According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anne Rice's Tale of the Body Thief, the fourth book in Rice’s best-selling series The Vampire Chronicles, is in development with Imagine.
Imagine used its partnership with India's Reliance Big Entertainment to fund the acquisition of Body Thief, and it is using the Imagine Reliance Writers Lab to work on the script. Lee Patterson, who wrote a well-regarded screenplay titled Snatched, is working on Body Thief.
The Tale of the Body Thief was told with the unique - and mesmerizing - passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.
Publisher Mohawk Media is promising surprise guest stars throughout its new series, Dracula vs. Robin Hood vs. Jekyll & Hyde.
Not content with the title's legendary headliners, the second issue sees a long forgotten character from the Robin Hood legend make a comeback. Plus it features two of history's most twisted tyrants.
British writer Chris Bunting says: "Each guest star will play a vital role in this series. The third issue will bare witness to that with the arrival of a famous horror monster."
Released via the publisher's paperless range of Eco Comics, editor Stuart Buckley explains: "Expect a top quality print comic book in everything but physical format. In fact, not many print comic books look this good.
"The aim of this comic is to give fans lots of fighting and fun. It may not get an Eisner, but this series is already getting rave reviews."
Dracula vs. Robin Hood vs. Jekyll & Hyde #1 and #2 are twenty-page issues, and available to order now in various digital formats via the Eco Comics store at a cover price of $1.95 (approximately £1.20).
Dracula vs. Robin Hood vs. Jekyll & Hyde will initially be a three-issue monthly series available exclusively via the publisher's groundbreaking line of ECO COMICS, designed to have minimal negative impact on the environment.
Further instalments of the series, and other "versus" titles, are set to be announced.
A few years back Centipede Press published Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King, a beautiful artbook that was listed at $300. Bad Moon Books currently has some of these in stock and is making them available at the incredible price of $125.
Description: This 448-page art book features loads of color and black & white artwork that has directly or indirectly illustrated the writings of Stephen King. The work has been culled from the last thirty-five years, and includes most all of the trade hardcover and mass market paperback editions, and virtually all of the artwork featured in the limited editions that have been published.
For most of the art, they worked from either originals or first-generation transparencies, so most of the work is displayed with a brilliance that has never been seen. Plus, there are several pages of fold-out views, including several by Michael Whelan, Ned Dameron, J.K. Potter, John Jude Palencar, Stephen Gervais, and others. The text, written by King critic George Beahm, looks back at 34 years of King in print. It provides a detailed look at the writer and his life, supplemented with interviews with Michael Whelan, Bernie Wrightson, Drew Struzan, John Cayea, Dave Christiansen, and many others.
Order from Bad Moon Books here: Knowing Darkness
Breaking Glass Pictures has announced the March 27 release of the surreal, horror-comedy The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol (SRP $24.99). Director Aramis Sartorio takes viewers on a demented roller-coaster ride through the mind of a down-and-out actor forced to the edge where sanity and fantasy collide, where he must ask himself, "At what point do you give up on your dreams?”
The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol follows the disappointing life of struggling actor Tommy Pistol, who has turned his back on family and friends to pursue his dream of stardom. When he finally hits rock bottom, Tommy seeks solace in a penis pump and finds himself in a fantasy world where he pursues bloody vengeance against those who've put him down. What he doesn't realize is that his whole life has been leading up to the moment when he awakes to find that he's run out of second chances, and despite his regret, there is no going back.
10KBullets applauded its “willingness to go where very few horror films have gone before.” Gruesome Death has captivated viewers and made top horror films lists for 2011 as well as being named Best of the 2011 Pollygrind Film Festival.
Here's the trailer:
The DVD release will come crammed with Special Features including director’s commentary, interviews with cast and crew, behind-the-scenes footage, a featurette of the first sketch comedy troupe from Queens, the DJ Tommy Pistol music video and It Ate His Face music video trailer, and a special featurette showcasing director Aramis Sartorio’s heavy metal band, Amorea.
The latest issue of Apex Magazine has been released.
Table of ContentsFiction
"Bear in Contradicting Landscape" by David J. Schwartz
"My Body, Her Canvas" by A.C. Wise
Classic Revisited
"Useless Things" by Maureen McHugh
Poetry
"Caverns of Science" by Carrie Vaughn
Nonfiction
"Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas
"No Mortals Allowed" by Alex Bledsoe
"Interview with Maureen McHugh" by Maggie Slater
Cover art by Donata Giancola
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. It's edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas.
You can order a single issue or subscribe here: Apex Magazine
Clive Barker surprised nearly everyone with the following information from his Twitter feed:
“a nearly fatal case of Toxic Shock brought on by a visit to my dentist. Apparently this is not uncommon. In my case the dental work unloaded such a spillage of poisonous bacteria into my blood that my whole system crashed, putting me into a coma. I spent several days in Intensive Care, with a machine breathing for me. Later, my doctors said that they had not anticipated a happy ending until I started to fight, repeatedly pulling out the tubes that I was constantly gagging on. After a few days of nightmarish delusions I woke up to my life again, tired, twenty pounds lighter, but happy to be back from a very dark place. And here in the world I intend to stay. I’ve books to write, films to make and paintings to paint. I seem to have come home with my sight clearer somehow, and my sense of purpose intensified.”
Barker is 59.
Writer/Director Elias Matar's Ashes has been picked up by Osiris Entertainment and is available on VOD nationwide now. The DVD has also been released and is available on Amazon.com.
Description: The cure is worse than the disease.
A brilliant, obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly invents an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind. Now he must stop the infection before it destroys him and everyone he loves.
Here's the trailer:
And here's where you can pick it up on Amazon: Ashes
