You know what? It's time to Reboot and Remake Hollywood!

This weekend co-signed on the reality everybody knows... REMAKES DON'T TURN A PROFIT! If you take a look at the last 5 years most the remakes don't amount to much. Yeah, 'Clash of the Titans' did well, but it got by through the 'curiosity factor'. And once folks saw the mess, they hated it.

I don't know if the Execs are just foolish or lazy; but this remake-prequel-poor plot plan ain't working. Hollywood movies are not turning out huge profits like the 80s and 90s. In fact, there only handfuls of movies that are making real money. Why is that? Because folks are tired of this foolishness!

If anything needs to rebooted or remade, it's Hollywood. They need to get these folks outta there! These are examples of what could help:

• We need moguls and execs to move beyond this horrid phase and start making great movies again.
• Stop remaking films, just re-release them. Think of the money and time saved!
• Don't make any of these fresh faced movie makers more than what they are. They need at lease a Golden Globe nomination, not a MTV Movie award.
• Get better writers with a lot of life experiences. The experiences some these writers have are blacking out at a frat parties and bisexual flings. Find better writers, Hollywood!
• Read scripts and stop passing them to college interns to read. That's why we get the mess that we do.
• Let writers write!
• Be open to new ideas. We are tired of the books-comics-board games styled flicks. Let's try something else.

We deserve better and it's time we get better. Hopefully, I can be a part of this change someday.

Who Asked For This: Scarface REMAKE?

Hollywood is dead!

Deadline posted this horrid piece of news. A possible 'Scarface' remake:

Universal Pictures is developing a new version of Scarface, the title first released in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana.


The film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: an outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a twisted version of the American dream, becoming a kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition. The studio is keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment, but ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions. In the 1932 Scarface, an Italian (Paul Muni) took over Chicago, and in the Brian De Palma-directed remake, a Cuban cornered the cocaine trade in 1980s Miami, only to be consumed by it. Ann Dvorak, George Raft and Boris Karloff starred in the original and Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer and Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio starred in the remake.

Seriously, how do this folks have jobs?

Who Asked For This: The 'Bewitched' Series Remake

Great Hera, Goddammit! Great Hera! Variety reports that CBS is developing a new version of 'Bewitched'. They have already ordered the script.

Here's the scoop:

It's no surprise that CBS would gravitate to a project with a pre-sold brand like "Bewitched," having scored one of the few hits of the 2010-11 season with "Hawaii Five-0," another TV reboot. Sony also is behind another remake getting buzz heading into the coming season, "Charlie's Angels," on ABC.

Is creativity and risk taking dead in Hollywood? Am I ready for this mess as a new career?

Who Asked For This: The 'Dirty Dancing' Remake

Why is this happening? The movie that made me fall in love with Patrick Swayze and dance freaky on every boy is getting remade.

Deadline has the scoop:

Lionsgate has set Kenny Ortega to direct Dirty Dancing, the remake of the 1987 Emile Ardolino-helmed film about a pampered young girl who summers with her upscale family at an establishment in the Catskills and falls in love with the resident dance instructor. It brings Ortega full circle, since he choreographed and came up with the grinding "dirty dancing" that made the original sleeper hit one of the most profitable independent films ever made to that point. 

I know Kenny can do this, but he could also do something new. I don't want another version of DD. Just leave it alone. Let's try something new, for once.

Who Asked For This: 'The Bodyguard' Remake

Oh Hollywood... Oh!

For some reason, they want to remake The Bodyguard. Christina! Bring me the Ax!

Warner Bros is rebooting its 1992 hit The Bodyguard, the film that paired Kevin Costner with Whitney Houston and became for its time one of the biggest global hits in studio history with a $411 million worldwide gross.


The film will be scripted by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, whose action comedy script Family Getaway made the 2010 Black List and is a priority project at Warner Bros. Dan Lin will produce through his Lin Pictures banner, and Mark Bauch is co-producer.

Why? Nobody wants to see this. Why?

Interesting Quote: Brad Fuller

"Lots of rumors out there. I want to set the record straight on freddy and Jason. First, let's talk Jason: [Damian] Shannon and [Mark] Swift wrote a great script. We are ready to go, when New Line is ready. But as of yet, they are not ready."

