Today, Entertainment Weekly spilled the news on HOLLISTON’s first season guest stars. Including:

·       Colton Dunn (Hatchet 2, Parks and Recreation)
·       Danielle Harris (Halloween 4 and 5)
·       Kane Hodder (Hatchet)
·       John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Animal House)
·       Derek Mears (Friday the 13th)
·       Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects)
·       Brian Posehn (The Sarah Silverman Show)
·       Parry Shen (Hatchet, Better Luck Tomorrow)
·       Tony Todd (Candyman, The Rock)
·       Ray Wise (X-Men First Class, Reaper)

More guest stars to be announced as the season premiere draws closer!

This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly features a “first look” at ArieScope’s upcoming TV series HOLLISTON. Premiering on the FEARnet cable television network this spring, the outrageously funny sit-com stars Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Laura Ortiz, Corri English, Dee Snider, and Oderus Urungus. Pick up your copy of Entertainment Weekly wherever magazines are sold!

Happy Holidays from all of us at ArieScope Pictures!  Here’s to a happy and healthy 2012 to all of our ArieScope family, friends, fans, and to the Hatchet Army worldwide.  Next year… Victor Crowley returns.

(Christmas Crowley by Cody Schibi.)

On Saturday December 17, 2011, Maurice Huggett from the Phoenix Artists Club in London passed away.  The Phoenix Artists Club in London has long been the central hub for the UK’s FRIGHTFEST Film Festival (London and Glasgow), a festival that has been near and dear to ArieScope’s heart as it is is where such film as HATCHET, HATCHET 2, SPIRAL, GRACE, FROZEN, and CHILLERAMA launched their UK debut.  For 6 + years, filmmakers Adam Green and Joe Lynch have been dubbed the honorary “patron saints” of FrightFest with their 3-part 15 episode “Road to FrightFest” series that played the genre festival in 2008, 2009, and 2010.  Maurice was a staple in FrightFest’s nightly celebrations welcoming the greatest genre fans in the world with true hospitality each year and entertaining all of us with food, drink, and his uncanny singing each night.  “Maurice was a gentle soul with the biggest heart in the world.” Says filmmaker Adam Green who personally attended and premiered such films as HATCHET, SPRAL, HATCHET 2, and CHILLERAMA at the UK’s summer London festival over the past 6 years.  “He was a wonderfully kind human being and he was crucial in making the FrightFest event the success that it was each summer and a true celebration year after year.  He was not only a friend but a true supporter of what FrightFest was all about.”  FrightFest will never be quite the same and on behalf of everyone at ArieScope (cast and crew from our films over the years) we can only say that Mr. Huggett will be greatly missed and always on our minds at future Frightfest events.  We urge all FrightFesters to raise a pint in the legendary Phoenix this Christmas season and honor the passing of one of our brothers.

Green’s Blog has been updated with his annual end of the year blog.  Read “FAREWELL 2011.  BRING ON 2012.” in the GREEN’S BLOG section of this website.

HATCHET/SLASH (part of Tim Seeley’s hit comic book HACK/SLASH) hit comic book stores everywhere today.  This limited annual where Cassie Hack faces off with HATCHET’s Victor Crowley features two different covers and will only be available while supplies last, so get out to your local comic book store and get your copy quick!

CHILLERAMA is now available on DVD and Blu Ray in the USA.  Hit your favorite major retail store or buy it here in our merchandise section through Amazon.com.

In the spirit of charity, Adam Green has stepped up to be auctioned off for a “date” at Monday night’s A VERY GREEN & LYNCH CHRISTMAS event at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz in Austin, Texas.  Both girls and guys alike are welcome to bid on the “date” (which will consist of a one-on-one private dinner with Adam when he returns to Austin again in March) and all proceeds will go towards helping Austin’s American Legion Hall build a new elevator for their disabled veterans.  Sorry, you must attend the event to place a bid.

Also to be auctioned off at the event: the screen-worn army jacket that Tamara Feldman wore as “Marybeth” in HATCHET 1, an actual prop hatchet used in the making of HATCHET 1, the bloody skateboard prop from WRONG TURN 2, an autographed HATCHET 1 screenplay, an extremely rare CHILLERAMA “ZOM-B-MOVIE” poster signed by artist Phil Roberts, and a framed piece of “Victor Crowley’s” overalls (signed by Kane Hodder) as worn in HATCHET 1.  Tons of other cool and rare items will be given away throughout the night including rare ArieScope crew T-shirts (shirts that only the crew who made the actual films have) and loads of DVDs/Blu Rays and other items from our friends at Image Entertainment, FEARnet, Anchor Bay, Dark Sky Films, MPI, Danger After Dark, Lionsgate, A&E, 1492 Films, TLA Releasing, Jinx Clothing, artists James Lowder & Tm Seeley, and more.  If you live in Texas, don’t miss this special night and your chance to get a first glimpse at ArieScope’s new FEARnet TV sit-com HOLLISTON and Joe Lynch’s upcoming epic KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM.

Black Friday shoppers have cleaned us out of both JACK CHOP and ADAM GREEN FAN T-shirts, however HATCHET and CHILLERAMA merchandise (as well as all of ArieScpe’s films on DVD & BLU RAY) are still available in our merchandise section.  Get your holiday shopping done early and done right by ordering now!

For his final public appearance of 2011, Adam Green will be joining filmmakers Joe Lynch and Adam Rifkin for a special screening of ArieScope’s CHILLERAMA and in-depth Q&A about the filmmaking process and their careers in general on Wednesday night 11/30 at 7pm at the USC school of cinematic arts.  The filmmakers will also be joined by CHILLERAMA actors Kane Hodder and Brendan McCreary as well as ZOM-B-MOVIE composer Bear McCreary.  This event is open to the public so get your tickets now.  You do NOT need to be a USC student to attend.  The last time Green spoke at USC was with writer/director Paul Solet and cinematographer Zoran Popovic when screening AreScope’s GRACE back in 2009 and it proved to be one of the best Q&A’s on that film’s tour, so we highly, highly recommend attending this if you can and if you are a working or aspiring filmmaker yourself.  Bring your technical questions and get ready to roll up your sleeves and geek out with the boys.

Tickets:  http://cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=12166

The Ray Stark Family Theater, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC – The School of Cinematic Arts, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007