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Terror Tidbits (Fango #290): Mad About The Crazies
21 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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Blam! Brains and blood splatter the windshield of a big rig as the character who just took a shot to the head flies backward, slamming down on the concrete. Elsewhere in the truck bay/workshop, the smell of burning flesh hangs heavy in the air (actually, the chemical stench of a previously safely-on-fire stuntman). Gunfire echoes in the hangar-sized building; “Cut!” is called, playback watched, and then on to another setup on the remake of George A. Romero’s The Crazies.
It’s a slightly nippy March night in Georgia, and day 12 of the nine-week shoot on the latest gruesome facelift of a ’70s horror movie, being directed on a significantly higher budget by Breck Eisner (whose credits include Sahara and Fear Itself’s The Sacrifice). Having an estimated $25 million to play with gives Eisner the opportunity to take Romero’s core concept and give it an action-packed approach the
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Second Poster for the Romero Remake 'The Crazies'
21 December 2009 1:49 PM, PST
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It could be just me, but The Crazies looks like it might be a pretty good 90 minutes of sci-fi/horror
paranoia - scihorronoia, if you will. The trailers have worked, the first poster was good enough, and here's the new one Overture just sent over this morning. Click to see the whole enchilada.
There are, of course, plenty of reasons to remain skeptical. First, most movies just aren't that good. We often overlook that. Beyond that, most remakes just aren't that good, as our readers often remind us. Director Breck Eisner has to prove himself here, because Sahara isn't something to hang your hat on. That is a lot to overcome, and we need to throw in there that trailers and posters are supposed to be convincing; their only job is to sell tickets, whether the actual movie is good or not.
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- Colin Boyd
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News Shorts: December 17th 2009
17 December 2009 1:29 AM, PST
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Posters for Inception, Tron Legacy, Frozen, Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy in Kick Ass, The Back-Up Plan, The Bounty Hunter, High Life.
The first still from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, another shot from Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2, and the Black Beauty car from The Green Hornet.
Trailers are out for the film-related video games - Batman: Arkham Asylum 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, Tron Evolution.
"Shaun of the Dead" director Edgar Wright, along with leads Simon Pegg and Nick Frost retimed for a fun reunion photoshoot at Total Film.
"James Cameron's Avatar will open in 178 IMAX theaters domestically on December 18th 2009 and 83 IMAX theaters internationally starting on December 16th - making this IMAX's widest release to date..." (full details)
"Warner Home Video will release "The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy" will hit Blu-ray on April 6. The nine-disc set contains only the original
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- Garth Franklin
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Breck Eisner to Direct ‘The Brood’ Remake
16 December 2009 1:18 PM, PST
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Breck Eisner (The Crazies, Sahara) will be helming a remake of The Brood, the 1979 horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The La Times unearthed this bit of news.
If you’ve been keeping count, Eisner was recently attached to the upcoming remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, but has since been replaced by Ridley Scott protegé Carl Rinsch.
What story could possibly justify the above picture? Hit the jump to find out…
The original film followed an unorthodox psychotherapist and his patients, who were subjected to a technique that explored their negative emotions and created physical manifestations of their grief, anger etc. in the form of welts and other disfigurements on their bodies.
One woman birthed disfigured children – rage beasts – who acted out her negative emotions as they grew more intense from the psychotherapist’s questioning. Horror ensued. No word on how or if the new
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Breck Eisner to Remake David Cronenberg’s The Brood
16 December 2009 6:35 AM, PST
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Yesterday we reported that the long-gestating remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon had finally found a new director [1] in Carl Erik Rinsch. But what happened to Breck Eisner, the guy who was originally supposed to direct it? Well, right now Eisner is currently finishing up his remake of George Romero's The Crazies, but it appears that he may already have another horror remake lined up and ready to go right after that: David Cronenberg's The Brood. He has also been developing a remake of Flash Gordon for a few years now. Sadly it seems you can carve out a pretty decent career nowadays just by focusing exclusively on remakes.
The Brood remake was first announced back in 2007, when Spyglass Entertainment picked up the rights [2]. Although there are a ton of Cronenberg films in the process of being remade right now, this is one that arguably deserves an
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Director Shuffle On Some Horror Remakes
16 December 2009 5:23 AM, PST
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Oh, these pesky, horror remakes and the people who have to direct them. For some time, Breck Eisner (Sahara) was attached to direct the long-gestating Creature From The Black Lagoon remake. He then moved on, instead taking on the upcoming remake of Romero’s The Crazies. Now, according to the La Times, Carl Rinsch, the man who is set to direct 47 Ronin, is taking on the Creature project.
