Peter Askin to Direct Stephen King's A Good Marriage

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

A tale culled from the pages of Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars is in line for a screen adaptation.

Atlas International has tapped Peter Askin to helm the story "A Good Marriage."  Askin's credits include Company Man and the documentary Trumbo.

The synopsis for "A Good Marriage" goes like this:

Darcy Anderson discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years. What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside-down? What do you do and who do you call on when you discover that your good marriage has been built on a nightmare foundation of torture and murder?

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Spain's Blind Alley Finds U.S. Distribution

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Antonio Trashorras' Blind Alley has found a U.S. distributor in Phase 4 Films.

Trashorras co-penned The Devil's Backbone with Guillermo del Toro. He shot Blind Alley in Colombia with stars Ana de Armas, Diego Cadavid and Leonor VarelaIn.

In a tiny laundrette hidden down an alleyway, Rosa (De Armas) finds herself trapped, completely isolated and unable to escape the nightmarish situation of being attacked by a serial killer. At the break of dawn and after hours of anguish, immersed in the sadistic game of rat and mouse the killer has subjected her to, the young girl will discover something even more disturbing about the nature of her aggressor. 

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First Images from the Spanish Thriller Afterparty

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Miguel Larraya is currently shooting the Spanish body count flick After Party and, today, the first images from the set have been revealed.

You'll find the pics after this updated synopsis we've received (which has changed slightly since the plot crunch we brought you during our American Film Market coverage last fall).

Carlos is the young male lead in a successful television series, Camp Blood, and one of the biggest teenage idols of the moment. He has no qualms about using his fame to score with girls and has earned a reputation as a heartbreaker. One morning he wakes up after a wild party in a mansion and finds out that he is locked inside. Trapped along with him are three girls with whom he had different encounters the night before. 

Via cell phone, from which they cannot make calls, they receive various videos. As they watch them they discover that they are not the only ones locked in the house. A friend of the girls died at the party the night before and her body may still be there. While they try to find out what happened, various members of the group disappear one by one, and the others will witness their deaths on video or live, unable to prevent them...

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New Poster Art for Sean Bean-Starring The 4th Reich

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Game of Thrones' Sean Bean, Sean Pertwee (Dog Soldiers) and Jason Flemyng (X-Men: First Class) are set to star in The 4th Reich, a war tale wrapped up in the supernatural that comes to us from director Shaun Robert Smith.

Shock has been all over this one since February, dishing you the first casting news before everyone jumped on it last week at the start of the Cannes Film Festival.  This weekend, we have your first look at some new sales poster art (to the right).

During the early hours of June 6th 1944 a bloody but victorious offensive took place in occupied Western Europe that would claim thousands of lives. Codenamed 'Operation Overlord' the armies of the combined allied forces would begin their long push to Berlin, with the aim of bringing down the despised Nazi regime. 

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Where Is Gareth Edwards' American Godzilla?

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Monsters helmer Gareth Edwards remains at work on Godzilla for Legendary Pictures.  Yes, even though  the company is currently overseeing Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim - a film also about giant monsters - the Big G is still threatening to invade theaters.  The last we heard, Max Borenstein was being brought in to do some script work after David Goyer penned a draft.  At a comic book expo in London, Edwards provided a brief update on the project.

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High Fidelity Scribe to Pen Johnny Depp's Night Stalker

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

D.V. DeVincentis has been brought aboard Walt Disney Pictures' big-screen version of The Night Stalker, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. Produced in conjunction with his Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp is attached to headline with Edgar Wright directing.

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Michael Grodner's Beyond Apollo Gets Financing

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Barry Malzberg's controversial award-winning sci-fi novel Beyond Apollo is being adapted to the screen as a sci-fi thriller by writer/director Michael Grodner with actors Scott Speedman and Bill Pullman attached, who were recently joined by Ali Larter from "Heroes."

Produced by Aaron Ockman (Children of the Corn: Genesis, Hellraiser: Revelations), the project now has the support of sales company Stealth Media Group with Cloverfield director Matt Reeves taking on an executive producer role with plans to start principal photography in the fall.

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Stitches is a Bad Clown in This One-Sheet

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Dark Sky Films has sent along a poster for Stitches, the upcoming horror film from director Conor McMahon.

The film stars popular British Comedian, Ross Noble and Tommy Knight of Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures; McMahon previously helmed the Irish horror-comedy Dead Meat.

Stitches concerns Richard 'Stitches' Grindle, a jaded workaday kids' birthday clown, whose one-liners are witty in a way that's just not for kids. Stitches falls victim to a fatal party mishap at the hands of a group of particularly nasty children. Years later, the group of now teenagers attend a party at which Stitches is the uninvited guest of honor.  Naturally, things take a downward, bloody turn.  Head inside for a larger look at the poster.

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Ving Rhames Needs His Legs in a New Piranha 3DD Clip

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Honestly, no introduction is needed for this.  All you need to know is that a new clip from Piranha 3DD has arrived.  It features Ving Rhames and Paul Scheer (the former we believed was dead in Piranha 3D).  And there's a whole lot of ass-kicking.  Enjoy.

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Interview: Gretchen Lodge on Lovely Molly

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Genre newcomer Gretchen Lodge stars in Lovely Molly, opening in limited release today.  Directed by Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project), the film is a portrait of Molly Reynolds, a newlywed with a troubled past who returns to her long-abandoned family home.  

Frightful reminders of a nightmarish childhood begin seeping into her new life and soon she begins an inexorable descent into evil that blurs the lines between psychosis and possession.  Shock Till You Drop spoke to Lodge about her starring turn in the film which also marks her feature debut.

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Susan Sarandon, Michelle Monaghan to Star in Mostow's Still of Night

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines helmer Jonathan Mostow is directing Still of Night based on a script he penned.  Exclusive Media is producing and, today, announced Michelle Monaghan and Susan Sarandon are set to star.

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Trailer: Grieving Father Becomes Urban Legend in Punishment

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Shock continues to keep ahead of the curve with the glut of Cannes sales trailers hitting all at once today with a preview of Jason Christopher's Punishment.

Brian Gallagher plays Hunter Isth, a man whose life is turned upside down when his young daughter is killed by a drunk teenage driver. In mourning, depression, and anger, Hunter disappears and is rumored to have moved away from Braiden Woods.

As years go by, Hunter and his devastating story evolve into a myth, a myth that many consider being just that, until a group of partying teenagers are brutally murdered one by one…

Jen Dance, David J. Bonner, Chelsey Garner, Shaun Paul Costello and Matthew Nadu co-star.

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