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  Monday-week (that’s the Monday after tomorrow for those non-Englanders) the horror western Bone Tomahawk will be released on DVD and Blu-ray formats in the UK.
It hits the shelves, virtual and real, on Monday the 13th of June.
Much to my surprise it looks like I didn’t post this information when I found it out a while back. I definitely posted about the addition of pages on Amazon’s website back in February but the information then was not complete. Later the proper date was added.
The prices of the discs has dropped since then to £9.99 (~US$15) for the DVD and £14.99 (~US$22) for the Blu-ray. Don’t worry if you pre-ordered, you will be charged the lower price at the time of shipping.
If you would like to a copy for free then the website of Scream, the horror magazine, is offering readers an opportunity to win one. They have 7 Blu-rays and 3 DVDs so there are ten chances to take a price. You only need to send them an email with your contact details by the 20th of June (a couple of weeks from now) to take part. See the Scream website HERE for details.
 Over two years since our last post on Alice Sweet Alice, and over three since any significant news, we have an update.
What exactly it means for Kathryn fans is not entirely clear but it does give us a small insight in to the world of film making.
To recap: Alice Sweet Alice was a horror movie from 1976 by the writer/director Alfred Sole. More recently Alfred has been a production designer working on films and TV shows, including contributing to a number of seasons of Castle, which just finished its final run. Back in 2013 Dante Tomaselli the horror writer/director, and cousin of Alfred, announced his plans to remake Alice Sweet Alice. Kathryn was said to be involved playing the mother of the title character and would be taking a role behind the camera with her own production company.
As I said, a long time has passed with no news.
Dante has now given an interview with the iHorror website giving details on what has been happening in the intervening period. Various attempts to secure funding fell through, including by Kathryn herself. As Dante says:
“First, Alfred’s ex-agent was confident she had funding but, ultimately, she didn’t. Then Kathryn Morris was going to serve as Executive Producer, but she couldn’t raise the funds. She did try. That was it.”
Apparently Dante, with his co-writer Michael Gingold, has re-worked the project into a scarier film with a new script and production is being revived. Kathryn’s further involvement is not mentioned, nor is it dismissed. However, it is noticeable that as of earlier this month Kathryn is no longer listed on the film’s IMDb page.
You can read the full piece on the iHorror.com website HERE.
And probably not yet ‘in the can’ either.
Starting today (11th May) on the south coast of France is the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The 69th in its history no less.
Awesomeness Films, the production company behind the upcoming teen drama You Get Me starring Bella Thorne (Blended), will be in the French resort to promote some of its offerings to distributors. Cannes is more of a trade show than a film festival.
You Get Me is, as far as we know, still being filmed so discussion of the movie at the event will be as much about gauging reaction to the genre as generating sales. If regional distributors feel they can attract local audiences with certain types of films it will guide company’s future projects.
We don’t know much about You Get Me so far beyond the principal cast, some plot elements, and that Kathryn has been mentioned as being in it. No specifics yet. You can see what have so far in the previous post HERE.
No release date has been… released… but this year seems likely.
 There is something deeply unsettling about the idea of a faceless entity arbitrarily dividing the human race up for unknown reasons.
Are you in area 2? Do those in area 1 seem to have it much better?
But that’s enough about DVD region codes…
July 12th, 2016 sees the first season DVD release of the TV series Colony. In America that is. It is on the country’s local Amazon website here. The price at present is $24.
The USA Network’s 10 episode sci-fi-ish show will be in a three disc box set. Along with a behind-the-scenes documentary, that was aired before the first episode went out, there is said to be some deleted scenes.
Publicity photos of Kathryn in the show included shots from scenes we’ve not seen. Could they be part of the extras?
Colony is set in a modern day earth that is under the control of aliens. The world’s defences have been disabled and what is left of humankind has been allowed to remain living in walled-off ‘blocks’ of major urban centres like Los Angeles. Josh Holloway (Lost) and Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) are a husband and wife that find themselves on opposite sides of collaborate/resist divide. He’s a works as an agent for the security services keeping the peace for the ‘hosts’. She’s trying to help the fight-back against the oppressive regime. Both are doing so for the sake of their family.
Kathryn guest stars in three episodes as an art curator in the more comfortably accommodated ‘green zone’. She’s also the wife of Adrian Pasdar’s (Heroes) politician who has ambitions of moving up the power tree.
There are three images showing the DVD box art now in the Gallery.
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Oi! I’m over here!
Left a little more!
Glad to see you finally managed to drag yourself away for a moment  Can’t blame you though. It is more than a little captivating isn’t it? I didn’t need a good excuse to post it again, but I’ve got one anyway.
Last week it was announced that WOWOW TV in Japan had signed a deal with Warner Bros. to create their own local version of Cold Case.
The new production is said to be made up of 10 episodes which will première in October of this year (2016). The wording in the press release says that that number have “already been commissioned”, so it could very well be added to before broadcasting starts.
The plan appears to be to take the essence of Cold Case, that it is about the people and their stories and not the science or gun fights, and write new tales around that ethos. Japan has an incredibly rich history to draw from and huge capacity for story telling so I am sure they will not be short of ideas.
Although it wasn’t said in the official statement, according to an IMDb listing the show is called Cold Case: Shinjitsu no Tobira. A few attempts by me at translating have come up with ‘Shinjitsu’ meaning something like ‘truth’ and ‘Tobira’ as ‘door’ or ‘opening’. So, it could be something like ‘door to truth’. If any of our Japanese friends want to help out please comment below.
WOWOW TV has broadcast the whole of the original Cold Case in Japan. The event pictured is Kathryn’s 2007 visit to Tokyo promoting the 3rd season of the show. Enjoy more details (and pictures!) here. The day before that she also took in the Japanese première of a Harry Potter movie, as posted about here.
The full Warner Bros. International Television/WOWOW TV press release can be seen here at the Broadcasting Cable website.
There is also an official WOWOW TV website (in Japanese of course) for the show to be found here.
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