George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Adam McKay's "The Big Short" were the big winners at the recently concluded Ace Eddie Awards. "Mad Max" took home Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) while "The Big Short" won Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy). What? Not "The Martian?" Ha!
.Inside Out. (edited by Kevin Nolting, Ace) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film and .Amy. (edited by Chris King) won Best Edited Documentary (Feature).
Here's the complete list winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 66th Ace Eddie Awards:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Margaret Sixel -- Winner
The Martian -- Pietro Scalia (Ace)
The Revenant -- Stephen Mirrione (Ace)
Sicario -- Joe Walker (Ace)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Maryann Brandon (Ace) and Mary Jo Markey (Ace)
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):
Ant-Man -- Dan Lebental (Ace) and Colby Parker, Jr. (Ace)
The Big Short...
.Inside Out. (edited by Kevin Nolting, Ace) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film and .Amy. (edited by Chris King) won Best Edited Documentary (Feature).
Here's the complete list winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 66th Ace Eddie Awards:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Margaret Sixel -- Winner
The Martian -- Pietro Scalia (Ace)
The Revenant -- Stephen Mirrione (Ace)
Sicario -- Joe Walker (Ace)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Maryann Brandon (Ace) and Mary Jo Markey (Ace)
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):
Ant-Man -- Dan Lebental (Ace) and Colby Parker, Jr. (Ace)
The Big Short...
- 1/31/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The American Cinema Editors has announced the nominees of their 66th Annual Ace Eddie Awards and J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is one of the contenders in the Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) category while Peyton Reed's "Ant-Man" is a nominee in the Comedy category.
Writer/director Nancy Meyers ("The Intern," "It's Complicated," "Something's Gotta Give") will receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmakers of the Year Award. Winners will be announced during a January 29 gala at the Beverly Hilton.
Here's the complete list of the nominees of the 66th Ace Eddie Awards:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Margaret Sixel
The Martian -- Pietro Scalia (Ace)
The Revenant -- Stephen Mirrione (Ace)
Sicario -- Joe Walker (Ace)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Maryann Brandon (Ace) and Mary Jo Markey (Ace)
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):
Ant-Man -- Dan Lebental (Ace) and Colby Parker,...
Writer/director Nancy Meyers ("The Intern," "It's Complicated," "Something's Gotta Give") will receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmakers of the Year Award. Winners will be announced during a January 29 gala at the Beverly Hilton.
Here's the complete list of the nominees of the 66th Ace Eddie Awards:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Margaret Sixel
The Martian -- Pietro Scalia (Ace)
The Revenant -- Stephen Mirrione (Ace)
Sicario -- Joe Walker (Ace)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Maryann Brandon (Ace) and Mary Jo Markey (Ace)
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):
Ant-Man -- Dan Lebental (Ace) and Colby Parker,...
- 1/5/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
American Cinema Editors (Ace) today announced nominations for the 66th Annual Ace Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in ten categories of film, television and documentaries. Winners will be revealed during Ace’s annual black-tie awards ceremony on Friday, January 29, 2016 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel and will be presided over by Ace President, Alan Heim.
As previously announced, writer/director Nancy Meyers will receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year award. Two Career Achievement honorees will be announced later this week.
Nominees For 66th Annual Ace Eddie Awards Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic): Mad Max: Fury Road
Margaret SixelThe Martian
Pietro Scalia, ACEThe Revenant
Stephen Mirrione, Ace
Sicario
Joe Walker, Ace
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Maryann Brandon, Ace & Mary Jo Markey, Ace
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):
Ant-Man
Dan Lebental, Ace & Colby Parker, Jr., ACEThe Big Short
Hank Corwin, ACEJoy
Jay Cassidy,...
As previously announced, writer/director Nancy Meyers will receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year award. Two Career Achievement honorees will be announced later this week.
Nominees For 66th Annual Ace Eddie Awards Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic): Mad Max: Fury Road
Margaret SixelThe Martian
Pietro Scalia, ACEThe Revenant
Stephen Mirrione, Ace
Sicario
Joe Walker, Ace
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Maryann Brandon, Ace & Mary Jo Markey, Ace
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):
Ant-Man
Dan Lebental, Ace & Colby Parker, Jr., ACEThe Big Short
Hank Corwin, ACEJoy
Jay Cassidy,...
- 1/4/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
According to producer Brad Fuller, a planned remake of classic horror flick Rosemary’s Baby has been scrapped. Fuller and Andrew Form had initially wanted to do a new adaptation of the 1968 movie, but decided to axe the idea after failing to come up with any new ideas. "We went down that road and we even talked to the best writers in town and it feels like it might not be doable. We couldn't come up with something where it felt like it was relevant and we could add something to it other than what it was, so we're now not going to be doing that film," Fuller said. “We couldn't come up with something where it felt like it was relevant.” Let’s revel in the irony of that statement for a moment. Could it be Hollywood is finally starting to see the light re the current obsession with needly dreary remakes.
