to seven people operating this thing. It was done with magnets and cables, and it was designed to handle twenty or more takes, and we only did one. I must say that the head really came apart on cue.”

“I think the great thing about the script is that it incorporates some things, especially with practical effects, that maybe haven’t been seen onscreen in a while since the 80’s, like practically exploding that head open,” director Miller mused of the Jayson Rothwell screenplay and its inherent gore. “We also do homage some kills from the original movie, like the ‘antler kill’, which I think audiences will get excited about.”

“That gag was approached as a two-part effect,” Guastini stated of his recreation, “one that involved a silicone torso for piercing, which had a complicated rig, and an array of tubing. The other part involved the actress wearing a prosthetic we’d created expressly for the shot.”

“The biggest challenge was to get the effects to work in one take,” continued Guastini. “I hate those situations, but that's the result I try and strive for. All of the prep work and rigging that I designed and built with magnets and cables were basic but very creative I felt, and everything was designed for multiple takes and also to be able to be shot as precisely as possible, knowing how fast things were to move on set.”

At the center of Silent Night is actress King, well known to genre fans for her turns in the feature films Sin City, Mother’s Day and The Tripper (and to the mainstream for her role in the television series "Hart of Dixie"), and we queried Miller on his experience working her.

“Jaime is an actress that has no problem just being in character, and it’s absolutely amazing to see her work that way,” reflected Miller. “In a movie like this it’s pretty difficult for an actor to keep themselves in that very serious mindset when they are dealing with a Santa Claus with an axe, so there’s a balance you need to find because there is that line of ‘goofy or not.’ She approached her performance with a serious tone, which created a scary atmosphere, and I think she did a great job with that.”

“On the other hand you have Malcolm’s character, who is supposed to be over-the-top,” Miller stated of actor McDowell, “and his lines in the script were so ridiculous that I always thought that whoever was to play the character was going to have such a hard time, but every time Malcolm would say them they sounded badass!”

“He’s one of those actors that is able to make a character his own, and he’s 100% capable in a really great way,” the filmmaker continued. “He has a great personality and a great presence on screen, and he’s wonderful to work with. He’s an old-school actor that understands the process of making movies.”

As for his thoughts on working with the veteran, who as a self-avowed genre fan Miller spent his earlier years watching his work in myriad flicks from Clockwork Orange to Rob Zombie’s Halloween, “It’s crazy when you work with someone like Malcolm that you grew up watching, especially if they were in a film like Clockwork. That’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and yeah, we have a fun homage to Clockwork in this movie.”

Of the intended look of Silent Night, “[Cinematographer] Joseph White definitely made the film dark like I wanted it to be,” stated Miller, “and we really tried to make the film feel like a classic 80’s slasher, too, but also give it a very nuanced feel. The art direction was really great, too, and there’s a fantastic look to it. The producers really gave me the ability to expand and to do what I felt like in regards to what the movie needed, and everyone was really on board with what I was doing, so there was never really a fight. When you are making a film in seventeen days, you really don’t have time to argue.”

That shortened schedule has continued for Miller into the post-production phase as well.

“I have four weeks for a director’s cut, and it has to be completely done and delivered by August 17th for a December 7th release,” the director offered. “It’s crazy fast, but I guess that’s the model these days so that they can get it out and make some money, so I understand that outlook. It’s my job to bring it in, in that amount of time.”

So is Miller happy with how Silent Night is cutting together?

“I really am,” he said. “The great thing about this film is that it’s the most days I’ve had to shoot a film, and I’ve made four movies, so I am used to that pacing and time, and I’m also an editor by background so there’s not a lot of extraneous shots. It’s very much what I felt needed to be there, and I feel like everything I shot will make it into the movie. You have to be extremely precise, and it’s definitely an editor’s movie because you are shooting it with that in mind. It’s a strange thing, but it’s also fun, and I think it keeps everyone excited on-set and everyone constantly moving.”

As for what’s next on Miller’s plate (his other feature directorial credits include Automaton Transfusion and the upcoming Under the Bed), he told us, “I am working on basically a post-apocalyptic Fight Club/District 9-type movie, so that’s my next venture, which is to move more into the action world. Something a little bit bigger then seventeen days would be nice so I’m making a big step. The script is currently untitled. It’s a really cool spin on genre films in a huge action sort of way, and it will definitely need some time and money [to produce].”

