The Haunting in Connecticut (movie, 2009)

Billed as being "based on the true story," the sort-of spooky, sort-of stupid "The Haunting in Connecticut" follows a family who move into a rental home to put their cancer-stricken son closer to the clinic where he is receiv- ing experimental treatments....

Thanks to an alien invasion of movie theaters, Hollywood scared up a strong weekend at the box office. Ticket sales in North America reached an estimated $148 million this weekend, up nearly 40% from the same period last year in a further sign that...

Freddy Krueger has his next victim: a "Veronica Mars" star. Kyle Gallner has signed on to the "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He'll play Quentin, a podcast DJ that THR claims is a role analogous to Glen Lantz,...

Never play hide-and-seek in a haunted house. Isn't that one of those motherisms handed down at the same time as "Look both ways before crossing the street" and "Don't swim after eating"? But kids will be kids, especially in the movies. And even if though...

On your average movie set, actors rehearse, the scene is lit and blocked for the actors' moves, and the camera's moves in relation to them. The scene is played out and filmed from a few different angles -- "coverage." And then the crew moves on to the...