- 12/24/2008
- 24framespersecond.net
According to producer Brad Fuller, a planned remake of classic horror flick Rosemary’s Baby has been scrapped. Fuller and Andrew Form had initially wanted to do a new adaptation of the 1968 movie, but decided to axe the idea after failing to come up with any new ideas. "We went down that road and we even talked to the best writers in town and it feels like it might not be doable. We couldn't come up with something where it felt like it was relevant and we could add something to it other than what it was, so we're now not going to be doing that film," Fuller said. “We couldn't come up with something where it felt like it was relevant.” Let’s revel in the irony of that statement for a moment. Could it be Hollywood is finally starting to see the light re the current obsession with needless,...
- 12/24/2008
- 24framespersecond.net
Plans for the remake of the 1968 horror flick "Rosemary's Baby" have been scrapped.
It had been announced earlier this year that Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller have been tapped to produce a remake of the thriller film. However, in an interview with Collider.com, Fuller and Form have admitted that they have discarded the plan as they fear it might not be doable.
Fuller tells the website, "'Rosemary's Baby' was announced and it's like a little bit like we're taking about with Freddy. We went down that road and we even talked to the best writers in town and it feels like it might not be do-able."
"We couldn't come up with something where it felt like it was relevant and we could add something to it other than what it was so we're not going to be doing that film."...
It had been announced earlier this year that Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller have been tapped to produce a remake of the thriller film. However, in an interview with Collider.com, Fuller and Form have admitted that they have discarded the plan as they fear it might not be doable.
Fuller tells the website, "'Rosemary's Baby' was announced and it's like a little bit like we're taking about with Freddy. We went down that road and we even talked to the best writers in town and it feels like it might not be do-able."
"We couldn't come up with something where it felt like it was relevant and we could add something to it other than what it was so we're not going to be doing that film."...
- 12/22/2008
- icelebz.com
Amid all the other projects the Platinum Dunes boys have their hands in as of late, including the Nightmare on Elm Street remake that was confirmed yesterday, it’s good to see they’re still working on original concepts as well. During a chat with Sci Fi Wire they revealed details on a project they’re doing with Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake penner Scott Kosar about Satanic cults.
"It is a story about a college girl whose brother dies, and she goes to investigate his death and finds he was into some pretty freaky stuff, and wants to get to the bottom of it," Brad Fuller told the site. "And doing so, [she] has to see some things that maybe she didn't want to see. That are unsettling."
Said “freaky stuff” is the aforementioned Satanic cult, which Andrew Form assures us will be more focused on “real-life scary stuff” rather than anything too supernatural ... or gory.
"It is a story about a college girl whose brother dies, and she goes to investigate his death and finds he was into some pretty freaky stuff, and wants to get to the bottom of it," Brad Fuller told the site. "And doing so, [she] has to see some things that maybe she didn't want to see. That are unsettling."
Said “freaky stuff” is the aforementioned Satanic cult, which Andrew Form assures us will be more focused on “real-life scary stuff” rather than anything too supernatural ... or gory.
- 12/12/2008
- by Johnny Butane
- DreadCentral.com
At Comic Con we had a chance to catch up with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form thw two producers well known for remaking horror classics. I know alot of horror fans despise them for it but I for one have enjoyed Most of the remakes they have done. Key words here being most. At Comic Con they revealed to us that although they dont have the project yet they are very eager to remake Nightmare on Elm Street. In the past they have tried for projects and not gotten them. Case and point they wanted to remake Halloween but Rob Zombie ended up doing that with another studio. They also said they were approac...
- 8/10/2008
- MoviesOnline.ca
Robert Englund has confirmed that he has no plans to play Freddy Krueger in the new Nightmare On Elm Street movie. New Line is in talks with Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form of Platinum Dunes to revamp the 1984 Wes Craven classic. Englund, who played the razor-fingered child killer in eight movies in the horror franchise, said a new actor should reinterpret the role. Speaking at the San Diego Comic Con, he said: "Well I doubt [I'll be in it] because I made Nightmare On Elm Street. That's me. This is a remake of the original and I'm sure (more)...
- 8/4/2008
- by By Beth Hilton
- Digital Spy
David Berenbaum and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes have been brought on deck to bring Hasbro's supernatural game Ouija Board to the big screen. The project is set up at Universal, where Hasbro has a six-year strategic partnership.
Platinum Dunes' Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce Ouija along with Hasbro.
Although the specific log line for the film is being kept under wraps, the film will be a supernatural adventure with the Ouija board playing an integral part of the story. The movie is not taking a Jumanji-like approach, which involved a game coming to life.
While divination or spiritual boards have been around for centuries, they began being sold as novelty items in the late 1800s, with the first Ouija board, one with an alphabet on it, being patented in 1890. Players' fingers are placed on a small planchette that mysteriously moves to letters and numbers in order to spell out messages from beyond the earthly realm.
