Universal City, Ca, July 6, 2009– Chiller and Universal Studios Hollywood are partnering to recognize the nation’s top short-form filmmaking horror genre talent with the “Halloween Horror Nights-Chiller Scary Good Film Competition,” offering filmmakers an opportunity to have their scariest short film rewarded with a broadcast on Chiller of their work, a $1,000 cash prize and a trip for two to the October 2 opening night of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Contest entries will be accepted from July 1, 2009 through August 21, 2009.
Prospective filmmakers are invited to submit short films of 90 seconds to three minutes in length on DVD (two copies of each film must be [...]

Universal Studios has won the rights to produce a big-screen adaptation of the classic Atari game “Asteroids.”
Matthew Lopez will write the script for the adaptation, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce. Universal’s senior VP of production Jeff Kirschenbaum will oversee the whole project.
“Asteroids” was released in 1979 in arcade form, where a single player controlled a triangular “space ship” dodging and shooting asteroids into bits in an asteroid field.
No other information has been released yet about the project in terms of release date or casting.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for movie news and more from the upcoming adaptation “Asteroids”.
By Costa Koutsoutis (Source; The Hollywood Reporter)

The all new Universal Studios attraction “The Creature from the Black Lagoon-A Raging Rockin’ Show” was a surprisingly good show. I expected a kid friendly comedy show but was happily disappointed. It had a lot of fun stuff for kids but it also had some “undercover” humor for the adults. The singing (it is a musical) was exceptional, the costumes were great, and the set design was awesome. It was a very funny script with some amazing swimming scenes and a great surprise at the end. Definitely one of Universal Studios best stage production attraction ever!
“Creature From the Black Lagoon-A Raging Rockin’ Show” is a hip, musical stage adaptation of [...]

Los Angeles, California, May 19-2009–King Kong, among the screen’s most powerful and enduring icons, will re-emerge on the famed and newly upgraded Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour in summer, 2010 as a thrilling and ground-breaking 4-D multi-sensory marvel, a new signature attraction for Universal Studios Hollywood.
The new King Kong attraction, based on the Oscar-winning 2005 Universal Pictures film, will combine thrilling visceral effects with the world’s largest Surround Digital projection system to create a next-generation theme park experience.
Larry Kurzweil, President and Chief Operating Officer, Universal Studios Hollywood, said: “King Kong has been an integral part of Universal Studios Hollywood for decades and, after last year’s fire, we knew he had [...]

Universal City, California- The relentless masked killers from Rogue Pictures’ horror-thriller hit, “The Strangers,” will make their theme park debut with vivid appearances in “House of Horrors: Meet the Strangers,” one of many terror-filled mazes featured in Universal Studios Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights” event, beginning on Friday, October 3.
“The Strangers” deadly stalkers, “Doll Face,” “Pin Up Girl” and “The Man in the Mask,” will join a “murderers’ row” of Universal notorious celluloid creature that includes The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Frankenstein’s Monster, Chucky and “Psycho’s” Mother Bates.
There will be no escaping “The Strangers” at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event. The deadly masked creatures will also be found [...]

Universal Studios Hollywood’s short film competition timed to coincide with the launch of the annual Halloween Horror Nights event in October is now onto the next level! The Top 10 horror short films have been selected by judges Don Mancini (Director of Child’s Play), Bill Moseley House of 1,000 Corpses) and Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys, Lost Boys: The Tribe).
Official Selections “The Prank”, “Sleep Walker”, “Made Incorrect”, “Death of a Dude”, “If I Die Before I Wake”, “Soulvenirs”, “The Crew”, “Celariac”, “Behind You” and “Surface”.
The winning filmmaker will Live Their Worst Nightmare with four tickets to Halloween Horror Nights 2008, an exclusive invitation to the opening night “Eyegore Awards” [...]

Universal Studios Hollywood sent us some news about their upcoming short film competition “Where Nightmares Come Alive”. Your short film must be received no later than September 3, 2008. Here are the details.
Universal City, California, July 24, 2008 - “Where Nightmares Come Alive” is the theme for Universal Studios Hollywood’s first Halloween short film competition, a virtual film festival timed to coincide with the launch of the annual Halloween Horror Nights event that will invade the Entertainment Capital of L.A. for 13 nights this October.
Prospective filmmakers are invited to submit 90 seconds to three minute film shorts on DVD that support the theme, “Where Nightmares Come [...]