Suspiria Remake
Slightly old news, but it is reported that upstart production house First Sun has acquired the rights to remake
Dario Argento’s classic 1977
Suspiria for modern audiences. First Sun is a conglomeration of director Luca Guadagnino, fashion designer Silvia Venturini and a slew of producers.
"
Suspiria has a unique style that we want to reinvent for today's generation," director Guadagnino told the trade. "We intend to create a concept that will encompass cinema, videogames, fashion and music and that revives the original for those who did not experience it. The Gothic resurgence is very strong around the world at the moment ... and we feel that a new version of
Suspiria will fit very well."
Lindsay Lohan's foray into horror - Director speaks
Again, not new news...director
Chris Sivertson's
I Know Who Killed Me is centered in an idyllic small town which is rocked when Aubrey Fleming (
Lindsay Lohan), a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital insists that she is not who they think she is and that the real Aubrey Fleming is still in mortal danger.
Sivertson had the task of taming party-girl
Lindsay Lohan for a difficult dual role, “
Lindsay and I hit it off right away. It's fantastic to work with somebody that gifted. Her dual roles in the film were extremely demanding - both physically and emotionally and she pulled it all off with true style.”
Sivertson speaks very highly of
Lohan’s talent telling that “The movie is a real showcase of what she can do.”
IKWKM is getting release right dead smack in the middle of summer blockbusters, but Sivertson isn’t sweating it, “ I'm excited as hell to be getting a summer release - it's fun to push this really dark and twisted mind-bender of a movie out amongst all the mega-budgeted sequels and remakes out there this summer,” he continues, “Tri-Star easily could have played it safe and waited for the fall but they've really gotten behind the movie.”
What horror fans what to know is just how bloody is the film, considering it’s more of a thriller. “There is some pretty nasty stuff in the flick. It's not a gore-film at all, but there are a few sequences that pack a mean punch.”
I KNOW WHO KILLED ME hits theaters everywhere on July 27.
Ringu's duo makers' new effort
Two of Japan's top moviemakers are teaming up for a horror project at 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises.
Hideo Nakata (
The Ring 2) is attached to direct
Inhuman, which pairs him with "
The Grudge" producer
Taka Ichise, who is producing alongside Vertigo Entertainment's
Roy Lee and
Doug Davison. Regency bought
Eric Heisserer's horror pitch "
Inhuman," which is loosely based on a Japanese murder case and was brought to
Heisserer by
Orion Prout, who is associate producing alongside
Jennifer Fukasawa from
Ichise's Ozla Pictures banner.
Nakata and
Ichise, two giants of J-horror, paired up on the Japanese-language "
Ringu" series, which spawned two English-language hits starring
Naomi Watts.
Casting for "The Burrowers"
Doug Hutchison (
The Lawnmower Man),
Clancy Brown (
Starship Troopers,
Pet Sematary II) and
William Mapother (
Suspect Zero,
The Grudge,
Lost) will all star in
J.T. Petty's
The Burrowers, which begins shooting this summer in New Mexico.
The Burrowers tells the story of a band of courageous men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, the group prepares for a routine battle. But they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
Neil Marshall (The Descent) bringing Doomsday
Neil Marshall's (
The Descent) upcoming apocalyptic-thriller
Doomsday is all set to be a Rogue Pictures release in 2008.
Doomsday is set three decades after a lethal virus tore through a major country, leading to the country's walling off. When the virus, known as the Reaper, resurfaces in another country, an elite group is dispatched to the infected country to find a cure. There, they end up shut off from the rest of the world and must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
First Peek at "1408"
The first clip from Dimension Films'
1408, which hits theaters June 22, can be viewed here :-
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809721616/video/3010743/
"1408" is the tale of a debunker of paranormal occurrences (John Cusack) who encounters real terror when he checks into the notorious Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel.
Del Toro and Clive Barker team-up
What do you get when you clash the worlds of
Clive Barker and
Guillermo del Toro?
I'm hoping pure madness and insanity.
Today it was announced that
Jennifer Connelly (
Dark Water) and
Paul Bettany (
The Da Vinci Code,
Inkheart) will star in
Born, a psychological thriller that
Guillermo del Toro,
Lawrence Gordon and
Lloyd Levin will produce, and horror vet
Clive Barker will exec-produce.
Daniel Simpson will direct the project, which revolves around a couple who settle down in a seemingly idyllic English town to raise a family. Their perfect life is shaken when the husband, a claymation artist, discovers his characters are acting out a nightmare that comes to life.
Simpson penned the script with
Barker and
Paul Kaye.
Stop-motion animated sequences, produced by
Chiodo Bros. Prods. ("
Elf," "
Team America") will be integrated into the pic.
Steve Lanning and
Cliff Lanning are producers on "
Born," which starts production in mid-August in the U.K.
Connelly wrapped "
Reservation Road," opposite
Joaquin Phoenix and
Mark Ruffalo for Focus Features, while
Bettany completed "
Inkheart," which stars
Helen Mirren,
Brendan Fraser and
Andy Serkis.
Del Toro,
Gordon and
Levin are in production on "
Hellboy II" for Universal.
Remake of "A Tale of Two Sisters"
The beautiful
Elizabeth Banks (
40-Year-Old Virgin,
Wet Hot American Summer,
Slither) will star in the Korean horror remake "
A Tale of Two Sisters" for DreamWorks.
Based on the
Kim Jee-Woon's 2003 Korean horror film of the same name, the story revolves around two sisters who return home to their father after spending time in a mental institution. Their recovery is hindered by their cruel stepmother's (
Banks) obsessiveness and an interfering ghost. Brothers
Thomas and Charles Guard are still attached to helm the film, scheduled to begin shooting in July in Shreveport, La.
Craig Rosenberg adapted the English-language screenplay, with a rewrite from
Carlo Bernard and
Doug Miro.
Banks, who can be seen in "
Spider-Man 3," next will appear in Universal Pictures' "
Definitely, Maybe" and 20th Century Fox's "
Starship Dave," opposite
Eddie Murphy. Her most recent credits include starring opposite
Mark Wahlberg in "
Invincible."
Ghost Rider sequel?
Mark Steven Johnson is considering dusting off
Johnny Blaze for another
Ghost Ride.
"We're talking about it, yeah, talking about it," says
Johnson of "
Ghost Rider 2". "I don't know what I'm going to do, to be honest. After
Daredevil and this ... it takes so long, these movies. I really want something different, and the pressure of the fan community is always so great."
Johnson, who started out on comedies like "
Grumpy Old Men", says he’d much rather do something lighter next. "I would like to do something more comedy-based," he says, "go back to my roots like the
Grumpy Old Men movies and do something with effects. I love effects; I love working with them. So I don't know about for myself, if that's in the cards for me."
But if there is a "
Ghost Rider 2", Johnson has his ideas.
"If there's a second one, I would push for Scarecrow," he says. "In fact, in my first script it was Scarecrow who was the villain, but then I heard that they were going to put him in the
Batman movie. But now having seen it, he wasn't really in it that much. And the Marvel Scarecrow is really pretty cool, so I think he'd be an excellent villain. I also think there's a character named Blackout that could be interesting, [and] there's Vengeance from the later comics."
The Arcanum is coming
Gold Circle Films (“
Slither”, “
White Noise : The Light”) have picked up feature rights to
Thomas Wheeler's fantasy-adventure "
The Arcanum" out of turnaround from Miramax.
"
The Arcanum,"
Wheeler's debut novel, is set in 1919 and follows the titular secret society comprising the era's leading occult investigators -- Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, H.P. Lovecraft and Marie Laveau -- as they battle demons descending on New York City, including a serial killer of angels.
Gold Circle topper
Paul Brooks says that the banner's going out to directors. "We see this as a potential franchise property," he added.
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