Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the producers of the outstanding indie Western The Scarlet Worm (click here for review):
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December 17, 2012
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Original 'Django' Actor Franco Nero Attached To New Western
Contact: Mike Malloy, cultmovies@hotmail.com
Eric Zaldivar and Mike Malloy, two producers of the offbeat 2012 Western The Scarlet Worm, have received a Letter of Interest from original Django star Franco Nero to topline a gritty new Western project, tentatively titled Django Lives! Should the sequel rights be secured, the feature would be the third “official” entry in the saga that made Mr. Nero an international star.
Since the release of the original Django in 1966, over thirty films have included the character’s iconic name in their titles, most recently Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, in which Mr. Nero makes a cameo appearance. Until now,...
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December 17, 2012
For Immediate Release:
Original 'Django' Actor Franco Nero Attached To New Western
Contact: Mike Malloy, cultmovies@hotmail.com
Eric Zaldivar and Mike Malloy, two producers of the offbeat 2012 Western The Scarlet Worm, have received a Letter of Interest from original Django star Franco Nero to topline a gritty new Western project, tentatively titled Django Lives! Should the sequel rights be secured, the feature would be the third “official” entry in the saga that made Mr. Nero an international star.
Since the release of the original Django in 1966, over thirty films have included the character’s iconic name in their titles, most recently Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, in which Mr. Nero makes a cameo appearance. Until now,...
- 12/20/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Sergio Corbucci's 1966 gunslinger Django was one of several spaghetti Westerns the Italians created during a slump in the American genre. Its success spawned a series of imitators that starred violent, amoral heroes like Django's Franco Nero. The late 1960s saw a slew of "Django" films, although most of them had nothing to do with the original. Now, Quentin Tarantino will add his own work to the oeuvre with Django Unchained, opening Christmas day. Nero makes a cameo appearance (pictured above), but it looks like he'll also be reprising the role that made him famous in yet another Django film. The Italian actor has agreed to star in Django Lives! for producers Eric Zaldivar and Mike Malloy (Eurocrime!, The Scarlet Worm). Slashfilm shared the synopsis, that...
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- 12/18/2012
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Twitch has learned that the original Django, Franco Nero, has sent a letter of interest to star in a new Django film by two producers behind the western The Scarlett Worm, the world's first 'abortion western'. Mike Malloy and Eric Zaldivar are currently working on the script and securing the rights to the second sequel to the 1966 spaghetti western Django. If all goes well then the original Django will ride again! No doubt this has been spurred on by the impending success of Quentin Tarentino's upcoming film this is still very good news. Original 'Django' Actor Franco Nero Attached To New WESTERNEric Zaldivar and Mike Malloy, two producers of the offbeat 2012 Western The Scarlet Worm, have received a Letter of Interest from original Django star Franco...
- 12/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
By Lee Pfeiffer
When I received an unsolicited screener of a new film called The Scarlet Worm from Unearthed Films, I let it languish for weeks. Finally, primarily because it is a Western, I got around to viewing it. It's a gritty, grim affair that ranks among the best independent movies I've seen lately. However, I was curious about the cast members because, as talented as they are, I had not heard of any of them. The reason why became clear when I looked at the "making of..." extras on the Blu-ray. Incredibly, this ambitious movie was put together by a team of virtual strangers who met each other on-line. They conceived of the plot and shot the movie on such a low budget that they had to live in an abandoned house that had been foreclosed by a bank. When viewed from this context, The Scarlet Worm is an even more impressive achievement.
When I received an unsolicited screener of a new film called The Scarlet Worm from Unearthed Films, I let it languish for weeks. Finally, primarily because it is a Western, I got around to viewing it. It's a gritty, grim affair that ranks among the best independent movies I've seen lately. However, I was curious about the cast members because, as talented as they are, I had not heard of any of them. The reason why became clear when I looked at the "making of..." extras on the Blu-ray. Incredibly, this ambitious movie was put together by a team of virtual strangers who met each other on-line. They conceived of the plot and shot the movie on such a low budget that they had to live in an abandoned house that had been foreclosed by a bank. When viewed from this context, The Scarlet Worm is an even more impressive achievement.
- 5/7/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
- 2/26/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Just over two weeks away from the start of the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Lund, Sweden and the organizers have unveiled their full lineup and it is a good one, chock full of Twitch favorites! Have you noticed a lack of Japanese splatter gore in the line up so far? Fret no more because Yoshihiro Nishimura's Helldriver is in the mix! The Western genre stands tall with Michael Fredianelli's The Scarlet Worm. You get your daily dose of swordplay with Donnie Yen in The Lost Bladesman. A little home grown talent will grace the screen with Filip Tegstedt's Swedish thriller Marianne. We have all sorts of love for Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins. The frantic Japanese flick Milocrorze: A Love Story and Argentinian horror flick Cold Sweat are...
- 8/30/2011
- Screen Anarchy
In these days of micro-budget cinema, most turn to talky introspective character pieces, or grab some blue and red paint and a grip of friends in yet another "zombies eat the world" retread. Happily this is not the case with the crew at Unearthed Films, who have made The Scarlet Worm, which is a bona fide western. Casting an eye back at films like Pat Garret & Billy The Kid, and employing a small handful of Spaghetti Westerns vets, inlcuding Dan van Husen of Cut-Throats Nine, The Scarlet Worm also tackles a subject yours truly cannot recall in any horsehair opera of memory - abortion. Mr. van Husen plays a very nasty brothel owner who seems to have something of a fetish for the...
- 7/8/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Westerns have their constants -- drunken brawls, gunfights, cowboys, barren landscapes -- but the genre is rather malleable and can support all kinds of interesting narrative and thematic angles. For example, consider the indie western called The Scarlet Worm. It's about, of all things, abortion.
The Scarlet Worm seems to be going for a Spaghetti Western vibe as evidenced by the trailer, its gritty subject matter -- John Ford didn't make movies about cathouse abortions -- and a cast that includes actors such as Dan van Husen (Sartana, A Bullet for Sandoval) and Montgomery Ford aka Brett Halsey (Cut Throats Nine).
The description provided by the filmmakers is as follows:
Based on an original screenplay by Western historian David Lambert, the story concerns a cruel brothel owner (van Husen) who mandates abortions on all his prostitutes, seeming to derive some sick pleasure out of the act. A rancher (Ford) with...
The Scarlet Worm seems to be going for a Spaghetti Western vibe as evidenced by the trailer, its gritty subject matter -- John Ford didn't make movies about cathouse abortions -- and a cast that includes actors such as Dan van Husen (Sartana, A Bullet for Sandoval) and Montgomery Ford aka Brett Halsey (Cut Throats Nine).
The description provided by the filmmakers is as follows:
Based on an original screenplay by Western historian David Lambert, the story concerns a cruel brothel owner (van Husen) who mandates abortions on all his prostitutes, seeming to derive some sick pleasure out of the act. A rancher (Ford) with...
- 9/18/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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