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Evil Spirits (DVD Review)
6 hours ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
House of 1000 Corpses, Dogtown, Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Capricorn One, Nashville, The Day of the Locust, The Great Gatsby, Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In, The Best Years of Our Lives, Weird Science, The Hills Have Eyes, The Hills Have Eyes Part 2, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and From Russia With Love. These are just some of the movies and television shows the cast of Evil Spirits have been in prior to taking on this 1990 release. This amazingly talented cast is set adrift in a story that never manages to live up to its potential – either for fear or for camp.
Karen Black runs a boarding house where her roomers sign over all their government checks – they are all on disability or Social Security and she cashes them gleefully and pockets the money. Once a »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (John Porter)
'Parks & Recreation': Justin Theroux! Oh, and Will Arnett too.
12 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
There has been much anticipation of Amy Poehler's real-life husband Will Arnett guest-starring on her NBC comedy "Parks & Recreation." Which is great and all, because who doesn't like Gob?
But with all that love being showered on Arnett, it's kind of gotten buried that Justin Theroux is also guesting on the episode. Justin Theroux!
Brenda's neighbor/lover Joe on "Six Feet Under"? The mysterious "Cowboy" in "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion"? Drew Barrymore's first love in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle"? The only halfway-watachable person in David Lynch's "Inland Empire"?
Not ringing any bells? Trust us, he's awesome. And multi-talented. In addition to his acting credits, he also wrote "Tropic Thunder" and the upcoming "Iron Man 2."
Fine. Just wait until Jan. 14 and see for yourself.
Until then, here's a couple of more clips featuring Poehler and Arnett, since that's who you came to see:
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- editorial@zap2it.com
Alamo programmers’ Top 10 of ‘09…plus Top 20 of the Decade!
13 hours ago | OriginalAlamo.com | See recent AlamoDrafthouseCinema news »
The picture to the left has nothing to do with anything released in the last ten years, but it is from a movie.
Here in the Alamo programming office, movies are a big deal. We each watch approximately 215 movies per day, seven days a week, no holidays.
It’s a tough job…especially when it comes time to narrow down our favorites at the end of each year. It’s even more difficult to figure out what the best 20 films were in the past decade. But we do it all for you.
The lists below represent the most powerful and/or entertaining films of 2009, plus the finest we’ve seen since Y2K destroyed civilization. Take a look, disagree, get furious and attack us on the street.
Warning: We’ve got switchblades.
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Tim League
1) Mother -
I saw Mother at Cannes this year and it blew me out of the water. »
- zack
'Dune': A Mini Cheat Sheet On The History Of The Remake
16 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
The arrival of "Taken" director Pierre Morel on the planet Arrakis is the latest development in the twisty history of a big screen remake of "Dune." Based on the 1965 sci-fi novel, David Lynch's version—awesomely weird, or just plain weird, depending on your sensibilities—arrived in 1984. Little over two decades later, rumors that a second cinematic take was in the works.
In the fall of 2007, Ain't It Cool News suggested that "Friday Night Lights" director Peter Berg was Paramount's top choice to helm the remake. That December, MTV News exclusively confirmed the news.
"If it weren't for the writer's strike, we'd be in it right now," Berg told us.
Describing the size and scope of the film, the director said, "Big, big, big."
