Exclusive: Mythology Entertainment, the growing production company run by Brad Fischer, Laeta Kalogridis and James Vanderbilt, has hired Jon Silk to the post of executive vice president of Production and Development. He will help the two-year old company handle a growing volume of film, TV and theater projects, and he will hunt for more properties to develop. Silk comes there from Lin Pictures, where he was senior vice president of Production and co-produced Gangster Squad. He was a former director of Development at Benderspink and started as an assistant to producer Scott Rudin. “Jon is an extraordinarily talented executive whose experience, relationships and taste we have long admired,” said the Mythology founders. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome him to the Mythology team and look forward to working together with him as we continue to build our slate and company.” Mythology most recently produced the Roland Emmerich-directed White House Down for Sony,...
- 10/23/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Mythology Entertainment have scored the film rights to Jack El-Hai's non-fiction book "The Nazi And The Psychiatrist" with plans to turn it into a feature.
The story explores the complex and close relationship between American psychiatrist Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and Nazi war criminal and Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Goering.
The book was the first to get access to Kelley’s personal and professional papers from the Nuremberg Trial years. James Vanderbilt and Laeta Kalogridis will produce.
Source: Deadline...
The story explores the complex and close relationship between American psychiatrist Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and Nazi war criminal and Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Goering.
The book was the first to get access to Kelley’s personal and professional papers from the Nuremberg Trial years. James Vanderbilt and Laeta Kalogridis will produce.
Source: Deadline...
- 12/1/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Mythology Entertainment partners Bradley Fischer, James Vanderbilt and Laeta Kalogridis have secured rights to turn the non-fiction book The Nazi And The Psychiatrist into a feature film and a play. The book, written by Jack El-Hai and slated for publication by PublicAffairs Books, explores the complex relationship between American psychiatrist Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and Nazi war criminal and Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Goering. The book is the first to access Kelley’s personal and professional papers from the Nuremberg Trial years, which the shrink’s family had hidden away for years. Mythology’s Fischer, Vanderbilt and Kalogridis will produce both the film and stage versions. Surrounded by the postwar ruins of the Third Reich, 22 top Nazi prisoners awaited trial at the 1945-46 International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Kelley, who studied the essence of evil and the anatomy of the Nazi personality, was among the few people...
- 11/30/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING JR.
- Deadline
By Jesse Miller, MoreHorror.com
As you enter the empty theatre, you hear the sounds of circus blaring from the speakers and as your eyes scan the room, you notice a horribly burnt man standing centre stage, who introduces himself as ‘Andy the Arsonist’.
“Welcome to Theatre Of The Deranged” He proclaims, before proceeding to introduce the program for tonight’s entertainment – five short horror films, each by a different writer/director – and into the deranged we go.
First up on the program is writer/director M. Kelley & Shawn C. Phillips’
Lust For Blood, a tale about a man that wakes up one particular morning with – yep, you guessed it – a lust for blood and oddball short follows his violent escapades across town.
Lust For Blood feels like a first year film student’s love letter to splatter films, complete with over-the-top cheap effects, musical sound effects from Mac’s IMovie,...
As you enter the empty theatre, you hear the sounds of circus blaring from the speakers and as your eyes scan the room, you notice a horribly burnt man standing centre stage, who introduces himself as ‘Andy the Arsonist’.
“Welcome to Theatre Of The Deranged” He proclaims, before proceeding to introduce the program for tonight’s entertainment – five short horror films, each by a different writer/director – and into the deranged we go.
First up on the program is writer/director M. Kelley & Shawn C. Phillips’
Lust For Blood, a tale about a man that wakes up one particular morning with – yep, you guessed it – a lust for blood and oddball short follows his violent escapades across town.
Lust For Blood feels like a first year film student’s love letter to splatter films, complete with over-the-top cheap effects, musical sound effects from Mac’s IMovie,...
- 6/27/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
The Welsh full figured busty blue-eyed pornstar Sophie Dee is set to make her horror debut in new anthology 'Theatre of the Deranged'. Dee (below) famed for appearing in numerous adult titles will appear in director Creep Creepersin's segment entitled 'Cannibal Blood Girl'. Along with Creepersin ('Ding Dong Dead', 'Orgy of Blood') a whole host of horror filmmakers are involved in the Psykik Junky Pictures produced project including James Cullen Bressack, Brian Dorton, Liz Gilbert, M. Kelley and Shawn C. Phillips. 'Theatre of the Deranged' will arrive on DVD in the Us from 24 July. Cory Jacob stars as host Andy The Arsonist who introduces us to five short horror segments which along with 'Cannibal Blood Girl' include 'Speak Easy', 'Lust For Blood', 'Doll Parts' and 'Bad Dennis'. Jon Bloch, Brian Dorton, Brian Redban, Laura Mercer, Douglas Conner, Kevin E. Scott, Ivy Pemberton, Doug Waugh...
