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David Koepp Will Write/Direct That ‘Quicksilver’ Remake You’ve Been Wanting
12 November 2009 7:31 AM, PST
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That may not be technically accurate...
Per Variety, David Koepp will write and direct a new film called Premium Rush about a bike messenger with a valuable package who gets chased throughout New York City by a dirty cop. The film "is being conceived as a big-budget actioner, much like the films Koepp is known for penning, and will feature the kind of elaborate chases associated with a William Friedkin pic."
Koepp is "known for penning" quite a few films, but his big actioner ones include Angels & Demons, Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds, Spider-Man, and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. That's an incredibly mixed bag quality-wise, so there's no telling if the new film will be any good. Koepp has directed before, but all of those films (including the under-rated Ghost Town) have been much lower-budgeted affairs.
It's obviously way too early in the process to seriously question Koepp's intention
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- Rob Hunter
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The Hollywood Film Festival Announces Craft Honorees
8 September 2009 5:59 AM, PDT
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The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by Starz, are pleased to announce their craft honorees for this year's Hollywood Awards. The festival and awards will mark their return on October 21 for a weeklong series of screenings, competitions and awards.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins, A.S.C., will receive the "Hollywood Cinematographer Award," Composer Alexandre Desplat, Bmi, will be given the "Hollywood Film Composer Award," editor Dana Glauberman, A.C.E., will be honored with the "Hollywood Editor Award," production designer Rick Carter, A.D.G., will receive the "Hollywood Production Designer Award" and costume designer Colleen Atwood, C.D.G., will be honored with the "Hollywood Costume Designer Award."
The Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 26, 2009.
"We are honored to have these exceptionally talented artists honored for their outstanding work and creative vision at this year's festival,
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Spielberg to develop Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes'
27 August 2009 4:27 PM, PDT
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Exciting news today, as Steven Spielberg will develop the big-screen adaptation of "Pirate Latitudes," the last novel Michael Crichton completed shortly before his death. DreamWorks has acquired the rights to the book, and Spielberg may end up directing the project. I really hope he does.
The Hollywood Reporter says David Koepp, who worked with Spielberg on the adaptation of Crichton's "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," will write the adaptation. Koepp told the trade Crichton was one of the "most innovative writers of our era."
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- Franck Tabouring
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Hasbro Unveils New Jurassic Park Toy Line
24 August 2009 7:41 PM, PDT
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Hasbro, Inc. has announced plans to unleash the legendary dinosaurs from Universal Pictures' Jurassic Park. This fall, under a licensing agreement with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, Hasbro plans to launch a new action figure line based on the film's prehistoric predators exclusively at Toys"R"Us stores across the country.
"Jurassic Park is one of the most successful film franchises of all time and has a passionate fan base," said Derryl DePriest, Vice President of Marketing at Hasbro. "Dinosaurs are also tremendously popular with kids, and Jurassic Park is the mark of authenticity when it comes to realistic and exciting dinosaur play."
"Since the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park first stomped onto movie screens more than 15 years ago, they've captured kids' imaginations," said Karen Dodge, Senior Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer, Toys"R"Us. "There is no better place to find toys based on kids' favorite characters than Toys"R"Us,
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Meg: Hell’S Aquarium (Book Review)
16 July 2009 10:58 AM, PDT
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From our Starlog site...
Meg: Hell’S Aquarium by Steve Alten (Variance, hc, 342 pp, $27.95)
For this fourth novel in his blood-drenched Meg saga, Alten brings us not just one live Carcharodon megalodon, the giant, prehistoric antecedent of today’s Great White Shark, but Seven of them: Angel, her ex-mate Scarface, their five daughters (Belle, Lizzy, Mary Kate, Ashley, Angelica). That’s one hungry horde. Alten also serves up a large cast of lunchable humans—many named after die-hard fans of his books who nabbed this honor in website contests by promising to promote Alten’s work. That’s marketing genius! However, a slight silliness does set in whenever Alten introduces a “character” and we get a graph recounting their (presumably true) background—and then they die two pages later or we otherwise never hear of them again.
