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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]

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]

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]

Nolan Beats Around The Bush On Third BATMAN

October 27, 2008 Rich Drees

In the wake of the expectation exceeding success of this past summer’s The Dark Knight, it is understandable that Warner Brothers would want a follow-up film as soon as possible. The question is would director [click for more]

A Look At Ledger In DR. PARNASSUS

October 21, 2008 Rich Drees

Slash Film just posted this haunting and stunning picture of the late Heath Ledger in director Terry Gilliam’s upcoming The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus. I am not going to add anything. I’ll just leave it [click for more]

Steve Martin In EYES WIDE SHUT?!

October 19, 2008 Rich Drees

Eyes Wide Shut may be the last film from wunderkind director Stanley Kubrick – he passed away in 1999 while putting the final post-production touches on the project – but it is a film he [click for more]

Brett Ratner Still Set To Ruin CONAN

October 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Last month, we passed along a report that Brett Ratner was one of the directors the production house Nu Image was considering to helm their upcoming Conan film. This morning, AintItCoolNews is reporting from a [click for more]