Ghost Story Of Yotsuya Review

There is a tradition in Japan to present ghost stories during the warm summer months. An 18th century kabuki play by Nanboku Tsuruya provided the most popular and durable storyline – that of an ambitious, would-be samurai named Iemon who marries and then murders Iwa, whose ghost returns to wreak revenge on her faithless husband.The story has been filmed numerous times; director Nobuo Nakagawa’s 1959 version THE GHOST STORY OF YOTSUYA (Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan) is, many feel, the best filmed adaptation of this classic Japanese tale.Iemon, realizing that murdering his intended bride’s father will not endear him to her – not to mention how the constabulary is likely to react to multiple homicides – conspires with his partner-in-crime Naosuke (Shuntaro Emi) to lay the blame on a local bandit Usaburo, claiming that they valiantly fought a band of ruffians who got away. Iemon promises Iwa (Kazuko Wakasugi) that he will avenge her father’s murder, securing her hand in marriage and her fortune for himself.
Naosuke becomes attracted to Iwa’s sister Osode, and threatens to expose Iemon if he will not assist in eliminating the sisters’ suspicious brother. When the brother goes to a sacred waterfall to pray for justice, the rogues stab him in the back and push him off the cliff. They return to town with a story about how they were attacked by the same bandits as before, and the pair split up to seek the non-existent bandits.
Iemon and Iwa have a child, but Iemon proves a poor husband, spending most of his nights out drinking, while Iwa begins to suffer from ill health. Iemon gambles most of his wife’s money away, but one night he inadvertently foils a mugging, causing the robbers to flee and the nobles to thank him effulsively, while Iemon instantly falls for the nobleman’s lovely daughter Ume (Junko Ikeuchi). The nobleman offers Iemon a reward, and Iemon ironically responds with the same speech about honor that Samon had given him right before Iemon had murdered him.
Meanwhile, Naosuke is frustrated that Osode refuses to marry or sleep with him until he makes good his promise to avenge her father’s death. When Iemon happens to bump into Naosuke, Naosuke wonders whether he can pull off the murdering bandits gimmick a third time, but resolves that he’ll need another plan. Naosuke comes up with the idea of procuring some poison to kill Iwa to make way for Iemon to marry Ume. Because the portly village massues Takuetsu (Jun Otomo) is constantly coming by to see the ailing Iwa, a rumor has sprung up that the pair are having an affair. Naosuke sees how Iemon can claim to have caught the pair in flagrante to justify the murder of his wife. Dishonorable to the core, Iemon readily agrees to the plan and conspires to make Takuetsu his patsy.
In a telling scene, Iwa cries tears of joy that her husband has started treating her kindly for a change, apparently attempting to see to her happiness rather than being thoroughly selfish all the time. Little does she realize that his thoughtfulness in giving her the medicine she requires is simply a ruse to provide poison in her cup of tea. Takuetsu comes to give her a massage and starts coming on to her because Iemon has suggested that she fancies the doctor: however, Iwa, innocent and loyal to her faithless husband, is shocked by Takuetsu’s behavior.

Cursed (2005) – Film Review

What can you say about a horror film when its spookiest cast member plays the innocent victim? You can say that it’s only one of many obvious missteps in this misbegotten attempt by writer Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven to apply their patented SCREAM-style approach to the familiar werewolf clichés.
Of course, the SCREAM films were never quite all they were cracked up to be. Their chief cleverness lay in openly acknowledging the slasher genre they were mining: this gave them a license to trot out all the established tropes, while critics who normally would not be caught dead in a horror film, could sing hymns of praise to their self-referential, post-modern sensibility. It’s a one-trick approach with little scope, so it’s no surprise that its application in CURSED suffers from the law of diminishing returns. What is surprising is that Williamson and Craven could have miscalculated so badly that the film entirely failed to click with audiences when it was released in theatres.
The story begins with a pair of women receiving a dire warning from a gypsy woman (like in THE WOLF MAN, get it?) Soon thereafter, brother and sister Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) and Ellie (Christian Ricci) see one of the women (Shannon Elizabeth) killed by a wolf-like monster after they ram into her car. Both Jimmy and Ellie are bitten and/or scratched in the struggle, and gradually come to realize that they are “cursed” with the Mark of the Beast; that is, they are turning into werewolves.
Unfortunately, this “curse” turns out to be a mild annoyance at most: the central dilemma never registers, because they never really seem in danger of turning into animals or losing their humanity. Instead, the film stumbles through a jumble of ideas: Being a wolf helps you get girls in high school like in TEEN WOLF; it gives you increased sensory awareness in your dog-eat-dog workplace like in WOLF; it gives you a craving for blood and sexual charisma (a detail more appropriate for vampire films like THE LOST BOYS); but never fear, as in the TV show WEREWOLF and the movie AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS, you can save yourself by severing the bloodline — i.e., killing your werewolf progenitor.
Despite Jimmy’s reading from a few mythology books, we never really learn the “rules” by which these lycanthropes abide. Do they transform at will or involuntarily? Only at night and during the full moon, or anytime they get mad? And how long do Jimmy and Ellie have before their condition becomes irreversible? Without these plot points clarified, the story becomes just a pointless exercise, never generating any real suspense or mystery.
Another part of the problem is the attempt to integrate Ellie’s love life into the story. Her sputtering relationship with boyfriend Jake (Joshua Jackson) seems entirely gratuitous (not to mention dull), but you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that it wouldn’t be in the film if it weren’t going to tie-in with the plot’s big mystery: who is the Top Dog — or, in this case, the Alpha Wolf? In order to hide the all-too-obvious answer to this question, Williamson’s script not only throws in a character who acts suspicious for no good reason (refusing to show evidence that would exonerate him) but also adds a second werewolf (just like SCREAM created a “surprise twist” with its two killers). As is too often the case with Williamson’s scripts, the revelation of the culprit is a disappointment because the killer is not particularly interesting. The story-telling rational seems to be: “Well, it had to be somebody, so why not this character?”
The story is hardly enlivened by its cast, most of whom would seem more comfortable on a television show like DAWSON’S CREEK. The sole exception is Ricci, who clearly deserves to be better utilized here. Her dark and moody attractiveness (she’s ready to graduate from Wednesday to Morticia Addams) makes her look like a Vampire Queen who could round up these mangy werewolves into a slave-herd forced to do her bidding — but the film gives her a hapless victim role while decidedly unscary actors are cast as the monsters.

