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• Liv Tyler Is Rated 'R' In 'The Strangers'

  Published: August 21, 2007, 12:31 pm

  Tags: Cinematical, Film, Liv Tyler, Movie, Robert Bertino, Rogue Pictures, Scott Speedman, The Strangers, Trailer

  clips from the film at a Rogue Pictures panel at ComicCon last month. By the sounds of what Chris described, it looks like some of that footage has made it into this online trailer. Luckily, Bertino keeps to quick cuts of the action, so there really isn't that much revealed ... although there definitely are a few creepy shots in the bunch.The

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• 'Castlevania' Flick Has A New Writer

  Published: August 29, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Castlevania, Death Race, Deathrace, Game, Ian Jeffers, Ianjeffers, Nintendo, Paul W S Anderson, Paulw S Anderson, Rogue Pictures, Roguepictures, Script, Sylvain White, Sylvainwhite

  Disgusting is reporting that Rogue Pictures has hired Ian Jeffers to completely re-work the script and Sylvain White to helm the flick. White was the director behind the straight-to-video horror I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, and the teen dance flick Stomp The Yard. Jeffers is relative newcomer, and Death Sentence was his screen

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• Megan Fox Might Want to 'Hack/Slash' Through the Dreams of Boys Everywhere

  Published: September 26, 2007, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Comic Book, Comicbook, Hack Slash, Megan Fox, Meganfox, Rogue Pictures, Roguepictures, Todd Lincoln, Toddlincoln, Transformers

  Hack/Slash was picked up by Rogue Pictures back in December. Here we are almost one year later, and there hasn't been a peep out of the production until now. When word of the project first emerged, director Todd Lincoln told Movieweb the film was going to have "a sprinkling of humor to balance the scares, but this will be a lean, vicious,

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• Universal shuffles Rogue, Focus responsibilities

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Universal Pictures, Movie Marketing, Rogue Pictures, Focus Features

  Pictures has made some changes to what falls under the purview of Rogue Pictures and Focus Features, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Under the new org chart, Universal will now be responsible for the distribution and marketing of films from Rogue. That could give significantly more marketing power to Rogue’s slate of arthouse and

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• Strike Stalls 'Castlevania' and 'Ironbow'

  Published: December 6, 2007, 12:32 pm

  Tags: Castlevania, Jay Wolpert, Jaywolpert, Kevin Reynolds, Kevinreynolds, Paul W S Anderson, Paulw Sanderson, Pinkville, Rogue Pictures, Roguepictures, Shantaram, Spyglass, Writer S Strike, Writer Sstrike

  in South Africa this April. Rogue Pictures had hoped that Castlevania would have been the start of a new franchise for the studio. Rather than waste the $40 million budget, Rogue decided to focus on some of their other projects that were slotted for 2008 that were ready for production. Instead, Rogue is going to work on the remakes of Near Dark

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• Doomsday trailer

  Published: January 16, 2008, 10:24 am

  Tags: Movie Marketing, Rogue Pictures, Trailers

  This trailer for the post-apocalyptic action flick Doomsday is among the best examples of preferring style over substance that I think I’ve ever seen. Everything in it is fast shiny cars or the tight hind-quarters of Rhona Mitra. There’s a little bit in there about the flimsy story that provides the opportunity for a ton of special

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• New Trailer for 'The Strangers'

  Published: March 12, 2008, 9:02 am

  Tags: Bryan Bertino, Bryanbertino, Gemma Ward, Gemmaward, Liv Tyler, Livtyler, Rogue Pictures, Roguepictures, Scott Speedman, Scottspeedman, The Strangers, Thestrangers

  Filed under: Horror, Universal, Movie Marketing, Trailers and ClipsI had almost completely forgotten about Liv Tyler's horror flick The Strangers, until the new trailer popped up on the net (there's a larger version on the official site). Last August, an R-rated trailer was released, but by then, the initial release date had been scrapped with

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• Early Review for Paul W.S. Anderson's 'Castlevania' Script

  Published: July 14, 2008, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Castlevania, Death Race, Deathrace, Paul W S Anderson, Paulw S Anderson, Rogue Pictures, Roguepictures, Sylvain White, Sylvainwhite

  Filed under: Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Universal, RumorMonger, Scripts, Games and Game MoviesMuch like the characters in the best-selling game, Castlevania is the movie that will not die. So far the film has undergone personnel changes and became one of the many causalities of the writers strike; but you can't keep a so-so idea down, and it

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• Justin Marks Talks Big Screen 'Hack/Slash'

  Published: August 12, 2008, 7:32 pm

  Tags: Hackslash, Justin Marks, Justinmarks, Megan Fox, Meganfox, Rogue Pictures, Roguepictures, Todd Lincoln, Toddlincoln

  Filed under: Action, Horror, Scripts, Comic/Superhero/GeekOther than the fact that the heroine looks an awful lot like Megan Fox, I can't say I know all that much about the horror comic Hack/Slash, but it looks like that is about to change. In an interview with Newsarama, Slash screenwriter Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li)

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• Gemma Ward to play "actress" once more?

  Published: September 2, 2008, 8:00 am

  Tags: Film, Gemma Ward, Gemmaward, Liv Tyler, Livtyler, Rogue Pictures, Roguepictures, Sequel, The Strangers, Thestrangers

  once again: Variety reports Rogue Pictures, the studio that produced the eerie film, is planning on making a sequel to their summer hit. The flick cost them a mere $9 million to make and it grossed a whopping $54 million. Production is slated to begin at the beginning of 2009. Maybe this time Gemma will have a speaking part -- stay tuned!

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