News

In today’s TV news roundup, Sesame Workshop announced a premiere date for “Sesame Street’s Historic 50th Anniversary Celebration” and “Brave New World” adds Sophie McIntosh.

Casting

New Zealand actress Sophie McIntosh has been cast in USA Network’s “Brave New World” series, Variety has learned exclusively. She will play the recurring role of Jane, and joins a cast which includes Alden Ehrenreich, Harry Lloyd and Jessica Brown Findlay. McIntosh is repped by Echo Lake Entertainment, Johnson and Laird Management in New Zealand, and Bloomfields Welch Management in the U.K.

Dates

Iliza Shlesinger’s fifth original Netflix comedy special will premiere Nov. 19 on the streaming platform. In the hour-long special, the newly married Shlesinger will pull back the veil on the dangers of having a zombie bachelorette army while also discussing wedding planning, garters and honeymooning.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” announced the historic 50th season...

Chicago – Ti West’s “The Innkeepers” is one of the most divisive films of the year, a love-it-or-hate-it affair — my favorite kind of movie. I see both sides. I get how the slow burn doesn’t work for some people (and, honestly, it didn’t really work for me in West’s “House of the Devil”) and I get how modern horror fans might be upset at the lack of a sure payoff in this ghost story.

Blu-ray Rating: 4.0/5.0

However, it’s like a ghost story around a camp fire. For every camper who thinks it’s silly, the kid next to him can feel his skin crawl. For me, it’s a great, atmospheric piece that emphasizes setting over modern horror conventions like slashers and twist endings. It’s old-fashioned…and I mean that as a compliment even if I know it may not be to you.

The Blu-ray...

High-Profile New Releases The Innkeepers (Dark Sky Films) Release Date: Feb 03, 2012 Directed by: Ti West Cast:Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Alison Bartlett, Kelly McGillis,Lena Dunham. Full cast + crew   Verdict: Buy Me Available On: Blu-ray, DVD, VOD Special Features: Behind the Scenes (7 minutes), and two commentary tracks, one with West and his producers Peter Phok and Larry Fessenden, the second with sound designer and second unit director Graham Reznick Additional Thoughts: My love for the films of Ti West, and The Innkeepers in particular, is well documented on Movies.com. If, however, you've managed to escape my massive interview with West, let me just say that I think that his latest film may just be my...

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Director: Ti West Writer: Ti West Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, George Riddle, Alison Bartlett, Lena Dunham, Jake Schlueter The greatest critics of the horror genre will make definitive statements about its reliance on formulas and tropes, cliches and repetition, and cheap tricks to garner gasps and shrieks from the audience. While these observations may be true for most of the Blockbuster hits that will spike adrenaline in theaters, this trend has also given birth to a delightful breed of satirical horror masters. Let it be said that Ti West is royalty among them, and his new film, The Innkeepers, does not disappoint. Set in a retiring hotel, The Innkeepers is a neat horror package. Skeleton crew of the hotel staff, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) are self-fashioned ghost hunters, intent on capturing evidence of a haunting in the Yankee Pedlar Inn’s final days. Naturally,...

Chicago – Ti West’s “The Innkeepers” is one of the most effective horror movies of the last several years, a true gem of the genre that reminds a scary movie junkie like myself why I fell in love with them in the first place. With his stellar production values and a perfection of the slow burn pace that he employed in the arthouse hit “House of the Devil,” West takes a leap to the forefront of directors working in modern horror. Don’t miss this one.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

“The Innkeepers” requires patience. There are long chunks in which nothing substantial happens and modern horror fans weaned on the “Saw” franchise may long for a Jigsaw Killer or Bloody Mary to spice things up. Trust me. It’s worth the patience. And it’s not like “House of the Devil” where virtually nothing happens for an hour. There’s a sense throughout...

Title: The Innkeepers Directed By: Ti West Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, George Riddle, Alison Bartlett, Lena Dunham, Jake Ryan, John Speredakos Sick of all the same old tricks in the horror genre? Well, get ready because The Innkeepers uses them all. Eerie tracking shots, spooky noises and an unoriginal story, but, oddly enough, writer-director Ti West manages to put enough of his authorial expressivity on the piece to deliver something that may not feel fresh, but is still refreshingly nostalgic. It’s the Yankee Pedlar Inn’s last days in business and Claire and Luke (Sara Paxton and Pat Healy) are the only two employees left, assigned to keep...

Chicago – In our latest horror/thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of “The Innkeepers” starring Sara Paxton from “The House of the Devil” director Ti West!

“The Innkeepers” also stars Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, Alison Bartlett, Jake Ryan, Kelly McGillis, Lena Dunham, George Riddle, Brenda Cooney, John Speredakos, Sean Reid, Kurt Venghaus, Thomas Mahoney, Michael Martin and Michael P. Castelli from writer and director Ti West.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Innkeepers” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2011 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “The Innkeepers” starring Sara Paxton.

