The new version of Blade Runner hitting Los Angeles and New York this weekend, known as Blade Runner: The Final Cut, is a marvel of technology and craftsmanship. The bar has been raised for the sort of wholesale restoration done here; not only is the picture immaculately detailed and crisp, the movie includes new special … Continue reading
Without real assurance that Bond 22 won’t slide back to the old style of one-liners and joke setpieces (or limp policital posturing, with Paul Haggis providing the polish) I’m not sure why I care that the production team is going to Panama. Dark Horizons is reporting that Bond fansite MI6 is reporting that the production … Continue reading
Here’s a hint for potential remake strip-miners. If you want to tackle the work of a revered director, don’t start with one of their most personal movies. Remake Bringing Out The Dead, not The Age Of Innocence. Dive into Dressed To Kill, not Blow Out. Wrap your new shit around Nemesis, not Dangerously Close. And … Continue reading
An old and trusted scooper named Tailgunner Joe has just dropped some info into my lap, and after taking a spin around Google, I’m convinced it’s news: James Wong, formerly of The X-Files and the man behind Final Destination and The One, is writing and directing the live action version of Dragon Ball, which is … Continue reading
Somehow, I think Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes are overthinking their long-in-development remake of Friday the 13th. For whatever reason, the same company that rushed through slipshod redos of The Amityville Horror and The Hitcher – I could throw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in there, but I kinda liked Marcus Nispel’s visceral variation on … Continue reading
Before we all have yet another laugh at Wesley Snipes’s expense, let’s first look back to the early 1990s when he was an boundlessly talented young actor knocking it out the box in movies like New Jack City, King of New York, Mo’ Better Blues and Neal Jimenez’s excellent (and inexplicably ignored) The Waterdance. It’s … Continue reading
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When I was growing up, the letter column was always my favorite part of a comic book – I would often skip right to the end to read what the creators had to say for themselves. Now it’s my turn. Of course those columns would appear monthly, while who even remembers the last time I … Continue reading
Let’s start the rumor mill: was the American remake of The Eye, directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud in their first American work, too good or smart or moody or without sufficient cheap jump scares for Lionsgate? Whatever the reason behind it, the studio has called in filmmaking giant Patrick ‘Dracula 2000‘ Lussier to … Continue reading
It looks like Wolverine, which is shooting in Sydney, Australia starting in December, is getting a new script. Fox has brought in Skip Woods to retool David Benioff’s take on the film, and sources tell IGN that this is ‘more than a polish.’ Apparently Fox liked Woods’ script for Hitman so much (they certainly couldn’t … Continue reading