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Holiday Movies: What's on Tonight? (12/4/09)

3 December 2009 5:06 PM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Deck the Halls (Mistletoe & Mayhem)

FX, 5 Pm Et

Neighbors (Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick) go to war after one adorns his house with enough lights to make it visible from space.

Frosty's Winter Wonderland (Comfort & Joy)

ABC Family, 7 Pm Et

Frosty’s kind of lonely, so the kids decide to make him a wife.

The Santa Clause 2 (Mistletoe & Mayhem)

Disney Xd, 7 Pm Et

Santa Clause (Tim Allen) must get married by Christmas Eve in order to save the holiday and keep his job.

Gremlins (Bah Humbug)

Hdnet, 8:00 Pm Et

An inventor (Hoyt Axton) gives his son (Zach Galligan) a furry little pet for Christmas that turns out to be not so cute.

What else is showing this season? See the complete Holiday TV Movie Guide: The 12 Flavors of Christmas.

And if you're wondering what to buy the movie lovers on your shopping list, check out our Holiday Gifts store. …

- reelz reelz

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New On DVD This Week

2 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

With Black Friday sales behind us but with Christmas right around the corner, there’s still time to get some great movies on DVD and Blu-ray this holiday season. To help, here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time.

Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as The Wizard of Oz, Gremlins, Snatch, Ben 10: Alien Swarm and the Blu-ray debut of McG’s Terminator: Salvation (shown above with Christian Bale and Sam Worthington).

Check them out:

A Christmas Tale (The Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Ben 10 Alien Swarm ~ Ryan Kelley, Nathan Keyes, Alyssa Diaz, and Galadriel Stineman (DVD and Blu-ray)

Better Off Ted: Season One ~ Jay Harrington, …

- Joe Gillis

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Birthday Suits, An Oscar For Ed!

28 November 2009 6:20 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Each day we're celebriting the birth of various cinematic persons. Can someone in Hollywood please give their Oscar to Ed Harris today? I mean, my god how long does he have to wait for that damn thing? The rest of today's Sagittarians are less easy to shop for. What could we give Jon Stewart, for example, that he doesn't already have?

Ed, Laura and Jon

1896 Lilia Skala, Oscar nominated actress (Lilies of the Field)

1923 Gloria Grahame, Oscar winner (The Bad the Beautiful)

933 Hope Lange, Oscar nominated actress (Peyton Place, The Young Lions, Death Wish)

1941 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress, sex symbol

1946 Joe Dante He'll always have Gremlins, such a great 80s picture.

1949 Alexander Godunov, like Baryshnikov, he was a Russian ballet star who defected to America and co-starred in movies. It didn't go quite as well. He never achieved anything close to Misha's level of fame though he made for a memorable screen presence (Witness, …

- NATHANIEL R

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Remake of The Howling sharpens claws for Halloween 2010

24 November 2009 5:16 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

With New Moon's lupine shapeshifters bounding on the big screen and a remake of The Wolfman due next February, lycanthropy is proving popular in Hollywood.

So much so that werewolf franchise The Howling is to sprout fur and fangs once again.

The original 1981 horror flick, directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, Piranha) and based on Gary Brandner's novel of the same name, spawned six sequels, the most recent in 1995.

Now, producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh are relaunching the franchise with the forthcoming The Howling: Reborn, says Variety.

Former studio marketing executive Joe Nimziki will write and make his directing debut on the project, which is slated for a Halloween release next year. Production is scheduled to begin in February.

The original's executive producers Steve Lane and Bob Pringle will return for the remake.

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- David Bentley

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Howling Remake Coming?

23 November 2009 10:39 AM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

I'm not so sure if I buy this one, but Corona Coming Attractions is reporting that a remake of The Howling is on the way.  According to the article, indie producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh are set to produce, and marketing guy Joe Nimziki will direct.  They'll be working under the title The Howling: Reborn.

