Andy Hallet, who played Lorne on the TV show Angel, has died at the age of 33. Lorne was the singing demon who could read people’s thoughts if they sang to him. Below is a great Lorne scene from Angel.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glLWdVlWsUM&feature=player_embedded]
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
Sydney, Australia (CNS) – The visual effects company that “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” has been entrusted to denies responsibility for the film’s leakage onto the Web.
20th Century Fox was left furious after learning that their forthcoming superhero film, which stars Hugh Jackman in the title role, has been pirated and leaked onto the Internet this week, a month before its official theater release date on May 1.
The film studio quickly involved the FBI into investigating the matter, fully planning to prosecute the culprit for the leak.
Some reports have claimed that the leakage must have come from the Australian-based special effects company, Rising Sun Pictures, since the company logo appeared in a caption found in the bootleg copy.
The report is vehemently denied by the company.
Chairman and co-founder Tony Clark said in a statement posted on their website, “From the reports we’ve had, the stolen material is a work in progress version of the film with many incomplete sections.”
“As we worked on individual sequences within the film, neither RSP or its staff members have ever been in possession of a full-length version, so it would have been impossible for the movie to have been leaked from here.”
He added that it’s a common practice for them to incorporate their company’s watermark logo to the various edits of the film for screening, which would explain why their name appeared on the pirated copy wandering on the Web.
read more at GoreMaster.com
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KljyMXqv9s]
A new movie-production business is moving to Shreveport, bringing with it approximately 15 new jobs.
The company is World Wide FX, a visual effects studio that is part of Millennium Studios, which plans to build a studio in Ledbetter Heights just west of downtown Shreveport.
World Wide FX said it plans to hire 15 people locally to produce visual effects for films shot in Louisiana.
The studio has been in operation for about 10 years in Bulgaria.
Arlena Acree, the city of Shreveport‘s liaison with the movie industry, said Shreveport was selected over competing offers from other states that also offered tax credits.
The city is holding a public meeting next Thursday to discuss increasing tax incentives for movie studios that film in this area. It will be at 3 p.m. in the skybox of Independence Stadium.
read more at GoreMaster.com
The new Freddy Krueger!
Watchmen star Jackie Earle Haley has signed on to play Freddy Krueger in New Line’s forthcoming 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.
more of this at GoreMaster.com
Poltergeist actor Lou Perryman murdered.
4/2/09 – Suspect caught, actor slain at home in Texas. A man police say told them he stole a car and believed the owner was dead is charged with killing a Texas actor. Austin police Friday identified the victim as 67-year-old Lou Perryman.
Perryman appeared in “The Blues Brothers,” “Poltergeist” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.”
Police charged 26-year-old Seth Christopher Tatum with capital murder, plus aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in another attack.
Sgt. Joseph Chacon says Tatum showed up at a jail facility Thursday and said he was “pretty sure” he had killed the owner of a vehicle he had stolen. Police later found Perryman’s body at a home.
Investigators say they do not believe Tatum and Perryman knew each other.More here
..more news at Goremaster.com