Win two tickets to Stephen King’s exclusive in-person appearance to promote his new book, Under the Dome in Toronto on November 19th, 2009 at the Canon Theatre at 8 pm.
King will be joined in conversation by highly-acclaimed Canadian director, writer, and producer David Cronenberg. Hosted by Canadian television and radio personality George Stroumboulopoulos, host of CBC television program The Hour.
Just send an email to talkback@drivenmag.com and tell us the name of your favourite evil clown created by Mr. King.
Under the Dome available November 10th.
The work of Edgar Allen Poe, who died on this date in 1849 under what can only be called aptly mysterious circumstances, has never had trouble being adapted for TV and movies. Going by this IMDB list, there’s been at least one Poe-related film or show made almost every years since 1908. That’s a whole lot of Tell-Tale Heart Crew jackets.
Though there was a recent movie made about Poe’s bizarre final days, however, there has not yet been a full-on biopic.
Well, look who is seeking to rectify that situation:
As for the Poe pic, Stallone wants to get it done, and done right. He’s conscious of the demands of such a role, and he recognizes that, passion project or not, this might not be the vehicle for him to headline. “Of course, I’m not playing Poe,” he told Empire. “‘Yo, Poe!’ It won’t work! It’ll be some young actor because he dies at 39, but it’s gonna happen.”
“Yo, Poe!” heh heh heh… he’s still got it.
On this day, 351 years ago, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth following the English Civil War, died as a result of a urinary tract infection. It was a rather ignoble way to go for the man who, however briefly, overthrew the English monarchy and made himself ruler of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Especially since it was also the anniversary of some of his greatest military battles.
Apparently the man who defeated the Scottish could not win out over his own kidneys.
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July 1-12, Toronto – When reading through a list of the 140-odd theatre productions at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, certain titles jump out at you: Killing Kevin Spacey, The Art of Being a Bastard, and Fucking Stephen Harper: How I Sexually Assaulted the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada and Where It Got Me. However, none of these are as intriging as Dracula in a Time of Climate Change.
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In Sam (Spider-man, the Evil Dead trilogy) Raimi’s terrifying and socio-economically topical Drag Me To Hell, opening today, Justin Long plays professor Clay Dalton, the supportive but skeptical boyfriend of Christine Brown (Alison Lohman), an ambitious bank loan officer. Brown and Dalton’s idyllic life together goes to Hell when Christine gets cursed by infernal visions, after denying a desperate old lady an extension on her home loan.
In a funny and frank conversation, Long (the star of Apple’s popular “I’m a Mac” commercials — and Drew Barrymore’s former fiancé) discusses the scatological lengths to which he was willing to go to play the male lead in Raimi’s return to horror.
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It’s beginning to look like one of this spring’s trends is a scary one — no, not wearing Birkenstocks to work — modernizing classic horror novels. As of May 3, dracula-feed.blogspot.com founder Whitney Sorrow (yes, that really is her name) has been posting one entry per day from Bram Stoker’s Dracula so that readers can follow along in “real time.”
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Rumours of vampires on campus sent Boston Latin School into a fright this past week, reports the Boston Globe. What is stranger is that the school’s administration actually issued a notice assuring the staff, students and their parents that “rumours involving vampires” were nothing more than just that. Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta declared that there were no vampires at the school, and adamantly offered assurances that no one at the school had been hurt, arrested—or bitten. The rumours of such bloodlust were reported to be causing anxiety and disruption among the students.
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It looks like we’re finally seeing the backlash to Jane Austen’s rise in popularity over the past decade or so. Maybe backlash isn’t the right word: It’s more of a side-lash, a re-appropriation. Hollywood’s treatment of Austen has typically targetted the female demographic, full of lush escapism and romantic intrigue. Well, no more. Wresting her work from the clutches of sentimentality are a bunch of projects which marry the Victorian stories with the most sordid aspects of Pulp genre fiction.
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Your regular daily commute is stressful enough as it is, but those flashing road side announcing unscheduled zombie rampages can just about push you over the edge. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to watch for velociraptors scampering across the asphalt—such a headache.
All over the United States hackers have been having their fun, and making the drive home a little less mundane.
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