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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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A thyroid operation every ten years, plus regular libations of an eerie green liquid, has allowed Anton Diffring to live over a hundred years without looking a year over forty. Hammer’s medical horror show features Christopher Lee, Hazel Court and sumptuous cinematography, but not a whole lot of surprises.

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1959 / Color/ 1:66 widescreen / 83 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence.

Cinematography: Jack Asher

Production Design: Bernard Robinson

Art Direction: Roy Ashton

Film Editor: John Dunsford

Original Music: Richard Rodney Bennett

Written by Jimmy Sangster from a play by Barré Lyndon

Produced by Michael Carreras

Directed by Terence Fisher

For its first two years of Technicolor horror Hammer Films could seemingly do no wrong. In just a few months their revivals of classic horror motifs were being bankrolled and...

Disney animation continues its streak of Oscar domination: Zootopia, co-directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, scooped up Best Animated Film from the Academy on Sunday. Producer Clark Spencer shared in the win.

“We are so grateful to the audiences all over the world who embraced this story of tolerance being more powerful than the fear of the other,” said Moore from the stage.

The inclusive sentiment echoed that of presenter Gael García Bernal, who delivered what appeared to be a comment on President Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the Mexican boarder.

“Flesh and blood actors are migrant workers,...

Marc Buxton Jan 18, 2017

Some Lmd chaos hits Shield hard this week, plus the secrets of Director Jeffrey Mace are revealed...

This review contains spoilers.

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4.10 The Patriot

Hey, remember three episodes ago when Ghost Rider was a thing on Marvel’s Agents Of Shield? Yeah, not so much anymore.

But what this week’s instalment lacks in demonic street racers makes up for in old school Shield goodness as the Lmd saga continues.

Some nice story work is done this week with Daisy Johnson as she continues her transformation from agent on the run to bona fide super hero. As Daisy stands there during a press conference and receives praise from Director Jeff Mace, it’s hard to not think about when we first met Daisy. She has certainly come a long way from...

Mirzya

Starring Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher

Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Rating: **** ½

Interestingly and curiously—and these are feelings that propped up repeatedly as I watched the maverick movie making magician Mehra’s fifth directorial pilgrimage into the mysteries of cinema—Mirzya doesn’t mention its debut making lead pair as ‘Introducing’…

That’s because continuity and renewal are critical to Mehra’s vision of cinema. He moves, no he glides, from one era to another without punctuation marks in pursuit of that uncorrupted core of humanism which makes life worth living even in the worst of times (and honestly, it can’t get any worse than now, can it?).

Mirzya is a very simple yet extremely layered love legend. The lovers here face what lovers everywhere have faced since love was discovered in the human heart. As in Rang De Basanti, Mehra creates two level of storytelling, one that...

Clothes and web series: two things that definitely don’t make themselves. At this point, Jessie Katz and Lindsey Goodman know a little bit about both.

After meeting while working in PR for fashion industry, the two have used their inside-brand experiences to help write, produce and launch their web series “Labeled.” After releasing the first three episodes in mid-December of last year, Katz and Goodman turned to Kickstarter to raise funds for rounding out the show’s freshman season.

Following a successful campaign, “Labeled” was selected by Indiewire readers as May’s Project of the Month. Next up for the show is production on an additional seven episodes to dig into the unseen careers and experiences of the individuals who help keep some of the fashion business’ biggest names afloat.

The show’s co-creators chatted with us via email about the process of bringing all of these stories to fruition.

The project which receives the most votes for Project of the Month will get a reported feature story about their project on Indiewire. From there, they will be in the running for Project of the Year.

Below are the five projects up for the prize. Click on the film title to learn more about each project (descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers):

Flesh and Blood: When an apocalyptic virus threatens to turn her father into a violent monster, 18 year-old Max must lead him and her younger sister, Ellen, through a perilous mountain range in hope of finding a cure on the other side.

Homebody: After losing her job, friends, and apartment, Jessie moves home with her mom, Lisa–the only thing is, Lisa doesn’t know she’s there.

In the Wake of Ire: A film about a small town father and a daughter with amnesia reconnecting after being separated for 20 years.

The winning filmmaker will become a candidate for June Project of the Month. That winner will be in the running for Project of the Year.

The four projects up for this week’s Project of the Week are listed below, with descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers. You can vote at the bottom of the page.

