What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting roundup that has news about Timothy Olyphant putting on cowboy boots again. Read on! Is Kristen Wiig going to be joining the cast of Anchorman: The Legend Continues? Maybe. The Wrap has a report...Show More Summary
Deadline reports that Casey Affleck will step back in front of the camera after signing a deal to produce and star in a movie surrounding the Boston Strangler. Affleck and screenwriter Chuck Maclean sold a pitch to Warner Bros. for the forthcoming thriller. The film will surround a detective dealing with an angry public impatient for an arrest of the Strangler....
Continuing in the great American tradition of Boston actors finding ways to play Bostonians in movies, Deadline is reporting that Casey Affleck will produce and likely star in Boston Strangler, a thriller about sixties-era, you guessed it, Boston. Being compared to Se7en and Zodiac, the film will focus on what
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Though Ben Affleck has been all over the place promoting Argo, his brother Casey Affleck has been pretty low key lately. This year we only heard him on the big screen providing his voice to a character in the underrated stop-motion animated flick ParaNorman, but he has some other films on the horizon. Show More Summary
Thirteen women were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Massachusetts during the 1960s at the hands of the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo. Now, Warner Bros. is readying a new film based on the serial killer. The screenplay was picked up from Casey Affleck and fellow Bostonite writer Chuck Maclean. We were hoping that Affleck would [...]
I think that this first bit should be considered good news. Boston Strangler, a pitch from Casey Affleck and screenwriter Chuck Maclean, has been picked up by Warner Bros. and will be produced by Kevin McCormick (Gangster Squad). Affleck is...
News is coming in that Casey Affleck is setting himself up at Warner Bros to produce and star in BOSTON STRANGLER, a historical account of the police search for the notorious serial killer. Warner Bros has bought the pitch from Affleck and 2011 Black List writer Chuck Maclean. Show More Summary
Casey Affleck has set his sights on a famous serial killer case with a script called Boston Strangler, Deadline reports. He'll executive produce and likely star as a detective investigating a series of murders that, to this day, areShow More Summary
Chuck Maclean will write the screenplay based on the true story of the Boston police search for this notorious killer in the 1960s. [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired Boston Strangler, a thriller pitch about the desperate search for the murderer who terrorized the Boston area during the early 1960s. Kevin McCormick’s Warner-based Langley Park shingle will produce, and the pitch was bought from Casey Affleck and fellow Boston native screenwriter Chuck Maclean. Show More Summary
photos by Sarja Hasan Boston Strangler @ Acheron, 10/27/2012 Punk, in its many incarnations, ruled supreme at Acheron on 10/27, when Beantown throwback hardcore heroes Boston Strangler played with Burning Spirits-influenced NYC favorites Perdition, crusty-punk from Crazy Spirit, and killer...
by Fred Pessaro // BBG Boston Strangler at LPR, May 2012 (more by Keith Marlowe) Celebrate Hardcore Gig Volume 200 with a blowout bash at Acheron on 10/27! Boston hardcore greats Boston Strangler will team with Perdition, Waste Management, Crazy...
by Fred Pessaro / BBG The Boston Strangler at LPR, 2012 (more by Keith Marlowe) Not Dead Yet is a Toronto-based festival that features some of the best current punk/hardcore bands in existence right now. The six-day festival will feature...
Some Guy Who Kills People2012 Lightning Media/Anchor Bay EntertainmentRay Van Horn, Jr.We've come miles from the days of The Boston Strangler, The Hillside Strangler and Helter Skelter. Those affiliated acts of barbaric murder were once appalling to us as a culture. Show More Summary
Grave of the Boston Strangler Grave of the man supposedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s From 1962 to 1964, the Boston Strangler sexually assaulted and strangled around a dozen women who ranged in age from 19 to 85, gripping the city in terror. Show More Summary
photos by Keith Marlowe, words by BBG Tragedy headlined the swanky Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday (5/12), part of a string of shows in celebration of their new LP Darker Days Ahead. The record, which was available in test press...
Tragedy at Red 7 last week (more by Tim Griffin) Portland d-beat favorites Tragedy return to NYC with a whallop of a supporting cast in The Boston Strangler, Sickoids and Perdition at Le Poisson Rouge Saturday (5/12). Tickets are still...
When the Betamax/VCR first came out, Hollywood insisted that it was pure evil and that it would be "the Boston Strangler" to the movie business. And, if you looked at how the devices were used at first, you could easily argue that the vast, vast majority of the usage was, in fact, infringing. Show More Summary
photos by Greg Cristman, words by BBG Natur @ Public Assembly Thrashy Brooklyn crew Natur headlined a mostly doom bill at Public Assembly on March 1st, featuring appearances from Richmond's Windhand, Providence's Pilgrim and Boston newcomers Magic Circle. The show,...