Movie News: Remakes/Reboots

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What?! John Travolta Rumored to Star in 'The Toxic Avenger' Movie?

John Travolta
feedproxy.google.com – If you thought playing a woman in the big screen adaptation of the musical Hairspray was the strangest role John Travolta would take, think again. After being away from the big screen for a couple of years, Travolta made a return to the movies in Oliver Stone's Savages, but if the rumors are true, his next role will be unlike anything he's ever done before. 39 weeks 1 day ago via donnieyen
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JVCD Is Ready To Fight His Way Back Into BLOODSPORT

feedproxy.google.com – While on a recent press tour for The Expendables 2, in which Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Jean Vilain, the not-so-ironically named baddie of the testosterone fueled sequel, the old school action star expressed extreme interest in being involved in the reboot of the franchise that put him on the map.

40 weeks 6 days ago via theothersenhman
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'Headhunters' could star Mark Wahlberg, says Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Mark Wahlberg
digitalspy.com – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau talks about the Norwegian thriller and its upcoming US remake. 41 weeks 4 hours ago via jetli
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James Mangold To Direct "Red Circle"?

James Mangold
darkhorizons.com – The long-gestating English-language remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 crime thriller "Le Cercle Rouge" ("The Red Circle") is moving forward it seems. Producer Arthur Sarkissian confirms to Crave Online that James Mangold ("Knight and Day," "3:10 to Yuma") will helm the project which will film next Summer in Hong Kong and Macau.

42 weeks 2 days ago via donnieyen
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Kimberly Peirce Now Set to Remake French Thriller 'With a Friend Like Harry'

Kimberly Peirce
feedproxy.google.com – I think the film With a Friend Like Harry (aka Harry, He’s Here to Help), a French thriller originally released in 2000, probably has a higher profile in France and Europe than it does here, which makes it good fodder for a US-based remake. The movie follows a young middle-class couple who run into Harry, who purports to be a high school friend of the husband. 42 weeks 5 days ago via jackiechan
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Sam Raimi Excited To See 'Gut-Wrenching' New 'Evil Dead'

Sam Raimi
moviesblog.mtv.com – Of all the franchise reboots in the works, "The Evil Dead" may have us the most curious. Sam Raimi has worked closely with the makers of the new film, but by all accounts, the reboot/remake has stripped some of the most "Evil Dead" aspects of the original, including the hero, Ash.

43 weeks 6 days ago via jetli
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Comic-Con: 'Mad Men's' Jon Hamm On 'American Dad' Next Season, Seth MacFarlane Says 'Flintstones' Reboot Still Delayed

deadline.com – Seth MacFarlane won’t be going to Bedrock anytime soon but Jon Hamm is coming to American Dad. The Mad Men star will join Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle Geller, Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint, Danny Glover and former SNL cast member Will Forte on the new season of Seth MacFarlane’s show. 44 weeks 3 days ago via theothersenhman
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Walter Hill To Write & Direct An Unnecessary Remake Of 'Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?'

fb.indiewire.com – File this under pointless and unnecessary. Starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Robert Aldrich's "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?" is a demented classic, so why Walter Hill feels the need to rewrite and remake the damn thing is beyond us. But plow ahead he will, as the helmer was apparently approached by Warner Bros. 44 weeks 6 days ago via theothersenhman
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Producer Offers Update on 'The Crow'

The Crow
superherohype.com – Though it seems a little out of place to really do a remake of The Crow, it's probably going to happen. 46 weeks 6 days ago via theothersenhman
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A Less Violent Starship Troopers?

Starship Troopers
rss.feedsportal.com – Paul Verhoeven's '80s sci-fis tiptoed between kitsch and corrosive with such brass that people are still debating which bits are meant as satire and which bits aren't. His loose triptych of subversive sci-fis - Starship Troopers, Total Recall and RoboCop - are all getting a redo, with the former still in the early stages of development. 47 weeks 7 hours ago via theothersenhman
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New Van Helsing Film a Total Reboot

superherohype.com – Last month, Universal revealed its intentions to move forward with another Van Helsing film. This time, Tom Cruise is going to star and produce alongside producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Kurtzman spoke to CraveOnline about the project and had this to say... 47 weeks 15 hours ago via jackiechan
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CITY STATE Remake Penned by LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER Scribes

City State
collider.com – The writing duo behind 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider feature has been tapped to remake the Icelandic thriller, City State for New Regency. Patrick Massett and John Zinman will pen the new version of Olaf de Fleur Johannesson's 2011 feature. We previously reported that director James Mangold (Walk the Line) would be moving onto City State after wrapping on The Wolverine. 47 weeks 1 day ago via donnieyen
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New Line to Remake Murder Mystery 'The Last of Sheila' (Exclusive)

feedproxy.google.com – Beau Flynn, one of the producers of "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," is behind the project, based on the cult movie written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. 48 weeks 1 day ago via donnieyen
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Universal Negotiating With Duplass Duo For 'Same Time, Next Year' Remake

deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and producers Walter Mirisch and Scott Rudin are planning a remake of the 1978 romantic comedy Same Time, Next Year. They are negotiating with Mark and Jay Duplass to write the script, with an eye toward directing the film. The Robert Mulligan-directed original starred Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn. 49 weeks 1 day ago via theothersenhman
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Lionsgate Postpones 'Dirty Dancing' Reboot

Dirty Dancing
deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is postponing the Dirty Dancing reboot. The studio has put the remake on ice for another year for casting reasons, Deadline has learned. The remake of the 1987 Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey film was scheduled to be released in July 2013, but now the movie is off the studio’s release dance card at least until 2014. 49 weeks 5 days ago via donnieyen
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