Platinum Dunes' Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce Ouija along with Hasbro.
Although the specific log line for the film is being kept under wraps, the film will be a supernatural adventure with the Ouija board playing an integral part of the story. The movie is not taking a Jumanji-like approach, which involved a game coming to life.
While divination or spiritual boards have been around for centuries, they began being sold as novelty items in the late 1800s, with the first Ouija board, one with an alphabet on it, being patented in 1890. Players' fingers are placed on a small planchette that mysteriously moves to letters and numbers in order to spell out messages from beyond the earthly realm.
- 5/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Some of you might not love the idea of us hosting a site for Platinum Dunes, but how can you lose when you're going to get all sorts of crazy goodies starting with the first ever photo from the set of Friday the 13th, which Producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are hard at work shooting in Austin, Texas? Seriously?! If you check out the official webspace you can check out Fuller and Form standing with one of Crystal Lake's police cars, before it gets destroyed (wink). Maybe we'll be seeing the new Jason Voorhees soon enough? Only time will tell. Go check out the picture and leave some comments under the post as everyone involved will be reading your opinions! Watch for more soon.
- 5/13/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
I received a Crazy e-mail this morning from Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller, who had a terrifying experience on the set of their latest film, The Unborn, which is currently shooting in Chicago, Il. Under the watch of writer-director David Goyer, the team was shooting a scene involving an exorcism, when an earthquake hit! Read on for the insane story...
- 4/23/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Two weeks ago I got a sneak peak at the brand new Jason Voorhees. Masked and unmasked... I saw the real deal, photos of the actual sculpt they're using to model Derek Mears, the latest to step into Jason's boots in Platinum Dunes' Friday the 13th. You can read all about it inside and see what producer Brad Fuller had to say about the evolution of the iconic character.
- 4/20/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Friday the 13th producer Brad Fuller has laughed off rumours that the movie will not be rated R.
He assured fans that the Platinum Dunes remake will retain the gruesome elements of the 1980 horror classic.
He told Bloody Disgusting: “How do you remake a rated R horror movie and take the guts out literally and figuratively? What is F13 without sex, drugs and a really, really long . . .
He assured fans that the Platinum Dunes remake will retain the gruesome elements of the 1980 horror classic.
He told Bloody Disgusting: “How do you remake a rated R horror movie and take the guts out literally and figuratively? What is F13 without sex, drugs and a really, really long . . .
- 4/18/2008
- by Beth_Hilton_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Beth Hilton)
- Digital Spy
It's pretty hilarious how far this has spread and that people actually believe it's possible - on other websites, in our forums and under our news posts horror fans have been speculating that Friday the 13th will be rated Pg-13 when it arrives in theaters February 13, 2009. Today we spoke with Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller who addressed the Pg-13 rumor and how ridiculous it is. Read on for the skinny and get ready for the return of Jason Voorhees at his best.
- 4/17/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Jared Padalecki is in final negotiations to star in the remake of Friday the 13th that Platinum Dunes is producing for New Line and Paramount.
Marcus Nispel is directing from a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, introducing horror icon Jason with a brief appearance. The remake will focus on the serial killer, who will wear his now-iconic hockey mask. Padalecki will play the lead, who investigates what happened up at Crystal Lake.
Cale Boyter and Guy Stodel are overseeing for New Line. A release is planned for -- what else? -- Friday, Feb. 13, 2009.
Padalecki stars as Sam Winchester on the CW's Supernatural, and his film credits include House of Wax and Cry Wolf. He next appears as Thomas Kinkade alongside Peter O'Toole and Marcia Gay Harden in Lionsgate's Home for the Holidays, slated for a December release and based on the life of the artist and his painting The Christmas Cottage.
Padalecki is represented by Artistry Management, CAA and attorney Michael Fuller.
Marcus Nispel is directing from a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, introducing horror icon Jason with a brief appearance. The remake will focus on the serial killer, who will wear his now-iconic hockey mask. Padalecki will play the lead, who investigates what happened up at Crystal Lake.
Cale Boyter and Guy Stodel are overseeing for New Line. A release is planned for -- what else? -- Friday, Feb. 13, 2009.
Padalecki stars as Sam Winchester on the CW's Supernatural, and his film credits include House of Wax and Cry Wolf. He next appears as Thomas Kinkade alongside Peter O'Toole and Marcia Gay Harden in Lionsgate's Home for the Holidays, slated for a December release and based on the life of the artist and his painting The Christmas Cottage.
Padalecki is represented by Artistry Management, CAA and attorney Michael Fuller.
