If you've listened to recent episodes of Corpse Club, then you know that we're big fans of the blood-spattered humor and clever scares of Renfield, and if you're looking to add the horror comedy to your physical media collection, Universal will release Renfield on Blu-ray / DVD (including a Digital code) on June 6th with an impressive roster of bonus features, including a behind-the-scenes look at the deleted musical number featuring Renfield's fantasy dance!
Press Release: Universal City, California, May 30, 2023 – Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage stars as Dracula in the side-splitting,
action-packed new cult classic, Renfield, available to own on Digital, Blu-rayTM and DVD June 6, 2023 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Soaked with bloody fun and overflowing with toxic relationships, Renfield comes home in a Dracula Sucks Edition with 60 minutes of darkly humorous and captivating never-before-seen bonus content, including deleted scenes and featurettes that dives deeper into the cutting-edge comedy and the secrets...
Press Release: Universal City, California, May 30, 2023 – Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage stars as Dracula in the side-splitting,
action-packed new cult classic, Renfield, available to own on Digital, Blu-rayTM and DVD June 6, 2023 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Soaked with bloody fun and overflowing with toxic relationships, Renfield comes home in a Dracula Sucks Edition with 60 minutes of darkly humorous and captivating never-before-seen bonus content, including deleted scenes and featurettes that dives deeper into the cutting-edge comedy and the secrets...
- 5/30/2023
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
If you've been waiting to see Renfield, it's now available to rent and own on digital services. Here's the official announcement:
"Continuing its nationwide run in theaters, the modern monster tale starring Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage as Dracula, Renfield is now available to buy or rent at home on digital platforms nationwide from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Packed with dark humor, toxic relationships, and lots of blood, Renfield showcases an all-star cast alongside Cage including Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Brandon Scott Jones. Directed by Chris McKay and written by Ryan Ridley from a story by Robert Kirkman, the edgy horror comedy is produced by Skybound Entertainment and Giant Wildcat.
Nicholas Hoult stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic boss: Dracula (Nicolas Cage). For centuries, Renfield has slavishly served Dracula by procuring his master’s prey and doing his every bidding,...
"Continuing its nationwide run in theaters, the modern monster tale starring Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage as Dracula, Renfield is now available to buy or rent at home on digital platforms nationwide from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Packed with dark humor, toxic relationships, and lots of blood, Renfield showcases an all-star cast alongside Cage including Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Brandon Scott Jones. Directed by Chris McKay and written by Ryan Ridley from a story by Robert Kirkman, the edgy horror comedy is produced by Skybound Entertainment and Giant Wildcat.
Nicholas Hoult stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic boss: Dracula (Nicolas Cage). For centuries, Renfield has slavishly served Dracula by procuring his master’s prey and doing his every bidding,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
There’s a funny idea at the heart of “The Happytime Murders,” a satire of hard-boiled L.A. noir in which most of the hard-luck, low-life characters happen to be puppets. But a movie is supposed to have many ideas, and the one-joke nature of this adults-only spoof wears out the film’s welcome, even if director Brian Henson and his talented crew never let us see the strings.
It’s a concept not unlike the recent Netflix dud “Bright,” which presented a Los Angeles inhabited by orcs (including the city’s first orc cop) and fairies as a way to make ham-fisted statements about race. Here we get private eye Phil Phillips (voiced by Muppet vet Bill Barretta), who had been the Lapd’s first puppet officer, only to get kicked off the force for not shooting a fellow puppet who was holding his partner Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy) hostage.
It’s a concept not unlike the recent Netflix dud “Bright,” which presented a Los Angeles inhabited by orcs (including the city’s first orc cop) and fairies as a way to make ham-fisted statements about race. Here we get private eye Phil Phillips (voiced by Muppet vet Bill Barretta), who had been the Lapd’s first puppet officer, only to get kicked off the force for not shooting a fellow puppet who was holding his partner Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy) hostage.
- 8/22/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Here’s your first look at the brand new trailer for Chips. Warner Bros. Pictures will release the movie on March 24, 2017.