Exciting stuff, no doubt. But then we didn't hear anything for a while. Berg launched his very first blockbuster with "Hancock" and fielded an avalanche of other offers, »
- Eric Ditzian
Taken’s Pierre Morel to Direct Dune
17 hours ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Pierre Morel, whose Taken starring Liam Neeson was one of last year’s sleeper hits, has been set to direct Dune, the latest film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic novel. Paramount will be releasing the new venture. David Lynch directed a much anticipated film version back in 1984, but the superproduction starring Kyle MacLachlan (photo) was deemed too disjointed and confusing by critics and apparently by audiences as well, as the film turned out to be an expensive flop. The special effects, however, were quite good for the time, and the film offered a stellar supporting cast that included Virginia Madsen, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, Linda Hunt, Francesca Annis, Silvana Mangano, Sting, and Freddie Jones. According to Variety, in late [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Free Fango screening! Terribly Happy in NYC
17 hours ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Fangoria will host a free screening of Terribly Happy, the award-winning Danish thriller, at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street; at Laight Street, one block below Canal Street) on Tuesday, January 12 at 7 p.m. Compared to the films of David Lynch (Blue Velvet) and the Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men, Blood Simple), the critically acclaimed Terribly Happy follows a Copenhagen police officer (Jakob Cedergren) who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Co-writer/director Henrik Ruben Genz will attend the Fango night and participate in a Q&A following the screening. Macabre and dark, Terribly Happy has won 19 major international awards and is the official Danish selection for Best Foreign Film for the 2010 Academy Awards.
The Fango Terribly Happy screening will be a free show; to obtain tickets, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA Staff)
‘Taken’ Director Taking On ‘Dune’ Remake
19 hours ago | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
It’s been reported by Entertainment Weekly, that Pierre Morel – director of last year’s Taken, and the fun, French Parkour film, District B13, has signed on to direct the new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. The movie, which was originally to be helmed by Peter Berg, kind of fell to the wayside when Berg seemed to become more interested in the (clearly higher quality) property of Battleship: The Movie. The good news is that this means Dune could get many more scenes of throat-punching.
Paramount, the studio backing the new film, is also supposedly looking for a new writer to work on incorporating the sensibilities of the French director. Morel is apparently is looking to make a much closer adaptation than the previous version of the script by Quantum of Solace screenwriter, Josh Zetumer. In case you’re not familiar, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, »
- John Muth
'Dune' Adaptation Goes To 'Taken' Director Pierre Morel
20 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
We've known for awhile now that Peter Berg is going to be too busy with other commitments -- like "Battleship" -- to direct the long-awaited adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel "Dune." As they say in the book however, the Spice must flow. And flow it will, as Paramount has hired a new director to step in for Berg.
The new blood is Pierre Morel, according to a report from EW's Hollywood Insider. director of "Taken," the movie in which -- as MTV Newsroom editor Kyle Anderson puts in -- Liam Neeson shoots the entire population of France in the face. Morel also directed the parkour-flavored "District B13" and the upcoming John Travolta-starring action flick, "From Paris With Love," and he served as the cinematographer on popcorn action fare like "The Transporter," "War" and "Unleashed."
EW also reports that Paramount is on the hunt for a new writer, »
- Adam Rosenberg
Dune set for revamp by Taken director
21 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic, last seen in cinemas in David Lynch's 1984 lurid adaptation, looks set for another screen outing under Pierre Morel
It proved something of a grand folly for David Lynch, whose 1984 adaptation was a commercial and critical flop, while Salvador Dalí and Orson Welles were set to star in a 10-hour version almost a decade earlier. Now Dune, the bestselling science-fiction novel of all time, looks set to be revamped for the 21st century with French director Pierre Morel at the reins.
According to Variety, Morel, best known for directing the Liam Neeson-starring revenge thriller Taken, will also work to hone a screenplay by Peter Berg and Josh Zetumer into a finished product. Berg, of Hancock fame, was previously set to direct, but has decided to work on the forthcoming adaptation of board game Battleship instead.
Morel is said to be a long-time fan of Frank Herbert's 1969 novel, »
- Ben Child
Taken’s Pierre Morel to direct Dune remake
21 hours ago | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
As a David Lynch fan, to the degree I sometimes find myself almost an apologist for some of his more “oblique” work, I have to admit a guilty fondness to his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. True, the special effects have aged worse than Lindsay Lohan under a sunbed, but the film is quite the entertaining production. Yet it would be hard, if not impossible, to deny the source material could be adapted in a much more successful fashion; the mooted Alejandro Jodorowsky version seemed a mouth watering prospect but alas never came to fruition.
