Monday, February 8, 2010

New cast members move into DREAM HOUSE, FLATMATE and APPARITION


By Michael Gingold
Variety has reported on new casting for a trio of upcoming genre features. The highest-profile name and project: Rachel Weisz has been added to the cast of Universal and Morgan Creek’s psychothriller DREAM HOUSE, joining Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts.

Weisz (pictured below), previously seen in the first two MUMMY films and CONSTANTINE, plays the wife of a publisher (Craig) who moves her and their two daughters into a new house in a New England town, and soon learns that another mother and her two childen were previously slaughtered there. Jim Sheridan is directing the movie, which just began shooting in Toronto, from a screenplay by David Loucka.

Over in Spain, Luis Tosar has been set to topline FLATMATE, the new chiller by the [REC] films’ Jaume Balagueró, who begins lensing the Filmax production in May from a screenplay by Alberto Marini (his co-scripter on the 6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE entry TO LET). Tosar, currently nominated for Best Actor in Spain’s Goya Awards for the prison drama CELL 211, will play the concierge of a Barcelona apartment building where he spies on the tenants and begins turning one particular young woman’s life into a nightmare. “In FLATMATE, I wanted to go back to investigate the more sophisticated mechanics of the thriller and suspense genre. A script fell into my hands which allowed me to explore these elements to the maximum,” Balagueró tells the trade.

Finally, Tom Felton, who plays nasty Draco Malfoy in the HARRY POTTER films, has been added to the cast of Dark Castle’s APPARITION. He plays a paranormal expert in the film, which focuses on a college couple (Sebastian Stan and the TWILIGHT films’ Ashley Greene) haunted by an evil spirit released by an on-campus experiment. The movie began production last week in Berlin under writer/director Todd Lincoln, and moves to LA next month.
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  1. Hello Fangoria
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    BLIND DEATH, 2010
    “In the frontiers of the death, you won’t make a difference between warriors and monsters”

    CHILEAN YOUNG DIRECTORS DARE WITH B-MOVIES, SUSPENSE, BLOOD AND DEATH

    SANTIAGO, 2010. A new independent movie comes to the public. The movie was filmed by young Film students and tell us the story of a group of scientists and militars which travel to a quarantine zone looking for the cure of a dangerous to the sickness which convert people to an animal and wild state. But the trip to the zone will be full of setbacks which will put in danger the mission, for example, a group of bandits and people infected with the virus.

    Lucio Rojas, one of the film’s director speak: “The movie is a mix of genres crossing war western, zombies, post apocalypse and adventures movies. We want entertain to the people with this product and I hope they like it. The movie starts its journey in March, when we send it to fantastic film festivals around the World. On the second semester we hope the movie can be distributed in dvd everywhere and we can still working on independent genre Films and all the freedom of this situation”.

    Cristian Toledo, the other director, adds: “Beyond this movie was filmed with a low Budget and cameras easy to get, I want to stand out the movie itself tell us a great story which will be very attractive for most people. It has a mix of genres and it has some special between other zombie action movies. I hope people appreciate it and we will see you in the future, maybe with a prequel or second part if we have the Budget, because the story deserves it”.

    “Blind dead” includes action, violence, bloody and special effects’ scenes, but this is not the principal point of directors. Cristian Toledo explains: “This is not a movie which will conquer audience by its special effects. When we write the screenplay we always had in mind use effects we can manage very well and it would serve like a support to the movie, helping the story’s development, not sustaining it. The attractive is more than the mix of genres and tendencies are more than visual spectacle”.

    Rojas adds: “The idea is accomplish certain transverse in segments we reach. We know that the movie, because the content, will not be for every spectator, but that is not something which worry us. As our first movie, is a pleasure for few people and we want to take as advantages as possible”.

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