Weekly News Re-cap: 12/28 – 1/06

Last Week in Horror,News

Posted by Peter Hall - January 6th 2008 @ 9:01 pm

Theatrical Trailers and Clips
Prom Night

Studio News and Attachments
Nightmare on Elm Street is due for a sequel, not a remake?
Richard Matheson sold the sequel rights to I Am Legend…
MGM realizes they picked a dud and shift The Poughkeepsie Tapes to a date yet to be determined.

Remakes
The April Fool’s Day remake may end up straight to DVD one week before the titlular day.
Xavier Gens, the man behind the fest hit Frontiere(s) and the commercial disaster Hitman, may be in line for the Conan remake. I guess because McTiernan will be in, ya know, jail.
I thought this was already established, but maybe I dreamed that: Wes Craven has tapped Greek director Dennis Illiadis for his Last House on the Left remake.

Random and Indie News
Neil Marshall’s Doomsday will hit US screens on March 14th, 2008.
Minor speculation on potentially possible details for The Host 2.
Stuart Gordon’s next Lovecraft take, The Thing on the Doorstep, takes a step forward.

Indie/Foreign Trailers and Clips
Parasomnia
Solos

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