"As for Freddy, as far as I know, there isnt even talk of writing another script. Rated R Horror movies, right now, don't seem to generate interest from the studios. Everyday we want to hear from any studio that they want a horror movie, but it hasn't happened. So right now we are working on a handful of films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Ouija."

Brad is the producer of both remakes. I'm actually glad to hear this.

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New Poster: I Spit on Your Grave remake

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Who Asked for This?: The Remake of Monster Squad

My childhood is dying by the minute.

More remakes are ripping through the 80s flicks like a lawn mower!

They are going after Monster Squad!

Paramount Pictures is remaking the 1987 film The Monster Squad. Rob Cohen, who produced the original, hopes to direct the remake. Cohen will produce with Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, and they’re meeting with writers.

A group of kids who worship the classic monsters suddenly discover that Dracula is in town, and he’s got his pals Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Gill Man and The Mummy with him. The kids must stop their efforts to find an amulet that will give the creatures control of the world. Sounds a bit cheesy, but the film is beloved by fanboys.

Michael Bay? NOOOOO! We geeks must be cursed!

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Remakes Shemakes: The Brood

After reading this, I fell into a mini depression.

Breck Eisner parted ways with Universal's remake of "Creature From the Black Lagoon" earlier this year, fans of the 1950s camp classic wondered if and when the new film would ever see the light of day.

But now the story of Gill-Man and his victims is getting a new director -- and possibly some new momentum. Carl Rinsch, the hot commercials director who recently signed on to direct the samurai adventure "47 Ronin" for Universal, is now also in talks to direct "Creature From the Black Lagoon" for the studio.

The movie, which was originally shot and shown in 3D -- a very primitive, 1950s kind of 3D -- revolves around a mythic monster who spooks scientists (and the requisite beautiful damsel) in the Amazon.

Meanwhile, Eisner has signed on to a film that's kind of new but kind of familiar (and scary): "The Brood." That's the David Cronenberg horror flick about a woman who telepathically communicates with her group of mutant children, instructing them to act out violently. Eisner's on board to direct the new version, which is written by Cory Goodman for financier Spyglass Entertainment.

I can't believe this! This is a masterpiece!

I need a drink!

Great Hera! They are Remaking Fright Night!

I feel betrayed!

They are remaking Fright Night and using a noted "Buffy" scribe.

"Mad Men" writer-producer Marti Noxon has been hired to pen DreamWorks Studios' revamp of the 1985 horror comedy "Fright Night." Before her work on AMC's "Mad Men," Noxon was a writer-producer on the bloodsucker series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," so fangs and stakes are in her blood.

Producers Michael De Luca, Michael Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig set up the "Fright" project in May. DreamWorks executive Mark Sourian is overseeing for the studio.

Marti, why? This is wrong! Fright Night is a classic! The writer and director, Tom Holland vetoed this. I was at the L.A. screening of FN when he said a remake would be bad!

My heart is broken!

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Because no one Cares... 20th Century Fox wants to relaunch Fantastic Four

Why? Why? Who asked for this?

While Disney lays down a $4 billion bet on the future of Marvel's superheroes, 20th Century Fox has already begun overhauling one of its big Marvel franchises, "Fantastic Four," to take the property beyond the two films already made.

Akiva Goldsman has been hired to oversee the reboot as producer. Michael Green, the co-exec producer of TV's "Heroes" who co-wrote "Green Lantern," will write the script for the new "Fantastic Four."

Fox wouldn't comment on its plans, but the moves are evidence that Marvel franchises do have enduring lifespans.

We seen this mess before, why are they doing this again?

Were fans screaming about this? No!

So why? Whyyyy?

Maybe Maleficent can put a spell on 20th Century Fox to stop this mess!

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How to RUIN a Horror Series: Halloween 3D?

I am done, y'all, done.

After reading this, I'm lost for words.

There's another Halloween coming out in the summer of 2010. However, this one may be different...

The independent studio's co-Chairman Bob Weinstein said today that the 3-D sequel, titled, appropriately enough, "Halloween 3D," is in development.

