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EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Monaghan has been cast as the narrator of Crackle‘s original horror-thriller anthology series The Unknown, which launches later this year on the Sony TV-owned multiplatform network. Monaghan (Lost, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy) will play a blogger who chronicles the unexplained phenomenon that occurs in each of the six half-hour episodes. Frances Fisher, William Atherton, Taryn Manning, Jay Ferguson, and Christina Pickles have signed on for the stand-alone episodes so far. Crackle’s first longform scripted show marks the latest push to expand its original longer-form series, joining such original content as drama Urban Wolf, comedy Backwash and the live-action/animated hybrid Issues. Chris Collins (Sons Of Anarchy) and former LucasFilm executive Steve Tzirlin are executive producing Unknown.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/dominic-monaghan-casting-crackle-series-unknown/

In a month I’m starting my finals at college. for that reason I’m going to take this month and a half to focus on that, as it’s my priority right now. This means that I won’t be updating the site on a daily basis, BUT I will make updates if something important happens or from now and then.

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Listen to it here

It’s actually quite interesting and fun, but of course contains spoilers for the movie. So don’t listen if you don’t want to know anything about the movie!

THE DAY will also head to Comic Con this July, so I guess we know why Dom will be there.

WWE STudios announced on Saturday night that The Day would go to broad release in August and that the film would be promoted at Comic-Con International this July. The news came from director Douglas Aarniokoski and WWE Studios President Michael Luisi while they were showing the film as part of the Sarasota Film Festival. source

The movie’s nationwide release will be on August 17th: Luisi announced that the film will open in theaters nationwide on August 17th.  source

It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since Billy O’Brien‘s incredible Irish horror Isolation was released. Thankfully, O’Brien is prepping a June shoot for Creeping Zone, a new action-scifi-horror masher that will star Attack the Block‘s John Boyega and Chronicle‘s Ashley Hinshaw. Rounding out the cast are Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), Dominic Monaghan (“Lost”, Lord of the Rings) and Adam Deacon (“Dead Set”). Julie Baines of Dan Films produces.

Bloody Disgusting, along with Twitch have all been supplied with a different exclusive piece of concept art from the hotly anticipated feature. Our piece, by Chris Rosewarne, whose other credits include Skyfall, A Good Day To Diehard, Dark Shadows and Silent Hill 2, enters the “Fumati Zone”. Check it out after the break.

Here’s the official plot crunch: “The year is 2023 and the world is divided into two tribes – normal humans like us and those nicknamed the Blanks. Through a genetic defect, the Blanks have been born without proper facial features.

A new terrorist group is threatening the status quo. An extremist group of Blanks called the FUMATI can attack and kill anywhere and then disappear back into the population. Using hi-tech devices, they slip through security disguised as their victims.  Now it is difficult to know who is the enemy and who is a friend.

Fear stalks the population.

Lenny (John Boyega) is part of the Creeping Zero crew, a security outfit tasked with hunting down the elusive Fumati.  He is in love with Camille (Ashley Hinshaw) another member of the CZ squad.  But in a full-on Fumati attack, she is snatched and disappears into the night.

Lenny quits the crew and goes in search of Camille. But soon the hunter becomes the hunted when he discovers the shocking truth about this conflict.”

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Appearances in 2012 > Los Angeles premiere of ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ – April 11th, 2012

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…Although Marvel’s The Avengers isn’t due to arrive in theatres until May 4, the big red carpet premiere takes place Wednesday and the sheer magnitude of that cast alone is already sending Hollywood commuters into a gridlocked panic![...]
….Also confirmed for the world premiere, sponsored by Harley-Davidson, is Hemsworth’s brother and Hunger Games co-star Liam, Miley Cyrus, Jason Segel, James Marsden, Nathan Fillion, Harry Dean Stanton, Powers Boothe, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dominic Monaghan and Jessie Bradford….

But that doesn’t mean the “Lord of the Rings” and “Lost” actor is above appearing in a low-budget indie film like “The Day.”

“I obviously don’t approach a job based on the size of the budget,” Monaghan said. “It’s about working on a script you enjoy.

“You’re running and gunning a little more, just making things happen and flying by the seat of your pants but everyone is still super professional.”

Monaghan spoke to the Herald by phone last week while visiting the trendy Intelligentsia Coffee shop on San Fernando Road near his home in Los Angeles.

He will be attending the 8:30 p.m. April 20 and 21 screenings of “The Day” at the Sarasota Film Festival.

“The Day,” with a nationwide release date of June 8, is a horror thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world. Five survivors are being chased by cannibals. Originally 12, their numbers have dwindled over the decade that they have been on the run.

Low on ammunition, food and morale, the group decides to rest at an abandoned home for the night. Wrong move. Monaghan’s character Rick and his team must take a stand if they want to survive.

“It’s a real piece of tough filmmaking,” the actor said. “I read the script and thought it would be interesting and liked the idea of playing an American, which I hadn’t done in awhile, and a leader of a gang of desperate people because I had not played a leader in awhile.”

“The Day,” helmed by veteran second unit/assistant director Douglas Aarniokoski, also stars Shawn Ashmore (“X-Men”) and festival attendee Ashley Bell (“United States of Tara,” “The Last Exorcism”).

The film was shot in Ottawa.

“It was very cold all the time,” Monaghan said. “We tried as hard as we could to use that in the film. It was cold and raining a lot — definitely not a walk in the park — and we all bonded. That helped make the film more real.”

When Monaghan attends the screening in Sarasota it will mark his first trip to Florida since visiting with his famous friends from the “Lord of the Rings,” the trilogy in which he played the hobbit Meriadoc “Merry” Brandybuck.

“I went on holiday with Billy Boyd and Orlando Bloom,” Monaghan said of his pals who played Pippin and Legolas, respectively. “We went to Tampa and Miami and surfed in Cocoa Beach.”

Monaghan is looking forward to watching Bloom and the rest of his former cast mates in the “LOTR” prequel “The Hobbit,” which opens Dec. 14.

“Of course I’m excited,” he said. “Those are people I love very much.”