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FROM CINEMA FANATIC

  1.  How Robert Eggers (Nosferatu), Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island), Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House) and others write horror.
  2.  Here’s a slowed down version of the “dream sequence” in the latest Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning trailer (lots to unpack).
  3. 🔪 Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. return in I Know What You Did Last Summer first look (is this a ’90s horror revival?)
  4. Here’s a wild new poster for Ari Aster’s (Hereditary, Midsommar) Eddington, starring Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix.

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Tony Tellado:  I remember walking into this, these were the days where Paramount would fly you places. They, they put us up at the Four Seasons. We went to see it in Paramount Studios and and an amazing screening room and, uh, so that was fun. Another thing on Insurrection, I was talking to F. Murray Abraham, and he was telling, he was telling me the story that he was, you know, he was at the end when Picard and Son’a and the Son’a were fighting each other. Um, he was, he was firing his gun, and then you said, You yelled cut, and he was like, what? What’s going on? And he kept going.

Jonathan Frakes: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He’s a riot, he’s on the White Lotus now, he’s killing it. Oh, he’s fantastic. He was, he was a great interview too. I bet he is. He, he, he’s not afraid to talk. No, not at all. I had him on The Orville as well. He’s, he’s a fabulous actor. Oh, he is.

Tony Tellado: Well, I gotta tell you something about, something I noticed as far as your directing, um. It, I’d say this kind of very lighthearted, but so Star Trek and Star Trek First Contact. You had Brent Spiner  do that jump on the ascender rig. So, and he said, if you’re lucky, you can see me, because I was at his roundtable, he was saying, if you’re lucky you can see my face if you paused it. And then an Insurrection, you had him going 32 degree water.

Jonathan Frakes: Oh my God, he was miserable. And then I used the stuntman doing it. He was, he’s still talking about that.

Tony Tellado: And, and then your own wife in Thunderbirds, Jeannie Francis plays a reporter. Oh my God, and the rain and the wind, and Oh, you’re, she’s getting pelted.

Jonathan Frakes: Hey Tony, you’ve done some good deep diving

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Barry Bostwick On The Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcasts:

“I’m on a sort of soapbox about, about cleaning up what goes on in the movie theaters. Uh, with a lot of the shadow casts and a lot of the audiences, because I think it’s, I think it’s keeping people away from enjoying the film when you’re in a theater and every other word is or this, or, you know, it, I think that the, what was at one time. Creative and fun and sarcastic yet just maybe politically incorrect or or a real party atmosphere has turned into somewhat of a, a place that I wouldn’t send my 12 year old or 13-year-old when I would have 1520 years ago. It was when it was when it was a bit more tame and I, I did a I did a convention last weekend in Boston and I did a question and answer panel and I brought this subject up and um I, I can’t tell you the number of people in the audience who were diehard Rocky Horror fans, but, but uh it felt the same way that it’s, it’s restrictive and it, and it’s, it stopped being. As much fun as it should be because of the egos and the of A lot of the people who are running these tasks, and they feel the need to, to go way out on a limb, uh, in terms of language, behavior. It stops being a A connected experience between the film and the cast and just becomes all about the cast and you, you, you wouldn’t even need the film in the background.  I think that’s a shame, but and maybe the Fox reboot that’s being done, yeah, uh, maybe that will bring some some fresh energy to it and People will reexamine the themes and the and the, uh, you know, it, it, it’s purpose, I think, uh, other than just to entertain, but what has been its purpose for the last 41 years. Or it could be a piece of shit for all I know. I don’t know anybody, you know, it could be just a, a rehashing uh of it and uh with uh lesser known and maybe lesser talented, uh, people playing the parts.”

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