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You might have noticed we were out of action overnight. This was a fault that effected all servers on our host, not just our server.
I'm not sure what the fault was at this point, I'm requesting the information from our host. It appears to be outside of our server, a health check and uptime shows its been up and has plenty of capacity.
THE MONSTER SQUAD remake: Rob Cohen will produce a remake of the 1987 cult classic for Paramount Pictures. The original, directed by Fred Dekker and co-penned by Shane Black, followed a group of kids hunting down Dracula and his minions who are attempting to take over the world. Cohen himself executive produced the project. Cohen says "I am talking with Paramount about the ownership rights, we just found out that because of all the different companies being bought and sold, (it was so hard to do) but we believe all the rights are back at Paramount. I have been waiting to finish this (third Mummy) film, to really start the talks about remaking it. Maybe I would direct, maybe someone else with me producing. I really think highly of that that film...I mean, how great is it with The Mummy, the Wolfman, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Frankenstein they all were in it! It would be a prime remake!" (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
You might have noticed you are now resolving Dead-Donkey.com to the right place. I would like to say that this is because our Registrar has complied finally with the request to migrate nameservers... unfortunately, however, this is not the case.
We are now renting nameserver hosting from our old host pointing to our new host whilst our registrar, Lycos ( ) continues to fumble a two line text change in their reseller account.
Please remove all hosts file entries regarding dead-donkey.com, these are no longer needed! These should not be left in there as it will cause problems down the line
Go to c:windowssystem32driversetchosts , open this with notepad and remove the lines added for dead-donkey.com
... I'm in an dispute with the DNS registrar for dead-donkey.com and as a temporary fix, I've had to downgrade the old host service to barebones dns and mail service as i can't get the nameservers updated with our registrar. This means the old host is simply pointing our domain on their nameservers to our new servers over here in europe.
This means i'm going to have to pay two hosting providers this month, our real server and the old host just for nameserver providing (although at a discounted rate). It also means its going to be *slightly* slower on initial lookups, because the nameservers are way, way over in asia, although after the first lookup your machine caches and it uses this local cache until you end your session.
So its still an ongoing fuckup on our domain registrar's front; lycos.
I'm demanding compensation but thus far they have refused to:
State the actual problem; it wouldn't be so bad but they can't actually say what the problem is so i am assuming gross incompetance
A direct phone number of someone on the technical staff
A phone number and name of someone for compensation claims
An EPP / authorisation code to leave
Any support beyond one email a day that says "we are invesitgating"
Could be interesting, hopefully something as inspiring as his spanish work?
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Guillermo Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN: On the red carpet at the premiere of HELLBOY II THE GOLDEN ARMY, Del Toro made a cool announcement. "For the monster I would love to have Doug Jones," he revealed. Jones has worked for the director as a creature performance since MIMIC and plays Abe Sapien in the HELLBOY films. "I think he can do a fantastic job. Ron looks seven feet tall in Hellboy, but he's not. I think we could do that with Doug, but I would love to do it with him. The only vision of the Frankenstein monster I've ever latched onto is Berni Wrightson's. He's lanky and long and it's gorgeous in a tragic way. Doug has all of those qualities."
Later, the Shock Till You Drop web site caught up to Jones and revealed the good news, "You've just made my day! I never knew that!" Jones expressed with his jaw on the floor. That said, who's performance of the monster has he admired the most? "Boris Karloff, no question. I respect that man so much. Every time his name is brought up in the same sentence as mine, I'm honored and I don't want to belittle his name with mine." Del Toro is in the early stages of prepping two HOBBIT films for executive producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, an endeavor that will require him to put Frankenstein on the backburner for now. "I think it's going to have to be developed very carefully over the next four years," he chuckles. "Look, I would never attempt to recreate the Whale Frankenstein, but I do think there is an alternate story that could be told about the Frankenstein mythos." Like? "It's more like a fairy tale, a strange, weird fairy tale."
Asked who his ideal Victor Frankenstein would be, Del Toro simply smiled and said, "I won't say anything 'cause then you would know what I'm doing." The director says he's been bouncing back and forth to London lately for the Hobbit films. There are no scripts yet, however, "We already started notes and underlining and e-mailing back and forth. A few lines have been written here and there, but we will have the big pow-wow [soon] - bad pizza, take-out food in a sort've a pressure cooker [meeting] in about two weeks." (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
This is bad news.... seems Fox has sapped the life out of the final part of the Watch trilogy.
A crying shame, as these russian films were rather enjoyable.
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No DUSK WATCH: It seems now that the sun has definitely gone down for DUSK WATCH, the third entry in Timur Bekmambetov’s popular NIGHT WATCH series of films that was initially announced for release in 2009. Questioned about the project at the press junket for his latest film, WANTED, the Russian director appears to no longer count DUSK WATCH among his future plans. “I don’t think so -for me, WANTED became my DUSK WATCH,” says the director, who also notes that it would be pointless to make what in essence would be his third film from the same material (Sergei Lukyanenko) in a row. “I don’t know what to do for now,” he adds. “We’ll see.”
Bekmembetov wouldn’t say whether the film could still be made without his involvement. The closing chapter in the proposed trilogy of films, DUSK WATCH would have followed up the successful second installment, DAY WATCH, which was in turn based on the second and third parts of Sergei Lukyanenko’s best-selling NIGHT WATCH novel - rather than in its follow-up, a book also titled DAY WATCH. The author’s third novel in the series was also titled DUSK WATCH (or TWILIGHT WATCH in the English-speaking world), but it was unclear whether that tome’s events would serve as the basis for the film.
