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Carl Rinsch To Direct ‘Black Lagoon’ Remake?
14 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We reported back in May of this year that Universal’s upcoming remake of the classic monster movie, Creature from the Black Lagoon, was sans a director. At one point Sahara director, Breck Eisner, was rumored to be attached to the remake, but we learned thereafter that wasn’t the case.
So the project has been without someone in the director’s chair for months… until now: Variety is reporting that Carl Rinsch is in early talks with Universal to helm its remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon. Does his name ring any sort of bell with you? A little? Well, that’s because Rinsch was once rumored to be directing the upcoming Alien prequel before Ridley Scott was convinced to helm it himself.
Rinsch was originally a commercial film director (you can check out some of his visually impressive commercials Here), and if he gets this Black Lagoon »
- Ross Miller
Uncle Creepy's Blu Christmas Buyer's Guide 2009
11 December 2009 1:55 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Note: This Will Be Posted At The Top Of Our Headlines Throughout The Weekend! Happy Shopping! With the holiday shopping season officially upon us, I figured it might be a good idea to start making some recommendations for the lucky horror-loving folks on your lists!
Blu-ray players once again are going to be pretty hot items this year, but what of the movies available for them? If you already own the DVD of your favorite flick, is there a need to replace it with a Blu-ray? I'm here to answer all of your questions in the second annual ...
Before we get into my picks, let's take a second to explain how I rated them. They're broken down into three categories:
Can't Miss -- Must Haves: These are the cream of the crop! The purchases that are guaranteed to bring a smile to someone's face. Items no one with the tech should be without. »
- Uncle Creepy
Weinstein Co. Wants New Pitches for Halloween 3D
10 December 2009 4:03 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Back in September, Screen Rant shared news that Halloween 3D, the third film in the new Halloween franchise, was dead in the water. At the time, word from The Weinstein Company was that the film was coming together too fast and they wanted to take more time on creating a movie that was not only good, but bankable. Now, we’ve gotten word from Bloody-Disgusting that Halloween 3D might be back on its feet, but not necessarily with the same writer or director on board.
According to Bd, The Weinstein Company is actively seeking new pitches for the film and the franchise in general. While this doesn’t necessarily exclude the previous writer and director duo of Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier (who collaborated on My Bloody Valentine 3D) from being a part of the film, it definitely calls their involvement into question. While Farmer and Lussier wait it out, »
- Rob Frappier
Spinal Tap Play London!
6 December 2009 7:47 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
It is a cold December night in old London town. An extraordinary tour bus circles the streets around Clapham Junction Station, prowling for the perfect place to pull up and party. Opposite the station there stands The Clapham Grand – the grand old lady of popular entertainment. Tonight she awaits the arrival of a titan of musical mythology. Tonight her sound system and her stage will be pushed to the very limits of their one hundred and nine year history as the drums thunder and the guitars scream and the amps are cranked all the way up to eleven…
Tonight she will bow down to the loud sound of the mighty Spinal Tap!
On Thursday 3rd December the Jameson Cult Film Club bestowed a generous gift upon lovers of great film and very silly rock bands by hosting a screening of rockumentary classic This is Spinal Tap. Not ones to do »
- Emily Breen
Full moon for Fox with werewolf TV series Howl
4 December 2009 7:15 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
A New werewolf-themed series is being developed by DreamWorks TV for the Fox network, reports Variety.
Howl will be "an epic family saga about warring families of werewolves in a small Alaskan town."
It will be written by Joshua Miller and M.A. Fortin and reflects the changes going on in the country.
Miller said: "Alaska is a place where people disappear and now you know why. Metamorphosis and constant change is the basis of werewolf mythology and Howl is about the psychology of living with change."
One of the Fox network's first series was 1987's Werewolf while, more recently, CBS aired the short-lived Wolf Lake and MTV is planning a new series based on the 1985 movie Teen Wolf.
Warner Bros is also looking for writers for a new Teen Wolf feature film.
