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Monday’s “Suits’ third season, Agent Coulson’s back, Alice in Wonderland series and Granny is my Wingman” news

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Film

JMS to adapt Shadowman
Tom Harper to direct sequel to Angel of Death
Ewan McGregor to star in Son of a Gun
Jon Favreau to direct Ryan Reynolds in Battle for Bonneville

Trailers

Trailer for The Impossible with Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor

UK TV

Channel 4 picks up third season of Homeland

US TV

A third season for Suits
Adult Swim gets a seventh season
Premiere week Live+7 ratings
Thursday ratings: Beauty and the Beast starts well, The Last Resort down another 11%
Friday ratings: CBS recovers from Made In Jersey

US TV casting

Mark Pellegrino to guest on Person of Interest
Arrow‘s Katie Cassidy returning to Gossip Girl for finale
Keith David to guest on Touch

New US TV shows

Teaser for SyFy’s Defiance
Teaser for Mockingbird Lane
CBS picks up Granny Is My Wingman
NBC pulls the plug on Next Caller…
…picks up comedy Undateable…
…Dick Wolf cult drama The Church
…and Alice in Wonderland sequel Wonderland
Tyra Banks to produce ABC comedy Fivehead about her teen years
The CW developing drama based on Confessions of a Backup Dancer

New US TV show casting

Clark Gregg to return as Phil Coulson for SHIELD pilot
Denise Richards and Kimberly Quinn join ABC Family’s Socio
Awake‘s Laura Allen joins The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

It’s Hammer Time!: Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter (1974)

12 October 2012 Natalia Romanova Post a comment

Hammer is of course best known for its Dracula movies, starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula and Peter Cushing as his nemesis, Van Helsing. Hammer milked these for all they were worth during the 60s, but come the 70s, it was getting harder and harder to squeeze new stories out of the old reliables. At the end, Hammer was resorting to the likes of Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, which married Dracula and Van Helsing with kung fu movies:

So Hammer looked to other ways of expanding their vampire franchises. Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter was their most famous effort and most experimental. Written and directed by Avengers stalwart Brian Clemens (the movie was produced by Albert Fennell and the music written by Laurie Johnson, too), this subverted the traditional Hammer story away from the vampire towards the vampire hunter, Captain Kronos, a pot-smoking hedonist and swordfighter, who’s helped by a hunchback and gypsy woman in the movie.

As I said – experimental.

Unfortunately, patchy distribution meant that the intended sequels never emerged, but there have since been novelisations and even a comic picking up the Kronos story. And here it is in glorious HD for you. Enjoy!

Friday’s “Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life, F*ck! I’m In My Twenties and More 4 acquires Scandal, Nashville” news

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Film

Jennifer Connelly joins Akiva Goldman’s Winter’s Tale
Jodie Foster to direct Money Monster
Sylvester Stallone confirmed for Grudge Match with Robert De Niro
Daredevil returns to Marvel

Trailers

Trailer for Gangster Squad
Trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty
Trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ Flight with Denzel Washington
Trailer for David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper

Theater/Theatre

Tom Hanks to star in Lucky Guy
Douglas Hodge to play Willy Wonka

UK TV

More 4 acquires Scandal and Nashville
Wednesday ratings: DCI Banks beats Who Do You Think You Are?

US TV

Wednesday ratings: Arrow and Nashville start high, Chicago Fire low

US TV casting

David Beckham to cameo on Go On

New US TV shows

Michael Bolton to star in ABC’s Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life
NBC developing F*ck! I’m In My Twenties…
…two projects from Ron Weiner…
…an adaptation of Sixth Gun with Carlton Cuse…
…and Kevin Kline detective drama Crowninshield
Fox developing modern day Bonnie and Clyde drama
ABC acquires Sex Diaries…
…working on mother-daughter show with Jane Fonda
CBS acquires McG’s #Resistance
The CW working on undercover cop drama with JJ Abrams

