If you’re going to turn a song into a movie, you might as well adapt one that’s damn near feature length in its own right. That’s precisely what Radar Pictures is doing, Deadline reports today, as the company is planning on turning the 29-minute Karn Evil 9 into a sci-fi movie. The Emerson, Lake & […]
It looks like Osgood Perkins is out as the director of A Head Full of Ghosts, an adaptation of Paul Tremblay‘s novel, as Deadline reports that Scott Cooper (Antlers) is now directing. The site also reveals that Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) will star. Cooper, the site says, is working on revising […]
For seven seasons that ran from 1977-1984, the hugely popular TV series Fantasy Island brought guests to a mysterious resort island to live out their greatest fantasies. Ricardo Montalbán starred as Mr. Roarke, the mysterious and supernatural-leaning overseer of the resort, who would open each episode with a cryptic warning that wishes never turn out how […]
Jurassic World stars Jake Johnson and Omar Sy, who did not appear in Fallen Kingdom, will be back in the currently untitled Jurassic World 3, Collider reports tonight. Johnson is back as Lowery, with Sy reprising the role of Barry. Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum will all reprise their Jurassic Park roles. Fallen Kingdom stars Justice Smith and Daniella […]
As you may recall, Joe Carnahan (The Grey, Boss Level) has been developing a remake of Indonesian fight film The Raid, and an interesting update comes via Collider this week. Speaking with the site, Carnahan and star Frank Grillo have revealed that their take on The Raid – which was written by Adam G. Simon (Man […]
Butcher Block is a monthly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, we will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans that […]
I find the box office immensely fascinating. There are so many factors at play that us “experts” are pretty much making educated guesses as to what’s successful or not, and as to why. It’s rare when a studio offers some insight into their release, and none of us are privy to their exit reports. It’s […]
Universal has all sorts of interesting monster projects in the works now that their “Dark Universe” is no more, kicking off with Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man this month and continuing with Paul Feig’s Dark Army, Dexter Fletcher’s Renfield, and Elizabeth Banks’s The Invisible Woman. Additionally, Deadline reports that a film titled Monster Mash is […]
After the success of Halloween, John Carpenter returned to horror once more with a traditional ghost story. Co-written with producer Debra Hill, The Fog opens with old Mr. Machen (John Houseman) telling a group of kids around a fire the eerie tale of the clipper ship Elizabeth Dane that sank off the coast of their town nearly a […]
With Scott Derrickson out as director and Sam Raimi(!) currently in talks to take over where he left off, it looks like Marvel’s scary sequel Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness is undergoing a substantial makeover from its original incarnation. THR reports tonight that “Loki” showrunner Michael Waldron has been brought in to work […]