En Garde!: Klutzy Dee Dee struggles to walk without tripping in a family filled with uber-athletes. She stumbles onto the high school fencing team filled with misfits, where she discovers friends, a new crush, and herself.

A Punk Daydream: A portrait of the largest growing punk community in the world despite Indonesia’s extreme social, political, and environmental conditions, as seen through the eyes of punk youth.

Street Heroines: A documentary that looks at the courage and creativity of female graffiti and street artists from around the world.

Shadow of a Gun: An exploration...

The winning filmmaker will become a candidate for June Project of the Month. That winner will be in the running for Project of the Year.

The three projects up for this week’s Project of the Week are listed below, with descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers. You can vote at the bottom of the page.

Black Kungfu Chick: After a young girl from South Los Angeles fails a class the summer before she graduates, she learns kungfu from her premed teacher to protect her community from local menaces.

Novela: A frame-by-frame animation about a woman who tries to emulate the life of her favorite soap opera protagonist.

37 Days: When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike. A short film about a dream set in Athens, Greece.

In the Wake of Ire: When an apocalyptic virus threatens to turn her father into a violent monster,...

Joe Menosky and Aron Coleite have reportedly joined the writing staff of the upcoming "Star Trek" TV series for CBS All Access.

Bryan Fuller ("Hannibal," "American Gods") and Alex Kurtzman ("Fringe," "Sleepy Hollow") are producing the series which also recently hired acclaimed "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" director Nicholas Meyer to produce.

Joe Menosky was staff writer on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager" with his credits including famed episodes like "Darmok," "Clues," "Time's Arrow," "The Chase" and "Suspicions" for Tng along with "The Thaw," "Future's End," "Scorpion," "Distant Origin", "Year of Hell," "The Killing Game," "Hope and Fear," "Timeless," "Equinox," "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" and "Blink of an Eye" for 'Voyager'.

Aron Coleite is a comic book writer best known for his work on "Ultimate X-Men". He also has TV experience, working on all four seasons...

'...like 28 Days Later meets a Bruce Springsteen song circa the Nebraska album...' - now that sounds like one heck of a project! Flesh And Blood is the new post-apocalyptic/suspense/zombie short that takes its leads from such genre classics as '28 Days Later' and 'Winter's Bone' with classic westerns like 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' and 'The Searchers' serving as visual references. The short's Kickstarter campaign is well under way and there are some great rewards to be had for those looking to back the project....

The second-ever Invictus Games began on Sunday night, with the help of friendly foes Prince Harry and Michelle Obama. The British royal and Flotus helped kick off the multi-sport event for wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel at Walt Disney World's Espn Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. While addressing ceremony attendees and competitors, the prince said that he felt like he was "at home" while looking at the faces of fellow servicemen and women. "I learned about the importance of teamwork and camaraderie that only military service can teach you," he said. "I joined the army...

Read More: 'Goodnight Mommy' Directors on the Value of Violence and How Horror Should Be 'Challenging' "Goodnight Mommy," directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, is representing Austria in the competition for Best Foreign Language Film in the Academy Awards. The eerily elegant thriller about two boys whose mother's face is wrapped in mysterious bandages is heir to a little-known tradition of Austrian exploitation films. This fall, the Viennale resurrected those movies, many of which have been buried in shame for decades. David D'Arcy was there, and offers this guide. Between two sacred places – the Vienna Opera and St. Steven’s Cathedral – profane Austrian cinema is rising from the crypt of oblivion. A restored theater with red velvet interiors was the showplace at the annual Viennale for In Flesh and Blood, a program of rare screenings of Austrian exploitation movies. Most of the films disappeared after being condemned, discredited, demonized,...

Throughout the history of cinema there are countless adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s work, from D. W. Griffith’s early take on The Sealed Room through Roger Corman’s series of lo-fi refittings of the 60s up to last year’s attempt to adapt The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether in Stonehearst Asylum. Looking back at two loose Italian adaptations of Poe’s classic horror short The Black Cat, Arrow’s new Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats set sees a towering duo of giallo cinema auteurs picking and choosing their favorite elements of the original tale and molding them to their supernatural, blade-wielding will with blood-spilling glee and cinematic aplomb.

Released in 1972 on the tail end of a trio of more classically typified gialli in The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail and All the Colors of the Dark, Sergio Martino...

