Hostel 3 Moving Ahead Without Eli Roth
The franchise that floated “torture porn” into news offices this decade like a message in a bottle now looks to join the endless straight-to-DVD knockoffs it spawned. We’re speculating that Hostel 3 will bypass a theatrical release, but Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that early talks have started inside Lionsgate/Screen Gems to make a second sequel a reality. The series’ creator/director/spokesperson, Eli Roth, will reportedly not serve as writer or director on the sequel. We expect him to update his MySpace with an endorsement or a rant soon enough, and if so, we’ll update accordingly.
Last summer, Hostel 2 failed to reach $20 million at the domestic box office after a boatload of hype, and Roth later announced a big budget action/sci-fi film (not Cell) that remains under wraps. That news drew insta-press because of the PG-13 rating, leaving many outlets to report Roth’s detour from horror as the end of an era/”new low” for the genre.
Quarantine Movie Trailer
Screen Gems has released the movie trailer for Quarantine online. If you remember, last month we posted two viral videos which featured tape of a government shooting that happened on March 11th under the title Case 1017. It turned out that these virals were part of the viral marketing campaign for Quarantine, John Dowdle’s American remake of Spanish horror film [rec]. The film follows a TV news crew which gets trapped with a hazmat crew in a CDC quarantined apartment building which has been infected by something unknown. When the quarantine is eventually lifted, the only evidence of what happened is the news crew’s videotape (ala Cloverfield). The movie stars Jennifer Carpenter (pictured above), who I absolutely fell in love with from the hit television show Dexter (she plays Dexter’s foul mouthed almost always inappropriate sister Debra Morgan).
Check out the trailer. Tell me what you think in the comments below.
Quarantine hits theaters on October 17th 2008.
Case 1017
Today I received an e-mail tip from reader Al M, regarding the #1 video on YouTube today, which has over 1.1 million views.
“Have you guys seen this yet? Some people are saying it’s CLOVERFIELD 2, but I don’t think so.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dxzrPHaWda8
http://youtube.com/user/EricsVideoBlog
It looks like a tape of a government shooting that happened on March 11th, and there’s a whole backstory about this guy who gets fired from his gov’t job and leaked this tape yesterday.”
I have no idea what this viral video is for, but it looks like it might be for a movie. It should be noted that I’m 99% sure this is not related to discussed Cloverfield sequel.
Update: It looks like it might be related to Quarantine, Screen Gems’ American remake of [Rec], which hits theaters in October.
Discuss: Anyone have any ideas?
Really Bad Posters For Really Bad Movies: Untraceable
I haven’t seen Untraceable, but I have seen the trailer, and I feel like I’ve seen probably two minutes too much for this film. Yes, I am prejudging this flick, but at least I’m disclosing this fact upfront.
IMPA has two new posters for the Diane Lane/Colin Hanks FBI Hacking Thriller. You got to love it when the theatrical advertising is just as bad as the movie, and this seems to be a prime example. To think that Frequency director Gregory Hoblit has resorted to such a film disappoints me greatly. Thankfully, I’ll be at Sundance when this film comes out (not that Screen Gems will likely screen this “gem” for press). Check out the movie posters.
Official Plot Synopsis:
Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) has seen it all……until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders on his own website – and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable.
Untraceable hits theaters on January 25th 2008.