Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema has hired veteran screenwriter Wesley Strick to pen the relaunch of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series.
The original Nightmare was written and directed by Wes Craven and released in 1984. The new project will keep the high school setting and delve deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Freddy Krueger himself.
A Nightmare on Elm Street stars Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy and Connie Britton. It comes to theaters April 30, 2010. Source: Movieweb.com
We reported earlier this week that a documentary on the, A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise was going into production. The doc will cover pretty much everything you have always wanted to know about , including many thing you didn’t even know you wanted to know about the cult classic horror movie series.
The film is being directed by Daniel Farrands, who also made last years Doc on Friday the 13th, called His Name Was Jason. Also directing the film is Andrew Kasch of Dread Central.
Now we have a little teaser trailer to show you that has been whipped together for the new Elm Street doc, which features the narration of Heather Langenkamp, who played the character Nancy Thompson in the original films. I’m really looking forward to this doc. If your a horror movie fan then your gonna love this. I’m sure they will get a ton of people from the original films to discuss them and share stories from the productions. Check out the teaser trailer below! Source: Geektyrant.com
Bella Swan is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested. Director: Chris Weitz Writer: Melissa Rosenberg Studio: Summit Entertainment Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Who wants more Jeepers Creepers news? “I do,I do!” Well, here’s the best we’ve had in a while and not a moment too soon if you ask me!
Our friends over at Dread Central caught up with Salva to give them an update on the project and some details about the story, “The financing is just coming together, so perhaps we will be in preproduction shortly,” Salva tells Dread. “We have been saying this for a year now, but that’s really about all I can with any certainty.”
“Breck will of course don his wings once again as our favorite flying man-eater, though we have decided, after much fan feedback, to give him his truck back for the new film. Gina Phillips will be back in Jeepers Threepers (as we like to call it) playing Trisha Jenner, 23 years later, a successful business woman who has her own teenage son, Darry, named after her long lost brother.”
“We have decided that the third film should, like one and two, be different from each other in look and locale,“Salva contines. “After all, the highway in question “runs the length of the state. So you may be missing your Spanish moss again and much of the story takes place in the desert part of our fictitious Jeepers state that includes Poho, Pertwilla, and Kissell County.”
The working title right now is Jeepers Creepers: Cathedral. This one will probably be a straight to DVD movie, but who knows, MGM has been behind this franchise and believed in it so we’ll see. I personally want a theatrical release!
Summit Entertainment have released the first images of Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning, Cameron Bright and Jamie Campbell Bower from The Twilight Saga's New Moon, which is set to hit theaters on November 20. Click below for these new images of Sheen's Aro and Fanning's Jane, Bright's Alec and Campbell Bower's Caius.The Twilight Saga's New Moon stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Edi Gathegi, Rachelle Lafevre, Billy Burke, Charlie Bewley, Jamie Campbell Bower, Daniel Cudmore, Christopher Heyerdahl, Dakota Fanning, Cameron Bright, Noot Seer, Michael Sheen, Graham Greene, Tinsel Korey and will be released nationwide on November 20.
If “trusting in him ” means that I have to cut off my hands and make them into boxing gloves, you can count me out!
Here’s a “beautiful” Hi-Res poster for the sixth film in the Saw franchise, Saw VI. I love how they get all fancy with the roman numerals. Or if you wanna add some spanish flavor, Saw Seis.
Just like the Blood Drive Nurse, even with how gross and wrong this poster is, I’ve gotta admit it’s very well done. Just not my cup o’ tea.
Check it out, click image for Hi-Res, and let us know what you think!
The next installment of the Saw franchise chronicles Jigsaw, his message and his followers. In theaters on October 23rd .
As you know Iron Man 2 is currently in the post production phase of movie making. It is going through the editing, sound, and special effects process. The main villain in the film is Whiplash who is being played by Mickey Rourke. We have seen a couple images of him in his early whiplash outfit. It looks pretty gnarly. To get you up to speed on who whiplash is and get to know the villain a little bit better Marvel’s kicking off a four-issue IRON MAN VS. WHIPLASH limited series beginning in November.
