According to Variety, MGM has hired the writing team of Stiles White and Juliet Snowden to pen the obligatory remake of Poltergeist. Originally scripted by Steven Spielberg (and others) and directed by Tobe Hooper, the 1982 PG horror movie told of a family being tormented by the ghosts trapped in their home. Craig T Nelson [...]

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Man, am I tired of crappy remakes. Apparently, Richard O’Brien is too. A remake of  the Rocky Horror Picture Show will be going into pre- production helmed by Sky Movies with MTV, Fox TV Studios, BermanBraun and Lou Adler, who exec produced the original. The movie will premiere exclusively in the UK before becoming available [...]

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Mike Myers will never wash the British stigma off. His role as Austin Powers has earned him a license to be a Brit. Now, he’s cast to be a British general in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards, but that’s not even the the best part. His name is going to be…

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Yes, that’s right. Billy Bob Thornton may be your next Springwood slasher. Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes has a remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street slated for 2010 and Thornton is being eyed for the part of dream terrorist, Freddy Krueger.
I reckon this is going to upset some people if its true, mmhmm.

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I hadn’t heard of Warner Bros’ Trick ‘R Treat, but I guess I might as well have stayed in the dark because it is no more…at least not at Warner Bros.

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Rumor squashing 101: Never believe that Tarantino can get two films off the ground at the same time. Ever.
Yesterday, a rumor that Britney Spears was cast as Varla in his remake of Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill hit the web and took it by storm. Just earlier in the day, official news that Eli Roth was [...]

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In case some of you don’t already know, the geekiest convention of the year is currently underway at the San Diego Convention Center. Numerous great announcements have already been made, including Ghostbusters Blu-Rays and the announcement of Darren Aronofsky making a new Robocop film, but one that I was really looking forward to was on [...]

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There was some speculation, from weeks ago, about the trailer for The Day The Earth Stood still playing in front of Hancock. It didn’t play in front of my screening and if it played in front of anyone else’s, we would’ve heard all about it yesterday. Today is an entirely different story though.
Filmweb.pl posted a [...]

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After what seems like years of Hollywood entertaining the idea, a remake of Clash of the Titans appears to finally be set in stone. Originally set to be a pre-strike film for Robert Rodriguez, who turned it down to work on his budget-challenged Barbarella remake, Warner Brothers has finally signed Louis Leterrier to direct, fresh [...]

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Right back atcha Rob.
A few months ago, I was on Amazon and came across a German 3-disc limited edition of Rob Zombie’s Halloween, with both the director’s cut (which I hear is pretty similar to the work print, though I’m no glutton for punishment; I won’t be finding out for myself anytime soon) and theatrical, [...]

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