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- Michael Myers will be maskless for more than 70% of the new Rob Zombie Halloween film. Towards the end of the film, Myers wears a new mask which makeup artist Wayne Toth describes as “a lot different from any of [the masks] we’ve seen. People are going to be surprised when they see it. It’s going to thrown the Myers fans for a loop.”
- In the product tie in build up before the new movie releases, Urban Collector has released 3 new wall murals for Star Trek: The Original Series. Taken from the original show, you can make your room look like the bridge, have the crew watch over you, or watch the Enterprise flying through space.
- The man directing the theatrical reboot of Stephen King’s It, Dave Kajganich, has explained his desire to be faithful to King’s book as well as maintain its R-rated material. “I plan to be very protective of the book. The reality, though, is that WB wants to do this as a single film, so I will have to kill a few darlings to make that happen. You have my promise, though, that I will do this with the utmost humility and respect for King’s work.”
- A star of the Harry Potter films has been arrested after cops found a £2,000 cannabis farm in his bedroom. Drug squad officers swooped on 19-year-old Jamie Waylett, famed as bullying Hogwarts School pupil Vincent Crabbe in the wizard movies, after a tip-off.
- After spending the better part of the last six years directing the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, Gore Verbinski has informed Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer that he will not helm a fourth installment that’s expected to set sail in 2010 with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow. Verbinski will instead focus on other projects that include “Bioshock,” a Universal Pictures adaptation of the bestselling video game that has a John Logan script.
- A theater full of Trek fans showed up in Austin, Texas, thinking they were going to see a new print of the classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and 10 minutes of Abrams’ reboot, but Leonard Nimoy shocked the house by announcing they would in fact see the entire new movie just hours before it made its international debut in Sydney. The early fan reviews on Twitter are running almost entirely positive so far.
- A 24-year-old man shot and killed himself at the Regal Cinemas in Eugene, Oregon during a late night screening of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. The yet-to-be-named man was seated in the back corner of the theater. Police were called after patrons heard a loud “popping sound” behind them, and reported it to the theater managers. The screening was stopped and ticket purchases were refunded.
- Watchmen star Jackie Earle Haley has signed on to play Freddy Krueger in New Line’s forthcoming The Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. The actor, who received an Oscar nomination for his role as a sex offender in 2006′s Little Children, will take on the part famously originated by Robert Englund when cameras roll on the franchise’s ninth film, titled A Nightmare on Elm Street, on May 5 in Chicago.
- Michael Bay has claimed that its too soon to decide, but he thinks 3D movies might be a gimmick. He dismissed the latest trend when a fan asked him if he would be shooting future Transformers installments in 3d. Bay claimed his style was too aggressive for 3D cameras.
- Red Dwarf star Craig Charles has spoken out to say that the cast are feeling immense ‘pressure’ to pull off the TV comeback of the decade. The resurrection of the loved BBC sci-fi show has sparked massive worldwide interest and fever pitch anticipation.
- Michael Bay introduced RC, the pink female Transformer, just so he can kill her off.
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