The Movie Immortals – Review (2)

One of the beauties of a film by Tarsem Singh is that you’re guaranteed to get some impressive visuals in a film. Alongside Zack Snyder, Singh’s one of the best in the business at maximizing a film’s look. You can’t help but watch the man at work in his films as he never ceases to impress in his composition of shots, his use of scoring and how he designs a scene. And in terms of visually impressive films, Immortals is an even better put together film than either The Fall or The Cell.
The problem with it is that there’s nothing behind it.
Immortals is a grand epic set in ancient Greece following Theseus (Henry Cavill), caught up in the middle of a power struggle between man and gods. Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) is a king hell-bent on releasing ancient evils onto the world using the power of a magical bow of legend. Zeus (Luke Evans) has chosen him to prevent this but prevented the Gods from helping out; armed with a thief sidekick (Stephen Dorff) and a virginal prophet (Freida Pinto), it’s up to Theseus to lead humanity against Hyperion and thereby save the world from its destruction by a king gone mad.
And as a visually arresting spectacle, it’s hard to undersell Singh’s latest. This is a brilliantly put together film if you look at solely from an audio/visual perspective. There’s always something interesting happening and the film’s battle scenes are amongst some of the best of the year. Singh has outdone himself with this film but he also has a significantly larger budget, too, than he’s ever had so it’s easy to say he’s put it all on the screen. Considering he had slightly more than 1/3 of the budget Michael Bay did for the third Transformers film, to boot, he’s put together the year’s best film on a pure spectacle basis.
The problem is that he didn’t bring a good story alongside it.
This is a generic period action piece, a homeless man’s version of 300 at best. It makes sure to hit all the signature type moments and bring out some strong slow-motion piece but it’s odd to think that Tarsem Singh would make a similar film that Brett Ratner would in this situation. And that’s exactly what he’s done; he’s taken a 300 level type swords and sandals film, complete with the sort of cheesy lines of dialogue that could elevate themselves into excellence with the right tone, and just focused on the visual and not the emotional.

Drag Me to Hell

There was a time on the big screen when old crones and evil wizards terrorized movie goers with spells, and I don’t mean the cute and cuddly curse of Shrek, I mean heavy hexes like the Maloika and Voodoo juju.
In 1996 a film based on a novel from Stephen King’s alter ego Richard Bachman called Thinner offered a supernatural alternative to Weight Watchers. The story centred on Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke), a sleazebag lawyer charged with vehicular manslaughter after running down an old woman.
The obese legal wiz beats the charge in court, but a far worse verdict awaits him outside the courtroom. Minutes after he is set free a 106-year-old gypsy named Tadzu Lemke (Michael Constantine) touches him, whispering the word “thinner” in his ear.
From then on, Halleck sheds pounds faster than you can say “Jenny Craig.” Using all his lawyerly skills of persuasion he convinces Lemke to lift the curse, but the resolution has tragic consequences for those around him.
A different kind of curse was unleashed in the 2003 Japanese J-Horror film Ju-on: The Grudge. The movie is only occasionally scary, but the idea of a curse, born of great violence, that continues to grow like a virus and visit terror on everyone who comes into contact with it, is undeniably creepy.
Probably the only curse film to be deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States National Film Registry is Walt Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast. The story begins with an old beggar woman asking a handsome but spoiled prince for shelter against the bitter cold.
Repulsed by her appearance he refuses her request and payment of a rose. She warns the prince not to judge people by their appearances but he is unmoved. Unmoved, that is until she lays the kavorka on him, turning him into a hideous beast.
The curse, she says, can only be lifted if “he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return” by the time his twenty-first birthday came around and the last petal of woman’s enchanted rose fell to the ground.
Despite their differences in topic and setting these movies all boil down to one universal theme: Lack of respect has consequences. Think of that the next time a 106 year-old witch asks for a favour.

New Dark Knight Rises Teaser

Someone clearly designated this weekend to be the official Superhero Teaser Poster Release Season, because hot on the heels of the latest Amazing Spider-Man image comes this fresh look at The Dark Knight Rises, which Warners has been kind enough to supply directly to us. Click on the gallery image below to embiggen it and get a proper look.
Focusing naturally on Tom Hardy’s Bane, the big villain of Chris Nolan’s next – and, as driven home by the tagline here – final Batventure, the poster is a moody, atmospheric piece featuring the brute himself walking away from a shattered Bat mask. Suggesting, as you might suspect, that the movie features a plot which means it should really have been called The Dark Knight Has A Bad Time Of It And Gets The Living Snot Beaten Out Of Him At Regular Intervals. But we’re not sure that would fit on most marquees.
With Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Morgan Freeman, Marion Cotillard, Juno Temple, Michael Caine and Nestor Carbonell in the cast, The Dark Knight Rises will finally arrive here on July 20. You can head here to see what we thought of the prologue, and check out the latest issue for some exclusive, set-visiting coverage of the film.
Barry served as mayor of the city between 1979 and 1991 and then again between 1995 and 1999, with the two terms broken up by a six-month jail term after he was videotaped smoking crack cocaine. To this day, he’s still a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, which proves there are some cities where you really have to do bad things not to get re-elected.
HBO planned a version years ago with Jamie Foxx in the Barry role and Chris Rock as a producer, but it stalled in development. There’s no word on when this might get started, but it certainly sounds like a meaty subject for all three to tackle.

Cursed Films Review

If the film is cursed, has it returned with the death of the original director for the The Beginning? And will it continue to plague the cast and crew of the prequel?
After this movie's release in 1994, "The Crow" became an instant cult favorite. Based, on a comic book and starring Brandon Lee, the film is about Eric Draven and his fiancee who are brutally murdered one night. Then, a year later, the Crow brings his soul back to seek vengeance and earn his eternal rest.
During rumors that "The Crow" set was cursed, many accidents happened. A carpenter was severely burned after the crane in which he was riding struck high-power lines; then a disgruntled sculptor who had worked on the set drove his car through the studio's plaster shop, doing extensive damage. Later, another crew member slipped and drove a screwdriver through his hand and a lorry full of equipment mysteriously went on fire.
And there's also Brandon Lee's (Eric Draven) mysterious death during filming. They were filming a flashback scene to show how he really died. He was going to be shot with .44 Magnum which was not a prop, but a fully functioning firearm. The gun was loaded with blanks, they are as loud as real bullets, but whe fired only the harmless cardboard wadding which they are packed is ejected from the gun. But when the gun was fired, Lee fell to the floor with a wound the size of a quarter in his left abdomin. Apparently, the metal tip of one of the dummy bullets had somehow pulled loose from its brass casing and killed Brandon Lee.
Even the T.V series, "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" could not escape the curse of tragedy. Veteran stunt co-ordinator Marc Akerstream was killed while working on an explosive stunt involving a rowboat near a shoreline. Everything was working fine but when the stunt exploded a piece of debris shot up into the air, cleared a tree and struck Akerstream on the head. He was flown to a nearby hospital, where he later died.
Perhaps the Crow was working during the production of the film and the series, and maybe it will continue to work in the following years.

