DREDD 3D Gets A Sequel...In Comic-Book Form.

IGN got a teaser poster from 2000AD hinting at a comic-book sequel to 2012's critically acclaimed (but box-office under-perofrming) gritty actioner DREDD 3D.

While the Pete Travis directed, Karl Urban/Olivia Thrilby starring film's cult following foamed at the mouth for the movie to do well enough to get a franchise out of it, despite fantastic home-release sales, it's pretty much all but confirmed the planned trilogy won't happen.

However, that hasn't stopped 2000AD from giving the fans something to make-up for it, and in September the Judge and Anderson will be continuing their adventures in print-form. Details are expected to be revealed more as Comic-Con draws closer, so expect more from us as information leaks.

It's a damn shame that we'll never see Alex Garland's planned epic trilogy for Dredd unfold; but we'll always have the Bluray to go back to, as well as a comic, which is better than nothing.

You're Also Getting This Prequel to THE SHINING

What a great week it's been for remaking things, and it's only Thursday!

Since the new fad seems to be prequels or "re-imagined" prequels of classic horror films and characters (Dracula, Bates Motel, Hannibal) Warner Brothers decided to give you guys a prequel to the acclaimed Stanley Kubrick adaption of Stephen King's The Shining. 

Deadline reports that "The Walking Dead" show-runner Glen Mazzara will be writing The Overlook Hotel a prequel to The Shining.

Mazzara will be working with producers Laeta Kalogridis (writer and producer of Shutter Island), James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac, Robocop 2014) and Bradley Fischer (producer of Robocop 2014, Shutter Island, and Zodiac)

Hope You Wanted That POINT BREAK Remake

Word today from Deadline  is that the remake of the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow film Point Break has picked up it's director, Ericson Core:

Ericson Core, the cinematographer who made his feature directorial debut onInvincible, has been set by Alcon Entertainment partners Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove to direct Point Break, the remake of the 1991 action thriller that starred Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. Shooting begins at year’s end and Alcon will release through its Warner Bros output deal.

Word of the remake first popped up in 2011 when Alcon secured the rights to film as well as video-game and TV rights.

From Alcon:

“The new version is set in the world of international extreme sports, and like the original involves an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring,”

No word on casting yet; but that will probably be in the coming months.

Kosove and Johnson will produce with Michael DeLuca, John Baldecchi, Chris Taylor and Kurt Wimmer (Salt, Equilibrium, and last year's remake Total Recall) who is also tapped to write the script . 

I think the remake has potential. It's not like Point Break is an undisputed master-piece. 2001's Rob Cohen picture The Fast and the Furious told the same story and almost to a better extent, so we'll see.

It'll be interesting to see who fills the shoes of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, though. 

All Roads Lead to Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris in new Fast 6 Poster

Earlier today Fast & Furious 6 from star, Ludacris, posted a new poster for the film, featuring him and co-star Tyrese Gibson.

Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.

Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

Fast & Furious 6 roars into theaters and IMAX May 24, 2013.

New Photo From Set Of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"

Director Marc Webb has joined the club of directors tweeting small glimpses into their upcoming films with this new image from his super-powered sequel: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 showing "What happens why you try to give Electro a ticket".

In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past. 

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is set for release  in theaters, RealDm and IMAX 3D on May 2, 2014

Like It Or Not, You'll Probably See A "Naked Gun" Remake, Maybe.

David Zucker, producer of such acclaimed spoof films and comedies as Airplane!, The Naked Gun, and BASEketball, sat down to talk to Hollywood.com about his newest endeavor, Scary Movie 5, and in doing so decided that yeah, a reboot or continuation of Naked Gun would be a possible good idea.

"You could do another Naked Gun, with a reboot. Like Star Trek," Zucker says. The immediate retort is, really, how could anyone live up to Leslie Nielsen? "There are people who can do that and they're not famous. You wouldn't know who they were. But I know actors who can do it. Again, I think Paramount has an international brand in Naked Gunand I think there's something you can do." For now, he hopes to revive the spirit of Naked Gun rather than the actual property. "There's room for a Naked Gun style. A bumbling guy in a position where he's respected. Leslie Nielsen played Lieutenant Frank Drebin and nobody seemed to have a clue that he's an idiot. I want to do the character, but not the specific [job]. Not Naked Gun."

While it looks like Zucker doesn't intend on rebooting the actual Naked Gun franchise, the fact that this is an idea being tossed around is something no one wants, nor are they surprised by it. 

Ideas and talk of a 4th Naked Gun film were being tossed around back in 2008 with a script written by "Sledge Hammer!" creator and script doctor Alan Spencer. These were obviously canned in 2010 with the untimely passing of Leslie Nielsen.

Luke Evans Keeps Doing Things for Universal; But Now As DRACULA

Luke Evans really seems to be the new Sam Worthington, except talented.
Comes out of nowhere, starts popping up in all these big action movies, and now he's reached the big leagues: The star of a Dracula movie AND the bad guy in one of those Fast and Furious things.

 The Hollywood Reporter  reported earlier that Welsh actor Luke Evans (The Three Musketeers, The Raven, Fast & Furious 6) will take the lead role as Dracula in Universal's reboot of the classic movie monster in Dracula. 