- 3/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jared Padalecki (Cry Wolf, Supernatural) is in final negotiations to star in the remake of Friday the 13th that Platinum Dunes is producing for New Line and Paramount. Marcus Nispel is directing from a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing. Paramount released the original "Friday" in 1980, introducing horror icon Jason with a brief appearance. The remake will focus on the serial killer, who will wear his now-iconic hockey mask. Padalecki will play the lead, who investigates what happened up at Crystal Lake. A release is planned for -- what else? -- Friday, Feb. 13, 2009.
- 3/21/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
NEW YORK -- Meagan Good, Carla Gugino, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba and Rhys Coiro are joining a rabbinical Gary Oldman and a haunted Odette Yustman in Rogue Pictures' supernatural thriller Unborn.
Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing writer-director David Goyer's tale of a girl (Yustman) tormented by the soul of a boy who died in the Holocaust.
Good (The Love Guru) will play the girl's best friend, and Gugino (Spy Kids) has been cast as her mother. Alexander will play a Holocaust survivor whose brother's spirit is returning.
Elba (American Gangster) will play a priest who helps Rabbi Oldman perform exorcisms. Coiro (HBO's Entourage) is the college professor of Yustman's character, and Cam Gigandet will play her boyfriend.
Principal photography begins March 5 in Chicago.
Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing writer-director David Goyer's tale of a girl (Yustman) tormented by the soul of a boy who died in the Holocaust.
Good (The Love Guru) will play the girl's best friend, and Gugino (Spy Kids) has been cast as her mother. Alexander will play a Holocaust survivor whose brother's spirit is returning.
Elba (American Gangster) will play a priest who helps Rabbi Oldman perform exorcisms. Coiro (HBO's Entourage) is the college professor of Yustman's character, and Cam Gigandet will play her boyfriend.
Principal photography begins March 5 in Chicago.
Meagan Good (One Missed Call), Carla Gugino (Sin City, Rise), Jane Alexander (The Ring), Idris Elba (Prom Night, 28 Weeks Later, The Reaping) and Rhys Coiro (Last House on the Left) are joining a rabbinical Gary Oldman (Backwoods) and a haunted Odette Yustman (Cloverfield) in Rogue Pictures' supernatural thriller Unborn. Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing writer-director David Goyer's tale of a girl (Yustman) tormented by the soul of a boy who died in the Holocaust. Good will play the girl's best friend, and Gugino has been cast as her mother. Alexander will play a Holocaust survivor whose brother's spirit is returning. Elba will play a priest who helps Rabbi Oldman perform exorcisms. Coiro is the college professor of Yustman's character, and Cam Gigandet will play her boyfriend. Principal photography begins March 5 in Chicago.
- 3/5/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Freddy's back. Again.
New Line is in talks with horror production company Platinum Dunes to relaunch the A Nightmare on Elm Street movie series, the franchise that helped establish the studio.
Partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form will produce the remake.
The first Nightmare movie was written and directed by Wes Craven and released in 1984. Its runaway success spawned a slew of films and created one of the most popular villains in screen history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund.
The films' premise centered on Krueger, a serial child killer murdered by angry parents who returns with a burned face and razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams.
A writer will be hired when the strike ends.
Platinum Dunes is prepping another relaunch, Friday the 13th, which will be directed by Marcus Nispel for New Line, for whom they remade The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its sequel.
The company is remaking Near Dark for Rogue and The Birds for Universal. It also is prepping a nonremake project, an untitled David Goyer thriller.
New Line is in talks with horror production company Platinum Dunes to relaunch the A Nightmare on Elm Street movie series, the franchise that helped establish the studio.
Partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form will produce the remake.
The first Nightmare movie was written and directed by Wes Craven and released in 1984. Its runaway success spawned a slew of films and created one of the most popular villains in screen history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund.
The films' premise centered on Krueger, a serial child killer murdered by angry parents who returns with a burned face and razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams.
A writer will be hired when the strike ends.
Platinum Dunes is prepping another relaunch, Friday the 13th, which will be directed by Marcus Nispel for New Line, for whom they remade The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its sequel.
The company is remaking Near Dark for Rogue and The Birds for Universal. It also is prepping a nonremake project, an untitled David Goyer thriller.
- 1/30/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Campbell is circling to direct the re-imagining of the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds, which Platinum Dunes and Mandalay Pictures are producing for Universal.
Naomi Watts has been loosely attached to star for some time, but her involvement is script dependent.
While Campbell has no offer to direct, the early talks put the potential movie's production dates past any possible directors and actors strike.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing via Platinum Dunes, while Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman are producing via Mandalay Pictures.
The Birds, released by Universal in 1963, featured an attack by birds on the California coastal town of Bodega Bay. Coming after Psycho, Hitchcock's innovative use of special effects and sounds continued to cement his reputation as a horror director and launched many "nature on the attack" imitators. The movie also featured the screen debut of the director's newest ingenue, Tippi Hedren.
The studio says the redo will owe more to the Daphne Du Maurier short story than the Hitchcock film based on it.