Dax Shepard (“Hit and Run,” TV’s “Parenthood”) and Michael Peña (“The Martian”) star in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action comedy CHiPs. Shepard also directs from a script he penned based on the characters from the popular ‘70s television series created by Rick Rosner.
Jon Baker (Shepard) and Frank “Ponch” Poncherello (Peña) have just joined the California Highway Patrol (Chp) in Los Angeles but for very different reasons. Baker is a beaten up pro motorbiker trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky undercover Federal agent investigating a multi-million dollar heist that may be an inside job—inside the Chp.
The inexperienced rookie and hardened pro are teamed together, but clash more than click, so kickstarting a partnership is easier said than done. But with...
Dax Shepard (“Hit and Run,” TV’s “Parenthood”) and Michael Peña (“The Martian”) star in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action comedy CHiPs. Shepard also directs from a script he penned based on the characters from the popular ‘70s television series created by Rick Rosner.
Jon Baker (Shepard) and Frank “Ponch” Poncherello (Peña) have just joined the California Highway Patrol (Chp) in Los Angeles but for very different reasons. Baker is a beaten up pro motorbiker trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky undercover Federal agent investigating a multi-million dollar heist that may be an inside job—inside the Chp.
The inexperienced rookie and hardened pro are teamed together, but clash more than click, so kickstarting a partnership is easier said than done. But with...
- 1/13/2017
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Four talented magicians mesmerize an international audience with a series of bold and original heists, all the while pursuing a hidden agenda that has the FBI and Interpol scrambling to anticipate their next move in Now You See Me, a visually spectacular blend of astonishing illusions and exhilarating action from director Louis Leterrier (Clash of the Titans).
The Four Horsemen, a magic super‐group led by the charismatic J.Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of hightech, high‐profile magic shows, first amazing audiences by remotely robbing a Paris bank while in Las Vegas, and then exposing a white‐collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members’ bank accounts, baffling the authorities with their intricately planned capers.
FBI Special Agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist.
The Four Horsemen, a magic super‐group led by the charismatic J.Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of hightech, high‐profile magic shows, first amazing audiences by remotely robbing a Paris bank while in Las Vegas, and then exposing a white‐collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members’ bank accounts, baffling the authorities with their intricately planned capers.
FBI Special Agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist.
- 5/21/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Here, on Earth, where you are now, we have a thing called Culture (Culture? What Culture? Lol! Oh yes…), and in Culture, there are two streams; the mainstream and the ‘other’ stream. The mainstream is…well, I don’t know what the mainstream is, but suffice to say it isn’t as sticky as the ‘other’ stream. Yes, we’re talking about Porn, pure and unadulterated! And these two streams of Culture are supposed to run parallel to one another – you know, Art is Art, Porn is Porn and ne’er the twain shall meet and all that sort of thing. However, even Artists have needs, and sometimes, they just cannot resist the urge to portray hardcore in-your-face pump-action on the big screen, and I’m not talking shotguns, people!
I’ve always found public attitudes to sex in films to be terribly unconvincing; most of us have watched porn,...
I’ve always found public attitudes to sex in films to be terribly unconvincing; most of us have watched porn,...
- 3/5/2013
- by Callum Mcleod
- Obsessed with Film
Red Dawn
Directed by Dan Bradley
Written by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore
USA, 2012
It may be fitting for a movie about American teenagers rising up against an evil foreign military to be juvenile, but that doesn’t make Red Dawn any more palatable. This remake of the 1984 film best known now as the first to get plastered by the MPAA with a PG-13 rating, is dull and lifeless. It’s an inane bit of claptrap that wants very badly to be a flag-waving piece of First World jingoism, but winds up being a 90-minute slog through various action-movie tropes, notable only for its somewhat impressive young cast.
A pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth (Red Dawn was shot in 2009 but delayed because of MGM’s well-documented financial troubles) plays Jed Eckert, a Marine who’s back home for a few weeks in Spokane, Washington before he’s stationed somewhere else in the Middle East.
