The Midnight Son team have some new artwork and a press release out today.
NEW KEY ART FOR "MIDNIGHT SON" RELEASED
February 23, 2011 -- Midday Moon, LLC, the producer of the motion picture "Midnight Son," has just released new key art for the film. To download it, click this link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4971913/MidnightSon_KeyArt_2011.jpg
The filmmakers released this new key art to celebrate the upcoming festival screenings the film will have.
"Midnight Son" will make it's World Premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California on March 4 @ 9:30 PM. Writer/Director Scott Leberecht, Producer Matt Compton, and several cast members will be in attendance, and will participate in a Q&A after the screening.
The film will have two additional screenings at Cinequest: March 6 @ 6:45 PM and March 11 @ 12:30 PM. It will also screen at the Omaha Film Festival on March 5 @ 8:30 PM.
"We're really excited about the festival screenings we have coming up. So many people have worked so hard on the film, and it's very rewarding to finally be able to show it to an audience," says Scott Leberecht. "Cinequest is a wonderful celebration of independent cinema, so we're really thrilled to be having the World Premiere there," adds Matt Compton.
"Midnight Son" is a dark, character-driven drama that plays on horror themes in an understated, subtle way. The story centers on Jacob, a young man grappling with a dramatic physical transformation. No matter how much he eats, he suffers from malnutrition. To his disgust, he finds the blood in his steak packaging more satisfying than the steak itself. Something is changing inside him. When romance sparks with a young woman named Mary, he wrestles with the monster he's becoming while desperately trying to keep his new craving a secret.
To download the press kit for the film, click here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4971913/MidnightSon_PressKit.pdf
Johnny Depp has been talking about his Dark Shadows project... Dread Central has the details here. BloodyDisgusting has news that Michelle Pfeiffer might be joining the cast!
MTV has a look at upcoming vampire film Innocence here.
Deadbolt has an interview with SyFy's Being Human writer Sam Witwer.
There is news here that madonna's ex Carlos Leon is planning to make a vampire film... a cross between Escape from New York and Blade?
Harper's Bazaar magazine has done a vampire shoot... details are here.
VampireFilmNews spotted this poster for a film showing at a Berlin Film Festival here. The Irish Vampire Goes West.
Vampires.com has news that L J Smith is no longer involved in the Vampire Diaries book series here. on to the TV series, and vampires.com looks at epsiode 14 of Vampire Diaries here.
Vampire Cafe spotted some big news... HBO is launching an official True Blood blog, first post tonight!
Vampire cafe has some news on the Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter film here. Seems Juaquin Phoenix has dropped out of the film.
Vampire Cafe spotted a couple of promo videos for Vampire Diaries #15 below.
BloodyDisgusting has some new film news... I Am Legend, a film set in WWII.
This is new film night! Dread Central has news of another one, Innocence.
In this modern-gothic vampire story, a recently bereaved teenage girl finds herself the focus of everyone’s attention at her elitist private school where life is steeped in tradition and ceremony. As she deals with her mother’s death, her father’s new relationship and falls in love for the first time, she is blissfully unaware that the school is home to a house of vampires who have their sights firmly set on capturing her and making her the subject of a ritual virgin sacrifice. As she struggles against time to uncover the truth, the vampires carefully close their net with those around her questioning whether or not she is losing her mind.
And yet more new film news! Shocktilyoudrop has news of Monster Love, vampire fall sin love with a Werewolf... Romeo and Juliet with fangs, as the synopsis claims.
A werewolf and a vampire fall in love, igniting a war between their respective communities. It's ROMEO AND JULIET with fangs.
After PETE, a young dogwalker, gets dumped by his girlfriend, his slacker buddies convince him to run naked through the city park. As the moon rises, the boys laugh, howl, and transform... Later, a distraught young woman named MAGGIE is contemplating suicide when she’s surprised by an enormous wolf. She snarls, baring her vampire fangs. The wolf grins and barks: Let’s play!
After a fierce, exhilarating chase through the park, Maggie falls asleep with the wolf - and awakens in a naked young man’s arms. It’s Pete. And love at first sight.
Pete’s werewolf pals and Maggie’s upper-crust vampire clan are furious. And when some mangled bodies are discovered in the woods, Pete and Maggie must fight for their lives while grappling with the awful consequences of loving a monster.
Taliesin today reviews 42K, a 2001 film by Ken Daurio & Darren Doane.
The BBC has launched a spinoff series called Becoming Human... Vampire Cafe spotted a clip below.
Shocktilyoudrop spotted this, looks like it may well have some vampire aspects to it. Legends of the Night
Monsters don’t really exist. But what if the day came when that all changed. Where the possibility of coming face to face with a thousand year old vampire, a horde of flesh eating zombies or a hungry werewolf, was real. That kind of world serves as the backdrop for Legends of the Night, a new horror anthology TV series, that is an intriguing revision of human history in a world where monsters and other "things that go bump in the night", actually do exist.
Horror in film and television is as popular as it’s ever been, however, Legends of the Night promises to be much more than just a run of the mill horror show. Creator Karl White explains, “This isn’t just a hap-hazard interpretation of a parallel history. It’s not putting creature “A” in, say Victorian England or the Wild West, cause it sounds cool. LOTN is a carefully laid out timeline with stories that focus on dark subject matter with human history serving as an anchor to put it in a real perspective. With an emphasis on building stories and character that have a purpose and an arc, rather than focusing on worn out clichés, cheap shocks or blood and gore.”
Legends of the Night is also taking a different approach to building a fan base that has started before the show has even found a home. White has started a website and an online petition as a unique grass-roots campaign to raise awareness for the idea. He is seeking help from horror fans everywhere to get the series on the air. “I want fans to be part of the process in getting Legends of the Night on TV. The response so far has been great. I think people see that it’s something new and fresh, something that is lacking in horror today, and because of the potential they’re behind it.”
BD has news that Joaquin Phoenix may be very involved in the Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter film.
A reminder that the calendar at the foot of the blog has as many release dates as I can find... today is the DVD release of Let Me In and there are a small bunch of vampire books released today to go with it.
