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dead ringers
You might wonder why David Cronenberg's psychological horror classic Dead Ringers needs to be rewritten other than this is the age of IPs getting updated remakes because streamers don't want to risk it on original stories anymore But this is definitely not one of those remakes Rachel Weisz delivers two performances of her career, playing[...]
scanners
Hopefully, fans of David Cronenberg's 1981 horror cult classic Scanners are in the mood for a series take on the film Because that's exactly what HBO has in development, with Emmy Award-winning writer William Bridges (co-writer, Black Mirror "USS Callister") set to pen the series and serve as showrunner In addition, Yann Demange (pilot, Lovecraft Country)[...]
Junji Ito Forced to Watch Creepy Ads in Effort to Scare Him
We're still waiting for the new anime adaptation of his classic Lovecraftian horror series Uzumaki (translation: "Spiral") to hit this year, and he is the reigning Master of Body Horror since David Cronenberg has been less prolific in the last decade. Panel from "Uzumaki" by Junji Ito, Viz Media So his US publisher Viz Media decides to[...]
New Trailer and Images for David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future, the latest film from David Cronenberg, will release on Blu-ray on August 9th Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Don McKellar, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz, Lihi Kornowski, and Denise Capezza, this is a return to the body horror genre that Cronenberg fans have been waiting a long time for[...]
New Trailer and Images for David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future is the latest film from iconic director David Cronenberg, out in June This is his return to full-on body horror, as teased in the trailer for the film released a couple of weeks ago, and even he is warning people that the film may be a tough watch for some in[...]
Crimes Of The Future Teaser Trailer Debuts, Out In June
Crimes of the Future, the latest film from David Cronenberg, has an actual release date Neon has set a limited theatrical opening in New York and LA for June 3rd, followed by a vast expansion the following week on June 10th Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Don McKellar, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Tanaya Beatty, Nadia[...]
Crimes Of The Future Teaser Trailer Debuts, Out In June
Crimes of the Future, the latest film from David Cronenberg, is out in theaters this June, and a teaser trailer for the film was released this morning And it looks like a bonkers time at the theater Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Don McKellar, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz, Lihi[...]
Ms. Marvel Star Iman Vellani, EP Bisha K. Ali Preview Kamala Khan
David Cronenberg, a true jack-of-all-trades in front and behind of the camera in Hollywood, has been pretty active lately not only directing Neon's Crimes of the Future and acting in numerous projects like Falling, the Shudder series Slasher, and Star Trek: Discovery for Paramount+ As one of two key 32nd century Federation figures the U.S.S[...]
Dead Ringers: Jennifer Ehle & Emily Meade Join Amazon Series Adapt
Amazon ordered Dead Ringers for a TV series adaptation to their streamer Prime Video in August 2020, which is a modern update of the 1988 David Cronenberg film of the same name based on the book Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland Weisz plays the dual lead role in Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twins[...]
L-R: Actor Viggo Mortensen at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards on the beach in Santa Monica. Editorial credit: Jaguar PS / Shutterstock.com | Kristen Stewart attends the premiere of the movie "Seberg" during the 76th Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2019 in Venice, Italy. Editorial credit: Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com
Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don McKellar, and Lihi Kornowski have all been cast in the new David Cronenberg film Crimes of the Future The film will start production this summer in Greece, with Cronenberg directing off a script he has written This is a return to the sci-fi genre for him, his[...]
Ms. Marvel Star Iman Vellani, EP Bisha K. Ali Preview Kamala Khan
David Cronenberg's Kovich is emerging as of the most eccentric figures in Star Trek lore on Discovery making his second appearance on the series in the episode "Terra Firma, Part I." As a doctor in the 32nd century, he came to study Emperor Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), who's dealing with a metaphysical deteriorating condition that's[...]
Eastern Promises Sequel In The Works With Jason Statham
Eastern Promises was an excellent crime family drama by David Cronenberg that came out in 2007 to wide acclaim in 2007, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for star Viggo Mortensen Now, 15 years later, it seems we will be jumping back into that same crime family, as Danish director Martin Zandvliet is prepping[...]
“Die Trying” — Ep#305 — Pictured: Tig Notaro as engineer Jett Reno and Anthony Rapp as Lt. Paul Stamets of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Michael Gibson/CBS ©2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
One bit that sets up the narrative for the next episode was the interaction between Michelle Yeoh's Emperor Georgiou and David Cronenberg's Kovich (yeah that David Cronenberg) Their scenes worked on so many levels credit certainly go to the actors and writers James Duff, Sean Cochran, Anthony Maranville, Chris Silvestri,, and Brandon Schultz for that[...]