«Before he flays the metal off of Tony Stark’s hide in ‘Iron Man 2,’ this is every True Believer’s chance to crawl inside the twisted head of the wicked Whiplash,” boasts Editor Bill Rosemann. “If it’s jet-setting, globe-trotting, eye-popping action you crave, IRON MAN VS. WHIPLASH will make you believe that Tony Stark is indeed a cool exec with a heart of steel…and Whiplash is the fiend that will break it!»
Below you will find the Whiplash character design for the comic book, and the cover art for the first issue of IRON MAN VS. WHIPLASH. The Whiplash design is pretty cool, but I seriously doubt that this is the same design that will be used in the movie. First of all I know Marvel wants to keep the actual movie design under wraps as long as they can. Second of all if they were going off the movie designs then the Iron man suit used in the cover of the comic would resemble the Iron Man suit of the movie more. It may have the same basic design but the details are different. I just think the Whiplash design in the film is going to look much cooler. What do you all think? Source: GeekTyrant.com
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful Twilight series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of—only to find herself in greater peril than ever before.
Following Bella's ill-fated 18th birthday party, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the dangers inherent in their world. As the heartbroken Bella sleepwalks through her senior year of high school, numb and alone, she discovers Edward's image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. Her desire to be with him at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
With the help of her childhood friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), Bella refurbishes an old motorbike to carry her on her adventures. Bella’s frozen heart is gradually thawed by her budding relationship with Jacob, a member of the mysterious Quileute tribe, who has a supernatural secret of his own.
When a chance encounter brings Bella face to face with a former nemesis, only the intervention of a pack of supernaturally large wolves saves her from a grisly fate, and the encounter makes it frighteningly clear that Bella is still in grave danger. In a race against the clock, Bella learns the secret of the Quileutes and Edward’s true motivation for leaving her. She also faces the prospect of a potentially deadly reunion with her beloved that is a far cry from the one she'd hoped for. Director: Chris Weitz Writer: Melissa Rosenberg Studio: Summit Entertainment Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Em Hollywood, os monstros estão a ganhar terreno e dá ideia de que já obtiveram controlo mental da população humana local. A 20th Century Fox confirmou que vai ressuscitar a franchise Alien, com a ajuda do líder Ridley Scott, autor original do filme de culto de 1979.
O realizador inglês Ridley Scott, que desde recordes de bilheteira ao respeito dos colegas parece que já conseguiu as maiores proezas (salvo a obtenção do óscar), saltou para o projecto depois de a Fox ter desaprovado a sua escolha de realizador, Carl Rinsch. Como produtor, Ridley Scott queria Rinsch mas o estúdio deve ter-lhe feito uma oferta irrecusável e Ridley Scott é agora o novo realizador do Alien, The Prequel.Sim, a história vai regressar atrás, quando a nave espacial comandada pela capitã Ripley responde a um sinal de emergência vindo do espaço, percebendo tarde demais que o sinal não era um pedido mas um aviso que queria dizer 'mantenham-se longe porque, aqui, não há salvação'. Dado que é uma prequel, a actriz principal do costume, Sigourney Weaver, talvez não seja contratada para capitanear a nave de socorro. A actriz mais na linha de sucessão? Ellen Page, a nova cuspideira de fogo que já foi nomeada para o óscar de melhor actriz pelo filme Juno.
Quando o irmão de Ridley, Tony Scott, também ele realizador de sucesso comercial e crítico considerável, declarou há cerca de 3 meses que a ideia era contratar um desconhecido para reabilitar a série Alien - o novo Alien vai ser feito em colaboração com a companhia de produção Scott Free, propriedade dos irmãos cineastas - toda uma Internet de fãs raivosos se levantou em protesto. A acusação era a de sempre: a Fox é o estúdio mais popular e que pior recepção oferece aos visionários artísticos. E, também, claro, que o estúdio parecia estar mesmo determinado em maltratar uma das sagas mais excelentes que tem na caixa-forte.
