Montreal orchestral rockers, Arcade Fire have officially completed the score to Richard Kelly’s latest directorial project, The Box. The band initially backed away from the project when front man Win Butler stated he was only interested in composing one or two instrumental pieces. However, according to Pitchfork, Butler has confirmed writing the entire score with …
The mad mind of Warren Ellis is once again to be unleashed on the big screen. According to Variety, Legendary Pictures is picking up the film rights to Gravel, the comic book series created by Warren Ellis (The Authority and Planetary) and published by Avatar Press. Gravel is sort of a hybrid between the spy/espionage …
Twisted Pictures, the production company behind the never-ending Saw series, is in talks with LIONSGATE to buy the movie rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with plans to relaunch the series in 3D. Stephen Susco, a horror specialist who is most famous for penning the remake of The Grudge will write the script and Carl …
The October 1st deadline for all countries wanting into the Academy Award’s foreign-language film category has come and gone. According to IndieWIRE, The United Kingdom, which has predominantly submitted Welsh films over the years (if submitting at all), has surprisingly chosen the documentary Afghan Star as its 2009 submission for the Academy Awards. The last …
The Warner Bros. division is developing a sequel of sorts to the 1983 comedy classic, with David Dobkin attached to produce and possibly direct. New Line is meeting with writers to develop the script focusing on Rusty Griswold, the son of Clark Griswold, now a father in his own right who decides to follow the family …
One of the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent cinema, filmmaker Gregg Araki has begun filming on his latest project, a small indie film centered on teenage sexual awakening, gay or otherwise. Joining the cast as the group of college students is Thomas Dekker (The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Kelly Lynch (Drugstore Cowboy), …
The idea of creating family friendly horror has been around for years. The 90’s saw one of its biggest emergence with the highly popular Goosebumps and Fear Street book series and television series such as “Are You Afraid of the Dark” and the short lived “The Nightmare Room.” However, it was rare to see horror …
Variety recently reported that Quentin Tarantino boasted about an upcoming project at the recent Morelia Film Festival in Mexico. This comes on the heels of his announcement of an upcoming Kill Bill sequel that Tarantino made while on Italian television. Quentin now claims that he is open to the thought of “re-imagining a 1920s to …
They played songs that set a new land speed record and remained together through 18 years of drugs, dysfunction and failed record sales. Now the Ramones, traditionally dubbed “the godfathers of punk”, are to receive the big-screen Hollywood treatment in a biopic entitled I Slept With Joey Ramone. Fox Searchlight is in negotiations to board …
On Nov. 20th, a familiar face will be seen during daytime TV (and thank God, It’s not Rosie O’Donnell). James Franco, best known for his role on the cult television show Freak and Geeks and as Harry Osborne in the Spider-Man series, will be appearing as the newest member to popular soap opera General Hospital. …
Looks like we might be saved further trauma, at least for the time being, as the production of Halloween 3D has been temporarily shut down. The omnipresent Weinstein Company was rumoured to be rushing production to get the film out by summer 2010, but director Patrick Lussier’s (My Bloody Valentine 2009) busy schedule is said …
Reported by THR’s Risky Biz earlier today, Warner Bros. is in the works to bring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the Broadway stage. The spectacle is set to be produced by American Beauty director Sam Mendes’ production company Neal Street Productions, with Mendes also rumored to direct. Popular Scottish playwrite David Grieg is set …
Famed horror film director, Sam Raimi, announced that he was creating Spooky Picture, an extension of the Ghost House Underground production company, with the intention of creating “scary movies for a family audience.” Similarly, Guillermo del Toro announced he was creating Disney Double Dare You, a division of Disney geared to making scary animated films …
Over on his official blog, Bay has announced the go ahead on Transformer 3 claiming they have a “great story” and that he’s currently en route to Rhode Island with screenwriter Ehren Kruger to chat up Hasbro and figure out which new robots will make their way into the third installment. He said on his …
Quentin Tarantino who recently appeared on the Italian Television show “Bad Taste” confirmed that he is indeed making Kill Vol. 3. According to Tarantino, fans will have to wait a few years before he begins production saying, “I gotta wait a couple of years, but I want ten years to pass from the second one …
On October 27, Troma Team Video will unleash upon US audiences Shameless, Tasteless: Trash Cinema from the Soviet Underground – a collection of sleaze gems by infamous Ukrainian filmmaker Yakov Levi. With casts composed of real-life criminals, prostitutes, and narcotic addicts, this depraved anthology chronicles the misled adventures of degenerate hookers, possessed sadomasochists, and homicidal …
The new trailer for director Samuel Bayer and producer Michael Bay’s remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street left me thinking these guys think I’m an idiot. And while I have yet to see the movie, I hold out hope that they won’t turn another classic into a joke, steering the youth of today away …
Legenday film maker Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on an international warrant as he arrived in Zurich for a film festival featuring a retrospective of his work. Festival organizers had planned to present Polanski with a lifetime achievement award, but now he is being detained with the possibility of extradition to the United States. …
Sam Raimi has signed on to produce supernatural horror film Refuge, based on a pitch from up-and-coming British director Corin Hardy. Refuge is about a remote town that is terrorized by a mythological Yeti beast, the Bigfoot-like creature said to be native to the mountains of the Himalayas. Hardy will be directing from a script …
David Cronenberg is in talks to develop a reboot of the 1986 classic The Fly, writing and potentially directing the remake. The project would represent a chance for Cronenberg to return to a film that helped establish his career, with the technology needed to tackle the effects which wasn’t possible in the 80’s. Strangely Cronenberg …
In 1987 Toddy Haynes unleashed his masterpiece Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a true-life short docudrama which has all of its main characters played by Barbie and Ken dolls. Twenty Three years later and Ken and Barbie will star in another film, only this time in a feature. After months of negotiations, Universal has acquired …
According to Variety, Diablo Cody, The Oscar winning screenwriter of “Juno” and current Megan Fox horror satire Jennifer’s Body is set to write and produce an adaptation of the Sweet Valley High book series for Universal. Originally, the books centered solely on the lives of identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica who have dissimilar personalities. As …
Like vampires, zombies are gaining currency in Hollywood. According to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks is in negotiations with writer-producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek reboot, Transformers) to adapt a live action feature of James Farr’s XOMBIE, the sci-fi/horror adventure that began life as an online flash-animated series and has now expanded into a …