Dead Ringers: Amazon, Rachel Weisz Bringing Cronenberg Film to Series
Rachel Weisz (Constantine, The Constant Gardner) and Amazon are teaming up for a modern take on David Cronenberg's 1988 Jeremy Irons-starring film Dead Ringers The streaming service gave the project a straight-to-series order, with Weisz attached to both star and executive produce Normal People writer Alice Birch will pen the series and also executive produce[...]
Criterion Collection 50% Off Sale Ends Soon, Here's What You Should Grab While You Can
Co-written with star Greta Gerwig, the disc features a new tranfer of the film, numerous conversations with the Baumbach and Gerwig, along with the film's director of photography and color master. Videodrome, directed by David Cronenberg The most out there film of these picks, Videodrome dropped into the world in 1983 with a complex plot, stunning visual[...]
Castle Talk: Beyond Fest Founders Talk Their "Halloween Day," Live Cronenberg And More
We talk about the David Cronenberg Retrospective they're hosting which will feature live Q&As with Cronenberg and luminaries such as Debbie Harry and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Halloween Day featuring the new film plus a free tattoo, and more. Listen here: http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/Beyond_Fest_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lbo8yC-kg0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CASTLE TALK: Beyond Fest Founders Christian Parkes[...]
Will New David Cronenberg TV Series Lead Us Towards Dimension C-137's Fate?
Diana Piruzevska Filmmaker David Cronenberg, the creative mind behind such diverse films as Scanners, Dead Ringers, and A History of Violence, announced at this year's Venice Film Festival that he is in the early stages of developing a series for television Though he was unable to discuss any of the series' specifics (stating he "can't talk[...]
weekly
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! The Weekly Static! The Weekly Static! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Db7Ym2-lIkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Eddie Capra Mysteries – Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Db7Ym2-lIk) As I've mantra'd for the past six episodes, The Weekly Static is my righteously desperate-yet-endearing attempt at finding the lighter side and an interesting perspective on[...]
David Cronenberg's 'Scanners' Being Developed For TV
In what has been described as a competitive situation that I hope didn't involve any righteous migraines or exploding skulls, David Cronenberg's cult classic 1981 science fiction thriller Scanners is being developed as a television series. Once the dust settled from a bidding war involving a number of film and television studios like Lionsgate, Skydance and[...]
IDW To Publish The Fly: Outbreak
28 years after Jeff Goldblum got transformed into a giant man/fly hybrid, IDW Publishing is picking up where the David Cronenberg directed film left off The Fly: Outbreak is a five-issue miniseries by Brandon Seifert (Hellraiser) and menton3 (Silent Hill). Years ago, a scientist had a horrific accident when he tried to use his newly invented teleportation[...]
The Castle of Horror Podcast Presents: Nightbreed
By Jason Henderson, Drew Edwards, Tony Salvaggio, and Julia Guzman [audio:http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-99734/TS-873740.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Castle of Horror Podcast tonight, a weekly internet radio show where professional writers in the comics, games and book industries take a look at horror movies, choosing one movie a week to discuss in depth. They say: This week we talk Clive Barker's[...]
Bizarre And Totally Cronenberg First Trailer For His Debut Novel
"What the hell did I just watch?" was my first thought upon watching this trailer for David Cronenberg's Consumed, transferring his singular cinematic vision to prose form for the first time with his debut novel. Very disturbing, very bizzare and doesn't really give anything away about the plot, which actually sounds mundane after watching this: "the[...]
Rachel Weisz To Star In David Cronenberg's Maps To The Stars
We've known for some time that David Cronenberg's next project, Maps to the Stars, would see the return of two of his previous male leads in Robert Pattinson and Viggo Mortensen For a long while the project was unconfirmed because, like Cosmopolis, Cronenberg said that it was very difficult to get funding for However, the[...]
Cronenberg's Jonathan Lethem Adaptation Acquires A Screenwriter
Body horror king David Cronenberg is getting a lot of press lately for his forthcoming Sigmund Freud drama A Dangerous Method, which is about to pack up its tent and wellies in preparation for the festival circuit, and his recently wrapped adaptation of Cosmopolis,  but he's also attached to an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's novel[...]