I don't exactly trust this because of a teaser poster for the project that I saw on other horror sites during the Afm last month.  Somebody took the DVD cover from the original film (as seen unmolested above) and added some guy's name to it in Photoshop.  The whole things didn't look legitimate, to the point that I didn't even report on it.  The Corona article states, wisely, that "The original Howling had three great things working for it: strong direction by Joe Dante (Gremlins, the upcoming thriller The Hole 3D), a tight, …

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‘The Howling’ Franchise Gets ‘Reborn’

23 November 2009 10:08 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Hot off the heels of The Twilight Saga: New Moon – which takes a vampire love story and adds a helping of werewolves – making an absolute killing at the box office this past weekend, out comes news that The Howling franchise is getting a reboot/remake. Yes, yet again Hollywood is turning their focus to an established entity and giving it do-over. Big surprise there…

The original Howling from 1981 was directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) and written by John Sayles from a book by Gary Brandner. It was about a news anchor who is stalked by a serial killer who turns out to be a werewolf (naturally…). It’s not generally considered one of the best horror films of all time (6.5 rating on IMDb), but its film with a loyal cult following. It ended up spawning six sequels (didn’t just about every horror franchise from the 80s?), including one subtitled …

- Ross Miller

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The Howling is Reborn

23 November 2009 12:43 AM, PST | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

The 1981 werewolf movie The Howling is getting a second shot to find an audience. A remake is in the planning stages and tentatively scheduled to go in front of cameras next February. It could even be out in theaters by Halloween 2010.

Two movie producers known for their indie films are responsible for shepherding this new Howling. They are Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh and they've got a director by the name of Joe Nimziki who used to work as a marketing executive for studios. He's written a screenplay called The Howling: Reborn, which is very appropriate since the six Howling sequels that followed the original not only stunk up the franchise, I would dare say that an entirely new stinky odor was created.

The original Howling had three great things working for it: strong direction by Joe Dante (Gremlins, the upcoming thriller The Hole 3D), a tight, serious script …

- Patrick Sauriol

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'The Howling' to Be Reborn

22 November 2009 9:20 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

A new moon is rising on The Howling franchise.

Producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh, the latter of whom is associated with Moonstone Entertainment, are planning a re-launch of the werewolf movie franchise entitled The Howling: Reborn. According to Variety, the film is scheduled to begin shooting next February for a Halloween 2010 release.

The 1981 movie The Howling, which was directed by Joe Dante and scripted by John Sayles, is considered one of the better werewolf movies, along with An American Werewolf in London (also slated for a remake). No word if The Howling: Reborn will be a remake or have any ties to the original, which concerned a news anchor (played by Dee Wallace-Stone) whose stalker turns out to be a werewolf, and an isolated country resort full of other shape-shifting creatures.

Joe Nimziki, who previously worked as a marketing executive, will write and direct the new movie, …

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Joe Dante and Tony Todd, Post- Splatter

19 November 2009 12:37 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

The third and final episode of Joe Dante's Netflix-exclusive Splatter premiered last week on Friday the 13th.  Not ones to be slackers, apparently,Dante and Splatter star Tony Todd are already onto new projects.  Dante is producing a movie called Trail Of Blood, which has a new website;  Todd is to begin work on Kilo Entertainment's One By One.

The plot for Trail Of Blood sounds a lot like the story of Jack Ketchum's novel Cover;  both revolve around a veteran who's cut himself off from society to live in the woods, and goes on the attack once a group of campers invades his territory.  The website provides a trailer, which is a bit confusing, as much of what the crazed vet says sounds... well, crazed.  It seems as if the days of Gremlins are long behind Dante, which is a shame.

One On One sounds like familiar grounds for Tony Todd. …

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I Love You Beth Cooper Blu-ray Review

18 November 2009 9:14 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Chris Columbus used to have a magic touch. Sure, you might not have liked the movies, but he was the hand behind the first two Home Alone movies and the first two Harry Potter films. He’s had misfires, for sure, but his first major script was Gremlins. Gremlins. But when you look at his filmography he goes from highs to lows, but there’s something of a chance-taker in him too. He was the guy who wanted to direct Rent, for god’s sake. And though his plastic hands have released such odious affairs as Stepmom and Bicentennial Man, he’s not a filmmaker to write off. My review of his latest - I Love You Beth Cooper - after the jump.