New US TV show casting

Casting on Denis Leary’s Sirens remake for USA
Casting on The Secret Lives of Wives and Bates Motel
Titus Welliver to co-star on The Last Ship

Thursday’s “Made in Jersey cancelled, Hitchcock trailer, NBC ratings record, E4 acquires Nashville and Munsters for Halloween?” news

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Film

Fox News’s Sean Hannity to make film debut in Atlas Shrugged II
Julianne Moore joins Non-Stop
Uma Thurman joins Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Matt Damon joins Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem
Looper director’s commentary available to download

Trailers

Trailer for Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren and James D’Arcy
Trailer for The Dark Knight Returns Part 2

Books

JRR Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur to be published

Canadian TV

Chuck‘s Vik Patel to star in Satisfaction

French TV

France 2 adapting Paris Burning?

UK TV

E4 acquires Nashville, someone acquires The CW’s Beauty and the Beast
Charles Dance, Johnny Vegas, Katy Brand and Jessica Hynes to star in Sky Atlantic’s Common People
Tuesday ratings

US TV

Made in Jersey cancelled
The first five minutes of season 2 of American Horror Story
Tuesday’s ratings: NBC wins three nights in a row for first time in nine years

US TV casting

Matt Bomer to guest on The New Normal
Christie Brinkley to guest on Parks and Recreation
Ian McShane to appear in American Horror Story
The Newsroom‘s Kelen Coleman to guest on The Mindy Project
White Collar‘s Marsha Thomason to guest on Men At Work
Chris Diamantopoulos to guest on Arrested Development and Community
Hamish Linklater to recur on The Good Wife
Adam Goldberg to guest on Animal Practice

New US TV shows

Modern Family‘s Ty Burrell sells comedy Babble to ABC with his brother
Ed Brubaker sells Rising Sun to Fox with Kyle Killen, secret agent project to NBC
ABC buys drama based on James Patterson’s Michael Bennett
Hollywood Assistants blog to become CBS comedy
ABC to adapt Australia’s Strange Calls paranormal cop comedy
NBC to air failed Munsters reboot as a Halloween special?

New US TV show casting

Kim Raver to star in Lifetime’s The Secret Lives of Wives
Law & Order‘s Jesse L Martin and Revenge‘s James Tupper to star in NBC’s The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
Miley Cyrus leaves Bonnie & Clyde mini-series
The Closer‘s Jon Tenney to star in TNT’s King and Maxwell
Eric Dane to star in TNT’s The Last Ship
Page Keller joins ABC Family’s Terminales
Molly Shannon to guest on Hannibal

Wednesday’s “Rufus Sewell projects, Shameless ends, Hulu acquires Braquo and more Great Expectations” news

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Film

Ralph Fiennes to star in Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone and Rufus Sewell to star in The Sea
Film4 launches iPad app

Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas and Rufus Sewell to star in Old Times

UK TV

Shameless to end next year
James Corden to star in BBC2/Hulu’s The Wrong Mans

US TV

ABC Family cancels Secret Life of the American Teenager
PBS acquires The Paradise and The Lady Vanishes
Hulu acquires Braquo
Monday ratings: Revolution down slightly, Mob Doctor goes even lower, Gossip Girl down 43% on last year

US TV casting

Eric Stoltz to guest on Made in Jersey
Megan Mullally to return to Parks and Recreation

New US TV shows

ABC buys Great Expectations soap
Fox acquires comedy Adulting from JJ Abrams…
…and Rachael Harris and Angela Kinsey comedy Dirty Blondes

New US TV show casting

Clarke Peters joins AMC legal thriller, Thomas Wright joins The Bridge, Lauren Bittner joins The Secret Lives of Wives
Five joins Michael Bay’s The Last Ship
Madchen Amick joins Witches of East End

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Friday’s “Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life, F*ck! I’m In My Twenties and More 4 acquires Scandal, Nashville” news

Thursday’s “Made in Jersey cancelled, Hitchcock trailer, NBC ratings record, E4 acquires Nashville and Munsters for Halloween?” news

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