Image credit: Dark Sky Films

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Speak to Us Clip from The Innkeepers, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Alison Bartlett, Jake Schlueter and Kelly McGillis. In this new movie clip, Claire (Paxton) and Luke (Healy) try contact a spirit in the Ti West-directed and scripted horror/thriller. After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history...

Speak to Us Clip from The Innkeepers, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Alison Bartlett, Jake Schlueter and Kelly McGillis. In this new movie clip, Claire (Paxton) and Luke (Healy) try contact a spirit in the Ti West-directed and scripted horror/thriller. After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history...

Speak to Us Clip from The Innkeepers, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Alison Bartlett, Jake Schlueter and Kelly McGillis. In this new movie clip, Claire (Paxton) and Luke (Healy) try contact a spirit in the Ti West-directed and scripted horror/thriller. After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history...

Title: The Innkeepers Magnet Releasing Director: Ti West Screenwriter: Ti West Cast: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, George Riddle, Alison Bartlett, Jake Schlueter, Lena Dunham Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 12/21/11 Opens: December 30, 2011 on demand. February 3, 2012 in theaters If you’ve done some traveling you know that you have a choice: you can stay at a 5-star Hilton or Intercontinental, or you can stay in less expensive accommodations ranging from a youth hostel to a comfortable, non-chain inn. You will not likely find ghosts at the expensive places: just businessmen and businesswomen in gray suits. Dull. But if you go off the beaten track, like to...

Ti West's new haunted house flick 'The Innkeepers' has gone all viral and a new clip featuring Evp footage has been unleashed. Evp (Electronic Voice Phenomena) is a technique used widely in the field of Paranormal Investigation as you'll discover in the unsettling clip. The lovely Sara Paxton -below ('Shark Night 3D') stars as Claire who is dead set on uncovering the ghostly truth of the apparently haunted Inn where she works. Kelly McGillis ('Top Gun'), Pat Healy, George Riddle, Alison Bartlett, Lena Dunham and John Speredakos all co-star in the movie which hits VOD later this month. Check out the clip below....

A new selection of fresh stills from Ti West's new haunted house chiller 'The Innkeepers' in preparation for its arrival on VOD on 30 December. Sadly they're not the most exciting batch of stills thus far but we've managed to slip in a sweet pic of star Sara Paxton to help brighten up the page. A theatrical run for the movie will kick off from 3 February 2012. Kelly McGillis ('Top Gun'), Pat Healy, George Riddle, Alison Bartlett, Lena Dunham and John Speredakos all co-star alongside Miss Paxton (below). Check out the new stills below....

Director: Ti West Writer: Ti West Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, George Riddle, Alison Bartlett, Lena Dunham, Jake Schlueter The 19th century New England hotel, The Yankee Pedlar Inn, will be closing its doors for good in a couple of days. Two employees -- Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) -- remain, working in alternating 12-hour shifts and sleeping in the hotel. There is an obvious shortage of hotel guests, so Claire and Luke keep themselves occupied by attempting to document the existence of ghosts via an Evp recorder. Claire becomes obsessed with attempting to make contact with one specific ghost, Madeline O’Malley; she gets some assistance from a famous actress-turned-psychic, Leanne Rease-Jones (Kelly McGillis), who recently checked into the hotel as a guest. With The Innkeepers, writer-director Ti West plays with the traditional tropes and formulas of classic haunted house stories. For example, conventional wisdom...

The stars of longrunning children's show Sesame Street are campaigning against plans to cut spending on public broadcasting amid fears it will affect funding for the programme.

Emilio Delgado, who portrays Luis, and Roscoe Orman (Gordon) were among the actors who turned up at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to march in protest after Congress officials announced plans to cut the broadcasting budget, which totalled $420 million (£280 million) last year.

The Sesame Street stars, who also include Alison Bartlett O'Reilly (Gina), Alan Muraoka (Alan) and Bob McGrath (Bob), fear the decision will affect children's education if the show is hit by the spending review.

The actors appeared at the iconic landmark as part of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, to sign a petition asking for the Senate to rethink the plans, reports the Associated Press.

More than 1.2 million signatures are on the petition.

Check out the first movie poster from The Innkeepers, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy and Kelly McGillis. Dark Sky Films distributes the release which makes its premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 12th. Ti West (The House of the Devil, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever) directs the thriller/horror which tells of the last two employees at a haunted hotel that's going out of business. Also in the cast are George Riddle, Lena Dunham, John Speredakos and Alison Bartlett. I love the design of this poster. Unique. Check out The Innkeepers poster...

Check out the first movie poster from The Innkeepers, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy and Kelly McGillis. Dark Sky Films distributes the release which makes its premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 12th. Ti West (The House of the Devil, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever) directs the thriller/horror which tells of the last two employees at a haunted hotel that's going out of business. Also in the cast are George Riddle, Lena Dunham, John Speredakos and Alison Bartlett. I love the design of this poster. Unique. Check out The Innkeepers poster...