Hope everyone has their boomsticks ready, as this final week of October is looking to be yet another banner week for genre Blu-ray and DVD releases, highlighted by the anticipated Collector’s Edition set for Sam Raimi’s cult classic Army of Darkness from Scream Factory. The recent thriller, The Gift, is also making its way to multiple formats on October 27th and for those of you fans of The Fifth Element out there, Sony is putting together a nifty Cinema Series release that arrives this Tuesday.

Olive Films is also keeping themselves busy this week with several cult classic releases including Breeders, Sometimes They Come Back, Dr. Terror's House of Horror and Saul Bass’ Phase IV, with Warner Home Video resurrecting several classics in HD as well—The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Son of Kong, Them! and the Special Effects Collection box set.

Other notable titles coming out on...

1985 was the year of Back To The Future, Rocky IV and Rambo II. But what about these 20 movies, that also deserve a fair share of love?

Thirty years ago, Marty McFly was riding high with the smash hit Back To The Future, while Sylvester Stallone enjoyed his most successful year yet with the one-two punch of Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV. It was an era of family sci-fi and teen comedies and bullet-spraying action, where The Breakfast Club and Teen Wolf rubbed shoulders with Death Wish 3 and Commando. Then there were low-key dramas like Out Of Africa and The Color Purple, which were both awards magnets at the Oscars.

Away from all those big hits, 1985 saw the release of a wealth of less successful movies, some of which found a second life on the then-huge home video circuit. Here's our pick of 20 underappreciated films from the year of Rambo,...

The Following is finally giving the audience the violence and Joe Vs Ryan conflict it wants in season 3...

This review contains spoilers.

3.8 Kill The Messenger

The Following has faced a bit of an uphill battle this season to catch viewer interest. I think one of the big problems, which I've discussed, is the lack of Joe versus Ryan. The first episode of the first season opened with those two squaring off, and that remains one of the most satisfying moments of the show's first season. We immediately get a look into their budding relationship, and we immediately are forced to choose sides while still getting to enjoy Joe's megalomania. The surprise of the random Followers, Roderick, Classic Poe, and all the rest of it just helped to add to the enjoyment of the ridiculous, brilliant, awesomely dumb show about murderers and FBI agents murdering one another.

There hasn't been much of that this season,...

After a couple of middling episodes, Flesh And Blood feels like a return to grisly, gory form for The Following...

This review contains spoilers.

3.8 Flesh And Blood

Well, last week I asked the people from The Following for more blood and craziness. Little did I know I was going to get what I asked for and more. There's nothing to be upset with about this week's visit to the FBI and serial killer chess match, at least from the front of insane spectacle. If you've ever wanted to see someone dead on what looks like a toilet with his brain meat exposed to the world or if you've ever wanted to watch someone feed body parts into a meat grinder, this is definitely the show for you this week. It's nice to see, as this is something The Following was always good at, and if Hannibal can show corpses being vivisected in an artistic way,...

If the first half of How to Get Away With Murder‘s freshman season left you in a state of shock and “aww hell no!,” you should probably brace for more of the same in its final six-episode run (kicking off tonight, 10/9c on ABC).

“It’s this never-ending balancing act — that’s why the writing is so good,” says Jack Falahee, who plays snarky, promiscuous law student Connor. “It’s in that space between absurdity and reality, that line between manic-ness and togetherness.”

We caught up with Falahee — along with co-stars Liza Weil, Aja Naomi King, Alfred Enoch, Charlie Weber...

Evil has quite a hand to play when ABC’s Once Upon a Time resumes Season 4 on March 1.

A poster for Season 4B of the ABC drama was revealed Thursday via the show’s official Twitter account and superfan Kayla’s “Once All the Time” Tumblr, and it focuses squarely on the Queens of Darkness introduced in the midseason finale: sea witch Ursula (Alias‘ Merrin Dungey), Maleficent (played again by True Blood’s Kristin Bauer) and Cruella de Vil (Dracula’s Victoria Smurfit).

Rounded up anew in our world by Storybrooke castoff Rumplestiltskin, you have “a very formidable team of evil coming our way,...

Everything important about this week’s installment of Empire can be summed up by a Gif of Cookie Lyon’s perfectly stacked backside — packaged in a blue print minidress that underscores the effectiveness of a once-daily prison-yard-workout.

Of course, the image would have to include her ex-husband Lucious in the foreground, eyes blazing with a mix of lust and love and a liberal dash of amusement, because at present, this is Cookie’s game. And whether she chooses to use her physical, intellectual and emotional powers to humiliate a rival, inspire a multi-platinum hook, snatch back her man or pave...

