Want to experience higher learning in horror? From September to December, Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum will host classes on horror presented by The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Classes will be instructed by some of the most renowned experts and artists of the genre, including Jack Ketchum (author of the seminal The Girl Next Door), Dennis Paoli (co-screenwriter of 1985's Re-Animator), and longtime horror journalist Michael Gingold.
Press Release: With successful branches in London and Montreal, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies makes its first stateside stop at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum with a pilot semester of horror film, literature and pop culture classes, running from September through December 2016 and featuring classes by some of the most renowned voices in horror film, fiction and criticism.
Named for the fictional university in H.P. Lovecraft’s literary mythos, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is a community-based organization that offers...
Press Release: With successful branches in London and Montreal, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies makes its first stateside stop at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum with a pilot semester of horror film, literature and pop culture classes, running from September through December 2016 and featuring classes by some of the most renowned voices in horror film, fiction and criticism.
Named for the fictional university in H.P. Lovecraft’s literary mythos, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is a community-based organization that offers...
- 9/2/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Online film festival announces shortlist for its charity edition, which aims to raise awareness of human rights, social, economic and environmental issues.
Viewster Online Film Fest (#Voff) has unveiled the finalists for its charity edition, #Voff 4: Share It Forward.
Eliana Alvarez Martinez’s documentary Baja’s Secret Miracle has already been announced as the winner of the Audience Award (the film most shared, voted for and commented on), resulting in a $20,000 donation to Climate Reality Project which was set up by Al Gore.
Overall, the festival has 230 films from 47 countries with th aim of raising awareness around human rights, social, economic and environmental issues. This year’s jury comprises of producer Ted Hope, film-maker Timo Vuorensola and actress Nora Tschimer.
The winners, who will get a share of the $80,000 prize fund, will be announced on Dec 8 and the full shortlist is as follows:
Baja’s Secret Miracle, dir Eliana Alvarez MartinezUrban Escape, dirs David de...
Viewster Online Film Fest (#Voff) has unveiled the finalists for its charity edition, #Voff 4: Share It Forward.
Eliana Alvarez Martinez’s documentary Baja’s Secret Miracle has already been announced as the winner of the Audience Award (the film most shared, voted for and commented on), resulting in a $20,000 donation to Climate Reality Project which was set up by Al Gore.
Overall, the festival has 230 films from 47 countries with th aim of raising awareness around human rights, social, economic and environmental issues. This year’s jury comprises of producer Ted Hope, film-maker Timo Vuorensola and actress Nora Tschimer.
The winners, who will get a share of the $80,000 prize fund, will be announced on Dec 8 and the full shortlist is as follows:
Baja’s Secret Miracle, dir Eliana Alvarez MartinezUrban Escape, dirs David de...
- 12/2/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The fifth annual ToyFair 2013 Best New Toy Awards winners were announced this morning predicting some of the top new toys for 2013. Winners range from classics like Scalextric (Hornby) and Star Wars (Hasbro) to state of the art futuristic technology such as HolograFX (John Adams) and Tesksta – the robotic puppy (Character Options). Whilst Flair and Lego took top honours with three Best New Toy Awards.
The twelve categories – which produced 34 winning toys from 24 different toy companies – were unveiled by Toy Fair organisers the British Toy & Hobby Association on the first day of the UK’s only dedicated toy, game and hobby trade show, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
The full list of Toy Fair Best New Toys 2013 is below.
Action Figures Ben 10 Omniverse Omni-Net Omnitrix (Bandai) £29.99 Turtles Pop-up Pizza Playset Anchovy Alley (Flair) £24.99 Star Wars Anakin to Darth Vader action figure (Hasbro) £24.99 Boys The Trash Pack Ultimate...
The twelve categories – which produced 34 winning toys from 24 different toy companies – were unveiled by Toy Fair organisers the British Toy & Hobby Association on the first day of the UK’s only dedicated toy, game and hobby trade show, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
The full list of Toy Fair Best New Toys 2013 is below.
Action Figures Ben 10 Omniverse Omni-Net Omnitrix (Bandai) £29.99 Turtles Pop-up Pizza Playset Anchovy Alley (Flair) £24.99 Star Wars Anakin to Darth Vader action figure (Hasbro) £24.99 Boys The Trash Pack Ultimate...