Cursed Film

In 1976, "The Omen" was released which was a hit. It follows the story of an American ambassador who learns that his son is actualy the antichrist.
On the first day of filming, a crew member was in a car accident which destroyed a company car. Harvey Bernhard was driving Richard Donner to his apartment, as Donner was getting out of the car, another came round the corner, tore the door off of the car and trapped Donner between the two. The crew shot a scene at Windsor Safari Park including lions, that was eventually cut. The day they finished shooting with lions, a guard was killed by two of them. A flight from LA to London with Gregory Peck on it was hit by lightning, and an engine was knocked out. Then eight hours later, a plane with the screenwriter, David Seltzer, on board was also hit by lightning. The crew had hired a private jet, which they would use to some ground scenes. However, the charter company had become booked, and so the Omen's crew flight was canceled. It took off with business men on board. The jet crashed onto a road, crashing into another car, which crashed into another car, killing all which included the wife and child of the jet's pilot who were in the second car.
Then, after "The Omen", the special effects director John Richardson, went to Holland to make "A Bridge Too Far", with his girlfriend. He was involved in a car crash, and his girlfriend was beheaded, just like David Warner was
In "Damien Omen II", the curse continued. The best friend of William Holden was stabbed while they were on holiday. Also, the entire cast came down with a rare form of influenza, even though no outbreaks had been reported.
Were these deaths and accidents coincidences? Or were they an omen for the filming to stop?
Whether they were deaths or accidents, these supposedly cursed movies may make you think a little. Despite the fact that some of the rumors have been proven false, there are still questions concerning the ones that haven't. So if you're an upcoming filmmaker, think twice before doing horror.

Cursed Films

There have actually been many films that have a supposed "curse" on them that has affected the production, and even the cast and crew. The most famous are probably the Poltergeist series, "The Exorcist", "The Crow", and "The Omen." It is rumored that cast member have died because of the curses. Supposedly, there is something out there that did not want these movies to be made.
In 1982, Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper released the horror hit "Poltergeist", which spawned two sequels and even a television series. The trilogy comprises of "Poltergeist" (1982), "Poltergeist II: The Other Side" (1986), and "Poltergeist III" (1988). Each film recounts an episode in the lives of the Freelings, a family who unfortunately moves into a house filled with evil spirits.
But beneath the ghosts on screen, there is something even more chilling. An unusually large amount of deaths have accured among the former cast of the movies. These deaths have risen the rumor that the productions were cursed due to the stories of the films. It was as if the monsters of the movie world were claiming victims of our world where monsters don't exist. Although coincidence would be a much more common response, four of the cast members have died from this trilogy, two were expected, the other two were not.
22-year-old Dominique Dunne (Donna Freeling) died on November 4th, 1982 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. It was four days after her boyfriend choked her into a coma from which she never awoke. A few weeks earlier, Dunne had ended her abusive relationship with Los Angeles chef John Sweeney. On the night of October 30th, 1982, he dropped by their former shared residence to plead with her to take him back. The visit did not go as he had hoped, and with what he thought was going to be a quiet conversation, ended with him strangling her for what was later determined to be 4 to 6 minutes, then leaving her for dead in her driveway.
Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, sentenced in November, 1983, and released in 1986 after serving only 3 years, 8 months of a 6 and a half year sentence. His sentence is controversial to this day.
"Poltergeist", the film in which Dunne appeared, had been released earlier that year, in June.
12-year-old Heather O'Rourke (Carol Anne Freeling) died of septic shock in on February 1, 1988 at the Children's Hospital in San Diego. What had been thought to be a bout of ordinary flu launched her into cardiac arrest during the drive to the hospital as bacterial toxins set loose by a bowel obstruction made their way into her bloodstream. Her heart was successfully restarted and she was flown by helicopter to the larger Children's Hospital where she underwent an operation to remove the obstruction. The toxins destroying her system proved too much, and she died on the operating table.

Are You Cursed or Are You First

I was sitting at a benefit dinner as the speaker was interrupted, the final scores were announced, and everyone cheered. That night the Red Sox made history! In the American League Championship Series they became the first team in Major League baseball to come back from being down 3 games to win the series against the Yankees with 4 straight wins. Then, with another 4 straight wins, they swept the Cardinals for their first World Series in 86 years.Best yet, they overcame a powerful belief. They shifted from “Cursed” to “First”. Awesome! As my friend, Mark West, shared with me, “Not since Babe Ruth played with the Boston Red Sox have they won a World Series. They called it the curse of the Babe when, after they won the 1918 World Series, the Red Sox owner sold The Babe to the New York Yankees. The Red Sox had not won a World Series until now.”
As an extra added touch, Mark told me that the Captain of the 1980 Olympics ice-hockey team, inspiring the movie Miracle, sent each team member a MIRACLE t-shirt after their ALCS comeback. Sometimes we need to be inspired to believe in our greatest possibilities, potentials, and powers for success. Most of all, we just need to believe in miracles. We need to believe they can happen for us.
The Red Sox moved from “I can’t” to “I can” to “I AM”!!! They moved from Cursed to First! They created their miracle.
If they can do it, you can do it.
Now, the truth is that I don’t know what sparked their comeback or inspired them to live their dreams. I don’t know what mighty force catapulted them to their great success. I DO know that something important shifted their consciousness, their beliefs that they ARE winners!
In our own lives, we may be taken out of our game by something small or something seemingly large. We may believe we are somehow “cursed”. Beliefs or memories from the past can come back to haunt us and hold us back from stepping into our true power and prosperity. Sometimes we listen to the people around us who think in a world of lack and limitation. We may even allow those people who play small to keep us from playing large and embracing all the abundance and unlimited wealth that surrounds us.
Some people may feel they’re not worthy or deserving of success and prosperity. Let me be clear – if you’re here, you ARE worthy and you DO deserve. Your wealth and success is not related to deserving, it is based entirely on your consciousness.
What you believe is what you receive.
I wasn’t in the locker room and I wasn’t at the team meetings, so I don’t know if visualizing played a role in their success. I DO know that visualization is a key ingredient for many sports teams and individuals. Pat Riley of the Los Angeles Lakers visualized with his winning team regularly in the 1980’s. Jack Nicklaus has said that he’s never taken a shot without visualizing it first. J.K. Rowling constantly visualized “instant fame and fortune” for Harry Potter and herself as she wrote her celebrated series.