ABC is Flesh-ing out its pilot orders with a thriller from a Shondaland vet.

The network has given the go-ahead to Flesh and Blood, a thriller from onetime Grey’s Anatomy/Scandal producer Jenna Bans.

The potential series centers on a politician’s son who shows up nearly 10 years after his presumed death and rocks the local community. His reappearance, naturally, has repercussions for the neighbor jailed for his murder and the police officer that handled the case.

In addition to writing several episodes each of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy, Bans created the one-and-done Shondaland drama Off the Map,...

ABC has picked up the pilot “Flesh and Blood” from Writers Guild of America-nominated screenwriter Jenna Bans. The pilot explores the shockwaves that ripple through a family and community when a son thought dead for more than 10 years suddenly returns.

The son of a local politician, the young man’s return not only rattles his tight-knit family to its core, it prompts the release of the neighbor imprisoned for his murder, while the cop responsible is forced to reexamine what truly happened all those years ago.

The ABC Studios pilot is executive produced by David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Laurie Zaks of Mandeville Television.

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a full episode of Ghost Trek, first details on a Kane Hodder figurine by DeConte Figures & Collectibles, a new State of Desolation poster, a casting update from Welcome to Purgatory, distribution details from Dark Was the Night, a trailer for What’s Kind About the Dark, and much more:

Watch Ghost Trek: Goomba Body Snatchers Mortuary Lockdown: “Ghost Trek is an episodic supernatural-comedy series that follows the Paranormal Underworld Detective Society (Puds) as they investigate haunts across the U.S. and abroad between tanning beds, babes, body-building, and bong hits – all the while risking life and limb capturing the undead and unexplained on video. The series is not a “parody” of paranormal reality shows, Admittedly, Ghost Trek pokes fun at all the ghost hunting programs but...

There's never been a comics character like John Constantine, DC Comics' trench-coat-sporting magician and wisecracking righter of wrongs. He's openly, specifically political. He's queer. He's working-class. He's wordy. He's indelibly and un-stereotypically English. Astoundingly, he's remained largely unchanged since he first took to the page in 1985 and throughout 26 years of constant publication — a kind of character consistency that's unheard of even among icons like Superman or Batman. And there's also the matter of how often he appears before his writers. Like, literally shows up out of nowhere on an otherwise ordinary day. Flesh and blood, cigarette and tie. They swear by it.Jamie Delano ran into him during a stroll near the British Museum, back when he was writing the first few arcs on Constantine's solo series, Hellblazer. "The figure caught my eye and cocked his head, flicked the ash from a ciggie, and continued without stopping," Delano...

Despite featuring psychedelic animation deserving of a canvas only movie houses can provide, The Congress is getting a more fitting release on VOD later this month. The lengthy history behind director Ari Folman’s follow-up to the mesmerizing Waltz With Bashir proves that you don’t have to be Richard Linklater to have the life of your passion project stretch out beyond typical production limits. Conceived in 2008, funded and shot in 2011, and finally premiered at Cannes in 2013, The Congress getting an on-demand release this month provides the ironic cherry on top of a film already awash in confounding self-awareness.

Robin Wright stars as Robin Wright, an actress of fading stature in the Hollywood system that made her famous with hits like The Princess Bride and Forrest Gump. Introduced breaking down at the sound of her agent (Harvey Keitel) recounting her rise and fall from stardom, The Congress sets out immediately...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

12-gauge Comics

Sherwood TX #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Andrew Robinson), $1.00

Sherwood TX #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Even Matthews), Ar

Sherwood TX #1 (Of 5)(Cover C Andrew Robinson, Ar

AC Comics

Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 15 Gn, $29.95

Alternative Comics

Magic Whistle #14, $4.99

Amigo Comics

Ghost Wolf #3 (Of 4), $3.99

Amp! Comics For Kids

Charlie Brown Pow Tp, $9.99

Pearls Before Swine The Croc Ate My Homework Tp, $9.99

Archie Comic Publications

Archie #657 (Art Baltazar & Franco Little Archie And His Pals Variant Cover), $2.99

Archie #657 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99

Betty And Veronica Comics Annual #224, $5.99

Aspen Comics

Lola Xoxo #3 (Cover A Siya Oum), $3.99

Lola Xoxo #3 (Cover B Jordan Gunderson), $3.99

Lola Xoxo #3 (Cover C Siya Oum), Ar

Atheneum Books

Mercury Gn (New Printing), $12.99

Avatar Press

Caliban #4 (Facundo Percio Dark Matter Cover...

