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Review: 9 – ragtag and pretty rubbish

2 November 2009 1:49 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

It’s difficult to tell what exactly 9 wants to be. It has ‘cute’, miniature characters made from cloth sacking and mannequin parts. It has a post-apocalyptic setting. It has some loosely adult themes and some over the top action sequences. It mixes science, magic, religion and politics, and examines the human condition by distilling it into its distinct parts. And yet it manages to be entirely unoriginal, underwritten, frustrating, clichéd, patronising and Lazy. With a capital L. In a world ravaged by a war between Man and Machine, the scientist who made the first mechanical brain behind the conflict separates his soul into nine parts. He gives each part to a little figurine which he has made. He is also the Last Human Alive, but dies when his soul is split. The 9th figurine (called 9, and voiced by Elijah Wood) awakens in his master’s crumbling house, finds him dead, »

- Joe West

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Exclusive: Down in The Hole - An Interview with Joe Dante

21 September 2009 11:14 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

In Joe Dante’s latest film, The Hole (to be released in 2010, see our review here), two brothers (Chris Massoglia and Nathan Gamble) discover a bottomless hole in their basement. After opening it, they awaken an evil force that preys upon their deepest fears: clowns, the chilling return of lost, loved ones and other surprises. So what would director Joe Dante (pictured left on the cover of Fangoria #38) see reaching out for him if he were to peer down into the abyss?

“My fears related to giant insects and the bomb dropping,” he reveals. “In the era that I grew up, we pretty much lived under the idea that at any minute the world could end. I remember in grade school, we would walk in and kids would say that the bomb could drop right now and we’d all be dead. And so, it’s just something you carry »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Glenn Kay)

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The Hole in 3D (Film Review)

18 September 2009 9:38 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

First things first: it could be as long as a year before Joe Dante’s newest feature, The Hole, is released theatrically in North America. Those who are disappointed to hear this news should take solace in the following statement: it will be well worth the wait.

Produced independently by Bold Films and screened for potential distributors in Toronto and Venice (where it won the first ever prize for Best 3D film, beating out such prestigious competitors as Disney/Pixar’s Up), director Dante even expressed some apprehension about interviews and promoting the movie this early. His concern was that by the time The Hole would be finally unleashed on audiences, some might believe that the movie was old and had already been released (hope he doesn’t mind this review). However, with proper marketing, this title should prove more than successful and, like many of the director’s previous titles, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Glenn Kay)

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The Head Of A Gremlin In Today's eBay Prop-Watch

18 September 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

I usually try to maintain some degree of mystery on what the eBay Prop-Watch pick is until After the break, but today's item is too cool not to rave over from the offing. "Gremlins" is a classic. Comedy/horror at its best. Director Joe Dante has been pretty quiet since 1998's "Small Soldiers" -- a highly underrated gem and definite future Sick Day Stash fodder -- but he's about to re-emerge in a big way if the buzz on his 3-D thriller "The Hole," which just picked up accolades at the Venice Film Festival, is accurate.

So. Prop-Watch. Today you're bidding on a head. A Gremlin head. Not one of those cute, cuddly Gizmo-types. The ugly, green, lizard-like beast with big cat-like eyes and two rows of gleaming white teeth. Hit the jump to see what I mean.

I know what you're thinking. "It's definitely a Gremlin head." Told ya so. »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Joe Dante's 'The Hole' Named Best 3-D Film Of The Year At Venice Film Festival

15 September 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

If you've seen either "Coraline" or Pixar's "Up" in 3-D, you might have trouble believing there's a better 3-D movie from this year. But apparently the latest from Joe Dante ("Gremlins") is just that. "The Hole," which currently has no U.S. distributor or release date, won the Venice Film Festival's new Persol 3-D award after premiering at the festival this month.

So much for my earlier claim that "it’s really only down to 'Up' and 'Coraline' as serious contenders." Even as a huge fan of Dante's work -- including the highly underrated "Small Soldiers" and "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" -- I wasn't expecting his new thriller, about a family that moves into a house with a bottomless hole in the basement, to feature better use of 3-D than those hit films.

Other titles Dante's new film beat out include "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs »

- Christopher Campbell

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Check This Out: Teaser Poster for Joe Dante's The Hole in 3D

6 August 2009 5:20 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

No, The Hole isn't a new porno, it's a creepy new thriller from director Joe Dante, the man who brought us Gremlins and Piranha and other great movies. ShockTillYouDrop has unveiled our first high res look at the poster from the movie featuring the "hole" in the basement in which all the "bad guys" come from. Much like Small Soldiers, one of Dante's other past movies, The Hole is actually made for the younger teenage demographic, but it's still creepy. I got to see an early trailer at Comic-Con and it looks okay, not anything amazing, but just because it's Joe Dante, I'm mildly excited for it. Anyway, check the poster out below! The Hole, filmed in 3-D, centers on Susan (Teri Polo), a mother who moves with her teen sons to a rural house where the three are forced to face their fears after discovering a bottomless hole in »

- Alex Billington

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Yet Another King Kong in the Works

27 July 2009 9:17 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Variety reports that Spirit Pictures has purchased the rights to Kong: King of Skull Island, a book written by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland and released at the time Peter Jackson was working on his version of King Kong.