Werewolves are also to be found in Twilight sequel New Moon (in this case they are »
- David Bentley
‘The Birds’ Remake Gets A New Director?
3 December 2009 8:49 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
The last time we reported on the completely unnecessary remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Birds, it looked to be dead on the ground, at least for the time being. Sadly, however, it appears the remake is still on its way, and it may have found a new director.
Casino Royale director, Martin Campbell, had been attached up until this point to direct The Birds. However, a little project called Green Lantern came along, and evidently The Birds got brushed to the side and almost forgot about. According to Pajiba, their inside source in The Hollywood Cog says that Campbell is no longer helming the $60 million project, which is set up at Michael Bay’s horror remake-prone production company, Platinum Dunes (the studio responsible for the remakes of A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, amongst others).
However, a project »
- Ross Miller
New Details on Landis Backed 'Some Guy Who Kills People'
1 December 2009 5:10 PM, PST | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
Yesterday morning we brought you first word on Some Guy Who Kills People, a new film being executive produced by horror legend John Landis (An American Werewolf in London). Today we exclusively learned that Jack Perez (Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Wild Things 2) will be getting behind the camera to bring Ryan Levin's ("Scrubs", I'm In The Band, The Fifth -- a short film that screened at over 60 film festivals worldwide, winning Best Short Film at Fantasia Fest, Fantastic Fest, Dead by Dawn and Dragon*Con) screenplay to life. In addition, we got more details, which sound pretty kickass: "The film is a horror-comedy about a lonely, small-town loser who sets out to kill each of the men he deems responsible for his miserable life." Shooting begins mid-January. Michael Wormser & Micah Goldman (Penance, Fox pilot "Tease") and Ryan Levin all produce. »
John Landis Backs Some Guy Who Kills People
30 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Production begins early next year on Some Guy Who Kills People and the trio behind this one is eclectic. On writing duties is Ryan Levin, who directed a short film called Tour de Fright and penned an episode of Scrubs (on which he served as a P.A.). Then you've got Jack Perez in the director's chair. He gave us Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and Wild Things 2 . On top of it all, there's John Landis ( An American Werewolf in London ) producing. What's it about? A quiet town is uprooted by a series of murders committed by someone bent on revenge. Sounds rather standard, but the title hints at a film with possible bite to it. Fingers crossed. »
‘The Amityville Horror’ Getting Remade… Again?
26 November 2009 3:22 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
The Amityville Horror is one of those classic horror flicks that just should never have been remade. No, it doesn’t ruin the original per se, as it’s not literally Doing anything to it and you can just ignore the remake and watch the one you know and love all you want. However, it hurts the name as those who only see the remake will wrongfully consider that as The film. Its reputation is forever tainted by a remake that was nowhere near as good as it (personally, I Hated the 2005 remake).
However, did anyone think they would go back to the Amityville remake well again? If anything, I would have thought they’d just make a plain sequel to the 2005 film starring Ryan Reynolds. But that’s not the case: According to sources of our friends at Bloody-Disgusting, the Weinstein Company and Dimension Films are planning yet Another remake of The Amityville Horror, »
- Ross Miller
New Poster for 'The Wolfman'
24 November 2009 9:35 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
I'll be honest, when I first heard that Universal was going back into its vaults to resurrect several of its classic horror properties, I couldn't imagine The Wolfman being very effective. In the decades since those classic B&W gems, werewolves have become far more sophisticated, with the likes of An American Werewolf in London and The Howling. Both of the aforementioned gave us creatures far more viscerally frightening than a guy with bad posture and a hairy face.
Having watched the trailer for Joe Johnston's forthcoming feature The Wolfman, however, I think the director and the studio have struck a nice balance between capturing the gothic feel of the original films, along with some of the terror present in more modern offerings. While I'm not sure Benicio Del Toro's creature will ever be quite as terrifying as David Kessler's alter ego, I think this film may stand on its own merits. »
Hatchet 2 is a Go! Adam Green Returns!