Directed by Dan Bradley
Written by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore
USA, 2012
It may be fitting for a movie about American teenagers rising up against an evil foreign military to be juvenile, but that doesn’t make Red Dawn any more palatable. This remake of the 1984 film best known now as the first to get plastered by the MPAA with a PG-13 rating, is dull and lifeless. It’s an inane bit of claptrap that wants very badly to be a flag-waving piece of First World jingoism, but winds up being a 90-minute slog through various action-movie tropes, notable only for its somewhat impressive young cast.
A pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth (Red Dawn was shot in 2009 but delayed because of MGM’s well-documented financial troubles) plays Jed Eckert, a Marine who’s back home for a few weeks in Spokane, Washington before he’s stationed somewhere else in the Middle East.
- 11/21/2012
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
David Koepp has written screenplays for the likes of influential filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, Ron Howard, David Fincher and Sam Raimi. Whenever the biggest of the bunch, aka “the beard” has a script he needs re-worked, he usually calls on his boy Koepp to punch it up. Five films now under his belt as a director and Koepp doesn’t seemed to have gleaned all that much from his phenomenally successful mentors. With movies like Stir of Echoes or his adaptation of the Stephen King novella “Secret Garden” – which became Secret Window and was almost saved by a memorable performance from star Johnny Depp – Koepp as a director still hasn’t graduated to the world of three dimensional thinking. His films look great on paper, no doubt, but with him at the helm they don’t become nothing more than lifeless, flat ideas. It’s as if...
- 8/24/2012
- by Ron Henriques
- LRMonline.com
For some time now, director of Blue, Anthony D'Souza, has been off the radar in Mumbai. Friends have been wondering where Tony (as he is fondly known as) has disappeared to. It now comes to light that Tony has been in La studying 3-D filmmaking. His next film which he is currently scripting, featuring Akshay Kumar, will be a thriller shot in 3-D. This would be Akshay's second 3-D film in one year. Shirish Kunder's Joker is also going to be made in 3-D. Tony who first wanted to understand the intricacies of 3-D filmmaking took off for La to study the technique from Mitchell Amundsen who was the Director Of Photography for films like Transformers, Wanted and Jonah Hex. Mitchell has also made documentaries on the 3-D technique. Says Tony, "I spent three weeks with Mitchell learning about 3-D in Los Angeles. It's always good to add to your knowledge of filmmaking.
- 2/22/2011
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
For some time now, director of Blue, Anthony D'Souza, has been off the radar in Mumbai. Friends have been wondering where Tony (as he is fondly known as) has disappeared to. It now comes to light that Tony has been in La studying 3-D filmmaking. His next film which he is currently scripting, featuring Akshay Kumar, will be a thriller shot in 3-D. This would be Akshay's second 3-D film in one year. Shirish Kunder's Joker is also going to be made in 3-D. Tony who first wanted to understand the intricacies of 3-D filmmaking took off for La to study the technique from Mitchell Amundsen who was the Director Of Photography for films like Transformers, Wanted and Jonah Hex. Mitchell has also made documentaries on the 3-D technique. Says Tony, "I spent three weeks with Mitchell learning about 3-D in Los Angeles. It's always good to add to your knowledge of filmmaking.
- 2/22/2011
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Director: Jimmy Hayward Writers: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor Cinematographer: Mitchell Amundsen Starring: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox Studio: Warner Bros. A shoot-‘em-up that’s generally a letdown Watching the film adaptation of DC Comics’ Jonah Hex is like watching an 80-minute trailer. There are a lot of explosions and shoot-outs, plenty of scenes of Megan Fox shedding petticoats, a few solid one-liners, some inexplicable dreamlike sequences and jarring bursts of squealing rock music. There’s also just enough of a plot—an overly ambitious cocktail of revenge, friendship, mortality and morality, mixed in with allusions to modern-day terrorism and the Tea Party—to...
- 6/18/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
A first for Bollywood is about to happen at the posh Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. Internationally-renowned cinematographer Amir Mokri (who’s shot Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Vantage Point’, ‘Bad Boys 2’ and ‘Fast and Furious’) will be watching our own desi action flick ‘Blue’ on October 3.
