Continued at SFGate.

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CJ, 1492 set sail with three horror pics
Months after inking a development deal, Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures and Korean shingle CJ Entertainment are moving forward with three horror films this year.

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F.E.A.R. 3 Co-op First Look
If you're one of the legions of F.E.A.R. devotees out there eagerly awaiting the next instalment of the esteemed horror franchise, you've no doubt seen the live-action launch teasers. These two finely crafted action and story montages go some way towards highlighting the tone that developer Day 1 Studios is striving for – a combination of co-operative play, fine gunplay and, amusingly, telekinetic powers.

Continued at IGN.

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The Science of Horror-Movie Screams
As horror-flick titles go, Night of the Living Chaos and Rosemary’s Nonlinearity aren’t the catchiest. But filmmakers know that chaos — the mathematical kind — is scary. Now scientists know it too.

Continued at WIRED.

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Study pinpoints why horror movie music is so scary: Notes mimic distressed animal cries
It's enough to make your hair stand on end.

Researchers have cracked the mystery of why horror-flick music causes goosebumps.

Freak-out film scores, from the screeching violins in the shower scene of "Psycho" to the two thundering notes played over and over as sharks attack in "Jaws," have one thing in common.

Continued at NYDailyNews.

Continued at TheWrap.

FeoNote: For the record, it was filmed in 3D, it was later digitally massaged into what was called 3D but really wasn't. This is a very cool film, but it is a very good 2D film: Nothing wrong with that.

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The Dead Matter Trailer Plus Release Details
May 27, 2010 (Cleveland, OH) Midnight Syndicate Films has announced plans to release a special edition of The Dead Matter DVD that will include two bonus CDs by gothic Halloween music artists Midnight Syndicate. It will be available at all Hot Topic stores nationwide on July 30th. The specially-priced set will include The Dead Matter DVD, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD by Midnight Syndicate, and a new Midnight Syndicate 13th Anniversary greatest hits CD entitled Halloween Music Collection. Midnight Syndicate Films has also released a new official trailer for The Dead Matter movie which can be viewed at the film’s revamped website, www.TheDeadMatter.com and YouTube.

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James McAvoy playing Professor X in 'X-Men: First Class' (exclusive)
James McAvoy has signed on to play a young Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, in “X-Men: First Class,” which Matthew Vaughn is directing for Fox.

Continued at HeatVisionBlog.

Rockstar games has promised a glitch fix but that might be a bad idea. People love mocking the game so much, and trashing Rockstar games so much, that it has become a huge hit!

See the video captures at Mirror.

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George A. Romero–Legend of the Living Dead
I’ve interviewed George A. Romero a few times over the years. For a guy of name and reputation, he’s often seemed bitter, down on the business, at the trap his career tumbled into, at his inability to attract Hollywood attention in the latter years of his working life. Night of the Living Dead changed horror and it, the legal issues surrounding it and the pigeon-hole that zombie movies became for him, have taken up much of the past 40 years.

Continued at Orlando Sentinel.

FeoNote: SciFi figure, George Lucas, had his second Star Wars trilogy set, and now Horror Thriller figure, George Romero wraps up his second Dead trilogy set. We're all hoping SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD will bring us back to the horror and thrills we experienced with the first three, and this article tells why we may have reason to hope for the best.

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John Malkovich Says His 'Jonah Hex' Character Won't Have Supernatural Powers
In just under a month, director Jimmy Hayward's adaptation of "Jonah Hex" will hit theaters with Josh Brolin in the title role and John Malkovich as his nemesis, Quentin Turnbull.

Continued at MTV.

FeoNote: Nobody seems to be excited about this movie, and the vague comments from John Malkovic isn't making this flick seem any MORE exciting. Did I mention that Brolin played it campy? Yeah. Brolin thinks the supernatural concept is absurd so he wants it campy.

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Before the Film JONAH HEX Writers Find NO WAY BACK In New HC
With the film of DC’s scarred cowboy Jonah Hex riding into theaters on June 18, it’s only appropriate that the writers of Hex’s monthly series would pull out something special for the occasion.

And indeed they have, with No Way Back an original graphic novel illustrated by Tony DeZuniga, who co-created Hex back in the 1970s, and has held onto this idea for decades. It’s a tale that reveals a previously unknown aspect of Hex’s past...his brother.

