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Prepare for a gripping night of investigative journalism with Season 5 Episode 2 of “In Pursuit With John Walsh” titled “Dead of Winter,” airing on Investigation Discovery at 10:00 Pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

In this bone-chilling episode, viewers will join host John Walsh as he delves into a chilling murder case set against the backdrop of remote Washington State. The focus of Walsh’s pursuit is Dylan Harrington, a key figure in the investigation, whose whereabouts have become a mystery.

As Walsh digs deeper into the case, viewers will be taken on a journey through the dark and treacherous terrain of the Pacific Northwest, where secrets lurk beneath the surface of the idyllic landscape. With each twist and turn, Walsh uncovers new clues and pieces together the puzzle of what truly happened on that fateful winter night.

Don’t miss “Dead of Winter” on “In Pursuit With John Walsh” for an episode filled with suspense,...

Marty Friedman has announced a new solo album, Drama, arriving May 17th. The former Megadeth guitarist has also offered up the lead single and album opener “Illumination.”

The six-and-a-half minute instrumental showcases Friedman’s many six-string talents, from jazz runs to neo-classical flourishes. A mellow, extended intro leads up to the track’s climatic guitar fireworks, with Friedman’s elegant solos backed by an ensemble that includes typical rock instrumentation, as well as cello and violin.

Friedman self-produced Drama, which was partially recorded at Newsin Audio Design in Italy, where Friedman had access to a plethora of vintage guitars and tones. Recording engineers include Luigi Stefanini, Frank Rosato, Takao Nakazato, Atsuo Akabae, and Kenjiro Naka. Alexander Backlund and Jay Ruston mixed the tracks, while Koji Tanaka handled the mastering at Victor Creative Media in Tokyo.

Of the 12 tracks on the album, two include vocals (“Dead of Winter” featuring Chris Brooks...

Hey,Chicago Fire fans. We hope you guys totally had a blast watching episode 6. Now that it's officially come and gone, we are back to give you guys a few, new storylines to anticipate when the next, new episode 7 of Chicago Fire's current season 9 arrives next Wednesday night, February 17, 2021. The lovely folks over at NBC delivered up 3, new teaser scoops for the new episode 7 via their official episode 7 press release. So, we're going to explore those right now. Let's go. To kick this new spoiler session off, we've got the official title for episode 7. It's called, "Dead Of Winter." So, it already sounds extremely intense.

ABC is putting Keegan-Michael Key on the case. The comedian is set to executive-produce and star in a drama series based on Stephen Mack Jones’ August Snow crime novels, our sister site Deadline reports. The project has been given a script commitment plus penalty.

Jones, who is serving as a consulting producer, began publishing his August Snow series in 2018. When the character was first introduced, he was described as “tough, smart and struggling to stay alive … the embodiment of Detroit,” per the official description. “The son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother, August grew up in the city...

Donald Ray Wallace Jr. murdered Patrick and Teresa Gilligan, and their two children, Lisa, 5, and 4-year-old Greg, in a home invasion that went awry. Dead of Winter on Investigation Discovery examines this tragic case. On January 14, 1980, Wallace burglarized the home of Ralph Hendricks on Aspen Drive in Evansville, Indiana, and opted to rob the house next door that appeared to be vacant. The Gillians owned the house. Wallace was in for a shock when the family returned to their home and found him inside the garage. He came face-to-face with Patrick and a struggle ensued. When he was able […]

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Two widows, Virginia Johannessen and Mary Jill Oberweis, who lived in the same neighborhood were found shot to death in their homes. Dead of Winter on Investigation Discovery explores their case. On the night of January 5, 1993, Edward Tenney and his then 16-year-old cousin, Donald Lippert, entered Johannessen’s, 76, home in the 1300 block of Felton Road in Aurora, Illinois, where she lived alone, and shot her. Lippert testified that when Tenney realized she wasn’t dead, he bludgeoned her to death with a hammer before fleeing the scene in her blue 1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88, which was later found […]

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Robbie Schmidt was murdered and then his body was dumped by the side of the road. Investigation Discovery’s Dead of Winter examines why he was killed and who did it. December 20, 1989, in Southington, Connecticut, and Schmidt’s body was found in a bank of snow by the side of the road, he’d been strangled to death. Detectives had their suspicions about who might be involved in the bartender’s murder, but it was to take several years before they got a break in a case. In 2001, a fingerprint was found in the car that police knew Schmidt had been […]

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Join our newsletter to get more stories like this 18-year-old Linda Velzy was a promising student attending Suny when she was brutally killed by Ricky Knapp. Dead of Winter on Investigation Discovery examines this tragic case. Velzy, the daughter of a local minister, was last spotted on December 9, 1977, when she was seen walking back to campus from the downtown area of Oneaota. She’d spent the day shopping for presents and is thought to have been trying to hitchhike home. When the Long Islander failed to show up her family contacted police and a huge search began for the […]

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Join our newsletter to get more stories like this Shaun Ouillette was your typical 14-year-old. According to his mother Jeanne, he loved sports and his sister, and was just a good-natured, adventurous kid. He became a not-so-typical 14-year-old, however, when he disappeared on November 20, 1986, the day after a snowstorm hit his town of Canton, Massachusetts. His body was discovered in a wooded area three weeks after his disappearance. He’d been beaten to death with a baseball bat. A classmate, Rod Matthews, was convicted of the crime. He was also just 14 at […]

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Mark A. Livolsi, a veteran film editor who worked such films as The Jungle Book, The Devil Wears Prada and Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of The Lion King, has died. He was 56. Livolsi unexpectedly on September 23 at his Pasadena home. The cause was not revealed.

