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Englund, Kirzinger, & Yu offer insight into Freddy vs. Jason winking climax

Posted 9 years ago

I've got some good news for all of you Freddy and Jason fans out there. This coming Friday, Entertainment Weekly will release a special Untold Stories issue of their magazine featuring an interview with FREDDY VS. JASON royalty Robert Englund, Ken...

Check out the first few pages of the cancelled Friday the 13th sequel

Posted 9 years ago

It doesn't seem like it should be all that difficult to get a FRIDAY THE 13TH film off the ground, but, somehow, it's been over eight years since we last witnessed Jason Voorhees dispatch horny teenagers with his trusty machete....

Writers post Friday the 13th: The Death of Jason Voorhees script pages

Posted 9 years ago

It was only earlier this week that we shared with you guys the news that Paramount and Platinum Dune's original plan was to release a sequel to their 2009 remake of FRIDAY THE 13TH set in the snow. The flick...

Sam Raimi’s next flick may be a mystery-thriller about the Bermuda triangle

Posted 9 years ago

Any time there's news on the Sam Raimi front, I sit up and take notice. Raimi has given use horror fans many gifts disguised as movies over the years, such as EVIL DEAD 2 and DRAG ME TO HELL), that he...

Excl: Paul Verhoeven shares his thoughts on the Starship Troopers remake!

Posted 10 years ago

The announcement of a STARSHIP TROOPERS remake has caused great waves in the fan community, but our very own Eric Walkuski sat down to get a perspective straight from the horse's mouth, original director Paul Verhoeven. Here's his very honest...

Freddy vs. Jason screenwriters head to space for Starship Troopers reboot

Posted 10 years ago

Columbia Pictures is shooting for the stars, announcing their intention to reboot Paul Verhoeven's 1997 sci-fi epic STARSHIP TROOPERS, with the intention of getting another franchise going. This is one of the younger properties getting the reboot treatment, although next year it will be...

Read the intense first two pages of the unmade Gremlins reboot

Posted 10 years ago

I'm sure that many of you are happy that the rumors of a GREMLINS reboot never came to fruition (not yet, anyway), but I have something that might just make you rethink your stance. Screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (of...

An Aladdin prequel is the next on Disney’s live-action adaptation agenda

Posted 11 years ago

It's almost comical at this point just how quickly Disney is getting these live-action adaptations off the ground. There are so many in various stages of development that it would be easier to list which of their animated classics aren't...

Writers of The Uninvited welcomed into the Bermuda Triangle

Posted 11 years ago

A couple weeks ago, we learned that screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White had been hired to do a rewrite on the script for an untitled Bermuda Triangle project that's set up at Universal.  Skydance Productions have their own untitled...

Rock of Ages director in talks to helm Peter Dinklage’s Leprechaun comedy

Posted 11 years ago

Deadline is reporting Adam Shankman (ROCK OF AGES, HAIRSPRAY) is in talks to direct O'LUCKY DAY, a comedy about "a con man who may or may not be a real Leprechaun, but who certainly passes himself off as one" starring...

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