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Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation has been the talk of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival over the past week, from its premiere on January 25 to its record-breaking sale to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million. We may very well be looking at an early Oscar contender for next year's awards, as Parker's telling of Nat Turner's slave rebellion has left a huge impression on critics and audiences at the festival.
- FirstShowing.net: Sundance 2016 Awards: 'Birth of a Nation' Wins Audience & Grand Jury
- Deadline: ‘Birth Of A Nation’ Sweeps Sundance Grand Jury & Audience Awards
- The Playlist: Sundance 2016 Award Winners: Festival Fave ‘The Birth Of A Nation’ Wins Top Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award
- Deadline: Sundance Film Festival Awards: ‘Birth Of A Nation’ Pulls Off Double Win, Gassy ‘Swiss Army Man’ Takes Directing Prize
- Dark Horizons: "Birth of a Nation" Wins Sundance 2016
- USA Today: 'Birth of A Nation' takes top Sundance awards
- Dark Horizons: "Birth of a Nation" Wins 2016 Sundance
- The Wrap: ‘Birth of a Nation,’ ‘Swiss Army Man’ Win Top Sundance Awards
- Entertainment Weekly: 'Birth of a Nation' wins two major prizes at Sundance
- Thompson on Hollywood: Best of the Week: Sundance Highlights from Herzog to 'The Birth of a Nation,' 'Big Short' Builds Oscar Momentum, More
- Variety: Sundance: ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Sweeps Top Prizes
- Vulture: The Birth of a Nation and Weiner Take Home Top Sundance Prizes
- Variety: Oscars 2017: Sundance Launches Strong Contenders Like ‘Birth of a Nation,’ ‘Weiner’
- Deadline: ‘Mad Max’ Wins Best Picture & Director At Australian Academy’s International Awards
- IndieWire: Sundance: Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producers Awards Honor 'Morris From America' Duo
- Hollywood Reporter: SAG Awards: Uzo Aduba Wins Best Actress in a Comedy Series for 'OITNB'
- Variety: Watch the Sundance Film Festival Awards Live
- Deadline: Sundance Film Festival Awards – Live Stream
- Hollywood Reporter: SAG Awards: 'Spotlight' Wins Best Cast in a Film
- Hollywood Reporter: SAG Awards: 'Downton Abbey' Wins Best Cast in a Drama Series
- USA Today: Idris Elba wins two SAG Awards
- Coming Soon: 2016 Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners
- The Wrap: ‘Meet the Movie Press': The Danger of Academy Reform; Is ‘Birth of a Nation’ Overrated?
- The Playlist: Mel Gibson Gave Nate Parker Advice On Making 'The Birth Of A Nation'
- ScreenRant: Movie News Wrap Up: Finding Dory, The Birth of a Nation & More
- ScreenRant: Mad Max: Fury Road Wins Best Picture at Australian Academy Awards
- Variety: ‘The Good Wife’ Alum Archie Panjabi to Star in ABC’s Drama Pilot ‘The Jury’
- Deadline: Archie Panjabi To Star In ABC Drama Pilot ‘The Jury’, Neil Burger To Direct
Original star Oliver Robins will presentAny number of famous horror movies are supposed to have had a curse that plagued their cast and crew both during the shoot and subsequently. The Exorcist is one; Poltergeist is another. And the latter is now set to be the subject of a documentary. Producer and director Adam Ripp is putting together The Curse Of Poltergeist, taking the life and experiences of actor Oliver Robins as its starting point and main focus.What's the supposed curse? A number of deaths, basically.
- Hollywood Reporter: Documentary to Explore 'Poltergeist' Movie Curse
- Horror-Movies.ca: ‘The Curse of Poltergeist’ Documentary Explores the Unknown
- MovieWeb: 'Poltergeist' Curse Exposed in New Documentary
- We Got This Covered: Set Photos For The Conjuring: The Enfield Poltergeist Heralds The Return Of The Warrens
Back in April, we brought you word that a movie based on the survival horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's was in the works at Warner Bros. from producers Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg, and now Deadline is reporting that a filmmaker has been found to helm the project. Gil Kenan (MONSTER HOUSE, CITY OF EMBER, POLTERGEIST remake) is set to direct, and will also co-pen the film's script...
