CHILLER BRINGS BACK 'DARE TO DIRECT' CONTEST FOR 2008 

Winners Of Second Annual Contest Showcased in On-Air Halloween Special

Chiller announced the return of the "Dare To Direct" Short Film Contest. The announcement was made by Dan Harrison, Senior Vice President, Emerging Networks, NBC Universal Cable.

"The Chiller fans responded so enthusiastically to our contest last year with 300 entries," said Harrison. "It was the most popular contest of its kind among all of the NBC Universal Entertainment websites. This year, we're looking forward to what our incredibly talented viewers come up with. We wanted to give our enthusiastic audience plenty of notice to get their blood - er, creative juices - flowing."

The "Dare to Direct Contest" challenges fans to get creative and compete for great prizes and a chance to be featured on "Chiller's Dare to Direct Film Festival" as they write, produce, and submit short horror films. Shorts will be judged in mulitple categories by a celebrity judge. Viewers vote online to select finalists in each category, and a top figure in entertainment will select final winners. The films will be available for viewing and voting online beginning in late summer. On Halloween night, finalists and winners will be announced and featured in "Chiller's 2008 Dare to Direct Film Festival" at 10 pm (ET). Complete rules, prizes and categories will be announced shortly on both ChillerTV.com and the film festival's new home, Dare2Direct.com.

Chiller, an NBC Universal Cable channel, launched on March 1, 2007, and is an entertainment cable channel dedicated to the popular horror genre – around the clock. Chiller features exclusive horror and thriller programming from favorite mainstream series like "Millennium" and "Profit," to fan-favorite series like "Tales From the Crypt" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" to classic horror films like "Carrie," "Psycho" and "The Exorcist." To learn more, visit www.chillertv.com . Chiller offers a digital triple-pack service, which features a standard definition digital channel (SD), high definition simulcast (HD) and a video-on-demand (VOD) channel offered as a digital bundle. The VOD and HD offerings will be available in 2008.

Hi Count, 

Two Twilight clips are now available below (in bold), including embed codes! Also, don’t forget to check out the new Entertainment Weekly with KRISTEN STEWART and ROBERT PATTINSON on the cover and featuring the villains inside. This edition hits newsstands today. 

On behalf of Summit Entertainment, we are pleased to present Twilight, in theatres December 12^th. 

TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school.  When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change.  Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met.  Intelligent and witty, he sees straight into her soul.  Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance.  Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands – and he hasn’t aged since 1918.  Like all vampires, he’s immortal.   But he doesn’t have fangs, and he doesn’t drink human blood; Edward and his family are unique among vampires in their lifestyle choice.  To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate.  But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy.  But what will Edward & Bella do when James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), the Cullens’ mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for her?

ABOUT TWILIGHT: Based on the current #1 New York Times Bestselling series (30 weeks and counting) with over 5.5 million books in print by Stephenie Meyer, TWILIGHT is a cultural phenomenon, with a dedicated fanbase that eagerly awaits this movie.  There are over 100 fan sites devoted to Twilight, and it has been chosen as the New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Amazon’s “Best Book of the Decade…So Far”, Teen People’s “Hot List” Pick, The American Library Association’s “Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults” and “Top Ten Books for Reluctant Readers” and has been translated into 20 languages.   Critically acclaimed director Catherine Hardwicke brings to life this modern, visual, and visceral Romeo & Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair – between vampire and mortal.

Produced by MARK MORGAN, GREG MOORADIAN and WYCK GODFREY
Based on the best-selling Novel “Twilight” by STEPHENIE MEYER
Screenplay by MELISSA ROSENBERG (STEP UP, Fox's THE O.C., Showtime's DEXTER)
Directed by CATHERINE HARDWICKE (THIRTEEN, LORDS OF DOGTOWN) 

Starring
KRISTEN STEWART (PANIC ROOM)
ROBERT PATTINSON (HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE)
BILLY BURKE (UNTRACEABLE)
PETER FACINELLI (THE SCORPION KING)
and
ELIZABETH REASER (THE FAMILY STONE)
NIKKI REED (THIRTEEN)
ASHLEY GREENE (SHARK)
JACKSON RATHBONE (HURT)
CAM GIGANDET (NEVER BACK DOWN)

 Thanks! 