Pleasingly then, Empire have announced another director is ready to step up to the plate and take a crack at transferring Herbert’s 1965 tale to the big screen. The man in question is Taken’s Pierre Morel; the director whose new feature From Paris With Love is due out imminently. Whilst Morel’s Liam Neeson starring Taken divided critics, »
- kcasey
Pierre Morel To Direct 'Dune'
21 hours ago | AMC - Script to Screen | See recent AMC - Script to Screen news »
It was announced some time ago that Paramount Studios intended to remake the classic Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel "Dune" (which was done by David Lynch and later for television on Sci-Fi).
"Hitchcock" director Peter Berg was on tap to direct the new film until Berg recently left the project to focus on other ventures.
It is now being reported that Pierre Morel (director of "Taken", "District B-13" and the upcoming "From Paris With Love") has been given the chair to helm the new version.
As someone who really enjoyed both "Taken" and "District", I think this is an interesting choice.
Source: AICN
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- John Campea
Pierre Morel Will Direct “Dune” Remake
22 hours ago | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
French filmmaker Pierre Morel, who directed the hit actioner “Taken” and the upcoming “From Paris With Love,” has signed on to helm new Paramount Pictures’ version of “Dune“, the sci-fi classic novel by Frank Herbert.
Morel is chosen to replace Peter Berg, who decided to drop off the project in October 2009 because he has committed to Universal Pictures’ upcoming action movie “Battleship“.
Entertainment Weekly reports:
“Paramount is now in the process of hiring a new writer to blend Morel’s vision for the film with the original draft penned by Quantum of Solace screenwriter Josh Zetumer”
“Morel plans to make a very faithful adaptation of the 1965 book by Frank Herbert.”
Herbert’s novel—about an intergalactic struggle to control the supply of a valuable spice found only on the remote desert planet Arrakis—remains the biggest selling sci fi novel and it’s still enormously popular.
“Dune” was first turned »
- Allan Ford
Pierre Morel Signs Up For ‘Dune’
23 hours ago | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
News has landed from a far away place in space and time, well, Los Angeles. It is a message of potential greatness, earthlings. The word being spread by Variety at the moment is Taken and From Paris with Love helmer, Pierre Morel, has “taken” over directing duties on sci-fi epic, Dune.
Originally in the hands of Peter Berg (before he jumped ship), it now seems Paramount are mad keen on the French action director to shout “action!” There’s already a script for this done by Josh Zetumer, perhaps Morel’s good friend Luc Besson, will be hired for a re-draft? Since David Lynch was talked into making a version in 1984 on the back of Star Wars success, there has been a mini-series. However, it does appear Paramount want a big screen adaptation…perhaps it will be a thril-logy like Lord of the Rings or something!
Personally I’d like »
- Martyn Conterio
Pierre Morel to Take Dune to Big Screen
5 January 2010 3:07 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Bringing Frank Herbert’s Dune to the big screen has proved consistently problematic, not least how to condense the epic spice swiping saga into an audience friendly running time but finding the right creative team is always a challenge – if David Lynch can’t do it then I don’t know who can…
Paramount Pictures think they have found their man though, according to Variety, as Peter Berg, who had been developing Dune for a while, has left the project to film his war drama Lone Survivor (as well as the bizarre adaptation of the board game Battleship – with aliens…) with Universal and to fill the hole Paramount have elected Taken director Pierre Morel to bring the world of Arrakis to life.
Josh Zetumer’s script will be given a fresh coat of paint to bring it in line with Morel’s vision, but given the weight of expectation and »
- Jon Lyus
Pierre Morel To Direct Dune
5 January 2010 2:41 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Pierre Morel has been hired to replace Peter Berg as the director of the new Dune movie.
