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The Blob Is Getting Another Remake!

The Blob is back (again). Get ready to fear this slowly moving, gelatinous villain! We cannot wait. Last we heard, Rob Zombie was looking to make a remake of this 1958 scifi/horror classic back in 2009, but that’s apparently dead because now Deadline is reporting that director Simon West (The Mechanic, Expendables 2, Con Air,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 22

10 Movie Remakes We’re Glad Never Happened

There is a plague of remakes sweeping across the land right now. While some remakes are decent or worthwhile, a lot of them are pointless at best and travesties at worst. And a lot of them are clearly terrible ideas. Here are 10 movie remakes we are overjoyed never got made. Oh, and the Akira…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 14

An Explorers remake is happening. Hey, remember Explorers?

Explorers, the little known film by Joe Dante about a couple of kids who build a spaceship, is getting a full-fledged reboot, thus creating the first remake from our childhood that we’re really indifferent towards. THR is reporting that Paramount’s smaller Insurge label has hired the writers behind Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 13

Zoe Saldana will star in the Rosemary’s Baby miniseries reboot

The more we hear about the Rosemary’s Baby miniseries remake, the more excited we get. And now that Zoe Saldana has been cast in the lead, we’re hooked. Just look at that talent behind this 4-hour feature. Deadline is reporting that Saldana will join director Agnieszka Holland (The Wire, Treme) in Paris for the newly…

Television Meredith Woerner Jan 9

Rosemary’s Baby will be rebooted as a NBC miniseries

The trend of horror television will not stop — hooray! Entertainment Weekly reports that the classic 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby is getting a rebooted as a four-hour, miniseries on NBC. The new version will be set in Paris (instead of New York City). Scott Abbott and James Wong, of the The X-Files and Final Destination…

Television Meredith Woerner Dec 10

The Problem with Taking Flesh-Eating Babies Too Seriously

Babies are scary. Yeah, okay, they’re cute when they’re not crying, and they smell nice as long as their diapers aren’t full. But overall, they’re squawking little beasts who grow like parasites inside women, before bursting out covered in blood. What I’m saying is, the “killer baby” genre has always made sense to me —…

Movies Louis Peitzman Jun 24

Colin Farrell is a vampire dick in the first ever Fright Night clip

Here’s the first clip from the Fright Night remake. Looks like Colin Farrell has channeled the 80s cheese from the original flick into an even more aggressive vampire villain who loves to ladle on the TMI. The more we see from this feature, the higher our hopes are raised. We loved the trailer and the…

Movies Meredith Woerner May 31

Arnold Schwarzenegger considering Terminator, Predator and Running Man remakes

Over a month ago Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he was ready to start acting again. And now Hollywood has come a calling with a remake, reboot or some sort of spin-off of every great action movie he’s ever been in. At the “Arnold Classic” (a bodybuilding seminar) Schwarzenegger told the website Arnold Fans exactly what…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 7

Glee creator could remake the Rocky Horror Picture Show — for real

Glee’s Halloween episode, in which the Gleeks do Rocky Horror Picture Show, has sparked a lot of press attention. And now it turns out the show’s creator, Ryan Murphy, is actually in talks to remake the movie. Don’t get us wrong, we’re over-the-moon excited about the Glee’s Rocky Horror episode. It should be plenty of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 19

Mass nostalgia and kielbasa golems: what scifi can learn from The Expendables

The Expendables is big loud action movie in which Naugahyde-hewn war gods turn junta lackeys into goulash for the better half of 103 minutes. It’s screamingly ordinary, but the mass nostalgia it hawks is a genre cinema paradigm. What’s the Stallone-directed Expendables about? A team of mercenaries goes to South America, tries to overthrow a…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Aug 15

Logan’s Run remake finally finds a director

Brace yourselves for sexy parties from a spandex-clad dystopian future, because Warner Brothers’ Logan’s Run movie may actually see the light of day! Beloved commercial and short film creator Carl Rinsch is in talks to direct the futuristic remake. We honestly thought the Logan’s Run remake was lost somewhere in movie purgatory (we can even…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 26

Paul Greengrass spares Fantastic Voyage from his shaky-cam lens

Paul Greengrass is no longer tied to Fox’s 3D reboot of the Fantastic Voyage. Some speculate that this is because producers James Cameron and Jon Landau were never really in love with Greengrass shaky cam style. Neither were we. [Deadline]

io9 Meredith Woerner May 20

Has The Scaly Face Of The New Godzilla Surfaced?

