A trailer from Alive!! On Stage!! The Return of the Midnite Spook Show… a perfect mix of magic and the macabre for this Halloween night.
Learn more about the project and how you can help by contributing high resolution scans of spook show posters or lobby cards in your collection on the film’s official website.
Have a spooky, super and safe Halloween everyone!
The latest video from The David Berglas Scrapbooks’ fascinating YouTube series focuses on Berglas’ work as a gambling advisor to the 1975 Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon. You can see Berglas’ other credits on his IMDB listing… some cool stuff in that list!
Ryan Adamowicz, the director of the documentary about the Mingus Magic Shop, has posted this new video teasing Thank You For Supporting: 80 Years of Mingus Magic, which is hitting the festival circuit from what we hear.
Kimberly Wang of Singapore’s 98.7 FM sat down with Helder Guimarães, the magic consultant for Ocean’s 8, ahead of the heist film’s opening in Singapore.
Variety reported yesterday Richard Turner’s life will be turned into a feature film. Turner, who is blind, was the subject of the recent documentary Dealt. The filmmakers behind Dealt are attached to produce the new project.
It is interesting to note that this is the second feature film blind magician biography project currently in development as Limelight Cinema is moving ahead with Fly Like A Bumblebee, a biopic of Robert Klamm.
The newly posted trailer for an upcoming documentary on the 80 year old Mingus Magic Shop in Reading, Pennsylvania. We’ll post more about the film as we approach the May release date.
We have shared plenty of short films from the legendary magician turned cinema pioneer Georges Méliès over the years, but we aren’t sure that we have ever posted (or even seen) Cendrillon, his 1899 version of Cinderella. According to this recent SyFy Wire article, the film is the world’s first fantasy movie. This version features original music from YouTube user Andrew LaCombe.
Méliès is also credited by many with the first horror movie Le Manior Du Diable (The Haunted Castle, 1896) and the first science fiction film La Voyage Dans La Lun (A Trip To The Moon, 1902)