- 1/22/2013
- by Phil
- Nerdly
The versatile Ang Lee brings Yann Martel's tale of shipwreck and spirituality to the big screen in magnificent fashion
The Taiwan-born Ang Lee rapidly established himself in the 1990s as one of the world's most versatile film-makers, moving on from the trilogy of movies about Chinese families that made his name to Jane Austen's England (Sense and Sensibility) and Richard Nixon's America (The Ice Storm). If he revisits a place or genre it's to tell a very different story – a martial arts movie in medieval China (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is followed by a spy thriller in wartime Shanghai (Lust, Caution), and a western with a Us civil war background (Ride With the Devil) is succeeded by a western about a gay relationship in present-day Wyoming (Brokeback Mountain).
He adopts different styles to fit his new subjects, and while there are certain recurrent themes, among them the...
The Taiwan-born Ang Lee rapidly established himself in the 1990s as one of the world's most versatile film-makers, moving on from the trilogy of movies about Chinese families that made his name to Jane Austen's England (Sense and Sensibility) and Richard Nixon's America (The Ice Storm). If he revisits a place or genre it's to tell a very different story – a martial arts movie in medieval China (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is followed by a spy thriller in wartime Shanghai (Lust, Caution), and a western with a Us civil war background (Ride With the Devil) is succeeded by a western about a gay relationship in present-day Wyoming (Brokeback Mountain).
He adopts different styles to fit his new subjects, and while there are certain recurrent themes, among them the...
- 12/23/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Courtesy Gilt Groupe
Next week, Gilt Groupe is hosting loads a few drool-worthy sales worth checking out. You’ll find loads of chic home décor, toys, gear, footwear and clothing from Schoenhut (11/9), Halaballoo Girls Clothing (11/8), Magnificent Baby (11/8), Baby Nay (11/9), Rosie Pope Maternity (11/9), and more!
They’re also opening a holiday Gilt Kids Toy Shop featuring brands including Tegu, Kidkraft and Melissa & Doug that will remain open until Christmas.
Our picks: The Halabaloo Sweater Heart Dress with Bow (now $70 – 74) and the Schoenhut 5 Piece Drum Set (now $145, originally $207), above right.
Not a member of Gilt? Use our exclusive link to sign up.
Next week, Gilt Groupe is hosting loads a few drool-worthy sales worth checking out. You’ll find loads of chic home décor, toys, gear, footwear and clothing from Schoenhut (11/9), Halaballoo Girls Clothing (11/8), Magnificent Baby (11/8), Baby Nay (11/9), Rosie Pope Maternity (11/9), and more!
They’re also opening a holiday Gilt Kids Toy Shop featuring brands including Tegu, Kidkraft and Melissa & Doug that will remain open until Christmas.
Our picks: The Halabaloo Sweater Heart Dress with Bow (now $70 – 74) and the Schoenhut 5 Piece Drum Set (now $145, originally $207), above right.
Not a member of Gilt? Use our exclusive link to sign up.
- 11/5/2011
- by StyleWatch
- People - CelebrityBabies
by Jason Lees, MoreHorror.com
Every once in a while you get lucky and are reminded why our genre is so great. If I sat around obsessing over every frame of Transformers I doubt I'd be able to contact Michael Bay and talk about why he chose to explore Bumblebee's inner strife.
And if I did, who'd really care? In our genre, it's pretty damned amazing that you can watch a film and with just a few polite keystrokes get in touch with the people who made it and discover that they're just as much film lovers as the rest of us. What follows is a pretty brief but very informative interview that writer/director Eric Shapiro was kind enough to indulge me with.
His new short film Mail Order (Review) is starting to make the rounds, and it's a damn sharp take on a Jack Ketchum story you can...
Every once in a while you get lucky and are reminded why our genre is so great. If I sat around obsessing over every frame of Transformers I doubt I'd be able to contact Michael Bay and talk about why he chose to explore Bumblebee's inner strife.
And if I did, who'd really care? In our genre, it's pretty damned amazing that you can watch a film and with just a few polite keystrokes get in touch with the people who made it and discover that they're just as much film lovers as the rest of us. What follows is a pretty brief but very informative interview that writer/director Eric Shapiro was kind enough to indulge me with.
