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No Hope For Landis’s BAT BOY?

October 10, 2007 Rich Drees

Some disappointing news for you fans of films adapted from off-Broadway musicals based on supermarket tabloid headlines. It appears that director John Landis’s big screen adaptation of Bat Boy: The Musical that has been languishing [click for more]

Pixar Prepares For JOHN CARTER Trilogy

October 10, 2007 Rich Drees

After languishing in development with different studios for the past decade or so, it seems that the film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s pulp character John Carter of Mars is starting to gather momentum. According [click for more]

NYFF Review: REDACTED

October 9, 2007 Rich Drees

Brian De Palma’s new film Redacted is many things. Raw. Courageous. Disturbing. Brutal. Inflamatory. Bold. Uncompromising. Important. A plea for the soul of our country. Quite possibly the best film of De Palma’s career. Redacted [click for more]

First ASTRO BOY Picture And Poster

October 8, 2007 Rich Drees

Imagi Animation Studios, the folks behind the computer animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, TMNT, earlier this year, have released teaser poster and the first still from their upcoming adaptation of the classic anime series [click for more]

Gilliam Set To Visit THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS

October 8, 2007 Rich Drees

It appears that Terry Gilliam has secured financing for his next film- the fantasy The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus. The Gilliam news site Dreams reports that pre-production for the film is underway with Christopher Plummer [click for more]

Academy Film Archive To Screen Partially Lost Lon Chaney Film

October 7, 2007 Rich Drees

Despite missing the final 20 minutes, The Academy Film Archive will be screening the 1917 Lon Chaney drama Triumph this coming Thursday at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood as part of their occasional “Lost [click for more]

HELLRAISER Remake Gets Directors

October 7, 2007 Rich Drees

Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, the two French directors behind the recent Franco horror film Inside, have been hired to helm the upcoming remake of Clive Barker’s 1987 classic Hellraiser. Bloody Disgusting reported last week [click for more]

NYFF Review: PARANOID PARK

October 7, 2007 Rich Drees

In many ways, Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park is a continuation of the themes and issues he has previously examined in 2003’s Elephant. Again we have teen characters with divorced or separated parents. Again we [click for more]

Spielberg/Jackson Hire Writer For TINTIN Trilogy

October 5, 2007 Rich Drees

British television writer Steven Moffatt has been tapped to write the screenplays for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s planned trilogy based on the Belgian comic series The Adventures Of Tintin, created by artist Georges “Herge” [click for more]

Weinsteins Pass On Smith’s RED STATE

October 5, 2007 Rich Drees

Writer/director Kevin Smith’s much discussed horror project Red State has hit a snag, with Smith announcing on his blog today that the Weinstein Company, headed by long time Smith supporters Bob and Harvey Weinstein, have [click for more]