The helmer of Taken, District 13 and the upcoming From Paris With Love has come on board to direct the remake of David Lynch's 1984 sci-fi action adventure, which was set in the distant future and told the story of the appearance of a man who may be the prophet a long-suffering galaxy has been praying for.
Dune is scheduled for release later this year.
Georgine Waller
>> Real the whole article | on Screenrush - Tuesday 5 January 2010
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Dune Finds a New Director
5 January 2010 1:37 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
One reason Dune keeps getting remade is that the original novel offers up one of the most richly imagined worlds in science fiction with lots of room for the director to give the story his own spin.
David Lynch's ill-fated 1984 adaptation was a mixed bag that ended up pleasing neither the critics nor even the director, himself. The 2000 miniseries adaptation was more faithful to the original and got a bit better reception, picking up a couple of Emmys.
The latest version was originally to be directed by Peter Berg, but he abandoned ship in October. Now Taken director Pierre Morel is taking the helm, promising to make "a very faithful adaptation." The first draft of the script was penned by Quantum of Solace's Josh Zetumer and had already picked up some pretty positive buzz, but the studio says it's looking around for a new writer to help infuse »
- Bill Stouffer
Dune Gets New Director
5 January 2010 1:05 AM, PST | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »
Paramount Pictures might be without Peter Berg, who exited Dune over two months back, but they've found a replacement.
Pierre Morel to Direct Dune
Though Morel is relatively untested for a film of Dune's scale, he did do one helluva job with Taken, the little actioner that took the box office by storm; so I guess he's good to go with that part of the genre.
As most know, a Dune adaptation was attempted back in 1984 by David Lynch, but it wasn't considered a financial success. I personally thought it was pretty damn cool, save for that creepy little girl. »
Pierre Morel Gets Taken to a 'Dune' Remake With Love
5 January 2010 12:41 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The news Taken director Pierre Morel would direct Dune, a feature film adaptation of Frank Herbert's highly acclaimed 1965 novel of the same name, hit the digital pages of Entertainment Weekly around 5:45 Pm Pst on Monday, January 4. I didn't immediately jump on the news because I figured I would give David Lynch's not-so-acclaimed 1984 adaptation a once over first (considering the HD DVD had been sitting on my shelf since 2006 and I still hadn't watched it). As it turns out, I don't think I will be watching it again.
Herbert's novel centers on a galactic struggle to control the supply of a valuable spice found only on the desert planet Arrakis and this won't be the first time someone has touched the material since Lynch. In 2000, the Sci-Fi Channel released a three part mini-series adaptation and then followed that up with a sequel, "Children of Dune," in 2003.
More recently, »
- Brad Brevet
Dune Back On Track With Taken's Morel As Director
5 January 2010 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Sci-fi hit Dune is set for another big screen spin with Taken director Pierre Morel in the director's seat.
David Lynch turned Frank Herbert's tale into a hit movie with Sting among his stars in 1984 and the project was turned into a TV mini-series in 2000.
Morel has signed on to direct the latest version after moviemaker Peter Berg quit the project last year.
The new film was scripted by Quantum of Solace writer Josh Zetumer, according to EW.com.
Filming is expected to start later this year. »
Favorite 100 Movies of the Decade (#100-76)
4 January 2010 11:57 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
We're doing this a little different than we did the male and female performances... but we're still skipping the 2009 films -- we'll get to those starting this weekend (I'm not quite ready to start the awards... sorry!). I'm still turning the 2009 movies around on my tongue and deciding how they taste. Had Avatar for a second time tonight. Verdict: deliciously bold flavors ... with a distinct cheese popcorn aftertaste. I will gladly devour it a third time.
Disclaimer 1: As you would surely know if you've ever made such a list, judging/enjoying an entire decade is a very personal thing and also a hopelessly ephemeral process. The movies would be in a different order if the list were made on another day. And decades take years to settle. I didn't know with 100% certainty when the 1990s ended that The Piano, Heavenly Creatures and Boogie Nights would cement themselves as my »
- NATHANIEL R
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