For his latest, he worked with Fox, got a midsummer release date, and when the film came out it was dumped like hot garbage. Perhaps it was having an unknown lead, …

- Andre Dellamorte

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Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king

13 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

He gave life to teenage cavemen and candy-stripe nurses. Crab monsters and humanoids from the deep. T-bird gangs and towns that dreaded sundown. His name is Roger Corman. And on Nov. 14, he will receive an honor that no one would have predicted: an honorary Academy Award. The 83-year-old B-movie titan has made nearly 400 films as a director and producer. From the start, Corman was a magnet for hungry young actors, writers, and directors who would work for slave wages for the chance to make their first film. They called it the "University of Corman," and the alumni include Francis Ford Coppola, …

- Chris Nashawaty

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PG-13 at 25: Will the Movies Ever Grow Up (Again)?

11 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

In 1984, Steven Spielberg released Gremlins and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, two PG-rated films sold to children, and the intensity of this box-office blockbusters (understandably) rattled parents. Rather than chastise Hollywood's foremost money-machine, however, the MPAA created a new ratings category specifically tailored to serve Spielberg: the PG-13. As a result, the majority of films released since 1984 have been rated PG-13. The PG-13 rating provides an opportunity for studios to "soften" and, in fact, "dumb down" films to the point where "soft" and "dumb" are presently Hollywood's key ingredients for success. So while movies have grown ever more mechanically violent, nudity and sexuality have been edged out of mainstream cinema, especially serious and, indeed, "adult" treatments of such subjects. It's easy to see how PG-13 has diminished the punch of genres that employ …

- Mr. Skin

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Fun Fun Fun Fest guests Mc Chris, Youth Brigade and Mission of Burma stop by The Ritz this weekend!

6 November 2009 5:17 PM, PST | OriginalAlamo.com | See recent AlamoDrafthouseCinema news »

Fun Fun Fun fest presents

Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and Byo Records with members of Youth Brigade Live!

Mc Chris Live presenting Gremlins

Not A Photograph with members of Mission of Burma Live

We’re partnering with Austin’s incredible, mammoth weekend-long music festival Fun Fun Fun to present Three special guest screenings at The Ritz!

Saturday, 10:15 Pm

Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and Byo Records with the members of Youth Brigade Live

** This show only $5 with a Fun Fun Fun Fest wristband **

- One of the most incredible stories of punk dedication Ever Told! By the time the second wave of Los Angeles punk rock began to crest in the early 1980s, most historians had already closed the book. But things were just starting to get interesting. The music got harder and faster. Politics became integral to the scene. Police-on-punk violence …

- zack

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Paramount Picks Up Gremlins Wanna-Be Jitters

2 November 2009 9:33 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Although Gremlins 3 rumours are still continuing to circulate [1], as of right now, we haven't heard anything concrete about a possible third installment in this classic '80s franchise. The closest we've come to another Gremlins flick is the BT Business commercial [2] that brought them out of retirement last year. A sequel could still happen (and probably will), but in the meantime, a writer by the name of Marc Haimes is apparently offering his own spin on the family-friendly horror adventure genre. According to Variety [3], Paramount has picked up the rights to a spec script written by Haimes called Jitters. The story is described as a "family action pic", and is drawing comparisons to Gremlins. Haimes was a co-producer on The Legend of Zorro, and has a handful of scripts currently in development including a time travel adventure called Family History and a vampire thriller called Elevator Men. Obviously we don't …

- Sean

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Feldman 'Squeamish' Despite Horror Acting

1 November 2009 5:46 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Former child star Corey Feldman finds it amusing his career has been based in horror movies - because he's so squeamish.