We're pretty excited to see Kevin Williamson's new TV project, "The Following", and from the sound of things he's just as excited for us to see it! Read on for a few more details of what we can expect.

During a recent interview with IGN, Williamson shared the following info on the series, which is heading to Fox at midseason, airing on Monday nights:

Regarding his inspiration for the show, Williamson said, "Well, I had the story - I was working on it 16 or 17 years ago. I was writing Scream, and this idea came to me at the same time. I put it in a box and didn’t deal with it until now. So I had tried to develop it as a series before, then I tried to develop it as a feature film, then I tried to develop it as a graphic novel -- nothing quite worked. And then the time felt right, and I did it."

As for the killer's reach ("The Following" follows an ex-FBI agent (Kevin Bacon) called out of retirement to track down a devious and diabolical serial killer (James Purefoy), the mastermind behind a nationwide string of murder), Williamson didn't want to give a lot away but did share that "it does seem to stretch from coast to coast to some degree. We’re dealing with a man who, while he was in prison...had Internet access through a weird, weird chain of events. He never should have had Internet access, but he did. And because of that they don’t know who he was contacting. So that’s kind of the conceit, and that could be anyone in the world."

Lastly, it sounds as though Williamson foresees "The Following" running for more than just the 15-episode first season, explaining, "I have this season pretty much worked out and next season, because I know how big we’re gonna get, where the break-off point is gonna be, what the jeopardy and the stakes [are] -- once you see the pilot, you’ll understand when I say that it actually kind of writes itself in terms of the framework of the first season. The serial killer lays it all out. And so the first season will be watching that happen, and then we’ll watch how our FBI team and Kevin Bacon’s character has to constantly stay one step ahead of him. Because a lot of the time they’re behind. That’ll be the whole show. It was the fun of '24' - Kiefer Sutherland always had a problem to solve, and that’s the same here. They just have to stop it before one more person dies. And unfortunately... a lot of people are going to die."

Synopsis:
THE FBI estimates there are currently over 300 active serial killers in the United States. What would happen if these killers had a way of communicating and connecting with each other? What if they were able to work together and form alliances across the country? What if one brilliant psychotic serial killer was able to bring them all together and activate a following? Welcome to THE FOLLOWING, the terrifying new thriller from creator/executive producer Kevin Williamson (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Dawson’s Creek,” the Scream franchise) and director Marcos Siega (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Dexter”).

When notorious serial killer JOE CARROLL (James Purefoy, “Rome”) escapes from death row and embarks on a new killing spree, the FBI calls former agent RYAN HARDY (Emmy-nominated actor Kevin Bacon, X-Men: First Class) to consult on the case. Having since withdrawn from the public eye, Hardy was responsible for Carroll’s capture nine years ago, after Carroll murdered 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature. Hardy is a walking textbook of all-things Carroll. He knows him better than anyone; he is perhaps Carroll’s only psychological and intellectual match. But the Ryan Hardy who broke the Carroll case years ago isn’t the same man today. Wounded both physically and mentally by his previous pursuit of this serial killer, it’s been a long time since Hardy has been in the field. This investigation is his redemption, his call to action. In contrast to nine years ago, Hardy isn’t calling the shots on this case. He works closely with an FBI team, which includes all-business and tough-as-nails JENNIFER MASON (Jeananne Goossen, The Vow, "Alcatraz") and young, razor-sharp MIKE WESTON (Shawn Ashmore, X-Men).

The team considers Hardy to be more of a liability than an asset. But Hardy proves his worth when he uncovers that Carroll was covertly communicating with a network of killers in the outside world. It quickly becomes obvious that he has more planned than just a prison escape, and there’s no telling how many additional killers are out there. The FBI’s investigation leads Hardy to CLAIRE MATTHEWS (Natalie Zea, “Justified”), Carroll’s ex-wife and mother of the criminal’s 10-year-old son, JOEY (newcomer Kyle Catlett). Close during Hardy’s initial investigation, Hardy turns to Claire for insight into Carroll’s next move. The tension rises when Carroll’s accomplices kidnap his intended last victim from nine years ago. Hardy becomes ever more determined to end Carroll’s game when he realizes that this psychopath intends to finish what he started. The thriller will follow Hardy and the FBI as they are challenged with the ever-growing web of murder around them, masterminded by the devious Carroll, who dreams of writing a novel with Hardy as his protagonist. The reinvigorated Hardy will get a second chance to capture Carroll, as he’s faced with not one but a cult of serial killers.

