Interviews > "Bad Lieutenant : Escale à la Nouvelle-Orléans" est-il le remake du film d'Abel Ferrara ? La Nouvelle-Orléans est-elle la ville salvatrice de Nicolas Cage ? Werner Herzog y a-t-il tourné un film bavarois ? Autant de questions qui trouvent leur réponse dans l'interview...

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Earlier today we brought you a look at 40 hi-res stills, while now we've got a look at a whopping 10 clips from the epic battle between the Gods and man that takes place on April 2. Get your first look at Medusa in action, unleash the Kraken and watch as Perseus battles Calibos in Warner Bros. Pictures' Clash of the Titans, their remake of the classic genre-blending fantasy pic starring Sam Worthington, Mads Mikkelsen, Gemma Arterton, Alexa Davalos, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Izabella Miko and even Danny Huston.

Mirrors II director Victor Garcia tells Dread Central that the sequel to Alex Aja's bloody remake will be arriving on DVD and Blu-ray on October 19 from Fox Home Entertainment. Here's the plot crunch: "After losing his fiancee in a car crash, for which he blames himself, suicidal Max Matheson (Nick Stahl) reluctantly takes a job as a night watchman at his father's Mayflower Department Store. When his co-workers are killed off in gruesome and horrible ways and Max begins to see a mysterious young woman in all the store's mirrors, desperate to communicate with him, he fears he's losing his mind, or that he may be the next victim."

Now that we've gotten our first look at Predators, I'm ready to think about the future for this franchise. I know, it's still a little early. The film doesn't even hit theaters til July. But given how long it took for this installment to get made I believe the sooner the better as far as developing the next sequel. Any ideas?

Here's mine: Considering Predators appears to do for Predator what Aliens did for Alien -- at least in terms of increasing the number of creatures and appropriately adding the "s" to the title -- I think the series should continue to follow its cousin franchise's lead. We can skip Predator³ because the forgettable Predator 2 may be stamped its equivalent. Plus, the setting of Predators is a kind of game preserve, which is like a prison, so we don't need another. Unless maybe it's set in a metropolitan prison like the Manhattan wasteland of Escape from New York. Yes, Predator 2 had the honor of being labeled "Predator in a city," but this would be completely different. Otherwise, put the camouflaging creatures in another terrain besides jungles and forests. How about a desert prison, like an Abu Grabe kind of place?

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I’ll just point you in the direction of this weird rant… thing about Final Fantasy. It sorta explains the differences between Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy XIII. Something about honor and inns and whatnot. Yeah. More importantly, let’s discuss the possibility of Square Enix remaking Final Fantasy VII, because that hasn’t been done before on the Internet.

The latest bit of news, if you can even call it that, is that the director of Final Fantasy XIII, Motomu Toriyama, has admitted that he’d “really want to remake FFVII” if he had the manpower, and if the remake could live up to FFXIII’s high standards.

I really don’t understand what the hold up is. Square Enix surely must know that, even if it were to spend a nice chunk of change remaking the game—and not just the obvious graphical overhaul, but fleshing out the script, hiring voice actors who can read at an 8th grade level (i.e. not American~!), etc.—it would still make $UNLIMITED at retail. What PS3 owner wouldn’t buy the game? How many people would buy a PS3 specifically to play the game? It would be a gigantic success, guaranteed.

Like, it could be total garbage and people would still lap it up.

The only reason I could see Square Enix not remaking the game is because they’d feel it was an admission that every Final Fantasy since FFVII was a failure in some capacity. That’s completely not true, but perhaps that’s the fear?

via Kotaku

We're reprinting this review from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to coincide with the VOD release of Lovers of Hate today.

By: Erik Davis

Lovers of Hate is built around a gimmick that you either buy into or you don't. A colleague had suggested that the film feels like one Hollywood would buy just to remake it with more well known actors, because the premise is one that you'd so expect to find splattered across the next Will Ferrell movie. That's not to say the actors in this version are horrible at what they do; they're not. Nor is writer-director Brian Poyser (Dear Pillow), who, in a very emotional moment prior to the film's premiere, said that it was dedicated to his father who passed away one week after it was accepted to Sundance. Poyser definitely has an eye for the strange, uncomfortable comedy, and when things are strange and comfortable, Lovers of Hate really slips into the type of film you want to high five. However, its slower moments and refusal to fully commit to a particular tone drops it down a few notches, but not enough to skip it all together.

Rudy is a disheveled loser who's sleeping in his car and stalking his ex-wife hoping that maybe -- just maybe -- she'll forget, forgive and take one more shot at what once was a successful and meaningful relationship. Problem is, Rudy is a complete mess -- and part of this may have to do with the fact that his younger brother kinda-sorta stole his thunder by becoming filthy rich off the Harry Potter-like story Rudy used to entertain him with when he was a kid. Now, all grown up, Rudy's brother Paul is a hero novelist who has everything he could ever want, while Rudy is the exact opposite and a sorry excuse for a man. When Paul learns of Rudy's crumbling marriage and invites his brother's ex-wife Diana out to a fancy mountain cabin to "talk things over", the film's central storyline -- which involves one of the most awkward, uncomfortable love triangles I've ever seen -- soon kicks into high gear, and that's when Lovers of Hate turns into a film you either love or you hate.

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Arriving in theaters April 2 is Warner Bros. Pictures' epic fantasy genre film Clash of the Titans, their PG-13 remake that will also be in digital 3-D (and converted differently than the Alice in Wonderland disaster). Gearing up for the release, WB provided Bloody Disgusting with 40 hi-res stills that feature an array of characters including your first clean look at Medusa in the film! Dig it on it all below and tell us if you plan on checking it out.

