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--- McLean Machine - I was just thinking about Wolf Creek 2 the other day and wondering what the hell was going on there - it's been awhile since Greg McLean, director of the brilliant original (and noted handsome silver fox himself), said he was making the sequel. Well now I know - apparently there's legal troubles of some sort holding it up, and so he's moving on to another project (it's only been FIVE YEARS since he directed anything; no rush, man!) - it's called Kill Me Three Times and he's lined up a great looking cast - Alice Braga, Abbie Cornish, and two of the brothers from Animal Kingdom, Ben Mendolsohn and Sullivan Stapleton. It sounds like it winds together three different stories of murder around Braga's character. Consider me there in a heartbeat.

--- Speaking of Aussie helmers of fright, the director of the pretty brilliantly disturbing The Snowtown Murders is lining up his next film - an adaptation of the John Le Carre book Our Kind of Traitor, from a script by the writer of Drive.

--- Demon Bed - As a lead-in to tomorrow's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," Nathaniel posted an early entry from his reader Beau on his favorite shot in William Friedkin's film The Exorcist (maybe you've heard of it?) and it's great stuff. The longer you stare at his pick the scarier it gets - I never noticed how much the second bedpost looks like a hooded figure until now, and it freaked me the eff out. I really need to gather my wits about me and make sure I do a post for this week. Tomorrow's the day!

--- City Songstress - Ooh the soundtrack to David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis has three songs by Metric on it! I loooove Metric. We heard about this in October but had completely forgotten. Have you guys heard their new single? I was just jamming - as much as I "jam" - to it on the subway this morning. Metric you may recall had the rockingest tune on the rocking soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim.

--- Dead Man Walkers - I really did get more into The Walking Dead as its second season trundled along, so I'm holding out hope they can maintain that momentum into the third season. Killing off some characters was the way to go. (Kill more!) They started shooting the third season yesterday and AMC interviewed producer and comic author Robert Kirkman about what's in store; beware spoilers.

--- Riddick Ulous - Vin Diesel carries a big bone stick, has nipples.

--- Horse Trailer - Here's the trailer for Todd Solondz's Dark Horse, which has been bouncing around film festivals for awhile now. In fact a friend of mine saw it a few days ago in Baltimore and said it was "hilarious." It's apparently getting some kind of release on June 8th.

--- The Aliens of Madness - I don't really like linking to this because I didn't really like having read it because I fear it gives away more about Ridley Scott's Prometheus than I wish I'd known but Guillermo Del Toro's gone on the record saying that he thinks the similarities between Scott's movie and H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness are too similar and this means his movie of that story's probably a goner, which makes me confused and hurt and fascinated all at once.

--- Big Blue - In an interview with the NYT James Cameron says he's in the Avatar business for at least the next gazillion years. Not only is he making a second and third film but he's considering a fourth, too. I have no doubts he's got visions for filling out the big blue people world with cool creatures, but I hope he remembers to put enough actual story around it all, maybe.

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