For more info visit "The Following" on Facebook, where you can find cast photos and additional info.

Here's some nifty news for those of you hyped enough to see the IMAX 3D midnight show of Prometheus on June 8th (the evening of June 7th)! Those in attendance will receive a limited edition IMAX print exclusive to the 12:01 show!

Check out a list of participating theatres here!

Prometheus, starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Patrick Wilson, Logan Marshall-Green, and Ben Foster, will be in theaters on June 8th, 2012. The film has been rated R for sci-fi violence including some intense images and brief language.

Synopsis
Ridley Scott, director of 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner,' returns to the genre he helped define. With 'Prometheus' he creates a groundbreaking mythology in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

The Loved Ones is playing in select theatres right now, and if you need any more incentive to get your asses in gear to go out and see it, we have a brand new clip ready and waiting to entice you even more! Dig it!

The Loved Ones, directed by Sean Byrne, stars Xavier Samuel, Jessica McNamee, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton, and Victoria Thane.

Synopsis
Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king — whether he likes it or not. THE LOVED ONES is what happens when puppy love goes horribly, violently wrong. Brent should have said yes.

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Filmmaker Jonathan Martin, whose short film An Evening With My Comatose Mother has racked up 67 film festival awards and is now slated for a big-budget feature version, gave us a look today at the "Electric Light" music video he directed for the band Muscle Hawk. Check it out!

Written, directed and produced by Martin with cinematography by Derek Pueblo, the filmmaker collaborated with his Comatose co-conspirators Chris Hanson (Makeup Effects) and Alex Johnson (Visual Effects), as he did with editor Jeff Yeats, with whom he co-edited. Rachael Domingo and Kish Carter provided the outlandish costumes as worn by the video’s creatures.

Shot over the course of three days in Utah, Martin told us of the "Electric Light" production, “This video is a labor of love. It contains all the things I love: sci-fi, portals, film references, great parties, great music, sexy and creepy aliens, and more. I hope you enjoy the video and love it as much as I enjoyed making it."

As for An Evening With My Comatose Mother (which in this writer’s estimation is the perfect companion to another film which deserves much more recognition: Michael Dougherty’s fantastic Trick 'r Treat), “A feature film is very much in the works and is potentially days away from an official greenlight,” said Martin. “Until then, not much can be said outside of the fact that a highly respected actor is attached, more are in talks, the film will be shot in 3D, distribution talks have already begun and it will definitely not be a low-budget horror film.”

For more on An Evening With My Comatose Mother (review here), visit the official site here, and for more on Muscle Hawk, their Facebook site can be found here!

We've just received word that FDR: American Badass. which is in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has been picked up by Screen Media Films and will have its first screening at the San Diego Comic-Con. Read on for details.

From the Press Release
A new film by Ross Patterson, “FDR: American Badass,” has been acquired by Screen Media Films. Screen president Suzanne Blech announced that the film, starring Barry Bostwick, Kevin Sorbo, and William Mapother, will be available in the marketplace and on VOD in September 2012.

“We are very happy to have to opportunity to work with the Street Justice Films team of Tristan Drew, J.P. McMahon, and Ross Patterson again,” said Blech of the acquisition. “This talented filmmaking team has again delivered a timely and over-the-top horror/comedy in FDR: American Badass, and we expect to have great success together.”

“Thanks to Screen Media, history classes all over the nation will finally have a film that shows what FDR really did for this country. You’re welcome America,” says Patterson.

“FDR: American Badass” is a slapstick comedy that has the 32nd President of the United States riding a ‘wheelchair of death’ to save the world from werewolves who carry the polio virus, including werewolf versions of Hitler, Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito. The film, directed by Garrett Brawith and written by Ross Patterson, stars Barry Bostwick, Lin Shaye, Kevin Sorbo, William Mapother, and Paul-Ben Victor.

Also, actors Barry Bostwick and Kevin Sorbo, along with producers Ross Patterson and Tristen Drew, will be representing the film at Comic-Con, where FDR: AMERICAN BADASS will screen with the previous hit from the filmmakers, POOLBOY: DROWNING OUT THE FURY, on consecutive nights.