Scandal ends only its third season on Thursday night, and yet narrowing down the show’s many twists and turns into a top 10 list was an effort in restraint.

Take season 3′s “Yolo,” for instance: In a single hour, Huck tortures his onetime apprentice Quinn, Olivia discovers her mom is a terrorist, and the vice president murders her husband. That’s one episode. So we assembled EW’s most committed Gladiators to hash out our twisty top 10, and we think Olivia Pope would be proud of how we handled things. I brought the group a list of more than 20 of...

Scandal, Season 3, Episode 17, “Flesh and Blood”

Written by Severiano Canales and Miguel Nolla

Directed by Debbie Allen

Airs Thursdays at 10pm Est on ABC

On this week’s Scandal, Olivia and Co. attempt to protect the president, Jake copes with the death of B613, Mellie seeks a paternity test, and Mama Pope hides a bomb.

Remember when Pope and Associates used to handle actual cases that weren’t necessarily relevant to their personal lives? Each week a new crisis came to Olivia’s doorstep, and the team pulled together to handle it–sadly, that team spirit’s been missing for most of this season.

So, in a move that’s possibly too little too late for this season, “Flesh and Blood” pulls practically the entire cast into Liv’s place of business and puts them all to work. Just like that, the fresh and fun flow of the show’s first two seasons briefly returns,...

We open moments after where we left off, with Jake (Scott Foley) letting go of Olivia (Kerry Washington) long enough for her to gurgle out the word, “treason,” of which he is accusing her for bringing down B613.

The two bicker a bit, just in time for Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) and Cyrus (Jeff Perry) to come in and hear Jake talk about how Liv boinked him just to hack his phone. Hilariously, Jake himself observes how he was meant to be the protector of the free world and lost it all over a good lay, thereby acknowledging even to himself that he is in fact a complete imbecile and the worst Command ever.

They all quickly realize that even though they have an image of the guy Mama Pope was buying bombs from they know nothing about him. So they call in the one man who can help …

… and we...

Olivia worked with Fitz, Jake and Rowan in a race to stop Maya’s plans to blow up the President in Scandal’s “Flesh and Blood.”

Command Returns To Pope & Associates

We begin with Jake (Scott Foley), Liv (Kerry Washington), Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) and Cyrus (Jeff Perry) having a heated discussion in her office while Huck (Guillermo Díaz), Abby (Darby Stanchfield), David (Joshua Malina) and Harrison (Columbus Short) try to listen in from the next room, kept there by one of Fitz’s secret service men. Jake is furious that Liv just destroyed B-613, and both Fitz and Cyrus are uncomfortable with having B-613 yanked out of power, especially in light of the revelation that Maya is planning on blowing up the President. Jake shares whatever intel on the plot he has, but it isn’t much. What he does have is video of the man who sold Maya (Khandi Alexander) the bomb,...

Recently, ABC released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Scandal" episode 17 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "Flesh and Blood," and it sounds like it'll be very intense and dramatic as a security breach will take place, raising all types of hell, and more! In the new,17th episode press release: A security breach will cause the team to spring into action. Press release number 2: A security breach is going to call for an all hands on deck situation at Opa. Fitz’s re-election campaign will become stalled and he will consider going against Olivia’s advice. Meanwhile, Adnan and Maya are going to continue to plot their next move. The episode was written Severiano Canales and Miguel Nolla ,and it was directed by Debbie Allen. Episode 17 is set to air on Thursday night, April 10th at 9pm central time on ABC.

The following ‘Batman Vs. Terminator’ animated fan-film from Tony Guerrero and Mitchell Hammond has just started making rounds on the internet, illustrating a story that many of us early 90s comic book readers have longed to see. This impressive 5-minute crossover tells the story of the Dark Knight who sets out across the country to meet up with the man determined “to neutralize the electronic menace – John Connor.”

According to Hammond’s blog, the film took four years to make and started as a project to learn animation. Hammond described that making the video was “fun while it lasted. Agonizing, depressing, anxiety-ridden with a gain in asthma and Ibs through paranoia induced fun.” Due to the difficultly he experienced, Hammond went on to say that its unlikely he will create any more videos.

