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"Renfield" is not Nicolas Cage's first blush with a vampire.

In 1988's "Vampire's Kiss," he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an immortal bloodsucker. His bug-eyed performance was essentially the birth of the over-the-top, kabuki-inflected mythology of Cage. Years later, it would launch a thousand memes, a kind of digital version of becoming undead.

Los Angeles is finally getting a museum for movies - and it's about time, said Tom Hanks, as he welcomed journalists to a special pre-opening event on Sept. 21.

The first in the Hammer Horror series of films inspired by Bram Stoker's "Dracula," Terence Fischer's 1958 production starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Melissa Stribling, will be screened in all its blood-chilling Technicolor glory as part of the Athens Open-Air Film Festival, on Tuesday, July 25, starting at 9.30 p.m.