Skeet Ulrich played one of the killers, Billy Loomis, in the 1996 classic Scream – and things didn’t go well for Billy at the end of that film. When the fifth film in the franchise, which was also simply titled Scream, came around in 2022, fans were surprised to learn that not only would one of the lead characters (Melissa Barrera as Samantha Carpenter) be the never-before-mentioned daughter of Billy Loomis, but she would also be seeing visions of her father throughout, allowing Ulrich, with the help of some digital de-aging, to reprise his role twenty-six years later. Samantha was again a major character in Scream VI, and Ulrich again got to make appearances as Billy. Melissa Barrera was on board to come back for Scream 7… until she was fired from the project after comments she made about the Israel-Hamas war didn’t go over well with executives at Spyglass Media.
- 2/23/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
With spoilers, details have emerged about how Melissa Barrera was to be central to the ongoing Scream series, before her dismissal.
Warning: contains spoilers for some of the Scream films
The award for the most spectacular implosion that we’ve seen happen to a project in the past year undoubtedly goes to Spyglass Entertainment for Scream VII. Following two well-received entries that reignited an ageing series, Spyglass had that most valuable of Hollywood commodities in its possession: a franchise in the ascendancy.
Then came a string of bafflingly poor decisions: refusing to meet the price tag of series mainstay, Neve Campbell. Sacking Melissa Barrera, the new lead of the franchise for publicly expressing humanitarian ideals. Allowing Jenna Ortega, one of Hollywood’s hottest young stars to exit the series, with the timing of her departure making it appear as though she’d left in solidarity with Barrera.
It was all...
Warning: contains spoilers for some of the Scream films
The award for the most spectacular implosion that we’ve seen happen to a project in the past year undoubtedly goes to Spyglass Entertainment for Scream VII. Following two well-received entries that reignited an ageing series, Spyglass had that most valuable of Hollywood commodities in its possession: a franchise in the ascendancy.
Then came a string of bafflingly poor decisions: refusing to meet the price tag of series mainstay, Neve Campbell. Sacking Melissa Barrera, the new lead of the franchise for publicly expressing humanitarian ideals. Allowing Jenna Ortega, one of Hollywood’s hottest young stars to exit the series, with the timing of her departure making it appear as though she’d left in solidarity with Barrera.
It was all...
- 2/23/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
A generally accepted truth amongst filmmakers is that making a horror movie is typically a light-hearted affair behind the scenes, given all the gore and traumatic mayhem happening while cameras are rolling. While that may be true, there's no doubt that making horror happen in front of those cameras requires a lot of blood, sweat and tears — and not always of the special-effects variety. Some of those substances can end up being very real, even unintentionally so.
Star Skeet Ulrich, director Wes Craven, and the rest of the cast and crew of 1996's "Scream" discovered this the hard way during the filming of one of the climactic scenes of the movie. When Ulrich's character, Billy Loomis (one half of the murderous duo known as Ghostface) is stabbed twice with an umbrella wielded by his girlfriend and the film's Final Girl, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), one of the stabbings didn't quite hit the proper mark,...
Star Skeet Ulrich, director Wes Craven, and the rest of the cast and crew of 1996's "Scream" discovered this the hard way during the filming of one of the climactic scenes of the movie. When Ulrich's character, Billy Loomis (one half of the murderous duo known as Ghostface) is stabbed twice with an umbrella wielded by his girlfriend and the film's Final Girl, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), one of the stabbings didn't quite hit the proper mark,...
- 2/11/2024
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
St. Anger is arguably the low point in Metallica’s recording career. The documentary Some Kind of Monster depicted the disfunction in the group at the time, and the resulting music is among the band’s most derided.
The 2003 album, and Lars Ulrich’s legendarily bad snare-drum tone in particular, has been the butt of many jokes over the years. Now the band appears to have come around to the humorous absurdity of it all.
The self-deprecation came in the form of a social media post announcing the addition of tracks from St. Anger to FenderPlay, an instructional guitar platform that allows aspiring guitarists to play along to licensed recordings.
Posted the band on Instagram: “Everyone’s favorite album is now on @fenderplay! Dust off your guitar and get started on “Frantic,” “St. Anger,” “Some Kind of Monster,” and “The Unnamed Feeling.”
It’s fun to see Metallica making some...
The 2003 album, and Lars Ulrich’s legendarily bad snare-drum tone in particular, has been the butt of many jokes over the years. Now the band appears to have come around to the humorous absurdity of it all.
The self-deprecation came in the form of a social media post announcing the addition of tracks from St. Anger to FenderPlay, an instructional guitar platform that allows aspiring guitarists to play along to licensed recordings.
Posted the band on Instagram: “Everyone’s favorite album is now on @fenderplay! Dust off your guitar and get started on “Frantic,” “St. Anger,” “Some Kind of Monster,” and “The Unnamed Feeling.”
It’s fun to see Metallica making some...
- 1/17/2024
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Stephen King once wrote that the "last reason for reading horror: it's a rehearsal for death. It's a way to get ready." I agree with that statement and believe it applies to watching horror, as well as reading it. Sure, there's something to be said about how watching people scream and die in terrible ways probably satisfies the morbid curiosity that resides in the more primordial parts of our brains. But King's quote serves as a more profound (and socially acceptable) explanation for our attraction to the stories about fictional characters shuffling off this mortal coil, and how they allow us to come into contact with the great beyond.
From a safe distance, that is.
However, for an unlucky number of actors and film crew members, death got a little too close during the making of several horror movies, whether it was freak accidents, production team negligence, or tyrannical directors pushing their crew to extremes.
From a safe distance, that is.
However, for an unlucky number of actors and film crew members, death got a little too close during the making of several horror movies, whether it was freak accidents, production team negligence, or tyrannical directors pushing their crew to extremes.
- 10/28/2023
- by Joe Garza
- Slash Film
Lars Ulrich was only 19 when Metallica released their speed limit–defying debut, Kill ‘Em All, in 1983. On each successive album, the metal musicians waited for the mainstream to come to them. Then, their 1991 “Black Album” became the bestselling album of the past three decades thanks to songs like “Enter Sandman” and “Nothing Else Matters.” Every album they’ve put out since has gone to Number One or Two, and their Eighties anthem “Master of Puppets” recently enjoyed a renaissance thanks to Stranger Things.
Now at age 59, the drummer still whips...
Now at age 59, the drummer still whips...
- 10/6/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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