2008

HAUNTED Has A Director!

Posted October 21st, 2008 by Dennis
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Big news hit the net yesterday, which I missed because I was sitting in Jury Duty selection from 8am on. It seems HAUNTED is now on the fast-track to become Chuck Palahniuk's next movie adaptation. Variety reported that the option was acquired by Brian Levy, who has launched a management and production company called New School Media. 'Haunted' will be their first project. The writer and director is going to Belgium filmmaker Koen Mortier (pictured below). Mortier already has a building filmography listed on the IMDB, but is most noted for his last film 'Ex-Drummer'. Koen is on board to write and direct the adaptation. read more »

CHOKE Movie: Round Table Discussion With Chuck Palahniuk, Clark Gregg & Sam Rockwell!

Posted October 20th, 2008 by Dennis
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You'll remember that last month, Borders Books & Music hosted a truly great event that I was privileged to be at. It was a moderated round table discussion between Chuck Palahniuk, Clark Gregg and Sam Rockwell. What made the event so special was that, the three of them were coming off a full day of press. And they were so burned out, that it made them loopy and goofy. This resulted in some hysterical back and forths that had the audience cracking up. I think you'll consider this one a gem, folks. The link also contains the trailer for CHOKE, as well as a one on one interview with Chuck. Check out the video here! Thanks to Samantha Bond and Fox Searchlight Pictures for setting this one up.

Chuck Palahniuk Podcast On The Warren Report

Posted October 20th, 2008 by Dennis
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As you can see, I'm making up for a lot of backlogged News updates today. Hopefully you're getting a thrill out of this much news in one day.

This one's a specialty though. Warren Etheridge, of The Warren Report, had the pleasure of interviewing Chuck, as he came through Seattle this year promoting 'Snuff'.

Listen to the podcast here

CHOKE Movie: Red Carpet Premiere Video!

Posted October 20th, 2008 by Dennis
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Rounding out Premiere magazines awesome coverage of the CHOKE movie last month, Jenni Miller had one more feature to send our way. It's a short video that you all may dig, of the red carpet premiere event in New York.

Click here to see the video

Premiere red carpet reporter Shira Levine was at the NYC premiere of Choke at East Village's Sunshine Theater to quiz director/actor Clark Gregg, star Sam Rockwell, naughty milkmaid Bijou Philips, and author Chuck Palahniuk about their new movie. Watch this video to find out how Sam Rockwell researched his role, what Clark Gregg's safe word is, and why Michael J. Fox was glad they left the kids at home.

CHOKE Movie: Premiere Magazine Interview With Sam Rockwell

Posted October 20th, 2008 by Dennis
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Continuing their awesome coverage of CHOKE last month, Jenni Miller also had a chance to sit down and talk with actor Sam Rockwell. Read The Interview Here You can also read Jenni's review of Choke here.

CHOKE Movie: Premiere Magazine Interview With Clark Gregg

Posted October 20th, 2008 by Dennis
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I didn't have a chance to post it at the time, but a couple weeks back I heard back again from Jenni Miller, a reporter for Premiere Magazine. While at the press junket for CHOKE in NY last month, she had the chance to interview most of the major players on the film. Here is her Q&A with director/writer Clark Gregg: Read The Interview Here

CHOKE Movie: Anjelica Houston Interview

Posted October 20th, 2008 by Dennis
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Check out this interview with Anjelica Houston for The Hollywood Interview. It was conducted by Terry Keefe and it goes into Choke quite extensively.

Read The Interview Here

Pre-Order Chuck Palahniuk's Next Book, "Pygmy"!

Posted October 13th, 2008 by Dennis
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Chuck Palahniuk's next book will be "Pygmy". It's not due in stores until May 5, 2009. But you can pre-order it today on Amazon.

Pre-Order "Pygmy" On Amazon Today!

For those that don't know, here is summary of "Pygmy", right from Chuck:

I've just finished the first draft of a novel called "Pygmy," a dark comedy about terrorism and racism. The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family. Oh, and they're Christians. The visit is for six months, and he's one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families.

The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition -- where the project will explode, killing millions.

So far, Gerry Howard says it's the best book I've done. Fingers crossed for luck.

Last Call For CHOKE Movie Contest Submissions

Posted October 10th, 2008 by Dennis
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Chuck's new novel "Pygmy" is now being typeset. This means we have to get Chuck the winning contestant's name of the Choke Movie Contest, so he can include it as a character in the book. So consider this a last call for submissions.

If you participated in last weekend's contest and have pictures of you and friends holding you CHOKE movie ticket stubs, send them to: chokecontest@chuckpalahniuk.net.

I'm going to allow the weekend for people to send in photos. But the photos must be from last weekend. On Monday, the person who submits photos with the most people will win.

Chuck Palahniuk's October Essay, "A Story from Scratch, Act One"

Posted October 6th, 2008 by Dennis
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/workshop/chucks-essays-2008-34Apologies for posting this one late, but Chuck has something special for you today that I think you're all going to agree was worth the wait. For years now, fans have loved and coveted these essays Chuck provides the site, on how to improve your writing. But there's one aspect of his lessons that people have wished for the most:

For the next three essays I'll be presenting three drafts of a short story I'm writing for a Dark Delicacies anthology. Folks have been asking for this kind of in-progress demonstration. The first draft will be a day or two past Oct. 1st, but each draft will describe my process and choices -- and the finished, polished version will be out in the actual book.

Read Chuck's October Essay, A Story from Scratch, Act One read more »

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