24 November 2009 11:53 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The news plenty of horror fans have been looking forward to finally broke this morning ... Adam Green will be returning to the ground that put him on the map to write and direct Hatchet 2. Of course, we dug a little deeper and got you guys some more info beyond the surface stuff.
"It was never a matter of money, just timing," Green tells us. "We wanted to make sure that everyone involved with the first film could come back before any of us committed. By the time the first one came out, we were all just exhausted. It took two years. Being that the film was successful, everybody wanted us to do a sequel immediately, but again -- we were all Hatcheted out! We didn't want to make a Hatchet movie just to make a Hatchet movie. Now that all parties concerned have had a chance to rest, and »
- Uncle Creepy
The Howling is Reborn
23 November 2009 10:25 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
It appears as if our prayers have been answered friends, and werewolves will be following vampires in the great 'classic monsters rebirth' cycle of this century. Universal is hitting hard with The Wolf Man early next year, and there are remakes of An American Werewolf in London and An American Werewolf in Paris are being whispered about in the halls of Hollywood. The only potential downside to all of this is if the Twilight effect kicks in, and future werewolf movies are stripped of their grit and given a glossy, teen-targeted look. Insert the potentially problematic premise of The Howling: Reborn, announced today via Variety. Indie producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh are setting up a remake of the 1981 Joe Dante film, which followed a news anchor being stalked by a killer who turns out to be a werewolf. This new film will follow more of a Gossip Girl meets Twilight, with »
- Neil Miller
‘The Howling’ Franchise Gets ‘Reborn’
23 November 2009 10:08 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Hot off the heels of The Twilight Saga: New Moon – which takes a vampire love story and adds a helping of werewolves – making an absolute killing at the box office this past weekend, out comes news that The Howling franchise is getting a reboot/remake. Yes, yet again Hollywood is turning their focus to an established entity and giving it do-over. Big surprise there…
The original Howling from 1981 was directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) and written by John Sayles from a book by Gary Brandner. It was about a news anchor who is stalked by a serial killer who turns out to be a werewolf (naturally…). It’s not generally considered one of the best horror films of all time (6.5 rating on IMDb), but its film with a loyal cult following. It ended up spawning six sequels (didn’t just about every horror franchise from the 80s?), including one subtitled »
- Ross Miller
'The Howling' remake: So is the werewolf craze a go?
23 November 2009 6:53 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
A remake of the 1981 film The Howling has been announced days after the werewolf-filled Twilight Saga: New Moon scored the third largest opening weekend: Coincidence? We think not, considering that a former studio marketing exec, Joe Nimziki, is behind the movie. According to Variety, the plot of The Howling: Reborn is under wraps, but Nimziki will direct from a script he penned himself, with cameras rolling in February — right around the time that The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro, hits theaters. Let us not forget that MTV is also developing a Teen Wolf series, Dimension Films has acquired the »
- Mandi Bierly
‘The Howling’ Remake Looms Over the Horizon
23 November 2009 6:26 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Joe Dante’s The Howling is a fun and really flawed film. It has a boatload of fans, but I think they’d be hard pressed to say it’s not really weak in some areas, limited by budget and ultimately overshadowed by its big brother, An American Werewolf in London.
This sort of film — the one that has a lot of potential that wasn’t fully realized — is the variety that I’m okay with Hollywood remaking. According to Variety, that’s exactly what producers Joel Kastelberg and Moonstone Entertainment’s Etchie Stroh are doing with The Howling: Reborn. The film is scheduled to begin shooting in February, with a release in Halloween of next year.
Details about the plot are being kept under wraps, so it’s currently unknown whether the remake will follow the reporter-being-stalked-by-serial-killer-werewolf track of the original film or one of its six sequels. »
- John Cooper
A 'Howling' Remake Hurried Into Theaters in 2010
23 November 2009 1:02 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
I have seen bad werewolf effects in New Moon and I have seen bad werewolf effects in the trailers for The Wolfman, and I have wondered why (or how) this particular school of wizardy has gone backward in the past 30 years. Yep, the standard is still Rick Baker's work in An American Werewolf in London. But that doesn't mean Hollywood won't keep trying, no matter how often or badly it fails.
