Welcome back to Mutantville Monday, my fellow Mutants. MVP is working hard to keep you up to date on the latest goings on in the world of horror and science fiction all while doing our best to create new genre entertainment for you! Word is that Mutantville is about to pull the trigger on the long gestating Mutica’s Movie Morgue as part of the Tales From Mutantville DVD. Muties from across the globe are going insane with anticipation. Who will fill the crimson gown of MVP’s Movie Goddess? Will it be Scout Taylor Compton? Danielle Harris? Brinke Stevens? Or will it be someone even more fabulous? You’ll have to stay tuned to find out!
MVP is gearing up for the big Fright Night Film Festival that’s just around the corner in July. That means getting shirt designs ready so we can get them back in time from Tee Shirt Joe at FastCustomShirts.com as well as designing posters and finalilzing post on a couple projects that we’d like to have ready for the convention. More news on that coming soon.
Be on the look out for a cool Fright Night Film Festival promo vid from MVP this week. Geo has been working hard on getting it ready so you will know all you need to know about the upcoming convention. Did we mention that John Carpenter is the guest of honor this year? You may “squee” now. Stay tuned to Mutantville.com as we get you ready for Fright Night over the coming month.
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MOVIE NEWS FOR MUTIES!!!
Speaking of John Carpenter – it was announced last week that Dimension films wants to move forward on Halloweeen 3
in 3D for Halloween 2012. No word yet on who is writing or directing – but according to word around here, Streebo is ready willing and able to take the assignment. ; )
In movie news Green Lantern opened to a lower than expected gross of $52.6 million domestic opening. This is well below the projected gross of $71 million which is just fine by me. I didn’t get out to see the movie yet – but it’s easy enough to tell that the movie is all popcorn fluff. There’s nothing wrong with that and it might even be good popcorn fluff – but after watching movies like Super 8 and Source Code that have so much heart – it leaves one looking upon the shallow excess of Green Lantern with disdain. I plan on getting out to catch a matinee sometime – but it might just be a matinee at the dollar theater. In the meantime checck out this Green Lantern trailer for the movie that never was but should have been:
SCARY VIDEO GAME NEWS!!!
The latest installment of the F.E.A.R. series is scheduled for release June 21. The new F.E.A.R. 3 trailer co-created and
written by master of horror John Carpenter and rising warlock of horror Steve Niles was released to the interwebs this week. Check it out right here. Just in case you didn’t know – you can get instant updates by following both John Carpenter and Steve Niles on Twitter at @TheHorrorMaster and @Steveniles respectively.
HORROR ON YOUR TELEVISION SCREEN!!!
In a recent interview with AMC, The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman revealed that the second season of the best drama of 2010 will focus on the rural areas of it’s zombie strewn world. Season one focused on the city of Atlanta and the devastation within whereas season two will open up and head down the rural roads and across open fields. Check out the interview here.
The final episode of season one of HBO’s Game of Thrones aired last night while on the other side of network town – the Stephen Spielberg produced Falling Skies unleashed it’s alien invasion upon an unsuspecting populace. Check out an exclusive interview with star Noah Wyle right here. Be sure to mark your calendars as the new seasons of Dexter and True Blood will be starting soon.
Star Wars padawans rejoice – as the Star Wars live action TV show is still lurching it’s way towards Bethlehem. Series producer Rick McCallum states the show is facing a lot of obstacles and is still a few years away from production. In the meantime you can warm the miticholorians in your heart by watching the last time that Star Wars came to television in the form of a live action show – The Ewok Adventure! *shudder*