Eisner, meanwhile, has just been tapped to direct the remake of David Cronenberg’s 1979 film, The Brood. The film, with the new screenplay being written by Priest screenwriter Cory Goodman, centers on a woman who has a telepathic link to her murderous children.
What do you think of these choices? Are these films worth remaking at all? Are these the right choices for director on each? What would have been your thoughts had Peter Jackson ever gotten his vision of Creature From The Black Lagoon
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Breck Eisner To Remake Cronenberg, Angering the Gods
16 December 2009 3:58 AM, PST
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Breck Eisner, director of next February’s unnecessary but decent-looking remake of George A. Romero’s The Crazies, has signed on to direct a remake of David Cronenberg’s 1978 horror flick, The Brood. Eisner also directed the decent 2004 action flick Sahara.
While earlier attempts to remake Cronenberg have fallen apart (Videodrome), perhaps due in part to a potential filmmaker’s descent into madness, this one looks ready to go. Obviously, until Eisner’s Crazies remake drops later this winter, we won’t really know what to expect from him with a horror film; it may be a touch early to outright call this an awful idea. I’m going to do exactly that, right now, anyway. Remaking Romero isn’t the best idea in the world, but Cronenberg? A pox on your house, Breck Eisner.
Eisner’s Crazies remake arrives at a theater near you Feb. 26th, 2010 featuring enough Timothy Olyphant
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- Andrew Ford
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the
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- Garth Franklin
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New Director Emerges from 'The Black Lagoon'
15 December 2009 11:02 PM, PST
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It's been a crazy year for Carl Rinsch. The commercial director was at one point going to direct the
Alien prequel, at least according to Tony Scott. Now that's his brother, Ridley's, gig. Then Rinsch grabbed 47 Ronin, the Keanu Reeves samurai movie. And it looks like Universal smells what the Rinsch is cookin', because The Los Angeles
Times says he's now the new director of record on the update of The Creature from the Black
Lagoon.
That's a pretty big project for a guy who hasn't directed a movie yet, don't you think? I mean, in light of the problems da U has
had with The
Wolfman, this is either a supreme vote of confidence or it's completely misguided, no offense to
Rinsch, who is clearly a hot property at the moment.
He replaces Breck Eisner (Sahara and the upcoming The Crazies remake), who was pulled off the project only
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- Colin Boyd
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Eisner's Brood remake?
15 December 2009 2:45 PM, PST
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When we told you earlier that Carl Rinsch was stepping in to replace Breck Eisner (Sahara) on the remake of The Creature From The Black Lagoon, one thing was overlooked: Where's Eisner going?
Turns out he's bouncing from one remake to another. Eisner is now attached to a sticky revamp of David Cronenberg's early monsterpiece The Brood.
The original 1979 terror treat starred Oliver Reed as a therapist whose innovative technique causes patients to purge negative emotions through gruesome body
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The Brood Remake Gets a Director
15 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST
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Quick! Of all the directors best equipped to take the reins on a remake of David Cronenberg’s The Brood, which one comes to your mind? If you said anyone other than the director of Sahara, you’re dead wrong.
Yes, folks, Breck Eisner is set to serve as director on this updated version of The Brood, according to the Los Angeles Times. Eisner has signed on to a film that's kind of new but kind of familiar (and scary): "The Brood." That's the David Cronenberg horror flick about a woman who telepathically communicates with her group of mutant children, instructing them to act out violently. Eisner's on board to direct the new version, which is written by Cory Goodman for financier Spyglass Entertainment.
I’m sure it will be slick, but the real question here is how are they going to make it better? Maybe we’ll have
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Carl Rinsch To Direct ‘Black Lagoon’ Remake?
15 December 2009 10:01 AM, PST
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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
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Second Trailer For ‘The Crazies’ Now Online
14 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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The Crazies, a remake of the 1973 George Romero film of the same name, has gotten it’s second theatrical trailer and it ups the creepy factor. The first trailer set up a great mood of unsettling psychosis that pervades a town; even if it might have given a little too much of the movie away.
The story is, “a small town in Iowa, starts seeing it’s inhabitants go crazy, after a mysterious toxin infiltrates their water supply.” The new film stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, written by Scott Kosar (The Machinist) and Ray Wright (Pulse), and directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara).