30 years have passed since Bruce Wayne survived Skynet’s nuclear blasts in August of ’97. Iron demons now roam the planet,...

You've got to watch this incredibly awesome fan-made animated short called Batman Vs. Terminator. The animation is really freakin' good, and I liked the tone, style, and designs of the characters. This is an insanely impressive short, and I want to see the story continue. The film was created by Mitchell Hammond, and here's the synopsis he gives:

30 years have passed since Bruce Wayne survived Skynet's nuclear blasts in August of '97. Iron demons now roam the planet, and without the requirement to defend the innocent against crime and injustice, Wayne has seeked refuge in the bomb shelter that saved his life; the Batcave.

Having scavenged the wasteland for resources, he discovers the radio of a dead soldier. There is static over a frequency. Flesh and blood is rising up to the west. With The Stinger; a riot control vehicular unit built before the apocalypse along with a refitted bomb blast vest,...

From Mitchell Hammond: "Thirty years have passed since Bruce Wayne survived Skynet's nuclear blasts in August of '97. Iron demons now roam the planet, and without the requirement to defend the innocent against crime and injustice, Wayne has seeked refuge in the bomb shelter that saved his life; the Batcave. Having scavenged the wasteland for resources, he discovers the radio of a dead soldier. There is static over a frequency. Flesh and blood is rising up to the west. With The Stinger; a riot control vehicular unit built before the apocalypse along with a refitted bomb blast vest, Batman makes his way across what remains of the United States to join forces with the man determined to neutralize the electronic menace - John Conner. Original Concept - Tony Guerrero. Original Music - Noir Deco (http://bit.ly/1eeAlvS). Animation/Sound Editing - Mitchell Hammond.

Neophyte producer Bella Le and executive producer Robert Lewis Galinsky have enlisted a couple of key creatives from the Us to help adapt two Jessica Brody novels into a romantic comedy entitled The Fidelity Files.

Nina Colman will write the screenplay and Los Angeles-based Aaron Jackson will serve as a producer with Le.s Kardia Pictures.

Published in 2008, The Fidelity Files is the saga of a beautiful L.A. woman who goes undercover as a .Fidelity Inspector. to find out who.s faithful and who.s not. The 2010 sequel, Love Under Cover, chronicles the further adventures of the character, Jennifer Hunter.

Le, 22, spotted Love Under Cover in a Melbourne bookshop during the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival. She contacted the American author and her agent, took an option on both novels and Galinsky came aboard as executive producer.

Colman.s screenplay Rom.Com is set up at Exclusive Media with Charlize Theron attached.

Day of the Dead fans will be thrilled to learn that the film’s score has been restored and remastered, specifically for release on vinyl. The vinyl score also comes with some surprise extras if you get your hands on the limited edition version.

John Harrison’s score finally receives the treatment it deserves as it arrives in its entirety on vinyl. Harrison returned to work on his own score with a little help from his musical peers and Waxwork Records, who made this announcement:

“This release features, for the first time ever, every musical cue used in the film (over an hour’s worth of music). Our source material for this release were the original 1985 master tapes. The tapes were restored and re-mixed by composer John Harrison (Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, Tales From The Darkside) and mixing engineer Michael Farrow (music scoring engineer of The Big Lebowski, Cabin Fever,...

With San Diego Comic-Con looming, it's nice to have some actual comics news to report. Monsterverse has sent over the new cover art for Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave #4 and Flesh and Blood #3.

Popular anthology Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave returns July 31st with Issue #4. Here are the details:

Writer: Isaac, Lowell

Artist: Isaac, Lowell

Cover Artist: Tuis, Alex

Synopsis: An anthology of terror tales told in the classic horror comics tradition and presented by the movies' greatest vampire star, Bela Lugosi. Stories this issue include "The Evil Eye," "The Monster," an installment of "Bela's Bedtime Stories," and more. Edited by Kerry Gammill.

After the August 28th release of Vol. #3, there's only one more installment of Flesh and Blood left to come so enjoy the series Guillermo del Toro labeled "Phenomenal!" while it lasts!

Writer: Tinnell, Robert

Artist: Vokes, Neil

Cover Artist: Brereton, Daniel

Synopsis: Victor Frankenstein mysteriously reappears,...

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Deftones, Black Sabbath, Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Skinny Puppy, In This Moments, Meat Puppets, The Black Dahlia Murder and more.