Naomi Watts has been loosely attached to star for some time, but her involvement is script dependent.
While Campbell has no offer to direct, the early talks put the potential movie's production dates past any possible directors and actors strike.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing via Platinum Dunes, while Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman are producing via Mandalay Pictures.
The Birds, released by Universal in 1963, featured an attack by birds on the California coastal town of Bodega Bay. Coming after Psycho, Hitchcock's innovative use of special effects and sounds continued to cement his reputation as a horror director and launched many "nature on the attack" imitators. The movie also featured the screen debut of the director's newest ingenue, Tippi Hedren.
The studio says the redo will owe more to the Daphne Du Maurier short story than the Hitchcock film based on it.
- 10/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Damian Shannon and Mark Swift have been tapped to write Friday the 13th, the remake of the horror classic being produced by Platinum Dunes for New Line.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, making Jason -- the unstoppable hockey mask-wearing killer -- a horror icon, though the serial killer made only a brief appearance in the final frames of the first movie and never killed anyone. Jason didn't even don the famous mask until the third movie.
The remake, however, will focus on Jason -- who will wear the mask and kill -- and keep the famous setting of Crystal Lake.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing.
Paramount and MTV Films also are involved with the project.
The duo's boarding pumps a blood transfusion into the remake, setting it up as a possible prestrike project. The writers are no strangers to Jason, having penned 2003's Freddy vs. Jason, the killer's last big-screen appearance. That film grossed more than $82 million domestically.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, making Jason -- the unstoppable hockey mask-wearing killer -- a horror icon, though the serial killer made only a brief appearance in the final frames of the first movie and never killed anyone. Jason didn't even don the famous mask until the third movie.
The remake, however, will focus on Jason -- who will wear the mask and kill -- and keep the famous setting of Crystal Lake.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing.
Paramount and MTV Films also are involved with the project.
The duo's boarding pumps a blood transfusion into the remake, setting it up as a possible prestrike project. The writers are no strangers to Jason, having penned 2003's Freddy vs. Jason, the killer's last big-screen appearance. That film grossed more than $82 million domestically.
- 10/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Arriving merely two decades after the original, the new version of The Hitcher continues the craze for remakes of horror movies geared to a new generation of teenagers. Sadly, it also continues the tendency of them to be even worse than the originals. While the 1986 edition was no classic, it's light years better than this update, which naturally opened without being screened for those ultimate villains, the critics.
Sean Bean steps into the formidable shoes of the truly creepy Rutger Hauer in the title role of the hitchhiker from hell. While the actor delivers a performance of requisite fierceness, his efforts are hamstrung by the screenplay's increasing level of silliness -- like the fact that his character manages to decimate nearly the entire police population of the American Southwest.
Tautly paced and signaling its level of sadism in the opening seconds with a shot of a cute bunny being reduced to road kill, the film depicts the efforts of a pair of hapless college students on a road trip, Jim (Zachary Knighton) and Grace (Sophia Bush), to avoid becoming victims of their pickup, who seems particularly focused on making their lives hell even at the expense of his own safety. Not content to merely terrorize them, he also manages to frame them for a series of murders, with the result that they wind up becoming fugitives from justice.
The screenplay's level of laziness is signaled by this observation by Grace while being pursued by a dozen police cars and a swooping helicopter: This is bad.
The scene from the original most cherished by horror fans, involving one of the characters threatened with being torn apart by two trucks, is dutifully reprised, with a predictable upping of the ante.
Knighton and Bush are reasonably effective as the would-be victims, though the latter is less than convincing when forced to go into vengeful Lara Croft mode. Neal McDonough, as a sympathetic police lieutenant, wears his Stetson in convincing fashion.
The inevitable hard rock soundtrack includes classics of nihilism like Nine Inch Nails' Closer.
Probably the nerviest move on filmmaker Dave Meyers' part was to include a clip from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, well demonstrating just how far we've descended when it comes to cinematic suspense.
THE HITCHER
Rogue Pictures
A Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pictures presentation in association with Michael Bay of a Platinum Dunes production
Credits:
Director: Dave Meyers
Screenwriter: Eric Red, Jade Wade Wall, Eric Bernt
Producers: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Charles Meeker, Alfred Haber
Director of photography: James Hawkinson
Production designer: David Lazan
Editor: Jim May
Music: Steve Jablonsky
Costume designer: LeeAnn Radeka
Cast:
John Ryder: Sean Bean
Grace Andrews: Sophia Bush
Jim Halsey: Zachary Knighton
Lt. Esteridge: Neal McDonough
Bufords' store clerk: Kyle Davis
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Sean Bean steps into the formidable shoes of the truly creepy Rutger Hauer in the title role of the hitchhiker from hell. While the actor delivers a performance of requisite fierceness, his efforts are hamstrung by the screenplay's increasing level of silliness -- like the fact that his character manages to decimate nearly the entire police population of the American Southwest.
