Exclusive: Hammer CEO Simon Oakes on The Woman in Black, Rebooting Dracula and Bringing back Quatermass

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The last time I sat down with Hammer president Simon Oakes Let Me In was about to roll into cinemas and he was in similarly upbeat fashion this time, just returned from the Paris premiere of Hammer’s latest film, The Woman in Black and with a big opening weekend in America behind him we talked [...]

Could Hammer Films Be About To Remake Some Of Their Back Catalogue?

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Throughout today we have been running extended versions of our interviews from the premiere of The Woman In Black. One of the most interesting things that came up during those interviews related to Hammer Films plans for the future. During our conversation with Simon Oakes, CEO of the company, he revealed, “We’re going to look [...]

Win a Set of Iconic Universal Studios’ Horror Movies

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This October, it’s nearly 100 years since Universal Studios made its first iconic horror films. Almost a century later Universal are re-releasing all of our favourite, most-watched and instantly recognisable horror films, all spruced up and re-released on Blu-Ray™ and DVD just in time for Halloween! To celebrate, we’re giving away one goodie bag full of [...]

Elle Fanning Still Scary as More Production Pics from Twixt Appear

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The Toronto Film Festival will see the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s latest and there’s a few new pics to feast your eyes on today. Once called, rather romantically, Twixt Now and Sunrise the film now goes by the name of Twixt, which does in fairness open it up to a fairly obvious confectionary tie-in, [...]

New Images from Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt

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The Toronto Film Festival website has been updated with a load of new images from some of the films playing there this year and Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt is among them. It’s an intriguing first look at a film whose panel at this year’s Comic-Con showed a director whose inspiration and vision were finding their [...]

First Image Arrives for Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt

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It was recently announced that the legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola would be making an appearance at this year’s Comic-Con (he last visited there to promote his 1991 Dracula adaptation) and he would be bringing his return to the fantasy/horror genre, Twixt, with him. Now Entertainment Weekly has scored the first look at the film, [...]

Portraits From the Hammer Archives – Sir Christopher Lee

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Last Sunday Sir Christopher Lee was the 2011 recipient of the BAFTA fellowship in London and it celebrated a career which spans eight decades and shows no sign of slowing as he has several high profile roles in his future, not least with his return to Middle Earth as Saruman in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, [...]

Sir Christopher Lee To Be Awarded BAFTA Fellowship

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This Sunday Sir Christopher Lee will receive the BAFTA Fellowship at the Academy’s awards ceremony in London. He joins other recipients such as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Terry Gilliam. Iconic in his role as Count Dracula in numerous Hammer horror film, his career began in 1948 and so far has seen the [...]

Orphan Director Jaume Collet-Serra Looks to New Dracula Movie – Harker

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Another day, another reimagining with Bram Stoker’s immortal Dracula the next literary figure loaded into the reboot cannon. Jaume Collet-Serra did great things with the underrated chiller Orphan a few years ago and his next film is Unknown, which stars Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger, due out in March this year and a [...]

Dracula Film Vlad Gets A New Writer

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We saw The Crazies last night and though under a Damoclesean embargo, it was good to see the latest work from screenwriter Scott Kosar, who co-wrote the script along with Ray Wright. Never one to shy away from remaking a horror classic, Kosar was the man behind the bleakness of 2004 Christian Bale film The [...]

Sam Worthington to Fang Up in Dracula: Year Zero?

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Fresh from Avataring and soon to be Clashing with those pesky Titans, Sam Worthington is making a huge name for himself in Hollywood. He is, therefore, highly sought after and there’s a weird little rumour going around that Universal is looking to cast Worthington in a new vampire film called Dracula: Year Zero. Latino Review [...]