Master of Horror set to bring you the girl of your dreams. John Carpenter is onboard to direct Darkchylde, based on the comic by Randy Queen about a good hearted southern teen cursed to become the creatures from her many recurring nightmares. Every time Ariel Chylde transforms, she sheds her skin and a new nightmare emerges from her Id to act out her deepest, darkest impulses.
John Carpenter and Sandy King's Storm King Productions have allied with Randy and Sarah Queen's Darkchylde Ent. to produce the film, following the release of test footage created by Richard Taylor's Academy Award Winning Weta Workshop. (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong, The Hobbit)
John Carpenter says, "Randy Queen's hijacked angel, Ariel Chylde, is the best young female character since Laurie Strode in Halloween. Bringing Ariel and her dark mysteries to life should be quite an adventure for us all."
Adds Queen, "I'm beyond thrilled that John Carpenter, one of our most important, and legendary genre directors, and the man responsible for such landmark films as THE THING, and HALLOWEEN has come onboard with Weta Workshop to help bring the nightmarish tale of Ariel Chylde to the silver screen. As a horror fan, the thought of Carpenter and Weta together, beautiful dreamscapes, and multiple transformations, makes me incredibly excited. There is a reason nearly his entire catalogue has, or is being remade, and it's because Carpenter is a genius."
Offering a stark contrast to super hero comics, Darkchylde was a breakout sensation of the late 90's and early 2000's, garnering immediate acclaim, and an unusually large female fanbase. The property went on to outsell Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman in both domestic and foreign audiences, and has been realized in toys, trading cards, apparel, lunch boxes, mini busts, and more recently a hit crossover with Top Cow, and a statue from PopCultureShockToys. Fans can now read the Ariel Chylde saga online via Wowio and Darkchylde.com and a trade paperback collecting the "Legacy" and "Redemption" series of books ships in January from Image Comics.
John Carpenter is an acclaimed director, screenwriter, producer, and composer, who won an academy award for his short film while still just a student at USC. His storied career includes such seminal films as Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York, Starman, Christine, In the Mouth of Madness, Assault on Precinct 13, They Live, and The Fog. His most recent outing, The Ward, starring Amber Heard as an institutionalized woman tormented by a sinister spirit, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Things get wonderful in next week's all-new episode of "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!"
Catch a glimpse of Wonder Man going toe-to-toe with Iron Man in this preview for the new episode premiering Wednesday, November 10 at 8:30 p.m. ET on Disney XD! And remember to come to Marvel.com for a special liveblog event of the new episode beginning at 8:15 p.m. ET on November 10.
International publisher Bigben Interactive in association with Marvel Entertainment has today announced Marvel Superheroes 3D: Grandmaster’s Challenge, a new adventure in the Marvel universe exclusively for Nintendo Wii. Set for release on 26th November, Marvel Superheroes 3D: Grandmaster’s Challenge will offer an alternative mix of strategy and action for Marvel fans of all ages.
The supervillain Grandmaster has imprisoned a quintuple of Marvel heroes – Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and Wolverine – in a deadly game purely for his own amusement. The heroes are forced to play along and complete a variety of challenges designed to test their abilities to their limits as the Grandmaster manipulates them like pawns on his own private board game. Up to four players can participate to compete against the Grandmaster and his band of villain henchmen, all the while joining forces to break the dome and win their freedom.
International publisher Bigben Interactive in association with Marvel Entertainment has today announced Marvel Superheroes 3D: Grandmaster’s Challenge, a new adventure in the Marvel universe exclusively for Nintendo Wii. Set for release on 26th November, Marvel Superheroes 3D: Grandmaster’s Challenge will offer an alternative mix of strategy and action for Marvel fans of all ages.
The supervillain Grandmaster has imprisoned a quintuple of Marvel heroes – Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and Wolverine – in a deadly game purely for his own amusement. The heroes are forced to play along and complete a variety of challenges designed to test their abilities to their limits as the Grandmaster manipulates them like pawns on his own private board game. Up to four players can participate to compete against the Grandmaster and his band of villain henchmen, all the while joining forces to break the dome and win their freedom.
Marvel Animation has a promotional clip from "Living Legend," Wednesday's new episode of The Avengers: Earth's MIghtiest Heroes on Disney XD.
"Frozen since WW2 and kept alive by the super soldier serum, Captain America is now a man out of time trying to discover his place in the world. But he may not have much of a chance, as his old foe Baron Zemo aims to destroy Captain America, even if that means going through the Avengers!"
"Living Legend" was written by Kevin Burke and Chris Wyatt and was directed by Vinton Heuck
Warner Bros. Animation has released a description, three clips and six stills from "Plague of the Prototypes!," Friday's new episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network. "When Batman is on call, Gotham is kept safe by his squad of trusty Bat-Robots, but when Black Mask reprograms the unstoppable soldiers to do his bidding, Batman must blow the dust off 'Proto,' his bumbling (but good-hearted) beta-test robot to help him stop the villain."
SHH has some high resolution versions of the photos from Captain America: The First Avenger that were released last week. You can view them here!
Opening in 3D and 2D theaters on July 22, 2011, the Joe Johnston-directed comic book adaptation stars Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Toby Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci and Neal McDonough.
Captain America: The First Avenger will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.
Empire magazine has published this first look at The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson. The 3D motion capture film features the voices and performances of Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Carey Elwes and Daniel Mays.
The film stars Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, Serkis as Captain Haddock, and Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham. Pegg and Frost play Thompson and Thompson.
"The first part of the film, which is the most mysterious part, certainly owes much to not only film noir but the whole German Brechtian theatre — some of our night scenes and our action scenes are very contrasty. But at the same time the movie is a hell of an adventure," said Spielberg.
The movie is scheduled to hit theaters on December 23, 2011.
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