Fox's Family Guy celebrates 100 episodes with a half-hour tribute airing Nov. 4 at 8:30 pm/ET. The actual milestone episode, "Stewie Kills Lois," follows.... MyNetworkTV's Celebrity Exposé focuses on Britney Spears and her recent headline-making antics tonight at 8 pm.... Tyler Perry discusses his new movie on Court TV's Star Jones Tuesday at 3 pm.... Hostel: Director's Cut arrives on DVD and hi-def Blu-ray Oct. 23. Hey, whatever gets me some more Barbara Nedeljakova.
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickThe ice-cold thriller 13 Tzameti was one of my favorite films of last year and now that its on DVD I hope it will find an audience I put it on my five-best list compiled under pressure by the way because I hate the reductiveness of lists but thats another discussion and the overwhelming response from readers was Ive never heard of it That started some discussion about the difference between what critics like and what normal people like Feel free to weigh in But I think the real problem with 13 Tzameti is nothing more or less than that it got such a limited release that lots of moviegoers who would have loved it never got the chance to see it Its in black-and-white and a foreign language two foreign languages actually French and Georgian And thats a kiss-of-death double whammy in the current marketplace Why Beats me I really dont find reading subtitles so onerous and in my experience theyre far better done t
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Recently, Hollywood has turned to the horror flick to rejuvenate flagging ticket sales. While the glut of guts has led to a lot of remakes and knockoffs, a few young filmmakers have risen to the challenge of fashioning fresh fare. Eli Roth is one such box-office reanimator. Spawning the hits Cabin Fever and Hostel, the Boston-born director splices social commentary into his gore while mischievously tinkering with genre convention. TVGuide.com invited Roth to discuss Hostel (out on DVD today) and share hi
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Question: Are there any plans to bring Stephen King's latest horrorfest to the big screen? It's a haunting story that grabs you like few other recent books have, and it's believable!
Answer: Despite the generally dismal history of Stephen King's novels and their movie adaptations, there are indeed plans to make a feature film (as opposed to a TV miniseries, where King has fared a little better) from his most recent novel, Cell. It's set up at Dimension Films, the horror arm of Miramax, and Hostel (2005) writer-director (and dyed-in-the-wool horror buff ) Eli Roth is attached as director and either screenwriter or cowriter. There's no cast or start date yet; Roth is currently shooting Hostel 2 and won't start
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Something New's Simon Baker will star in Sex and Death 101, a dark comedy about a man who gets an e-mail listing every woman he has ever had sex with — as well as those he will bed in the future. Cool!... Wedding Crashers' Isla Fisher has joined Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Carla Gugino in the crime thriller The Lookout.... House of Sand and Fog director Vadim Perelman is turning the award-winning children's book The Giver into a feature.... Alexandre Aja, the director of the horror remake The Hills Have Eyes, will helm Black Hole, based on an acclaimed comic-book series.... Per Variety, Hostel director Eli Roth has been tapped to bring Stephen King's Cell to the big screen.
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