The investment it takes to shoot movies in digital 3-D has proved particularly lucrative for horror films. For "The Final Destination," this weekend's No. 1 movie, theaters with at least one 3-D screen earned 3.25 times as much as those that showed the movie in 2-D only, according to distributor Warner Bros. That's substantially higher than for other recent releases

Weinstein said Rob Zombie, who directed "Halloween II" and 2007's reboot of the 31-year-old horror series, won't return for "Halloween 3-D." He said the studio is in negotiations with a new director, whom he declined to name, who has experience in horror and has a "different take" on the franchise.

What the FRAK? A different take? After 8 movies, 2 Rob Zombie-styled flicks and several comic books, the studio believes there's a different take? And to make this a 3D movie is like making it a cheap county fair ride.

I am Michael Myers-ed out! They have bastardized the character, the movie and magic of this series. Michael is no longer The Shape, he is Toucan Sam. Just a character to put on a poster and a DVD box. This is heart-breaking, I know it sounds weird to say that about a Horror movie, but to destroy this series in the name of greed is too much.

This series should end! If I could, I would write the FINAL Halloween. In respect of John Carpenter's work, I would want this movie series to bow out gracefully.

What else can they do?

And why do they want to continue?

Is originality that dead?

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Rob Zombie wants to remake The Blob

Why? Why? Whyyy is this happening? I like Rob Zombie, I'm a fan, but why?

Zombie will write, direct and produce a remake of the 1958 horror classic that launched the career of Steve McQueen. Production will begin next spring.

Zombie's deal to make "The Blob" his next film comes as Dimension opens "Halloween II," the Zombie-directed sequel to his 2007 hit "Halloween."

In the original "Blob," an object from space crashes into a field, containing a red blob-like substance that absorbs the humans it contacts and grows exponentially. While Zombie was a fan of the original, he's formulated a decidedly different take that he would not reveal.

"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."

Rob wants update the already updated Blob movie?

I can't tell you why, but I will say that I'm so inspired to buy the new Final Draft script writing software. I can't sit here and take this madness anymore.

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I just saw Halloween 2 and...

I just saw Halloween 2... And I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. I didn't completely hate, but I didn't love it either.

However, I will keep my review semi-vague by using pros and cons

Pros

• Love the use of the mother and the White Horse. Throughout the movie, you see Michael's mother in a ghostly haze pulling a white horse. It's suppose to be a symbol peace in Michael's head.
• Rob's use of music is always great.
• You felt the small town aura of Haddonfield and chill of the fall season.
• Love Danielle Harris... She will always be Jamie.
  

Cons

• Laurie was no Sidney Prescott. She was a bit whiny and boring. But the actress playing her is great.
• It's a year later and Michael is coming back. But where did he go? Why did he leave? It didn't make since for him to leave town for a year without completing his dark mission.
• He's shot in the head! How do you come back from that?
• I understands that Michael kills to kill, but it seems Michael was killing to eat up the spare time in the flick. Some of his kills didn't make sense for the story's sake. (i.e. The stripper club scene, the van scene and the hillbilly scene)
  
• Michael spent a good chunk of the flick just walking to Haddonfield and killing folks along the way... And eating a dog for a midnight snack.
• This movie made a mockery out the Dr. Loomis character. I was highly disappointed in how he was portrayed. He was like Gale Weathers from Scream.
• I hate the giant version of Michael Myers, I wish he was just above average build.
• Although they tried to give Michael a purpose for killing, it was easily lost half way into the movie.
• The opening dream scene was way too long.
• Laurie goes insane in the end, which could've been drawn out better.
• The feel of Halloween was not there. This was far removed from the original, and that wasn't a good thing.

There was something not so complete about this movie. I left the theater feeling cheated and teased. It could have been better and we could've gotten more. I hope this is it. I think this re-imagining thing has ran its course.

Thanks for RUINING my Holiday, MGM!

This Poltergeist remake is set for a release on November 24, 2010, Thanksgiving weekend.

Not feeling it! Nope!


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Remakes Shemakes: Let Me In

This is the remake of the beautiful and haunting, Let the Right One In.

I love the original, I mean LOVE IT.

