Stop Hating On Remakes!
There was much consternation over the weekend over the gall of someone daring to develop a remake of, shock horror, an Alfred Hitchcock movie. I appreciate that yes, Hitchcock is one of the greats, but to suggest that to remake his work would be a travesty is, to be frank, a little strong. It’s nothing [...]
Cinema Blasphemy – Hitchcock’s Suspicion to be Remade?
When you remake a Hitchcock film you need to learn from Gus Van Sant – even if you remake it shot for shot it still won’t be half the film that Hitch made.
So the news from Latino Review that Paramount are looking to taxidermise one of Hitch’s finest, the 1941 suspense film Suspicion, does not [...]
New Pics From the Remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street
There’s a number of reports coming out over from the US blogs regarding a set visit of The Nightmare of Elm Street remake and while we’re not going to get invited to fly over to check out the Samuel Bayer directed slasher, but we’ve got the next best thing.
MovieGod.de have a few new pictures [...]
Lars Von Trier wants Scorsese and De Niro to Remake Taxi Driver?
Lars Von Trier courts controversy like a lovesick puppy chasing media taillights and film festivals provide a suitably dazzling arena, and while he’s shopping around the Penelope Cruz-less psychological disaster film Melancholia rumours have sprung up which have split the movie-loving public in half.
In the Berlin Film Festival press conference for his latest film, the [...]
Tim Burton to Remake Disney’s Sleeping Beauty?
If this rumour has any pinch of truth about it then the movie gods are clearly smiling on us.
AICN set alight the touchpaper when they posted the rumour that Tim Burton is developing another remake of a Disney classic following his work on the much anticipated Alice In Wonderland.
This time Burton is lining up [...]
Sympathy for Warner Bros – Mr Vengeance Heads for Foreign Shores
Fanning the flames of hatred so recently fuelled with updates on the English Language remakes of Let the Right One In and The Orphanage is the news of another highly acclaimed film being snapped up by a Hollywood studio.
Variety are reporting that Warner Brothers have picked up Chan-Wook Park’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance with [...]
Nightmare on Elm Street Remake – New Footage
Remakes and Revisitations are the order of the day for 2010 and and Total Film have pointed us to a sneak peek of the new Nightmare on Elm Street film tucked into the folds of the DVD release of The Final Destination and it’s a brief but interesting look behind the scenes of Samuel Bayer’s [...]
The Thing Prequel Shoots in March
Like the other big extraterrestrial parasitical horror of the late 70s/early 80s The Thing is currently undoing the prequel treatment and a little Production Weekly bird tweeted this morning to tell us that Universal’s movie will begin shooting in March in Toronto.
John Carpenter’s gruesome and genuinely horrific film not only stands up today as an example [...]
The First Trailer for the Karate Kid Remake Released
OK, so here is the moment we’ve all been dreading! Sony have released the new trailer for the remake of the 80s classic, The Karate Kid which stars Jaden Smith (as Dre) and Jackie Chan (as Mr. Han) and is released 16th July.
The trailer still scares me but it’s not as bad as I thought [...]
Teen Wolf Remake Gets a Cast
There’s a couple of movies that have been announced that I’m really not looking forward to. The first is the remake of The Karate Kid which stars Will Smith’s son, Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan (currently being filmed in Hong Kong) and now, Teen Wolf.
THR have reported today that the cast has been chosen for [...]
