Showing posts with label Entertainment Horror update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entertainment Horror update. Show all posts
Thursday, December 23, 2010
New Hellraiser film to be darker, Dusk till Dawn, Amityville coming back too
HellRaiser
A few months ago it was announced that, god forbid, the Hellraiser remake was going to be aimed at a teen audience, think of a sparkly Pinhead. Actually scratch that, Pinhead doesn't sparkle he freaking causes pain and pleasure and no one does it better. Now thanks to the guys over at MovieFone, they recently caught up with the director of the remake, Patrick Lussier and he denied these horrible "teen audience" rumors."Oh, God no. No, no, we definitely did not want to do that.
If you're going to make a 'Hellraiser' movie... you're basically looking at a franchise that went from Clive's movie up to the 'Hellraiser'-in-Space movie, 'Bloodline,' which had some great stuff in it, actually; the way it goes backwards and forwards in time, and Angelique is such an interesting character. There's a part of this world that we're never allowed to see because there's never been the resources to show it, so let's show it."
More From Dusk Till Dawn, and Amityville, sequels on the way
The Miramax library is in new hands and under the direction of Mike Lang, if you haven't been following the business-side of things occurring in Hollywood. The transition of the films that fall under the Miramax brand is the reason why you haven't seen the release of Blu-Ray titles like Pulp Fiction or the Scream films in the U.S.But that's all going to change now that the Miramax deal is closed. At the edn of last week, Lang's Miramax announced they are partnering up with The Weinstein Company to create sequels to some of the films in the Miramax library.
The first films to be produced under the agreement will be sequels to Bad Santa, Rounders and Shakespeare in Love. The other potential sequels and TV projects are Bridget Jones's Diary, Copland, From Dusk Till Dawn, Swingers, Clerks, Shall We Dance, and The Amityville Horror. Interesting news about the latter as many thought a sequel to the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror was tied up at MGM. This partnership augments an existing relationship between the companies on such franchises as Scream 4 (to be released April 15, 2011), Spy Kids 4 (to be released August 19, 2011) and Scary Movie 5.
In addition, Miramax will handle digital distribution on select sequel projects. Miramax and TWC have also agreed to develop new, special edition materials for Blu-ray releases, such as roundtables featuring cast and directors. "We are very close to these films and the new management of Miramax also feels that we are in the best position to create sequels that are at once worthy and compelling in their own right," stated TWC's Harvey and Bob Weinstein. "We look forward to working with Mike and his team on getting these films into production as soon as possible, and extending our partnership in the years ahead."
from Reggie Dwight on Facebook
Monday, December 6, 2010
Film Horror News
From Rich Goellnitz on Facebook
With ‘THE WALKING DEAD’ WRITERS GONE, WHO WILL WRITE SEASON 2?
[OKAY, the following isn't true, according to Gale Anne Herd]
With The Walking Dead absolutely killing it, in the ratings, a strange turn of events have happened. According to Deadline Hollywood Frank Darabont has released all of the writing staff for The Walking Dead, this even includes his number two, the writing executive producer Charles “Chic” Eglee. Also for the second season Frank Darabont is looking to assign scripts to freelancers instead of having a writing team. Now a change in writing staff in between season's is commonplace but to get rid of the entire writing team, is quite strange.But whatever Darabont's plans are, he has along time to think things over and decide what path to take as the second season of The Walking Dead doesn't launch until just under a year from now, in October 2011.What do you guys think? Do you trust Frank Darabont?
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Now, a brief aside from InsideTV.EW.com:
Earlier this week, Deadline reported that Shawshank Redemption filmmaker Frank Darabont — who developed the Walking Dead for television and directed the pilot — had let go the show’s writers, including Murder One co-creator Charles “Chic” Eglee. But earlier today, Hurd refuted that allegation. “It’s completely inaccurate,” she told EW exclusively. “[In] the writers’ room, there are people that have set up other projects that will be their first priority if their own series is picked up as a pilot or if it’s a series. I think [Eglee] just decided that he wants to run his own show.”
Hurd said the Walking Dead will probably return in October. “I think Frank and Robert [Kirkman, writer of the Walking Dead comic and an executive producer on the show] will sit down early next year, to begin mapping it out.” She also confirmed that “every one of the principal cast is signed up for multiple seasons.”
For the full article
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Back to our regularly scheduled programming:
‘ZOMBIELAND 2’ SEEKING HIGH PROFILE CAMEOS?
Zombieland featured the funniest cameo of 2009, so it’s no surprise that reports are coming in that Columbia Pictures want to repeat the trick with Zombieland 2.Bloody Disgusting report that the studio are seeking out names of the calibre of Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins – in other words, big stars with spades of gravitas.But even as the reports went live, Zombieland writer Rhett Reese hopped onto Twitter to deny them, writing: “The Zombieland 2 rumors reported today are false.” As well as: “The Zombieland 2 rumors feel like they were the product of a game of ‘Telephone’. Distorted.”A case of double bluffing from the scribe? We hope that the writers have something a little fresher up their sleeves for the undead sequel. Many a sequel has gone the way of the Dodo by lazily repeating beats from their predecessors.On the plot front, we also hear that Zombieland 2 could feature a new lead villain, while Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg find themselves competing against a "hunky rival".