Tautly paced and signaling its level of sadism in the opening seconds with a shot of a cute bunny being reduced to road kill, the film depicts the efforts of a pair of hapless college students on a road trip, Jim (Zachary Knighton) and Grace (Sophia Bush), to avoid becoming victims of their pickup, who seems particularly focused on making their lives hell even at the expense of his own safety. Not content to merely terrorize them, he also manages to frame them for a series of murders, with the result that they wind up becoming fugitives from justice.
The screenplay's level of laziness is signaled by this observation by Grace while being pursued by a dozen police cars and a swooping helicopter: This is bad.
The scene from the original most cherished by horror fans, involving one of the characters threatened with being torn apart by two trucks, is dutifully reprised, with a predictable upping of the ante.
Knighton and Bush are reasonably effective as the would-be victims, though the latter is less than convincing when forced to go into vengeful Lara Croft mode. Neal McDonough, as a sympathetic police lieutenant, wears his Stetson in convincing fashion.
The inevitable hard rock soundtrack includes classics of nihilism like Nine Inch Nails' Closer.
Probably the nerviest move on filmmaker Dave Meyers' part was to include a clip from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, well demonstrating just how far we've descended when it comes to cinematic suspense.
THE HITCHER
Rogue Pictures
A Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pictures presentation in association with Michael Bay of a Platinum Dunes production
Credits:
Director: Dave Meyers
Screenwriter: Eric Red, Jade Wade Wall, Eric Bernt
Producers: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Charles Meeker, Alfred Haber
Director of photography: James Hawkinson
Production designer: David Lazan
Editor: Jim May
Music: Steve Jablonsky
Costume designer: LeeAnn Radeka
Cast:
John Ryder: Sean Bean
Grace Andrews: Sophia Bush
Jim Halsey: Zachary Knighton
Lt. Esteridge: Neal McDonough
Bufords' store clerk: Kyle Davis
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 1/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Philip Baker Hall, Jesse James and Chloe Moretz have joined the cast of the MGM-Dimension-based Amityville Horror, which begins shooting today. Hall has signed on for the role of Father McNamara, while James and Moretz are taking on the roles of the family's children, Chelsea and Billy. They join previously announced cast members Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George and Jimmy Bennett. British commercial helmer Andrew Douglas is directing the feature, which is being produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes producing for Radar Pictures, whose Ted Field will executive produce. Scott Kosar wrote the screenplay. Toby Jaffe and Pete Chiarelli are overseeing for the studio. Hall is repped by Writers and Artists Group International. James is repped by UTA. Moretz is repped by Innovative Artists.
Melissa George, who appeared as a series regular last season on ABC's Alias, is in negotiations to star in MGM and Dimension Films' remake of The Amityville Horror. George will play a young mother of three who moves into the infamous haunted house. She joins the already-cast Ryan Reynolds. British commercials helmer Andrew Douglas is making his directorial debut on the project, with Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes producing for Radar Pictures, whose Ted Field will executive produce. Scott Kosar wrote the screenplay. The studio executives on the project are Toby Jaffe and Pete Chiarelli. George's feature credits include Down With Love, Mulholland Dr., The Limey and Dark City. She is repped by Writers and Artists Group International and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Ryan Reynolds is set to star in MGM and Dimension Films' remake of The Amityville Horror. Reynolds will play a young father who marries into a family that moves into a haunted house. British commercials helmer Andrew Douglas is making his directorial debut on the project, with Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes producing for Radar Pictures, whose Ted Field will executive produce. Scott Kosar wrote the screenplay. The studio executives on the project are Toby Jaffe and Pete Chiarelli. Reynolds' credits include Van Wilder and the TV series Two Guys and a Girl. He recently wrapped Blade: Trinity and has a cameo in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. Reynolds is repped by UTA and Jonathan Perry.
- 6/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jimmy Bennett, 8, has nabbed a leading role in MGM/Dimension Films' remake of The Amityville Horror. Bennett will play Chris Lutz, the trouble-making middle child in the Amityville family. Bennett already has worked opposite Bruce Willis in Hostage and Eddie Murphy in Daddy Day Care. His other credits include The Heart is Deceitful Above All Else. British commercials helmer Andrew Douglas is making his directorial debut on Amityville, with Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dune producing for Radar Pictures, whose Ted Field will executive produce. The studio execs on the project are Toby Jaffe and Pete Chiarelli. The film is slotted for release in January. Bennett is represented by Untitled Entertainment, Buchwald Talent Group and Stone Meyer & Genow.
- 5/27/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
British commercial helmer Andrew Douglas is making his feature debut with The Amityville Horror for MGM/Dimension Films. Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dune are producing the feature with Radar Pictures, whose Ted Field will executive produce. Studio execs on the project are Toby Jaffe and Pete Chiarelli. Set to shoot in July, Amityville is an update of the 1979 hit feature that centered on a newlywed couple who move into a mysterious house where all sorts of strange things happen. Scott Kosar penned the remake script.