Cursed Movies Done Right

That fact, combined with my unexplainable love for werewolf movies, is why I was so excited when I first learned Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson were ramping up to film a new lycanthrope flick in the early part of the aughts.
The film stared Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg as two siblings who must face the curse of the werewolf after they are injured by a beast.
From all initial reports, Cursed seemed it could very well be the greatest thing to come for horror movie fans since the image of Sam Raimi miraculously appeared on the cloak of Mexican villager Juan Diego in 1531.
Cut to February of 2005 where I’m the only person sitting in an opening night screening of what turned out to be an almost inexcusably jumbled mess of a film. That night I cried like I was a country western song character and my hound dog had just gotten run over by my ex as she stole my pick-up truck.
So what went wrong for the two creators of the ‘90s biggest horror movie franchise?
It would be easy to blame the colossal failure of the film on the Weinstein Brothers’ insistence to release Cursed as a PG-13 film instead of the R-rated horror film that had been shot. This claim is not easily backed-up, though.
Having seen both the 97-minute theatrical cut and the 99-minute unrated cut, the added gore and dismemberment included in the unrated cut does not do much to improve the general movie-watching experience. In fact, the overabundance of CGI wounds and gore actually increase the chances that audiences will laugh at the film instead of jumping. It’s hard to take any film seriously that insists on having a geyser of computer-generated blood spray from a character’s neck like an Old Faithful tribute designed by Tom Savani’s nerdy little brother.
No, even before the Weinsteins had the film re-edited to attract high school students, the film suffered its share of problems.
In fact, production on the movie was halted for nearly a year as script problems were worked out. When the movie resumed production, a ton of footage was completely scrapped — footage that included performances by eventual non-cast members Skeet Ulrich, Mandy Moore, Omar Epps, Illeana Douglas, Scott Foley and Corey Feldman.
In the end, I think Cursed’s biggest problem was that Williamson and Craven bought too many shares of their own hype. While Scream was fresh due to its tongue-in-cheek meta-referential nods to the horror genre, Cursed overdid the camp — resulting in a movie that fails as a horror movie due to its unwillingness to shake the silly but never quite succeeds as a comedy either.
When you have a werewolf appear out of nowhere to give cops a middle finger, it’s very hard to take the movie seriously when it then tries to become dark and brooding five minutes later.
It’s a shame that the film couldn’t rise above its sub-par script. The movie featured some pretty decent performances by its cast which included Joshua Jackson, Shannon Elizabeth, Milo Ventimiglia, Portia de Rossi and Judy Greer — with cameos from Scott Baio and Craig Kilborn as themselves.
Jesse Eisenberg’s performance as Jimmy Myers is especially good — essentially a preview of what would later be his biggest hit to date, Zombieland. As a nebbish young man navigating the supernatural, Eisenberg is plenty funny — in that Michael Cera-sorta way.
There have been a lot of werewolf movies in the last few decades. Most of them have been terrible. Cursed could have broken free from the curse that seems to strike films about shapechangers but, in the end, it failed due to its instance on being cute instead of scary.

The Movie-Dragon Nest

　　Nexon has announced some brand new PvP content coming soon to Dragon Nest, in the Theater of War update. Some notes from the content update:
　　Brand new PvP fighting styles and game modes including Protect-the-Captain where players work toegether to safeguard their team captain while attempting to take down the enemy team's captain.
　　Free for All in PvP, where up to 16 players face off head to head, no teams. In this 'bloodthirsty brawl for supremacy', players are on their own.
　　Ladder Mode has been added to PvP, featuring teams of three facing off against each other.
　　Ghoul mode, introduced with last month's Halloween update, is getting some updates as well.
　　Two brand new dungeons are being made available with Theater of War. Chaos Rift Kamala is available for level 24 players and above, while Chaos Rift Viera is available for players sitting at Level 32 and playing on Abyss Mode, the highest difficulty setting.
　　Additionally, players can now purchase Dragon Eggs from the Dragon Vault, and each egg has a chance of containing a Royal Crimson Stallion, the game’s first mount! Last but not least, it wouldn't be the Holiday season without Black Friday sales so between now and Friday the 25th, for every 200,000 dungeons that the community collectively clears, Nexon will be revealing another exciting Black Friday promotion.

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There have actually been many films that have a supposed "curse" on them that has affected the production, and even the cast and crew. The most famous are probably the Poltergeist series, "The Exorcist", "The Crow", and "The Omen." It is rumored that cast member have died because of the curses. Supposedly, there is something out there that did not want these movies to be made.

   In 1982, Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper released the horror hit "Poltergeist", which spawned two sequels and even a television series. The trilogy comprises of "Poltergeist" (1982), "Poltergeist II: The Other Side" (1986), and "Poltergeist III" (1988). Each film recounts an episode in the lives of the Freelings, a family who unfortunately moves into a house filled with evil spirits.But beneath the ghosts on screen, there is something even more chilling.
   An unusually large amount of deaths have accured among the former cast of the movies. These deaths have risen the rumor that the productions were cursed due to the stories of the films. It was as if the monsters of the movie world were claiming victims of our world where monsters don't exist.
    Although coincidence would be a much more common response, four of the cast members have died from this trilogy, two were expected, the other two were not.22-year-old Dominique Dunne (Donna Freeling) died on November 4th, 1982 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. It was four days after her boyfriend choked her into a coma from which she never awoke. A few weeks earlier, Dunne had ended her abusive relationship with Los Angeles chef John Sweeney.
   On the night of October 30th, 1982, he dropped by their former shared residence to plead with her to take him back. The visit did not go as he had hoped, and with what he thought was going to be a quiet conversation, ended with him strangling her for what was later determined to be 4 to 6 minutes, then leaving her for dead in her driveway.Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, sentenced in November, 1983, and released in 1986 after serving only 3 years, 8 months of a 6 and a half year sentence. His sentence is controversial to this day."Poltergeist", the film in which Dunne appeared, had been released earlier that year, in June.12-year-old Heather O'Rourke (Carol Anne Freeling) died of septic shock in on February 1, 1988 at the Children's Hospital in San Diego. What had been thought to be a bout of ordinary flu launched her into cardiac arrest during the drive to the hospital as bacterial toxins set loose by a bowel obstruction made their way into her bloodstream.

    Her heart was successfully restarted and she was flown by helicopter to the larger Children's Hospital where she underwent an operation to remove the obstruction. The toxins destroying her system proved too much, and she died on the operating table.

Ethan Hawke Joins Colin Farrell in Total Recall Remake

According to Heat Vision, Ethan Hawke will appear in the forthcoming remake ofTotal Recall, starring Colin Farrell.
Details about Hawke’s role are being kept secret for the time being, but according to THR it is only a cameo.
Hawke, of course, is no stranger to science fiction and genre films, having appeared in both Gattaca and, more recently, the vampire film Daybreakers.
Total Recall is based on the 1990 Paul Verhoeven adaptation of the short Philip K. Dick story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.” The original starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid (to be played by Colin Farrell in this version), a man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars who buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories.
As the story unfolds, the man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air.
Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel are in negotiations for the female leads in the film, which will shoot in Toronto beginning in June.
The Len Wiseman-helmed film is slated to open theatrically on August 3, 2012.