So, I was heartbroken to see a remake done so fast. The original is perfect the way it is! I can't understand why Hollywood is putting their greedy hands on this.

However, I will wait to see what this movie has to offer. They better bring it!

Blasphemy, I tell you! Here is the NEW Fame movie trailer

Blasphemous!

I just don't know, y'all.

Give Me the Omegahedron...I have to Stop them from remaking Girls Just Want to Have Fun

This is blasphemous, pure mess.

They can remake Footloose, I hated Footloose (sorry Kevin Bacon, I still love you)

But now, they want to butcher, Girls Just Want to Have Fun.

This is wrong on so many fronts. This is one of my favorite movies...Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, and dirty-sex on legs, Lee Montgomery. It's a classic! Don't Touch It!

Here's the gut-bunching news

Twentieth Century Fox and Lakeshore Entertainment are mounting a remake of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," the 1985 teen comedy that starred Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker.

The comedy will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Miley Cyrus. Lakeshore's Gary Lucchesi and Tom Rosenberg will produce.

The studio has set Michelle Morgan to write a new version of the film, which centered on two girls who share a passion for dancing and the hit show "Dance TV."

Why? WHHHHYYYYY? New Ideas, Hollywood! New Ideas!


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A Buffy Remake...WITHOUT JOSS WHEDON?

This better be a joke and if it is, it ain't funny! This is FOOLISHNESS!!!

A new incarnation of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" could be coming to the big screen. "Buffy" creator Joss Whedon isn't involved and it's not set up at a studio, but Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment are working with original movie director Fran Rubel Kuzui and her husband, Kaz Kuzui, on what is being labeled a remake or relaunch, but not a sequel or prequel.

While Whedon is the person most associated with "Buffy," Kuzui and her Kuzui Enterprises have held onto the rights since the beginning, when she discovered the "Buffy" script from then-unknown Whedon. She developed the script while her husband put together the financing to make the 1992 movie, which was released by Fox. Kuzui later teamed with Gail Berman, then president of Sandollar Television, bringing back Whedon to make the TV series, which was produced by Fox TV and launched on the WB in 1997.

Kuzui and Sandollar received executive producer credits on "Buffy" and its spinoff, "Angel." The new "Buffy" film, however, would have no connection to the TV series, nor would it use popular supporting characters like Angel, Willow, Xander or Spike.

Vertigo and Kuzui are looking to restart the story line without trampling on the beloved existing universe created by Whedon, putting the parties in a similar situation faced by Paramount, J.J. Abrams and his crew when relaunching "Star Trek."
WHAT?? This is an Omega Fail in waiting. No one will watch this and no one will take this seriously! Do they know about the series? Seven years of great TV? This is rogue! So rogue!

And no connection to the character we love? FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL!!!!

I will call on the arctic winds and bring this studio and fools involved down. We Whedonites won't stand for this!

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A Fright Night remake? Crom!!!!

And that's not a happy cry.

Great Hera! Now there is a possibility for a Fright Night remake. Are they smoking cheap crack? You can’t remake Fright Night, it is a classic, it’s perfect the way it is! I don’t know about y’all, but the horror remakes have been a mess. There’s nothing new or truly exciting about any of them and they love to cast the “90210” look-alikes in the roles.

I beg of them to NOT do this. Why would this studio want to remake this movie? And are we over saturated with vampires already?

We have Twilight’s mess, True Blood, the straight to DVD flicks, CW’s future cancellation, The Vampire Diaries, and the horrific Underworld series. The only vampire event that should come out is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but back to the matter at hand.

Fright Night should not be remade. The characters are great, the actors were superb and the story was simple and fun. If this movie is remade, then we will have some Megan Fox-like girl playing Amy, someone from Gossip Girl boy as Charlie, and unknown Emo kid for Evil Ed.

Then Christopher Sarandon’s role…Can’t be done! He owns that character; I can’t imagine someone else in this role and finally Peter Vincent…Again, I can’t see anyone doing this role as well as Roddy McDowall. If this has to be done then continue the story; bring back Charlie and Amy and maybe their kid who has taken a high responsibility in demon hunting. Bring back Evil Ed and his minions, in other words, MAKE A NEW STORY!

These remakes gives me gas!

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