- 6/6/2012
- Horror Asylum
Babes, boobs, blood and Mj & Shawn together again! What more do you need?
From low budget horror director Mark Foley (The Severed Inn) comes a film starring internet sensations M. Kelley (aka Mj) and Shawn C. Phillips (Sasquatch Assault aka Attack of the Sasquatch) of "Demon of Lataran".
The duo star as friends looking to score with hot babes, but instead meeting a gruesome death with the "Demon of Lataran". For fans of the duo, it appears as though they have been having some rocky times. Hopefully, with The Demon of Lataran, the film reminds fans why they fell in love with them to begin with.
In Demon of Lataran, a beautiful young co-ed answers an ad in which they are looking for a caretaker for an elderly woman. It seemed like easy money, but the old woman turned to be something very different from what was advertised. What secrets,...
From low budget horror director Mark Foley (The Severed Inn) comes a film starring internet sensations M. Kelley (aka Mj) and Shawn C. Phillips (Sasquatch Assault aka Attack of the Sasquatch) of "Demon of Lataran".
The duo star as friends looking to score with hot babes, but instead meeting a gruesome death with the "Demon of Lataran". For fans of the duo, it appears as though they have been having some rocky times. Hopefully, with The Demon of Lataran, the film reminds fans why they fell in love with them to begin with.
In Demon of Lataran, a beautiful young co-ed answers an ad in which they are looking for a caretaker for an elderly woman. It seemed like easy money, but the old woman turned to be something very different from what was advertised. What secrets,...
- 3/20/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
From the deranged mind that delivered the moonshine and marijuana-fueled 2009 exploitation-horror hit Stash, comes a new tale of depravity, cannibalism and torture…
Red River
Own the Unforgettable and Unrated DVD Loaded with Extras
February 1st, 2010 From Bloody Earth Films
Red River stars: Dustin Roe, Ronica Jones, Levi Brandenburg, Megan Marie Wilson, George Robert Bailey, Sonny Burnette, Kayla Perkins, Shawn C. Phillips, Jackey Hall, M. Kelley
A small town in the backwoods of Kentucky is the setting for the newest entry in a long line of Hillbilly Horror, Red River. Written and director by Jacob Ennis (2009’s Stash), Red River is the story of Roland Thatcher: a family man, a business man, a man of god…and a man who doesn’t take kindly to strangers. When a group of ‘city kids’ set up camp of the outskirts of his property, they spark a chain of events culminating in bloodshed, dismemberment and mass murder.
Red River
Own the Unforgettable and Unrated DVD Loaded with Extras
February 1st, 2010 From Bloody Earth Films
Red River stars: Dustin Roe, Ronica Jones, Levi Brandenburg, Megan Marie Wilson, George Robert Bailey, Sonny Burnette, Kayla Perkins, Shawn C. Phillips, Jackey Hall, M. Kelley
A small town in the backwoods of Kentucky is the setting for the newest entry in a long line of Hillbilly Horror, Red River. Written and director by Jacob Ennis (2009’s Stash), Red River is the story of Roland Thatcher: a family man, a business man, a man of god…and a man who doesn’t take kindly to strangers. When a group of ‘city kids’ set up camp of the outskirts of his property, they spark a chain of events culminating in bloodshed, dismemberment and mass murder.
- 11/4/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical is a new film that promises to be the first of its kind: a horror musical with an original heavy metal soundtrack. Its creators call it "G.G. Allin meets the Rocky Horror Picture Show!"
Mr. Bricks stars Tim Dax along with Richard Barone, Jamie Greco, and YouTube sensations Shawn "Cool Duder" Phillips and M.J. Kelley. In addition, just this week Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment, signed on to appear in the film.
For more info befriend Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical on Facebook, and also be sure to visit the official Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical website.
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Wonder if they can pull it off in the Dread Central forums.
Mr. Bricks stars Tim Dax along with Richard Barone, Jamie Greco, and YouTube sensations Shawn "Cool Duder" Phillips and M.J. Kelley. In addition, just this week Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment, signed on to appear in the film.
For more info befriend Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical on Facebook, and also be sure to visit the official Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical website.
- Debi Moore
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Got news? Click here to submit it!
Wonder if they can pull it off in the Dread Central forums.
- 5/8/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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