Friday Link-A-Mania

• Yancy Butler, who played Red Mist’s mum Angie D’Amico in the original Kick-Ass, will return for Kick-Ass 2. [via The Hollywood Reporter]

• Seems like there are going to be rival Amityville Horror films in production. While Dimension and Miramax are prepping the found-footage The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes, Evergreen Media Group is has just announced its own Amityville prequel, with an interesting way of getting around copyright problems. Instead of being a fictionalised account it’s a film based on the experience of two real life reporters who were involved in the original Amityville media hoo-ha. “The company has acquired the found footage of famous March 6, 1976 séance conducted by WNEW TV news in the Amityville house, ” says the press release, “in addition to their previously acquired life rights of former WNEW-TV reporters Laura DiDio and Marvin Scott to complete the rights package for their true Amityville prequel.” Interestingly the press release mentions Amityville a lot but doesn’t actually give the film a name – presumably Dimension will prevent the word “Amityville” being anywhere near the title. Can we suggest, “Hogwash?” [via Coming Soon]

• Here’s a preview clip from DreamWorks’ Dragons: Riders Of Berk the TV spin-off from How To Train Your Dragon, premiering in the US on 4 September on Cartoon Network. The voice cast includes Jay Baruchel (Hiccup), America Ferrera (Astrid), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs) and TJ  Miller (Tuffnut), all reprising their roles from the original film. Have we on SFX ever mentioned how much we love How To Train Your Dragon?

• Haven co-creator Sam Ernst tells TVLine that season three of the show is “explosive from start to finish, more so than any season so far — by a mile.”

• Comic Book Movie has a closer look at a couple of the prison zombies from The Walking Dead season three.

• Deadline reveals that Byron Mann, who has appeared in Street Fighter The Movie and Catwoman, and so could clearly do with a break, has been cast as an as-yet-unspecified recurring character in The CW’s Arrow (currently shaping up to the hottest new telefantasy show of the year). He was also Detective Matt Sung in eight episodes of Dark Angel, if that helps jog your memory.

• Collider reports that in test screenings, audiences have shown a preference for a bloodier, more graphic cut of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the fantasy film starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, due for release in January 2013. This almost definitely means it will be released R-rated in the US.