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Earlier this year it was revealed that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in talks to star in a new, big screen Hercules movie. What joy it was, picturing a movie about the mythical muscleman played by one of the coolest musclemen on the planet.
However, there hasn’t been any visible movement on the film, and it seemed to have taken a backburner to even bigger news for The Rock, like his rumored interest in headlining a Lobo movie, and the whole G.I. Joe: Retaliation reshoot debacle. But now a fire has been lit under the project, and Variety has just broken news on Twitter that Paramount and MGM will jointly produce the film.
The film is an adaptation of the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian War, and was scripted by Ryan Condol. It sounds like an ensemble action story about Hercules’ not-so-merry band of murderous men, which further sounds like a movie to be happily watched. The question is, will the studio let the film go the R-rated route? Will it stick with PG-13?
Either way, I’d watch The Rock in anything, and it certainly seems like Paramount and MGM are betting a whole lot of other people feel the same way.
READ MORE
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/the-rock-hercules-movie/10221
When John Carpenter’s Halloween debuted back in 1978, it wasn’t readily apparent just how influential his indie horror film would eventually become.
The tale of a group of babysitters menaced by an escaped mental patient named Michael Myers wasn’t the first slasher film, but it is arguably the most important one. Inspired by classics like Hitchcock’s Psycho and Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, Carpenter took elements of those two features and twisted them into something uniquely his own.
What really makes Halloween stand out is Myers. With this character, Carpenter essentially paved the way for Jason, Freddy and countless other supernatural slasher villains. Even more impressive is that he did it in such a fashion that audiences never felt cheated.
Carpenter’s remake of The Thing is a masterful exercise in claustrophobic horror with a level of paranoia that equals Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Kurt Russell and an all-male ensemble cast are trapped in an Antarctic research station with a malevolent alien presence that can become anyone or anything it comes into contact with. Tensions rise as each man begins to suspect the others of being the monster – all leading to one of the greatest horror film endings in the history of the genre.
If you’re a newcomer to Carpenter’s work – or just want to check out some of his greatest hits, start with the films above and then check out the following:
Prince of Darkness : Donald Pleasance plays a priest that must help a team of scientists prevent the coming of the Antichrist.
The Fog: Two generations of Scream Queens — Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother, Janet Leigh — star in this ghost story about a cursed seaside town.
Christine: A Stephen King story about a killer, jealous car? Only Carpenter could have pulled this one off.
Vampires: A rare Western horror film with James Woods starring as a vampire hunter.
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/john-carpenter-horror-influence/9964
WARNING: Don’t read this late at night. Or alone. Or if you are sensitive to spirits who might be lurking over your shoulder. The Paranormal Activity franchise wants to feel real: the cameras are fuzzy, the houses are messy, and the actors look like people you’ve seen at the mall. But how realistic are the actual hauntings? Movies.com consulted Stephen Robinson, a cameraman who searched for spirits in 26 countries for the reality show Ghost Hunters International. He’s an expert in how to shoot the supernatural—so does he think Paranormal Activity 4 gets it right?
Movies.com: Can cameras really record ghosts?
Stephen Robinson: Yes, cameras can record paranormal activity—it’s hard to say “ghosts”—but paranormal activity for sure. You’ll see faces, outlines of figures. Sometimes they’ll seem well-defined, other times you’ll see reflections and shadows, which is what they call “matrixing.” Then there’s orbs, but a lot of times those turn out to be dust. Full manifestations—moving and clearly defined—are very rare. I don’t know anyone who’s been able to catch a real and true ghost like the kind you’d think of, but they can catch unexplained things for sure.
Movies.com: There’s a cat and a dog in the Paranormal 4 house, and at times they both seem freaked out. Are they susceptible to seeing spirits?
Robinson: Animals are just like children: they’re more sensitive to paranormal activity. We’ve actually used dogs a few times. There’s been situations where animals won’t go into certain rooms—they’ll sit there and bark. Dogs seem to be more sensitive than cats in my experience. Cats just aren’t even tripping. Some lady said her bird just kept saying the name of someone who didn’t live there, but I was like, “Is that really evidence?”
READ MORE of the conversation with cameraman Stephen Robinson here. Real or not, here’s the trailer for Paranormal Activity 4. SEE IT
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/paranormal-activity-truth/9997
Here, in a nutshell, are movies.com’s most anticipated movies due out this fall. Short and sweet. READ MORE
PunkMetalMamma’s pick? The feel good Christmas Day release of Quentin Tarantino’s “Django: Unchained”. See the trailer HERE.
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/photo-news/our-top-25-most-anticipated-fall-2012-films/9293
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