Edward Zwick Directs American Assassin

Those of us who are fans of director Edward Zwick’s films — from his more recent efforts such as The Last Samuraiand Blood Diamond to the excellence that was 1989′s Glory — have cause to be excited today. CBS Films as announced that the Oscar-winner has inked a deal to direct a feature adaptation of the Vince Flynn best-selling novel “American Assassin”.
Zwick has adapted the screenplay himself alongside Last Samurai writer/producer Marshall Herskovitz.
“The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant,”said Zwick, “and I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.”
Here’s the official description of the story:
American Assassin tells the story of legendary CIA agent Mitch Rapp. Long before he began hunting terrorists, Rapp was a gifted college scholar/athlete. Then, tragedy struck and Rapp was recruited into the nation’s most elite covert operations program. After completing training designed to teach the kind of lethal skills necessary to target our most dangerous enemies, here and abroad, he is a man reborn with a mission of retribution.
Zwick and Herskovitz will also produce, alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, RED) and Nick Wechsler (The Road, We Own The Night).
“American Assassin” marks the eleventh entry in the author’s series. Another adaptation, “Consent to Kill” is also in development by CBS Films.

George Clooney’s The Descendants Trailer Bows

Vin Diesel has revealed that the long-in-development ‘Riddick 3′ is scheduled to begin filming this summer. On hisFacebook page, the actor said that the movie has been greenlit, but he will need to take a reduction in salary to realize the project.
Diesel earned about $15M for Fast Five, but with the choice to make the next Riddick film R-rated, the resulting limited audience will likely mean less dollars at the box office. Thus, Diesel may have to wait to see the tallies before he realizes any real money.
Complicating matters is the actor’s attachment to an action-comedy calledThe Machine, from the producers of The Pacifier, which could create a scheduling conflict with a potential Riddick project. Then there’s the actor’s own reservations about revisiting the Riddick franchise.
“[David Twohy] the writer/director just landed in New York with the good news. We can start filming this summer,” the actor explained. “However, there is a catch… In order for us to make a true R-rated film, I must work for scale upfront. Money is always second to art, integrity and spirit, but the real issue is deeper. Can I suspend my life, to momentarily venture to that dark place called Riddick?”
Later, Diesel added:
“I am off to another meeting with David, the director of Riddick, to see concept art and discuss the potential schedule.”
Do you think it’s time for Diesel to leave Riddick behind, or are you pining for another film?

New Look at David Tenant from Fright Night Remake

You probably recall that DreamWorks has been filming a remake of the 1985 cult film Fright Night. Word is that the new film will remain true to the frightening but fun spirit of the original, which starred Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse and the late, great Roddy McDowall. What this really means is thatFright Night will not morph into Twilight.
We’re interested already.Meanwhile, two new images have been released from the film, courtesy of DreamWorks, including a look at Doctor Who veteran David Tennant as Las Vegas magician and all-around vampire hunter Peter Vincent. Check them out to your left and below.
According to rumors, DreamWorks is planning a big PR push for the film just around the corner, doubtless hoping to capitalize on the big summer movie season that is almost upon us. Some strategically-placed trailers in front of the upcoming tentpoles ought to do it.
Official Synopsis: Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right—but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood.
Craig Gillespie (forthcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Lars and the Real Girl) helms the remake, from a script by Buffy the Vampire Slayer veteran writer Marti Noxon.

A Third Clip Arrives from Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams’ Super 8

We just finished showing you two new clips from producer Steven Spielberg and director JJ Abrams’ forthcoming film, Super 8…and now a third one has debuted online, courtesy of AOL.
You can check it out using the embedded player below.
The clip further hints at everything we were talking about here, and simply makes us want to see this film more and more.
Story Synopsis:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth—something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Super 8 stars Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee and Zach Mills.
The film arrives in theaters on June 10.

Albert Hughes Follows Keanu Reeves Out of Live Action Akira Film

The live-action adaptation of Akira isn’t getting much love these days. Barely one week after the departure of Keanu Reeves — purportedly due to fan outcry surrounding the actor’s casting as Kaneda — today comes word that the Warner Bros’ project has also lost director Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli). Hughes may not have been a popular choice in some quarters, but his departure casts some doubt on the future of the troubled production.
According to Deadline, Hughes is definitely gone, and while the reasons aren’t specified, many believe that a growing schism between the fundamental tenants of the source material and the studio’s own conflicted aspirations for the film may have been the root cause. Hughes may well have wanted a more mature film with the grittier, darker tone that better reflected the brutal world of the anime, even as the studio attempted to leverage the project as a PG-13 movie to maximize box office revenue.
Moreover, Reeves’ departure from the project perfectly illustrated the difficulties that Warner Bros is having; an older, established actor attempting to personify a film about teenage rebellion. The studio wants to birth a new action-adventure franchise, even as the source material is much more complicated than that.
Deadline is now suggesting that the studio may return to the original vision for the project, which would have seen up-and-coming 20-something actors starring in the adaptation.
Regardless of which way Warner Bros now chooses to go, hopefully the more “mature” tone that Hughes’ likely wanted won’t leave the project with him.

Is Headshot Losing One of its Leads to Studio Meddling?

AICN is reporting that the Walter Hill-directed Stallone actioner, Headshot, is running into a casting conflict. The film’s co-star Thomas Jane (The Mist, The Punisher) is the favored choice for both director Hill and star Sylvester Stallone. However, Warner Brother’s Dark Castle is flexing its muscle and insisting on casting someone more “ethnic” in the role as it fits within the studio’s tried-and-true formula for a successful buddy picture.
While it’s great to see Hill (48 Hrs, The Warriors) back in the saddle again, news of studio meddling is cause for concern. Sounds like the movie execs are trying to fit art into a repeatable equation, a strategy that rarely works well. And with a maverick and individual director at the helm, is a clashing of wills close behind?
In Headshot, Stallone plays a New Orleans hitman who reluctantly teams up with an NYPD cop (Jane) to solve the murders of their old partners and take down all who stand in their way.

New Images from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with Oldman, Hardy and Firth

Based upon master spy novelist John le Carré novel of the same name, Tinker, Tailor, Solider Spy may be one of those films that doesn’t fall on the radar of most moviegoers this year, but probably should. The film stars Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth…with a supporting cast that includes Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, and John Hurt.
Several new images from the film have been released, thanks to The Playlist, which you can check out to your left and below.
Quite apart from the amazing cast (which should automatically tell you something), le Carré’s story is itself one of the greatest espionage tales of the past century. In a nutshell, the thriller is set during the Cold War and follows a retired spy named George Smiley (Oldman) brought in to find a suspected mole within the British intelligence agency MI6.
Unlike James Bond — which is artificially pumped up on glamor and action (not that we don’t love it anyway!) — le Carré’s story focuses on a more real world approach to spy-craft, with plots that are woven intricately.
Producer Doug Urbanski reported earlier that the Universal Pictures film had been invited to open the Venice Film Festival and that it was a “very serious Oscar contender.”
The only other time “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” appeared on screen was as a PBS miniseries back in 1979, starring Alec Guinness as Smiley.
The Tomas Alfredson-directed film is scheduled for release in the UK in September and in North America in October or November.

