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“I want Tong Po! Give me Tong Po!” If you’d like to live out your kickboxing dreams, only without all that pesky physical activity, you might be interested to learn that Force Multiplier Studios are in the early stages of developing an official Kickboxer video game based on the iconic action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

The Kickboxer video game “will combine the rich narrative of Kickboxer with kinetic martial arts action to deliver an intense, high-octane brawler, and feature iconic characters and locations from the franchise originally starring martial arts icon Jean-Claude Van Damme.” Now, the big question: will Van Damme be making an appearance? IGN asked Force Multiplier Studios that very question, but they didn’t have a concrete answer… yet

“We’re all massive fans of the Kickboxer movies, and we have the licenses to many characters and likenesses from the Kickboxer universe that we’re very excited about,...

"Fans of the bestselling Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver video game series will be able to discover the franchise’s untold backstory in an all-new, original graphic novel titled Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver – The Dead Shall Rise, now live on Kickstarter."

With the campaign live today, I'm excited to share my Q&a with Joshua Viola, co-writer on the new graphic novels, who talks about the origins of the project, his love of the video game, and much more!

I can't believe it's been nearly 25 years since the release of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver! Can you talk about your experience playing the game and why it made a lasting impression on you?

Joshua: When Soul Reaver was released, I had just gotten a pre-owned computer. It came with a Soul Reaver demo, and I played it repeatedly. It wasn't until Soul Reaver was released on Dreamcast that I...

Exclusive: Grounded is the latest videogame that is being adapted as a TV series.

The Xbox videogame, which was inspired by A Bug’s Life and Honey I Shrunk The Kids, is being adapted by Star Wars: Clone Wars writer Brent Friedman.

It marks the latest videogame to get the television treatment following the likes of Netflix’s Arcane and Paramount+’s Halo.

The series, which exists in the same universe as the game, follows four friends, who the summer before high school, plan “big things” to elevate their social standing, but their plans are upended when they stumble upon shrinking technology that makes them two inches tall. Now the four shrunken friends must learn to survive in a towering backyard that’s a jungle full of enormous predators and hiding a vast corporate conspiracy threatening their entire town.

The game was released via early access in July 2020 and has...

Several years after unleashing clever zombies with an appetite for brains in The Return of the Living Dead, Dan O'Bannon turned his attention to H.P. Lovecraft with The Resurrected, coming to home media in high definition on September 12th, and we've been provided with three Blu-ray copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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Several years after unleashing clever zombies in The Return of the Living Dead, Dan O'Bannon turned his attention to H.P. Lovecraft with The Resurrected, coming to Blu-ray on September 12th with a final list of bonus features that have just been revealed by Scream Factory:

Press Release: Loyal fans of visionary writer/director Dan O’Bannon (The Return of the Living Dead) know well the terrifying thriller from his 1991 cult classic The Resurrected, based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft. The film stars John Terry (Zodiac, Full Metal Jacket), Jane Sibbett (Arrival II), Chris Sarandon (Fright Night), Laurie Briscoe (Breaking Point) and Robert Romanus (Fast Times at Ridgemont High). On September 12, 2017,Scream Factory™ Home Entertainment is proud to presentTHE Resurrected on home entertainment shelves. Available for the first time on Blu-ray™, this definitive release features new 2K transfer, interviews and revealing extras. A must-have for movie collectors, horror enthusiasts and loyal fans,...

Megan Crouse Nov 7, 2016

The Clone Wars aren't over yet in an an emotional, retrospective episode of Star Wars: Rebels' third season...

This review contains spoilers.

See related Power Rangers, boob armour, and impractical costumes

3.6 The Last Battle

The Last Battle is a farewell and a celebration, a re-creation of the Clone Wars in the days of the Empire. It’s also a re-creation of The Clone Wars in Rebels, with a lot to unpack about the relationship between the two shows and the dynasties they portray. Writer Brent Friedman paces the episode well and gives unique voices to both Rex and Ezra. However, those voices don’t quite match what came before, and the episode just barely touches on fascinating ideas about why the Republic fell, instead becoming an introspective story that leans on the fans’ (and crew members’) fondness for an earlier show.

The episode starts out with...

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Cambio Debuts Acclaimed Horror Feature Film, Valemont, on Halloween Night

Valemont Marks Cambio’s First Foray into Distributing Feature Length Content

Written by Christian Taylor (Lost) & Brent Friedman (Dark Skies) and directed by Stefan Scaini (Degrassi), Valemont explores the unnatural lives the students live and the uprising that occurs when certain vampires disagree with the teachings of the university. The project stars Kristen Hager (Wanted, Wild Roses), Eric Balfour (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, “Six Feet Under”), Taylor Hynes (Are You Afraid of the Dark?), Dillon Casey (The Best Years, Being Erica), Jessica Parker Kennedy (“Smallville”),… More...

Just where do vampires go to learn how to deal with humans on a day-to-day basis? Can't exactly head down to the nearest etiquette class or check out a local finishing school. Vamps have to be a bit more creative. Thankfully they have Valemont... a place that teaches the undead how to deal with the not yet undead.