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- Total Film: Poltergeist remake director to helm Five Nights at Freddy's flick
- IGN Movies: Poltergeist Director Will Reportedly Helm Five Nights at Freddy's Movie
- MovieWeb: 'Five Nights at Freddy's' Movie Lands 'Poltergeist ' Director
- Screen Crush: 'Poltergeist' Director Gil Kenan Signs on For 'Five Nights at Freddy's' Movie
- Dark Horizons: Kenan To Direct "Five Nights At Freddy's"
- We Got This Covered: Gil Kenan To Helm Five Nights At Freddy’s Adaptation
- Shock Till You Drop: Five Nights at Freddy’s: Poltergeist’s Kenan to Direct
- Empire Magazine: Gil Kenan Prepares For Five Nights At Freddy's
- ScreenRant: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Movie Gets ‘Poltergeist’ Remake Director
PLOT: After spending a night with the girl he loves, a young man soon realize that she has seemingly gone away for good. Soon, he discovers a series of clues that sets him off an adventure - along with his friends - to find the one that may have got away.
REVIEW: There is something sweetly fantastical about the new teen romance PAPER TOWNS - a place on the map that doesnt exist created to protect against...
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- Denver Post: "Paper Towns" review: "Towns" improves upon "The Fault In Our Stars" formula
- USA Today: 'Paper Towns' John Green goes Peanuts
- We Got This Covered: Paper Towns Review
- MTV Movies Blog: Is This Quote From ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Or ‘Paper Towns?’ Take Our Quiz
- The Wrap: ‘Paper Towns’ Faces Uphill Battle to Match ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Breakout Box Office
- The Playlist: Review: 'Paper Towns' Starring Nat Wolff And Cara Delevingne
By Jason Henderson, Drew Edwards, Tony Salvaggio, and Julia Guzman
Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Castle of Horror Podcast tonight, a weekly internet radio show where professional writers in the comics, games and book industries take a look at horror movies, choosing one movie a week to discuss in depth.
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This week we continue our Poltergeist Retrospective with Poltergeist III, because we are completists, by which we mean masochists.
- Badass Digest: POLTERGEIST Review: Built On The Burial Ground Of A Much Better Movie
- Digital Spy: Poltergeist review: Dismal remake delivers snores not shivers
- Horror-Movies.ca: Poltergeist Review
- Dread Central: Vanessa “Gore Whore” Gomez Gets Uncensored With Poltergeist
- Horror Society: Horror Sales: Poltergeist makes $9,350,000 on opening night; holds #3 spot.
- HitFix: Review: 'Poltergeist' feels like a half-hearted karaoke riff on the original
By Jason Henderson, Drew Edwards, Tony Salvaggio, and Julia Guzman
Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Castle of Horror Podcast tonight, a weekly internet radio show where professional writers in the comics, games and book industries take a look at horror movies, choosing one movie a week to discuss in depth.
They say:
This week we continue our Poltergeist Retrospective with Poltergeist III, because we are completists, by which we mean masochists.
- Dread Central: Horror Decor Unleashes Poltergeist, Pennywise, and The Funhouse Carnival Dolls
- Badass Digest: POLTERGEIST Review: Built On The Burial Ground Of A Much Better Movie
- Digital Spy: Poltergeist review: Dismal remake delivers snores not shivers
- Horror-Movies.ca: Poltergeist Review
- Dread Central: Vanessa “Gore Whore” Gomez Gets Uncensored With Poltergeist
- Entertainment Weekly: Review: 'Poltergeist': EW review
- JoBlo: Exclusive 1:1 Interview: Poltergeist Director Gil Kenan!
- The Playlist: Review: Gil Kenan's 'Poltergeist' Remake Starring Sam Rockwell & Rosemarie DeWitt
- HitFix: Review: 'Poltergeist' feels like a half-hearted karaoke riff on the original
It takes a brave filmmaker to take on remaking POLTERGEIST. Thankfully, the fine gentleman who brought us MONSTER HOUSE and CITY OF EMBERS decided to have while still paying respect to the original. While the new film certainly has a different tone from Tobe Hooper directed, Steven Spielberg produced classic, in many ways this feels like a homage to it. And it also happens to feature a strong cast, with Sam...