Last week we found out that Godzilla was prepping for a full reboot, coming out in 2012. Could this possibly be his brand new face? https://gizmodo.com/another-american-godzilla-movie-set-to-attack-5504707 Undead Backbrain found this exclusive, and later heard from the photographer, Wgzilla, that this was one of the designs from the new Godzilla 3-D movie. Is this the same…

Movies Meredith Woerner May 6

Predators Scribes To Write A New He-Man Movie

The screenwriters who penned Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming Predators have been hired to write a new Masters of the Universe script. I’m sorry, Hollywood. You can remake MotU, but you’ll never replace Dolph Lundgren. My He-Man killed Apollo Creed. Mike Finch and Alex Litvak of Predators are writing Columbia Pictures’ adaptation of Masters of the Universe.…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Apr 12

Is Zac Efron The New Flash Gordon?

High School Musical dreamboat Zac Efron is rumored to play spacefaring hero/Freddie Mercury muse Flash Gordon. Could this all be just a disinformation campaign by Ming the Merciless? According to Digital Spy, the fresh-faced Efron is in the running for Alex Raymond’s comic strip hero. However, we’re not sure how legit these rumors are given…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

5 Disney Ideas That Deserve The Tron Treatment

With Disney refurbishing Tron, The Black Hole, and Flight of the Navigator, it’s obvious the Mouse House is mining its past for modern greenbacks. What Disney properties deserve an update? And no, we don’t mean Hall of Presidents: The Movie. Since the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney hasn’t been trying to capture lightning…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 15

Fang Me, It’s Really Happening — Fright Night Gets A Director

Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) is the new rumored director of the Fright Night reboot. So Who’s going to sing “Good Man in a Bad Time” by Ian Hunter, in the club seduction scene? [LA Times Blog]

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 8

A Flood Of 80s Comedy Remakes, From Big To Bill And Ted

Now this truly is a bogus journey. Three iconic 1980s films are being dug out of the graveyard of Hollywood ideas, and dusted off for another go. One of these has got to be a joke, but which? To the mooted remake of Weird Science, add these new contenders: Honey I Shrunk The Kids A…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 8

Hollywood Digs Up Pet Sematary For A Remake

Apparently people never quite learned that “dead is better,” because Stephen King’s Pet Sematary is being brought back to life, with a remake. Let’s just hope the remake, from the writer of 1408, doesn’t put little Gage in 3-D. Hollywood Reporter explains that 1408 screenwriter, Matthew Greenberg, is trying his hand at another King adaptation…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 5

The New Crow Could Start Flying This Summer

Director and screenwriter Stephen Norrington speculates that the final draft for his new Crow film will be done this month, which means filming can begin this summer. Commence mascara-streaked crying, Crow purists. [Mania]

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 18

YARM

The Blob Is Getting Another Remake!

10 Movie Remakes We’re Glad Never Happened

An Explorers remake is happening. Hey, remember Explorers?

Zoe Saldana will star in the Rosemary’s Baby miniseries reboot

Rosemary’s Baby will be rebooted as a NBC miniseries

The Problem with Taking Flesh-Eating Babies Too Seriously

Colin Farrell is a vampire dick in the first ever Fright Night clip

Arnold Schwarzenegger considering Terminator, Predator and Running Man remakes

Glee creator could remake the Rocky Horror Picture Show — for real

Mass nostalgia and kielbasa golems: what scifi can learn from The Expendables

Logan’s Run remake finally finds a director

Paul Greengrass spares Fantastic Voyage from his shaky-cam lens

Has The Scaly Face Of The New Godzilla Surfaced?

Predators Scribes To Write A New He-Man Movie

Is Zac Efron The New Flash Gordon?

5 Disney Ideas That Deserve The Tron Treatment

Fang Me, It’s Really Happening — Fright Night Gets A Director

A Flood Of 80s Comedy Remakes, From Big To Bill And Ted

Hollywood Digs Up Pet Sematary For A Remake

The New Crow Could Start Flying This Summer

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