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'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' Producers Want It To Spawn A Franchise
17 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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It should be understood that the new film "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is not technically a remake. Filmmaker Werner Herzog has supposedly never even seen Abel Ferrara's original 1992 film, simply titled "Bad Lieutenant," and the only connections are the title and the fact that both films' protagonists are indeed bad police lieutenants.
Now, according to statements made to the Los Angeles Times in a piece about the second picture, producers Alan and Gabe Polsky hope to continue the "Bad Lieutenant" name as an ongoing franchise.
Initially, the Polskys sought to finance a straight sequel to Ferrara's cult classic, and they wanted both the director and his star, Harvey Keitel, to return. However, that plan didn't pan out due to disagreements over the script. So the producers tapped Herzog instead, and the project became something of a stand-alone sequel, now starring Nicolas Cage as a character unrelated to Keitel's.
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Film Junk Podcast Episode #241: Paranormal Activity and The House of the Devil
2 November 2009 11:38 PM, PST
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0:00 - Intro
8:04 - Headlines: Tom Hardy Confirmed for Mad Max 4, Evil Dead Theatrical Re-release, Paranormal Activity is the Most Profitable Movie?, Ouija Board Movie Gets Lost Writers, Clancy Brown to Play Lobo?, Spider-Man 4 Villain Will Be The Lizard, Neil Marshall or Neill Blomkamp for Dune?, Adam Sandler Signs on for Jack and Jill, Short Circuit Remake Gets Paul Blart Director, Joss Whedon Terminator Letter
33:50 - Review: Paranormal Activity
1:01:08 - Review: The House of the Devil
1:17:20 - Trailer Trash: Prince of Persia, Avatar, Nowhere Boy
1:33:00 - Other Stuff We Watched: Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Dog Bite Dog, Hellraiser, Happy Birthday To Me, It Might Get Loud, Prince of Darkness
1:55:25 - Junk Mail: Encouraging Piracy, Twister Drive-In Urban Legend, Manga, Cannibal The Musical, Stargate, Filmmaker Influences, Remakes of Crappy Movies, Living a Movie, Cloverfield 2
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Terror Tidbits (Fango #288): Celebrating Halloween II
6 October 2009 1:31 PM, PDT
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With Rob Zombie’s Halloween II recently in theaters, featuring the new Michael Myers overturning cars wearing a Buckethead hoodie, it’s important to remember the first sequel in the 31-year franchise. After Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) saved Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) by gunning down bogeyman Michael Myers in the final minutes of John Carpenter’s 1978 landmark, audiences were horrified to find that the Shape had just gotten up and walked away. Where did he go?
After Halloween became a sleeper smash and Universal Pictures acquired the sequel rights, audiences got the answer: He went right into Halloween II. The movie, which opened on its namesake weekend in 1981, begins the same night, as Laurie is taken to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital and Michael follows her there to finish the job. In the process, it’s revealed that Michael is Laurie’s big brother (which means the first film’s scene
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
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The Horrors of Haddonfield: A Halloween Retrospective
5 August 2009 11:31 AM, PDT
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Few films garner a strong enough impact to merit a “classic” label. Even fewer obtain followings large enough to warrant the making of nine sequels. John Carpenter is one of the very few in this business who can lay claim to both accomplishments. Though Halloween began as a small independent feature, it’s now grown into an undeniably successful franchise, and with the release of Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 reboot just around the corner, it doesn’t appear Halloween’s momentum is anywhere near slowing.
The Beginning (1978)
In 1978 John Carpenter and Debra Hill poured the artistic cement that would act as a foundation for what would ultimately become labeled horrors slasher sub-genre (there were a few excellent slasher films preceding Carpenter‘s work, but all failed to grab the attention that Halloween captured), a now pivotal piece of the cinematic related horror puzzle. Halloween, was a low budget (the entire
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
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Reid, Leachman run for The Fields...
29 May 2009 7:39 PM, PDT
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According to the project's Facebook Page, The Fields has picked up some new cast members, including Cloris Leachman (Inglourious Basterds) and Kara Ludwig (Law & Order).
The duo will join Vipers star Tara Reid in the thriller which starts lensing in September.
More details below the cut.
The Fields is a psychological thriller, based on true events that took place in a small Pennsylvania town in 1973. It tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
The film stars Tara Reid and it is being directed by Tom Mattera and David Mazzoni of the critically acclaimed "The 4th Dimension."
The Fields is being produced by Faust Checho with Mr. Big Productions, in association with MazWa Productions. Hollywood veteran Tommy Lee Wallace (Halloween III: Season Of The Witch) is attached as an Associate Producer. Production begins in September, with an anticipated release in 2011.
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