Dimension/Miramax Announce Second Amityville Horror Sequel

You’re probably already aware that Hannibal Classics is developing a new ‘Amityville Horror’ film, based on John G Jones’ “Amityville: The Evil Escapes” book. The intention is to start filming this fall for October 2012 release.
Meanwhile, Dimension Films and Miramax have announced that they will begin production on The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes, part of Miramax’s strategy to release sequels to some of their most popular properties.
The new movie will take place after the events depicted in the original Amityville Horror film; the plan being to shoot the film in the popular found footage-style (a la Paranormal Activity).
Casey La Scala and Daniel Farrands will direct from their own script. Jason Blum (Insidious, Paranormal Activity) is producing.
Shooting begins this summer for a January 27, 2012 release.
Story Summary: An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror … only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close.
“We are thrilled to return to the mythology of ‘The Amityville Horror’ with a new and terrifying vision that will satisfy our existing fans and also introduce an entirely new audience to this popular haunting phenomenon,” said producer Bob Weinstein.

Chris Hemsworth Confirmed for Snow White as Universal Bumps Release to Summer 2012

Chris Hemsworth has inked a deal to star opposite ‘Twilight Saga’ starlet Kristen Stewart as the Huntsman in Snow White And The Huntsman, Universal’s take on the fairy tale, reports Deadline.
After a long process and several possible candidates for the male lead, the actor won the role, with speculation being that the star-making success of Thor factored into the studio’s decision. It seems like a safe bet. Hemsworth filled the tunic of the Asgard god with relish…and should do just fine in the classic Brothers Grimm adaptation.
Meanwhile, perhaps hoping to avoid confusion with Relativity Media’s “Untitled Snow White Project”, which is slated to be released in June 29, 2012, Universal Pictures has announced today that it has moved up the theatrical release of Snow White and the Huntsman from December 21, 2012 to June 1, 2012.
Below is the official release:
Judd Apatow’s This is Forty was supposed to come out June 1, 2012 but the studio has now moved it back to “Huntsman’s” old date of December 21. Also scheduled to come out on June 1 is Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages.
Universal Pictures announced today that its epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman will make a bold move into the early summer movie season with its new release date of June 1, 2012. The much anticipated film stars Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, Thor’s Chris Hemsworth and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Sam Claflin.
Kristen Stewart will star as Snow White.This breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders (Halo 3 campaign) had originally been set for release in late December of next year. With adjustments to the production timeline, however, the film will now be ready for a summer 2012 release date.
In Snow White and the Huntsman, Stewart plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the one girl threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Hemsworth) who was dispatched to kill her. Claflin plays the prince long enchanted by Snow White’s beauty and power.
“As Rupert and Joe were finalizing casting and preproduction of Snow White and the Huntsman, we realized that the ambitious and fully-formed world they had promised was blowing away all expectations,” said Universal Chairman Adam Fogelson and Co-Chairman Donna Langley in a joint statement. “We’re thrilled that Universal will be bringing this singular version of a timeless story almost seven months earlier than anticipated.”

More Cowboys & Aliens Action Revealed in Third TV Spot

A third TV spot for Cowboys & Aliens has debuted online. You can watch it using the player below.
The Jon Favreau-directed film stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Noah Ringer, Keith Carradine, Clancy Brown, Ana de la Reguera and Abigail Spencer.
Plot Summary: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It’s a town that lives in fear.
But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.
Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents—townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors—all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

New Images from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with Oldman, Hardy and Firth

Based upon master spy novelist John le Carré novel of the same name, Tinker, Tailor, Solider Spy may be one of those films that doesn’t fall on the radar of most moviegoers this year, but probably should. The film stars Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth…with a supporting cast that includes Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, and John Hurt.
Several new images from the film have been released, thanks to The Playlist, which you can check out to your left and below.
Quite apart from the amazing cast (which should automatically tell you something), le Carré’s story is itself one of the greatest espionage tales of the past century. In a nutshell, the thriller is set during the Cold War and follows a retired spy named George Smiley (Oldman) brought in to find a suspected mole within the British intelligence agency MI6.
Unlike James Bond — which is artificially pumped up on glamor and action (not that we don’t love it anyway!) — le Carré’s story focuses on a more real world approach to spy-craft, with plots that are woven intricately.
Producer Doug Urbanski reported earlier that the Universal Pictures film had been invited to open the Venice Film Festival and that it was a “very serious Oscar contender.”
The only other time “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” appeared on screen was as a PBS miniseries back in 1979, starring Alec Guinness as Smiley.
The Tomas Alfredson-directed film is scheduled for release in the UK in September and in North America in October or November.

Go Behind the Scenes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon

A behind-the-scenes clip about the high-flying stunts for Transformers: Dark of the Moonhas been posted online courtesy ofMoviefone. You can check it out below.
Plot summary: When a mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.
The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Ken Jeong, Patrick Dempsey, Alan Tudyk, John Turturro and Leonard Nimoy.
Directed by Michael Bay, the third installment opens in conventional, 3D and IMAX theatres on June 29.

More New Images of Marvel’s The Avengers

Two new images have turned up online from Joss Whedon’s much antipatedAvengers movie.
One of those images shows the two Chris’s, Hemsworth and Evans, looking skyward amid what appears to be rubble. Each is dressed in more-or-less the full regalia of their superhero characters, Thor and Captain America.
The second image shows the rather delicious Scarlett Johansson, who plays Black Widow, chatting with writer and director Whedon on set wearing her costume.
We’ve reproduced both images below and you can see larger versions if you pop over to Coming Soon.
Marvel’s The Avengers is expected to open in May next year with a cast that also includes Robert Downey Jr., Samuel Jackson, Mark Ruffalo and Stellan Skarsgård.
Our thanks to Coming Soon for putting us on to this story.

TV Sci-Fi Stars Help to Raise Over $90,000 at Hunter Syndrome Gala

A star-studded fundraising gala last weekend at Vancouver’s spiffy Sutton Place Hotel has raised over $90,000 for research in Hunter Syndrome, a degenerative disease in children.
The formal event, called the Once Upon a Cure Gala, was attended by a host of familiar faces from TV sci-fi and fantasy, including Sanctuary‘s Amanda Tapping, Ryan Robbins, Robin Dunne, Christopher Heyerdahl, Gillian Horvath and Damian Kindler, Supernatural‘s Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, and Robert Carlyle and Julia Benson from Stargate Universe.
Carlyle is currently appearing in the ABC series Once Upon a Time. Edward Kitsis and Steve Pearlman, who have been executive producers on that show, were also big supporters of the event.

