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New 'Saw VI' Clip, 'Saw VII' and 'The Strangers 2' Announced
Filed under: Horror », Deals », Fandom », Newsstand », Trailers and Clips »
(Yesterday was a big Saw-related day, with clips arriving online along with word of yet another sequel. Here's Peter Hall and Peter Martin reporting for Horror Squad)Yesterday Bloody-Disgusting provided the net with a look at the first official poster for Lionsgate's sixth trip to the money factory/torture well started by James Wan and Leigh Whannell back in 2004. The poster is a cryptic image of six people fixed to a child's merry-go-round with the slug, "The game comes full circle." No doubt such an enigma has been torturing the imagination of Jigsaw's rabid fanbase since its release. After all playground equipment is generally quite safe, no? How could it possibly be a sinister trap?
Now less than 24 hours later we've got an official clip from Saw VI that helps clear up the merry-go-round bit of the poster. Having watched said clip I'm shocked to report that, surprise, all is not well in the playground. Turns out a spinny-ma-jig in Saw VI land is not a source of glee. It looks like it sucks. A lot. [Read the rest at Horror Squad]
Saw VII News After The Jump
Lucy Liu robs banks
Filed under: Action », Thrillers », Lionsgate Films », Box Office », Distribution », Newsstand »
Lionsgate is really stocking up on action thrillers
- joining Crank
(which stars a rampaging Jason Statham) and Rogue
(in which Statham stars with Jet
Li) in its pile of movies is the recently-acquired Devil
to Pay. The movie is the first English-language venture from Danish director Trygve Allister Diesen and, while it lacks Jason Statham (at least so
far) it does star Lucy Liu as a single mom whose children are
kidnapped. In order to keep them safe, she's forced to rob a bank in which, conveniently, she happens to work. Since,
if there's no scene of Liu beating the crap out of all of the kidnappers, American audiences will immediately demand
their money back, I think it's safe to assume that she eventually gets the upper hand, and that the kids are rescued.
Hell, she might even meet a man - what do you think? A cop? A sympathetic fellow bank employee in whom she confides?
Jason Statham?Though the movie doesn't even start filming until this spring, Lionsgate will nevertheless take it along to the upcoming European film market, where it will try to drum up some foreign distribution.
Mmm...zombies.
Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Casting », New Releases », Lionsgate Films », Fandom »
You
know how, at the end of Shaun
of the Dead (SPOILER AHEAD!), the zombies that were still around had been domesticated? Well, someone has made
a whole movie with that premise and, since as far as I'm concerned it's almost as hard to make a bad zombie movie as it
is to screw up one about vampires, it sounds pretty damn good to me.The movie - called Fido - is set in a "small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies carry the mail." I mean, hell. What's not to love about that? Despite a small human-flesh-eating problem that emerged when the dead first rose, everything has been fine since the invention of a collar that calmed the zombies down. However, things take a turn for the worse when "Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world ([who] is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido)...eats the next-door neighbor." Surely I speak for a lot of you when I say "HA!"
Despite its super low-budget and indie sound, Fido was in fact produced by Lionsgate which, based on the success of recently releases like Saw and Hostel, certainly knows what it's doing. In addition, he cast includes Billy Connolly as Fido and Carrie-Anne Moss as Timmy's mom, which isn't too shabby. There's no release date yet, but this sucker just might be Lionsgate's next sneaky hit.
Surprise, surprise: Hostel 2 on the way
Filed under: Horror », Deals », Lionsgate Films », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
Given its huge opening weekend and the fact that the people at Lionsgate are no
fools, this morning's news that Hostel 2 is coming should surprise no one.
(Plus, how hard is it to make a movie about buying the right to kill people? New victims, new clients - pow, you've got
a sequel!) Just like they did with Saw,
Lionsgate plan to have the film - which, like Hostel,
will be a collaboration with Screen Gems - out in about a year. Hostel cost
roughly $5 million to make; if the budget for the next one is that low, barring some sort of huge disaster a profit is
pretty much in the bag.Though the story has not yet been finalized, star Jay Hernandez recently suggested in an interview that his character could "come back" and try "to get back at the people who were involved." Ah. Well, if nothing else, we all know that he doesn't die - thanks for that, Jay.
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