NEW YORK -- Helmer Michael Bay's genre film unit Platinum Dunes Prods. has inked a three-year first-look pact with Miramax Films genre arm Dimension Films. The deal marks a meeting of current genre boxoffice champs: Dimension's horror spoof Scary Movie 3 has been No. 1 for two weeks running, and Platinum Dunes -- which Bay runs with partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form -- has its Texas Chainsaw Massacre stalking closely behind for New Line.Dimension said Monday that the Platinum Dunes deal would be kick-started with existing projects in the development pipeline at the Miramax Films genre division. The first year of the new pact will see Platinum Dunes creating films exclusively above the $15 million budget range. Subsequent years will encompass all budget levels as Platinum Dunes' first-look deal with Radar Pictures expires.
- 11/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the house. Variety reports that MGM has selected Platinum Dunes producing partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller to put together a remake of the 1979 thriller The Amityville Horror. The infamous 70s bestseller about a haunted Long Island home was a runaway hit, with the subsequent film spawning seven sequels. Bay has indicated that he plans to rework the material much in the way he did with the recently renovated Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
- 10/24/2003
- IMDbPro News
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Friday, Oct. 17
Ol' leatherface is back.
Three decades after the release of Tobe Hooper's unnervingly disturbing "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", the highly influential classic has inspired yet another pass at the source material.
But as needless remakes go (are you listening, "Willard"?), this particular reconceptualization actually does an impressive job of capturing the nasty dread of the original. It certainly is a vast improvement over those previous remakes/sequels, which, for the record, have included Hooper's own "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", "Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation," which touted leads Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey.
While Marcus Nispel, an acclaimed commercial and music video director making his feature debut here, and screenwriter Scott Kosar have essentially tossed out all but the bare bones of the Hooper-Kim Henkel scenario, they've retained that nightmarish, relentlessly claustrophobic quality that has made the 1974 film such a tough act to follow.
That remaining high-intensity hit of post-Southern gothic horror should please most of the purists who have patiently weathered countless lame pretenders to the throne and bring the New Line release (and the first effort under Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes label) a nice share of the season's trick-or-treating.
After the stage is set with some scratchy black-and-white film footage taken from the (fictional) 1973 murder scene at the remote Travis County, Texas, farmhouse of former slaughterhouse worker Thomas Hewitt, aka Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), we are then taken inside a van carrying five young adults on an ill-fated trip to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas.
Having already made one pit stop to pick up a groovy hitchhiker named Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), the no-nonsense but notably nubile Erin (Jessica Biel) insists that her boyfriend, Kemper (Eric Balfour), stop again after barely missing a young woman who has been walking aimlessly in the middle of a deserted road.
Barely coherent, she is taken into the van, but moments later, she does something unspeakable that sends gasps through the theater and the group on a one-way trip to hell.
When attempting to finally do justice to something, it certainly doesn't hurt to have Daniel C. Pearl, the guy who shot the original "Chain Saw", again doing the honors. And while he has again lent the film an effective visual realism, he also has learned a couple of new tricks in the interim.
It also helps when your budget is a bit more flexible than the $150,000 allotted for the first one, but Pearl does some amazing stuff involving reverse tracking shots through openings in broken glass or bullet holes.
Although Kosar's script dispenses with the '70s social awareness aspect of the original -- the new version, for instance, doesn't have a character in a wheelchair -- neither does it have its cast doing the kind of dumb things that usually land them in trouble.
Capably led by Biel, who proves to be no screaming damsel in distress, the group of players also includes busy veteran R. Lee Ermey, who is terrific as a sadistic sheriff.
Tech credits across the board are solid, though editor Glen Scantlebury tends to favor the occasionally hard-to-follow flash cutting that was employed on Bay's "The Rock" and "Armageddon".
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
New Line
Platinum Dunes/Radar Pictures
Credits:
Director: Marcus Nispel
Screenwriter: Scott Kosar
Based on a screenplay by: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
Producers: Michael Bay, Mike Fleiss
Executive producers: Ted Field, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Guy Stodel, Jeffrey Allard
Director of photography: Daniel C. Pearl
Production designer: Gregory Blair
Editor: Glen Scantlebury
Costume designer: Bobbie Mannix
Music: Steve Jablonsky
Cast:
Erin: Jessica Biel
Morgan: Jonathan Tucker
Pepper: Erica Leerhsen
Andy: Mike Vogel
Kemper: Eric Balfour
Jedidiah: David Dorfman
Sheriff Hoyt: R. Lee Ermey
Hitchhiker: Lauren German
Thomas Hewitt/Leatherface: Andrew Bryniarski
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, Oct. 17
Ol' leatherface is back.
Three decades after the release of Tobe Hooper's unnervingly disturbing "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", the highly influential classic has inspired yet another pass at the source material.
