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Happy Halloween From Orson Welles

October 30, 2008 Rich Drees

Seventy years ago this evening, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre Of The Air radio program presented their Halloween episode, an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ (no relation) novel War Of The Worlds. Much has [click for more]

And The New Elvis For BUBBA NOSFERATU Is. . .

October 30, 2008 Rich Drees

Like many, I was disappointed when Bruce Campbell announced that he was not going to be part of Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Nosferatu, the follow up to Campbell and Coscarelli’s elderly-Elvis-fighting-a-mummy collaboration Bubba HoTep. But now, [click for more]

Halloween Film Of The Day: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

October 30, 2008 Rich Drees

When one thinks of the modern zombie film, one has to pay respect to its father, George Romero. It was his low budget, independently produced Night Of The Living Dead (1968), which laid the template [click for more]

DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Footage Reveals Disappointing Gort

October 29, 2008 Rich Drees

Twentieth Century Fox has released some more footage, what they’re calling an extended trailer, from their upcoming remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. The first half seems to expand upon the premise of the [click for more]

Columbia Latest Studio To Try To Get PREACHER To Big Screen

October 29, 2008 Rich Drees

Columbia Pictures is stepping up to be the next studio to try and bring Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s classic and controversial comic series Preacher to the big screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sam [click for more]

Nichols, Mamet And Scorsese All Tapped To Remake Kurosawa’s HIGH AND LOW

October 29, 2008 Rich Drees

Akira Kurosawa’s detective drama High And Low is being set up for an English language version with Mike Nichol’s in the director’s chair, David Mamet on screenplay duties and Martin Scorsese serving as executive producer. [click for more]

HELLRAISER Redo Gets In New Director

October 29, 2008 Rich Drees

When we last left the saga of Dimension Films’ struggle to remake the Clive Barker horror classic Hellraiser, the sturio had just hired writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton to take a pass at the [click for more]

UPDATED: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle Officially Signed For AVENGERS, Jon Favreau Set to Exec Produce

October 29, 2008 Rich Drees

Update: AintItCoolNews has a great, in-depth two-part interview (part one here, part two here) with Iron Man director Jon Favreau in which he discusses his thoughts about developing the storyline for Iron Man 2 and [click for more]

Halloween Film Of The Day: THE THING

October 29, 2008 Rich Drees

It should come as no surprise that one of my favorite classes during my tenure at Kutztown University was “Science Fiction Literature,” taught by Dr. Richard Law. Weaned on bad television and film science-fiction, the [click for more]

Trailer: TIMECRIMES

October 28, 2008 Rich Drees

Low budget science-fiction films are almost always better than their more heavily financed counterparts, simply because they concentrate more on characterization and smart story ideas than they can on spectacle and special effects. I saw [click for more]