Em 1979, combinando sangue e futuro, Alien arrebatou uma plateia de cineastas cansados da frieza distante que o cinema de ficção científica tinha adquirido em Hollywood. Stanley Kubrick, anos antes, atingira o clímax desse estilo barroco com o "2001: Odisseia no Espaço". O género, nos últimos tempos, parecia ter dado origem a mais efeitos especiais que ideias substanciais. A ficção científica transformara-se num estilo polido. Mas, em 1979, o choque do horror no meio das estrelas onde ninguém nos consegue ouvir: Ridley Scott é descoberto com o filme "Alien".
Foi imediatamente dado como o grande criador do novo horror cibernético e espacial, um estatuto que o filme "Blade Runner" confirma. Em vez de humanos com fatos hermeticamente futuristas e olhares vidrados pela desumanização, Scott contagiou o mito do futuro com objectos e pessoas que nos são familiares, deixando antever um futuro menos que perfeito, sim, mas ainda pautado pela moralidade, coragem e heroismos de carne, osso e muito sangue. Acompanhado por pausas silenciosas aterradoras como se o realizador estivesse a dar tempo à fera para se esconder ainda melhor, o seu estilo visual, cheio de azuis escuros e luzes brancas num abismo geralmente negro, contagiou mestres que vieram depois, caso de Michael Mann, um visualista que descreveu Ridley Scott como sendo um dos raros franco-atiradores infalíveis do cinema. Scott já viu um dos seus filmes, "Gladiador", receber o óscar de melhor do ano. Mas a Academia de Los Angeles continua a negar-lhe um elogio mais directo.
Plano de ressurreição. A série Alien, depois de bem continuada por James Cameron e David Fincher, sofreu com o quarto filme, entregue ao realizador francês Jean Pierre Jeunet. O episódio derradeiro apresentou a Warrant Officer Ripley clonada depois da morte no filme anterior. Winona Rider, como combatente feroz, espetou no caixão da aventura o último prego. O filme foi um fracasso relativo. Desde então, como se fosse um animal de circo já nas últimas, a Fox deixou que o "Alien" de Ridley Scott fosse emprestado a duas spin offs em que a mãe alien predadora se bate com o Predator, outro monstro espantoso feito em Hollywood.
No plano de ressurreição da série "Alien", Scott era para cuidar "apenas" da pasta da produção, com a operação diária do filme entregue a Carl Rinsch, um realizador de publicidade televisiva que, apesar de bem versado em velocidades visuais, era considerado de alto risco dado que esta jogada comercial da Fox está a ser efectuada com orçamentos de vulto.
Com o sucesso do "Wolverine", a Fox percebeu que o mercado não chegou ainda ao ponto de saturação no que respeita a super-heróis. Além deste sinal encorajador, o público feminino tem, paralelamente, mostrado uma força imprevisível. Ou seja: tinha chegado o momento de reabilitar a série "Alien", uma das maiores sagas que mistura o fascínio do espaço e da guerra lutada, claustrofóbicamente, num palco limitado do qual não há saída. No meio disto, o enorme poder feminino, representado por duas fêmeas, uma humana e a outra com mais dentes. Ridley Scott está neste momento a terminar o filme Robin Hood, com o actor preferido Russell Crowe a fazer de justiceiro que rouba aos ricos para dar aos pobres. Cate Blanchett, depois da recusa de Sienna Miller, veste as vestes de Maid Marian.
On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave...escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one--in increasingly gruesome ways--Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. The film marks the latest in the highly popular "Final Destination" series, and its first 3D installment, giving horror fans an especially visceral thrill ride.
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
Director: Kevin Greutert Writer: Patrick Melton Studio: Lionsgate Cast: Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell
It seems that the latest Hogwarts adventure is off to a record-breaking start. According to Variety, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince took in an estimated $22.2 million from midnight screenings.
The mark would be more than enough to break The Dark Knight's $18 million midnight screening record set last summer as well as Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith's $17 million midnight tally.