The Once Upon a Cure Gala raised money for Hunter Syndrome Research through ticket sales, donations and live and silent auctions. The latter included items ranging from video games to hockeymemorabilia. The preliminary tally of $90,000 was announced on the event’s Twitter feed@onceuponacure.
Also attending the event were Deb and Ryan Purcell, whose seven-year old son Trey was diagnosed with Hunter several years ago. Trey recently became the first Canadian child to receive a new drug treatment for the condition. Ryan Purcell is a camera operator who has worked on many productions in Vancouver, including Sanctuary, Stargate, Fringe and Smallville.
Sanctuary star Ryan Robbins with actress Karyn Baltzer at the Once Upon a Cure Gala in Vancouver.
You can find more information on Hunter Syndrome at the websites of the Canadian MPS Society andOnce Upon a Cure. Donations can also be made through these sites.

Matthew Modine’s Part in The Dark Knight Rises Revealed

Last week we reported that Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket) had joined the cast of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, as a character named Nixon.
Today, a few details have been revealed about the character, thanks toshowbiz411.com. Apparently, “Nixon” is a “a politician and a key villain.”
It’s unlikely that the character is any direct relation to the former US President, and more likely that Nolan is simply having a little fun with an homage of sorts.
Modine joins an expanding list of villains in the film, including Bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway).
The Dark Knight Rises is filming internationally, including locations in Pittsburgh, New York, Los Angeles, England and Scotland. Recently the production has been shooting scenes at the ancient Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India.

Colin Farrell is Suitably Creepy in New Fright Night Clip

We’ve already seen the trailer, but now the first clip from DreamWorks Pictures’ Fright Night, starring Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin, has arrived online, thanks to MTV.
You can check it out using the player below.
In Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic, senior Charlie Brewster (Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right—but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself.
Farrell’s take on the character of Jerry Dandrige seems perfectly updated for a modern audience. In the scene below, he’s clearly toying with Charlie Brewster, leaving little about predatory intentions to imagination.
Fright Night opens in theaters on August 19.

Another New Bond Girl is Rumored to Play Opposite Daniel Craig’s 007

Back on May 26 we posited the question as to whether or not Daniel Craig would well nigh impossible to replace as James Bond—given the actor’s sterling performance in the series thus far. In that same story we reported that Hollywood was apparently showing interest in Israeli model-turned-actress Esti Ginzburg, and that the production staff of Bond 23 had contacted her representatives and invited her to audition for the role of “an exotic woman.”
There’s been no further news on that particular front, but today comes word from the British tabloid News of the Worldthat actress Naomie Harris — who many may remember from Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Pirates of the Caribbean— is being considered to star the as yet untitled Bond 23.
According to the report, Harris will play 007′s (Daniel Craig) “sexy sidekick” and would mark the first new female casting for the movie, set to begin filming in September for a November 9, 2012 release.
Normally, this would be like every other early Bond rumor that shoots forth from a British tabloid — dubious at best — were it not for the fact that additional, more respected outlets such as EW andIndiewire are confirming through their own sources that the actress is indeed in talks.
Still no word yet as to whether either Ralph Fiennes or Javier Bardem have been locked to the film as villains…though we can only say we fervently hope so.
Does Naomie Harris strike you as a good choice for a “Bond girl”? Tell us below.

Anne Hathaway Goes for the Gusto on Set of The Dark Knight Rises

Holy lower exposures, Batman! Never let it be said that CinemaSpy doesn’t report on the most newsworthy of current events, but we know our readership, and we know what you want to see. Batman? Check. Anne Hathaway? Check. Potential wardrobe malfunction? Yessiree, you better believe that’s a check.
Showbiz Spy has disclosed that an insider from the set of the highly-anticipated threequel, The Dark Knight Rises, has revealed that there was an unfortunate accident during a rigorous fight scene featuring Hathaway’s character, Catwoman: her presumably tight costume split up the backside.
Never fear, though. Big productions such as these have spare costumes ready for such mishaps and filming did not have to be halted.
The actress certainly seems to be giving the role her all. She recently injured a stuntman during a fight scene with the butt of a rifle, now it’s her own butt that’s making headlines.
Here’s hoping the footage winds up as a DVD extra.

Sony’s Big ‘Risk’ Finds a Scribe as Studios Race to Adapt Board Games

We’ve reported frequently on the sheer volume of games that are being adapted into feature films. Not video games, mind you, but board games. It’s not a new idea, of course, for those who remember Paramount’s 1985 film, Clue, but it has gained significant momentum recently.
Peter Berg is turning ‘Battleship’ into an alien invasion thriller. Ridley Scott’s ‘Monopoly’ movie is purportedly going to a scorching satire about the real estate market (perfect timing). McG will adapt ‘Ouija’ into an Indiana Jones-inspired action-adventure film. And, last, but we suspect not least, ‘Candyland’ is being described by its screenwriters (Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger of Kung Fu Pandafame) as Lord of the Rings with candy.
That leaves the classic Parker Bros. board game ‘Risk’, which Sony/Columbia began developing into a feature film back in 2009.
Originally created by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse (The Red Balloon) and released in 1957 as ‘La Conquête du Monde’, ‘Risk’ is a war strategy game, whose players’ principal object is “world domination,” or “to occupy every territory on the board and in so doing, eliminate all other players.” If you haven’t played it, doubtless you’ve heard of it.
So, how to adapt that into a movie then? According to Risky Business, Sony/Columbia have brought in writer John Hlavin (The Shield, forthcoming Underworld 4) to pen the adaptation. The report suggests that it will be turned into a globe-trotting action thriller, a major project for a writer who has gained most of his experience in television.
While these adaptations often bare little resemblance to the game (partially due to the necessity of the transition and partially due to creative license), studios nevertheless benefit from the brand recognition that comes built-in, while the board game makers see an infusion of new interest in their properties, and perhaps even an opportunity to evolve them or adapt them into electronic, interactive versions.
In Hollywood’s quest for inspiration, some might argue that it’s a cheap tactic, but in reality, talk to any writer and they will tell you there are only seven story ideas out there, and the real quest is to find new, innovative ways to tell those stories. We’ve lamented adaptations here on CinemaSpy — and will probably continue to do so — but the fact of the matter is that inspiration can quite literally come from anywhere.
Books and novels have always been popular choices for adaptation (and remain so), yet rarely, if ever, do they closely follow the original material; a common problem. Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, for example, still has not been done correctly…yet Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” was a remarkably successful adaptation of what many considered material that simply could not be adapted to the screen.
The trick, therefore, is in the execution of the material.
The fact of the matter is as long the story is well-crafted and the acting strong, you can make a movie concerning just about anything. Implementation is always at the foundation, regardless of whether it’s Bard or ‘Battleship’.
That said, we’re still more generally receptive to filmmakers who try to launch an original property—Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 being one such example.
In the meantime at least, board games will remain the latest ‘go-to’ source material for an industry cognizant of its bottom line.

Has Ridley Scott Found a Writer for his Blade Runner Sequel?