On Halloween 2011 Cambio.com is going to feature Valemont in feature-length format, meaning there will be plenty of fangs, blood and brooding for everyone in this story about the education of vampires. Since music videos basically don't exist anymore, MTV needs to find some programs to keep them afloat until "Beavis and Butt-Head" begin to dominate again. "Teen Wolf" is the first of those shows. Now MTV is hoping Valemont scores a big film victory for them.

Read on for all the details and what to expect from Valemont. And prepare for...

The Film:

Mankind will rest… in peace! - Shao Kahn

At first glance, it’s easy to tear apart this sequel, especially since Paul W.S. Anderson delivered a heck of a 90-minute action film. While Mortal Kombat: Annihilation did open at number one at the box office, it’s certainly never come close to Anderson’s film. Character development is vacant. Dialogue wooden as dining room table. FX that can be done better on a PC. You know, the stuff of a bad sequel. Critics weren’t kind, and neither were fans. Reportedly, even star Robin Shou was displeased with the outcome of the film.

But if the intentions of the filmmakers were to create an easy-going, family friendly film, then they succeeded in those regards. But that just ain’t Mortal Kombat.

Nobody told me why Johnny had to die. – Sonya Blade

Shao Kahn offered a warning at the...

Fans of Bethesda Softworks' Fallout franchise may not know this (I certainly didn't), but way back in 1998 a movie adaptation of the first game in the series was in the works. Interplay Entertainment, who owned Fallout and Fallout 2 developer Black Isle Studios, had begun a new division called Interplay Films with plans of making multiple movies based on their games.

After the popular debut of the first Fallout in 1997 it was obviously a world that was perfect for film adaptation, but sadly it would never come to be; even with multiple studios interested in the movie, Interplay closed its film division and that was that. Three outlines of what was to become a script were written by Brent V. Friedman while it was still being developed, however, and recently the second treatment was found on a old floppy disk.

So would a Fallout movie have worked or would it...

Roswell, N.M. - The aliens have returned! Maybe not returned so much as finally arrived on home video with the release of Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series on DVD. Startling enough, the show only lasted a season on NBC in 1996. It gained a large cult with an alternative history of America in the ’60s. “History as we know it is a lie” was the startling series slogan. John Loengard (Eric Close) went from plucky congressional aide to a member of the ultra creepy Majestic 12 run by Frank Bach (J.T. Walsh) to battle the alien menace. An equally bizarre transformation happens to his girlfriend, Kimberly Sayers (Megan Ward). She gets alien abducted and returned. The perky perfect sixties gal goes to dark side. Can he bring her back?

Megan Ward called up the Party Favors hotline for a brief chat about the series, being covered in cow guts,...

Created By: Bryce Zabel and Brent V. Friedman

Starring: Eric Close, Megan Ward, J.T. Walsh

It’s been fifteen years since Dark Skies first aired on TV and now fans of the short lived Sci-Fi and history hybrid can rejoice. Shout! Factory has done it again and pulled out all the stops to finally release the Dark Skies series on DVD.

An idealistic Congressional aide discovers evidence of aliens living among us. When he stumbles into the government’s longtime cover-up, his life changes forever. In the landmark television series Dark Skies, freedom fighter John Loengard (Eric Close) declares that “history as we know it is a lie”, and sets out to find the truth before it’s too late. He and girlfriend Kim Sayers (Megan Ward) embark on a cross-country crusade, attempting to derail plans by the sinister alien “Hive”. Majestic-12, a covert government agency assigned to secretly fight the aliens,...

Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series – Starring Eric Close and Megan Ward – Secrets and Conspiracies Spill from All 19 Original Riveting Episodes, Extensive DVD Bonus Content, Special Booklet and much more! Own The Collectible 6-dvd Box Set On January 18, 2011 From Shout! Factory

An idealistic Congressional aide discovers evidence of aliens living among us. When he stumbles into the government’s longtime cover-up, his life changes forever. In the landmark television series Dark Skies, freedom fighter John Loengard declares that “history as we know it is a lie,” and sets out to find the truth before it’s too late. He and girlfriend Kim Sayers embark on a cross-country crusade, attempting to derail plans by the sinister alien “Hive.” Majestic-12, a covert government agency assigned to secretly fight the aliens, monitors Loengard; and Capt. Frank Bach is ready to silence him—or quietly aid his quest. Call it alternative history or call it the unthinkable truth.

Dark Skies: The Complete Series

Stars: Eric Close, Megan Ward, J.T. Walsh | Created by Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman | Directed by Rodman Flender, Tobe Hooper, Winrich Kolbe, Steve Beers, Michael Levine

An idealistic Congressional aide discovers evidence of aliens living among us. When he stumbles into the government’s longtime cover-up, his life changes forever. Dark Skies sees freedom fighter John Loengard declares that “history as we know it is a lie,” as he sets out to find the truth before it’s too late. He and girlfriend Kim Sayers embark on a cross-country crusade, attempting to derail plans by the sinister alien “Hive”. Majestic-12, a covert government agency assigned to secretly fight the aliens, monitors Loengard, with Majestic-12 head Capt. Frank Bach ready to silence him – or quietly aid his quest…

Dark Skies originally aired in 1996, following the success of The X-Files on Fox and was at the...

