Askewniverse auteur Kevin Smith is not the only film scribe on board for Heroes: Origins, the spring 2008 offshoot of NBC's hit drama. The trades are reporting Monday morning that both Eli Roth (Hostel) and Michael Dougherty (Superman Returns, X-Men 2) are suiting up to write and/or direct episodes.The six-episode Heroes: Origins will launch in the spring, after the mother ship's sophomore run has ended, and will concern enabled characters not previously seen on the series. Viewers will then vote on which newbies they would like to see join our band of merry men and women for Season 3.
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Out on DVD today are High School Musical: The Concert and Hannah Montana: Pop Star Profile, while an Aug. 28 release has been set for Bob Saget: That Ain't Right.... Directors Mark Waters (Mean Girls) and Eli Roth (Hostel) guest-judge On the Lot tonight and next Tuesday, respectively.... The June 28 premiere of the USA Network spy drama Burn Notice will air commercial-free, marking the first time anything on the cabler has run sans ads. DIRECTV is the ghost sponsor.... TBS will launch a hi-def channel in September. Tuesday's Today's News was written by Ben Katner.
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Recently, Hollywood has turned to the horror flick to rejuvenate flagging ticket sales. While the glut of guts has led to a lot of remakes and knockoffs, a few young filmmakers have risen to the challenge of fashioning fresh fare. Eli Roth is one such box-office reanimator. Spawning the hits Cabin Fever and Hostel, the Boston-born director splices social commentary into his gore while mischievously tinkering with genre convention. TVGuide.com invited Roth to discuss Hostel (out on DVD today) and share hi
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Question: Are there any plans to bring Stephen King's latest horrorfest to the big screen? It's a haunting story that grabs you like few other recent books have, and it's believable!
Answer: Despite the generally dismal history of Stephen King's novels and their movie adaptations, there are indeed plans to make a feature film (as opposed to a TV miniseries, where King has fared a little better) from his most recent novel, Cell. It's set up at Dimension Films, the horror arm of Miramax, and Hostel (2005) writer-director (and dyed-in-the-wool horror buff ) Eli Roth is attached as director and either screenwriter or cowriter. There's no cast or start date yet; Roth is currently shooting Hostel 2 and won't start
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Something New's Simon Baker will star in Sex and Death 101, a dark comedy about a man who gets an e-mail listing every woman he has ever had sex with — as well as those he will bed in the future. Cool!... Wedding Crashers' Isla Fisher has joined Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Carla Gugino in the crime thriller The Lookout.... House of Sand and Fog director Vadim Perelman is turning the award-winning children's book The Giver into a feature.... Alexandre Aja, the director of the horror remake The Hills Have Eyes, will helm Black Hole, based on an acclaimed comic-book series.... Per Variety, Hostel director Eli Roth has been tapped to bring Stephen King's Cell to the big screen.
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