Thursday, November 06, 2003
The future of HALLOWEEN
There has been a lot of news about the future of the Halloween series over the past few days.
The news began with producer Maleek Akkad’s recent announcement at a 25th Anniversary convention, that there would be a new Halloween in Fall 2004. Maleek is the son of Moustapha Akkad who owns the rights to Halloween, much to the chagrin of John Carpenter, the creator of the series.
Akkad mentioned that the new film was delayed for several months due to Dimensions desire to do a Halloween/Hellraiser crossover. “That idea came from Dimension, and I can honestly say I was against it from day one,” Akkad said.
However, an interesting wrench may have been thrown into the works. Dimension Films just struck a deal with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company. Platinum Dunes is currently enjoying a massive success with its remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Platinum Dunes is currently developing an entire slate of films, each budgeted at $15 million. Now rumors are circulating that Platinum’s may be interested in re-making some of Dimension’s existing properties - one of which may be Halloween.
If this project does get green-lighted, prepare for the internet to implode due to the tortured message board posts of Halloween fans around the globe.
Platinum Dunes is currently working on a remake of The Amityville Horror for MGM.
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News Briefs :: 11/06/03
Who likes Gladiators?
Eddie Murphy shrinks
Producer Brian Grazer has confirmed that he is moving ahead with a remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man and it will star none other than Eddie Murphy. The concept is that Murphy is a Las Vegas magician who accidentally shrinks himself. Grazer promises an Eddie Murphy we haven’t seen before. “It’s Eddie with an attitude,” Grazer told Sci Fi Wire. “It’s not happy Eddie.” The movie starts shooting in March with a targeted release date sometime in 2005.
Sam Jackson does XXX 2
Variety has confirmed that Samuel L. Jackson will be returning for XXX 2. Jackson will be the only returning cast member. Revolution Studios hopes to have the franchise revolve around Jackson’s NSA agent working with a different main character for each film. Lee Tamahori is attached to direct.
Got Ring?
Variety reports that newcomer Noam Murro will be directing The Ring 2. Murro attracted the studios attention based on a series of milk commercials. Gore Verbinski, director of the first U.S. Ring film will be busy with Pirates of the Caribbean 2.
SHREK 2 trailer
Courtesy of Access Hollywood and MSN.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2003
GHOST IN THE SHELL 2 trailer
The first Ghost in the Shell film set new standards for visually amazing animation. Now, a sequel is on the way. I don’t know a whole lot about this project, but the official synopsis reads:
Batou is a living doll. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and memories of a woman. When the boundary between humans and machines has infinitely blurred, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is a promiscuous story of a lonesome “ghost” of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity.
Check out the eye-popping trailer in beautiful Quicktime:
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Final RETURN OF THE KING poster
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Tuesday, November 04, 2003
November Spotlight: Microcinema!
If you know much about the background of Cinema Eye, you will know that it was created out of the wreckage of a failed print zine called Eyeball. Eyeball focused on the creation of independent media: films, zines, comics, websites, etc. Up to this point, we have really focused on mainstream movies here at Cinema Eye, but that is all about to change.
This month we will be presenting a series of articles and interviews that focus on making films outside the Hollywood system ... WAY outside! This first batch of articles were some of the more popular features we ran in Eyeball. These are fairly long articles, but you will find them totally packed with information about truly independent filmmaking. If you think you need $100,000 to make your movie, (you’re wrong) you need to read these articles.
Interview with J.R. Bookwalter
Interview with Kevin J. Lindenmuth
Discuss truly independent filmmaking in the Cinema Eye forums!
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