Nominated for four Ace Eddie Awards, his many film credits also include Wonder, The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks, We Bought a Zoo, Marley & Me, Wedding Crashers, Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky.

Born on April 10, 1962, in New Jersey, he grew up with a love of movies, making films with neighborhood kids using his father’s 8mm camera. After graduating with a film degree from Penn State in 1984, he moved to New York and learned his craft working with some of the industry’s top directors. In 1987, he was a second assistant editor on Arthur Penn’s Dead of Winter and an apprentice editor Oliver Stone’s Wall Street.

Wrap up your week with one of the excellent gigs in today’s roundup! Lena Waithe’s upcoming indie film “Queen & Slim,” starring Daniel Kaluuya, is now seeking nationwide submissions for the role of Queen. Plus, an Investigation Discovery true-crime series is casting an upcoming episode, a new Netflix series needs background actors, and a female athlete is wanted for a reel about athletes’ financial hurdles. “Queen & Slim”Carmen Cuba Casting is now seeking submissions for the role of Queen in Lena Waithe’s upcoming indie film “Queen & Slim,” starring Daniel Kaluuya in the role of Slim. A union female actor, aged 20–35, is wanted to play the role, a fiercely intelligent defense attorney who reaches out to Slim on Tinder after the State decides to execute one of her clients. Nudity is required for this role. “Queen & Slim” will shoot from late January through mid-April 2019 in Louisiana.

Sarah Conradt has been tapped to pen Lionsgate's The Bride, the English-language remake of a Russian horror movie of the same name. 

The original film, which was written and directed by Svyatoslav Podgayevsky, centers on a turn-of-the-century bride who returns from the dead to terrify a modern-day bride and her family. 

Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes, the brothers who wrote The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, will produce.  

Conradt works in the horror-thriller genre, landing on the 2011 iteration of the Black List for her thriller Dead of Winter. She previously adapted a remake of Finnish film Black Ice for MGM and Dylan Sellars, and penned the thriller Engima for Focus Features.  

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As a child, the notion of romance to me was distant and adult, and frankly I wanted no part of it – especially in movies; I was the comedy and horror kid, with the occasional foray into fantasy. (Okay, I kissed Bev Peters on the cheek under the schoolyard tire when I was seven, but that fizzled out quickly.) I did however make my way to my small town’s Orpheum theatre at the age of nine to see what looked like a promising horror/sci-fi blend, Nicholas Meyer’s Time After Time (1979), and stumbled out into the darkness with a new understanding of what romance meant to me.

An Orion/Warner Bros. co-production, Time After Time was released late September to good reviews and receipts, bringing in $13 million at the box office. Variety called it “an entertaining trifle” and Janet Maslin said “Time After Time is every bit as magical...

HollywoodNews.com: Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O’Reilly, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Cicely Tyson and Mike Vogel to be honored at the Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony.

The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, are pleased to announce that the cast of DreamWorks Pictures and Participant Media’s “The Help” – Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O’Reilly, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Cicely Tyson and Mike Vogel – will be recognized at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony with the “Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award.”

The announcement was made today by Carlos de Abreu, Founder of the 15th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony, which will take place on the evening of Monday, October 24, 2011, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The Hollywood Film Awards Gala launches the awards season.

Prepare to be outraged and/or bewildered by yet another Hollywood attempt to recycle an iconic movie property. Word on the street is that Universal is in the process of setting up a brand new version of Scarface, the classic tale of a criminal's rise to power that has already been told twice before on the big screen, most recently by Brian De Palma in 1983. Not to worry though, this won't be a remake or a sequel -- it will be a re-imagining! Or something. Personally I'm getting sick of people trying to cover up their remakes by finding creative new labels. If you're going to remake Scarface, just come out and say it. De Palma's version was a remake of Howard Hawks' film, so this one shouldn't be immediately written off either... or should it? According to Deadline, producers Marc Shmuger (Dead of Winter) and Martin Bregman (who...

Yesterday Arthur Penn, the director of Bonnie and Clyde, died aged 88. We look back over his career in clips

Arthur Penn cut his teeth as a director on the American television drama circuit of the 1950s, contributing to a range of the playhouse and showcase series that were a staple of the industry. Western stories were among the episodes he delivered and his feature debut was a genre piece, a version of the Billy the Kid story called The Left Handed Gun (1958), starring Paul Newman, also at the start of his cinema career after a small-screen apprenticeship. The film had hints of the broadly sympathetic – or at least empathetic – view of outlaw psychology that would mark Penn's most famous film.