But as needless remakes go (are you listening, "Willard"?), this particular reconceptualization actually does an impressive job of capturing the nasty dread of the original. It certainly is a vast improvement over those previous remakes/sequels, which, for the record, have included Hooper's own "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", "Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation," which touted leads Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey.
While Marcus Nispel, an acclaimed commercial and music video director making his feature debut here, and screenwriter Scott Kosar have essentially tossed out all but the bare bones of the Hooper-Kim Henkel scenario, they've retained that nightmarish, relentlessly claustrophobic quality that has made the 1974 film such a tough act to follow.
That remaining high-intensity hit of post-Southern gothic horror should please most of the purists who have patiently weathered countless lame pretenders to the throne and bring the New Line release (and the first effort under Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes label) a nice share of the season's trick-or-treating.
After the stage is set with some scratchy black-and-white film footage taken from the (fictional) 1973 murder scene at the remote Travis County, Texas, farmhouse of former slaughterhouse worker Thomas Hewitt, aka Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), we are then taken inside a van carrying five young adults on an ill-fated trip to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas.
Having already made one pit stop to pick up a groovy hitchhiker named Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), the no-nonsense but notably nubile Erin (Jessica Biel) insists that her boyfriend, Kemper (Eric Balfour), stop again after barely missing a young woman who has been walking aimlessly in the middle of a deserted road.
Barely coherent, she is taken into the van, but moments later, she does something unspeakable that sends gasps through the theater and the group on a one-way trip to hell.
When attempting to finally do justice to something, it certainly doesn't hurt to have Daniel C. Pearl, the guy who shot the original "Chain Saw", again doing the honors. And while he has again lent the film an effective visual realism, he also has learned a couple of new tricks in the interim.
It also helps when your budget is a bit more flexible than the $150,000 allotted for the first one, but Pearl does some amazing stuff involving reverse tracking shots through openings in broken glass or bullet holes.
Although Kosar's script dispenses with the '70s social awareness aspect of the original -- the new version, for instance, doesn't have a character in a wheelchair -- neither does it have its cast doing the kind of dumb things that usually land them in trouble.
Capably led by Biel, who proves to be no screaming damsel in distress, the group of players also includes busy veteran R. Lee Ermey, who is terrific as a sadistic sheriff.
Tech credits across the board are solid, though editor Glen Scantlebury tends to favor the occasionally hard-to-follow flash cutting that was employed on Bay's "The Rock" and "Armageddon".
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
New Line
Platinum Dunes/Radar Pictures
Credits:
Director: Marcus Nispel
Screenwriter: Scott Kosar
Based on a screenplay by: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
Producers: Michael Bay, Mike Fleiss
Executive producers: Ted Field, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Guy Stodel, Jeffrey Allard
Director of photography: Daniel C. Pearl
Production designer: Gregory Blair
Editor: Glen Scantlebury
Costume designer: Bobbie Mannix
Music: Steve Jablonsky
Cast:
Erin: Jessica Biel
Morgan: Jonathan Tucker
Pepper: Erica Leerhsen
Andy: Mike Vogel
Kemper: Eric Balfour
Jedidiah: David Dorfman
Sheriff Hoyt: R. Lee Ermey
Hitchhiker: Lauren German
Thomas Hewitt/Leatherface: Andrew Bryniarski
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Radar Pictures has acquired David Callaham's suspense spec screenplay Horsemen for Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes genre banner to produce. Radar, which finances and houses Platinum Dunes, aims to put the project into production next year. Horsemen is a psychological thriller about a hardened cop who, while hunting down a vicious serial killer, discovers a shocking connection with the prime suspect. Bay will produce with Platinum Dunes partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. Radar's Ted Field and Scott Kroopf will executive produce along with senior production executive Tom Engelman. Focus Features, formerly Good Machine International, will serve as the exclusive international sales agent for the film. Callaham is repped by UTA, Industry Entertainment's Guymon Casady and attorney Gretchen Bruggeman-Rush. Radar executive vp business and legal affairs David Boyle brokered the deal for Platinum Dunes.
- 10/31/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay is going back to basics by cutting out the special effects for a more minimalist approach. The Hollywood movie maker, who's also responsible for blockbusters such as The Rock and Armageddon, has created a low budget genre film division called Platinum Dunes, which will help younger directors in their quest for success. The company, which is named after Bay's first student film, is to be run by producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, both friends of the director, and will make films in the $5 million to $12 million price range. Bay explains, "Since Pearl Harbor, I've decided to change things. I've started a commercial division this past summer called - and we're making fun of ourselves with the name - the Institute For Development Of The Advanced Perceptual Awareness. I'm 37 years old and it's time to not just be the guy who does huge movies. I want to branch out, expand and with this low budget division, be instrumental in the careers of younger directors."...
- 11/13/2001
- WENN
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