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Elijah Wood Finds Killer Role In ‘Maniac’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 4, 2011 @ 10:27am PDTTags: Alexandre Aja, Elijah Wood
Mike Fleming

Elijah Wood has been just set for the lead role in Maniac, and believe me, Frodo is a long way from the Shire in this one. In the indie that will be directed by Franck Khalfoun and produced by Alexandre Aja and Gregory Lavasseur, Wood plays the role of a serial killer who works at a shop that sells antique mannequins. He finds victims on the Internet and stalks them like prey, all the while suffering from hallucinations that throw him back into the past, when he was abused by his own mother. In his twisted mind, he gains a measure of revenge against his mother with each kill. It will shoot later this year.

This isn’t the first deranged killer role for Wood, who played the creepy cannibal Kevin in Sin City. Wood has been working up a storm, in the upcoming Happy Feet 2, the indie Celeste and Jesse, Sky TV’s Treasure Island, and, of course, he reprises his signature role in The Hobbit. Wood also reprises his starring role in the series Wilfred, which begins production early next year. He’s repped by Brillstein Partners and WME.

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Dimension To Develop ‘Scanners’ TV Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: Alexandre Aja, Bob Weinstein, Clark Peterson, David Cronenberg, Dimension Films
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: David Cronenberg’s science-fiction horror classic Scanners may be headed to the small screen. The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension Films is developing a drama series adaptation of the movies about a group of people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities, with The … Read More »

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Dimension’s ‘Piranha 3D’ To Be Sequelized

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 23, 2010 @ 2:23pm PDTTags: Alexandre Aja, Dimension Films, Mark Canton, Piranha 3D, Piranha 3D Sequel
Mike Fleming

Dimension Films has put toothy fish back on the menu.  Inexplicably, a sequel’s coming for Piranha 3D, after it only grossed $10 million opening weekend. The Alexandre Aja-directed film was produced by Mark Canton. Whoever didn’t end up eaten is … Read More »

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