Joining Mokri will be Mitchell Amundsen the American cinematographer who recently shot ‘Mission Impossible 3’.
‘Blue’ director Tony D’Souza who worked in La when he directed the television series ‘Ripley’s Believe It Or Not’ has been close friends with Mokri and.
Joining Mokri will be Mitchell Amundsen the American cinematographer who recently shot ‘Mission Impossible 3’.
‘Blue’ director Tony D’Souza who worked in La when he directed the television series ‘Ripley’s Believe It Or Not’ has been close friends with Mokri and.
- 10/3/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Download Blue wallpapers A first for Bollywood is about to happen at the posh Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. Internationally-renowned cinematographer Amir Mokri (who's shot Hollywood blockbusters like Vantage Point, Bad Boys 2 and Fast & Furious) will be watching our own desi action flick Blue on October 3. Joining Mokri will be Mitchell Amundsen, the American cinematographer who recently shot Mission Impossible 3. Blue director Anthony D'Souza, who worked in La when he directed the television series Ripley's Believe It Or Not, has been close friends with Mokri and Amundsen for years and a big fan of director Michael Bay who is also likely to join the two cinematographers to watch the special screening of Blue in La. A print of Blue is being flown to La for maverick Hollywood director Michael Bay's viewing pleasure. Anthony has been a fan of the director of the blockbuster Bad Boys and Transformers...
- 10/3/2009
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
A first for Bollywood is about to happen at the posh Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. Internationally-renowned cinematographer Amir Mokri (who's shot Hollywood blockbusters like Vantage Point, Bad Boys 2 and Fast & Furious) will be watching our own desi action flick Blue on October 3. Joining Mokri will be Mitchell Amundsen, the American cinematographer who recently shot Mission Impossible 3. Blue director Anthony D'Souza, who worked in La when he directed the television series Ripley's Believe It Or Not, has been close friends with Mokri and Amundsen for years and a big fan of director Michael Bay who is also likely to join the two cinematographers to watch the special screening of Blue in La. A print of Blue is being flown to La for maverick Hollywood director Michael Bay's viewing pleasure. Anthony has been a fan of the director of the blockbuster Bad Boys and Transformers series and has seen these films repeatedly.
- 10/3/2009
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Opens: Friday, June 27 (Universal)
It's good to be Wanted.
The debut American feature by successful Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch and its record-smashing 2006 sequel, Day Watch), this over-the-top, ultraviolent, hyperkinetic action thriller pretty much has it all.
That would include engagingly offbeat source material in the form of Mark Millar and J.G. Jones' comic book series, a decent adaptation by Michel Brandt and Derek Haas (last year's 3:10 to Yuma remake) and Chris Morgan (Cellular), a terrific cast and jaw-dropping stunt work.
Then there's the visually charged talents of Bekmambetov -- a man who has funneled the best of the Wachowski brothers, Quentin Tarantino and contemporary Hong Kong action movies through his own wry sensibility.
Capably establishing the anything-goes tone of the Los Angeles Film Festival in its capacity as official curtain-raiser, the Universal guilty pleasure should make plenty of noise, especially with young males, when it opens next weekend.
James McAvoy, sporting a swell American accent, is certain to build on his big-screen appeal as Wesley Gibson, a put-upon account executive who discovers that his long-absent father belonged to a centuries-old league of supersensory assassins known as the Fraternity.
It also turns out that Gibson is a chip off the old block in the killing department, but before he can avenge his father's death, he must get into fighting shape with a little help from the Fraternity's Zen master of a leader, Sloane (Morgan Freeman), and tough-cookie Fox (Angelina Jolie, in sinewy "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" mode).
The three of them prove to be colorful assets in a film where even the bullets seem to have a personality all their own.
Set in Chicago but shot in a cleverly disguised Prague (save for a noticeably Eastern European-accented rendition of Happy Birthday by Gibson's fellow office workers), Wanted effectively hits the ground running with a steady flow of wildly inventive, CG-infused action sequences.
