HORROR FANS CAN COME PLAY IN NEW HORROR MUSEUM, FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER
The Stanley Hotel, which served as the inspiration for Steven King’s The Shining and has presumably had to have a good sense of humour about it ever since, may now become a horror museum. Or maybe it’s always been the horror museum. Oooooooh!
The hotel in Estes Park, Colorado recently revealed plans to create a building to house a horror-themed museum, film production studio and film archive. Horror adjace actors Simon Pegg and Elijah Wood are among the founding member’s of the museum board and the hope is for the museum to serve as a nonprofit public-private partnership, collaborating with the Colorado Film School on educational projects. The hotel first needs approval from the state and is seeking $11.5 million from state tourism funds to put towards the facility’s $24 million price tag. The plan is for it to become a “year-round” horror destination, which is probably a good call. Operating only during tourist seasons is just asking for caretaker-related murder mishap.
HOLLYWOOD HEADS TO AUSTRALIAN COAST
Like this, in reverse.
Chris Hemsworth need no longer struggle with the fish-out-of-water scenario that is making movies in a country without Vegemite and a constant threat of being bitten by several poisonous animals a day, as it has been announced that Thor: Ragnarok will be filmed in his native Australia.
Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced that the country had secured a deal with Marvel and Disney to have the film-to be directed by New Zealander Taika Waititi-to be filmed on the Gold Coast. The sequel to Prometheus will also be filmed there. Australia spent $40 million attracting these films. Little did they know that they could have charmed those uptight American studios just as easily with a laidback attitude, nifty attitude and helpful expertise of what does and does not constitute a knife. The films should inject $300 million into the economy though, so it works out alright.