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Next in the TV Show Remake Craze: Charlie’s Angels
16 November 2009 10:43 AM, PST
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The remake bug has made its transition from the big screen to the small screen. This infectious virus, which the Cdc (Center for Disease Control) has categorized as the most aggressive ever, has been mutated and become a full-fledged epidemic among the major television networks. It started a couple of years ago when NBC tried to remake two classic shows from the 70’s and 80’s, Bionic Woman and Knight Rider.
ABC has already showed symptoms of the bug with its most recent remakes of V and Melrose Place. Now, according to Variety, ABC’s next attempt will be the 70’s female spy show Charlie’s Angels. Josh Friedman, who helped adapt Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles for Fox, Leonard Goldberg who was a producer for the original Charlie’s Angels, Steve McPherson, and Drew Barrymore (who was in the movie version of the show in 2000 and its 2003 sequel) are all attached to the project.
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- Paul Young
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‘The Fourth Kind’ Abduction Featurette and Genre Picks
2 November 2009 10:15 AM, PST
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If you have been eagerly anticipating Friday’s release of The Fourth Kind, here is a creepy little featurette from Universal and Yahoo Movies to prime you for the movie — which you can watch after the jump. It’s no spoiler to note that the plot of the movie has to do with missing people in Alaska, and possible alien abduction. This featurette provides a back-story, so to speak, about the four different kinds of alien encounters.
Still can’t sate your appetite for alien abduction? If so, take a look at these other genre titles while you are biding your time. And, look for our review of The Fourth Kind on Friday.
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – Arguably the best known in the genre. This movie terrified me when I saw it as a child. Steven Speilberg’s follow up to Jaws racked up several oscar nominations and won for best cinematography.
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- Shannon Hood
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Three Join Cast of ‘Let The Right One In’ Remake
2 October 2009 12:07 PM, PDT
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A few months ago we reported on the possibility of The Road star, Kodi Smith-McPhee, starring in the upcoming unnecessary remake of the Swedish language horror-romance, Let The Right One In, this time titled Let Me In (there was a recent short-lived name change to “Fish Head.” Don’t ask…). And today we learn - by way of Heat Vision Blog - that McPhee has, indeed, been cast in the lead role, along with Kick-Ass’s Chloe Moretz as the lead vampire girl and the Oscar-nominated Richard Jenkins as her “guardian.” They fill the shoes of original actors Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson and Per Ragnar, respectively (as shown above).
The producers of Let Me In were reportedly in talks with the two youngsters, McPhee and Moretz, over the summer, but were trying to work out the adult component that, “best served the triangular combination,” with an eye on such things as chemistry and scheduling.
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- Ross Miller
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In Remembrance: 9-11-2001
11 September 2009 7:16 AM, PDT
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[This is a re-publication of an article that we wrote one year ago. I think it captures the moment and our feelings very well. - Editor]
I know everyone is pretty busy, but I’d like to suggest that everyone, but for a moment, take pause from your busy day and remember those whom we lost on 9/11, that tragic day in 2001.
The selfless heroes who charged into the carnage to help people,
The terrified victims in the towers not knowing what, or why.
The selfless Search And Rescue folk who endured through what they found in the ensuing days.
I cannot conceive.
A few days later, I was on a flight to New England. Yes, I flew.
The airports were an eerie kind of empty you’d only see in a Stephen King movie.
Though a week later, the newspaper racks held old papers from the 10th of September. What was important the day before, was no longer an issue this day.
My connecting flight flew over the smoking site. There were very few of us,
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- Bruce Simmons
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9
9 September 2009 7:55 AM, PDT
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9
Directed by: Shane Acker
Cast: Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer
Running Time: 1 hr 15
Rating: PG 13
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Chris De Salvo and Morrow McLaughlin battle it out in He Said/She Said … 9
De Salvo’s scorecard review of 9 (3/10)
McLaughlin’s scorecard review of 9 (9/10)
Plot: In the post-apocalypse, all life has been decimated by an army of robots. The last remnants of humanity are a group of hodge-podge, mechanical dolls that were created by a scientist before his death.
Who’s It For? This movie is for adults and adults only. Precocious (notice I said precocious and not spooky and desensitized) kids might be able to stomach all the violence and relentless peril, but it’s a bad, bad idea. Nightmares, people, seriously.
Expectations: I hoped for something good and I was more than rewarded.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Elijah Wood as #9: You know what impresses me the most about voice talent?
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- Morrow McLaughlin
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Disney Remaking ‘Flight Of The Navigator’
26 May 2009 10:27 AM, PDT
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I thought all the talk of board game and bubblegum movies would give us a break from news of remakes, and yet Hollywood is there to oblige us with the latter once again. This time it’s the cult 1986 film Flight of the Navigator that’s getting the update treatment.
Let the anticipation and excitement commence… not…
The Flight of the Navigator remake will be written by Brad Copeland, best known for writing Arrested Development, as well as for My Name is Earl and the funny-at-times TV show Grounded for Life. Oh, and don’t tell anyone, but he also wrote Wild Hogs. Yeah, way to go on that one, Copeland…
Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will be acting as producers on the remake, with the executive producer from the original, John Hyde, stepping back into the role of exec producer for the remake.