Don't touch that dial!

News

Deftones bassist Chi Cheng has passed away at the age of 42. He had been in and out of a coma since a car accident in 2008.

Black Sabbath will release 13 on June 11th via Vertigo/Republic. The first single, "God Is Dead?," will be released digitally on April 19th. The band will perform a new song from the effort on the season finale of CSI, which airs May 15th on CBS.

Misery Signals have been rejoined by original bass player Kyle Johnson.

Skinny Puppy will release Weapon on May 28th via Metropolis Records.

Your Demise are breaking up in March 2014.

Music

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We all know that Arnold Schwarzenegger is coming back for the new film The Legend of Conan, and in a perfect world it will be the serious-minded and bloody sword and sandal flick we've all been hoping for. But will we get it?

The Arnold Fans recently caught up with the man himself to talk about the upcoming sequel...

“Well, age doesn’t mean anything to me because I work out every day," says Schwarzenegger of the physicality of the film at his age. "I work out twice a day, as a matter of fact. At night I work out with weights, and in the morning I do cardiovascular training. So for me, to get on the set and to swing the sword around again and to ride the horses and all those things doesn’t mean anything [and does not scare me] because I feel like I did thirty years ago. So as long as I stay in shape,...

The Alyesford Skull is the first full-length steampunk novel from James P. Blaylock in over twenty years and is being released this month by Titan Books. We have details on a signed limited edition version of the novel, a chance for you to win a copy from Titan Books, and an exclusive excerpt that you can read right now:

Synopsis: “It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer is at home in Aylesford with his family. However a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay, the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives. When Dr. Narbondo returns to kidnap his four-year-old son Eddie and then vanishes into the night,...

Writer Nina Colman (Dr. Dolittle 3) has set up three projects at three different networks. She has teamed with producers Ben Silverman of Electus and Teri Weinberg of Yellow Brick Road for a comedy at NBC and a drama at Lifetime. The projects reunite Silverman and Weinberg, who worked together at Reveille and NBC. Tentatively titled Wtf, the NBC project, from Universal TV, is a dark comedy about four friends whose bad luck suddenly turns into a golden opportunity. The Lifetime drama Flesh And Blood is set in New York and centers on a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who infiltrates a very powerful New York family. Silverman and Weinberg executive produce both projects alongside Colman. Wtf and Flesh And Blood join Colman’s recently sold CW drama Book Club. Based on the documentary, the later project is about a young woman in New York who starts...

Should we run the risk of remaking this record Razzie winner?

Although he’s not directed a film since Black Book six years ago, Paul Verhoeven’s name has been bouncing around the internet as a result of two of his best-known films being remade. This year we had the remake of Total Recall starring Colin Farrell, which was by all accounts deeply disappointing, and in 2014 we will be treated to a rebooted RoboCop (if “treated” is the right word).

Assuming that it takes money, as Total Recall did, which other of Verhoeven’s films should the Hollywood remake machine be targeting next? Anything from Starship Troopers onwards is in far too recent memory, while his early and highly-regarded Dutch-language work isn’t well-known enough for American audiences to be pulled in: there are few out there who would be hyped just from hearing the words The Fourth Man, Spetters or Soldier of Orange.

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

Abstract Studios

Terry Moore How To Draw #5 (Comics), $4.99

Alternative Comics

Injury #4 (not verified by Diamond), $6.00

Amp! Comics For Kids

Mutts Bonk Sc, $19.99

Amryl Entertainment

Cavewoman Natural Selection #2 (Of 2)(Budd Root Special Edition), Ar

Andrews McMeel

Dilbert I Can’t Remember If We’re Cheap Or Smart Tp, $16.99

Antarctic Press

Eater’s Digest #1, $10.99

Last Zombie Neverland Tp, $14.95

Archie Comics

Archie Double Digest #234, $3.99

Archies Giant Kids Jokebook Tp, $6.99

Avatar Press

Crossed Badlands #13 (Raulo Caceres Auxiliary Edition), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #14 (Raulo Caceres Auxiliary Edition), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Regular Cover), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Red Crossed Incentive Cover), Ar

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Torture Cover), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Wraparound Cover), $3.99

Freakangels Complete Collection Slipcase Edition, $99.99

Hero Worship #4 (Of 6)(Michael Dipascale Regular...