His new short film Mail Order (Review) is starting to make the rounds, and it's a damn sharp take on a Jack Ketchum story you can...
- 10/9/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
by Jason Lees, MoreHorror.com
There are certain tricks when it comes to adapting a short story to film. Novels, while obviously longer and more complex, seem to be more forgiving to the new medium when they’re translated. All that extra literary real estate offers up more opportunities for the filmmaker to pick and choose what to present to an audience. With a short story, if you don’t almost take the written word point by point, you can come up with something miles away from the source material. That’s especially true when it comes to literary works that are written in the first person or that recount one character’s observations. When it’s a straight forward expositional piece, something like King’s Survivor Type, then it’s possible to take the story straight from page to screen, but when it’s something like Jack Ketchum’s Mail Order,...
There are certain tricks when it comes to adapting a short story to film. Novels, while obviously longer and more complex, seem to be more forgiving to the new medium when they’re translated. All that extra literary real estate offers up more opportunities for the filmmaker to pick and choose what to present to an audience. With a short story, if you don’t almost take the written word point by point, you can come up with something miles away from the source material. That’s especially true when it comes to literary works that are written in the first person or that recount one character’s observations. When it’s a straight forward expositional piece, something like King’s Survivor Type, then it’s possible to take the story straight from page to screen, but when it’s something like Jack Ketchum’s Mail Order,...
- 10/3/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Courtesy ofMTV
Someanniversaries are more shocking than others. This one blew our minds. Thirty yearsago today the universe-changing network MTV debuted. We remember televisionmilestones like some people connect to graduations or winning the big game. Forus the day we got cable was a victory — all those shows at our fingertips.
We werelucky back in Braintree, Massachusetts, prior to getting the official musictelevision station, we had access to a local network called V-66 that showedshorts from a range of artists from international acts to Boston-based bands.It was amazing, but it didn’t have rock stars like Mick Jagger and Pete Townshendimploring us to get it.
Once we gotit, MTV was always on in our house and we loved every overly hairsprayed,spandex-clad pop singer or metal band that came our way. We remember gatheringwith our friends when Thriller premiered — and watching it every time it airedon our sets.
Then theunimaginable happened.
Someanniversaries are more shocking than others. This one blew our minds. Thirty yearsago today the universe-changing network MTV debuted. We remember televisionmilestones like some people connect to graduations or winning the big game. Forus the day we got cable was a victory — all those shows at our fingertips.
We werelucky back in Braintree, Massachusetts, prior to getting the official musictelevision station, we had access to a local network called V-66 that showedshorts from a range of artists from international acts to Boston-based bands.It was amazing, but it didn’t have rock stars like Mick Jagger and Pete Townshendimploring us to get it.
Once we gotit, MTV was always on in our house and we loved every overly hairsprayed,spandex-clad pop singer or metal band that came our way. We remember gatheringwith our friends when Thriller premiered — and watching it every time it airedon our sets.
Then theunimaginable happened.
- 8/1/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
“Who’s the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum?” That’s what Stephen King said about the author of such books as Peaceable Kingdom & Off Season. Four of his books—Offspring, Red, The Lost and The Girl Next Door—have been turned into feature films. The Girl Next Door adaptation came out in 2007, directed by Gregory Wilson, and now the novel is being re-released as Jack Ketchum’S The Girl Next Door: Movie Omnibus (Limited Edition).
- 7/16/2010
- by allan.dart@starloggroup.com (Allan Dart)
- Fangoria
A virtual tour of the Museum of Art and Design's newest exhibition, dedicated to all the surprising ways artists are using paper today.
In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments. The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife", opened last weekend and runs through April 4, 2010.
The focus is paper--and the way contemporary artists have used paper itself as a medium, whether by cutting, tearing, burning, or shredding. In all, the show features 50 artists and a dozen installations made just for the show, including Andreas Kocks's Paperwork #701G (in the Beginning), seen above. Here's a sampling of the other works on display:
Mia Pearlman's Eddy:
Ferry Staverman, A Space Odesey:
A detail of a sprawling work by Andrew Scott Ross, Rocks and Rocks and Caves and Dreams:
Lane Twitchell's...