I don’t know about you,
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- Ross Miller
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Disneys Flight Of The Navigator Returns
26 May 2009 3:56 AM, PDT
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It seems like eventually every movie will be rebooted. Once an original films audience reaches a certain state of advanced decrepitude, the time comes to polish up the original with nice shiny effects and drop it on a new generation of moviegoers who are blissfully unaware of how much the original may have sucked. Because of the recent success of Race to Witch Mountain, Disney is digging through the dark depths of their catalogue for the next film to get the new car finish.
“Flight of the Navigator” starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Howard Hesseman and even Paul Reubens. Navigator told the pretty interesting Sci-Fi story of a kid that disappears one day only to reappear 8 years later not having aged a single day. A spaceship is found tangled in some power lines near him. What a coincidence! Arrested Developments writer Brad Copeland will pen the script and David Hoberman and
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Flight Of The Navigator Gets A Reboot
25 May 2009 11:58 PM, PDT
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Disney have already revived Tron from its '80s lights-and-leotards resting place, and now it is planning to do the same for classic kids-in-space adventure, Flight of the Navigator.It comes as no surprise after the success of this spring's Race To Witch Mountain, which saw Disney bring new life to another family sci-fi franchise. It will join the raft of remakes currently in production, set to pay tribute to the childhoods of twenty and thirty-somethings everywhere, such as The Neverending Story and The Karate Kid.Navigator, which has the most memorable dog-based opening sequence in any film, will be taken in hand by Arrested Development and Wild Hogs writer Brad Copeland, and produced by the duo about to bring us Bruce Willis in Surrogates, David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. Executive producer of the 1986 film, John Hyde, will oversee the proceesings here also.Flight of the Navigator was an unremarkable cinema release,
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Another Flight Of The Navigator
25 May 2009 11:41 PM, PDT
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The development bods at the Mouse House have been digging through the kid pic files again – and have seized on Flight Of The Navigator for its latest remake.
The 1986 film saw Joey Cramer as David Freeman, a 12-year-old kid snatched by an alien spaceship in 1978, only to crop up eight years later with zero memory of his time aboard.
Naughty Nasa types try to use his link with the ship to get access, but he escapes with the vessel and, helped by its alien pilot Max (voiced by Pee Wee Herman), tries to locate his family.
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- James White
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Flight Of The Navigator Is The Next Memory Headed For Remake Ruin
25 May 2009 10:05 PM, PDT
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It was bound to happen. With all the remakes someone was going to hit on it eventually. I've dodge the bullet till now, but this time it's my turn. Disney has set it sights on destroying my childhood by remaking the one movie which most defined me as a kid. Get ready to watch The Rock take a giant shit on Flight of the Navigator.
Sure they haven't cast The Rock yet, but you know it's only a matter of time. THR reports that Brad Copeland is currently writing the remake for Disney and John Hyde, who produced the original 1986 film is also producing the second one. Unless they can find also find a time machine to de-age Sarah Jessica Parker, I'm not sure that Hyde's presence really does much to make me feel all that better.
The original movie was a dream come true for any science fiction obsessed
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Disney to Remake Flight of the Navigator
25 May 2009 9:02 PM, PDT
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Disney is developing a remake of the 1986 sci-fi adventure movie Flight of the Navigator. Brad Copeland has signed on to write the screenplay and John Hyde, who executive produced the first one, will be back to produce.
The original told the story of a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spacecraft in 1978 and reappears eight years later, still the same age and with no memory of what happened. Nasa scientists discover a connection between the boy and a downed spacecraft and try to exploit the boy, who ultimately escapes with the ship and attempts to reunite with his family.
The movie grossed only $17 million when it was released but was later rediscovered on VHS, becoming a cult hit. It was directed by Randal Kleiser (Grease) and starred Joey Cramer, Paul Reubens, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Copeland previously wrote Wild Hogs for Disney and is writing Nightcrawlers at Warners.
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- James Cook
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Four Inevitable Disney Live-Action Remakes
12 March 2009 6:28 AM, PDT
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This week's "Race to Witch Mountain," starring Dwayne Johnson and Carla Gugino, is the latest remake-- ahem, modern reimagining from Walt Disney Studios. Though the Mouse House's animated classics remain sacrosanct (if the jumping-off point of direct-to-dvd sequels), the live-action library has been pillaged for endless redos intended for theaters or the Disney Channel, which is where a previous remake of "Escape to Witch Mountain" starring Robert Vaughn and Brad Dourif premiered in 1995. Nothing is safe from the remake button over at Disney, so here are four more properties we fully expect to receive the same treatment in the near future, and proposals on how best to bring the projects into the 21st century. The only reason the immortally cheesy "Tron" didn't make the list is because they're already shooting a sequel.
"The Black Hole" (1979)
Directed by Gary Nelson
One of the least kid-friendly casts in Disney history (including hep cats Robert Forster,
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- Matt Singer
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