The Goonies actor admits he can't stand watching gruesome pictures and finds it ironic he ended up predominantly in the genre.

He says, "It's really funny because I was just thinking the other night that for a guy who's not into gore, I sure am in a lot of horror movies.

"There's been Gremlins, the Friday the 13th movies, Lost Boys, Tales From The Crypt, the new internet series Splatter and I also host the EyeGore Awards at Universal Studios.

"I like the occasional horror movie but I'm very squeamish, I don't like the gory parts. It wasn't part of the masterplan but somehow I became Vincent Price (iconic horror actor). I'm not sure how that happened. I should maybe put an end to it but it's a lot of fun making them and I really enjoy it." …

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Feldman: 'I didn't have a childhood'

1 November 2009 11:26 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Corey Feldman has revealed that he tries to keep his son out of the spotlight. WENN reports that Feldman, who starred in Gremlins and The Lost Boys, wants 5-year-old Zen to have a normal childhood. "With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life (more) …

- By Catriona Wightman

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AFI Fest Reviews: The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Hole

1 November 2009 10:33 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Happy Halloween, Collider readers. Being the kind of guy I am, I’ve decided to forgo the tricks this year and offer up some treats. Specifically, some exclusive coverage of this year’s AFI Fest in Hollywood. Tonight that means two reviews of some of my most anticipated films that made their debuts over the last two nights. First up, we’ve got Wes Anderson’s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”, followed by Joe Dante’s “The Hole”. Hit the jump to check them out.

First things first, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” is oh so much more than its marketing would have you believe. Yes, the trailer is funny and gives you a hint of the film’s tone, but it shows nothing of the character and genuine emotion that the very talented animators were able to coax from those little puppets. This is where this film stands apart from the …

- Jackson Bishop

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Feldman Protects Son From Limelight

31 October 2009 7:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Actor Corey Feldman refuses to allow his young son to launch a movie career - because his own childhood was wrecked by fame.

Feldman shot to stardom in a string of blockbuster films in the 1980s, including Gremlins, Stand By Me, and The Lost Boys.

He has since battled drink and drug demons, and recently split from wife Susie after seven years - and he is adamant he wants to keep their five-year-old son, Zen, out of the spotlight.

He says, "With my son, I work very hard to keep him away form the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible. When he is 18, if he wants to act, that's his decision and I'll support him, but I would never want him to sacrifice his childhood. I didn't have one." …

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Exclusive Video: Corey Feldman and Roger Corman Talk Splatter

30 October 2009 12:39 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Whenever you get two extremely talented filmmakers together both with huge followings you can run the risk of egos clashing and prima donna behavior, and god forbid you add a famous actor into that equation, you could be writing a recipe for disaster. However that was not the case when filmmaking legend Roger Corman, acclaimed director Joe Dante and fan-favorite actor Corey Feldman collaborated for the exclusive new web-series, Splatter; which begins airing on-line October 29th. Sponsored by Netflix and available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike, the series can be seen by going to www.netflix.com/splatter beginning October 29th with a second installment airing November 6th and the entire series concludes on Friday, November 13. But what's the catch, you say? Viewers will have the opportunity to vote on line for which characters they think should live and which should die, so they will actually have control over the outcome of the series. …

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Video: Corey Feldman Talks Lost Boys 3: The Thirst

30 October 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

If he never does anything else with the rest of his life at least Corey Feldman can say he was in four of the most beloved movies of the last thirty-years. Beginning with Gremlins in 1984 at the age of thirteen Feldman went on to star in classic films such as The Goonies and Stand By Me among other movies but it was his role as Edgar Frog in The Lost Boys that has kept in the hearts and minds of fans for decades. He reprised his role in last year's extremely successful direct-to-dvd release Lost Boys: The Tribe and it was recently announced that he would be appearing in a third film as well. We had the opportunity to speak with Feldman early this week and in light of the recent news that his wife and The Two Coreys co-star, Susie Sprague-Feldman has filed for divorce, he seemed upbeat …

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