It's in the Blood (original) (raw)
03 November 2015 @ 04:57 pm
Female-led Van Helsing series picked up by Syfy
by Danielle Zhu • @danizhuu
Dozens of actors have portrayed the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, but next year will see a new reimagining of the Dracula character. Syfy has picked up Van Helsing, a sci-fi action series that will center around a female lead.
The show will focus on Vanessa Helsing, the next in line of a lineage of vampire hunters. After being resurrected five years in the future – when vampires have taken over the world – Vanessa must fight to save humanity.
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27 October 2015 @ 10:59 am
Film from 'Drusilla' to feature Joss Whedon, Anne Rice, Gary Oldman, and Tim Burton
by Clark Collis • @clarkcollis
Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Juliet Landau is sinking her teeth into another bloodsucker-themed project. Landau, who played Drusilla on the Joss Whedon-created show, is today launching an Indiegogo campaign in support of her vampire documentary, A Place Among the Undead. The project is codirected by the actress and her husband Deverill Weekes and features interviews with Whedon, Tim Burton, Gary Oldman, Willem Dafoe, Anne Rice, Robert Patrick, Charlaine Harris, Steve Niles, Fright Night director Tom Holland, and Underworld cowriter Kevin Grevioux, among others.
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02 September 2015 @ 03:43 am
Brides of Dracula series from Arrow producer gets NBC pilot commitment
by Will Robinson • @Will_Robinson_
It’s time for the three women in Dracula’s inner circle to hit the small screen. NBC has given Brides of Dracula — from writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Glee, Archie) and producer Greg Berlanti (Arrow) — a pilot production commitment, EW has confirmed.
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Vampires poke around social media in exclusive 'Shadows' deleted scene
By Brian Truitt
What Spinal Tap did for dim heavy-metal rockers, What We Do in the Shadows (on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday) does for the bloodsucking contingent. Written and directed by stars Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame) the mockumentary follows vampire flatmates in New Zealand and how they get by in the world — in the case of Clement’s ornery Vladislav, that means 862 years of rockin’ it fang style. Like everyone, they have to get up to speed for modern times, and Vlad learns about social media from their human computer-programming guy Stu (Stu Rutherford) in this exclusive deleted scene from the horror comedy. There’s a woman named Caroline who is Vlad’s friend on Facebook who’s not really his friend per se — we’ve all been there, Vladster! — and he decides to “poke” her though he’s a little irked at what she might do in return.
30 November 2014 @ 07:27 am
The 13 coolest vampire films of all time
If you can't make it to "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" this holiday, sink your teeth into these morbid classics
If you like your vampire movies cool, creepy and haunting, you can’t do better than Ana Lily Amirpour’s feature directorial debut “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” which finally opens today, months after wowing at Sundance. Shot in black and white, the David Lynch-ian slow burner follows a young Iranian woman who moves briskly through shadows with a penchant for human blood. To celebrate the film’s release, we’ve compiled a list of other cool vampire movies worth biting into — “Twilight” not included. Tell us some of your favorites in the comments section.
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08 August 2014 @ 09:22 am
Anne Rice’s ‘Vampire Chronicles’ Takes Flight at Universal
Dave McNary
Film Reporter
@Variety_DMcNary
Setting up a potential “Twilight”-like franchise, Universal Pictures has acquired movie rights to Anne Rice’s novels in “The Vampire Chronicles” series for Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are on board to produce.
The deal — announced Thursday — includes the adapted screenplay for “Tale of the Body Thief” written by Rice’s son, author Christopher Rice. Other novels in the series include “Interview with the Vampire” and the upcoming “Prince Lestat.”
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07 November 2013 @ 08:41 am
El Rey Network Begins Production in Austin on Adaptation of Robert Rodriguez Cult-Classic Film ‘FROM DUSK TILL DAWN’
New York, NY and Austin, TX, November 6, 2013 – El Rey Network in association with FactoryMade Ventures, today announced the production start of “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series,” the first scripted original to air on Robert Rodriguez’s new genre-busting cable network set to debut this December. Based on his cult classic film of the same name, the supernatural crime saga, hour-long series (which will premiere on El Rey Network in Q1 2014) began filming in Austin this week with Rodriguez set to direct the first two installments.
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01 November 2013 @ 05:48 pm
13 August 2013 @ 08:10 am
'Vampire Academy' brings up a 'brassy' heroine
Brian Truitt, USA TODAY
Zoey Deutch plays the half-vamp, half-human Rose in the adaptation of Richelle Mead's young-adult novel.
Vampire Academy director Mark Waters sums up his half-human, half-vamp heroine Rose with one word: moxie.
"She's got a lot of personality, and that fun, brassy energy is what makes Rose interesting," the filmmaker (Mean Girls) says of the character played by Zoey Deutch in the movie, adapted from the first book of Richelle Mead's young-adult series by Waters' brother Daniel (Heathers).
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09 August 2013 @ 03:44 am
08 August 2013 @ 06:47 pm
YEAH! posts annotated version of 'The Lost Boys'
Whitney Matheson, USA TODAY
Though I appreciate Nosferatu, Dracula and Let the Right One In, I'm not ashamed to say my all-time favorite vampire movie is The Lost Boys.
The 1987 film captured my young heart with its sexy bloodsuckers, witty dialogue and two Coreys, and I must've seen it dozens of times well into the '90s. (Fun fact: Because I wasn't allowed to see the R-rated version when it came out, for years I re-watched the censored version taped from TV.)
Today the online movie service YEAH! (www.yeahtv.com) has posted an enhanced version of The Lost Boys, and it's pretty fantastic. As I've written before, if you rent a movie on YEAH!, you're treated to a sort of "pop-up video" version of the flick, with little-known facts peppered throughout. What makes the site truly stand out is its original content; in this case, Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher offers brand new commentary about the movie.
Watch this exclusive preview, and you can see what I mean.
John Hurt Joins FX's Vampire Thriller The Strain
by Natalie Abrams
John Hurt has joined the cast of The Strain, FX announced Monday.
Based on the best-selling vampire novel trilogy, the pilot is a high concept thriller about Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather (Corey Stoll), the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team investigate a mysterious viral outbreak that has telltale signs of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism.
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