Also cranking things up a couple of extra notches are resident Michael Bay cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen, Oliver Stone's longtime editor David Brenner and prolific composer Danny Elfman, who skillfully dispenses with anything that could be mistaken for subtlety.
Production: Universal, Spyglass Entertainment, Relativity Media, a Marc Platt/Kickstart production. Cast: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common. Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Screenwriters: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Chris Morgan. Story by: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas. Based on the comic books by: Mark Millar, J.G. Jones. Producers: Marc Platt, Jim Lemley, Jason Netter, Iain Smith. Executive producers: Adam Siegel, Marc Silvestri, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber. Director of photography: Mitchell Amundsen. Production designer: John Myhre. Music: Danny Elfman. Costume designer: Varya Avdyushko. Editor: David Brenner.
Rated R, 110 minutes...
It's good to be Wanted.
The debut American feature by successful Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch and its record-smashing 2006 sequel, Day Watch), this over-the-top, ultraviolent, hyperkinetic action thriller pretty much has it all.
That would include engagingly offbeat source material in the form of Mark Millar and J.G. Jones' comic book series, a decent adaptation by Michel Brandt and Derek Haas (last year's 3:10 to Yuma remake) and Chris Morgan (Cellular), a terrific cast and jaw-dropping stunt work.
Then there's the visually charged talents of Bekmambetov -- a man who has funneled the best of the Wachowski brothers, Quentin Tarantino and contemporary Hong Kong action movies through his own wry sensibility.
Capably establishing the anything-goes tone of the Los Angeles Film Festival in its capacity as official curtain-raiser, the Universal guilty pleasure should make plenty of noise, especially with young males, when it opens next weekend.
James McAvoy, sporting a swell American accent, is certain to build on his big-screen appeal as Wesley Gibson, a put-upon account executive who discovers that his long-absent father belonged to a centuries-old league of supersensory assassins known as the Fraternity.
It also turns out that Gibson is a chip off the old block in the killing department, but before he can avenge his father's death, he must get into fighting shape with a little help from the Fraternity's Zen master of a leader, Sloane (Morgan Freeman), and tough-cookie Fox (Angelina Jolie, in sinewy "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" mode).
The three of them prove to be colorful assets in a film where even the bullets seem to have a personality all their own.
Set in Chicago but shot in a cleverly disguised Prague (save for a noticeably Eastern European-accented rendition of Happy Birthday by Gibson's fellow office workers), Wanted effectively hits the ground running with a steady flow of wildly inventive, CG-infused action sequences.
Also cranking things up a couple of extra notches are resident Michael Bay cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen, Oliver Stone's longtime editor David Brenner and prolific composer Danny Elfman, who skillfully dispenses with anything that could be mistaken for subtlety.
Production: Universal, Spyglass Entertainment, Relativity Media, a Marc Platt/Kickstart production. Cast: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common. Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Screenwriters: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Chris Morgan. Story by: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas. Based on the comic books by: Mark Millar, J.G. Jones. Producers: Marc Platt, Jim Lemley, Jason Netter, Iain Smith. Executive producers: Adam Siegel, Marc Silvestri, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber. Director of photography: Mitchell Amundsen. Production designer: John Myhre. Music: Danny Elfman. Costume designer: Varya Avdyushko. Editor: David Brenner.
Rated R, 110 minutes...
- 6/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Quick Links > Martin Scorsese > Paramount Pictures > The Departed After the critical and box office success with The Departed, Paramount Pictures has announced that they are contiuing the collaboration – picking up the North American rights to Martin Scorsese’s next project, which has been in gestation for a long time now and finally, after having them musically be a part of his feature films (e.g. Goodfellas) the aging Martin Scorsese will get to create with the aging rockers know as the Rolling Stones. Fans of either The Last Waltz and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan have an idea of what to expect, but as The Hollywood Reporter reports this will include an A-list of cinematographers Mitch Amundsen (2nd unit, "Mission: Impossible III"), Stuart Dryburgh ("The Piano"), Robert Elswit ("Good Night, and Good Luck"), Ellen Kuras ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), Andrew Lesnie ("The Lord of the Rings
- 11/1/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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