Back Lot Music will release the soundtrack for The Purge, Universal Pictures’ upcoming speculative thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, on June 4th.. The Purge Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new music by Nathan Whitehead. The film opens on June 7th.
“Scoring The Purge was a fascinating and haunting exploration into what we value as a society and how far will we go in the name of greater social good,” Whitehead reflects. “Sonically, this was such a fun world to develop as I got to record and process a lot of strange sounds to create our own vocabulary for the score—everything from spring rattles and noisy toys to whooshing traffic and subway tunnels.
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Warner Bros. Pictures has released a new Pacific Rim featurette, via IGN, which you can watch using the player below. The July 12th release stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Brad William Henke and Diego Klattenhoff.
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*Updated with two more TV spots* Paramount Pictures has released a new TV spot for their upcoming zombie epic World War Z. Check it out after the break!
Hitting theaters on June 21, the Marc Forster-directed action thriller stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox and David Morse.
The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.
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IFC released the official U.S. trailer for Byzantium, Neil Jordan's new film steeped within the vampire sub-genre. Jordan last explored bloodsuckers in Interview with the Vampire.
The film, starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, opens June 28th. The pair play mysterious women who seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara (Arterton) meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.
Read our set report here, which includes interviews with the cast and crew.
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With the arrival of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Uncut on DVD and Blu-ray (out today), ShockTillYouDrop.com is participating in a "witch hunt."
This is a multi-site hunt and the first person to find all six witch images and uncover the complete secret URL (each image contains a piece of the URL), will win an iPad mini with digital versions of the theatrical and Unrated Cut. Everyone else who enters, will have a chance to win a trip to the premiere of World War Z.
Look for the concept art and the hidden URL piece within it here.
Once you've collect the art/URL piece, swing on by the H&G Facebook and Twitter pages to continue the hunt... Best of luck!
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Last night saw the season one finale of Bates Motel. I'll be diving into an analysis of the hit A&E show a bit later today on The BloodCast podcast (with guests Brian Collins and The Psycho Legacy's Robert Galluzzo), until then, let's read what Carlton Cuse has to say about season two, shall we?
The showrunner spoke recently to The Hollywood Reporter. When asked what he had in mind for the sophomore season, moreover, if it would pick up a bit later in Norman's teenage years, Cuse said: "I don't want to say exactly how we're going to do that. Certainly the events at end of this season are very much in play when season two opens."
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Focus Features has revealed two new posters for The World's End, hitting UK theaters on July 19 before opening in North American theaters on August 23rd. Director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for a third film following the successes Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
In The World's End, 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries. Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike co-star.
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A sales trailer for Missionary was cooked up in anticipation of Cannes and we now have it for you to watch after the jump.
The film is about a single mother (House of Lies' Dawn Olivieri) who gets romantically involved with a Mormon missionary (Mitch Ryan). When she decides to get back with her ex-husband (Kip Pardue), she discovers that the missionary is not who he seems, and will stop at nothing to get her back.
"Missionary is a film I'm extremely proud of and can't wait for the public to see. Today we have a couple unofficial things leaking on line from Cannes, and as foreign sales goes, sometimes those things are not exactly representative of the film itself but made to sell the film for an international market," DiBlasi told us.
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Empire landed some new images from Only Lovers Left Alive - the next Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law, Dead Man).
This vampire offering stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Anton Yelchin.
According the UK outlet, the film is "set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?"
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A trailer for Kill List director Ben Wheatley's latest film, A Field in England, has made its debut, offering the first footage we have ever seen since the project was announced.
Billed as “a psychedelic trip into magic and madness,” A Field In England follows a group of English Civil War soldiers in the 17th century who are captured by an alchemist and led into a vast mushroom field, where they fall victim to violent and nightmarish forces.
A theatrical and VOD release is planned for 2013. Drafthouse Films will distribute.
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Two pieces of casting news to share... Mia Maestro has been cast to play opposite Corey Stoll in The Strain, the upcoming horror series in development at FX based on the novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Del Toro is directing the pilot. Maestro is also joining Kevin Durand, who was cast in the pilot last month. Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel) is acting as showrunner.
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The UK-based Death Waltz Records has revealed its vinyl plans for the smokin'-hot Maniac soundtrack. Of course, we're talking about the 2013 remake starring Elijah Wood. The synth-driven score is by Rob and, so far, it's our favorite score of the year. Death Waltz will be releasing some packaging options, they include:
500 180g flesh coloured vinyl with transparent blood splatter housed in a gatefold casebound (tip on) sleeve with mirror effect silver UV anti scratch lamination & 12 x 12 print of the cover art. (Death Waltz webstore exclusive)
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