Weekly News Re-Cap: 08/12 - 08/19

August 19th 2007 @ 10:27 am

Studio Trailers and Clips
P2 - If I didn’t know better, I’d say this was a teaser for a fake movie.
Halloween - TV Spots
Resident Evil: Extinction - Clip

Studio News and Attachments
Lionsgate picks up "Masters of Horror" for a third ’season’, no network lined up for it, however.
Open Water directors given the helm to a big budget telling of the Indianapolis, because it just makes perfectly logical sense.
Tarsem Singh (The Cell) directing video game adaptation of Condemned retitled as The Unforgettable with David Goyer producing.
Tom Savini has joined the vast of Lost Boys: The Tribe.

Remakes
A looming strike by the Writers Guild of America has apparently fast tracked the greatest movie ever made; Alexandre Aja’s Piranha remake. That isn’t a strike - that is divine inspiration.
RKO redoing Boris Karloff starer Isle of the Dead. At least give them some credit for reaching back to 1945, instead of 1980 like every other company.

Random and Indie News
Afterdark Films is launching a non-genre branch called Autonomous Films - where the hell is Courtney Solomon getting the money to do this stuff?
Eduardo Sanchez has a new movie, Seventh Moon, set to start shooting in some unknown country.

Indie/Foreign Trailers and Clips
Black Water - Would be great for a short film, only it is feature length…
Borre
Eden Log

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T.J.

August 24th, 2007 | 11:03 am | #1

“Tom Savini joined the vast of Lost Boys: The Tribe.”

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http://www.keyboards.com

we wouldn’t have this problem on BATTLEBLOG, you know.
Sean

August 25th, 2007 | 6:42 pm | #2

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/08/25/alien-vs-predator-2-red-band-movie-trailer/#more-4351

What? an AVP movie that doesnt suck?
Peter

August 25th, 2007 | 10:35 pm | #3

Yeah, looks like they finally manned up and decided to make a horror movie out of horror movie icons. Doesn’t mean it’ll be good, but it’ll at least be crazy.

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Weekly News Re-Cap: 08/12 - 08/19

Weekly News Re-Cap: 08/12 - 08/19