And that's where The Howling comes into the picture. See, if there had been real progress in our werewolf technology, I'd be saying "Why not?" But we clearly haven't figured out a better way to bring The Howling back.
Incidentally, the original had plenty of good things going for it, not the least of which was a script by John Sayles (I know, right?) and it was directed by Joe Dante. Where the brand name got really off-track »
- Colin Boyd
The Howling is Reborn
23 November 2009 12:43 AM, PST | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
The 1981 werewolf movie The Howling is getting a second shot to find an audience. A remake is in the planning stages and tentatively scheduled to go in front of cameras next February. It could even be out in theaters by Halloween 2010.
Two movie producers known for their indie films are responsible for shepherding this new Howling. They are Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh and they've got a director by the name of Joe Nimziki who used to work as a marketing executive for studios. He's written a screenplay called The Howling: Reborn, which is very appropriate since the six Howling sequels that followed the original not only stunk up the franchise, I would dare say that an entirely new stinky odor was created.
The original Howling had three great things working for it: strong direction by Joe Dante (Gremlins, the upcoming thriller The Hole 3D), a tight, serious script »
- Patrick Sauriol
'The Howling' to Be Reborn
22 November 2009 9:20 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
A new moon is rising on The Howling franchise.
Producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh, the latter of whom is associated with Moonstone Entertainment, are planning a re-launch of the werewolf movie franchise entitled The Howling: Reborn. According to Variety, the film is scheduled to begin shooting next February for a Halloween 2010 release.
The 1981 movie The Howling, which was directed by Joe Dante and scripted by John Sayles, is considered one of the better werewolf movies, along with An American Werewolf in London (also slated for a remake). No word if The Howling: Reborn will be a remake or have any ties to the original, which concerned a news anchor (played by Dee Wallace-Stone) whose stalker turns out to be a werewolf, and an isolated country resort full of other shape-shifting creatures.
Joe Nimziki, who previously worked as a marketing executive, will write and direct the new movie, »
Afm Coverage: Posters and Synopses for Burke And Hare, Electric Slide, Irishman, Effie, Main St., Cash
22 November 2009 8:28 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
By now you’ve probably noticed that Steve got an ungodly amount of material from this year’s American Film Market (Afm). The place where buyers and sellers do business to bring you the films you’ll hopefully be seeing in the near future, Afm has tons of artwork and synopses which are used to promote films but which we will use to bring you news on these films.
Below you’ll find images and synopses for Burke and Hare, Cash, Effie, Main St., The Electric Slide, and The Irishman. Hit the jump to check them all out. Also, all the synopses are copied down directly from the original materials with no editorial alterations. You can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 by click on their respective links.
Burke And Hare, directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London)
William Burke and William Hare are scratching out a living in 1830s Edinburgh. »
- Matt Goldberg
Review: ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’
19 November 2009 6:15 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
While Twilight was a guilty pleasure, its sequel New Moon just made me feel guilty. Guilty for paying a sitter, guilty for the gas I wasted, and guilty for buying into the Twilight phenomenon to begin with. A wretched excursion into franchise baiting, New Moon is flat out an embarrassment for everyone involved.
Briefly, if you don’t know the story of the sequel, Bella Swan is a mortal in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. Towards the beginning of New Moon, Edward realises that it is too dangerous for Bella to continue seeing him, so he pretends that he doesn’t love her anymore and disappears. Bella behaves like a petulant infant and doesn’t leave her room for months because she is a narcissistic, co-dependent teenager.
When she finally emerges after months of alienating friends and family, she sidles up to Jacob, a local boy of Native American descent, »
- Shannon Hood
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