For his next film, Penn drew on his stage directing experience, transferring to the screen the Broadway production of The Miracle Worker in which he directed Anne Sullivan and Patty Duke...

Sad news today! Oscar-nominated filmmaker Arthur Penn died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 88. Penn was known for directing "Bonnie and Clyde," "The Miracle Worker" and "Little Big Man."

Penn celebrated his 88th birthday this Monday. AP reports he passed after suffering congestive heart failure. Penn was nominated for three Oscars and a bunch of other awards during his career in film.

Some of his other credits include "Dead of Winter," "Alice's Restaurant," "The Chase" and "Target." Penn received the Honorary Golden Berlin Bear in 2007 at the Berlin International Film Festival.

American director best known for Bonnie and Clyde, he focused on disillusioned outsiders

Arthur Penn, who has died aged 88, was one of the major figures of Us television, stage and film in the 1960s and 70s when the three disciplines actively encouraged experimentation, innovation and challenging subject matter. "I think the 1960s generation was a state of mind," he said, "and it's really the one I've been in since I was born." He will be best remembered for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a complex and lyrical study of violent outsiders whose lives became the stuff of myth.

The film, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and based on the exploits of the bank-robbing Barrow Gang in the 1930s, became a cause celebre. It was praised and attacked for its distortion, bad taste and glorification of violence in equal measure. Newsweek's critic, Joseph Morgenstern, retracted his initial view of the film's violence,...

Arthur Penn, the director of the polarizing "Bonnie and Clyde" whose films often flew in the face of American mythology, died Tuesday, one day after his 88th birthday.

Daughter Molly Penn said her father died of congestive heart failure at his Manhattan home. Longtime friend and business manager Evan Bell said Wednesday that Penn had been ill for about a year.

A product of the golden era of live television and an accomplished theater director, Penn's work on "The Miracle Worker" earned him an Emmy nomination in 1957, a Tony in 1959 and an Oscar nom in 1962. At one time, Penn had five hits running simultaneously on Broadway.

Penn was one of a group of directors -- including John Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison -- whose films were intelligent glimpses into politics, morals and social institutions. Often, they were met with controversy.

His movies debunked the allure of the gunman, the...

Five words: Cross-dressing, roller-skating vampire. No, I'm not describing an as-yet-unidentified fangless, vegan vampire from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series that didn't make the jump from the printed page to the big screen. This particular vampire appears in Fright Night II , the 1988 sequel to writer-director Tom Holland's (Child's Play) 1985 horror-comedy, Fright Night. Fright Night co-starred the late, great Roddy McDowall (Dead of Winter, the Planet of the Apes series, The Poseidon Adventure, Cleopatra) as B-movie actor, late-night TV horror show host, and fearless vampire killer, Peter Vincent (named after horror icons Peter Cushing and Vincent Price). Vincent's one-time ally and nominal hero-protagonist, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale, not to be confused with Zach Galligan of Gremlins fame), also returned for the semi-anticipated sequel.

After several years of intensive counseling, Charley no longer believes in vampires. He's allowed himself to be convinced that Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon), was a serial killer and kidnapper,...

Thanks (or rather no thanks) to Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series (books and films), brooding, pale-skinned, sparkly, fangless, vegan vampires are at their most popular, but not that long ago vampires in fiction and film were portrayed as bloodthirsty, humans were prey (with the occasional exception), not as potential romantic partners, so, in the spirit of nostalgia, let's take a cinematic trip back to 1985 and Fright Night, a horror-comedy starring the late, great Roddy McDowell (Dead of Winter, the Planet of the Apes series, The Poseidon Adventure, Cleopatra) in one of his better roles and Chris Sarandon as an old-school, if sadly fashion-challenged, bloodsucker. Made four years before James Cameron mixed CG with live-action in The Abyss, and thus reliant on practical effects for the transformation scenes and the occasional matte shot for extending backgrounds, Fright Night remains cheesy, campy fun, equally entertaining for discerning and non-discerning horror fans.

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One of the best mixes of home video releases we've seen so far this year hits store shelves on May 11th. What with a vampire movie geared toward adults that has actual adults starring in it, an end-of-the-world saga that pits the Archangel Michael against his winged brethren, and a couple of nature-run-amok entries, we have a little something for everyone.

The pack includes Legion (if you missed its theatrical run, be sure to pick it up now to get in on the debate of whether it's so bad it's good or just so bad), the ghostly Tsunami Beach Club, and our pick of the week - Daybreakers, which went a long way toward putting the bite back into vampire flicks.

A couple of compilations also bow this week. No doubt in honor of Survival of the Dead's debut, the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake and Romero's Land of the Dead...