Continued at Newsarama.

FeoNote: Still lovin' the comic though.

This event will feature panel discussions, readings, two writing contests, parties, book signings, and author Q&As with guests of honor Brian Lumley, Tananarive Due, John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow, and Stephen Barnes as well as many other top talents in Fear Fiction who will be in attendance.

Brian Lumley is the author of the bestselling Necroscope Series, The Psychomech Series, The Dreamlands Series, The Primal Land Series, and more than a dozen other bestselling novels.

Tananarive Due is an American Book Award winner, Bram Stoker Award winner, NAACP Image Award winner, and bestselling author of The Living Blood, My Soul To Keep, Blood Colony, and six other novels ranging from horror to supernatural thrillers to a mystery to a Civil Rights memoir.

Stephen Barnes is the New York Times bestselling author of The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception and has written numerous television screenplays for such shows as The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch.

John Skipp is a bestselling author and screenwriter whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages. His early works (co-written with Craig Spector) were considered seminal to the "splatterpunk" style of horror fiction. In September 2007, Leisure Books released his novel The Long Last Call, together with his novella, Conscience. In 2008 he released JAKE'S WAKE co-written with author Cody Goodfellow.

Cody Goodfellow is the author of RADIANT DAWN, RAVENOUS DUSK, and co-author of Jake’s Wake (with John Skipp). His fiction and journalism has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Third Alternative, Dark Wisdom, Dark Discoveries, Dark Recesses and Ranch & Coast, and recent anthologies A Dark & Deadly Valley, Hot Blood 13 and Vault Of Punk Horror.

Come join us for this exciting event!
Go to KillerCon.org for more information and to register for the convention.

Continued at BBC.

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'Zombie' satellite prompts orbital waltz
Although Intelsat cannot talk to Galaxy-15, its electronics payload remains fully functional, and it is capable of re-transmitting on full power any signal it receives.

This means that if Galaxy-15 were to get too close to other telecommunications spacecraft, it could start re-transmitting their signals and seriously interfering with their services.

This "dead-but-alive" condition has earned the Intelsat platform the unfortunate nick-name of "zombie-sat" in some quarters.

Continued at BBC.

FeoNote: That's right Horror Thriller fans. "Zombie" is now a scientific term.

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Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody's 'Splice' of artificial life comes true
When a sci-fi thriller about geneticists creating a new artificial life form by combining DNA is opening at the same time as reports of geneticists creating a new artificial life form by combining man-made DNA is actually in the news, it's time to shiver.

Continued at zap2it.

"I thought it was kind of silly," Hinzman said recently of his zombie role in 1968's "Night of the Living Dead."

Continued at ChicagoTribune.

George A. Romero directs 'Survival of the Dead'
Upon meeting George A. Romero, it's almost impossible to imagine what he would look like as a zombie.

Continued at SFGate.

Interview of the Dead
Please note: The following interview includes spoilers for the film Survival of the Dead.

I've begun to meet and/or interact with famous people of the movie business more and more in my still-young capacity as a film journalist, but no prospective encounter had excited me more than the chance to join several other writers in a roundtable interview with George A. Romero.

Continued at EscapistMagazine.

FEO AMANTE

The Mean Girls star held talks with Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura during her trip to the Cannes International Film Festival and now she'll star in his upcoming horror movie Black Friday, reports dailystar.co.uk.

Continued at Sify.com.

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The Colony explores survival in the new Ice Age
Patrick Tatopoulos, director of last year's Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, is in talks to take the helm for The Colony, an "eco-horror" movie about a desperate band of survivors trying to save humanity during a new Ice Age.

Continued at io9.

FeoNote: Hopefully this won't be another QUINTET or THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

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Hands On: Tron: Evolution Fills In the Gaps Between Films
The new Tron: Evolution videogame will bridge the gap between Disney’s pioneering 1982 flick and the new-fangled 3-D sequel Tron: Legacy, says its developer.

Tron: Evolution, which Disney Interactive will release for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 before the movie hits cinemas, takes place on the cusp of a major change in the computer world of Tron.

Continued at Wired.

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