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Dame Zaha Hadid, the first female recipient of the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize and the designer behind the futuristic venues of the 2012 London Olympics, has died. She was 65. Hadid passed away on Thursday in a Miami hospital, where she was being treated for bronchitis. She had a heart attack during her stay, Zaha Hadid Architects in London confirmed, according to the AP. The Iraqi-British architect worked on projects across the world, including the Guangzhou Opera House in China, the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati and the Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein, Germany, according to the New York Times.

Dame Zaha Hadid, the first female recipient of the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize and the designer behind the futuristic venues of the 2012 London Olympics, has died. She was 65. Hadid passed away on Thursday in a Miami hospital, where she was being treated for bronchitis. She had a heart attack during her stay, Zaha Hadid Architects in London confirmed, according to the AP. The Iraqi-British architect worked on projects across the world, including the Guangzhou Opera House in China, the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati and the Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein, Germany, according to the New York Times.

Comic legend Mel Brooks has joined the voice cast of the Sony's animated sequel Hotel Transylvania 2. Brooks will voice the role of Vlad, the ancient, undead and grumpy father to the Adam Sandler-voiced Dracula. Read more Mel Brooks Gets Street Named After Him: "People Are Going to Walk All Over Me" The follow-up to the 2012 hit involves Vlad arriving at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together. The Emmy-, Grammy-, Oscar- and Tony-winning Brooks takes on the role 40 years after helming Young Frankenstein, saying of his new role, "I’m having a wonderful time

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Word has just come across our desks that Pontypool director Bruce McDonald has a new feature coming our way, and we have all of the first available details for you right here. Dig it!

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Whizbang Films and Storyteller Pictures are thrilled to announce that principal photography got under way this week on their Halloween horror thriller Hellions.

Penned by Pascal Trottier (The Colony), Hellions is directed by veteran cult helmer Bruce McDonald (Highway 61, Hard Core Logo), whose psychological zombie thriller Pontypool made it onto several 'Best Zombie Movies of All Time' lists including a top 25 published by Entertainment Weekly.com in 2010.

McDonald and producers Frank Siracusa (Hobo With a Shotgun) and Paul Lenart have tapped newcomer Chloe Rose ("Degrassi: The Next Generation"), whose recent turn in The Lesser Blessed grabbed industry attention, as their lead.

Rose plays Dora Vogel, a pregnant teen faced with a...

We’re happy to debut three exclusive new images from the upcoming Ferocious. Directed by Robert Cuffley (Walk All Over Me), the film stars Amanda Crew (Sex Drive) as a popular television actress who returns to her small hometown under mysterious circumstances. The truth behind her visit is not shared with her family, the media, or even her manager, but she must revisit her former place of employment—a grungy night club—in order to retrieve something that could put an end to her career. The trailer is effectively intriguing, promising a creepy performance from co-star Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy). Hit the jump to check out the images. Ferocious is slated for release sometime this fall. Here’s the synopsis for Ferocious, followed by the images and trailer: The future looks positively rosy for Leigh. Having landed a role on a soap that has exploded across North America, Leigh...

A few years ago Robert Cuffley appeared on the scene with a great comedy of errors titled Walk All Over Me. Though it wasn't the director's first feature, it was the one that introduced me to his work which often touches on dark themes. It was a fantastic bit of fun involving Tricia Helfer as a dominatrix and her roommate Leelee Sobieski who pretends to be a dom in order to pay her rent. There's more to the story than that but you'll have to check it out to get all of the details. [Continued ...]...

NEW YORK -- Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, Marion Ross, Jeffrey Tambor and Brent Spiner join young stars Drake Bell, Ryan Hansen, Kevin Hart and Sara Paxton in the Dimension Films action-movie spoof Superhero.

Dimension parent Weinstein Co. also acquired U.S. distribution rights to Robert Cuffley's crime thriller Walk All Over Me, starring Leelee Sobieski as a small-town girl who assumes the dominatrix identity of her roommate (Tricia Helfer) to make some extra cash. The studio plans a video and TV release for the recent Toronto International Film Festival premiere, acquired from IndustryWorks Distribution.

Craig Mazin's Superhero, set for a March theatrical release, will be cut from the same cloth as the writer-director's Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 parodies. David Zucker ("Airplane!") and Robert K. Weiss (the Naked Gun sequels) will produce.

Bell (Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh), Paxton (Aquamarine), Hansen (Veronica Mars) and Hart (All About Polly) will be aided in the comic chaos by vets McDonald (Thelma and Louise), Nielsen (the Naked Gun trilogy), Ross (Happy Days), Tambor (Arrested Development) and Spiner (Star Trek: First Contact).