Jeff Katz

Horror Movie News

The Pope’s Exorcist: Russell Crowe to play real-life priest in supernatural thriller

Posted 4 years ago

A few years ago, The Exorcist director William Friedkin made a documentary about real-life exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 91. (You can read our review of The Devil and Father Amorth at...

Writer/producer Jeff Katz discusses the Sleepaway Camp reboot

Posted 10 years ago

Back in October of 2013, it was announced that the remake rights to the 1983 cult classic slasher SLEEPAWAY CAMP had been acquired by Jeff Katz, a former New Line executive who was a force behind such films as FREDDY...

Cinedigm remaking 10 AIP titles within a single shared movie universe

Posted 11 years ago

If you were disappointed by the news that Universal's upcoming monsters universe films have been taken 'out of the horror genre' and will be more action-oriented, there's another shared universe series of films coming our way that promises to be...

Sleepaway Camp eyed for a franchise reboot

Posted 13 years ago

I can't say that I'm surprised by this, I mean, it had to happen sooner or later, right? The 1983 slasher flick has earned cult status amongst horror fans, and now according to Deadline, ex-Fox/New Line exec Jeff Katz is...

Remakes of ten 1950s AIP titles in the works

Posted 13 years ago

Here’s a curious, and ambitious, venture. According to a new press release, producer Lou Arkoff – son of legendary B-movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff – writer-producer Jeff Katz and ICM alum Hal Sadoff are teaming up to bring us reimaginings...