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- AintItCool: Harry's seen Gil Kenan's POLTERGEIST and thinks it's absolutely worth checking out! Scary fun!
- Dread Central: Poltergeist Review – It’s Heeeerrrrre
- Chud: The Drew Reviews: Poltergeist
- We Got This Covered: Poltergeist Review
- Hollywood Reporter: In Theaters This Weekend: Reviews of 'Tomorrowland,' 'Poltergeist' and More
- Deadline: ‘Tomorrowland’ Limited Release While ‘Poltergeist’ Grabs Strong $1.4M – Box Office Thursday
- Shock Till You Drop: Review: Poltergeist 2015
- Variety: ‘Tomorrowland’ Earns $725,000, ‘Poltergeist’ Scares Up $1.4 Million on Thursday Night
- Vulture: The New Poltergeist Isn’t Quite a Travesty, But It’s Not That Scary Either
- Filmonic: Sam Raimi, Clips and More from Poltergeist
- Twitch: Review: POLTERGEIST, A Remake That Resembles The Original A Little Too Closely
- JoBlo: Review: Poltergeist
- Latino Review: Film Review: 'Poltergeist'
- Film School Rejects: Poltergeist (2015) Is a Mere Ghost of Its Former Self
- Screen Crush: 'Poltergeist' Review: A Decent Remake Haunted By the Spirit of the Original
- Entertainment Weekly: Review: 'Poltergeist': EW review
- MovieWeb: BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS: Can 'Tomorrowland' Beat 'Poltergeist'?
Two of my favorite actors today happen to be Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt. And frankly, they give everything they do some serious credibility. So when you place them in the roles of the terrorized parents in POLTERGEIST, it already makes you care about the characters more. While the original film will always be one of my all-time favorites, I was surprised at how much fun I had with this new film and much... Read More...
"The Fault In Our Stars" cast hugs it out hard over their MTV Movie Awards Movie of the Year win.
This isn't just a few pissed off spirits...The first trailer for the new take on Poltergeist arrived back in February, offering the first proper look at the new family being bothered by some pesky supernatural troublemakers. Here’s the latest promo, which brings some new footage.This time around, the focus is on the Bowen family, dad Eric (Sam Rockwell), mum Amy (Rosemarie DeWitt) and kids Kendra (Saxon Sharbino), Griffin (Kyle Catlett) and Madison (Kennedi Clements), the latter of whom becomes the main focus of supernatural attention.
- IGN Movies: Poltergeist Reboot Director Reports Disturbing Occurrences on Set
- Bleeding Cool: "We Just Want Our Daughter Back." - 2nd Trailer For Poltergeist Reboot
- Coming Soon: The New Poltergeist Trailer Has Arrived!
- Shock Till You Drop: Poltergeist Trailer: More Than a Few Pissed Off Ghosts
- Horror Society: Terrifying New ‘POLTERGEIST’ Trailer Released
- Cinema Blend: New Poltergeist Trailer Terrifies With Clowns And Pissed-Off Spirits
- Hollywood Reporter: Scary TV Returns in New 'Poltergeist' Trailer: "They're Here"
- Chud: New Trailer for New ‘Poltergeist’ Is New, I Think
- Dark Horizons: Full Trailer & Poster: "Poltergeist"
- The Wrap: ‘They’re Heeeeere’ In Sam Raimi’s Newest ‘Poltergeist’ Trailer (Video)
- FirstShowing.net: Watch: Second 'Poltergeist' Trailer Already Knows What Scares You
- The Playlist: Watch: New Trailer For The 'Poltergeist' Remake Delivers An Unrelenting Nightmare
- Comic Book Movie: "They're Here": New Full-Length Trailer For The POLTERGEIST Remake
- Latino Review: New Trailer for 'Poltergeist' is HERE!
- Screen Crush: 'Poltergeist' Trailer: There Goes the Neighborhood Again
- SlashFilm: ‘Poltergeist’ Trailer #2: Sam Raimi and Gil Kenan Remake a Classic
- MovieWeb: 'Poltergeist' Trailer #2 Brings Your Worst Fears to Life
- JoBlo: You will believe a clown doll can fly in the latest Poltergeist trailer
