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NEWS – Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman Spoofs BP CEO Tony Hayward

Published on: 30th July, 2010

You’ve got to love Lloyd Kaufman! Having built the independent empire that is Troma with such schlock classics as The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Kaufman has taken every opportunity to exploit the ludicrous, the explicit and even the tragic all in the name of comedy.
His latest spoof sees him star as [...]

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NEWS – Miramax Find New Owners

Published on: 30th July, 2010

The fate of Miramax has been the subject of debate for some time. Following the purchase of the company by Disney in 1993 and the decision by founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein to venture out on their own in 2004 Miramax has moved further away from its independent roots (which began in 1981 with the [...]

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NEWS – Check Out Our New Slasher Site

Published on: 10th May, 2010

We are happy to announce that our new sister site, The Slasher Scrapbook, has now gone live. As we on here cover the genre as much as possible anyway it made sense for us to create a site exclusively for slasher movies. Head on over to the new site by clicking here, and check out [...]

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NEWS – Battlefield Earth Writer Finally Says Sorry

Published on: 28th March, 2010

There are very filmmakers who will acknowledge that they were responsible for one of the worst movies ever made. There are even fewer who will publicly apologize for it. Yet screenwriter J.D. Shapiro has done just that with regards to the atrocity that was Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000. Based on the [...]

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NEWS – The Crazies Number 3 at Box Office with $16m

Published on: 1st March, 2010

It seems that the horror genre is topping the US box office this week, with Martin Scorcese’s latest effort Shutter Island coming out on top with a respectable $22,665,205. Whilst Kevin Smith’s comedy thriller Cop Out lands the second spot, number three belongs to The Crazies, Breck Eisner’s highly anticipated remake of the 1973 George [...]

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