K.C. Webster

Hi Count, 

From The Twisted Mind That Launched The Leprechaun Franchise, TRILOQUIST, an all-new horror-comedy arrives on DVD July 1st, from The Weinstein Company and Genius Products.  

Two teenage siblings are determined to carry out their ventriloquist mother’s dying wishes with the help of the dummy itself – no matter what the cost. 

Campy thriller, TRILOQUIST debuts its act on DVD July 1st under the Dimension Extreme label from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company.  From writer-director Mark Jones (Leprechaun, Rumplestiltskin) and starring teen up-and-comers Rocky Marquette (Bondage), Payden LoPachin (House At The End Of The Drive) and Katie Chonacas (Slingshot), TRILOQUIST follows a psychotic brother and sister who hit the road to Las Vegas with their ventriloquist dummy that seems to have a mind of its own.

Synopsis
In a seedy Hollywood motel, a down-and-out ventriloquist overdoses in front of her son and daughter, scarring them for life. Eighteen years later, the son, who has not spoken a word since his mother’s suicide, and daughter, depart on a road trip to Las Vegas. Still haunted by their childhood memories, they are unable to fulfill their mother’s dying wishes to uphold the family bloodline and become great ventriloquists. Entranced by the dummy’s commands, the long journey plunges them further and further into darkness as they begin a murderous rampage across the desert.

Best,
Marisa

Hi Count, 

The final installment to director Dario Argento’s horror triology, MOTHER OF TEARS, is opening in select theaters throughout the country on JUNE 6^th! See below to find out where the MOTHER OF TEARS is playing near you.  Visit the newly launched OFFICIAL WEBSITE for updated theater and ticket information!  

SYNOPSIS:

An ancient urn chained to a coffin is unhearted by chance by some men at work along the road bordering the Viterbo’s cemetery. The urn contains an age-old tunic and some objects belonging to Mater Lacrimarum, the Third Mother (Moran Atias). The only survivor of the Three Mothers - three powerful witches who had been shedding blood and terror for aeons - Mater Lacrimarum (the Mother of Tears) has been hiding in Rome for centuries and her awakening triggers a chain of mysterious and terrible events: the Evil is back to cast its dark shadow over the city.  

Sarah Mandy (Asia Argento), a young student of restoration, co-worker and love’s interest of Michael Pierce (Adam James), the curator of the Museum of Ancient Art of Rome, is involved in the escalating and increasingly frantic episodes of violence. Sarah tries to run away but she cannot: the Third Mother is looking for her and Sarah is not aware of the fact that her mother Elisa Mandy (Daria Nicolodi) was a powerful white witch brutally killed by Mater Suspiriorum, the witch from Fryeburg.  

Helped by the spirit of her mother, by an eminent esoterism academic, Guglielmo De Witt (Philippe Leroy), and by the Chief Constable Marchi (Cristian Solimeno), Sarah realizes that she has no way out and that she must face the impending threat… 

THE MOTHER OF TEARS awakens in theaters June 6, 2008!

June 6^th, 2008

New York - Sunshine Cinema

Los Angeles - Nuart Theatre

Irvine - University Town Center 6

Philadelphia - Ritz Bourse

Cambridge, MA – Kendall Square 9 Cinema

Washington, DC - E Street Cinema

June 20^th, 2008

San Francisco - Lumiere 3 Theatre

Berkeley - Shattuck 10 Cinema

San Jose - Camera

Minneapolis - Lagoon 5 Cinema

June 27^th, 2008

 Denver - Starz Film Center

San Diego - Ken Cinema

Austin - Dobie 4 Theatre

Dallas – Magnolia Theatre

July 4^th, 2008

 Seattle - Varsity 3 Theatre

Chicago - Music Box Theatre

July 11^th, 2008

St. Louis - Tivoli 3 Theatre

Atlanta - Midtown Art Cinema

 Thanks as always! 

Megan