Today was a special one-off Frightfest event, which saw the return of the festival to it’s seedbed cinema, The Prince Charles, on Leicester Place in London. There are four separate Film 4 Frightfests a year – a full weekender in August, a Glasgow satellite event, an all-nighter at the ICA and, f...

I know today's supposed to be alllll about Watchmen lunacy, but there's another new flick that's really piqued my interest, mainly because it's a horror film (and I love horror films), but also because it stars Dennis Quaid, and I'll always find time to watch a Dennis Quaid movie. Even a lame one. B...

More speculation today surrounds the whereabouts of Push, the celebrated, Benjamin Bratt-terrifying drama that won last month's Sundance Film Festival before tumbling into bidding-war lawsuit limbo. We'd really hoped this one would be visiting your neighborhood sooner than later. Alas, Push, featuri...

By Steven Zeitchik To say Lionsgate has had a tumultuous week is to say Timothy Geithner faced a few questions on Tuesday about his stimulus plan. About eight days ago, the house that Saw built seemed like it was on a pretty solid trajectory. Sure, "Punisher: War Zone" and "The Spirit...

· Anne Heche will play the ex-wife of Ray, the anatomically superendowed protagonist of Hung. She replaces Kristin Bauer, last seen being escorted away in a wheelchair, dead-eyed and repeating, "The diameter...the diameter..." [THR] · NBC has picked up a reality series starring Tony Ro...

Remember Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire, the wild Mariah Carey/Mo'Nique starrer that lit up Sundance (and took home three awards)? Lionsgate took our advice and bought it, and now things have gone haywire. The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate have now filed suit against each other, with each stud...

News coming down the wire last night about a potential buy-out of Summit Entertainment by Lionsgate has sent shockwaves through the online film community this morning. Namely, everyone seems to want to speculate about what the blood-thirsty Execs. over at Lionsgate might do with Summit’s one a...

Earlier this evening we reported that Lee Daniels’ drama Push: Based on a novel by Sapphire won both the Dramatic Grand Jury and Audience Award Prizes for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. While I was writing up the awards alert, I was sent over a scoop by a very reliable source that said that ...

If you’ve got a dark spot in your heart where an unapologetic love for slasher flicks, blood-spurting gore, dismemberment, and innovative filmmaking resides, I’ve got six words for ya: Go. See. My Bloody Valentine 3D. I’m no film critic, and I’m not going to pretend to have a...

Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Mad Men At the risk of sounding all wimpy and lame, let me just say "Yee-hah!" Mad Men creator/producer/visionary Matthew Weiner signed a deal with Lionsgate earlier today after several months of back and forth. The deal secures Weiner for two more s...