Spirit apparently has plans to adapt the book, which is a prequel telling the story of Kong's fight for survival on Skull Island. The studio acquired the rights with the help of Merian C. Cooper's family members, who own the rights to all Kong material. Cooper directed the original 1933 King Kong movie along with Ernest B. Schoedsack.

In a statement, Spirit's Steve Iles spoke about plans for the project:

We're very concerned with honoring Merian C. Cooper's legacy in Hollywood. We want to make sure that whatever we deliver will honor his memory.

Spirit is also working on War Eagles, a project originally developed by Cooper and creature-feature ubermeister Ray Harryhausen, »

- Rich Z Zwelling

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G-Force

24 July 2009 2:11 PM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

G-Force

Directed by: Hoyt Yeatman

Cast: Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, Nicolas Cage, Jon Favreau, Zach Galifianakis, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy

Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Rating: PG

Release Date: July 24, 2009

Plot: Four guinea pigs and a mole (collectively known as G-Force) work together to stop a Skynet-like networking orchestrated by a billionaire named Saber (Bill Nighy).

Who’s It For? Adults, this isn’t as painful as it may look. Kids – you’ll enjoy it. But both of you, please don’t use this film’s release as a reason to increase the number of guinea pig owners.

Expectations: This was going to be a movie with talking guinea pigs, not a fourth Mission Impossible movie.

Scorecard (0-10)

Actors:

Various Talent as G-Force: The various animals are all given human characteristics (like hugging and even Facebook), with Rockwell being the most unusual fit for voicing a guinea pig. »

- Nick Allen

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Leonardo DiCaprio Hires Writer to Pen Twilight Zone Movie

20 July 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Variety is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio and his production company Appian Way have hired Rand Ravich to pen a new Twilight Zone movie. Ravich wrote the screenplay for The Astronaut's Wife and also created the NBC TV series Life.

This would be the second cinematic adaptation of Rod Serling's classic TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1964 and included 156 episodes. The first movie came in 1983, with segments directed by Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante (Gremlins, Small Soldiers), and John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Michael Jackson's Thriller video).

There's no official word yet on if DiCaprio will star in the film, or if the movie will draw material from the TV series.

Next Showing:

Link | Posted 7/20/2009 by Rich Z

Rod Serling | Leonardo DiCaprio | Rand Ravich »

- Rich Z Zwelling

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Universal Bringing Waldo to the Big Screen

1 June 2009 9:34 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Universal Pictures has acquired the movie rights to Where’s Waldo?, with the intention to turn the popular children's books series from Classic Media into a live-action family film. Chris Meledandri's Illumination Entertainment will produce. Created by illustrator Martin Handford, the books featured Waldo, dressed in a red-and-white shirt, wearing glasses and carrying a walking stick, as he popped up in crowded full-page scenes. The books began life in the U.K. in the late 1980s, where he is called Wally, before becoming a worldwide sensation. The books became more thematically complex, with Waldo traveling in time or landing in supernatural settings, and a nemesis was introduced, an anti-Waldo named Odlaw. The book series was previously set up at Paramount and Nickelodeon, where John Schultz (Like Mike) was attached to direct a script that had been worked on by scribes such as Adam Rifkin (Zoom, Small Soldiers) as well »

- James Cook

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Hollywood Wax Museum & Hollywood Props Auction

13 April 2009 9:37 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

If you’ve ever been to the Hollywood Wax Museum, you know it’s a rather interesting static display of things cool, memorable, and waxy.

For the first time ever, The Hollywood Wax Museum is offering up over 200 different items for auction. The items aren’t just hand-sculpted wax figures, but they’re also auctioning off some original costumes. These wax figures are the same ones that have been seen by millions of visitors to the Hollywood, CA and Branson, Mo museum locations, since the 1970s to present day.

The Last Supper

The auction will be conducted by the venerable auction house, Profiles in History, who is the world’s leading Hollywood memorabilia dealer.

Cher

Profiles in History have had some cool auctions in the past, but you do need some serious play cash stashed for some of the incredible goodies they auction off.

Freddy Costume

Some of the costumes »

- Bruce Simmons

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Joe Moe: Horrorwood Babbles On: The Forrest J. Ackerman Tribute

16 March 2009 12:40 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

(Note: This story will be "stickied" at the top of our headlines for the day. Being able to host it is an honor beyond words.)

It was a Blood-Red-letter day for fandom as pros and fans alike gathered to bid a reluctant “Forry-well” to the late great genre-icon Forrest J. Ackerman! Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre served as a temple for the filled-to-capacity ritual sponsored by the American Cinematheque, Profiles in History auction house and the Ackerman estate.

Guests began waiting on line at around 1:00Pm for the scheduled 3:00Pm reception. By 2:30 over 200 bodies had congregated at the doors of the theater. Inside, staff was scrambling. Pieces of Forry’s collection were being displayed (A first edition of Dracula signed by Bram Stoker and almost everyone who ever played the famous Vampire on screen, Bela Lugosi’s Dracula cape and Forry’s fave prop: the “Robotrix” from »

- Uncle Creepy

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