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Friday, February 07, 2003
Halloween fans should already know this, but the Myers Museum website (www.MyersMuseum.com ) is helping to host a Halloween convention in Pasadena, California on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. It will be hosted at the Pasadena Convention Center and offer a bus tour of all the Pasadena locations used in Halloween 1 and 2 as well as the usual autograph sessions, celebrity panels, merchandise booths, and movie showings. Fees and other information can be found at www.halloween25.com.
Anchor Bay has announced a 2 disc edition of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes with full blown DTS restoration, interviews, trailers, commentaries, etc. Also on the horizon in the Official Director's Cut of Manhunter. Evidently Michael Mann has personally overseen and approved this new remastered version and has recorded a new commentary for it as well.
Real life paranormal fan/geeks will be pleased that there are two Bell Witch movies coming out. Unlike The Blair Witch, the Bell Witch is a bona fide folk legend with documented history connections (see www.bellwitch.org for the real story). S. Shane Marr's first on deck with Bell Witch: The Movie (wow, what a title). Learn more at www.bellwitchthemovie.com. The other Bell Witch movie, according to Variety, is The Bell Witch Story, from writer/director Ric White. Cameras will roll on that project this March.
Variety also reports that French director Mathieu Kassovitz, director of Hate (La Haine) and the Jean Reno serial killer thriller The Crimson Rivers as well as an actor in the acclaimed Amelie, has been unfortunate enough to sign on the dotted line to direct Dark Castle Entertainment's Halloween 2003 offering. Readers will know that this is Gothika, the thriller where psychiatrist Halle Berry awakens to find herself a patient in her own asylum and then must battle an evil spirit - talk about having a bad day.
Fran Walsh (aka Mrs. Peter Jackson) told Fangoria that she and her husband still plan on getting their King Kong remake off the ground, but the director's next project (after Return of the King) looks to be a return to the true story well of Heavenly Creatures. As Nature Made Him is the title, the story is the one of a New Zealand doctor who believes gender could be an assigned trait. To prove his theory the good doctor switched the sex of an eight month old baby boy with a deformed penis and raised him as a girl. Fangoria.com says the experiment ended 'very badly.'
–Chad H. "Chadzilla" Saxelid
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Wednesday, February 05, 2003
The latest issue of Cult DVD Zone, which lists new DVD releases of interest to genre film fans, has been posted. Enjoy!
posted by Christopher 7:22 AM | Comments
Good morning, Mr. & Mrs. Fanboy and all the geeks at sea…let’s go to press.
Sad news to begin the day with. If you’ve been following the news in the last few days then you’ve probably heard about legendary record producer Phil Spector being arrested after the body of a woman shot to death was found in his home. Well, the victim has been identified as being b-movie siren Lana Clarkson, who is best known as the star of such cult hits like THE BARBARIAN QUEEN, DEATHSTALKER, and AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON. For further details on this case I suggest you follow this link.
On the heels of the Columbia tragedy from over the weekend, Paramount has trailers to THE CORE because it shows scenes from the movie involving a space shuttle crash landing. As of yet, no decision has been made as to whether or not the entire space shuttle sequence will be cut from the film or if the movie’s release date will be pushed back yet again.
In happier news, Rockstar Games, the makers of the uber popular and uber controversial GRAND THEFT AUTO video games, are currently developing a game based on the 1979 cult classic THE WARRIORS. The movie dealt with gang warfare of the baseball bat and 2x4 variety in New York City and I suspect the video game will be exactly the same. Just as media critics targeted the movie, I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that the Senator Liebermans of the world will probably take aim at the game as well.
In crappier news (Literally!), Entertainment Weekly reports that Macy Gray will star in DONKEY SKIN, a fantasy tale about a donkey that poops gold. Even more disturbing is the fact that this film is actually going to be a remake of a 70’s European film that starred Catherine Deneuve. Was this really a premise that warranted a remake? Oh, how I long for THE $1,000,000 DUCK already!
Speaking of gold encrusted crap, rapper and the world’s worst sports agent Master P is on his way to the silver screen to star in UNCLE P. They say it will be along the lines of MR. MOM or UNCLE BUCK but something tells me this will really end up being a hip-hop version of MR. NANNY.
We have an update on Roland Emmerich’s forthcoming disaster epic, the one with the Category 10 hurricanes. The original title was THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW had been shortened to just TOMORROW. Well, the title has been changed once again to THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Glad we got that cleared up.