HollywoodNews.com: Fifteen years after “Dark Skies” first aired on network television, the entire series will finally be unleashed for the first time on DVD when Shout! Factory debuts the “Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series” DVD box set on January 18, 2011, marking the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s inauguration. Newly remastered, this collectible 6-dvd box set includes all 19 episodes, an international TV pilot, a special commemorative booklet featuring a behind-the-scenes essay by Zabel, and extensive bonus content. The show’s creators Bryce Zabel and Brent V. Friedman, along with stars Eric Close and Megan Ward, discuss the series and their roles in an intimate look back “Signal To Noise: Uncovering Dark Skies.” “Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series” is a must-have for fans of science fiction, mystery and intrigues.

In the landmark television series “Dark Skies,” freedom fighter John Loengard declares that “history as we know it is a lie,...

Glitner is a European based and a European funded digital rights management platform. An interesting discussion takes place on Glitner via LinkedIn: What would facilitate the emergence of business models not based on territorial copyrights?

In the digital environment it is essential to remove artificial barriers to the circulation of creative content and to competitive market, while promoting and protecting cultural diversity.

One of the models discussed was one brought up last year at Afm by Brent V. Friedman in the panel "Web Entrepreneurs: Imagination Meets Commerce" Let us see what a difference a year has made: You can watch the video of the conference here: http://bit.ly/2p6JPx where a producer managed to get some product placement built-in the production, and actually managed to do some profit-sharing both ways in VoD (from the platform back to him as a rights holder, and from him to the platform...

Woke Up Dead is a new live-action zombie comedy from Electric Farm Entertainment appearing on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s online video network, Crackle.com. The original online series stars comedian Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory), Josh Gad (Back to You, The Rocker), Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad, 27 Dresses), Jean Smart (24, Samantha Who?) and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld). Woke Up Dead, marks Heder's first foray into the world of web programming and takes place in various locations around Los Angeles, California. The story of Woke Up Dead follows Drex Greene (Heder), a regular recent college grad who finds himself undergoing an inexplicable transformation that begins when he wakes up at the bottom of a water-filled bathtub. Drex’s roommate Matt, who has been eagerly filming his demise, informs him that he’s easily (and inhumanly) been underwater for more than a half-hour. As he starts to develop zombie-like tendencies, Drex finds...

This is what awaits you if you visit the companion website for the upcoming MTV Networks’ web series, Valemont, which will premieres tomorrow for a 12-episode run on MTV before heading to an online-only release of the remaining 23 episodes. I had a chance to speak with co-creator Brent Friedman of Electric Farm about this unique transmedia experience that blends product placement, Arg elements, and web content into an exciting murder mystery plotline that may or may not have a supernatural twist. The multiplatform series stars a number of notable young actors like Nikki Blonsky, Kristen Hager, Georgina Reilly and Six Feet Under's Eric Balfour. For the specifics of how this project came together, we asked Friedman to fill us in. "Valemont originated about a year ago when Electric Farm Entertainment began discussions with MTV about producing a branded entertainment series," said Friedman. "I created the show with Christian Taylor,...

Sony's Crackle.com announced its fall lineup today and as expected, the Jon Heder lead zombie comedy Woke Up Dead is the headlining web series in the bunch. The online network is known for rolling out new 13-week seasons four times a year, and this new slate has just three new original series in it. The other two newcomers, Groundlings comedy Hardline: Inside the Idaho Sex Cult and Barry Sonnenfeld's The Esquire Digital Man join the weekly returning series Anytime with Bob Kushell, Penn Says and My Long Distance Relationship. The most touted is clearly Woke Up Dead from web vets Electric Farm Entertainment (Gemini Division, Afterworld, Valemont), which first popped up in development last summer. After finally lensing earlier this summer, the series calls itself a "re-imagining of the zombie mythology" with Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) plays a USC college student thrust into a world of zombie powers...

NBC Universal is taking another stab at bridging the Internet-TV divide.

The company has inked a deal with Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky's Electric Farm Entertainment for the domestic rights to their upcoming Internet sci-fi series Gemini Division, starring Rosario Dawson.

NBC Uni also has acquired the rights to Electric Farm's next scripted online series, the zombie comedy Woke Up Dead.

Sony Pictures TV International has come aboard to co-produce and distribute the two series internationally on mobile, broadband and traditional TV.

Under the deal with NBC Universal Digital Studio, the 50 three-minute episodes of Gemini and Dead will run on various company Web sites, including NBC.com.

The first several episodes of the series -- as many as eight -- will get a preview across a number of NBC Uni platforms, including TV networks.

"Our vision is to use the TV assets as a marketing device to attract viewers to the Internet series," Rogow said.

Gemini, eyed for a late-summer launch, stars Dawson as a New York cop who uncovers a global conspiracy involving the creation of simulated live forms that have assimilated with the unsuspecting public.