“Slithis” is finally on DVD! I’ve been waiting for this day since I was in junior high and stumbled across the already well-worn VHS copy at my local video store. Stephen Traxler’s 1978 film has everything a child of my era could want. Growing up I fully expected to be annihilated by a nuclear holocaust at any given moment, murdered in my sleep by Freddy Krueger, or wiped out by some massive environmental catastrophe, so any movie with a guy dressed in a rubber monster suit, loosely disguised as a cautionary tale about nuclear power and pollution, was right up my alley. To be honest, I remember it not being very good, and decades down the line it doesn’t even hold up to my already under-inflated expectations. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch it. Something is killing household pets along the canals of Venice (that’s Venice,...
- 6/20/2010
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
Code Red DVD, the company who brought us Devil Times Five , Dead Pit and Beyond the Door discs amongst others, is preparing to release Slithis on June 1. Stephen Traxler's 1978 painted the portrait of a terrified Venice, California as it fell victim to a mutated sea creature. Hell hath no fury...like Slithis! So read the poster. Stay tuned for more details as they come in!
- 4/6/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Ah, Slithis ... I first saw this little rubber monster ditty when CBS ran it late night back in the Eighties under the alternate title Spawn of the Slithis. Scared the heck out of me as a little kid, not so much as an adult watching it on a horribly murky VHS transfer. Now Code Red is preparing to introduce Slithis to the digital world.
Slithis was writer-director Stephen Traxler’s 1978 homage to monster movies of the Fifties and Sixties. A nuclear leak gives rise to a humanoid reptilian sea creature called Slithis (named such after the radioactive mud from which it spawns and leaves behind). The Slithis emerges from the ocean to terrorize the shores of Venice, California, leaving behind a trail of dead house pets, wino vagrants, fishermen, seaside homeowners, and gigolos that look like Burt Reynolds. I distinctly recall that when it fed on people, it sounded like someone was vigorously slurping soup.
Slithis was writer-director Stephen Traxler’s 1978 homage to monster movies of the Fifties and Sixties. A nuclear leak gives rise to a humanoid reptilian sea creature called Slithis (named such after the radioactive mud from which it spawns and leaves behind). The Slithis emerges from the ocean to terrorize the shores of Venice, California, leaving behind a trail of dead house pets, wino vagrants, fishermen, seaside homeowners, and gigolos that look like Burt Reynolds. I distinctly recall that when it fed on people, it sounded like someone was vigorously slurping soup.
- 4/5/2010
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
The Weinstein Company has acquired worldwide film rights to the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play August: Osage County and will produce a feature adaptation, says the trades. August: Osage County is an original darkly comedic play that centers on a reunion of the Weston family, living in the state of Oklahoma; the play's title refers to Osage County, which lies northwest of Tulsa. It deals with such issues as drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide, death, family dysfunction, sexual harassment, aging, generational change, racism, incest, infidelity, and ultimately love. Tracy Letts, who wrote the play, will also write the screenplay. Harvey Weinstein Jean Doumanian (All the Real Girls) and Steve Traxler (Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde) will produce. The Weinstein Company will fully finance and distribute the film with an eye toward a 2011 release.
- 11/11/2008
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
The Weinstein Company has snapped up the film rights to August: Osage County, a darkly comedic, Pulitzer and Tony-winning stage play which begins an eight-week run in London, at the National Theatre, from November 21. Harvey Weinstein will produce the film, along with Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler, and has tapped up the play’s author, Tracy Letts, to write the adaptation. She’ll have a heck of a job – August: Osage County is a three-hour plus epic about the reunion of a dysfunctional family that features drug abuse, suicide, and incest, amongst other things. But Weinstein clearly has great belief in the project, and in Letts. "I've loved the writing since I was given a 240-page script for a three-hour play that starred nobody, that had no workshop," he told Variety. "My reaction was similar to the feeling I had when I read Quentin Tarantino's script for True Romance. Tracy has that kind of voice.
- 11/11/2008
- EmpireOnline
The Weinstein Co. has acquired worldwide film rights to the Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play “August: Osage County” and will produce a feature adaptation.
Twx co chairman Harvey Weinstein will join Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler as producers of the film, with playwright Tracy Letts doing the adaptation.
Weinstein said his company will fully finance and distribute the film with an eye toward a 2011 release.
Weinstein and Doumanian have already received calls from reps of interested actresses who have seen the play.
Doumanian and Traxler, who are lead producers on the Broadway production with Jeffery Richards and Jerry Frankel, made a deal with Letts during the summer to work on the script of the film. Doumanian said she hopes to have...
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Twx co chairman Harvey Weinstein will join Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler as producers of the film, with playwright Tracy Letts doing the adaptation.
Weinstein said his company will fully finance and distribute the film with an eye toward a 2011 release.
Weinstein and Doumanian have already received calls from reps of interested actresses who have seen the play.
Doumanian and Traxler, who are lead producers on the Broadway production with Jeffery Richards and Jerry Frankel, made a deal with Letts during the summer to work on the script of the film. Doumanian said she hopes to have...
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- 11/11/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
The Weinstein Co. has picked up worldwide film rights to produce a feature adaptation of "August: Osage County," the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play. Harvey Weinstein will join Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler will serve as producers and playwright Tracy Letts will write the adapatation. Apparently, Weinstein co will fully finance and distribute. Their eyeing out a 2011 release year. The play has won 5 Tony Awards.
- 11/11/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Weinstein Co. has picked up worldwide film rights to produce a feature adaptation of "August: Osage County," the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play. Harvey Weinstein will join Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler will serve as producers and playwright Tracy Letts will write the adapatation. Apparently, Weinstein co will fully finance and distribute. Their eyeing out a 2011 release year. The play has won 5 Tony Awards.
- 11/11/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Weinstein Co. has picked up worldwide film rights to produce a feature adaptation of "August: Osage County," the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play. Harvey Weinstein will join Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler will serve as producers and playwright Tracy Letts will write the adapatation. Apparently, Weinstein co will fully finance and distribute. Their eyeing out a 2011 release year. The play has won 5 Tony Awards. What's the play about? A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major new Broadway play that unflinchingly – and uproariously – exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family. - Courtesy official site...
- 11/11/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Weinstein Co. has picked up worldwide film rights to produce a feature adaptation of "August: Osage County," the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play. Harvey Weinstein will join Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler will serve as producers and playwright Tracy Letts will write the adapatation. Apparently, Weinstein co will fully finance and distribute. Their eyeing out a 2011 release year. The play has won 5 Tony Awards.
- 11/11/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Last week was a big week for movie-related Broadway stories with Spider-Man and The Goonies, and this week continues the trend with news that Will Ferrell will make his Broadway debut in January in the new solo comedy “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush.” Variety reports that the stage production will be helmed by Adam McKay, the writer-director of Ferrell pics “Step Brothers,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.” No details on the plot just yet, but the production begins previews Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, ahead of a Feb. 1 opening at the Cort Theater. The limited engagement is set to go dark on March 15th. The writing credits have not yet been confirmed, although it seems likely Ferrell and McKay will collaborate on the script, since the duo co-wrote the screenplays for all three of their prior film outings.
- 10/21/2008
- UGO Movies
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