Hey, how about the latest SUPERMAN rumors? Well, seems Brett Ratner is still tagged to direct although that could and probably will change at any moment. Ashton Kutcher is still being talked about as playing the Man of Steel. I guess since Ben Affleck is busy with DAREDEVIL and Josh Hartnett turned it down, Warner Brothers is looking to cast their bastard lovechild with the shapeless haircut. He’s still a billion times better than that Joe Millionaire guy who reportedly got a chance to test for the role is. If they dare to go in that direction then they may as well cast Anna Nicole Smith as Lois Lane, that Simon guy from American Idol as Lex Luthor, and Ozzy Osbourne as Jor-El! Lara Flynn Boyle is said to be campaigning for the role of Lois Lane and Val Kilmer is rumored to be up for the Lex Luthor part or some other alien villain.
Hey, remember how up in arms everyone got when they heard about that horrendous SUPERMAN script that essentially raped all of the comic book’s lore? Well, the Man of Steel isn’t the only one getting crapped on by Warner Brothers. Ain’t It Cool News’ Moriarty reported on the script for a film version of WONDER WOMAN and it will blow your mind. Here he is summing it up in his own words. "At the start, there's this big action scene with Wonder Woman, and her name is Diana...Only she's not the Wonder Woman this film is about because about ten pages in, she dies. And her suit sort of crawls out of the wreck where she died and heads for the nearest city. It finds this girl who's just some normal girl named Donna... [That's Donna Troy] Well, she starts to get these powers, right? She starts changing and doing stuff like smashing doors and flying and... dude, it's SPIDER-MAN with boobs for 20 pages or so. It's just silly. Turns out she's an orphan, but she's not really an orphan, and her mom is Wonder Woman, but she's not really dead. She's in a coma, and when she wakes up, it's just long enough to tell Donna she's an Amazon, too, and then she dies again, and Donna has to become Wonder Woman." Suddenly that SUPERMAN script doesn’t seem nearly as bad. No, wait, it still does. Somebody needs to start drug testing the suits over at Warner Brothers because they are clearly high on something!
Rolling Stone confirms that metal band Motley Crue have signed a deal with Paramount and MTV Films to make a feature film out of their best selling autobiography, THE DIRT: CONFESSIONS OF THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS ROCK BAND. Something tells me the movie will be using a shorter title when it comes out. Guitarist Nikki Sixx says that JACKASS kingpin Johnny Knoxville, in what will surely be his defining moment, is the early favorite to play him in the movie. Wake me when they make a movie about the band Winger.
Coming Attractions reports that Luc (THE FIFTH ELEMENT/THE PROFESSIONAL) Besson may be in talks to direct RAMBO 4. This guy must be looking to kill his career faster than you can say, “Renny Harlin!”
Creature Corner reports that THE AMITYVILLE HORROR: 25 YEAR LATER is in the works and that horror icon George A. Romero is the front runner to direct. Hey, as long as its better than AMITYVILLE 3-D.
Finally, those looking for some schlock at the video store this week, a couple of things came out yesterday that you may want to check out. The first is ANKLE BITERS. This one is about midget vampires. From what I’ve read, the budget for this one was about the cost of a video camera and a tank of gas. The other is called INFESTED and it was actually getting good word of mouth until people actually saw it. It stars recent Winona Ryder wannabe Zach Galligan and the original Pink Power Ranger Amy Jo Johnson. Together, they battle mutated flies that infest people’s bodies and transform them into zombies. Finally, one of the all-time classics of modern bad cinema arrives on DVD for the very first time. I’m speaking on none other than the immortal ROAD HOUSE starring Patrick Swayze as a zen bar bouncer who has to save a redneck town or something like that. If you’ve never seen it before then now is your chance to see exactly why Crow T. Robot made it a running joke.
–Scott Foy
posted by Christopher 6:31 AM | Comments
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Future uncertain for Trek film franchise
Rick Berman, the executive producer on Star Trek Nemesis and current head honcho of all things Trek, addresses the poor box office showing of the latest film in this Sci Fi Wire story. "I'm convinced that we made a very good movie," says Berman. The legions of Trek fans who failed to show up for repeat screenings of the film evidently disagree.
posted by Christopher 1:44 PM | Comments
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