In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments. The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife", opened last weekend and runs through April 4, 2010.
The focus is paper--and the way contemporary artists have used paper itself as a medium, whether by cutting, tearing, burning, or shredding. In all, the show features 50 artists and a dozen installations made just for the show, including Andreas Kocks's Paperwork #701G (in the Beginning), seen above. Here's a sampling of the other works on display:
Mia Pearlman's Eddy:
Ferry Staverman, A Space Odesey:
A detail of a sprawling work by Andrew Scott Ross, Rocks and Rocks and Caves and Dreams:
Lane Twitchell's...
- 10/20/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez, sitting on a tree... S-p-i-n-n-i-n-g. Back again with the best, worst and weirdest updates from the movie world, including director Oliver Stone's trip down to South of the Border, being buddy-buddies with controversial heads of state. That gave me an idea. How about a new Rambo movie where he rescues lefty filmmakers from mad dictators? What's that, you say? There's already a new Rambo movie in the works?
The Good
• After three months of gracing the Tokyo skyline with awesomeness, Japan's life-size Gundam statue was supposed to be dismantled as scheduled last Wednesday, but a nasty typhoon is delaying the deconstruction for a few days (Police should start looking if there aren't any otaku convention with a giant wind machine). A little over a week ago, a Japanese couple managed to celebrate the most epic wedding ever by getting married in front of the statue and in costume,...
The Good
• After three months of gracing the Tokyo skyline with awesomeness, Japan's life-size Gundam statue was supposed to be dismantled as scheduled last Wednesday, but a nasty typhoon is delaying the deconstruction for a few days (Police should start looking if there aren't any otaku convention with a giant wind machine). A little over a week ago, a Japanese couple managed to celebrate the most epic wedding ever by getting married in front of the statue and in costume,...
- 9/6/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Director and writer Nick Cassavetes has sued New Line Cinema for fraud and breach of contract after he was fired from directing "Peaceable Kingdom," an elephant orphanage drama. Suit was filed by Cassavetes on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that he was never paid for a rewrite of the script. Parent company Warner Bros. Pictures had no comment about the suit. Cassavetes was attached to helm the project in March. The story tells of the life and work of Daphne Sheldrick who devoted her life to preventing extinction of elephants by saving baby elephants who were orphaned...
- 9/3/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
By Amy Kaufman
Nick Cassavetes is suing New Line Cinema over a claim that he was promised a job directing the film "Peaceable Kingdom" only to be axed from the movie after handing over a full rewrite of the script for which he was not paid.
Cassavetes, who has directed the classic chick flick "The Notebook" and this summer's tear jerker "My Sister's Keeper" for New Line, says the studio agreed to pay him $275,000 (plus an additional $25,000 for office space) in March to oversee script development.
He also alleges in a lawsuit filed Tu...
Nick Cassavetes is suing New Line Cinema over a claim that he was promised a job directing the film "Peaceable Kingdom" only to be axed from the movie after handing over a full rewrite of the script for which he was not paid.
Cassavetes, who has directed the classic chick flick "The Notebook" and this summer's tear jerker "My Sister's Keeper" for New Line, says the studio agreed to pay him $275,000 (plus an additional $25,000 for office space) in March to oversee script development.
He also alleges in a lawsuit filed Tu...
- 9/2/2009
- by Amy Kaufman
- The Wrap
Back in March we reported that Nick Cassavetes, the weepie director of The Notebook and My Sister's Keeper, would be shifting gears to direct Peaceable Kingdom, a drama about elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick. Now not only is that project not happening, but it's ending in a lawsuit. According to THR, Cassavetes is suing New Line Cinema, claiming he delivered a full rewrite of the script only to be booted from the project entirely. The lawsuit reads, "New Line made promises to (Cassavetes) that he would direct the film in order to obtain his services as a writer without having to enter into a separate writer's agreement and pay him his usual fee for a complete page one rewrite." Suing a major movie studio can't be easy-- they've got lawyers like I've got fruit flies-- but maybe New Line is an easier target, given that it's a studio that barely exists...
- 9/2/2009
- cinemablend.com
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