But Bekmambetov isn’t leaving supernatural creatures behind, and shared some info on THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, the horror/fantasy set during the Crusades that he’s expected to produce, also for Universal (see previous item here). “It’s a story about the Knights Templar and vampires,” he says. “The vampires are trying to be human again, and they’re looking for the Holy Grail. I think it’ll be very good - a very touching, romantic story about the undead.” (thanks to Fangoria.com)
ARRRGGHHH!!! The talentless hack will hopefully be blocked... i think we'd had enough of this tat don't you think?
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RESIDENT EVIL 4: Director Paul W.S. Anderson confirms that he's just started talking to Sony Pictures about doing a fourth RESIDENT EVIL, but for now its not moving forward fast as he doesn't have an interesting story hook for it (does he think he had for the first three films?!). (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
I'm going to be hammering the MySQL server significantly for a series of tests... please bear with us whilst this happens.
Some of the tasks, such as taking backups, dropping and inserting posts and searches are a little harsh on the poor database so please bear with any errors, they will only be temporary.
Hello again, yes... we will be on the move again, but hopefully now for a stable home.
We have finally been pushed into upgrading to a semi-dedicated server, which i am diligently (ie. between drinking sessions) fixing up. This will give us full control over a box that we can only mess up ourselves. Some of you might have come across sql errors and other nasty bits which unfortunately aren't actually caused by this site, but other poorly managed sites running on the same box. So we will have to move.
The other benefit is that we've wangled some dedicated ips meaning we can have SSL for the frontpage and the forums. It will be a self-signed certificate so there'll be a prompt to accept a certificate, but this will encrypt traffic too and from the site.... http will still be there too!
The other bonus for european and US users is that the servers latency will be a lot lower as it is no longer hosted in Asia.
If you would like to help test out the config, let me know and i'll send you some hosts files entry. The server is already up and running but we are trying to get it working first before doing another migration.
I'll publish hosts file entries and an announcement closer to the time of planned migration.
There will be a couple of hours "downtime" whilst we lock the forums and migrate across the data to another country, but it should all be relatively painless
Another reporting on this George A. Romero rehash...
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THE CRAZIES remake: FEAR ITSELF: THE SACRIFICE director Breck Eisner recently talked about his next film, a remake of George A. Romero’s THE CRAZIES. Production will begin soon on the latter for Paramount Pictures. “Ray Wright did a great job on the latest script draft for THE CRAZIES,” said Eisner, who helmed the actioner SAHARA for the studio. Romero will have little or nothing to do with the redux of his 1973 film, about a biological plague driving people psycho in a small town and the government’s even deadlier quarantine efforts. Wright previously co-scripted the PULSE update and wrote Paramount’s long-delayed CASE 39 (currently set to open April 10, 2009). (thanks to Fangoria.com)
Lets call another remake for what it is another cashin on a big name movie...
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I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE remake: CineTel Films has acquired rights for a threatical remake 1978 female revenge classic I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE says Variety. In the Meir Zarchi-directed original, a woman is abducted, brutally attacked and raped and then left for dead. She survives, hunts her attackers and dispatches them in graphic ways - causing the film to be widely criticized and often banned for its explicit depiction of sex and violence. These days however with the likes of the SAW and HOSTEL franchises, the original no longer seem as outrageous and so pitches are being taken to find a way to "ratchet up the shock factor". The remake rights were owned by Meir Zarchi, who directed, produced and wrote the original. Though the majority of CineTel's releases are straight-to-DVD titles, the company will make "Spit" for a theatrical release. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
A little tidbit on the enjoyable if a little dramary dexter series 3 for you...
Another short season is a good move imo!
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DEXTER Season 3: Showtime's serie has added Jimmy Smits to the popular series and will include him in 10 out of 12 third season episodes. According to the trade, "Smits will portray Miguel Prado, an ambitious assistant district attorney who comes from one of Miami's most politically powerful and beloved families. Dexter (Michael C. Hall) will join forces with Prado, who has risen in the ranks because of his aggressive stance against crime, in the pursuit of a murderer who affects both of their lives directly." (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
DAWN OF THE DEAD sequel: The other day the Hollywood Reported confirmed that producer Richard Rubinstein is planning a direct sequel to George A. Romero's classic film, which ends with the survivors hopping in a helicopter and taking off to who knows where. Now it looks like Ken Foree is in talks to return in the sequel to the film, which he starred in back in 1978. No word on whether or not he'll be playing a new character or continuing on the story of "Peter", who escaped alongside Gaylen Ross (Franny). (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
I think it doesn't paint a pretty picture on the state of hollywood studios when Stuart Gordon gets phone calls out of the blue talking of a re-animator remake.
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RE-ANIMATOR remake: In an interview, director Stuart Gordon said that currently there are no plans to remake, thank god! But, "Every now and then there will be a call asking about it," he said. To which we reply: Just say no. "Well, that's not my call, it's Brian's." "Brian" meaning producer Brian Yuzna who picked up the directorial reins with BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR and BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR. For some time he was developing a third sequel entitled HOUSE OF RE-ANIMATOR with Gordon in which the series' good doctor West would be called to the White House to revive the leader of our country who bears a slight resemblance to President Bush. "I wish I had good news on that," Gordon begins somberly. "But I don't think it's going to happen. It's funny because I've been having second thoughts lately. I keep reading about Oliver Stone doing this movie about Bush and I kept thinking, it's old news if you start doing movies about the Bush Administration. By the time [HOUSE OF RE-ANIMATOR] would come out there would be a new President and it's like, who cares anymore?" (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
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