The script tells of a young prince who, when the lives of his wife and child are put in danger by a bloodthirsty sultan, risks his soul to save them, and in the process becomes the first vampire.

Dracula is being directed by first-timer Gary Shore, and produced by Oscar-nominated Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Fright Night, Blade II) based on a script from Matt Sazama and Burk Sharples.

De Luca spoke with Collider years ago when the film was to be made with Evan's fellow Clash of the Titans star Sam Worthington:

These writers came up with the ingenious-what I think is ingenious-approach combining historical Dracula with Bram Stoker’s Dracula. So it chronicles the efforts of a young prince, Vlad of Transylvania trying to keep the Ottoman empire and the Turks of the time from using his small country as a stepping stone to invade Europe.

De Luca went on to say:

In a moment of desperation he ascends [this mysterious] mountain to see if there’s any truth to any kind of power that he could use to keep the [Turkish] army out. And he finds something that gets him to where we have come to know him as Dracula and uses that power source to kind of fight the Turks after he’s changed.

Dracula is aimed to start shooting later this year. 

You Will Now See AVATAR 2 Go Under-Water.

Hope you guys enjoyed James Cameron's little movie AVATAR which is now responsible for the fact you have to take out a second mortgage on your home to see more than 2 movies a month, because in a few years you'll be seeing AVATAR 2 but this time it'll be UNDER-WATER!

Deadline reports:

Producer Jon Landau revealed today at the 2013NAB Technology Summit on Cinema that 
Jim Cameron “will do performance capture in water” on the sequels to his 2009 Fox megahit. “We want to take advantage of the technologies brilliant people are putting out to make the next two movies even more emotionally engaging and visually tantalizing, and to really wrap up the story arc of our two main characters”, Landau said in his keynote chat today. The filmmakers are currently exploring technologies to allow for underwater capture of actors’ performances “because we can simulate it visually but can’t simulate it experientially for them”.

I'm assuming after AVATAR 2 breaks bank across the globe with it's under-water adventures that Warner Brothers will see this as "proof" that the world is ready for an Aqua-Man movie which will inevitably be "very bad" and then they'll just go ahead with The Dark Knight Begins Again.

Sally Hawkins Will Be In Your GODZILLA Thing, WB/Legendary.

Deadline reported yesterday that the Gareth Edwards' helmed Godzilla reboot for WB/Legendary has cast Sally Hawkins as an as-of-yet unnamed scientist.

Hawkins is most well known for her roles in films such as Layer Cake (with a Pre-Bond Craig), Never Let Me Go (with a Pre-Spiderman Garfield), and the Oscar-nominated Happy-Go-Lucky.

Hawkins will join the varied cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, David Strathairn, Brian Cranston and Juliette Binoche. The film started shooting last month in Vancouver.

While nothing is known so far as the movie's plot goes, insiders suggest the film may involve Godzilla destroying some buildings, maybe fighting another monster, and the U.S. Military "Giving it all we've got!" but still not finding the monsters weakness.

Review: Evil Dead (2013)

Evil Dead isn't a scary film. Evil Dead is a bloody, disgusting, extremely well-made crowd-pleaser that will satisfy not only the gore-junkies; but the teenager audience who sadly hasn't had enough films like this.

Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence possesses them until only one is left to fight for survival

 Evil Dead is being touted as *THE* film to see for a pants-shittingly good time and for lots and lots of blood. While I can personally attest to the fact the film isn't exactly scary, spare a few really well done jump-scares, it gives bloody a whole new definition.

The story follows the original film's pretty well. 5 friends in a cabin, they accidentally summon demons, shit goes wild; but 2013's Evil Dead certainly does a better job of getting you into the characters who, while not Shakespearian by any stretch, do a decent enough job of getting you emotionally involved, with the key emotional core in the film is the relationship between Mia (played by a beautiful and deadly Jane Levy), a drug addict who is using their family's old cabin as the site of her cold-turkey quitting experiment, and her brother David (the sexy and sympathetic Shiloh Fernandez) and it makes it a lot easier to care for those two than Bruce Campbell and his girlfriend's awkward and loveless relationship.

But no one is going to see Evil Dead for the character-driven emotion, are they?

Fede Alvarez, Uruguayan director making his first "Big Hollywood" film honors the material,fought tooth and nail with the studio to try and make the film with as much practical effects as possible, a move whch really elevates the film to another level in terms of technical and aesthetic presentation.
The gore is chunky and red, the effects and prosthetics are on a whole other level of believability. Evil Dead is THE best looking horror film in years and will make your stomach curl at all the raw dismemberment, painful execution, and viscous mutilation.

Alvarez is also a pro behind the camera, making the film look better than most Best-Picture 'noms. The lighting and camera-work harkens back to not only classic horror; but injected with a definite "new age" style that will cement Alvarez as hot commodity in not only the horror industry; but all across the spectrum.

The film is a definite crowd-pleaser, and if you're into the whole "movie experience". The crowd I saw it with gasped and screamed, which is one of the first times I've seen a film impact it's audience that much in a while. If you have a free slot this weekend (and a strong stomach) you need to see Evil Dead because let's face it, no matter how awesome 3-D Jurassic Park is, THIS is the movie everyone will be talking about.