NEWS - MERCY

Mercy on DVD

Posted: October 16, 2014, 16:10
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Word is that Mercy is out on DVD now. The official release date is Oct. 21 but several people has gotten it at Walmart. My review will come soon...

Second Mercy Trailer

Posted: October 8, 2014, 08:37
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Here is a second trailer for Mercy. This is not the one you can see on iTunes.

Mercy Out This October

Posted: September 17, 2014, 09:05
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Blumhouse has announced a new label, BH Tilt, dedicated to generating movies from Blumhouse Productions and other filmmakers for multi-platform release. The first films are Mockingbird, Mercy, Not Safe for Work and Stretch who are released this October.

Mark Duplass stars in Mercy, based on a Stephen King story, Gramma, from his Skeleton Crew collection. In the story two boys visit their grandmother only to discover that she’s a witch. The Haunting in Connecticut‘s Peter Cornwell directs Frances O’Connor, Chandler Riggs, Joel Courtney, Dylan McDermott, Shirley Knight and Chris Browning.

Thanks to Grzesiek Tupikowski.

Mercy done but not released?

Posted: February 28, 2014, 10:42
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Here is an update on Mercy from Dead Central.

According to THR, the Stephen King adaptation Mercy, directed by Haunting in Connecticut's Peter Cornwell and starring Dylan McDermott, Frances O'Connor, Chandler Riggs, Joel Courtney, Shirley Knight, and Chris Browning, finished shooting a year ago and is among the Blumhouse films sitting on Universal’s shelf.

Studio chairman Donna Langley says the studio still is not counting it out. What does that mean exactly? Probably that they will just dump it on home video and move along.

Mercy synopsis

Posted: February 28, 2013, 21:45
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Here is the synopsis for the upcoming Mercy, based on Gramma.

Based on a short story by Stephen King, Mercy tells the tale of two young boys (The Walking Dead’s Chandler Riggs and Super 8’s Joel Courtney) who move with their mother to take care of their dying grandmother at her decrepit farmhouse. When they suspect that the elderly woman they love has encountered a dark spirit, they fear she might not be the only one who won’t make it through the summer alive.

Once George (Riggs) and Buddy McCoy (Courtney) arrive at their Gramma Mercy’s (Shirley Knight), what they find inside her 150-year-old home is nothing short of terrifying. As the brothers experience deeply disturbing phenomena they believe to be the work of an ancient witch, they must fight for their lives and overcome the evil forces threatening their family.

Directed by Peter Cornwell (The Haunting in Connecticut), Mercy is produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister), McG (Terminator Salvation, Charlie’s Angels) and Mary Viola (Brooklyn’s Finest, We Are Marshall) of Wonderland Sound and Vision.

Thanks to Herbert West

Gramma casting

Posted: February 1, 2013, 23:00
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Mark Duplass has signed on for Universal and Blumhouse‘s Mercy based on King's Gramma that stars Dylan McDermott, Frances O’Connor, Chandler Riggs, Joel Courtney, Shirley Knight and Chris Browning. Peter Cornwell (A Haunting In Connecticut) is directing, with Jason Blum, McG, and Wonderland Sound and Vision’s Mary Viola producing.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma