Yeah.....ya wanna do something about that.

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Just think.....in 5 years where gonna have a whole new generation asking about the NEW Gate.:eek:

last time i checked, Aja was in charge of the pirahna remake, should be good.

has anyone seen the poster for the funny games remake?
it's completely incredible.

check it out:

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Jan 24, 2007


- Today action star Jason Statham revealed that there is talk of a remake to the James O'Barr comic adaptation, The Crow, and that if anyone ever came to him he'd do it.

Jason Statham tells IESB: "You know, there's talk of them redoing THE CROW. That was a good movie with Brandon Lee, although that was years ago. So if that one comes my way, bang! You know, there's so many comic book movies out there and most of the time there's only a handful of people who can do them any justice. Hopefully, they'll come my way for one of them."

They should leave The Crow alone.Brandon Lee was amazing in that role and even though Jason is a good actor I don't think he would do it any justice.Plus I think it would come off as more of a sequal that a remake.

(Slightly old news)

- It has been reported for months that a remake to Tobe Hopper/Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist was in the works, with Mandate Pictures attempting to acquire the remake rights to the franchise.

It is now 100% CONFIRMED - without a shadow of a doubt - that Mandate Pictures will be producing the remake for MGM. This is a fact, this is done, this is not speculation and it's time to quit denying it. The remake won't happen until post-strike, so watch for news later in 2008.

No, no, no, no, NO....that's all wrong....:( I guess I shouldn't be surprised there is talk of a remake here, but somehow I am.

The big question for me is, can they make it just as creepy and keep it PG-13 or will they amp things up to an R?

- It's time to give the Weinstein brothers some props...obviously making money is their number one priority, but it's nice to hear that they're not just trying to push out product without cleaning it thoroughly.

As you all know, Dimension had delayed the release of their Hellraiser remake until 2009. Apparently they weren't 100% happy with Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's screenplay and have decided to take the film to other writers - so we're now back at square one.

The French duo are still attached to helm the pic, which is great news for anyone who has seen Inside. But it's nice to see the Weinsteins concerned about the quality of the franchise. So...until 2009...



- Monty Python veteran John Cleese will join Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates and Jaden Smith in 20th Century Fox's remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Cleese will play physicist Dr. Barnhardt, a Nobel Prize laureate who plays a key part in figuring out the mission and meaning of the arrival of the alien Klaatu (played by Reeves). In the original 1951 film an alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

Latest movie to join the remake ranks is My Bloody Valentine. Patrick Lussier is attached to direct the Lionsgate production.

Michael Rennie is ill once again....

Wow, this is never going to end....
Oh well, its not a great film, but I actually do like the original. :)

Days after signing an interim agreement with the Writers Guild, RKO has launched Roseblood Movie Co., a subsidiary that RKO topper Ted Hartley said will remake eight classic horror films churned out by Val Lewton when he headed RKO's low-budget horror unit in the 1940s!

Variety reports that the slate includes

"Lady Scarface," which will be written by Tom Puryear;
"While the City Sleeps," which will be scripted by Shin Shimosawa and Jim Morris;
"The Monkey's Paw," which will be scripted by Todd Farmer; and
"The Seventh Victim," which doesn't yet have a writer.

The other films on the initial slate are "Bedlam," "Body Snatcher," "Five Came Back" and "I Walked With a Zombie," titles identified last year (Daily Variety, June 15) when RKO made a co-financing deal on the quartet with Twisted Pictures, the makers of the "Saw" films.

"The launching of the Roseblood Movie Co. was the motivating force behind our making an agreement with the Writers Guild," Hartley said. "We've got other projects at RKO, but we needed to get going on this. The most successful ROI in the movie business comes from scary movies that get wide release and cost under $10 million. We've studied it extensively for our stockholders and investors and we saw the opportunity to take the rich Val Lewton library of scary thrillers and create a unique company out of it."

The moniker is a play on words from the reveal of "Citizen Kane," the biggest title in the RKO library for which Hartley owns remake rights. He said RKO will put some money in the films and is arranging other financing. Hartley said the program of films will be made over 24 months, and the first one will begin production in the fall. No distribution has yet been set.

February 7, 2008

After deciding to rewrite the screenplay, Dimension Films has announced a new date for their remake of Hellraiser, which will be helmed by those incredible French directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury.

Pinhead will once again grace the big screens on January 9, 2009 - mark your calendars.

Plot concerns the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.

Hellraiser Movie. Sounds good.

Alex Aja's remake of Piranha will be presented in 3-D!

In addition, Dimension Films will release the film theatrically on July 24, 2009.

They’re back! Every year the population of sleepy Lake Havasu explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for a single, wild weekend - the 4th of July, a riot of sun, drunken fun and sex-crazed mayhem. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers. Havasu sits in the crater formed by a prehistoric volcanic eruption, and when earth tremors tear open a crack in the lake floor, all hell breaks through. Piranhas - a million ravenous, razor-toothed monsters, unchanged since the dawn of time.

I cannot get over at to how BAD the new DAY OF THE DEAD looks...and could they have found worse people to do the movie? Writer of Final Destination and the Director of H20? Might as well have got the director of HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2...

Originally slated for release on October 31 by MGM, its been learnt that the studio has scrapped the "remake" idea and has sold the rights to the Motel Hell franchise to Twisted Pictures, the dudes behind Saw, Dead Silence and the upcoming Repo! The Genetic Opera.

It isn't clear what they'll be doing with the film, but its told they're going to turn it into a brand new original franchise.

In the original Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters.

The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left.

- Ray Wright is set to write and Breck Eisner (Sahara) will be replacing Brad Anderson in the director's chair for Rogue Pictures' remake of George A. Romero's The Crazies, according to Variety.

Production is set to begin as soon as a SAG deal is made.

"The Crazies" will update the storyline of the original, in which inhabitants of a small Pennsylvania town are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.

The original was released in 1972.

Feb 21, 2008


Hugo Weaving will join Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt in Universal's upcoming redo of "The Wolfman." Weaving, best known for his appearances in "The Matrix" movies, will play Det. Aberline.

Del Toro will play the hirsute title character and Anthony Hopkins his dad. Blunt has been cast as the female lead in the project, which Joe Johnston will direct.

Lensing begins next month in London.

David Self did a rewrite of Andrew Kevin Walker's script. Pic's produced by Scott Stuber, Mary Parent, Sean Daniel and Rick Yorn.

Remake is slated for a Feb. 13, 2009 release.

I'm a big fan of Hugos, this remake is sounding really good, I wish it would get here sooner.

They're remaking the Crow? I don't get it.... You can't. Like, you can't physically do it and pull it off. The Crow was perfect. Brandon Lee was flawless in that role, and cannot be replaced by anyone. Not to mention its only 14 years old! what the hell is wrong with america?

Anyone have anymore news on the remake of the Hellraiser film - have only just got into the original set!!! Who is going to be Pinhead? :confused:

Not to mention that every sequel was pretty much a remake, anyway, and were all atrocious.

Feb 24, 2008


Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are scripting the "Hellraiser" remake for Dimension Films.

The writers, earning high six figures for the job, will be working on a hair-raising deadline. French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo ("Inside") are planning a spring start for the redo of the 1987 Clive Barker film, and the scribes will do a page-one rewrite from the set of "Midnight Man." The duo scripted that Dimension film and Dunstan is directing it.

The original pic, which introduced the now-iconic Cenobite torturer Pinhead, follows a man and wife living in an old house who are caught up in machinations by the man's brother, a Cenobite torture victim, to rejuvenate his skinless body from the carcasses of fresh victims.

Since their debut on the Project Greenlight pic 'Feast,' Melton and Dunstan are establishing themselves as fright fixtures. They are coming off "Saw 4" and "Saw 5" and also scripted a remake of "The Tingler" for producer Neal Moritz and Sony.

Clive Barker, who hatched the original "Hellraiser" franchise, is producing the remake.

All the old horror flicks being remade is definitely weird. Hopefully they can pull off Hellraiser. I really enjoyed Feast and thought they did an alright job on Saw 4 so this has potential if they can do it right.

- Adam Gierasch will write (with partner Jace Anderson) and direct a remake of Kevin Tenney’s 1988 shocker NIGHT OF THE DEMONS.

Gierasch got in touch with Fango to discuss his involvement and ambitions for the project. “I was approached by Kevin and [producing partner Greg McKay],” he tells Fango. “They came to see an early screening of [Gierasch’s directorial debut] AUTOPSY, and we put our heads together and decided it might be something fun for me to do. Kevin is very involved; I talk to him all the time, and he’s got a lot of good ideas. The original movie presents a palette to do a new and exciting demons-chasing-people-around-the-house-on-Halloween movie, with some really cool gore and creatures, and to give the demons individual personalities. I want to try my best to create the ultimate Halloween movie.”

The big question for fans of the first film is: Will there be a reprise of Linnea Quigley’s infamous lipstick gag? “Let’s just say there will be a version of the famous lipstick scene,” Gierasch reveals, “but it’s going to be much, much, much more extreme. I want to make sure fans of the original like this one, and remain true to its spirit—just more nasty, sexual and extreme. I’m really going to try to go hog-f**kin’ wild with it!”

"[DEMONS] is a modern take but Angela is still in it," Gierasch tells the site, referring to the vicious possessed girl, played by Amelia Kinkade (pictured in the first of two subsequent DEMONS sequels). "It's got blood, guts, Halloween, breasts, kids, demons and everything else that makes life worth living."

DEMONS 2008 will go into production in the spring.

I agree for the most part. I think the second had a few moments. But it wasn't enough to save it.

- Both Shock Till You Drop and Bloody-Disgusting have been tipped off (and have confirmed) that Platinum Dunes is planning to remake Rosemary's Baby for Paramount Pictures.

The 1968 horror film from legendary director Roman Polanski follows a young couple who move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.

Dunes is currently casting their remake of Friday the 13th as they are finishing up gearing up for The Unborn, which will shoot in Chicago this month.

They can go fuck them selfs, I have to stop reading this thread, it just depresses me..

Oooooo! That is good news about the scripting of the new "Hellraiser" - I really enjoyed "Feast" - thought it was an original and brilliant idea so am looking forwards to their imputs on the new film.

Noooooo!!!! Infidels!!

when will we get the exorcist remake?

Agree with Disease.:mad:

I'd really like to see someone with a budget remake the Phantasm series. Those movies gave me nightmares for YEARS.

I wouldnt.

- Dimension Films will be finding a new writer to pen the remake of Scanners, which was originally written by David Goyer.

Now that the remake of the classic Cronenberg film is being rewritten, the film has been pulled from its planned October 18 release and set to an unknown 2009 date.

In the original low-budget movie, a couple of hundred telepathic and telekinetic humans, led by the particularly cunning and powerful Revok, plotted to take over the Earth, in some cases using their powers to literally blow people's minds.

- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, creators of the hit Web series "Ask a Ninja," are writing the adaptation of the 1978 cult monster movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, with Nichols set to make his directorial debut.

M. Dal Walton III, the force behind the remakes of DAY OF THE DEAD and TERROR TRAIN (entitled TRAIN), acquired the rights from Killer Tomato Entertainment and will produce.

Emmett/Furla Films will co-produce.

" 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!' is the masterwork of a generation," Nichols said. "We can only aspire to recapture that magic." No changes to the original plot have been revealed, but it still is expected to revolve around killer tomatoes.

In the original 1978 cult film, a group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated tomatoes that KILL!

Nichols and Sarine's satirical "Ninja" shorts have garnered more than 80 million Web views and won best series at the 2006 YouTube Video Awards. Their "Ninja" commentator has appeared on National Public Radio and VH1's "Best Week Ever."

The original "Tomatoes" spawned the Fox Kids Network's "AKT" cartoon series and the feature sequel "Return of the Killer Tomatoes," which helped launch George Clooney's career.

Shit I'm jealous. Love anything Hellraiser. Have not seen this YET!!

March 25, 2008


If there's one thing the movie industry has been lacking of late, its horror remakes. So far only Halloween, The Nightmare on Elm Street, The Amityville Horror, Dark Water, Dawn of the Dead, The Fog, The Hills Have Eyes, The Omen etc. etc. have either been, or will be remade.:rolleyes:

Lionsgate has seen the gap in the market however, snapping up the rights to remake the 1981 slasher film My Bloody Valentine, about a murderer who kills those who celebrate the loved-up holiday.

Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000, White Noise 2: The Light) will direct, whilst Jaime King (Sin City) will play lead character Sarah Palmer, a woman who has married her teenage sweetheart's nemesis, but is reunited will her first love on the romantic day. Carnage, almost inevitably, ensues.

Expect a Jan 2009 release, with the movie also set to be shown in 3-D.