Bill Skarsgard, Famke Janssen
Netflix has added another series to its growing stable of original programming. Hemlock Grove, a horror series directed by Eli Roth, will be available exclusively on Netflix.com in early 2013, the company announced Wednesday.
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Family Guy courtesy Fox
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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Hostel
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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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Hostel's Jay Hernandez has joined the ABC ensemble soap Six Degrees (the pilot of which is being directed by film vet Tim Blake Nelson); Final Destination hottie Ali Larter and Hayden Panettiere have been cast on NBC's Heroes; and onetime big-screen Superman contender Matt Bomer, Logan Marshall-Green and Aaron Stanford have scored the leads in ABC's Traveler.
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At the buzzer, Hoodwinked, a cheeky animated update of the Little Red Riding Hood story, beat out Glory Road for the long-weekend box-office title, earning $16.6 million compared to the basketball drama's $16.5 mil. Rounding out the Top 5 were Queen Latifah's Last Holiday (with 15.7 million), The Chronicles of... blah blah blah ($12.2 million, for a to-date take of $260 mil), and the bloody good Hostel ($11.7 mil).
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And not just 'cause if you ask some bozo to keep it down, he'll tell ya to do stuff to yourself that you always thought you needed a partner for, either. Hostel — a sort of National Lampoon's European Vacation for masochists — debuted in first place at the box office with $20.1 million. (But if people are really so into torture, why didn't Elektra do better? Riddle me that.) Dropping into second and third, respectively, were The Chronicles of a Movie Whose Title Is So Long, It Could Be Considered a Chronicle in and of Itself (with $15.4 million) and King Kong (with $12.5 million). Nowhere near the top of the heap was the Adam Sandler-produced turkey Grandma's Boy, which took in a measly $2.9 million and, we hope, made Chris Kattan feel at least a little better about Corky Romano.
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