3D SHARK FLICK KICKS OFF IN FALL 2011
That David Ellis-directed 3D shark thriller formerly known as Shark Night 3D will hit theaters on September 2, 2011. Relativity picked up the film for distribution earlier this week.Ellis previously helmed Snakes on a Plane, Final Destination 2 and The Final Destination. A new title for his latest effort is forthcoming. Click on the aforementioned link for more details on the project.
R.I.P LESLIE NIELSEN
Although known for his comedies,he did star in a few Horrors, Creepshow (1982) playing a murderer in the segment ‘Something to tide you over’ and also in Prom Night (1980). It comes with a saddened heart, that the BBC reports, veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen has unfortunately passed away. The star of such comedy hits as Airplane! and The Naked Gun series passed away in hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The star was being treated for pneumonia when he sadly passed away.Leslie Nielsen was born in the Canadian city of Regina in 1926, he got into the business in the 1950's where he started as a television actor and he performed in over 150 dramas. Nielsen then went on to star in the 1980's comedy hit Airplane! and that was start of many more comedies to come.
He went on to star in The Naked Gun series as Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and continued making people laugh all around the world, a true funny man he will be sadly missed. Leslie Nielsen appeared in well over 100 films and had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
With ‘THE WALKING DEAD’ WRITERS GONE, WHO WILL WRITE SEASON 2?
[OKAY, the following isn't true, according to Gale Anne Herd]
With The Walking Dead absolutely killing it, in the ratings, a strange turn of events have happened. According to Deadline Hollywood Frank Darabont has released all of the writing staff for The Walking Dead, this even includes his number two, the writing executive producer Charles “Chic” Eglee. Also for the second season Frank Darabont is looking to assign scripts to freelancers instead of having a writing team. Now a change in writing staff in between season's is commonplace but to get rid of the entire writing team, is quite strange.But whatever Darabont's plans are, he has along time to think things over and decide what path to take as the second season of The Walking Dead doesn't launch until just under a year from now, in October 2011.What do you guys think? Do you trust Frank Darabont?
===
Now, a brief aside from InsideTV.EW.com:
Earlier this week, Deadline reported that Shawshank Redemption filmmaker Frank Darabont — who developed the Walking Dead for television and directed the pilot — had let go the show’s writers, including Murder One co-creator Charles “Chic” Eglee. But earlier today, Hurd refuted that allegation. “It’s completely inaccurate,” she told EW exclusively. “[In] the writers’ room, there are people that have set up other projects that will be their first priority if their own series is picked up as a pilot or if it’s a series. I think [Eglee] just decided that he wants to run his own show.”
Hurd said the Walking Dead will probably return in October. “I think Frank and Robert [Kirkman, writer of the Walking Dead comic and an executive producer on the show] will sit down early next year, to begin mapping it out.” She also confirmed that “every one of the principal cast is signed up for multiple seasons.”
For the full article
===
Back to our regularly scheduled programming:
‘ZOMBIELAND 2’ SEEKING HIGH PROFILE CAMEOS?
Zombieland featured the funniest cameo of 2009, so it’s no surprise that reports are coming in that Columbia Pictures want to repeat the trick with Zombieland 2.Bloody Disgusting report that the studio are seeking out names of the calibre of Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins – in other words, big stars with spades of gravitas.But even as the reports went live, Zombieland writer Rhett Reese hopped onto Twitter to deny them, writing: “The Zombieland 2 rumors reported today are false.” As well as: “The Zombieland 2 rumors feel like they were the product of a game of ‘Telephone’. Distorted.”A case of double bluffing from the scribe? We hope that the writers have something a little fresher up their sleeves for the undead sequel. Many a sequel has gone the way of the Dodo by lazily repeating beats from their predecessors.On the plot front, we also hear that Zombieland 2 could feature a new lead villain, while Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg find themselves competing against a "hunky rival".
3D SHARK FLICK KICKS OFF IN FALL 2011
That David Ellis-directed 3D shark thriller formerly known as Shark Night 3D will hit theaters on September 2, 2011. Relativity picked up the film for distribution earlier this week.Ellis previously helmed Snakes on a Plane, Final Destination 2 and The Final Destination. A new title for his latest effort is forthcoming. Click on the aforementioned link for more details on the project.
R.I.P LESLIE NIELSEN
Although known for his comedies,he did star in a few Horrors, Creepshow (1982) playing a murderer in the segment ‘Something to tide you over’ and also in Prom Night (1980). It comes with a saddened heart, that the BBC reports, veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen has unfortunately passed away. The star of such comedy hits as Airplane! and The Naked Gun series passed away in hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The star was being treated for pneumonia when he sadly passed away.Leslie Nielsen was born in the Canadian city of Regina in 1926, he got into the business in the 1950's where he started as a television actor and he performed in over 150 dramas. Nielsen then went on to star in the 1980's comedy hit Airplane! and that was start of many more comedies to come.
He went on to star in The Naked Gun series as Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and continued making people laugh all around the world, a true funny man he will be sadly missed. Leslie Nielsen appeared in well over 100 films and had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
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