Bits 'n Pieces: Ti West's 'The Innkeeper', 'Scream 4' and More
In a deal locked in at Sundance, Writer/Director Ti West will follow up his critically acclaimed film The House of the Devil with The Inkeepers. According to Variety The Inkeepers is about 'the last two staffers of a haunted hotel that's going out of business'. MPI Media Group's Dark Sky will produce along with Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix. West says he intends for The Innkeepers to be 'a truly terrifying' follow-up to The House of the Devil.
MPI were not only behind West's The House of the Devil, but they also recently picked up the rights to Adam Green's (Frozen) Hatchet 2. West had also been attached to Gold Circle's The Haunting in Georgia, a sequel to Lionsgate's The Haunting in Connecticut.
Screen Daily is reporting that the UK division of Lionsgate will release Philip Ridley’s psychological thriller Heartless on DVD, blu-ray, video on demand and download simultaneously on May 24th.
The film said to be about demons living in East London stars Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy, Noel Clarke, Joseph Mawle, Eddie Marsan, Luke Treadaway and Timothy Spall.
Interestingly the article also reports that the distributor has received $48,400 (£30,000) of funding from the UK Film Council’s (UKFC) digital innovation in distribution strand towards the release, which will include an interactive Facebook campaign.
In an interview with IESB.net Kevin Williamson dishes a bit more info on Scream 4 & 5. Williamson tells the site that he's only been contracted to write Scream 4 & 5, not 6 (for a new trilogy) as originally reported. He also confirms that Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Dave Arquette will return and that Wes Craven will return to direct. But according to Williamson, they won't be in 3-D. Read the full interview at IESB.net.
A web chat with actress Scout Taylor Compton popped up online and she talks about a call she received asking if she was interested in reprising her role in Halloween 3 and her reasons for wanting to return/not return to the franchise. Primarily citing the fact that she doesn't want to make a bad movie that's rushed into production, Compton obviously hasn't seen the first two that she starred in yet. Check out the clip below.
