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Foundational Cinema

Month: February 2014

Tara Reid and Ian Ziering Set to Shoot Sharknado 2

It really was just an inevitability, after the unexpected success of the Syfy original B-movie Sharknado, there had to be sequel. It’s now been confirmed that both Tara Reid and Ian Ziering will reprise their roles as April and Fin…

Tomorrow Night

Louis C.K.’s decision to make Tomorrow Night, his never-released, independently financed first feature from 1998, available for $5 on his website, is the kind of offhandedly iconoclastic gesture that has endeared the comedian to his fans (a group to whose…

AIP Remakes Coming Soon

Samuel Arkoff’s son Lou Arkoff, writer-producer Jeff Katz and Hal Sadoff are teaming to remake 1950s cult pics from the Arkoff-Nicholson library of American Intl. Pictures. Katz, Arkoff and Sadoff will initially update 10 of the 25 low-budget titles in…

Animation Legend Arthur Rankin Jr. Dies at 89

Arthur Rankin Jr., the animator, producer and director behind the whimsical holiday stop-motion TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, has died. He was 89.Rankin died Thursday at his home by Harrington Sound in Bermuda, The Royal…