Hell’S Aquarium has three intertwined storylines. James & Terry Taylor (heroes of
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (DAVID McDONNELL)
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Teen Wolf Remake/Jurassic Park Stall/Michael Bay taking a break from action
20 June 2009 4:53 PM, PDT
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The remake virus strikes again:
Just when you think the whole remake phenomenon cannot get any more ridiculous, the bar gets set even lower. Warner Brothers announced "a remake of the classic Michael J. Fox starrer “Teen Wolf” is in early development." No offense to fans of the campy film and its sequel, but what can be achieved by a remake that popping in a DVD of the original will deprive you? I guess there is some possible money to be made from an audience of people that were kids when the originals came out. Artistically, however, it seems like a waste of time unless you get Terry Gilliam to reinterpret the film in a surrealistic nightmare vision. However, the odds on that seem rather low...
WB is reportedly in the act of deciding ''which way they’re going to go'' with the film. Hopefully, Warner Brothers does not try
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- Drew Williamson
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Our Favorite Summers: 1997
2 June 2009 7:20 PM, PDT
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I was 13 years old in the summer of 1997. I don't know if it's my favorite movie summer, but I do know that it was seminal -- at least in the sense that it was the first summer when I made a concerted effort to keep up with Hollywood's weekly output and see as much of it as I could. Already, I was jotting down my thoughts on everything I saw, fancying myself a budding film critic. The following year, I would start my own website on the now-defunct Geocities, and the rest would be history.
But, 1997. I didn't see everything (so I won't try to cover everything), and there's a lot I haven't caught up with. Still, looking back, I can see the beginnings of my current tastes and predilections. And amazingly, I can still remember the circumstances under which I saw some of these movies. Here are some of my memories.
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- Eugene Novikov
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Primeval Becomes A Movie
15 May 2009 12:49 AM, PDT
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I've seen the advertisements all over BBC America and the Sci-Fi Channel, but I'd simply assumed that, any time now, Primeval would be cancelled. The promos make it look like bad green screen acting dressed up in a CGI suit. Three seasons later, not only is Primeval not being cancelled, they're turning it into a feature film. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I should have tuned in. Maybe it's wonderful. Somehow I still doubt it.
Variety reports that Warner Bros. has cut a deal for the rights to the series with none other than Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster set to produce. Goldsman is probably best known for his work with Ron Howard. He's written four of Howard's last movies including Angels & Demons, just hitting theaters this weekend.
So what's Primeval about? Remember the really awful part in The Lost World: Jurassic Park where dinosaurs get loose on the
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Boos! and Whoop-doos!: Summer Movie Toys!
13 May 2009 12:29 PM, PDT
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Summer movie action figures? Boo!
Do adults still play with toys? Back in the mid-nineties, Kenner decided to re-release its long dormant line of Star Wars action figures. Suddenly and without warning, the local Toys R Us was infiltrated with grown men climbing over shelves, beating each other up to grab a shiny, new C3PO doll. He was the short-boxed figure, and the only normal looking character of the bunch. Kenner had decided to give its once powerful toy line a He-Man makeover, and these things were pretty ridiculous. Luke had cantaloupe pecs and a six-pack. Chewbacca, portrayed on screen by the curiously thin Peter Mayhew, now looked like a Muscle Beach body builder with a slight back hair problem. And Han Solo? His upper torso resembled the Michelin Man, with a waist by way of Megan Fox. Add in his Polio feet, and the fact that he couldn't stand on his own,
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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
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- Matt Medlock
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Signed First Edition Dracula Book, Cape, Monstrous Auction!
4 February 2009 6:38 PM, PST
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Come on, I know you want these great items :happy
For the first time ever, classic horror fans can bid on these important collection of horror-related items:
Bela Lugosi's Dracula Ring
Cape
Costume From "The Raven"
Bram Stoker / Lugosi Signed First Edition Dracula Book
Fritz Lang's Monocle from Metropolis
You just absolutely have to get that signed First Edition Dracula book? Click Read More to find out how you can bid!
Calabasas, CA, February 4, 2009 - Forry Ackerman's massive horror and Sci-Fi collection, highlighted by Bela Lugosi's Dracula ring and cape, along with Lugosi's costume from The Raven; a signed, first edition of Brom Stoker's Dracula signed by Stoker and Lugosi among others, and Fritz Lang's monocle from Metropolis are among the first confirmed items available at Profiles in History's 36th auction of Hollywood memorabilia, taking place the last week of April, 2009. This will be the
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- Manny
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