Remakes

Horror classic The Exorcist being prepped for a TV series?

Vulture reports that, nearly 40 years after The Exorcist became the first horror film ever to be nominated for Best Picture, William Peter Blatty’s best seller is in the limelight once again. According to reports, filmmaker Sean Durkin, writer-director of the Elizabeth Olsen thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, is adapting the classic into a 10-episode ….

John Woo going back to gangster film roots with yakuza classic remake Day of the Beast

John Woo is attached to direct the action thriller Day of the Beast, a remake of Suzuki Seijun’s 1963 yakuza classic Youth of the Beast, according to Film Business Asia. Day of the Beast is a co-production between Nikkatsu Corp, the production company behind the original movie, and John Woo and Terence Chang’s Lion Rock ….

Check out first look image of Johnny Depp as Tonto in the upcoming Lone Ranger movie

Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have revealed an early look at The Lone Ranger, which features Johnny Depp in full make-up as Tonto, and Armie Hammer as the namesake masked lawman. From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski (the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise), comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ The Lone Ranger, an ….

Sean Bean joins the cast of Tarsem Singh’s Untitled Snow White feature

Relativity Media has nabbed Sean Bean (HBO’s Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King) to play the King in its upcoming Untitled Snow White feature, directed by Tarsem Singh (Immortals, The Cell). Bean joins the previously announced cast in which Oscar-winner Julia Roberts plays the Queen, Lily Collins (The Blind ….

Warner Bros. chooses directors for 300 sequel 300: Battle of Artemisia and live-action Akira films

Warner Bros. has tapped Noam Murro to direct its 300 spin-off, 300: Battle of Artemisia, which was formerly known as Xerses, according to THR. The Israeli director of the 2008 movie Smart People, was up for the project along with Jaum Collet-Serra, who directed the Liam Neeson thriller Unknown. But Collet-Serra isn’t quite out of ….

Brand new images from Fright Night remake

New images have been released for the coming Fright Night remake, which hits theaters on August 19, 2011. The Craig Gillespie-directed film stars Colin Farrell, David Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Dave Franco, Grace Phipps, Reid Ewing, Sandra Vergara, Emily Montague, Will Denton, Chelsea Tavares, Tina Borek, Charlie B. Brown, Phil ….