After the recent announcement of Ridley Scott’s intention to revisit the world of his science fiction noir masterpiece Blade Runner, we now have word of the prolific director’s choice to pen the screenplay of the highly-anticipated sequel. Twitch is reporting that Scott’s first pick is screenwriter Scott Burns, who has previously worked on Steven Soderbergh’s current hit Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum, the upcoming Man from U.N.C.L.E. reboot (again, for Soderbergh), and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo (for David Fincher).
It is a puzzling turn of events that the screenwriter for the original film, David Webb Peoples (Unforgiven), is not mentioned as a possible contender as his impressive track record suggests that he would be ideal for the job.
Little is known about the plot for the sequel, but given Blade Runner‘s everlasting appeal and director Scott’s reputation as a solid filmmaker and detailed visual stylist, we are intrigued to know more…

New Captain America Poster Punches Hitler in the Face!

Behold, True Believers… the new poster forCaptain America: The First Avenger arrives, and it is utterly incredible and full of retro goodness!
The movie itself is six weeks away and interest is building, but it still remains to be seen if the movie can live up to the awesomeness of this poster. Personally, it has single-handedly got me all revved up for some good old-fashioned Nazi-bashing.
Want. Now.
Captain America: The First Avenger stars Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, and Tommy Lee Jones and opens in wide release on July 22.

Green Lantern… How Could It Have Been Different?

It’s pretty much generally agreed that Green Lantern isn’t winning over many fans at the box office. Despite a resounding “meh” from moviegoers worldwide, few know that Warners originally had another vision for the Emerald Crusader. And who was originally slated to join the ranks of the Green Lantern Corps and save the universe from the diabolically evil Sinestro*? Why, none other than Jack Black, of course.
Now, I know his classically Greek God-like physique makes him an obvious choice, but would this incarnation of the popular comic book have been any better? The folks at Gamma Squad have taken a closer look at what might have been. Citing a Vanity Fair interview with screenwriter/comedian Robert Smigel (known for William Shatner’s infamous “Get a Life” sketch on SNL and Triumph the Insult Dog) and after reviewing his first draft, they’ve put together an (ahem) illuminating look at the doomed production. It will probably make you see the movie in a whole new light…
*whose name sounds like an over-the-counter nasal spray…

Tarantino Casts His Django

A new gunslinger is about to ride into town. According to AICN the coveted title role for Quentin Tarantino’s ode to spaghetti westerns, Django Unchained, has been signed. Rumors circling the film industry placed odds on Will Smith (I Am Legend), Idris Elba (Thor) and Jamie Foxx (Ray).

It seems while director Tarantino was negotiating with Smith to take the part, Elba signed onto Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming giant monster epic, Pacific Rim, taking the role originally meant for Tom Cruise, reports Deadline.com.

Apparently negotiations with Smith could not be resolved and Tarantino has now decided on Jamie Foxx.

                                                          A fine actor, indeed.
Smith’s last outing in the western genre was the universally reviled Wild Wild West. One can only speculate that he was a little gun-shy to get back in the saddle again…
... and who can blame him?
While Foxx is a fine actor and a good choice, Elba seems to have caught the favor of fans. His turn in this year’s Thor definitely shows a strong screen presence and we can only imagine his take on the Gatling-gunned anti-hero, originally played by Franco Nero.

Michael Bay Persuades Theaters Owners to Lighten Up

With the 3D movie fad steadily losing momentum, Hollywood must be panicking at the thought of lost revenue. With many big event 3D movies still in the pipeline, they must be doing everything in their power to keep moviegoers interested. There are many factors to blame for the public’s waning interest, chief of which are the quality of the movies themselves. A bad movie is a bad movie, whether in 3D or not. However, it has been shown that audiences are willing to shell out a premium for a worthwhile film. But as much effort as that which goes into the making of a movie, if theaters owners sabotage their screenings by diminishing their cinema experience, then nobody wins. A good movie badly presented is a wasted opportunity.
A recurring problem with 3D films is that the projection must be much brighter than an ordinary film. Keep in mind that the projector light must pass through a polarizing filter before reaching the screen. Coupled with the fact that the viewer must also wear what essentially amounts to a pair of sunglasses, and you can see how a sufficiently bright light source is crucial. However, as Eldon Tyrell says, “the candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long,” and theater owners know this. Projector bulbs are not cheap and when you go through bulbs twice as quickly, well, the cost per screening goes up and it is not unthinkable that an unscrupulous theater manager might turn the brightness down to extend the bulb’s life.
I, myself, have sat in such a screening where the picture was so dark that I took off my glasses, preferring to watch the movie in blurred 2D rather than strain my eyes to see through the murk. This is not an isolated incident it seems, but a frequently occurring problem, and an unhappy moviegoing experience translates to decreased attendance for 3D movies.
That’s why Michael Bay has been personally calling up theater chain executives to impress upon them the importance of keeping projection standards up, reports The NY Times. And according to Variety, the prints for Transformers: Dark of the Moon were enhanced to be sharper and brighter. “We want the best presentation possible. We have created a special version with extra sharpening, color and contrast. It is a superior look in the format. The brighter the image, the brain processes in a different way (sic) and the result sharpens and makes it more vibrant.”
There’s no denying that the early footage looks incredible, but we expected no less from a Transformers movie. However, this time it looks like they’ve gone a step further, and the trailer is utterly epic. Eye candy, surely. Cohesive story? Well, this is a Michael Bay film, after all. However, if early buzz is any indication, Mr. Bay seems to have done his job and delivered the goods. What remains to be seen is whether you will get to see the movie the way he designed it to be seen: big, bright and in your face.

The Thing Trailer Awakens

At long last, the first look at the prequel to John Carpenter’s Barf-O-Rama masterpiece is here! Expectations are high and those crazy Swedes have their work cut out for them, but after viewing the trailer below, I am officially pumped. Although nobody can replace Carpenter as director, the resulting footage certainly seems to be cut from the same shredded bloody cloth.
That, coupled with the assertion that extensive practical fx are being used and CG kept to a minimum leads us to believe that director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. is certainly headed in the right direction.
According to Wikipedia’s synopsis: “Taking place three days before the events of the John Carpenter film, Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her two assistants Davida Morris (Davetta Sherwood) and Adam Goodman (Eric Christian Olsen) join a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. When an experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate, Adam and Davida join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them and imitating them one at a time, using its ability to perfectly mimic any lifeform it absorbs through digestion, and eventually reaching civilization.”

Mad Men Crowned Outstanding Drama Series for Fourth Consecutive Year at 2011 Emmys

Mad Men scored the top prize for televised drama at the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards for the fourth year in a row. Creator Matthew Weiner accepted the award for Outstanding Drama Series on behalf of AMC, Lionsgate, and the crew, and thanked the fans for their support of the series.
The presence of AMC shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men was felt throughout the Emmys telecast. Bryan Cranston joined Katie Holmes to present the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award to Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife. Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul andMad Men's John Slattery made hilarious appearances as new cast members on The Office, while Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, and John Slattery joined Emmy host Jane Lynch for an opening sketch where the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce gang learned about modern day culture.