Friday, October 16
There's no denying that vampire popularity is at an all-time high or that, thanks to the likes of Stephenie Meyer, it's still on the rise. But despite the popular perception that vampire movies have been taking a "dirt-nap" since the '90s, that's not exactly true.
We look back at the two decades of movie undead that preceded the Cullens, a period that offers some awesome fanged films — and a few that should have stayed buried — in our Vampire Movie Timeline.
Posted 10/16/2009 by reelz
Related: The Lost Boys | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Interview With the Vampire | From Dusk Till Dawn | Blade | Underworld | The Forsaken | 30 Days of Night | The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Saturday, August 15
Actor Robert Downey Jr. has spent the last decade climbing back into the limelight. Now he seems poised to take over Hollywood, one film franchise at a time. Downey Jr. charmed the world as Tony Stark in Iron Man, a film that defied expectations and turned a B-list hero into a $585-million juggernaut. This Christmas, Downey Jr. hopes to capture lightning in a bottle once more by reinventing Sherlock Holmes. With the latest news, it appears Downey Jr. is going for the hat trick.
An unnamed source has revealed that Universal Pictures is looking to resurrect Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles with none other than Downey Jr. as the vampire Lestat Du Lioncort, a character featured in both previous attempts to adapt Rice's books. It's been 15 years since Tom Cruise donned a blond wig and frilly shirt to play Lestat in Interview With the Vampire, and seven years since Stuart Townsend played a black-leathered Lestat in Queen of the Damned — a critical and commercial failure that seemed to spell the end of the franchise.
No further details were offered about which Rice book will be adapted or whether Lestat will be a featured character or simply the narrator. What is apparent is that Universal Pictures is hoping to cash in on the newly invigorated market for vampires, thanks to the HBO series True Blood and the Twilight phenomenon.
Posted 8/15/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Interview With the Vampire | Robert Downey Jr. | Queen of the Damned