Love/hate my Pitch of the Day articles? Either way, you should definitely check out this blog called Movies They Should Make, which Risky Biz turned me onto last night. Similar to my pitch posts, the blog comes up with ideas for movies that should be made -- in case you couldn't figure that out from its name. But they've got Photoshop skills I lack and so all their pitches are in the form of perfectly designed movie posters. The casting they come up with is pretty great, too. Geoffrey Rush starring in a Rupert Murdoch biopic? I wish I'd come up with that.

Unfortunately, the site isn't as consistent as you might like. Since its first post, dated July 11, 2009, there have only been six posters put up on the blog. Hopefully after the Hollywood Reporter and Cinematical props, though, they'll make more. Current ideas, though you really do need to see them for yourself, include a Nosferatu remake with Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet and, in some role, Dakota Fanning.

There's also an Oliver Stone-directed film about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, which would actually make sense and fits in with a current trend in MLK movies (including Selma and Spielberg's biopic). And another great idea: Don't Ask Don't Tell, starring Robert Pattinson and Shia Labeouf in what appears to be a cross between Brokeback Mountain and The Hurt Locker.

The fun part of the site involves a poll where we get to vote on whether we think the proposed film will make back its production cost. Each has the option of selecting "no!," "just about" and "definately!" [sic]. So now I ask you to vote on the blog. Should it make more posters? No1? Just about? Or Definately!?

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Le tirage au sort des quarts de finale de la Ligue des champions a réservé vendredi un remake de la finale de l'édition 2006 et une double confrontation qui s'annonce passionnante entre Arsenal et le FC Barcelone.

UPDATE: Much to my disappointment, and probably yours as well, MTV received a denial straight from Tim Burton's people saying, "There is no truth to the story. Tim has not lined up any of his upcoming projects." We'll keep you posted on any further developments or changes to this as we hear them.

The following was originally posted on 3/18/10 by Christopher Campbell

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're altogether ... being reunited on the big screen courtesy of Tim Burton. Yes, for all of us who thought Burton should have made the Addams Family movies instead of Barry Sonnenfeld, he has been given another chance. This one, according to Deadline New York, will be a 3-D stop-motion film unrelated to those prior two movies or the silly old TV series or the upcoming Broadway adaptation starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth. Presumably Burton will direct this after his feature-length stop-motion remake of his own Frankenweenie, which is in pre-production now.

Reportedly, and somewhat obviously, Burton will look only to the wittier original Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams. Anyone who has seen Burton's drawings, especially those in his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, know how similar they are to the work of Addams (and Edward Gorey). Although, of course, even if you aren't familiar with the filmmaker's artwork (which can currently be seen in an enormously popular exhibit at NYC's Museum of Modern Art), the style of his movies should be enough indication that he's the most perfect person to make a movie about Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Lurch and the rest of the Addams clan.

Despite Burton's ongoing relationship with Disney, The Addams Family is set up at the Universal-based Illumination Entertainment (The Despicable Me) and will be produced by the shingle's head, former Fox Animation exec Christopher Meledandri. The project is currently going out to screenwriters, though Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Corpse Bride) seems the best choice, even if she did also co-script the first Sonnenfeld effort.

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It was already a ridiculous notion when the news hit in December. An Overboard remake? Really? As a young kid I loved the flick -- not because it was good, mind you (I had terrible taste), but because I was enamored with the chemistry between Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. It was charisma that nicely glossed over the scary premise. It worked in the '80s, but the thought of a woman with amnesia who gets lied to and taken home by a man who hates her, becoming his obedient caretaker and "wife" in every way -- not so cool.

Regardless, it's really happening; The Hollywood Reporter posts that Overboard is definitely in the works, and Jennifer Lopez is in talks to star. Leslie Dixon worked on the script, which is now in the hands of Adam Cooper and Bill Collage for another polish. So much for notions of Katherine Heigl or Kate Hudson (Ms. Hawn's daughter, don't forget) showing up as amnesia lady. It just goes to show you -- when you think one casting choice is bad, remember how much worse it can be.

While the nostalgic part of me wishes this will never get made, the rest of me wants them to go for it. Ignore the obvious stupidity and jump right in, Columbia! Let's throw a lot of money into this and have it flop... Flop bigger than J-Lo's Gigli. I want to see this flounder and fry like a freshman fishie. How about you?

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Envie de découvrir à quoi ressemblera la voix de Travis Touchdown en japonais ? Qu'à cela ne tienne, il suffit de se rendre à cette adresse pour découvrir le générique du futur No More Heroes Paradise en version originale.Ce remake HD du célèbre jeu d'action signé Feelplus verra prochainement le jou...

Comme il est maintenant de coutume, nous avons droit à divers remakes d'anciens hits de notre prime jeunesse sur le Xbox Live Arcade et le Playstation Network. Capcom nous envoie donc ces quelques visuels de Final Fight Double Impact et nous rappelle au passage que les heureux acheteurs auront également droit de profiter du célèbre Magic Sword dans sa version lissée. Tout cela devrait être disponible à la mi avril.

Jennifer Lopez sera la star féminine du remake d'un Couple à la mer, comédie romantique de Garry Marshall datant de 1987.

La boîte de production de Michael Bay, Platinum Dunes escompte produire un remake de Monster Squad.

A brief piece of news as Bloody Disgusting has learned that Platinum Dunes is producing the remake of Monster Squad for Paramount Pictures. In Fred Dekker's 1987 original Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way. Platinum Dunes' A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot arriving in theaters April 30th.

Des photos de Johnny Depp et Angelina Jolie sur le tournage de The Tourist, le remake d'Anthony Zimmer, ont été mises en ligne.