The second trailer, lives up to the name of “crazy” as there’s psycho laughter; crazed, zombie-looking people, and the always great black and white fade out freeze frame. One of the best parts of the trailer is towards the end, when I actually jumped out of my
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New trailer for The Crazies
14 December 2009 12:32 AM, PST
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The latest trailer for Romero remake The Crazies has hit the net.
Directed by Breck Eisner, the man behind Sahara, the film sees a sheriff having a very bad day as the inhabitants of his small, idyllic town start to go all kinds of mental.
Timothy Olyphant stars as the put-upon lawman.
So good in TV's Deadwood (where he also plays a small-town sheriff), Olyphant has never really broken out on the big screen, despite supporting roles in big hits like Scream 2 and Die Hard 4.
Hitman may have irrevocably ruined his chances for...
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Second “The Crazies” Trailer
12 December 2009 1:46 PM, PST
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Yahoo Movies has debuted the second trailer for “The Crazies.”
The Crazies | Radha Mitchel
The drama horror, a remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 cult classic, is directed by Breck Eisner (”Sahara”) from the script written by Scott Kosar (”The Amityville Horror,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) and Ray Wright (”Pulse,” “Case 39″).
“The Crazies” stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker and Joe Anderson.
David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives.
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'The Crazies' Shares the Thrill Through New Trailer
11 December 2009 10:58 PM, PST
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Another sneak peek at sci-fi thriller "The Crazies" has been shared through a new clip. Debuted by Yahoo! Movies, the snippet highlights how the inhabitants in a small city turn into mindless killers and a couple who tries to survive from the danger.
Sheriff David Dutton and his wife Judy are living the American Dream in a small Midwestern town. But, what seems to be a picture-perfect life goes horribly wrong when a mysterious toxin pollutes the water supply and the residents begin to succumb to an uncontrollable urge for violence and the horrific bloodshed escalates into anarchy.
As the military uses deadly force in an attempt to contain the epidemic to stay in the town, the couple along with an assistant at the medical center named Becca and David's deputy Russell find themselves trapped in a once idyllic town they can no longer recognize. With no one else to
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Second Crazies Remake Trailer Lays on the Crazies
11 December 2009 10:04 PM, PST
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Check out the second trailer for Breck Eisner’s remake of “The Crazies”, which lays the crazies on pretty thick. I actually like this trailer much more than the first one, especially the slow build-up to all the, well, craziness going on. The remake concerns a small Iowa town that is suddenly plagued by insanity and death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.
Starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker, Christie Lynn Smith, Brett Rickaby, Preston Bailey, John Aylward, and directed by Breck Eisner (”Sahara”).
The crazies come to town February 26, 2010.
Also, new images from the movie:
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International Trailer: The Crazies
7 December 2009 8:04 AM, PST
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The list of films that I want to see next year is ever growing and today I’m reminded about The Crazies which is scheduled for release 26th February 2010.
Crazies stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson and is directed by Breck Eisner. Check out the new international trailer below.
In a terrifying tale of the American Dream gone wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown. A reinvention of the George A. Romero classic, The Crazies is directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara) and is based on a screenplay by Ray Wright (Pulse, Case 39) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff in a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his house after locking
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McConaughey's Partner To Host TV Hairstyling Challenge
2 December 2009 2:06 PM, PST
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Matthew McConaughey's longtime girlfriend Camila Alves is set for TV stardom as the host of a new U.S. reality competition.
The Brazilian model and handbag designer, who announced she is expecting her second child with the actor in June, will host competitive hairstyling show Shear Genius.
The series is set to launch its third season in February with Alves as its star. She replaces former host, veteran actress Jaclyn Smith.
McConaughey and Alves have been together since 2007.
It seems it's a good time to be close to the Sahara star - McConaughey is also working on a deal with Fox TV executives to turn his brother Rooster into a cartoon star.
Rooster Tales will chronicle the adventures of a beer-drinking sheriff, who marries a beautiful Mexican woman with an extended 114-member family.
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McConaughey's Brother Gets Animated
1 December 2009 12:01 AM, PST
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Matthew McConaughey's fun-loving older brother Rooster is to front a new cartoon series in America.
The movie star has teamed up with executives at Fox to develop an animated project based on his brother's wild life.
Rooster Tales will chronicle the adventures of a beer-drinking sheriff, who marries a beautiful Mexican woman with an extended 114-member family, according to Daily Variety.
The Sahara star says, "My brother’s life is so unbelievable, we had to animate it."
Rooster, real name Michael McConaughey, will executive produce the series with his famous brother.
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