Sandi Thom has unveiled the music video for new single 'Flesh and Blood'. The 'I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)' singer has unveiled the title track of her fourth album, which was released last month. The video opens with a clip from Martin Luther King Jr's famous 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech, while the song includes the lyrics: "While bloody war will tear us apart, yeah/ We all share our tears/ We all have one heart." Thom said: "The human race is hanging on by a thread and we have to do everything we can to unite and save it. I have a voice and I feel like I should use it. "After my friend [drummer] Tal [Bergman] and I had recorded the vast majority of the song I sat back in the producer's chair and realised that this song could really reach...

Sandi Thom has unveiled the music video for new single 'Flesh and Blood'. The 'I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)' singer has unveiled the title track of her fourth album, which was released last month. The video opens with a clip from Martin Luther King Jr's famous 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech, while the song includes the lyrics: "While bloody war will tear us apart, yeah/ We all share our tears/ We all have one heart." Thom said: "The human race is hanging on by a thread and we have to do everything we can to unite and save it. I have a voice and I feel like I should use it. "After my friend [drummer] Tal [Bergman] and I had recorded the vast majority of the song I sat back in the producer's chair and realised that this song could really reach...

ScreenACT has announced the top ten feature film projects in the running for its Low Budget Feature Pod funding program.

The ten projects were selected from 42 participants who took part in a seven-day workshop run by international script consultant Stephen Cleary. Participants also received feedback from Titan View managing director John L. Simpson (who will distribute the final film), Ronin Films managing director Andrew Pike, Arclight head of production Michael Wrenn, and The Sapphires producer Kylie De Fresne.

The top ten are:

Ariadne's Fate (Geraldine Martin; Science Fiction) Beneath the Sunny Skies (Susan Thwaites; Drama) Blue World Order (Che Baker, Dallas Bland; Science Fiction) Exchange (Declan Shrubb; Horror/Zombie) Flesh and Blood (George Jenkins; Drama) Oil and Water (Ian Hart; Drama) Payday (Kris Kerehona; Drama) The Farmer (Andrew Einspruch & Billie Dean; Comedy/drama) The Mission (Doug Kirk, Andrew Marriott; Science Fiction) Waiting for Robbo (Simon Weaving; Comedy/thriller)

.Low Budget...

The people at Monsterverse have a good knack for writing classic monster stories in a world dominated by zombie comics and it's an appreciated effort by us readers. There's the truly awesome anthology series Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave and their serialized graphic novel series Flesh and Blood.

Flesh and Blood does its best to combine a lot of the classic monster tales, whether they be books or films, and create a linked original storyline that brings all your favorites together in one place.

Book two of the series picks up where the first left off and doesn't bother to hold your hand explaining itself either, which could be a bad thing if you haven't read the first volume. 

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We’re back with another weekend edition of the Indie Spotlight. Today’s feature includes a new horror comic release from Monsterverse, a Cthulhu video game, a new Hershell Gordon Lewis book, and the latest indie horror movie news sent our way:

Flesh and Blood Volume 2: “Vampires! A Werewolf! And Baron Frankenstein collide in the second book of the award-winning graphic novel series from Monsterverse! Superbly written by Robert Tinnell. Illustrated with eerie elegance by Neil Vokes! Colored with a master’s passion by Matt Webb.

If you thought the first volume rocked the world of horror comic books and graphic novels, you will not be able to put down the second book which has more dark intrigue, heart-stopping action, epic adventure, sensual eroticism and shocking twists than ever before!

Plus two back-up features! Operation: Satan by Tinnell and artist Bob Hall and the new Frankenstein by Tinnell and Adrian Salmon.

X-men writer Steven A. Roman has turned his attention from superhuman mutants to supernatural horror with Lorelei: Sects and the City.

Lorelei is a seductive succubus who battles a murderous cult to save the world as she makes her graphic novel debut in the 152-page paperback.

According to the official description:

She stalks the streets of New York: a redheaded angel of vengeance named Lorelei, who preys on those who would prey on the weak. As deadly as she is beautiful, she takes from evildoers the one thing for which they no longer have a use: their souls. And now she's ready to face her greatest challenge: the graphic novel market.

Lorelei: Sects and the City is a mature readers graphic novel written by bestselling author Steven A. Roman (X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy, The Saga of Pandora Zwieback), with art by Eliseu Gouveia (The Phantom, Infiniteens), Steve Geiger (Web of Spider-Man,...