While the Potter films have always been box-office juggernauts, analysts believe that Potter is more popular than ever lately, which some attribute to J.K. Rowling's last book in the series coming out, and some attribute to the two-year gap between films. The last film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which also opened on a mid-July Wednesday, took in $12 million from midnight shows en route to a $139.7 million five-day gross.
It seems that more record-breaking numbers could be in store for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so be sure to check back for the latest updates.
HBO First Look has just released its behind the scenes making of special on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. To find out more about the film, its young cast, and its director David Yates, you can click on the video clips below:In this sixth installment of the popular franchise, Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defenses and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Meanwhile, the students are under attack from a very different adversary as teenage hormones rage across the ramparts. Harry finds himself more and more drawn to Ginny, but so is Dean Thomas. And Lavender Brown has decided that Ron is the one for her, only she hadn't counted on Romilda Vane's chocolates! And then there's Hermione, simpering with jealously but determined not to show her feelings. As romance blossoms, one student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one. Love is in the air, but tragedy lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens July 15th, 2009 and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Cave, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Frank Dillane, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, Helen McCrory, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Julie Walters, David Thewlis and Bonnie Wright.
ShockTillYouDrop.com has reported that Sony's Screen Gems is planning a September 17, 2010 release for Resident Evil 4, which could go by the title Resident Evil: Afterlife. The third film, Resident Evil: Extinction, left the door wide open for another installment, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan.
Paul W.S. Anderson revealed late last year he was indeed writing the next film, but no word on whether he will direct.
Another popular horror series is continuing on and the director of the original series has spoken about the new films. Digital Spy recently interviewed Wes Craven who had a few things to say about Scream 4.
What's the status with Scream 4 at the moment? Are we going to see you direct it?
"Bob Weinstein (The Weinstein Company co-chairman) has talked to me, he's interested in me directing it. I had a brief conversation with Kevin [Williamson], I know that Kevin is writing. What I've said to Bob is I'm not closed to it, I'm not open to it, I'll be perfectly happy to read a script and tell him what I think. That's where it's at and I'm not expecting a script until August. I don't know what the premise is or anything."
Do you know what form it's taking? The word 'reboot' has been used.
"I don't think it's a reboot and Kevin, when he talked to me, said, 'Remember, it's not just Scream 4, it's Scream 5 and 6.' So I guess he has a trilogy in mind."
Click here for more of the site's interview with Craven.
Will this even be worth seeing if Wes Craven isn't directing? I personally can't even remember the last time Kevin Williamson wrote something worthwhile. A whole new trilogy is intriguing, but does the world really need 3 more Scream movies where some unlikely killer is revealed at the end of the movie that makes you just sigh in a fit of boredom? I'd say we're better without.
MySpace has just released the new trailer for The Final Destination, which is set for release on August 28. Click below to take a look at this brand new trailer for yourself.
The Final Destination, which stars Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Krista Allen, Mykelti Williamson, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Andrew Fiscella and Richard T. Jones, will be released in theaters on August 28.
UGO has just debuted the new one-sheet poster for The Final Destination, which is set to hit theaters on August 28. Click below to enlarge this brand new one-sheet poster.
On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave... escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one--in increasingly gruesome ways--Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. The film marks the latest in the highly popular "Final Destination" series, and its first 3D installment, giving horror fans an especially visceral thrill ride.
We all know that the last Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be split into two films... but where will they split? Empire Online recently chatted with star Daniel Radcliffe and director David Heyman, who revealed some clues as to where the first and second film will be split up.
"We've played around with a couple of places," said Heyman, "and ultimately settled on a place that we think is very exciting, and I think quite bold, in that it's not necessarily where one might expect. You want to give a sense of completion, on one hand, but a sense that there's another piece, more to come. We tried one and then Steve (Kloves, screenwriter) came up with the idea to try it another way and when we tried that, it felt just right."
Radcliffe also added that the film breaks off, "at a very tense cliffhanger." Click here to read more on the film split.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is set for a November 10, 2010 release while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II will be released on July 15, 2011. Source: Movieweb.com
Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema has hired veteran screenwriter Wesley Strick to pen the relaunch of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series.
