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From DVDActive:

(UK-based) Optimum Home Entertainment has announced the release of Mother of Tears for the 21st of April, priced at around £15.99. The disc will feature an anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, but no bonus material is included.

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Giallo casting news

Adrian Brody and Emmanuelle Seigner have signed on to take the lead male and female roles in Giallo, which were originally attached to Vincent Gallo and Asia Argento.

Brody is of course best known for his academy award winning performace in Roman Polanksi's The Pianist and is arguably the highest profile actor ever to star in an Argento film. Interestingly, Seigner is the wife of Polanski, and has starred in several of his films, most notably Frantic.

Production starts in Torino, Italy in May 2008. Stay tuned for more details as they come to hand.

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Friday, March 07, 2008

New from Anchor Bay...

Damn you Anchor Bay. Just when I'm content with my Argento DVD collection, along comes this news, as reported by Fangoria...

Anchor Bay Entertainment has a pair of new DVDs of Dario Argento favorites set for release May 27. 1982's TENEBRE and 1984's PHENOMENA will both be presented in new 16x9-enhanced widescreen transfers (1.85:1 and 1.66:1 respectively) with Dolby 5.1 Surround soundtracks. All the previous special features will be replicated, with the addition of a new featurette on each:

TENEBRE:
• Audio commentary by Argento, composer Claudio Simonetti and journalist Loris Curci
• New Voices of the Unsane retrospective featurette
• The Roving Camera Eye of Dario Argento featurette
• Creating Sounds of Terror featurette
• Alternate end credit music
• Argento bio
• Trailer

PHENOMENA:
• Audio commentary by Argento, FX creator Sergio Stivaletti, Simonetti and Curci
• New A Dark Fairy Tale retrospective featurette
• Luigi Cozzi & The Art of Macrophotography featurette
• Argento on THE JOE FRANKLIN SHOW
• Simonetti "Jennifer" music video
• Bill Wyman "Valley" music video
• Argento bio
• Trailer

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Monday, January 21, 2008

More on GIALLO

From Variety:

"Italo horror-meister Dario Argento will shoot "Giallo," an English-language homage to the genre that made him a cult helmer, with Ray Liotta, Vincent Gallo and Argento's daughter Asia Argento attached to star.
Argento's latest thriller will revolve around serial slashings of some very attractive women being investigated by a solitary cop, played by Liotta, who engages in a cat-and-mouse game with the psychopathic perpetrator, played by Gallo.

Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures, headed by Richard Rionda Del Castro, is co-producing "Giallo" with Argento's own Rome-based Opera Film shingle. The screenplay is by Yank scribes Jim Agnew and Sean Keller.

Hannibal's Rafael Primorac will produce with Rionda Del Castro and Opera's Claudio Argento both taking executive producer hats. Hannibal will kick off "Giallo" presales at the upcoming EFM mart in Berlin.

Shooting on "Giallo" is set to start in February in Turin, the Northern Italian city where Argento shot his most recent slasher, "The Mother of Tears," also starring Asia Argento. The Turin Piedmont Film Commission is providing production incentives.

True to its title, which means "yellow" in Italian and is the Italo term for pulpy thrillers, "Giallo" will aim to deliver the slasher thrills of Argento's cult classics of the 70s, such as "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage," "Suspiria" and "Deep Red," a stage musical version of which is currently launching in Italy."

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

GIALLO project confirmed.

The new Argento film GIALLO, penned by one of the members of this page (hey there Sean!), is shaping up to be very promising indeed - with Vincent Gallo, Asia Argento and Ray Liotta attached. Great cast!

Read the Variety article HERE.

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